NIIRWAIII’S RIIIIES
NEWSPAPER
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NEAT HOME tot
WORLDWARMER
IAN SUSIAINID
irew orks at Last Night’s
Open Meeting of Godfrey
.l psi American Legion,
Results in Vote of 58 to 24
in II avor of Plan
IIIMT. WANTEII
SHIIRE DINNER
thigh intO’ the air.
'III-ztde Plans Perfected and
Ufl‘icers of Various Com-
panies Appointed
III I (or a home or club for World War
I tins showed up at the open meet-
I the Ameiican Legion and. W orid
”Nouns last evening and for It
IIlt) Ioiced vigotous opposition
- plan as voted lust Week, “In I at;
..; umgh explained matters to their
’ «Itist‘action at least, and then
Imtpnnents of the shore dinner
I‘IIIIIII show, he put the enthu-
Ii \‘tii':
. I‘II iIieII prevailed by a quin-
, Inm of SS in 24. Captain
,3, ‘»-I. remarked that we lived
'1 'lv’iItIII' there the. rule of the
.,.»IIIIiIud amine hoped that
\IIII) had favored t“? outing
’I T'tlI into line and help make
and luncheon planned for
he decided success that
II‘~ .. and the public desired.
. I-II will that the parath-
In- [IIlI)ll(' who' had sub
. -I;.: the others, fathers
I- of the ItIliam ones who
:\I(I‘. wanted to See them
No opposition was an
the explanation and the
\\'~-lcouie Home matters.
w . IIIIIII- Legion detail came
II. g and no little progress
I- . .. NI II Iy in parade matters
, . 'l 1 it“ w members for Frank
- I'lt‘I. No.12. '
. ut‘ tllv commissioned oili-
ti'.‘~' was called first at.
lli thr- (‘ouncil Chamber
éI'III. t‘nntuin Keogh war
1 (In P__d—_g9 Two)
SIT IJAIITTIRNIA
TRAINMEN STRIKE
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IhIoughottt Southern
IIII Fresno on the
- IA" mm as Y,uma Ariz. I
II IUIIHY. A strike which
It) night when switch-
rmn quit their posts]!
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Ijlerttic Company op-‘
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«tended to
I' IIIlIIIen and shop-j
IIInIIt northward to
and eastward toI
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.’ IIIIIr-n one hundred
. Southern Pacific and
' .llltl .SIInta -F‘e walked
IIIlTl service both to
I \IIIIrit At Yuma thirty-
" switchmen (luit.
I"‘II"‘II to take out two:
uh: which had been
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:III IIIIinmon who met
wk no official action.
this from W'arren S.
"It Iimnd Master of
II; Locomotive Engi-
I.ei- 0f the Railway
.anII their usual du-
their contracts."
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2:25 ENLISTMENTS
CC? CORPORAL PARKS
I'tt:'I(<.0l the local
. . s-ItlastI-Il three young
‘ [1‘ L . one year each in
. ‘;~‘ They were resi-
' ‘It it)" \IIII) had come to
.. Ii ‘I!ltIII0)'llanE_ bl“
gm liking. had
In the Navy. (301'-
'\"‘\'t‘l'. succeeded in
out of their
on his fatherly I‘d.
no for the arm!
let: for Sim
IIIII. In; given snow?!
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sum}
\ number of ' yo‘tfiig men who
nought the $6. 400 Welcome ‘
ml should be spent on an outing and
Itre dinner instead of being put in a
once. more and .lllc-
‘ Ymk at Parsons Beach.
I was ransacked eaily Sunday morningI had his attention
SHORE LINE TROLLEY
Entered It the South Nomadic Post-
Office on Socond‘cluu Mali Honor.
MYSTERY TIRE
BURNS LAIINEH .
AT EA-IREIEEII
Craft—Bathers Feai- Tank
Explosion
, FAIRFIELD, Aug.
t -Bés‘ch is engrossed in discussion of
I the spectacular mystery of the ‘firing
nor an upidentiiled 18mm motorgio'st
there Saturday in lit. No clues as to
the identity of the bent or its owners
and Ithe cause of the fire have been
found. according to information ob-
tained at the bench this morning.
