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CTR SEMITES WATCHK?N; Eefitf>' CkmsolMate?Aiiff. 2,3 Hawker and Grieve Picked Up By Danish Steamer 800 Miles From Land E3Wm^ TROUBLE " FOBCED LANDING News of Their Rescue Caused Rejoicing in England and Throughout the World. London. 3?ay 25.?Hawker has sent .the. following message from the Re venge to The Daily. Mail: \ "My machine stopped owing to. the Vater filter in the feed pipe from the jadiaior to the water pump being blocked with refuse, such as solder, t?e like shaking: loose in the radiator. ,' 'll-was no fault of the Rolls-Royce motor, which ran absolutely perfectly frpnv start to finish, even when all the .water had boiled away. ? "We had no trouble in landing on the sea, where we were picked up by -the tramp ship Mary after* being in the water for 90 minutes. We leave Thurso at 2 p. m. Monday, arriving in London Tuesday evening." London, May 25 (By the Associated . Press)?Missing for six days and vir tually given up for lost, Harry Ilawker and his navigator, Lieut. Comndr. Mackenzie Grieve, British . ? airman, who essayed a dight across . C.the Atlantic Ocean' without protee rf tion against disaster; save what their frail airplane afforded, are safe.' toeT night aboard a British warship off the .Orkneys. Tomorrow they will reach the mainland; and proceed to Lon don, where they will be acclaimed as men Treturned to life. "Some' 1-,100 miles out from New v -^oundlahd and. 800 from the Irish coast on Monday, May 19, the aviators making the" best of an engine which was failing to function properly, were -?-forced to alight on the water. The little Danish; steamer "Mary, bound ,~ "irbm.New Orleans and Norfolk for Aarhuus, Denmark, picked the way farers.up-and'continued on her n?rth waM,\-oyage. : ,.,Laeking a wireless outfit, the cap tain'of the steamer was obligedx to withhold the good tidings of the res cue until he was ... opposite Butt of vi&wis, where the information was sig v nailed by means of flags that Hawker and Grieve were aboard his ship. Quickly word was flashed to the British admiralty, which sent out de stroyers to. overtake the Danish ves sel and obtain confirmation. This was done and one of the destroyers took ?ze airmen off and later transferred them to the flagship Revenge. From this safe haven Hawker sent a message tonight that his machine had stopped, owing to the blocking of the water circulation system. When the airplane sped away from her starting point, Hawker let loose his wheels and undergearing, thereby lightening the weight of the' machine by a considerable amount but mak ing a possible landing on the soil of Ireland a more hazardous venture. This however, probably proved of much advantage when it became necessary to alight on the surface of the/ prater. The airplane remained afP>at" without difficulty during the hour and a half it took the Danish steamer to come up and effect a rescue. All England , is stirred by the news of the safety of the two stout hearted aviatd'rs, but owing to the difficulties t>l communication some time must pass before the full details of one of the ^most remarkable voyages ever undertaken are known. The one person in England who had always held hope was Mrs. Hawker. She always maintained that Provi dence would protect her man and though she received condolences from all classes of people, including the king, she said today that she had never ceased to believe that some time and in some way her husband would come back. DANISH SHIP MARY PICKS CP AVIATORS. Steamship Rescues From Sea Flier* Undertaking Most Remarkable Voy "?ge in World's History. London, May 25.?Harry G. Haw ker and Lieut. Comndr. Mackenzie Grieve, the two airmen who startec" last Sunday in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic ocean from St. Johns, N F., have been picked up at sea anr1 landed, in Scotland. Both men are in perfect health. . "* It is officially announced by the ad miralty that the aviators were picked up in latitude 50:20. longitude 29:30 having alighted close to the little Danish steamer Mary, owing to ; stoppage of circulation in the water pipe between the radiator and the water pump. The airplane, a Sopwith machine was not salvaged. The first report of the aviator.' since their "jump off" last Sunda came when the Mary, which w<r bound from Norfolk to Aarhuus rounded the Butt of Lewis today an wigwagged the fact that she ha< Hawker and Grieve aboard. "Saved hands of Sopwith airplane was the signal. **Is it Hawker?" was the queStior pent out by the Hags from the Butt ftfced April, 18*0. "Beim? 881. I Germans Will Be Required to Sign Treaty as Presented Of Refuse NOTES OF PROTEST WITHOUT EFFECT j Affairs Moving Slowly in Place . Conference