JOMMISSIONERS
OF LEAGUE HAVE
BIG JOB AHEAD
Uterial Gathered by Them
Will Facilitate Con
ference Work
*■ Feb. 15.—Although the
■*>jcct for the creation of a league
f nations has been successfully
lunched, much work remains'for
le various commissions before the
sturn to Paris of President Wa
rn, Premier Lloyd, George of Great
ritain, and Premier Orlando, of
toly. However, the material gath
rcd by them is expected to facili
ite greatly the work of the elos
1S days of the conference.
The special commission has not
.ndertaken to select a home for.
he, league of nations. That wsis
h*t for the determination of the
onferenco later. -
While there was unanimity as to
lie desirability of a league of r
10ns, its soon developed that some
f the delegates, skeptical of its
nmcdiato efficiency, desired to
laintain the old order of balances
f power and protected frontiers
ntil the new system had (lemon,
tinted its capacity to meet the
eeds of peace loving nations. Pa
ient endeavor and many long scs
ions of the Supreme Council it
elf, and afterwards of the special
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commission created to deal with the
subject, were necessary to estab
lish to the satisfaction of these
threatened dissentors the impossi
bility of continuing the old order
while installing the new. •
Russia, Big
Yet Unsettled, is
Opinions of Delegates
Washington, Feb. 15.—Russia it
self is regarded by the peace dele
gates as the great problem yet to
be settled, although the hope is ex
pressed that the Prinkipo confer
ence would bo realized and some
thing like peaceful relations le
stored between the various factions.
It was regarded as necessary at the
outset to convince the Bolshevist
elements that the peace conference
had- no desiro to force upon them
settlements of debts and other such
matters as conditions of a success
ful conference.
Lancaster Gets $500,000
For Government Building
Washington, Feb. 15. —The an
nual public buildings appropriation
bill carrying $30,000,000 for c? n_
struction of post offices and other
public structures and for the pur
chase of sites, was ordered favor
ably reported by tlie House public
buildings committee.
The largest item in the bill is a
4,2,50, 000 additional appropriation
for purchase of a site for a new
post office building in Chicago,
which with previous appropriations
amounts to $6,000,000.
Appropriations for public build
ingf. included in the bill are: Erie,
Ph., $2 50,000; Scranton, Pa., $52 a
, and Iyancaster, Pa., $500,000.
Shaffer's Last
Flight
(Continued from Yenterday)
I could not have picked a more at
tractive audience.' They were Just
like two kids and listened to my
tales of lights in the air and tumbles
on the ground like any pair of 6-
year-olds for they were just about
as blissfully Ignorant as to what
made an airplane stay up.
I stayed with these kind people
some ton days, recovering my
strength, and also waiting for the
trains to start back to Paris, for I
was not going to walk back If I
could help it. But the Boche had
blown up all the bridges on the rail
road and no trains could get
through.
The English army of occupation
was coming our way; and as they
came forward they fixed the rail
roads. Therefore, I waited for them
to get to me.
Why start walking to Paris when
I was so comfortable in the city of
Namur.
While I waited I continued to eat
heartily and on e day I felt so good
I wantecrAo celebrate, so I explained
to my pretty hostess how I enjoyed
writing and would she give me some
paper and ink. Any old paper would
do, but she would not have It that
way but insisted on giving me the
finest paper she had —a whole bale
of it. Then she fixed me up a desk
and chair near the fire and told me
to go to It. Even you Mother could
not .have been more thoughtful or
felt more pleased at seeing how
happy it made me to once more have
a pen In hand. I sure had a lot to
write about.
Quite an Affair
On Sunday I was invited to take
dinner with her mother and I ac
cepted with pleasure. This was
quite an affair for her two brothers
were there also and they kept tilings
lively. And say, we sure had some
eats too, served with all the 6tyle
and silver. After dinner we ad
journed to the den of one of the
brothers.
This brother was affected with
asthma and therefore could not help
fight the Boche, but he' certainly
had no love for them., Talk about
the souvenir bug. That man sure
had it bad; never had I seen a more
complete collection of Boche junk.
Why he had every style of spiked
helmet In the Bache army, besides
pieces of shrapnel, parts of bombs
that had blown four Belgians' to
pieces near his home, swords, bayo
nets, pistols, and even heavy calibre
shells—loaded.
