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' red tth South Nomik PM scorn NORWALK, come, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1917 Showers this afternoon ortonisht- 'rwo cumin,
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llltlliN ltlliED AND MANY ’ hittiiittti’ '
INJURED IN. tutti BRANflRD'
HEAD-0N lliillll toittswt
Motorman Had Worked Sixteen Hours, and With the,
Conductor, Was Said to
Have Been Half Asleep,
and Passed Siding on Which He Should Have Await-
re
ed Other Car
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ARREST EflllllWINll SEERET HEAlllN.
The Dead Frightfully' Mangled as Cars Telescoped Half
Their Length—Injured Taken Away in Auto Trucks
and Wagons
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. MAN tittti '
traitor
Head Crushed by the 6:02
Train Last Evening as He
Attempted to Climb Fence
Between the Depot Build-
ings
Stimuli/E
irritation
“WHY trilli—
; flfililthi?”
An Interview With . Hon.
Simeon E. Baldwinfyof
New Haven, Former Gov-
ernor of Connecticut
ExAGovernor Simeon E. ialdwin
has been interviewed by a represen-
tative of the Connecticut State (‘oun—
cit of Defense and from him has been
until?
ciitttitts
Sloth-BOARD
County Appellate Board, of
Which Judge John J.
Walsh Is Chairman, Oblig
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secure’d one of the series of “Made.
in t‘onnecticut War Interviews"!
which the council is. making publicl
through newspapers. Ex-Governorl
Baldwin was asked for a statement:
that would answer the question “Why.
are we fighting?" l
“That is easily answered," said the!
fainter Governor. "Congress has de-l
clured in plain terms why We are'
fighting. To Congress the people ofl
(‘onnectiout and of every other state»
have committed, by terms of the Con-l
Coroner Phelan to Conduct;
an Inquest on Friday
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. NEW HAVEN, Aug. 14.~Nincteen
persons lost their lives in the colli-
‘Lsion of the two trolley cars on the
“Shore Line Electric Railway at North:
‘:5.Braitt‘o,t‘dt {late yesterday. Sixteen the next he knew was on the ground.
passengers, mostly women, and one‘ A few hundred yards to the west af‘
K'mployo of the company were killcdftter rounding a curve, the car had
'Itutrignt, and two men died at a hose ; crashed into the car from New Haven
'Jiital in New Haven during the itiglit.t‘whiclt was well-laden with passeng-
ithe latter being Leonard S. llotcii-.ers botiiid for shore towns as far as
Skins, of New Haven, and Ernest A.l Saybrook and which had the right of
Kolitt, of Clinton, ti traveling sales-lway. Negtis, it ls‘li'nderstood, did'itot
:man, of New Haven. materially after his ‘stateinent to De-
' The cot'mu‘i"s_.iitquii'y was opcncdiputy coroner Wynee, explaining that
in New Ilawn. A gang of men llll8:lltt had (been lworklng for sixteen
it'orenoon removed the. wreckage outtiouts and was tired out.
the line at North Branford. so thatl The coroner’s. inquiry
through traffic could be resumed. 'i‘lie‘ conducted in New Haven.
it"s.rly morning developments apparent—1 "the list of identified dead follows:
it! did not change the aspect of the. JOHN H. CANNON, New Haven. [‘6-
idisaster'rs to the. element of causeltircd insurance agent.
Motorinan Wesley Ncgus, of Say-j MRS. JllIJFS DAY, Shelton.
brook. of tlte trolley car which had, MlSS 'JlllJA HOWELL, 2o; East
left Gttilford as 'an extra and was ’
running towards. New Haven, said:
itiitittttttititit '
after the wreck, that he had dropped
off to sleep with his head on the COD-
troller box after the car left the wait-
ing shed at North Branford, and that
today ‘was
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intuition '
tittitiitttt
. city, was near the steps leading front-1
' among them being George
Killed by having his head crushed‘
in by the engine of the 0:02 train at
the eastern endof the \vest bound
railroad station downtown last ever».
ing, an unidentified man, about 35
years old, presumably coming from}
liidgcilcld and Swedish, lies in I). “'u
Raymond's
identification by ltidgcfield
tits, who were ratified by the 100
police.
People who saw the in
tin; noticed that he seemingly
under the influence of liquor,
whether he was Tittoxicatcd or sick
cait
liquor found.
it was. thought that tho titan wnst
endeavoring to find otit where. he!
could get a train front Ridgefleld, andl
was unucqualnted here, and. that .lnl
his endeavor to get across to the east-
bound station he started to cliittb the,
fence near the eastern end of the.
