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New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

against which the masses have risen many
times, but the Germans mean to use it
as the pretext for erecting state which
will actually be dominated by Prussian
bayonets. In word, some 100000 Slavs
are to be put under the control Of not
more than 250,0OO Germans resident in
this region, but the latter are to be backed
by Prussian bayonets. Thus Germany adds
a territory ten times as large as Alsace-
Lorraine to her own empire and closes
Russia's doorway to the Baltic.
A Subject Poland
The second German proposal affects
Russian Poland. Some ten million Poles
living in Russian Poland and the adjoin-
ing Russian governments are to be taken
from Russian rule and turned over to
Austrian. 1t is announced that with them
are to be joined the 100000 Poles and
possibly the 100000 Ruthenans Of
Galicia but in any event some sort OF
Polish state is to be erected under Haps-
burg rule. But Germany refused utterly
to consider joining with this state her own
four millions of Poles in Posen, East and
West Prussia and Silesia. Thus she pur
poses to keep her hands not alone upon all
the great mineral districts Of the Polish
speaking regions of Silesia, but also
upon Danzig and the seacoast by which,
Poland would be able to touch the Baltic
and trade with the world
This Poland to be created then, is to be
politically subject to the Hapsburg, but
economically subject to the Hohenzollern.
Nor does it require any great stretch of
imagination to look forward to the time
when the German will repeat the Schles-
wig Holstein episode and deprive the old
ally of ground conquered jointly, but
needed for rounding OUT German estates
and completing the realization Of German
purposes. But, laying aside future con-
siderations, these facts are clear: Nearly
G,000,000 Slavs of the Baltic Provinces
are to be abstracted from the bulk of
Slavdom and placed under Prussian con
troll; 100000 peoples, fve-sixths of
them Poles-that is, Slavs-are to be
taken from Russia and assigned tenn
porarily or permanently to the Aus
trians, but Germany is to retain their
outlets upon the sea and thus the economic
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stirring and turning their thoughts once
more TO restored Poland, and once the
Poles should throw their lot in with the
other Slavs, the Germans and their part
ners, the Magyars, were doomed and the
Slavonic majority in Austria Hungary was
bound to take the reins, thus destroying
all the German ambitions of creating a
Mitteleuropa extending from Berlin to
Bagdad, through Austria Hungary and
the Balkans.
Now, bearing these facts in mind, what
is the German policy? Obviously to seek
to divide the Slavs in such way that
their numbers will no longer be formida-
bic and that for fifty years at least Ger
many will be free to consolidate her road
to the Near East, to build her great Nit
teleuropa and to complete her effort to
dominate the world. To do this she must
detach some portions of the Slavs from
the great Russian bulk; she must, in addi-
ton, take measures to suppress the hopes
of the Southern Slavs.
Now, with reference to the Russian
Slavs, Germany has shown her hand. At
Brest-Litovsk she proposed that two
states should be created out of the Rus
sian territory taken by Austria and by
herself during the war. The first of these
states was to include all the Baltic prov
inces Of Russia and extend from the en-
virons of Petroerad to the Prussian from
tier at Mcme. All the great Russian
Baltic ports, Reval, Pernau, Riga and
Libau, were to be included and Russia was
thus to be deprived of an outlet upon the
open sea and thus made economically sub
servient to Germany.
The Lithuanian Trick
This state, of nearly 100000 inhabi-
tants and about 10000 square miles, a
little larger than England and Wales, was
to be under real, if disguised, German
domination. All Of its population save a
small minority, utterly insignificant, are
Slav. Lettish and Lithuanian, but this
small minority is German, composed OF
the descendants of the Teutonic knights
of remoter centuries. And this minority
has been the controlling element. 1t owns
the land and lives under conditions recall
ing the French nobiljty's circumstances be-
fore the Revolution. 1t is a hated minority
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supremacy in this new state. Here, then,
are upward of 100000 Slavs subtracte(
from the central Slav block
Now, in addition, it is plain that the
Germans and Austrians contemplate some
temporary arrangement which will throw
the Galician Slavs into the new Polish
state, thus removing the Slavs who give
the Slavonic element a majority in Aus
tria proper With 100000 Poles and
Ruthenians thus eliminated, the German
speaking clement would regain numerical
supremacy in Austria and be able to deal
with the Czechs and Southern Slavs as it
chose Poland, as created by the Con
grcss of Brest-Litovsk, will be CONNER
cially at the mercy of Prussia, politically
under the rule Of Austria, miitarily domi-
mated by Austrian and Prussian bayonets
and in this state the Poles of Austria will
disappear as potent Slav forces.
Russia Crushed
In this situation Germany pushed Aus
tria forward against Serbia, and the World
War was the result. Now so far as the
World War is concerned, it has been a
German failure in the West and on the
sea. Germany has occupied 1000 square
miles of French territory, but by contrast
Britain and France have seized 1000, 900
square miles of German territory and l2,-
100000 German colonial subjects. Ger
many has been excluded from the sea, and
against sea power and the loss Of her colo
nies she holds only French and Belgian
territories as an insurance. AS far as
Austria and Italy are concerned, after
many reverses Austria. aided by Ger
many, has occupied considerable territory
in Venetia, but Italy has closed the Adra-
tic, occupied Albania and remains across
Austria's only commercial routes.
On the East on the other hand, the Ger
man. with his Magyar ally, has over
whelmed the Sav. He has occupied 120,-
900 square miles Of Russian territory
holding upward of 20000,000 Slavs. end
he has brought down the whole editice of
Russian government. There is no moro
government, no leadership, only impotent
anarchy in the great Slav state, and the
Slavs of Eastern Europe are therefore
powerless before the Germans. And in
addition. by enlisting the Bulgar, the Ger.
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A Peril to the Whole World

