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to Chelyabinsk, on the west, Alps
miles.
Fourteen of its personnel of thirty
one had been stricken with typhus
Eight attendants out of the original
eight fell victims. A Czech guard. a
ca" porter, a male "feldscher% or nurs-
ing attendant, and an assistant field
scher' were taken down. Typhus even
went into the crew of iiremen looking
after the ~ater-heating apparatus. But
the train went on Men were employed
to take the places OF those sent TO
hospitals. Al last reports all OF the
patients were recovering. Diagnosis of
the disease at an early stage, prompt
dispatch 20 the hospital, and careful
nursing pulled them through. Their
recovery shows that typhus, fought
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

"HE crisis in the French gov
eminent which nearly brought
Il down the Clemenceau govern
uent ten days ago has indicated
weakness which in the minds of
most French observers foreshadows
the speedy fall Of the present French
Ministry and supplies one of the
most striking indications if not of
the ingratitude Of republics, at least
of the brevity CT the popularity
which any politician may have.
It's still less than year since Gle
nlenceau was hailed in the Chamber,
returning from the scene Of military
victories become decisive, with an
armistice in his pocket which re-
stored Asace-Lorrain to France.
The greeting given to Clenenceau
was perhaps unprecedented in
French political history. 1t was not
greater than the wonderful old man
who had made victory possible de-
served, but it seemed to insure him
popularity and power just as long
as he chose to remain in public life.
By contrast it has been apparent
FOR nearly six months that Clemen-
ceau was rapidly losing ground in
France and for at least three
months It has been plain that the
Iole reason for his continuance in
power was the reluctance of any
rival 10 assume sponsibility for
conducting peace negotiations which
were hound 10 be unpopular. In a
certain sense Clemenceau's oppo-
nents have been steadily waiting I'M
til the treaty Of peace should be
made and the burden Of unpopular
ity this peace involved squarely
fixed upon Clemenceau's shoulders
to GUST the Tiger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Re Hunters Begin to Track Down Frances TIGER
Both the Socialists and Those
Who Demand the Rhine
Frontier Are Attack
ing the Premier

frontier. 1t is one of the oldest cir
eunstances of the present situation
that Clemenceau should be held re-
sponsible at home for the weakness
CT his defence of French claims,
while abroad, by certain factions Of
public opinion, he and his country
ere still being criticised for the
magnitude of their gains.
I But, above all else, Clemenceau has
steadily lost ground in France be-
cause his government has been I'M
able to reorganize France, to start
the French people at the business of
life again. The task was colossal.
Il is impossible Immediately 10 re-
build devastated regions. French
troops had still to watch a slllcn
and revengful enemy. Other :-rsnci-
troops, which from Russia to Syria
had been employed d,r;rg Jhe war.
could not immediately. 9e recalled
because employed in an attempt to
defeat Bolshevism in many places.
France asked Of Clemenceau that
he first make peace az once, obtain
ing in that peace for his country Sc
curity and indemnity, and following
this peace that there .shoulG be
prompt rehabilitation of the French
armies and a return OF the mel. who
had lift their homes >pearly FIVE
years before and thereafter remained
almost constantly in the army
On the other hand, no one viii
blame Clemenceau for the delays III
the peace conference. Nevertheless,
those delays prevented the denlobili-
zation of the French army, post
p"ned the return of the F'renclamcn
to work, prolonged the period of sus-
pense and unsettlement which had
very evil consequences in Franc,
On the other hand, only the most
unqualified admirer of the Tiger
would venture to assert that his do
mestic policy, his handling of the
acute and peculiar problems of res
toration in France, had been more
or less an abysmal failure. His
Cabinet was on the whole a Cabinet
Of nobodies. It was a Cabinet domi-
mated by one big man committed to
a gigantic task. When that task was
accomplished the Prime Minister and
his aids, in the nature of things,
were unsuited for the new labor.
AS result we have had in France
shortness of food, terrific expansion
of prices, weak and fumbling finan-
cial policy, and, above all, failure
to do anything substantial in the
way of bringing assistance to the
victims of the devastated regions.
The domestic, the financial and the
restoration policies Of Clemenceau
and his Cabinet have been in the
main a complete and colossal failure
and have resulted in ever increasing
domestic unrest.
Plainly, this was inevitable.
! Clemenceau himself was over eighty
years old. His efforts in the war
had been tremendous. In the peace
conference he presided, and on him
fell the enormous burdens due to the
fact that he represented the govern
nent in the country in which the
conference was held. Moreover,
early in the conference he was Sc
verely wounded by an assassin's bull
! let. 1t is easy to understand, but it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
The Crisis i'm the Clemencea,,
Government Indicates a
Weakness Which Nav
Mean Its Fall
By Frank H. Simonds

