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Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
REQUEST PUBLICITY OF
 ANSELL'S REPLY TO CROWDER

Washington, March 16 - Request that the reply of Lieutensnt Colonel
 insell, former acting judge advocate general to the. recent letter of Major General Crow1er, judge advocate gen cral in the courtmartial system con- tr0versy be gwen to the public imme- Giately was made today by Senator Chamberlain in a telegram to Secre- tary Baker. Senator Chamberlain in hIs telegram said he had been fur rished with a copy of Colonel Anselrs statement for the confidential use of
 the senate military affairs committee and that after reading t he con- s!dered the statement "a complete answer to the published defense of the | present courtmartial system
 General Crowder at the "esuest of | Secretary Baker outlireH iii a letter to the secretary week ago the diff ferences whict he had ha.. with Col Cnel Ansell ;n matters regarding the | courtmartial system. LaleT Colone Ansel submitted a reply -Thich tho
 war department announced would no
 be made put lie until after SecretaI! | Taker rcturrs from a trip tErougl l the western states
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
SALVATION ARMY ASSUMES
 NEW RESPONSIRJI JTIEs

New York, March 16.-The Salva- ton Army. which has been sending more trained workers overseas since the signing of the armistice, Is now preparing to meet new and increas- ed responsibilities at home dur;na peace, according to a statement is. sued here today by Colonel William Barker. in charge of all Salvation Army Workers in France
 : Colonel Barker, who headed the party ot Salvation Army workers sent abroad ahead of the first contingent ot the American ExpeditiQnary force. has just returned to this Country. td report on changed conditions over seas and to give an account of his stewardship.
 Asserting that the hundreds of thousands of new friends of the Sal Yauon Army, made during the war
 expect to remain in contact with the Salvation Army after they get bach to America" Colonel Barker said: That means an expansion of every branch of our relief work and a strenuous effort to match up with the ! new need. It means large institu- tlons for employment bureaus. for 1 hospitals where the wives and daugh- l ters of eN-service men can find good care and not have to worry aI5ou1 paying for it if they are withou+ funds. It means large orphanages bigger fresh air farms, more free coa and ice for the poor, and more mill
 to feed little sickly babies.
 Tt means permanent meetiu.
 places for the ex-service man il
 America, bigger lodging houses fo
 the poor, and far bigger and bette
 facilities for giving sensible and ouic1
 help for the man who lis down, bu who is never out ,"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
v ,,lcan Bandits
 Driven to Mountains
Government Troops Clear the State of Morelos of Bands of Marauding Out laws.

Mexico City, Saturday March 15.-
 (By The A. P.)-The state of More los. just south of this city. is com r'etely under the control Of govern ment troops after being overrun for
 ten years by bands commanded by
 t1niliano za1 sta. A campaign con-
 Gucted by General Pablo Gonzales, commander cf the government forces, has been successful. Zapata and a few hundred followers being driven into the almost impossible mountains near Fuenta de Ixtla, on the boundary be- tween Mexico and Guerrero His cap tire, with that of General Genevevo de Ia o and Manuel PaIofax his chief l Geutenants, is expected almost any | day.
 An opportunity to confirm the gov ernmentS announcement that Morelos has been pacified has beer afforded 1 tho correspondent of The Associated 1 Press, who has just completed a seven day journey by railroad, mule
 b2Cll and afoot through a large part
 of the state including virtually ali ot Zapata's former stronghoIds. There is regular train service over the Ma 1 t:onal Railway of Mexico between tins city and CuernaVaca, the capital o1 , Morelos, and colonists and artisans a-c being taken there free of charge by the government.
 General Gustavo EHsondo. a forme Rough Rider, who is in command a fCUernavaca, reports the discovery o
 a cave m the mountains, where Za-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
THE LEAGUE
 OF NATIONS COVENANT

