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WEATHER FORECAST. Kain, followed by clearing and colder to-da- y; fair. IT SHINES FOFk ALL Highest temperature ye.terday, 55; lowest,'. Culled weather report, on tdlioHal p. . VOL. LXXXVI. NO. 199. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1919 . Copyright, 1919, ty the Bun Printing and Publishing Association, PRICE TWO CENTS. LEAGUE MAKES U. S. VASSAL OF BRITAIN, WARNS COL. HARVEY Declares It Was Devised in Present Form by Britons to Unload Em- pire's Burdens on America. SAYS \DENIAL OF DEMOCRACY\ GIVES ENGLAND WORLD HEGEMONY Asserts That This Country Is Being Made a Catspaw and People Are Being Led Into Quagmire Pact Is Betrayal of Republic. Special Despatch to Tax Sex. INDIANAPOLIS, March 17. Before one of the largest audiences ever gathered In the Columbia Club, the most Influential Republican Club In Indiana, George Harvey, editor of Harvey's Weekly and tho Xorth. Ameri- can Review, voiced pronounced opposition to the participation of the United States In the covcrmnt for a Letfgue of Nations as framed at present. Mr. Harvey's address on \Washington or Wilson\ followed a banquet attended by many prominent city and State Republicans. The demand for seats from all parts of the State was so great that many applications had to be rejected. The affair was strictly Republican. . Auditors Applaud Speaker. Outbursts of applause wet Mr. Harvey criticism of the Wilson pro- gramme, especially when the siteakcr characterized the proposed covenant as \the most proposal ever submitted to the American peo- ple by an American President.\ It was apparent that many of those In the nudlencc were as sceptical of tho proposed plan for a League of Nations as the speaker himself. ,Gov. James It Goodrich, who In- troduced Mr. Harvey, gave recep- tion for him In the afternoon, when many leading Republicans met Mr. Harvey. Col. Harvey warned that under the league the United States would be- come In effect a vassal State of Great Britain. Ho asserted that the league In Its present form would enable Great Britain, with tho aid of her Dominions, to seize and hold the hegemony of the world. He declared that the league as d was purely a British creation, created, and framed for tho express purpose of shifting many of tho em- pire's burdens to the shoulders of the United States. He said that President Wilson in championing it In its present form was acting as a catspaw for Britain, which originated every one but one of the President's fourteen points. Two Grcnt Voice. In Protest. Col. Harvey wns Introduced by Gov. James P. Goodrich, who said: \After the sinking of tho liusltania and the revelatlin to the world of the dastardly purpose of the Central Em- pires America stood at the parting of the ways. One path led to respect and honor, the other to obloquy and shame, one to the preservation of our free Institutions, the other to n cowardly submission to the will of an arrogant autocracy. \When the national conscience was deadened and its vision obscured by the great profits we were making out of the sufferings of a war swept continent, when our ears were dull to tho cries of the millions who died for freedom's cause, and our eyes hiinrt to the dangers that threatened our own land, two voices rose, clear iis n bugle amidst tho wilderness of doubt and uncertainty that marked rhe country, cnlllng the nation to Its high destiny and demanding that we reaso to staud Idly and sec tho free nations of the earth crushed beneath (lie Iron heel of the oppressor. \The one has fought his last fight, lias finished his course ami It was the crowning glory of his life that tho nation heard the call and demon- strated to the world that It still pos- - messed the courage and, patriotism of the great men who established It. Grcnt Pence Time Issue. \The other is our guest of the eve- ning, the pime voice that called us (o arms In time of war Is calling us to n duty In time of peace. Tho same clear vision that saw the danger in 10M and 1015 from the aggressions of the Prussian autocracy now sees the more subtle danger that lurks behind the lnslduous propaganda of those who would have us depart from the principles that have guided us for nearly 150 years, surrender our national sovereignty and embark on the uncertain sea of European pol- itic, wes the danger to our institu- tions from the deadening Influences of Government ownership of our menus of triuisni-tntio- and commu- nication, sees tho danger to our free Institutions from tho propaganda of tho Socialist and tho Bolshevist, and feeing nil tills Is