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The sun., 1919-02-19
Government Convinced De-
lay Would Lead to Adj
vance of Allies.
INDUSTRIES IN PERIL
Alarm Over Moral Collapse
of People Also Hastened
Action.
ARMY PARTY PROTESTS
100000 Limit to Force Is Bit
terly Rescnted-Wrath
Falls on Erzberger.
By TIE Associated Press.


BERLIN. Feb. II (delsye0 The Ger
man Governments reasons for accept
ing the stringent terms for the renewal
OF the armistice as outlined in
Weimar despatch to the Norddeutsche
AIoemeine Zeituno is that renewal
Of military operations following re
fusal to sign would lead to the COM
plete moral collapse OF the German
people.
The absolute conviction prevailed
that refusal to sign or dlatory treat
ment of the proposals would meet with
an immediate advance OF the allied
armies beyond the Rhine and the occu-
patton Of the most important and in
dispensable industrial districts Of
West Germany.
No Alternative but to Sign.
The representatives of the parties who
participated in the Cabinet deliberations
agreed unanimously that the people as q
whole would neither understand nor ap-
prove such an outcome, and that there
fore there was no alternative except to
sign under protest.
The Berlin papers generally come to
the same conclusion, except the Conser
vative organs, such as the krens Zcttiii0
and the AHoemeine Zsitung, which de-
clare that the Government should have
refused to sign the terms, thus forcing
the Allies to take the responsibility for .
renewal Of military operations.
The sun., 1919-02-19
SIGNS NEW TRUCE AS AL TERNA TIVE;
JUNKERS AT LAST REALIZE DEFEAT T
Germany Surrenders
$4,000 Guns to Britain

LONDON, Feb. I8.--On behalf
of the Government it has been
announced in the House of Com
mons, iu answer to q question,
that the following equipment of
the German armies had been sur
rendered to the British up to
February 9:
Heavy guns, $500; field guns,
$500; machine guns, $4,000;
trench mortars, 5000; airplanes,
1,70O; locomotives, 4,065; motor
trucks, 1920.
Up to February IA the Ger
mans had surrendered to the
British 126,S26 freight cars.
The sun., 1919-02-19
GLASS.0FFERS
BIG NOTE ISSUE
SUBSTITUTE
Drops Demand for Sweep
ing Power in New
Loan.
FOUR CLASSES PLANNED
All Would Be for Short
Terms and Some Free
of Tax.
SCHEME WINS APPROVAL
Ways and Means Committee
Expected to Accept 7,000,-
100000 Project.
SCHEME WINS APPROVAL
New Plan to Finance
Government in Detail

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-The
new plan for financing the
Government offered by Secretary
Glass contemplates the issuance
at the discretion oS the Secretary
of the Treasury of notes subject
to any or all of the following
conditions:
Notes the income of which is
entirely free Of Federal taxation.
Notes the interest on which
would be subject to both the in
come tax and the war excess
profits taxes.
Notes the income from which
would be subject to the income
surtaxes and to the war excess
profits taxes.
Notes with $4,000 to each
purchaser exempt from all Fed
eral taxes but with the income
from notes held in excess of $780,
900 subject to the income sur
taxes and the war excess profits
taxes.
The sun., 1919-02-19
"Sun" Fund Smokes
Bring Dreams of Home

"SoME day when you see a
tall, skinny soldier boy
beating it toward Flatbush you
can just think of the pleasure
you gave him when he was in
Rimaucourt, France. The cigar
cites which the courtesy of THE
SUN made possible gave US
dreams of the day when we shall
come sailing home to Little or
New York. >" Sergeant Douglas
f. Prendergast was in Base
Hospital SO in France when he
had this dream.
The American soldier, in and
out of action, wounded, con-
valescent and on the way home,
has only praise for the smoke
fund.
WARNING! THE SUN To-
BACCO FUND has no connection
with any other fund, organiza-
ton or publication. 1t employs
no agents or solicitors.
The sun., 1919-02-19
LEAGUE OPENS BALTIC SEA.
Makes Waters Free II Northern
Nations Join. Says "Times."