Paris, March 16.-(By The A. P.)- Efforts are being directed today to shaping the league of nations coven- ait so as to insure its acceptance by the supreme council and win the ap- proval of those Americans wfc are de- nuanding it's amendment.
 Colonel House conferred with Lord Robert Cecil Leon Bourgeois and the American delegates and reported to President Wilson. It is conceded that some of the suggested amend ments can safely be adopted, for in stance, the safeguarding of the Mon- roe Doctrine and the fixing of condi- tons which will permit of the .adher- ance of the late enemy powers. One of the five powers has hesitat- cd to accept a dfstinc@ expression of the right of secession from the league The Americans are proceeding on the supposition that the covenant may be | included in the peace treaty.
 Foreign Minister PichCr said to day that he felt it was practically i'm ICssible to include the covenant in the i first treaty, The views of neutral countries. which had been invited, and amendments could not be disposed of l he added before tho probable early
 signing of the preliminaries.
 1 The issue, the minister suggested
 might be met by dec.aration in the treaty of the principles underlying
 the league. leaving the details il abeyance The war woGt! be endec
 when the preliminaries were signed he pointed ont, but the Germans would not regain their pre-War status, Witl liberty of movement untu the sign
 ing of the final treaty. pending whicl the blockade would be fitted only par
 tally.
 Regarding Posen, NJ. i'ichon sai
 u at if the Germans persisted in thei rejection of the terms of the allie
 commissioners. the antaLtc woul
 have to intervene. Poland could nc be left in its present dangerous sit
 uation. A French general would b
 sent to Poland with the first Polls division which had fough- ia Franc
 as soon as possible.
 ; M Pichon denied tho report tha the French government nad accorde . recognition to the Russian 3olshevik saying that the supreG1e council Woul consider the Russian question thi week
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17

Vladivostok, Friday. March 14.- CBy The A. r.)-Ameri~an troops have begun 10 move to strategic roints on ine trans-Silerian railway west of ' iadivostok Co aid John r stevens and Lis stan of American railway men in Inc technical operation of ihe railway. TEo first contingent is already at Har- m while the second win entrain with iu a few days for Chit1, which Is the farthest point west 10 which the Americans will be sent
 CZecho- Slorak troops are guarding The line from lrkutsk Jo Tcheliabinsk and JapaneGe troops in Siberia arc also guarding the Chinese EastG T Railway as far as IrkutsS.
 So announcement has vet beer r'ade of thc zones which the various alEos will police. II is sad to be . .1estion for the inter-ailied committed in Siberia 70 decide The committed is awaiting trC arrival of the Chinese member of the military committee be- fore making decision.
 Mir Stevens plan for operating tho
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
ELKs CONTRIBUTE sir1,cGr
 TO TRAN DISABLED SOLDIERS

Washington March 16.-Contrihu- ton of S15O.n0C by the Elks war relief commission for extension Of the work of vocation1ly re-traiuruG disabled soldiers. sailors and marines was an nouncod tonight bv the federal board for vocational education with the statement tna; if necessary further ti- f.ucial assistance wouN he given.
 Fifty thousand dollars of the fund vIil bo loaned to disabled men so that they may be placed lE training i'm i1ediatelv with proper r1aintenance while thcir compensation award is be- ing determined by the government As the loans will be repaiG ;he money -aa lc turned over many times,
 Another S7n coo will be ri'ced at the disposal of tho director of tho board .Ur use iu training disabled men who 1. not cona under the w2r risk in- -urance act CT the federal vocational rehabilitation act and therefore can .ot receive either compensation or raining af government expense. The other S5n0sl oill be usel ir a publicity iunaicn to advise the mor of the raining they can receive if they de- -irn.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
MAJOR DAVID MIX. PETERSON, AMERICAN ACE, KILLED

Sea Breeze. Fla, Ma"ah 16.-Major
 David Nick. Peterson. 0u2 or Ameri-
 c; officially recognized aces" was killed today in he fatl of his air plane att Daylona Beach. Major Pe- tcrsons home address ls Honesdale, Pa
 The airplane piloted by Major Pet erson and in which Lieutenant F. X. Paversick was a passenger, dropped nose forward after reaching a height of about 75 feet while ascending from i the beach. Major Petersen was kill l ed instantly and Lieutenant Payer sick was injured seriously. Previous to his enlistment with the American air forces Major Petersen was q member of the Lafayette es- 1 cadrille. While connected with the French aerial service he was unof- 1 ticially credited with bringing doWi l eighteen German machines. The of l ficial report of the war department 1 giving the names of the sixty-tW( recognized American aces" showed that Petersen brought down five Ger man machines while in the American 1 service
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
BOSTON IRlSHMEN CONDEMN
 THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Boston. Na-ch 16.-Members of the frrnd- of I-sn Freedom at a St ratrioi's eye meeting here tonight adopted resolutions conforming the
 que Of nations as proposed by President Wilson. Thr resolutions av that fine proposed covenant "ex- Cludes Ireland from ever becoming a free nation adding:
 Article eleven makes provisions whereby tine citizens of this coun- fry may bn gurscripted to put down an iuSurrection in ir0iand. Canada, Aus trlli1 or any other col(ry whose reorle would dare to fight for their freedom.
 "Vc em7Latically oppose any league of nations that il'iTinges in rrv way on American sovereignty and which does not guarantee absolute Irish indcpenaence."
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
esRSHlNG ADDRESSES TROOPS
 OF THE 52D DIVISION

