Show r - - - -- - t v - ' Nv r 'v V ' v- " I11 ' f ‘ ' i I v' ' ' - i ' t V' ii--- V - SALT LAKE CITS' UTAH SUNDAY MAHCH 25 1917 ABDICATED THRONE NEW RULERS OF r:X:r NO 1 IS GRAND DUKE MICHAEL ALEXANDROVTTCH THE NEW REGENT DISPOSAL OF LEFT DANA OF RHINE PUZZLE GERMANS RAZE Germans Kept Luxemburg FRENCH TOWNS FILES REPORT In the House as Bad Off Every Night Banana Fritters and Apple Beautiful Avenue of Trees Declare British as Experts Belgium Sauce Are Notv Only for in Peronne Destroyed Methods of Boats PerTeutons SHIPPING BOARD Can- the Very Rich London March 24— A visit to some of the leading stores yesterday elicited the Information that the Import changes indicated will necessitate a reof price lists Many English Fear France’s vision “Tea has already advanced twopence said the manager cf a West Post Bellum Ambitions aEndpound” store “and the prohibition of forAre Excessive eign imports of the article must operate to a further extent against' the cons' mer The principle applies equally to coffee cocoa and the various other (By London Observer Correspondent) goods under which are to be — Paris March 24 The readiness with restriction At present itbrought is Impossible which British opinion is backing- France to say what the increased prices will be as arrangements for meeting the in her desire to recover her lost prov- new situation created have not yet inces of Alsace and Lorraine Including been completed But that the domesthe Sarre valley has made here a very tic budget will be disturbed may be as certain welcome impression There remains the regarded concern Is felt amongst No great question of what is to become of the fruit merchants in regard to the proleft bank of the Rhine or more exact- hibition of bananas apples and tomaly of that part of German territory toes “The only result so far as I which extends west of the Rhine from can said one leading salesman the Sarre district up to the Dutch bor- to a see” “is that forpress representative der Apparently some Englishmen fear eign tomatoes from the will disappear lest- French opinion should allow Itself markets Bananas may last for a litto be carried away by excessive ambi- tle longer as there are greater stocks tions and ask for an extension of the on hand while apples are at present new French border as far as Coblentz even more plentlfuL will of or even higher north I should like to course become expensiveThey luxuries The reassure them At the same time the only thing that surprises me is that vital importance of some of the prob- Canadian apples and tomatoes from the lems connected with the question of channel islands have been prohibited the left bank of the Rhine ought to be They represent a very largo industry” properly understood First let us be very clear about the was at' her traditional enemy From the negative side of the matter There border down to Lorraine she a time when French opinion on this Dutch made the left bank of the Rhine has was far from sober When the a sort of gigantic point pier fully equipped convention after the treaty of Basle with from which and railways 1 1795 on October decided that the to launch millions camps on France men of whole left bank of the Rhine should and The is: Are question Belgium a of made French be part territory we French and Belgians going to be they may have been right in alleging in the future by the same that the German populations had wel- haunted nightmare? comed the republican troops with some An Industrial Redoubt enthusiasm but they nevertheless committed a breach of their own democratFrom an economic point of view the That old unwholesome difficulties may also be very great The ic principles Imperialist dream is fortunately quite economic relations between Lorraine dead Not only Is the overwhelming and Luxemburg on one side and the majority of the nation opposed to any- Rhenish provinces on the other are so thing like annexation of any part of numerous that to sever them suddenly German territory but the wildest na- might do to both parties a great deal tionalists themselves once they are of harm One does not see for inforced to the wall confess that such stance how Lorraine and Luxemburg an annexation would he a fatal mis- will manage to develop their iron If take they are not allowed to exchange part of It with the coal of the western bank rntnre of the Frontier of the Rhine The River Moselle is a am not with acquainted Although I the manufacturers prosthe secrets of diplomacy I feel there- link between on which no diplomatbanks its pering more howconvinced than that fore On the other ever will ist destroy ever complete our victory may be the hand if the German territories west Gerpolicy of annexing any properly were as Rhine remain tho in of they man territory on the left bank of- the the past Included in the German ecoRhine will never be advocated by any nomic these relations along the responsible Frenchman A nation can- Mosellesystem will open the whole of France not suffer what France has suffered to another sort of German invasion the without gaining some wisdom and a unpleasantness which anybody can keener sense of what Is right and foresee Just asof the left bank of the1 wrong Rhine sort of is a huge military platOnce these childish conceptions are form from which to assail Western disposed of there remains the fact that Europe it Is also an industrial and some very pressing and difficult prob- commercial redoubt on the flanks of lems are connected with the strategical France and Belgium and economic situation of the German Can any satisfactory solution be territories west of the Rhine These found which will at the same time he problems concern Belgium as well as true to our principles and remove this France They cannot be disregarded twofold danger? knows Nobody and must be solved