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Show r Editorial and Telegraphic Section New of the World for Busy Readers TREMONTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1919. CHINA MAKES PEACE TIDAL WAVE MAKES WITH GERMAN FOE FRESH MANY JOHNSON BLESS ATMS THE LEAGUE PLAN COMPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE SHANTUNG CONTROVERSY. WALL OF WATER OVER TEN FEET HIGH SWEEPS OVER TEXAS TOWN. VIGOROUSLY The Action of Chinese In Terminating War With Germany Instead of Signing Treaty Negotiated at Paris Comes as Surprise. Residential Section Swept Away, At Least Fifteen Lives Being Lost, While Property Damage Will Reach Four Millions. Speakers Following In Footsteps of President Take up Gauge of Battle in Behalf of Reservation-ist- s to League of Nations. Fresh complications Washington. have been added to the Shantung controversy, which is one of the obstacles to ratification of the peace treaty with Germany. Following the disclosure that President Wilson has called upon Japan to announce a definite date on which it will restore Kiaochow to China it was announced that China had declared peace with Germany after refusing to submit to Japanese pressure to sign the Versailles treaty. The action of China in terminating the war with Germany by an edict dated September 15 instead of signing the treaty negotiated at Paris enhances the difficulties attending the efforts of the president to abate the Shantung controversy. " If Japan now yields to the importunities of the president it will be compelled to back down on its recent assertion that it would not enter into negotiation with China for the restoration of Kiaochow until China had signed the peace treaty. The news that Mr. Wilson had made representations to Japan In regard tc definite arrangements for the returc of the German leased territory In Shantung to China reached Washing ton from Tokio. In the absence of the president and of Secretary of State Lansing, William Phillips, the acting secretary of state, declined to confirm or deny the report. Among other state department offi cials, however, and at the" capitol the intelligence was pronounced authentic One of the administration leaders in the senate in the league of nations fight confirmed the report unequivo cally, y Corpus Christ!, Texas. Over a hundred persons are dead and at least 4000 are homeless, while property damage will reach $14,000,000, as a result of the tropical hurricane which raged in this section for twenty-fou- r hours. Latest lists show that 164 lives were lost, but this list may toe materially re duced. It is feared that at least 100 perished, however. The damage was caused mostly by a tidal wave driven in from the north by a gale estimated at from sixty-fiv- e to seventy miles an hour. The official record of the tide places It at ten feet six inches deep, but many say the water was fifteen feet in depth on , the Socialism Bankrupting Itself. New York. Two "dominant convic tions" in the mind of Herbert Hoover after his five years' service abroad, are that socialism is "bankrupting it self," and that America must not abandon its moral leadership in restoring order In the world not permit itself to be used for "experiment in social dis eases." Prohibition Law Liberalized. , Washington. The principal senate amendment liberalizing the prohibition enforcement bill, to permit home manufacture for Individual consumption of "nonintoxicating" cider and light wines, has been accepted by the house conferees finally In the bill, subject to action on the conference report. and-plac- Daily Strike Loss Ten Million. New York. Ten million dollars a day has been the cost to the United States of strikes and threatened strikes in the last eight months, asserts Stephen C. Mason, president of the National Association of Manufac- turers. Wild West Stunt in Gotham. Rock Springs, Wyo. John Buxton, deputy state game warden, is dead, and Joe Omeyo, 17, is held in the eoun-t- y jail on a charge of murder. Omeyo shot Buxton when the officer attempted to arrest him for hunting out of ' ' season. ' ed MATTHEW WOLL Draft Begins With War. Washington. Under the army reorganization law as the war department is asking congress to pass It, Chief of Staff March told the house military committee, conscription of men between 18 and 45 would begin automatically on declaration of war without any other action by congress. Pact Formally Read in Senate. Washington. Formal reading of the German peace treaty for amendment was begun Tuesday in the senata after a sharp parliamentary wrangle and demand by Democrats for an avowal from Republican Leader Lodge that the pact be kept continually before the body. Service Bonus Bill Passed. The senate has passed the house bill providing a bonus of $15 for each month of service for soldiers, sailors and marines who served the colors at some- time- between the declaration of war and the signing of the armistice. ; St. Paul. WILSON REVIEWS THE PACIFIC FLEE! WITH FIRST TIME A PRESIDENT OF LABOR HEADS ASK WILSON TO UNITED STATES