POINTED WARNING 10 BOLSHEVSTS Lhreat to Take Reprisals on Americans Answered SECRETARY PHILLIPS’ NOTE Controversy Arose From Reported Arrest In New York Of Martens, The Soviet Representa- tive There. Washington.—The Russian Soviet Government was warned by the Unit ed States In a “message sent through the American legation at Stockholm, that reprisals against American citi gens in Russia would arouse intense sentiment in the United States against the Soviet heads. The warning was contained in a cablegram sent by Act ing Secretary of State Phillips in re ply to a protest from Soviet Foreign Minister Tchitcherin against the re ported arrest of L. A. C. K. Martens, the Soviet representative in New York. The protest intimated that reprisals might be taken against Americans in Russia. Secretary Phillips, in his reply, as perted that Martens had not been ar rested, but said it was understood he was claiming official status as “the representative of a regime at Moscow which the United States has not rec ognized.” The reply also said Martens was & German citizen, and denied that the American Government contem- plated any setion against law-abiding Russians in the United States, The message sent by Foreign Min {ster Tchitcherin was made public by the State Department as follows: “The commissariat for Foreign Al fairs has learned with indignation of the arrest of Mr. Martens, its repre. sentative In New York. The com missariat wishes to point out that all tatives of the in Russia after their departure in Sep tember last have been treated by the soviet authorities with the utmost courtesy in spite of the fact that since June of last year the American Gov: ernment openly sided with all the Russian and foreign dark ants of Russia, with the of crushing the great evolution and restoring Tsardom and beaurecratic capitalistic rule. “Even after American troops landed on Russian territory ally partook in_ military against the Russian laboring people i molested in Russig. Moreover, Amer allowed admittance into Russia and accorded every courtesy and all pos sible facilities and privileges. The ar rest of Mr. Martens prising and unjustified as he openly as the representative of soviet Russia without calling forth any ection of protestation on the part of | the American Government, “The Russian Government iB pe — r $0 YoU KROW A FAMILY HS LOALITY By THE an WHAT ROAD 00 | TAKE 10 GET 10 TOWN 7 7. V CONC] ——— Temporarily Assumes Direction of Peace Conference BIG THREE HAVE RETIRED So Council Of Consists Of Secre- tary Lansing, M. Pichon, Foreign Minister Balfour, Foreign Minis- ter Tittoni And Baron Makino. Five Parigs.—Premier Clemenceau, Secre tary of State Lansing, Foreign Min ister Balfour, Foreign Minister Pichon, Baron Makino and Viscount Chinda, toni, of Italy, decided to constitute a new Council of Five. This Council of Five will have as its members Secre tary Lansing, M. Pichon, Foreign ister Balfour, Foreign Minister Tittoni and Baron Makino, head of the Jap anese delegation. The council will temporarily assume direction of Peace Conference affairs A Council of Ten will not be consti tuted at present, Foreign Minister Tittoni made clear at the meeting thas Italy sires that all territory taken disposed * Min it de from of in the Austrian treaty. This Hinediagety projects into the foreground the Fiume question, which it had been hoped could be ave cided While the council received the im pression from Signor Tittoni that the new Italian delegation will be more considerate than the old, it was a dis tant disappointment when Tittoni ex pressed Italy's desire to have the ter taken from Austria definitely allotted in the Austrian treaty, as this it unlikely that the Austrian treaty can be concluded this week and foreshadows a lengthy discussion of ritory ed case, but form part of a general persecution of Russian citizens loyal to their peoples’ government and de mands the cessation of such persecu- tion and the immediate release Mr. Martens. Ye accordingly date and not to be compelled reluc cen citizens to be found on Russian territory.” Secretary Phillips Warns. Ia replying to this message, Acting Becretary Phillips cabled the follow: ing instructions to the American Lega. tion at Stockholm: “Please Inform proper Swedish au thorities at once az follows: “The statement purporting to emanate from Moscow is wholly un true. Mr. resied nor does this government con: template any action against law. abiding Rossian citizens in this coun: try. It is understood that Mr. Mar tens claims official status as the rep resentgtive of a regime at Moscow which the United States has not rec ognized sz a government. At the same time he is a German citizen, hav- ing voluntarily so