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New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Kerenskyon on Way
Here TO Win Aid.
For Nelu Reuolt
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further understanding and sympathy
with the existing government
Take the case of this nation. We
have not recognized the Bolsheviki, so
they are unrepresented officially in
Washington. Ambassador Bakhmeteff
dates back even before the Kerensky
regime. And we have a man in Petro-
grad, or rather in Vologda now, who
was chosen because of his fitness to
enter the imperial court of the late
Gear. Very likely he is unsatisfactory
cause of his captaiistic connections.
Senator Borah, Senator Owen and GER
tain other public men called this situa
ton to the attention of the President
personally some time ago. They told
him he ought to have some one in Rus
sia who by temperament and training
was capable Of derstanding and being
understood by proletarian govern
ment. But the President was unim-
pressed, and was later SO anxious to
avoid the issue of recognizing the Boil
sheviki that he prevailed upon Am
basssdor Francis to remain at his post
and not return here to accept appoint
ment to the Senate Probably the
President depends for his knowledge
upon unofficial personal agents, mem
bers of Mr.. Creel's staff and others
who are the Wilson eyes and ears in
Russia, as William Bayard Hale and
John Lind were under similar condi-
tons in Mexico. That method of deal
ing with a country as important to the
future Of the world as is Russia does
not inspire confidence.
The Allies are no better off. Some
time ago the Bolsheviki sought to
send Kamenev, man who ranked with
Lenine and Trotzky in Importance
among them, as their Ambassador to
France. He reached England on his
journey. He was seized and his papers
were taken from him. He was de-
ported to Russia, although he was ac-
credited not to England. but to France
What happened became a minor scan
dal, and then it was, explained that
England had been informed France
would not receive Kamenev and had
acted as she did in behalf of her ally.
1t is not the kind of incident that
promotes understanding and sympathy.
There is no one who interprets this
new phenomenon Of Bolshevikism in
the Allied countries or here, and no
one, no official, at any rate, who can
correctly interpret the Allies and this
country to the Bolsheviki, who are
treated very much as if they were
contagious disease, as indeed perhaps
they are. But the contagion is neither
being stamped out, nor is it being
studied.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Hoover Tells Wilson
Food Ships Must Be
Diverted to Belgium,
Starving Country Io Neglected
Under Pooling Plan,
He Declares

WASHINGTON, May 16. Belgium is
now starving and some of the ships
supplying the Allies must be diverted
TO carry relief, President Wilson was
told to-day by Food Administrator
Hoover. Under the present plan of
pooling the ships and the food sup
plies, Mr.. Hoover said, other countries
are getting the food and Belgium is
being neglected.
Ever since The United States began
sending large numbers of troops to
France the question of tonnage for
Belgium relief has presented a serious
problem and has caused much uneasl-
ness among those interested in it.
Last month the food situation was
so serious that shipments to the civil
population Of the Allied nations were
suspended for about ten days to move
three million bushels of grain to the
Belgians and the inhabitants OF Ger
man occupied Northern France.
One Of the factors in the pres
ent situation, which Mr.. Hoover is
understood to have brought to the at
tention of the President, is the diver
sion of tonnage to ship grain to
Switzerland under Americas agree
ment with that country. Recently the
United States arranged to send grain
laden ships to a French port for
Switzerland in defiance of the German
submarine menace under naval convoy.
Several have gone. and others will fol-
low under the arrangement.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Government Purchase In
dorsed When Postal
Budget Is Passed
Calls for $381,000,00O
Overtime Pay Proposal Ac-
cepted After Earlier
Rejection

