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New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
T.. s. Soldiers From
Russia Among 2,043
Baltic Brings Home

The White Star liner Baltic, in yes
terday from Liverpool, brought ninety
nine officers and 1914 men, chiefly
from the Winchester Casual company.
Passenger list inclsded twenty-three
soldiers from the 339th Infantry, who
were landed at Archangel in August
and who aprticipated in the repulse of
Bolsheviki forces.
Among the men from the Russian
campaign was Charles f. Senzik, of
Detroit. He described the Bolsheviki
as a queer lot," who did not know
tthe first principles of warfare. He
said they would have been beaten to
a frazzle if the days in Northern
Russia had been longer.
"He saw little of the sum-" he said,
"and when we got bit of it the
cloudy skies soon shut it out and it
was generally dark throughout our
campaign. We finally got the Bolshe-
Wiki forces on the run and drove them
to Baakreatza.
"Our casualties were light because
we were not up against real fighters
and We did not have enough daylight
in which to hammer them. We were
we'll supported by British artillery
Lost Within Austrian Lines
Another traveller on the Baltic was
Lieutenant Camille de Carlo, of the
Italian Aviation Corps, who was lost
within the Austrian lines a few weeks
before the last Italian offensive. Hs
said he lar ded unobserved and turned
his airplane adrift, then, dofing hi!
uniform, put on peasant clothes.
He said he was able TO communicate
with brother aviators who dropped car
rier pigeons to him and by the aie
Of these birds he was able to send in
formation to Italian Headquarters
August Belmont, who has the ranl
of major in the Ordnance Department
returned on the Baltic and left fo
Washington soon after his arrival. HI
was met at the pier by his wife, VIII,
wore the uniform of the Y. W. c. A.
81 cannot discuss the war" said Mr.
Belmont, Except to say that it seemed
like terrible dream and that | an
glad it is all over"
Major Percy Haughton, former Har
ward coach and manager of the Bostor
Braves, returned after overseas service
at the headquarters of the Twenty
sixth Division.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Senator Says
World League
Is Underlined
Declares Pressing of Sea
Freedom Ideal Is Likely to
Cause Breach With Allies
Against 'sBiggest Navy
Warns That U. S. Has Re-
jected Treaties in Past and
May Do 1t i'm the Future

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. - Dissen-
sions among the Allies, and the posi-
bility of the United States Senate re-
Jecting or amending the peace treaty,
were solem My held up to President
Wilson and the peace commission to-
day as possibilities resulting from any
attempt to force action at Versailles
on a league Of nations of the freedom
OF tire seas, in speech in the Snate
by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, leader
of the Republicans in the upper House
and next chairman of the Foreign Re-
lations Committee.
Senator Lodge declared that five of
President Wilson's fourteen points.
which the President said in his brief
statement as to why he was going
abroad, had heen accepted by both the
Central Powers and the Allies, are
questions which may lead to division
among the nations which have con-
qucred Germany. These are the first
four points and the fourteenth. and
relate to open covenants Of peace
openly arrived at" "freedom of the
seas" economic barriers" the "league
of nations" and armament reductionsh
For the first time in many years,
Senator Lodge placed himself outside
the ranks of those who are fighting for
the biggest navy possible
He referred to the "strange devel
opment" of Admiral Badger insisting
before the House naval committee on
the biggest navy in the world, navy
as large as England's by 1925 Mr..
Lodge reviewed his own record on the
navy-that of consistent and fairly
succo ssful fighter to have it enlarged -
but said the Badger programme was
unnecessary.
Mr.. Lodge declared that the only
danger on the Atlantic coast had ceased
to be, as one result of the war
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Allies Asked to
Police Vienna,
Zurich Hears
Austria Said to Have Urged
Americans, French and
British Force Be Sent

