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TREATY LEAK
WASHINGTON, June 9—A copy o£
the German Peace treaty was brot
to this country by Frazier Hunt, cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune
and was presented in the Senate today
by Senator Borah.
This copy was ordered to be print
ed as a public document in the Coi
gressional Record. The resolution
effecting this action being introduced
by Senator Be rah, was passed by a
vote of 4 7 for and 24 against this
proceedure. All negative votes with
the exception of Senator McCumber
were cast by the democratic senators.
WASHINGTON, June 9—President
Wilson stated, in a message cabled
to Senator Hitchcock today, that he
is heartily glad that the latter has
demanded an investigation in regard
to the possession of the German
Peace Tr.-aty by unauthorized per
sons.
According to the President, the
treaty lis still under consideration,
negotiations having as yet not been
concluded and the treaty is subject
to change in some of its provisions.
President Wilson stated that any
one who has possession of the official
English text of the German Peace'
Treaty has what he is clearly not en
titled to, or to communicate.
WASHINGTON, June 9—Pierpont
Morgan, Frank Vanderlip and Jacob
Sehiff, the three most important fi
nanciers of this country were sum-1
moned to Washington, D. C. today
to testify regarding the Peace treaty
leak before the senatorial committee
of investigation. «
The big money interests represent
ed by these three financiers are un
der suspicion of having procured a
copy of the German Peace Treaty by
some underhanded method, as ad
vance information regarding the
treaty terms would be of inestimable
value to them in their financia opera
tions.
WASHINGTON, June 10—Elihu
Root testifying today before the Sen
ate Committee which is investigating
the Peace treaty leak stated that he
as. had a copy of the German Peace
treaty for two weeks.
Root said that he had received this
document from Henry P. Davidson, a
banking partner of Pierpont Morgan.
Root who appearsd before the Com
mittee as a voluntary witness stated
that “All diplomatic secrecy ended
when the German government pub
lished the Peace Treaty” and that he
therefore resented any suggestion
that he had no right to have the treaty
and use it as he saw fit as he pro
posed todo.
WASHINGTON, June 12—Banker
Frank Vanderlip, ex Assastant Sec
retary of the Treasury and one of
the trustees of the Carnegie founda
tion testifying today before the Fore
ign Relations Committee of the Sen
ate created quite a sensation when
he said that there was a strong sen
timent in England and France that
the American people should not expect
repayment from those countries of
the billions of dollars loaned them.
Vanderlip is reported to have said
that this money is regarded in those
countries as part of America’s fair
share of the burden of this war for
democracy's sake, because ot this
country’s belated entrance into the
struggle.
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SEATTLE, June 9—The Sheriff of
King County declined to permit the
Prosecuting Attorney to visit and in
terview the prisoners held in connec
tion with the Court House liquor
scandal.
SEATTLE, June 10—Quite a sen
sation was created here when the
Sheriff of King County made the
startling charge that much of the
whiskey wh;ch was stolen lately from
the chambers of Judge Allen, where
is was deposited to be used as evi
dence In the police bootlegging cases
went to the Rainier, Elk and other
fasHLonable clubs in this city.
The sheriff claims to have procured
enough evidence to warrant him in
making this charge and that some
startling developments may be expect
ed in the near future.
SEATTLE June 10—After having
refused to empanel a Grand Jury to
investigate the Courthouse whiskey
scandal the Judges of the Superior
Court have been prevailed upon to
accede to the clamor of the people
and have issued a call for a Grand
Jury to probe the disappearance of
the liquid evidence from Judge Al
ien's chambers.
SEATTLE, June 11—A special
Grand Jury, consisting of sixty mem
hers has been empaneled today.
SEATTLE, June 12—The special
Grand Juny which has been empan
eled, by the not any to willing judges
of the Superior Court of King Coun
ty, to (investigate the Court House
whiskey scandal, is responsible for
the exodus of many prominent male
members of Seattle’s four hundred.
Some of the departed gents in their
anxiety to escape a subpoena to ap
pear before the "Grand Jury, are re
ported to be doing better than ten
seconds flat in their flight to a
healthier clime.
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LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS BRIEFLY TOLB
ATLANTIC CITY, June 14—Sec
Tetary Wilson while addressing the
delegates of the American Federation
of Labor said "I know that there is
"more or less Bolshevism in the Unit
ed States, but it exists primarily
among parlor coal diggers. There
may possibly be local disturbances
in this country which will prove an
noying, but organized labor whether
conservative or radical will not stand
tor Bolshevism.”
Secretary Wilson also cautioned
the convention against furthering the
movement for a nation wide strike
to protest against the imprisonment
jot Tom Mooney.
