New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1917, Page 1

t ago, @ - - HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS W BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS™ BETTER BU S PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1917. —TEN PAGES. LAMB WRITES OF LIFE, UNDER FIRE New Britain Ambulance Driver Has Been on German Ground SECTION WANTS ACTION Ldeuenant Desirous of Seeing Real Fighting—Expects to Be Moved to Extreme West Front, Probably to Belgium. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Lamb of 9 Park Place are in receipt of an in- teresting letter from their son, Wil- liam H. Lamb who was among the first of the local young men to enlist for duty in the Amercan Ambulance Corps. Within a short time he ex- pects to be sent to the front. The letter is as follows: “It will be three weeks tomorrow since we came to Vesoul and we are still waiting for orders which will send us from this, the extreme eastern sector of the front, to the extreme western sector. Our feutenant de- sires to have our section be a fighting secton, that is, instead of settling down with one army, go abopt from place to place where the fighting is the worst, and where we are needed the most. When we left Alsace, three weeks we came in a direct line toward the interior for about fifty kilometers. As we didn’t leave the line untii dark, it was quite late when we arrived, but started in immediately to evacu- ate a train of blesses to the hospital. This took all night. Since then, how- ever, the work has been slack except for hospital and train work, but we are waiting now for orders to leave for the west. As we have already been stationed in Germany (a small part of Alsace which the French oc- cupied), and been to the Swiss bor- der, we are all very willing to con- quer new territory down around Bel- glum a 4 rybody has a mania for souv- enirs. As it is very easy to obtain them, we are always discarding some- thing for another. We can obtain these affairs such as boches’ helmets, gas masks, grenades, revolvers, swords, etc from the German wounded we carry or some French pollu who has survived a recent attack at Verdun or Bar-le-duc. We all take a great many pictures, also which will serve ‘better than anything to recall. these events to us years later. There are forty-five fellows In our section and are a fine group too, ail being colle- " glans and all but myself and four Col- * fellows go at one time for a seve! vthe Frenchmen and the umbians are from Yale. Many Will Return to School. “As our time is up Nov. 26, we having volunteered for six months, the fellows will return to college, where they will receive full credit for work missed. Our section is now in the midst of its permissions. Four n to Paris. This e to go for s days leave, mostly 1s probably the best plac an interruption of war duties as it i very Interesting now. “The uniforms of all the allied na- tions can be seen about the streets of Paris, but it is easy to see that the Americans are the favorites both with Parisians. “About the worst way of being undet fire, is from the boche aviators while in a perfectly peaceful town. They fly so high as to be invisable, and the only warning the people have 1s by the clouds or puffs of smoke from the French seventy-fives break- Ing way up in the air. There was 2 Pgreat deal of this when I was in Bel- fort. The French would retaliate by going to bomb Mulhausen, and thus it is, tit for tat. While in Belfort, the commander of the Fort of the Lion took me through his fort. It was very interesting. It is also in- teresting to know that he is a priest. And so it goes. Realizes Cause Is Just. -~ «Qur mechanic is a watchmaker, our chef a plumber and so on. With all these different professions and so many different countries with us we realize more and more that ours is surely the right side, and most of this great world knows it and is with us. And yet it is not such a big world “‘after all, for the meat chopper our chef uses is a Universal made at Tan- ders, Frary & Clark company. There are three boys in thig little section of forty-five who live in Hartford and belong to that chapter of my High school fraternity (Alpha Delta Sigma.) It will seem smaller still when more of our Sammies arrive and we meet our friends on the roads of a foreign .country. WILLIAM H. LAMB, U. 64 Americalne 47th Army, “Ear B C.OM. “Parls.” ONCE MORE—NO! Washington, Sept. 17.—The un- Yraceable rumor that the government intends to take canned and dried foods from homes persists and has spread to such an extent that the de- partment of agriculture today placed an explicit and official denial in the hands of every county agent and rep- resentative with instructions to give it widest publicity. The government never has contempiated commandeer- Ang foods from the homes in any sense, and the persistency of the ru- mor leads offic to believe its basis probably may be found in ganda to hinder food conser and thercby continue high prices. | ESTABLIS: FORGE LAST LINK IN QUEBEC BRIDGE Largest Span in World Being Placed in Position—Fell in 1916, Killing 14. Quebec, Sept. 17.