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MAKE USE OF THE BEE'S NEW QUESTION AND ANSWER COLUMN- -SEE EDITORIAL PAGE. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE HUN GOVERNMENT ENT TOTTERING THE WEATHER: Generally fair Monday and Tuesday; warmer cast portion Monday; somewhat colder Tuesday. RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS PREDICTS POCKET WIRELESS TELEPHONE. London, March in a new type of wireless telephone are so Withind advanced that it is proposed few weeks it will be possible to speak between Londo1 and New York, while the establishment of a regular commercial servLondon and New York, early next by wireless a telephone between year is expected Marconi company, according to a statement by Godfrey C. Isaacs, managing director of the company, to a correspondent of the Daily Mail.

An early, realization of pocket wireless telephone also forcshadowed by Mr. Isaacs, who says that experiments have led him to believe that the pocket wireless will be in every day use at distant date. LEADERS TO RECEIVE VALUABLE PARTING GIFTS Washington, March gifts to congressional leaders this year by their colleagues will be more magnificent than ever before. The retiring speaker of the house, Champ Clark, who returns floor with the advent of a republican majority, is to receive a great tiful chureen silver coffee service. silver with cover and a beauChairman Kitchin of the ways and means committee will receive a silver service with ivory trimmings and polished tray to match.

Minority Leader Mann will be chest of silver. Senator Weeks of Massachusetts, who retires March 4, will be presented a silver tray by the Massachusetts delegation. MAY LOSE THEIR WORK FOR TAKING HALF HOLIDAY. San Francisco, March possibility of a general tie-up of all shipbuilding construction in the San Francisco region was created when approximately 6,000 machinists and ship yard laborers and allied crafts took a Saturday half holiday in the face of the ultimatum by the employers that they would be dismissed for so doing. The men taking the half holiday can be re-employed only by renounsing the stand of their unions for the half holiday, the employers said.

SNOW 12 FEET DEEP ON CASCADE MOUNTAINS. Seattle, March feet of snow covers the summit of the Cascade mountains, according word received here today by the Great Northern Railway company. Snow plows are being operated by all the railroads in the EAU CLAIRE FIRST CITY TO HAVE MUNY Eau Claire, March city will be the first in America to establish municipal ownership of movies. The city, with its population of 25,000, is expected to make the new venture a success and to pay for the maintenance of the new city auditorium. All kinds of shows will be run by a trained theater manager, already named, and prices will vary accordings to the offerings.

Vaudeville may be interpolated on nights that are open for special attractions. HOOVER TO HAVE FULL CHARGE OF FAMINE RELIEF Will Apportion in Europe Foodstuffs Purchased With -New $100,000,000 Appropriation. Washington, March Hoover has been appointed by President Wilson as director general of the American relief administration, created under the 000 European famine relief bill, with full authority to direct the furnishing of food stuffs and other urgent supplies purchased out of their relief fund and to arrange for transportation, distribution and administration. Mr. Hoover, who already has been made director general of the allied relief under the commission sitting at Paris, also was given full power by the president to determine to which of the populations named in the relief bill the supplies shall be furnished and in what quantities.

He also is to arrange for reimbursement so far as possible as provided in the relief act. In making public the president's executive order tonight, the food administration announced -that Edgar Richard and Theodore F. Whitmarsh, who have directing the affairs of the been, administration during Mr. Hoover's absence in Europe, had been appointed by States him joint directors in the United of the new created relief administration. Rickenbacher's Memorial Plan Adopted by Aero Club New York, for a memorial to be erected in the cemetery at Toul, France.

where Major Lufbery, Hobey Baker, Blair Thaw and other famous American airmen are buried, have been adopted by the Aero club of America, it was announced tonight. The memorial was proposed by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacher, American "ace of aces," who was appointed chairman of the fund. A memorial in the United States is also planned. Poles and Ukrainians to Resume Hostilities Warsaw, March at Lemberg between the inter-allied mission and the Poles and Ukranians have been broken off, it being found impossible to get the Ukranjans and Poles to agree on a lite of demarcation between their forces.

Hostilities are about to be resumed, it is reported, Hourly Temperatures: Nour. 1 p. 00 p. 0 10 OMAHA, MONDAY, GREGOR TO GO WITH PRESIDENT AS ADVISER Former Attorney General Will Accompany Wilson to Paris; Functions Not Clearly Defined. Washington, March W.

