New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1917, Page 1

D‘ADS"’MEAN R BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS, RUSSIANS IN NEAR EAST IN DANGER, KERENSKY ADMITS; ANARCHY AT HOME GROWS Armenia and Possibly Part of Caucasis May < Be Lost, Minister of War Asserts * INTERNAL SITUATION IS BECOMING WORSE Italian Advance on Carso Plateau Ad- mitted by Austrians, Who Clatm to Have Blocked -Efforts of Enemy at Other Points—French Advance in Chevreaux Wood—British ~ Hold Germans'Off. Petrograd, May 25, via London, 2 p. m.—Minisier of War Kerensky, speaking at Helsingfors before start- ing on his tour of the front, referred to the military situation in Asia Minor, '} of which the official news agency t ‘quotes him as saying: “There is danger not only of losing Armenia but possibly part of the Cau- Londvn, May 25, 1:10 p. m—The Agrarian disorders, wholesale confis- cation of.property and other danger- ous symptoms of an anarchy which followed the overthrow of the old au- thority in many important industrial . .centérs ‘and agricultural districts of central and southern Russis are be- coming more serious, aceording to de- spatches from yarious points. ln many e::;l fluwt'aldhn. by utq mpt on, ‘e succeeded in :m ng revol The luu m_-.»" lnupflh. . London, May 25, 5:15 a. m.—A.n of- " Aclal statement issued by the Austrian “®war office on Thursday admits Itallan advances on the Curso -plateau, but ‘= vere repulses upon their' assallants - elsewhere. The statemeft follow: “Since noon yesterday the battle of' the Isonzo again has bean raging with extraordinary stubbornness. Masses _of the enemy & furious onset * against our whole tront for forty kilo- meters from Plava to the sea. At s 4 many points the battle was uninter " .. rupted during the night. In ‘the ‘re- glon' of Montecucco, near Vodice and Montesanto, & storming attack was made in the afternoon. All'the de- tachments which advanced east of s Montecucco became victims of our fire. Near Vodice the enemy’s attach " was broken by the bravery of our in- . fantry. Near the Convent on Monte- santo the enemy succeeded in crossing i: our trenches, which were ruined by hlj drum fire.. He was met by prompt { reinforcements and driven back on his reverses and with them down Ur- ‘wen ridge by our artillery. At the same time two mighty as- saults east of Gorizzla failed, partly under our artillery fire and partly aft- er hand to hand fighting. “There was flerce and obstinate fighting for the much contested. battle fleld on the Carso plateau. Our po- sition here and the terrain behind them were under the enemy’s drum fire from guns of all calibres near dawn. Near noon the first = enemy attacks at Castagnievezza and were repulsed. A powerful Italian attack against the entire front on the Carso plateau began in the afternoon. Be- tween Fajti and the sea the enemy sent succeeding waves agalnst our line. Whenever one wave collapsed another followed. Thus the struggle continues undiminished in violence. The enemy has only gained ground protecting Jamiano, where he had withdrawn our troops one kilometre. Otherwise we maintained our ' posi- tions victoriously to full extent every- ‘Wwhere.*” Italians Sweep On. Rome, May 25, Via Londan, 6:47 #. m.—ltalian tmo- engaged in the Offensive movement’ south of Gorizia have captured the fortified forts north of Jamiano the war office announced’ #7% tedsy.. -The Italian positions have ; <is.. bpen extended still further, the an- ' ’‘mouncement adds. i@outh of Janiano to the sea the! Italians also gained ground, driving forward south of the Jamiano-Bres- | tovizza road, The battle is still raging from the +% sba as far north ‘as Plava. The! Italians yesterday and the day before . took a total of 10,245 prisoners and much war material. French Take Part of Chevreux. 74% Paris, May 25, Noon.—Part of iChevreux wood, on the Aisne front, ,Was cdptured last night by the French, (Continued On Fifteenth Page). LAW MAKERS AGAIN GATHER IN AUSTRIA First Session of Austrian Parliament Since War Began—Tisza Broke With King Over Franchise. Amsterdam, via London, May 26, 7:36 a. m.