giving to tho scr-tlc- e of the nntinn all the great power and Influence he possesses. \Because of the .sincerity of his purpose, the Intensity of his patriot- ism, the courage of his conviction and lie Integrity of hU ways wo are Continued on Sixth Page. WARRANT OUT FOR DR. WILKINS Physician Acuscd of Slaying \Wife nt Long Beach Disappears. LATER WILL REPORTED Unwitnessed Testament Said to Leave Entire 65,000 Estate to Physician. A warrant charging Dr. Walter K. \Wllklns with tho murder of his wife at their homo in Long Beach on Feb- ruary 27 was issued last night by Jus tice of tho Peace Casslus Coleman of Long- Beach at tho request of Charlea R, Weeks, District Attorney of Nas- sau county. The warrant has not been served for the very good reason that neither Mr. Weeks nor the Nassau authorities have been able to obtain any trace of tho accused physician slnco 11 o'clock Sun- day morning. At that hour. District Attorney Weeks said last night. Dr. Wllklns telephoned to Mr. Weeks's homo at, Port Washington and said he was about to start for the Long Island ' T M I . .. iwmuau nuiuun in naiDusn avenue, Brooklyn, for the District Attorney's home. He hung up tho receiver when Mr. Weeks agreed to seo him, and so far as Mr. Weeks has been able to learn that Is tho last that has been seen of him in his usual haunts. Wllklns. has been under suspicion as the slayer of bin wife from the moment District Attorney Weeks entered the case. The prosecutor said he disbe- lieved from the very first the physician's story that his wife was slain by burglars who attacked them as they entered the .Long- - Beach house late at night upon their arrival back from Dr. Wllkins's of. flee In Manhattan, which is at 164 West Sixty-fift- h street. General Alarm Sent Out. Dr. Wllkins's failure to appear at the Weeks home Sunday and the inability of the District Attorney's detectives to find him throughout all of yesterday and last night, although they sought him fe verishly and with the knowledge that the District Attorney was about to apply for the warrant, did not disturb Mr. Weeks. Tho District Attorney said last night that he already had caused a general alarm to be sent out for tho missing phy- sician and that he was certain Wllklns could not remain out of custody for a week. He said he had ever- - reason to believe the man .would be arrested and locked up within forty-eig- hours, If not even sooner than that. The warrant for Dr. Wllkins's arrest was Issued after a long discussion of the ovldence In the possession of the District' Attorney when be laid that evidence re Justice of tho Peace Coleman, After he had the warrant the District Attorney said ho had asked for It as the result of \strong- circumstantial and other evi- dence which I hae obtained.\ Tho District Attorney's decision to aslc for the warrant. It was learned, was pre- cipitated when he learned definitely of the existence of a will signed, or purport- ing to be signed, by Mrs. Wllklns. That will, It was said, makes Dr, Wllklns the chief beneficiary, thus nullifying a pre vious win which ion me nunc of yer $65,-00- 0 estate to tho Herman Hospital. That) earlier will, however, was mado before the marriage of Mrs. Wllklns to the physician who now Is accused of killing her. , Will Cited ns a .Motive. Dr. Weeks believes tho 'new will clinches tho motive for the crlmo which he has been trying- to build up. A curious fcaturo of tho new will, however. Ih that although It Is signed, supposedly by Mrs. Wllklns, it does not bear the names of wltnescer. The D.strlct Attor-- , ney's efforts now are being directed finding some one who saw the will signed or who knows tho circumstances In which Ir was signed, Ixiuls G. Fries, a lawyer with nfllces ' at 1 Liberty street, who haH been repre-sentln- g Dr. Wllklns since the physician has been suspected In connection with the death of his wife,' when asked yes- terday as to the whereabouts oMils client said. \Vou will have to ask District Attor- - ncy Weeks that, and .Mr. Weeks also will have to be authority for tho assurance Continued on Third Page. BEER BREWERS DECIDE TO FIGHT DRY LAW TO END Board of Trade Acts on Ad-- vice of Root and Guthrie to Battle in Courts. MAY GET INJUNCTION Lawyers' Deny Power of In. ternal Revenue Bureau to Set Alcohol Limit. PLAN TO KEEP BREWING 2.75 Per Cent. Product Is Aim of Movement Many Legal Actions Probable. New York brewer decided yesterday to contlnuo the manufacture and sale of beer containing 2.75 per cent, of al cohol. They reached this conclusion which means a stand up fight