SEATTLE, June 14—Governor
Lister died at the Swedish Hospjital
here this morning. Lister was the
22nd governor of the state of Wash
ington.
SEATTLE, June 14—Two robbers
held up Wm Engelke’s pleasure re
sort on the Seattle Boulevard this
morning. They tied up the proprie
tor and patrolman J. W. Chatham
and shot and fatally wounded Miss
Helen Smith. The robbers escaped
with their booty, approximately three
hundred dollars in cash.
PARIS, June 14—General Foch
sent an ultimatum to the German
government to force the latter to al
low Poish troops to cross German
territory to come to the assistance of
the hard pressed Czecho Slovaks.
PARIS, June 14—Gaston Ron tier
Was sentenced to death by a military
court for imparting military infor
mation to the enemy.
ATLANTIC CITY, June 14— Julia
O’Connor head of the National Or
ganization of Telephone operators
called a strike of the Pacific Coast
operators to become effective next
Wednesday.
SPRINGFIELD, K.1. 14—One hun
dred and thirteen thousand eloctri
cal workers employed by the tele
phone and telegraph companies thru
out this country will walk out 'at
srht a. m. standard time next Mon
day.
PEKIN, June 14—The Chinese
Cabinet has resigned in a body, ow
ing to the difference created by the
t'a3t growng popular movement
against some of the pro Japanese
members of the cabinet.
President Hsu Shih Chang has also
intimated his intdntion of quitting
his office.
COBLENZ, June 14—Orders were
issued at Berlin several days ago to
hold up troop tra.ns carrying Polish
troops from Fanco to theT homes
across German territory.
One train was held up at Coblenz
aother at Treves, two at Ems and
eight others at .ntcrior points.
ATLANTIC CITY, June 14—Three
British aeroplanes under the com
mand of Captain Henderson started
for India today by way of Crete and
Egypt.
AVIATORS KILLED
PORTLAND, June 14—W. B.
Hutchinson and sergeant Milkowsky
navy and army aviators were killed
instantly when their aeroplanes fell
while they wera trying to make a
landing.
BOLSHEVIK SUCCESS
ALARMS ALLIES
LONDON, Juno 9—Dispatches re
ceived here via Vienna state that
heavy fighting has taken place :n
Western Hungary between peasar.
and Hungarian Communists.
The rural population in western
Hungary which is opposed to the es
tablished Communist government re
volted in a body and everywhere re
sisted the Communist authorities.
The peasants offering battle to the
Communist forces near Kollerhof in
Western Hungary were defeated t
a bloody struggle, the Communist
forces taking more than four thous
and prisoners, after utterly routing
their opponents.
VIENNA, June 9—Reports re
ceived from Hungary show that the
Communist government is acting with
the greatest severity against that part
of the Hungarian population which
has shown its opposition to the rule
of the radical element.
- Three thousand peasants including
women and children are reported to
have been shot and hanged by the
communist array as a consequence of
the revolt in the Komitat of O den
berg in Western Hungary.
This massa^.t took place after thirty
two villages *’n the neighborhood of
the city of Ot'denburg located within a
few miles of Austria proper had re
fused to go over to the Hungarian
Communists, t cferring. being of
Teutonic stock- to ioin Autftria.
VIENNA. June 9—Severe fighting
is reported to ba in progress north of
the Danube, between Budapest and
Vienna where the Hungarion Com
munists have crossed the Neutra river
despite the opposition of a strong
Czeeho-Slovak force and are advanc
ing against Pressburg.
The Hungarian communiint forces
have been gradually pressing the
Czeeho-Slovak forces from their po
sitions, undisputed control of which
was greatly endangering Budapest
the Communist stronghold.
LONDON, June XI—Dispatches
received here from Paris state that
Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist
Premier Sn a reply to a message from
Premier Clemenceau has agreed to
stop all hostilities against the Czecho
Slovaks and that the political differ
ences betw’een them shall be settled
by negotiation before delegates of
the Peace Conference.
LONDON, Juno 11—Reports re
ceived here from Russia state that the
Bolshevik have captured Ufimskaja
in the government of Ufa in eastern
Russia.
Ufimskaja, an important railroad
center on the Trans Siberian railroad
had only recently been captured by
the forces of Admiral Kolchak, who
had to relinquish possession of the
town to the Bolsheviks after three
days of sanguinary fightng.
PARIS. June 11—Admiral Kol
chak’s reply to the offer of the Allied
governments to recognize the Omsk
government which he is supposed to
represent has been received today.
Kochak refuses practically to ac
cept any and all conditions laid down
by the Peace conference on which the
recognition of the Omsk government
were based.
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LONDON, June 12—Information
has reached the British government
that a Communist government will
be proclaimed in Austria next Sun
day. the movement promising to be
a success from its inception.