PARIS, Dec. 21.-Zurich newspapers
to-day printed Vienna dispatch car
rying the report that the Austrian gov
ernment, "in order to avoid fresh dis
turbances," had asked the Allied au-
thorites to occupy the Austro-Hun
garan capital. The sending of French,
British and American troops for this
purpose was requested.
VIENNA, Dec. 19.-Popular indigna-
tion over the general conduct of the
war, especially the brutality, AFRO
gance and incompetence" displayed by
the highest Austrian military com
manders, found expression in a resolu-
tion adopted by the German Austrian
National Assembly to-day, demanding
the appointment of a commission to
investigate the cause of Austria Hun
gary's military collapse.
In the course of a vigorous debate on
the grave charges advanced against
high officers, it was declared that
members of the imperial family, re-
gardless of age or military capacity
were given commands with the most
disastrous results. A field marshal
who commanded an expedition against
Serbia was denounced as responsible
for the death of thousands whom he
drove to slaughter, insufficiently NUM-
toned, fed and clothed. Some of the
deputies declared that he ought to be
hanged.
The most intense hatred against the
entire body of officers is developing
among civilians. These officers are ac-
cused publicly Of wholesale thefts dur
ing the war, of living luxuriously and
permitting their wives to wear costly
jewelry, while the masses starved.
The Vienna newspapers urge the in
vestigating committee to begin work
before the commanders implicated are
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
British Regret They
Seem Imperialists

M. Balfour said to me a fortnight
ago in London that some of President
Wilson's contributions to thought and
ideas have been of the highest i'm
portance and significance to mankind,
and great English foreign official who
combines in a measure the ideaism
of Mr.. Wilson with the knowledge of
Premier Clemenceau repeatedly gave
evidence, so common among Britons to-
day, that the British regret that thew
appear to be regarded by the American
Peace Mission as imperialists opposed
to American idealism.
Differences in point of view between
the Americans afd large body Of
British statesmen who, like Mr.. Bal
four, Lord Robert Cecil and Lord
Bryce, stand for league o. nations is.
according to my observations here and
in England, similar to that between
most of the American people and the
President.
The present British Foreign Office
consists of leaders supported by body
of men who have been laboring for
years, like many Americans. on pro-
gramme for the maintenance of peace
They desire 70 secure it by practical
methods, and, as several leading Eng
J lish editors now here have remarked
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Lodge Warns Senate
Can Reject Treaties

Senator Lodge opened by declaring
that the United States must not lose
in the terms Of peace the fruits of
tie great victory which the armies
OF the Allies and the United States
had just won. He said the share of
the Senate in making the treaty Of
peace was large and of decisive i'm
portance, that it had the right to offer
the Executive advice, whether invited
OF unasked, and that it was of great
Importance "that those concerned in
the actual negotiation of the treaty
should at least know the views of the
Senate SO far as the Postmaster Gen
cral, in control of the cables, and Mr..
C,eel, in control of the news, will
permit the opinion of the Senate to be
transmitted to Paris.
"In the present unparalleled situa-
ticn," he said, "the right of the
Senate to advise as to @ treaty be-
comes solemn, an imperative duty.
We cannot compel information, but
we are abundantly able to make our
twn opinions known not only to the
President, but to the Allies, who have
very clear and even acute idea Of
the power of the Senate in regard to
treaties. They must know that the
Senate can reject and often has re-
jected treaties. Others the Senate
has refused to ratify and held with
out action Many others have been
vitality amended.
"The Allies should not be kept in
! the dark as to the views Of the Senate
nor should the Senate keep silent as
to its own opinions or as TO the wishes
and demands of the American people.
"The plan seems to be to project
upon the Senate the most momentous
treaty ever made without any informa-
tion as to the steps which led to it
or as to the arguments and conditions
which brought about it's adoption.
This scheme, which is indicated by all
theory that the Senate, although pos
/ sessing the power, would not and could
not dare to reject a treaty of peace.
This unworthy calculation is perhaps
sound in practice. and yet l have seen
a peace treaty bitterly opposed and
ratified. after the exertion of the most
powerful influences, with only two
votes to spare.
"But if treaty of peace might not
be rejected it can be debated and
amended, and can conceive of extrane-
Gus provisions wholly needless for a
peace with Germany being unwisely
added, provisions whlch would surely
be stricken out or amended, no mat
ter how many signatures might be ap-
pended to the treaty. Protracted op-
position and amendments mean long
delays, and delay Is only less un-
fortunate than rejection. All these
untoward results can be avoided il
the Senate frankly expresses it's views
beforehand on certain leading points
for the consideration of the Allies anC
of the President himself.
Senate in Democracy
Entitled to Present Vie,cs
eve have had already some impor
tant, able and Illuminating debates
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Wilson Shoulders Vast Reconciliation Task
Lodge Opens Fight on FiDe of the ~ Poin
Wilson Thanks S,Uedish
Parliament for Support
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 20.

