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i MARC1T 15, 1910. PART I. SATURDAY MOHNING. WILSON AGAIN BERLIN GOVERNMENT GAINING UPPER HAND. lic opinion in America.

The Figaro says that the United States, by ehaf-Inc In the war and by the promi REPORT MARINE JAPANESE CLASH RUMOR NAMES HIM ENVOY. Educator May be Britain's Ambassador, OCEAN VOYAGE BRINGS PRESIDENT NEW VIGOR. (Continued Iruiu First Page.) HUNS TO TRADE SHIPS FOR FOOD. '((Continued from First Page) 1 I. ft ti :1 ft mm H.

D. Fisher, Formerly president of the Board of Education of England, who has been mentioned as the successor to Lord Reading as Great Britain's diplomats representative at Washington, when the present Ambassador retires. AMERICAN COMMANDER Ef GERMAN CAPITAL REPORTS PROGRESS OF FIGHTING. 1ST CABLS AND P. PARIS, Thursday.

March IS. Geor.e 11. Herrles. com mander of the American military force at Berlin, has bees here for several days to appear before the Supreme War Council to render a report on the military and economlo situation at the German capital and throughout Germany. Gen.

Harries has given a dramatic recital of events In Berlin during the past three months, culminating la tho serious street fighting ot the last fortnight When the American party left Berlin the government forces under Gustav Noske, German War Minister, had the upper hand and. in- Gen. Ilarrles's opinion, the government will control the situation particularly if food Is sent to aid in holding back the Bolshevik menace from the eastern border. The American forces In Germany, outside the occupied zone, consist of eighty officers and 600 men. a considerable part of the contingent being stationed at twenty camps at various places in Germany, where 600.000 Russian prisoners are being cared for by the Americans.

The headquarters in Berlin are on the second floor of the Hotel Adlon, In, the heart of the city, where much fighting has been going on. During the early stages of the fighting Gen. Harries had a narrow escape. He was standing in a window of the American headquarters, watching a clash between opposing factions, when a sniper's bullet grazed his breast and buried itsolf in a window casing by his side. During the more recent disorders in Berlin, the electric lights have been extinguished, street car stopped, telephone and telegraph wires cut, newspaper presses left Idle and stones closed, yet the public, according to Gen.

Harries, shows little evidence of panic. The streets have been crowded with people, including women and children, but the military forces have kept the crowds constantly moving. The rattle of rifles and machine guna echoed throughout the city both day and night, but the Spartacan bands have been gradually driven back and have lost control of strategic centers. Thousands of Russian prisoners, Gen. Harries says, are clamoring to return home, but this would present a serious problem as it would mean the 'sending of 600,000 Russians into the hands of the Bolshevikl.

The latter are threatening the Polish front and have a powerful organization at Vilna, with unlimited funds for propaganda work, which Is under direction of Adolph Joffe, former Bolshevik Ambassador at Berlin, ft 1.4 lipllAVAii thnt ntrnnir mili tary zone in Poland, between Russia and Germany, together with food relief, offers the surest means of holding back the Bolshevik advance. Under American care the Russian prisoners are in reasonably good condition with adequate food and ULliO BtWIltSa ClllU IHUl LailJF. Steps probably will be taken ta return them to Jrlussia by way ol the Black Sea or by other routes so as to avoid forcing them into tho Bolshevik ranks. ARRESTED WITH DOG, SAYS SHE'S HOUNDED. I BY A.

P. NIGHT WIRE. 1 NEW YORK, March 14. Mri. Dorothy von Papen, said by the police to be the wife of Capt.

Fram von Papen. former military attache of the German Embassy at Washington, was released on a suspended sentence in Magistrate's Court here today, after she had been arrested for not having a muzzle tor her dog. A patrolman saw a fashionably-gowned woman leading an unmuzzled Chow on Broadway, and suggested to her that she was violating the law. uecame inuisniini, anu cie- 1 clared she was being "hounded" be-j cause she was a on she was summoned to appear In court. Capt.

Von Papen was ordered i out of the country with Capt. Boy-Ed. the German nval attache, because of objectionable activities. ILUOH DOLLAR DIAMOND SEE ALL ABOUT IT TUESDAY IN THIS PAPER. 'THE til STRIKERS RIOT AT NEWARK.

