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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-10
Warns SOI0nS'
Of Danger in
League Fight

WASHINGTON, July lO.-Presdent Wilson today laid the
treaty with Germany before the senate without aepe
explain its specific terms His address, which required 10 min
delivery devoted almost wholly to the league Oh
nations American isolation the president sad ended ~ years
ago the close of the with Spain Fear OF American mo
tves also had ended, he declared
There be question of our ceasing to DC worlo
power" said Mr. Wilson THE only question is wnetner we
can refuse leadership that offered U.S. wneher we
shall accept or reject the confidence of the world
The war and the peace conference in his opinion the pes
dent said already answered that question: and nothing OUT
our mistaken action alter it,
After the end of the great the president said every
enlightened judgment demanded that at whatever cost OF ~
dnendent action every that took thought tor M
people or for utce for ordered freedom should eno s
Ito new purpose utterly destroy the old order OF na
tional politics. ,,,. ..; -
pose the president continued but the people could see none
and could brook denial The league of nations ne ADDED was
mot merely adjust and remedy old wrongs w
der new treaty peace it the only hope OF mankind
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-10
GREAT D|R|G|BLE
WELL OUT TO SEA
AND FLYING FAST
R-34's Radio Messages Tell
Of Speedy Progress Being
Made Upon Return Flight
Across Atlantic.

HALIFAX, n. s., July 10--A mes
sage from the R-34 received at the naval
station here at 1l:12 a. M, gave the
position Of the dirigiblo as latitude II
degrees 10 minutes north, 81 degrees
80 minutes west, q point 2l5 miles due
south OF here.
The R-34 was reported by the Bar
rington wireless station as within
range at II o'clock Halifax time, 10
o'clock New York time. harrington
Is 1T miles southwest Of here.
WASHINGTON, July 1O.-The British
dirigible R-34 was Si5 miles due east
OF New York at 7l0 a. m, Washington
time, according to a radio message to
the navy department. The message
said.
"R-Sa position at 11:io @. NJ r. lati-
tude 4O:15 north; longitude $3.50 west" ="
4 later massage placed the RIA, $50
York, Mt 1913 a. M. "making good So
Knots"
NEW YORK, July 1O.--The British
rigid dIrigible R-3i today Is well on her
way, toward home. Taking the air Mt
field. Mineola, L, l., the big drgible
passed over New York city. circled over
the Times building. tower at 12;45, re-
naming in sight Of dense Broadway
crowd for five minutes before head
ing south over lower Manhattan and
disappeared in an easterly direction at
1!l6 a. m.
For more than an hour the naval
communications office sent wireless re-
ports OF weather conditions at sea to
the R-34, and the wireless stations
at Mineola flying field were In oom-
municatlon with her until nearly a.
m, when the R-S4 " do operator re-
duested that furthe( weather reports
be b s,,s sent n, fro from the Harbor' Me-
The R-st left Roosevelt field shortly
before midnight The great ship. held In
leash by 1000 American balloon men,
was released at l;55 o'clock, and float
ed leisurely up TO a height OF 200 feet
with otors silent The motors then
CONTINUED on Page l6. Column 50
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-10
DAIRY DRIVERS TO
RETURN TO DUTIES
President of Union Says Set
tlement Made With Clover
Farm Dairy.

The strike OF the drivers Of the Glover
Farm dairy has terminated. All the
union drivers who have been on q
strike and other dairy workers included
In the union and strike will return to
their work Friday morning. W. A; Aus,
tin president of the milk drivers local
union, said Just before noon Thursday,
''The members OF the milk drivers
organization," said Austin, will return
to work upon the understanding that
the union as at present constituted is
TO be recognized and all other matters
of difference are TO be adjusted by
committees appointed by the union and
the dairy company.
SThe two men under charges. L. e.
Willis and w. H. Pace. viii be taken
back pending the court proceedings,
the company reserving the right, If
their guilt should be established, to take
a different course as to them.
Mr., Austin credits Arch Schwalh and
Putnam Dye, of the Trades and Labor
council, with having had a great deal
to do with settling the strike. Dye
helped to bring representatives or the
union and the dairy company together.
Twenty six milk routes, upon which
were about 1000 customers. were af-
fected by the strike. Twenty.six driv.
ers. with several route supervisors and
hostlers also went out.
Upon application of the Clover Farm
Dairy company late WEDNESDAY Chan-
cellor Peres. of the Second chancery
court, granted an injunction restraining
the Milk Drivers union, No. 564, or any
OF its members from interfering with
the delivery OF milk by the petitioner
company or in any way intlmidating
the drivers OF the concern.
The bill runs against the Milk Driv
ers' union, w. A. Austin, president c.
Fl Thomas, vice president; W. II. Pace,
i, r.. Willis. Steve Hefley, ]. w.
Holmes, F. L. Lambert and w. V. Aus
II is set out in the biz that early in
.Iulv the union conspired to strike and
made demands that were unreasonable
and unfair that the drivers then struck,
hut the Trades and Labor council. 30 the
hill relates. condemned the strike as
Illegal.
TUESDAY, Il sets forth. the climax
was reached when a nonunion driver
for the company was assaulted after
having taken refuge in the home OF Mrs
T. w. Baker. on Harbert avenue.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-10

