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GALVESTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1919-TEN PAGES
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NO. 60.
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and impartial regula-
OPENS CONFERENCE.
PACKERS DENOUNCED.
SITUATION IMPROVING.
HUGE STILL FOUND.
WANTS A “GOD-MOTHER.”
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tions
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London, Feb. 3.—The executive coun-
cil of the Amalgamated Society of En-
gineers today issued a statement dis-
approving of all unofficial strikes and
urging its members to resume work.
NOTHING TO OBSTRUCT
CREATION OF SOCIETY
FORECAST.
For Galveston
countered superior numbers of the bol-
shevik forces.
Artillery and patrol actions continue
on all sectors of the front. An Ameri-
can airplane yesterday bombed bolshe-
TREAT EN
ROUGH (5
MY MOTTO
GIVEN A WARNING.
II. A. Riband
Fred W. Catterall
We solicit nevi accounts.
The War Department An-
nounces Decorations.
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“being carried on by an active organi-
zation seeking to overthrow the gov-
ernment by violence.”
Senator Myers of Montana reiterated
criticisms made yesterday by Senator
Thomas of Colorado, of a public meet-
ing held in a Washington theater Sun-
day. in which the Russian bolshevik
government was reported praised and
which was attended by several mem-
bers of the house.
Continued on Page Seven.
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Supreme Council Takes This Course in
Greek Claims.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Feb. 4.—The supreme council
at its meeting today agreed that ques-
tions in the statement of Premier Veni-
zelos concerning Greek, territorial in-
terests in the peace settlement should
be referred to a commission of experts
whose duty it would be to make rec-'
ommendatiins for a just settlement.
Report to This Effect Is Current
London Today.
By Associated Press.
NATIONS
WILSON FACING
BUSY SCHEDULE
ANGLO-AMERICAN
SOCIALISTS’ VIEWS
PEOPLE ARE COWED
BY HARSH REGIME
MEDALS AWARDED
HEROIC SOLDIERS
DECISION REACHED
IN RANGER PROBE
CAMPAIGN ON "
SOCIAL EVIL
Has Several Appointments
for Today.
LONDONERS WALKING
TO THEIR POSITIONS
HELP YOUR GOVERNMENT
by purchasing Thrift Stamps and
War Savings Certificates. For sale
at all banks and by all postmen.
4% Interest, Compounded Quarterly.
HU TCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
BANKERS
(Unincorporated)
24th Strand
HUN INTRIGUE
SEEN AT BERNE
NO AUTHORITY
TO INVESTIGATE
HUNS OBJECT TO
LOSS OF COLONIES
WAR CONTRACT
BILL NEARER
FINAL FORM
Plan to Help Germany Re-
trieve Defeat.
Busses Crowded as Result
of Strike.
Adoption of Scheme Likely
Within Two Weeks.
Investigate Seditious
Activities.
Can’t Hear Proposed
Charges.
How Bolshevists Maintain
Army.
Encounters Superior Num-
bers of Bolsheviki.
Families of Officers Held
as Hostages.
STRENGTH RESTS
UN RED TERROR
Senate Takes Final Action on Woods'
Measure.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Feb. 4.—Bill by Senator J. H.
Woods of Navarro providing for the
appointment of a tax commission of
three members from the house and two
from the senate to make a complete in-
vestigation of the tax system of the
. state was passed finally in the sen-
ate.
Senator George W. Dayton of Gray-
son obtained consideration of his text-
book bill which is along the same lines
as the house bill on same subject.
Soviet Government Sends
Out Message.
Canales Urged Recom-
mending Removal.
the coast: colder,
except north-
west portion.
Wednesday fair,
warmer n orth
portion.
For West Texas: Fair tonight and
Wednesday; somewhat warmer Wed-
nesday.
For Oklahoma: Fair tonight and
Wednesday; somewhat warmer Wed-'
nesday.
Winds on Texas coast: Light to
moderate northerly to southerly.