—A Vienna telegram says that in the course of ‘a meeting df the representatives of the lowér cham- ber, Premier Clam-Martinic expressed the hope that the session would pro- ceed in a manner to increase the repu- tation of the monarchy abroad. A coalition and a war profit tax law are to be submijtted. The premier admit- ted the right of the house to decide independently what 1s considered nec- ‘essary. The foregoing despatch gives the first news that the Austrian parlia- ment has -convened. The convening of parliament, which has not been in session since the outbreak of the war, has been one of the most acute po- litical questions'in Austria.. . Dr. Fred- rich Adler, the assassin of Premiler Stuergkh gave as the principal reason for-his. act the premier’s refusal to convene the legislature. / On April 26 \the government yielded to the growing popular demand and . an- nounced that parllament would meéet May 30. Premier Clam-Martinic’s address presumably was delivered at & preliminary. A Budapest despatch received by | way of Berlin says that Count Tisza, at a conference with representatives of the national labor party, declared that the prihcipal reason for his res- ignation as Hungarian premier was his attitude in regard to.the franchise question, which he outlined in an ex- haustive spesch The king would not acoept his proposals. Count Tisza said he would support the next government in any measures having to do with requirements for ‘warfare, but that he would maintain firmly his stand 0n the.franchise ques- | tiod. His speech "was warmly ap- plauded. NEW BRITAIN READY Mayor Quigley Advises. Governor Hol- comb That Organization For June 5 Registration is Now Complete. New Britain’s organisation for tak- ing the military registration of all males between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one years of age is com- pletéd, Mayor Quigley has advised Governor H. Holcomb. The mayor is how busy compiling a com- plete list of all volunteer registrars which, when completed, will be for- warded to the war department. at ‘Washington where they will be kept on official record, the mayor says, as patriotic men who, without pay, helped their government in time of need. Post cards were sent out today to all men selected by the mayor as deputy registrars and they have been requested to present themselves at *he city clerk’s office to be sworn in as officials. Today & number appeared to take the oath. Although there have been a large number of men who have signified their willingness to assist in taking the registration, more are needed, particularly in the fourth, fifth and sixth wards. Adadi- tional volunteers whose names were given the mayor up to 10 a. m. were Bernadotte Loomis, Arch ' street; George A. Stark, Maple street; Stan- ley H. Holmes, Barnesdale; Alfred B. Magnell, Myrtle street; H. E. Erwin, Forest street; Willlam F. Semple Jr., Trinity street; Willlam T. Sloper and L..B. Goldberg, Seymour street. ‘The general registration committee, Mayor Quigley, Dr. T. B. Reeks, Dr. D. W. O’Connell, J. W, Allen, Stephen Robb, A. F. Corbin and J. J. Watson, will meet in the mayor’s office late this ;mrnoon to make definite plans for une 5. “MAMMY'S” LITTLE ROSE GONE: ) White Girl Brought Up by Negress -on Way South. Chicago, May 25.—Marjorie “Del- bridge” Weatherly, 15 years old, who has been the subject of many contra- versies in the courts during the last | two years through the efforts of | “Mammy” Jackson, a cdlored woman, | to retain possession of the child, is on her way to’' Dixle today in com- pany of T. F. Leak, a cousin, of Mont- Igomery Ala. Accordln‘ to the story told in court by Mrs. Jackson, Mar- i jorie’s mother before she died in i Montgomery fourteen years ago placed | the child in her care, and she kept her ’untll about two years ago, when the {’uvenllo court here took possession of er. “Mammy” Jackson appealed to higher courts and the case is now in |the supreme court of this state, APPROVE DAYLIGHT SAVING, i Hartford, May 25.— Govebnor Hol- comb and the Council of Defenge, It way announced today, have approved of the daylight saving plan. 3 A an NEW BRITAIN/ CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1917. REAGH COWPRONISE ANERIGAN GOLEGE |ENGLAND IN NO DANGER O ON NEWS CENSOR Conferees Agree to Report on More Liberal, Restncflons Jury Will Decide Whether Published Articles Are Of Value To Enemy. Report Also Favors Allowing Presi- dent to Declare Export Embargoes. < Washington, May 25.