text: H ■ Wmit-ni Nc a »[..<(.rr l ninnyAa I—German prisoners of war returned to their homes from England and decorated with flowers. 2 —The Glenn L. Martin bomber, largest airplne in the United States mail service. 3 —Men of the United States mine sweeping fleet that has just come home after two and one-half years of duty, mostly in the North sea. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Carranza Refuses to Release Jenkins and Hostilities With Mexico Impend. ARMY AND NAVY ARE READY 'y Government's Efforts to End Coal Strike by Negotiation Fail, Min ers Rejecting Garfield's Offer of 14 Per Cent Wage In crease. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. It appears at this writing that the breaking point with Mexico has been reached at last —or should one say again? Carranza’s government, defy ing the United States, has flatly re fused to release Consular Agent Jenk ins in response to the demand made by our state department. Since that demand was in the nature of an ulti matum, threatening unpleasant con sequences, it would seem either Wash ington or Mexico must back water, or hostilities will result. The Mexican foreign office said the demand of the United States was not based on any legal foundation or prin ciple of international law; that the executive department cannot under Mexican law intervene now in an affair that is strictly in the hands of state courts; that the Imprisonment of Jenk ins was neither arbitrary nor unjusti fied. and that he is preventing his own freedom by refusing to give bail. Mex ico’s assertion that Jenkins, as a coh sular agent, was not immune from ar rest is not contested in Washington, but Secretary Lansing has stated that his department has more information bearing on this case than has been made public, and presumably it is this information that led to the demand for the release of Jenkins. Reports from Mexico that have come through official channels show that the Mex'cans have done all possible to dis credit Jenkins. The court at Puebla re fused to hear witnesses who would re fute the story that he was seen in conference with members of the gang that kidnaped him; and according to j the correspondent of a newspaper of City, a number of peons de- dared the judge and police inspector had exercised pressure on them to tes tify against Jenkins. It was believed in Washington that Mkthe administration would maintain its firm stand in the crisis. Otherwise, said the well-posted, congress would take up the matter promptly after con vening, call for all the facts in the case and proceed to frame a definite policy. In both house and senate, it was asserted, the great majority was in favor of a showdown with Carranza, who for years has flouted the United States and in innumerable ways dis played his open hostility. There is no forgetting or forgiving his attitude and actions during the war. which the gov ernment knew all the time and with which the public is becoming better ac quainted every day. Should armed intervention be nec essary, we are in good condition for quick action, for the army has had this possibility in mind for some months. Along the border these forces are now available. Both wings of the aviation service, including 15 aero squadrons, ten balloon companies, five regiments of field artillery, ten of the 18 regiments of cavalry remaining in the army organization, three regi ments of engineers, one brigade of in fantry, with four within calling dis tance in the central department, 19 motor transport companies, one field battalion and two telegraph battalions of the signal corps. 28 or more pack trains and all the additional force of supply to care for an army of that size. The marine corps is ready for the i'mergency, and so is the navy. With a fleet in the Pacific as well as the sJttlantic, forces could be landed on *oth coasts. If the navy needs more snen the reserve force can be called on, and that includes a large part of the extra personnel in service during the ■war. j Besides looking on the arrest of Jenkins as deliberately designed to af front the United States, the state de partment officials say the execution last week of Gen. Felipe Angeles also indi cates the hostile attitude of Carranza toward this country. Angeles was the foremost Mexican soldier of this day, and was the outspoken admirer of the United States. But he had been the chief aid of Villa and was captured; therefore he was condemned and shot to death. While this may have been technically just, it is likely that the life of so eminent a man would have been spared if he had not so freely given voice to his friendship for this nation. Less startling, perhaps, than the Mexican crisis, but of no less moment, is the collapse of the government’s ef forts to end the coal strike by negotia tion. Its final offer to the miners was a 14 per cent wage increase. This the operators voted to accept, and the min ers, through Acting Pi’esident Lewis, rejected. Mr. Lewis declared that “re sponsibility for the crisis now confront ing the nation must be upon those statesmen who are using the powers of the government to oppress and deny justice to the great element of citizen ship directly concerned in the mining industry.” The operators and the miners then adjourned sine die, and it seemed that there was nothing left for the govern ment except to take over and operate the mines. The government’s compromise offer, approved by the cabinet and made by Fuel Director Garfield, provided there should be no increase in the price of coal to the consumer and that a joint advisory board of operators and min ers should be created, with Secretary Lane as chairman, to work out the de tails of wage adjustments and furnish information and advice in future dis putes. This offer must have been made without hope of its acceptance, for Secretary of Labor Wilson previ ously had declared the men were en titled to an advance of 31.6 per cent, and the operators had offered an ad vance of 20 per cent. The acceptance of Mr. Wilson’s con clusions may be affected by the fact that he was a miner himself. Lewis says the men consider his offer a pledge which the government must re deem. Former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo projected himself into the con troversy with a statement that the op erators have been making excessive profits since