Fully forty per cent of the members
of the Austrian army are reported to
have accepted the Boshevik doctrines
land it is firmly believed here that the
Austrian's will^align themselves with
the Hungarian Communists which
may ultimately lead to an alliance
with Bolshevik Rusaia. The union
if consummated will constitute a great
menace to the remainder of the less
radical European states and is look
ed upon wth great apprehension by
conservative statesmen.
PARIS, June 13—The Bolshevik
peril, which seemed on the decline a
few weeks ago is again commanding
the attention and serious considera
tion of the Allied governments, and
no efforts are made to conceal the
gravity of the situation.
With the Hugarian Communist
forces fighting successfully against
the' Czecho Slovaks and Austria a
fertile breeding ground for Bolshe
vism, the Hungarian Communists
should they be able to crush Czecho
Slovakia, will have driven a Bolshe
vik wedge into the heart of Central
Europe. Poland which is being hard
pressed by Germany on the west would
be entirely isolated and therefore un
able to check this growing menace.
The serious reverses lately suffer
ed by the forces of Admiral Kolchak
in south eastern Russia have caused
considerable uneasiness among the
Allies especially since Bela Kun the
Hungarian Communist leader has
been uniformly successful against
the Czecho Slovaks, which is viewed
with especial concern. The advance
of the Esthonians against Petrograd
has been halted, thus strengthening
the hold of *K ‘ ^misheviks on Mos
cow. ^
The extent. . n of'
the Kolchak governme... ./ the Coun
cil of the Big Four is also a source
of uneasiness, as his lately reported
successes against the Bolsheviks
seems to have mostly been hatched
in the fertile brains of some Allied
correspondents.
ALLIES WILL MAKE
SOME CONCESSIONS
PARIS, June 9—It has been otfi
dially staed, that the reply of the Al
lied governments to the German coun
ter proposals will be ready for de
livery to the German Peace Delgation ■
by next Friday.
No information regarding the pro
posed modification of the German
Peace terms it as present obtain
able, but it is surmised that both
sides will t i,iee to make some conces
sions on some of the more vital terms.
WASHINGTON, June 9—It it re
ported that the Republican leaders
of the Senate are giving serious thot
to the possibility of a separate peace
between the United States and Ger
many, and that the relations between
the two countries may be settled in
dependently of the Allied peace treaty.
PARIS, June 10—According to a
statement made by the usually well
informed Echo de Paris, the German
Peace Treaty will not be signed b. fore
July 1st and its ratification by the
parliaments of the different Allied
nations will not take place before
August first.
This journal further states that a
movement is now baling contemplated
| by the Allies to admit Germany to
I the League of Nations on the Signing
; of the Peace treaty to preclude the
j possibility of their forming an defen
sive and offensive alliance wiith Bol
shevik Russia.
PARIS, June 117—It has been offi
cially announced that the answer to
the counter proposals of the German
government, contains a flat refusal of
their request to be allowed to act
as a mandatory for the former Ger
man colonies.
An agreement is reported to have
been reached an principle on the
clause for financial reparation to the
effect that no definite sum to be paid
by Germany will be fixed by the Peace
treaty and that this question will be
left as in the original Peace treaty
draft.
PARIS, June 12—It has been re
ported her.- that the disagreement
between President Wilson and Pre
mier Clemenceau, regarding the
amount of indemnity to be paid by
Germany, has finally been adjusted.
President Wilson who has made
strenuous efforts to have the amount
to be paid by Germany fixed at a
definite sum and specified dates set
for rtts payment, has finally given
way to Premier Clamenceau’s argu
ments and agreed to concur in his
decision in this matter, as expressed
in the modification of the indemnity
clause of the German Peace Treaty.
PARIS, June 12—It is believed
here that the reply of the Allied gov
ernments to the German counter pro
posals will not b ready for delivery
before late next Saturday night.
A time lmit of five days is reported
to have been definitely set by the Al
lies in which the German government
musa decide upon its course.
WEJMAR, June 13—German Chan
cellor Scheideman in his address at
the opening of the congress of the
German Majority Socalists, said,
"We are defeated, but we shall go
forward and upward to a great vic
tory. Might cannot make right. It
is our duty to re-establish Belgium
and France, but we will never sub
mit to become wage slaves.”
PARIS June 13—The German
P^ace Treaty will be entirely rewrit
ten and reprinted before finally be
ing presented to the German Delega
tion. The treaty as it will be re
drawn, while unchanged m princi
ple, will be virtually a new docu
ment. F ruinations and clatitfcp.
tions in an. in r to the German coun
ter proposals will be incorporated in
the new text and some time w?!l
necessarily elapse before ^ho 1 •ail
ment is ready for fiual presentation.
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