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Council of Four Still Unable to Reach Agreement as To De mands of Italy . TWO MEETINGS HELD; NO PROGRESS MADE Said That President Wilson is Preparing to Issue Statement If Deadlock Persists. When apparently the council of four was ready to take decisive action on the Italian claims in the Adriatic, including the* coast. islands and Flume, the Italian delegates. Premier Orlando, and Foreign Minister Coh nino failed to appear at Monday after noon's session. These ministers had discussed the problem insistently with Premier Clemenceau and Pre mier Lloyd George earlier in the day, and for the purpose of bringing the matter to a climax, President Wilson attended the afteioon session. It.was then expected that the ques tion, which up to that time was con ' sidered almost insurmountable, would ; be decided, but owing to the absence 01 uie Italian delegates, discussion of tn? Iuilian claims was dispensed with. it is announced that the council will take no further action on the su Ject pending information as to th future course of the Italians. Germany has accepted all the con ditions of the allies with respect to the Versailles conference. Sunday's discussion of the Italian claims was followed Monday by iw additional* conferences but as yet there apparently has been no breach in' the deadlock over the demands which the Italians consider irreducible and the compromise offer of the other ? participants in tho negotiations?Pre mier Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and President Wilson. As in the case of Sunday's discussion President Wilson did not attend Monday morn ing's session of the council of four. He did, however, gather with the statesmen for the later session in the afternoon and was reported to b< ready to issue a public statement ox. the situation surounding the conLro veisy in case an argeement was no reached. That there is no immediate pros pect that the impasse is to be breach ed without further argument possibly is indicated by an official announce ; ment that the convening of the Italian parliament, which was to have tak en place Wednesday and befor< which Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino hoped to place the facts accomplished, had been post ppned for two weeks from next Wed nesday until May 6. ? A delay of three d^ys also is its prospect for the meeting at VersaDIe between the representatives of the al lied and associated powers and the German delegates for the delivery to the Germans of the allied peace terms. The German delegation. Marsha Foch has been informed, can no reach Versailles until April 2S. Orig inally they were invited to be there April 25. The three days' delay possibly may be of benefit to the allies in com pleting the draft of the lengthy peace document which is said to ap proximate 100.0.00 words. Some doubt has been expressed that the allie: would be able to give the Germans more than a summary of their peac conditions at the first meeting at Versailles owing to the length of the document. Talk of the German government sending merely "messengers" to Ver sailles to reecive the peace treaty is discounted by official information re ceived by Marshal Foch that the German delegation will consist of si*> high personages, headed by Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the foreign minister. A new provision of the peace treaty, intending to make impossible any attempts of the Germans to utili outside forces to rcesetablish mil itary machine has been approved by the council of foreign minister. This is a prohibition of the sending by Ger many of military instructors to for eign countries. President Wilson conferred at length Monday with Baron Makinc and Viscount Chinda of tin- Japanese I.eace delegation. Paris, April 21 ("By the Associated Press).?The Italian crisis in tin- ne gotiations with Italy has obscured for the moment the incident over tin- Ger man delegation to Versailles in which the Germans announced that they were sending delegates without pleni potentiary powers, and the council of four promptly replied requiring dele gates with full powers to sign the peace treaty. This incident was vari ously interpn-ted. th" French and British view being that it was anoth er effort to delay the settlement and; to pave the way for a refusal to sign the treaty. The view taken by the American delegation of the incident, however, was less serious, it being be lieved that th*- Germans would promptly accede to the allied request and send the proper plenipotentiaries. "They will do about anything we want them to do." said one of American delegates today. ?"And we want