declared himself ‘when he entered this country in 19186. NAVAL BILL FINALLY PASSED. Conference Report On The Measure Adopted By House And Senate. Washington, — Enactment of the $616,000,000 Naval Appropriation Bill was completed with the adoption of the conference report on the measure by the House and Senate, The bill now goes to the President. A" - WASHINGTON Becrotary Wilson wrote Senator King, (Dem.), Utah, that there was no law under which L. C. A. K. Martens and other aliens of the Russian Soviet Bureau at New York could be deport ed. The Becretary sald, however, tha: the activities of the bureau were being closely watched, ® = 1 The council decided to appoint im- | mediately a committee to execute the German treaty, and also a committee for the execution of reparation and still a third to outline the Bulgarian frontier. M. Pichon, Minister, will be the presiding officer of the council. A plan has been out lined whereby the work of this body may be hastened. munications to the conference will be forwarded Immediately to expert com mission and not considered by the council until the commissions have re. ported thereon. It is hoped eliminate much discussion. the conference a note inquiring when and where it will begin negotiations regarding the application of the con: during the period of occupation. of the commission which will revise the treaty of 1889 and the Peace Con ference has requested Holland: to name its members go that a meeting can be held soon in Paris. JAP INCIDENT NOT CLOSED. Negotiations Still On Over Tientsin Clash, Washington Commenting today on a published report that the incident growing out of the clash between American and Japanese soldiers at Tientsin, China, March 12, had been closed with an apology by the Jap anese Governmenl, officials of the State Department sald the negotia tions still were going on. The ex changes have been entirely friendly and officials expect that the matter soon will be satisfactorily closed. —————— AMERICANS BUY KRUPPS. Reported To Have Purchased Noted German War Plant, London.—The Krupp Works at Munich have been sold to Americans, according to dispatches from Munich quoting newspapers there. It is added geveral industrial concerns in the Bavarian capital also have passed into American hands. Say Story is Pure Fiction ma — Major Nichols And Captain Winslow Declare Report Of Trouble Grew Out Of A Trivial Affair Between A Sergeant And A Private. New York of the 338th denled by of Detroit, and Capt Windlow, of Madison, Wis, command ing Company 1, the unit said to have been involved, Both officers returned on the transport Von which brought back the firs units 10 return {rom service sector. “lI have this mutiny A dozen Nichols, rise to Infantry Maj. J. were Nichols, HG Steuben, t compietle in the heard about thar m ‘bunk’ could be written book.” declared “The incident which gave the rumors was a& misunder standing between a sergeant and one private. The men of 239th are the best disciplined and most courage outfit 1 know, id desire. They re in Major the ous of any and officer cou to none as soldiers.” “There was no sald. sergeant started 1 incident Polish boy the soldier English, he crgeant Later, after a L plaining, the soldier loaded the truck, That was the nearest thing to a mu j tiny we had” Reports the alleged mutiny the refusal of troops to go to the front were confirmed last April by ueneral March, who stated that the incident was due to Bolshev!: propaganda. He sald: “We have a report from Murmansk the effect the organization which was refers 330th Infantry. The dispatch states ‘It Is worthy of note that the questions that were put to the officers by the men were identical with those that the Bolshevik leaflet advised them to them.’ “I have not seen this leaflet, but I am most anxious to get it. This is & | very siriking thing. are second mutiny,” Captain argument be and the private, mutiny story was The sergeant nsiow tween the which he a trivial ordered a and because understand stood the obey could misun refused not der and orders littie of to that experience in the Army and 1 do not | recall ever having seen American sol {a fight. They always said ‘lead me to "and went to it.” “Conditions in Russia are declared Major Nichols, i still { chaotic,” Bolsheviki will only have a few more months to run.” The trench helmets carried by the i men were painted white for use in | snow<covered territory. On sleeves they carried a diamond-shaped insignia with the letters “N. R.” | meaning Northern Russia, set In white on a blue background. Hard luck bas camped on the trail {of Sergt. Walter Dundon, of Detroit. | After being wounded in a battle with the Holsheviki he received word of his wife's