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REFORMS ARE WON !: ].
BY BRITISH CRISIS


rally, Secretary for Scotland. President
of the Board of Trade. Minister OF
Health, President OF the Board OF Agri-
culture, President OF the Board of Edu-
cation, the Ministers of Labor ana
Transport, Lord Privy Seal and George
Nicoll Barnes, Minister without port
foltn. '1'
Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor OF the
Exchequer, has laid before Parliament
a White Paper, in which he gives nT
proposals for making up the national
balance sheet in normal years. The
estimated revenue is given as 100000
000 In this are included f290.0oo; 900
derived from customs and excise duties
E460.000,000 received from the inlane
revenue, $4,000, 900 from the post OFFICE
and $4,000, 900 from other sources. ~.
The estimate of the expenditures Hn-
der post bellum conditions are composed
Of f3T3,00O, 900 for consolidated fund
charges public debt service), f135.0Oo,-
900 for the fighting forces. f246,e0O'ope
for the civil services and 53,400,O0O for
the revenue services. ~
The Chancellor declares that the ex-
penditures for the financial year 1919-2o
will reach f1,642,295,O00, or f191.1eS,~
900 more than was estimated in this
budget laid before the House, while ths
revenue will attain 1,16S, $780, 900. which
is f32,45o, 900 less than was estimated In
the budget. Thus the deficit on this
years budget will amount to f478'e4S.'
900. ~.
The Chancellor stated that Great Brit
ain would owe the United States at tho
end of March, 1920, a total, estimated
at par of exchange. of fS42.0o0,o0O
while the amount which allied govern
ments would owe to Great Britain on the
same date is estimated at Fl, FAC. 900, 900.
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GERMANS INVITED
TO VISIT BRITAIN
Members of Government May
Join in Conference.

LONDON. Oct. 2S.-Fourteen Germans
OF prominence and several equally
prominent Austrians will arrive in Eng
land November to confer in London
with a number of English people who
during the war and since the armistice
was signed have interested themselves
in the internal conditions of Germany,
says the Daily Mail
Among those who will entertain the
visitors will be Baron Parmoor. judi
cial member of the Privy Council and,
the Daily Mail adds. some members of
the Government are expected to hold
communication with them, though
whether directly or indirectly is not
known.
The visitors will include Eduard Bern
stein and Carl kautsky, Socialists :;
Count Montgelas, commander OF the
Fourth Bavarian Division during a part
Of the war and formerly a friend Of
Emperor William; Max Warburg, a
Hamburg banker, and Profs. Bonn and
Brentano.
The best known among the Austrians
is former Premier Heinrich I.ammasch,
Dr. Otto Bauer. former Foreign Minis
ter, and Dr. Wilhelm Ellenbogen, Minis
ter of Sterilization. Among the Ger
mans invited were Herr Won Gwinner,
head of the Deutsche Bank, who did not
accept All the other Germans accepted.
The Daily Mad says this will be the
first gathering of Germans and Aus
trians in Great Britain since the be-
ginning Of the war. The newspaper ap-
parently is not aware of the purpose Of
the conference but says that doubtless
it will arouse great public interest
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U. S. ELIMINATED AS
TURK MANDATORY
Powers Find President Was
Wrong in Assuming America
Would Consent.
" a star Correspondent Of The svS.
Copyright. 1919; all ri0hfs reserred.

