16 200,000 TONS OF FOOD ON WAY TO FEED AUSTRIANS Ships Proceed Under Sealed Orders; Await Word From Hoover Washington, Nov. 20. Ships carrying two hundred thousand tons 'of food for the populations of north lorn France, Belgium and Austria now are enroute to Europe. They aro proceeding under sealed orders •to Gibraltar and Bristol Channel ports, and on arrival will await word from Food Administrator Ifoovor as to their final destinations. Those going to Gibraltar aro cxpectpd to proceed to Adriatic and Mediterran ean ports and the others to French and Belgian ports. One of the last acts of Mr. Hoover before sailing for Europe was to appoint u specific shipping commit tee, headed by Theodore Whltmarsh. of tho Food Administration, to co operate with tho Shipping Board and tho Commission for Belief in Belgium, in facilitating the ship ment of food to the demoralized civilian populations In the countries devastated by war. Neither the number of ships in volved In tho present movement, [nor the that would be vjajUvertod at Gibraltar for relief of Europe and the near eaat. „ald be learned at the Food Ad .ministration. It, was stated that ■ final arrangements for feeding the peoples freed from the yoke of Ger man militarism is awaiting llie arri val of Mr. Hoover in Europe, and 'the result of his survey of the situa tion there. The purpose of sending some of tho ships now going to Gibraltar and others to tho Bristol Channel ports. It was explained, was to have imme diately available at convenient ports supplies to ship quickly where Mr. Hoover finds the need to be the most urgent. Officials here of the commission for relief in . Belgium believe that the destination of the ships on their way to Gibraltar is tho Port of Tri este. The ships now on their way are understood to be the first that have left American ports with food for countries other than Northern France and Belgium, It was said that more than 200,000 tons of food monthly will be required to relievo distress in Central Europe and the Near East. Montgomery Talks on the First Governor State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery to-day spoke on tho life and work of Thomas Mlf It In. the first governor of the state of Pennsylva nia, at the November luncheon of the Pennsylvania State Society at the Harrlsburg Club, Dr. Montgomery presented a number of facts taken from original sources regarding the early governor and iiis influence upon Pennsylvania affairs. lilg payments of delinquent taxes and close collections by the Auditor General's Department have brought the slate's revenues for the fiscal year ending with November within sight of $44,000,000, with a possibility that it tnay go higher. The best previous record was approximately $36,500,000. Snniurl l.loyd Irving, of t heutcr, was to-day appointed a member of the Old Age Pension Commission, to take tlie place of George C. Iletzel. Chester, declined. t'oitgrcxsuian-iit-I.argr Tbomuts fi, Crago to-day tiled a statement allow ing that he had spent $1,582. of which $1,500 was paid to the Republican Mate Committee. O. P. Brubrtker and John <*'. Etiler, also candidates, filed statements showing less than SSO spent. Public Service Commissioners to day heard complaints of Mineral Lo cals from the and West 11 axle ton districts against fares of the 10-high Traction Company. Only the respondent appeared in the com plaint of the Borough of Warren against the Warren Street Railway Company. The parties did not appear in the Manheim tire protection com plaint. The State Defense Commission. known as the "War Board." wilt probably have a meeting this week, and it is passible that the subject oJ l lie writing of the history of Pennsyl vania in the war may be discussed. Governor Brumbaugh is said to desird to devote much of his time to this im portant historical effort after the con < )iy.v.'P. term. - r.x-Sennlor John S. Klslier, of Indi ana. one of the big men of affairs of Central Pennsylvania, was among visitors to the Capitol to-day. Plans for tlie midwinter food pro duets show, to be held here during the month of January, were discussed to day at a meeting at the State De r-Mrtment of Agriculture attended bv slate officials. K. S. Bayard, 11. M. Hershey, K. K. 11ibsclnnan, Chester I>. Tyson, T, S. Golden. J. G. Gclbach, F. P. McGrann and Lindley H. Dennis, interested in various activities. ' art of E *PeßiE N ce w. Be you a pupil or a graduate of the School of Experience, you can learn a lesson in the gentle art of making both ends meet by paying a visit to this shop of style and service. Suits and Overcoats sls to $35 All New Furnishings, Shirts, Knitted Mufflers, Neckwear, Hosiery, Un derwear, etc. HOLMAN p AESELER LO. 228 MARKET ST. WEDNESDAY EVENING HAJURISBTJRG TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 20, 191 S. NAVIGABLE RIVER SHOWN PRACTICABLE [Continued from First I'nge.j Kiwanls Club by William H. Armstrong. They Introduced the several speakers. Mr. Hershey said, following the meeting, that he would proceed at once to formulate his