HAS FLOWN TKE UP CUDGELS FOR WORKFLAG IN SEATTLE HARBOR. ERS OF NORTHWEST. Review Follows Incident Which Nearly Delegation Urged to Bury Differences Until After the Conference Called Resulted in Serious Consequences for Presidential Party When for Washington in Boats Collide. October. . Seattle. Marking the first time a Seattle. Representatives of th president of the United States fis Washington State Federation of Labor flown his flag in Seattle's harbor?. President Wilson on September 13, re- Vilson labor grievances of the Pacific viewed the great Pacific fleet from Northwest and pictured to him existthe decks of the history-fame- d battle ing lator unrest, which they said would ship Oregon in Elliott bay. The re-- nVfce difficult, if not impossible, the view followed the president's arrival P'"'von of a nationwide strike Oc-- J from ffacewaaBMigo jfoltos."Ufa Imnricnii. cident which nearly resulted fin ser JrTsriTr cnnfmi strA ious consequences for the presidential ment for 4Jan Francisco bomb outparty when the president's launch col- rages In 1916. lided with a naval whaleboat. Specifically, the delegation asked Arriving at the dock, it was found for an appointment to see the presi the barge of Admiral Hugh Rodman, dent to present the cases of "political which was supposed to be awaiting prisoners," notably those of Hulet M. the president, was not on hand. Com- Wells Sam Sadler and Morris and Joe mander P. W. Foote, personal aide to Pass ,the latter two being brought Secretary of the Navy Daniels, prompt here, all serving terms of two years ly took over a naval launch on hand. for seditious conspiracy. The delegation was composed of L. Into this launch went the president and Mi's. Wilson, Secretary and Mrs. W. Buck, acting president of the State Daniels, secret service men, secretar Federation; C. R. Cottrell, secretary ies and newspaper men traveling with of Triple Alliance, composed of railway Mr. Wilson. men, labor and farmers, and James A. As Commander Foote ordered the Duncan, secretary of the Central Counlaunch shoved off, the small chaft cil of Seattle. Mr. Duncan, accordiug heeled over till the port rail was nearly to officials of the United States disunder water. Starting ahead then, the trict attorney's office, was. one of the craft ran bow-o- n into another launch, leaders in a general strike here last giving the presidential party a severe February, which former Mayor Ole jar. The president, however sat se Hanson characterized as a "revolurenely in the aft part of the launch tion." aud smiled. For more than an hour the president discussed the labor situation with the FATALITY MARS VISIT. delegation and suggested to them that organized labor should bury Its differNews Writer and Driver With Wilson ences with capital and do its utmost to Party Killed in Auto Crash. prevent strikes until after the labor Driven at breakneck conference which he has called to meet Portland. speed along the Columbia headway, in Washington, October 6. The president told the delegation he twelve miles from here Monday, an automobile bearing three newspaper was giving the entire situation his correspondents accompanying Presi careful attention, and was hopeful of dent Wilson's party deft the road, results from the conference. turned turtle on an incline and left two dead and three injured men In its Emperor Charles to Live in Spain. wake. The former emperor Madrid. Ben F. Allen, for fifteen years the Charles of Austria and his family are Washington correspondent of the expected. to arrive at Santander at an Cleveland Plain Dealer, was Instantly early date. They will occupy King killed, as was James R. Patterson, 73 Alfonso's palace of Magdalena. years old, the owner and driver of the car. CAPT. ARTHUR L. WILLARD The injured were Robert T. Small, Philof the Washington correspondent adelphia Public Ledger, Stanley M. Reynolds, Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun and Arthur D. Sullivan, a reporter for the Portland , H'.p!?l?il5'' Refuses to Surrender Kun. Taris. The Austrian government has refused to accede to Hungary's demand for the extradition of Bela Kun, virtual dictator at Budapest during the communist regime, asking for proofs of accusations of murder and theft made against him, according to Vienna newspapers. ' Would Resist Americans. General Alvaro Obregon, a former minister of war in the Obregon Nogales. Car-ranz- cabinet and a candidate for president In IOL'0, has announced that lie would take the field against the United States In the event of armed Intervention by the United States. Hoists Flag of Irish Republic. Matthew Wol I of Chicago, recently Newark, N. J. The greerhlte and gold flag of the Irish republic was shoes eighth vie president of the Wild West Stunt In Gotham. floated Monday In the balcony of May American Federation of Labor, has New York. Six bandits hold up the er Charles P. Glllen's suite In Newark I iten acting editor of the American branch of the Bronx In deratlonlst Samuel absence of Wllllamsbridge the welcomed as the hall officially