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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Provision for Return
Caused Great Anxiety

Great CONSERVATION has reiRned in
all affected quarters during the last
week over the War Departments
ruling prohibiting the return Of well
fare workers upon government trans
ports. This ruling promised to work
havoc with plans Of rehabilitation al
ready laid ard being followed by the
organizations concerned. But now
General Pershing has interviewed In
their behalf. At the appeal of Mr..
Carter, he cabled the War Department.
recommending that the recent order
be rcscinded. And to-day the Y. NJ. C.
j. joyfully announces that General
Pershing's recommendation has been
needed, and there will be reserved to
its use a proportion of accommoda-
lions on returning government trans
ports. wherever possible.
The resembling Of this order consid.
erablS brightens the outlook Of well
fare organization and individual
worker mike, perhaps bringing great
est relief to those artists signed up
with tbs entertainment department Of
the Y. NJ. c. A., many Of whom have
rounded out their terms OF service, SCI
cured their releases and are awaiting
only transportation to carry them back
TO signed contracts in the Mg city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

affords good illustraton This de-
partment has grown to be the greatest
theatrical syndicate in the world, al
though fifteen months ago it was non
existent With an army of 40 pro-
fcssional units, exclusive Of soldier
shows. its record for thirteen months
was 23,349 shows.
This department, like the others, was
working at emergency speed in all sec
tons of the field, when the army sud-
denly made up it's mind to go home.
And as division after division was
moved to the ports of embarkation
hundreds of professional entertainers
and others engaged as coaches, or in
the purchase and distribution of sup
plies, found themselves stranded in
France at the expense of the "Y," with
nothing to do and with no apparent
possibility Of getting transp ortation to
America
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
utilization Presents Gigantic Problem Tor the Z NJ c. A In France

Headquarters on the Rhine at Co.
blenz, Germany, and the Second Army
in reserve with headquarters at Toul,
in a region famous as a jumping off
place for the great St. Mihiel and Ar
gonne drives. Another outstanding
feature was the development of the
enormous forwarding camp at lie
Mans, a railroad centre in the north
west Of France, with direct lines Of
communication to the ports of Brest,
St. Nazare and Bordeaux, for the
Redistribution Of troops prior to their
rehabilitation and return to America.
In the lie Mans district alone army
billets had to be improvised within the
period Of a few brief weeks for APP
proximately 100000 men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Italy Strongly Feels
She Has Been BETRAYED

The Italian claims; now advanced
and fortified by past bargains, run
counter to Mr.. Wilson's fourteen
points. They do violence to the I'M
questioned rights Of the southern
Slavs, the Greeks, the German
speaking population of the Tyrol
and the Turks and Greeks alike in
Asia Minor. Ilaly's possession of
the territory which she now claims
certainly viii make for future in
ternational anarchy or still further
wars, but, on the other hand, if a
strong Slav state rises in the East
ern Adriatic Italy will be menaced
IN this direction, while if Greece
realizes even the moderate aspira-
tions of Venizelos the Algoan ard
the eastern shore of Asia Minor will
become Hellenic again and Italy viii
find herself ringed around on the
Mediterranean by British and
French colonies and pushing new
states. Moreover, Italy sees this
thing threatening despite the pled gee
given her by her recent allies, who
have themselves acquired more terri
tory than she asks for as result
Of this war
Manifestly, then. there is an Ital-
ian case. Whether it be wise for
Italians, following the unhappy
precedent Of the now conquered
Austria to accumulate future trou-
BILE by annexing territory inhabited
by Germans, Jugo-Slavs, Greeks
and Turks; whether it be sound pol
icy to create new lost provinces and
a new Irrodenta may be questioned.
On the side of absolute justice in
the larger sense, the RIGHTS Of the
Germans, the Austrians, the Jugo-
Slavs and the Greeks cannot be
questioned.
Nevertheless, the Italians may re-
fleet with bitterness that it is OILY
against them that these new prin-
ciples are being invoked, and at
least the failure Of the Paris con-
ference to deal with the question
Of the freedom of the seas and its
consent to the French occupation
of the Saar are strangely neon
sistent with its course in the Adri-
attic and the Aegean.
At all events-and the point is
capital-ltaly feels herself be-
trayed. She is ready to return to
a German alliance if Germany shall
find herself, and her hostility to her
recent allies is expressed daily,
while no one Of the problems raised
by Italian claims at Paris has yet
been settled.
J Copyright. 1919, Mcclure Newspaper Syn
diCaie.j
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