New York side, as his body, which;
was found by William Kent. of thlsf
authori—l
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was "
but ‘
the street. . .
lie had previously talked with it
nutnbcr of people at the station,.
Talmudge =
who said that the titan was evidently,
u Swede.
Officer Fraser, when headquarters.
,nize that hostilities
. There were traces of “9”” “1““ 110‘ commence “‘“homiquestions of every kind fired contin-
not b0 mid ‘previous and explicit warning, in the;
stitution of the i‘nitediStateit the
solo right of declaring War. It isl
.ililtltl a legisaltive ‘act, to be done?
only with the consent of both HousesI
and the approval of the President. I
"it is customary for nations. in dP-’
claring war, to state the reasons. We
stated the reasons for the Revolu-Z
tionary War in the Declaration of ln-l
dependence.
“At the World Peace Congress of
substantially all - civilized nations!
morgue today awaititig‘h"1d at ”‘9 Hague in 1907 a l"““'y,its oilic.
was signe'd on this. subject. Later, in
1909, the l'nitcd States and the Ger-
man Empire each ratified it, and it
on last even-1 become the supreme law of this land. ? W
Article 1 reads ilius:~»«
“'The Contracting powers reCOg-l
between them. 1
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lllllNll STRANlilEll
Private in Regular Army
Held—~Victim’s Body in
Cornfield
llilliiilililiiiiiill
Fleet of Vessels Visited Nor-
walk and Then Became
. Separated, Adrift 24
5‘ Hours
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BRlDGEPORT, Aug. 1’l."“‘.“dl'lll on
the Sound in an open launch all night
Sunday, with no power, and iii immi-
nent danger from storms and Sound
asteamei's, five Bridgeport girls were
picked up by a rescue party late yes-
terday afternoon. While there was
no panic of fear among tit? girls. one;
or them was so dgpressed by the‘
thought of their po.~ition that. she
fainted several times and had to be
irevived \‘ty (their loompnnions. The
party was part of the excursion of the
' H. 0. Canfield Rubber company, and
went adrift when two young then, who
had been operating the launch, left
it. off Peufield reef to go ashore in a
"rowboat to obtain gasoline.
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ROAD SAMARITAN .
LENDS GAS, CAR
EXPLODES, 1 HURT-
NEWTOVVN, Aug. 14.——Lightiitg a
match under ‘an automobile froth
which he was borrowing gasoline.
Joseph Anthea, a jitney driver of
Bridgeport, was hurled into the air
and badly burned last night. when the
gasoline in the tank caught fire and
the tank exploded. The automobile
a seven passenger touring car. he-
longing to A. J. Metro, of 830 Hallett
street, Bridgeport, was completely de~
stroyed.
Anthea. who was driving a jitno
from Bridgeport to Danbury was
stalled without gasline in Newtown
Around midnight. ‘Along came Met-
:“o's party of five men. Anthea hailed
(them and asked that they sell him
some“ gasoline. They agreed and
they, crawled under the Metro car,
can' in hand, to draw off the gaso-
line required; He lighted a match,’
and the'i‘lante followed the flowing!
gasoline back into the tank. Anthesl
Was hurled into the air by the ex-
plosion, and his! hands were badly
burned. , '
The .ilamea leaped from the car.
The fire departmrrtt was called out,
but, could not elicit the blaze. The‘
‘ touring car rta's'e. total wreck with,
. tout rpenny of insurance on it. A
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First Detachment
Leave in a Short Time, But
Does Not Include Connec-
ticut Organizations
\\'.\Siii.\'(l'l‘0.\l, Aug. 14.—'I’lans for
sending the first National Guard
troops to France have been perfected
by the War Department with the or
gantzation of a division which will in-
clude troops from twenty-six states
and the District of Coiutttbia. .
The states from which the National
Guard troops are to be assembled are:
Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
New York. ()hio, Georgia, Alabama.
town. liiinois, lndiana, Minnesota.
Maryland. South Carolina, California,
Missouri, Virginia. North Carolina.
Kansas, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey,
Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska,
Colorado, Oregon. The others come
from the District of Columbia.
The commanding officer of the di-
vision will be BrlgadierGenerai W.
A, Mann. of the regular army, now
Chief of the Division of Militia Affairs
of the War Department.
AMER CANS TO
HARVEST CANADIAN_
GRAIN CROP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—American
iahor will be supplied for harvesting
the Canadian grain crops, under an
arrangement reached today between
W. W. Cory, Canadian Deputy Com-
missioner of the Interior. and Depart-
ment of Labor officials.