WASHINGTON May 16. Postmaster
General Burleson was again TO- day de-
feated in his fight to abolish pneumatic
mail tubes when the Senate. in spe~
cal vote, insisted upon by Senator
Kirby, of Arkansas. went on record
again, 81 to 10. in favor Of government
purchase and operation of the service
Later the postottice appropriation bill
was passed.
The bill grants wage increases to
postal employees and provides for ap-
preparations of 1881 100000, an increase
Of 1900, 900 over the House bill. Over
time pay for postal employees also is
provided in committee amendment,
which the Senate accepted to-day, 26 to
81, after it once had rejected it.
Burleson Leads Attack
Postmaster General Burleson to day
personally conducted the attempt to
strike out the pneumatic tube pro-
vision. Accompanied by two of his
chief assistants, John C. Coons, First
Assistant Postmaster General, and AL
exander M. Dockery, Third Assistant,
Mr. Burlcson spent most of the day at
the Capitol, lobbying among Senator'S
against the tubes. In this he was as
sisted by Judge Moon, chairman of the
House Postoffice Committee, who was
anxious to defeat the proposal in the
Serate and thereby avoid a repetition
of his experience of last year, when
after a protracted fight, in which he
delivered two scathing denunciations of
tube service. the House failed to sup
port him and voted 20 continue the
service.
The Postmaster General and his
supporters in the Senate attempted to
employ strategic methods to-day. Sen
ator Weeks of Massachusetts and
chief defenders of the tubes Tuesday
when the Senate voted to buy them
by vote of 33 to %, both were absent
from the capitol making an inspection
of the Bethlehem and Midvale heavy
ordnance plants, as members of
Military Affairs Sub Committee. How
ever, information that the Postmaster
General proposed to continue the fight
to-day was wired to Senator Weeks at
Midvale and he returned in time to
take charge again of their defense.
Wilson's Name Used
During his lobbying efforts to-day
the Postmaster General, it is under
stood, informed several Senators that
he was at the Capitol at the sugges-
ton of the President, who was opposed
to the continuance of mail tube service
and wished the Senate to strike the
tube provision from the postoffice ap-
preparation bill. No confirmation of
this, however, could be obtained at the
White House
An amendment to the postoffice ap-
preparation bill proposed by Senator
Calder permitting the mailing of let
ters anywhere in greater New York for
delivery inside the city under two
cent stamp was adopted. First class
mail from Manhattan to Brooklyn at
present requires three. cents postage.
Efforts to attach an amendment to
the measure suspending for at least
one year operation of the act, effective
July l, increasing second class postal
rates were abandoned late to day after
supporters of the amendment became
convinced that it would be defeated.
Later an effort will be made to add it
to some other bill, it was said.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
New York Chief
Supply Depot
For u. S. Army
Brooklyn Terminals Will
Not Be Abandoned for Jer-
sey Port, Says Goethals

WASHINGTON. May 1s.-The gov
ernment's freight diversion plan, as
explained to the House Military Com
mlttee to-day by Major General
Goethals, Acting Quartermaster Cen
eral, contemplatcs shipment of sup
plies to American troops as follows:
From New York, 50 per cent; Bal
timore and Norfolk. 10 per cent each,
and Philadelphia. Charleston and New
Orleans, 3 per cent each.
Major General William NJ Black,
Chics of Engineers, told the committee
23O,000,000 was needed for cantonment
construction in France, and asked for
$250,000,000 more for the purchase in
France of supplies other than railroad
materials.
General Goethals said terminal
storage depots at the various ports
would be Of a permanent character.
He asked an additional $150.0O0, 900
for their construction, which will
make total Of S30O,000O0O.
Asked if the large amount Of freight
intended for shipment through New
York would not add to the congestion
of the port, General Goethals said the
Allies were arranging to move large
part of the future supplies through
Southern ports, which would relieve
New York. General Goethals said the
Brooklyn terminals would not be
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Germany Denies
That She Is at War
With Uruguay
Second Request for Infor-
nation on Status Brings
That Answer

MONTEV1DEO, Uruguay, Nav 16-
Inc German government has informed
Uruguay, IN response to the request
for a definition of the relations be-
tween the two countries, that it does
not consider that state of war
exists. The following official note
was issued here to-day:
when the Uruguayan military mis-
sion was detained by German sub
marine the commander of the sub
marine justified his arbitrary action
by the state of war with Uruguay in
which he said Germany had found
itself and said that he was acting in
accordance with instructions from the
Admiralty, which he exhibited. Our
Foreign Office demanded that Germany
state whether the submarine com
mander had acted in accordance with
instructions from the government at
Berlin, adding that in case a negative
reply should be given our military
representatives should be relieved Of
their engagement. (This evidently
refers to pledges which the members
of the Uruguayan mission were com
PEELED to give before being permitted
to proceed)
Several days later the Spanish gov
ernment made an offer of mediation in
regard to the promise made by the
Uruguayan officers. Mediation was
suggested by the German Ambassador
to Spain. The Uruguayan government
refused, regarding this as incompatible
with the dignity of the nation. More
over the fundamental point of the
question, which was whether Germany
was or was not at war with Uruguay.
must be decided by Germany. The
German government responded that
It relieved the Uruguayan officers of
their engagement, but in exchange
hoped that Uruguay would exert in
fluence in France to the end that the
Chilean mission in Spain be permitted
to pass over French territory. This
apparently refers to Chilean mission
to Germany, which has been denied
passage through France.)
The Uruguayan government. with
out accepting the abrogation of the
pledges, called for a reply to the
fundamental question; that is to saw.
whether Germany did or did not con-
slider that a state of war existed. Ger
many replied that it was not at war
with Uruguay. 1t said, Furthermore.
that the rupture of relations between
Uruguay and Germany was not
brought about by itself, and called at
tention to uruguays silence on the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Soviet Appeals
To Germany to
Stop Invasion
Russia Threatens to Resist
Violation of Treaty
of Peace
Menace in the South
Moscow Dispatch Says Teu-
tons Will Not Make Fur
ther Advance
Menace in the South