therefore came armed with the
specific pledges made by the West
ern powers in 1915 and fortified
by the recent victories of Italian
armies and by the possession of
much of the territory which had
been promised them. They had
made bargain. They had on the
whole fulfilled the bargain, and
they came prepared to receive the
reward which had been promised.
But in. Paris there can be no
question that Italian claims were
coldly received. France and Great
Britain, to be sure, were prepared
to fulfill their bargain. They had
agreed that Italy should have
Trieste and the Trentino and north
ern Dalmatia. AS to Dalmatia, the
population, with minor exceptions,
was unqucstionably Slavonic and
desired to be Jugo-Slav and not
Italian; nevertheless, if Italy in
sisted, Great Britain and France at
all times were prepared to honor
their signature. But Italy now
asked more than Trieste and the
Trertino and northern Dalmatia.
She asked the port of Fiume, ex-
pressly excluded from the Anglo
French agreement.
Could Italy hold Fiume as well
as Trieste she would have a stra-
tegic hold upon Jugo-Slav CONNER
cial intercourse with the world. If
Fiume passed into Jugo- Slavic
hands Trieste unquestionably would
suffer, since Jugo-Slav commerce
would pass infallibly through
Fiume. American sympathy was in
stantly and emphatically expressed
for the Jugo-Slavs. President Will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Blacklist Period Faced
By Transportation Corps

The transportation department is
facing its blacklist period. Yesterday
it enjoyed 'glimmer of hope-it had
succeeded in purchasing 1000 accom-
modations on the homeward- bound
Lcviathan, and in order to clnch the
transaction Mr.. f. c. Carter, chief
secretary of the Y. NJ. C. A., made a
special trip to the army transportation
Office at Tours. Unfortunately he
stated his business in the hearing of a
commanding officer, who was about to
leave the office in detection. The Of
ficer stepped up to Mr.. Carter, saying,
81 beg your pardon, sir, but do l un-
derstand you to say that the Y. M. c. A.
has purchased a thousand accommoda-
tions on the Leviathan?" "You do,
sir!" answered Mr.. Carter. To this
the c. c. replied: "I'm sorry, sir, but
you will have to cancel those accom-
modations, for the army will COM
mandeer them. We have thousand
officers ready to sail"
The incident illustrates wildly the
difficulties with which the welfare or
CARNATIONS are battling in their strug-
gle to secure accommodations on home
ward bound transports and passenger
steamers. At the present rate it will
be months before the Y. NJ. c. A. can
repatriate its army OF six thousand
workers. Of two thousand alrcal y
passed through the medical depar:-
ment and released, only two hundred
have to date secured transportation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
By Josephine NJ. Ciglio

PARIS, July 10.
FHE problem of the y. NJ. c. A.
Z in the process Of demobiliza
n ton IS perhaps more difficult
than that Of the smaller "wel-
fare organizations, or even that Of
the Red Cross, to whom the cessation
Of hostiities in Europe meant natu-
rally cessation Of growth, though not
Of actiIty-while to the Y NJ. c. A.
1t meant greater effort, broader fields,
AID, consequently. increased person
mel.
The solemn hush which fell over the
battle lines when the white flags went
Up ana the brief period Of fervent re-
loicing when succeeded marked a
Transition frou one period Of intense
sctiFitg On the part OF the Y. NJ c. A.
!" another totally different. Before the
1eloicing mobs on the Paris boulevards
Mad returned 70 normal ways Of living
the military authorities at Chaumont
gave the wheel Of the kaleidoscope a
RAPID turn which shifted the entire
programme q army operations. Ordcr RS
wen forth 80 close up the training
camp and technical army schools, the
terYices Of which we're, of course, no
"Aye9 needed, and the troops com
meAced 10 march out, leaving some 300
T. d. {. a. huts, tents and rented
0u'ioin2s standing idle amid the ruins
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
New Service Programme
Had To BE Drafted

