hit1 I' 8! 8; .a iy- mMnmw ' EVENING PUBLIC LEDEKMil.ABEjiPmA, WED&EkDAX i i?W fy&(-Vh M ..iV. ' KW UlTfeH INFANTRY CROSSES RHINE heavy guns cf ours oro in position with stncks of shells about them, and their snouts raised for hlgh-nnglo fire across the river, where there ore straggling towns and factories under black streamers These things are vlslblo proof of our power over the lthlne, but unless new madness breaks out and new tragedy overtakes tho world thero will be no roar ct gunfire over this broad river. SLOVAK PEASANTS REJOICE IN NEWFOUND LIBERTY from tho country. The Czechs' social L ucinucrawa organ, mo inrvo L.1UUR, cries with joy ! "Slovakia Is ours I" and de mands the speedy suppression of the Magyar magnates who have lived on the people's life blood. Tho Rumanian Socialist, Hakovaky,iIs k&' EV- ''' W. Kifisv-A YOUTH OF GERMANY DEMANDS RECOGNITION ioldiers March Through .K Cologne in Rain as PeoplcrWatch rf$ i7V'sj". ttw .-mr V nrm 1 mir W DIVr KyViyO J1 J-jE,!? 1 UiUNJV '" -r isv V . mi mi i- i.i . tt i r .: t.. ir . ..,.'iJUt llieyU liC JJIICIU UnlCSS ubiuuuhimuuh uy iOUligBlura . . .. 1 - i nrt t Fresh Madness Breaks ' in ucriin Amuses lliousancls Out Amnnir flpriiintis of Spectators ftfc, Kir. . Bv PHILIP GII1BS By LEONARD SPRAY fcjsrt . i . - .. i . . .. i nv '...? r-i.r r fi.t.i. r i Sntini tnhi ...,.;., vhi; .r- uon neriofi. trio ncoDie incm-civco jjvwu- iucic id liivening f uuiic isvugcr . "-v.. ..... ... ,......, ,... .v.Bv i S'i'mie Shepherds in Northern Hungary Give Thanks to God and eZty thTx atiyl'S.ve'rnment! fcaMa President Wilson When I hey Learn of Czecho-Slovak Republic m- . . t:, ( .CosvrioM, HtH, !. JVtto l'orfc Ttnm Co. Cologne, Dec 13 (delayed). Following the cavalry, who went ahead ' Yesterday, some of our Infantry dlvl slons crossed the Rhine today. It was 5 a wet morning, with steady rnln washing tho streets of Cologno and dripping In watcrspou's from the gables above tho 'shop fronts. Our men marched In their Waterpoof capes, all bhlnlng as the rain soaked them, and the gunners and trans port drivers .burled their chins In their upturned collars. But these long columns of men with their' field guns and machine guns and their baggage wagons had a warlike look and their march through the narrow streets of Cologne impressed the German .people, who stood under umbrellas or In the shelter of the shop fronts watch lug them pass. . An old German Jew, back from I'.us Ia, whero all his war profits had been stolen by the Uolshevlkl, spoko to me and said that tho Hermans In Hussla used to .ay: 'The Hncl'sh have no army to count in this war pS will never have one before We win." The old man added "Now they Know Deuer, Copyright, 1019, bv Xco York Timrt Co, llotttrili.nl, Dec IS, Humor, cen though unconscious secniB to have dawned In Germany with thn revolution. It was manifested In Berlin Sunday In the form of a demon stration of youtlis organized by the Spartacus group. About 1000 young people of both sexes took part, mostly from ten to seventeen years of age. and some even younger. These precocious youths and lassies formed u procession and to tho huge amusement of thousands of spectators marched to the Kelchstag building, whero in order to present their demands to tho .Soldiers' Council. While this was being done a jouth mounted a pedestal and informed tho crowd that their demands were as fol lows : "A six-hour norl.Ing day for a eighteen. "Fixing of a minimum wage must lie high enough to provide means of existence. "Limitation of Uio period of appren ticeship 'o t4o yeais. "Tho franchise at tho age of eighteen. The right of the youth to participate By HAROLD WILLIAMS Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger, yoko and that tho big ostutes bo speedily , uiunrii , in u i-.n in;i The meeting elected delegates to the Slovak National Council. A peasant speaker began his speech by saying. "This Is tho day which the Lord hath made," and all tho pcoplo responded: "Wo will rejoice and bo glad In It. Then tho people shouted: "Glory to our noblo liberator, Wilson 1" and with bared heads they sang the national song, ' LeJ Slovac." Similar happy meetings are being held In many llttlo towns and villages be. tween Tressburg and Ungvar. Ono vil lage reports: "It was our prisoners returned from Ilussla who explained to us