PREMIER ORLANDO
LEAVES FOR HOME
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Big Four Discuss Prestige In-
volved in Wilson Statement
Sr ————
CRISIS IS STILL ACUTE
Goes To Rome To Present The Situa-
tion To The Government And Decide
On Final Action—Neither Side
Shows Signs Of Receding.
Paris. — Vittorio Orlando, Italian
premier, bps delayed his intended de
parture for Rome long enough again
to sit in conference with the other
members of the council of “four
Premier Lloyd George, Premier Clem-
enceau and President Wilson.
The knotty question regarding
which the council at odds, did
come up for discussion, only questions
of principle taken up. Two
hours were up the
which was believed to have
«red fully the question of prestige
volved in the publication of President
Wilson's statemen the Italian
nation.
While Signor Orlando
Immediately to Italy, there to lay
details of the Peace Conference be
fore Parliament, Baron Zonnio, Italian
foreign minister, and the other Ital
ian representatives will temporarily
remair in Paris.
The situation as Italy's
claims is still acute. There apparently
bas been no recession by the Italians
from their stated terms, nor is there
any in<ication that the British and
French premiers and President Wil
son have receded from their stand.
Signor Orlando has replied to the
statement of President Wilson with
regard to the Italian situation. He
gays the President his
“own thought on gravest
problems which
to the Judgment
while the Italian
cussing sounter-propositions
claims.
The statement
tends that, in
of Italy on the front
country requires
flank along the Adriatic and
that the people along the Dalmatian
Coast should be permitted to have the
right of self-determination in the mat
tar of Italian sovereignty
is
being
taken i council,
consid
in-
on sit
IS returning
regards
expressed
the
has been s
of the
delegation
one of
ubmitted
Was
on 'aly’s
of the Premier
the
con.
addition to
of
protection
safely
his
her
the Alps,
on
eastern
ITALY TO USE FORCE.
Daimatian Coast,
Paris. —Italian military forces will
occupy that part of Dalmatia and other
London with about 100.000 men,
was stated by Captain Pozzie,
Premier Orlando's staff A
force, the Captain added,
sent to the northern region
around Fiume
Premier Orlando's in
meantime, Captain Pozzie says, would
be convoke Parliament
session and secure from the body the
passage of measure providing
the annexation of the Dalmatian and
other eastern Adriatic territory given
to Italy by the London agreement,
also of Fiume.
Reports have been the
Captain added, that a military demon
gtration by
of
similar
would be
and
course the
to
@& for
and
received,
the Jugo-Slavs at Spalato
Halians would take
measures,
The Fiume compli
cated by the fact that the town as tl
headquarters of the Allied Army of the
Orient contains French
as well as Italian troops.
Italian occupation of Fiume, it is be
lieved, would immediately provoke
proper counter
situation in in
ie
and
a
European Allies
EXPORT BAN LIFTED.
Finished Munitions Alone Barred To
Northern Neutrals.
Washington. Removal by the Inter
allied Economic Council of all ration
limitations on exports to the northern
neutral countries, excepting finished
munitions of war, was announced by
the War Trade Board.
The suspension of limitation will
become effective at once.
Licenses now will be issued, it was
sald, for the exportation of all com-
modities to the countries without re.
gard to quantitative limitation and
import certificates will be issued in
the same manner by importing asso
clations of the several countries,
REVENUE OFFICER KILLED,
Another Seriously Wounded In Battle
With Moonshiners.
Roanoke, Va.-—Revenue Officer ©. C.
Smith, of Kentucky, has been shot and
killed and another revenue officer se.
riously wounded in a battle with moon-
shiners on the Virginia-Kentucky line
hetween Dickenson and Pike counties,
according to report received here,
The Rhode Island Legislature
passed a bill declaring beer contain
fog not more than 4 per cent. of al
eobol a non-intoxicant.
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60 10 ITALY
Wilson's Statement Stuns Old
School Diplomats
NO CHANCE FOR COMPROMISE |
Dec-
In
President Wilson's Unequivocal
laration Causes A Sensation
Conference Circles—Changed
Conditions.
ad-
an io
Premier Clemenceau, president of the
saving that
on by President
had de.