WASHINGTON, May ia copy of
tn. protest made by the Soviet govern
mcnt to the German Ministry Of For
elgn Affairs on April 20 against Ger
man aggressions, made public to-day
by the State Department, shows that
the Russians gave notice Of their in
tention to mobilize call necessary
forces in order to obtain the freedom
and independence of the Russian Re-
public, which is now menaced beyond
the limits established by the Brest
treaty"
A Moscow dispatch to-day to the
State Department said Germany had
given assurance to the Russian Soviet
government that German armies would
advance no further into Russian ter
ritory.
THE Russian government" said the
message of the Soviet government,
"has taken every measure possible
strictly to fulfil the treaty from it's
side and in this way to secure for our
people the chief aim of this treaty, a
state of peace. But in reality no such
the Russian Republic there is further
advance northward by German troops
and detachments of Ukrainians They
are advancing upon Kursk and Vo-
ronezh, territory undoubtedly Great
Russian. They have crossed into the
Crimean peninsula. That frontier
line, which was one-sidedly estab-
lished by the Ukrainian Rada itself
and officially made known to us by the
German government, has been in
fringed by German and Ukrainian
troops. simultaneously in the north
of Finland Russian military property
is being seized by White Guard de-
tachments operating in agreement
with German landing detachments and
under direct instruction from the Ger
man general staff.
'ln order to fulfil the Brest treaty,
which is the legal basis for the rela-
tions between Germany and Russia,
the Soviet government has officially
declared its readiness to open imme-
diate negotiations with the Ukrainian
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
American Labor Mission
Received by King George
Britain Will Make War to the Utmost Is His Message
to America-Praises Harmony Between
u. S. and England

LONDON. May 16. - The American
labor delegation was received by King
George at Buckingham Palace to-day.
The visit lasted an hour.
The King on receiving the American
labor delegation said:
at gives the Queen and me great
pleasure to receive you here to-day,
and we trust that if The experiences
of your stay in this country have been
agreeable, they may also prove inter-
esting and helpful You have had op-
portunties for judging the efforts we
are putting forth at home in order
adequately to meet all the demands
from the various theatres of war
hope these experiences will enable you
to assure the people of the United
States that we are doing and mean to
continue to do our utmost in this direc-
ton.
"Your delegation includes lady rep
resentatives who. l trust. may be able
to give a satisfactory report Of the
l. Tanner in which British women have
come forward to replace men called
from various national industries to
the fighting ranks, and how efficiently
they are carrying out the work in
trusted them.
at has always been my dream that
the two great English speaking ma
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Rumania Sends Out
Demobilization Order

AMSTERDAM, May 16.-An order
for the rehabilitation of the Ru-
manan army was published in the
"Official Gazette" at Jassy, on May ID.
Alexander Marghiloman, the Ru-
manian Premier, while conversing with
Rumanian newspaper representative,
said that Bessaraba. with the excep-
tion of slight rectfication of its north
ern frontier, would be Joined to Ru-
mania.
Advices from Kiev say that the gov
crnment has prohibited the export Of
raw and manufactured metals and rub
Der. All exports from the Ukraine to
Rumania and Bessarabia arc forbidden,
'as Bessarabia has been annexed and
it's political and economic relations re-
main unsettled.'
General Rogosa has been appointed
War Minister in the Ukrainian Cab
met
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Expect 10000 Officers
From Fourth Camps
New Training Schools Open,
With Attendance of From
10000 to $4,000

WASHINGTON, May 16.-The fourth
series OF. training camps for reserve
officers opened yesterday for fourteen
weeks course, with an estimated at
tendance Of between 10000 and $4,000
students. If the expectations are borne
out the camps will add 10000 names
to the army's commissioned list and
raise to $1,000 the total number of
officers obtained from this source.
Twenty-four camps have been opened
the attendance at each running from
900 to 1900 men.
Disposition of the graduates ALREADY
has been settled. The three infantry
replacement camps will receive 1000
each. the machine gun replacement
camp { amp 1000 %, and the field artillery camp
I,ooo: me tank corps, cavalry and
aviation will need more than the MN
ber left after these vacancies are filled
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Socialists Here to
Fight Kerensky Plans


A national official of the Socialist
party in New York received informa-
tion yesterday that Kerenksy was to
be expected soon on Swedish ship
and probably would be in New York
Monday. He asserted that his arrival
at this time was part of a concerted
movement to start counter revolu-
tion in Russia and that such move
ment would meet active opposition
from the Socialists and extremist
factions of the United States.
He declared that ample funds had
been provided to wage dangerous
battle in favor of another Russian
revolution and Japanese intervention
in Siberia and that Kerensky's parti-
cuar function would b. openly to en-
list capitalists of the United States in
the cause
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Slavs Captured by
Russians Aid All;..
Form Army to Resist Cerr..
Invasion, Serbian Le-
CATION Hears