BY A. P. NIGHT WIRE. NEWARK March 14. Charlton Ogburn, street railway conciliator of the national War Labor Board, will confer here tomorrow with representatives of ths 4500 striking employees of the Public Service Railway Company and the corporation to pavs the way for a hearing by the full board at Washington, Monday, In an effort to settle the strike which has demoralized service on ths traction lines of North New Jersey for three days.

and 2 years the dally quart to which they were limited. "The Americans." continued the Minister, "do not realisse the lamentable effect of this utterly inadequate and unsuitable diet upon our babes in arms and aged, to say nothing of the population of more vigorous ages, 1 am unable to give you complete statistics for Germany covering the present lamentable situation, but I have succeeded in getting for you figures showing the great increase in mortality among Infants under a year old for the last three months of 1918 in twenty of the largest cities of Germany, "The deaths during this quarter amounted to 6142, compared with 4176 In the preceding year, or an Increase of 47 per cent. Our medical exports attributed the increase entirely to the inability of the mothers to nurse children on their scanty diet, or to keep them alive on the quart of milk of poor quality to which the ration was reduced. ALARMING INCREASE. "Thlsj alarming increase in Infant mortality is a development of recent date.

Infant mortality during the first three years of the war had even decreased as compared with peace years. This" was due to the increasing tendency of mothers to nurse their children during the years of war privation. A slight improvement was even registered for the whole year of 1918, but this was attributable only to the extremely cool summer; which kept down the usual summer mortality. "Food conditions, however, reached a point where nursinf mothers could not even nourish themselves and recent months shov a heartrending Increase in infant mortality, particularly in Inrgo rifles, whose milk supply has been reduced to the vanishing point, owing to the absence of cattle fodder, the s'aughter of milk cows and transportation difficulties. on children report the mortality has grown steadily durlnK the months since the armistice, older children being equally badly oft.

PLEADS FOR RELIEF. "We have no statistics later than 1917. For that year the deaths of children of from 1 to 5 years were 49 per cent, higher than in the last peace year 1913 and the deaths of children of from 5 to 15 55 per cent, higher. "Unless immediate and adequate relief in the shape of food supplies comes, our rising1 generation is condemned either to death or to weakened maturity. I cannot believe tho American people wish that or that our aged people, on whom the food shortage and semi-starvation fall with equal severity should be swe.pt away by death as Is now the case." BRUSSELS, Thursday.

March 13. The decision of the Allied powers providing for the turning over by Germany of merchant ships nn'l securities in exchange for food was presented to a German deleeation here today by an Al'led commission beaded by Vice-Admiral Rosslvn Wemvss of Great Britain. The Germans were permitted ta ask oueHons, but no discussion wan allowed. PARTS, Thursday. March 13 The German delegation at P.russe's todav was under the of Undersecretary of Ptete Von Rra'in nrt T-ir.

Theodore Melcolr, of M. M. Warburg bankers of Ham-burs', was according to Mrce! TTutln. e'H'" of the Vhe de Paris, who savs tbt among tne German representatives was G. vtankievitz, director of the Doutscho Bank.

HITN VVrv nLFCATirS HEADED BY RANTZAU. FOR ETON MTVTSTFR WILT, BE LEADER. BUT ATI, TO HAVE EQUAL POWERS. fBT CABLE AND A. P.l WEIMAR, March 14.

All the German delegates to the Peace Conference will be on an equal footing, although Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the Foreign Minister, will be leader. The party will not have the power to make final decisions, that bein? vested In the cabinet. The selection of the Peace Conference delegates was reached, after a long Cabinet meeting which be gan Wednesday and lasted far into the evening. Count von Berastorff will not bo a delegate, although there has been great pressure brought to bear to have him named, xnis was partly frustrated by Information received from abroad through Americans here that the choice of Count von Bern-storff probably would be rejected by the Entente lowers. The appointment of Count von Hrockdorff-Rantzau, Dr.