Paris Premier Orlando of Italy
dressed
official communication
| Peace Conference, as a
i
the declar
Italian
Paris,
of
the
| result
{ Wilson
{ cided to
delegation
leave
,
Pre
that
ident
he
uestion
Paris
declaration
the Adria
most profound
Wilson's emphatic
will not yield on |
created the
the Peace
down the
ic q has
1 sensation in
ie
| Conference. |
the
has thrown
gauntlet secret
to
in » manner
the breath of the
urging
by
YAariance
supporters of
h
}
{ treaties whit aimost
! 3 ’
took away delegates
have been
points
{ who
on
i documents
COMPpromises
covered mans
with
secret |
and at th
| President's fourteen
President
| ration, while aimed
Adriatic problems,
Kian Chau
| Japan relies
made with Great Britain, France and |
Italy in 1817 her
claim to the concessions held by Ger
points
decla-
the
the |
which
Wilson's sweeping
directly at
also reaches
controversy, mn
upon secret agreements
to support in her}
many in Shantung
The peace
gard President
{as a challenge which once for all wiil
| dispose of the question whether secret
{ documents, of which many nations
participating in the war were igno
rant, are to figure in the peace follow
ing an armistice in which all the Allies
pledged regard 10 gecret |
i treaties,
When it that the
Italian Premier, Vittorio Orlando, was
again the of the |
Council various rumors be
came current. Signor
| mained Italian
messengers carried him many notes,
counter-proposals |
the members
French and Italian
rumors of
These
delegates generally re
Wilson's
statement
Euve no
became known
absent from session
of Four,
Orlando
re
at headquarters, but
Proposals and
were
the
made between oi
British,
gation, and
fwere circulated
dels
compromises |
were sudden. |
tly discredited by the issuance of Pres.
{ident showing
party to
the proposed concessions, which were
chiefly that |
{ Fiume could be given to Italy.
The idea, which had been prevalent
in Paris, that the Adriatic situation
{was a game of chess, in which the
{ most skillful diplomats would win, re
{gardless of the armistice condition,
suddenly banished by President
Wilson's action.
Wilson's
that the
statement
President was not a
based on the supposition
| was
THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.
Some of the famous 11th Engineers,
who used their picks and shovels as
weapons in helping {o stem the Ger
man advance near Cambrai, returned
home.
The Ferris type steamer Roy H.
Beattie, built at Portsmouth, N, H.
for the Emergency Fleet Corporation,
was burned and abandoned at sea,
Miss Helen Roherts, daughter of
the Governor of Tennessee, will be
sponsor for the battleship Tennessee,
which will be launched April 30,
Twenty-five hundred men employed
in the Toledo Shipbuilding Company
yards struck. .
Ar ——
GERMANY GIVES UP SHIPS,
Instructs Argentina To Turn Interned
Vessels Over To U, 8,
Buenos Alres.—Germany bas in
structed the Argentine Government to
deliver. interned German steamers to
the United States, and the American
Embassy has announced ite readiness
w take over the vessels, The transfer
BIGGER MEN NAMED
BY THE GERMANS
Accept Conference Conditions
Made By Allies
A CHANGE IN THE PROGRAM
———— ——
German Delegation To Versaliles Will
Comprise Six High Personages
With The Foreign Minister
At The Head.
- v
Paris.~—The Allies have been notl-
fied by Germany that she accepts all
the Allied conditions respecting the
Versailles Congress,
Germany will send the following
delegates to the Versailles Congress
with full powers to negotiate. Count
von Brockdorf-Rantzau, Foreign Min-
Herr Landsberg, of
ister; Secretary
U5. SUPERVISION
OF CHILD LABOR
Re-established by Regulations |
by Revenue Bureau
THE LAW WILL BE ENFORCED |
It Is The Purpose Of The Bureau To
Strictly Enforce The Statute
No Injustice To Em:
pioyes.
