The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph, 1920-03-16

SIMS MAKE NEW CHARGES Transports Inadequately Protected Early In the War, He Says. Washington, March 16. - Negligence by the navy department in protecting ( troop transports early in the war was virtually charged by Rear Admiral Wil William - liam William S. Sims, resuming his testimony ' in the senate naval inquiry. Sima de-1 dared he was "horrifed"at lack of 1 precautions discovered concerning troop mvements and asrerted th t the i first transports reached France safely largely through "good luck." Inade I quate arrangements were made for 1 destroyer convoy in the danger zone. . he alleged. Society women at social gatherings in Paris knew of troop I sailings before naval officials and ; General Pershing were them. Sims declared. aware of | I Failure to sink many transports i was due largely to the desire of the I Germans not unduly to embitter the | United States and arouse it to a high j pitch cf indignation, the admiral said. Sailing of the first destroyers was published in Berlis papers four days | before the ships actually reached Queenstown. he added. ' -4- | TO ISSUE MANIFESTO ! i I Premier Lloyd-George and Bonar Law Will Head a New Party. London, March 16. - A joint mani manibe - be manibe signed by Pre and Andrew Bonar festo which will mior Lloyd-George Law will be issued in a few days stat stating - ing stating the principles of a new party to be led by the premier. It will be ac | companied, the Mail declares, by an | important reconstruction of the minis- j try, and for this reason announcement | of appointments to the portfolios of ' labor, food and the board of trade, I npw vacant, has been postponed. ' | According to present intentions the name of the new party will be the I in addition | ' national democratic." to a meeting of Liberals next Thurs- j day arraneenents are being made for ' a conference of Unioniets at which j Mr. Boqar Law will announce his ret- ( ignation from the leadership of that' party and will invite members to join i the new organization. '

Cole Tender* Resignation. Columbus, March 16. - Repullican state headquarters received a letter from Ralph D. Ccle. candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, tendering his resignation as a mem member - ber member of the Republican state advisory committee. Cole stated in his letter that his reason for resigning was be because - cause because he did not consider it 'proper for a candidate to serve on the ad vieory or central committee. i Patients Hold. i Callipolis, O.. March 16. - Six to ! tients of the Ohio state hospital fc fc< - < fc< epileptics are held on suspicion will | having set fire to the cottage for male patients last week, resulting in the death of nine patients and almost to tai loss to the building. The death : list was increased to nine with the | death of Charlev Miller, 29. of Allen i laving died from sufs county, eirht ration at the time of the fire. I l WILL AMS NAMED I Alabama 'Man Appointed Commis- ' sioner of Internal Revenue. 1 Washington, March 16. - William Martin Williams of Alabama will suc succeed - ceed succeed Daniel C. Roper as commissioner I of internal revenue. Williams' selec selection - tion selection by President Wilson was ai. ai.ncunced - ncunced ai.ncunced at the White House. He is solicitor for the department of agri agriculture - culture agriculture and was recommended for his new post by Secretary of the Treas Treasury - ury Treasury Houston, who formerly was secre secretary - tary secretary of agriculture. As the head of the bureau of internal revenue Mr. Wil Williams - liams Williams will direct the work of collect collecting - ing collecting milions of dollars in taxes and also will have charge Jointly with the lepartment of Justice of prohibition | enforcement. 1 Mr. Williams has been solicitor of the department of agriculture since 1917 and prior to that time practiced law in New York and Montgomery, Ala.

1 Former Kalser Has Case of "Nerves." Ameropen March 16. - Former Em Emperor - peror Emperor William spent the greater part of the day in the garden of Bentinck castle where he paced up and down with every evidence of being under great nervous tension. The strain of the events of the last few days seems I to weieh so heavily upon his mind i that he can not tolerate the companv I cf others and he makes every effort to get out of doors. I OPPOSE DAN.SH CONTECL i 1 People of Second Schleswig Zone Vote to Remain German. Copenhagen. March 1G. - The second I Schlezwig zone, Including the impor impor| - | impor| tant port of Flensburg, where a pleb plebi - i plebi iscite was held under the provisions I at the treaty of Versailles to deter deter' - ' deter' mine the future nationality of the re rel - l rel gicn. voted to remain German, ac ac| - | ac| cording to the latest returns of the I balloting. The figures show the popu popul - l popul lation overwhelmingly in favor of J German nationality. With four dis districts - tricts districts still to. be heard from, 48,148 votes were cast for German control and 13,025 for Denmark. I JAPANESE TROOPS REVOLT Units In Siberia Said to Be Wearing Red Shoulder Straps. London, March 16. - A revolt has broken cut among several units of the Japanese troops in Siberia, according to a wireless dispatch sent out by the soviet government at Moscow. The soldiers ripped off their shoulder 1 straps and substituted red straps, the i dispatch savs. Growth of the revolutionary move movement - ment movement in Korea also is reported by the : dispatch. which says that the Jap JapI - I JapI ar.ee authorities have made many ar arrests. - rests. arrests. i At the same time, the soviet mes I sage asserts, the Japanese govern government - ment government is taking special measures to 1 -11199 419 I fight the communist movement at home.