death. Just before leaviag the hospital he was notified his sister had died, and today when he landed be was handed a message stat ag that his mother was dead. AA 5 A DUTCH PROFESSOR IN LEAGUE. J. A. Van Hamel Will Head Legal . Department. The Hague. Prof. J. A. Van Hamel, the Dutch publicist and authority on law, will become head of the legal department of the secretariat of the league of nations, it was announced. Professor Van Hamel is taking the Erie Brummond, Secretaryapananal of the league, WILSON'S APPEAL TO AMERICAN PEOPLE ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS Word of the signing of the treaty of peace, flashed to America, was fol lowed by a proclamation from Presi. Jdent Wilson, issued at the White House, It follows: “My fellow<countrymen: “The treaty of peace has been signed. If it is ratified and scled upon in full and sincere execution of its terms, it will furnish the charter for a new order of affairg In the world. It ie a severe treaty in _the duties and penalties it imposes upon Germany, but it is severe only because the great wrongs dgne by Germany are to be righted and repaired; it imposes nothing that Germany can- not do, and she can regain her right ful standing in the world by the prompt and honorable fulfiliment of its terms. “And itl is much more than a treaty of peace with Germany. It liberates great peoples who have never before to liberiy t ends, once for all, an old and in- tolerable order under which small groups of selfish men could use the people of great empires to serve thelr own ambitions for power and domin on, *It asosciate the governmenis {ree world In a permanent league which they are pledged to use united power to maintain by maintaining right and justice makes ional law impera peace It reality, it conquest policy of annexation a new order, under backward nations——popu have not yet consciousness and internat # tive sanclions and rejects the substitutes the come Lo pecples nee bat yei quite prepared to d protection and guidance ore be Spens subjecied to the n and exploitation of a slronger but shall be put under the friendly direction and aforded the helpful assistance of governm which undertake to be the opinion of mankind in the tion of their task by accepling direction the League of Nat “It recognizes the inalienable rights nationality; rights of m ities and the sanctity of ilef and practice it ions which intercourre of and every nation nation, Enis responsible 1«¢ execu the of Wine of the nor % be lays the baw religion shall free the commercial from unjust tions, and for tional co-operation that the life of the world and faci its common action in beneficent kind guarantees su given or the iabor at the the world YEXR1iOous restric of wiil sor interna sErYe 14 clears Hate service of “11 were plated of all eve] ¥ ch tem iiment furnishes never as sven oon before for falr tre who tasks of the world “It is for this reason that 1 have spoken of it as a groat charter for a There is ground for satisfaction un reassurance and confident hope “WOODROW WILSON daily deep versal LEADING WAR DATES, Anniversary Of The Battle Of Monmouth, formal n The world war came (0 a troops landed in France at Serajevo June 28, 1514. The first American contingent dis- embarked in France June 26, 1217 On July 28, 1514, one month after the death of Francis Ferdinand, Aus- tria declared war on Berbia, marking the beginning of hostilities. On Au. Germany declared war on fo War aay sep her ultimatum 2 and deciared Next Britain declared war on Germany sent Great June 28 aleo is the anniversary of of the Triple Alliance Austria and Italy, On June 28, 1850, the German Reichstag adopted a bill creating a pew German army, the organization of which is greatly diminished in power by the treaty signed today. in American history June 28 ig the anniversary of the Battle of Mon mouth, N. J., where in 1778 Wash. defeated a force under Sir Henry Clinton. HOOVER STEPS ASIDE. Resigns As Chairman Of Grain Cor poration, New York Resignation of Herbert Hoover as chairman of the board of directors of the Food Adminisiration Grain Corporation and reorganization of the corporation under the name “United States Grain Corporation,” wane announced at the annual meetiag of stockholders here, Mr. Hoover's place as chairman will be filled by Julius Barnes, wheat di rector; who also is president of the corporation. - It was stated Mr. Hoover would con tinue as a director, but that his resig nation of the chairmanship marked the first step toward his retirement from public life. Mr. Hoover is expected to return to the United States In about two months, upon completion of the Purcpean relief work and the fruition of the European harvest. a a i To