Gregory, retiring attorney, general of the United States, company President Wilson to Paris, as general adviser and assistant at the peace conference. Mr. Gregory's resignation as member of the president's cabinet becomes effective Tuesday, when he will be succeeded by A. Mitchell Palmer, and the retiring attorney general will assume immediately his new position of unofficial counsellor to the president during his second visit to Europe. To Act as Adviser.

Mr. Gregory's, functions have not been clearly defined, but he is expected to advise the president and the American peace commissioners on constitutional questions relating to the league of nations and on many matters of law, and of general policy. There was no intimation here that he would succeed any of the American commissioners now in France. Gregory resigned from the cabinet two months ago with the intention of practicing law, explaining that the salary of his position was not adequate to meet his personal needs. It is said he still expects to return to law practice when his duties in Europe are completed.

Palmer Not Yet Confirmed. The nomination of Mr. Palmer as attorney general was called up 111 the senate in an executive sessION early this morning following an all night session on the Victory loan bill, but action was postponed of the absence of many senators. The nomination will be taken up again before adjournment and confirmation then is generally predicted. May Amend League Draft.

Paris, March eighth week of the peace conference opens with increased effort by the working commissions to get their projects ready for consideration when President Wilson, Premier Lloyd George and Premier Orlando return to Paris. No, one is more anxious for prompt action than the French commissioners, who want to hasten not only the completion of the peace treaty, but the adoption of the league of nations plan as an integral part of it. An opening for a revision of the plan that will not threaten the integrity of the league appears to be broadening. M. Pichon, French foreign minister, has in- dicated that he will offer ments relating to an international force.

It is thought that the conference may. consider other amendments, such as may be regarded in AmerLica as necessary to remove ambiguity of clauses that might effect the Monroe doctrine, the right of succession from the league and the methods of using force against recalcitan1 nations. French apprehension is growing over the danger of anarchy in Germiny, the French delegates, therefore, desire to hasten the conclusion of the peace treaty and incorporate in it measures for the protection which they have expected from the league of nations. M. Pichon, reflecting this view, said that every one wants a responsible government with which peace may be concluded.

Van Loan, Story Writer, Is Dead; Father Expires When Told of His Death Philadelphia, March E. Van Loan, humorist and famous as a writer of short stories on sporting topics, died today chronic nephritis in Abington, near here. Mr. Van Loan came to Philadelphia from his home in Los Angeles on business and soon after his arrival he became ill and was hurried to children the were hospital. His wife and two summoned and were at his, bedside when he died.

He was years old. Los Angeles, March by the news of the death of his son, Charles E. Van Loan, Richard Van Loan died at his home here today. Mr. Van Loan was summoned from a religious service, by another son to be appraised the news.

He evidenced great mental stress and died within a few minutes at the family home. Two Troop Ships Arrive. New York, March Italian liner America and the transport Niagara arrived here today from France with 3,071 officers and enlisted men of the American expediItionary force. MARCH 3, PHOTO by CLINEDINIST, Retiring Cabinet Member to Join U.S. Peace Delegation THOMAS W.

GREGORY. STREET CAR MAN KILLED BY GUN WHILE HUNTING Nels Johnson's Lifeless Body Found Where He Attempted to Crawl Through Wire Fence. Johnson, a veteran street car motorman, was instantly killed Sunday when a shotgun he was attempting to drag through a wire fence was accidentaly discharged. The lifeless body was found by his son, Elmer, at the west side of the Forest Lawn cemetery at 8 o'clock Sunday morning. It was suspended limply across the wires.

The discharged shotgun was lying on the ground where it had apparently fallen. Johnson was 57 years old. He lived with his family at 3823 Hartman avenue. The last seen of him Sunday, was when he told his son he "just going over the hill to get a rabbit or two." Find Body Near Home. When he failed to return the son anxious and started a search, Just a short distance from the home he made the discovery of his father's body.

The weapon which caused death was a shotgun of an antiquated pattern and was without a guard for the trigger. It was of the singlebarrel type. Johnson had been a motorman for the street railway company for 30 years. The son, Elmer, is also a street railway employe. Upon order of County Attorney Shotwell the body was taken to the Brailey and Dorrance chapel.

held It is probable no inquest will be into the death, as the police after an investigation pronounced the affair an accident. Johnson is survived by his widow and three sons: Elmer of Omaha, Robert, now in an army camp, and C. A. Johnson of San Francisco. French Government Engages in Food Trade to Cut Cost of Living Paris, March 40 per cent decrease in the cost of living in France within a month is expected by the food ministry as the result of measures recently taken with regard to the purchase, importation and distribution of foodstuffs, M.