Eduard David and even Dr. Max Warburg was no surprise, since they had been frequently mentioned, but tnat ot Geisberg, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, In the Prussian ministry, was unexpected. AT PEACE WORK. Prcsnlvu r.rrjtivt Efforts on Airiril i'i Paris. f'-Qtion Given Guest by People.

ronfers with Lloyd George and Others During Day. (BY CABL AND A. PARIS. March 1 4. President Wilson, returning to the Peace Con after hla trip to the United States, arrived In Paris today.

The Presidents train, which had been delayed on the vay from Brest, reached the Invalided Station at o'clock. Fres'dent Wilson got to work Immediately after his arrival at hli new residence In the Place dea Etat Unls. Premier Lloyd George was waiting there for the President, and the two had a long conference. The President then arranged for a conference at the Hotel de Crilloii this afternoon with Premier Clemen-cesu. Premier Lloyd George and Col.

House. The demonstration attending the President's arrival lacked the magnitude of that upon the occasion of his Initial nppearanco. last December. Nevertheless, it was spontaneous end cordial. STATION CROWDED.

The people had been kept in Ignorance as to which railroad station his train would enter. The President had requested this, as he desired to come into the capital this time merely as a private citizen. Nevertheless, the population heard A.irly In the day that the station selected was the Invalldes, and they had assembled there In great numbers by the time his- train was due. The Presidential party was met at the station by President Poin-rare and Mme. Polncare, Premier riemenceau.

Foreign Minister P'chon, Andre Tardleu. Gen. Berdou-lat. the military governor of Paris; Mai. -Gen.

Mordcq, head of the Military Cahinet the Ministry of War; Secretary of State Lansing. Gen. Bliss, Henrv White of the peace mission. Ambassador Sharp and Admiral President Poincare gave President Wilson a cordial greeting during a brief conversation. With Premier Clemenceau, the American Executive snoke for some time, congratulating the French statesman on his escape from death In the recent attempt to nssassinate him.

HEALTH EXCELLENT. President Wilson appeared to be in excellent health and spirits. The President is fully conversant with the work accomplished by the peace delegates. During his voyage from the United States he was constantly In communication with Paris by, wireless. Col.

House took to Brest a large number of papers bearing on the work of the conference during the President's absence. The President spent several hours last night in going through the pa pers and receiving explanations from Col. House. He resumes work with a grasp of the matters inner discussion. The President did not tarry on the station platform.

He left his hand linger longer In that of M. Clemen-ceau than anyone else and spoke earnestly to the Premier as they strolled down the platform. After ha had congratulated M. Clemen-ceau on his escape from death by the assassin's bullets, the Premier turned and smilingly said: "My hide Is too thick for a little piece of lead to do me any harm." Emerging from the station. President Wilson immediately entered his motor car, which drove at high speed along the left bank of the Peine, crossing the river on the Alma bridge.

Arriving In the Place des Rtats Unls, the streets were virtually Inserted, a fact sharply In contrast "ith the President's appearance In Paris three months ago. FRANCE HAILS WILSON FITII NEW CONFIDENCE PRESIDENT RETURNS TO PAIUS WITH GREATER PRESTIGE, BAYS PRESS. BT CABLS AND A. PARIS, March 14. (French Wireless Service.) In commenting on the return to President Wilson to Paris, the Matin says: The alliance with the United States is necessary to the peace of the world and to the existence of France.

It means forever a precious help against possible aggressions. France looks upon Mr. Wilson as the powerful friend who splendidly helped her to win, and will now stand by her when she Is to make her legitimate demands heard." The Petit Parislen says: "The decisive days are near at hand for the Peace Conference. The President of the United Etates will Join in the supreme debates. He will exercise his personal Influence on behalf of the whole of humanity.

He returns from the New World after fighting his opponents and the skeptics with new prestige arising from his splendid speech at the Metropolitan Operahouse." Wilson," says L'Homme Libre, "will bring to the Peace Conference an accurate Idea of the real wishes of hla country and of the political necessities, which In the present condition of the American political situation, must be conciliated with the pursuit of the ideal of International co-operation. It will now be all the more easy to make this adjustment, as the labors of the conference have progressed greatly. A few sittings will no doubt be suf-Irlent for the realization of unanimous accord between the heads of 'he great democracies with regard 'o the principal questions, territorial and military, naval, lt-riftl. economic, financial and so lal conventions in short the cove-iant of an association of free nations. "Everything Is ready for a final nd brief consideration.