committee and to attend to the details of getting the conference together. Continuing Major Gray said: "What of the history of the attempts to make the Susquehanna navigable? We are not the pioneers. The early settlers found in it a ready and practical means of com munication and transportation. in 1784 to 1767, George Washington made a survey for the canalizing of the stream from the bay to the Great hakes, urging the improvement as an important development. As parly as 1768 to 1770 it was a sub ject of investigation and legislative action, in 1771 4,000 pounds were appropriated and the Susquehanna river was declared a public high way and a navigable stream. In 1790 the War Department assigned an engineer to make surveys and I estimates. We are told this was well i and carefully done but Congress did I nothing. In 1789 5,000 pounds were | appropriated, and from 1791 to 1799 510,000 was appropriated. In 1795 ! a n ad in the Oracle of Dauphin, ' the ancestors of the arrisburg Tel egraph called for men who could | handle explosives to blast the rocks | out of the Susquehanna bo'ween the ■ mouth of the Juniata and the Swa- I tara creek stating they would have generous wages. We learn that largo flat boats were built and loaded with hay, oats, corn, wheat and other farm products and were lloated down the river and delivered not only at the towns along the Sus quehanna, but as far away as Haiti more, Wilmington, Philadelphia and New York." •'Rafting of logs was an industry and they were seen on the river until recently. While building the Roekville bridge In 1901 several large rafts came down the river." "In 1834 the question came up j again and a survey by army en gineers was made, but both state and National legislature refused to act. Maryland took up the matter in 1833 and a party of enthusias tic men made a trip from Oswego, New York state, to llarrisburg in a Hat boat, llarrisburg load in the efforts from 1827 to 1833. From i 500 to 1,400 bushels of wheat were j carried down the river on one boat j In these early days sometimes a dis- ( taneo of 300 miles. I.ater came the j canal along its banks, mute evi- j (lence of whicii is still visible ex- j copt where the site of the old canal ; is occupied by the right-of-way of j the railroad. Filling up the canal was a crime. The old canal was a means at one time by which Phila delphia, New Yoi'k, Wilmington, Baltimore and other towns \ f re supplied with coal, lumber, farm produce and cattle. As recently as ■ 1903 exhaustive study and compre-I hensive report on making the Sus quehanna navigable was made to the Harrlsburg Board of Trade by E. Z. Wnllower, Benjamin Nead. John W. German for the Committee on Navigation. They declared it feasible, possible, necessary. At that time the manufacturing in terests of llarrisburg represent ed 446 industries, total cap ital, $8,749,516, their output equaled $16,054,597. Dauphin county totaled up a capital of about $20,000,000 witli an output of $40,000,000. After fifteen years of steady growth, with no statistics at hand, I venture to say they have mare than tripled the cap ital and the ouput. But what came of it? What was the fruit of their labor? Nothing. Why? Well the time was not ripe, the subtle oppos ing lnfiuence was too strong, or both, but the real reason was that the people, were not back of it, the necessity of a cheaper means o t transportation was not so pressing." Railroads Expand "Si neve we ave with the his tory \rougnt up to date. The rail roads were showing signs in 1903 of congestion. We were feverishly completing and four-tracking long stretches of the Pennsylvania. Kail road: rushing the completion of the Enola yards; starting the low grade freight line along the river and across the state from Peqtiea to ] Trenton. Freight was increasing. Two tracks would not carry it. Larger locomotives, longer trains were necessary. Additional rights of-way were costing more, construc tion was becoming more expensive, so had operation. Freight charges have Increased. You are paying for all this. The railroads are doing their best. They have reached their limit unless they buy additional rights-of-way. Build more tracks, more and larger bridges, more and larger classification yards, more roll ing stock, more terminal facilities, more everything, all costlier than ever before, and always subject to rapid deterioration. We know it. Every businessman, every working man, every housekeeper in this audi ence has knowledge of the failure of our transportation. It is your fuult and my fault and we must remedy it. What is the remedy for this sec tion of the Keystone state? The canalising of the Susquehanna river. Is it necessary? Yes. Can it he done in a reasonable length of time at a justifiable cost? It can. Those are direct questions and direct answers. It is necessary to increase our transportation facilities. It is necessary if for one reason only, and that ts that coal, anthracite and bituminous, may be assured at lower cost, and a certain supply shipped to the New England states, New York, New Jersey, Eastern Penn sylvania and Maryland." Cheaper Transportation I "The Eastern coast is menaced with cold and privation, their ex perience Inst winter is likely to be repeated this. Pennsylvania's out put of coal must not be restricted by inadequate transportation* and the earnings of her people cut down, it is necessary and justifiable it for coal only. 1917—Bituminous coal $400,000- 000. 