In sum, then, 75,0O0,OO0 Germans, allied
with 100000 Hungarans and less than
100000 Bugarians are planning to put
under their yoke $4,000, 600 Slavs and H.
100000 Rumanians, more than half Of
whom were free when the World War be-
gan and the remaining half Of whom were
moving toward political liberty under Aus
trian yoke. And outside of Europe Ger
many has fastened her power upon 15.-
100000 Of people in European Turkey
who are also in her scheme of things to
supply economic resources and cannon
fodder equally. Thus. in fact, 75,C0O.O0O
Germans are to rule 10000, 900 of other
races, Slav, Hungarian, Bulgar and Turk.
This is the present German plan, the first
details in which have been sketched in the
terms proposed by the German representa-
tives at Brest-Litovsk
1t requires no discussion to set forth
the peril to the whole world of this Ger
man plan. More than all else we are at
war with the German idea which con-
ceivcs that power is the sole consideration
I'm international relations, which conceives
that the German, as the member of su-
perior race, is permitted to use any means
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to draw troops. Thus we shall see Central
Europe in which $4,000 900 Germans will
control the fate and fortunes OF wellngh
5O,OOO,0O0 Slavs, use them for cannon fod-
der, use them to advance the cause of the
German against the Slav, use them to
make still stronger the German power in
the world
shall not at this time go into the sub
Ject Of kumania, yet it is worth noting
that detail Of the German plan is to put
the 12,000 600 Rumanians of Hungary
Rumania and Russian Bessarabia in such
leading strings as to reduce them to the
condition proposed for Poland and make
them soldiers Of Teutonism henceforth,
bound commercially politically and mill
tarily to the central group. And since
Russia has collapsed the Rumanians have
no choice, no method of escape; they are
the helpless victims of the Russian revolu-
ton. who automatically lost their liberty
when the Russian revolution decided to
destroy the Russian army and negotiate
with the Germans.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
In the Next War

