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The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-30
RETURNING SOLDIERS WILL
 BE LANDED AT FOUR PORTS
Boston, New York, Newport News and Charleston Have Been Desig. hated as the Ports Through Which the Overseas Army VIII ec Re- turned to Thie Country.

Washington, Nov. 29.-Boston, New York, Newport News. Va, and Charleston, S C.. are tho ports the war department now plans to use for the return of the army from oyerseaa Even with this wide distribution ot tho strain on port facilities and transportation, however. and wltl, German ships now Idle in the Ger. man harbors employed In the - careful estimates show that
 could not reach the United \ less than eight months. CCA
 tive ealculations upon which prel
 tions by the department probably he based, fixed ten moeths az thN minimum
 These estimates have beon made wholly on the basis of the physical difficulties to be overcome and do not take into consideration tho ques tion of the retonton in Europe for sometime of an American force which may be agreed upon al the peace conference. If the return movement, already in progress, is continued at full speed, the last divl- sion in all probability could not reach the UnIted states before Oc. tober, 1919. Decision to route the troops to their homes through the four ports mentioned is understood to have been based on two fnain consld- erations First, they have been re- equipped to handle transports to them and second, they are tho natural gate ways to the country, each fed by an independent rail system ramiflcating back through geographically import ant sectons of the United States. By loading the ships as far as possible with men from the same general sec ton, 1t will be possible, army officers say, to avoid cross -carrying and dis ruption of normal traffic in getting the soldiers from the ships to their homes.
 In estimating for transport tonnage available for the movement. officials have not only looked ahead to the new ships which will be delivered through the demobilizatlon, but also upon idle German ships. including two new and very large liners report ed to have been completed except for some details of equipment.
 Among the known German steam CTS is the Imperator, almost as large as the Vaterland, now tho Leviathian The two new German liners are od approximately the same slzo as these craft. Each of these four could car ry nearly f3,C0O men trip.
 The German vessels, cast bound, after unloading American troops. would carry food supplies to Dc al loted Germany.
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GERMANY SHOULD RECEIVE
 TREATMENT GIVEN FRANCE
Germany Established shc Precedent and Should Now Be Made to Live Up to the Terms She imposed on 4 Defeated Fce-Gcrmany Must Pay the ccst of tho War Up to the Linit of Her Resources

London Nov 29.-Lloyd George. the British prime minister, in a speech lat Newcastle today. said the victory of the entente allies had been due to the ceasoless valor of their men and that it would be q lesson to anybody, who. in the future thought that they. as the Frussian war lords hoped could overlook this little island in :beir reckoning
 We are now approaching the peace conference" the vrcmier continued. "The price Of victory is not vengeance nor retri5ution 1t is prevention First of all what about those people whom we give equal rights with our own sons and daughters, and who abused that hcsgNali.y to betray the land. to plot against security; to spy upon it, and to gain such information as enabled the PrGssian war lords 10 m flict. not punishment, by damage and injury to the land that had received them as guests? Never again"
 MT. Lloyd George said the interests Of security and fair play demanded that it should be made perfectly clear that the people who acted in this way merited punishment for the dam age they ifaye inflicted
 The second question was the ques- ton of iudemnities tho premier add ed, In every court of justice through. out the world the party which lost has had to bear the cost of the ltiga- ton. When Germany defeated France she established tne principle, and there was no Gou6t that the principle was the right one Germany must pay. the cost Of the war up to the limit of her capacity.
 But I must uso one word of warn ius, said Mir Lloyd George, "we have to consider the question of Ger many's capacity. Whatever happens Germany Is not 10 be allowed to pay her indemnity by dumping cheap goods upon Us. That is the only limit ia principle we are laying town Snc must nos be allowed to Day fer her wanton damage and devastation by dumping cheap goods and wrecking cur industries
 There is third and last point. Is no one to be made responsible for the war? Somebody has been re- gponsible for a war that has taken the lives of millions of the pest young men Of Europe Is not any one co be made responsible for that? IT not, all can say, Is that if that is the case, ihere is one justice for the poor wretched criminal and another for kings an1 empsfers.
 Mr. Lloyd George declared there were two offenses against tue law e nations, that had oeen committed
 "One" he said, "ig the crime against humanltv in the deliberate plotting
The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-30
FORMER kAISER'S WIFE
 JOINS HIM IN HOLLAND
LOOKS DID NOT INDICATE SHE WAS SUFFERING EVERE
 PRoSTRATioN