1917 —Anthracite 'coal $500,000- 000. Second Justification "This is the second Justification." "It is over 300 miles from the mouth of the Susquehanna river to Binghamton, New York. The main stream, the north branch tra verses tho great central manufac turing district, the great farming district, passes through the anthra cite cool regions. Jhe West branch over 100 miles long flows through a rich farming country, penetrates lumber district and touches the oil district also. Tho Juniata branch say sixty miles, passes through rich farm country and timber lands, It touches the bituminous clal region, and large brick and stone industries. Along Its banks the Susquehanna fairly brisdes with reasons. It, drains an area of 24,100 Bquar? miles, or 53 per cent, of the total area of tho state. As a freight car rier it will serve the same area. "It ts a practical project and can be done, 1 have In mind a scries of dams of sufficient height to es tablish levels where with a small How Old Canal Seethed With Activity t amount of dredging a prizmatic channel of say 150 feet wide at top and fourteen feet deep can be es tablished and maintained. , The height of tlie dams kept as low as careful study would indicate and to permit floods and moving ice to pass over. Some dams would be of the bridge and shutter type, piers built across the river at intervals* and steel shutters to close the inter vals controlled from the bridge, low ered or .raised as the stage of the water indicated. Storage reservoirs built to help' control floods and sup ply water at low stages, hocks will be necessary, and wherever possible power can be generated for canal and commercial purposes, although my thought would be canal llrst, and power development as incidental. Good foundations "The bottom of the river lends It- } self to the construction of dams and j locks. Good foundations are evl- . dent; the banks are, generally speak-,| ing, good; the ones likely to wash can be protected by riprap of stone I taken from the bed of the river when dredging. The fall in the river with a few exceptions is not rapid; ! the rapids will require higher dams and locks. At McCall's Ferpy dam, locks can be built. Generally speak ing, the channel will be in the riv er. It may be necessary or advis able in some cases to dredge the canal alongside on the bank or across a meadow to shorten the route or take out a bend. A care ful. exhaustive survey must be made to determine methods and estimate the cost. But do not let us con sider the cost too seriously. Ifo not let the balance sheet blind us or shut Out the broad view of a great I utility. A Practical Utility "The question is not what it costs, but what do we get for our money. The codt of a properly constructed canal, large enough to float a 2,800- ton barge, will be spread out over all time to come. All future genera tions will derive everlasting benefit from it and rise up to bless you. It will take about two years of sur veying and study and planning to j form a reasonably accurate idea of j the cost; so it would be very dlfll- j cult for me to give you an estimate j or even a! fair guess, but 1 have been asked so often what will it cost that I will make a comparison with the cost of New York state barge canal. The New York state barge canal in 1916 carried 1,625,000 tons of freight. Cost s|so,lM)o,oo(t , "The New York state barge canal ! cost tH54,000,00(i. The total mileage j is 488 miles. The estimated freight | cost is about four, and eight-tenths | mills per mile. A safe figure oa the | canalizing of the Susquehanna river, ; including branches, would be from i 150 to 200 millions of dollars. The state of Pennsylvania may be com pelled to do as New York did—pay ! tlie bill—receiving no national uid until tidewater was reached. It will be ninety per cent, in Pennsyl vania. Ninety per cent, of the ma terials and machinery used in Its construction will be produced in Pennsylvania, eighty per cent, of the money will be spent and cirOulated in Pennsylvania, ninety-live per cent, of the outgoiag freight will originate in the state of Pennsyl vania; the canal and all its mate rial benefits will be yours. The state must control the building, i maintaining and operating. "in order that this vitally lmpor- | tunt project should have proper at- i tention, the suggestion is offered j that a committee, made up of rep- | resentative citizens from the great valley of the .Susquehanna river, and I throughout the state, be up- I pointed to see their representatives I in the State Legislature and have j them take up the matter seriously, j create a Pennsylvania state barge canal commission