The people expect It and hope that peace will nn give them cause to oe ruiiy tisfled with their envoys." The Journal says President Wilson's return means early and posi tive results from the Peace Confer -nee. adding: "There is no doubt that the President comes back with the full re solve to wind up the war promptly The editorial writers also are occupied with the present suite of pub nent role it is playing at the Peace Conference, has become one of the principal factors in European and world policies, but adds: "But will the' United States desire to be of the same mind once the treaty of neoce is signed? Will it not rather yield and go home for iood, leaving old Europe to work out Its salvation by Itself? The sudden withdrawal of the United States would have regrettable consequences because there ure several problems which we, the British, Italians and French, would settle In quite a different way than if America was a fid or. As far as can bo judged, however, it does not seem that such an eventuality is to be feared. "Making all allowances for In-ternol political quarrels in America, It may be said that President Wilson's policy in its main lines Is approved by a majority of his fellow-citizens. Many of them, It Is true, ask modifications of the League of Nations plan, but after all, at the present time, it is only a draft of the text." WOMEN CAIN VICTORY AT PARIS CONFERENCE.

SUPREME COUNCIL GRANTS RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION AT PARLEYS. By Constance Drcxcl. Br cable ucuaivn m.w(.n.) PARIS, March 14. Hera is the first copy of the letter giving the decision of the supreme council re garding the participation of women In the Peace Conference. It was given to me at the office of Secre tary Dutasta of the conference The letter was addressed to Mme.

Dewitt Schlumberger, president of the French union for woman suf- -e. and Mme. Ules Siegfried, pres ident of the National Council of French Women. Mme. Siegfried Is known equally well with Mme.

Schlumberger as worker for the women of ranee. She Is the wife of Jules Siegfriod, oldest member of the Chamber ot Deputies. The letter to me women iohows: "I have the honor to advise you that in its discussion of March 11 the supreme council of the Allies, In accordance with the desire which you had expressed, examined the conditions under which women could be admitted to participate In the labors of certain commissions of the Peace Conference. "It was decided that women's organizations could be heard by commissions' occupying themselves specially with questions touching women's interests. "I might add that I immediately advised the president of the commission on International legislation for labor of the decision arrived at by the supreme council of the Allies.

"Please receive, madams, homage of my respect. "DUTASTA." Perhaps these decisions are not as good as actually being added to the commissions themselves, dui Is a great victory for womannooa. and is so Interpreted by no less a person than Premier Lloyd George. To obtain the Premier's views on the nuestion I appealed to Sir George Ridden, press representative of the British government, at me Peace Conference, and a close friend of the Premier. Sir George tele phoned me news of the decision as comlnir from Lloyd oeorge.

"Mr. Lloyd George." Sir George said, "regards this as a well-deserved compliment to women, since tnis privilege of hearings before commis sions heretofore had been granted only to nations and not to organ! nations. It is expressly agreed that delegations or committees or women representing organizations of various nations should be given a hearing, and their views will be welcome. It is now women's move to make themselves heard." Personally I feel that had the women struck while the Iron was hot, had they actually sent In some powerful names of women who could serve on the commissions, and had they done this when It was suggested by President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau, tney might have been made members of com missions. There Is no doubt that the attitude of the men has been one of frank co-operation.

It Is now up to the women. They will get a hearing. The various commissions are closing up their work. but It It is too late for the actual Peace Conference there still is the League of Nations in Its embryonic state. Even If the covenant Is adopted almost simultaneously with the peace terms, much remains to be done In framing the commissions and policies.

This Is where the women can help and will be welcomed. I wish Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. president of the International Suffrage Associa tion of America, might see this ca blegram. I wish she might consider this as a personal message from one who has been here from the very beginning, and who has followed the case of women step by step.