LONDON, Feb. lS.-Referring to the
League OF Nations covenant, the Times,
in an editorial, emphasizes the salts
faction IL gives to contentious of the
British navy during the war regarding
neutral countries bordering on enemy
nations, The provision regarding pas
sage over the territory Of a member OF
the league, the newspaper says, makes
the Baltic an open sea II Sweden and
Denmark join the league.
The right claimed by the league to
cut on communication between GRIM
inal Power and any countries. whether
members of the league or not" the edi-
torial continues, lin effect aboiishes
neutrality in war like the one just
passed and reenforces the disciplinar ~
strength OF sea power in future war"
The sun., 1919-02-19
GERMAN MINISTER
TO RETAIN HIS POST
Count Don Brockdorff-Ront.
Eau Changes His Mind.

CorENTIAGEN. Feb, lS.--Count Won
Brookdorff Rantzau has decided to re-
tain his portfolio as Secretary for For
eign Affairs. the Weimar correspondent
OF the PoIuiken wires. He reached this
ecision, II is stated. because the Gov
ernnrent and the other parties. including
the Independents Socialists, had expressed
confidence in him.
PARIS, Feb. 1S-A Berlin despatch
says Count Won Brockdorfr- Rantzau with
drew his resignation as German Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs only on the
condition that the Armistice Commission
should be under the authority OF the
Ministry OF Foreign Affairs.
Dispatches from German sources re-
ceved on Monday stated that Count
Won Brockdorff- IantZau had announced
he would resign II Germany's conditions
in reference to a renewal of the armi-
stice -wetp~ re jettcd and that he dit-rss
sign when the armistice was signed.
The Cabinet. however, II was added had
requested him 10 remain in office.
The sun., 1919-02-19
REFERENDUM IN ID
STATES, VETS PLAN
Liquor Men Believe Thirteen
VIII Reject Prohibition.

CINCINNATI. Feb, IS. - Referendum
elections will be sought in fourteen
States OF the Union on the Federal pro-
hibition amendment. according to an an q.
nouncement made by the National As
ISOLATION OF Distillers and Wholesale
Liquor Dealers here to-day. The States
are: Arkansas. California. Colorado,
Idaho, Maine. Michigan. Missouri, Ne
braska. Nevada, New Mexico. Ohio. Ore
gon, Utah and Washington.
Leading distillers here say they be-
lieve at least thirteen of these fourteen
States will reject the amendment and
thus defeat national prohibition.
LITTLE Rock, Ark. Feb. 1S.rAccord-
ing to an opinion OF the Arkansas Attor-
ney-Genersls ONCE a proposed amend
ment to the Federal Constitution cannot
be submitted to a referendum because
tho Federal Constitution specifically pro-
yides that proposed amendments shall
be ratified or rejected by the Legisla-
lures OF the States.
Statewide prohibition was defeated b.,
a vote OF the people In 1914. The 1915
Legislature passed a Statewide prohlbi-
ton bill. In 1915 the repeal OF this law
was put up to the people and the vote
was against repeating the measure.
The sun., 1919-02-19
GERMANS VOTED TO
REJECT ARMISTICE
Cabinet Favored Showdown,
but Party Leaders Vetoed 1t.

WrIMAR. Feb. l. tLe.aNcIl TIC
German Cabinet voted early SUNDAY
morning to reject the allied terms 20,
the renewal OF the armistice and take
the chances OF an allied military AL.
vance being ordered. After consultation
with the party leaders, however. IN,
DECISION was changed, ami On SunGn!
The sun., 1919-02-19
REDS SHOOT ELEVEN BISHOPS.
Hostages Held to Protect Trotxky
in Pensa.
Special Ca5ie Despotch 10 The SrS from he
London Times Service

Special Ca6ie Despatch 10 The SuS from the
London Times Service
Copyright. 1919; all rights reserved.
HELsINoroRs, Feb. 1s.-Omcial Boil
shevist statement says that by orders of
different extraordinary commissions dur
ing the month of January eleven arch
bishops OF the Orthodox Church were
shot, including the Patriarch Vladimir,
Metropolitan OF Kiev.
Another official declaration admits
that In Pensa on February 10 the local
Soviet. while awaiting the arrival o:
Leon Trotzky. Minister OF War. to in
spect the Red troops, arrested 200 men
and women of the bourgeolsie as host
ages to be shot in the event OF any at
tempt being made on the life Of Trotzky.
The sun., 1919-02-19
sovtets Call Conference.

