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» completed by James Manahan of St The Weather Generally falr. THIRTY SEVENTH YEAR, NO. KORNIL a ‘WLAN SED. FARMER'S UNIO - IN COOPERATION ciation will Handle Big Task for Organization HAGAN EXPLAINS GRAVITY OF SITUATION IN STATE Corn Especially Scarce and High —Resolutions on Grading Hear- Hearing Introduced ‘Members of the North Dakota Farm- ers’ Educational and Cooperative union will join in the purchase of seed grain, particularly corn, through the Farmers’ Euying & Selling asso- ciation, an auxiliary of the union re- cently formed with headquarters in: Bismarck. A unanimous decision to this effect was reached just before ad- journment today noon. The forenoon had been devoted to an interesting discussion of the seed grain proposi- tion, following an address by Commis- sioner of Agriculture John N. Hagan, who declared the situation in North Dakota grave. President WR. J. J. Montgomery of Tappen had told ot paying $8 in his vicinity for seed corn with a weak germination of only 85 per cent. In other seasons, he saiu, he had sold seed corn in Bismarck for only ten cents over the market price, ,but, he declared, it aever came back to the buyer at anything near that price. Former County Commissioner Rile; of Driscoll,.gave the union deloga!es Present the, mame and address $f,a jut ii concern from weep he has purchased good seed-corn at 62.50 the bushel. It was then tt @ suzges: tion was made that the iba, in or- der to prevent paying the iqng possible price, buy its seed corn in quantities through some centyal or- ganization, and President Montgo u- ery called attention -to the fact tha: the union possessed such an oyganiza- tion inthe Farmers’ Buying &/Seilins association. 4 The préstdent also announced that a state meeting of erain growers is to. be held soon in Bismarck’ for the purpose of considering the séed prop- osition, with a view to inaugurating cooperative buying. for all the: farm- ers of North’ Dakota. 8 “When We’ cooperate with joursélves we coopertte with every man,"edid Presidenf!!'Montgomery, in’ irisiéttnig upon the’$ractice as well as the fhe- ory of cooperation. ‘Whatever is good for the farmer must be good for the town, and all of its people. The time has come when we mus: coopcr- ate for our self-preservation whether we like it or not.” North Dakota members of the unicn having seed grain to sell’ were asked to communicate with Commissioner Hagan or with the agricultural col- lege. iMr. Hagan advised that the government is regulating the price of seed wheat to the farmer, and that it will probably cost somewhere between $2 and $2.25 the bushel. Mr. Hagan’s address was devoted to a review of the conferenec of grain growers and buyers held ‘here with Charles J. Brand, chief of the United States bu. reau of markets, Monday. :He read the resolutions which the farmers in- troduced there, and /these will come up for consideration this afternoon Mr. Hagan advocated cooperation, and told of some things @vhich he knew it had accomplished. This afternoon various committees will report and it is probable that of- ficers for the ensuing year will be elected. i : Arthur’ LeSueur briefly addressed the union last night, his talk being Paul when LeSweur was forced to ‘leave to catch hig train. Endorse} Red Cros: The impending Red Cross member ship drive received the hearty en dorsement of thé North Dakota Farm ers’ Educational and Co-operative un ' fon following-an interesting addres: on the work of the organization de livered at the opening of the afternoor session of the annual state convention Wednesday afternoon. ‘ne speaker was frequently inter rupted by applause, and the interest shown by representative farmers from allsparts of the state is a favorable ugury for the success of the | big drive so far.as the rural districts are concerned. Routine Business. The remainder of the afternoon war devoted to routine business, the rol call of officers, seating of delegates raeding of the minutes of the las meetings, and approval of the acts 0 the board-of directors during the las year. Much valuable discussion was in dulged in on the good of the order. T is probable that some time today the new federal grain grades, features 0 which are obnoxious to grain-grower: and buyers alike, will come up for dis cussion. ‘ secretary D. E. Shipley last night announced that a speaker represent ing the national union is to apbear it this state the fore part of the nev year, addressing gatherings at Car rington, Jamestown, Bismarck ant ' Dickinson. Business of Session. The convention proceeded satis factorily Wednesday with’the prelim inary business of the session. An ad dress of welcome by Secretary George N. Keniston, of the Bismarck Com lg a ctl A hr Lawson, secretary of the state federation of labor, today tele- graphed the strikers in St. Paul and ‘Minneapolis to return to work in view of the order for an investigation by the president’s labor commission. 