plenipotentiaries they will send them." There was little doubt that th..' al lied military and naval authorities had taken measures to meet, the pos sible emergency of a failure to sit; the treaty though it was said these measures were purely precautionary and without any expectation that there would be occasion to put then in operation. Authority of Director of Kail roads and Postmaster General To Be Decided SUPREME COURT WILL RENDER DECISION Issue Will Be Determined Before ! Court Adjourns for the Sum ! mer. Washing:on, April 2i.?Steps look ing to early determination of the government's authority under the joint resolution of congress by control of the railroads and telephone systems of the - country to fix intra-State rates were ' taken today by the supn-me court in agreeing to ex pedite consideration of the test case { brought under the resolution. The court fixed May ? for hearing argu ments and final decisions before the court adjourns in June for summer was considered probable by court of ficials. . s Three cases in all will be argued. One is an appeal from South Dakota supreme court decrees denying the (authority of the postmaster to in crease telephone toll rates. An ap peal from the North Dakota supreme I court denies the director general of i railroads has power to increase freight land passenger rates in that State and enjoins the Northern Pacific Railroad from carrying out the director gener j aTs orders. The third case is an ap ne.ii fom Massachusetts upholding the (postmaster general and dismissing pro ceedings instituted by the State to prevent the ^ew England Telephone v>c Telegraph Company from increas ing its tales. Petitions seeking to have the Massachusetts decision re viewed were granted today by the ?court. Government officials view the early determinatin of these cases as being of vital importance to tht- future op eration of the railroad and wire sys tems of the country as proceedings attacking the government power in these matters have been instituted in I about 25 States. ; The court had planned to close arguments for the term on May 2, but towing to the importance of these cases [ it was decided to set aside the follow I ing Monday for the purpose of hear j ing arguments. Officials declared it is a very extraordinary thing for the ; court to extend the time for hearing arguments after having fixed a time j for closing the hearing of suits for a ! term. Big Cotton Fire _ j Seven Hundred Bales Burn at Bennettsvilie i Bennettsvilie, April 21.?The Atlan tic Coast Line freight depot, cotton platform, on which there were about 700 bales of cotton, and eight box f cars, some loaded, were burned here I today. The tire started in the cotton :;.nd quickly enveloped the depot. [Some records, freight bi!;s and some I small articles were; saved from the j office. The cotton was in part under i bill of lading ami practically all in j sured.' ' " j It is understood that the Pee Dee I River Cotton Company owned about i 4 0? bales of'the cotton, mostly long ; staple. The vaiue of the freight in j depot destroyed was estimated a; $4.000 and the buildings $12.500. Fo: ja. few minutes the Marlboro Whole sale Grocery and the F. G. Hohr ] Wholesale Grocery seemed doomed. I but effective work on the part of the i'firc department kept the Harnes under j control. ? One car of cotton, one of hay and j others partly loaded were burned. The value of the cot ion destroyed is estimated at more than $100.000. The [total loss is about *150.000. I_._ Martial Law Proclaimed In India - i Populous District of Bombay j Presidency Revolts Against I British Simla. India, Sunday. April 20.? I Martial law has be< n proclaimed in j the flujerat district. Gujerat is in the [ northern par; of Bombay presidency J and has a population of about nine . million. Disorder in Budapest Downfall of Soviet Government Expected j Budapest. Sunday; April 20.- Thej downfall of the Hungarian soviet gov- j eminent is expected here as the re-! sab o?" tlve desertion of thirty thou-' sand troops :?> the Rumanians and 1 new movements against Hungary by .he < 'zech-Slovaks. | Outlook Brighter In Bavaria Spartaean Forces Defeated by Government Troops London. April 22.?The military i situation in Bavaria is improving, ac cording to an announcement bj the Hoffman ministry. Spartacidos. who, took Dachau, ten miles northwest of j Munich. by violating the armistice i with the govern men troops have been! repulsed and jroverimient forces are now holding the place. Reinforce-1 .,,,.,.!- grro i.. ? .,-.] Munich i-iCm -'--'.?d. it is .