cumstances which could not be over
looked, The war had created them, In
all quarters of the world old estab-
lished relationships had been disturbed
or broken and affairs were at loose
ends, needing TO be mended or united
again, but could not be made what they
were before. They had to be set right,
by applying some uniform principle Of
justice or enlightened expediency. And
they could not be adjusted by merely
prescribing in a treaty what should be
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-10
SHOOTS NEGRESS,

George Bills, negro. Thursday shot
and killed Rosa Simmons. negro wo-
man. with q shotgun. according 70 a
report reaching Sheriff Perry's office.
The shooting took place near the Horn
lake road and the Y. & NJ. V, road. No
information as the cause of the shoot
ing could be ascertained. although II
was rumored that Bills made the claim
that ne thought the woman was burg
lar.
and IT Is believed he has headed for
that place
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-10

Tennessee Thunderstorrns. Friday
fair, moderate temperature.
Mississippi--Local showers probable.
not much change in temperature.
Arkansas Generally fair.
Alabama Local showers probable
not much change in temperature.
Kentucky, Oklahoma, East and West
Texas--Generall fair
North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida---Local showers probable,
not much change in Temperatures
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-10
IRRELEVANT NOMINATED
BY PRESIDENT WILSON

WASHINGTON. July 10.--Presdent
Wilson today made the following NOM
nations:
United states Attorneys--Lee Doug
lass, OF Nashville, Middle Tennessee:
w. V. Gregory, Of Mayfield, Western
Kentucky.
United States Marshals--John Hugh
Kirkpatrick, Of Shreveport, Western
louisiana; Stanley II. Trezevant, Of
Memphis, Western Tennessee
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-10

fear that its bonds were never to be
loosed, its hopes forever to be Knocked
and disappointed.
"And the compulsion Of what they
stood for was upon us who represented
America at the peace table. 1t was our
duty to see to II that every decision
we took part in contributed, so far as
We were able to influence il. to quiet
the fears and realize the hopes Of the
people who had been living in that
our assistance to their freedom 1t
was our duty to do everything that 1t
was within our power TO do TO make
the triumph Of freedom and Of right
lasting triumph in the assurance OF
which men might everywhere live with
out fear.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
Germans Send Neau
Notes to Big Four
Deal With Labor and
Teuton Property in
Allied Coun nitric

PARIS, May 23 (By The Associ-
ated Press ).-The German peace pleni-
potentiaries this morning handed in
two new notes to the secretariat of
the peace conference. They had to do
with the subjects of internal lerisla.
ton regarding labor and German nron-
critics in Allied countries. The send
ing of the two notes is taken as an in
dlcatlon that the absence of Count Won
brockdorf- Rantzau and his colleagues
at Spa will not interfere with the
progress of the peace negotiations. the
remaining delegates proceeding with
their work as usual!
The German delegates who are at
Spa will divide into two groups. One
group, headed by Count Won Brockdorfr
Rantzau, will return to Versailles to-
morrow, while the other will remain
at Spa for a few days
Reports were in circulation in peace
conference circles Thursday that Count
Won Brockdorff- Rantzau was not salts
fled with the delay Of one week granted
the German delegation in which to
make its answer to the peace treaty
and that he had asked for an addi-
tlonal week. 1t was said officially TO-
day, however, that the Germans had
not asked for any further delay.
The council of foreign ministers had
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
Berlin Leaders
Framing Reply
Scheidemann, Dernburg.
BernstOrff and Erz-
berger Nofu in SPA