The Y NJ. C. A. was confronted with
the problem of instituting an entire
programme Of service Each Of the
principal concentrations of troops pre-
scented distinct problem. In Ger
many the troops Of the Army of DC
cupation showed at first remarkable
tendency to fratcrnizc with the local
population; the troops of the Second
and Third armies were biletcd for
the greater part in small towns, in
crampcd and uncomfortable quarters,
and the difficulty Of finding suitable
accommo dations in the lie Mans area
was such az to cause many thousands
Of officers and men to be acutcy I'M
comfortable.
The army programme in the days
Immediately following dcmobilization
called for several hours drill daily and
army tactics to supply the men with
The physical exercise to which they
had been accustomed during the com
bat period. But the psychology Of the
doughboy was such that it was found
impracticablc TO carry this pro
Yrammc into effect, or indeed to get
him 10 think very seriously of any
thing. There was only one subjcc,
which aroused his interest when
are We going home? Time hung
heavy on the handg Of all There
was not the same incentive to endure
han Iship and to submit to discipline
which the imminence Of actual con.
nict supplied.
! In TIA Axiaix. a1nfrnntAd NV III
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
lfaly's Colonial
Y enturcs a Failure

Meantime, eager to demonstrate
the right to be considered a great
power and jealous of the progress
made by her neighbors, Italy
plunged into colonial ventures.
which led to disaster in Abyssinia.
while between France and Italy
there was fought commercial war
fare rulnous to the new Italian
state. Not until the opening of
IKE twentieth century, when Bis
marck had left the helm, did Italy
begin herself insensibly to drift
away from the Central Powers.
The creation of the entente cor
dale between France and Great
Britain, the development of this
understanding into a practical al
lance, changed the situation en-
tirc]y for the Italians. Were they
to participate in general war
against France and Great Britain,
Italian coasts, Italian ports, Ital-
ian fleets would be destroyed no
matter what were the results Of
the land fighting. Moreover, An
glo-french agreements were divid-
ing Northern Africa and without
Anglo-French consent Italy could
not hope to acquire even that Tri-
poltan remnant which remained.
At Algeciras, therefore, Italy was
found siding with France and Great
Britain rather than with Germany,
and her reward was permission to
occupy Tripoli. Still in the PENN
suia there was a strong anti-French
sentiment. German industry and
German finance continued to in
crease their holdings in industrial
Northern Italy and had it not been
for the still unsettled question of
Trieste and the Trentino it is hardly
to be doubted that Italy would have
been found in the world war stand
ing with her allies. But this was an
insurmOuntable barrier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
The Enormous Task of Transporting Demoune Hus and Of
Constructing Many Additional us in New Centres of Army
Population--The ~Y" Was Confronted With Problem
of lnstituing Entire Programme of Service

truism that Satan finds mischief still
for idle hands to do, the military au-
thorities turned to the American Y.
VI. c. A. with an urgent request that
they speed up the production of occu-
patton and entertainment for the many
idle hours.
Accordingly, instead of turning its
attention to plans for the winding up
of it's activities and the rehabilitation
of it's personnel, the "Y" was called upon
to increase its personnel by almost 40
per cent and to develop every branch
of its activities. On November 13 it
had in its service overseas a total
Of 4,510 workers, and by April 16 this
number had been increased to 6,239.
The Y. NJ. C. A., then, had not only
to abandon a very large part of its
permanent plant and set up overnight,
as it were, a new plant to meet the re-
quircmcnts, but so to enlarge it's pro-
part of the doughboys' time, thereby
attempting to fill the place in sustain
ing army morale formerly played by
the tactics Of the training camp or the
labor Of the trenches.
In this intensified programme Of the
"Y" the military authorities cvinced
great interest and showed themselves
eager to aid all phases of the work
To this end a number Of officers il
each Of the three armies were as
signed to cooperate with the Y. NJ. c. a
and Allied welfare organizations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
French Industry Revived by
Their Heavy Purchases

