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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY PARIS, France, January IS. The worlds greatest peace conference opened here this afternoon. The foremost statesmen of the world, representing twenty-five nations that had broken with Germany, were gathered about the green table when Premier Clemeneeau called the first session of this historic conference to order at 3 oclock at the foreign office. Questions affecting all of the iwoples of the earth, including the creation of a league of nations, designed to make war firever impossible, will be settled before the conference conifcs to an end at Versailles. President Poincare formally welcomed the envoys in behalf of France in a brief speech immediately after the conference was called to order. AVA SUING TON, I. C, January 18. A railroad strike which was declared in Cuba Thursday night has paralyzed all traffic on the Havana Central and AAcstern Railroad and on the United Railways west of Santa Clara, according to advices to the State Department this afternoon. The strike has now spread to the building trades, the foundry men and boiler makers in Cuba, the advices add. BERLIN, Germany, January 17. Aria Copenhagen January 18. Leaders of the independent socialists who are allied with the Spartaciiles claimed today to have proof that Karl Liebknecht was deliberately murdered and that he did not attempt to escape. The newspaper Freihelt demands a general strike. COPENHAGEN. Denmark, January IS. Commissioner Uritzky signed S.OOO death warrants while he was a member of the Bolshevik government in Russia, according to information from Moscow today, tritzkys successor, Bokli, was dismissed for not maintaining this ghastly average. BERNE. Switzerland, January 18. A Czech army of r00,000 men is menacing the German province of Silesia, while a Polish army of eighteen divisions is ready to invade upper Silesia, said a telegram from Breslau today. The Germans are calling for volunteers to defend Silesia. CHICAGO. 111., January . IS. Millard II. Cutter, wealthy broker and confessed forger, whose peculations may reaeli 8750,000. pleaded guilty to forgery and embezzlement here today and was sentenced to from one to fourteen years in the penitentiary.