feed quall, which protect the | erops, Gone Protector Frets, of Bucks PENNSYLVANIA | county, has appealed to farmers to, plant buckwheat at the cultiyva | tion, { Plans are belpg considered by re. | turned Marysville soldiers for the for. mation of a Jocal group of the Amerie can Legion, More than 100 men from the borough of 1000 will be eligiblo for membership, As the result of being bitten on the leg by a coppertiead snake, year- vid Earl Mille r, son of Theodore Mil ler, of near Duncannon, is reported to be in a dying condition, The outlook for a big huckieberry crop on the mountains in Penn Haven section is more promising than for past fifteen The bushes literally covered with the unripe ries, which will ripen within the month or two, Many new houses are being built in the Panther Creek valley. The Lehi Coal and Navigation company has awarded contracts for the erection of fifty new hous 6: au roximate cost of F200,000, Thisy +f 4 BOuses w bes ted In La and nll will be of modern ype. The Leb Y | considering openin Jen and Bids are being Sch work Work Willi « CGonrge I $e last Fifty-six couples have spent thelr boneywoons at the Summit Hotel, Un- | lontown, within the last six weeks, Authorization was received in Leba- pon by John Penn Brook, general man. ager of the Bethlehem Steel company's Lebanon plant, for the extension of his power plant, the erection of a new | warehouse and the Installation of new threading depariznents in the factory, while officials decline 10 give figures, it is unofficially reporied that the new work will meun an expenditure of vp ward of $5,000,000, No married women except whose husbands are in the oversens will be elected ns teachers in North Union township, near Connells ville, according to a decision reached by the board of Women thus chosen will be carried rolls with the distinct understanding that will resign’ on the return of | their hushands, ! Rather than disturb three feet high, were set in concrete, Bamuel C, of Connellsville, lifted a he desired to move one more The housg § shifted about seventy feet and thridd about at right angle, leaving th intact, The rell has had the finest ba Peun syivania the corner o way and height, Colonial tution in es close to An esiale Ream, of Denver, go tions of the Lutheran chur the beneficiaries are seminary, Mublefiberg ans’ home, Germantown; herd home, at Allentown, theran Orphans’ home, Stealing from ershurg, Will old, and teacher in U f near 0 himself with nu sirap Bey of the yours, are ber. next those gorvice gh fap education, on the he Dew iit “red ford, fiw they nliey Coal ¥ in “gh Al A ni Contry ign E new gir suck of fence which Kalp wiugl to make roony fo® iren of Aan nesville posits the as ied and It 5 bells Willi house Gininence wm rden, has Wl giaborate Ho the lust ¢ fence free 3} elec succeed James 1 resigned ny of Far. for one, of nking houses in ern It will be erecied sat f Adam 8 street and B will he will cost $250.000 The the largest banking insti Mercer county, with SAK Oi) of 8650.00 will Trust Garawig Colonial compa cently Wash Mrs, Ella the plans woes! : arn poor board Montrose hin 1. Bu fing found the Peace held on $£54% Court Chinry road. near on J oid, three slories in It in guilty Ww 3. { bn of Astock PespuTy il for Appearance left Rab! to institu. h. Am Rail the Mount Alrs Dinar of jeg > 0 rpvh Willian Good Shep- | og 101 and the Lu at § at Toptor nitted fiw rig Him * BOTOOUs « ed aston aft on 8 charg: and i fGlponiie, near wixiy- hots Ward, fariner Way ; ar hau nm $ ntl » ar 2s Si Squi re Willis After Moore wha Iwo years J County, went winds his home and hang of f fo 8 ree ratiiosnake his brother, J. A. Ward found | $ ter hu missed him from the Ligh kK the ho I. Oserholtzer Bally, et the Kitchen chimpey, Irene the shocked and temporarily Current William killed when he ern Can Johnstown front could not striking the Labor sel for the tion for the ton district In charge im home f Ela descends His dau at the He fing sri Fae i in - where in ung 2 many per ch be ohter gh » 10 ear slag nas mity. The Mauch Chunk board has re neipal of Professor Henninger high school Pr the townsh {93 Shechan, two YORE sl a South ibria Interarban trolley The child ran car, and the ng it to & fot. Sept ad, was 4 pri was struck by seflool oar J directly In motorman belo : ! | rewelecied a member of the faculty. Henry Wagner, a farmer of Berne, ped S384 from the sale her. ries from the single 11 The cherry this sex whirh the custo advance pid be a re, unusually heavy The Frank W. Sidier Post of American im, an soldiers of world war, the br of slop re reas of oF day, ember 1. has been big celebra- service men of the Hazle. by the general OF ArrapRement& will be July 4 