with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, af- ter a conference of lending brewers at tho Lager Brewers' Board of Trade at 109 East Fifteenth street. Their defiance of tho Commissioner Is based upon an opinion rendered to tbelr Board of Trade by Ellhu Root and William D. Guthrie, which holds In substance that nothing In the Pres Ident'a proclamation of March 4 or in the law of November 21, 1918, limits beverages to one-ha- lf of 1 per cent, of alcohol, and that since beer containing 2.75 per cent, of alco- hol can be proved to bo brewers may lawfully disregard the Interpretations placed by tho Com- missioner upon proclamation and law. Decision Sloans Legal Fight. This means a fight, as Mr. Root and Mr. Guthrie plainly state to their clients, but they advise the brewers to seek an Injunction against nny attempt by the Commissioner to confine them to one half per cent beer. In any event, the organization, headed by Adolph G. Hup-fe- l, Jr., will contest straight through the courts what It regards as the right of. its members to save their business from ruin. It may be that the very name \beer\' will be discarded, and that bottles or other containers of the amber fluid \will hereafter bo labelled \malt beverage. though the 2.75 per cent, will be there Just the same. Many of tho members favored dropping- the descriptive term \beer\ and substituting for It what they consider a more ncj curate term. The decision Is another step In the programme of the brewers to fight to the last ditch for the preservation of their business. It will produce complications and court actions supplementing the suit which has been begun by the Ever-ar- d Interests. Tho brewers said yester- day that they have received so many communications from clvlo associations and from returning soldiers as to indi- cate a definite public opinion In favor of a liberal Interpretation of tho l\rcsldent's proclamation and of the act of 1918. Text of Lawyers' Opinion. The opinion submitted by Mr. Root and Mr. Guthrie Is as follows: \In compliance with your request we have considered the question of the legal right of brewers to manufacture and cause to be removed for sale and con- sumption malt liquors containing not to exceed 2.75 per cent, of alcohol by weight, or 3.3 per cent, by volume, under the acts of Congress of August 10, 1917, and November II, 1918, and In view of the proclamations of the President dated January 30 and March ., 1919. respec- tively, and tho Internal revenue regu- lations Issued as, of February 6 and March 13 respectively. \You Instruct us thst we may assume as a matter of fact that malt liquors which contain not to exceed '2.75 per cent, of alcohol by weight, or 3.3 per cent, by volume, are not Intoxicating. and that this can be established by the evidence of experts and. other comnetnnt witnesses. \There Is no provision In the act of Congress of November II, 1918, or in the act of August 10, 1917, which au- thorises the executive officer of the Gov- ernment to determine what malt liquors nro in ract intoxicating, nor to preserlbo nny fixed' test or standard for determln- - ' n malt beverages shall be doomed Intoxicating. i Anthorlint Ion for Vnr of Grnln, \We are of opinion that the proc- lamations of tho President dated Jan- uary 30 and March 4, 1919, authorize the use of grain and other food products In the production of malt llquois which i are not in .fact Intoxicating and that the, act of November 21, 1918, 1ocs not apply to peers. \In the regulation Issued by the Com Continued on Third Page. V Returned Soldier Tells How Smokes Help inWar OERGEANT STEWART L. w EVANS, who lost his right arm in the Veslc River battle, culled on THE SUN Tobacco Fund to tell how the timely dis- tributions of tobacco helped tho Eoldiers in critical times. His story of the help the fund pave the boys may be read on page 7. Tho grant total of the fund is now $430,969.97, and this week it is expected to reach the $150 -- 000 mnrk. WARNING! THE SUN O FUND has no connection with any other fund, organiza-tio- n or publication. If employs no agents or solicitors, Prince Lichnowsky May Be German Envoy Here STOCKHOLM, March 17. The Berlin correspondent of the Svenska Dagbladet mentions Prince Charles Max Lichnowsky, Gorman. Ambassador to Great Britain at the outbreak of tho war, as tho probable Ambassador to tho United States after peace has been concluded. Prince Lichnowsky created a sensation in 1918, when in a long article ho blamed Germany for having started tho world war, and assorted that Great Britain did everything possible to avert hostilities. As a result of this