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Show : t' "' v t; News of the World for Busy Readers Editorial and Te!egraphic Section TREMONTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1919. 4- - PRESID ENT THROWS LIGHT ON TREATY WILSON AND SENATORS DISCUSS PACT PROVISIONS AT WHITE HOUSE SESSION. Minute Explanations of Disputed Points in League of Nations Covenant Are Brought Out, Presl-deUrging Early Action. nt Washington. President Wilson, terpreting the league of nations in- cov- enant for the senate foreign relations eomnittee,.ou Tuesday, declared it imposed no legal obligation for the use of American military force in protecting the territory or independence of aiy other nation. But he added that the covenant might involve, in certain circumstances, an "absolutely compelling moral obligation," which might be even stronger than a legal promise. Pressed for a more exact definition by committee members, who insisted that the whole arrangement was a "rope of sand," he asserted that on the contrary he considered it as placing the nations in "an attitude of comradeship and protection" which would compel respect for the principles of jus tice and liberty. Meeting the committee in a round' table discussion In the east room of the White House, in contradiction to the precedents of. more than a century and with the whole nation listening through the medium of a relay of public stenographers, the president went into many of the details of the peace negotiations and touched on all the hotly debated questions which have divided the senate in its consideration of the peace treaty. , Aticle X of the covenant, guaranteeing the integrity of league mem bers against aggression, he declared, would leave to each nation "complete freedom of' choice as to the applica tlon of force." Even if the American representatives -- on the council joined in a unanimous recommendation for military action the final decision for peace or war must rest so far as con- ' cerned the United States with con . gress, he said. Whatever advice the council gave - under its authority to take such action as is "deemed appropriate," must also lie deemed appropriate by the United States governbinding ment, he argued, though in the back ground would be such a potential moral force that he doubted if the nation would often decline to act. The president revealed that Japan's promise to return Shantung province to China was reduced to written form in the minutes of the peace conference. He asserted he had "every confidence" lhat the promise would be carried out. and told the senators it was "the best that could be got" out of the negoti ations, Japan having given notice she - would withdraw from the conference if her demands were refused. The American delegates, he said, had Iried to keep the nation free from obligations in European affairs, "so far as it was honorably possible to do so," but heosserted that it might be neces sary to keep some American troops in the Rhine district under the treaty for the nest fifteen years. He declared the nation would be its own sole Judge whether its obligations had under the disputed withdrawal clause of the league cove nant; that purely domestic questions were safe from the league's interfer ence; and that the Monroe doctrine was clearly preserved. , The league, the president explained, was built on the plan of General Smuts of South Africa. Mr. Wilson revealed that he had suggested the United States take no part of the German reparations, but had asked that the conference reserve disposition of the German Pacific Island of Yap on a suggestion that It was needed for an American naval station. Early action on the treaty was urged In a statement by the president at the outset of the conferance. This vrzs necessary, he held, so that a peace basis might be reached, and the other treaties under negotiations now at Versailles were being delayed until the world learned what would happen to the treaty with Germany. He said he saw no reasonable objection to senate reservations, but thought it unwise to incorporate them in the ratification to-b- on-thi- s ' been-fulfill- The End of SAYS JAPAN'S CLAIM ed . Itself. Oregon Girl Wins Cross. New York. One of the few American women- who gained the French Croix de Guerre for bravery and hero-Isunder fire In France was Miss of Portland, Orll Elsie Henthorne, Ore., who returned Sunday when the transport Patricia docked in Hobokcn. - m a Perfect Day GROSS A Asserted That Fighi May Start Between China and Japan, But That : booner or Later We Will be i Swept Into Controversy. Washington. It was the unanimous opinion of American experts on far eastern affairs at Versailles that war must result from the peace treaty provisions giving Japan control In the Chinese province of Shantung, the senate foreign relations committee was told, on Monday by Thomas F. Millard, an American writer, who was attached to the Chinese peace delegation. Mr. Millard declared the original acquisition of German rights in Shantung was largely responsible for the Hay open door policy and was onexf the e indirect causes of the war. The German rights were acquired, he said, with the secret assent of the former