Maarsber8en Holland. Thursday, Nov. 2SIn tine bad misty weather ol Ia November morning. Frau Auguste Victoria, wife of the onco German emperor, arrived here today from Pots dam to join her husband in exile in Amerongen castle.
 Maarsbergen Is the station before Maaru. where William Hohenzollern arrived sixteen days ago. It is about equal distance between Maaru and the castle
 Arriving here the former empress was handed over to Count yon Rea- tluLk, the host of the former em- perOr, by tho captain of the rural gendarmerie who, acting undcr orders had escorted her from ZeYenalr. the first Dutch frontier station to her des- tination
 AueUste Victoria looks beliod the rumors of aeYcre mental and physical prostra on. She put on a bclyc at tempt at smile fhen she arrived hero, but the dawn corners Of her mouth betrayed the effects of her reccn; trials
 Also she shuddered Q little upon en- count 9fing ihe raw air outside her car. The haGRage of the former eln- press. enough to warrant the assum2- ton of prolonged stay, consisted of 8 number Of wicker baskets and boxes probably containing wine, marked imperial cellars"
 The former empress wore a dark tailor-made velvet dress and hat and viel which offset her abundance of silver hair The train will return 10 Germany this evening with Count Pletcn Major Hirschteld and Count won AIoltke and the former emperor's immediate entourage whose baggage includes many untidy card board boxes which are piled upon the station There was nc official reception nor demonstration of any kind when the OK kaiserin arrived
 After the arrival of Auguste Vic toria at MaarsDergen the next train to stop was crowded with Scottish soldiers on their way home from captivity in Germany.
 The meeting between the former German emperor and empress is de- clared to have been affecting, AL though eye witnesses describe the scene as surely worthy the paint CTS brush, no description of the re- union of the once kaiser and his om- press has become public,
 Count von Bentinck, the host of the former imperial couple, suavely points out his delicate position and declines to answer questions regard ing Herr and Frau ITohenzollern. giy- ing as hls ground that the Dutch gov ernment Is the host and that he has no right to make known the details of the daily fife of the visitors.
 The former emperor Is surrounded by band of truty retainers who may be relied upon to keep their months closed The arrival Of hi8
The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-30

: fyople looking for rooms turn to tAs cisf sfsihed ads of the newspapers to ses V bat is offered An ad in the Sentinel
 fecord may bring a customer,
The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-30
GOAL SHORTAGE RELIEVED.

Washington, Nov. ?g-The anth- racite coal shortage was relieved somewhat last week. the fuel admin- ,stration announced tonight. in re- porting that production for the week showed an increase of 373.0 GOO tons over the output for the preceding Week. Total production to date for the coal year, however. amounts to only 65,35S,00o net tons, compared with sG.9e3ieof fot the same period it. 7gf-
The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-30