293 F pre IBERY CHARGE ‘BISMARCK: AND BATTLES INVOLVING EVERYONE IK HALL CASE MADE BY STATE NEW RECORD FR EA 1 33 BELOW ZERO Farmers’ Buying & Selling Asso- Assistant Attorney General Brennan Announces Langer has Posi- Lowest Temperature for This Date TNs of Food Wasted at Various tive Knowledge that Pot of Money is Being Raised in Capital in History Weather Bureau cted with Trial. { City to Buy Some One Conne That the 300 Bismarck and Bur- leigh county people, farmers, mer- , chants and professional men, who signed the recent petition asking for a grand jury did so with the idea that this grand jury was to , whitewash Tom Hall is the logical conclusion to be drawn from Judge Nuessle’s letter to Harry A. Thompson and others who stood Sponsor for the grand jury peti- tions was the contention of As- sistant Attorney General Daniel V. Brennan this afternoon in argu- ing on his third motion for a change of venue in the state's embezzlement case against the | secretary of state. i « The state's third set of affidavits of prejudice against Burleigh con- tained copies of The Bismarck Tribune carrying Judge Nuessle’s letter denying a grand jury. Judge Coffey referred to the fact that the supreme court has held that | newspaper reports do not disqual- ify a juror, even providing he has read them, and on request of At- torney Thorp for the defense he adjourned court until 9:30 Friday morning to give the defense time to prepare new counter affidavits. amd “Information has come to the attor- ney general of the state of North Da- kota that arrangements have been made in Bismarck by which money was to reach the men who were to try this case,” declared Assistant Attor- ney Daniel V. Brennan this morning, making a charge of conspiracy to bribe in the Hall case in which the state re- newed before Judge J. A. Coffey of Jamestown its motion for a change of venue, insisting that under its “double- barreled” affidavit filed with Judge Nuessle, neither Judge Nuessle nor Judge Coffey had any recourse but to order the removal of the case to some other county or district. Attorney Thorp of Jamestown, of counsel for Hall, was on his feet in a moment, challenging Brennan to prove that Secretary of State Thomas Hall or his counsel had ever. thqught of employing money as an agency~in the trial of this case, and insisting that if the attorney general had any infor- mation to ‘this effect it was his duty to investigate. e, “We insist,” said Attorney W. H. Stutsman of Mandan, chief of counsel for the defense, “that the court name a commission to thoroughly investi- gate this charge.” “If the state has.made this state- (Continued on Page Three) ORDERS MENTO RESUME. DUTIES tion on Wire from Washington Stops Strike FEDERAL BOARD TO PROBE CONDITIONS, 1 po sar Washington, Dec. 13.—George W. (Minnesota Lawson said that if he could get his telegram through to St. Paul and Minneapolis he would get the strikers back to work by one o'clock this after- noon. He took this action on the ba- sis of a telegram Secretary. of War Baker, as chairman of the National “ouncil of Defense, sent to President Wilson's labor commission now in the west. instructing the body to stop fa Minnesota. Orders Commission to Stop. Secretary Baker, after conferring with the president sent the telegram to Secretary Wilson of the department of labor, now San Francisco. with the commission in It follows: “In view of the conflicting reports egarding existing labor disputes at 3t. Paul and Minneapolis, the presi- lent wishes you and the commission ‘o stop at the Twin Cities while re- urning eastward, to confer with the -ublic Safety commission, labor repre- sentatives, street railway manage- nents, and other parties to the exist- ng dispute there. The primary auth- rity and responsibility of the govern- ow in dealing with the situation, now axisting, is recognized; but because f federal interests which may become nvolved, it is desired that your com- nission make such informal, observa- ions as will permit an accurate un- lerstanding of the situation from rere.” Gompers Takes Part. Secretary Eaker’s action was the wutcome of conferences which have een going on here for several days. \t- the hour set for the strike, Secre- ary Morrison, of the American fed- yration of labor, was conferring with ‘abor leaders in St. Paul by tele- yhone, and Secretary Lawson, of the Minnesota federation of labor, was in sonference with Samuel Gompers. State Senator Dwinnell, of Minne- ‘ota, called at the white house today, vith B. F. Nelson, a Minnesota manu- ‘acturer, and conferred with Secretary Tumulty. At noon today, Lawson still was try- ug without success to get a telephone ‘all through to Minneapolis to give he word to call off the strike. Labor leaders claimed victory to- lay when news came that the govern- nent labor commission would inves- igate conditions in St. Paul and Min- veapolis that led to the call for a seneral walkout. Their aim, they said, had been to get government nvestigation and this news was re- yarded as virtually meaning federal ntervention. Reports from various sources indi- ated that a number of union men who! ybeyed the call for a general strike! 