city city Eanaon De Valera, president of tin Qompers In Europe. He has acted for Borough bank Monday afternoon and Capt ArthurL. Wlllard Is in com. In mand of the Irish republic j til past year as Mr. Qompers' assist- - escaped In on automobile with $8000 battleship New Mexico,, cash. Ml. the flagship of the Paclflo fleet Should There Be no Permanent Guaranty of Peace, Says Wilson, the Nation Would be Untrue To Its Promises. Portland. Quoting from an address made in 1915 by Senator Lodge, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, suggesting that nations must unite as men unite to preserve peace, President Wilson told a Portland audience Monday night that the league of nations covenant carried out what Mr. Lodge had suggested. It was the first time during his speaking tour that Mr. Wilson had mentioned by name any of the senators opposing the league. The president began his address by saying he had been much impressed during his trip by the number of children who came to see him. It was really to the children, he continued, that lie wanted to report. "I have come," he said, "to report as to the safety and honor of the future generations of America." Should there be no permanent guarantee of peace, said Mr. Wilson, then the nation not only would be untrue to ence. Senators Johnson and Borah have its promises to those who won the war, taken up the gauge of battle in behalf but would also be recreant in its duties of the reservationists to the league of to the mothers of the country. The president's words were greeted nations covenant, and announce that addresses will be made In all the cities with laughter and cheers by an audivisited by President Wilson during his ence which packed the municipal auditorium, said to accommodate more speaking tour of the west Speaking before a large audience at than 7000. For the first time since his speakSioux Falls, S. D., Tuesday night Senator Johnson made a stirring ap- ing trip began there was no stop schedpeal for the radical amendment of the uled during all of the day on Tuesday, and the president slept late while his peace treaty. train was winding southward through Upon his arrival at Sioux Falls, Sen A trftin iV the Cascades of western Oregon. He fij lf .vntVQ fl hitnil niill a ffrtt Ml f AO rf left Portland late Monday night and and later rode in an automobile pa- arrived in San Francisco Wednesday rade. He spoke from the same plat- morning. Thousands of people were gathered form where President Wilson urged the adoption of the league of nations at the stations through which the prescovenant eight days previous, in his idential party passed, in hopes of swing through the west. To accommo- catching a glimpse of the president. In the first day of his stay of more date the crowd it was necessary to remove the chairs from the main floor than a week on the Pacific coast Mr. of the hall, and the crowd remained Wilson spoke during Saturday at and then arrived in Seattle in standing while the senator spoke. At St. Louis, on Friday, when Sen- the afternoon to review the Pacific ator Johnson stepped on the stage at fleet in the afternoon and address a the Coliseum to plead for the defeat mass meeting at the arena in the evenot the league of nations covenant in ing. In both cities he was cheered its present form, he was given an ova- by crowds that thronged every point tion that lasted eighteen minutes. The of vantage to get a glimpse of him. The president rested on Sunday at Coliseum was packed to the doors. "In my brief career I have never a Seattle hotel. At a public dinner which he attendfailed to accept a challenge from an ed before addressing the mass meeting be a whether he opponent, president or an humble private citizen," said at the arena, Mr. Wilson said he had been impressed by the uniformity of Senator Johnson. "I want to deny Mr. Wilson's charge opinion among the people from oceatl that the American people are quitters to ocean. "There is no essential diif they refuse to approve the league vision," he said, "in the thought or of nations. The American people purpose of the American people. No never quit. When Mr. Wilson went to amount of debate will set them off Paris to demand his fourteen points their balance." At the arena which seats 6300, and came home without them the American people did not quit, some- there were a few empty seats when the president began speaking, but many body else quit." Senator Borah, In an address at were standing. When Mr. Wilson enOmaha, frankly declared his wish not tered the crowd rose and cheered him for more than a minute and when he merely to amend, but to wreck the was introduced by Mayor Fitzgerald of covenant. nations league was a longer demonstration. there The senator denounced the transfer On the stage were Secretary Daniels of Germany's rights in Shantung to of the navy department, and Admiral Japan as "the turning over of 40,000,- Pacific 000 friendly people to our enemy," and Rodman, commander of the as an act of treachery to an ally un fleet. The president was the guest