RUSSIANS FORCED
TO BEAT RETREAT
SEEKS AGREEMENT
WITH THE ENTENTE
SENATORS EXTEND
SCOPE OF INQUIRY
for all colonial questions, but
allies are seeking to impose the
VALERA AT LARGE?
One-third of Delegates Are
Bolshevistic.
dent which occured Monday near the
field. Capt. Belmont was farmerly ath-
letic director at the University of
:Texas
Archangel, Monday, Feb. 3.—(By the
Associated Press).—The Russian de-
tachment operating with the Americans
on the Pinega front retreated several
versts yesterday after unsuccessfully
attempting an attack, in which it en-
By Associated Press.
Los Angeles, Cale Feb. 4.—Wil-
liam G. McAdoo, formerly secre-
tary of the treasury, has been
retained as counsel by a recently-
organized moving picture com-
pany, according to announcement
today by John Fairbanks, brother
of one of the founders of the
concern.
BRITAIN IS VITALLY
CONCERNED OVER PLAN
TO ABOLISH U-BOATS.
mands broad
We Have Our "Rights,"
Says Erzberger.
By Associated Press.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 4.—Walter Mayer,
i catcher on the Boston American team,
has been purchased by the St. Louis
American league club, President Phil
. Ball of the Browns announced today.
will of the stronger nations, without
taking into account the rights of Ger-
many.
"Depriving Germany of all her col-
onies would contain a deadly germ for
the league of nations even before that
league is born. We understand it has
been proposed to internationalize Ger-
man colonies under the administration
of the league of nations. We ought to
categorically repel such a proposition,
or claim the same treatment for the
colonies-of all other powers. President
Wilson’s program gives Germany an
inviolable right to her colonial terri-
tories.”
London, Feb. 4.—Bolshevist forces
are now masters of almost the whole
of Eastern Ukraine, including the im-
portant centers of Kharkov, Poltava,
Ekaterinoslav and the Konetz mining
region, according to a Helsingfors dis-
patch to the Mail.
AVERT FIR STRIKE.
By Associated’Press.
New York, Feb. 4.—By signing a two-
year agreement embodying union de-
mands the associated fur manufac-
' turers averted a strike called for today
by six thousand workers employed in
this city.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 4.—After extended
and vigorous criticism by several sen-
ators of alleged lawless propaganda,
the senate today adopted a resolution
extending the powers of the senate
committee investigating German prop-
aganda to inquire into other activ-
ities which it was charged sought the
overthrow of the government.
In the senate Senator Kellogg of
Minnesota declared propaganda was
By Associated Press.
Paris, Feb. 4.—The Russian soviet
government will take "all measures”
to bring about an agreement with the
entente, according to a wireless mes-
sage sent out from Moscow on Sunday.
It complains that the bolsheviki
authorities had received “no formal
invitation," to the Princess islands
conference, the only word regarding it
being a wireless message “containing
press news.”
The wireless message from Moscow
was addressed “to Berlin, Paris and
every where.”
Pig "Moonshine" Plant Is Discovered
Near New York.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 4.—Discovery of an
illicit still where vast quantities of
"moonshine" whiskey and alcohol were
being manufactured was made today
at Valley Stream, Long Island, about
sixteen miles from New York, accord-
ing to local agents of the federal in-
ternal revenue service. Three alleged
“moonshiners'’ were arrested.
The plan was found, it was said,' in
a cooperage factory. Revenue officers
located pipes leading to an enormous
underground tank which was filled with
liquor.
ST. LOUIS BUYS CATCHER.
tion of defense against a neighbor
whose good behavior has been assured.
- Some questions, however, do require
immediate consideration, it seems gen-
erally agreed. These are subjects such
as the assessment of the damages
caused by the war, 'the responsibility
for the war, the regulation of the uses
of international ways and railways, the
difficulties presented by the present
state of , chaos in the treaty relations
between the nations as one result of
the war and treatment of the labor
question by international accord.
Some of these problems would re-
quire a long time to settle, notably the
determining of the actual damage in-
flicted by the enemy, although it has
been suggested that adjustment of this
question might be facilitated by the
adoption of an estimate of the gross
sum, based on the preliminary exami-
nations which already have been made
by army officers.