The blaze occurred at 8. 30 o'clock
in the evening. The boat anchored
about 200 yards from ‘t-Ilio‘re. sud.
, d‘e‘nly burst into' (times. which leaped
3mm and life
savers in the‘ vicinity were apprehens-
ive that the gasoline tank of the craft
; would explode and spray burning oil
over them. and kept. away. After the
bursting of the tank one of the life
I savers rowed to thetscene and towed
Nb One Claims Destroyed
28. —-Fairlleld I
MUST NET INEREASE
PRIIIIIIETIIIN IIIISTS.
Asks Mobilization of Brag-Ii
Power and Conscience For:
Reconstruction
“'ASHINGTON Aug. 86. —Presidont
the motor bout to shore.
No One Claims Boat.
No one was seen léhpi’rlg rom the!
”m“? boat or leaving it in a smaller craft, I
according to persons who witnessed
the fire Then: is no name or number.
on the craft. and no means of i
tying the owner. it was paint
blue gray. and evidehtly had a cabin.-
Nothing but a charred shell remains. I
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. matters
There is an unverified story in clr-.
'(‘uIl’lthn to the effect that the boat
was taken from its owner by a friend
without permission. “’hen its cus- '
Itodinn learned that it had caught?
fire, IIIIIImtling t0 the report. he (ll-hf
suited the craft and disclaimed re:
sponsibi lity The partv said to nine
gone to the beach in the boat wast
(njmin: the bathing according to
the story.
Nothing can be done by the au-
thmitles until a complaint is m-uie.
The hull is now high on the heI-‘II I
$14, III'I‘IISIIIIIII
IIIIIII HUME III
N. I. want
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Miss L. S. Parsons’ Summer
Dwelling In Maine Robbed:
thile Occupants Sleep
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KENNETH NR. Maine, Aug 26. _.
he police weIe informed yesterday
that. cash and jeWIelIy to the value of“
.514, 000 had been stolen from the sum
in?! home here of Miss Llewellyn S.
Parsons of No. 763 Fifth avenue. New
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while the occupants were asleep.
The im entory of the stolen jewelry
furnished to the authorities listed a'
:I'iiauiond and sapphire ring valued at
$6, 000. a peail and diamond necklace‘ barn. An automobile find some buy the highest grade automobile tires and Columbia
Aug 26.-—Rail valued at $5 000 anti many tings and. was destroyed along with the burn.
pins The silIer in the dining room
was not touched.
The police are investigating reports
that an automobile party was seen
near the house Sunday morning act- ‘
ing in a manner to arouse suspicions.I
The Parsons family is occupying
the noose and among their guests
Vanderbilt W'ebb of New York. Iw ife‘i
of Captain Vanderbilt Webb (37“
NEW YORK, August 26th. —
Miss Llewellyn Parsons and her
sister Miss Frances Nott Parsonsa
the daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs.I
Charles Parsons. of New York. Their
house here is closed. Miss Llewellyn
Parsons is a member of the Colonyi
Club. Their brothers are Robert WJ
Parsons. of New York and Summer-
ville, S. C.. who married Miss Aflce P.
Rent}. and Henry H. and George C. '
Parsonsc who occupy the old family ‘
home at 99 Park avenue Their‘
house, also. is closed for the summer.‘
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EMPLOYEES HELD FOR
STON IN G OFFICE BLDG.
STONINGTON, Aug. 26. —John A.
