FIRMNESS
NEWSPAPERS SEE IN FRENCH’S
APPOINTMENT A SIGN OF
BRITISH I) ET El? Ml N ATI ON.
PLUNKETT ASKS A CONCESSION.
Chairman of Recent Irish C onvention
Wants a “Responsible Government
at Once—Billon Urges Anti-Bratt
Unity.
LONDON, June 3.—The appoint
ment of Field Marshal Viscount
French as viceroy of Ireland corner
somewhat as a surprise. It was known
that the government was experiencing
considerable difficulty in finding a suc
cessor to Lord Wimborne and that this
was the reason for the delay in an
nouncing the appointment ot Edwaid
Shortt as chief secretary, which was
known unofficially many days ago.
No one, however, anticipated such a
purely military appointment as that
of the celebrated field marshal. His
name had been mentioned, but only in
connection with a scheme for placing
the lord lieutenantship in a commis
sion as a way out ot the difficulty, and
even in that case the name ot General
Mahon was generally favored as a
likely member of the triumvirate.
Viscount French is of Irish extrac
tion. He has a seat in Ireland, is
colonel of Irish regiments, and a popu
lar figure in the country, but that is
hardly likely to reconcile the Irish
people to his appointment, for they
•will see in it nothing but a threat to
put conscription into effect.
The Dublin papers generally treat
Lord French’s appointment as an evi
dence of the government’s intention to
be firm. The Freeman’s Journal says:
“Now all disguise is dropped and the
rule of force begins.”
The same newspaper hotly repud
iates the suggestion which it says has
been conveyed to America that Ire
land is pro-German.
“Seven per cent of Ireland’s popula
tion has been given to the war,” it
says “and when America has put 7,
000.000 men in the field she will have
equalled Ireland’s effort.”
Plunkett Urges Prompt Concession.
Declaring that the government’s
conscription-home rule policy is dis
astrous, Sir Horace Plunkett, chair
man of the recent Irish convention, in
a letter to the press, suggests that im
mediate establishment of a responsible
government in Ireland as a way out of
the difficulty.
“At the gravest crisis with which
the empire has ever been faced,” says
the letter, “the government have
staked their existence on a twofold
Irish policy—conscription and home
rule. They cannot achieve both except
at the cost of much present bloodshed
and lasting hate. They might achieve
the first and by it make the second
impossible. In my opinion they would
fail in the attempt and have to go on
leaving both undone. Their successors
then would have to find a way out of
the worst Irish situation in my mem
ory, which goes back to the Fenian
days, fifty years ago.”
Asserting his opinion that it is pos
sible even now to achieve the double
purpose, Sii- Horaet says further:
“I believe the government could not
only satisfy the reasonable aspirations
of the Irish at home, but also get them
to follow voluntarily the instincts of
the chivalrous race and the example
of their kinsmen and sympathizers
throughout the United States and the
British dominions. There is only one
alternative to the disastrous policy
upon which the government has em
barked; namely, to set up immediately
a responsible government in Ireland.
“The report of the convention has
shown this could be done with the sup
port of a large body of Nationalist
and Unionist opinion. They should
pass through parliament without de
lay the necessary legislation as a war
measure.
“The present chaos, with its grow
ing bitterness, its utter demoraliza
tion of our public life, and its discredit
to British statesmanship, need not be
continued while we are waiting for a
parliament. The moment the bill is
passed an Irish executive, broadly rep
resentative and comprised of re
sponsible men who would not shirk
the burden of their brief authority,
should be apointed and given the task
of setting up a parliament as quickly
as possible, promoting voluntarily re
cruiting and generally carrying on.
The Irish people, given their own in
strument of government, would quick
ly show the world their real attitude
in this war. It may then dawn upon
Englishmen that we have in Ireland |
no programs except those they have
made, not of malice, but through in- j
ability to understand us.”
Dillon Asks Anti-Draft Unity.