BERLIN. Feb. II (delayed), - This
trouble In the Ruhr industrial dis effet
is due primarily TO the action OF the
General In command of the seventh
Army Corps in dissolvlng the Corps
Soldiers Council at Muenster because of
the councils anti-Ciovernment attitude.
The Ruhr district Sovicts called a GEN.
trail conference, at which 1t was de-
cided to demand the reinstatement Of
the Muenster council in all its rights,
the removal of the commander, Gen.
Won Watten, and his officers and their
trial and punishment by a court to be
established by the district Soviets,
The immediate withdrawal OF all Gov
errment troops in the district is also
demanded. The conference named a
committee to prepare defensive meas
ures In the district and has retained as
hostages two officers who attended the
conference as representatives OF Gen.
Won Watten.
The councils In the Ruhr district are
virtually all in control OF the Spar;acans.
or the Radical Independent Socialists.
The sun., 1919-02-19
STRIKE TIES UP BARCELONA,
City Has Had No Water. Light or
Street Cars for Two Days,

MADRID. Feb. 1S.--The strike situation
In Barcelona continues serious More
than $4,000 persons are on strike, and
Barcelona has been without water. light
or street cars for two days.
Tho Cabinet to-day was occupied al
! most exclusively with a discussion OF the
8. ID ton in BarctN~ -~~p -s.s
The sun., 1919-02-19

PRAGUE. Feb 1S,---The plans for the
revictualling OF the CzeCho- Slovaks con-
template that the United States Will sup
ply 90 per cent, and France and Great
Britain % per cent OF the foodstuns.
The sun., 1919-02-19
Critics OF Kaiser Kissed.

At several public meetings in Berlin
speakers of the Social Democratic party
said euardedly that Germany under the
Kaiser had wronged the world, but these
speakers were hissed by the large crowd.
the members OF which would not admit
that blame should be placed upon the
old gang" on February a big meeting
was held in Philharmonic Hall in Berlin
TO demand the return OF the German
colonies Many among the crowd NUT
tered to each other Whats the use Of
all this? Paris is the place where 1t will
be decided and the cursed Allies will
make the decision" But they applauded
ostentatiously when the speakers de-
clared that the Allies must return the
German colonies.
The s-f~n measures takerz the
Government to rCpress street fighting
and the disgust OF tho German people
with disorder have been powerful in
fuences in eliminating the Spartacan
movement. Plain proof that the Spar
tacans power had gone came on Febru-
ary 6 when the National Assembly at
Weimar opened. The Spartacans had
MANNED to recommence street fghting
on that day in an effort to disrupt the
National Assembly and TO seize again
the Government buildings. on the eve
ming OF February 3, however, Govern
ment troops with machine guns took
nosse ssion OF the Ministry OF War and
the Foreign Ministry and other detach-
ments tramped the darkened streets OF
RerIin throughout the night. When
morning came more troops arrived and
nv afternoon the city looked like a camp.
Not a Spartacan showed his head not
a shot was fred.
The sun., 1919-02-19

II you can save money
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The sun., 1919-02-19
PRUSSIAN BLUFF
ISDISAPPEARING
Spartacans Are Crushed and
People Want Return Of Old
Time tranquility.
EBERT ON SHORT TRIAL
Government to Get Chance
to Prove Value. but Faces
Much Intrigue i'm Berlin.
Special Wireless Despatch 10 TIE SuS.
Copniokf 1913. all viobf, r,s,ypsd