1t 10 a. m. was considerably less han the 80 per cent labor leaders last night predicted would go out. Some of the railroad shopmen left (Coatinaed os TOBE PERIURED Secretary of Minnesota Federa. Federal Court Jury Convicts Mc- Regi:tered This Morning NORTH COAST LIMITED DELAYED FIVE HOURS Train Arrives from East at 4:20 A. M—Trifie Warmer Weather Anticipated for Tonight This day has achieved the distinc- tion of being the coldest Dec. 13 in the 42 years’ record of the Bismarck weather bureau, whem the thermom- eter registered. 33 below at 4 o'clock this morning. As though satisfied with this exhibition, the mercury immedi- ately began a retreat, and a nine-de- gree rise in temperature had been re- Death Toll At Halifax MORE SENTIMENT THAN SENSE IN | CAMP DONATIONS Halifax, N. S., Dec. 13—The toll of the munitions ship Mont Blanc in | Halifax harbor was officially fixed to- night at 1,226, including identified and unidentified bodies and the missing. The figures, which were issued by A. 8. Barnstead, chairman of the mor- tury committee, were: .! Identified in various morgues, 476; SCHEMER TOUCHES HEARTS; dead who can be identified from ef- GETS HUNDREDS OF LETTERS fects, 225; unrecognizable bodies, 125; arena missing, 400; With the appointment tonight of ; Permanent committees the work of systematizing relief’ work for the suf- Sympathy ferers from the explosion and fire was Waehingion DART AL a garak completed. The executive committee to the public to beware of published Js headed hy Goo. H. Murray, premier stories tha: the men at the army ot Nova Bente. Jncludea inthe mem, training camps are unhappy, lone- bership of the organizations are the some, and without food and dejected, most prominent citizens of Halifax. the war department today made pub- lic a letter frpm Postmaster Wolfe, at Chillicothe, Ohio, dealing with a spe- Cantonments—Mail Laden with Letters Not Even a Soldier but Lonesome Plea Brings a Flood of cific case. ! corded by 8:30, when the government! “Last week,” the ofiQhaster wrote, thermometer registered 24. The nearest approsch to this morn- ing’s cold on Dec, 13 ‘was in 1893, when 25 below was recorded. The coldest December day on record was the 20th of last year, when the offi- cial reading stood at 42 below. Until the middle of the month, however, December, 1916, had produced very little cold weather. For continued in- tense cold it is prohable that this month will break the record of nearly a half century for the Bismarck weather observatory. i Trains Off Schedule. The: North Coast Limited, due from the epstcat, Ase last night, rolled in at 4:20;¢hid imoming. ‘The train’ was }late: out of Chicago to begin with; Christmas express and passenger busi- ness was heavy, and the terrific cold made it impossible to. keep up steam. The heating of the coaches as well as the time schedule suffered, and Pullman passengers kept the buzzers busy in an incessant call for more bed clothing. Occupants of the day coaches sat, huddled_.up. with..«!l of the over- coats and cloaks they could com- mandeer. No, 4, due from:the west at 10:04, Dowell on One Count and | was reported ‘five! hours late at For- Acquits on Another ‘ IMPORTANT DAMAGE SUITS | . TO BE CALLED, FOR, TRIAL. ‘The ‘governiteAit’s, “peridry | ‘casi’ against James McDowell, indicted by a federal grand jury in Fargo last July on two counts growing out of his testimony in former trials of Jo- seph Couture, convicted as a horse- thief at this term of the U. S. district court, went toa jury at 5 o'clock Wednesday evening, and at 8 the jury returned a verdict of guilty on one count and not guilty on the other. Axel Nelson and three others, ar- raigned for introducing liquor on the Berthold reservation, were found not guilty, and Judge Wade directed a verdict in favor of Peter Bosch, ar- of the cold wave which broke over! the Hotel McKenzie, yesterday raigned on a charge of stealing hides this region Dec. 5 was reached early | ceived a letter from his nephew and which were in interstate commerce. this morning when the mercury went/ namesake, Bob McIntyre of Minne- Adam Vetter, jointly charged with this crime, and one of the witnesses up- on whom the government relied, is in! the United States army, and there was not competent evidence against Bosch, who is a resident of Hague. The government's case against Philip Bender went on trial this after- noon, and this practically completed the criminal calendar. Probably late this afternoon or early tomorrow morning the-first of the civil cases— Annie G. Blake vs. the