Circles at Present ? Germany's series of notes protest jing against various sections in the J peace treaty apparently have had lit | tie effect on the purpose of the allied (and associated governments to have the German delegates sign or refuse the treaty virtually as presented. Paris reports are the only changes of moment made in the treaty have been in phraseology and details. Sev-( eral German notes, however, remain unanswered. It is indicated in various reports from Germany that the attitude of the Berlin government is changing, some observers expressing the opinion that it will- order the delegates at Ver sailles to sign the treaty. Count von Erockdorff-Rantzau is again at Ver sailles after his conference Friday at Spa with Premier Scheidemann and other German leaders. "What trans pired there has not been disclosed, nor the German delegates sent any further communications to the peace conference. Meanwhile the allied troops are be ing held in readiness along the Rhine.. General Robertson, the British com mander, had a conference at Coblenz Friday with Lieutenant General Lig gett, the commander of the American bridgehead, in regard to their plans should the Germans decline to sign. President Wilson, it is said in Paris, has let it be known that the United States probably would-be unable to take a mandate for Constantinople or other parts of former. Turkish em pire. It has" been, suggested conse quently, that Constantinople either be placed under, joint control of thei Great powers, or, faiing that, ? thati Greece be given the mandate for the i Turkish capital, with the support of I the powers. Further reports indicate the posi tion of the Bolsheviki at Petrograd is! growing worse. The advantage' of j the Finns and Esthonians continues; and loud explosions and great fires; are reported to have occurred in Pet- | rograd, indicating ? that the Bolshe-1 viki were destroying ammunition. Other reports say that the inhabi tants of Petrograd have risen against the Bolshe viki and that there had been some machine gun firing. i Paris. May 24 (French Wireless Service)?The Frankfort Gazette in speculating on the reason for the call ing of the meeting at Spa between the members of the German peace delegation and representatives of the Berlin government, suggests Germany has found j s hand forced to some ex tent by the speed with which the ne gotiations at Versailles are progress ing. The newspaper says in part: "The cabinet apears to have real ized oniy at the last moment the ne cessity for such a conference. What caused such a sudden determination to be reached? Nobody knows. The j government may have considero j that events were taking a more pre j cipitate course than had been cx j pected. Germany will perhaps be al i lowed only a brief delay after the week given her to make her final ob servations on the peace terms and may have to hasten her reply yes or no." ! which is the most northwesterly point of the Hebrides group off Soctland. ! *'Yes," laconically replied the Mary. The admiralty immediately sent out a fast torpedo boat destroyer in an | { endeavor to intercept the Mary and take off the aviators. There was an j j anxious wait of several hours, when: j the word flashed that the destroyer haad come across the steamer and ransferred Hawker and Grieve and was taking them to Thurso on the aorthern coast of Scotland, about 100! miles east of the Butt of Lewis. j The destroyer, the Revenge, report ed to the admiralty this evening that Hawker and Grieve would sleep or ; \ board tonight. The aviators will reach J London at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening j j The news of the rescue has electrified < I all Britain. All destroyers after a j j borough searcli of the Atlantic for I "?0C miles from the Irish coast had I riven up the quest and there was ! practically no hope that the airmen j .vere alive. I This morning, however, the forlorn j lope that the aviators might be pick I d up by some craft without wireless j was released. The Danish steamer j Mary, crawling along at nine knots j vas the lucky vessel, and her brief I message to the watchers at the Butt j of Lewis as she proceeded on her j way to Scotland left the public to i speculate wonderingly over the details i of the airmen's adventures, j The admiralty immediately dis j patched destroyers from northern j points to intercept the Mary and the f Daily Mail instructed all signal sta i tions to try to communicate with the I captain with the urgent request to land the aviators at some Scottish j port, The admiralty'n quest succeed OB Fear not?Det an the ends Thon ill] JUMTEE, S. G., WEDNJ Administration Requires That Imm ense Sum to Carry Roads Until End of Year HINES JVILL