One way of solving these problems,
which may be adopted, would be
through the creation of various com-
missions to work after the final ad-
justment of the peace conference, with
full powers to enforce the execution of
their decrees.
By Associated Press.
Basle, Monday, Feb. 3.—Speaking be-
fore the Colonial association at Berlin
today, Mathias Erzberger, one of the
German armistice commissioners, pro-
tested against Germany being deprived
of her colonies, according to a dis-
patch received here from the German
capital. He is reported to have said:
“If we no longer have troops or
arms; we have our rights. The allies
have accepted Mr. Wilson’s fourteen
points as Germany has. Mr. Wilson de-
REMOVES ALL RESTRICTIONS.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 4.—Surgeon ■
General Rupert Blue of the public
health service was informed today
by T. Miyadate, superintendent of
police of Tokio, that the Japanese
government was about to start a
social hygiene campaign through-
out Japan, Formosa and Korea de-
signed to free those lands from
social disease. The police super-
intendent says the ancient meth-
ods of segregation would be cor-
rected and that the “yoshiwaras”
in the larger cities of Japan would
be cleared away.
Superintendent Miyadate came
to the United States to study the
methods ' of public health service
by which the American army was
made freer from social diseases
than any allied armies in the field.
Kelly Field Official Suffers Mishap at
San Antonio.
By Associated Press.
San Antonio, Feb. 4.—Capt. L. T.
Belmont, a student officer at Kelly
field who, had almost completed his
course of instruction in flying, is in
the main hosuital at the field suffer-
ing from injuries received in an acci-
Prof. de Valera was taken into cus-
today last spring when the British gov-
ernment interned a number of Sinn
Fein leaders at a time when it declared
a plot backed by Germany was in
process of incubation in Ireland.
Prof. de Valera was still under de-
tention when he was elected to parlia-
ment in December and when last
month he was chosen as a Sinn Fein
delegate to the peace conference.
payment of a just indemnity by
trigue and secret diplomacy.”
Workmen Are Returning to Their Posts
at Glasgow.
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 4.—The situation at
Glasgow showed further improvement
today. Though none of the strikers
at the Fairfield shipbuilding yards re-
sumed work, fully sixty per cent of
the strikers at the Cathcart engineer-
ing works and a number of Linhouse
shipyard returned to work. This aft-
ernoon the shipwrigts at Govan noti-
fied the authorities they would resume
work tomorrow morning, if protection
for them could be provided.
It is understood that the impression
prevails among the authorities that a
small minority brought about the strike
at Glasgow.
By Associated Press.
Manchester. Feb. 4.—The Manchester
cotton control board met today and de-
cided to remove, beginning today, all
restrictions on cotton and to permit
mill owners to run their machinery
as they desire.
London. Feb. 4.—A report current
this morning that Prof. Edward de Va-
lera, the Sinn Fein leader, had escaped
from his place of internment in Eng-
land. No confirmation of the report
was obtained up to noon.
By Associated Press. _ '
. Washington, Feb. 4.—In a par-
tial agreement reached today by
senate and house conferees on the
legislation for validation and set-
tlement of informal war contracts
aggregating about $2,750,000,000,
the senate managers yielded and
struck from the bill the plan for
an appellate commission to pass
upon awards of government of-
ficials.. .
Under a compromise adopted for
the commission plan which the war
department vigorously opposed,
the conferees adopted a substitute
giving the Court of Claims juris-
diction to hear contractors’ ap-
peals and make final' awards.
On the important senate amend-
ments the conferees were unable
to agree.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Feb. 4.—The Berne socialist
conference, to which many socialist
bodies in Europe have failed to send
representatives, is the outcome of a
German plan to help Germany retrieve
her military defeat and escape the
payment of just indemnities, Is the be-
lief of Charles Edward Russell and
William English Walling, speaking in
behalf of the Social Democratic League
of the United States, Messrs, Russell
.and Walling last night gave out the
following statement on the subject in
the name of the league:
“As delegates of our organization
we decline to go to Berne because, de-
spite the pretensions that the world’s
laboring classes are represented there,
its principal movers are those in all
countries who tried to cause peace
when it would have meant the triumph
of imperialism and the ruin of the
working class democracy.
