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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
ASKS SEVEN BILLIONS
Belgium Computes indemnity
Due From Germany.
War Expenses, Including Aid Granted,
Are Found to Have Been
$2,o23, 500, 900.

Brussels, April 19.-In a report made
by the central industrial committee,
which has completed an investigation
of the subject, Belgium's war dam
ages for which it contended an indem-
nifty should be collected from Germany
are placed at $7,000,000,000.
The committee has reckoned the
cost of materials on the basis of prices
now prevailing, declaring this is only
just if Belgium is to be restored to
the condition in which it was at the
beginning of August, 1914.
In itemizing the damages the claim
for state property is placed at 81 ,107,-
5000, of which 1903, ,0O0, 900 is on ac.
count of railroads, posts and tele.
graphs.
The war expenses, including aid
granted, are found to have been 81.
023, 100000 war contributions imposed
on the provinces by the Germans $780,.
100000, fines and contributions i'm
posed on communes $372,000, 900.
The wamage to Belgian industry is
placed at slightly more than $l,6O0,-
100000, of which approximately ST.
150,000,000 is computed as due for the
destruction and requisition of prop
erty, while for the destruction of pri-
vate houses and furniture 100000 900
is claimed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
London Paper Criticises Pre-.
mier'S Activities at Paris
Peace Conference.
DROPS POINTED HINT
Head of British Government Declared
In House of Commons Lord North
cliffe Was Suffering From
Keen Disappointment.

London, April 19.-The most inter
esting result 10 the political world of
the premier's flying visit to London
from the Paris peace conference and
his speech before parliament Wednes-
day is open warfare between David
Lloyd George, prime minister. and
Lord Northcliffe, England's foremost
publisher.
Lord Northcliffe and Baron Beaver
brook, who served as the official "eye
witness" for the Canadian government
at the front in 1916 and later became
minister of information always have
been credited with being the powers
behind the scenes which brought about
the retirement of Premier Asquith and
the succession of Lloyd George to the
head of the cabinet. Northcliffe's
newspapers gave Lloyd George gen.
eral support throughout his manage
ment of the war, but during the latest
developments of the Peace conference
they have become sharply critical OF
Mr. Lloyd Georges leadership.
Premier BIames vanity"
Inc premier, In MS speech In the
House of Commons, credited this fact
to the disease of vanity" and point
edly limited that IL was due to disap-
pointment on Lord Northcliffe's part
that he had not been appointed on the
Peace delegation.
The premier referred to the peace
terms recommended in the Times be
fore the Peace conference began say
ing: Il am prepared to make some
allowance when a man is laboring uH-
der a keen sense of disappointment.
However unjustified and however ridi-
culous the explanations may be, under
those circumstances he always is apt
to think the world is badly run"
The Times replied with a slashing
attack, accusing Lloyd George of over
looking reports prepared by experts
at is currently said by his col
leagues in Paris" the Times declares,
that while he is able to read and
write, he does neither"
Further Attack Hinted.
After saying that the record of the
Times during the war speaks for it,
self, the newspaper apparently threat
ems future attack, saying Some
points of his war record require to be
more fully known"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
CARRY FOOD TO STARVING
U. S. Now Has 151 Ships Busy in
mercy Fleet"

Washington, April Is. - Statistics
made public by the United States ship
ping board show the board now has
151 steamers representing $4,000
deadweight tonnage engaged in carry
ing food to the starving nations OF
Europe. Built by the Emergency
Fleet corporation and originally de-
signed as a weapon to defeat Ger
many's submarine campaign, says the
statement, the ships now are serving
as great mercy feet" feeding friend
and foe alike. Regular runs are be-
ing made between Atlantic ports and
ports on the North sea, the Mediter-
ranean and the Adriatic. Each ship
carries a capacity cargo of -four,
beans, grain, beef and other supplies.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
Asks Industrial Board and Rail
Administration to Try to
Reach Agreement.
new PLAN OF ACTION
Probably Means Policy of StabiIizins
Prices by Agreed Reductions from
War Levels Will Be Con-
tinued, Many Assert.

