New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1917, Page 1

i N i B ‘] { i i i ‘| HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS o a - EW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS” BETTER BUSIN PRICE THREE CENTS. PREMIER SCREAMS DEFIANCE; BRITAIN CAN'T BE CRUSHED Lloyd George Bids Germany Do Her Worst As Submarine War Is in Vain INSISTS - HIS CLAIMS ARE ABSOLUTELY TRUE Contradicts Statements by Prussians That Estimate of Sinkings Was Be- low Actual Successes—Confident of Russia’s Ability to Get Back on Its Feet, Although Situation Is Dis- Appointing. Birkenhead, England, Sept. 7.— Premier Lloyd George in a speech here today on receiving the freedom of the city declared that the whole ’Allled cause and the freedom of the world depended on supremacy at sea and that he was certain it would be maintained. German statesmen, he said, ‘had been at great pains to im- press upon their people that the sub- marine figures given out by him in the house of commons recently were inaccurate. He declared these figures were absolutely correct and that they put an end to all hopes of the enemy to win. The premier asserted he was abso- lutely convinced that the German submarine never would be able to, beat down the strength of the British empire or beat down the hopes of the ~Alllance by means of all the efforts the Germans could make with the submarine. ted in Russia. The premier said ‘that the news from Russia in the last few days had not been good. He thought when the revolution came that it would have the effect of postponing victory, but he had expected an earlier recovery. “However, through all we must ex- ercise ‘patience,” he added. Mr. Lloyd George said that the Rus-. sian leaders, all brave and patriotic men, knew that the enemy attempt in the Riga region involved the fate of the reveolution, the fruits of which they would do their best to defend. Under fire, the Russian leaders.wer repairing the machinery which had broken down and he was ¢onfident fhaet in the end they would succeed. Drew Sword to Uphold Pledge. The premier sald he repudiated with scorn the calumny that England was responsible for the war. “England drew the sword in honor of her pledged word,” he declared. Far from being despondent about ithe crisis in the eastern theater, Mr. Lloyd George said further, the people shotild look forward to Russia with hope, because she would recover amd play a. greater part yet before the war was over in saving the world from Prussion domination; “Dark ag may be the clouds in the Russian sky,” he said, “there is sun- shine on the banner of the Allies in all other theaters of war. Germany may boast of her victories in the east against unresisting forces, but she has her reply in the success of the Allies In the west, especially the recent suc- cess of the Italians. “‘America, who has now come into the conflict, has never known defeat, and on this occasion too, she, with her allies, will triumph over her foe. i wmor all these reasons I ask you to be of stout heart. There may be stony paths to climb, but we will climb - them. Our footpaths may be stained with blood, but we will reach the heights, and then in front we will see the rich valleys and plains of the new world.” ON KEUHLMANN Secretary of Germany Favors Negotiations. Amsterday, Sept. 7.—The statement that the German foreign secretary, Dr. Von Keuhlmann, is in favor of a negotiated peace is made in a dis- “patch to the Frankfurter Zeitung from Vienna, which the secrearry re- cently visited. His calm and steady manner, the dispatch says, made a good impres- slon in Vienna. CAUGHT SMUGGLING + WIRELESS OVER LINE FOR PEACE 3 Foreign Actor Arrested as Radiograph Mg- chine Was Being Taken to Germans ~ in Mexico. San Francisco, Sept.” 7.—Rudolph Lazada, an actor, is under arrest here today charged 'with conspiracy to fur- nish agents of Germany in Mexico with a wireless telegraphy plant. Lazada was charged jointly with Carlos De La Sierra, under arrest in San Diego. Federal agents sald the two men purchased a radiograph equipment here last Tuesday. An al- Jeged attempt to smuggle this across “he border at San Diego resulted in the arrest of De La Sierra. Lazada denied knowledge of the al- d plot, and was held in $5,000 PEACE IMPOSSIBLE, CARSON'S ATTITUDE Cessation of War Out of Question Till Prussia Is Crushed WOULD ONLY BE :ARMISTICE Would Afford Germany Opportunity to Invent More Deadly Machines of ‘Warfare Before Striking Next Blow, Sir Edward Insists. London, Sept. 7.