LONDON, May 23. -- Chancellor
Scheidemann, DR.. Bernhard Dernburp
Count Won Bernstorff and Matthias Err
berger left Berlin for Spa on Thursday
to meet Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau
and decide upon the final wording of
the counter proposals to be presented
by the Germans at Versailles, saws a
Berlin dispatch received here this
morning.
1t was announced that the meeting
at Spa was necessary because COM
munication between Berlin and Yer
sailles had become difficult for techni-
cal reasons.
Moreover, it was added the German
government was determined to en-
Tighten the German people Mt the earli
est possible moment concerning the
counter proposals and the prospccts
for peace.
BERLIN, May % (By The Associated
Press).-The unexpected departure of
Chancellor Scheidemann, Count Won
Bernstorf. DR.. Bernhard Dernburr and
DR.. Bell, the Colonial Minister, for Spa
started resumption of rumors Of n
Cabinet crisis. Reports Of dissensions
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
Must Develop Her
Agriculture Elsewhere

by the putting into force of the
territorial clauses of the treaty Of
peace Germany would lose, to the
east, the most important regions for
the production of corn and potatoes.
which would be equivalent to the loss
of Il per cent Of the total crop Of
those articles of food. Moreover, the
intensity of our agricultural produc-
ton would diminish considerably. On
1.-The one hand, the importation of GER
tain raw material indispensable for
the production Of manure, such as
phosphates, would be hindered; on
the other hand, this industry would
suffer like all other industries from
lack Of coal. The treaty of peace pro-
vides for the loss of almost a third Of
the production of our coal mines.
Apart from this decrease, we are
forced for ten years to deliver enor-
NOUS consignments of coal to various
Allied countries Moreover, in con-
formity with the treaty, Germany
will concede to her neighbors nearly
thrce-quarters of her mineral pro-
duction and more than three-fft of
her zinc product.
After this diminution of her prod
ucts, after the economic depression
caused by the loss of her colonies.
of her merchant feet and of her pos
sessions abroad, Germany would not
be in state to import from abroad
a sufficient quantity Of raw material.
An enormous part of German indus
try would, therefore, inevitably be
condemned to destruction. At the
same time the necessity Of import
ing foodstuffs would increase consid-
erably, while the possibility of sat
'sfying that demand would dimin-
lsh in the same proportion.
"At the end of very short tins
Germany would, therefore, not be in
position to give bread and work to
her numerous millions of inhabitants,
who would be reduced to earning
their livelihood by navigation and by
trade. Those persons would have to
emigrate; but that is a material i'm
possibility, oil the moro so because
many countries, and the most inn
por.ant ones, will oppose any Ger
man Immigration. Moreover, hun
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
Paris Press Predicts
Germans VIII Giue In

PARIS, May Newspapers here
believe the absence of Count Won
Brockdorff Rantzau and other members
of the German delegation, who de-
parted yesterday for Spa, will be short.
Some regard the departure of the Ger
mans as a means for utilizing the de-
lay In the peace negotiations granted
by the peace conference on Wednesday.
1t is believed the delegation will con-
fer at Spa preparatory to making a
serious decision.
The Echo de Paris" believes the
German leaders have taken stand
against signing the treaty. but that
public opinion in Germany lis against
them and they will retreat and reach
a position which will make an agree
ment with the Allies more possible
All the newspapers consider that the
departure of the chief of the German
peace mission does not indicate a break
between the Allies and the Germans.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
Morgenthau Urges
Blanket Mandate

PARIS, May 90 (By The Associated
Press s).-Henry Morgenthau, former
American Ambassador to Turkey, has
submitted memorandum to President
Wilson concerning the proposal that
the United States should become man
datory for Constantnople. 1t is under
stood he favors the Inclusion of Con-
stantinople, Amatola and Armenia
under one mandate, as being advantage
Gus for administrative purposes by
combining a large section Of Northern
Asia Minor under one central admin
istration.
The question of mandates for vari-
Gus parts of Turkey is before the
council of four and has not been fin
ally settled. British and French senti.
ment is favorable to the United States
taking the mandate for Constantinople,
and similar movement is apparently
gaining ground in the American dele
cation, but it is stated authoritatively
that acceptance must be conditioned on
the submission of the question to Con-
greSs.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
S0uiet's Spokesman
Likes Kings fiction
!Sdnteri Nuorteua Says II viii
Gire Boisherik Reprcsenta
tires Chance 20 .Sfnfe Cn.a