“We note that the general federa-
tion of trade unions of Great Britain
has no representation there, nor the
Italian Socialist party, representing
the majority of the Italian socialists;
nor the Belgian Socialist party, nor the
American Federation of Labor, and
that forty Socialists in the French
chamber of deputies allowed their del-
egates to go only under protest and
under the threat that their action
would be repudiated unless the Schei-
demann group was excluded.
“We also note that one-third of the
delegates are recognized by the bol-
sheviki as sympathetic with their doc-
trines.
“We believe that the Berne confer-
ence is designed by Germany to redeem
her from military defeat and avoid the
Cloudy and un-
settled with rain
tonight; some-
what colder.
Wednesday fair.
For East Tex-
as: Cloudy to-
night, rain on
Legislators Want Them to “Disgorge
Profits."
By Associated Press.
■ Austin. Feb. 4.—Packing houses
throughout the country were denounced
today in the house when a concurrent
resolution was adopted requiring the
packing houses “to disgorge their prof-
its.”
The resolution calls on the Texas del-
egation in congress to urge the passage
of measures which will provide peni-
tentiary sentences for the alleged
“packing house trust.”
The house has now under considera-
tion the graduated land tax amendment
to the constitution introduced by Rep-
resentatives George B. Terrell of Cher-
okee and others. An amendment was
offered eliminating the word “property”
and insert “land,” the effect would be
to make the resolution a single tax
amendment.
By Associated Press. ?
Paris, Monday, Feb. 3.—Polish
and Czech leaders have been %
given a pointed Warning by the 2
peace conference not to occupy ?
disputed territory in the prov- %
inces of Teschen, Austrian Sile- $
sia, according to an official bul- )
letin issued tonight. • ' (
nit y:
By Associated Press.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 4.—The legislative
committee appointed to investigate the
state ranger force decided today that
it is not empowered under the resolu-
tion creating it to investigate the ad-
jutant general’s department or hear
charges against him. This action was
brought on by Representative J. T.
Canales asking the committee to rec-
ommend the removal of the adjutant
gen,eral from office.
Representative Canales then replied
to an answer by the adjutant general
yesterday to charges against rangers
made earlier by the representative.
Representative Canales denied coun-
ter charges made in the answer, and in
reply to a charge that he was at-
tempting to reflect on the administra-
tion of Governor W. P. Hobby, he
stated that the governor had expressed
himself as favoring the investigation
of any of his appointees when same
was thought necessary.
A resolution by Senator Lon A. Smith
of Rusk was adopted in the senate to-
day inviting Governor Hobby to sign
the woman suffrage amendment to the
constitution from the desk of the pres-
ident of the senate in the presence of
the senate, at such time as he may
elect, and that he use a gold pen for
the official act presented to him by
Representative Barry Miller of Dallas
on behalf of Mrs. Nona Boren Mahoney
of Dallas.
Senator J. C. McNealus of Dallas had
adopted a concurrent resolution au-
thorizing the printing of the proceed-
ings and testimony of the ranger in-
vestigation now in progress.
The senate by a vote of 9 to 12 re-
fused to recommit a bill making an
appropriation of $12,000 for deficiency
appropriations for the College of In-
dustrial Arts.
Lieutenant Governor W. A. Johnson
appointed Senators R. L. Carlock of
Tarrant, Walter Caldwell of Trav-
is and J. J. Strickland of Ander-
son', as a committee to investigate
the value of the temporary capitol
site at Austin which may be sold to
the First Methodist church of Austin.
A joint, resolution was introduced in
the senate today by ’Senator W. L.
Dean of Walker, proposing an amend-
ment to the constitution providing that
any person participating in any mob
or assisting in any mob violence which
results in the taking of life, shall be
deprived of the right of suffrage in
Texas and shall also be barred from
holding any office of trust in the state.