-L.j.. Bolshevist Leader at Budapest Resigns Under Pressure of Roumanian Troops WILD CHAOS PREVAILS IN HUNGARY jCzcho Troops Join Roumanians I And Defeat Hun Soviet Army. j Amsterdam, April 22.?The Hungar i ian government headed by Bela Kun 1 has resigned under pressure of Ru | manian troops, according to a dis patch to the Central Xews from Vicn j na. quoting reports received there by j aerial mail from Budapest. * Wild i chaos is said to prevail at Budapest, j It "is reported that Czecho troops j have joined the Rumanians and have j defeated the Hungarian soviet troops. What Russia Asks j Anti Bolshevik Governments l Prsents Memorandum to Peace Conference Washington. April 21.?The Russian treasury here made public today the outline of the plan presented to the i peace conference by Russian repre i sentatives at Paris to solve the Rus sian problem, ft asks recognition a? j de facto of all national authorities who "are inspired by democratic ideals j and enjoy the support of the popula tion pending the setting up of a feder j ation of Russian States/' i Frince Lvoff, Tchaikovsky, Sazonofi j and Mafflakoff signed the memoran j dum embodying this program. Un I der it the allies would recognize the j Russian boundaries of 1914 except for I ethnographical Poland, and would support democratic defacto authori ! ties in their struggle against Bolshe I vism a nd anarchy. Private advices received here re cently from London were to the ef fect that the United States and the al lies already had determined on rec ognition of the Omsk government. Xc information has been received as tr the reception accorded the more elaborate plan of the Russian spokes j man. A summary of the memoran ' dum issued by the embassy here savs j "Xew Russia, having definitely dis j continued the system of centraliza tion is prepared to meet the desire: j of the different nationalities, to regu late their national life, to which thej rare entitled. Russia intends to es I tablish with these nations relations i founded on the principles of federal ' ism and. in separate cases, on the i principles of independence under ccr | tain agreed conditions." ; Citing the economic and financial i interests as well as those relative u j the defer.se of the country which mutually binds these nationalities ?with Russia, the statement continues: j "Decision of the intricate questions I without participation of Russia wo.tin j be contrary to the aims pursued by j the allies of establishing a lasting ? peace - founded on mutual confidenc; I and friendship of nations. The statement therefore proposes khat: "One: The powers recognize that all questions relating to the territory j of the Russian State in its boundaries j of 1914 except for ethnographical Po jland as well as concerning the future I organization of different nationalities j in the above boundaries can not be I decided tipon with consent of the Russian people, that is until the Rus sian people will be in a position free ly to express their will and participate in such decisions. I "Two: Aiming to aid the national! , ties in organizing their life and pro jecting themselves from anarchy and i dissolution the powers resolve t< [adopt a temporary mode of relations .corresponding to the necessities of th< present moment. The powers are j;ready to recognize' as defacto4existing I .national authorities inasmuch as thosj authorities are inspired by democratic principles and enjoy support of th< population, and to extend to them as sistance in their political and econom ic organizations. Such a decision ol the powers would stimulate the co operation in Russia of all forces strug gling against anarchy and would speed the reestablish!!)' nt of normal condi tions." Three Seaplanes Will Fly Naval Airplanes Will Attempt Trans Atlantic Flight in May ] Washington. April 22.?Three na - ? val seaplanes will attempt the ilight j across the Atlantic. They will leave' Rockaway Beach early in May. but so far as known now no decision hasl '??eil reached whether the route will be direct from Xew found land to I re land or via the Azores. Revolution in Turkey Report bv Wav of Odessa An i nounces Establishment ol" i Soviet Government j Paris. April 22. - A revolution ha- ? recurred in Turkey and a soviet gov-i cnm.cn 1 has been declared. A rev-, lutionary committee has been estab-! ?Shed at ?' *-ctantinople, according toi ! telegram i.om Kiev, quoting the Bolsheviki representative at Odessa, vho says that the Turkish consul there J ta ? received cSici?! announcement of 1 he - y grcaaent citange. PEACE LEAGUE ! ALMOST ASSURED: j Head of Associated Press, Just j Back from Paris, Expresses Opinion ! difficult problems have BEEN adjusted j i - I Nations of World Find in Pro j posed League Best Guarantee I of Permanent Peace - j New York, April 22.?Development of intercommunication promises a chance that the league of nations may : accomplish its object of insuring- world ' peace, Melville E. Stone, general man i ager of the Associated Press, recently j toid the members of news associa i tion at the annual meeting at luncheon ? i here today. ! 