4 MESSAGE from President
"A Wilson was read in both
chambers Of the Swedish Parlia-
ment to-day. 1t was as follows:
"I have received with the great
est satisfaction the message which
the two chambers of the Swedish
Riksdag were generous enough to
send me, and | accept it as a most
welcome expression of the conf
dence of the chambers.
II hope and believe that by
common council a peace worthy of
the aspiration of the people of Eu-
rope can and will be secured, and
l shall with pleasure and pride do
all I can to promote it.
"WOODROW WILSON,"
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Berlin FavOrs
Hindenburgg's
Guard Plan
New National Army Is Ex-
pected To Be Stronger
Than Old Organization

LONDON, Dec 21.-The German gov
ernment has accepted Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg's plan to form a Peo-
ple's Guard, or National Army, accord
ing to a Copenhagen dispatch to "The
Daily Mail" 1t is said that the Ger
man army, under this plan, will be
stronger than ever. AZ officers have
received instruction to Keep the details
secret Women will be employed for
auxiliary services
Although the German army lost
greatly in killed. wounded and prison
ers during the last few months of the
war, both in the German offensive from
March to June and in the victorious
Allied counter offensive, the armistice
terms did not include rehabilitation OF
the German army, which is virtually
intact, except for the few units that
have already been demobilized. The
surrender Of thousands of guns, vast
ammunition dumps and the aerial fleet
however, has left the German army in
an extremely weakened condition. No
authoritative figures regarding the
numerical strength of the German
army at the time of the signing of the
armistice are available.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Wilson TO Return Late in January:
VIII Revisit Paris if Allies Wish

Neu Tribune
Special Gable Seruice
Copyright 1918, New Tribune Inc)
ARlS Dec 21Presiden Wilson
that ne must return America the end of January will
return to Paris later if his desired
PARIS Dec 21.The preliminary meeting
has postponed beginning February the earliest
says Marcel Huun editor OF the Echo de Paris This
is DUE he changes plans President
Wilson's visit the British
Cabinet which will Premier Lloyd
suit of the elections is announced December
Preliminary exchanges which
cordng to original plans, also
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Assembly Meets in Frankfort

MUNICH, Dec. 21.-Dr Luppe, Mayor
of Frankfort-on-t the Main, announces
that the German National Assembly
will meet there. Chief Burgomaster
Vagt has gone to Berlin to make ar
rangements for a meeting.
Catholic bishops, under the leader
ship of Arch bishop Faulhaber, of the
diocese of Wuerzburg, have protested
formally against the separation of the
Church and State and the abolition of
religious ght Of the schools. The
protest terms this move as "a one
sided breach of the right of the Church
and a panicky measure of force by the
temporary government against which
the people must guard, as it threatens
the future"
BERLIN, Friday, Dec. 2O via Co.
the German revolution was financed
from Russia is agitating political cir
cles, the imputation being that the In
dependent Socialists received large
sums from Russian sources.
Joffe Tells of Funds
Contributing to this discussion, some
of the Socialist newspapers have print
ed what purported to be wireless dis
patch from Adolph Joffe, former Boil
shevik representative in Berlin. to
Richard Barth and Hugo Haase, of the
German ultra-radical faction, to the
effect that while Joffe has not paid the
German interests anything directly
they were we'll aware whence the mon
ey had come. Joffe further declared
that Oscar Cohen, German Under Sec
retary of Justice, had control of 10,-
100000 rubles for the furtherance of
the German revolution and that alto
gether 24,0OO,O00 marks had been
placed at the disposal of the German
revolutionists by Russia.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Heavy Indemnities
A Stumbling Block
Italy's Dream of Inclosed
Adriatic Looms Again;
OpposingJugoslav State
By Frederick Moore
Near York Tribune
SnecinL CnhLe .Ser,,ice

