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Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
? PARLIAMENT I TO. OPENLEADER[ESS
 GEORGE IN PARIS

LONDON, Feb. 2.-(By the Associat- ed Press) No British parliament in a century, except the parliament of Pre- mier ASquith, which had on its should CTS the heavy responsibility of deciding whether or not Great Britain would enter the European war, ever met with more important work to be dealt with than the house of commons of Premier Lloyd George will find when it holds it's first meeting on Monday.
 All the problems of the new house may be summarized in the one word, reconstruction.
 This is particularly a one man and a personal house of commons, since it's ruling power is not a political party, but a coalition group, whose members represent widely different schools; which depends for its guidance upon the personal leadership of the premier rather than the putting into effect of any particular platform. Premier Lloyd George is in Paris and he must stay there. No one expects him to leave the peace conference.
 Leadership in the two houses of p3rA liament, therefore, for the time being will fall upon Earl CurZon and Andrew Bonar Law, both of whom are con- servatives, and before the war, stood for almost everything that was op posed to Lloyd George and his present program. That seems to mean that parliament will mark time until the prime minister can return and take charge in person.
 Meanwhile the problems of domestic reconstruction are marking time and refuse to wait even until the more urg- ent business of world construction has been settled in Paris.
 The working classes and the plain people were told that after the war there would be a better life" for the masses.
 Apparently they expect and demand that better life sooner than the gov ernment is prepared to take in hand the business of constructing the new era. | The strikes in Belfast and Glasgow i have several new features. Instead of merely striking against their employers and confining the battle to the familiar campaign of men against masters, the strikers are disrupting the nerve cen ters of their communities. The strikes entail not only the stoppage of work in certain industries but are paralizing the every day life of the cities. Trans portation, lighting and power for man. ufacturing are the vital arteries of nor- nal living, which the strikers and their sympathizers are putting at stand still.
 The government up to this time has followed a line of non n-intervention, but in the end, the whole matter of indus trial conditions will be involved in the legislation for reconstruction.
 The responsibility for carrying this out rests chiefly upon the prime minis ter and there are indications that he will not be slow to grapple with it. Upon whether the premier can leac
 his conservative allies or whether they will stifle his liberal principles, de- bends the course of reconstruction dur. ing the next few months.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
MEXICAN INTERESTS
 STIR PERCENTAGES

PARIS, Feb. 2.-The announcement in newspaper dispatches from New York that representatives of British and American oil interests, cattle and mining interests in Mexico were com ing to lay their claims before the peace conference, is attracting much attention in American government circles, and is causing speculation as to how Mexican affairs may be pre- scented, if at all.
 Mexico has not been connected di- rectly with the war and the opinion in official circles, is that business in terests of foreign powers which have suffered confiscation in Mexico prob ably cannot get hearing in Paris un- til the society of nations is organized fully, and the Mexican issues con nected with the war passed upon. Un- der the Monroe doctrine, the United States naturally would be consulted before any steps were taken to bring about an adjustment of the friction between Mexico and foreign powers. As a result the Mexican differences are being watched eagerly because of the possibility that they may indicate how the society of nations will affect historic American policy.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
SAYS GAS REGIMENT SO AGGRESSIVE HALF
 IN CASUALTY LISTS
First Gas Boys Arrive Gripping Story Of Work
 Related - Attacks De- scribed By Major Carter

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The White Star liner Celtic arrived here today from Brest, bringing 3,114 American officers and men from overseas. On board was the entire personnel of the first gas regiment, the only offensive gas troops employed by the American expeditionary forces. The remainder of the passenger list was made up of casuals.
 Major John B. Carter of San Fran cisco, commander of the gas regiment told first hand, gripping story of the organizations activities, from the time it went into action with the British forces January, 1918, until the war ended. The regiment, he said, fought successively on every American front suffered casualties of half it's enlisted strength of 1,500 men and returned with eighty of its members wearing the Croix de Guerre, twenty wearing the distinguished service cross, and with twelve of it's officers recommend ed for distinguished service medals. Fifty Per Cent Killed The gas troops, Major Carter said, did their bitterest fighting at Chateau Thierry. St. Mihiel, and in the Ar gonne Forest, working continually for forty days at the battle of the Ar gonne.
 Tt is not generally said away from the firing line" he said, ''that gas regi- | ments, leading as they did, every of fensive, were subjected to perhaps 1 greater danger, than any other troops. This is borne out by the fact that fifty per cent ofour regiment, both officers 1 and men, are casualties.
 1 Our sacrifices were well rewarded, | however, for we learned from captured l Germans and from other sources that | our work was playing havoc with the enemy in casualties and in the destruc- tion of morale. Had our two gas regi- ments and three battalions, which were training, been able to enter the conflict earlier, the end of the war. believe, would have ben hastened."
 Describes Gas Attacks | Major Carter, described three meth ods of gas attacks by the American gas forces, the cylinder method, the pro- jector and the four-inch Stokes mortar
 'The cylinder weighed about 130 pounds" he said, "and carried from sixty to seventy pounds of liquid gas | We would turn loose from 800 to 5,00t of these on one front simultaneously | | warfare
 Tn mobile warfare and in attacking concentrations of enemy troops we em- ployed the propectors, electrically operated which hurled sixty pound bombs containing thirty pounds of gas !, against the enemy
 The four-inch Stokes mortars were used chiefly to break up machine gur nests. We had these timed so thai they would burst over a machine gur nest and shower gas or thermite, whicf is molted metal over the gun crew" Major c. Brent formerly Episcopa bishop of the Philippine Islands, ant chief chaplain, with the American ex- peditionary forces, was among the of ficers arriving on the Celtic. The mora victory of the soldiers against tempta
 ton, he declared, was as complete al was their victory against the enemy. T have seen them in war and il play" he said, land nothing can b. said in their favor that would be ex
 travagant.'
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
CLASS DENIES
 VICIOUS RUM0R