the Prussian House of Lords ex- pelled him from membership in that body. Recently it was re- ported that Prince Lichnowaky would head the German delega- tion to the Peace Conference. ENGLAND URGED TO TAKE ROADS Gcddcs Says Unified Control Will Prevent Financial Disaster in Kails. CHECK OX LABOR ASKED Lines Costing $100,000,000 Yearly Return Virtually Xo Income. Ixin'po.v, March 17. Sir Eric Geddes, Rldda bridge across tho Main In the Minister wlthotn portfolio. In Introdue- - western part of the suburb of Rodel-In- g In the House of Commons y a I helm. The French aje said to have bill to establish a Ministry of Trans- - , posted notices saying that the passage portatlon said that with the exception ' was closed to all traffic, of the street railways the transporta- - I Another report says that the authori-tio- n system of the country financially tlps f nemschcld, northeast of Cologne, was In a state. I am' Kronenburg. northwest of Itemscheld, Only the municipal street railways ' havo I0rw'ted a protest to the German were prosperous. rtefor .h - -- u Government at Weimar and also to the way capital returned 4.2 to ,.\r\t,: d.,v-t- . -- ,. , j ..-- .c ul uum to o por cent. Before the war canals were earning 1H per cent., while' y they were worked at a loss and were heavily subsidized. Roads which cost the country 1100,-000.0- a year wero earning practi- cally no income, while harbors and docks were earning 3 per cent. Strain PrOTes Too Much, ine transportation svstems of made them. the bridgehead to tal during the war. The country had to face the fact y that the rail- ways therfl would a loss of, more than 1,!50,000 dally, while the dovcrn-me- was pledged to continue Us guar antees for two years. If transportation was not to continue 01 me taxpayer, there must be a real transportation policy. ' and the Government had come to the . conclusion some of unl-- , was Th.r. -- ,., be some body which should be resDonsl- - r\- - declared, which sltlon. Prussian the conditions, higher would former Indulging block capital ln would hostility the for Interests, a cold bath which country take. Government must in some form or other have a say In conditions under which labor worked with re gard to discipline to expected In wane unions. The State must In at economic i balance, which was In present condition of in End Empty Hanlnice. To rid of contln ucd Eric, Government would take ..... . privately on railways, which con- - stltutcd half employed. ... iwu r inn &amo or-- j gantxatlon would continued that ex- - Isted the war. tbcro was certain to some central commissions on which Govern- ment and labor would bo represented. would necessary to have central dorks Nationalization of railways might for present conditions ho know. He looked upon nationalization ns to an might have to adopted .finally. HOLLWEG WARNED Drnlr ConccalliiK of Oppoalnir r.nlrnte. March 17. Dr. von nethmann-Ilollwe- former German Im- perial Chancellor, In defending himself against accusation Schlel-mati- foreign editor of Berlin Kreuz Zeitung, concealed secret documents from Kntperor William, de- clares his reports those of For- eign Secretary always described sit- uation to Kmperor as It appeared entire material at their dis- posal. Berlin despatch which car- ried this statement from quotes as time was In doubt regarding danger F.ntente, every Increasing graity was tmprereed upon him.\ ALLIES GET 150,000 CARS. Completes Unlltm)- - Terms Set Armistice, Pl the Associated rress, T1KRM.V, March IS (delayed) Tapm Zeitung sajs It Is Informed Germany completed tho delivery to Allies of .1,000 locomotives 130,-00- 0 ns provided In vnlue rolling It Is said, 1750,000,000, Prussian rail- ways furnished three-fourt- of locomotives cats, ALLIES ENLARGE BASES ON RHINE TO CURB ENEMY French Advance to Frank, fort and Occupy Bridge' Over Main. CLOSED TO ALL TEAFF1C British Advance in West- phalia, Entering Eein-schei- d and Kronenburg. COLOGXE SAFER Frencli Widening of Area EaBt of Mainz Accomplished Without Any Warning. By the Associated Press. Bcnt.i.v, March 15 (delayed). British French forces, according to re- ports received here, have advanced their outposts from limits of their present bridgeheads at Cologne and Mainz respectively. The French are reported to have penetrated Into the corporate of Frankfort. A special despatch from Frankfort to the Xorddeutsche Altfjcmetnc Zeit- ung says that the French in advanc- ing to Frankfort have oeeunled the \erman arm\ commission against J'he occupancy of towns by i forces. The Dally Mall of Ixmdon printed Saturday a despatch from Its corre- spondent British army to the effect that acute unrest prevailed In the whole Westphallan Industrial region. The correspondent said It probably would be necessary to enlarge Brit- ish bridgehead In that direction. Frankfort, one of most Important r.llttfilV r.nf-- .. In fTa..