Vilgrain, under secretary of state for food, told the Associated Press today. Next Thursday government dis- tribution barracks" centers be known as in "Vilgrain 15 opened wards of Paris, and before March 10, there will be stores in every arrondissement offering a ration containing 3,616 calories and 113 grammes of fat for each inhabitant. The present cost of the new ration in Paris is 60 cents, as against 38. cents in New York and 32 cents in London. Road Building Will Give Employment to 100,000 Men Washington, March half a million dollars will be spent on highway construction during the coming season, giving employment to 100,000 men, according to anestimate ythe Department of Agriculture, based on known federal funds available and of the state and municipal funds, made at a conference today between Secretary Houston and representatives of the highway departments of 22 states.

The conference asked that engineer regiments, now road building in France, be returned to the United States at an early date and demobilized, and Secretary Houston promised his aid in bringing War department attention to the subject. I By Malle (1 vear). Daily, Dally $5.50: outside MILLIONS FIGHTING FOR UNION IN RUSSIA Sergius Sasonoff Reports Thousands Are Giving Lives Daily in Effort to Overthrow Bolshevism. Paris, March million Russians in organized governments are now co-operating in movement for a reunited Russia. These Russians are working and fighting, dying by hundreds and even by thousands daily in an effort to save Russia from complete destruction; and all this is being done without a said thought Sergius of Sasonoff, political ambition," foreign affairs in the Denikine government, who also is the representative in Paris for the Omsk government, in an interview today.

Continuing, he said: "In addition to Russians fighting bolshevism through and outside the governments there are also hundreds of thousands of Russians within the bolsheviki battling daily against the efforts to defeat a reunited Russia. Progressives Join Hands. "During the months I was in Yekaterinodar (capital of the province of Kuban,) socialistic and other liberal elements are, taking a very prominent part ment for a reunited Russia, especially in south. In the Crimea and in the Don and Kuban governments the progressive men of all parties have joined hands. There is not the slightest chance that autocracy will ever return in Russia.

"Friends of a reunited Russia much regret the effort made by certain propagandists to create the impression that the southern government, the Omsk government and the Archangel government are led by men who would favor a return to the old order of things. I am sure men, like General Denikine, and Admiral Kolchak have no desire to turn back the wheels of progress in Russia and I do not believe they seek personal aggrandizement. Able to Pay Way. "The effort to split Russia into many independent governments also is a misguided movement. Scores of small cannot live independently.

governments, larger governments bowl them over by their sheer weight. "Russia has such undeveloped and unlimited resources that she is able to pay her way and the entente will be amply rewarded for any help they may extend to patriotic Russians in their effort to overthrow anarchy and restore peace in a country, that has been disrupted by bolshevism." Paderewski Discusses Peril. Warsaw, March you oppose bolshevism with the bible? This is a question which the world is facing today." Ignace. Jan Paderewski, the premier of Poland, somewhat nettled at the American opposition to the big Polish atmy which is being formed while the peace conference is sitting, asked this of the Associated Press correspondent today. "It is not an individual peril, but a peril for civilization," he said, "because you cannot have peace- and organized prosperity with your next door neighbor advising your workmen not to work and paying agents to destroy your factories as quickly as.

you can build them. Most people like to get money. without workting, and that is what bolshevik Russia offers." When asked if he was able to reconcile the Polish army of 350,000 with the league of nations plan, M. Paderewski replied: "Yes, certainly, and I am quite in sympathy with that plan. Poland's army is to be recruited for such time as is necessary to restore order on our frontiers.

It will be an army of peace and order, or policemen, if you will, the same as the United States called Mexico up to protect its borders along from outrage. "It is evident that the Germans consider themselves victors on the eastern front and are planning the economic domination of Russia by selling arms to the bolsheviki, which epidemic will cease when it runs its course. The probable end of Ruswill be a dictatorship, with some other zollern Trotzky, Your Lenine advice or to Hohen: type. to fight is good advice for a dying man, but not for a man who wishes to live and enjoy liberty. We have to, "On protect the whole, optimistic certain institutions.

about Poland's future." 170,000 Soldiers Enrolled for Educational Courses $4.50: Nob. Sunday. postage $2.59: extra TWO CENTS. KIEL CANAL ONE OF VITAL PROBLEMS AT PEACE CONFERENCE Measures to Deprive Germany of Strategic Value of Waterway Being Considered. Paris, March minister of foreign affairs, in his weekly talk with the newspaper men at the Quai D'Orsay today, declared that the question of the disposition of the German fleet had not yet been brought before the peace conference.