O'Connell and Daniel R. Shes. strik-
ing linemen of the Shore Line Elec-
tric Company, were held lor the Supe-
rior court on er bonds of $2,000 each
when Deputy Judge Fair-brother found
probable cause at a noticing in the
Town court yesterday. The men were
alleged to have stoned. the Coupwell
street office; building of the MI
Railway in Puma, nus-I'm
day night; mid-
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t storm late Sunday night Igrowth 0‘ the city
I about. $1. 200. r
Wilson having laid down in his doci-
Ision yesterday on the demand of the
railroad shopmen for increased
wages the policy that settlement of.
such demands must await restoration
of normal economic conditions. inter-
enti , est centered today on what response M "I "‘9 ““1" 0'“? on
a! the men would make to the
Pros;-
dent' s appeal that they co-operate in
maintaining a "‘iruce' in all “age
The first indication of what
course the men would pursue «as ex
pected in an announcement from
-their representatives here who con-
tinued in conference on the question
with Actim: President Jewell of the
Railway Employee' Department of law
American Federation of Labor. 4
Continued on Sixth Page
IIIIIITNINR STRIKES
IN ITIIIIMANTIE
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Bolt Hits Woman and Barn'
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Sixty Feet Away at the
Same Ti
“’11 l lMANTli‘. Aug. 26— A bolt of
Ilightning worked in a ireaki sh man-
me
at South.
“'indham. when a woman was burned'
by the flash in her home and a barn
sixty feet distant was not on fire and?
burned to the ground. About 9'
o'clock lightning entered the James
home on Machine Shop Hill. South
“'indham. and burned Mrs. James on;
the legs and charred oilcloth on the‘
kitchen floor. Dr. T. R. Parker of
this city. was sent for and while ren- ’
attracted hi
I bright light outside. which was fromtfi
the barn on fire. This happened one;
.hour after he was sent for.
Facing Situation Which May
Afieit Life Nation More.
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BNNIIS my
fc , ,- , -
I508?" to?“ M 1' . , '
t on o 3100 in , .. _
macaw-(II cub. ”3'3.”
the olice of the_ "b
robben. .
The robbery occurrod
the be
it»... Saturday a nu» re
opening of the villus mom.
tag The crack-monor- Mia
the two iron door- so the I
had been left .
other two: in tho lot.
the inner vault m '
ling through brie! in!
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have had I. koyto {ht-om“ of I
”'7" “Similar Strip to a Custom
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and Wetland:- y
TIIII REAR IT I
INTIIESENT‘INEI ‘-
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moons!
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ins-fortheSoleTlIisAf-
INMTAZBWNH
' unison
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ing I smell Info. The
dial of this sale was
the safe forced open.
The bonds. met! by More: of
the company who were "in: for
them by installments. bl boon pine-z
out and:
This.
:wiih other facts not . was
said to indicate to the oticials
that the work was done it some our
familiar with the office.
NITRI’IAIII NINTH
TIRE STII: WIT
Opportunity to Invest in L0-
cal Industrythat Nets 7.21
Per Cent.
Maples a: Goldscbmidt. the W’isshinx
ton street brokers. are offering 0:111. 500.-
00 Sorwalk Tire 8: Rubber
seu’n per cent accumulative pre merr:d
stock at 897. per share and accrued
dividends to yield 7.21 per cent mak
ing one of the most. attractive invest-
ments that people of Connecticut could
secure. The financial statement of the
companI proves it to be one of the
soundest In this section. and should.
be read by eI eryone interested in the
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The Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co. is
a corporation organized under the will“ the Columbia Grnphopbone during the past two years Rev Fa-
laws of Connecticut with general of-
fires and factory in this city and tip
chief products are automobile tires and
'inner tubes. it was incorporated in
IMarch. 1914. and began manufnc: I~ur,
Iinz the following August when its pro
duct found it ready market for the
reason that the officers of the company
The house doting medical treatment the doctor' Md previously been engaged in ‘ like" the company: employes. it is
a I business successfully thereby properly have expressed themsehes
iting them to administer to the needs
of the new company in their various
'capacity This. together with the es-
helghing
’Dugdule’s Car Smashed in
1 S ’ “Injured Joseph
I~ {Wot Rockiess
u 81* ,IIIAsg.I25.~—stid Bar-
..nn, of sup-venue. and Ulysses
8:“ we met. I'sro at their
no...» ' ,» .injnrios. m
- m . «figured. N. 1.. i.