I understand the suffragists are to hold "onventlon In Kt. Louis very shortly. suggest that the women quickly appoint some represent atives to come to Paris as delegates to be heard bv various commissions of the Peace Conference and of the League of Nations. Woman hour has struck, per haps not with the resounding whack for which some of us had hoped, but It struck men's hearts, and should not go unheard bv the women because they cannot agree on the delegates or the dmriands. STATE GRANTS RAISE STOCKTON GAS RATES.

fsr p. vmnr wir- SAN FRANCISCO, March 14. An Increase of 15 cents a thousand cu bic feet for gas nas granted the Western States Gas and Electric Company for Its Stockton district by the State Railroad Commission here today. SliRlit Increases in electric rates outside of homes were granted also. The 15-cent Increase was added to the boai'1 rates of the company and takes the place of the 10-cent surcharge granted last summer.

Mu nicipalities in the district that had been exempted from the surcharge were ordered to pav the new rale. Children's Colds. Every parent can add to the health'of the community and his or her peace of mind by guarding against coughs and colds. When your child has snuffles or watery eyes don't hesitate to take him from school for a day or two. so that you may break up the cold he has contracted.

You are perfectly safe In giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to your children, as it contains no opium or other narcotic. It ecu on nature's plan, loosens the cough, aids expectoration, relieves the lunge and opens the secretions, helping the system to throw off the cold. Advertise-) torlo voyages we feel we have Come to know President and Mrs. Wilson. They have brought with them the spirit and atmosphere of simplicity and friendship and we have all felt an increasing sense of personal' devotion to them.

'We have, besides, a certain share in the great adventure on which President Wilson is engaged. We perhaps but dimly realize the history that Is in the making as our ship take the Chief Magistrate of our nation from shore to shore. As Washington was the father and Lincoln was the emancipator of his country, Wilson may prove to bo the pacificator. Little did Washington or Lincoln know the full significance of their work while it was in the doing. We shall not forget our general and thoroughly human contact with the man Who by common consent has become the leader in the movement to organize freedom and safety in tho world, and we are proud to be his REDS ROB AMERICAN RED CROSS WORKER.

MRS. DE PROCTOR REPORTS THEFT OF MERCY FUND. MILLJ50X OF HER OWN. By Ladlslav Czapskt. BT CABUfcAlLUlVlt JjlM'ATCB.

BUCHAREST, March 3 (via Courier to Paris, March 11.) Mrs. Na-dlne de Proctor, neo Wengeroff, whose present husband lives in Cincinnati, lias just passed through Bucharest with her daughter, Leo-nie, en route from Russia to Swlts-erland. She caused quite a sensation among Americans here by telling how, in her brother's, house at Kieff, seven Bolshevist bandits robbed her of 375,000 rubles "belonging to the American Rea besides nearly 1,000,000 rubles efi' her own. In a signed statement, made by Mrs. De Proctor at the American Legation In Bucharest, she said the same bandits got away with rubles belonging to her brother, Vladimir Wengeroff, a factory director and financier.

Mrs. De Proctor left the United States for Russia in 1916, she told the American Minister here. She had worked for the American Red Cross In Belgium and England, as well as in Russia, She managed sanatorium for Russian soldiers at Mustomiaky in Finland, where she owned an estate of 250.000 cacres, according to her story, but when the Bolsheviks took power they turned her out of the sanatorium and confiscated the entire estate, she says. For some time during her stay in Petrograd, Mrs. De Proctor resided in her own house at 5 Smolny street, but the Bolsheviks forced her to leave Petrograd.

All her deposits in the Petrograd Bank, including a gold purse, some diamonds she valued at about 175,000 rubles and some $20 gold pieces were confiscated by the Bolsheviks. In March, 1918, Mrs. De Proctor reached Kieff, carrying about rubles, of which 375,000 belonged to the American Red Cross. In Kieff Mrs. De Proctor was permitted to change the Red Cross money into Romanoff rubles, which she did on the morning of January 12, this year.

She placed the money in the belt she wore around her body. The next day she went to say good-by to her brother, Vladimir. Seven men, she says, one of whom put a revolver to her head, met Mrs. Do Proctor and her daughter as the two women stepped into the front room of her brother's house. They demanded where the money had gone which she had drawn from the bank.