Questions the proposed internationalization of the Kiel canal or other measures designed to remove the strategic value of the waterway to Germany also had not been discussed, he said. Kiel canal a problem M. Pichon said he the considered, importance toward which none of the great powers could remain unconcerned. Discussion of Marshal Foch's report by the five great powers in the conference will begin tomorrow, M. Pichon said.

He added that the economic council had not yet submitted its report on the blockade question. Eyes on America, Speaking to the British correspondents tonight Arthur J. Balfour, British secretary for foreign affairs, said: "By the end of March we shall at least be in sight of a preliminary peace, which will be the greatest stride towards universal peace. As a representative of the British government, I am in position to say that what is going on in America at this moment is more important for the success of a general peace than what is being done in Paris today." Mr. Balfour added that the league of nations would not attain its fullest fruit unless the United States took an even share in the great tasks after peace.

Commissions Enlarged, The supreme war council at its session yesterday, presided over by Premier Clemenceau, decided to increase to 15 the number of mem-1 bers of the financial and economic commissions. Up to the present these commissions have comprised only one representative from each of the five great powers. In the future each nation will have two representatives. while the other powers with special interests in questions considered by these bodies will elect five members. Three Men Arrested in Connection With Salvage Graft Case Des Moines, March men were.

arrested here early this morning in connection with the second expose of graft in the sale of army salvage goods. The men are: J. Rhoades, Norfolk, Va, broker; Arthur Koerner and A. Gross of Minneapolis. The trio were arrested by federal secret service agents, A.

P. Sherwood and H. D. Haley. The "tip" was, given by Lieut.

H. R. Vanstrum, wealthy Minneapolis contractor, who is executive officer for the salvage section at Camp According to federal authorities, the trio under arrest arranged with. Vanstrum through his finance to fill out blank contracts which they submitted for army blankets. The army officer was to get five per cent commission.

When the plan was made known to Vanstrum, he immediately told the army brokers across the country until justice officers who followed they were arrested here. "There Is No Fight "in German Remnants," Says U. S. A. Officer Coblenz, March the opinion expressed by the United States army, officers question who of have demobilization specialized and readjustment of the enemy forces, there no longer is any doubt complete uselessness of the remnants of the old German army now in regimental and battalion departments throughout many, In the American Third army, in-1 telligence bureau it is estimated in the summary of an expert that there are approximately 3,000,000 men, mostly of the 1899 class, who have declined to volunteer for the new army.

"There is no fight in these men," said the American expert today. "The events of the past two weeks have demonstrated that they are as useless in the suppression of international disorders as they are against bolshevism or the Poles." Millionaire Hobo and 34 Others Arrested in Raids Kansas City, March Thirty-four men, including James Eads How of St. Louis, known as the millionaire hobo, were arrested by the police tonight when two meetings from which quantities of I. W. W.

literature was taken, were raided. The men are held for vestigation. vestigation. Washington, March Pershing reported to the War department today that 70,000 more officers and men in France had enrolled for educational courses directed by American and French authorities. This brings the total number of students to 170,000.

14 0 18 19 10. 48-NO. 221. Omaha Entered p. VICTORY LOAN BILL PASSES CONGRESS Legislative Situation Now Such That President Can Delay Extra Session Until Return From Europe.

Washington, March Sixty-fifth congress enters tomorrow upon its last full working day facing an unprecedented mass of legislation, but with the contested "Victory loan" bill out of the way. Both senate and house after convening in the expected to work steadily morninth asine die adjournment at noon Tuesday. The senate remained in session all last night to pass the loan bill, the keystone measure of the calendar, adjourning shortly before 7 o'clock this morning while the house today held a business session, disposing of the conference report on the hospital bill. The senate also held a brief session today for eulogies of deceased congressmen, but business went over until tomor- row. No Filibuster Undertaken.

Passage of the without a record vote and in the form which it came from the house definitely marked the course of future legislation and gave assurance that President Wilson would not find it necessary to change his plan of calling the new congress after his return from France, probably in June. Most republicans favored an earlier extra session, but after republican sena: tors failed to reach any as to the advisability of obstructing the loan bill, no filibuster was undertaken. Although many important bills. including the $720,000,000 navy appropriation measure with its authorization of a new three building program and the 000,000, army administration bill, apparently leaders are believe that none is of sufficient importance to require an earlier call of congress. Measures to Be Passed.