-- . n ... - - Itemscheld Kronenburg are In Westphallan Industrial district, between Klberfeld Dusseldorf. They are Just few miles outside the limits of ' British bridgehead. j PRUSSIA TO MIRFAIICBAT MMf Conservatiu tiro Rule New State. A start was made week with HeTr former Prussian Minister of Interior, George Mlchaelis. former Ltianeeiior. official axe Is hanging over political necks of scores of privy councillors and department direc- tors fancied themselves indlspensa- - bla ,n the bureaucratic regime, . I V . - ... ... luo ucuais y in the Cham- ber of the Prussian Diet question of a provisional constitution for Prussia, a Conservative speaker ar- - igued In favor of rroldlng for office of President of In the new docu I ms was onjected to. Paul Hlrsch, the head of present Cabinet, on ground that to create a state executive wnulrt t ,, , .imir 2 ,n,\l\ , Crated . -- \\- iunea as un ....... ,w run-.tiUl- V lur a nionarcn. Tho Assembly postponed a vote on demand of the Independent Socialists that the nf siege In Berlin be raised. The be taken on Mon The party lineup in the new niet r- - not jei tieeu mined. pres- ent Indications point to a working bloc of the Majority Porlallsli and Pemo-era- t, tilio Jointly have a majority of nineteen In the v. Herr Hlrsch, the Minister of the Interior temporary head of tho Government, Albert Suedekuin. the Minister of Finance, are mentioned as candidates for the Pre miership or the new Cabinet, More than a score of members of the Diet unable to reach Berlin in opening sessions because of transudation difficulties, A cordon of steel helmeted troops was thrown around the Diet buildings to protect opening tesslon. Only hold-er- a of credentials which had been minutely eamlned, were permitted to lxiss, after having been carefully searched for weapons. This applied to tho women delegates. What was defiant citadel of Prussian physically en equipped to meet the litlon \bout J00.000. The city just strain of demands upon 'eRst nf rnch centred partly owing lack of men nrt l'n Malnx. with be that measure fled control necessarv. ble or the transportation policy. It , \ was only the Government, the Minister \ ' 4,oc\\'rf could take over the po- - i nEnUN'' Ia\ch 15 (delayed) The i Government has begun a gen- - In present said ' eraI \\\\\craning among the Minister. It be criminal to per- - ' bureaucrats Irft over from the the old system of competition. One reKlmc who nre charged with of must do the work, Ioltcy of obstruction even out-n- In competition. This be!BPken to measures of the Daa news some but It naslprPm government. tho must The the and the be sten once and make possible an ' imposslblo the things. Plan get empty haulage, Sir the ,..,.,.. iiuiib . owned cars the almost the cars wut.ith be durfnc but thereafter ' be con- trol the It also be a control and canals. care tho did not a means end which Je KAISER. Dnnirer CorENMAnsN. the of Herr tho tho that he and the the the from the The tho him adding: \At no the Kmperor left the of oppos- ing and year the of tho situation Crrinnny by The that has the n'nd cars for tho The of the stock, Is The the and MAKES and the limits the British on with the the the and the and a OUST President to this the and The tho who . uiinK new over the tho Prussia mem. n' the the . m . the state vote will day. netei The hod ami and were time for tho the even the the the mlt and and two over tho the tte once Socialists pioposrd a parliamentary hut this was negatived by the Minister of Justice, who later an-l1- 0 nounced that the damage done to the Berlin police headquarters nmounted to 20,000,000 murks. One of the delegates made a speech In favor of tho Hohenznllerns and pro-- ! posed lhat Prussia should restore the The Socialists protested. but the greater part of tha civil parties applauded the speech, Tho Independent Socialists demanded the conflwatloij of the private fortunes of the former Kmperor and his famllv. Tito Killed In fipnnlah Hints, SKVli.l.r, Spain, March 17. Two ner sons wero killed nnd several wounded n riots here Police and Itadl. I wis cAwmn.cu nut,?. j PARIS TO GET SENA TE VIEW; GLASS OPENS THE WA Y FOR SPECIAL CONGRESS SESSION TREASURY ASKS URGENT FUNDS Secreary's Appeal Relieved to Offer Chance for Calling Extra Session. OTHER BUREAUS SUFFER Danger That Remittances