Washington, April 19. - President
Wilson has directed the Industrial
board of the department of commerce
and the railroad administration to re-
open discussion of price stabilization
and endeavor to find common ground
on which they can agree.
Chairman G. N. Peek announced that
the board would take up the question
with the railroad administration imme-
diately, but any action probably would
have to await the return of Director
General w. d. Hines next week from
his inspection trip in the west.
The president directed that negotia-
tions between the two agencies which
resulted in a wide breach in the cab
met be Immediately reopened. He is
understood not to have indicated his
views as to which party in the con.
troversy should prevail, but simply
asked that further efforts be made to
settle the dispute.
The text of the presidents cable
gram was not made public.
Reply Made to RedfieId.
The presidents cablegram was ad.
dressed to Secretary w. C. Redfield.
Mr.. Redfield, after a conference with
Mr.. Peck. Assistant Secretary Sweet
and Solicitor Thurman cabled the
president asking whether the board
should go out of existence because of
the refusal of the Railroad Admins
tration to accept a new schedule of
steel prices arranged with the indus
the president returned and a new plan
of action should be worked out The
presidents action is accepted by many
as meaning the policy of stabilizing
prices by agreed reductions from war
levels will be continued.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
BREST HANGS UP RECORD
10000 Men of Rainbow Go Aboard
Ships in One Day.

Brest, April 19.-The port of Brest
established record in troop embarka-
ton in preparing the remaining units
OF the Forty-second (Rainbow) divi-
sion for sailing.
Nineteen thousand troops, including
some portions of the Twenty-seventh
New York National army division,
marched aboard six transports. Only
the 117th ammunition train of the
Rainbow division, remained and that
will leave tomorrow.
Five of the ships, the Missouri, the
Mount Vernon, Pretoria, Pueblo and
Huntington, which has the 151st field
artillery (the First Minnesota) aboard,
were en- route today. The Leviathan,
delayed in coaling, was scheduled to
start later today.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
Peace Document as a Whole viii
Contain More Than Seventy
Thousand Words.
PACT TAKES PRIORITY
League of Nations Covenant Is First
Subject Treated in Detail Fol-
lowing the Introductory
Paragraphs.

Paris, April 19.-The final form OF
the peace treaty is being rapidly draft
ed in order to have it ready for pre-
senation to the German delegates when
they arrive at Versailles.
The document, as framed, begins
with an introduction setting forth the
complete list of belligerent powers
taking part in the war and now making
peace, with the designation of pleni-
their power to sign.
Then comes a brief declaration, not
exceeding 80 words, stating that on
the conclusion of the treaty and the
exchange of ratifications, the war shall
come to an end.
League Plan Next.
Following up the declaration Of
peace, the present intention Of the
peace delegates is to have the cove
nant of the league of nations occupy
the place of honor on the treaty and
to be the first subject treated in de-
tail. 1t will thus take the priority 1t
had In the program of the Peace con-
ference.
Then in succession will follow the
military, navy and aerial terms, repa-
rations, responsibilities, the Rhine
frontier, the Saar region, Alsace-Lor-
raine, Poland. the status of Danzig as
an international port, Germany's
Schleswig- -Holstein frontier and a
large number of special subjects, in
Guiding the labor convention adopted
at the last plenary session of the con-
ference; international ports and water
ways and extended economic and finan-
cial provisions not directly connected
with reparations.
Subdivisions Are Written.
The textual form of all these subdi-
visions has been completed.
1t is estimated that the treaty as a
whole will exceed 10000 words. The
text is being prepared in French and
English and as a means of eXpediting
action, German text may be pre-
pared.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
GERMANS SEIZE LIBAU
Lettish Provisional Government
Is ForcibIy 0verthroWn.
Premier Ullman Protests to Foe Com.
mander, Who Expresses Aston
ishment-Office Invaded.