Copyright. 1919: all rights reserpsd.
PARIS. Feb. 1s-"They are trying to
fool themselves and the Allies into
thinking that they are what they used
to be, but underneath they know that
they have lost their wallop." is tho
rough characterization of the German
situation, in the view OF many Ameri-
cans here. That is the reason. It is
said, why Foreign Minister Brockdorff-
Rantzau in his speech at Weimar elab-
Grated on what Germany would and
would not do and why Germany finally
agreed to do exactly what Marshal
Foch ordered when the time limit ex-
pired on Sunday night.
Events in Berlin and Weimar now
are showing interesting currents,
which may be summed up as follows:
The power OF the Spartacans seems
TO have been broken permanently
through the death of DR.. Karl Lieb-
knecht and Rosa Luxemburg, their
leaders. The people are giving a
chance to the Welmar National As
sembly and the new Government, in
which the Social Democrats are the
dominating force. TO prove that 1t can
govern.
II it cannot prove its value within
six months there is danger that the
former Kaiser may be back upon the
throne or tnat Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg will be dictator unless
the Allies remove Wilhelm from
Amerongen and place him on trial for
the crimes OF the war.
The sun., 1919-02-19
Junkers Want Kaiser Back.

The movement for the return OF the
former Kaiser originated naturally with
the former imperial officials. junkers and
army officers. but 1t gathered headway
through sympathy when II became
known that the Peace Conference in
Paris was considering the extradition Of
the former Emperor from Holland for
trial as responsible for the war. Street
vendors in Berlin sell openly post cards
OF "Our Kaiser and pictures OF the
chateau In which he lives at Amerongen
With this sympathy for the former
Kaiser there is open expression of the
same feeling for the former Crown
Prince. The great majority OF the peo-
Pile Of Berlin-not only the junkers but
the middle class and some OF the lower
class-say they believe he told the truth
Continued ON Secoad paos
The sun., 1919-02-19
CECIL TO BE ENVOY TO U. S.
Lord Robert VIII Succeed Read
lag, London Papers Say.

COPYRIGHT. 1918; al rights veserred.


LONDON. Feb, lS.-The evening papers
say II Is almost certain tnat when Lord
Reading returns to England finally ne
will be succeeded as British Amba ssador
20 Washington by Lord Robert Cecil
who has been in close contact with
President Wilson over the foundation Of
the League of Nations
The sun., 1919-02-19

A physician named Benjamin Davis.
who halls from Pennsylvania and was
b medical examiner at the Third Naval
District headquarters enrolment office
ranking there as a Lieutenant. senior
Grade, now is behind the bars of naval
prison after he had accepted $500 In
marked bills in a bedroom at the Plaza
Hotel from a youth in the Naval In
teiltgence Department who posed as an
honest sailor man ambitious to be an
aviator.
A navy Lieutenant also is a prisoner
n the brig OF the training ship Granite
State at the North River foot OF Ninety
seventh street. as a result OF fnvestiga-
tons Of rottenness around headquarters
Offices Of the Third Naval district while
the war was on and since the armistice
vas signed.
1t should be said hurriedly that no one
vas more exercised last night by the
details now being revealed by THE SUN
this morning than Rear Admiral Ma
thaniel R. Usher, commandant of the
Third Naval district. Rear Admiral
Usher more than welcomed the investi-
cation OF the scandal which is now under
way. That also is the attitude of Secre-
'ary Daniels. A distinguished lawyer
from the Judge Advocates office at
Washington who has been giving his
services to the navy and many military
and civilian employees of the naval in
telligence bureau are working persist
emily on the case OF cases.
From Washington 1t was learned last
night that to one young man, now In
fs early twenties and the son OF ex-
oeptionally wealthy parents. who make
their home permanently at the Hotel
81 Regis, Fifth avenue and Fifty-ffth
sheet Is due the credit for landing
Medical Examiner Benjamin Davis and
other attaches of the headquarters
Offices OF the Third Naval district, who
either have been openly accused-in
layiss case convicted--or are soon, TO be
falled up on charges of traffickihg In
preferential appointments during the
Naf
The sun., 1919-02-19
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON. Feb. 1S-Advices received
FROM Berlin by way OF Basel to-day are
10 the effect that the Pan-German Mill
tary party, headed by Field Marshal yon
Hindenburg, bitterly resents the new
clauses in the armistice, especially those
limiting the German army to the size of
a simple police force Caccordng to a
Paris report 100000 to maintain order),
the supervision OF control OF ammunition
factories, and the demand that Germany
pay the expenses OF the allied armies
OF occupation on the Rhine.
These conditions, it is complained, will
throw out of work thousands of German
officers. from Generals down, while the
army of 100000 volunteers reported by
the German press to have been organized
must be disbanded.
The advices add that indignation
against Matthias Erzberger on the part
of the military authorities is increasing
The sun., 1919-02-19
ITALY REJECTS
AID OF WILSON
Refuses to Submit JugO.Slav
Dispute to President as
Arbitrator.
SEES DANGER TO LEAGUE
Action Not Due to Lack of
Confidence, Authorities
Assert.
Special Wireless Despatch 10 TIE suS