—Coincident with the announcement that Premier Lloyd George will deliver an import- ant speech on the war aims of the Allies at Birkenhead today, promin- ence is given by the newspapers to & statement by Sir Edward Carson to a correspondent in which Sir Edward declares: “There is a great deal of very loose and mischievous talk about peace. Some people seem to imagine we have only to conclude a treaty with Ger- many and all will be well. But I should like to ask, what is to come then? Are the nations of the world to proceed with preparations for the next conflict—to pursue their re- searches in science to the expansion and creation of still more deadly weapons of war for destruction; to spend their resources in the creation of enormous fleets of airplanes and submarines for the destruction of un- fortified towns and the murder of the innocent women and children that in- habit them; to take advantage of the experiences gained in this war in the improvement of lethal and poisonous gases for the destruction of humani- ty? And are we to live in daily ter- ror that at’any moment another con- fiict. may arise which might almost lead to the extinction of civilization itself? “The truth is, a treaty of peace does Dot necessarily secure peace in the only sense wherein it can be of any real use to progress and humanity. ‘We talk platitudes about a league of nations to enforce peace without con- sidering conditions essential to its success, but there was a league of nations to protect Belgilum—there were solemn treaties and conventions at The Hague to apply the principles of humanity as far as possible in war apd give effect to international law. How did these avail on the outbreak of the war? Kaidser’'s Word Worth Nothing. Sir Edward then quotes the Ger- man emperor as saying there is no international law, that treaties are seraps of paper and so forth, and adds: “I have not yet seen a single sug- gestion made as to how in future these calamities are to be prevented from recurring if the lawless temper of ‘the Germans remalns unrepentant and their power to repeat their crimes remains what it has been in the past relatively to the rest of the world. President Wilson is right when he declares no terms signed by the present rulers of Germany would af- ford the slightest security for the peace of the world, and nothing is more certain than that just in pro- portion as the military defeat of Ger- many is incomplete the duration of peace will be short. Whatever terms Germany might now bring herself to accept in order to recuperate her strength for another aggression, her people would soon forget such econ- omic privations as they have had to endure and would remain convinced they proved themselves invincible,” Sir Edward asserted that “if this war is to put an end to all war, Ger- many militarism 'must be sufficiently crushed to make fresh aggression by her impossible for a long time: to come, and until it is no longer pos- sible for the German people them- selves to be deluded by the legend of their invincibility in arms.” In conclusion Sir Edward said that it was obvious that Great Brtain must carry on the war until such a victory is attained as will remove vir- tually all danger of war In the future “and any man who tries, whatever his motive be, to distract the atten- tion of the country from this goal of deliverance is the worst enemy of real peace.” LUFBERY GETS {1TH "PLANE Wallingford Aviator With Lafayette ‘Escadrille, Bags Tenth Tuesday and Adds Another Following Day. Paris, Sept. 7-—Sub-Lieutenant Raoul Lufbery of Wallingford, Conn., a star aviator of the Lafayette escadrille, fiying on September 4 and b, brough* down his tenth and eleventh German airplanes. | LAFOLLETTE BILL BEATEN Attempt to Increase Income Tax Senate Defeated by Vote of 55 19. Washington, Sept. 7.