either by permanent whether the allied governments havs or temporary arrangements consulted about the matter In the do nothing more meantime various proposals have bean allies Suppose the from Ger- put forward by some bold political exthan detach Alsace-Lorraibe will what the many military sit- perts The extremists want the whole uation tomorrow? The eastern border territory west of the Rhine to be neuof Belgium and France will be as be- tralised Others remind us of the fact fore very weak on some 'important that Holland after she had been aspoints One road of invasion will be saulted by Louis XIV was authorised open through the right bank of the by Europe to maintain garrisons in Meuse to the Oise valley Another one some of the fortified towns in Belgium will go through Luxemburg in the They want this precedent to vbe redirection of the Meuse by Stenay A vived and suggest that France Belthird and equally well known one gium and ? Great Britain to be will threaten Lorraine through the allowed to occupy at anyought rate for a X’alatlnate Prussia being master of time all the bi£ towns west of the the railways not only of the Rhenish Rhine The economic border they say provinces but of Luxemburg as well ought to be removed as far as the terwill still be In position to use these Rhine Itself so thatroads whenever she thinks that the ritory should not' be part of the Gertime has come to make another dash man Zollverein Population Isolated Have Few Liberties and Are Suffering From Hunger ' Amsterdam Netherlands March little news reaches the outside world concerning the state of affairs in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg the little state wedged In between Germany France and Belgium that was the first country to resound to the tramp of the German legions on their way to 24 — Very - France Luxemburg is entirely isolated by the Germans and its inhabitants are like the Belgians practical prisoners within their own borders where they are sharing all the economic hardships of the central powers According to Information furnished to the Amsterdam Tele-graby a Luxemburger who has In getting through succeeded Just ' to Holland' there' is practically no1 unemployment in the Grand Duchy where numerous iron foundries steel manufactories and engineering works are busily engaged re-on German orders But while this sults in high Ivages and a lot of money being put into circulation there is little to be had for money The food position in particular Is described as serious The govto get food from ernment Holland and Denmark but the Germans refuse to let it pass frankly declaring that they will not have the competition of Luxemburg buyers on the markets In those countries The Luxemburg government bought and paid for 250000 francs’ worth of butter in Denmark but it has not reached its destination The country would itself be able to meet its own prime needs were' It not for the fact that It still has to regularly cede a large part of its products to Germany As a result of the complaints of the government however Germany haa restricted Its requisitions The one German Duchy has to feed battalion and on the other hand German soldiers are forbidden to requisition or buy eattblss thereNotwithstanding the latter regulatroops ifolag to or ' tion however front are well the from coming provided with paper moneyas and 15 are glad to pay as much francs for a pound of Siam It Is true the Luxemburg soldiers customs officers have as serving recently obtained the right to search German soldiers leaving the country but this right does not v extend to officers and the latter as much or more smuggle quite than their men The chamber is Constantly urging the government to take fresh measures to combat - yC A 1§ s af has-trie- ‘ ' - - the-weste- rn - h 9 - t - d ' : ' - the 'smuggling but the latter dare not go too far for fear lest Germany should cut off all foodstuff supplies The Germans recently offered to supply the entire industrial region with food on con- -' dltlon that all factories without exception ’should work for them but the majority of 'the chamber Isof: the opinion that this offer can-- : ‘ ne “ NO 3 CZARINA AND NO 4 IS THE YOUNG EMPEROR NO 2 IS DEPOSED CZAR 'not be accepted London March 24— Groat Britain haa Rumania £40000000 acagreed toto loan an official statement issued cording at Jassy- the temporairy Rumanian capital and ' forwarded by the' Reuter correspondent' The loan will be at 5 - ' - '-' r--- ' - v V I- -'1 j - v fT- not Be Impaired i London March 24 —The government committee appointed to Inquire “whether any avoidable delay Is caused by the methods adopted for dealing with shipping” in exercising 'the belligerent right of search and inspection has Jnst made Its report The general conclusion is: “We have been unable to discover that consistently with the effective exercise of belligerent rights there Is any avoidable delay caused by the existing methods of dealing with into port ships and cargoes under the order in brought council of March 11 1915 and we have no suggestions to offer for the Improvement of those methods” The report tells Just how the machinery of search and Inspection works In the case of neutral ships Most of this machinery is in the hands of the admiralty committee for the diversion of ships in war time This committee Is notified promptly of particulars concerning the arriving ships and ofto the be cargo quantity andornature of the and examined discharged assigns suitable port the ship to theiiiost “The system! ' though elaborate and complicated in practice works smoothsays the report of the investigatly” committee “It originated in the ing fact that methods of search sanctioned by usage in the past are now impracticable and that the evidence which in the shape of documents carried on the