the whole been little interested either
In domestic administration or for
elgn relations. In French politics.
as in war, his tremendous energy,
vitality, capacity for leading a sim
gle assault against the enemy, had
made him the figure that he had been
from the fall of the Second Empire
to the moment when he returned to
the Quai d'Orsay.
For Clemenceau's fame nothing
could have been more advantageous
than retirement once the war had
been won. No further achievement
could increase the fame or the popu-
larity of the "Fathcr' of Victory"
while It was inevitable that disap-
pointment and delay might in the
end greatly diminish his prestige.
This the Tiger saw clearly enough
and remarked: sit is not selfshness
which makes me go on. l have only
to die now and think of the fu-
neral" Still Clemenceau could have
retired only with difficulty, and he
bad no thought of retirement until
the war had been liquidated. At
the outset of the peace conference
he Numbered N characteristicall
sharp and sarcastic comment upon
the league of nations which irritated
Mr.. Wilson, angered an American
delegation for whom the peace con-
terence was no more than a gather
ing to ratify Mr.. Wilson's idea, and
out of this situation grew an es-
arrangement between the Americans
and the French which, while it had
no permanent evil consequences,
led to tense moments, grave ankle
ties, and enabled the British, by
speaking fair words where Clemen-
ceau had made biting jests, to occu-
py with respect to the Americans
the position which it had seemed
was securely French.
Clemenceau's position was imme-
diately and terribly weakened in the
peace conference and in France by |
the fact that the British came to 7
the Paris Conference animated by a
single purpose, namely, at all costs
and under all circumstances to fos-
ter Anglo-American friendship, and,
save in cases where their written
pledge existed to the contrary, to
accept and champion American pro-
posals as presented by Mr.. Wilson.
Clemenceau found himself, there
fore, unexpectedly deserted in the
Paris Conference by precisely that
ally on whom he had depended and
with whom France had fought
throughout the war.
Lloyd George and Wilson
Blocked Frances Plans
For France Clemenceau sought in
the peace conference some meas
ure of permanent security against
Germany. He was advised by Mar
shall Foch, he was ordered by con-
siderable and by no means chau-
whistle section of French public
opinion, to procure for France the
Rhine barrier as military frontier
He tried to do this, but failed |
because Lloyd George stood behind |
Wilson and both squarely indicated
that if France insisted upon this
frontier she would have TO maintain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Old Tiger Backed Wilson
As Against Orlando

But, again, to have supported
Italy at Fiume would have been to
disagree with America and Britain
and involve Clemenceau in that sort
of dispute with MIR. Wilson which
would have threatened to remove the
last hope of obtaining the promise of
alliance for which Clemenceau had
already paid so great & price along
the Rhine. That Clemenceau was
sympathetic with Italy's aspirations
| do not think any one will main
cain. His policy in following vii
son against Orlando was, perhaps.
wise.
On the other hand, in this instance
he not only followed. put followed
with apparent enthusiasm, and per-
mitted French troops to act as the
policemen at Fiume, acting against
1taly's interests precisely as Napo-
icon III kept a French garrison in
Rome before the Franco Prussian
War. and thus made Italian support
of France in that war unlikely
To sum up, Clemenceau has lost
ground in France because on the
whole his domestic policy has been
failure, failure due in large
measure, but not exclusively. to
conditions resulting from the war
and beyond the resources of any
statesman to cope with. He has
been weakened by his inheritances
from old times of political feuds
and animosties. He has been stead
lily attacked by the Socialists be-
cause he won the war in the face
of their declaration that the war
was lost and peace at any price was
essential; because he put Caillaux
in prison and CaillauX was and re-
manned a popular idol among the
Socialists. The Socialists have
elected to assail the peace as I'M
perialistic because of the Sarrc Val
ley, but at the same moment Gle
assailed by the conservatives be-
cause in the face Of Foch's warning
he abandoned the Rhine as a mill
tary frontier, and, in association
with Nh Wilson and Lloyd George,
permitted the Italian cisappoint-
ment 10 become nation vide and 70
t@ko the form Of hostility to France
Which might constitute grave
menace to French security in ne
future.
When | left France. nearly two
months ago, it was the general I'M
preston that Clemcnceau would
last until the general election. to be
held a few months later, and then
voluntarily retire. His success in
repulsing the first attack would
seem TO indicate this remains posi-
Bile, but on the other hand, as he
pointed out himself. the first test
vas only skirmish and the main
fight was still to come. Moreover.
in the case Of Clemenceau it is al
ways possible that some sudden and
violent action or expression Of his
may lead al any moment 20 = crisis
and fall as dramatic as that out
burst of his which preceded MS las.
election
Copyright 1872. bY ,he Mcclure S,a.s-
per :. nd 81.
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with modern weapons and plenty Of
them. is no invincible enemy. 1t can
be defeated in Siberia, though the
great edlpemic of 1919 seemed over
whe Inning
About 10000 men have been handled
by the personnel in the SIX months
the train has been ont. These men
have been bathed, their heads clipped,
their clothing disinfected, and in many
cases they have received underwear
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4 REPORT dealing with the work
N of the Allied anti-typhus train
[ "A which has been operating in