—Conferees on the espionage bill have drawn a so- called modified newspaper censership section which will be brought before .congress with the influence of the administration for inclusion in the pending bill. It must be accepted by :;yfih .houses .to become part of the The wording of the new -ection confines prohibited publication ex- clusively to military information and retains the provision that a jary shall decide whether the pubished informa- tion is .useful to the enemy. It is aaml(:;red ahmuch more 'liberal sec- lon than others. previousl; by the administraxt)ion ¥ Rrogosed The conferees also agreed on the the senate amendment to empower the president to declare export embargoes. It i designed to prevent shipments of supplies to Germany through neutrals. The agreements will be formally pre- sented tomorrow. : Sentiment among members of the nnm finance committee considerin; the war revenue bill was said today to be strongly in favor of reducil the tota] amount carried in the bill @s passed by the house from $3200,- 000,000 to about $1,250,000,000 4nd of raising the difference by short term bonds. Most of the committeemen are un- derstood to take the ground that the house levy is too great a burden ‘to be borne this year by business. The committee niready has agreed upon a number of changes in the bill and ‘was expectcd to consider further revisions today. Indications ‘are ‘that the eommittee draft of the bill will be ready for the senate’s consideration within ten days. <NEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED. B. and W. Tracks. Newmarket, N. H.,, May 25.—Joseph Smith of Boston and Edward Watson of Everett, both negroes and members of- the sixth regiment, Massachusetts National Guard, were killed today by a passenger train on the Boston and Main railroad near here. The men ‘were evidently walking along the tracks. i SANG “TIPPERARY” AS TRANSYLVANIA SANK Soldiers Line Up on Deck and Bid Deflance to Death and the ' Submarine. London, May 25, 2:40 a. m.—Sur- vivors of the torpedoed transport transylvania, who are now in BEng- land, say that the vessel was struck Dby the first torpedo at 10 o'clock in the morning. The 8hip was greatly damaged but the engines were un- injured and the captain trted to reach shore, several miles distant, in the hope of beaching the vessel. A quar- ter of an haur later, a second torpedo hit the engine room and the ship was brought to a standstill and began to settle. The first torpedo is believed to have killed a large number of men and the second caused the death of most of those in the engine room and stake: hold, working the machinery, put out the electric lights and tore away a large part of the side of the vessel. It alsg struck a loaded boat, blowing it to pleces. ‘All the boats were rapidly lowered, the nurses aboard embarking first. The saldiers, who were lined up-on deck, shouted jocular farewells and sang “Tipperary’ 'and other soldier sONgs. Dex;oyera raced to the rescue and worl energetically until crowded to capacity. with. survivors; geveral of whom were injured. “ Accounts of the rescue work differ. Some say- all wha survived the ex- plosion were ‘saved, and another ac- count claims that owing to the lumpy sea and the dangerous position of the steamer a party of about 150 ‘soldiers could not be rescued. All accounts indicate that the great bulk of the casualties was due to the' explosion of the torpedoes and that none of the nurses was lost. The ship sank fifty minutes after the second torpedo struck her and' the survivors were landed at a port where they were given a sreat reception. Captain Buell, who jumped into the sea when the decks of the ship were awash, was picked up in an exhausted condition and died in a hospital. One of the nurses says that the lifeboat In which ghe embarkéd was much overcrowdeil and constant bailing was necessarv, owing to the rough sea. = She was| washed overboard but swam back. The occupants of the boat were res- cued by a destroyer after two hours l at sea. Some of the men swam ashore. MEN NEARING FRONT Fist Combeant orgs Leaes | — STARVATION, SAYS PREMI rand Hflflqfllflm in France | CIVIL WAR VETERAN INVENTS |Kaiser Doomed BAR MILITARY INFORMATION|OFF FOR THE AISKE DEVICE TO DETECT U-BOATS| 2ppointmeat It Many Originally Intended to Go Into Ambulance Service, But Decided .t Enter War When United States Was Drawn In. 4 From' a Btaff Correspondent of the Assoclated Press, Grand Headquarters of the French Army in France, May 24—The first American combatant corps went to the front today under Captain E. I. Tinkham and Lieutenant Scully