Final action by the house on the $1,000,000.000 wheat price guarantee bill is expected tomorrow. Another important bill regarded as certain of enactment is general deficiency appropriation measure, carrying $750,000.000 additional for the railroad administration. Of other important bills remaining, leaders tonight planned to pass the diplomatic, hospital construcand military academy appropriation measures and that repealing the war tax on semi-luxuries. Besides the army and navy bills, legislation which seemed certain to fail included the $850,000,000 sundry civil bill, which contains 000 for the shipping board, and the oil and mineral land leasing and water power development measures. Disposition of the agricultural appropriation bill, containing senate committee rider proposing reof the daylight saving law and other measures still was regarded in doubt.

Suffrage leaders admitted today that there was no possibility of congress acting upon the compromise equal franchise constitutional amendment resolution at this session. LaFollette Speaks Three Hours. Passage this morning of the "Vic tory loan" bill, authorizing sale by the treasury of $7,000,000,000 of new short. term advances notes by and the war finance corporation in extending American foreign commerce, came after a bitter controversy, Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin. speech on the bill, holding the senrepublican, a made the principal ate floor from 1 o'clock this morning.

until after 4., He had expected to speak only an hour and disclaimed intending obstruction. When the Wisconsin senator' concluded, Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, republican, sought to force an adjournment without action bill. A quorum was lacking but the administration leaders had the sergeant-at-arms round up absentees and, after a quorum was secured at 6 o'clock, the bill was promptly put through. Germany's Resources Insufficient to Feed 45 Per Cent of People London, March 2. Germany's condition today is described by a correspondent of the Daily considerable Telegraph, who has spent time in Germany since the armistice, studying the international conditions.

Before the war, he says, Germany of was her able to population feed from about its 95 own cources. Today it could not feed 45 per cent of her people on a pre The reasons basis. are first, deterioration of the soil through lack of fertilizers, and second, depreciation in the numbers and weights of all classes of live stock, owing to lack of fodder, second-clasa matter May 28, 1906. 0. under act of March 3.

1879 Commutation Urged for Hundreds Found Guilty of Disloyalty Washington, March has General Gregory mended to President Wilson commutation of the sentences of persons convicted under the es pionage act, a review of whose cases by officials of the Department of Justice has revealed. that the evidence of wilful intent to violate the law was too circumstantial to warrant the carrying out of the full sentences fixed by the trial juries. Officials of the Department of Tustice tonight said commutation had been recommended for several hundred persons now held in prison, Mr. Gregory said in his letter to the president that the reviewing commission in department was examining the records in the cases of all the other convictions under the espionage law and that recommendations as to these would be submitted later. RED CROSS DID ALL POSSIBLE FOR DEAD WOMAN Mrs.

C. M. Wilhelm Tells of the Arrangements Made for Funeral of Mrs. Mohr. Mrs.

R. E. Walters, representing the War Mothers, was Americana unjust when she charged the Red Cross with neglect in connection with the burial Saturday of Mrs. Louis Ruesch Mohr, the friendless woman and mother of two sons in the United States army, yesterday declared Mrs. C.

M. Wilhelm, chairman of the home ser-vice section. "The woman who came to Omaha from Lincoln and died in the home of Mrs. R. S.

Schuenemann, was shown every consideration and respect that it was possible to manifest by the Red Cross at the funeral conducted at the undertaking establishment of A. I. Jackson, 1705 Leavenworth street," Wilhelm asserted. Miss Mildred Scoville, Red Cross ed her organization funeral, executive secretary, who, representalso declared that the members of the American War Mothers had criticized the Red Cross unjustly. Miss Scoville denied that she gave a short answer to Mrs.

Walters when she was asked concerning the funeral arrangements. "That is a mistake," said Miss Scoville. "I did nothing of the sort." Thought Woman a Friend. Mrs. Wilhelm declared that the Red Cross immediately assumed the responsibility of burying Mrs.

Mohr when the matter was reported. "The case was reported to us by Mrs. Schuenemann," she said, "and it was my understanding from that Mrs. Schuenemann was a friend. took it for granted that Mrs.

Schuenemann would look after the details of having a minister to conduct the services. In fact this I regarded as a delicate matter, as we knew nothing of the religious convictions of Mrs. Mohr, and naturally supposed Mrs. Schuenemann did. For that reason I thought she would arrange for the services.

Mr. Jackson was authorized to give her a proper burial. I know Mrs. Mohr had on her clothing and that she was buried in a casket like the ones used for soldiers. One Son in France.