Copyright. 1919; all rights ,cserrsd.
PARIS. Feb. 1s.-Italy has refused to
submit her dispute with the Jugo-
Slavs 20 the arbitration of President
Wilson. The Italians refuse to accept
different procedure in the settle
ment of the Adriatic territorial ques-
ton from that applied to other prob
lens Of a similar nature.
High Italian authorities in Paris
say their refusal is not prompted by
any desire to evade a thorough thresh-
ing out of the question, nor by any
lack OF confidence in President Will
sons judgment and his sense OF justice,
but by desire to avoid setting such
a precedent, full of danger to the
authority of the Peace Conference and
the League of Nations, which in each
difficult case of conflict brought be-
fore It for solution will be exposed 10
the need of substituting another juris-
diction for its own.
The Serbians last night stated that
they had not decided TO abandon their
plan OF arbitration in spite of the infor-
nation which they said they had that
the great Powers frowned upon the
scheme. Premier Pachitch added that
ho expected to know the reply of Presi-
dent Wilson to the Serbian request by
tomorrow.
Early last week the Jueo-Slav delegates
! to the Peace Conference asked President
Wilson to act as arbitrator in the dif-
ferences with Italy regarding the east
ern coast of the Adriatic. President
Wilson suggested that the Italians and
Jugo-Slavs discuss their differences. The
Italians declined to make n decision at
that time. Later the Jugo-Slav delegates
appealed to Premier Clemenceau as
president OF the conference to act as
arbitrator, but there have been no re-
ports that the French leader took any
action on the question.
The sun., 1919-02-19

HARTsHoBNE. FALEs . Co, Members
n. \. stock Exchange. wall bt.-I1s.
The sun., 1919-02-19
People Want tranquility.

1t is with this in view. II Is said. that
the German people now are being pro-
vided with a surfeit Of disorder and
uncertainty, as a result OF which the
demand is increasing for a Government
that can restore tranquility.
Three months have passed since the
first armlstice was signed and the in
bred German longing for order and dis
cipline is asserting itself The people
are beginning to look back to the good
old days before the war when every
thing went with we'll ordered snloothness.
The old stifr necked Prussians do not
show the slightest sign OF repentance
for their conduct Of the war they try
to carry things with the old bluster, but
the moment an officer of the Allies as
serts himself they cringe and crawl.
Brutal force is the only thing they
understand and their attitude then be-
comes Poor Germany without n
friend in the world. She has been
starved. abused and misjudged; ii is
not fair"
Everywhere in Germany, notably In
Berlin, one sees the people striving and
straining TO ignore the ugly truth that
the colossal German Empire has been
German army was undefeated, but a
frank conversation with any German
officer above the rank OF Major brings
out the reluctant admission that the Ger
man army was beaten and was on the
verge of disaster when the armistice was
signed.
The sun., 1919-02-19
Medical Examiner Convict
ed of Accepting $500
Bribe Here.
GOT 3 YEAR SENTENCE
Detective Work Done by
Joseph Whitehead, Son of
MultimilliOnaire.
DANIELS ORDERS INQUIRY
Youths Wore Uniforms, but
Divided Their Earnings
With Graft Takers.
DANIELS ORDERS INQUIRY