of Princeton. Captain Tink-: ham won the war cross at Verdun. It was 'a proud moment. when the first detachment of the American field service, ‘consisting mainly of Cornell ! undergraduates, departed for Aisne battlefield. - They were armed with carbines, attired in khaki uni- forms, and drove five-ton motor cans, As they lett, the stars and stripes floating over the cantonment in an his- torie French forest, spread out in-the breeze, and other contingents cheered théemron their way. Clarence Mackay presented the camp with the Ameri- can flag which now. flies beside the tri- color. The correspondent of The Associat- ed Press watched other American sections drflling in preparation for ac- tive participation in the fighting: Among them were detachiments from Andover, Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, ‘Chicago and Williams colleges, while a large hody ' from: Princeton was awaiting organization. Lieutenant Daly, captain of ‘the Yale faotball team of 1910, with Lieutenant ‘William Taylor of New York, was busy. putting one section into shape while Lieutenant Kennedy superintended an- other. Men Display Aptness. French officers and Lieut. J- W. Os- thelmer of Philadelphia, who won his rank in the French army in which he enlisted at the outbreak.of the ‘war, have: been dppointed imstruetors of the Americans at the - central’ .training school. ‘Some sectlons are drilled ac- cording to the French method and others according to the American. All officers- attached “to, the oum express the uunofl m “with-the. 1 task. They all are’ nfl. many of them civil en‘lnoar-, an they show an adaptability to meet any circumstances. Most of them intend to serve with the American Ambu- lance Corps but selected the fighting corps after the United States decided 0 enter the war. They have already been undergoing, some of the hard- ships of campaigning, sleeping in tents in the forest encampment, but they know that this war is no de and entails the hardest and most trying work day and night with many pri- vations. The military fashion of taking meals in France has been somewhat changed to meet the requirements of the Americans. Breakfast, which is scanty for ‘the Frenchmen, has been augmented and the hours of other re- pasts have been modified. " A French officer of high grade told the Asso- clated Press correspondent that. the arrival of the Americans was greatly appreciated and that he was confldent that they would render an immense service to the Allies. Paris, May 25.—The third military transport section of the American fleld service .left yesterday for.the fleid service. training camp at the front under command of Horton Kennedy of Hanover, N. H., last year's Dart- mouth’s football manager, and F. J. Dussossoit, ‘who was captain of tHe Dartmouth téam. The section in- cludes 20 Dartmouth, 4 Yale, 5 Har- vard, 3 Johns Hopkins and 2 Chicago University /men, and one each from Columbia,/Willianis and Michigan. Raymond Harper of Princeton, John Heilbuts of Paris and James Austin Liddell, of° Newton ' Center, Mass., belonging to the field service, have just received the war cross. Lid- dell 'was cited for an act of bravery occurring on the first day of his serv- ice at the front. His car was hit wev- eral times and his uniform shot through while he was taking wounded from the fleld under heavy Ohemn;. | BRIFISH IN BOSTON. C Bonnn, May “26.—Members of the Pritish labor delegation accompanied by Judge Maurice Ames, munition ex- pert of the Balfour mission, and Joseph Davies, private secretary to Premier Lloyd George, were enter- tained here today. The arrangements includeéd visits to the plants of the Edison Eleétric 11luminating Company in ‘this city and a luncheon at the clty club. MARSHALL FIELD PROMOTED. Chicago, May 25.—Marshall Fields, said to be the Wwealthiest young man in America who recently enlisted as a _private in the first Illinois cavalry, has won his Arst promotion. He to- day becamc sergeant Fileld. P W S WEATHER. Hartford, Conn., May 25.