The Boche Plight
From this man I learned how
hard up the Boche government had
been for brass and copper. This
metal was needed In the making of
ammunition and the supply became
so scarce that the Bochc requisition
ed all the brass and copper in Bel
gium. No piece was too small to be
overlooked. The Belgians got wind
of this happily before the Boche
came round to get It and lost no time
in hiding all they had. Wdiile this
Belgian was telling me this, lie was
sitting on a heavy, antique desk. On
the front of this desk were a num
ber of small lion heads made of wood
with a ring In their mouth. Beach
ing down with his knife the Belgian
scraped the brown paint off the ring
and there was revealed a ring of
heavy, solid brass. He had gotten
away with it all because be painted
the ring the same color of the wood.\
Then he proceeded to point out dif
ferent hiding places for articles
made of this metal scattered around
the room, but so well were they
made that I could not notice a break
in the paper where the door should
have been. He had other hiding
places in the yard where he had
buried many things. This was a
very small yard, but despite this
fact he had about eight different
caches of brass burled there.
One day .a Boche, while walking
around in This yard, noticed a tur
tle crawling along on Ills slow,
clumsv way, and seemed to be much
Interested in watching friend turtle
pulling his head backward and for
ward as he crawled along. Finally
the Boche instincts came to the sur
face. and raising his gun on high
he brought It down with fixed bayo
net on the unsuspecting turtle s
head. His aim was bad though, lor
he missed, the bayonet sticking in
the ground some 10 Inches from the
force of the blow. No, I'm not try
ing to point out how much more
wanton cruelty of the Boche. The
point I want to make is that had the
Boche drove his bayonet in the
ground just six inches farther
ahead, it would have stuck in a hid
den box of brass. The discovery of
that would have meant death to the
Belgian In that hopse. It was such
chances as these that the Belgians
took daily all four "t
rible war. If they could, not fight
the Boche openly they did all in
their power to prevent htm doing
any fighting himself. The Boche
only discovered how />uch brass and
copper had been hidden in that city
Namur when the armist.ee was sign
ed they had to evacuate the cUy
then and the Belgians lost
in rubbing It in by resurrecting all
their hidden metal and stacking it
up In the front window for all the
Boehes to see as they passed by on
their way to the Fatherland.
The English Arrive
* After some Ave days watt the Eng
lish army of occupation arrived Be
lieve me, there was great rejoicing
when it was rumored that several
cavalrymen would arrive that night
at 8 o'clock. Everybody was out on
the streets, so of course, we were
there. But the rumor proved false
and it was not until 9 P- m. We
were just going to go back to the
house and curl up beside the warm
fire when we ran into the priests
who were In charge of the hospital
I had left. The one that spoke Eng
lish was thwf, and he would talk
to me. They were a jolly bunch In
deed. so I stuck around. it was
chilly on that street,, but the priest
didn't seem to mind. Hadn't they
waited four years for this, so what
was an hour? Inside of two minutes
I had promised everyone of those
dozen priests a ride In the air.
Where I was going to get a plane
never occurred to either them or
myself. They may have been priests,
but they were not above wanting to
get ns near Heaven as It was pos
sible by earthly conveyance.
Wild With Joy .
Sure enough, about 9 p. m. several
English cavalrymen came galloping
down the main street, cheered the
whole way down the line. The peo
ple simply went wild with Joy, al
most pulling the soldiers oft their
horses in their efforts to shake his
bands and show how glad they were
to see him. They didn't forgqt either
that these soldiers might be huntery
for coffee and sandwiches were thpre
in abundance. The Belgians wore
that way, Xbey had auffered so
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much themselves that they were al
ways willing to help—and it was
generally with something to eat.
They knew soldiers and Bocho pris
oners, Mother, like you do boys—and
always hungry.
The next dav some English lorries
came In with supplies and when they
went back to their "base they were
filled with returning prisoners./ B
eing English they naturally help their
own countrymen first, the French
men being left to shift for them
selves, which they did pretty well.
I was not in such a big hurry to
get out for I knew most of the dis
tance would have to be covered on
foot. Having walked over it once I
knew how far It was. I was going
to wait for the train service to get
working. That was scheduled to
happen most any day, so I spent my
time making preparations to start.
This didn't take long, of cour*, but
I wanted to be ready on an instant
notice. When my hbst and hostess
heard I was going to leave, they
were very sad indeed, for they had
grown to like me, and said they
would certainly miss our nightly
chats. I was just as sorry to go,
for she was some cook, but I wanted
to get some word to you that I was
safe and well, for I knew you would
be worrying. As all the telegraph
lines were down, it looked as If the
only way I could get a message
through was -to send It from Paris
i —and that was a long way off. I
knew only too well. The train ser
vice finally began working, but the
morning I left my friends would in
sist on loading me down with pack
ages of eats. The man even gp.ve
me money and an overcoat, while
his pretty wife insisted on packing
me a j)lg box of eats. I didn't want
to take any of these things because
I still hated carrying packages as
! much as ever. But to please her I
I took them.