American harvest bands will be per:
enter,
mitted for the first time to
(minds. and immigration regulations
will be waived by both countries.
Thousands of Americans are ex- gists from the Woman's Party head-i puny. yesterday, to enforce demands
period to go across the border to help
save the Canadian crops. ‘
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BUSINESS SECTION
OF SUMPTER BURNS
BAKER, 0re., .Aug. 14.-—Fire late
last night destroyed the business sec-
tion of Sumpter, a, mining town near
here. oaubing a loss estimated be.
tween $500,000 and $1,000,000, and
rendering several hundred persons
homeless. Two persons were burned
to death. . '\
Food and tents were sent from here
today. '
was notified of the accident, was llt't‘v;
patched to the staiid‘n and there its-
Wi“ sumed charge of the body, which was;
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taken to the baggage ran (\nt
where it was taken to Raymond's
Morgue.
Coroner Phelan will be here on Fri~
day, it was stated today. fill hold an
‘ inquest as to the cause of death.
it'ttt‘ttniliiis
tut tannin WAR
Predicts Expenditure of
$40,000,000,000—-Supp0rts A
War Tax Bill
WASHlNGTON, Aug. 14.——(len-eral
debate in the. Senate on the war tax
bill is expected‘to close today. Chair-
man Simmons of the. finance commit-
tee announced late yesterday that
only two more senators had signified
their intention of speaking and that
' he would move to take up the com-
tmittee amendments as soon as they
have been heard. \.
Senators Penrose and McCumber.
republican members of the committee,
spoke at, length during the day in
support of the bill, which they de-
clared had beenrevised in a non-par-
tisan spirit.
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STEAL BANNERS AT
WHITE HOUSE GATE
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1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.——Sut’fra-
quarters attempted twice late yester.
day to station themselves before the
White House gates with banners ad
dressed to "Kaiser Wilson." A laugh-
ing crowd saw the first banner that
appeared carried oil by a naval blue-
jacket, who said he wanted it for a
souvenir. Two others were brought
up a few minutes afterward, only to
be furcibly appropriated by civilian
employee of the war and navy tie.
partments. The president and Mrs.
Wilson on their way to Fort Meyer
toattend the graduation exercises
and the reserve officers training camp
there, passed out of the grounds as
the second act was staged. They
smiled and bowed to the crowd.
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ST. ALBANS, \'t.. Aug. 14.—The
body of Jennie Hemmingway, 14 years
old, was found yesterday on the edge
(of a cornfield near here and the pol-
;ice said that the. indications pointed
lto murder. Robert Warm of Potts-
;town, Pa, :1 private in the 18th Uni-
tted States Cavalry, who said he was
with her early last night, was held
pending an investigation. Search had
beeit (mad-a for the girl whose ab
sence front home caused somt til-c
and Warm was with Joseph Willey
‘uncle of the victim, when the body
nwas found.
1 According to the police, a sitter-
iticial examination of the body show-
|ifid that the girl‘s daath had been
,caused by strangulation. Warm went
‘to the police station early today and
asked that on officer be detailed to
iassi'et hint in a search for the girl.
lHe said he was out walking with her
ilast night and that they separated af-
ver he learned that a number of sol-
diers‘were following him. Some of
the soldiers, he told the police, had
‘thrcatened him the night before he ,
:cause he had complained of alleged
ttltreats made by them against him.
' Miss Hemmingway was the daugh-
iter of Henry Hemmingway of this
city.
POTTSTOWN, Pa., Aug. 14.—Rob.
ert Warm, held in St. Albans. Vt.. foi-
lowlng an investigation into the death
{of a young girl, is about 30 years old
and has been in the army several
yearslie has two children here. His
wife is said to be dead.
LAKE SUBMARINE .
‘ MEN 0N STRIKEl
BRIDGEPORT, Aug. 14.—About 250
machinists. said by the union leaders
to be the entire force, struck’at the
plant of the Lake Torpedo Boat Com-
lfor a ten per cent. increase in wages.
~minimum scales for various branches
=of the trade and a formal recognition
of the eight-hourday. 0f the strik-
ers, 130 are said to be members of the
union and the rest "outsiders."
The demands were presented about.
a Week ago in continuation of a
movement to get similar conditions in
all the factories here. lithe company
declined to grant the demands and
asked for federal arbitration.
About ten craft for the Government
are in process of construction at the
Lake plant and work on all of them
(will be suspended temporarily. .The
,union, baa established a, plcketlng
system about thorium, ’ -f.