Great North- ern, an action for $10,000 damages growing out of the death of William A. Elake, former state humane offi- cer, on the Juanita crossing of tae Surrey cut-off last summer—will be called. Judge Lauder of Wahpeton is assisting George E. Wallace of the state tax commission in the prosecu-| tion of the case of Ruth P. Johnston versus the Northern Pacific, a damage suit for $52,769, resulting from the death of Robert Johnston on the Third street crossing in this city several months ago. LESUEUR AND) WANAAN HERE MAKING ADIGE Men Standing High in League Councils Call on Officials at State Capitol Arthur LeSueur, president of the Kansas Socialist college and general counsel for the Agricultural Workers’ union of the I. W. W., who engineered the e‘lort to contract with the farnters of North Dakota to use this orgniza- tion’s labor supply, and James Mana- han of St. Paul, former congressman at large from Minnesota, were at the capitol Wednesday in conference with state officials. Mr. LeSueur is also interested in the case of Mrs. Kate Richards O’Hare, who probably will receiv. her sentence from federal court today, having been convicted last Saturday on a federal grand jury idictment charging seditious utter- atcee tending to restrict and inter- fere with recruiting and enlistment in toe United States army and navy. sythe, Mont.; at. 8 o'clock this morn- ing, with little likelihood that much, ‘if any, would be made up. No. 3 was reported 3% hours late at 8 a. m., and No. 7 had already lost an hour. Prospects are. for slightly warmer. weather this afternoon and tonight.: ie aos 11380 BELOW AT FARGO: Fargo, N. D., Dec. 13.—Temperature took a.sudden drop from ten to thirty degrees below zero shortly after mid- night. Reports from western parts of the state indicate even colder weather there. Train service in North Dakota is demoralized on account of extreme cold but absence of snow and wind gives assurance that there will be no suffering or loss of stock. 30 BELOW AT ABERDEEN Aberdeen, S. D., Dec. 13.—Only once in the last five days has the thermom- eter registered above zero. The crest to 30 degrees below. SHIVERING AT 5 BELOW. Cheyenne, Wvyo., Dec. 13.—Chey- enne was shivering last night in a' temperature of five degrees below zero, today in one hour, and the mercury will hover between 15 and 20 degrees | below zero tonight, according to gov- ernment forecasts. REGISTRANTS NOT LET OFF THROUGH SECOND DRAFT'S OPERATIONS Mistaken Impression Prevails as to Effect of New Regulations, Board Finds The district board, whose staff is | still grinding on the first -Iraft at the ‘federal building, calls attention to an erroneous impression held by many registrants with regard to the second daft. The new draft does not excuse ‘those who have been examined and passed by the boards engaged in the first draft. They are still liable to . call, in the order of their service num- ber, providing the number of men in class one, on any particular call, is ‘insufficient to meet the demand. Thus, should there be a call for 80 men in any particular county, and should the draft one class offer but 60 eligibles, 20 of the men selected on the first draft will be summoned in order of the numbers which fell to them when their names were drawn at Washing- ton. KAISER ON FEET AGAIN Well Known Braddock Banker Leaves Local Hospital M. P. Kaiser, a leadizs Pratdock banker, has recovered ‘rom a serious operation which he recently under- went local hospital, and is spend- ing a few days with trienis in the cae City before re-urring to his j“a syndicate set of following a drop of 37 degrees! ewspapers pub- lished the story about (soldier’s name! deleted) he was lonesome, and had. never received a piece of mail since being in camp. His picture went with ery letters and parcels and 54 ordi- nary parcels. It happened he can nei- ther read nor write. Upon examina- Unless Engaged in Enemy Opera- tion, it was found 19 soldiers were sit- ting about him helping him read the tions, in ic] i mail and they had lots of fun at the’ : Which: Case: They expense of sentimental women but are Interned. §0 all the nioney and stamps en- —— closed. R An interesting feature is (— ) THEIR SYMPATHY NOT was not accepted by the army, but he rotured inate Other newspaper , articles alpng the same lines wilt . ' simply swamp the camp offices.” Washington, Dec. 13.