NOPWV'tfs AsAsb f'b''e 'SSNft'Ns
PARIS, Oct. Elm the informal CON
versations now going on here with re-
gard to Turkey America has now been
entirely eliminated from all calcula-
tons as a possible mandatory for Tur-
key. This is officially admitted for the
first time In American circles and is a
result, first, of the report by the COM
mission headed by Gen. Hartford, and,
second, of advices received from Am
bassadors in Washington, who seemed
TO have been informed by some one high
in authority there that there was no
chance of Congress approving any man
date.
The sounding was made because the
Powers wanted to know where they
stood in tho matter. They now find that
the President was utterly wrong in his
conclusion that his countrynen would
support the idea of America taking over
part of Asia as part of the new inter
nationalism and that the plans which
they had tentatively made upon the as
sumption OF the reflected opinion of
Americans must be recast.
There now appears a great possibility
of a Turkish conference in January. but
not in Paris. The British are now urging
tons in Egypt. which are a reflection of
the unsettled state of the Turkish En-
pire. Also secret bargainings and
agreements are being made every day
among the European nations as to what
they will get out of the Turkish grab
bag. and the British, who have already
got the biggest piece in Mesopotamia,
want to put stop to some Of the other
schemes which threaten trouble.
Gen, Harbord's report is fatty against
an Armenian mandate, one reason being
that experts say 1t is impossible to de-
limit Armenia satisfactory. Armenia,
they think, is better or as part OF the
Turkish Empire II the empire can be
administered properly.
They say the only sensible mandate
would be for a greater part of the Turk
Anatolia, the straits and everything east
of a line drawn to Alden. AS this would
involve the claims OF Greece and Italy
and include control OF the Dsrdenelles
It is impossible OF achievement, nor is
u possible to assume that America would
consent to take over SO much response
bIity.
Consequently, as THE SUN has fire.
quently predicted. the Turkish dream has
been shattered. leaving a really worse
state of AFFAIRS to be settled than had
the conference dealt with the problem
along old diplomatic lines last spring
and summer. America, however. will,
under the Presidents order, participate
in the Turkish conference, which may
give the President an opportunity TO try
TO act as arbiter.
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Tammany leaders declared last night
that Mayor Hylan had taken sides with
Tammany Hall as against Mr.. Hearst in
the fight As proof of their assertion
hey pointed TO the appointment in the
morning Of Mrs. Jean II. Norris as q
thirty day City Magistrate. She takes
tine place of Magistrate Breen, who is
sick, her commission running simply
for a month. at which time IT may be
renewed
The Mayor, It was said. picked Mrs.
Norris. knowing she was woman dis
trict leader in the Democratic organiza-
ton and was assistant secretary OF Tam
many Hall and In spite of the fact that
J.. J. O'Reilly. agent of Mr.. Hearst. had
made a suggestion for the appointment.
Mrs Norris is co-leader OF the Tenth
district OF which George Olvaney is the
male leader.
In this connection. however. IL has
been noted that Mayor Hylan has con-
sistently, even since Mr.. Hearst has
broken with the Governor, given all OF
his judicial patronage to Tanpnany Hall.
However. the Norris appointment is the
first given to Tammany since the Gov
ernor opened his guns on the editor. 1t
proves, according TO Democratic reason
ing, that when the Mayor does decide
to take an open stand in the fight It will
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people in that State-without referring
to the Indian empire, a subject race
with no rights of self-government, yet
which is given a vote in the assembly
Of this league. To that l decidedly
object"
sherman Attacks League.
Senator Sherman said the Hitchcock
Interpretation was accepted nowhere
outside the Senate; that India was
subject race and nothing more, and not
entitled on any ground of self-determina-
ton to be represented in the league
Mr.. Sherman then proceeded with a
long address attacking the league gen
orally and the disproportionate voting
power of Britain particularly.
This is not a League of Nations"
he said. ut is a league of proxies.
Great Britain will vote not only the
five votes of her dominions she will
control the vote OF Hedjaz. of Siam, OF
Persia, of Tibet-of every Asiatic and
African state aside from those they may
finally attach themselves to the interests
% Germany It is a league OF BOSSES in
terhational bosses; not league of prog
ress but of the deepest reactionism."
And 1 hope" suggested Senator Nc
Cotmick, that my colleague will not
Eric Drummond. in virtue of being head
committee on CREDENTIALS canny
Scotsman whom Britain has placed in
that important post
May Speed Vote on Treaty.
The debate was still in progress when
the Senate adjourned. Some confidence
was expressed by Democratic leaders
that the unexpected vote on the Johnson
amendment would bring the treaty con-
sideration to r much earlier end than
had been generally expected, but this
was not entertained by Senators on the