—Retention of | the war tax bill's income provisions, | raising $842,200,000, including $472,- 200,000 from individuals, was forecast today on 2 prelinnary vote of the senate, by which Senator LaFollette's amendment to increase the assess- ment upon individual ircomes to $643,651,000 was rejected, 55 to 19. Other ARE THEY \ DOWNHEARTED ? NOT A BIT! | Left to right—Gorfred Nelson, Patrick J. Malley, James McIntyre, L. Hjalmer Carlson, Matthew G. Sheppard. Five more New Britain men, chosen by the selective service act for duty with the new National Army, left this morning for the cantonment ot Ayer, Mass. Although these men, augment- ed by four from the neighboring town of Plainville, were scheduled to have left at 8:04 o'clock, they were compelled to wait at the station, as the train was an hour and 20 minutes late. Those who went today were: James MclIntyre, 36 Pearl court; L. Hjalmar Carlson, 212 Main street; Mathew Gustav Shepparrd, 131 Ken- sington avenue; Louis Gorfred Nel- son, 140 Jubilee street, and Patrick Joseph Malley, 237 Elm street. To- morrow the men who must go are: William H. McKay, Myrtle street; Willlam Krauss, 242 Main street; Robert M. Andrews, West ' Main street; Harold A. Stotts, West Peanl | street; Fred E. Butler, 48 Camp street, Attorney Henry Nowicki, 325 Main streeet; Patrick Francis Doher- ty, 213 Clark street; Bernard A. Joyce, 154 Cherry street; Harry Frank Squires, 87 Elm street, and Charles of the men Included in the first quota of 513 are becoming restless at the delay in sending them to Ayer and the following men, registered in the second district, have appeared before the board to request that they be sent away at the earliest possible moment: Edward Burke, mechanic attached to No. 2 Engine Hovse; Bernard P. Ni- emro, Fred H. Riley, Joseph J. Mc- lAvay and Gabriel F. Traceski. Their | A. Olson, 473 1-2 Park street. Many | | requests will be granted as far as | possible. Today the two exemption boards i began sending out discharge papers to those men who have been exempt- ed from service with the first draft {because of deperdents or other rea- , sons. ‘While there have been no cases re- iported yet of a bona fide slacker, the second exemption board learned today that Peter Yamisenski of 382 Church street has not received his draft no- i tice, erdering him to prepare to leave. Although the notice was sent to the jaddress he gave the board, it was re- | turned unaccepted. TUnless this man ,appears when called, he will be listed as a deserter and if apprehended will Inurter accordingly. HUMAN-FLY T0 GVE |1 W. W.PLOTTED TO CRIPPLE MONEY FOR TOBAGCO Contributions Re- ceived by Herald for ‘ Smokes for Soldiers “Jack” Williams, known as ‘‘the Human Fly,” will try to augment the fund being collected for tobacco for soldiers by exhibitions in this city on Sept. 11 and 12. Willilam will climb up the side of any building selected by the mayor or a committee and will contribute 36 per cent. of the money he collects in the street to the tobacco funds being handled by the New Britain Record and New Brit- ain Herald. ‘Williams has well earned his so- briquet of ‘““the Human Fly’ by his daredevil stunts in other cities. No wall is too steep or smooth to daunt him and although his progress is comparatively slower than the fly it | is just as certain. He has climbed washington, Sept. 7.—Reports and disclosures made to officials here in connection with the seisure Wednes- day of I. W. W. documents throughout the country indicate, it was said to- day that there has existed for some i time. a nation-wide conspiracy to hamper the government in almost | every conceivable way in carrying on | the war. ALL FEDERAL MACHINERY| Opposition to the draft law, burning of crops, some of the so-called labor disturbances and attempts to curtail productien in war. industries, reports indicate, were all' part of thte same alleged conspiracy whose prime motive was thought to be the crip- pling of the government's activities in every way possible short of interfer- ence with military and naval opera- # tions. One Officer and Two Privates Killed—Three Officers and Five Privates Wounded by Prussian Aviators. some of the highest buildingsin the ! country, in proof of which he has an assortment of photographs and news- paper clippings sufficlent to open a museum. Williams will perform on both dates at 6:15 o’clock in the evening, affording factory employes an opportunity to see his stunts. Several more public spirited citi- zens have contributed to the soldiers’ tobacco fund of which the Herald is custodian. S. M. Davidson & Co., proprietors of the Fair Twenty-Five Cent store, and A. N. Abbe, purcha: ing agent of the American Hardware Corporation, have contributed $5 each', This | and Sam Munch has given $2. brings the Herald fund to $77. can-help to; make it $100. ‘Mr. Abbe has first hand knowledge of how tobacco 18 apprectated, as is shown by his letter: The Herald Tobacco Fund, . City.