SpectdJ Cdbte SerUtce
Copyright. 1918. New York Tribune Inc
PARIS, Dec. 21-During the past
week Paris dispatches have recorded
receptions and acclamations to Presi-
dent Wilson which have been truly re-
markable, causing at least one member
of the American Peace Commission to
exclaim: at is evident that President
Wilson has the people with him.
But this commissioner may have
been somewhat intoxicated with popu-
larity, for he rode three successive
days through long lines of biue-coated
French warriors, behind whose ranks
French crowds, densely packed, raised
wave of cheers that swept along with
the carriages from the beginning to
the end of their route
The observation of another Ameri-
can, who is an equally able judge, be-
ing editor of one od the most infiuen-
tial and reliable weeklies in the United
States-a man who stood in the crowds
is equally worth quoting. He said
that the French populace undoubtedly
regarded Mr. Wilson as a statesman of
a peculiarly superior character, rarely
known among them, but that this did
not necessarily mean that the French
oeople would accept from him propos-
ais of lenient treatment for Germany
Await Concrete Offer
From President Wilson
That gives an indication of the ques-
tion absorbing the diplomats of forty
nations now assembled at Paris;
namely: Is Mr. Wilson ready to offer
a concrete. practical and acceptable
application of his world-renowned gen
eral principles? For the time of gen
eralities is past, and the tine for ap-
plication has come. The programme of
toasts and compliments is finished and
the labor of the conference is at hand.
Dress clothes are now discarded and
overalls put on for the stern business
which Henry White called appalling.
A Europe afflicted with disorgani-
zation hitherto unknown is waiting
upon single American philosopher
who hitherto has taken an objective
view of this continent and now finds
himself amidst its chaos, faced by sew
eral scores of statesmen representing
many different and some conflicting
interests. All of them are trained in
statecraft, having accumulated knowl-
edge at first hand throughout period
of years, while the President acquired
his knowledge in Washington since, in
effect, taking over the Office of Secre-
tary of State from William J. Bryan.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

Senate in Democracy
Entitled to Present Vie,us
eve have had already some impor-
tant, able and illuminating debates
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-16

-WOman's Home Companion.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-16
ESTHER AND ALDEN
GAUSEPOHL

Mamma had gone to the city and
left Esther and Alden in care of
their grandma
Before going mamma had said to
Esther: Don't let Alden get into
mischief and help grandma keep
house."
81 will do the best can" said
Esther.
But no sooner had mother gone
than Alden stopped blowing his
trumpet, and said to Esther, IL
know where there is some grape
jelly"
well, Alden, SO do l." said
Esther.
Cant we have taste of it,"
said Alden. Nobody will know it"
eyes, God will see us" said
Esther, land all hidden things will
, be found out sooner or later"
Il helped pick the grapes and !
am going to climb up and get
some"
So Esther ran out in the dining
room where her grandma was
washing dishes and told her all
about it. Just as they came in, AL.
den had taken two big spoonfuls of
the jelly. Grandma said to let him
alone and let him eat as much as
he wanted. She didn't have to tell
Alden to eat more for he ate and
ate until he could eat no more
When his mother came home,
she found him In great pain.
What has he been doing?" she
said.
Grandma said he just ate glass
of grape jelly.
did he take that in the blue
jar?" asked mother.
EYES," said grandma.
"Why that is a mixture of SIENNA
and jelly" said his mother. mo
wonder the child is sick. l hope
this will teach him q lesson not to
NEEDLE with things"
Mamma was right. He was new
er known to NEEDLE with mammals
things after that. When he want
ed anything. he would always ask
for 1t like good boy. He would
never touch it without first asking
leave. Dorothy Johnson. age II.
White school, 7th year.
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His Tuneful Message

Included among the passengers
on board a ship crossing the Allan
tic recently was a man who slut
tered. One day he went up to the
captain of the ship to speak to
him.
"S-s-s-s-s-s-s." suffered the man.
oh, l can't be bothered" said the
captain angrily. Go to somebody
else"
The man tried to speak to every
body on board the ship, but none
could wait to hear what he had
to say. At last he came to the cap
tain again.
Look here" said the captain. 81
can tell you what to do when you
want to say anything; you should
sing it." Then suddenly in a tragic
voice, the man commenced:
Should auld acquaintance be
forgot and never brought to mind!
The blooming cooks fell overheard.
and is twenty miles behind
London Tit-bits.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-16
French Believe Fall of
Statue Brought Victory