ASK CON GRESS FOR APPROPRIATION Has Not Decided Whether to Make Request Immediately or Later in Session Washington, May 24.?More than a billion dollars -will be needed by the railroad adminis. ation to finance the railroads to the end of the year j when government control ends/ JDi-j rector General Hines was undecided today whether to ?sk congress for It immediately or later in the session. j REIGN OF TERROR IN PETROGRAD Great Fires Raging and Many Loud Explosions Heard By Advancing Forces BOLSHEVISM HARD PRESS ED BY ESTHONIANS It is Believed That the Lenine Red Guards Are Destroying Munitions and Public Build nigs. . ... j ????? "Lohdon, May 24.?Great lures, and^ l oud '-explosions are "reported in and around Petrograd, according to The Daily Mairs?-Helsingsfors correspond ent under Thursday's date. It is be lieved the Bolsheviki pressed by the Esthonian advance are destroying munitions. Machine gun firing was also heard and it is reported that the population has risen against the Bol sheviki. %2iSiSH Austrians Begin Writing Notes They Are Making Their Pleas to Peace Conference Paris,, May 26.?The credentials of the Austrian peace delegation have been approved by the credentials commission of the peace congress and the Austrian delegates have sent their first note to the allied and associated powers. The note concerns Carinth ian affairs. j Austrian Treaty Delayed j _ Draft of Certain Sections Not I Completed i Paris, May 2G.?It is probable that the presentation of the peace terms to the Austrian delegation will be de layed until next week, according to i Reuters. Delays in completing the draft of certain sections are said to | be. responsible. Chaftges in Army Several Major Generals Shifted From One Post to Another j Paris. May 26.?Major General j James G. Harbord. head of the ser-j vice of supply of the American expe ditionary forces, will be relieved of his; duties and detailed as chief of staff i of the' expeditionary forces. Majori General James MacAndrews, the pres- i ent chief of staff, goes to Washing ton to become chief of the v. \r col -' lege. j -j ed and wire messages came from the j destroyer Woolsun late in the evenings that she had overtaken the Mary and j had transferred the aviators. I Xothing except some great battle! has excited London more than to- j day's unexpected tidings. The public! was disposed to question whether the | tirst report could be trusted and the! admiralty statement that it was tak ing measures to verify the report in- i dicateri doubt which the Woolsun's message dispelled. The modest Hawker home near: Surbiton was quickly the center of in terest. Crowds of people swarmed 1 there. Mrs. Hawker, who had only on Saturday received a telegram of condolence from King George, said: "I had a presentiment all along that I should see my husband again. I was confident at the time, although every one condoled with me. I am overjoyed and too overcome to talk now." t _-A nz'l at be thy Country's, Thy God's I 5SPAY, MAY 28,1919, VOLCANO KILLS MANY THOUSAND Report of Terrible Disaster Comes from Island of Java VOLCANO OF KALUT IN ERUPTION Thirty One Villages Destroyed and Fifteen Thousand Persons Perish. Amsterdam, May 26.?The volcano of Kalut in Java has burst into erup tion, destroying1 twenty villages in th2 Brengat district, eleven near Blitar and causing: deaths to number esti mated at fifteen thousand, according to a Central News dispatch received here. _?_^ . UNCLE SAM~ j HOLDS SHIPS j Definitely Refused to Acejede to England's Proposition to Pool Ships HUN SHIPS INTERNED BY. U S. WILL BE KEPT Agreement Finally Reached by Council of Four in Harmony With Wilson's Views Washington, May 2<5.?The presi dent has informed officials here that the council of four at Paris has reach ed a. full understanding by which the United States will retain the Ger man shipping seized in American ports when this country entered the war. Great Britain has proposed that this tonnage as well as German ship3 seized by other countries be placed in a common pool and allotted on the basis of tonnage lost through the ac tion of enemy submarines. The Unit ed States has steadfastly refused to accede to this plan. ? .. South Carolina Men Killed in France Corp. Clifton Gordon and Pri vates Tom Addison and John Smith Loses Lives Washington. May,'24.?War depart ment dispatches today gave the names of the following four soldiers killed in France in powder explosion May 12 and May IG: Corp. Clifton Gordon, Greenville, S. C, and Corp. Carl E. Gustafson, Medford, Mass., and Private John Smith, Bethune, S. C. N Aviator Leaps to Death Airplane Catches Afire and Pi * lot Forced to Jump Cleveland. Ohio, May 2S.?Hun dreds of persons saw Frank McCusk er of New