Copenhagen, April 19.-German and
Baltic-German troops have forcibly
seized Libau and overthrown the Let.
tish provisional government according
to advices received by the Lettish
press bureau here.
Reserve troops in Libau were sur.
pTised by strong German forces We'd
nesday, which overpowered the Let's
and disarmed and interned them. Lat.
er the Germans arrested the Lettish
ministers of the interior and several
officials, it is said
lettish Troops at Front.
The surprise was possible, according
to report, because Lettish troops had
been sent to the front, while Baltic.
German detachments had been
brought back to Libau. The city now
is held and patrolled by the Germans
Premier Ullman has protested to
General Won der Goltz, commander of
the German troops in Letvia and the
latter has expressed his astonishment
over the incident. The Let's accuse
the Germans of constantly hindering
them from mobiliZing against the Boil
sheviki, which, it is said, accounts for
the fact that Riga is still in the hands
of the soviet forces
Premier's Office Invaded.
A telegram was sent Wednesday by
Premier Ullman to the Lettish repre-
sentatives in Denmark, reporting the
seizure of Libau and adding that he,
himself, is safe and collaborating with
the British mission and British war
ships In the harbor. The telegram
stated that the Germans had occupied
the premier's department and seized
the papers there. 1t was added that
the Germans demand that one-third of
the members in new ministry which
they insist shall be formed shall be
Germans. The telegram concludes by
saying: I'VE will concede to moth.
ing"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
NO DISORDERS OCCUR
General Strike ParaIyzes Busi.
ness in Berlin.
Premier Hoffman Modifying Several
Divisions for General Attack
on Munich.

Paris, April 19.-Gains have
been made by the radicals in all
parts of Bavaria, and they are the
absolute masters in Munich, ac-
cordng to dispatches reaching
here from there. In the Bavar-
ian capital the Spartacans, with
formidable army, are waiting for
the expected clash with Noske's
troops.
Berlin, April 19.-The general
strike, which has swept other portions
of Germany for two weeks, has struck
Berlin, completely paralyzing business
Two hundred thousand clerks and
Office workers Joined the metal trade
unionists, forcing all stores, ware.
houses and banks to close. Most OF
the factories already had been com
PEELED to shut down. Strikers were
picketing every place of business. Nc
disorder had occurred, but the authori
ties were prepared for any emergency
A general strike also was reported
in Bremen under communist leader
ship, affecting all industries Long
shoremen refused to unload American
food ships.
Premier Hoffman is mobilizing sew
eral divisions outside of Munich pre-
paratory to grand assault on the city
according to dispatches from Bam.
berg.
An artillery duel was reported to
be ranging between the communist
forces within Munich and the Social
ist forces, which have drawn a cor.
don about the city.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
Rehearings Are Wanted.

Washington, April 19.-The Inter.
state Commerce commission granted
the petition of the Chicago live Stock
Exchange and Union Stock Yards and
Transit company for rehearing on the
question of the amount Of loading and
unloading charges for livestock at the
Chicago stockyards and the amount Of
such charges that should be imposed
on shippers Of livestock or absorbed
by the defendant carriers in the case.
Rehearing was set for May 22 in Chi
cago.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
LABOR SEEKS CONCESSIONS
Great Demonstrations Will Be Held
in Paris May I.

Paris, April 19.-The committee of
decided on arrangements for a mani
festation on May l. Union meetings
will be held in every quarter of Paris
and the Seine department, at which
resolution will be submitted, present
ing the principal claims of the fedora
tion's demand-an eight-hour day, full
amnesty for all political crimes; nom
Intervention in Russia, abolition Of the
censorship and the state of siege and
a return to constitutional guarantees
and liberties.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
PRETTY CHICAGO GIRL SLAIN
Unidentified Young Woman Shot On
Street by Man.

Chicago, April 19.-After working
they were mystified by the murder of
an unidentified beautiful young woman
on the West side. The girl was OBJ
served walking with a man and to
suddenly run across the street. He
ran after her, seized her, placed his
arm around her neck, fired a bullet
into the back of her head and as she
sank to the walk fired two more shots
also into her head
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
WILSON THANKS HITCHCOCK
Expresses Appreciation for the Good
Words Spoken for League.

Washington, April 19.-President
Wilson has cabled Senator G.. M.
Hitchcock, retiring chairman of the
foreign relations committee, thanking
him for his message praising the
amended League of Nations covenant.
The presidents cablegram reads:
Warmly obliged to you for your mes
sage. 1t cheers and encourages me.
| am delighted to know that what we
have done has so frightened the pros
poets of the league"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
LIQUORS DOOM IS SEALED
Statement Of Dry Attorney On Su.
preme Court Decisions.