Good Judgment
It was well I did, because they
came in mighty handy a few days
afterward, for that train only went
about eight miles and then we all
had to pile out. The train could not
go any further as the Boehe had
blown up the bridges ahead by put
ting timed mines beneath them be
fore leaving. We had stopped at the
town of Charleroi, a fairly largo
town, and from all the information
we could get we would no doubt
stay tliero awhile.
Pronounce Success
For Radio Control
of Surface Craft
Washington, Feb. 15. —Army and
navy experts have reported the de
vice of John Hays Hammond, Jr.,
for radio control of surface craft
to be sent laden with explosives
against enemy ships, a success, and
predict similar results with sub
merged craft showing above water
only wireless attennae.
Results of tests have been made
public in connection with the new
fortifications appropriation bill,
which carries $417;000 for con
struction of an experimental sub
merged boat.
Before finally deciding on the
purchase of the patents for $750,-
000, the board desires further ex
periment with tho submerged craft
and a change in law for the experi
ments is necessary to permit build
ing so as to make success certain
before purchase.
Construction of the submerged
craft, which will be about 80 feet
long by seven feet in diameter,
will take two years, according to
Mr. Hammond, who told the com
mittee he has spent ten years and
$400,000 on his invention.
Special Services in Honor
of Presidential Birthdays
Tliompsontown, Pa., Feb. 15.—A
special service will be held in the
Lutheran church to-morrow morn
ing, commemorating the throe groat
Americans, Washington, Lincoln
and Roosevelt.—Mrs. Carbon See
bold, of Middleburg, is a guest of
Mr and Mrs. C. A. Meiser.—Mr.
and Mrs. Leo iMellaight, of Mifflin
town. were recent guests of his
mother, Mrs. I. W. McHaight.—
Miss Ruth Weng'ercl, of Philadel
phia spent Sunday with Mrs. J. E.
llaldeman.—The high school will
give an entertainment this evening
in the borough schobl auditorium.
Three sketches will furnish an in
teresting program.—The Rev. Wal
ter Brown spent several days with
his parents at Milroy.—Mrs. Cyrus
S,rwell is visiting her sisters at
W llliamsport.—Mrs. Margaret Guss
-*? f New Blo °™field, is a guest
of Mrs. Kemrali Meredith.—Mr.
and Mrs. A. P. Dimm are visiting
friends at Philadelphia.-
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TELLS STORY OF
RUSSIAN REVOLT
BY BOLSHEVIKS
Grandmother of. Revolution|
Makes Plea For Amer
ican Aid
Washington, Feb. l£—Catherine
Breshkovsky, "grandmother of the
Russian revolution," stood before
•the Senate propaganda inquiry coni
j mittee yesterday and pleaded earn-
I estly that America send machinery
I and other materials to Russia at
j once to aid in an industrial recon
i struction which she said would re
-1 suit in ridding the nation of the
j Bolshevik burden. Allied troops, slio
, said, would be effective against the
"brigam} Bolsheviki" only if aug
mented and sent on the offensive."
"Would allied troops be welcomed
by all Russians except the Bolshe
viki?" questioned Senator Storling,
of South Dakota.
"Certainly, certainly," replied tho
aged woman earnestly.
Tired of Bolsheviks
"Our people there are so tired of
the Bolsheviki, so tired. They have
asked aid from you for a year. Come
and bent the Bolsheviki. Tho Rus
sian people will he glad, very glad."
Throughout most of her testimony,
I Madame Breshkovsky spurned the
witness chair, despite her 75 years,
and stood stolidly before tho Sena
tors. The story of Russia's revolt
against Czardom, of the .turmoil
which came out of revolution, of the
"Bo'shevik disaster" and of present
poverty, was told fervently in
broken English.
Seeds Are Many
"We ask you in America for every
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Signed,
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trlftc," she entreated, groping now
and then for an English word wllich
her Interpreter supplied.
"We are naked. We have no fac
tories, no banks, no shops, no trans
portation, no goods. Our schools
have no furniture, no pencils, no
pens. The Bolshevik! have destroyed
all. They have torn down. We need
leather for boots,, iron, machinery,
scissors, ships, tea —everything we
need from you. We cannot put back
together an organization without
yohr help."
People of Oporto
Restore Republican
Northern Portugal
lioitdon, Feb. 15.—The people of
Oporto, supported by -Republican
forces, have restored the republic
in northern Portugal, according to
a Lisbon dispatch received by the
Portuguese legation. Pavia Couc
eiro, the Royalist leader, has been
arrested.
The lighting at Oporto lasted
ninety minutes. The news created
enthusiasm at Lisbon. A part of
the government is proceeding to
Oporto.
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