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at is business institution. the great
est of its kind in the world" said Sena-
tor Gallinger. Il think it would be q
mistake to turn over, even to the Presi-
dent. authority to change the operation
of this office, which is being admins
tered efficiently. and 1 cannot see how
any good would come from giving this
authority"
of the joint committee on printing, and
Senator Fletcher of Florida, former
chairman of that committee. and still a
member. both replied that they did not
think it was necessary to exempt from
the operation of the Overman bill the
government printing office.
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VOTES TO KEEP G.P.O.
IN 0VERMAN BILL

The administration apparently re-
manned in control of the Senate today
in the controversy over the Overman
bill proposing general authority for
the President to reorganize govern
ment war agencies. In beginning to
vote on amendments remaining before
final action on the bill, the Senate to-
day rejected. A to as, an amendment
by Senator Gallinger of New Hamp-
shire, minority leader. proposing to
except the government printing office
from the Presidents powers.
Senator Gallinger's Argument.
In Offering the amendment Senator
Gallinger said he was acting for Sem
ator Smoot, who was out Of the city.
Senator Gallinger called attention to
the fact that contracts for paper for
the printing Office are supervised by
committee of the Senate and the House
and that Congress retains control of
the printing office.
He said he did not believe that Con-
Eress would relinQuish this control He
pointed out that if the Overman bill
applies to it. the President may make
many changes in regard to the printing
office.
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Gen. Reed to Command Camp SEWER

Mai Gen. George W. Reed. National
Army. stationed at Ell Paso. Tex. has
been ordered to Greenville. s. G., to
take command at Camp sevier. Gen,
Reed is a Regular Army colonel Of
cavalry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-29

Prof. George Archibald Clark. ACES
demic secretary Of Leland Stanford
University since II was founded in 1881
has died. He was ffty-three years Of
age.
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AMERICANS ENTER
FRENCH TRENCHES
UNDER HEAVY FIRE

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U-B0AT SINKS SHIP;
PARTY OF 81 u. S.
WAR WORKERS SAFE

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New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
At $3.50 they are simply wonderful !!

men who fought with Grant and Sherl-
dan and with Jackson and Lee"
eve have had within the last few
days two statements Of our aims, and
they have been broad, definite. con,
crete statements. The sombre ana
majestic pronouncements of the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom and
the President Of the United States are
in complete accord They have been
ratified by the unanimous assent of the
British and American peoples.
1--WE must put away from our MINDS
all clouds of illusion. The task still is
unfinished, and victory is not yet Won
1t may we'll be that the fiercest shock
has yet to be sustained and world con-
clusions of Armageddon have yet to be
endured.
ut is a grim fact, which had better
be plainly realized, for we are not
afraid OF facts and must face the truth
unflinchingly, because by that means
alone shall we succeed, that there is
between the most moderate and disin-
terested statements of sober-minded
opinion in Great Britain and America,
on the one hand, and the present hopes
and ambitions of the Prussian military
authority and the ruling classes in
Prussia, on the other hand, veritable
abyss which no bridge can span at the
present time. The military party IN
Berlin still is in complete control Of
the whole resources not only Of Ger
many, but Of Austria Hungary, Bull
garia and Turkey. They have not yet
abandoned hope Of decisive military
victory.
Women must draw nearer TO the
fighting zone and become more deeply
! involved in the stress of manual labor.
Food must be cut down and rationing
introduced to obtain an equitable dis
tribution.
eve have enough in hand to fur
nish equipment for several hundred
thousand Americans. in the last de-
tails of military outfit, if it were pos
sible by any shipping arrangements to
bring them to the seat of war.
"1t is not enough. Nothing is
enough More, more and more, must
be our cry, in season and out; more OF
everything in every form Of war effort
and war sacrifice, until the night OF
torment passes and morning comes.
Mr.. Churchill compared the war tc
a race in which it is the pace thai
kills, but only the pace thot wins.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
France to Ignore
Brest-Litovsk Parleys,
Says Foreign Minister