answering GeImanys peace plea which preceded the downfall Of tle central alliance.
 At the time of his appointment no was counsellor of the state depart ment, after q career as all interna- tional lawyer which had established his reputation as one of the foremost American authorities on this sup
 ject.
 Mc. White, the republican of ta, delegation, is a diplomat Of long ex- ! perience who began as secretary CT the American legation ir Vienna. He , served as secretary of the embassy at various eapitals. represented the i United States at several information al gatherings. and in 1905 vas ap- pointed ambassador to Italy cby Pres ident Roosevelt Two years later ko was made ambassador to France, where he remained until 1909.
 His las public service was in 1910 when President Taft sent him to Chile as special ambassador of the United States for the celebration of the cen- tenary Of Chilean indepenfence Colonel House has never held put lie office, but as President Wilson's q ersonai friend and advisor Gn is credited generally as having played a greater part in the present adminls- trltion than any other man except the president himself. lie has been paI1ad into ropa,niatotto,, o q .,,-.-.,,. .-.f sis. and after going to Europe in 19l |, and 1915 and 1916 as the presidents personal representative to European governments, fe was commissioned tO gather and organize data to De used whenever the time for q peace con- ference misiht come
 He fastened to Europe when it be- came know nthat Germany was crumbling and was in France to speak for ,he president in the peace discus sions
 General Bliss who formally was chief of staff of the army. wont to Europe last December with an Amer ican mission and later was perman- ently assigned as the American mili- targ representative on the inter-al- i lied council at Versailles. AS the American military representative at the peace conference, he will be as- sisted by a staff Of officere. most of whom in tbe understanding here. will coule from the general staff of ;la American eXpeditionary forces.
 Admiral BensQn has made several trips to Europe since the United Statee entered tSp War and went 10 Paris With Colonel House last month as the representative of the navy on the supreme war council
 There is a discussion, but no Of ficial explanation of why two of the names most generally mentioned in the early speculation a3 to the prob able personnel Of the peace delegation do rot appear on the list. Elihu II Root former secretary of state and Louis Branuies associate justice Of the court were considered in some cases as almost sure of oeins chosen. Recently it has been said that Mir. Root did not care to accept and that Judge Brandeis would not be able to leave the country.
 No further annouGcement Cl the presidents plaus was made tonight He expects 10 sail the day after nc addresses the new session of con- gress
 On his ship, the transport George Washington. will go the peace dele gation and its army Of experts ana clerical assistants.
 In order not to confuse and cause trouble the board issued blanket expert license to all members of tneI rarty.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-30
REPRESENTATIVES, OF UNITED STATES l ID PEACE CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED
Statement Issued From White House Names President Wilson, Secretary Lansing, Henry White, E. M,
 House and General Bliss.

The Premlers of Great Britain, France and Italy Are Expected to Attend the Peace Conference, But Like President Wilson, May Not Remain Throughout the Conference Secretary Lans- ing and Former Ambassador White Have Had Much Experience in Diplomatic Affairs.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-30
PICTURE
 DISPLAYED IN GERMANY

With the American Army ct Occu pation, Nov, ea.--Pictures of Presi dent Wilson arc being displayed iu various parts of Germany bearing up on them the words: You gave us an armistice; now give us just peace" according to an American who has been as far as Frankfort HYerywltere the American says, he was received with courtesy. the civilians crowding asout his automobile. many ys> whom spoke English. aslViIss 1T it were true that President Wilson planned to wis 1t GsrIm the interest of the
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wife caused little excitement in the village. Few persons were at the station to witness her debarkation from the train.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-25
War Bread and Pronounced
Limit For Sales Are Nee
essary To Feed Army and
Allies In Europe, Federal
Administration Declares.
HOOVER TO ANNOUNCE
DEFINITE PLAN SOON

Washington, D. c., Jan. 24.-To Gre
ate a large export surplus OF flour for
the allies, the food administration IS
considering a plan Of forced reduction
of flour sales all the way from the
miller to the consumer. Millers,
wholesalers, retailers and bakers prob
ably will be required to hold their
sales of flour down to IS per cent OF
the amount now handled.
AS the allies are demanding from
75,OO0,00O to 1O0.000,OOO more bushels
Of wheat, the food administration has
arranged to take over 80 per cent OF
Americas flour production out OF
which will be selected supplies for ex-
port.
10000 900 BUSHELS EXPORT.
Food administration officials believe
the United States can export SO.000.-
900 bushels of wheat made into -four
between now and the time the new
American crop comes in. without en-
dangering the American food supply.
Details of the plans have not been
fully worked out but the millers and
dealers through the country have been
asked for their opinion as to the best
means of reducing consumption and
most Of them believe that a reduction
in sales to the public is the best way.
WAR sREAo CERTAIN.
The plan. II pursued. it IS believed,
will inevitably bring a war bread of
mixed cereals to the tables of the
American people. Although there is
ittle continent for mixing f1OurS at
the mills, forced restriction of flour
sales to dealers would bring mixing
in bakeries and in homes. Bakers
whose flour supplies are cut, food ad-
ministration officials believe will. Of
their own accord, substitute flours
from other grains than wheat to keep
their sales of bread up to normal.
WORK NOT ENOUGH.
Voluntary saving. it is pointed out.
has not produced as large an export
surplus of flour as food administration
officials had hoped for. Forced reduc-
tion in the sale of flour was approved
at recent meeting here of state food
administrators and the food admins
tration has been working on the plan
ever since.
For several weeks flour mills have
been producing only one grade of flour
under orders of the food administra-
ton If the 80 per cent output of flour
purchased by the food administration
furnishes more than the amount de-
sired for export, part of it will be
turned back to the public for consump-
tion here.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-25
BAKER BLAMED FOR FATAL EPIDEMICS
High Lights In
Arrangement of
War Department