Coblenz, Saturday, March 15.(-By The A. P.)-Within sighr e the 1uisr @ oant hills of unoccupied Germany. 2G.- OO0 troops of the Thirty Second Di- vision today heard General Pershins express appreciation of theic efforts at Chateau Thierry. Scissors and on the Meuse-Argonne front, which, the com faander-in- chief said, nIade it pissible for them to stand where they were today.
 The soldiers assembled in small Ealiey after being inspected and fe- viewed. General Pefshing said he | t0ow the liberty of thanking the sol- diers for their services tr the mama Of more than i00,O0O,O0D Americans at home whose hearts had been with the soldiers all during the fighting and since.
 The Thirty Second Division. which was composed originally Of National Guard troops from Michigan and Wis consin. is scheduled to start for home early in April
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
MANN DENIES CHARGE OF
 REPRESENTATIVE LONGWORTH

Washington. March G.--Rcpresenta- tive Mann Of Illinois, fornnr repub- lican leader in the house. in a sttae- ment tonight denied the charge of Representatis Longworth of Ohio,
 that the republican organization of t ehnext house as arranged by the committee w#S reaction&fY The or sahizatiOn was asserted hy NIT. Mann
 to be such as ought to satisfy every loyal republican and every lover of good, san, progressive legislation" Mir Mann declared tEat merit and not trading was the td5is for com mitttec assignments. which he said were filled by strong man, except That MT Longworth was placed on the
 steering committee now as he has teen as a sort of tribute to Colone | Roosevelt"
 1 Expressing 2 hope fer party harm cny. MT Mann added that he was
 wiling to fght If others want tC l force it on me"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
SENATOR FRANCE HECKLED
 5Y MEN AND WOMEN

New York. March 16.-United States senator Joseph T. France of Maryland tas heckled tonight when. in an ad- 7-ass at the weekly forum of the -hurch of Messiah, Ire urged repeal 1f the espionage act. hut declined to s'1te. withoI. studying the decision. whether ho believed conviction of Eugene Deb7 just
 Members Of congress were termed rorasites' iy persons in the audi -0cn who participated in the general discussion which followed Senator Frances address. Tn reply to a ques- lion hy tho senator as 10 What bet tor government do you want than that 1rr fathers --rought2' several men and women shouted. "Sovie., Soviet"
 Asserting that I've already have iHG orc revolution and violence is not iacessary in the reconstruction pc .od." Senator France suggested as a rmCdy for social unrest, q nationwide '-lsus which would 5ydcy and tabu- t7 every grievance Of the people.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
TO MAKE PUBLIC TREATIES
 BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAf

Peking. Friday, March 14.-By The
 A. P,)-The military convention made
 between China and Japan in 1918 with
 Ia hitherto undisclosed extension sign
 eG last month. providing for the term
 iration of the agreement On the sigl- irg of the peace treaty, was made pub lie simultaneously today in Pekin and
 Tokio. More than tweve treaties
 are to be published in the Chinese and Japanese capitals. These include two agreements between the Chinese government and the British Marconi Company and two with the Stems Carey Company of the United States regarding railways and tantals There are no French agreements 10 be made | rublic
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
POLISH COMMISSION REPORTS
 ON THE EASTERN BOUNDARY

Paris, March 16.-CBy The 4A. p The report of the Polish conElssion on the eastern boundary, whicn is on Mondays business before the coun- cii,, proposes to give Germany direct land communication across the corri dor to the Baltic which has been, ac- corded to Poland and which cuts off part of East Prussia from the rest of Germany. The report suggests that for Polands security the German ter riJory to the east of the corridor be remilitarized.
 It is also proposed oy the oommis- sion that the 6O0,o0O Protestant Poles iE the Mazurian Lake region be al lowed to determine by plebiscite whether they shall join Catholic po- land or remain German.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
7nsIs FOR SETTLEMENT OF
 TROLLEY STRIKE IN JERSEY