and make an ap- j propriation of $2,000,000 to pay the expenses of a careful survey and i study, the preparation of compre-, henstve plans and estimates to be! submitted to the commission from , time to xtime and a complete report! to the State Legislature at its 1920 I session." Operate Kconomicully Continuing, Major Gray said: "If economy in freight movement is desired, the canals will supply it. If a prompt and speedy receipt of freight is demanded, the waterway at the present time excels the rail roads. Whatever may have been the performance of the railroads in other times, it Is a matter that may be proved beyond doubt that car goes by canal pass from Buffalo to ! New York in less ltme than by rail, j Already, with a portion of the old , canal in use and by means of antl- ; quated canal boats, a fleet has mudc ' the trip frofn the Great Lakes to I New York in less time thfm by rail, days. With the new canal route In use for Its entire length, five days-' may ho counted as the maximum time of passage. "To secure a test of comparison, i Inquiry was made as to the time consumed by the railroads In carry- f ing freight between Buffalo and | New York t'ity. Records were sought regarding some half-dozen /< \ \ v . f .. 3 - The hundreds of members of tlie Pennsylvania Boatmen's Reunion Association arc firmly behind the project to make the Susquehanna river navigable. The veterans of the river declare it is possible to do this work at a comparatively low cost. Armed with a huge petition containing the names of more than 5,000 signers, Edwin Charles, secre tary of tho Boatmen's Association, attended the big Rotary Club meeting last night. He showed his petitions to the speakers of the evening and they were very favorably impressed. Among the material ho brought with him are these pictures of bygone canal days shown in the cut. The old boat building yards at Selinsgrove and a picture showing the canalboats unloading coal at Colum bia are especially interesting at this time. "Tlie same thing can be done right now," Mr. Charles declared. I could get 20,000 names on a paper to that effect. An interesting part of Mr. Charles' collection is n valuable table of economic distances compiled by W. C. Frick, Danville. This table shows much of interest about tlie proposed project. curs. The tracing of one car showed ! that it was twenty-three days in j ! transit and the least time taken by | i any car followed was eight days, j Taking the six cars as a whole, the i 1 I average time consumed by a car in j; making the trip from Buffalo to i New York was eleven days. Argu- ■ ments, therefore. against water j transportation on the ground of slow delivery are treated with •Impati ence. A Barge Project "Making the Susquehanna river ! navigable is a large subject. It must i bo handled in a large way by men of j vision. If you make up your minds to canalize tlie Susquehanna river,! i you will do it. Tlie people of Penn- j j sylvania this month voted for good ; roads $1)0,000,000. The people j know the necessity for good Jiigh- I ways. Motor vehicles have created ; the necessity for good roads, freight ' transportation by motor vehicles is j here. Their tonnage is limited by | bridges, road grades and the quality j of roads. Five tons is the usual j maximum limit with an occasional j ten-ton truck, in the larger cities for j ! special purposes. To get the best I j results, good roads are absolutely j I necessary. At present motor truck j transportation is very costly. On the I j Susquehanna river you will be able to float 2.SOU inns on one boat, at an ! expense of less than one-hall' cent pcf ton-mile. "This great enterprise must be' entrusted to friends only. Great' euro must be exercised. The will of i tlie people of Pennsylvania must bo i supreme. Nothing must prevent the 1 accomplishment of this great and I necessary work. „ j "Harrisburg the capital of our I great ryid glorious state, must lead | the way!" "The history of the canals was ail | too short. The railroads which soon ' paralleled them became their rivals. and soon succeeded in acquiring them and by neglect of proper main tenance suffered them to fall into de cay. "Recent efforts to improve water transportation have been confined to the Ohio and its two principal tribu taries, the Allegheny being improved I for a distance of twenty-four miles above its mouth, the Monongahela for 14 3 miles. The best evidence of the success of this work carried on |by the federal government is the i enormous tonnage which has al- j i ready been developed. ! Mr. Zcntmyer Npealts . K. A. Zentmyer, chairman of the! Water Sunppl.v Commission of Penn- ' ) sylvania, spoke in part as follows: ' ' "Pennsylvania has never been lack- | j ing in originality or initiative, al-; | though it has frequently failed to I | Hnd a historian to record the deeds! i done or even an author of school i j text books to commemorate the' | tilings with which it has been iden- ' ' titled and has brought to comple- j | tlon. "The Keystone State has always' i been