The resolution also requires members
of the legislature in addition to the
present constitutional oath to swear
that they have not participated in any
mob activities before they are elig-
ible to hold office. The resolution is
signed by ten members of the senate.
i Albert Thomas Says Bolshevism
Threatens Socialism.
By Associated Press.
Berne, Switzerland, Monday,' Feb. 3.
•—Albert Thomas, the French socialist
and former member of the war coun-
1 cil, offered a motion at the socialist
conference which opened today plac-
ing at the head of the program ques-
I tion of the responsibility for the war
and the future of socialism, which “is
threatened with great danger by new
tendencies called bolshevism."
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By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 4.—Award of con-
gressional medals of honor, the high-
est American military decoration, to
two officers and nineteen enlisted men
of the army in France was announced
today by the war department. Only
three of the medals had been awarded
previously for service in the great
war.
All of the awards were upon recom-
mendation by General Pershing. By
act of congress the medal can be giv-
en only for “conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity above and beyond the call
of duty in action.”
The medal of honor carries with it
gratuities and certain privileges. It
is given by the secretary of war on
recommendation of the military com-
manders, each recommendation being
reviewed by a board of officers.
Some of the decorations were won
by men who lost their lives in heroic
acts. The list follows:
Captain Marcellus H. Chiles (de-
ceased), Denver, Colo., 356th Infantry,
who led the battalion he commanded
forward against a machine gun cross-
fire, wailing waist-deep across a stream
to reach the enemy, and crawling on
his hands to follow. He died of his
wounds.
Private Jesse N. Funk, Calhan, Colo-.,
and Charles D. Barger, Stotts City,
Mo., Company L, 354th infantry, for
rescuing wounded 500 yards in front
of the American line, making two
trips as stretcher-bearer under ma-
chine gun fire.
Sergeant Rearder Walker, no ad-
dress, 105th machine gun battalion, for
rescuing two wounded men from a
burning British tank under artillery
and machine gun /fire.
Sergeant Harold I. Johnston, Denver,
and Private David B. Barkeley, San
Antonio, Texas, company A, 356th in-
fantry, for swimming the river Meuse
to obtain information as to the en-
emy’s position on the opposite side.
Sergeants Alan Louis Eggers, Sum-
mit. N. J., 107th infantry, and John
Cridland Latham, nearest of kin resid-
ing at Westmoreland, England, and
Corporal Thomas E. O’Shea, Summit,
N. J., for rescuing an officer and two
men from a damaged American tank,
and by means of the machine gun
from the tank standing off the enemy
all day from a shell hole within the
enemy lines. Corporal O’Shea died of
wounds. ,
Sergeant James I! Mestrovitch, Fres-
no, Cal., 111th infantry, for rescuing
his wounded company commander 30
yards in front of the line. He has
died since.
Private Frank Gaffney, Lockport, N.
Y., 108th infantry, for going- forward
alone with an automatic rifle when all
other members of his squad had been
killed, attacking and capturing an en-
emy machine gun, killing the crew,
bombing several dugouts and killing
four of the enemy with pistol fire.
When reinforcements came up eighty
prisoners were captured.
First Lieut. James C. Dozier, Rock
Hill, S. C., 118th infantry, who advanced
with one soldier, although painfully
wounded, to attack a machine-gun
crew with hand grenades when his
two platoons were held up by enemy
fire.
Sgt. Richmond H. Hilton, Westville,
S. C., 118th infantry, who attacked an
enemy machine gun with rifle and pis-
tol when his company was flanked and
killed six and captured ten of the ene-
my. Hilton’s arm was blown off by a
shell.
Sgt. Garry Evans Foster, Inman, S.
C., 118th infantry, who attacked a ma-
chine-gun nest with hand grenades and
pistol, unaided killing several and cap-
turing eighteen prisoners.
Sgt. Philip C. Katz, San Francisco,
363d infantry, who returned when his
company had retired 200 yards to res-
cue a wounded comrade.
Corpl. John C. Villapigue, Camden,
S. C., 118th Infantry, who continued
without aid on a scouting trip 500 yards
in advance of his platoon after his three
comrades had been killed or wounded.