"When I told them I had left the money with the Foreign Minister," Mrs. De Proctor told the American Minister in her statement, "they took all my clothes off and found the money In my belt. Having taken it, they searched for the key to my brother's safe. They found It, and opened the safe end took 4,000,000 rubles belonging to my brother, besides many valuable papers. I came to ttucharest to put my case before the American Minister and beg him to help me.

At Raz- della station, on our way from uaes- sa to Bucharest, soldiers of Peolura's army took from me tho romainder of my money, about J1000 rubles, a fur coat, four furs, my linen, and clothes, so I lost everything I had." ALLIED DELEGATIONS BAR GERMAN ORATORY TEUTON ENVOYS CAN ASK QUESTIONS BUT DISCUSSIONS FORBIDDEN. (BT CABLE AND A. BRUSSELS. Thursday. March 13.

The decision of the Allied powers providing for the turning over by Germany of merchant ships and se curities In exchange for food was presented to a German delegation here today ty sn Allied commission headed by Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss. of Great Brltian. The Germans were permitted to asx questions, but no discussion was allowed. PARTS Thiirsdnv. March 13.

The German delegation at Brussels today was under the presidency of Undersecretary of State Von Braun and Dr. Theodore Meicoir, or ci- Warburg Co. bankers of Hamburg, was vice-president, according tn Marcel Hutin, editor of the Echo de Paris, who says that among the German representatives was (3. Manklevitz, director of the Deutsche Bank. It is said that Undersecretary Von Hrauu prtpaied a speech In which we would tell the Allies that feeding Germany was a matter of Interest to all the western powers.

Ths Allies hove offered to furnish food until next harvest, but tho Germans were ready to urge that the only measure that would cause a great improvement In the intern- linatinn nt HermanV would be the sending of food In quantities proportionate to Germany a and the fixing of financial conditions which are satisfactory PHXLAN HEADS SOCIETY. IfcirU'SlYB DISPATCH. 1 WASHINGTON. March 14. Senator Phelan at the annual, meeting of the California Society of Washington was elected president for the ensuing year.

He succeeds Congressman John I. Nolan, who has been president for some time and I who has done much to strengthen Lbs orgaalzatioa William Wepner, strike leader, and Edmund W. Wakelee, vice-president of the Public Service Railway Company, returned tonight from Washington, where they were In conference with ths War Labor Board. Neither would make any statement. In the absence of their leaders, the strikers voted unanimously to continue the fight until the union is recognized.

There was sporadto rioting by strike sympathizers. Crews were dragged from three cars and attempts made to short-circuit wires. The strikers were Joined today by a group of Inspectors and station masters. Cars were withdrawn at 8 o'clock. They will ba run again In the morning, the company announced.

A few recently discharged soldiers and sailors applied for Jobs as mo-tormen and conductors when they heard that 9 a day was offered. NEW YORK, March 14. Private boat owners took steps to break the strike of marine workers today by VILLA RAIDS Americans Raid Concessions at Tien Tsin, Says Cable. Tokio's Consul Seriously Hurt, Peking Asserts. Washington Doubts Story; Waits Result of Inquiry.

BT CABLE AND A. PEKING, Thursday, March 13. Americans marines have raided the Japanese concession at Tien Tsin, forcing their way into the Japanese consulate and assaulting the Consul, according to dispatches received here. The trouble is said to have been caused by the rough treatment given American soldiers who became disorderly In the Japanese quarter of the city, Japanese soldiers drove out the Americans with fixed bayonets, is said, wounding two of them seriously. The next day 100 angry marines who were off duty paraded through the Japanese concession and It is alleged they attacked every Japanese encountered.

When the marines reached the consulate they forcibly entered, it Is reported, and assaulted the Consul, whose Injuries are understood to be serious. The Consular body Is deliberating on measures to be taken to restore normal conditions. It is said that teellng Is running high at Tien Tsin. ENVOY REPORTS CLASH. I BY A.

V. PAT WIRE. WASHINGTON, March 14. A clash between American troops, a Japanese policeman and soma civilians at Tien Tsin was reported to the State Department today by Minister Reinsch at Peking. The Minister said he had sent First Secretary Spencer to Tien Tsin to investigate and report.