Anti-conscription speeches were
made from the same platfrom by John
Dillon, nationalist leader, and Profes
sor Edward de Valera, head of the
Sinn Fein, yesterday at Ballaghad
ereen, in Dillon’s constituency of East
Mayo. Good humor and enthusiasm
characterized the demonstration,
i which was attended by 15,000 persons.
Mr. Dillon said that if the Irish
kept united and determined for an
other two weeks they would defeat
conscription, it was an atrocious form
of oppression, he asserted, to try to
compel a people to light for a country
not their own. He personaly opposed
conscription, whether in Great Britain
or in Ireland, and believed it was a
great blunder to depart from Eng
land’s settled policy against compul
sory service, especially when it was
not to defend the soil of Great Bri
tain. but to send huge armies to the
continent.
It was impossible and unthinkable,
the nationalist declared ,to attempt to
apply conscription to a free and demo
cratic people unless there was agree
ment amounting almost to unanimity.
He earnestly appealed for a spirit of
frank and friendly co-operation
throughout Ireland. Without this
unity was impossible. Committees
throughout the country must be or
ganized, he said, with a sincere desire
to give fair representation to all sec
tions.
If the nation’s unity were impaired 1
in the face of the present terrific dan
ger, Mr. Dillon continued, the govern
ment would be encouraged to pursue
| their “wicked and insane policy,” and
1 the discipline of the people, which
was essential to the defeat of con
scription, would be broken. Then the
whole game would be thrown into the
hands of the military authorities. The
nationalists and Sinn Feiners, he said,
actually agreed that the whole strug
gle for Ireland’s right was based on
the principle of her rights as a nation.
There was an impression in the
country, Mr. Dillon asserted, that all
danger was over, and this was a ter
ribly false impression. There was no
(juestion that the government had
been staggered and no longer were so
confident about the practicability of
their policy as had been professed
when the bill was introduced.
A powerful section of the house of
commons and organized labor of Eng
land had declared against conscription
in Ireland, Mr. Dillon added, unless
and until an Irish parliment and an
Irish government were established.
These things, combined with united
opposition in Ireland and the action of
the county bishops had given the gov
ernment pause, but it would be a dis
astrous mistake to suppose that dan
ger had passed. He suggested the for
mation of Irish committees attached
to every church and chapel, so that, in
the event of a struggle being forced
upon them, the church could be the
rallying point. If the central organi
zation were destroyed, instructions
would reach the people through the
nation organization, and, above all,
through the priests and the great!
organization of the church, which, at
this hour of supreme danger, had
come to the rescue of the Irish people.
The nationalist leader decalred that
he was convinced that it would take an
army such as England could ill spare
to carry out successfully conscription
in Ireland. He was also convinced
that the government would split on
the Irish rock, and, instead of destroy
ing the Irish nation, the Irish would
destroy them.
Frofessor de Valera said that his
followers.would unite with those of
Mr. Dillon to defeat conscription. With
the reference to the issue raised in
East Cavan, he said, there was only
one arbitrator to whom the Sinn Fein
would submit, namely, the free choice
oi' the electors.
AMERICAN MUTILATED
BY HIS I1UN CAPTORS
VALPARISO, Ind., June 1.—Miss
Marion Lawe of this city received
a letter from James King, her fiance,
who entered the service here last
February and was sent overseas. The
letter stated the writer would never
return to her and was sending his
watch as a keepsake.
The watch was not running and
was taken to a jeweler for repairs,
where it was discovered the trouble
was caused by a tiny note written on
tissue paper and concealed in the
watch works.
The note said that King was cap
tured and was a prisoner in the
hands of the Germans, and further
stated his captors had cut off his
ears, nose and both lips, and he was
otherwise so horribly disfigured he
could never again face her. Miss
Lawe is prostrated over the shock
caused by the note.
MURDERSUSPECTS
FREED BY JURY
EDWARDSV1LLE, Ills., June 1.—
All of the eleven defendants who
were charged with the murder of Rob
ert Paul Prager, an alien enemy who
was hanged here by a mob recently,
were freed by the trial jury, which re
turned a verdict late this afternoon.