PARIS, Jan. 11.-That France does
not purpose to have anything to do with
the peace negotiations at Brest -Litovsk
between the Bo!sheviki and the Teu-
TONIC allies, and that she will have no
peace dealings with the enemy until
the Central Powers shall make them
direct, was stated in the Chamber of
Deputies this evening by Stephen
Pichon, Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
The statement of M. Pichon was
made after Marcel Cachin and Albert
Thomas, Socialists, had demanded that
the government issue passports to So
cialists desiring to proceed to Petro-
grad, and that the Entente Powers
make a joint declaration of their war
aims.
eve refuse to participate in the
negotiations engaged in by the usurp-
ing government at Petrograd or be
involved with them in any manner
whatsoever" said NJ. Pichon. 1t would
mans. We repeat what Mr.. Balfour
said some time ago: The day when
we shall be offered peace propositions
direct by our enemies we will examine
them in concert with our Allies.
The Chamber. by vote Of 397 to
145, gave precedence to q motion. pre-
sented by Victor Augagncur and ac-
cepetd by the government, expressing
confidence in the government, over a
motion presented by NJ. Thomas. NJ
Renaudel and other Socialists, pro
claiming the adhesion of the Chamber
to the wrosd of David Lloyd George
the British Prime Minister, and Presi-
dent Wilson, and inviting the govern
ment to insist on the meeting Of an in
ternational diplomatic conference tc
elaborate conditions for a lasting or
ganized peace, such as set forth ~
President Wilson's stipulations in his
rarent address TO CONGRESS-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Britain Honors Solver
OF Transport Problem

Britain has just rewarded the con-
queror of its American transport prob
lem with the title of knight Com
mander of the Order of the British
Empire" Connop GMthrie, who began
his connection with the World War at
the battle of the Marne, where he was
wounded while serving with the Cold
stream Guards, has battled with the
two years and in recognition of his
success is now privileged to have the
initials "K. c. B. E." after his name
and the title of "Sir" before it.
Sir Connop Guthrie is the United
States representative of the British
Ministry of Shipping, and as Allied
traffic executive, handles practically all
shipment of goods from America to the
Allied governments and to private con-
signees using Allied shipping. His au'
thority goes even further than that, for
it extends to all such goods from the
time they leave the consignor's hands
in any part of America until they are
on their way to Europe. He is both a
steamship and railway traffic executive.
Sir Connop's work has been one of
the efficiency marvels of this economic
side of the war and has won the ad
miration ofSrailway traffic men through
out the country, practically all of them
having been brought into intimate re-
lations with him through the ramifi-
cations of an immense forwarding sys-
tenn that handles 100000 tons Of
freight a month.
When Sir Connop came to America
the transport of the Allies on this side
c. .he ocean was as badly confused and
as lacking in coordination as that OF
the United States government at the
present time, but railway and shipping
men declare tha. the present transport
system of the Allies, as regards Amer
lean goods, is little short of perfec-
ton.
They all hold that in Sir Connop' 3
case the ttular honor that has been
conferred is a reward Of an exceptional
merit
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12

separate peace between Russia and
the Central Powers.
A dispatch from Brest-Ltovsk says
that at the resumption Of the Brest-
Litovsk conference to-day the Ukrain-
ian delegate. Nj. Boluscwysch, said the
Ukrainian Republic, having resumed it's
international existence, which it lost
$50 years ago, had decided to adopt an
independent attitude toward the pres
ent negotiations, and that the general
secretariat had instructed him to hand
a note to the powers represented at the
conference.
Ukrainian Note
The note follows:
"Thc Ukrainian peoples republic
brings the following to the knowledge
of all belligerent and neutral states:
The Central Rada on November 20 pro-
claimed a peoples republic, and by this
act an international status was deter
mined.
"Striving for the creation of confed-
Grafton OF all the republics which have
arisen in the territory of the former
Russian Empire the Ukrainian peoples
republic, through its general secretariat,
proceeds to enter into independent re-
lations pending The formation of a
the relations Of the Ukraine with the
future federation are established"
NJ Bolubowysch protested that the
commissarles were agreeing to an ar
mistcc Independently of the Ukrainian
delegates, and proceeded to declare
that the Ukraine was striving for a
general world peace on democratic
lines, and insuring even the smallest
nation unlimited sclfdetermination
with proper guarantees for rendering
possible real expression Of the peo-
pies will.
"A Brest-Litovsk dispatch, giving an
account Of the session yesterday, says
it was opened at II o'clock, all the
delegations, including the UNrainians
participating. Talaat Pacha, the Turk
ish Grand Nizier, called the meeting
to order and turned over the chair 10
DR. Won kuchlmann, who said:
"Inasmuch as changes have occurred
in the composition of some of the dele
cations, it will not be out of place tc
Give short survey of the history OF
the course of the negotiations"
After lengthy review Of the pro
ceedings to date, DR.. Won Kuehlmann
| said he hoped they would lead to &
salutary result. His hope was basef
on knowledge gained during the course
Of the negotiations, and on the expires
sion by the Russian delegation OF tht
Russian peoples wish for secure ant
lasting peace. He continued:
81 consider that the difficulties me-
with up to the time the negotiations
we're interrupted we're not great enougt
to cause the failure Of the peace worl
and, presumably, resumption of wa
in the East, with its unforeseen conse
ouences."
pr. Won Kuchlmann said the frs
task of the conference was to resume
negotiations at the point where the.
were broken off at the time of tn
Christmas Adjournment. Referring t
ahc fixed determination of the Ccntra
Powers not to accede to the Russian
suggestion of transferrence of the ne
gotiations to neutral territory, he sal'
Germany and her allies were not II
position to conduct elsewhere tn
discussions begun at Brest -Litovsk
although they were willing to have fina
formal negotiations carried on, an
the signatures to the prelimnar,
agreement affixed at some place to b.
agreed upon after the debate. He con
tinued:
"As for the conduct Of the negotia
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12

