tain order under
.conditions.
of
unexam-
pled
difficuity and
danger.
It
is my
ost
earnest
hope
that
all
secfions-of
gne
people of Jreland
will insist upon
a return
to constitutional
methods
which
alone
ecan
put
an
end
to the
terrible
events
which
threaten
ruin
to
that
country
and
make
possibie
reconcil-
iation
aund
a_lasting
peace.
Then
an-
nouncing
briefly
the
passage
of
the
home
rule bill, the
speech
continued.
I sincerely hope-
that this
act,
the fruit
of
more
than
30
years
of
c2ase-
less - controversy,
will
fi.ally
bring
about
unity. .and
fricadship.
b2tween
all. the
peoples
of
my
kingdom.
The
King
~oncluded
by
recounting
the
measures
passed
during
the
course
of
he parliamentary
session.
He
referred
i) unemployment
as
the
darkest
cloud
on the horizon, springing
less
from
in-
ternational
causes
than from contraction
of the
export.trade
arising
out
of
the
poverty
of nations
and
their
inability
to
secure
credits
The
Govt.
he
said,
was giving unremitting attentionto
the
problem.
The
session
was
somewhat
unisual,
It was
expecteq} that
parlia:
ment would prorogue.
about
8 o’clock,
but.there
was: difficulty. in adjusting
the
differences
~ between
the
two Houses
over
the Agricultural
Biil,
which
had
been to-shed
about from lLerds
-to Com-
mons
and from
Commons
to ‘|Lords
g:wughou-t}
-the evening.
~ Ihis resulted
‘delay. Fhough
the Lords insisted
in
theiri amendment
- the ~govt. iuffered
four ~defeats; in succession
and
_in most
of .-these.:gases
- the House
ot Commons
had:s-perfotce
.to ‘accept ‘these
amend-
ments -to. prevent
the
Bill from becom-
inga dead letter.
:
;
IR
- New
York, Dec.
23rd.—New
York’s
erime -epidemic
. appeared
tobe waning
rapidly:today
before intensified police ae-
tivity supported
by drastic
measures
of
criminal court' judges.
84
men,
most of
whom had
been
released
on
low
bail,
were
-sent
to jail by ju~
=in the
court
of general sessions
.whe' . .e
amounts
of
the sureties
were raised®o high the pris-
oners
could not
furnish them.
Bail
#mounting
to $150,000
was ordered
for-
peited
in the cases
of60 others, who
fail-
ed to appear
when ordered.
Bail of
one
prisoner,
who the record showed had been
at liberty on $5,000 on .wo separate charg-
es
was Increased
to $35,000 by-Judge
Mc
Intyre, who declared
thatifthis was
not
forthcoming he
would raise
the
amount
-stil}-higher.
Announcement
was
made
that on Monday 500 men willbe
started
on a course of intensive training
prepa:
ratory
to joining the reguilar police force.
Few serious crimes
were reported
today.
Numerous arrests
were made
however,
and several prisone_rsl\%ere__befd,on
charg
es of earrying.concealed
weapons..
Newark,: gs J.. Dec. ;%T(f,:ffudges!tol.
lowiag the precedent established
inNew
“Work. today decided
to fix hig:batlm cas-
-8
where prisopers
are’ cl
rgéd
with
‘gsing
- or, possessing
Wea’ OnS
Those
51,
CROI™
A
Y ill>
using revolvers
or
black
jacks
will
be
held in $20,000,
virtually double the max-
imum in the past while $5,000
was
fixed
as the sum in cases
Wwhere the
prisoners
are charged
with having
such
weapons.
Berlin,
Dec. 23rd.—General
Hoffman,
ex-chief
of staff for
the
German
East
army
who played
an
important part
in
the Brest-Litovsk
negotiations,
declares
in an interview
published
in the
Berlin
Russian
Daily Rul that
Bolshevism
hav-
ing ceased
to be regional,
is
a world pro-,
<blem
now which
can
be solved
only
by
armed
intervention by the
great
powers
acting
in concert.
Anp international
army,
under
the
leadership
of
Generals
Per
shing,
Joffre or Foch
should
occupy
Pe-
trograd,
General
Hoffman
says,
then
march
an
Moscow,
which he
asserts
is
bound
to fall
before
any
well
equipped
and properly
officered
force.
With
the
occupation
of Moscow Trotzky
and
Len-
inc would
be
nnhorsed
and
their
3,000
commissaries
overthrown
and the
mem-
bers of the whole regime would ask
‘‘safe
account
to pass
by
the
shortest
way
to
oblivion”. He teels
certain
that the Rus-
sian
workmen
Wweuld
be
glad
to
desert
taeir
present
leaders
at
the first- indica-
tion thar
cheir
overthrow was imminent..
Moscow must
be: spoken
to. in
the
lan-
guage
of Brest-Litovsk
not
in
the
lan-
guage of Mr.
Lloyd
George
in
Leondon.
To remcdel
bolshévism.
is. impossible
Any
entente
attempt
.to”
incorporate
Bolsaevism
in. the. European
conecert
would
‘be
powerless..