Interested in navigation. Seven- ! | teen years before Fulton drove his, ■steamboat up the Hudson, John : Fitch, of Philadelphia (in 1788), de- j | signed and constructed a steamboat I with which he did a passenger busi- 1 i ness between Phliudelphia and Bur- | 1 llngton. New Jersey, a distance of' ! twenty miles; making the trip in two ' I hours; and in 1804 (three years be- 1 I fore . Fulton's time), Oliver Evans, 1 also of Philadelphia, long before ; I the time of hydroplanes, construct- ! , j ed an amphibious vessel, mounted on ; wheels, propelled it py steam , through the streets of Philadelphia 1 to the Schuylkill, changed the wheels for propellers and"moved It down the river and up the Delaware to the city. I "It was In Pennsylvania, in tire year 1825, that the first Iron steam-J boat in the world was built at York, i Pa., the "Codorus" by name, which | i made frequent trips between Yorkji Haven and Harrlsburg. • In colonial 1 shipbuilding Pennsylvania soon took ; i a leading part and the first Amer- I < ican fleet —the five immortal vessels j ] which durleg the War of 1812 made | | the American Navy famous, a rec- • < ord maintained through each sue- i cessivo conflict and now added to by i Admiral Sims and his bluejackets, the "Congress," "Constellation," "Constitution," "President" and "United States"—was designed by a Pennsylvanlan and built on the shores of the Delaware. "The Keystone State was also among the first to give attention t'o Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart Dinner Sets, China Cut Glass and Savory Roasters Among the N eedsof Thanksgiving Day The deeper significance of this, Thanksgiving Day with its celebration of the close of JjL the war will bring whole hearted thankfulness, and as the dinner is one of the plcas • ureable features of the day a timely survey of things needed to make it a success is of first importance. The Basement Section offers every needed thing iti the service of the dining urn SSISA ii room and kitchen. 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Footed Comports. $1.98 Butcher Knives 15c, 50c to 75c , •$52.15, SH.i.OO ami $74.25 3-pint Water Pitchers $1.75 i Casserolea In nickel frame, $1.33 to $7.00 Dives, Pomeroy & Stewuit, Basement internal navigation and as early as 1761 appointed a committee to re move 'he rocks from the Schuyl kill river. In 1769, tho American Philosophical Society appointed a committee, one of whom was John l.ukens, surveyor general of the province to make a survey for a canal route connecting tlie Schuylkill and the Susquehanna, on which, at a somewhat later date the old Union canal was constructed. As early as 1797 a canal two and one-half miles in length was built around the Conewago Falls, on the Susquehannu fifteen miles below Harrisburg, to aid in the navigation of the river. Interest Aroused "The early completion of the Erie canal in New York state aroused tho business interests of Pennsylvania to the threatened loss of their busi ness and commercial suptemucy and an effort was made to combat this evil by a rival system of canals reaching from the Delaware to the Ohio.. The difficult topography of Pennsylvania as compared with New York made an all-water route un feasible, so that the system as iinally worked out consisted of a railroad front Philadelphia to Columbia und across the Allegheny mountains, thus bringing into existence the once-famous Portage railroad. The project came too late to l'orestull New York's success, although the system when completed in 1835 rep resented almost t.OO miles of canal and 130 miles of railroad. Prance Is Cited "The question as to whether the Susquehunna and its branches can be made navigable should be consider ed in the light of what other coun tries have done. In Europe the two outstanding countries are France and Germany. France with almost us many railroads in proportion to its area us Pennsylvania has over 8,000 miles of river and lake navigation. Germany as just as much railroad us Pennsylvania has over 5,000 miles of improved waterways and in recent years the water-borne traffic has in creased more than three times as fast as the railroad traffic, mile for mile. "The Susquehnnna has a drainage I area to the Maryland line of 27,- 440 square miles, and has a mean | low water flow of almost 8,000 I cubic feet per second, more than | any but two or three of the improved i rivers in Europe. It has no greater I fall, and it has on its drainage urea| or adjacent thereto, 5,000,000 of the population of Pennsylvania. By the j completion of the project of the At lantic Deeper Waterways Association and the Susquehanna improvement it will bo possible to reach directly along the Atlantic seaboard over one-third of the entire population of the United States, but practically all the principal manufacturing cen ters of the country. Flood Prevention "Any project for tnakiag this great river navigable should also take into consideration the other groat project of flood prevention and stream regu lation. This, when properly consum mated, will