No mention was made of a raid by American marines on the Japanese consulate and the wounding of the Consul, reported in a Peking dispatch to the Associated Press. The Minister's message was brief and gave no details. In the absence or complete information, officials were not willing to discuss the Incident for Privately, however. It was said if the Japanese Consulate had been violated of course the guilty would be punished and a proper apology would be made to Japan. The Japanese Consulate Is located In a saloon and restaurant section of Tien Tsin and brawls there in the past are said to have been not Infrequent.

Navy department officials doubted that 200 marines were Involved in the raid as reported, because no marines are stationed at Tien Tsin and the entire contingent at Peking, three or four hours' ride away, numbers only a few hundred. Only the presence of a number of American ships in port, of which the department has not been advised, could acoount for so many marines being ashore and off duty at Tien Tsin. The American force stationed at Tien Tsin Is the Fifteenth regular Infantry regiment, which has been there for several years and which Is composed entirely of veteran soldiers. ELECTRIC RAILROADS TERMED DEMORALIZED. MORE THAN FIFTY LINES NOW IX RECEIVERS' HANDS SAYS ASSOCHTION HEAD.

BT P. NIGHT WIRE NEW YORK, March 14. De scribing the condition of the electric railways of the country at ths present, time as demoralized, Philip H. Gadsden of Charleston, 8. speak ing today at the mid-year meeting of the American Electric Railway Association here, declared that a cost of service" system of regulat ing fares, or municipal ownership must be adopted rehabilitate the industry.

Mr. Gadsden Is chairman of the association's Committee of readjustment which has been study ing the electric railway problem. ith more than fifty electric lines in tho hands of receivers, thirty-one of them in cities of more than 000 population, with revenues de creased and market prices of securities lowered, the time has come, he said, when some radical change must be made in order to continue adequate service. A survey of the situation, ha asserted, showed that certain roads which reported a net revenue of 4. 500.000 in 1916, re ported In 1917 a defjeit of $500,000.

In 1918, he added, street railways discontinued or "junked" 750 miles of track. Recommendations of ths Adjust ment Committee include ths estab lishment of a flexible fare, automatically adjusted to ths cost of service demanded by and furnished to communities; the granting of ad ditional reward cf economlo management to provide Incentive, enter prise and initiative: abolishment of every Impost and tax which cannot be justified on the ground that it Is a payment for the benefit received, the introduction, where feasible, of "skip stops," one-man cars and speeding up of Bchedules by the reg ulation of vehicular traffic and a closer co-operation between the com munity and street railway officials. COURT-MARTIAL FOR TELLER OF EXPLOITS. BT CiBlX AND A. P.

LONDON. March Ths Investigation of the stories of the remarkable exploits of Capt. Edmund O. Chamberlain of San Antonio. an ofllcer of the United States Marine Corps, which has been In progress for several weeks, has developed to an extent that the Ameri can naval authorities consider a court-martial necessary.

The court has been called to sit In London March 24. The court-martial. It Is announced, win investigate chiefly whether Capt. Chamberlain's recommendations for decorations were all forgeries and whether there was any truth whatever In his story of destroying an extraordinary number of machines in a short time. Piles Cured in to 14 Days.

tmsawta trfnd ainnfj If PI0 OINTMENT IbI'9 HDD'l, Bit.mt( cr Pro ntd. in fm. Stupa irril.uoe. and HmI-. eo ft rmtfui alup tlm Wa lav tuiiia.

Vik Hum. BY A P. NIGHT WIRE. 1 establishing a bureau for the reerult-: ment of men to operate their boats. 1 J.

S. Maxson, in charge of the bureau, announced that several hundred licensed engineers and captains are expected here from the Great Lakes district. Private detectives and numbers of discharged soldiers and sailors have been engaged, he added, to protect the men. Police protection also has been requested. A break in the ranks of the Boat Owners' Association was claimed tonight by Thomas L.