uon dead letter. Future treaties
were they written on the thickest OF
donkey skin and signed and sos,sa
thirty fold, would suffer tho Same "ta fata
therefore, the only safety lies in :.
sseronE German feet with adenunte
bases" e4u".e
The Berlin "Lokal-Anzeieer" charac.
~ sef,aes n"a. PRESIDENT Wilson's message as
a peaee programme of Hypocrisy" and
apply his principles Of Justice to nil ii
peoples and all nations his peace
treaty would have to contain fully a
score OF additional articles. He would
nave nave TO demand that Ireland. India.
Ersypc' Malta. Cyprus and Gibraltar be
freed from the English yoke; that the
french evacuate Morocco and tho
i'a.1ans retire from Trpoli."
me Berlin "Tageblatt" says:
Mr.. Wilson would find himself mis-
taken II he assumed that the Reichstag
majority were ready to negotiate peace
on the basis which he declares to be
the only one possible"
The "Allgemeine Zeitung" Of Essen,
says: "President Wilson seems not to
know that the smallest appropriation
tor the army requires the sanction Of
the Reichstag, the most democratic
parliament in the world Yet he, who
unheeding the spirit OF the American
Constitution. has erected brutal mill
tary dictatorship in his own country,
now presumes to talk about autocracy
in free Germany"
Referring to the report that it is in
tended to drop million copies Of
President Wilson's address in Germany
from airplanes. "The Daily Chronicle" )"
while thinking the idea excellent. and
adding that il every German could read
the address it might lead to national
strike against the war. recalls Ger
nany's recent announcement that pilots
caught dropping propaganda would be
shot as spies. Accordingly, the paper
appeals TO inventors to produce a ma
chine which Of itself will drop propa-
ganda.
The "Rheinische Westfaelische lei
tung," of Essen. in an article dealing
with the peace conference says, Won
Kuehlmann evidently decided to obey
the orders of General Won Ludendorff,
the first Quartermaster General, in de-
livering his address,
"His speech at Brest-Litovsk," says
the newspaper. "was heard with re-
lief by the whole German nation, for
it means Germany has cancelled her
no annexation principle and thereby
gained a free hand regarding Belgium
Longwy and Briey."
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
U-Boats to Defeat
American Menace,
Says Berlin Paper

LONDON, Jan. 11.-Germany is de-
pending on her U-boats to defeat the
American menace and bring about
peace, declares the Berlin "Tageblatt,"
copy Of which has been received here
"The entire Entente hopes" says tfis
newspaper, "are now based on expected
help from the United States. Whether
the Americans will be able to provide a
fighting army in numbers sufficient to
bring about decision, whether they
will be able to furnish sufficient ships
for the transport of the army and
whether they will then be able to pro-
vide the necessary supplies of food and
war materials are questions upon
which opinion is divided. But there is
no doubt that the efforts the Americans
are making must be taken seriously
The hope Of an early peace depends al
most entirely on the etncacy of our
submarine weapon
Reviewing the first year Of Ger
many's ruthless submarine campaign:
which ends February /, the "Tageblatt"
asserts that the Central Powers have
succeeded in completely upsetting the
economic life Of the Entente, and adds
that the submarine campaign, which
has now become the principal factor
in naval warfare. is being expanded
and developed still further.
Summarizing the results of the un-
derwater campaign since February /.
the "Tageblatt" claims that U-boats
have sunk on an average 821 900 tons
of shipping monthly from February to
December. and for the whole year the
toll may be expected to show nearly
10000 900 tons, and that the building
of new ships by the Entente and neu-
trails during the year will replace only
between 100000 and 100000 tons Of
these losses.
The newspaper says the monetary
loss to Germany's enemies as the re-
suit of the years work by the U-boats
will reach $4,000 100000. figuring the
value of the ships at $3.50 per ton and
tbeir caruOec ar tho sauo amount
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Polish and Hungarian
Premiers Submit
Plans to Berlin