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Secretary Glass issued a statement tonight de- nouncing as false g. rumor reaching the treasury to the effect that fifth Liberty loan would be unnecessary, because a mistake in calculation had been made by officials and that from s15, 900, ,000,oO to s17,000, 100000 had been returned to the treasury.
 MT. Glass said he assumed the rumor had it's origin in failure to under stand the discussion of the proposed repeal by congress of fifteen billions of appropriation and authorizations" and added that this did not mean a re- turn of the money to the treasury, but merely a cancellation of authority heretofore given by congress to expend the money in the future.
 Pointing out that this reduction in future expenditures had ben fully al lowed for by the treasury, MT. Glass reiterated that additional large sums were necessary to maintain the army overseas, get it back home and zMnt other heavy expenses during the IF sition period. f@<
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
USES MONEY RAPIDLY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-All but ss1,332,000 of the original $500, 00o, 900 revolving fund of the railroad admin istration, has now been used, Director Hines reported today in connection with his financial statement for Jan- uary. In that month, s9S,000,00 was advanced to railroads or paid for new cars and locomotives. The director general received s13,996, 900 from rail- roads and s10s327, 900 from express com panies during the month.
 Total net advances made to railroads and for equipment amount to $780, 274.0o0. and receipts have amounted to s2S1,605, 900 from railroads and s57,243,- 900 from express companies. Out standing loans are s151. .254, 900 and roads still owe the government S144,- 5S5.0o0 on account of equipment pur- chased for them.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
RUSSIAN MEETING APPEARS ID HAVE
 ENDED IN F|zzLE

PARIS, Feb. 2-(By the Associated Press)-Following up the practice he initiated last Sunday of meeting per sonally the newspaper correspondents, NJ. Pichon, the French foreign min ister. today frankly discussed some subjects which are absorbing the at tention of the conference itself and the public.
 With reference to the suspended ef- fort to bring together the representa- tives of the various Russian political sections and the peace commissioners, at a meeting at Princes Island, he said that so far there had been only one of ficial reply to the invitation, which the conucil had sent out by wireless. and that had come in the form of a docu- ment sent by Russian gentleman, who had been a member of the Duma and is now head Of the government of Crimea-
 He expressed a willingness to go to Princes Islands, but feared that he would be alone, so far as the other Russian factions were concerned. The Russian groups in Paris had written a letter to Premier Clemenceau, saying they would not go to Princes Island, but their own government had not res bonded to the invitation formally.
 M. Pichon said he had noticed the re- ply of the bolshevik government, as published in the newspaper, but it had Longuet, proprietor of Paris news paper, who received the commission, had been denied use of the French wireless to make reply to the bolsh- evik government, because M. Pichon said, he had been informed in a note that there was no authorization for the use of the wireless for other than of ficial communications.
 As to the Omsk government, Ad- miral Kolchak, it's head, had not said that he would refuse to attend Princes Islands conference, but it appeared that he was rather inclined not to do so.
 Touching the situation in eastern Siberia, M. sPichon, in answer to an in- | quiry, said that undoubtedly the en- ente military forces there were sub- | ject to the control of the supreme wal l council in Paris. General Janin, of the l Czecho- Slovak forces, was command | erin chief, so far as the actual dis position and movement of the troops were concerned, but General Knox oi the British army, was charged witt l the control and transportation of al supplies.
 In reply to the suggestion that tht American troops might be withdraw from northern Russia, in the Arch angel sector, if the Princes Island. conference was not held, NJ. PichoI said that the conference had not ye considered what steps would be taken in event of failure, and that there hat been no consultation on the subjec since the invitations had been dis | cussed.
 The news from Archangel sectio was not sufficiently definite as yet t
 justify any conclusion. Undoubtedl,
 he added, the bolshevili had stronge
 forces there now than they had before
 so it had been considered safer t
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
SWEEPING REMOVAL
 IF FOOD BAN MADE
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 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The most sweeping removal of restrictions upon the exportation of foodstuffs, made since the signing of the armistice. was announced today by the war trade board. Commodities removed from the export exclusion list were barley, corn and rye, including flour and meal made from these grains, oats and oats pro- ducts, brewers grains, bran and mid ding beans, dried and split peas, sugar and hydrogrenated cotton seed oil.
 These articles constituted a majority of the food items on the restricted list and their removal is effective imme- diately. Licenses to export them will be granted freely to all destinations, including Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium. Heretofore such exports to these allied countries were made ex- clusively by the food administration S grain corporation and the Wheat Ex- port company.
 Attention was called to the fact that wheat and wheat flour remain on the restricted list. There was no indica- tion when the embago on these com midities would be removed, but it was said that is probably would remain in force until the governments agreement with the farmers for a maximum price on the 1919 wheat crop had expired. Removal of the embargo on the other grains was expected by some officials to stabilize prices and relieve what was described as a congested market. An advance in the price of corn was looked for by reason of the fact that prices fell sharply several weeks ago, when removal of the embargo against the i'm portation of Argentine corn was an- nounced.
 It was said that there was heavy demand in foreign countries for some | of the grains now placed on the free l list and particularly for rye.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
PIEz DEfI. MAY CAUSE
 BIC STRIKE