BY FRANK MASON. Berlin, March 16. - Negotiations between the revolutionary govern government, - ment, government, headed by Imperial Chancel Chancellor - lor Chancellor Wolfgang Von Kapp and the old I government of President Frederich Ebert at Stuttgart are still proceed proceedMany - Many proceedMany | ing, it was reported today. < aflicting reports are current. The Spartacists have precipitated an ac acute - ute acute situation. They claim to have six thousand armed followers and strike not have declared a general only against the Kapp regime, "but also against the despicable govern government - ment government which fled." Spartacist leaders characterize the Kapp clique as monarchical usur usurheavy - heavy usurheavy flreing There was pers. during the night in the Potsdamer Potsdamerplatz - platz Potsdamerplatz and Alexanderplatz districts in the capital. The city was in dark darkof - of darkof the strike of | ness as a result electrical workers. Heavy forces of Spartacists thronged the streets. Imperial Chancellor Von Kapp is making a desperate effort to concll concllFollowing - Following concllFollowing iate the people, Following the opening of the negotiations with the Ebert regime at Stuttgart, a procla- j mation was issued here saying that j a new cabinet of experts will be, chosen and a new president elected by a direct vote of the people within VonKapp promises a two months. second chamber of the national as assembly - sembly assembly to be chosen by the workers. It was announced that "both govern governments - ments governments have Joined in a proclamation denounceing the general strike as a crime against the people." The populace of Berlin is prepar- j ing for the worst. The people are withdrawing money from the banks

FOR ARTICLE TEN RESERVATION Senate Accepts Proposition Framed by Republicans. COMPROMISE EFFORTS FAIL Fourteen Democrats Vote With the United Republican Membership For the Reservation, Which Disavows Obligation of This Country to Pre Preserve - serve Preserve Territorial Integrity of Any Other Nation. Washington, March 18. - The sen senate, - ate, senate, by a vote of more than two to one, adopted the new article 10 reser reservation - vation reservation formulated by the Republicans. Its action brought to an end. at least for the present, the protracted effort for a compromise that would insure ratification, and the senate's decision was accepted generally as hastening the treaty toward another deadlock from which it could be re released - leased released only by a verdict at the polls next November. Fourteen Democrats voted with the united Republican membership for the reservation, but this defection from the administration ranks fell short of the number that would be required to ratify. It was conceded that others probably would swing over on the rat ratification - ification ratification roll call, but administration leaders, backed by a definite assur assurance - ance assurance that the new reservation was unacceptable to the president. evi evidenced - denced evidenced no apprehension. The vote for adoption. 56 to 26. showed on its face a two-thirds ma majority - jority majority for the reservation, but it by no means indicated that two-thirds would vote for ratification on that basis. Included in the majority were the irreconcilables, holding about a score of votes which, on the ratifica- l ---------------- - - IW .1 - I

Paris, March IG. - Fighting har broken out in the streets of Dresden Saxony, between rival German polit ical factions. according to New: Agency dispatches received here to day. The Bavarian army is reported to have joined the revolutionary forces supporting the Von Kapp regime. Fresh disorders are said to have broken out' in Essen, seat of the Krupp works. where many were killed and wounded. Disorders are spreading through throughout - out throughout the larger towns of Saxony, the dispatch adds. EBERT FORCES REFUSE TO TREAT Stuttgart, March 16. - "The con constitutional - stitutional constitutional government refuses to negotiate with the heads of the revo revolutionary - lutionary revolutionary regime at Berlin," said an official announcement today. It follows in full: "The heads of the Berlin regime are trying to make the people believe that they are negotiating. stitutionalists i with VonKapp." refuse to The con connegotiate - negotiate connegotiate "Negotiations can only occasion distrust and confusion and prolong the disorders. The only solution i ifor - for ifor VonKapp, who has. proclaimed himself chancellor, to resign uncon unconditionally." - ditionally." unconditionally." The Ebert government announces that it is safeguarding the lines o* communication. Colleagues of President Ebert ex exDressed - Dressed exDressed belief that the Berlin regime "would quickly collapse from its weightiness." Preparations have been mad t for ' the meeting of the national asembly ' here tonprrow.