.11qu , ‘byntbs moratorium.
«cm? which. , .ourly Sam
M btrtljg‘ ’ or at Richmond
mil (MI 0 avenues Duly
litmus
IitiiIIIIIIIIiIII
m‘.
mm Cen-
“I" rus Ill
effluent
will. be brought boron Judge Young.I
Width violatingi’tbo motor ve
tibial".
. “no two injured yeti; men were
riding monuments“ owned and
drives by John We. of Nbibton
They were being to“ to
homes; m can: fun: the lire
en's cor‘livnklt NM; whentbey
two Cents 3 Pound
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From all truncations. bacon will. be’.
the main inaction on the breakfasti
menu in the majority of Norwslkl
homes tomorrow morning. and. us the i come It: My. in n tour!“ our The
old saying goon. in part, "We'll hovel
bacon and eggs. if we can get
eggs.‘ Since nine oclock lust even-t
ing City Hall has taken on the aspect:
of a butcher shop and even one I
from the mayor down employed
therein are either talking "bacon" orlI
eluted in the task of opening cases,
the strips and getting
everything in readiness for the open-
ing of the sale at 4; 30 this afternoon.
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STRIKE ARAINST
RRAPIIIIPHIINE E0.
WILL BE EIINTINIJEII
Bridgeport Employees atI
Mass Meeting Decide Not?
to Return ‘
BRIDGEPORT. Aug
26. —Tbo strike
Company bv its employes will bet
continued. A vote was taken to this
effect at a meeting yesterday after-'
noon by employes affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. This
action followed a similar vote by,
members of the W. l l l‘.. taken yes-
terday morning More than half of,
said.
on the
question
-Members of the “'orkers’ lnterna~
tional industrial Union. who are
There was no chance to save th'eI ”“5th 5'3”?" 1’0"“ 0‘ producing among the. former employes of the
‘the total loss being estimated at
Members of the James
family said today that they were un- .
aware that the barn had been struck
by lightning and believed that theI
.liglitning that entered the house:
struck the burn. the interior catching;
fire and not being discoveredp untilrt it'i
, .III tl‘lllball system and Saturday night—were Mrs. W. Seward‘ broke through the roof The
inCTude “ebb and he” daughter-In I”? MP5- ‘ belongs to John Ross. of Boston. naI
former South xWindbam resident.
25P E. INEREASEIN ‘
RAIL RATES SEE
Will Come When U. s. Gives
Up, Elliott, Says
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-—lncreaso
of at least 25 per cent. in railroad
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'rstes. provided there are no more
wage increases or higher material
costs, will be necessary when the
carriers are returned to private oper-
ation. the House interstate Commerce
committee was told yesterday by How- ,
ard Elliott. president of the Northern:
Pacific Railroad.
“Would a 25 per cent. increase solve
the problem for the whole country? ..
asked Representative Sim- (Team) |
“I think it would. " responded Mr.
theI
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Elliott. adding that hop
rate increase to the continued pay-
ment of the Government mmtoedi
hounfionoroin Mom
.a number of lacerations about the
MLH.
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IIIAIIIIs nuns .
HITBYAITTIIMIIBIIE
Char ed with reckless driving, Ray-
mond Brady. of Franklin avenue
chauffer for the L. S. Shipping Board
at Wit so'ns Point, was arrested by
[Chief of Pali'co “’illium R. Penning-
tz3 300 'cle yesterday after-
noon3 and latgr released on $500 bond:
furnished by Samuel Roodner of this'
city.
While driving a Ford car.- register
76214—Conn.. up South Main street
Brady attempted to pass on the
wrong side of a trolley-car Icoming
out of Woodward avenue; in so do—
ing, be struck Charles Paul. 118 South.