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 1l.-Before leav-
ing Berlin. Professor Kucharzevski, the
Polish Premier, announced that he had
put before the German Emperor "thc
most urgent wishes Of our young king
dom" and had discussed with the Ger
man authorities the chief current ques-
tons, especially concerning participa-
tion by Poland in the negotiations at
Brest-Litovsk and the creation OF a
Polish army on broad national basis.
He also suggested the abolition Of a
number Of exceptional oppressive regu-
lations in Poland, laid stress on the ne
cessity of obtaining amnesty, and dis
cussed arrangements to hasten Assump-
ton by the Polish government Of the
administrative departments and the
question of the appointment Of Polish
diplomatic representatives to friendly
and neutral nations.
A dispatch from Vienna says that the
Polish Council of Regency has arrived
there for conferences with the govern
ment.
Premier Wekerle Of Hungary came to
Berlin. according to the Berlin CORE
spondent of the "Az Est" Of Budapest
to discuss credit and financial ques-
tions with the German Treasury and
tinanciers. He is quoted as saying:
1--WE hope for peace soon with Rus
sia. Therefore, the question of transi-
tional economics must first be settled
The negotiations at Brest-Litovsk
Premier Wekerlc said, he believed
would take favorable course. He saiC
there was special desire on both sides
to make safe the economic part Of g
preliminary peace. The Ukrainians, he
added, had shown a great conciliatory
spirit.
He said: "Tt can only rejoice us il
independent Ukraine extends US hcl
hand -
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Resolution Urges Approval
of President Wilson's
Plans
ToBe Called Up Today
1t Says u. S. Is Anxious for a
Just Agreement With
Germany

WASHINGTON, Jan. Senator.
Lewis, Of Illinois, introduced reso.u-
tion in the Senate to-day approving
the terms of President Wilson'S peace
programme and pledgirg support to
them. Under the rules. the resolution
went to the table for day without
discussion. 1t will be called up to-
"Whcrcas. The Senator's of the
United States Senate, anxious for a
just peace between the contending ma
tions now at war in Europe, and also
for peace between the United States
and the world. and particularly be-
tween the United States and the Ger
man Empire;
"And whereas, the Senate is advised
as to the terms which have been stated
and expressed to the Congress of the
United States by the President of the
United States upon which the United
States recommends peace:
"Now, therefore, be it resolved, That
for the purpose of aiding the peace of
course Of the President OF the United
States in presenting with definiteness
and in detail the terms upon which
peace could be had.
"Resolved. That the Senate approves
the statement Of the President as pre-
sented by him in his message to Con-
gress Of January 9, 1918.
"Resolved. That the Senate will CO.
operate with the President in every
way consistent with its duty to the
public to obtain the acceptance Of the
terms presented by the President, OF
such other terms as we'll serve the
objects set forth by the President, as
will bring peace consistent with the
welfare Of the United States and JUS
ticc to the contending partics.''
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
German Classes Split
Over Food Situation

THE HAGUE, Jan. 1.-THE Prussian
Food Commissioner, Herr Won Waldow,
according to advces received here from
Berlin, in addressing seven hundred
Prussians who were starting on tour
of the country for the enlightenment
of the people" exhorted them to apply
their whole strength in intoxicating the
cardinal fact that rivers Of German
blood will have flowed in vain if, be-
fore victorious end Of the war, the
hearts Of the people should fail in
self-sacrifce and endurance.
Herr Won Waldow especially urged
his hearers to dispel what he termed
the unholy misunderstanding between
the town and the country and between
consumers and producers, which, he
said, was eating into the harmony Of
the people like malignant cancer
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Bolsheviki Won't
Wage War, Merely
Resist Invasion