Now. exactly what this means is clear.
In the present war, when Germany and
Austria assailed Russia, they were able to
throw the military resources of 2S,000,000
Slavs within their own frontier against
the great Slav state which they were at
tacking because it had ventured to cham
pon the Slav cause in the Balkans. With
out the aid of these Slav troops, Austria
would have been overcome long ago. for
she had but 22,OOO,OO0 of German and
Hungarian subjects who We're loyal. In
the next struggle with the Slav, bound to
come if the Slav world is now placed in
Teutonlc chains, Germany will have more
than 20 ,000 900 additional Slavs from which
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man has been able to destroy the Slav
states of Serbia and Montenegro, now oc-
cupied by Bulgar and Austrian troops,
and also to conquer most of Rumania,
whose collapse is assured by the Russian
surrender.
Accordingly, the German finds himself
to-day in a position to deal with the prob
lem of the Slavs. He has crushed the
great Slav movement toward liberty and
union by overthrowing Russia; the Rus
sian revolutionists have forsakcn ali
racial aspirations, all thought Of liberat-
ing their brethren Of Austria and of the
Balkans, to pursue the phantom Of indus
trial and economic UtoDias; they have de-
stroyed their army, and they have now no
choice but to yield to German terms or
else to face the consequences Of resisting
without weapons an enemy provided with
weapons and holding all the roads leading
to the heart of Savdom. Russia, as the
German would say, is 'kaput'
So much for the Northern Savs. Now as
for the Serbs of Serbia and Montenegro
their fate has already been set forth in
OulRuE ana fFuSSldn statements. MOSt or
Serbia the valleys Of the Morava and the
Vardar, are to fall to the Bulgar, the bal
ance to be added to Austrian Bosnia or
permitted to subsist under a semblance of
independence, but ruled by an Austrian
princelng. In a word 10000 more
Slavs are to be placed under alien rule,
under Bulgar and Austrian, and the last
obstacle to Austro- German power in the
Balkans is to be eliminated
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
WHEN YOU WAKE
UP DRINK GLASS
OF HOT WATER
Wash the poiSons and toxins
from system before putting
more food into stomach.

Wash yourself on the inside be
fore breakfast like you do on the
outside. This is vastly more i'm
poTtant because the skin pores do
not absorb impurities into the
blood, causing illness, while the
bowel pores do.
For every ounce Of food and
drink taken into the stomach, near
~ an ounce Of waste material must
be carried out Of the body II this
waste material Is not eliminated
Gay BY day IL quickly ferments
and generates poisons, gases and
toxins which are absorbed or sucked
into the blood stream, through the
lymph ducts which should suck only
nUuTfsh nlent to sustain the body.
4 splenSid health measure is to
drink, before breakfast each day. a
glass OF real hot water. with a tea
spoopfuis'of limestone phosphate in
il. which is a harmless way TO wash
these poisonS. gases and toxins
from the stomach. liver. kidneys
and bowels: thus cleansing. sweet
cning and fresheninG the entire ali.
mentaTy canal before putting more
food into the stomach.
4 quarter pound of limestone
phosphate costs but very little at
the drug store but Is sufficient to
make anyone an enthusiast on in
side bathing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
DRY WASHINGTON
HASTENSDEATH OF
COUNT PERREARD

Lets go round to the Counts"
is a slogan which will be heard no
more.
Count Jean Marie Perreard. the pop
ulsr French restaurateUr and the orig
inal Fall of the Bastille" enthusiast,
has bresthed his last. He died last
night at George Washington Uni
vcrsity Hospital, where he had been
taken five weeks ago suffering with
chronic nephritis. He had been a
resident of Washington for forty
eight years. and was native of
savoy. France, where be was born
June >. 1874. Countess Perreard. his
wife. was with her husband when the
end came.
Having been in the business OF en-
tertaining and catering to the physical
comforts of man, as well as to his
artistic sense, practically all his life,
Count Perresrd was keeniy disap-
pointed when Congress passed law
making Washington dry" This real
~ marked the beginning of his fail
ing health. =He felt IT as blow at
his love of personal liberty. Count
Perreard- had been in business at ol3
Thirteenth street His wife, Alice
Perreard. is heartbroken, and between
sobs, s>said:' 81 may go back home
now--to France"
The funeral arrangements will be
announced today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
.ENMET STATUETIE
IS PRESENTED TO
THE PRESIDENT

A bronze replica OF the Robert En-
met statue stands in the White House
today, the Eift to President Wilson of
the Robert Emmett Statue Association
The replica is the work Of Jerome Con-
nor. the Washington sculptor. whose
original Robert Emmett statue is in the
rotunda Of the National Museum. The
replica is about two feet in height and
weighs twenty pounds. 1t was cast In
the Washington navy yard.
The presentation was made yesterday
by SenAtors PheIan Of California Judge
Victor c. bowling, Of New York, was TO
have presented the statuette to the
President, but was prevented because
OF illness.
Members Of the association attending
the presentation were: Former Senator
James a: O'Gormau. of New York. ID. j.
Callahan. Of Washington George Mac
Donald. of New York; William NJ Bar
rett, OF New York, president OF the
Adams Express Company; Archbishop
Thomas J. Shahan. rector of Catholic
University the Right Rev. Alfred Hard
ing, bishop of Washington. and John
E. Healy, Of Wilmington, Del.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
Join The
knitting Class