York, pilot of small air plane, leap 200 feet to his death from a burning machine here today. Fif teen minutes before the leap he had announced that he would attempt to establish a record on his flight to Chicago. The cause of the accident is not known. Witnesses saw puffs of black smoke come from the rear of the machine, which was at a height of between 300 and 400 feet. McCusker was seen to climb from his seat to the frame; then the airplane plunged and the pilot jumped. The empty machine tlew forward 200 yards before it plunged to the ground. . j McCusker was alive when picked; up. He died in a police patrol while! being taken to a hospital. His skull j was fractured and his neck broken. ] McCusker was formerly in the Brit- i lsh naval flying corps, inspector of! the de Haviland airplanes at PJliza-! beth. N. J.. and instructor at the! United States aviation field in Texas. He is said to be the first fatality j since the inauguration of the gov- j eminent airplane mail service. Texas Election in Doubt -:? i Slight Margins for Woman Suf- j frage and Prohibition Dallas. Texas, May 25.?Returns from 283 towns in Texas tonight in dicated that prohibition and suffrage for women had earned in the general election yesterday. The figures ' are: For prohibition 52,994; against 43. <800; for woman suffrage .51,75] ;i against is,5i3, f i THE TB?I THE FOR HUNS ENDS THURSDAY Must Answer Allied Powers On That Day or Armistice Will End I HAVE SENT THIRTEEN NOTES TO COUNCIL t i i_ Berlin Claims Cabinet and Dele gates Are United in Request for Modification Thursday of the present week is the time limit set for the Germans to make known to the representatives of the Allied and associated powers at Versailles what Germany proposes to do with regard to accepting or reject ing the terms of peace formulated for her. : Berlin reports still persit that the German cabinet and the peace dele gates at Versailles are one in their intention to request modifications on various clauses of the treaty, the pro visions of which it is declared Ger many vrili be unable to meet without enslaving herself for a lifetime. I Tuesday is spoken of in a Berlin dispatch, as the day on which Ger many's answer will be ready. The lat est note of the Germans?their thir teenth?digs up again the question of responsibilities. Germany asserts that the only thing for which she is re sponsible is the violation of Belgian neutrali ty. For this she is ready to make reparation. It is asserted that all the powers were responsible for the war? and that the material dam age was done by the Allied armies as well as the Germans. The concession with regard to the \ Saare Valley agreed to by the Allies provides that Germany may create a prior charge on her assets or revenue for the payment of the mines in the Saare region if the prebiscite to be held in the region fifteen years hence should be against- the Germans. The Allies refused discussion oral ly with? the Germans. A new commercial treaty with 1 Switzerland under', "which German}' ! will give Switzerland coal in return I for cattle' and produce is being ar | ranged. . . French Airman Fails to Gross Sea Roget's Machine Damaged On First Leg of Trip. Lands in Morocco Casa Bianca, Morocco, May 25.? Lieut. Roget, a French aviator, who left Paris early yesterday morning on the first leg of a' projected trans-At lantic flight by way of Dakar to Bra zil, landed at 6 o'clock last night at Kenitra, 30 kilometers from Rabat. His machine was damaged in landing and the trans-Atlantic trip will have to be abandoned. Roget came down on very difficult ground. The machine had left Villa coublcy. France, at 5.10 o'clock Sat I urday morning, carrying as passen get Capt,. Coli, who previously had crossed the Meditcranean. Coli was I slightly bruised when the machine came down. The entire trip was cov ! ered without a stop. The aviators arrived last night at Rabat by automobile, where they were the guests of Gen. Lyautey, the French military commander. As their machine cannot be repaired here the aviators will return to Franee by steamer. - Lieut. Roget seems to have beaten the record of the American navy sea plane. NC-4, which, in its recent flight to the Azores, .covered 1,950 kilome ters (1.211 miles), while Roget flew 2,170 kilometers (about 1,318 miles). Esthonians in Peterhof Town Nineteen Miles West of Petrograd Captured A London. May 25.?A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Copenhag en says it is reported on good au thority that the Esthonians have cap tured Peterhof. nineteen miles west of Petrograd. A Helsingfors newspaper prints a Moscow dispatch saying that Nikolai Lenine. the Bolshevik leader, has of- J fered an armistice to Admiral Kol- \ chak. commanding the anti-Bolshevik I forces, in order to consider peace j terms. Willing to Disarm German Proposal Provides Forj Small Standing Army Berlin. May 26.?iTtfbtTnation re- j ceived from an ummpeachabie source i is that the counter proposals, to* be \ made by Germany at the peace con ference will declare in favor of mili- { tary disarmament, saj'ing Germany is r^'dy to reduce her forces to three! hundred and fifty thousand within i two months after the^conclusion of peace and by the expiration of an- [ bther year to cut down the array toj two hundred thousand. Vol. XLVIII. No. 30. PEACE ITH RUSSIA NEXT lAnti Bolsheviki Governments to be Conditionally Recog nized ? ??' ? -.? .... | ?'