NOME Of Senator ChamberIain's
counts in his indictment Of
the war department as con-
Quoted by Secretary Baker and
defended by President Wilson
follow:
"The president did not know
the truth and did. He must
have gotten his facts from tho
secretary, who in turn got them
from somebody else, and some
body else must have lied"
"Men died without proper nurs-
ing because Of inefficiencies Of the
system"
"Not a single eantonment was
built in accordance with, Surgeon
General Gorgas' recommendation
for fifty feet Of space for each
man.
"Men at Camp Bowie were
packed together like sardines."
"Let, the American mothers
know conditions and they will
see to II that public servants
either do their duty or retire from
public life in disgrace"
"What was the ordnance de-
partment doing in 1916? Nothing
just doing nothing, absolutely
nothing"
"Germany knows more about
America today than the men con-
nected with our departments"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-25
NO PREJUDICE
in RAIL LAW
AMENDMENT SAYS GOVERNMENT
is NOT COMMITTED TO
OWNERSHIP.

Washington, d. c., Jan. 24.-T'he ad-
ministration railroad bill has been
modified to stipulate expressly that
federal operation is undertaken as a
war emergency measure and shall not
prejudice the future policy Of the gov
ernment toward ownership of the
roads. No specific time, however, is
fixed for turning the roads back to
private owners.
The modification says the act lis
expressly declared to be emergency
legislation enacted to meet conditions
growing out Of war and nothing here
in is to be construed as expressing
or prejudicing the future policy Of
the federal government concerning
the ownership. control or regulation
of carriers or the method or basis of
the capitalization thereof"
The provision for compensation to
the roads during federal control has
been rewritten. the new feature in
cluding the standard returns. the in
auired by, the carriers. where the ac-
Quisition occurred between July L.
1914. and December 81, 1917.
In addition to the standard return
provided in the original bill. the presi-
dent will be authorized under the
modification. to make an additional
allowance to be fixed on per cent
basis on the cost of additions or i'm
provements made by the roads dur
ing the six months ending December
81. 1917.
An amendment authorizing the
president to fix a method for compen.
sating injured workmen is incor-
porated in the rewritten measure.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-25
U-BOAT TRAPS
AMERICAN SHIP
OWASCO, TARGET IN RAYS FROM
LIGHT HOUSE, is SENT.
DOWN.

An Atlantic Port, jan 24-The
American steamship Owasco. former.
ly the German steamer Allemannia
and seized here when the United
States entered the war. was sunk by
a submarine the early part Of Decem-
ber while in Mediterranean waters
near the Spanish coast, according to
survivors of the ship who arrived here
today on Spanish liner. 1t was said
that two members Of the crew lost
their lives.
The Owasco is the American ship
recently reported as having been one
of three vessels sunk while passing a
light house with the submarine lying
off shore and picking the vessels off
as they passed through the beam of
light The other two ships sunk were
Norwegian and British ship
The Owasco was steamship OF
$50 tons gross, built at Belfast in
1898 and formerly owned by the Ham,
burg rg-American line She left here
November 10 with cargo for an
Italian port and carried crew Of
about seventy men in addition to q de,
tail Of navy gunners.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-25
FORTY SLAIN At MOSCOW.