"owark Y. l.. March ie--A basis rouosed for settlement cf the strike of employees of the Fgblic Service Corporation. operating traction lines throughout northern Now Jersey. has teen accepted bv the comrany and union leaders and will hC submitted tr the locale at meetings tomorrow, Charlton O-bUrn. Eepresen-e tive of .rc War Labor Board announced to- r.cht before his departure for Wash % iuFton.
 Neither Nr. Ogburn nor the repre- sautatives of the employes of the com Tauv would disclose the terms of the proposed settlement if vas under stood however that th" company lgreed 10 stop initiat.or or it's "co- operative piar" for dealing with its nployes while the strikers were said Go have agreed to leava the question ls recognition of the NmalgamateC Association of Street and Electric Eialway Employes 10 ahr War Labor rDarl.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
TRANSPORT CARMANIA
 TO DOCK AT HALIFAX

Halifax, \. S. March 16.-Port off, cials weer notified tonight by radio that the Cunard line steamship Car mania, with three thousand Canadian troops and many civilians. en route to the United States on board, will dock here tomorrow. It was originally in tended that the vessel would go to New York.
 Among the troops is Canada's fla nous fighting battlion, the Princess Pats" Of the original battalion that left here shortly after. war was de- clared only eight men and one officer Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton Gault, of Montreal, are returning.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
SENATOR CALDER's VIEWS
 OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS

New York March 16.--Un;ted States Senator Calder of New York declared in a statement tonight that If the r'an for the league of nalons. is so tied up with the peace treaty that the peace treaty cannot he separately considered" as announced in Paris yesterday D.. Presideu, Ni.so: he would do a~l in his power to reject the entire proposition"
 Senator Calder asserted that, even though the president had not called an extra session of congress. he thought senators and representatives | should retuI1 to Washington a.
 orce and g into session" He aC
 Ced that 'to deny that congress car meet whensoever a majority of COZ
 gress sees if, is to deny that the pee
 pie can meet" since ali the power of
 the people is vested in congress.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
$f,O00,000 FIRE IN FREIGHT
 RAILWAY STATION, LYMAN. GA.

Atlanta, Ga. March 16.-The South
 ern Railway freight transfer station
 at Inman Yards, near here. was de-
 stroyed by fire early tonight The damage is estimated by railroad ofI- cjaIs at $1 1,0GG.000.
 About eighty carloads of focdstuifs and other 'rejght within tne transfer and a num5c.' c. cmptJ r-r:Gjil Cars | ty-four storage tracks in :nc yard were burned through. Tie origin of 1 the fire has not been detcrnined 1 The Inman rLrIs ri&Gt WIS the re- 1 CeiVing and re-routing plant fol 1 freight from the extreme south billed
 fer northern cities
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
AMERICAN TRANSPORT
 YSELHAVEN SUNK BY MINE

London, Saturday. March 15.-The Americap naval transport Yselhaven, witch struck a mine early Friday morning, was at the time forty miles northwest of Hartlepool The stsrvi- vors say that after the first explosion a second blew away the steamers $ stern and the vessel sauK in seven minutes. The survivors, of whom there were thrty-fve were adrift for several hours before they were pick eC up. Four were sent to the hospi- tai.
 An earlier report on he sinking of the Yselhaven placed the possible number of casualties at nine sailors drowned The Yselhaven was bound fl om Baltimore for Copenhagen.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
POPE BENEDICT RECEIVED
 CARDINAL AMETTE OF PARIS

Rome. March 1f.-CT~ The A. P.)- Pope Benedict today received in pri- rate audience Cardinal Annette, arch bishop of Paris. J-lo pontiff and the cardinal had a lengthy conference Curing which Cardinal Annette relat- rd Co Pope Benedict a conversation ie had had with Premier Clemencear rn the eve oe the cardinals departure for Rome.
 In diplomatic circles here the meet. frr between lhe pontif ard the car Girai is considered significant.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
CONDEMNED THE PROPOSED
 NO BEER. NO WORK" STRIKE

Newark, N. J.. March 1.-The mo beer, no work" strike proposed for July 1 was condemned by 400 dele gates of the New Jersey State Feder- stion of Labor and State Building Trades Council at a joint meeting here today. The delegates, however, adopt eG resolutions urging congress to re real both wartime and permanent pro hibttion, and calling upon President Wilson for aid.
 "A general strike for beer by labor ing men on July i would make us look ridiculous,' declared Henry r. Hilfers, secretary of the labor federation. one of the speakers. "A general strike al ways means q disruption of organized labor. We must express oar protests | by other means"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
PROPOSAL TO INCREASE
 REP. STEERING COMMITTEE