"The first we knew of the case was Wednesday morning when we received word that the mother of two soldiers had died at the Schuenemann residence: We were told that the woman came here to look for work after nursing a member of the Schuenemann family through a was siege not of our illness understanding at Lincoln. that she It came here for assistance in her effort to locate her boys. However, we instituted a search at once for the sons, and received as a result of our efforts, word that one of (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) Six Arrests Follow Suicide of an Officer Who Confessed Fraud Chicago, March sailors of the Great Lakes naval training station are in custody and the body of another--a suicide--is in the morgue, as a of alleged grafting in connection with the diswas charge Lieut. learned of men Commander tonight. from S.

the C. station, it Roberts, executive officer at the station, said no evidence had been found to support a charge that discharges tually had been sold, but that a number of enlisted men and a few petty officers had npparently practiced a fraud on some of their mates by professing to have influence in obtaining releases. The existence of fraud became known today following, the suicide yesterday of Moscowitz of Detroit, a second-class seamen, who plunged from an eight story window of the local naval intelligence office after making a confession, according to Lieut. Edwin L. Reed, chief of the toffice.

GERMANY SHAKEN BY TERRORIST ACTIVITY Manifesto Denouncing Strikes Issued by Ministry; Assembly Demands Lifting of Blockade. boards. Demand Lifting of Blockade. London, March possible fall of the German government 18 reported in numerous special dispatches received today from Berlin. The members of the government have arrived at Berlin to consult with the workmen's council, and a manifesto has been issued.

All the correspondents represent the situation as grave. Berlin newspapers, with the exception of the socialist organs, were prevented from appearing today as a result of the sudden strike proclaimed today. It is uncertain whether this strike is a prelude to a general political strike for which a large part of Berlin labor is agitating or whether it is due to trade demands. The municipal council of greater Berlin today published an appeal to the non-socialist population of the capital urging a general strike in case the independent-socialists carried out their threat to call a general strike. The council asks the people to combat force with force.

The prestige of this organization, however, is not high. Government Issues Manifesto, Berlin, March government has issued long manifesto from Weimar, denouncing, the terrorist the national "assembly. It proclaimed faithfulness to the principles of democracy. "Greater than the political danger is the economic. says the manifesto.

cannot feed ourselves, from our own supplies until the next harvest. The blockade is eating away the of our people. Thousands perish daily from ill-nourishment." The manifesto denounces strikes, saying, "Every strike brings us a step nearer to the abyss. Only work can save us." The manifesto promises the socialization of suitable industries and establishment of industrial councils representative of all the workers and freely elected. It closes with strong note, asserting the determination of the government to wage relentless war against terrorism, concluding: "Whoever assails the life of the nation is our enemy." Soviet Rule Forced.

That the bolshevists have SuCceeded in their propaganda for soviet rule is amply evidenced by government's indecision with respect to the plan to incorporate the ideas of the soldiers' and workmens' organization in the constittiThere, is further evidence that Hugo Haase's party, the independent socialists, is preparing to make common cause with the Spartacans in an effort to overthrow the Scheidemann cabinet by launching a general strike with the purpose of forcing the issue of soviet rule. That the Weimar government -is flirting with the latter idea seems to be indicated by the suggestion now being considered that the assembly be given an auxiliary chamber comprising members of, soviet Basel, March German National assembly at Weimer yesterday, unanimously adopted a resolution introduced by 37 women members, demanding the immediate raising of the hunger blockade and repatriation of prisoners of war. Dr. Heim, leader of the Bavarian peasant party, protested against the appeals for the raising of the British blockade and urged Germany to do what was possible to feed itself by a little real work. Dr.

Heim startled the house by referring to sabotage as being more pertinent than was the blockade. He asked: you know how much grain has gone to waste in the strike? In the meantime we are standing 01 the verge of a precipice. Death by starvation is facing us. live worked. longer but all could live it "Undoubtedly the sparticides wit they If something comes from abroad, well and good, but let us do something ourselves." Rioting at Thorn.

Copenhagen, March troops have entered Halle, Prussian Saxony, which now 1s quiet, according to a report from Berlin. Serious food disturbances are reported from Thorn, West Prussia. Soldiers intervened and a mob stormed the military jail. Many persons were wounded before the troops restored order. Reports Munich sayy the soviet congress, there has chosen ministry by Herr Segitz, who also will be minister of foreig affairs and minister of the interia Pershing at Biarritz.

Biarritz, March John J. Pershing, American commander, has arrived in Biarritz, on a tour of inspection of American recreation stations. 2.