? . v ! . .-. ? ! ?.. i 5 LENINE AND TROTZKY CROWD OUTLAWED Kolchack and Denikine Must Call Constituent Assembly - Paris, May 26.?The council of four has decided conditionally to recognize the anti-BolsheViki governments of Admiral Kolchak and General Deni kine, according to Reuters Agency. The conditions of recognition.are that regarding the future of Russia these governments agree to convoke and: accept the verdict of a genuine .con stituent assembly. Likewise that the league of nations covenant, and its consequences, as affecting the boun daries of the former empire are adnpt l ed. The constituent asembly is to determine the future form of govern ment for Russia, .?_ Money for Railroads -, Director General Hines Ex plains Financial Needs Washington, May 24.?To finance the railroads for the remainder of this year and to pay the" government's operating loss for 16 months up to this month, an appropriation of $1,-' 200,000,000 was asked of congress t<*f? day by Director General Hines. More may be sought later if the government continues to lose heavily in operation. The. $1,200,000,000 is in addition to the $500,000,000 appropriated by the last congress and?\includes the $750, 000,000 which failed of appropriation When the session ended in a filibuster. Out of this appropriation ? which: congress will be asked' to" exge4#e, railroads will be paid the sums due them months \ ago as. staasdaicd; com? . oensa?on, and for which they have accepted the railroad administrations certificates of indebtedness. On *wS*> curity of these certificates they have borrowed from banks and_ the war finance corporation to meet their cur rent corporate obligations in recent months. This temporary system of financing will be eliminated as soon as congress provides funds. Approximately $468,000,000 repre sents the government's loss in oper ating the railroads from January 1, 1918, when private control ended, to May 1 last. This is the differ ence between the sums for which the government is obliged to pay the roads on contracts and the net actual operating income from operations. The balance, or about $l,214-,000,000 of the $1,700,000,000 now appropri-. ated or sought, represents working capital to be paid to the government eventually. This was explained by Mr. Hines in his request for the ap proprlation submitted to congress I through Secretary Glass. The deficit last year was $236^184.^ 000 and m the first four months this year, the government's loss was about. $250.000,000. These, said Mr. Hines, [ "are clearly losses due to the war* j and ought to be treated as such. By t reason of the after the war factory tending to important changes in the situation the estimated here with sub- " mitted does not attempt to forecast results beyond the firs four months \ of this calendar year." This comment of the director gen eral prompted belief that the admin istration might have to call on con-. ' gress for additional funds to make up a'future deficit. Such a situation' might be met by raising rates, but - the director general has stated recent ly that he does not wish to consider this until opportunity has been given i for general business conditions which I are reflected in traffic to be restored j to a more normal basis. This is inter j preted as meaning that there prob jably will be no rate advances before j next fall and the director general's j attitude is that it may then be un j necessary to raise them. j Victory Loan j Oversubscribed j American People Rallied to The j Call of the Government _ Washington. May 26.?Total sub scriptions to the Victory Liberty loan were announced today by the treas ury as $5.249,908,300. An over sub scription of nearly seven hundred and fifty millions. NC-4 Weather Bound Naval Seaplanes Unable to Con tinue Flight Washington. May 26.?Admiral Jackson at Ponta Del Gada this morning cabled the navy department that NC-4 seaplane is still weather bound. Reports from Azores indi cate that the flight to Lisbon will probably not be resumed before Tues day at the earliest.