Santeri Nuorteva, official spokesman
Of the Russian Soviet Bureau, headed
by l.. c. A. X. Martens. commenting
yesterday on the fact that Senator
King, Of Utah, had introduced reso.
luton in the Senate calling for the de-
portation of Martens and his asso.
ciates, said that his bareau welcomed
such a resolution as an opportunity to
state its side of the case.
He denied the charge that the bureau
had been conducting Bolsheyk props
ganda. and said that Senator King sp.
parently was not familiar with cond.
tions in Russia, since he suggests the
recognition of the Omsk government
where Nuorteva says there is more
anarchy than in any other part of Rus.
sia.
Of any one" declared Nuorteva, 9is
to be called usurper among the ele-'
ments in Russia striving for power, Il
is Admiral Kolchak, who by force alone
without any voluntary support Of the
Russian people, and only supported by
foreign interests. is maintaining I'm
self in Russia. There is more anarchy
and despotism in Kolchak's Russia than
in any other part of Chat country. The
recognition by America of Kolchas
would be paramount to a denial to Rus.
sia of every principle of popular rule"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
Fears Big Loss
Among Population

"The putting into execution of the
conditions Of peace would, there
tore, logically bring about the loss
of several millions of persons in
Germany. THIS catastrophe would
not be long in coming about, see
ing that the health of the population
has been broken down during the
war by the blockade, and during tho
armlstice by the aggravation of the
blockade of farline. No help, how
ever important, or over however long
a period it might be distributed
would prevent these deaths en- masse.
Peace would impose on Germany
numberless human sacrifices that
this war of four years and half
did not demand Of her pride G,75o.
goo killed, nearly one million dead.
victims of the blockade).
We do not know, and indeed we
doubt, whether the delegates of the
Allied and associated powers rcalize
the inevitable consequences which
Will take place in Germany. An
industrial state, thickly populated.
closely bound up with the economic
system of the world, and reduced to
the obligation to import enormous
quantities Of raw material and food
stuf1s, denly--tinds herself pushed
back IN the phase of her develop
ment which would correspond to her
economic conditions and the numbers
Of her population as they were half
century ago. Those who will sign
this treaty will sign the death SEN
tence of many millions of German
men, women and children"
81 thought it my duty, before enter
ing upon discussion of other de-
tails of tho treaty, to bring to the
knowledge Of the Allied and asso-
ciated delegations this summary ex-
poe of the problem of the German
population.
81 have at the disposal Of your
excellency statistical proofs of the
above statesments.
~ have the honor, etc.
"BROCKDORFF- -RANTZAU."
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24


Soviet Republic
the Allied
400 miles south,
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forces on their respective fronts, o
l. Advance of Esthonian fromh
five miles from the old capital
Allied offensive leaning
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The offensive of the Siberian Ko,cbat
recently declared that he would
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New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
Sees No Danger of
Disablement Forever

But they are entirely fallacious.
There is not the slightest reason to
believe that population is destined
to be permanently disabled because
it will be called upon in future to
trade across its frontiers instead of
producing what it requires from
within. A country can both become
and can continue to be a great man
ufacturlng country without produc-
ing the raw materials of its main
industries Such is the case, for
instance, with Great Britain, which
imports at least one-half of her food
supplies and the great prepondsr-
ance Of her raw materials from
abroad There is no reason what
ever why Germany, under the new
conditions, should not build up for
herself position both of stability
and prosperity in the European
world Her territories have suffered
less than those Of any other Con-
tinental beligerent state during the
war Indeed, SO far as pillage or
devastation is concerned, they have
not suffered at all. Their remaining
snd untouched resources, supple
mented by the volume of import
trade, should be adequate for re-
covery and development.
The German reply also ignores the
immense relief that will be caused
to her people in the struggle for re-
covery by the enforced reduction of
her military armaments in future.
Hundreds of Thousands Of her inhabi-
tants who have hitherto been en-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
Each British Dominion
A Nation, Says Borden