Federal supervision of
the
Washington
child labor, su
abolished when
declared uncon
Child
under
inst
the existing
re-eaxtablished
by
putiing
al 5
Court yeas
Labor
regula
Revenue
the new
labor prod
stitutional
Law,
{rons
Was
jsaned the internal
into effect
revenue tax on child
is
YARTIous
The regulations interpret
ions of the law,
if 16 per cent
concern employing
on
any
der ified age
the & Peg
rid hen the new act
tax will
th
Le
profits 3
in which child:
employed
workshop or
i
oh
the
fact
under VOATE
any time of
girls’ canning clubs
of Agriculture
child labor law
vision a force of inspectors, will
organized in the Internal Revenue
Bureau to administer the new law
“While it of
of Internal strictly
the Announce
today,
and
the
at Year
recognized
Department
with
Bu
to
is the purpose the
rean Hevenpe
law.” said an
ment its
its provisions in a way to cause as lit
possibile to the
offer no injus
the intention to
of the age of
restrictions as
suspension, the age
or employment
or other
the
airn is
inconvyenis ive
rid and to
it is
confirmation
with
ion and
workir
permit,
unaey
AR
business wg
in
the child, certain
revocat
certificate,
similar
of the
% where adequate
or
permit, issued laws
State, In some
laws do
feasible.
not exi this
These States are probabil
South Carolina
The |
visit |
Carolina,
Mississipp
hat federal agents
Texas
to
Georgis and
are
nian is
such States where
in
employ child labor and js
sue. the certific
The
ites
nw that in none of
provides
Hmits
ght hours
ix dave a week,
P. M
The
within the
more
may
day
age
work than ei
or more than
8 A M
assessment
H"
or be
with
first
after 7
of the tax
between April
year, and
or
out
ah
the
until
corporations
taxable
and December
first return be made
March 1 next year. For
operating on fiscal year different
from the cale year the return
must be made on the first day of the
third month following the close
the fiscal year.
period is
31
need
this
not
a
wot
naar
of
UPRISING IN TURKEY.
Soviet Government Proclaimed in Con.
stantinople.
Paris.—A revolution has broken out
in Turkey am a Soviet Government
has been declared. A revolutionary
committee has been established at
Constantinople, according to a tele
gram received here from Kiev, quoting
the Bolshevik representative at Odes
sa who says that the Turkish consul
there has received official announce
ment of the change in the govern
ment. j
POLES CAPTURE VILNA,
Paris.~Polish troops have captured
the important railway center of Bar
anovichi and Novegorodek, south of
Vilna, as well as Vilna itself, advices
from Warsaw say. Al the railway
line from Vilna south to Lida is in the
hands of the Poles.
On the Lemberg sector the Poles
lare reported to have broken thro¥gh
fs expected within a few days.
Publicity, Art and Literature Dr.
Melchoir, general manager
Warburg Bank; Herr
of Prussian
National
Minister
Herr 8S
party
of the
President
and of the
Herr Ginsberg,
Telegraphs
In all, the
ber 75. The {
cannot be expected before
Although the Peace
Leinert
the Assembly
Soviet Congress;
and
huecking.
of Posts
and
German will
num
rival of the delegates
April 25
Conferences
al
ap
the
announcement of Germany's
a
to
« the
intention
to send small delegation to Ver
of
anda
sailles receive the the
text
treaty old Ber
Aw
plan is really
Weimar dispatches of the
the
power
German
iz
delegates
have meke On
of
The
determination
Office
iii
(serman
was based
Progr
the
the
of
with the
prehension of
meeting German
ptentiaries
of the
understood through press
renresentativos
Peace Conference It
had
at the first meeting
merely w
the
permitied
be
with
uaa
* 5 fs ’
\reatly ua
i
sent
$
0184 £8
back
he Gon
would
confer
Assembly
interval
disc
the circumstar
fl -Rantzau
ih
Kae
the Associated Press
considered it
the
ernment
send entire pe
14 1
more than 100 beaded
' persons
plenipotentia
Versailles
draft and
and would
ries {to ere
iy to receive the
with it
14
Emaier
return t
Berlin therefore
send delegation and later
the
and the signature for the
proceed to Versailles for actual
discussions
ireaty,
PRESIDENT TALKS WITH JAPS,
He Holds Long Conference With Ma
kino And Chinda.