to! ' Soldiers' Dependents May Become Delinquent. Special Despatch to Tar. Sus. \Washington March 17. There were many Indications In Washington to- day that President VVilson might change his mind and call an extraordi- nary session of the Sixty-sixt- h Con- gress much earlier than generally ex- pected In the face of his statement upon leaving the United States that there would be no extra session until his return. Secretary of the Treasury Glass has directed the President's attention to what the Secretary regards as a se- rious situation In his own Department and other branches of the Government as a result of the failure of supply bills in the last Congress and tho lack of funds to carry forward Imperative Government work at this time. Mr. Glass made It plain that he did not recommend calling an early extra session, and stated explicitly that he suggested no date for Kuch a session. He did. he said, place before the Presi- dent tho situation as it exists y with respect to the war risk Insurance bureau and other Government organiza- tions that It Is believed was not com- prehended by the President when he Is- sued his flat of no extra session until he brought back the peace treaty Inter- woven with the League Nations cove-pan- t. nrconatderatlon Likely. There wero suggestions In other offi- cial quarters that It might be desirable to call the session ahead of recent an- ticipations. While no official statement was made In any quarter of a direct sug- gestion or recommendation to the Presi- dent there were broad hints that the matter was before the President and that a reconsideration was likely. This raised the question of the legal- ity or the constitutional powers of the President to convene CongTess In extra vsslon in a message from across the At-- i lantlc. It was pointed out that It had been demonstrated that the President had successfully carried on all the func- tions of his office while out of the coun try . In some quarters hope was expressed to-d- that the President would be able to finish his work in France earlier than had been anticipated, but there was much more than this In the general In- dications of a comparatively e.irly call to the Congress. SnicKeatti e of \Frnmfop.\ At the Capitol tho Glass letter Is looked upon a.t a trifle suggestive of a \ \ ,nBl JUFl lr.nmeu.p- - w\.\ . \v\ T S\ fr ,. fallure\ of !,PUt, ,refPn\lb\Uy on though many Im portant billslind not exen been reported In the Sonste or hearings held on them In committee twenty-fou- r hours before the end of Congress. At that time the asserted it was Impossible for Con- gress to be In session while he was away and that a \higher duty\ called him to j France deplln the fact that tho entire regular session lastlug more than three months got along for all but a few days n the United States ... Alter maUn ,,U(.h a faren.ell Ma... ment Republicans olnted out y even the President would need sonic new rcaton for calling n special session, and the Glass letter Is looked upon as fur-nlhl- It If the President intends to take advantage of It. In fact, there Is little douht that tho President Willi do so, as failure to might so arouse public Indig- nation ns to serlouslv menace tlm suc- - 'cess of the coming effort to float J5.000,- - ouu.unu in notes. Itnllvtnr \111 Chief Concern. As n result of the President refusing to call a speclarw-iwlo- many measures of tho utmost Importance have been held up Indefinitely. The railroad appropria- tion of J730.000.000 Is tho Hem of chief concern, although many have already been wrlounly hampered ns a result of the President's attitude, notably the United States Km- - P'oyment Service. The crgnntzat on, , nart ... nf the ll.M.irlmpnt - - nf . . l.nhnr .........., iilrtvurt,. has been forced to reduce Its workers by about four-fifth- becaut-- the deficiency bill failed to pass. The sundry civil bill, tho bill appropri- ating 1100,000.000 for the development of arid and swamp lands for returned soldiers and sailors, the army appropria tion bill, the navy bill and many others 'lrKCnty needing legislative action have ,h8 government agency paying allow- - \nces. aninilt s?,t,ler\ nd their dependents to the Pum er many millions, threatens to become seriously crippled In Its admin- - Istratlve work for lack of funds The organization' Is being cut down and many clerks and stenographers let out because of lack funds to pay them. Secretary Glass has appealed to the for 13,000,000 nf tho Presi-dent- 's special contingent fund of f 00,. 