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British
Goveérnmen
the
United
Statos
:
1917,
saying
oritain
appr
the
United
States
was
d¢
p
down submarines,
it was
merely
& ciause
of
Internutional
politeness,
Admiral
Sims
inld the Benate
Investigation
Com-
mitiee
this morning.
‘They were
taank-
ing us for sending
six desroyers.
said
the
Adiairal.
Tae
delay by the United States
navy
in
getting
intc
the
war in
earn-
est
was
again
scored
by
the
Admiral,
who
repeaced
his
declaration
that
the
failure
of
the
United
States
navy
to
cooperate fully with the Allies dur.: g the
firsc six
months
afier
the
United
stutes
declaratian
of
war,
ccst
half a- -illicn
lives,
fifteen
billion
dollars
two
and
a half milhon
tons of shipping
anc
pre-
vented
viciory
over
Germany
by
July
nineteen-ei;
hteen.
He said
that al
lough
he
nad repcatedly
urged
that
every
des-
troyer
and
small
craft
w ich
couid
be
sent
to
sea
be
despatched
imined.ately
to the ast
Atlantie,
the focus of 1 lines
of commun
cation
to England and
drance
which was tae critical area
his
recor.men-
dations
was
not
complied
with
until
abou.
six montis
later.
He
had :iso
re-
commended
that
two divisions
of simer-
lcan
dreadaoughts
be
sent
to
a'
base
at
Brest
to
gcuafd
< against
‘raide
in
the
Englis: Channel
by German
= uiser
forees,
but s
recommendation
vi's
en-
sirely
disrecgarded.
He
insisted
that
he
had been
badly
nhandicapped
b,
the
departinent
to
Keep
nim
iniormed
of its
pians
and
read
excerpts
from
his
mes-
sages
urging tne adoption of the
convoy
system
and
said
that
they
would
show
(hat great
losses
were sustained,
due
to
CHRISTIANSTED,
V.II. U.§.
A.,
WEONESDAY
24tH
MARCH
1920.
the
resistance
of
the
United
States
in
~
taking
up the
convoy
system.
He
then
~
read
a departine
t message
sent
him
in
-
May and signed b Secretary
Daniels
in
~
regard
to convoy,, reading:
‘‘l consider
~
American
vesselsfiiving
armed
guards
.
are safer
when
stiling independently.”’
When
1
got
.“af,
message
I
was abont
ready
to jump
Jvoard,
continued
Ad-
miral Sims,
anc
Idded,
that
he realis-
' “hat the Dep-ilment
did
not
under-
-1 or appreciate
the situation.
I
aris,
Mareh
-20th.—Advices
from
“assels
and
Aix-l.a-Chapelle
anuounce
at about
one
huadred
thousand
Spar-
-licists
wit.
#wenty
guns
and
armoured
|
‘omobiles,
captured
Essen
on
the nine-
‘¢
Ith
inst.,
where
they
proclaimed
a
soviet
Govt
comprising
Mualheim,
Ober-
ne
w=on
fiberfeidt and Kettwig,
defeat-
L
1l Government
orees,
who
re-
nok
o fuge
partially
in
the
¢
o¢ 'upation,
where
they
=
. Iy, Snartacists
during the
nig
<"1
twentieth
cagtured
the
¢
ss¢
rs,
which
was
evacu-
i
ated
by
..
Gc.
[troops
without
resist-
|
ance.
The
Bel
posts
on
the
right
{
.
bauk of the)iih
‘took
the
left
bank
-withou.
ne
o2 bed.
Ail precantion-
|
ary
me:
=+
S have
bcen
taken for resist-
|
Ing poss:
«,
‘flem,
‘s against
the bridges
of the Rhr™¥~y
|
Paris,
N
s
,1131.*—;h'c'mli11;r
to
lat-
|
estadvices
Hevr
"
pske,
v, ho had resign-
|
‘ed
owing
to
vi
®pt
'atitacks
by
Herr
'
Scheideman,
has
decided
to
rerain
his
|
post,
the Sceial L
mocrats
and the Centre
|
baving
ado
sted
a-
vote
ot
confidence
in
|
\
favour.
The
GoJ/ernment
has
decid-
'« ed
to rem
«in
at Stettgart
until erder
has
'
been
restor=d
in
the capital,
"where
vio-
'
lent
fightirg is
taking place.
The
gen-
|
eral strike
continues,
no
trains
are
run-
'
ning and
no
newsbapers
ace
appearing.
-
The greater
nuniber
of the public
build-
|
. ings are occupied
by
faithtul
troops
of
|
the Govt.
An attack
in force by the Spar-
|
tacists
isaaticipated,
Newotiations
are
|
proceeding
between
the
Govt.
and
the
|
syndicates,
who.
demand
the .departure
[
of Ministers H‘einc#and
Noske,
and
vari-
g
yus
measures
of soeial
reform.
Progress
|
by the Spartacistss reported
from West-
'
phalia,
Cheinnitz,
kssen
and Kiel, where
'
the
sailo#®s
removed
their
officers,
and
|
:the whole Ruhrbasinisin
ihe
hands
of
|
the Communaists.
Severe
fighting is
tak-
!
ing place in vavious other cities,
notably
|
Leipzig,
and everywhere
there
have
been
many
killed and wounded.
}
Parig,
Marel. ?tn.—M. Millerand, in a
gtatement
(¢
~
correspondent
of
the
No.
68
Daily Chronicle,
declared
that
France,
without pursuinga
policy
of
vengeance
with regards
to Germany,
would demand
the execution
of all the
reparations
stip-
ulated
by
the
treaty
of
Versailles
and
would never
agree
to any
revision.
Paris,
March 20th.—According
to a des-
patch
from
Berlin,
a
note
frem
the
Su-
periour
Council
has
informed
the Vice-
Chancellor
that the
Entente
would
boy-
cott commercially
a
Monarchist
or
Bol-
shevik Germany.
London,
Mareh 20th. Signor
Scialoia;
in an
interview,
declared
that
negotia-
tions had made
such
progress
that
he
ex-
pected
to
return
to
Rome
within
eight
days,
essential
points of the
treaty
vith
Turkey having been
regulated.
He added,
that italy was in
accord
with
the
Allies
regarding the frontiers
of Huneary
which
would be unchanged.
Madrid,
March 20th. —T'
e Minister
of
iforeign Affairs has
iaid before the Cham-
ber
a proposal for a eredit of
three
hun-
dred thousand
pesetas,;
for the
expenses
ot Spain
in the League
of Nations.
Berne,
March
20th.—A
vices
from
Berlin state
the
Attorney-General
Reich
has
commenced
proceedings
against
the
members
of the Knapp
government,
and
chiefly
against
Generals
Knapp
and
Juttwitz
and Herr
Jagow.
Barbados.
March
20th.—!1t
is
notified
for
general
information
by
His
Excel-
lency
the
Governor
that
he
has
been
informed
by His
Majesty’s Secretarv
of
State
that
His Royal Highness
the Prince
of
Wales
would
ieave
Engiand
on
16th
March
and arrive
at
Barbados
on
26th
and
leave
on 27th
March.
It has
been
decided
that the
ball
at the publie
build-
ings
in
honour
of His Royal
Hizhness’
visit shall
be
a subsecription
one.
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