Paris. — President Wilson had a long
with Baron Makino
Chinda, of the
delegation
Hugh C. Wallace Ambassa
dor to France, and Mrs. Wallace had
luncheon with the President and Mrs
Wilson at the Paris “White House.”
The President the t
of the distinguished
at the opening
Theatre, a new English i
conference and
Viscount
Pod ©
the new
attended heatre
invited
Palace
of the
lavhoune
BOLSHEVIKI SLOW DOWN.
Yet Occupied.
Paris. The naval port of Bebasts
3
¥i.
wi, in ihe Crimea, has nol been occa
i
ng to a dispatch to the Journal
Jebats, dated Sunday at Saloniki
The dispatch says that fighting ap
pears to have stopped for the time be
ing in the southern Crimea. The
Bolsheviki are said to be slackening
their advance in the fgce of the Allied
artillery fire.
i
pied by Russian Soviet troops, accord
i
i
WASHINGTON
The Government maintained in a
brief filed in the Supreme Court that
steamships owned by the Government
were immune from suite for damages
and other legal processes and that it
remained for Congress to enact leg.
islation providing for proper adjust
ment of claims resulting from opera.
tion of Government owned vessels,
Food packages containing more
than one-half ounce avoirdupois here.
after must be labeled to show the ex
act net weigh of food they contain un.
der an amended regulation issued un.
der the Federal Food and Drugs Act
by the Secretaries of the Treasury,
Agriculture and Commerce,
Captain D. W. Todd, who has heen
the chief cable censor at the Navy De
partment, has been assigned to com:
mand the armored cruiser Pittaburgh,
formerly flagship of the Pacific fleet.
Another $500,000,6000 block of Treas.
ury certificates of indebtedness, dated
May 1, and maturing October 7, with
the usual interest rate of 4% per cent,
the Ukrainian front.
EUROPE GOES BACK
T0 WAR BREA
Provided by Food Council Pro-
gram for Three Months
IS NOT TO AFFECT AMERICA
Sufficient Supply To Warrant Con-
tinuation Of White Bread Here
And Also To Meet Ex-
port Demand.
Paris,—An
percentage
increase in the milling
which will virtually put
world back war-bread basis
or the next three months is part of
he program adopted by the Suprems
“ood under the chairmanship
Hoover
program
for
he to a
Council
it Herbert C.
The includes a com
3 3
Hele plan secur
food to Allied, liberated
ng
AlGG enemy 4d
untries
One object
to determine the
not Lo put
¥ one market
The council
hern
has ary
Central
largely
countries with
and for neutral
suppl
s
Tan
thelr mainly in
The
iE
GHect
take
marke
aAngements to
oN
ff b
the wheat
La utes will be
for
while ole
GQ subsll ised
of {ood products large
f
»
Europ
will
sermany, using
Smee
of
MNRIga rine
‘actories
be
vegetable
Elarted
European
along
year without
count
for t
any «
tO Ket
States
had convin
af the Ameri
suf
ent
prod
to
not nis
of
ned potion all wheat
the export demand
bat meet
ntil the next harvest
BAY RUM BANNED AS DRINK,
Sale, Except When Denatured, For.
bidden In West Virginia,
ba
when
Charleston, W. Va The sale of
West Virginia
is in
law
exe pt
of the State
fics
{ate
Fax Commissioner W. 8. Hallaman.
The commissioner that he
not heen interfers
wale legiti
view
violation
fenatured
srohibition not
druggists hy S
according to
ion sent to all
states
fo
rum
but in
that
the
he is forced to place it
Bay rum may
Hallaman, when it
ired ax to make
a beverage
disposed
bay
purposes,
complaints
the of for
nate medicinal
f continued
1 are
prep
unde:
said
de
be sold
has
it
been
1a BO abeoiutels
an
WOULD FREE BUSINESS.
ernment Let Go.
New York
all government restrictions or
not found
be
A resolution demanding
that
private business,
the war
necessars
immediately
wae adopied ax the closing
the annual convention of
Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso
The associstion als
on record as regarding as
fallacy declaration that a de
clining cotton output will be for the
sventual good of the employes of the
trade, belioving that America can best
provide employment by increasing its
product and lowering its cost of man
ufacture.”