Learn to knit the things that
soldiers need and want most.
Lessons are FREE if yarn is
bought here. - r.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
NINE BURN IN TWO
=. HOSPITAL BLAZES

OTTAWA, Jan. 1.-THE authorities
today are unable to learn the cause
of the Gre that yesterday destroyed
the. east wing OF the Catholic Hos
pitaI here. resulting in loss of life of
four small children and one woman,
the Latter dying of shock after being
carried out OF the building. The
Oldest Of the children was four years
OF age. -..
The victims were patients. The
lives Of more than 200 persons in the
hospital were threatened.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn, Jan. IL
FirenIen and civilians today are
searching the ruins of the fire that
destroyed the Connecticut Hospital
here yesterday. for two patients who
are still missing. Two were burned
TO death in the FIRE which did total
damage of 100000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
FIRING SQUAD FOR men
WHO SELL FIREWATER'

General Pultarco Elias Gales, gov
srnor Of the Mexican State of Sonora,
has issued an order that the penalty
for selling liquor in his jurisdiction
is 10 be the firing squad and adobe
wall at daybresk.
The. drastic step was taken by the
general because OF the rebellion OF
aqui Indians, who have launched a
campaign OF brigandaGe and murder.
In order to keep "firewAter" from
getting in more. of its work the order
has been issued to confscate all
liquor in the state and destroy It.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11

This lot includes bIouses Of crepe de
chine or georgette- You may have
your choice Of tailored or embroid-
cred models. For this sale $500
values at e5-05.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
Special at 99c
At $3.50 and $1.95

White petticoats made of fine quality cambria
with dainty lace and embroidery trimmed
ruffes. $150 and $1s5.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
Just New

Rit-something entirely new-a
dye that is very easily used. 1t
will restore the color to any
dainty blouse or silk underwear.
Priced at l0c cake.
Very smart and at the same time
practical are these new cham
oisette gloves we are showing in
white, with gray or light sand
stitching. Contrasting welts to
match the stitching. At $1.5O.
One of our linen items that is es-
pecially worthy of mention is
Tea Set consisting of a 54-inch
tea cloth and one-half dozen nap
kins. 1t is of pure Irish linen
with round design and hemstitch-
ed border. Moderately priced at
$500.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
Special
TOILETS

1t is the little savings that count
these days. Here are some
reductions worthy of thought
for tomorrow.
f5c Spooner'S Honeymoon
Tale, 10c.
Small vial Mary Garden. =. 30c
CSC L. s. B. Witch Hazel
Cream, 1Sc.
SOC Jarden De Rose Face Pow
der, 39e.
25c Spearmint Tooth Powder,
12c.
i2c Bottle Witch Hazel, 10c.
First FIoor-LansburEh q Bro.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
Editorial

If this country had saved all it
wasted during the past 20
years, we would have enough
to win the war without saw
ing another cent. Now it is
too late.
And in the above savings we re-
fer more especially to, small
things. Do you realize that if
each of US saved SC worth of
food a day that it would
amount to $1,S25, 100000 a
year-afmost as much as the
first Liberty Loan.
Recently a railroad issued an or
der for the men to use lead
pencils one inch shorter than
formerly. Result, a saving of
$1,000 in year. If every
body in the United States used
their pencils one inch shorter
it would amount to millions
of dollars saved.
Let's all figure out some way
for small savings, and, in or
der that they may do the most
good, buy WAR SAVINGS
STAMPS with them. Talk it
over with your friends.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-11
FoWow
the
NeW
Hair
Modes

1t is not often that we can
afford to give such splendid
values as are represented
in this great sale of "a
inch, naturally wavy
switches, mounted on three
separate stems at, S1.45.
Regularly sold at $3.50.
Third Floor, LanHbuFEh L
Bro.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-12
DOESN'T KNOW HIM
State Department Unaoqusinted with
Reputed Peace Envoy.