the war began and can well afford to pay much higher wages without increasing the price of coal. He said the treasury’s records of ex cess profits taxes would prove this. Os course the operators entered indig nant denial, and Carter Glass, still sec retary. came to their defense with a modified refutation of McAdoo’s asser tion as to profits. While the dispute goes on the coun try’s stock of fuel shrinks alarmingly. In some regions, however, the mines are being operated steadily. Out in the Sheridan (Wyo.) field the United States officials, civil and military, solved the trouble surprisingly and ef fectively. They learned that the min ers had voted to return to the pits but were prevented from doing so by a campaign of intimidation by the radi cals. The military, therefore, at the request of the sheriff, rounded up nearly three score alien agitators and sent them to Fort MacKenzie. A meeting of the miners’ union was then called, and the entire strike situation explained by Major Dean, whereupon the men voted unanimously to end the strike Friday. Governor Allen of Kansas has called for volunteers to work the mines and protect the people of the state from “unspeakable suffering.” and hundreds of men have responded. Union leaders say these volunteers will be regarded as strike-breakers. D’Annunzio, the Italian firebrand, seems to have as many schemes of an nexation as the kaiser had. According to various reports, he plans to return with strong forces to Zara and proceed thence to Sebenieo; after seizing that city, he will attack Spalato, and there he may run afoul of the American navy, which is guarding that part of Dalmatia; also he is said to aim at establishing a militarist government at Triest, and now has emissaries in that city. The allied officials in Paris, how ever, now have renewed hope that a compromise settlement of the Adriatic question will be reached, satisfactory to all parties, including D’Annunzio. This is the expected result of conver sations there between British, French. Italian and Jugo-Slav representatives. The .Jugo-Slavs are still nervous and claim to have information that Italy plans to take all of Dalmatia and Mon tenegro. Maxim Litvinoff, representing the soviet government of Russia, is in Co penhagen conferring with British emis saries. Primarily the matter in hand is the exchange of prisoners, but Lit vinoff admitted that if the British at titude was favorable, peace negotia tions would be taken up. He headed the bolshevik delegation that met the representatives of the Baltic states in Dorpat, and the latter say hts manner was cold and threatening throughout, and that unless he behaves otherwise in Copenhagen it will be difficult to ne gotiate with him. The Baltic states al ready have lost faith in the bolshe vist’s professed desire for peace with them. The soviet government of Rus sia has announced new victories over Deni kin e’s forces and further advances in the Omsk region. On Thursday Premier Stambuliwsky of Bulgaria signed the treaty of peace between his country and the allies. The pact was signed by all the allied nations except Roumania and Jugo slavia, which are awaiting the signing of the treaty with Austria. Bulgaria is to pay an indemnity of $445,000,000; to surrender all works of art and other valuables taken from allied countries; to abolish compulsory military service, and to reduce its army to 20,000 men. It is deprived of Thrace and of Strum nitza, the latter going to Serbia. Germany, at last reports, was still holding out on signing the protocol which the allied nations drew up, and the supreme council has expressed its surprise and displeasure at this course. The council told the Germans that if the treaty of Versailles were not put into effect on December 1 the respon sibility would rest entirely with their government. In another note to th» German delegation at Versailles M. Clemenceau, as president of the coun cil, sternly refused to deviate from the terms of the treaty in favor of German prisoners employed in recon struction work in the devastated part of France, and he used some very plain language concerning German brutality and insincerity. Another Irish crisis is at hand, for the British government, according to dispatches from Dublin, has issued a proclamation prohibiting and suppress ing the Sinn Fein and other like or ganizations in all countries and bor ougiis in Ireland. It is believed the British now have 150,000 troops in Ire land, and on the other hand the sup porters of the Irish “republic” claim they have an army of at least 100,000 ready to fight for the cause. The new Labor party held its first national convention in Chicago last week, and it was scarcely what could be called a success. The official list of delegates showed that 728 presented credentials, hut a good many of them faded away before the convention came to a close. Moreover, not one of the 124 international labor unions was represented, and of the 34,000 lo cal unions in the American Federation of Labor and 6,000 independent unions only 642 sent delegates. One delegate from Boston said about 80 per cent of those in attendance were Socialists and ex-Socialists. Among those who deserted the convention were the mem bers of the Nonpartisan league, headed by Governor Frazier of North Dakota. The platform adopted is almost iden tical with those of other radical groups. When the congressional committee went to Ellis island to investigate the cases of the radicals held here for de portation it ran into a hunch of tar tars. The reds refused to he ques tioned, and moreover were on a hun ger strike because they were separated from callers by bars. Os course the obvious course is to let them starve, and the applause would he general. It was also disclosed that Frederic C. Howe, former commissioner of immi gration at the island, had maintained a strangely sympathetic attitude of mind toward the reds who had been caught in the federal net. There may be more about him later on. THE BENSON SIGNAL. CITY Automobile Thieves Should Hang Around Home Now WASHINGTON. —The national motorvehicle law passed by both houses of congress, which President Wilson allowed to become operative without his signature, is now in effect. The new law, which should aid in stamp- ing out the stolen car menace, follows: “Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assem