Te
wt of the
iation here alne
Boy
SEVEN KILLED IN CRASH,
Major Baldwin Among Victims At
Camp Merritt,
Camp Merritt, N. J-—Seven were
killed and four injured when two jit
neye, each carrying nearly a score of
passengers, crashed headon in the
Government reservation here. The
drivers were held without bail, a=
neither was able to explain how the
accident occurred.
The dead included Major Stanley A.
Baldwin, Privates Jeremiah Snobbers,
Anthony Hauck and Timothy Marnel
In, a man believed to be Paul Pecking,
of New York, a man ag yet unidenti
fied, and a child,
A
NURSES MUST BOX.
Fort Worth, Texas Army nurses
at Camp Bowie must take boxing les.
one, It was announced. Harry Gil
mone, army boxing instructor, has
been placed in charge of the athletic
squads and will start the classes next
Wednesday, They will meri twice
sach wee*
DAIRY PROFITS BIG
Splendid Returns From Farms in
Western Canada.
se
Production of Butter and Cheese, Com.
manding Highest Prices, Increases
Steadily — Live.Stock Raisers
at Height of Prosperity.
Dairying is rapidly approaching one
of the first positions In Western Can-
ada agriculture, This doe not apply
particularly to any of the three
Western Canada provinces, as they all
participate in the distinction.
A report recently published by the
Alberta Department of Agriculture
shows that 4n 1918, In spite of adverse
| conditions of labor and the high cost
of in the
industry, interesting 10
mber of milch
The total pro-
the
ae
one
feed, there was no decline
It will be
know that the average nu
COWS per 56
duction
farm is
of creamery butter
1918
in
0,100,000,
ngainst 8.044.000 pounds in 1817.
No better evidence of the growth of
Western Canada than by
the fact produc
tion f from
from
When
production of
placed, and
#5 Were
provinces in Was
enn be
the
of
E740 O00 nwo
2A iW snd cheese
nds
nie
nfortable,
be resi.
produc
the
pro-
inter.
stock
sales,
141
head
«of
bulls
Sales
gave fully
first
the
continent,
There is complete Fos ment np
pervisions d cheeses
factories, Th nes tnkes care
{ i we manufac
in
cfficient
1
It be
i we
Industry of
nay the dairy
rapidly
it is
or fore
Western Cans
At
parent
into its own present
: a fan ft to the
industry of the
ving of grain, but while an
t i= a highly
fof {
import
ant one
o
arm lands radually increasing
not in the rapid proportion that
countries
materially
is g
but
hax
{ This rise In price
pri
the
been shown in other
does not
inecren ss cost of production, nor
mas derived
| from an acre of wheat. oats or barley.
| The in prices of these
{ grains hes more than double: the use
Cost,
| legsen the profits that he
advange ithe
of § 3 has jessened the
The reports from governm
Pres
ractor
onl sources
will show a
igration over the
The nan who
of inspection of the
on He
fertile the
climate,
aw, the spleen.
perfect
He will
visited settlements composed al-
of Americans, who have
built up their homes and ylllages. whe
| have brought, and appiying, to.
| day, their experience in economic land
| culture as applied to large tracts with
| the result that be obtains vieldes on
| $50 an acre land equal to that former
{ Iy produced on land that he had sold
| for S200 an The of his
| kuccess he has sent back to his friends
in hiz howe state. They in turn follow
him, and =0 it goes on, and immigre-
tion to Western Canada Increases —
Advertisement.
are that the
great
{ ¥
past four or five
year
Bereass
years
| has mad»
# tour
| country will give the
spnk of the
of the
with
system,
reason,
i will soil, of
| goal craps, Blirad
the
the
conditions that prevail,
five
of compliance
did school
aimost
social
have
{ Ost sO ely
ure
acre, story
His Prospects,
“Mr. Monerbagz, I'd like to marry
your daughter”
“What are your prospects?”
“You know better than 1 do. The
fellows at the club say 1 haven't got
f chance.” — Louisville Courler-Jours
al
by CARING Dr. Frerecs Plosaat Poni Mean
you'll keep Bealthy, wealthy and wise, Adv,
MRSA a
Blockheads are not the kind that
produce harping thought.
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