Petrograd, Jan. 24.-Ferty persons
were killed and 200 wounded in riots
at Moscow on Tuesday during dem.
onstration at an anniversary celebra-
tion OF Bloody Sunday
The bolshevik authorities here
have arrested scores of persons in
cluding party leaders whom they
charged were involved in revolution.
ary plot organized among the majority
faction of the social revolutionists in
the constituent assembly which con-
trolled the assembly in the single ses-
sion which was held before it was sus-
pended by the bolsheviki.
A battalion of death is reported to
have been ready to support this move
ment.
The bolsheviki found large guam
tity of bombs, fire arms and docu.
mentS.
A soldier and a member Of the red
guard we're arrested today charged
with the murder of A. |. Shingarof and
Prof. F.. F. Kokoshine. former men,
bers of the Kerensky government. who
were slain in the marine hospital last
week. A sailor who Is said to have
been the leader is still at large.
The bolshevik authorities have taken
over the Russian Red Cross, which has
been in the hands of non-partisans
The heads of the organization, includ-
ing N. Pokrobsky, former minister for
foreign affairs, have been arrested as
counter revolutionaries.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-25
Federal Trade Commission
Declares Armour, Swift
and Others of ''Big Five"
Have Hoarded Hides for
Profits.
SUPPLY HAS GROWN,
PRICE HAS GONE UP

Washington. D. c., Jan. 24.-Hoard
ing of hides by meat packers while
shoe prices have been climbing up
ward and excessive profits to the
packers, who practically control the
hide market, are charged in a report
by the federal trade. commission sub
mitted today to congress.
The commission points out that
slaughter Of cattle and calves in the
United States increased in the last
five years by 100000 head, or vir
tually 80 per cent.
"sIG FIVE" ARRAiGNED.
Such q record Of food animals
ought not at the same time to mean
that The country should be forced to
pay ahnor1nally high prices for leather
products made from the correspond
ingly increased take-off of hides" the
report declares.
Estimates of the international insG.
tute OF agriculture up to 1916 do not
indicate any shortage in the world to-
tai of cattle, the report said.
The commission reported that the
quantity of hides stored by the "big
five" Chicago packers-Armour, Swift,
Morris, Cudahy and Wilson-increased
As per cent during 1916 and the first
half Of 1917. These five concerns were
declared to be the "chief factors' in
the hide market. While they had on
shsnd ON January 81, 1916. a total. Of
SO. .033, 1873 pounds of hides the amount
had increased to 127,694.169 pounds
July 81, 1917.
OTHER PACKERS INVOLVED.
Stocks held by the smaller packers
showed an even more striking in
crease, amounting to SO per cent in
the same period, although the total
was only 20,0S6,102 pounds July 81,
1917. The grand total held by 275 in
terstate packers, including the ''big
five" increased from 9S,9S0,726 pounds
to 147,7S0,271 pounds, or practically
one-half
Imports of hides also were found by
the commission to have increased in
1917 70 per cent more than in 1912.
These great increases in imports
have been principally from Argentina,
Brazil and Uruguay" the report adds,
where the large Chicago packers are
very prominent factors in the hide
business"
BIG PROFITS ALLEGED.
Finally the commission found that
Country" hides, being the take-off OF
farmers and local butchers, are very
plentiful. The commission reported
that the values which the packers
have placed on their hides are much
greater than the increase in
the pirce they have paid for
catt.el While the farmers re.
ceived only II per cent more for their
cattle from Swift's five principal
plants in 1851, the value Swift and
company put on their hides from the
same cattle, according to the report,
increased 35 per cent.
phenomenal increase" in the leath-
er profits of Armour and Swift were
reported by the commission. Net prof.
its OF the larger tanning companies in
1916 were said to be from to 5 times
as large as in 1915. One unnamed
company said to have made s6443S0
in 1914. cleared $3,57s,544 in 1916.