Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-16
SPREAD OF REVOLT
CAUSES OFFICIALS
TO ACT QUICKLY Y
Atlantic Cables Burdened
With Exchanges Regard
ing Possible Date. se
CONSIDERING QUESTION
OF ADMITTING NATIONS
This Is Proving Problem, Since
New State Is Born
Daily.
TO BATTLE BOLSHEVISM
Necessity for Restoring Channels OF
Trade and Industry Becomes
Important Factor. ..l.s
o BATTLE DoLsHEvIsM
Necessity for Restoring Channels or
Trade and Industry Becomes
Important Factor.
IRy Associated Press. l

Try Associated Pressl
WASHINGTON, November 15-De.
velopmcnts in Europe. not only in the
military way but In the field of inter.
national politics and the tendency OF
the revolutionary spirit manifested by
the demoralized civilian population OF !
the central empires to spread TO neigh
boring states. have Influenced tho all
lied and American governments to ar
range for the meeting at an early date j
of the great peace congress- *
The Atlantic cables wcrc burdenod
to-day with government business 'tbe-
lieHcd TO have been made up for tile
most part or exchanges between Wash-
lnEton and Paris where the inter-
allied council is endcavorng to reach
an agreement as to the timc and place
for holding the conference. Consid-
Grafton Grafton Of the question OF, what<nn
occupy much time. for almost every
day witnesses the birth of new state. /
lay hare the hoang hoS s9sn o ths to
ence until the political situation IN
Europe had somewhat crystal allizeds bIt
considerat ions .sflnully led to a. ID deci- I
sion by the associated governments TO :
proceed to, assemble the conference at
the earliest date that can be set
One reason suggested for the. change
Of decision is the necessity OF restor-
ing the channels OF trade and indus
afford employment to labor and there
by relieve the threat OF BolshevismsfIid
ANARCHY AM. ANOTHER is the gcneraIac
lieve the civilian population ofaithe
central powers from the danger OF
famine. 'Fssss-
BELIEF IS GROWING THAT
PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND
with the assurance of an earlyZa as
sembly of the peace conferences at.
tention to-day, turned to the compo-
sssion Tt. @ Of the American commission.
Wilson Will attend. but probab bly, not
IN the capacity of delegate orfcom-
missioner. II is known that Secretary
mission and Colonel l.. NJ. House JUS
ice Louis Brandes and E!ihu. Root,
,Hrmsr ti secretary of state. weraE men
TONED as other likely selections! lE1 Is f
Resides these delegates number
or army and navy officers must DE Z
named name to assist the commission. In
rected to the names of General 'Tas-
ker RI. Bliss. American representative
Genera, Gn .ne supreme supreme war council; Major
eraI and provost marshal. veteran
der i,,s r-Ge9eral Samuel Anseii. M acting acting
miral Sims :nd Captain Ridley Mclean
formerly Judge advocate OF the navy
,,ci,an james Brown Scott formerly SO. Il
Carnegie endowment for trfnrnaS9
uomal peace. is believed to be untfsr
american commission. There WiIlts1f
course, be at least two assistantSsnSS
retaries and considerable numbarSof
attaches. 49, =, .',.~'s ~ " {, =
NOT DECIDED WHETHER
CONGRESS WILL. NAME MAN, (
II congress is to be represented on
Inc Commi ission, as was the case afrhe
aris ireat;os s9Llierenee is, In 1898, when neace
spain were drawn. the fact has not
yet developed on the contrary. III :
ineination a a ma, io inSrG inSnlv Is deeide ais.
branch OF the government in any Way
III III, me work OF constructing treaties.
1--WE Junction under the terms sof5Itne )
IohS.itution IL also was recalIedtt to.
day that the Senate, itself not many
TO the appointment by the Presidcntsof
any or it's members a s commissioners
TO negotiate agreements which must
Notice has been taken by offciai5
mere ne; OF the demand BY certain sociafis-
nnsrIne, t'n srmenfs no, ro only in Europe. but In
the peace congress. Officials werc1ur.
derstood 10 hold that to recognize la
class distinctions which would be thor
oughly un-American. On tho otner
hand. It was said that by the appoint-
man. such as Justice Brandeis Tor ins +
stance; known to be an ardent friend
and champion OF labor az ali times, s.
m",,d the interests 6r Of the working classes
II was made plain to-day thatssthe
selection OF Secretary Lansing to head 5
the American conn. ission is NOT I'd be q
taken as an indication or his purpose
10 resign his present Office ins3 his
absence Frank l.. Polk, counselorricf
the state Department is xpected 10
act as Secretary OF State.
GERMAN APPEAL HAS NOT SRssa
VET REACHED WASHiSGTON
The German appeal TO President VIII
son TO send penipo,entiaries 10 Tho
hague or some other city as quickly 81
as possible I'm order TO sava the a es.
man people from pertshing by staTya- 4
tion and anarchy had not reaehnd
ashlngton Tonight In gofficiat II form, Sa
There was no Indication az to What S.
disposition would be made OF Ilt, but
1t was. REGARDED as probable that sit 3
council st Versailles. g$s'ttass - =
Secretary Lansing announced tod
thar he had acknowledged the ,ppwat y
OF DE-. Solf, the German Foreign I fSsss-
retary. asking tor an early peace rSNs q
Terence In View Of the uDsefs tod son N
ditlons In Germany and Mad dsreuuoatnd
that hereafter tho German royAs1sSssfn 4: \;