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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.
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DEMANDS RECOGNITION
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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
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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,
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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