He killed four of the enemy with hand
grenades and later rushed a machine-
gun nest and killed four and captured
six of the crew and two light machine
guns, although severely wounded in the
arm.
Corpl. James D. Heriot (deceased),
Providence, S. C., 118th infantry, who
with four comrades attacked an ene-
my machine-gun nest and when his
squad was dispersed, charged alone
with fixed bayonet for thirty yards
and forced the enemy to surrender, re-
ceiving several wounds. Later, on the
same day, he charged another machine-
gun nest and was killed.
Continued on Page Ten.
Mayor of Papaume Makes a Plea For
Assistance.
By Associated Press.
■ Washington, Feb. 4.-@Bapaume, one
of the French towns which suffered
most from the war, wants a “God-
mother,” according to an official dis-
patch received today. Ganton Stenne,
mayor of the town, is quoted by the
dispatch as saying in the Petit
Parisiene:
“If some great city would adopt Ba-
paume and assist it, as has been done
for some other destroyed towns, how
delighted ray fellow citizens would be!
I hope that some great city, either of
the old continent or the new, will listen
to my appeal."
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 4.—Profiting by its ex-
perience on Monday, when the city
awoke to find transportation hampered
by the strike in the tubes, London
started early to work today. By day-
break the streets were well filled with
men and women walking; from the su-
burbs, and the busses, when they
started at 7 o’clock, were crowded. Al-
most, every one carried a tube striker
who was urging- the girl conductress to
strike, but up to the present these ef-
forts have been without success.
The Mansion house station, the most
important in.the business section of the
city, was not open this morning. It is
usually a height of activity at that
hour, discharging early workers from
the outlying parts of London.
Thousands of Londoners, who, be-
cause of the. shortage of domestic help
during the war, had become hotel
dwellers, either went without break-
fast this morning or were compelled to
be satisfied with a cup of tea or coffee
and a slice of bread. This situation
was the result of the strike of the
hotel workers, which has partly broken
up the kitchen staffs, and the table
service in the large hotels of the west
end of the city.
The kitchen staffs, which are largely
made up of foreigners, demand an
eight-hour day and a 25 per cent ad-
vance in wages. The waiters demand
the abolition of the system under
which their tips are pooled and divided,
with a commission on the takings de-
ducted. They also demand a minimum
wage of £2 weekly for women and £3
for men.
The smaller hotels were able to at-
tend to their permanent guests, but in
the larger ones, with accommodations
for 1,000 or more guests each, long
lines of patrons -stood outside,the din-
ing rooms waiting vainly to be served.
The hotel men declare they will not
submit to the strikers’ demands and
that new forces for the establishments
are being recruited.
Paris, Feb. 4.—(By the Associated
Press).—President Wilson has several
appointments for today, including a
call from representatives of the Bible
society and visits from some Repub-
lican congressmen who have arrived in
. Paris. He is determined, however, that
nothing shall be permitted to obstruct
the progress of the commission of
which he is chairman and which now
is engaged in perfecting the scheme
for the creation of a society of na-
tions. •
While less than two weeks remain
before the date set for his return to
Washington, it is still regarded as
within the range of possibility for the
great project not only to be reported
from the commission, but also for the
peace conference in plenary session to
ratify the plan and thus put it fairly
in the way to be registered in treaty
form within the time limit.
There is a growing feeling here that
the treaty of peace should be speedily
perfected. Arthur J. Balfour, the Brit-
ish foreign'secretary, is engaged upon
a proposition to fix the territorial
boundaries of the defeated nations at
once and promptly conclude peace with
the enemy as so constituted.
Even if the effort to secure final ac-
tion on the society of nations by the
peace conference before President Wil-
son’s departure should fail, it is con-
sidered by active sponsors for the plan
that the ultimate success of the un-
dertaking has in reality already been
assured through the adoption, by the
full conference at its second session
of the declaration which solemnly
binds the delegations to the creation of
such an organization with the primary
object of averting- further warfare.
They consider that delay in perfecting
the form of the covenant would in no
wise jeopardize its final adoption.