of Sposurpassed In history. The sending of American soldiers to kane on September 12, and during his Siberia was declared to be In viola- address declared that any change in tion of the constitution of the United the peace treaty would make the ratification conditional, would reopen the States. Senator Borah repeatedly declared negotiations, and so prolong the doubt that the real Issue between friends and and uncertainty. Mr. Wilson said he saw no moral opponents of the league of nations Is to interpretations which objection a difference between those who would would not change the meaning of the and American the republic betray document, but added that such a step those who would defend it. In an address at Indianapolis on would merely be to say that the United States knows the treaty to mean what Thursday, Senator Johnson declared it says. cost that if responsibility for the high The president spoke to a crowd of living rests upon any agency or which filled the Spokane armory, man, It rests upon the present national the 4500 seats had been distribwhere administration and upon President uted by lottery, and was repeatedly Wilson. On his way to the armory On September 13, Senator Johnson cheered. had ridden he through a riot of cheerspoke tat Kansas City, while Senator In Borah delivered an address at Fort ing and flag waving, the crowds far downtown section out the surging Dodge. Iowa. curb. Ho praised Senator Reed of Missouri beyond the It was Mr. Wilson's second address for his courageous stand in opposing during the day, and the first of three ratification of the league covenant. he made In Washington, the home state of Senator Poindexter, one of McCumber Presents His Report. those bitterly opposing the treaty. Washington Rejection of all pro Not one of the reservations suggest to the German ed to the league of nations covenant posed amendments treaty and modification of the recom wns warranted, declared the prexldenr. were Under the withdrawal clause, mended "strong" reservations he as- ureed in an Individual minority re- serted, the nation Itself would Judgu port filed with with the senate Monwhether It had performed Its Inter day by Senator McCumber Republican, national obligations. That was a matof North Dakota, next In rank on tho ter, ho added, which never oiild or foreign relations committee to Chair- would be left to the Judgment of any man Lodge. other nation. Des Moines, Iowa. Vigorous objection to the approval of the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant by the senate without amendments which protect every Interest of the United States was voiced by Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California here Monday night in two addresses delivered before large and enthusiastic audiences. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho was to have spoken here with Senator Johnson, but he sent a telegram from Chicago stating that he had been called back to Washington to participate in the senate debate on the .peace pact. Senator Johnson was the guest of the Grant club at 6 p. m., where he made a brief address. His principal address was delivered later at the Coliseum, arranged under the auspices of the League for the Preservation of American Independ- WORKERS CONFER News. J S COVEDECLARES OBJECTS TO AP. PRESIDENT NANT CARRIES OUT WHAT PROVAL OF PEACE TREATY SENATOR HAD SUGGESTED. IN DES MOINES ADDRESS. beach. Chapparal and Mesquite streets, in the business districts, were flooded, and while the water has receded, they are rilled with debris. The entire North beach residential section of the city has been swept clean, except the Spohn sanitarium, the United States public health service hospital, which was occupied by thirty-seve- n soldiers sent here for treatment, and one frame house. Practically every frame building on the beach front was destroyed, together with most of the boats moored there. The residence section on the hill was slightly damaged and a few houses were unroofed. The storm carried buildings and wreckage many miles inland, accord Ing to meager reportsjfrom rOdem and einton, in wrucn region seventy vic tims are reported to have been found. Every industry in the city is prostrated, business at a complete standstill, communication of all kinds demoralized and the food and housing ; Pershing to Get Thanks Only. problem acute. State machinery for relief of storm Washington. Opposition of several members, privately expressed, caused sufferers was completed late Tuesday house leaders to abandon the proposed by Governor Hobby, who ordered units gift of a sword to General Pershing. of the Texas national guard to relieve and Democrats were federal troops at Corpus Christ! as Republicans among those opposing an appropria quickly as transportation could be artion of $10,000 for the sword, contend ranged. The governor issued a proing that a vote of thanks to the gen clamation urging prompt contributions eral, his officers and men was suffi of money and supplies to the relief fund. cient II CITES LODGE IN I wrsf Ta-co- |