other side. Mr.. Lodge said 1t would
make no difference whatever. ut merely
shows" he said, that we are the people
who accomplish whatever is accom-
plished here for expedition of the mat
ter"
Soon after the vote on the johnson
amendment the following statement was
issued by the Senators named in it:
Following the vote to-day on the
Johnson amendment Senator's Nelson,
McCumber Sterling, Colt Kellogg, Hale,
McNary, Keyes and Edge stated their
belief that the interests of the United
States can and should be safeguarded
by effective reservations and that it is
their intention to vote for such reserva-
tons
Further than that, in the interests of
expoditing action and to bring about the
flnal ratification of the peace treaty with
Germany with effective reservations they
should vote against all amendments to
the treaty"
This was seized on as further proof
that opposition to early ratification was
now useless as the assurance of these
nine Republican votes against all amend
ments it was assumed would put an end
to any hope OF amendments. But Mr.
Lodge only smiled.
I'VE have known all along that these
gentlemen would oppose all the amend
ments," he said. ut does not make the
slightest difference in the situation"
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ASKS WHY u. S. SOLD
SUGAR TO FRANCE
Bland Takes Another Slap at
Pershing Also.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27--Action of the
War Department in selling to the French
Government $4,000. 900 pounds of sugar
sent overseas for the American Expedi-
tionary Force was criticised in the House
to-day by Representative Bland (Rep.
Ind.), a member of a House committee
which recently investigated War Depart
ment expenditures abroad.
Mr.. Bland said that since this sugar
was sold the department had called on
the Sugar Equalization Board for H.
900, 900 pounds OF sugar for the army
for the present quarter.
Wouldn't Gen. Pershing know some
thing about the disposition of American
sugar IN France?" asked Representative
Mays (Dem. Utah.)
If Gen. Pershing didn't know more
abou. disposition of sugar than he did
about the 'front.'" Bland replied, "it would
be useless to ask him.
81 found him 200 miles from the front
on July 49,. 1918, when the battle Of
-Thierry was at its height"
Nearly 400, 900 tons of sugar, enough
to meet American demands until the next
crop is produced, Is held in Cuban ware
houses, said cablegram to-day from
President Alejo Careceno of the Cuban
Sugar Manufacturers and Planters AS
ISOLATION, TO Chairman McNary OF the
Senate sugar investigating committee.
"Cuba is willing, on reasonable terms.
to protect future contingencies" said the
cablegram, but the blame is not with
Cuba, which should not be penalized be-
cause the American market is unbal-
anced"
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her indemnity, we cannot change one i'm
portant commission, we cannot change
one obligation which runs from Ger
MANY to the great Powers under this
treaty. And what obligation, pray. let
but one be named. is there which runs
from us to Germany to which her as
sent Is needed for modification, or to
ameliorate which we need to approach
as a suppliant either the German peo-
Pile or a German Government, 1t is GER
tain, for example, that we can mitigate
the provisions which run in our favor
from Germany IL we care to, but we
probably should not have to crawl into
the German presence upon our hands
and knees. or even upright with hat
in hand in order to get consent to this
~ repeat II is not possible for us to
force otherwise than by arms or by eco
nomic measures as potent as arms any
change in this treaty as against either
the allied Powers or Germany and 1t Is
not possible for any action which we
take here to AFFECT any OF the obligations
which run from Germany TO the allied
and associated Powers IL three of the
Powers ratify the treaty as written ex-
cept in the one particular which l have
already suggested in an earlier speech,
namely, II we release in favor OF Ger
many or of the Powers the indemnites
and the rights which Germany by this
treaty has granted in our favor.
''Why then this absurdity about re-
converting the Peace Conference? Or
can a majority of the people be fooled
all the time?
"In so far as the reestablishment of
our commercial relations with Germany
10 concerned 1 again advert to the fact
that when this treaty goes into effect the
status of war will be terminated and we
shall be o ma basis OF peace with all its
attendant rights and privileges. / also
again call attention to the fact that SO
soon as the status OF war Is ended Of
fetal relations with Germany and with
any OF the German States will be re-
sumed by the allied and associated
Powers"
IAN our Consuls will reenter. our
diplomatic representatives will be sent
TO Germany and we shall be in the same
position we were before the war. and
this will happen when the treaty goes
into effect, whether we ratify this treaty
unamended, whether We ratify II with
reservations and amendments. or whether
We do not ratify II at all. Here again
the people OF the United States have
been deliberately misled by the propo-
nents OF this league"
The sun., 1919-10-28
ARMY COSTS BRITAIN
EXTRA 500 MILLIONS
Delay in Demobilization Is
One of Causes. so5