Washington. April ls.-No one ia OF
cial circles in Washington could identity
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-12

killed near Ysleta, Tex, in a skirmish
between Mexican and American troops,
after the former had opened fire.
general concentration of Mexican
federal troops in this region has been
under way some time. A column of cav
airy, estimated at 500 men, was OBJ
served yesterday coming from the direc-
ton Of Guadalupe. west of here, and is
believed to be part OF the general CON
centration.
Scouts report a considerable concentra-
tion of Mexican federal troops in the Big
Bend district, bodies of 200 TO 500 being
seen in motion. A large force was en-
trenehed Wednesday night on the south
ern bank of the Rio Grande,
Improved conditions in the Big Bend
district We're foreseen as result of the
plan of Gov. w p, HOBBY to give official
status to the cowboy constabulary force
proposed by cattlemen and ranchers in
the district.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-12
FRENCH SCHOOL FOR YANKEES.
Program of Education Concerning People
They Are Among

Paris, April l2.-The ministry of pub
lie instruction has placed at the dispose
OF the American army all the education
al facilities of France. This announce
ment was made Wednesday at lunch
con to the reetors of the French univer.
sites given by James Hazen Hyde al
the American university.
The offer of the ministry will be util.
lied by the army through committee
of the Young Mems Christian associa
tion according to plan prepared by Rev.
Arson Phelps Stokes of Yale. Mr.. Stokes
explained that it was the intention to
provide soldiers in the United States be-
fore they come to France with especial
ly prepared pamphlets dealing with
French ideals and French history, so that
on arriving in France they may know
the sort of people they are among
= Special courses will be arranged in
French universities in languages, history,
art, and other subjects for soldiers, par
ticularly during the long period of de-
which may require year or
more after the conclusion of the war
Thus French culture will be carried back
TO the United States DIR. John II. Fin
lev. New York. state commissioner of
Is coming TO France TO take
charge Of the work.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-12
ARCHBISHOP FINDS
MIDWEST STRONG
EST FOR VAR
Primate of England Deeply Impressed
BY Spirit in America--Will
Soon Return Home

New York, April l2.--In what was
termed his farewell interview before de-
parting for England, Rev Cosmo Gordon
Lang, archbishop of York, yesterday dis
cussed his visit to the United States.
He said he had everywhere been accord
ed a genuine American welcome and
had found the war spirit and determine
ton of the people remarkable.
Il have been most deeply impressed
by the readiness with which the United
States assimilates its foreign races" he
said 4All of these races were preoccu-
pied in developing the great resources OF
the country, and, therefore, / think It
quite strange that the nation should en-
ter the great war almost without dis
cordant voice ! think that the unity
that enabled the president to declare war
and enforce the draft law with such
unanimity is simply marvellous
"ln fact, I found the sentiment for the
war even stronger in the central west
than | did in the eastern cities of your
country. Some Of the most eager and
enthusiastic meetings which | have at
tended have been held in communities
made up almost entirely of foreign peo-
the archbishop declared emphatically /
break in the allied line would not have
a decisive effect on the war
IF the spirit of the nations will stalk
behind the armies of the allies, they
win yet be victorious, no matter how the |
battle goes" he said
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-12
PRESIDENT WILSON
WILL RUN THE VAR
Will Not Permit Any Agency to Keep
from Him the Power He
Demands.

Washington. April disappearing the
overman measure, Senator Lewis of H.
linois declared Woodrow Wilson will be
president for three years. President Will
son will command this war. He will
take responsibility and will not allow
any agency to deprive him OF the neces-
sary authority to win this fight warn
You that neither for political opportu
nifty nor personal advantage of any man
will the opponents of unlimited author
ity to the commander -in.chef be per
mitted by the people TO succeed. The
people want this war won. The country
wants the Germans beaten back--that
they may not beat America down. Any
man who now il against the war is
against America land any who are
against any measure that the president
demands as necessary to win the war are
against the president. The country gave
Wilson the power in the declaration of
war and demands of Congress to throw
off its bride and bit"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-12

yesterday the Professor Anderson re-
ported to have carried on peace negotia-
tions with Austro Hungarian representa-.
tives.
AT the state department e was de-
elared that no such person bad been su-
thorized TO conduct negotiations regard
ing peace, and the departments original
statement that no negotiations, either
official or unofficial. looking to a separate
peace with Austria had been conducted
with the departments knowledge. was
reiterated.