The jury was out but forty-five min
utes.
LONDON, May 31.—“We know
Great Britain and France have done
more than their share. They have done
all they can do and much more than
they ought to have had to do with
out the aid of the whole civilized
world. This has been a fight for civ
ilization from the beginning, and the
greatest mistake of the whole situa
tion has been the failure of America
and other countries to recognize this.”
This was said this afternoon by Wil
liam Short, of Seattle, president of the
Washington State Federation of
Labor, at a great meeting in Kensing
ton theatre, under the auspices of the
national war committee, presided over
by George Nieoll Barnes, labor mem
ber of the war cabinet, and held to
welcome Mr. Short, Martin F. Ryan,
president of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Carmen, and Miss Agnes Nestor,
president of the Women’s Trade Union
League, of Chicago, who are members
of the American labor mission now in
London.
“The American boys seem to be in
excellent spirits,” said Mr. Short, “and
anxious to do a lot more lighting than
they have been privileged to do thus
far.
“Everything we have seen in France
and Great Britain,” he adde, “has
emphasized the conviction we had
when we came here, that America
must get into this with both hands
and both feet. She must use all her
resources and send over the greatest
number of men possible.
“We know Germany can be whipped,
but the sooner America sends all her
resources the sooner the job will be
finished. It is not going to be fin
ished until that is done, and every day
lost, every man withheld, is merely
causing unnecessary sacrifices.
Mr. Barnes said that the letter of
Gen. Frederick B. Maurice to the
press, charging the government with
concealing the real facts of the mili
tary situation, was an incident whicli I
soon would be forgotten. There was a
far more grave question in the situa
tion in Ireland.
“It might seem that while we are
fighting for small nationalities and j
leaving Ireland alone, we are rather
inconsistent,” Mr. Barnes continued.
“Things, however, are not so simple as
they look when seen from a distance.
Ireland has two units and they are as
widely separated in ideals and the out
look of ordinary life as it is possible
for two peoples to be, and the diffi
cult problem is to harmonize public
feeling in Ireland and at the same
time uphold unity in the United King
dom.
“Labor is in complete sympathy
with Irish national sentiment,” the
speaker asserted, “but the problem is
the most difficult one that can face
any government.
The American labor representatives,
who have returned to London after a
visit to France, were under fire sev
eral times on their trip to the front,
but nobody was hit.
S. HELLENTHAL IS PLACED IN
CHARGE OF ALIEN ENEMY
PROPERTY IN ALASKA.
APPOINTEE IS AN ATTORNEY.
Will Act Under the Governor, Who Is
the Alaska Representative of A.
Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania,
National Custodian.
JUNEAU, June 3. — Governor
Thomas Riggs, jr., today announced
the appointment of S. Hellenthal, of
Juneau, as the custodian of alien en
emy property within the confines of
the territory of Alaska. Hellenthal
is a member of the law firm of Hel
lenthal & Hellenthal, of Juneau, and
is a prominent member of the demo
cratic party.
Governor Riggs is the official cus
todian of alien enemy property in
Alaska, having received his appoint
ment from A. Mitchell Palmer, of
Pennsylvania, who is the national cus
todian by presidential appointment.
Due to other duties, the governor
has appointed Hellenthal to take
charge of the matter and be the act
ive head of this important service.
It is expected that Hellenthal will
appoint a number of deputy custodi
ans, to serve in various parts of the
territory. It is said that alien enemy
property in Alaska will aggregate a
considerable sum.
BOYS TRIPS HIS MOTHER
UP AND SAVES HER LIFE
FORT MADISON, la., June 1.—
The presence of mind of a Boy Scout
coupled with is scout training, was
all that saved his mother, Mrs. Jacob
Anthony, from serious and perhaps
fatal burns when her clothing
caught fire. Seeing that he could
not stop the fright-crazed woman,
who was running wildly from the
house, the boy adroitly tripped her
with is foot and as she fell he
smothered the flames. Mrs. Anthony
received some painful burns and was
somewhat shaken from her sudden
fall, but her injuries are not at all
serious.