WASHINGTON. May 1s.--czeebs ),
Jugoslavs taken prisoners by tn. p.. =
slams while fighting with Austro-H,s
earian armies have Organized an -.
which now is resisting the Teutar;..
invasion of Russia. the 3rrbian roass 'o,'s
ton here was informed th.day ga
cabiegram from London eueiirr c.
tain Lukich. an officer Of the ro.sp nap
who has arrived there. Captaio fps.
lch said part Of the corps had ra.a,'s. ~.
Japan, through Siberia and plannsdd rssds' 3
JOIN the Allied armies at Salon;css ~ =
on the Western front. 'na
Germany's violation Of the P,...
Litovsk peace treaty by arbitrar;ivss ;ssss- Y
vading Russia has created deem ~ ~
ing, Captain Lukjch said and q Ras. as,.
sian army (the Red Guard) il ssras as-
ishly being organized despite tho srl, s;ss
war that is being waged with N. .,sa :.
most violence. The Russians ~ =.
arms equipment and ammunition .s ~
an army of 100000 men, the afs.'s ~
was quoted as saying. 'ASss
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
5000 Jews Starving
In City in Palestine

AMSTERDAM, May 16.-The perse-
cution of Jews in Turkish occupied
territory in Palestine is not yet ended.
According to the Jewish correspond
ence bureau at The Hague, of 1000
Jews in the City of Safed, near the
Sea of Gallilee. 1900 are without
bread. Djemal Pacha, formerly Turk
ish commander in that district, and
now Minister of War at Constant
nople, devised new plans to bring the
remaining Jews to a slow but sure
death, according to the bureau.
Since the beginning of April he has
ordered all Jews to evacuate colonies
and towns near the front Not a single
Jew has been left in the village of
Keer- Saba, northeast of Jaffa. Only
Jews were driven out of the village
In Kefr-Saba five or six persons die
daily from hunger and typhus.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Levi P. Morton 81 Years Old

Levi P. Morton, former Vice Pres,-
dent of the United States. was ninety
four years old yesterday. The vcner-
able statesman is in Washington, where
he makes his home six months of the
year. Mrs. Morton. who returned to their
town house at 400 Park Avenue few
days ago, said that when she left Mr..
Morton he was in excellent health and
was preparing then to return hero, pre-
paratory TO going to his summer home
at Rhineclifg. N. Y. 'S''
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Russians Evacuate
Border of Finland

STOCKHOLM, May 1s.-A Hels;n,.
fors dispatch says the Russians h.s.
begun the evacuation of TERRITORY sIons
the border of Finland. They stili haiSs
the frontier fortress of Ino, but othsss
wise are withdrawing as far as Kron.
stadt. The railway from valkeasssrs
to Petrograd is being deserted by ths
Russians, the dispatch reports.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Jules Cambon Is Elected
To the French Academy

PARIS, May 16.-Jules Camban. for
mer Ambassador to the United States
Francis De Curel, playwright, and Rene
Boylesve, author, were elected mem
bers of the French Academy to-day
succeeding Francis Charmes, Paul Her
bieu and Alfred Mezieres, respectively
Twenty-seven members of the Academy
including President Poincare, met for
the election
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
81 German PLANES
BROUGHT Down in Dav

LONDON, May 16.-Thirty seven
German airplanes, twenty-five Of which
were DESTROYED, were accounted for
by British airmen on Wednesday.
The official statement on aerial
operations tonight reports marked
increase in the activities of both aerial
forces on the Western front The
British continue to lombard railway
stations and billets behind the German
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
subject of the passage Of the Chilean

suoJect Oh tne passage OIL the Cnlieail
mission.
Meanwhile, the Uruguayan govern
ment inquired of the Chilean govern
ment if it desired Uruguay to re-
quest the French government to au-
thorize passage of the Chilean mission
over French territory. The Uruguayan
government decided to take this step
only as mark of Difference to friend.
ly country. The Chilean government
replied that it had no interest in the
passage Of the mission. The Uruguay
an government informed Germany of
this fact. Germany replied to-day that
it relieved the Uruguayan officers Of
their pledges without any condition
1t said that the Chilean question had
been raised simply in desire to con-
suit Uruguay on the subject, and that
in view of the negative reply of Chile
the German government considered d
the incident to have been closed"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17

abandoned in favor Of a proposed loea-
ton in New Jersey.
The committee will report the army
bill, on which to-day's hearings were
based, substantially in accord with the
estimates already made public totalling
S11, IN ,666,848. About S3,000,000,000
for heavy ordnance and fortifcations
will be recommended in addition by
another committee.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17

Central Rada No answer, however
has come from this government, which
is now directed by Germany"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17

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