'Mr. Stone doubted if anybody knew , j whether the league project would suc ceed, but said the representatives of the associated powers had addressed themselves 10 the formation of an or jganization. intended if possible, to prc 1 j vent a recurrence of war. which he said had reached a point, through the advance of science, where a future j conflict would well nigh mean human ; annihilation. j By the modern proeess of intercom ? j munication. however, the nations were ' I inevitably brought closer together, he ?! said, extending men's visions and giv ?! ing a "little promise" that the failure ? j of the congress of Vienna. 100 years ! ago might be followed " by something ' Like success." :l Ir was a mistake, Mr. Stone said, to i imagine that there had been an uu j pleasant or angry situation between I the peace envoys of the associated ' j powers, who had brought to their task j i sincere desire to solve a great, prob : lern. Despite the German hopes of dif ?{?ference among the concillors. he add '' ed. they had agreed to principle. M Describing a visit to the devastated ? regions of France, Mr. Stone declared ? I it had been "torn by th most malign and outrageous savaj, ' the world \ had ever known." To bring about its j rehabilitation, he asserted, extension I of long time credits by American ? j manufacture s was esential, a ' Scheme which he said could be oar ' i ried out through the banks with the ? federal reserve system to fall back ? ! upon in case of emergency. ? j In keeping with the Pan-American j spirit of the meeting, inspired >y the ?; recent addition of -?"> South American ? ? newspapers to the Associated Press membership. Mr. Stone stated that ? ; this extension of the service gave as ' jsurance of the ability of the Western ; hemisphere. In like manner in earlier days, he said, the organization had ? j been a material factor in cementing ? ; the relations of the Northern and ? I Southern sections of the United States. I a union which made possible the na i j tional spirit evidenced in the Spanish > j American War and reemph?sized in i j the world conflict. > ? Mr. Stone spoke of the peace con j ference leaders, many of whom, he > I said, it had been his privilege to i j meet, lb- described some of the char ' ] acteristics of Premiers Lloyd George. ' Clemenceau, Yenizelos "nd Hughes. j Of Clemenceau. whom ne had known for 40 years, he said: :l "When 1 went over there- first in ! June I went up to see him one day land said '"Weil, you speak English as ! well as you did 40 years ago.' He j said: 'I don't speak English. I speak j American.' "When T was in Italy, the Italian j government w s very anxious to have some American troops as reserves and they felt that it. was a very se I rious condition. If the Caporyetto dc j bade were repeated and the Aus 'trians got through to Milan and Tur ! in. Italy would be out of the war j and General Diaz was most anxious about the situation. He went up to seo Foch and Pershing and they could not see their way clear to give him any American troops. I "Then he went to see Clemenceauj and said: 'Now the situation is very I J serious down there. It is a great mis- : j take to imagine dial the Austrian* are not good soldiers. They are veri table lions. They have more artillery j than we have and we are in grave danger of their breaking through.' j j "Ciemenceau in his sententious way! I seid: "That is a military question l! ) caV.'t answer. You will have to see! j Foch.' j "He had already seen Foch and he would not do iL About three weeks) |-after, the French captured 3.000 Aus-; j trians on the French front and Clem-J enceau telegraphed: *Mv dear Diaz: I j We have taken 3.000 of your Aus [ trian lions ;is prisoners. What shall j we do with tin-::.'.' Vuurs affectionate-i j ly. The Tiger.' " j F.eferri'ug to the peace conference j land to affairs in Europe Mr. Stone; 1 sa! 1: *'!t is a mistake to imagine th.