BIG AMERICAN GUN
LEAVES FACTORY
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 1.—
“It is the greatest engine of destruc
tion that has yet been produced in
artillery by the great war.”
This statement by Samuel M. Vau
clain, vice-president and general
manger of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, who has won the sobriquet of
“gunsmith of America,” is the offi
cial announcement that America’s
supergun is ready. In fact, it has
already left one of the munition fac
tories on the Delaware river.
Naval authorities refused to com
ment on the Baldwin Locomotive
company’s announcement concerning
the big gun produced there. It is
known to be a very powerful wea
pon, but all details are withheld be
cause of information they might
provide the enemy.
GERMAN IN PARIS UNDER
ARREST FOR SWINDLING
PARIS, June 1.—The arrest of a
German subject, Simon Freschman,
on the complaint of swindling soldiers
has called attention to the fact that
the prefecture of police and the se
cret service department have still
150,000 records of foreigners living
in France to investigate.
One of the reasons for the delay in
action is the liberality France has
shown, even toward the subjects of
countries at war with France. A
considerable number of papers have
criticised the government for too
great leniency in this respect, and
have attributed some of the espionage
that has come to light to this atti
tude.
Freshmann, the Libre Parole says,
enjoyed greater liberty of movement
than French citizens and traveled
freely without documents in parts
of France to which Frenchmen were
unable to penetrate without safe-con
ducts from the military authorities.
He escaped the concentration camps
altogether and was apprehended only
when soldiers filed a complaint
against him for obtaining money un
der false pretense that he could have
them assigned to choice posts in the
interior.
STOCKHOLM, May 31.—The great
shortage of fats in Germany and the
resulting necessity of using more of
all edible fats for human consumption
have driven the empire’s scientific
men to extensive experimentation
j with so-called “mineral wax.” The
i result has been both a mere varied
use of this product and a greatlj im
proved method of securing it.
Minei’al wax is a substance ex
tracted from brown coal with the an!
of benzine, benzol or other technical
solvents. Benzol is now used exclu
sively in Germany for this purpose.
Old methods have been unable to ex
j tract all the wax from the coal treat
i ed, but the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
! for experimentation with coal is now
| winning nearly the entire quantity
in the coal treated.
The main features of its improved
system consist in extracting the wax
under a high pressure, as much as six
atmospheres, and at a high tempera
! ture. A brown coal which had pro
| duced only eleven per cent of vcax
| under the old system gives up 25 per
! cent under the new treatment.
Mineral wax was used in peace
' times mainly for the fabrication of
shoe-polish, phonograph records and
| the insulation of electric cables. Its
: high percentage of sebacic acid—
about 60 per cent of its entire content
—has been turned to account in the
making of consistent fats. It is also
being used extensively in the paper
industry as sizing, taking the place
of colophonium.
Experiments are now being con
j ducted to find a method of refining
the wax and giving it a lighter color.
PHILADELPHIA, May 17.—“As a
war measure, to help us win the war,
let us do all in our power to have the
League of Nations established now,”
said Herbert S. Houston, of New■
York, speaking today at the “Win the '
War for Permanent Peace” conven
tion under the auspices of the league
to Enforce Peace. “Let us reach out
l at once for one of the great fruits of
victory, a league of nations. At this
very moment the final and supreme
power in such a league armed force,
is under a single control, that of the
incomparable Foch on that fateful
battle line in France. If that can be
accomplished, and it has been, why
not go forward at once with the other
work, far less difficult, of completing
the formation of the league.”
Mr. Houston is a member of the
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States on the
! economic results of the war and retir
ing president of the Associated Ad
vertising clubs of the world.
Estimating the economic power the
League of Nations would possess,
Mr. Houston said it would control
three-quarters of the world’s coal
production; of steel and copper, over
two thirds; of cotton and petroleum,
four-fifths of the world-supply; of the
essential food products a preponder
ance over the Central Powers much
greater than the preponderance in
population.