in with the unveiling of the the memorial erected the principal streets of the city, Officer Hazleton Moore, of the Caste police force is plat for Ireland shortly home, He will crop in m fail has been tion, welcome home reports said wot committee A parade connection siatues and the of Organ SOLGIETR Iran. med in in Legis organiza lion hedd on th was ized al a meeting of returned from Montour vill recently I'he bonor Frank Sidier, the aviation corps, was killed in action in France last year. The post organized with forty charter members abd this number will be increased to nearly 200 within a few weeks The dominant note in the Johnstown Fourth of July celebration, which will be the biggest that has ever been held there, will be Americanization. The program will include music, sports, speeches and other events, and the in. tention Is to Induce Johnsiown's resi. dents to become Americans by demon sirating what! Americanism means, Christian Stahl, one of the oidest employes on the Schuylkill division of the Pennsylvania railroad, vas killed by a train in the yards at Mcunt Car- bon, ns he stepped off a locomotive, Frank Frantz, an electric light line man, fell from a crane at Slatinglon amd was fatally injured. Eight homes were vigited in one night by Pottstown burglars, snd the Ing would be a mighty good thing for heaviest loser was Joseph Kieln, who the nation. He Is opposed to creating | Is minus $155. a large standing army, however. Ma. | Becoming dizzy after she had whirl. Jor Harper served In the Spanish. | od berself around a nomber of times, American war, on the border, and In Helen, six year-old daughter of Jo the recent world war, seph Urosh, of Stowe, fell and broke Harford boys won state champion. an arm. ship at Rfate coliege. The Susque. Luther Schmidi, son of Rev. N. F. banneh county stock Judging team | Schmidt, of Schwenksville, has been consisted of Miller Lewis, Rupert | notified of his appointment to the nae Grant, Kenneth Maynard, Frank Wil val academy. “ marth and Howard Benning. ! While fishing in the Lehigh river, While trying to walk a pipe which near Rockport, Michael Heilda, aged extends across the river at Third | twenty-two years, was drowned when street, Renovo, William Piper, nine | his boat upset, years old, one of the twin sons of Mr. Charles Riebe hag been awarded the and Mrs. W, T. Piper, missed his foot | contract by Lansford council to pave Ing and fell into the stream when OG650 square feet of West Bortsch shout half way across. He had gone | street, down once when he was rescued by a | Capitalists have organized a $75,000 companion, The river at this point | company for the manufacture of brass I= quite deep and numerous accidents | and steel products, and will bulld a have occurred here, | plant at Macungie. John J. Carter, one of this yoar's | John Balensperger, Sheflield hotel graduntes from the Mahanoy Clty | keeper, was sentenced by Judge Hinek- high school has been appointed to | ley In court to pay a fine of $500 for West Point, violating the liquor laws, Returning safely from France, after | Ground has been broken for fifteen nearly a year's service, Charles Lan. | new houses in Soudertown. The town dis suffered a broken arm when a (18 the first in this vicinity to start trunk fell on it building operations since the close Berks county won its suit for taxing | of the war, sewing machines as real estate, The ladies’ auxiliary of Grand View Railroad shops in Marysville and | hospital ln Sellersville has given $100 vieinity are badly In need of employes | to the institution, she had lost Af arches o . r n county, held in POE WEE na New ning to leave vikit his be content go by boat, however, he having no de sire (0 travel In a pon-stop airplane, Fire of uncertain origin destroyed several buildings on the farm of Moses Mervine, tenanted By Wilson Moyer, in Amity township, near Birdshoro. Birdsboro firemen, with motor appa ratus, saved the farmhouse, During a heavy storm In New Castle the home of Mrs. HW. Keagy, of Corton avenue, was struck and seri. ously damaged. The peculiar thing about the Incident was that it was Just two years from the time that the barn in the rear of the house was #iruck by lightning and burned. Major H, C. Harper, of New Castle, who was with the 110th regiment In service In France, Is copvineed as a result of his own observation, In the army that compulsory military train. # $1 ey ‘ 0s lieutenant who fo old 10 ays, and advertisements have heen Issued | To find a ring that she for wen for the first thine since the | teen years ago was the unusual good big retrenchment order was issued Miss Emma Leisenring, of during the winter
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