—Austria-Hun- Postmaster Wolfe wrote that tons Garian subjects in the United States of food were wasted at. the camp dur-' most of the million or more of whom ing the Thanksgiving period, due-to are laborers and are loyal to the al- food shipments sent in by friends and ‘lied war cause, will suffer few re- relatives. -His offices handled an av- strictions as a result of war bétween erage of 2,000 bags of mail a day for ‘the lands of their birth and adoption. three days. yi. In-a@ proclamation today~declaring “Under no possible circumstances a state of war with Austria-Hungary, was the food needed,” the letter says, in. accordance with the act of con- “and of course, tons of it went .to gress, President Wilson specified that waste. The same;,.condition, only unnaturalized Austro-Hungarians, un-| worse, will prevail at Christmas un- like the Germans in this country, less the public is warned so much fodd.!!! + AW At K TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY DEC. 13, 10917. AGAINST BOLSHEVIKI 12 Hundred, of death resulting from the explosion! Evening Edition FIVE CENTS REDS CHECK COUNTER MOVE: OF COSsAeKs Battle Between Factions is Fought 300 Miles South of é Moscow . HAIG’S TROOPS REPULSE FIRST MASSED ATTACKS British Lines Hold Except on Right and Inflict Heavy Losses KORNILOFF WOUNDED, London, Dec. 13.—General Kor- niloff is reported to have been de- feated and wounded in a battle between Bilegorod and Sumu, ac- cording to a Petrograd dispatch to the Daily Mail. His capture is expected. that the extremists will capture Rostoov-on-the-Don. All signs, it is said, are that the cossacks’ ris- ing will fail and that they will join the Bolsheviki. It is probable, the dispatch adds, h the article and it made good reaa- ; ing. . “In yesterday's mail alone, he a | reiced 1,200 letters, 19 special deéliv- (By Assoviated Press.) Counter revolutionary efforts against ; the Bolsheviki appeared to have re- ; ceived a setback in the reported de- feat of General Korniloff in a battle in south central -Russia. Unofficial | advices contain the rumor that Gen- | eral Korniloff was wounded, and that his capture by the Bolsheviki is anti- cipated. | A battle has occurred near Biel- }gorod, in southern Russia, between | Bolsheviki forces and troops - under. WITH MOTHER COUNTRY | General Korniloff, but the outcome has —_—_- ; hot been established, and Petrograd advices are conflicting. The Petro- grad correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that General Korniloff was de- feated and wounded, and that his cap- ture was to be expected, A dispatch from the representative, of the Post, however, denies the reported.Bolshe- viki victory, saying General Korniloff has routed his opponents and will soon join General Kaledines at Novo Tcher- kask. 3 Divides His Troops. on The Post correspondent, who r not to send should be free to live and travel any- ceived his confirmation from an un- AC YA A'lsAwheré, except that they may notienter -named, source, sends a detailed , de- or leave the United States without scription of the battle. He says Gen-,, enemy activity may be interned. They need not register with police or post-office officials, as Germans will be required to do shortly, and are BOB W'INTVRE: HEARS ' FROM KID, NEPHEWS IN not barred from the 100 yard zones about the piers, docks and warehouses , closed to Germans, and are not re- | quired to leave the District of Colum- ia. bi The president’s motive in drawing Minneapolis High School Athletes distinctions between Germans and Austrians was described as two fold. Report Licking Fritz Greatest First, it was realized that the sym- pathy of Hungarians, Rumanians, Game of All Poles, Serians, Czechs, Slovacs and ee other immigrants from the Austro- Bob McIntyre, popular greeter at Hungarian empire, generally is not re- with the mother country in the war, and they have not been guilty of the; apolis, who, with his brother, Bill Mc-| ticed under the German war system. Intyre, former gridiron star of the serving with the headquarters com-' and coal mines consists of Austrian pany, 151st field artillery, 42nd divi- subjects that it was found practically sion, somewhere in France. impossible to administer against them Bob doesn’t think much of the the rigid regulations imposed on the French towns on the west front. He, Germans who are half as numerous j doesn’t find there the beauty he had and more individualistic. expected in the land of the lites. | The department of justice even And he doesn’t like the weather,' abandoned its former plans to register | which is over-sufficient moist, but he Austrians along with Germans because is enjoying soldiering; says the boys of the immensity of the task and the have comfortable wooden barracks administration's determination to min- which keep the rain out and the heat jmize embarrassment to the Austrians, in, and that everyone is feeling fine, thousands of whom have demonstrat- in high spirits and confident of vic- eq@ their loyalty to this country by tory. enlisting in the army and navy. William McIntyre at the time he en-| as an indication of the president's listed turned down a free scholar- qifference in feeling toward subjects ship at Columbia won by his gridiron of the dual monarchy it was pointed prowess and his good standing in the out that nowhere in the proclamation Minneapolis high school classes. He qid he use the phrase “alien enemies” writes