- Gentlemen:— Enclosed please find my check for five dollars ($5.00) for the soldiers. I have received already twenty post cards from the soldiers in Belgium for money . that -T have forwarded to them for tobacco and the tone of these cards show how highly they appreciate gifts of this kind. It is a worthy ob- ject and I am very glad to con- tribute my mite. Yours truly, You 100 GARRANZISTAS SLAIN Mexican Federals Meet Stumming Re- versal at Hands of Outlaw Band Near Villa Garcia While Escorting Train. Taredo, Sept. T.—Reports were received here last night of the defeat and practical annihilation of a body of 100 Carranza soldiers in an encounter with bandits near Villa Garcia. Only a few wounded aped according to re- port. The soldiers were acting as a train escort from Santillo and Monterey. London, Sept. 7—The Germans yes- terday made an aerial attack on the American hospitals occupled by St. Louis and Harvard contingents, sit- uated in a coast village, killing one officer of the American army medi- ! cal corps and wounding three others severely, Reuters’ correspondent tele- AIR ATTACKS ON AMERICAN HOSPITALS | in France today. Two others of the rank and file were killed and sixteen wounded, five of the latter being Americans. Rome, Sept. —ltallan\pressure against the Austrians in the region northeast of Gorizia is becoming de- cisive, the war office announced to- day. The cnemy has suffered heavy losses for several days in his desper- ate resistance. Berlin, . Sept. 7, via London.—Ger- man cavalry has been in successful engagements with Russian rear guards at points as far as forty miles northeast of Riga in following up the retreat of the Russians northeastward from the lower Dvina army head- quarters announced today ‘English Workers Insist on Reduction i in Cost of Living. Blackpool, England, Sept. 7.—The trade union congress today adopted a resolution regretting the long delay on action to prevent the. continued rise of food' prices. - The resolution in- structs the parliamentary labor com- mittee to place before the government the necessity of purchase by the gov- ernment of all essental foodstuffs, the commandeering of - ships, the con- trolling of freights on home products and the fixing of minimum prices for food and all other essentials to life so as to serve the best interest of the nation. In case the reply of the government is not satisfactory a special national conference will be convened. In that event the resolution sets forth, dras- tic steps will .be recommended “be- cause wage advances are of no service if the cost of living rises so continu- ously.” . . John R, Clynes, parllamentary sec- retary to the ministry of food, told the congress that many suggestions had been considered and that the troubles were in a fair way' to being HSLREG —————— WEATHER. § | Hartford, Sept. 7.—Fore- st for New Britain and cinity: Fair, cooler tonight; Saturday fair, e e I ] DEMANDS FROM WAGE EARNERS | the part of the government in taking | { FAILED T0 REGISTER South Windsor Man Bound Over to dered in Bristol Case. artford, Sept. 7.—Frank Bendan- ski of South Windsor, who completed a 30 days' sentence for alt in !iSouth Windsor, today was brought at jonce before U. 5. Commissioner Car- roll for a hearing on the charge that Bendansici failed to register for the draft on June 5. Bendanski claimed that he was not 121 years old until August and there- fore did not have to register. His mother was present and said she thought Frank did not attain his 21st birthday until last month. The commissioner bound to the next term of the U court in New' Haven, under bonds of $2,500. Larry Shaffo, an employee of a manufacturing company in - Bristol, who, it is said, failed to register for | the draft on June 5, was before U. S. ! Commissioner Carroil today. The case was continued that investigation might be made and Shaffo was placed under bonds of $5,000. In default of bonds he was committed to the Hart- ford county jail. Shaffo told the com- missioner he registered in Forestville, but there does ot to be record of it him over S. district September 25, appear FIRST FROST IN VERMONT. Montpelier, Sept. 7.