 Progress was made today by union labor leaders to- wards calling a general strike this week, in sym pathy with the 25,0OO strik- ing Seattle shipyard workers who have demanded an in- crease in wage above the Macy scale. Representatives of ten local unions affiliated with the Seattle central labor council met today to canvass the situation, and early to- night official information was given out that a sympa- thetic strike would be called at 10 o'clock next Thursday morning. The strike date re- commended will be subject to final action by the central labor council next Wednes- day night.
 The local typographical union voted today to join in the strike and the longshore- mems union decided to disre- gard the orders of it's inter- national officers, prohibiting the local organization from taking part in the strike. The street carmen's union polled a majority strike vote today and telegraphed inter- national officers for ap- prOval.
 Labor union executives said the declaration last night of Charles Piez, direc- tor-general of the Emergen- cy Fleet corporation, that the striking shipyard work CTS must return to their jobs under the Macy scale, before other wage settlements car be discussed, makes a gener- al sympathetic strike inevit- able. Labor leaders asserted that the Piez statement was called forth by his receipt of a proposed settlement agreement, tentatively ent. cred into by representative of the strikers and shipyarG owners, after a conference under the auspices of th' Seattle industrial relations commission.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
WANT 4o-HOUR WEEK

DUBLIN, Feb. 2.-(By The Associat- ed Press)-A labor congress has been summoned for next week to meet in the Mansion House here, to demand universal 44-hour week at wages IS per cent above the pre-war rates, with q minimum of 50 shillings (approxi- rnately s12.5o) weekly, for all workers. The Dublin trades council has an- nounced, however, that it will move an amendment to this proposal advocating a 40-hour week.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
StQbS and Cuts
 SeT 72 Times
 Before He Dies

FL PASO, Texas, Feb. 2.-With 72 wounds in his body, Salvador Rodriguez was taken to the police emergency hospital early today and died soon after. The coroner's yer dict was that the wounds were self inflicted with a dull knife. Doctors declared this was a local record for the number of wounds in a human body.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
Inquiries
 If She Mast Go
 On Water Wagon

MANILA, Feb. 2.-The question as to whether the recently ratified prohibition amendment in the United States affects the PhiIlipine Islands has been raised here and Acting Governor Charles E. Yealer has sent an inquiry to Washington asking ruling in the matter.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
GIVE FLYING CIRCUS

SAN DIEGO, Cal. Feb. 2-In the presence of more than 3o.000 persons, 125 army aviators from the North Island aviation school, presented the schools first flying circus. A feature of the program, which was held dur ing showers, was an attack on captive to1qQn Mt shg hgaltitude of 1900 feet The
 15Dn1t&tA Af the basket escaped by o6onS n 1orachutes.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
California Benefits

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Removal of the export restrictions on barley, an- nounced today by the war trade board, with the statement that export licenses would be granted freely to all destina- tions. opens a way for the disposal of the S00,000 tns surplus of barley now held by California growers.
 Harris Weinstock, California state market director, and Clements Horst sent here to ask for the lifting of the embargo. after conferences with the acting food administrator and other of ficials, have begun negotiations with representatives of the Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish governments for the disposal of the California sur plus. Indications are that Denmark will be in the market for 100000 tons.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
Former Emperor Charles