For the present the main effort of
the promoters is to keep out all mat-
ters from the plan which are not ab-
solutely vital. Thus it may prove that
one result will be that little more than
the skeleton of the project—a frame-
work of fundamental, general princi-
ples—will be disclosed. It is expected,
however, that upon this can be hung
almost everything essential to the de-
velopment. of the plan whereby it is
hoped to assure the peace of the world
for generations to come.
With such an agreement on general,
principles as has been reached, it is*
he 44 in some quarters that there may
be no need to treat specifically such
subjects as the freedom of the seas,
the use of submarines in warfare, the
creation of buffer states, or even the
delimination of national boundaries
with reference to their defensive possi-
bilities. The idea is that there would
be no necessity to consider the ques-
1865. OF GALVESTON
DIRECTORS
Chas. Fowler
Archangel, Monday, Feb. 3.—(By the
Associated Press).—Advices to the al-
lied intelligence department reveal
some of the methods by which the Bol-
shevists have been able to organize
their army in such a way as to make
possible the carrying on of a strong
campaign in Northern Russia. The
principle of these methods, according
to information received from the inte-
rior, lies in compelling the generals
and staff officers in the old Russian
army to serve the bolshevists by hold-
ing their families as hostages for the
officers’ conduct. Cases have occurred
of officers’ families being placed un-
der close arrest, the women being
treated as badly as the men.
The position of former Russian of-
ficers in the ranks of the soviet army
is extremely difficult. They occupy
posts as commanding officers and are
1 trusted in all technical matters, but in
regard to everything else are under
constant suspicion- and are controlled
by bolshevist commissioners who are
permanently attached to the army and
even control the carrying out of op-
erations. Leon Trotzky, the bolshevist
minister of war and marine, has issued
an order that families of officers who
desert to the allies are to be held re-
sponsible and will be prosecuted in
some cases. Military experts who have
been‘forced to serve the bolshevists in-
clude some of the best men in field en-
gineering and ordnance to be found in
Central Russia.
General mobilization of soldiers in |
all districts is being vigorously carried
out and all attempts to avoid service |
are being' severely dealt with. The
training of the bolshevist army is be-
ing assisted by special schools of in-
struction at Petrograd and Moscow for
all noncommissioned officers and men
belonging to the bolshevist party. Gen-
erally the army is growing stronger
and although the new troops are far
from being- reliable, they nevertheless,
owing to the severe methods which
have been adopted, from the main
strength of bolshevist power.
It is stated that this apparent in-
crease in military strength has been
taken by many to indicate that bol-
shevist ideas are gaining favor with
the populations, but this is by no means
true. The majority of the people are
antibolshevist, but are afraid to ex-
press their opinions. The entire
strength of the bolshevists, it is averred
rests on their institution of red terror.
S By Associated Press.
5 London, Feb. 4.—Referring to a
% report received from Paris by the
S way of New York that the Amer-
$ ican plan for assuring freedom
5 of the seas includes the restricted
€ use or abolition of the subma-
$ rine, the Daily Telegraph says:
$ “The submarine campaign was
2 aimed at this country and we
€ suffered worse than all the other
§ nations combined. There is dan-
i ger that that fact may be over-
2 looked. Besides ships,, we lost
7 cargoes valued at hundreds of
S millions of pounds sterling, while
$ fifteen thousand British men,
2 women and children were assas-
sinated at sea.
"We are more interested than
{ any community in the proposal
3 for the abolition of the subma-
$ rine. It would be misleading to
$ claim that naval opinion is unani-
mous in this matter, but a large
? /body of naval opinion and even
( a larger portion of statesmen,
2 on both sides of Atlantic favor
2 the abolition of the U-boat.
$ “Something more than a dec-
% laration as to the limits within
( which submarines may be em-
( ployed must be made for as long
$ as submarines exist they may
]i be misused. It must be stigma-
? tized as a crime to build subma-
C rines, and power must be secured
$ to punish any nation which again |
2 embarks on this kind of naval ,
2 construction.”
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