—The first frost of the season was reported in various parts of .central and northern Ver- mont today. | { graphs from the British headquarters | Superior Cout—Investigation Or-’| any | NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1917. —EIGHTEEN PAGES. RIBOT CABINET TO RESIGN; POINCARE ASKS FOR DEL. PETROGRAD PREPARES No Plans Made to Move Capital to Moscow— City Quiet. S B Petrograd, Sept. 7—Although in the opinion of varfous military authori- ties Petrograd is‘in no immediate danger on account of the fall of Riga, preparations are being made against the eventuality of an unexpected descent by the Germans. The tem- porary government has appointed a special civil commission with author- ity to preserve order, suppress sedi- tionary meetings, suspend the publi. cation of newspapers and where de- sirable clear the city of undesirable elements. The cabinet has decided that there is as yet no need for the government to be transferred else- where. Although there ‘are no signs of a panic, there are elements in the population, particularly members of the wealthy class who are leaving, or attempting to leave in large numbers. Many business firms are considering transferring their . headquarters to Moscow, Nijni Novgorod or some pro- vineial city. According to the newspapers the present Russian front represents the are of a circle from the mouth of the yiver Aa southeastwards about 40 miles from Riga. Dvinsk, according i to reports, still is holding but. | Newspapers of all shades of opinion, shelving other questions, comment extensively on the Riga dis- aster. The soclalist papers publish articles in almost identical terms calling on the workers to perform their duty in defending the revolution. The organ of the social democrats and minealists, the Rabotchayor Ga- zetta, appeals to the workmen not to wait for the moment when the Riga disaster will have become irrepair- able, but to close ranks immediately with iron discipline, and proceed to prompt and decisive action. The proletariat, it says, must rally around its organizations and by a vigorous effort save the country and the revo- lution. The Zemilia Volila, organ of revolutionary sogialists sayq: “History will show 6n whom lies i the blame for our military debacle. | Meanwhile the situation demands that all internal political quarrels be for- gotten and that an energetic and unanimous efforts me amde to face the enemy."” | | i the | Petrograd, Sept. 7.—No enemy ves- sels other than submarines have been observed in the Gulf of Riga, the war office announces. The Russian naval forces are ready to engage the Germans. S LEAVES $3000 TO' . BROTHER IN WILL Mrs. Fannie D. Remington Also Be- queathes $3,000 in Trust to Grand Nephew, Frederick Eldredge. By the terms of the will of Mrs. Fannie D. Remington of Grove Hill, | filed in the probate court today, the | two largest individual bequests are jof $3,000 each to the testator's brother, Willlam H. Eldredge, and her grand nephew, Frederick R. El- dredge. The bequest to the latter, however ,is to be held in trust by Mrs. Remington’s nephew, Alfred El- dredge, who is to pay it to the ben- eficiary in four installments of $750 each when he attains the ages of 26,- 30, 36 and 40 years. The sum of $100 is left to the Spring Grove cemetery association of Hartford for the care of the family burial plot and the will embodies the request that the testator be buried there beside her husband. Benjamin Macy of Milwaukee, husband of Mrs. Remington’s sister, Ella, is given $1,- 000 outright and the will further provides that the testator's crescent pin. be given to her nephew, Alfred H. Eldredge snd that he have the dia- mond set tn a ring for himself. A diamond in her husband’s stick: pin is to be given to her grand nephew, Frederick Eldredge. A pair of gold bragelets are bequeathed to a sister- in-law, Katherine B. Eldredge, with the provision that at her death they are to go to Esther Eldredge, a niece. Other personal effects, such as jew- elry, wearing apparel and household furnishings are bequeathed to other relatives and Mrs. Remington’s brother is given the use of the first floor of her house on Grove Hill for ; six months, rent free. In the event | that: the place is sold within six | months he will receive $100. ; Judge George W. Andrews, who drew the will on December 20, 1913, : A i is named as executor and at his dis- cretion payment of the bequests may be deferred for one year. HOBOKEN REJOINS U. S. Hoboken, Sept, 7.