all the great happenings In the world." There has naturally been a certain nmount of trouble and confusion. Mag yars and Magyrl-ed Slovak oinclals have Intrigued vigorously and scattered bands of Magyar troops have committed fits of violence. At Kperjes, under the shadow of tho astern Carpathians, a civil national council has been formed by Individuals who never fought for the Slovalt cause CopurloM. lilt, bv .Vru Vorte Tlmr Co. Kerne, Dec 18. , It is a relief to turn from watching tho gloomy developments In defeated Germany and to see the Joy of the lib erated peoples that are now founding new Stntes amid the ruins of the C'en- i tral Empires. It Is good to remember i that, whlio politicians are nnxlous and , perplexed by tho dlfflcultles of the transl- are Ho haB been carrying on Bolshevist prop oganaa among tho Slovaks and Transyl-vanlan-ltumantans and almost succeeded In splitting the Rumanian Socialist party. Tho Magyar Government Is naive If It Imagines that Bakovsky will only attempt to Bolshevlza tho other nation alities and not the Magyars.' It Is send ing armed bands Into Transylvania to create disturbances among the Rumanian population. Karolyl's Government has experienced a mild crisis, which was Bolved by the retirement of the minister of the Interior, Batthyary, the minister of war, Bartha, nnd by Karolyl's adoption of a radical and Socialist land program. W-w -A- BOLSHEVIK SAILORS DRIVEN MAD BY EXECUTION HORRORS Chinamen Hired to Replace Them Bungle Work Hideous Torture of Men in Russian Prison Described by Englishman Who Escaped they halted while a deputation entered J the Slovak towns and vlllagos crowded simply rejoicing in their new liberty. Thero arc tho Slovaks, for Instance, that people of peasants nnd shepherds In tho hill country of northern Hungary, vho, after maintaining their nationality Infant through 4000. years of Magyar rule, now find themselves liberated as by a miracle and united to their Czech kinsmen of Bohemia nnd Moravia in a free Czecho-Slovak republic I havo Just received a bundle of Slovak nnd Czech uanera which give a delightful picture of tho awakening of (lnd ,t na8 nrociame an independent mis picturesque people to liDerty. in an siovnk republic, separate from uonemm tf Across one nf thn hrMtrpe nv-r tl'A Rhine went battalions of Scottisli troops in the government of the state. or me JMntn Division, who havo been "Abolition of conscription, leading this advance through Germany "Abolition of all disciplinary punish after long fighting In Flanders : and tho ments." rnusio of their pipes went walling drwn The executivo committee of tho coun the Rhine, over the Dutch barges, which cn treated tho matter in nil seriousness aro lying there by the quaysides, under nncI sent out onc of its members to ad- tlho shadow of the great cathedrals. ,rc the demonctrators. Ho told them whose spires rise to heaven as It seems. , .., so fur nH he wn8 cnncPrne(I ht. wils f,le 'i10 ' 1" ? B.nbled, I,0U8e," ?.w.n I In favor of their demands, but he added imom uu mo inci cuvu l-eiYlne Wood Is a long way from Cologne, and .the Ninth Division, which fought through Its shell-lashed trees In the first battle of the Somme, have marched over Jnany battlefields and left many of their comrades on the way before get ting to this Journey's end, For hours there were three lines of and enthusiastic meetings aro being held to celebrate the new era, nnd It Is touch ing to read with what wondering hap piness these simple folk hear that they ure now allies of the greatest nations on earth and that the power of their old under j oppressors Is completely broken. unC, I Kxprens Joy at Liberty I One grent meeting was held nt the end i of No ember In the town of l.ucence. In Novohrnd province, north of Budapest, to which poisants went crowding from all parts of the province. A resolution was adopted unanimously expressing Joy i pUfoHc. on the ground that tho Slovak language differs from the Czechs very mucn na tho Ukrainian docs from the Russian or broad Scotch from I-ondon English. But. as President Masaryk Is fond of saying, you cannot found a State on n dialect, and tho movement had slight success. Rejerted New Council When the Inhabitants of the district very near Kperjes were called on to send representatives to this rew council they scornfully