Main street. who had just alighted
from the. trolley. knocking him to
the ground. When passer-shy went
to the unfortunate man's assistance,
he was unconscious and bleeding from
the mouth and nose. Ho was immedi:
ately rushed to the Norwalk Hospital,
where Dr. F. Brill-own found that lie
was snifering (mill 1 broken leg and
head. It was an hour before he recov-
ered consciousness. This morning
the hospital officials reported that he
IVisioningulongaiifillucould be
expected.
Brody’scue macheduled to come
“(wound-smashed”
Iasking the company not
anhophone Company
voted not to endorse the letter draft-
ed to be presented to the management
to leave
Bridgeport. These former strikers
number possibly two thousand. The
others. or about four thousand. ~are
utiliated with the Federation of La-
bor. They will meet later in the day
and are expected to endorse the let-
ter.
Divided action on the part of the
former strikers. in the opinion of
some labor lenders. makes uncertain
the attitude of the company on the
question of removal of the plant. It
had been understood that, the‘com~
party's answer to the request of the
former employes was to be deter,
mined by the- latter's vote in mass;
meeting The employee are in two;
factories. however and if those in theI
industrial Union insist upon a refusal
to endorse a compromise agreement
it may rionn that the plant doors will
remain closed.
Plush—{man READY
FOR ANOTHER RIOT
PITTSBURGH Aug. 26—A call for
1.000 emergency policemen to aid the
local police force in handling the trol-
ley situation bone was issued today
by layer E. V. Bubcock. This action
fanned a conference lustbnigbt be-
twoen cit; oflicinls who sought to
provent o recurrence of rioting yer
terdol'. when the receivers of the-
Pittsburih Street Railway Compost}
attempted to break the strike of 3,000
mum
lemmas-cored”: who?
um r the sweet,
' one-half.
.Nfli
were port- 'of the orchestra that may-
od for dancing
Tho m automobile was going
south. on 'th' avenue. Sud
dent; dawn Richmond Hill avenue
automobiles collided in the center of
Tho Von! runabout cur
tying tho musicians. was buried
against a stone wall of the cemetery;
at the. corner of Greenwich avenue.
The wall no well as a wooden gate
were broken and the automobile land I
'ed in the cemetery badly smashed
Barron and Sister were thrown out.
Dugdsle the driver narrowly escap-g
ed injury. Barron was sent to the
Stamford Hospital «there bruises in
Ina-Inuit were «was. Inn was token
, to his home yesterduy afternoon. Slu‘
' ter is in bed, angering from the ef~‘
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feels the accident.
brought ”to headquu'tors
was placed under arrest
SAT PRIIIIIRITIIIN
IS A ERIN] THINR
MlDDLETOVVV. Aug. 26 ———DeleI
gates to the state Convention of the:
Connecticut Total Abstinence l‘nionj
ay took up business details aftet at
tendonce atIa solemn high mass of
requiem for members who have died
Duffy
where
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("Ir J J. Fitzgerald. the president. I
made his annual address. touching par. 1
ticulnrly upon the advent of problbi I
tion.
State Secre ryank J. Kinney in
his report sai thatIJailures of socie.
ties to pay the per capita tax in 1:18.
has decreased, the membemnip fully
Mr. Kinney jilso referred to
the coming of prohibition saying in
“The few inmates of our court
ty jails. the decrease in the calls 0
public charity and the added comforts'
being supplied in the workingman
home even at this early date shown
that the conutrvwide wave of semi
ment agatnst the use of alcohol as a
beverage has fully justified itself. " IieI
also said that a great work lies ahead;
of the society‘s members and suggest I
ed that- the society take a standI
against” the use of habit-forming'
drugs.
Secretary Kinnev said
convention was held in 1918 owing to
the war; only thirty local societies had;
made returns for that year while fifty
two of the one hundred and twelve so-I
clothes which were enrolled in 1917 I
have failed to make returns for both
1918 and 1919. Standing out in con-
trust with this situation. however, is
the Young Men's society of New Brit};
sin. which increased its membership I
to 713 and has paid a per capito tax on
698 members.