—The board of education of this city, which has a jarge German population, has voted t, discontinue the teaching of the Ger- man language in the public schools. FOR GERMAN ATTACK, i the Marne, ESTABLISHE Presidents of | Sen Chamber ‘ Telegraph to Resignations Wit ECONOMIC OSTR. Premier Says Teutons Must Consequences If They Fail 8 Off Shackles of Military racy—Poincare Sees Ameris in on Field 1 diers Action view. Paris, Sept. “The resignaf the Ribot ministry was decides unanimously after a cabinet ‘i this morning. President P has asked the premier and hil isters to withhold their resigl until the presidents of the chamber have returned to Psi discuss the situation, 3 The presidents of both cHag have been summoned to Paris'® egraph. . German People May Be Outlaw Paris, Sept. 6.—In his speech at the celebration of the anni! of the battle of the Marne, i Ribot, after referring to the mination of France to recovei and Lorraine, said: “France unites with the world in the claim for a of peace and that it will not a temporary truce but a di cord, founded on justice. 1 shall we find that guarantee? for the German people to URdS that it depends upon them to' by shaking off the noxious mi despotism, which Is a heavy B for them as well as dange! the rest of the world. . & “If the German people refu come a pacific democracy risk being affected im: i intrests by a league for the et defense of peoples forced to against them. Whoever ; make the constant m.m. sion weigh upon the world complain because the world’ sef protect itself with al] the mes its disposition.” i POINCARE REVIEWE YANKEE SOLDI r{ Yankee Officer, in Free - Says French President s-q “Give 'Em Hell.” American Training Camp in Sept. 6.- (By the Associated The American troops, wearing British trench helmets and log 8rim and warlike, passed n re fore President Poincare of Fira day. Massed in great solid squy 1nd r;mrcmng quickly to sp merican music, they presen: BWWJ of unusual martial -pl“‘ President Poincare, addressing troaps later, said that he had nessed their demonstration with emotion and felt that events bringing the French and Ame peoples closer together. The French president, accompan] by Paul Painleve, minister of war marine, General Petain and s other French generls, was met American fleld headquarters by eral Pershing and General Sibert. % Today was the anniversary birth of LaFayette as well as the'l ginning of the battle of the Marne President Poincare said that he specially selected the date to pay first visit to the American troops, inspected several American bar: and billeting quarters in French lages and then let to visit historic on the Marne battlefield. The French president’s rece was marked by democratic simpji§ The review was held on the top plateau in the American training§ and when President Poincare amd party arrived early this mornls troops were drawn up at 1" regimental squares, a formation: seemed wonderfully formidable, stationed here and there b reviewing fleld launched - ni strains of the “Marseillaise™ § president’s automobile appea; the crest of the steep hill, “The view proceeded immediately, Prel dent Pointcare saluting the Ameri and regiment ags as they passe Afterwards, while the men stood ease, all of the officers of the exped| tionary force were detached and a sembled in a semi-circle about t! president and hi rty. General Pel shing stepped forward and addresso them briel Pershing Addresses Troopss “We are being paid a great hi today in the visit of the president the republic to which we have to do our share in the fight for liberty This happens also to be the annive sary of the beginning of the battle o a day which will evel stand out in the history of the world 1t is peculiarly fitting that this aj should be sa honored on this day. 1 am sure it will give us a still gr (Continucd ofi Third Page,