Russian czar. Asked how the Shantung agreement might lead to war between Japan and the United States, the witness said there were many dangerous elements involved. As an example, he said, the cumulative effect of Japan's successes in China might easily encourage her to assume commercial rights which would trespass on the Hay. open-doo- r policy or on the special commercial treaties the United States has with China. "This Japanese Situation," he said, "has been creeping up on us just as the German situation crept up on Europe, and you are going to beat it, and you can't beat it with words. You'll have to fight. "It may start with a fight between japan and China. But American missionaries will be killed and, American rights violated, and sooner or later we will be swept in." RAPS PACKERS. Competing in Many Lines of Business. Washington. The danger, as seen by the federal trade commission, in the entrance of the packing industry into lines of business beyond the packing of meat was described by William B. Colver, member of the commission, on Monday, to the. senate agricultural committee. In its opening hearing on the Kenyon bill to divorce ownership of the stock yards and refrigerator cars from the packing concerns of the country and to regulate by license their operation, the committee was taken over much of the ground traveled by the commission in its investigation of tiie packing industry.; Declares Industry Is Traction Strike Called Off. ad The strike which for two days paralyzed the subway and elevated systems of the Interbor-oug- h Rapid Transit company in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens was formally called off MonNew York. day. Russian Operations Costly. British expenditures lor the naval and military operations In Russia from the date of the armistice until the end of July amounted to $350,000,000, according to an official "white paper" issued here Thursday. London. GUSTAV BAUER BORE EXPEDITION COMBING PASSES MEXICO FOR KIDNAPPERS OF AIRMEN. lt Ransomed Flyers Guiding Soldiers Endeavor to Capture Mexicans Who Had Shown Their Contempt for Law and Order. In Mexico. LINES BEING DRAWN MEXICANS RELEASE IN TREATY FIGHT El IAN AIRMEN ';, ADMINISTRATION FORCES WILL TWO v AVIATORS CAPTURED BY CENTER EFFORTS ON GETTING BANDITS FREED UPON THE TREATY OUT OF COMMITTEE. PAYMENT OF RANSOM. Republican Senators Declare Result of Negotiations Will Be Stiffening of Resistance to Attempt at Had Lost Their Way After They Had Been Forced to Lard as Result of Engine Trouble and Were Taken r .ll Prisoner by Bandits. Washington. As a sequel to the White House conference on Saturday between President Wilson and Sena tor Hitchcock, administration leader in the senate treaty fight, it has become apparent that the administration forces will center their present effort on bringing the treaty out of committee andtdfeal.ing any textual amendments," leaving in' "the ' background any negotiations relative to final ratification with reservations. Meantime, Republican senators declared one result of the negotiations of the last few days and of Senator Hitchcock's statements after he had left the president had been to stiffen resistance to any attempt at unreserved ratification and to increase the determination of those who want the treaty amended outright. They asserted Saturday's poll had shown opposition growing stronger in the face of the explanatory statements from Tokio'and from the White House. The reported position of the president that any textual amendments would send, the treaty back for re negotiation with Germany without any military force to compel acceptance of the Anerican demands was taken as largely forecasting the trend of the amendment fight. It is known that Mr. Lodge has been studying a number of drafts, including those drawn by the McNary group and those suggested by Elihu Root, William H. Taft and Charles E. Hughes. He is understood not to have stood sponsor for the draft he showed to the Republican senators, however, but to have merely submitted it for consideration. Republicans assert that the only possible outcome, if reservations are to be adopted in place of textual amendments, will be agreement on the draft drawn by Mr. Lodge or some other senator which must be accepted by the Democrats., The only open question, they declare, is how drastic the reservations are to be. The Democratic leaders, however, maintained there had been no chnSe in fcheir stand for unreserved ratification, and in some quarters the outcome of the conference between the president and Senator Hitchcock was interpreted to mean that Mr. Wilson would fight uncompromisingly against both amendments and reservations. Marfa, Texas. Lieutenant H. G. Peterson, one of the two American aviators held by Mexican bandits for $15,-00ransom, crossed the border to the American side early Monday morning. Peterson Shortly alter Lieutenant crossed the border, Captain Matlack returned,; bringing with him Lieutenant ! v' Davl ..... rtaiphuju- - Mu.facK. dio'ifgiiF V.fctt7aPi him one-hathe ransom money. He said after Peterson had been released, Davis was brought forward by the bandits, and the two mounted Captain Matlack's horse. The bandits