000,000 to meet wir emergencies. Pnloss funds are bpcrdjly found to meet the payroll tho work nf tire bureau ' will be greatly hampered, ln addition to th s nva ab e funds will rover ih. i Government allowances to dependents of men In tho service only until Ma After that they will fall into arrears, leaving ricpenucius wjuiout temlttances. reactionaries has been converted Into a democratic Parliament. The AVftr nUk Insurance Bureau, There was a keen discussion In the whlch lw an organization of potent over civil war In Gcrmnnv ti, ,1,lcal tteci through the fact that It is In-- 1 vcstlgatlon. monarchy. Sunday, of Presi- dent Government of President n reace ract to Germany Does Not Include League LONDON, March 17. Andrew Bonar L,aw, Government leader in the House of Commons, told that body to-da- y that to the best of his belief there was no foundation for the report that a hitch had occurred in the pre- sentation to Germany of the draft of tho peace terms, because of divergencies of opinion on the subject of the League of Nations. Mr. Bonar Law made this statement in replying to a ques- tion by H. W. Bottomley, mem- ber for South Hackney, who wanted an assurance \that the terms agreed upon by all the representatives at the conference prior to President Wilson's re- turn\ would be communicated at once to the enemy. MIGHELINS FEAR GERMANY IN AIR French Experts Favor Ban or Strict Limitation on Her Commercial Aviation. SEE DANGER OF BOMBING They Say Civilian Tlancs Can Be Changed Easily Into War Weapons. Special Cable Despatch to Tnit Srv from the London Times Service. Copvriokt, I91; all rights reseried, Paris, Mnrch 17. Andro and Kdounrd MIchelln discussing in l.a Liberie the aerial clauses of the peace treaty es- tablish a good case, if not for the total suppression of commercial aviation In Germany, nt any rate Its strict limita- tions. H Is known that aerial clauses in the peaco treaty forbid Germany to havo any military aviation at all. The Mlchellns, who have played a great part in the development of Krench aviation In tho war, declare thnt there Is only one difference be- tween a bombardment plane and com- mercial machine; that is that the com- mercial plane has no bomb throwing machinery. They were entrusted by the Kremh Government with tho duty of studying nil bomb throwing appli- ances, ajid they submit the conclusions given below. At the present moment a bomb Us. charger can bo fitted within an hour upon any civilian airplane, thus militariz- ing It. They draw a nicturn wherehv Germany in one night by mobilizing all her civilian airplanes and fitting them with dischargers and bombs could send an enormous fleet over mussels, London and Paris and over the arsenals and mobilization centres. Tohov that such a picture is not ex aggerated they refer to what already has been accomplished by Handley-Page- s and GollaAhs, and point out that France already possesses a, bomb neigh- ing half a ton against which armored ships and arsenals would be powerltss. iney point out that they arc only taking what actually has been accomplished as a basis for their arguments and urge inai at any rate for fifteen or twenty years Germany must not be allowed the Possibility of building a single airplane It Is understood that although the pre- liminary peaco treaty will deal with eco- nomic relations with en-- countries luiiuh im' wiini-mu- period, It win leave for the fin.il peace treaty consideration of the futuio of Germany's commercial aviation. PAr.is, March 17. The Supreme Coun- cil y appointed a Commission on Aeronautics. Tho American members of the commission will be Knar Admiral Harry S. Knapp and Hrlg.-Ge- Mason M. Patrick. The council named Greece. Portugal, Brazil. Cuba and Itumanla to represent the small nations. LAEOR .PP.OBLJciSTAKafc;TP. Handles (lucatluim fur I'rncr Conference. IMitis. March 17. At session of the Commission on Inlrrnatioiidl Labor legislation of the Peace Confer- ence the commission. sas the olllcial conimiinliiue, \discussed the dllllculllcs raised as to the application of labor con- ventions of certain States with Federal constitutions, and decided to temlt the question It a small which would report with tho least posslblo de- lay. \The committee,\ the statement ndtls, \then proceeded to examine Berlatlm tho labor clauses presented for inclusion In the treaty of peace.