Siberia under American Red
Cross direction for the last six months
was made public at Red Cross head
quarters to-day After covering thou
sands of miles and caring for thou
sands of victims of the disease, the
train, known throughout Siberia as
"The Great White Train" is now at
Perm, where the doctors and nurses
are combating recent outbreak Of
typhus among the soldiers and civil
ians of that district. Captain Rudolph
Buckley, a member of Honolulu chap
ter of the Red Cross, is the director
of the expedition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Handling 1000 Gases
Day Is Possible

Bathing hundreds of men daily. ster-
ilizing their clothing, giving out medi
cines and garments, the train visited
city after city. It's trail OF mercy
reached from Vladivostok. on the east,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
France Depressed by
Peace Conference DELAYS

To understand the present situa-
ton it is necessary to go back for a
little and examine the conditions
which existed at the moment when
tie Germans gave up the Sight in
November Of last year. Victorious
as France was at that time. she
was exhausted and she was terribly
wounded. When the moment of en-
thuslasm over the victory had
passed there ensued a depression
which in some degree survived and
at no distant time began to grow
Indeed, the increase was in no small
degree occasioned by the ever-grow-
ing postponement of French hopes
Of a speedy peace, a satisfying
treaty and a resumption of before
the-war conditions.
1t is we'll for Americans to note
that while this condition in France
is accentuated by many local circum-
stances and marked by certain
peculiarly French characteristics,
nevertheless the larger fact of I'M
rest, dissatisfaction, resentment, is
common to every European country
and in the minds of not few we'll
informed advisers points toward
disorder and not impossibly revolu-
ton in the future.
Clemenceau had come to power at
the moment when treason was at it's
height and the Allies all but lost the
war. His personality, his courage,
his steadfast confidence just sufficed
to save the Allied cause in the crit
ical days Immediately preceding and
directly following the great German
bid for victory in the West. No one
but this wonderful old man could
possibly have reused French spirit
again or kept it steadfast in the ter
flbe months between March and
August, 1918, when the enemy shells
tell in Paris and German troops
again reached the Marine.
But when the war was over, in a
Sense not only was Clemenceau's
task completed but the new labor
That lay ahead was one for which he
was on the whole almost as i'll quail
med as he had been Supremacy capa-
Die for that work which was now
completed. 1t may be doubted if any
frenchman, living or dead, could
possibly have satisfied even the legit-
innate demands of his fellow coun-
trymen both as to domestic and for
eign policies. There was demanded
an administrator with Napoleon's
gifts to start the wheels of French
iile again, and there was required a
diplomat with all the art of Talley-
rand to obtain for France in the
P'@ee conference the things France
Is whole desired.
Niemenceau's Genius Not
warked on Internal Affairs
With brief exceptions Clemen-
.e"us political history was tina. e a
'eader of the Opposition, destroyer
VI government, not constructive
ADMINISTRATOR. His earlier ministry
asa been marked by very mediocre
sandllng of internal affairs; he had
usen great in French public life as
.ae destroyer of weak ministers and
=, me pltiless exposer of bad policy
~ mad never shone and probably die
wv possess constructive qualities
S's was his grasp Of foreign affairs
Auch more impressive. He had or
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lists, and at least associated with
them were traitors. With them
Clemenceau would have nothing to
do at the beginning. Against the
unpatriotic and the cowardly he
waged battle almost as important
for the Allied victory as those Foch
fought on the battlefield.
Clemenceau Criticised
By Opposing Factions
But Clemenceau, having lost the
support Of the Socialists by con-
tinping the war to victory, also lost
the support of the conservatives, Of
the Frenchmen who accepted the
dictum Of Foch rather than that of
the President and the Prime Minis
ter, by yielding to America and
Britain in the matter of the Rhine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
The Trail of Mercy
Covers 4. 125 Miles