Washington, April 19.-Wayne b.
Wheeler. general counsel for the Anti
saloon league, says the supreme court
In its recent decisions has sealed the
doom Of liquor for beverage purposes.
While prohibition will take care OF fu-
ture purchase of liquor, Mr.. Wheeler
says that the decisions Of the supreme
court makes it possible for the states
to confiscate the stocks of liquor
which bibulous citizens already have
stored up for the approaching eternity
OF drouth.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
GIFTS REACH WHITE HOUSE
European Presents for President and
Mrs. Wilson Arrive.

Washington, April ia carload of
European gifts to President and Mrs.
Wilson have been received at the
White House. The shipment is in
about 40 large boxes and will not be
unpacked until the Wilson's return.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
FORMAL DENIAL is ISSUED
Japan Says Korea Has Not Set Up
New Government.

San Francisco, April 19-Formal
denial that a Korean provisional gov
ernment had been set up in Seoul was
made here by T. Ohta, Japanese con-
sul-general. He stated also Japanese
authorities denied the Korean declara,
tion of independence was openly
distributed by the provisional govern
ment at Seoul,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
World Control Urged.

Denver, Colo, April l9.-Resolu-
tions were adopted at the closing ses-
sion of the national convention of the
Farmers Educational and Co-opera-
tive Union OF America asking for
representation of farmers on the
league of nations. A copy of the
resolutions was cabled to the Ameri-
can peace delegation at Paris. The
resolutions request "the creation OF a
department in the league of nations
which shall have direct control over
international agricultural affairs"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
MANY VIEW BANDITS HEAD
Death of Mexican General Bianquet
Proved by naturalization.

Vera Cruz, April 19.-Complete
identification of the head of General
Banquet was obtained here when
many persons viewed it at the bar
racks. The head of the dead revolu-
ZIONIST leader was exhibited during the
day and many thousands of persons
were permitted to pass by the table
on which it reposed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
PLAN TO END PHONE STRIKE
Burleson Instructs Manager Driver to
Hear Demands.


Washington, April 19.-Basis for
settlement of the strike of telephone
operators and allied workers in New
England, which has paralyzed tele-
phone service there since Tuesday
was believed by officers here to have
been reached.
Action of Postmaster General Burle-
son in forwarding to General Manager
Driver of the New England Telephone
and Telegraph Co. the demands of the
striking operators with instructions
to hear the employees either individual
ly or collectively upon receiving as
surance that they would return to
work Immediately was considered as
forming a basis for agreement.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
U. S. SELLS WOODEN SHIPS
Carries Out Policy of Writing or Ex
cessive War Costs.

Washington, April 19.-Carrying out
its policy of writing off excessive war
costs, the shipping board has sold Is
wooden ships of 1000 and 4,700 tons
for $650,OO0 each, or $145 ton, or
what is said to be about $40 a ton be-
low actual cost. The board is asking
bids on 25 additional wooden ships Of
the $500 ton type. The ships sold are
to be placed in the transatlantic
trade, although it has been claimed by
many shipping men that the wooden
vessels are not suitable for anything
but coastwise trade.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
FRANK GOULD GIVEN DIVORCE
Versailles Court Gives Him Freedom
from Edith Kelly Gould.

Paris, April 19.--Frank ]. Gould to-
day was granted a divorce in Ver-
sailles from Edith Edy Gould. He
named Mario Cassaus. Mexican. The
defendant did not appear.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-19
DRANK HAIR TONIC; FOUR DEAD
Fatal End Comes to All Night Drink.
ing Party.