Connected with the eouipping of
these soldier shows there is an inter
esting story of rapidly revived indus
tries in war-rdden France, for all such
stocks had dwinded during the war al
most to the vanishing point, manufact-
ure having been suspended. Agents
were sent out to purchase all available
supplies, even to canvasslng the small
shops and drug stores throughout Paris
and other cities. Factories were re-
opened and orders placed for their entire
output throughout France and Swtzer-
land and other neutral countries. Man.
dolins and banjos, however, had to be
imported, since the best are obtanapie
only in America.
The latest report about to be issued
by the army at Tours estimates that in
the four months from February 10 to
June II TIC shows given by the Y. NJ
{. 4. u the S. 0. s. (Service of Sup
Pile a.onc, inclusive of soldier shows
aa'e's'ed 10 ,bou, $4,000, with aud.
cnces ct 4s.ooo,o00
WIZ tie sjen.Ag c, peace orders have
come to the /. ~ c. a to demoblize
and the medical department il shaping
its back to the burden, for within The
next month or six weeks some 40oC
workers must pass through its Office.
for examination preparatory to release
aimee, according to Y. NJ. C. A. law. 4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Dig transportation
Problem Faced by *.Y"

bur tniS shrinking, or, 10 use the
military Jargon, "waising OUT" proc
ss'' cid not imply for the Y. ". {. A.
a. opportunity for corresponding de
@'0'izat.on. On The contrary, it pre-
'eA'ed an enormouE problem Of trans
p'rtati>n Of dernountable huts and The
emergency construction Of many add
'''Hai hpts in the men centres Of army
Population.
ine new military al!gnments fol
'""ing the armistice consisted In the
concentration II the First Amy
around &. II. q. (Ceneral Headquar-
NfS) at Ghaumont; If the Third Army
~ the Army Of Occupation, with It's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Entertainers Ordered Away
From Third Army

The situation perhaps reached its
climax recently when the y. NJ c. A.
received notice that all is entertainers
must leave the region occupied by the
Third Army tthe Army Of Occupation)
BY Sunday June 20, and that its sec
retarics and cantecn workers must fol-
low shortly This will throw out Of
occupation more than nine hundred
workers, raising the total of releases
awaiting transportation to nearly
S,ooo-haH ata entire stalf-sll OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Jealousy Between
French and Italians

Between Italy and Austria there
survived, therefore, not alone bit
terness born of ancient Italian
wrongs, but also an everlasting ami
mostly growing out of Austrian
possession Of Italia Irredenta. In
the very nature of things it seemed
inevitable that Italy would ally her
self with France and that the two
Latin nations, supported in time
perhaps, by the British, would
stand against the central empires
and seek ever to regain "lost prov
inces' and conquer unredeemed
lands.
This did not happen. On the con-
trary, jealousy between the French
and the Italians. as members of the
same Latin family, promptly de-
veloped. The French bitterly re-
scented the failure Of the Italians,
for whose liberation French armies
recently had fought, to support
France in her hour of peril Italy
on her part saw France turning
from Europe to Northern Africa
and to lands which had once been
the scene of successful Latin col
onization and there rebuilding an
empire. The seizure of Tunis by
the French in 1881 was the signal
for an outburst in. the Peninsula,
which had as consequence the
construction of that Triple Ali
ance of Austria, Germany and Italy
under the clever manipulation of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
By Frank II. Simonds

TN A very real sense future
peace in Europe depends upon
l. the policy pursued by the ltal-
ian people, and it is manifest
that alone of the four Western pow
ers associated in the victory over
Germany, Italy is not only dissat-
jsfed. but frankly getting back tow
ard her old German alliance and
thereby pointing the way to re-
organization Of Europe under that
system of rival alliances which led
inevitably to the world war.
ANY examination of the Italian
situation necessitates turning back
ward little to the conditions under
which Italy entered the war and
indeed, the conditions under which
Italy at last became unified ma
ton and a great power. When in
1870, following the French defeats,
Napoleon III withdrew his troops
from Rome and the Italians entered
the Eternal City, the unifcation Of
Italy was mainly achieved.
After 1900 years of servitudc to
alien masters, after innumerahle di-
visions and parcelments Of their
patrimony, the people of the Italian
peninsula found themselves once
more possessing their own country
from the Alps southwark, save in
the northeast corner, where Aus
tria still maintained the Trentino
menace and an mistaken grip upon
Trieste
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Jealous of Other
Allied Extensions