demanded the remainder of the ransom money, and Captain Matlack and Davis answered by riding rapidly away. The aviators landed on the American side of the river, Lieutenant Peterson said. Upon- their arrival at Candelarla a week ago Sunday, their engine developed trouble and they were forced to land, smashing their landing gear and fuselage in doing so. The two aviators then tried to find their way to the nearest army camp and became confused. They walked and swam down the Rio Grande dur- Lieutenant Peterson said, and then hired Mexican burros after Peterson developed a fever. They had started for Candelaria when an armed Mexican overtook them and made them prisoners. They were unarmed. They were overtaken by a band of armed bandits, Lieutenant Peterson said, and a crowd of people from a little town. They continued on their forced journey until Friday night, when the bandits forced the aviators to write messages demanding ransom and telling of the death threat. Unreserved Ratification. JAPAN TO RESTORE SHANTUNG. Restitution to China Promised by Premier Hara. Toklo. Restitution to China by of those pnrts of the Shantung province, including Kiaochow, now occupied by Japanese forces, will be made without unnecessary delay, but the time required will be dependent upon the attitude of China, said Tak-asDara, the Japanese premier, In an answer to a question as to whether actual restoration would take place. Ja-pn- n H rem en Ask for Big Raise. Cleeeland. A 35 to 65 per cent Increase In wages Is demanded for 0 firemen and hostlers on railroads In the United States and Canada in a wage acale adopted before adjournment Sunday by 800 general chairmen Hrr Gustav Sauer, wao has sue of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireseeded Schisdemann as premier of tha men and Englnemen In session here all1 week. Carman republic 11T,-00- lf Lieutenant Peterson and Lieutenant Davis, the ransomed fliers, are riding witli the Eighth cavalry to help locate the place where the bandits made them prisoners, and to identify the bandits if captured. Following release of the aviators near San Antonio, Chihuahu, early Tuesday, American cavalry troops crossed the border. Reports received from the troops in the field gave no intimation that contact had been made with the bandits or that there had been any fighting. The bandit band, led by Jesus Ren-teriis believed to be in hiding in the mountains, and army officers familiar with the rough country over which the pursuit is being made said it probably would be necessary to search every canyon and mountain pass to locate the scattered bands. It now is believed a comparatively small number of bandits were involved in the kidnaping. The district within the angle formed by a junction of the Rio Grande and a, 0 of northern Mexico, noted mountains, deep canyons t 'barren deserts. The Conchos river flows into the Rio Grande near Ojinaga, after tumbling through San Juan pass from Cuchillo Parado to San Juan del Dio. Bother rivers are lined with cotton-woo- d trees. Lowland farms in Delta Conchos are the only green spots to be seen in the entire district. PLAN ATTACK ON H. C. L. is . American troopj Marfa, Texas. have again crossed the border into Mexico. It is not a case of war against Mexico, but war against the bandits who recently captured two American aviators and held them for ransom. Carranza does not seem to be in a position to control his subjects, and it appears to be up to Uncle Sam to chastise some of the unruly ones of Russo-Japanes- COLVER e men with teams, resi-lenof Plain City and Warren went in a body to the farm of Mrs. J. whose husband was kill Folkman, ed at the Ilarrisvilie crossing :t month ago, dug the potato crop, sack-i- d them and placed thein on the rail road cars at Plain City. The establishment of a clearing house for the relief work of the city iud county to be under the direction :f tiie Weber county chapter of the .Ymerican Red Cross is planned by the :nenibers of the relief societies and organizations of the churches of Ogdeu ind Weber county. Utah business men and farmers are paying better wages to their stenographers, salesmen and farm hands than they are the men and women to ivhom they are entrusting the educa-:io- n of their children, according to G. X. Child, state superintendent of pub-J- e instruction. Droyel Bennett, aged 13, was killed it Antelope when he was run over jy a wagon. The boy was hitching x teain to a wagon when one of tliu liorses became frightened and kicked liiin. He fell under the wagon, which ran over him before the team could be Seventy-fiv- WILL LEAD TO WAR FAR EASTERN EXPERTS SEE MENACE IN SHANTUNG PROVISION OF TREATY. uTAH AMERICAN T ROOS stopped. The annual campflre of Utah Indian war veterans was concluded at Spring-vill- e on August 15, after three days if a most enjoyable reunion. Hun-ired- s in of veterans from various points the state participated in the ot'e-bratio- u. Farmers of Bountiful held an indignation meeting recently at which steps were taken to prevent the further exploitation of their melon patches by parties of autoists from Salt Lake and .surrounding points. While walking in her sleep at her home in Salt Lake, Phoebe