Secretory Kinney reported a list of
societies in good standing and those
who may be dropped for failure to
make returns. He also gave a. brief
review of the national convention of
the Catholic Tow Abstinence Union
held’in Hartford recently.
lililliEYMEN III
IIIIIII STRIKE
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 26.——lndics-
tions were that the total vote of trot
laymen of the Connecticut Company
would be authored in here today and
counted by tugxecutlve committee of
up. It his in den... on an
that as no}
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m mammoth-OWL
um
their . ,
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1 and also that the Bolshevikl bod boon
I pence treaty. -
AIIIED TORRES, .
NOW mum, A
use, its
'fllirty. Vessels #Bomw
C For‘l'wonylm
tljetyBobbeviki WI.
ANSTRIAN PEAEE L
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Serbia Will Not Sock Spec“
Privileges, But .Wunts. In-
ternational Justice
LONDON. Aug. 26.—Occupatim.ot
Odessa. chief Russian port on on
‘Black Sea. by allied toms-sis adult?
ted in n Bolshevik Government Wire-
less message from loam received
here today. The occupation was of-
fected. the dispatch states. after thir-
ty vessels had bombarded the cityfor
.two days.
On the Russian northwestern front.
according to the Soviet statement. the
Bolshevik troops are advancing in the
region of Pskov. havi already pro-
grossed to within t rec and a bolt
miles of that city.
Shortly after the Bolshevlk men-
use was recciv confir'mntion' m
given in ofl’icinl (routers hereof-{bu
occupation of Odessa. A man voi—
unteer army. it was noted. dI-occo-
[tied the city. The Boishevi retired
in the direction of Balm. 120 miles
northwest of Odessa.
Previous advices stated thnt Uk-
troops had captured Odoosu
driven from Odessa by the “co.
PARlS. Aug. 26.—Discussiou of the
Austrian PeaCe Treaty was continued
by the Supreme Council of the Peueo
Conference this morning.
There was no session of the council
Ithis afternoon as Premier Clo-mono
eau‘s official duties required his nt-
tendance at the Chamber of Deputies
meeting.
BASLE. Aug 26 ~Rumaninn mili—
tary authorities have discovered in
the archives of the Hungarian Por-
eign Ministry. 3 telegnrn from Otto
Bauer. former Austrian State Secre-
tary. intrusted with the mammal".
of the State Bureau of Foreign Af-
fairs. to Bela Kun former head of the
Hungarian Communist Government.
asking him to destroy all documents
relative to the delivery of arms by
Austria to Kimmy. aim to u
Budapest dispatch.
BELGRADE, Monday. Aug. 25.—
Announcing the Governments policies
today. Liouba Dovldovitch. the new
Premier, said: “Serb“. in the‘ in-
pending reorganization of the Balkans
«would not seek special privileges, but
would base her cloim upon tho pm
ciples of international inflict".
“Serbia, nevertheless. must defend
to the utmost her just demands.
whereIer they are threatened." be
said. “When peace is concluded.“-
bin should pursue a policy of loci»
Icnl confidence. with her neighbors“
Iand cultivate intimate friendships.
Czecno-Slovakis and Poland cook good
Lrelations with us as do Greece out
Rumnnla."
Detailing a wide domestic program.
he announced that s. notional defence
force Would be created
PARIS, Aug. ZSI—The hunch, Par.
liament today begins the final stucco
of its consideration of the Page
Treaty with Germany. Committees of
both the Chamber and Senate bun
been examining (Or some time the w
rious clauses of the documents, old
objections to clauses of the truly
have been voiced in the discussions.
The real work of considering the
treaty by the Chamber of Deputies
was expecbod to begin this uftonoa.
when Premier Ciemoncoougwlll attend
the session of that body and prooent
the document to it for ratification.
MAKE AMENDMENTS
1 T0 PEACE TREATY
W'ASHINGTON. Aug. 23.— o’:'
ate Foreign Relations
pared todnyto begin two anyo’:
work on proposed amendments to 9'
Amongtbe proposed
the bell! of the
Norwalk Chronicler