ships the neutral shipowner and trader were required to provide has been robbed by changed conditions of much of its value Other evidence or guarantee therefore must be forthcoming If the rights of the belligerent are to be preserved “The system has been so constructed as ' to furnish facilities by which if he is disposed to avail himsllf of them the neutral can provide such evidence or guarantees and so be assured of the minimum disturbance of his trade “It was not to be expected that a system which has developed as the necessity arose should have worked well from the beginning Until It yran complete there were undoubtedly stages at which delay took place The congestion at the ports of discharge which Is persistent source of delay is consequent upon a state of war So long as that congestion exists its effects must be felt by ships brought in under orders In council as by all others but they are dealt with in their turn and given at least equal facili' Boston Mass March 24—Giving his Impressions of a visit to Samoa a resident of Boston recently returned home says that the government is ad-- ‘ ministered by Colonel Logan appointed by the New Zealand defense department as it is under military occupation Everything is done with military preclslrn he adds even to the landing of tourists Everybody is more or less- under supervision The tourist’s passport has to be viseed by a representative of the administrator and until this is done one cannot move about There is of course nothing to hinder the movements of any bona fide person he says “So far as I could Judge In my short he continues “the administrastay” tion seemed to be getting along very well There appeared to be very little friction The principal complaint that the Germans have is that they have to be Indoors and stay there after 6 o’clock every evening But otherwise they are allowed to be: at large' and in the daytime they congregate at the principal hotel The Germans appear to be very happy and jolly but keep to their own cliques The only Germans who are left In trade are a barber and a watchmaker who cannot be replaced “The court of the chief Justice Mr Roberts manages everything and has taken over all the estates left ' by the German administration Under the German regime the court regulated most things including the saU and marketing of property This complicated matters for the incoming administration and made It difficult to carry on under the ideas of the New Zealand government which ideas were ‘ - very different” One thing of interest to the visitor at Samoa is the wreck of a German which has been on the reef warship since 1889 The harbor of Apia is handicapped for trade purposes by the presence of a reef Inside the main reef and between the anchorage and the shore This makes landing a difficult operation and lighters will always be required A wharf to be useful would have to be a quarter of a mile long From the water one has a beautiful t ties” view of the hills The seashore at Apia Is semicircular and as the hill Is similarly shaped the view from the MACHINE GUN CORPS harbor is very attractive At night FOR MIKADO’S ARMY the place Is brilliantly lighted and there Is usually a ' gathering of natives Toklo March '24— Although the use around a bonfire The general effect is of machine guns has ' been adopted in weird but beautiful the Japanese army since the close of the Rub si o -- Japanese war in 1905 there FRANCE PROPOSES TO exists at present no special machine augun corps The Japanese'-armDEMONETIZE GOLD thorities having recognized the importance of special corps for machine guns have decided to organize nine Bill Iatrodneed In Chamber of Depnllea such Corps to be attached to each Designed to Bring Oat Four Bildivision a lion Francs Hoarded Moneys army corps being provided with eight guns Compared with the Paris March 24 —A bill to demonesystems of the French and German tize each army where is provided existing French gold coinage has of with nine machineregiment gun corps (each been Introduced in the chamber corps with six guns) the present plan deputies by Deputies Lenoir Bouffan-dea- u is inferior in strength - but the army and Eymond The purpose is to authorities expect eventually to bring force hoarders to bring out gold estithe corps up to the European stan- mated at' four billion francs which is dard still being kept in hiding In spite ex-of appeals to the owners to patriotic CHINESE WOO JAPAN change It for notes The bill provides Toklo" March for- for the’ issue of a hew design which mer Chinese minister to Japan is In alone will have currency after the war Tokioon a mission which may-hava Special arrangements would be made In importance bringing In the case of French gold held abroad about closer working relations between ITALIAN CLOCKS ADVANCED Japan and China' Mr Liu: is here priis Rome March 24— A decree 'has been vately but he authorized by his government to consult J apanese officials promulgated directing- all Italian and leading business men to work-ouclocks to be advanced one hour: from a system of practical v April X to September 30 ' y - - y - - - V 3v — - - 'V'V- - far-rcachl- ng - -- " - t ion ' NOW TOTAL Be- fore Evacuation British March - BRITAIN WILL LOAN RUMANIA $200000000 per cent - Interest ' ' r i 'i'l injSamoa Only mitted Freedom of tlie Streets During Days WAR COSTS 24 Headquarters in Fr&nch —The deliberate character of the destruction wrought by the Germans before their withdrawal from Peronne is painfully evident In the once beautiful-avenuof trees leading to the railway station These trees were untouched by shell fire but each one was hacked in two with axes and the gashes and chips show that the work was done within the last few The beautiful gardens of the days outlying houses were also wrecked and every fruit