— For Hartford and vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday. the | ;| speech of Premier Ribot. GIVES HOME FOR USE OF LOCAL RED CROSS| Headquarters on Court Street for Work. - William H. Hart has offered his house on Court street, rent free, to the Red Cross as permanent head- quarters after the campaign of May 28 to June 6, for relief work. This will insure commodious, sunny" and central headquarters with which. the ladies of the city are greatly pleased. It will be opened up as soon as possi- ble and equipped with' cutting tables, sewing machines, etc. The ladies who generously volunteer to do Red Cross ing will then always be able to meet at the same place for their work and will not have to _meet in the various churches. Following is a list of, .additiopal membership campaign teams, not hergtofore published:— Lawyers, doctors and dentists: M. D. Saxe, Mrs. M. D. Saxe, Abraham Gorbach. Mercantile committée: W. W..Le- Jland, Antoni Cieszynski, . John 8kri- tulsky, D. S. Segall, S. W. Menus, E. M. Beecher,.W. H. Crowell, C. H. Barnes, J. M. Halloran, H. C. Wilson, G. H, Dyson, A. A. Mills, G. K. Spring. A. P.-Abbe, H. L. Mills, 8."M. David- son. . Corbin_Screw - Corporation: Goorze Spear, Edward M. Pratt, George, B.| Christ, M. C. North, L. M. Bancroft, Frank - Rliey, ‘Edgar Wood, ' Herbert “Annear, Charles Rosen, John Miller, Charles Bonol, Dwight Littlefield, O. Nelson, John Renehan, Thomas Egen- ton, Charles Barrows, Fred Suneson, John = Hanrahan, _James Parsous, Charles Johnson, Mcthael -Cosgrove, & ., Charles ' mlty. A ok, Jo Yeamans, Trnut & Hine Manufacturing com- vany: G. W. Traut, Edmund Starr. The business headquarters of the Red Cross during the campaign will be in W. L. Hatch’s office, City hall. MAY NOT REBUILD FOUNDRY P. & F. Corbin May. Decide to Trans- | fer Plant to Park Street Property— Loes Is Still Undetermined. Adjusters are still at work on the loss in the fire which destroyed the annex of the P. & F- Corbin company Monday evening, and it is. expected that early next week the total damage will be determined. Plans of the of- ficlals have been utilized within the past few days in getting preparation made for the output of necessary moulds, and already a number of the workmen employed in the burned fac- tory have been returned to work in the Park street plant. Those not cared for so far are receiving thelr daily compensation as usual. One of the leading omehlu was in- terviewed today regarding the future plans of the company in regard to the reconstruction of the burned area. He stated that it was possible that the proposed new foundry may be located on Park street next to the present brasgs foundry, reaching from the end of the building on the north side of the street to the Sparks property. TO RECRUIT AMBULANCE HANDS. Boston, May 26.—Enrollment of volunteers for seven ambulance com- panies and seven ficld hospital com- panies, New England’s quota of the 18,000 . sanitary troops in the first army of 500,000, will begin here tonight under direction of Major Ge- orge Osgood, chief recruiting officer for the units in the northeast. Two thousand men are needed, including officers, automobile mechanics, hospi- tal orderlies and clerks. GERMAN SOGIALISTS 0 MEE Convention,T If Permitted, Will Be . First _of Kind Since War Began. Declares War Must Go On. Copenhagen, via Londan, May 285, 7:56 &. m.—The Berlin Vorwaerts an- nounce that a national German socia- list convention has been summoned for August 12 at a place not yet decided upon.” The- convention, if permitted, will be the first of its kind held during the war. ! ' The Vorwaerts declares that no Ger- inan, after the horrgrs of the three years of'war, could think of purchasing paece. 'on tte terms indicated in the The Vor- waerts, which is the socialist organ, asserts that rather than this the war must last for another three years. .| Bases Hopes For \ Commander Woods of Stan-| tory On Subm: ey Post Makes Impression - on Naval Cossulting Board | REFERS TO FOE in New York. THAT SATED'E = | New Britain may play an active part fi d Geors A(tmhd'ge: in determining the result of the great world-wide war through an-in- vention. of Spencer H. Woods, com- mander of-Stanley Post, Grand Army of the Republic. 4 Mr. Woods spent the nut.er part of yesterday in conference with the Naval Consulting Bodrd in New ‘York, explaining his invention, which, he says, if usedin harbors, will tell of London, May 2§, 1:30 p. |Rucce“ against lnbmnfln‘l‘ [sulted in a dstinct toy lour food situation,” sald , | Lloyd George today in the | commons. .t p The ‘premier said® more: blows had been dealt:thp ¥ui during the last three: any corresponding period The shipping losses . premler said, probfl.hly a reduction - from the. April In speaking of the success'of §i submarine methods he “We owe a'very considy of grdtitude to the great’ people for the efleefiv“ | they have rendered and | they have placed at our Now .that the American s7the war:it is casier ,tn ' ments_for thi cantile marine tham: u r. 