People of Albert, France. are
convinced that their prophecy has
been fulfilled that when the fam
Gus statue of the Madonna at AL
bert fell, the war would end in a
victory for France and her allies.
The quaint conceit grew out of the
fact that the statue was dislodged
by German shell fire rom its
perch on the tower of the church
at Albert during the first mad
rush of the Huns through France
in 1914. The base of the statue
was so shattered that it hung over
the main road from Amiens to Ba-
paume which passed the walls of
the church.
The statue remained in that
strange poise after the Huns had
been rolled back by the battle of
the Marine. An effort was made
to brace the statue in it's recum-
bent position so that it could not
fall until the tower itself gave
way.
When the British line was driv-
en- back in March last the Huns
again entered Albert and when the
Germans retired at the beginning
of the allied offensive the tower
with its statue had fallen. This.
curiously. marked the high tide of
German invasion. From that day
on the Hun hordes were pressed
back. The people of Albert be-
lieve the luck of the Germans de-
serted them when the Virgin Of
Albert fell. ..-. "a
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-16
From Indiana to France

A woman. who was war CORE
spondent in France was riding in
the country districts of France one
beautiful Sunday afternoon, when
the following incident took place
which shows how the little boys
and girls of France enjoy the sto-
ries that the little children of our
own country nave loved for long
time.
A curve in the road, a sharp re-
port, followed by the hiss of es-
Gaping air. and our machine slides
to the edge of the grassy bank for
repairs.
Directly opposite, nesting among
the wheat heads. is the grave Of a
soldier. buried where he fell on the
march under the bullet of sharp
shooter. launched against its low
protecting fence is a shepherd lad,
who peers at US gravely from I'M
der the peaked hood Of his black
cape. His sole charge is a very
small, very white, very frisky lamb,
which at my approach scampers
away. Torn between his sense Of
duty and his desire to watch the
repairing of the car. the small shep-
herd hurls voluble reproaches at
the animal. One of his eloquent
gestures filings aside the cape, but
instantly he RECEIVERS the tapping
cloth and draws it jealousy over
the book in his lap.
Immediately am consumed with
curiosity os to the box selected for
Sunday reading by this intelligent
looking French boy. Very politely
he hands over his treasure, and
behold. it is a scrapbook filed with
gay pictures of "Goldilocks and the
Three Bears" and on the last page
this inscription had been written:
ITO some little French child.
from the mother of three American
children-William, Janet, and Ray
l., of G., Indiana"
-WOman's Home Communion.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-16
The Empty House

Not far from the end of our gar
den there was house. The folks
had left it and gone away. 1t was
a nice, pleasant house and my sis
ter Jane and I would stop now and
then on our way from picking ber-
ries and look at it. There was a
summer house that belonged to this
house. One day we heard cry
from the summer house as if some
one were in pain. We got some old
steps and climbed up and looked in.
For some time we could see moth
ing, but we heard the same cry,
faint and low. Then we climbed in
through the window. Jane got in
first and jumped in after her.
We hunted about ard soon in a
corner we found a poor old cat
with two nice kittens. She had
been shut up there and could not
get out She must have lived there
a week without food. and kept her
two kittens alive in some way, I
do not know how. Perhaps she
found a few nice bugs to eat. The
cat was so glad to see us that she
began to purr Jane ran home and
soon came back with some milk in
a small tin pail. You should have
seen that poor cat lap the milk.
But she was wise enough not to
take too much at a time. AS we
wanted some good cats. we took
all three home and they grew to
be the best cats we ever had.-Cor-
tesla Johnson. age 10 years. White
school, fifth grade.
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Children of France
Mast Be Saped

France hasn't any children to
waste. The children that are left
must all be saved to be good child
rem. They are needed to build
up France again. And there are
no women to waste, either. They
are needed, every one, to work In
the reconstruction that is coming"
So says Jaqueline Bertillion. the
niece of the famous Alphonse Ber-
tillion. originator OF the famous
Bertillion system of identifying
criminals.
That is the work for Which Mad
emoiselle Bertillion. at q already
a graduate of the Lycee Racine.
with lawyers degree from the
Faculty of Law, at Paris, and a
year of actual pleading in the Pal
ais de Justice, has come to Amer
lea to prepare herself for.