rejected the offer ana stoutly declnred for the Turcln Vatlonai Council and for the czecno-aiovan re- AUTONOMY .FOR CATALONIA Spanish Government Offers Depu ties a Tentative Plan Madrid. I)cc. 18. (By A. T) Tho Government has submitted to tho depu ties from the Cntalonlan district nn offer to refer Catalonia's demand for au tonomy to an extra parliamentary com mission, whose report will bo submitted to tho Cortos for Its approval. The right Is reserved to tho Cortes to suspend tho grant of autonomy If ex perience proves that the conduct of gov ernment through tho regional method does not work (satisfactorily that tho exfcutlve committee could do nothing, as Its power was passing to the new authority to be established by th" Soldiers and Workers' congress. The young n h Is showed dtssntisfne tion with this declaration, and a seventeen-year-old orator mado a fierco speech In which he denounced Ebert nnd at their liberation and at their union with tho Czecho-Shnnk State and add ing: "Wo bow low before the noble spirit of President Wilson and will call God's blessing upon him In our dally prayers. Tho greater part of the people of upper Novohrad suffer terribly under the op pression of the proprietors of tho great estates, nnd we demand that our people bo free as soon as possible from that In any case, the danger Is now re moved by a remarkable communication mado on December 3, In the name of the Entente, by the French colonel at Budapest to Kiiroyll and Hudz:., the Czecho-Slovnl: representatives. This dec laration empowers Czecho-Slovak troops as Allies to occupy the Slovak country In the name of the Entente under the terms of the armistice, and ordeTS the immediate withdrawal of Magyar troops DUTCH SEEK ALLIED FAVOR Want Closer Business Relations will. Entente Nations Turin, Dec. 18. There Is an Important movement under way In Dutch com mercial, political nnd flnanclnl circles, according to n dispatch from Tho Hngue tr thn Matin, indicating th.i the forelirn policy of the Netherlands will assume new aireiiuu uhucu uii uiuecr iviuliuus with the Entente nations. The leader of the Dutch economical 1nE?up in a HDeerh nt Haarlem decHred his party recognized that tho River co'"-'-' snoiiln no internationalized. Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Copvrloht, ISIS, In New York Tlmrj Co, London, Dec. 18. i The Dally Chronicle prints an Inter lcw with Victor Bulmcr, nn English man, long resident of Petrograd, who has Just made his escape. He eays: "The conditions In Petrograd are ter rible. Men nro nightly taken In bunches from tho fortress of Peter nnd Paul and summarily executed. The guard would look In about midnight and call out twenty or thirty men, saying signifi cantly: 'You need not bring your things.' Soon nfterward the volleys of tho firing party could bo heard from the cells. "Sailors were called upon to 'do this work, but tho horrors of It drove two or three of them completely mad. Chinaman were engaged. They were bad shots, with tho result that men were half killed and left In hideous torture. No trace of the bodies could be found; no graves could be discovered, and this gives color to the impression that the corpses were simply thrown' Into tho river. "As tytplcal of the prison conditions let mo picture a cell Intended for one man crowded with twenty, without ac commodation for sleeping or eating, their sitting place a stone floor, the nlr fetid and walls streaming with moisture. Here a Russian became very III and the red guards wero asked to do something for him. 'Ho will probably die,' It was urged. Then let him die,' was the callous re sponse. ' "Soon the packed cell became his death chamber, and an appeal was made to tho guard to rernove the body. 'We will lake It out with the rubbish In tho morn Ing', answered the sentry, and It re mained untouched until then. "Latterly there has not been so much street firing, but perhaps even more ter rible than bloodshed aro the privation. And yet I.cnlne Is credited with having said he does not believe there Is famine In Russia nnd ho will only believe It, 'when queues are formed for coffins to bury people' "All thinking people of Petrograd are anxious that the Allies should enter the city to save their lives. Laboring men cherish tho hope. 