From February % to May 10. the
train handled typhus- ridden crowds Of
civilians and soldiers at Novonicolavsa
Taiga, Tomsk, Bolotnairya, Omsk, Pet
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ilization apparatus. The Red Cross
has determined to meet this need by
next winter through the construction
Of at least 200 sheet iron sterilizers
OF familiar Russian pattern. which
has proved simple TO operate and eff
fective in disinfecting clothing. For
the towns also where drag supplies
were particularly low. the Red Cross
has accurate information on which to
base autumn and winter distribution.
The educational results OF the anti
typhus. expedition were farresching.
The very appearance OF The Great
White Train" in railroad Yards and q.
stations where thousands Of people CON
gregated, proclaimed 10 the Russians
something new, interesting and helpful.
4, was afoot. Military ard civil officials
were deeply interested in the train and
its operations.
Suggestions Made for
Local Campaign
A. the conferences between the Red
Crosr men and the local auth critics
plans were outlined and suggestions
made for local campaigns to comba !.
typhus and kindred epidemics, cam =
paigns in which the Russians now have
the help of the American Red Cross.
Though the Russian army will prob
ably be ne'ter equipped to fight typhus,
the c.Siiiaa population is we'll night
helpless in the face of economic famine
in Siberia. There has been q con-
pararively negligible supply of new
clothing sent into this huge country
The American Red Cross sends west.
ward trainload after, trainload of re-
lief goods suiting, underclothing
sweaters seeks. etc-but the sum is
inadequate N the face of the staggering
necessities. Yet every garment counts
every sweater knit By some devoted
women or girl in far-oH America may
save life this winter
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ghi 1872 bS The Mcclure S,.rs-
pspe - nd lcsts-j
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-23
iQUEE3SLA
DOCTRLNA
MONROE?
Ell gobierno saluadoreno Sc
diriijie al de los Estados
Unidos en- demanda de
una explicacion

y,leorcn.a Esn,-iul Dara 1t PRE&SA.
WASHINGTON. Diciembre 22.-El
cobierno de e. Salvador. Centre a.
merica. ha solicitado del Departa-
mento de Estado Sc sirva hacer una
declaration Official respecto a Ia Dec
trina Monroe, definiendo eXactamen-
te 10 Que el referido Departamento
de Estado entiende por esa Doctrina
en- el presente momento historlco,
nor considerar que una declaration
en- tai sentido es necesaria para el
conocimiento de las cancileriaS his
paro americanas.
Parece que el gobierno de r. Sal
vador funda su solicitud dirigida al
Departamento de Estado, en- la Green
cia de que la Doctrina Monroe ha 81
do transformada en- un principle de
derecho universal desde el momento
en- que ha sido include en- el articalo
XXI del Tratado de Paz, sancion&do
va por las principales naciones del
mundo.
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ESQ Sc desprende de las entreuistas
, eeiebradas por un corresponsal del
IN. York Time" que Sc halla en-
esta ciudad y que fueron va
publicados por csc diario
HABLAN UN BANQUERO, Ell PDTE. DE LA CAMARA
De COMERCIO Ell OBTSPO DE S. ANTONIO
La cose media es la uctina del goberno de los banddos
quienes Sc debe la situacion de Mexico, SeguR
opina Mr.. W. Fennel, de Marfn Texas

roS: la clase directora, este e, la que
esta en- el poder Y la clase baja. Hay,
sin embargo, una claSe que es "a YER
dadera representation del pals, el
cora2on de Mexico: la ciase media, '
esta no tiene ninguna tacha. Esta la
claSe media tan deseosa de IA psz. CO.
mo 10 podremos estar les americanos.
porque la forman elementos de ira
bajo V activiGad que son enemigos
de la revolucion. AGemas. los traba-
jadores mexicanoS son laboriosos Y
honrados Y tan enemigos del des6r-
den como la clase media. Las diff
cuitades. repito. las originan los HON
breS del gobierno ' los bandidos cue
tanto diSgustan, con sus actividades.
4 los americanos Y meXicanos de bue-
na voluntad que desean solamente
mantener una amistad estrecha Y sin
cera. Los americanOs que vjven en-
la frontera desean que cesen las diff
cultadeS en- Mexico, que asi como los
mexicanos pueden venir a los Esta-
dos Unidos sin sufrir perjuicios min
guuos. vayan a Mexico los america
nos V trabajen libremente sin per-
gro de ser plagiados sufrir perjui-
clos en- sus intereSes.
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QUIERERE:TENER
ATO[)OTRANCE
FL FL C()bIERNO
CARRANzA
NOTICIAS EN-
WASHINGTON De QUE
HARA CUANTO SEA
NECESARIO PARA
ESTE FIN
r,l,rr-r.- vs--cior -7-r Il rPEwfE.