Mlllt UP AfiAlN
‘ crease is that cost of feed drives afar"
ed to Close Its Doors
taunt [lilllll
utilitarian
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Board Resumes After Po-;j
Iicemen Make Order Outl
of Chaos
lillllKlHPORT, Aug. ll.—~-lf the ac.-
cepted army men attack Germans the:
way candidates attacked the district.
exemption board office at the county:
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;court house in Bridgeport yesterdai'.‘jutaitt-General Frank S. Dickson when‘
there will he no question of results
The district. board was ptit to rout
in about an hour and had to cluse‘.
e until arrangements could bet
0 establish an‘inforination bur»?
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made t
can.
Secretary Seth Low I’lt‘l‘l‘?l)i)nt, E.
. Hamil, members of the board, and,
Miss Florence L. Hamilton, who di-g
(reels the work in the absence of the, 1m. barns and wins“.
board members, were” the target for,
:‘seekers who arrived at the office stung strikebreakers down mm,
the rate of 100 or more an hour. 'l‘he'
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MAKES PEACE
PROP08Al8 TO All Of THE
BEEllGERENl GOVERNMENIS
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Ninth Regiment Called Outt
as a Result of the Rioting
in Springfield Early To-1
day
ATTAliltlHE EARS?
Suggests the Restoration of
' Belgium, Serbia and Ra-
mania, and Peaceful Sola-
tion of Problems in Other
Countries
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SPRINJFIELI), 111., Aug. 14.—~Tlle: MM
entire Ninth Regiment, 1. N. 0., is on'Sinking Of Other Ships by
duty this morning as the result of! - E ‘
rioting which broke out. shortly L-e-l Submarines IS Report“
Today
fore midnight last night, when ‘syin-l
pittitizerslof the street railway eni-j
)0\'(“ \V " S ."‘ .‘Zi "
Ema-tel: indocgl: on ”I“, [\‘m‘ to ROME,At1g. 14.—1’eaccprop£-
The troops were called out by Ad» als made by Pope Benedict have
been delivered to all the belliger- ‘
nt governments.
The pope suggests restoration
of Belgium, Serbia and liumania
from the ctr barns with the avowed and peaceful solution of the prob.
int-Ention of attacking the barn; aitd§ipmg of Alsace—Lorraine, Trent,
"getting" ““3 Strikebreaké‘r‘l‘ BCf‘.""’“l‘riest and Poland, according to
the troops reached the scene, police, -, . . ,-
msewes charged a mob of two ”m! ,reports l‘t‘t‘OlH'tl irom \attean
d’them. onh' msourccs. It is expected the pro-
rti collect again at another posttls will be published today by
y attacked a streetnhe \‘mjpan_
There has been great diplomatic
tivity in certain quarters at the.
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it became apparent that the police
and siiet‘it’i‘ would not be able to ntain-:
lain order, and after strike syuipatlt~
lzers had gatiifired in a park across
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have the
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Shots were fired at the car as it .“0
oilice finally closed and three assist-cuppmaciwd caused the uiotbrinan to papal serretariat, numerous diplo-"
outs of the board lined the men whol
sought information in the hall. There
each one's case was taken tip and the
work of the board was no longer in-
terruptcd.
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Many Witnesses Testify toi
Purchasing Exemptions ini
District 99, New York
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.——The Federal
Grand Jury today resumed its inves-
tigation into charges of irregularities
in local exemption District 99. Wit-
nesses already have told the Grand
Jury, it was said today, that they had
purchased their exemptions in this dis-
trict. The investigation into the op-
crations of this board is developing
"new irregularities hourly," it was de-.
claretl. John C. Knox and Howard M.’
Stanton_ Assistant United States At-
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irritation
$4,000,000,000 _
. DOAN TO ALLIES
Milk may again be boosted accord-
ing to the reports that have filtered
in from the conventionwof the “gill
edge” dairy farmers which was held
yesterday. at Braircliff Lodge, West-‘
Chester County.
The reason for the
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talked of in-
mer to sell a dry cow to the butcher
at $100. One dairyman was mentioned
who 'sold for beef, forty of his high?
grade Holsteii’is rather than carry the!
critters through the winter. One of;
the members of the convention who is‘
said to have spoken from experience:
[says that it costs more to feed a cow 8
per day than it does to feed a member.
of the Alintony Club in the 'Ludlow
Street Jail.
Milk has, gone up quite a bit and;
the fact that grain andfeed will be its-1
ed to a larger Extent than before for:
the horses and cattle on the other?
side is not very assuring to the far l
mers of this country. They may be re-f
alumni to the trick that one light fist-i
ed farmer was said to have played up-‘
on his cow that feeding the animal ex-j
celsior after he had fitted a pair of:
green spectacles to the cow. i
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Lilo lava. grind if your grist isn’t
worth grinding. .