Brown, 13 years of age, stepped out of a side window and fell three stories, but escaped with a sprained ankle and a se--e- shock. The school census In the Tenth precinct of the Jordan school district shows a decrease of 389, when com- year. This httf partfo- - with caused , by the mines reducing their ' ' forces. . Lieut. C. C. Nutt of the United States aviation Torps in his DeHavi-lanplane arrived at Myton on August 15, having made a successful and uneventful flight from Salt Lake City. Apparently while trying to find his way by a short cut down the bottom of the canyon, Simeon Scott, 10 years of age, of Salt Lake, met death in a fall over a cliff in Parley's canyon. Two men and a woman are held at Murray under $100 bail, each awaiting investigations of the character of fifty gallons of "red wine" found on the premises they occupy. Water-usin- g land owners at Center-vill- e are considering a new irrigation district with citizens of Bountiful. More water, especially for the truck gardens, must be obtained. Reports of the state school census so far received indicate that there will be about 5000 fewer children of school ase in the state this year than there were last year. A.seminary, which will cost $9000, is to be built at Kaysville by the Latter-daSaints church; to be owned joint' ly by "the 'North Davis and South Davis stakes. Essential features of .what promises to be one of the largest Labor day parades ever held in Salt Lake have been fomiulated by the committee in d Governors Will Go to Capital and Offer Services in Campaign. Salt Lake City. Seven governors, forming a committee to represent the national conference of governors, will go to Washington and tell President Wilson, Attorney General Palmer, the members of congress and others that they are ready and eager to cooprate In lowering the high cost of living at once. This decision was reached at the opening session of the conference here, on August 19, of governors of western states, which was devoted to a discussion of ways and means of reducing the cost of living. Two other matters cf importance were taken til) during the day's session, the question of the state budget and the consolidation of administrative boards. Would Salvage Kruger Fortune. The conference of governors has London. To recover more than $3,- - been exceptionally well attended and 000,000 in gold, part of the fortune of many problems of vital interest are the late Oom Paul Kruger, once presi under consideration by the executives. charge. Field men who hnve been out makdent of the Transvaal, which is be lieved to be cemented in the hold of ing inspections report that the sugar IN ZION. MOTOR CARAVAN beet crop in Cache county will be heav-ie- r the bark Dorothea, sunk on Tenedos than has been anticipated for some reef off the coast of Zululand, is one of Army Trucks Establish a time. of the projects which may be revived Train Record for Time and Distance. as a result of improvement in the sciThe hay crop has been excellent in Lake City. Establishing by far Salt ence of salvaging sunken ships. with the exception of a few iso Utah, a new world's record for both time lated spots where the drought3 Was ' and distance ,the United States army felt exceptionally heavy. ALFREDO GONZALES motor transport convoy rested Tueshas' Lake Salt Love of H. Stephen day night In Suit Lake, with its speed- been chosen chairman of the" Utah ometers showing 2499 miles covered state committee of the Roosevelt Me--.' since leaving Washington, D. C, July morial association. , 7 last. War Mothers of Utah at their The It was after the imposing parade held at Salt Lake unanimous.., down Main street had been completed meeting a resolution indorsing the sustained ly to was train and while the preparing r nations. of league make camp for the night that Lieut kill was Menolll of Mark Sunnyside Col. Charles W. McClure, commanded in the colliery of the Utah Fuel ant, received a telegram from the. war when he fell across a bar department extending congratulations company machine. mining distance the previousand statin that While hunting chicken in Taradlse ly traveled by an army motor train was 900 miles. Hence the convoy has canyon, John Burt of Brigham City shot in the arm by nearly 1000 miles to its credit over all was accidentally buckshot, stray . records. previous Salt Lake has been selected as the next place of meeting for the Utah Walsh Calls King Jailer. October New York. Frank P. Walsh, chair- Federation of Women's Clubs, man of the American commission on 13, 14 and lk The school census of Salt Lake, Just Irish IndeDertdence. characterizes the world as "a vast Jail, wit King George completed for the present year, shows V of England as its keeper," in a a decrease of 495 from that of last statement Issued here Monday pro- year. . the alleged acquiDeposits In Salt Lake banks for th Alfredo Gonzales, former president testing against state various of departments escence year ended June 30 exceeded those of Costa Rica, whose administration pass-nort- s to deny for the siime period of 1918 by $6,098," In England permitting was overthrown by the Tlnoco rtvolu. 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