Lads of draft age who didn't want
10 60 into the trenches and therefore
elected to enlist in the local Third Ma
val district as "seamen" did not even
have to go to sea. provided-so 1t be-
came known yesterday-they made
propositions Of a financial nature to
certain medical examiners and other
attaches at the enrolling Office at the
district headquarters in the old Stew
srt Building at $50 Broadway.
As a result OF generalized accusa-
tons made in evening newspapers last
night and still later unearthed In
much detail by THE Sun the scandal
developed into a first class uproar
which caused Secretary Of the Navy
Daniels to issue statements at Wash
ington, which also sent local navy
men scurrying to and fro and, for the
time being, played the deuce generally
in the naval neighborhood OF Broad
way and Chambers street.
One young man who wanted to serve
his country in the army. for instance
but was turned down because of defec-
tive sight by army examining officers.
rot q navy job. carrying a uniform with
it, at the Third Naval district head
quarters in the Stewart Building by
presenting an examining person in navy
blue with a new set Of o. Henry's COM
plete works and q navy cloak valued at
$50 And after the young man who had
bought his way into the navy upon pay
ment of o. Henry books and cloak
vas settled at his Job he was told that
he might give his days to his regular
job Of writing fiction and ''just report
cnce in a while In uniform to keep up
the bluff"
The sun., 1919-02-19
Newspapers Suppressed.

tacans have stopped all work in the
newspaper Offices at Muhlheim and BY
force kept the newspaper staffs from
going to the Offices. Armed Spartacans
are reaching Muhlheim from Essen. Dus-
seldorf and other places and Muhlheim Is
regarded as the centre of the Spartacar
movement
A strong party of Spartacans went tc
the village Of Hervcstdoesten, where 1t IL
reported they repulsed the Governmen,
troops.
ellis have decided. shall continue until
the Government troops are withdrawn
The miners In the Ruhr district have
Joined the strike.
The sun., 1919-02-19
REDS CALL BIG
RHINE WALK0UT
General Strike Ordered in
the Ruhr Industrial
District.
FORTIFY FOR BATTLE
Councils Demand Withdrawal
of Ebert FOrces-Suppress
Newspapers.

CoPENHAGEH. Feb. is. A general
strike has been declared throughout
the Ruhr Industrial district along the
Rhine. Spartacans have occupied
Bochum, Hamborn and a number OF
other places, according to a report
from Berlin.
The spartacans are reported to be
fortifying the waterworks and electric
power houses at Dusseldorf. Muhlheim
and Hamborn. and are preparing to re-
sist the Government troops now being
sent into the district. The anti-Gov-
ernment leaders have given orders
that no coal requisitioned by the Gov
ernment be delivered.
The sun., 1919-02-19
- Guns Have Long Range.

THE guns are mounted after the
usual German fashion so as to give them
an immense range. probably from ten
10 twelve and a half sea miles To en-
able the island 10 stand the concuss ion
of their discharge and resist fire dl.
rected against 1t $4,000, 900 is said TO
have been spent before 1910, and sub
scquertly other large sums were allotted.
THE immense seaplane sheds are
said to have been OF the disappearing
type. which could be lowered as a pro-
lection against long range fire. There
are store shops and repair works with
oil the usual equipment OF naval base.
The fortihcation presumably will be
blown up, but their destruction will be
no easy business. They are OF armored
concrete and steel, and very large
quantity OF explosives will he required.
The fortiications at either entrance
to the Kiel Canal are of immense
strength and are lavishly supplied with
the heaviest guns in steel turrets."