LONDON, May 15 (delayed). The
peace conference acknowledged the
status of the British dominions as
self-governing nations within the Brit
ish commonwealth, as it had been
acknowledged upon the battlefield and
by the British government, Sir Robert
Borden, the Canadian Premier de-
clared in a speech to-day at West
minister at a luncheon of the Empire
Parliamentary Association. If the new
world of nations, the foundation of
whose constitution had been we'll. laid
in the treaty of peace, Sir Robert
added, could be equally effective and
powerful as this new conception of the
Pritish Empire and should give like
service to humanity in the hour of
need, there was no necessity for any
fear for the future of the world.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24

IN the Cabinet have been most promi-
nent during the last few days.
Inc Cabinet had an animated sos
sion to-day which resulted in Schede-
mann and the others leaving Berlin.
1t was denied in official circles that
the hurried trip to spa had anv other
significance than a desire to get in
closer communication with Count Won
Brockdorff- Rantzau.
Herr Schwartz, the Saxon Minister
of Agriculture, has returned to Dres-
den from Versailles because he no
longer is connected with the German
peace delegation The minister saws
sickness caused his withdrawal. but it
is assumed here that a letter he wrote
to the "Volkszcitung" of Dresden
Sharply crltlcisng the peace deIeea-
ton really was responsible.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
BrOckdorf Note
Protesting Terms

The note from Count Won Brockdorff-
RantZau, dated at Versailles, May 13,
reads as follows:
Mr.. Presidents: In conformity
with my communication of the 9th
instant, | have the honor to present
to your eXcellency the following re-
port Of the economic commission
charged with the study of the effect
of the conditions Of peace on the
situation of the German population:
"In the course of the last two gen
erations Germany has become trans
formed from an agricultural state
to an industrial state. As long as
she was an agricultural state Ger
many could feed 4O,000,O00 inhabi-
tants. In her quality Of an indus
trial state she could insure the nour-
ishment of a population of 67,00O,-
600. In 1913 the importation of
foodstuffs amounted, in round fig
ures, to 100000 tons. Before the
war a total of 10000, 900 of persons
provided for their existence in Ger
many by foreign trade and by navi-
cation, either in a direct or an indi-
rect manner, by the use of foreign
raw material.
According to the conditions of the
treaty of peace, Germany will sur
render her merchant tonnage and
ships in course Of construction suit
able for overseas trade. German
shipbuilding yards will build for five
years in the first instance tonnage
destined for the Allied and associated
governments Germany will, more
over renounce her colonies, all her
overseas possessions, all her inter
ests and securities in the Allied and
associated countries and in their
colonies, dominions and protector
ates; will, as an instalment of the
payment for part Of the reparation.
be subject to liquidation and NAV be
exposed to any other economic war
measure which the Allied and asso-
clated powers think fit to maintain
or to take during the years of peace.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-24
Ridicules Cry Over
Loss of Phosphates

Stress is laid upon the proposed
restrictions of the import of phos-
phatas. 1t Is, however, forgotten that
Germany has never produced but
has always imported the phosphates
of which she stands in need. Nor is
there anything in the terms of peace
which Will prevent or hinder the i'm
portatop of phosphates into Ger
many in the future. Other countries
which do not produce phosphates
are also compelled to import them
in common with many other products
from the outside; and the only dif-
ference in the two situations will
arise from the relative degree of
wealth or impoverishment in the
countries concerned
The German note makes special
complaint of the deprivation of coal
and asserts that nearly one-third of
the production of the existing coal
mines will be lost Bnt it omits to
notice that one-fourth of the pre-war
consumption of German coal was in
the territories which it is now pro-
posed TO transfer Further it fails
to take into account the production
before the war, and none Of which
were produced annually in Germany
before the war, and none of which
is derived from the transferred ter
ritory- Neither is any reference
made to the fact that the ortuut
Of coal In the non- transf erred dis
tricts was rapidly increasing before
the war, and that there is no reason
to doubt that under proper man
agxment there viii be a continuing
increase in the future
But should not the coal situation
be viewed from a different and wider
stAnfpolnt? 1t cannot be forgotten
that among tho most wanton acts
perpetrated by the German armies
during the war was the almost corn-
piete destruction by her of the coal
supplies Of Northern France.
An entire industry was obliterated
with q calculation and 4 savagery
which it viii take many years to re-
pair Ths result has been Il grave
and prolonged shortage of coal in
"estern Europe There can be no
reason IN equity why the effect Of
tn1s shortage should be borne ex-
einnvely by the Allied nations who