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_ Runs who were following tit! car at it
shut off the current and flee. with mats having long interviews white-Q
the conductor, into the darkness itfi?!‘i(,'ardiiial Gaspai‘i‘i, (Papal Seer—e
”pl-"“510 “110‘s “9‘1 “.‘ the.” {‘“Hary of State), the Route corres-
automobile loud odeeputies with :Johlltllltlfllll of the Exchange Telel
distance of less than a block, drovc gl‘alilt (”ml’ml.“ cables-”1 tunable
through the mob but made no effort to announce that the Holy See
‘0 ilisuvi‘se them. believing that tin-tints addressed a note to beliiger»
and
Tho rioters then broke all the win-ja ltewand 10mm” appeal for peace.
dowit in the car. turned on the cutrcnt;1t lm‘ltes the belligcrciits A“ State >
and sent the car down the track. Ou‘tltcir conditions in concrete
utrals. The note makes , ‘ '
a turn a block from the barns, the “onus, so as to facilitate a prelim-
cnr leaped {he truck and crashed into
the curbing.
Troops rushed to the barns front
(“amp Lincoln‘iii auto trucks and taxi-
cnbs, dispersed a' mob forming near
the wrecked car, and other units ar—
riving in special cars soon had the
situation in hand. ' '
AFTER Will aunts
AM] All lNlIllMES
Minority Report of the Sen-
ate Finance Committee
Presented by Senator La
Follette
‘ wasnmo'rox. Aug. ll.-—A minor-
ity report of the Senate Fina e coni-
mittee on the_Wai\ Tax bill as pre-
sented to the Senate today by Senator
La Foilette, with the concurrence of
Se'nators Gore and Thomas, recom-
mending that‘war profits and big in~
comes be utilized is the principal
sources of taxation in providing ’tTi'rids
for the cound'y’s war needs.‘ '
Contrary to expectations. Senator
La Follette did not present a substi-
tute for the pending War Tax bill.
He announced, however, that unless
the Senate adopted amendm‘nts‘toy:
uttered by himself and his associates,
a substitute would be offered. '
The minority report charges that
the bill as revised by the majority
makes palpably inadeiiuate provision
for raising of revenue needed for fin—
ancing the war through the next 135-“
cal year and that the. ivnus of taxa-
tion has been placed “upon those
least able to bear it."
England has‘ taxed her war profits
0 per cent. without impairing her
great industries, declared Senator La
Follette. Inst-end, her wealthy classes
were “never in receipt of larger in-
comes, nor were -her larger business
concerns more flourishing.“ Ilean-
taxes, he said. could be levied on
American corporations without any
fear of afiecting capital or crippling
industry."
If (‘ongre5s were to adopt the. BH-
ish rate of 80 per cent. on war profits.
Senator La Foilette said, more than
two and a quarter billions of doll...
trouid be realized in a slnglo year
from this source. Seventy per cant.
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inary understanding. "
I WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The
State Department acknowledged ‘
that it has received unofiicinl ,
knowledge of Pope Benedict's
peace proposals before today's"
'news dispatches were. received
,liere. No official cognizance can
«be taken of it. until the proposal is
tconveycd officially. Whatever
leonsidcration is given to it will be
iafter consultation with the Allies.
' At the Apostolic delegatimi all
lknowledge of the pope's proposal
lwas disclaimer]. It was said the
'papal delegate had not transmit.
ted it to the United States govern—
'niciit and did itot expect to do so.
‘.'l'he opinion was expressed that
lit would come through a neutral
government.
; Within the Entente diplomatic
circle the opinion was freely and.
promptly expressed that the peace
proposal was inspired by Germany
and was an attempt to split the
Allies in a conflicting discussion
of their war aims. . .
5 The extent of the State Depart-
'meut’s information does not indi-
cate though what channel the pro-_
posal will be conveyed and gives
no information from which airin-
ference might be drawn as to:
whether it will come through one
of the Allied governments or
through a dignitary of the
church.
Officials were unusually explicit 4 i
in saying that it could not be disé, .
cussed until it came officially be— ,,
fore the government and wero'f
emphatic in declaring that no».
statement whatever could be rep- '
resented as reflecting the oflicinl.
(view. 4 .
If an inference might be drawn.
front under currents which were
started in official circles by the re-
port, a trained observer wou‘
gvcnture the opinion that the pro»
posul is one which would be (lib;
cussed in good faith by the Allied,
but that it does not meet their wary.
aims. It was indicated that A
gpeaee proposal coming from the
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