\ CONCRETE FREIGHT CAR READY Klr.t of Xpw Type Delivered Illinois On I nil, Chicago, March 17. Tlm llrst recn-force- d concrete freight car ever built was delivered to the Illinois Cen- tral Uailroad for operation in Its uul service. j The car was designed when w.ir de- - n.unds mado steel for commercial uses almost unobtainable. Tho car Is light, iH walls being ono and a half inches thick and the Hour two und a half Inches Uilclff It has ben s,eil for a rnpaclt if 100,000 pound - \ HelKlnm 1 1 o.ono. Washington-- . March 17 A new credit of J2.110.000 was given Belgium y by the Ticasur). Allied Delegates Hear That; Couriers AVill Bring Eeal League Sentiment. PEESS 2CEWS CENSORED Articles Carefully Avoid Any Criticism of Tlan Proposed by Wilson. TREATY WILL BE RUSHED Little Opportunity Remains for Actual American View to lie Learned in Paris. Staff Correspondent of Tim Sum. Copyright. 1919; alt rights reseried. Paris, March 17. Great interest lias been aroused here by (ho re- ported plan to send couriers from America to supply conference clrcleH with Information coucerning the true state of public sentiment In Amcrlc.t regarding the Lenpiie of Xntion project. In this connection it might be noted that the special cubic despatches to the French press from America bear marks of censorship. Thlg has been going on for some time. The press hero Is significantly devoid of criti- cism of the President or of the league plan. There vn an article yesterday In the democratic Xoitvclle by Andre Cherndanio insisting thnt the Ameri- can committee did not reflect he American viewpoint. It was nppar-en- t thnt many paragraphs In the ar- ticle had been eliminated. Admittedly it would be difficult for tho American couriers if sent Jiere to achieve their object savo by per- sonal Interviews. The President's friends always have Insisted that oven if there were a committee of Senators here they -- would have no official status and would meet with ombnnwment. which they did not believe the Senators would be willing to subject themselves to. If tho President's plan goc through there would be but little time for American feeling to find expression, as the pact after getting its finishing touches tills week will be Jammed Into the preliminary treaty as nn for the Germans to sign by April 1. There Is even doubt now n to whether Uu plenary session will bo allowed to pn.s on it beforo It goes to Germany. The President nt a meeting of the American economic experts held to- day approved their stand for com- plete economic freedom nftcr the war nnd opposed nny suggest loTi of llmlt-In- g German exports. PRESIDENT ATTENDS SUPREME COUNCIL Military, Naval and Air Prob- lems Considered. Pll the Associated rress. P.UUS, Marcli 17 Tha Supreme War Council resumed Its unions with President Wilson In attendance for tho first time since he returned from the United -- States. It w.is a distinguished assemblage of civilian und mllltarv chiefs, with Marshal Foeh. Field Marshal Halg, Gen. Diaz and British. French and American Admirals, ns well ur President Wilson ; the Premiers and foreign Min- isters of tho five grcnt Powers wl'n military and naval experts, bearing war maps nnd a diagram of and the actual draft of tho military, naval and nerl.il articles of the peain trcatv, in atten- dance. It w.is this draft which the council consldeied and adopted In the main though n number of .h tails still rem.il-open- . President Wilson agreed' to n thtmn features of the Icrnn wlm-- S\ retarv of State Lam-ln- ami t, K M Hiiiipc had accepted at pirvlous vsslon\ These incluilo a general pun for G\. man dlsnimament down tn ino.noo me recruited by the volunteer sjstem f. twehe years, and a limitation on aim munitions nnd other war stmes. i . gether with similar naval and aerial dis- armament. Some of the reserved jioints. Involving questions of piliiciple, wero the main hubjerts of ilt.si'us.-.oi- i during fie pro- longed session. The muni II also dis- cussed the Polish situation, tislni; as hasls of illKcuivliin lepr-rt- s of the com- mission sent to Warsaw. Points which were introduce at to- day's session, but on which no agreement was leached, proposed leveling the of the Kiel Canal nnd He . goland nnd the disposition of t.i, icr- - man warships An nfllclal statement regnrdii.g t'-.- Supreme I'oum-l- session says; \The Supremo War Counc il met to- day from .1 to 7:.10 P M, ami the military. naa! and aciwl terms to he imposed on derma i. At the end of the mc.finjr ;in i, nPR of views took placo on the situation In Poland as described by the iiitoi-allie- d \The ii.'M Hinting will take pl.t e on UVdni Fd at p M ' A drafting n 1. pi ep e f tm! rer-- i i,f in '1M11 FponH.h' i v (a 1., - .,i,i. ,i b- t He o null !! .1' le,.iMK t o (1.1 TV leliort afiri In i,. an,.m . .I u n, iprcri ed in i ic l'i e t .inf.- - ru i The incinliciH of the drifting coiim tlou ait M Itu'lli J tc luvin) il\ uf i