^t I there has been on the part of the} five great powers represented at the) conference any angry or an unpleas-j aai situation. I think ! may say?' because I luive known well those who have participated in it?that! they have brought to the work a j sincere, earnest desire to solve a j great problem. ! "They feel that after all the worst j offense of the (Pa-mans was not the j killing of something like 7.000.000 young men. fine young men of Et* rope am! America including those o. Germany and Austria itself: nor ihej< wanton murder of innocent women and children by aeroplane and subnia- ? ' fine. At least the dead are at peace, j ' The worst offense of the Germans was j I in creating a world in which it is al- ; most impossible for the living to sur- ' 1 vive. I ? "And thai being ih<- case the con-M forces bad to address themselves not ' rf. .1," ryr (rmtfQr-t j ! for vir :.: they C-ui'i do nothing eui : TOBACCO BARN SHINGLES We have just received a large car of Red Cedar Shingles which on account of grade and price specially adapts them to tobacco barn covering. BOOTH & McLEOD, Inc.. PHONES 10 & 631 SUMTER, S. C. EVERYTHING IN THE BUILDING LINE WILSON STANDS \ \ FOR PRINCIPLES! j I -, ! Will Take No Action That Will Jeopardize League of Nations j j Or Conflict with Principles ! ? i I ADRIATIC DEADLOCK HAS NOT INFLUENCED HIM i _ i j Effort of Italy to Force Accept i ance of Her Contentions Has Not Stampeded Wilson. i ! _ j Washington. April 22. -Administra tion official.-; wore advised in a con [fidential cablegram from Paris today !that in the consideration of t?.e prob j Ieros confronting the peace confer ' ence. such as Italy's Adriatic claims and the question of an alliance to pro tect France from future aggression, President Wilson would take no ac | tion which might in the slightest de g: ee jeopardize the league of nations or conflict with its fundamental prin I ciples. -?_ : , ?iw???i itm w ii i.mwtmmtmmt ! ! to some sort of an organization if i possible that should give some guar i antee that in the future there would ! be no recurrence of this terrible ca j tastrophe because they knew that i by the processes of war by its scien j tific and mechanical development war 1 j haci now reached the point where any i future conflict might weil mean hu man annihilation. '[ ??The Germans hoped that the asso ciated powers would differ. It was jthe dream, of the Germans that they {could not agree, in principle they , have agreed, [n principle, as Clemen ! ceau who is the Tiger of the place, I told me: 'We are at one in all this j business.' "Now 1 do not know whether a j league of nations will work or not. I j doubt if anybody knows. Plato, who was the first apostle of a principle I of the sort says in his book on "The Republic." that the republic can only exist when men are superior to themselves. You know it is a book of question and answer and he is asked the question 'What do you i mean by superior to themselves?' and j he said. 'In every man's make up j there is a superior side and an in I ferior side and unless he can rise above the inferior level it is useless j to Try anything1 of the sort.' "One hundred years ago almost to ja month, 100 years ago in June, five I sovereigns of Europe sought to cre ate a league of nations. It was cailed I the Holy Alliance. They met and ! adopted a treaty in the city of Vien- j na and after three years of struggle lever the problem it failed. It faijed I ! for the reason that Plato and Stilly j ; and all the men who had striven to j j this end. even all the way down from | ; Dante had had in their minds. { ''There is one thing that in this hour gives a little hope what their failure may be succeeded by some-1 thing success and that is intercom-j munication. That was a day when thei j limit of man's vision was ten or l.2| [miles and certainly was limited to his j town country. Today by the processes] rof intern.-' ional communication one! sort or another the world is neces-1 sarily brought together, and my dear ( friends, the very introduction of the I Associated Press service into South! America, the very alliance that is there, gives the very best assurance) in my judgment of the amity of the whole western hemisphere. ??[ am very proud of the Associat ed Press and one thing that seems to me of enormous value is this: In 1 st*:j there were five or six so-called As sociated Press organizations in the United States. There was the New]' England Associated Press, the South-!' em Associated Press and the Western Associated Press all working within their own fields and arm stretch with j. each other. We went at it. the first} principle that we adopted was that ( there should be no alliance with local organizations, that it should be a na tional cooperative association in which v there should be members individual !y representing newspapers . ??Now the consequence of that was - this, that men like dark Howelljr from Atlanta, like m.