New-York tribune., 1918-03-25

Ill
market new substitute for leather sho..
the war shoe, which is made of naner- 49,, ss
and wood. The new shoe, accord;n. =,
man papers, is very uncomfortable +oo -,
IN price and very poor in quality.
The "Berlner Tageblatt.~ in aos.-,.
the shoe, says: '''he
nc ne" shoe is makeshift that will
not give much pleasure to those tba+ viii,
wear IL. They are heavy and clumsy .ns
are made from all kinds of substitutes nal
paper-cloth sides and wooden sides Will!
lof projection are provided with nails th..
make 'he shoes still more clumsy. At a..
same tlme the prices of the new shoas
immensely high. While in peace t;r,o
PAIR OF good leather shoes did mot 49,.
more than II marks, the war shoe for oh;,i
dren costs from $50 to 1850 marie g.
women l4.5O to % marks. for NAV 80
1850 marks to "a These hieb nr;oo.
cue to the scarcity of raw materials pono.
eto'"' lor instance, costs 10 marks nor
metre. Ihe prices of other materials alec
nave risen by 700 to 1000 per cent Tho
durability of the new shoe is less +h.n
that OF the old leather shoe The MN,
wooden shoe, which will cost from Q tooso
marks, will not last more than sever ~,
eight weeks. And whether the w., sho.
can keep ones feet warm and hear ro;n :. ,
another question:"
frlnce Max Won Baden, the successor ~
'he throne OF the Grand Duchy of Baden
and president of the upper house of Rsden
has just issued long statement to Tho
German press in which he says. in nart
"The key to the situation is with th..
Ai'e'o-oaSon peoples. 1t is very difficult to
see ones way cear. The renorts fro.
America are contradictory. 'The United
Estates has no desire to interfere in Euro
pean affairs or to act as Judges in Europcan
Conflicts said President Wilson. But tho
American papers give an entirely different
picture. The happiness over the war which
Is evident in the American press, reminds
one OF the mood in the Allied countries
during the years of 1914 and 1915.
IL is likewise difficult to get any definite
ana clear idea OF the English view. Lord
Northcllf1e and Reuter- make it their object
TO snow Germany only that England with
which she is engaged in life and death
struggle. Certainly, there are other vo;ces
than can be heard. But the essential ones
tion still remains: What is the relative
strength of the two directions confrontino
each other l am unable to answer this
question. One thing is certain: the Ver
saliles war Council has again proclaimed
~ orins ABOUT decision only by force
OF arms. There are certain ren,arkah.
parallels between the situation of the end
of 1916 and of to-day. At that time there
were strong currents in England which
favored peace by negotiation which cou]d Z
be reconciled with the safety and honor Of
England. Lloyd George saw his great Of
leHSlVe menaced and held his knock out
speech winch summoned the world to war
LII thls manner the great campaign of 1917
came into existence. Also TODAY there arc
men and parties in England who are looking
Tor the way out-there was an EXCHANGE
or opinions by statesmen, as in 1916 when
mere were exchanges between Grey and
bethmann-but suddenly the Versailles
council mas rejected the idea of peace nego-
tlatfons and England decides to reconouer
Alsace-Lorraine"
Talaat Pacha, the Turkish Representative j
at the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk
on ms return stopped in Vienna and gave
an interview to the press in which he ex-
+ pressed his great satisfaction with the suc-
cess of the negotiations and rdculed
Trotzky
I'VE have received everything fror, Rus
s!a and promised her nothing" the "Vos-
slsche Zeitung" quotes Taaat Pacha Rus
sla already is beginning to demobilize her
troops, and the insignificant reports about
some little engagements of our troops with
some scattered bands are not worth men.
tlonlng. The part of Armenia which the
Russians have occupied will at last be
evacuated after three long years
CAS- to Trotzky, he appears to be very
intelligent man, He debates rather we'll,
can talk German, French and Russian flu
entity, and, before everything else he seems
to be convincing man"
But when asked, Docs he convince you?"
!. Talaat Pacha replied:
Not me. For with one-half of his self
ne is an anarchist, with the other he sup
ports theories with which we even cannot
| begin"
According to the latest German papers,
the German electoral reform bill has been
accepted by the German upper House, the
bundesrat and is now before the Reichstag.
The new bill sets the number of Reichs-
tag members at AL. The cities of Berlin,
breslau, Frankfurt on the Main, Munich and
Dresden are each 10 form separate electoral
districts. Proportional electoral districts
are also to be formed in Cologne. Dussel-
dorf, Elberfeld, Essen, Duisburg, Hanover.
Leipzig and Stuttgart. The proportional
electoral plan will likewise be applied to
the electoral districts of Lower Kiel, Reck-
hnghausen, Boshum, Dortmund, Nurnberg
Chemnitz, Mannheim and Bremen Berlin
is to elect 10 delegates to the Reichstag
Tetlow Z, Hamburg 8. Bochum and Leipzig
4 delegates each; Cologne, Breslau, Duis-
burg, Dortmund, Essen, Niederbarnim
Munich and Dresden, 8 each; the other dis
trcts mentioned will have only 2 repre-
sentatives.
Each electoral nomination must be signed
by at least twenty-five persons who have
the rlght to vote. At the most the list Of
nominations may contain two names more
] than there q ntota, L., h.. alo tnd