'Lloyd George I'wag' no danger to" t,hq r.urvauon. +*The subg | neea cause no tear m Past Three Weeks B Results, | the. appioach ‘of submasinen. Foriob- | vious réasons; fir‘w*oo does not ey- plain his lnvgnuou in “detall but he ‘says he has tested:it ) dw-&vlfit:& cut river at Middletown' an fled with results. The apparatus not only'detects : approach of submarines but it loeates them exactly and thus makes their'de- :truction a comparatively simple mat- o T Members of the Naval Consulting Board were 80 pleased with the modcl of the invention’that they urgea’Mr: . ‘Woods to furnish a complete descrip- tion and detailed explanation ‘of the : workings of the.apparatus and report to them as soon as he has ‘done so. I patriotically, each in. his BRAZIL READY To m 'tm ‘dommon stock, then submarine is not going: wd . |l The premier's statement on! sy 4 lex Decroe rine warfare was altogether th Nl = o Lm"" and | gatistactory heard in Ens Wil 8pize All German Ships Within { months. b Viana It 18 much more Reach, . £ e to give a pul Rio Jantero, May 26.—It s stated tn | thisy Sha0 o8 4By OFC official circles that = parliament willl , " ovealing things that: order the confiscation of all German Kkept, to ourselves. All 'm ships in Brazllian ports as soon as the{ "1 0 00 are .nuklfil afficial report of the inquiry into the ” torpedoing of the Brasilian steamer prf.-t nee to theil Tidjuca, made .at Bordeau ,is ' re- M Lrl. ';’ * " ceived. At the same time parliament i O: h?lfl '::* g will decree the revocation of, Brasil's meht hay on stepk declaration of neutrality. According to the Jornal Do Com- mercio, it was decided at a meeting of the parliamentary and diplomatic commissions, called yesterday by the foreign minister to adopt the principle of revocation of Brasil's neutrality in the war between the United States and Germany and to police the south ‘At- | lantic' with the Brasilian fieet. PRIZE FIGHT RAIDED Judges, I’uhlnoldllllnd Private un—.whxmwn_m Pay Surprise Visit. Chicago, May 25.—Judges, alder- men, county and city officials and resi- dents of the fourth ward ta the num- ber of more than three hundred gave bonds early today to answer to a charge of “giving ald and comfort to a prise fight.” The fight was the tuturo of a meet- ing last night of the fourth ward democratic arganisation in its hall at 30th street and Union avenue. ‘While” some 600 . persons were watching the two local fighters pum- mel each other, the police appeared and announced that the assemblage ‘was under arrest. Many succeeded in escaping by windows, but the raiding party was able to round up more than three hundred.’ doomed’ to. disap m with a /full .sense ‘of and on beh n’t of d‘:x: \-rur idera 5 ?",}fi” Haes not mcip;‘ 'pcoplc 3 farimers i ) It Jmeans that Jf: evorvnlu‘ e . duty the Gerpian hope of t am) { the war based on subma i greatest miscalculation im: serics of miscalculations of empire. = If ‘everyone' dog tion: of the eugineers". a good opportunity for Jabor position. - That di had ended, but thére ha unrest in certain quarters.. “The governments kave th as to how- that has been he continued, “but at the sam there are some genuine ' g which assisted the - designhs terior motives. ' The o theretore ‘appointed a commis try into seven areas, Mr. continued ,and to appoint commission for each of M The government hurg.d o oh ‘services of a labor: operator and an imp son to constitute each co Amsterdam, May 285, Noon.—The Telegraaf mates burgomaster of Boltsfort, Bel and Deputy Le Mourelet of Brui have been condemned to . impris .ment in a fortress for nine ; twelve months, respectively,. for fusal to' deliver to the German:, thoritles all supplies of iron: i | avatlable to them. SUCCEEDS HOOVER. - GREEK STEAMER TOR New York, May 25—The freight steamer Odysseus ' of tons, which left New Orleans ‘Hnrch for - Marseilles, was and sunk by a Get | April 13 according to' her crew, both Am HM MI‘OW,, Beigian Rellef Commission Headcd by Dutch Citizen. Amsterdam, Via London, May 25, 7:05 a. m.—The appointment is an< nounced of Jonkheer Charles Ruys de Beerendroeck as head pf the Belgian relief commission to succeed Herbert C. Hoover.