'Some ono must save us,' they say. All Intelligent classes of, Russlann.nre with the AllleH. though the Uolshevlkl consider them open enemies. "Espionage was rampant. Arrests were made on any pretext People wero starv- Thcn Ing. I have Been refined ladles of good station rummaging In heaps of dirt for fish .lends. Men and women barely able to stand through weakness have been sitting or lying In the streets holding out their hands for bread. There were food cards, but the profiteer held sway, I have had to pay 660 rubles for eigh teen pounds of dark flour (about (165 on tho old rnte of exchange or $50 on the new) forty-five rubles for chicken. Iseventy-flve rubles for ono pound of but ter; nnd twenty-two ruble for a poton of cheese. . .. "Though Englishmen ,ln tha.,fortrwa,.4 0--i, , of Poter and Paul were rnUch threat ;. 1 X" ened. the- menaces' were' not carried to' ' extremes. to be Bhobna soon as then; Ms' any ,Vl-, Vl.f, - n qj ',nB'iBn troops Huvttnciiif in "iv, Russia, Remember the Bolshevik han "".A J Ukcmred tnat tor every man he lotus A-?S he will take 1000 heads of tho combined .tiyt ft peoples against him, and he Is !sJUlntr. 'O most uiooainirsiy inuciuua. he' menaces' were' nqt cafrltd to5, . is. but I fear that the British eub- -4 ' LIU left In Petrograd are likely A ?. Why do we feel hungry? SEE PAGE 5 Holly Wreaths Made from the belt deep colored foliage 25c, 30c and 50c Each Service Wreaths ANY NUMBER OF STARSy SOe, 75c and 1.00 Each Holly, Laurel, Mistletoe. Etc HOUSE PLANTS FOR XJttAS I'nlmt, Ferns, Ilubber riants. Etc. POP CORN That will pop thoso large QCj, snow-white clusters. lb. ., wC Toppers 25e and 35c ech Golden Chlneae I.llles for Oranlng la Pebbles nnd Water. lOe Kacli, tl Per Diien SEED HOUSE 518 MARKET ST.', .v.' 4.VV ! A1 !MI Mk M ii t f-i 4w i'JUt M - il X 1 '1 9 i 5 V :, t ' Michell's &ft8 0 traffic acrosi the bridges, scouts of the I Scheldemnnn as trnltors and tho na- INInth and First Canadian Divisions and English battalions of the Twenty-ninth Division, who fought nt Mesnlt-res nnd Jtarcolng In heroic defense a year ngo Jand who In many battles before and since proved themselves great soldiers. It was in Galllpoll that tho Twenty ninth Division first earned their fame by great courage and great sacrifice. Then, they camo Into the fields of France .and were among tho heroes of Wyschaete and Messlnes and in the Somme battle fields. In retreat and In advance they fought ' -with the spirit of tho great divisions, jjroud of their traditions earned In the first years of warfare, nut among all tlonal assembly us a new form of clnss government. Amid a i-torm of laughter ho declared in n shrill voice: "The youth of the country hae kept going the economic life of (iermany dur ing the war. If our demands aro not Immediately nnd unconditionally con ceded the youth of (Iermany will havo a general strike.'' HUGH CECIL ELECTED EM' (. ilheir achievements I think their defense KW . ..'.. ... . AKfc lot aiessmeres anu diarcoing, wnen me ji ."31...i.t..prR nrt Rnvnl Fuslllprps Kbspv Uxford ,f'arid Guernsey's fought until there were I wots of oxford university. V iw,. i.,., .t,;,!in.- lu ih. n,. ,v,ii, .1,. The result was. .Lord ft , Svorld will most remember. They earned RlSSiffitS ' C't their honor to cross the Rhine today. On the left bank of, the Rhine many Coalition Candidates From Chosen for Commons l.nndon, Dec. 18. I-nrd Hugh Cecil nnd Rowland 1.. Prothero, the coalition candidates, havp hen declared elected to the House of Commons for tho two Hugh Cecil, Proth- Prof. Gilbert Murray. Liberal. 812: Mr. Furnlss, Labor, 332, funds for Officers and Enlisted Men m the U. S. Army and Navy and with Red Crsj or Y, M. C. A. The Safest Way To carry funds u by Travelers' Letters of Credit which wo itiue free of comminion To tend funds is by Mail or Cable Transfer which may be made through u. WE HAVE OUR OWN AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE IN FRANCE WITH HEADQUARTERS AT THE OFFICE OF CREDIT COMMERCIAL DE FRANCE 20 RUE LAFAYETTE. PARIS Brown Brothers & Go, Fourth and Chestnut Stkccts PHILAUt-LPHIA EL PR ODUCTO ri ? .. H.I ;y tf' .r,.ykjlfXTUr ImJ''''' - iTrnrryi' x trY l'ljfc& sT " Hi I Ei1 IK-1 I' I h i " r f If ( f I i I " , I' 'i'S e iff i W! j- 1 JfcrV' I i '3. i 7m h t 1?. 1 life1 ' 1 Brtiti':; cm Mi- VMPU-i. 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