The Italians therefore saw the
British acquire Egypt, the major
fraction of German African colo
MES and her Asiatic islands, and &C.
cupying Mesopotamia, Palestine
and Arabia. They saw the French
regain Alsace-Lorraine, acquiring
some measure Of title to the Saar
Basin, completing their title to Mo
rocco and acquiring the Kamerun,
portion of the Togo and Syria,
while their far more modest claims
met with violent opposition from
America. American opposition had
at least the tacit sympathy Of An
glo-French public opinion and Of
fetal spokesman.
In particular the Italians resent
ed the fact that British, French and
American sympathy was unqualified
ly given to the Jugo- Slavs in their
Adriatic aspirations, although the
Austrian and Hungarian fractions
Of the new JugoSlav people had
fought against Italy and for the
Austro-German alliance with a
ferocity and determination hardly
surpassed in the war. But though
the Croatians, the Slovenians and
the Dalmatians were enemy people
who had fought their armies and
inflited heavy losses upon their
troops, yet the Italians now beheld
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

coordinating agency, and prepared to
furnish the necessary musical instru.
ments and supplies, costumes ana
coaches, the soldier show soon came
into its merited prominence.
An experienced "Y" man was placed in
charge of the development of these
shows, and a complete scheme of re-
gional competitive contests was insti
tuted, with a view to putting the win
ming shows on the road-hrst within
the limits of the army district in which
they originated, and later, if they
made good, in other armies, with the
prospect of an eventual engagement on
the Paris circuit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Big Theatrical Syndicate
For Entertaining Troops

There followed a phenomenal dcvel-
opment in every department of nctivty
construction, transportation, athletic,
educational religious and entertain
mcnt. OF this development the enter
tainmsnt department Of the Y. M. c. A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

candidate for repatriation must prove
States, just as he or she had to pro-
duce a clean bill of health before
qualifying for service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

distributed for the use of soldier shows
The army cooperation in this branch Of
the entertainment work manifested it.
self in the tangible form of providing
transportation, billets and mess for the
soldier actors. In cases where army
pay had been upheld for long time
and the fellows were strapped" the
Y. NJ. c. A. allowed soldier talent
francs day as pin money.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
1t Is Essential That America Rec
ognize How Different Is Her
Point of View From ItaEy's

price possible. As for France and
Great Britain, in the critical hours
Of 1915, when Italy's entrance into
the war on the German side would
have meant the loss of the struggle,
they had no choice but to meet
Italian demands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Prevented Early
Ruin of Russians

Coming into the war as a result
of this bargain, Italy unquestion-
ably rendered to the Allies in 1915
and 1916 invaluable assistance. She
entered at the momen of the Russia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
LII Italy Turn Again to an Alliance With Germany?
Rome Feels That She Has Been
Betrayed by the Allies i'm Her
Territorial Claims

Bismarck, which hencoforth for a
generation was to be the dominat-
ing factor on the continent of Eu-
rope.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

son alike in the matter of Dalmatia
and Of Fiume denied Italian claims,
while the British and French in sup
porting Italy's claim upon them in
sisted upon the letter of the con-
tract which excluded Fiume.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

Italian demands.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-30
DEMON STRAT|ON
PLANNED HONOR
0 F G { n T R A |
ALvARO OBRECON
Committee of Thirty Franz
ed In NOgales, Sonora, To
Prepare a Great Demon
stratiOn For His Can
didacy For President.

In Nogales, Sonora, committee of
thirty prominent citizens-business
and professional men has been pro-
vided to make great demonstration
in honor of General Obregon at the
time of his departure for the City of
Mexico, where he will go to inaugurate
his campaign for the presidency of
the republic. The entire committee
are warm personal friends of General
Obregon; and they are entering into
the affair with great zest and earn
estness.
Friends of the distinguished gentle
man in both Nogales are getting to-
gether for this undertaking, and the
demonstration promises to be one of
the biggest and best of it's kind ever
held.
Noted speakers from Sonora and
Arizona will be in attendance.
Through "The Oasis" the COM
mittee will advise the public of the
date and hour for the parade, speak
ing and celebration.