LONDON, Oct 27.-A revised Statement
of army expenditures issued this fore
noon shows n gross total for the finan-
cial year 1890 Of $4,000, 900, 900. in
stead of the total of $2,20o.o00, 900 orig
inally estimated. The receipts from the
sale OF materials and from payments by
Germany for the army of occupation
amounted to s425, 900, 900, making the
net total expenditure $2.025,O0O, 900.
The original estimates placed the re-
ceipts at 1856, 100000. and gave the net
total expenditures as S1,435, 600, 900
Thus the final figures show an increase
over the estimates of $59o,000,O00.
The increase in the appropriations Is
explained as due to delays in demo-
bilization. the raising of the pay of the
soldiers and decreases in receipts caused
by the deferment OF payments by Ger
many for the army of occupation.
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u. S. TO BUY GREAT
BRITISH AIRSHIP
R-38 When Completed viii
Be FIoUn Here.

LONDON. Oct. 27.-Announcement was
made In the House of Commons to-day
by Major-Gen. John E. V. Seely, parlia-
mentary undersecretary for the Ministry
Of Munitions. that the giant airship
R-3S is to be sold to the United States
at a cost which it has been stated will
exceed s2.500000. go
The airship is expected to be com
pleted by the first Of the year. As soon
thereafter as the United States provides
an airdrome it will be flown to the
United States with an American crew,
which will be trained by the British Air
Ministry free of cost, excepting pay for
rations.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-An early clos
ing of the contract for the purchase by
the Navy Department of the British
rigid airship R-3S, the largest airship in
the world, now under construction in
England, is expected, it was stated at
the department to-day. Two and a half
million dollars were appropriated by
Congress for the purchase Of this air.
ship and for the training OF the pilots.
1.-The success" said the statement, "ot
the British in building and operating
rigid airships is proved by the trip of
the R-34 to the United States and its
return to England. While the Germans
had many years start of the British, the
latter have made a wonderful progress
in the last few years.
The R-3S to outward appearance
will look like the R-3i, but her dimen-
sions, horsepower speed and radius OF
action will be much greater. When fun
of gas she will have 2,724.0O0 cubic feet
capacity, which is fifteen times that OF
the C-5. the United States naval dirigible
that blew to sea and was lost last spring
at Newfoundland on the eve of an at
tempt to cross the Atlantic"
The R-5S is 694 feet in length. sc feet
In diameter. 90 feet 6 inches high and
carries a useful load of forty-fve tons.
She is expected to have maximum
speed of so knots. The British Air Min
istry has offered TO train personnel for
the R-3S SO that upon delivery the air
ship can be taken over Immediately by
an American crew and be flown to the
United States.
The R-3S will be housed in a hangar
now under construction at Lakewood.
N. j., it was said to-day at the Navy
Department. Capt IT. T. Craven, direc-
tor Of naval aviation, has recommended
that hangers capable of accommodating
similar dlrigibles be located in Florida
and on the Pacific coast.
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Editorial Rouses Murphy.

that Mr.. Hearst has feared this for some
time and Is fully prepared for It.
Editorial Rouses Murphy.
The editorial in the Evening Journal,
which induced Mr.. Murphy to instruct
his counsel to bring a suit for libel, was
entitled swat the Boss" II represented
Mr.. Murphy as having profted from the
contract to furnish glucose to the Brit
ish Government held by Mr.. Hartog Mr..
Olcott. OF Olcott, Bonynge, McManus and
Ernst, who has acted as counsel for
Mr.. Murphy in previous libel actions. is
sued the following statement
"Our firm has been instructed by
Charles f. Murphy to institute an action
for libel against w. r. Hearst and the
Evening Journal for the publication OF
a false and malicious account of the
testimony taken in q judicial proceeding,
rejecting upon Mr.. Murphy's integrity
as n man and as citizen.
The series OF garbled accounts which
furnishes the basis of the action
eliminated in a full page editorial in
to-night's Journal. This editorial con-
tains so many lies and attempts to draw
so many llbellous differences that Mr..
Murphy has resolved to appeal to the
courts for redress. I shall serve the
summons in the morning"
Henry Birrell. a Republican, appeared
yesterday as chairman of the committee
which has engaged Carnegie Hall and
had hoped to arrange a debate between
the Governor and the editor. Mr. Bir-
rell, 1t seems, is an old friend of the
Governor and was active a year ago
in a non-partisan committee that worked
for the election of the Democratic candi-
date for Governor
The committee. of which Col. jefferson
De Mont Thompson, head of the Broad
way Association. is chairman, has opened
headquarters in room 115 of the Wal
dorf. While the full membership OF the
committee has not been made up, about
fifty names were announced. The desig-
nations in connection with some of the
names were furnished by Mr.. Birrell.
With these designations the list is:
Frank f. Conover, Maurice Bowler of
William r Grace & Co. Harold A. Con-
tent former Assistant United States At
torney; II. Chambers Reid, Fred A.
Stokes, publisher: Henry O'Donogue, real
estate; Stevenson Taylor of the Quin-
tard Iron Works, John S. Stephen, plate
glass manufacturer DR.. Theodore NJ.
Johnson, Col. Wilbur C. Brown, Robert
Graves, Henry l.. Joye OF the Marine
Department OF the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, NJ. w. Rsynes. fire protec-
ton; Edward Leach, Thomas ]. O'Reilly.
Charles +. Miller, Joseph T. Tanning.
Louis Frank, William A. Kane, William
w. Cohen, stock broker; Charles De
Witt, banker and broker; ]. NJ. Gliding,
women's suits; Henry Kelly. Jr., dealer
in fruits; Benjamin Mordecai, real es-
tate; Henry NJ. Peers. member of the
Cotton Exchange August Silz. wholesale
poultry dealer; Myron Sulzberger. meat
packer; Walter II. Merrall, Thomas j.
Tuomey. Leon e. Bailey. Frank J. Cas-
sidy, William ]. bargeon, p. F. Kenny
NJ. J. Leonard, George IT. Montgomery,
Leon c. WeinstocK, William Halt, John
McNicholas, Benjamin s. Moss, II. Blu
mont Herts, Paul Henry Zaget. William
b. Cardszo OF the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company. George W. Hodges
banker.
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U. S. FLEET STARTS FOR HOME.
Vessels End visit al
IIHbOn