that “licking Fritz” beats any a, was done in previous proclama- game he has yet tried. tions referring to Germans. Repeated- omega” gE pl 1 “natives, citi- HOLSTEIN BULL TAKES | ten dontzes say abjects of AUS. tria-Hungary. . GOES INTO MEAT MENU| EARLY CALIFORNIA IS DEAD NEAR KILLDEER beef when F. H. Motsiff ordered the Jobkn J. Northrup was Pioneer of animal shot because of repeated at- tacks it had made on his son Charles Many States—Long Postmaster of Community ‘and upon Alex Barclay, an employe. D. Dec. 13—John J. ‘cue with difficulty driving off the ir- furiated animal. Harry McLean, chicf enginver in! age of 79. The deceased was born charge of the operations of the Cook in Camden, N. Y., in 1839; moved to In its latest escapade the bull chased ,Charles (Motsiff onto a shed roof j where it kept -him prisoner until oth- er men on the farm came to his res- COOK CONSTRUCTION CO. PASSED THROUGH ORDEAL sia Rereat HA HED deer, N. ey Cc. AT LIFAX UNSCAT: Northrup, Dunn county pioneer, old Mrs. Mary McLean of First street} time plainsman and for years post- has received a message from her son.! master at Northrup, is dead at the Construction Co. at Wallfax, stating Sterling, Ill, in 1858, and proceeded that the property of ‘hi: mpany did thence by prairie schooner in 1859 to which cost| Pike’s Peak and Shasta Butte, Cal., off Indians and desperados en After eight years’ gold mining Har jam, teth were engased on terminal] in California, ranching in Montana construction work at Haiifax, ani at! and fruit farming in Oregon, the de- first fears were entertained for their) ceased 12 years ago settled on a Dunn safety, because of their having been ployed on the wateriror:. county homestead, where he spent his em: J declining years. ‘| permission, and those suspected of eral Korniloff had about 3,000 men | making up what is known as the “wild division” of cavaliers of St. George, “battalions of death,” and some artil- lery. When the Bolsheviki troops were encountered General Korniloff divided his army and sent one part forward by train. This was. soon followed un. by the Bolsheviki, who promptly | trumpeted a great victory. General Korniloff, however, in the meantime, maneuvered his main force near the Bolsheviki and attacked with artil- lery. Some of his opponents fied, and others surrendered or joined the Red Guard section of the Korniloff army. The remaining Bolsheviki were sur- rounded and dealt with very drasticly. No Prospect of Settlement. In a long review of the Russian sit- multi-form campaign of violence prac- uation, the Petrograd correspondent ‘of the Post says there 1s no prospect Second, such a large proportion of of a peaceful settlement and that West high school in the Mill City, is jaborers in munition and steel plants henceforth force must decide every- thing. The secret of the success throughout the country of the Bol- sheviki, he writes, is that they repre- sent the iron hand. What fs behind them is as yet undisclosed, but among the influential members of their or- ganization are men who were promi- nent in the secret political police of the empire, which once ruled Russia. These men, according to the corre- spondent, are introducing dissention everywhere. He continues: “In the last three weeks there have been taken out of the rivers and canals of Petrograd 7,000 naked corpses of persons whose deaths were sed by drowning. The inquir- h caused deaths told their own stories. A suit of clothes now-a- days in Russia is worth more than handfuls of paper money. The corpses of women had the hair cut off because it represented marketable value.” The correspondent predicts that eventually the Russians will again present a front against the Germans, adding that nothing whatsoever with- in the range of human thought that happens in Russia need now occasion any surprise.” A ‘According to the report’ received in London, -the battle was fought, be- tween Geildorod and Suma, approxi- mately 300 miles south of Moscow. The probable capture by the Bolshe- viki of Rostoy-on-the-Don, the largest town in the Don Cossack territory, is also reported, the dispatch adding that indications that the Cossack’s uprising will fail and that the Cossacks will en- ter the extremists’ ranks. In Petrograd the Bolsheviki con- tinue their effort to gain control of the constituent assembly, although avail- able returns from the recent elections show that the Bolsheviki alone hardly have a majority in the assembly. Or- ders for the arrest and trial of the leaders of the constitutional demo- cratic patty, most of whom are sup- rting the Cossacks’ revolt, have bees ‘ested by the Bolsheviki. Field Marshal Haig’s troops have met and repulsed the first massed at- tack on the western front in several days, and have inflicted heavy losses on the Germans. The attack was ‘(Coatianed om Pago Three)

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