Washington. March t6. .-Represen- tative Johnston of South Dal,ota to- night made rubiic a letter addressed to the republican members of the next house of rrpresentati asking that il, the party conference preceding the converting of the new congress favor able consideration he given his nropo- sal to increase the ren''N1i"ln stecyirg committee to nine members
 The present steerIAS committee, composed of Representatives Moore, Pennsylvania; Madden, illinois: I onG- worth, Ohio; Einslow, Massachusetts and Dunn, New York, the South Ia kota representative asserts, is not representative of the agricultural in terests of the soutr or of the states west of Illinois.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
TO DISSOLVE VOLUNTEER
 MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS

Washington. March 16.--Dissolution on April 1 Of the volunteer medical service corps with it's membership of more than 56,0O0 physicians, was an- nounced today by the Council of Ma ttonal Defense. under which the corps was organized.
 The names of all physicians whose applications for membership in the | corps were approved will be turned
 over to the surgeon general of the Public Health Service and thus will
 be accessible should need for their services arise in the future. To about | 13c00 physicians whose applications
 were on file at the time of the sign
 ing of the armistice rerogrizing their l offers of service is to ha sent.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
TWO COMPANIES JAPANESE TROOPS WIPED OUT

Nladivostok, Tuesday. March 4.(- By The A. P0-Two companies of Japanese troops were virtually wiped out by the Bolsheviki ia fighting near Stramskoe. fifty miles northeast of B'agoviestchensk. February 26. Two hundred and fifty men were engaged. Major TanalSa, commanding the Jap anese. was killed.
 In a second battle March at Pra- lovl,a. thirty miles to ths north, the Japanese suffered ninety casualties. Tn the two engagements the Bolshe- v-ki left six hundred dead on the field
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
II ORGANIZE WORLD WAR
 VETERANS ASSOCIATION
Preliminary Steps Have Been Taken by 500 Members of the
 American Expedhonary Forces in Pars|Lieutenan
 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Has Announced That a Meeting Will be Called in This Country About the Enc
 of April to Consider Organization Plans.

here of word from Paris that five Nndred members of the American eXpeditionary force hal taken the first step there toward organization Of t world war veterans association, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose- welt announced tonight that a meet ing would be called in this country about the end of April for the same purpose He added that organiza- tion would not be completed until most of the American troops return- ed from overseas.
 He said that on February 15 al rep resentative group of members of the National Guard and National Army overseas held a preliminary confer
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17

ence in Paris, to consider plans fe1 the organization of an association similar to the c. A. R.
 At this preliminary meeting," shs continued. steps were taken to hold ir Paris the meeting now gong on at which programme will be for mulated to be submitted later in America to meeting of a thoroughly representative body of officers and men.
 Representatives of the meeting Which is being held in Paris will promptly come to America to GOOD. crate with those Who have not hat the privilege of serving overseas ant with the discharged members in thi! country of the expeditionary force"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
ARGENTINA SUGGESTIONS
 FOR LEAGUE C= NATIONS

Duenos Aires, March lG-Fersist- ert rumors in government circles to- day are to the effect tha: Argentina was making suggestions for amend n:ents to the league of nations would suggest the admission of defeated states as original members. The for c:gn office issued formal denial. but refuses to discuss tho proposals the Argentine government will make.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
WORK PLANNED FOR
 JUNIOR RED CROSS

Washington March 16-Announce- ment was made today by the Amcri- can Red Cross that the Junior Red Cross, an organization of nine llil- lion members would play an act /. part in the rebuilding of the world by aiding children in the stricken countries of Europe.
 Particular attention is to be giVer to education and an advisory board oi representative educators will be se- lected to supervise the programme which includes the bringing of the school children of America into closer touch with those of Europe.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-17
CONTROVERSY WITt; JAPANESE
 AT VLADIVOSTOK SETTLED

Nladivosto' Friday, March 14.-By The A. P.)-The controversy between Major Genera Graves, the American commander n Siberia. and the Jap anese staff ever the disposition of the l,50O Cossacl.s of General Ealmikoff's s forces who were interocl by the Americans at khabaroVsk at their cwn request, virtually has been ad- 1usted by the gradual disersal of the Cossack force. The CosSacEs have been returning to their homes.
 General Graves has notified the JGPanes9 staff that upon the identi- cation of the arms and equipment of the Cossacks as their property it will be delivered to them.