LISBON, oct. 27.-The American fleet
OF twenty-four vessels which has been
visiting Lisbon left the Tagus yesterday
with the homeward bound pennant fly
ing. as the fleet will touch only at the
Azores and Bermuda en- route
Numerous festivities enlivened the
stay of the fleet here. The sailors en-
toyed themselves In sightseeing-their
first holiday in eighteen months, they
said. The balmy air of this southerly
CLINE appealed greatly to them.
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PLAGUE IN TURKEY CHECKED.
Little Alarm Now, but Other Coun-
tries Enforce Quarantine.

CoNsrANTrNoPIE Oct. % delayed. .
There has been no increase in the
number of cases of plague here for the
last week. and little alarm is shown over
the situation.
Guarantees. however have been es-
tablished by Rumania and Greece. The
former will place travellers under obser-
walton for ten days and the latter for
FIVE days. Italy will subject persons
leaving for Italian ports TO a medical
examination.
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nAll these matters are covered by the
new draft OF. the amendment" said
Senator Moses, "as they should be; but
IL is apparent that the delicate sensibili-
ties of Great Britain must have con-
sideration in this chamber. and the vote
Just taken makes apparent that there
is little chance for any amendment on
this point TO be adopted lie sus-
gested that the Shields amendment might
be accepted as an amendment 10 the
pending Moses amendment.
Senator Lodge said that without ao-
ton of the Foreign Relations Committee
he did not feel justified in accepting the
Shields amendment
Then Mr.. Hitchcock launched an at
tack on the whole series of amendments
designed to give the United States
equality of voting power with Great
Britain and the Dominions. He opposed
the Shields amendment because 1t would
bar all the British possessions from
membership in the league, which would
be drastic and destructive, and II
adopted would wreck the whole league
plan. He protested against what he
called the jealousy of Senators against
the British Dominions, insisted that the
empire did not get six votes at all
ana insisted that the Dominions were
admitted 10 the ieasue Ho' peS"u0o Va
any intrigue by the London Government
in its own interest but because they
themselves made their fight for recog-
milton as members of the family OF
nations All the tendencies of their
course, he insisted were in the direc-
ton of ultimate independence, a ten
dency that the United States certainly
ought not to oppose.
II regret" said Senator Moses, that
the Senator closed his panegyric on the
people OF Capada-they have contributed
rs per cent OF the Population OF my
own state and are among the best
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u. S. Red Cross Chief Is
Fired On by Riga Let's

BERLIN, Oct. 27.--Col. Ryan,
- chief of the American Baltic
Red Cross relief, was fired on by
the Let's while crossing the Riga
bridge, according to a special
despatch from Mitau-this de-
spite an understanding which had
been arrived at between him, the
Russians and the Let's. Col.
RYAN displayed a huge white flag,
according to the agreement.
An American automobile,
which went to get him, was also
attacked by the Let's with
shrapnel.
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HEARST DECLINES
SMITH DEBATE Def
Continued from FIRST Page.

you gentlemen are going TO hire Car
negie Hall every time my papers ex-
pose rascally politicians you would bet
ter take long term lease on the
property"
The sun., 1919-10-28
Japan Is Third Power
to.Approve Treaty

~ tHe Assoctdted Press.
TOXIC, Oct. 27.-The Privy
Council to-day approved the
German peace treaty.
The approval of the treaty by
the Japanese Privy Council
amounts virtually to ratification,
as the Emperor, who has the con-
stitutional power to ratify all
treaties without the concurrence
of the Diet, usually follows the
advice of the Privy Council.
Japan will thus probably be the
third of the great Powers whose
notifications are necessary before
the treaty with Germany becomes
effective.
The United States and Italy
are yet to ratify.