tree within several miles of of the town was sawed the way through and then broken down The correspondent of the Associated Press was among the first visitors to Peronne In the wake of the English troops who have now swept well beIt was necessary to yond that place pass through half a score of ruined villages which only a few days ago were within the zone of intense artillery fire before reaching the banks of the Somme Crossing that stream on an improvised bridge and trudging through Halle Peronne was reached over a road which had been reconstructed within twenty-fou- r hours over succeeding rows of German trenches and through recurring masses of rusted barbed wire some of these at least six feet In height and being fifty feet in width British officers pointed out building after building where apparently the total damage had resulted from interior explosions In many cases walls facing away from the line of British and French fire had great squares blown through them differing strikin ingly from the round holes made other buildings by shells The beautiful old sixteenth century church of Saint Jean waus a pitiful mass of ruins but one of its oil paintings still hung on a bit of wall in the transept and was miraculously The untouched statue of Catherine Devoix which had adorned the great square had been taken away by the Germans and a gaudily clad dummy left in its stead In some of the finer residences the libraries had been wrecked the books torn in pieces and scattered in the streets The Germans had left several footwere bridges across the Somme which examapparently Intact but on closer ination showed that false sections had been inserted which gave way at the The correspondfirst foot pressure ent investigating one of these bridges too closely had an icy bath in the Somme On the blank walls of the were many printed proclamacity there entions to the soldiers including the von text of some of Chancellor tire Bethmann-IIollweglater speeches in two-thir- ds - ’s the- relchsjag At a chateau just outside Peronne the Germns had killed two magpies and stuck them on the sharp points of the Iron posts at either side of the entrance “I suppose that signifies some German curse or sign of bad luck? said a British subaltern as he went whistling gaily ‘on his way to find' as he said “where the war has taken itself off to’ - DUTCH DANK IN RUSSIA Amsterdam Netherlands March 24 — The second Dutch bank to be founded in Russia in the course of the past few months has started operations in Petrograd It is 'called the ‘Netherlands Bank for Russian Trade and has a foundation capital of 5000000 rubles Its- founders Include several leading Dutch banking Institutions headed by the Netherlands Trading society - - Burden of Entente Allies Twice as Heavy as Teutons Says German Amsterdam March 24 —In the German relchstag Count von Roedern minister of finance in submitting the new budget said: “Since the legitimate unrestricted employment of this weapon (the submarine) British ministers have again and again in the last few weeks been busying themselves with us in an pecially unfriendly manner and above all my special colleague Bonar Law He it was who recently hurled across the channel that Insult In which he compared human nature and the German nature — an insult which as he rightly supposed would be especially keenly felt by Germans I am not going to follow the British chancellor of the exchequer in the manner of the homerie heroes who in battle bandied Insulting words Otherwise I should have had to make the charge of conscious mendacity —a charge which would have been particularly grievous to British ears” ' Taxation would amount for the next the year to £82500000 and there was prospect of additional taxation on war later on A war credit of profits £750000000 was demanded As the budget brought in during the financial therefore an adyear no new money ditional tax of 20 per cent on the existing war taxation was necessary Store Talk of 'Indemnity Count von Roedern continuing said: “The war credit voted last October is As in all bslliger-en- t nearly exhausted countries our war expenditure during the last few months has experienced a certain tension but it certainly Is not higher than that of our enemies Our average extraordinary expenditure during the months of October to January amounted in all to I 2775000600 marks (£118750000) hare reason to suppose that the proportion of the burden as between both groups of belligerents is still two to one the war expenditure of the whole world exceeds 300000000000 marks (£15000000000) and therefore not more than 100000000000 marks (£5000000-000- ) fall on us and our allies while over 200000000000 marks (£10000-00000fall on the entente The tension will not relax in the war expenditure during the next few months The war credit of 15000000000 marks is therefore asked for Socialist Dissent Herr Ebert (Socialist) having given the adhesion of his party to the proposals Herr Ledebour (Socialist minority party) said: “We cannot by voting these credits take the responsibility upon ourselves for the war aims of the governmentThe insincerity (Inhaltslosigkeit) of' the offer of peace minimizes its value The right of nations to enjoy independence Is violsted-bthe manner in which Gerhave creatmany and Austria-Hungar- y ed the new Polish state (Calls for the closure) From the beginning wo have fought against an unrestricted warfare and we demand its cessation (Loud laughter) It correas little to the laws of humansponds as the British plan of starvation ity We 'ask the socialists of the decuple entente to fight against the machinations of JLhelr governments which are peace and ask tlie Amerfrustrating ican - friends of peace to- frustrate in the last hour awar with America 1 0) - - U-b- oat - - - v i t T A k - K r |