Any
trade
rela-
tioas with. Russia 'would oply furnish-
a
cloak. for red
propaganda,
for Bolshey-
ism .wil'bea ‘w_t),_i'l?é.\iolu_t’io?. .. Trotzky
had
studied
tbe hijstory
"of the French
Revolution
and ‘knows
the ‘use
of
the
scourge.
= Under this system
no man-can
rise
to power from
the army, the ap-
pearance of a new Naroleon
in' Russia
is
out of the question:
The crash
of the
Soviet regime woild be
inevitably
fol-
lowed by
a
reign of unparallelled
anar-
chy.
The
only thing that
remains
is
armed intervention.
by the great powers.
As
chief of- the
staff
of
the
Eastern
Arvmy during the war I directed
the
pro-
paganda
against
the
Russian.
army.
T'he general staff made
use of every
pos-
sible
means
to break through
the
Rus-
sian
front.
Onegof
the means
was
poi-
son
gas,
another was Lenine.
The
Im-
‘perial regime
despatched
Lenine
to Rus-
sia from the
Swiss frontier
in
a
sealed
car for a definite
purpose.,
With
our
consent
- Lenine
and his
friends
disor-
ganized
the
Russian
army.
Voo
Kubhi-
mann,
former
G2rman
S-:cretary
for
Foreign
Affairs,
Couat Czernin,
Austro-
Hungarian
Foreigng
Minister ard[ then
closed
the Brest Litovsk
treaty,
so
that
we
codld torow
our
Arny against
the
western
.front.
While
in
Brest
we
were
convipced~ thar
the
BRolsheviks
chuld ast hold phwer
more
than
throe
weeks, on .ny wardof honoar
-as
a
Ger-
man Geazeral.
© In
spite of the
valuable
service Trouzky
and Lenine rendered
we
neither knew
or
foresaw
the
danger
to
humanity
from the
curse
of
this
jour-
ney of
Bolshevism
to
Russia.
At that
time
we
weighed
the
matter
with
as
little consideration
as
the entente
does
now.
Would
the
Alliecs and
especially
Mr. Lloyd George
carry
om megotiations
and
make
concessions
if they fully re-
alized the
frightful
danger
which
Bol-
shevism
represents.
General Hoffmann
says
that
the
army
command
realized
the danger
anda plan
was
laid before
the
supreme
command
of the
eastern
arm;
for
the
overthrow
of Bolshevists:
but
events
developed
so rapidly, follaws
ing upon
the
assassination
of Couss
Von
Mirbach,
the
German
Ambasss-
dor to Russia
in Moscow,
and
the situa-
tion on
the
western
front
had
become
so
critical,
that
it
was
impossible
to
force the issue.
-
Paris,
Dec.
26th.—''Le
Journal
‘‘Says
todey
that
it
learns
from Berlin that it
isreported
in political circles
there
that
a manifesto
has
been
prepared
by
the
Austrian
Government
addressed
to the
League
of
Nations
asking
that Austria
be
attached
t>
Germany.
Dr. gimon:;,
the German
Foreign Minister and Coust.
Cludenitz,
forme! Austro-Hungdridan
for-
eign
minister,
are -said
to have drafted
the
document.,
The
Petit
Parisien
dé~.
clares that
the
recent
tieaty signed
¥
ltaly
nd
Jugo
Slavia
specifically.
pts
.
vides
tor
reciprocal
support
to prevelt
the
restoration
of the
monarchy
‘either
in Austria
or Hungary.
‘A Copenhagen
despatenh
of December
Bthi., qw;:tc
-the
Berlin
correspondence
of the h%,
4
said
that
Cludenitz
was .in.Berlin:dis-
cussing
the
possibility of upity
'with
Germany
and Austria, following:
the.lat
ter’'s
admission
into the
league
of Na-
tions.
e
Dublin,
Dec.
26th.—Two'
men
who
tired on the Crown
forces at ‘l'ralee
were
shot.
dead
by the artiilery
when
they
tried to escape.
They had
revolvoers
and
“*dam dum’’ builets
in their possession.
Iriest,
Dec.
26th. —ltalian
regulars
have
reached
the faetories
on
the edge
of
tiume
and
are.closing
in gradually
on D’Annunzio’s
stronghold.
It
is
ex-
pected
Firume
will be taken
this eveniayg
or tOMOrrow merning.
o
Rome,
Dec.
26th.
-* 'ne
world.
is aff-
ected
by
five great
plagaes,
said
Pope
Benedict,
replying
to
the
greetings
‘of
the
Sacrea
Collgge
presented
by
Car-
dinal
Vanuteili
at
a
reception
to
the
Poauff.
The
VYope
enumerated’
these
as
Lhe
negation
.6t
authority,
hatred
among brothers, thirst
for pleasure,
dis-
like for
work
and
forgetfulness
of
the
supernatural
object
of life.
These
evils
can only
‘be
overcuome
wiih
the
aid
of
the Gospel,
said
the Pope
and
therefore
he
would
never
cease
to remind the
peo-
ple of'l',” this being
his
mission and
his
urteativa
-of - his
predecessors,
cele-
brated: three
mid. ight
masses
in the
Pauline
Chapei, which was
beautifully
decorated.
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