bled, that this act may be cited as the national motorvehicle-theft act. “Section 2—That when used in this act; “(a) The term ‘motorvehicle’ shall include an automobile, automobile truck, automobile wagon, motorcycle or any other self-propelled vehicle not designed for running on rails, (b) The term ‘interstate or foreign commerce’ as used in this act, shall include trans portation from one state, territory or the District of Columbia to another state, territory or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, or from a foreign country to any state, territory or the District of Columbia. “Section 3—That Whoever shall transport or cause to be transported in interstate or foreign commerce a motorvehicle, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by Im prisonment of not more than five years, or both. “Section 4 —That whoever shall, with the intent to deprive the owner of the possession thereof, receive, conceal, store, barter, sell or dispose of any motorvehicle, moving as, or which is a part of, or which constitutes interstate or foreign commerce, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be pun ished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment of not more than five years, or both. “Section s—That any person violating this act may be punished in any district in or through which such motorvehicle has been transported or, re moved by such offender.” It was shown during debate on the measure that automobiles stolen in the United States in 1918 had an aggregate value of $27,000,000, and that automo bile thieves cleared at least $5,000,000 on these thefts. “Careless America Is Now Growing Lpss Careless” AN ADVANCE summary of the 1917 motality statistics received by the national safety council from the United States census bureau seems to indicate that “careless America is growing less careless. The total number of deaths caused by accidents during charged to any one accidental cause, 11,114, or 14.9 per 100,000, is shown as from falls. Next to falls, the great est number of accidental deaths, 8,649, or 11.5 per 100,000, resulted from rail road accidents and injuries.. Burns, excluding those received in conflagrations and in railroad, street car and automobile accidents, were responsible for 6,830 deaths, or 9.1 per 100,000. Deaths from automobile accidents and injuries in 1917 totaled 6,724, or 8.9 per 100,000. Accidental drowning caused 5,500 deaths, or 7.4 per 100,000. Mine acci dents and injuries resulted in 2,623 deaths, or 3.5 per 100,000. Deaths due to injuries by vehicles other than railroad cars, street cars and automobiles numbered 2,326, or 3.1 per 100,000. Deaths resulting from street car accidents numbered 2,277, corresponding to a rate of 3 per 100,000. Machinery accidents caused 2,112 deaths, or 2.8 per 100,000, a rate ma terially greater than that for any preceding year covered by the bureau’s mortality records. This last item is attributed by the American Machinist to “the large number of previously untrained workers employed during the war period.” 2,000 New Postage Stamps Gladden Collectors NEW postage stamp issues since December, 1918, are now approaching 2,000 in number. Os these nearly 1,500 are accounted for by the first stamps of the new European states whose autonomy was guaranteed by the Paris conference. Poland, once repre sented in the stamp album by a single label, has produced since the armistice more than 400 separate and distinct postage stamps, while the Ukraine ranks second with approximately 175 varieties of either a provisional or per manent description. Jugo-Slavia and Czecho-Slovakia account for something like 150 specimens each and the de batable territory of Fiume for 75. The average for the remaining states is between 30 and 50 stamps, while the shortest series thus far recorded is that of the Transcaucasian republic of Georgia, comprising up to the present four values only. The high est stamp issuing “record” hitherto achieved was in the year 1914, w r hen 1,286 new postage stamps w T ere produced throughout the world, mainly due to the change in the watermark of the British colonial issues. One important step toward finality in the philatelic affairs of new Europe is the issue of unified postage stamps for the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, instead of the separate issues for Croatia, Slavonia, Bosnia and Serbia. They bear the likeness of the veteran King Peter I as overlord of Greater Serbia and are inscribed in both Latin and Cyrillic characters. Largest Warship Is Negato of the Japanese Navy THE largest warship ever built was launched by Japan at Kure the other day in the presence of the princes of the imperial family, says a Tokyo report. It is named the Nagato. The keel was laid at Kure naval dockyard pletion the building of the Kaga, the Nagato’s sister ship, will be commenced. The Nagato w ill be armed with 16-inch guns having 30-mile range and her engines will be able to develop a speed of 25 knots. She will carry several airplanes and will be armed with half a dozen antiaircraft guns. The Hood of the British navy has a displacement of 30,000 tons, eight 15-inch guns and a speed of 30 knots. The California of the United States navy has a displacement of 32,300 tons, 12 14-inch guns and a speed of 21 knots. The American navy has projected dreadnaughts that are larger than the Nagato. America’s new fighting ships are to have a displacement of 42,000 ous 12 16-inoh guns and a speed of 21 knots. 1917 was 53,544 as against 60,072 dur ing the previous year. Inasmuch as the death registration area takes in only 70 per cent of the population, it is apparent that more than 76,000 per sons w'ere killed in accidents through out the United States in that year. The report received by the national safety council summarizes the causes of accidents as follows in part: The greatest number of deaths collection August 28, 1917, but her building was considerably delayed owing to the scarcity of workers in consequence of the w r ar and to the change in the plan of construction as the result of lessons II furnished by the Jutland battle. At first it w r as proposed to build ” a ship of the Hyuga class wfith a dis placement of 31,260 tons, but later her " tonnage was changed to 40,000. 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