LONDON. Jan. 11.-Contirming pre-
vious REPORTS that the Bolsheviki are
preparing to reestablish the fighting
power Of the army against possible
final break in the negotiations with the
Central Powers. the Petrograd CORE
spondent of "The Daily News" says
that they are not attempting to reani-
mate the old. worn out army, but TO
create new and much smaller one.
Concerning this new army foreign
Minister Trotzky is reported to have
said:
at will wage, not war, but revolu-
tion It's front trenches VIII be parrl-
cades against oppressors.
The Bolshevki doubt if the German
soldiers will advance, but if they DO,
and take more territory, they Will be
no nearer an end of the war. The cor
respondent says that the greatest DIFF
ticulties of the Bolsheviki in these
preparations are transport and supply,
Of which the former is the less hopeful
question. Ensign krylenko, the Boil
shevik commander in chief, is reported
to be organizing a volunteer army, and
has ordered all officers to return to the
posts they held before the Rolshevlk
revolution.
In reference to the civil wars in diff
fercnt parts of Russia. the correspond
cnt says they are not wars by one part
of Russia against another' put at
tompts to spread class warfare in those
parts where the proletariat has not yet
obtained the upper hand. Thus, the
Bolsheyiki are not warning against the
Ukraine, but against the bourgeois
Ukrainian Rada; not with the Cossach
country, but with the military govern
ment Of the CossackS.
The "Daily News" correspondent says
that the anti-Bolshevik newspapers
daily record Bolshevik defeats, but de
clares it is curious that after each de
feat the Bolsheviki advanced instead
Of retired. The map, he says. show
that each reported defeat takes tn'
Bolsheviki further into the encm.
country. He mentions some of these
advances, and adds that the Black Sea
feet is now controlled by the Bol
shcviki.
Nikolai Lcninc, the Bolshevk Pre-
m;er. although he has possibly gone OF
a holiday to Finland, also possibly ma.
90 to Stockh olm to confer with German
ard Austrian Socialists, the CORE
In speech before his departur
from Petrograd Premier Lenine said
81 fear we shall have to stop the de
mobilization and prepare for war.
Germany and her allies do not accep
our conditions of peace we viii declar
revolutionary war on them
The correspondent emphasizes tn
Importance o. an agreement betwee
the Bolshevik and Ukrainian ncgc
tiators, as the position Of the Rada ha
lessened Trotzky's chances OF obtainin
satisfactory peace. lie says that
the Germans could buy off the Ukrain
the significance within Germany c
Trotzky's stand would be cut in hal
The cspondent adds that nothin
is mere foolish than to suppose ths
because. the Ukraine opposes the Bo
sheviki it therefore favors the Allie
nnA nrococntion of tho war
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Aims Stated Too Late,
London Tells House

WASHINGTON, Jan. l1.-Represen-
tative London, Socialist, of New York,
in an address in the House to-day,
urged that the proposed international
league to enforce peace be "a concrete
purpose and not merely nice phrase"
and declared that had the aims Of the
nations fighting Germany been made
as clear six months ago as they re-
Gently were by Premier Lloyd George
and President Wilson, Russia would
have continued the fight against Ger
man autOcracy.
Representative Rainey, of Illinois, in
reply, arraigned the Socialist party, de-
claring that its declaration adopted
two ~ days after the United States
entered the war was dsloyal He dep
recated the growing tendency to gov
ernment ownership, and said that after
the war it will be easy to "sink into
socialism,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Prepare for 2 Years
More of War-Geddes

Isaac F. Marcosson. in an article en-
titled Business Managing the En-
pire," in the current number of THE
Saturday Evening Post" shows fac
similc of message to America" which
Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Brit
ish Admiralty, addressed to him on Oc-
tober IS, 1911. The message follows:
"Give up hoping that this can be
a short war Plan and provide for an
cvcr-receding duration of at least two
wears more.
"If we all Go so, peace may one day
surprise US. If we do not. there will
be no peace and no freedom, but only
a postponement
"There must be no postponement
end no next time"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
Peace arley Averts
Crisis in Germany

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-State dis
patches to-day summarizing public
opinion in Germany as expressed in
the newspapers, say a threatened polit
ical crisis was averted by the resump
ton of peace negotiations at Brest
Litovsk.
They say that Russian Foreign Min
lister Trotzky's defiance of Germany
actually was published in some German
newspapers.