Flint, Mich, April 1.-TWO men
and two women are dead here as a
result of an all night drinking party,
In which bay rum, and some sort of
hair tonic were partaken of freely.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-06
FOREIGN TRADE Of
BRAZIL REGARDED
AS ENCOURAGING

l.
Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 5.-The for
eign trade of Brazil during the frs.
half of 1919 is regarded as very en-
couraging An increased exporta-
ton of some of Brazil's staple COM
modities such as coffee, rubber
cacoa, chilled beef, hides, oil-bearinp
fruits, etc, as well as the high prices
which these articles have commanded
leaves very respectable trade bal
ance. That Brazil has rapidly forged
ahead commercially during the years
of the war Is generally conceded. The
country's agricultural possibilities are
as yet practically unexploited. and
the war acted as a stimulus toward
ascertaining the wide range of her
productivity.
Brazil has been able to export to
Europe foodstuffs which, few years
ago. she was not able to supply to
herself In the same way, animal hus-
bandry is making strides which point
to making meat products one of the
country's chief exports. While Bra
zil has always been a cattle producing
country. it is only during the last
three or four years that she has been
looked upon as a world supplier and
even more recently several large
modern packing houses have been
constructed or projected. These are
financed principally by American
packing interests.
In the past year the federal gov
ernment, through the agricultural
has devoted considerable
attention to the importation and pur
chase of animals Of pure blood. It
is proposed to carry on an extensive
campaign among the
livestock breeders of Brazil to inn
prove the standard of cattle. For this
purpose the government intends to
make liberal money appropriations.
David Harrell, commissioner of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, accompanied by an assistant,
has just arrived in Brazil to make an
of the cattle industry
and give information to Brazilian
cattle raisers regarding the .importa
tion Of North American cattle,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-06
Q . 0 5 . . . . . . . o . . . . .


Gary, Ind. Oct 5.-Garv's streets
were crowded today and the entire
city was overhung with spirit of
unrest following the riotinG which
broke out Saturday night with its
threat of recurrence.
At nightfall no militiamen had
reached Gary. though eleven COM
panies had modified at East Chicago,
Ind, and four of the companies had
been sent to Indiana Harbor
The Gary company OF state militia
was not called out. though they were
notified to hold themselves in readi-
ness for active duty.
The Saturday night rioting occur
red when a street car bearing a few
workers to the steel plant was block
ed by a freight train at street
crossing.
crowd of strikers who had at
tended mass meeting was also block
ed. The strikers converging on the
car pulled down the trolley and at
tackled the workers inside Severe in
jury was done to the workmen and
police who arrived were also attacked,
the crowd becoming larger as more
police and special police were sum
moned.
Clubs, bricks and pieces of broken
cement paving were the weapons
used. Not a shot was fired and for
several hours sporadic outbreaks kept
the police busy.
No Repetition of Rioting
Late this afternoon another meet
ing was held by the strikers. There
was no reptition of the rioting.
No troops will be brought to Gary
unless they are requested by Mayor
Hodges or Sheriff Barnes, AdJutant
General Harry b. Smith of Indiana
announced tonight. In command of
the troops at East Chicago and Indi-
ana Harbor, the adiutant general said
lawlessness would be prevented and
all persons and property given abso-
lutte protection when it were neces-
sary to call for regular army troops
which he said Secretary of War Baker
had promised him.
Il will have sufficient forces to pre-
serve order IN the Calumet region"
said the adjutant general.
Il have orders from Governor
Goodrich to protect workers who
may desire to go to work. their lives
and homes, to protect the industrial
plants of this section, and above all
to keep peace.
If necessary, / can call out every
unit of state troops in Indiana.
This morning | had a telegram
from Secretary of War Baker offer
ing me the support of the United
States army If necessary to prevent
lawlessness and crime in this section
He told me to call upon the central
department of the army for soldiers
at any time if, | find it necessary"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-06
LOCAL REPORT.

Conditions for the twenty-four
hours ended at p. NJ yesterday. re-
corded by the state university:
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-06
MANY FIUME RESIDENTS
OPPOSE ANNEXATION TO
ITALY, SAYS GOTHARDl

Paris, Oct. 5 (by the Associated
Press) .-Ruggero Gothardi. president
of the democratic autonomist party
of Fiume, with his secretary, nave
arrived here. claiming to have escaped
from Fiume, where he was sentenced
to death. has presented an appeal FOR
the naturalization of Fiume to Frank
l.. Polk, American under-secretary of
state, saying he represents two-thirds
of the votes of Fiume.
"a large majority of the people
he said, though wishing to keep the
Italian language. are absolutely op-
posed to annexation to Italy, as it
would mean the ruin of the city"