Delahunty, president of the Marino Workers' I Affiliation. He issued a list of four- teen private boat owners who, he 1 said, had agreed to follow the exam- 1 nln nf tho Flallrnari Ariministratlnn and other government agencies and grant the union's demands for an eight-hour day and increased pay. Officials of the owners' association Insisted, however, that not a member has "strayed from the fold and de clared several boats would be placed In operation tomorrow with strike breakers, guarded by private detectives and discharged soldiers and sailors. NEAR BORDER. third time Spencer as been held for ransom by Villa followers.

Employees of the Land and Cattle Company, just south of the border, arriving at Hachita today, reported the presence of a Villa band south of the Paloma ranch. United States troops have been sent from Hachita to tho Corner ranch, on the border, to protect American property In the event any raiding efforts by the Villa band. The purpose of the approach of Villa's band to the Columbus-Ha-chita border today was to obtain ammunition expected to be delivered the Mexican side of the line last night by smugglers, according to an oiriclal report received here tonight. Army officers do not fear a raid across the line. Information from Columbus tonight indicated that Villa bant numbered less than 100.

Refugees continued to arrive at Columbus tonight. Federal troops were Guzman, thirty-five miles from Ojitos, tonight. FOR FOOD. AND A P.J the next harvest, the price and conditions of "payment for it. Regarding food conditions In Germany, von Braun said Chemnitz, Dresden and other cities of Saxony now were on a potato ration of only two pounds weekly, while Cologne, Alx-Ia-Chapelle and other western cities had none whatever.

This was due partly to railroad strikes and frost, according to the Minister, but there was reason to fear that when the weather permitted the pits which potatoes were stored to be opened it would be found the potatoes were damaged badly. TSING-TAO LEASE. pulsion of the Germans, who ortsrt nally acquired it by force and that. the property reverts to China It Is expected that the final ad justment will be made In tho del) nite peace treaty or by the League Nations unless, in tne meintimo. the principals to the controversy reach a mutually satisfactory agreement.

TAFT CHALLENGED TO DEBATE LEAGUE. CT A. P. NIGHT WllUtl NEW YORK. March 14.

William H. Taft has bten challenged by Leslie M. Shaw, former Secretary of the Treasury, to debate the proposed constitution of the League of Nations in any city of the East of West, it nas announced hers tonight. COLUMBUS (N. March Villa forces today occupied Ascen ston.

sixty-flvs miles south of the border, and Janes, seventy-live miles south, according to refugees who reached here tonight. One group of refugees reported Francisco Villa In command of the column that occu pied the towns, but later reports were that Martin Lopea and Pamon Vega were In command of separate detachments of Villa's main column. EL PASO, March 14. Martin Lo- oez and Kamon vega. two vieia commanders, appeared at the Ojitos cattle ranch, ninety miles south of Hachita, N.

yesterday, and seized Bunk Spencer, the American negro ranch foreman, and a Mex ican ranch employee. Today a demand was made upon the managers of the ranch for $5000 ransom for the release of Spencer. This Is the OFFER SHIPS BT CABLE BERLIN, Tuesday, March 11. Under Secretary of State von Braun, before leaving Berlin with the Ger man commission to participate In the conference at Brussels regarding the turning over by Germany of her mercantile fleet and securities in i'Xchanpe for food, informed the correspondent that Germany was prepared to begin immediately the surrender of her entire fleet and conclude an agreement covering the other conditions In return for a definite agreement specifying the amount of food deliverable until HUNS TO GIVE UP PARIS. March 11.

The supreme council of the Peace Conference has virtually decided to Include in the preliminary treaty of peace a requirement that Germany shall re linquish her leasehold of Tsing-tao and all properties and concessions on the Shantung Peninsula. No attempt, it is understood, will be made at present to render a decision as to the ultimate possession of Germany's rights, which Is now the subject of a controversy be tween the Japanese and Chinese delegations in Paris. Thd former holds that Japan acquired the leasehold by right of conquest over the German forces there, she is willing to permit the ultimate status of tho Shantung Peninsula ta be determined by the Peace Confer, ence. China contends the lese was automatically canceled by the ex of on at In ot I 1: lit TABLE -QUEEN A loaf all food, full-flavored and satisfying. Greater value because it is BETTER BREAD BRADFORD BAKING CO.

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