F,l,r----- I's--riTr -7-r Il EPENSF-
WASHINGTON. Diciembrc 22.-El
Departamento de Estado reclbl0 una
information que pone de manifesto
que Ia situacion en- Mexico es eXtre-
madamente delicada.
Dicese en- ella que va Sc sabe de
manera terminante y definitiva que
Carranza esta resuelto a hacer GUAM
to pueda para Quedarse en- el Poder,
aunque para lograr tai cosa sea ne
cesario posporer indefinidamente las
proximas elecciones presidenciales.
Creese que nj Obregon nj COMA
lez qucdaran conformes con este Y
Sc considera possible hasta que Sc
unan contra Carranza en- case de que
hiciera semejante cosa.
Asegurase igualmente que Carran-
"a 3ratara tambiGn de desafiar q los
Estados Unidos con eli objeto de ga
narsc cl apoyo dc tods.s las facciones
meyicanas, pucs cree que en- ese case
hasta Obreg6n V Gonzalez Sc apre-
surarian a unirS.: con el.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-23
LO QUE LOS AMERICANOS
CUIEREN ES QUE HAYA PAZ

Ii opinion mas alta es Ia eXterna-
da por el vice-Presidente del Maria
National Bank. W. Fennell, quien eX-
sreso 10 siguiente;
La situacion tai V como esta en-
u actualidad ' como ha eStadO du-
rante mucho tempo cS 10 que en- ter
n,inos comerciales Podriamos -definir
como un sombrio Y moleSto estado de
negocios. porquc cs impossible en-
prender negocioS con tranQuilidad J
ron persepectiva dc obtener utilida-'
1cs firmes ' favorables sin el con-
curso de los vecinos del laGo sur del
Ric Grande. y este concurSo no pue-
&c ser obtenido como quiSieramoS,
merced a Ia amenaZa frecCente de las
r7artidaS cue llevar cabo raids
rausando perjuicjos mas O menos Sc
rios en- Ia propiecad y atentando, q
Seccs. contra Ia vida humana.
Los americanos Que vivimos 10
largo de Ia frontcra no deseanoS Ia
Intervention nj menos que Mexico sea
srexado los Estados Unidos. Lo
fnico cae neceSita.noS eS que he'ii-
60 Sc pacifique Y que esto sea prom
to-.
FornelI agrego: Las dificuItades
&c Mexico las ocasionan dos elcmen-
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r.7r-r. a,- gzDecarr ra-. IL PRENSA.

S'rTr-rr rf- Especial nz-E 1t PRENSA-
NUEEA YORK. Diciembre .22.-
Public6 hoy The New York Times
un segundo despacho de Su enviado
especial que fue a la frontera a estu-
diar el sentir de la opinion pubica
ALI respccto de la situacion meXica-
na. El segundo despacho. como et
primero. esta fechado en San Anto-
Mo. donde actualmente Sc halia eI
coyresponsal especial recabando opl-
riores de los hombreS de negoclos '
en- general de todas las personals de
alta representation.
En- 81 uuevo menSaje, el envlado
de The Times" Ga .conocer las O.
9:niones obtenidas en- uuas entrevlS-
las celebradas con ". FanneI. vice
Presidente del Maria National Bank
y rrobablemente el mas conocIdo
hom5re de negocioS del distrlto del
Biz Bend: con W King, presidente
ae Ia Camara de Concrete de San
Antonio Y con eI Arzobispo de San
Antonio. senior DroSsoertS.
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NUEVOS ,ATRACTIV0S
PARA | A FIESTA
DE LOS NIN0S

Nuevos atractivos tenemos qre
anunciar para Ia fiesta que LA Prem
sa" ha arreglado con el fin de di-
vertir a los ninos Ell la Navidad. De-
bido la bondad del Professor Gabi-
no Calderon. tendremos musica du-
rante los intermedios del programa
que publicamos aver. pues dicho Sc
nor Calderon. contando con la cola
,boracion de sus companeros de or
questa. nos ha ofrecido amenizar el
festival.
En- cuanto 10 que Sc va rifar
a los ninos en- el Teatro. diremos que
Sc trata de dos magnificas frazadas
de lana y de un guaiolote.
Los boletos para la rifa seran re-
partidos los ninos despues de que
hayan ocupado sus localidades en- el
teatro.