\ dear friend, j Stahlman from Nashville, who had I c been rebels of the most rebellious! < kind and men like Charley ('lark of i j Hartford, who had been an abolition- j .st. got together and saw that neither of i lie?ii wore horns and they became <j friends and we by that act united this e country as it had never been united s !>y any other process. The North and South became one and we went ^into e the Spanish war. years after the j (. close of the sectional struggle as ajy ?ompaei nation having one heart and I b >nc soul. And 1 believe that the ac-1 f, ivities of this organization in a-large t ? ' '?? fo?'21-'t tr* thlC CCUnt**V t'1'' I ? jpirit of'itfi.7, which made it possible [t HUNS WILL HOLD AN ELECTION Planned to Refer Acceptance of Peace Terms to a Plebiscite of All Germany CABINET DESIROUS OF SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITY Believed in Berlin that Results of Election Will Be The Rejec tion of Paris Peace Terms. Berlin, April 22.?"The equipment for an election is in readiness for an immediate plebiscite on the peace I terms, which can be completed ' throughout Germany in forty-eight . hours, according to information here. : It is declared that the cabinet wishes ! to avoid the responsibility of either re | fusing or accepting the terms, and a I plebiscit? is almost certain, it is be ? lieved. to result in a refusal to ac- ? ? cept *he peace terms, because the peo ! pie will overlook the consequences of j such an act which will mean mainten I ance of the blockade, the stoppage of ? food importations and the accom i panying evils which may be expected . j in view of the reluctance to sanction S the Paris terms. ?? ? I Suffrage Bill Ki''ed I Florida House Rejects Senate j Resolution Submitting Issue to Vote j Tallahassee, April 22.?The house 1 today killed the senate resolution submitting the woman stiff rage amend ment constitution to a vote of the people. The bill will be called up for I reconsideration within twenty-four i hours, under the house rules. ?for us to go into this war with" our i whole soul. ! "Now one word as to France. Mr. i Clark suggested that I enter upon 1 some description of the seer :. You have been told of them over ~ id over j again and I shall not detain you. Bht I France is riven and torn, not by war I but by the most malign and o?t ! rageous savagery the world has ever I known. From their factories the Germans took the bobbins and, de stroyed the machinery, not because the bobbins or the machinery had any war value but because it was a settled purpose to destroy the indus trial life of France. "1 have in my possession the report of the German commission which in. lyiii was sent to the occupied terri tory of Fiance. The commission took industry by Industry and outlines after a careful survey, what the de struction had been and wound up by saying: Tf they ever want to restore these it will take them two or three years to do it and then thej' have to come, whether they like it or not, to Germany to buy the machinery. "Xow that I have been through thai country i have not the eloquence to give you the impression it made on my soul as l rode along the road be* tween the IJelleau woods and Rheims where the fields were dotted with'lit tle pine crosses and on them a phrase 'soldier of France' with no indentifi cation mark but 'A Soldier of France' who had given his life. It was heart rending to see a cart with a horse and a family, a mother and two or three children and the father, driving along the road and a few little articles of furniture of the meapest kind, going back to their war torn town; to go through a village that had done do harm to any one md to look out and see the facade of i little ?wo story building torn away md up on a shelf representing all that ?emained of the second floor, a baby's radle or chair or a table all that was eft by the savage. "1 am not going into this any fur her but I am going to make ones sug gestion to you in closing. I have read i good deal of criticism in the United states over the action of France In leclining to import American ma hinery and certain other products* ["hey can not do it now. it would uin their exchanges. The cost of liv ng would go up so high that they oulu not stand it. The only hope, the' ?nly solution for the condition' of 'ranee, lies in long time credit by American manufacturers. "Hut you say. 'How can that be one? That involves millions of mon-. y. which our manufacturers can not tand." The answer is this: " 'They can give short time bills of xchange for it. renewable and they an be renewed for two or three ears and if the pressure upon the ahks .crows to be too great then the rdcral reserve bank can rediscount tose bills of exchange and vou can arry it And that, I believe to be ie hope ox Frince.'