solve many, if not all, of tlie problems as to water sup -1 ply for lockage and other purposes j and will also render available a vast i quantity of power now wasting. "These arc the days of 'big things.' ! We no longer think in millions but j in hundred millions, and right here I is a suggestion for the state and na | tional committees which are now i seeking to find means of employment j for times of industrial depression j through the development of public I works of various kinds." Columbia Interested It was stated last night by A. L. i Campbell, secretary >f the IVler | chants anil Manufacturers' Associa i lion, Columbia, that it' is the inten ! tion of the association to hold a I meeting in Columbia soon for the j purpose of discussing and laying I further plans for the deepening of | the Susquehanna. Congressman Hampton Moore will probably be j the speaker, and Harrisburg is ex ! pected to send a large delegation. Among representatives from Co j lunibia at last night's meeting were i the following: \V. H. Lucas, president Merchants j and Manufacturers' Association: J. | H. Ostertag, chairman of executive committee; H. F. Yergey, manager Columbia Wagon Works; W. L. | Bucher, proprietor Central Drug I Store; W. F. Oberlin, jeweler. W. iW. Fairer, proprietor Columbia | Boiler W<*ks; Horace Detweiler, i cashier First National Bank; Cap j tain C. K. Lenig, of the Daily Spy: I Frank Gladfelter, Columbia Trust Company; A. L. Campbell, secretary I Merchants and Manufacturers As sociation; Dr. H. V. Pierce, Veter ' inarian; Frank Kreidler, hardware; { Lewis Zarfoss, hardware; D. D. ! Dockard, contractor. CHICAGO 'l.' PARE CENTS Springfield. 111., Nov. 20.—The state public utilities commission yester day authorized the elevated railways. | of Chicago, to charge a 6-eent fare I until December 1, 1919. The company j had asked a 7-eent fare. KIEV TORN FROM ' THE UKRAINIANS 1 BY SOVIET FOES Former Commander of Russ Armies Now Leads Cap tors of the City By Associated Press Copenhagen, Nov. 20.—The Ukra inian government has been overA turned und Kiev has been captured by troops from Astrakhan, accord ing to Kiev dispatches to Swedish, newspapers. The Ukrainian national I assembly has fled and provisional government has been established by the captors of the city, who appar ently are commanded by General Denikine, lead of antl-Bolshevlkl * forces. The Ukraine became a republio during the disprders in Itussia after the overthrow of the Kerensky gov- ( ernmcnt in November, 1917. There was much lighting there between the llolsheviki and their opponents, re sulting in the defeat of the Bolshe vlki. The Ukrainian government made peace with Germany at Brest- Litovsk, a few days before the Rus sian Bolshevik government also agreed to the German terms. Austro- German troops then entered the Ukraine for the purpose of carrying out economic articles of the peace treaty. j The Ukrainian government was dverthrown last May and General j Skoropadski became dictator under ] the title of hetman, but he has had i difficulty In maintaining order there, j although assisted by the Austro j Germans. General Denikine formerly was I commander of the Russian armies ] on the southern front. Previous to j that he had been chief of staff of tho | Russian armies. i Washington, Nov. 20.—Reports of | the overturning of the Ukrainian I government by General Denlklne's I anti-Bolshevik troops was received j hfcre to-day with great satisfaction, for officials said It will make tho | work of the Allies in handling tho I Russian problem much more simple. It was pointed out it will be easy I | to reach Russia in Europe with sup-' | plies and necessary munitions by i way of the Black Sea, which now is j open to the Allies. FIRST FLASHES OFF | THE MORNING WIRE i : I Paris —The American representa ! tives at the peace conference and I their staffs will occupy a building on. the Place de la Concorde which has been the headquarters of the Amer ican Red Cross since June. Copenhagen—Delegates from Vi enna have arrived at Berlin to nego tiate a union of German-Austria with Germany. I.ondon —The situation in the East is causing anxiety in Germany. Ber ; lin learns a great German army is j marching eastward, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange j Telegraph Company. Unset —Announcement Is made at Vienna by thf Council of State that it has decided to raise the new AusW trian loan from "new sources of rev enue" because of the financial situa tion. ' Wen- Orleans —The Panama Maru, an 8.200-ton steamer of the Osaka Shoshen Kaisha, one of the largest Japanese steamship companies, ar rived at this port last night, marking the beginning of actual service on the first regular steamship line ever operated between New Orleans and Japan. Berne—Arrangements have been made for the transportation of 100.- 000 Italian prisoners of war from Austria and Germany to Italy byway of Switzerland. The first of the spe cial trains, each carrying 800 men, passed on Saturday.
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