“The total imports and exports of
Great Britain, France, Italy, and the
United States, the four greatest na
tions in the entente,” he said, “were
approximately $12,000,000,000 in 1913
while the total imports and exports
of Germany and Austria-Hungary
were only half as large, or about $6,
000,000,000. This summary is con
clusive in showing how overwhelming
the economic power of the present
League of Nations, figthing for civ
ilization, would be.
“That economic force, resting on a
preponderance of the world’s basic
materials for war, could be applied
through all the agencies of the mod
ern world—the cable, the wireless,
the postal union, the stock exchanges,
the custom houses, the trade embargo
—and it is difficult to see how any
nation would be able to withstand it.”
THREE PLANES IN COLLISION.
LONDON, June 1.—There have
been many instances in England of
airplane fatalities from two planes
colliding in the air, but the first case
on record in which three airplanes
were involved in a single collision oc
curred a few days ago at a Scotch
aerodrome. The collision occurred
about 300 feet above ground, and all
three flying men were killed.
AS REVISED
WAR TRADE BOARD ANNOUNCES
5,000 NAMES OF INDIVIDUALS
AND FIRMS UNDER THE BAN.
FOREIGN COUNTRIES INCLUDED.
Allied Countries Adopt Practically the
Same List as the United States—
Cautionary Warning to Importers
and Exporters.
The war trade board has issued the
following statement:
A new edition of the Enemy Trad
ing List, revised to March 15, 1018,
has just been published by the war
trade board, combining and bringing
down to date all previously published
lists, supplements, and announcements
of persons and associations with
whom it is illegal to trade. It covers
for the first time the European coun
tries and other countries for which
no American list had previously been
issued, earlier American lists having
applied only to the countries of Latin
America.
The list contains some 5,000 names,
but the listing of a partnership is to
be understood as the listing of all the
partners individually, and the listing
of one member of a partnership is to
be understood as the equivalent of
listing the partnership and each of
the other members. The list is not
complete, the board having listed only
individuals and associations concern
ing whom it had adequate informa
tion to justify this procedure. A warn
ing is therefore given against trading
with persons with knowledge or rea
sonable cause to believe that they arc
enemies or allies of enemies or are
conducting or taking part, directly or
indirectly, in trade with enemies or
allies of enemies.
Very soon after the passage of the
trading-with-the-enemy act it became
evident that cooperation by the asso
ciated governments and uniform ac
tion in the treatment of enemy trade
cases, as far as possible under their
variant laws, were essential to the ef
ficient working of an economic offen
sive and the full accomplishment of its
purposes to prevent assistance reach
ing the enemy. Moreover, suggestions
had been received from American im
porters and exporters that steps be
taken in this direction. In the interest
of accomplishing this desirable end
Great Britain, France, and the United
States, aided by a spirit of cordial
good will, have adopted practically
uniform lists for all countries. Italy
has also approved this policy in prin
ciple.
It is hoped that this cooperation of
the governments concerned will result
in a continuance of unformity in the
lists, so that in net effect they will
form one consolidated enemy trading
list.
FAVORS IMPORTING
OF CHINESE LABOR
SENATOR GALLINGER THINKS
THIS IS A SOLUTION OF
THE LABOR PROBLEM.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.—
United States Senator Gallinger has
introduced a resolution empowering
the senate committee on agriculture
and forestry to make a careful inves
tigation into the advisability of rec
ommending legislation that will pro
vide and permit the imbportation of
Chinese farm laborers into the Unit
ed States, under proper restrictions
and regulations, during the war pe
riod.
Senator Gallinger thinks that such
a policy would solve the threatened
labor shortage in the western states.
OUR JOE MILLER CONTEST
Breitenstein claims that the oldest
joke is the one about the church that
advertised for an organist. The fol
lowing reply was received:
“Dear Sir: I notice you have a va
cancy for an organist and music teach
er and you want either a lady or a
gentleman. Having been both for
some years, I offer my services.”