Former Emperor Charles
 ZURICH, Feb. 2.-The Prague TagebIatt is authority for the state ment that former Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary intends to ap- ply for divorce.
 Charles was married in 1911 to Princes Zita of Bourbon and Parma, an Italian. From the union have been born five children, four boys and girl.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
NEWS EPITOME E
FOREIGN


 Resume of national demands at peace conference is graphically made by the Associated Press. German assembly at Weinar, the first in its history, scheduled for this week.
 Mexican interests about to attend conference, stir members. Meeting with Russian factions about to end in fizzle. British parliament is to open today without Lloyd Georges presence. DOMESTIC
 Piez statement appears to be the cause of an impending bad strike in Seattle.
 Governor Campbell is named on big Roosevelt Memorial committee. Dutch ships requisitioned by U. S., to be returned at once. Secretary Glass vigorously denies rumor that fifth loan is unneces- sary.
 Sweeping removal of ban on food stuffs exportation is announced. LOCAL
 Two airplanes smash at the lnqIe- side club grounds when the Gulf to Pacific squadron of four new de Havilands land for Phoenix visit; no one injured. Phoenix will join movement to plant trees to commemorate men who have died in the service. Regional director of the central west ern division of the railroad admin istration is Phoenix visitor.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-03
FRANCE ASKS THIRTEEN BILL IONS

Graphic Summary of Demands of All Nations Repre-. sented at the Peace Conference Is Compiled by the Associated Press French Preparation Total Is Vast Belgans Ask for Comparatively Modest Amount Qualification Is Made, Dependent Upon Return of Machinery Generally Unanimous Feature Appears to Be the Naturalization of the Rhine Outlet to the Sea Would Be Given Switzerland, Alsace-Lorraine and Northeastern France.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-01-17

construction universal que debc ser
81 trabajo lie Ia Conferencia Y 4 los
altos idcales de j~usticia que Sc OBJ
scrvaran durante las ~deliberaciones
del Congreso de PaZ. Despues de que
declare alberta Ia session, sc retirara
de- salon. para dejar 4 los rcpresen-
tantes en- absolute libertad de dar
principle 4 las lahores de la Confe-
rcncia.
f. Seguida eI Primer Ministro
Clcmenccau ocupara Ia p~residencia.
ON Jefe de la delegation francesa
Y por correspondents de derecho. to-
Ga vcZ que el Congreso Sc reune en-
Ia caD:tal de Francia. Clemenceau
pejiri lueCo Que Sc proceda al NOM
bramiento dc los funcionarios que
deban intcgrar Ia Mesa Dircctiva.
que incluird I'm PreSidente, un Vice
Prcsidente ;. un SecrctariC General.
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RI a las rsgias Y disposic!cnes re-
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scgnirSc en- ci CGrgreSo.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-01-17

La primera razor que eNponen pa
IA fundar esa irconsistencia, es la
dc que negando los b~oiShevikis el
.yerdadero principle de Ia macdonald
Jad. sohre cue Sc hasa Ia Conferen-
cha, Sc cometcria un error el acep-
tirselcs como dciegados en- Ia Con-
fcrencia. Y en- segundo lugar. qIe
los otros grupos rusos que Sc oponen
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realidaG movimientos Separates, s.
no parties de IN gran movimiento
cuyo ~prop0sito c. 81 de hacer de Ru-
sin. una nGciGn democr&tica, unida
Y liberal.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-01-17
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PARIS. Enero 16.-Ningun docu-
menlo Official ina dado mas a!icnto Y
estimdlo al Comite russo en- Paris. que
trahaia por r~establecsr Ia umdad
Rusa Y ell orden Ell csc pals, que Ia
carta del NiniStrO de RelaciOneS En-
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cue Sc recomienda eHfdticamente
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hevikis. como Delegates a Ia Confe-
rencia de PaZ.
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ci6n del Miuisrro de Relaciones
Frances. fue motivada por Ia pro-
posici5u del Primer MniStro iaglcs.
Lloyd-George dc Quc fucran reel
bidos en- las Confercnclas. los 5olS-
hcvikiS. 10 mismo que los represen-
tantes de las demaS facciones ruSaS.
los diploriaticos V ~estadistas rusos
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acci0n del Primer Ministro Lloyd
George, o : critica:. Ia actitud del
gobierno britaniro. Pero discuten Ii
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relative q Ia recerc;on de delegados
de los otros gTupos ruSos, como re-
presentantes de gobiernos de factc
Separates en- ell Norte Y en- cl Sur
de Russia Y en- Siberia
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-01-17

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