—With thousands of spectators lining both sides of the St. Lawrence, the great engineering feat of raising the eentral span of the Quebec cantilever bridge into position 150 feet above the river was begun today. Brought at high tide to the bridge | site on pontoons, the huge span, long- est in the world, was made ready for hoisting early this morning as soon as the tide should recede and leave is suspended on four great steel chains attached to 150 ton jacks lo- ocated on the unconnected cantilever arms which stretch out from each side of the river. It was the break- ing of one of these chains which, in 1916, when the first attempt was made to raise the span, caused a loss of 14 lives. At 9:45 o’clock, the tide having fallen, daylight appeared between the decks of the pontoons and the floor of the span. As the pontoons floated down stream without their burden cheers broke out from the thousands on shore. The lifting was immediate- 1y begun although so slowly that mo- tion was hardly perceptible. Between this city and the Montreal stock market, brokers’ wires were set up to tell the story of success or fail- ure to anxious investors in the stock of the builders of the bridge, the Dominion Bridge company. AMERICAN EXPEDITION PILGRIM FATHERS OF °17 Former Premier Clemenceau Likens Them to Pioneers of New England. American Training Camps in France, Sunday, Sept. 16.—American infantrymen of the expeditionary army held their first fleld day today since their landing in France ' with Georges Clemenceau, former French premier, as the guest of honor. A battalion of an infantry regiment gave demonstrations of machine gun, rifle and bayonet assaults, concluding with a genuine American athletic pro- gram, including hundred dashes, tugs of war and boxing bouts. The entire battalion that participat- ed in the program lunched in the open air, M. Clemenceau being the guest of Gen. Sibert and the French officers dining with the American brigadier general. In reply to the American officers M. Clemenceau sald: “I feel highly honored at the priv- ilege of addressing you. I know America well, having lived in your country, which I have always ad- mired, and I am deeply impressed at the presence of an American army on French soil in defense of liberty, right and civilization against bar- barians. My mind compares this event to the Pilgrim Fathers who landed on Plymouth Rock seeking lib- erty and finding it. Now their chil- dren’s ‘children are returning to fight for the liberty of France and the world.” Later M. Clemenceau addressed the entire battalion saying: ‘“You men have come to France with disinterested motives. You came, not because you were compelled to come, but because you wished to come. Your country always possessed love and friendship for France. Now you are at home here and every French house is open to you. You are not like the people of other na- tions because your motives are devoid of personal interest and because yoa are filled with ideals. You have heard of the hardships before you, but the record of your countrymen proves that you will acquit your- selves nobly, earning the gratitude of France and the world.” GERMAN ANSWER SENT Papal Nuncio at Munich and Gives Him Dr. Von Kuehlmann Calls on Reply to Pope’s Note. London, Sept. 17.—Dr. Richard Von Kuehlmann, the German foreign secretary, .who is now visiting King Ludwig at Munich, called on Papal nuncio and handed him Ger- many’s reply to Pope Benedict's peace proposal Saturday evening, according to the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, as quot- ede in an Amsterdam despatch to the Exchange Telegraph. SOCTALISTS Stockholm, parade toda: RADE IN RAI Sept. 17.—Tho soci was not a particularly imposing demonstration, heavy show- ers preventing a large turnout. A banner borne at the head of the par- ade contalned the motto “Down with secret diplomacy.”” Other banners in- dicated that the parade might be in- terpreted as a peace demonstration as well as an election procession. LEAVES HUNGARIAN CABIN s Budapest, Sept. 17, vai Amsterdam, —Dr. Gratz, minister of finance in the Hungarian cabinet, formed by Pre- mier Wekerle last month, has retired from the ministry. Dr. Wekerle has temporarily taken over the portfolic® of finance. the | PEAGE IN HARTFORD BUT NOT GOOD WILL Loquacious Widow of 55 Leads Anti-War Demonstration THEN POLIGE LEAD HER| Enthusiastic “Fans” Gather at Police | Station Today to Attend Hearing But Case Is Continued—Rude Bluecoats Stop Meeting. Hartford, Sept. 17.—Mrs. Annie Riley Hale of New York, anti-war agitator, and Alfred E. Whitehead of Hartford, chairman of the meeting in Socialist hall ‘at which Mrs. Hale spoke, Sunday afternoon, until stop- ped by the police, are still at liberty, bound in the sum of $500 each to answer in police court when their case is called to a charge of having committed a breach of the peace. On motion of Acting Prosecuting Attor- ney Creedon, the case was adjourned by Judge Edwin C. Dickenson, this morning until Tuesday morning. Neither of the accused was called to the court room. On the police record Mrs. Annie Riley Hale is noted as a widow, 66 years of age, of New York. Alfred E. Whitehead, according to his state- ment, is 26 years of age, a native of England, at present residing here. As Mrs. Hale left police headquar- ters where she had gone expecting to be called before the judge for trial this morning, a score of her sup- porters were walting on Market street to learn how her affairs were going. Others had pressed up the sairs to see if she would be called into the court room, among them Professoor H. W. L. Dana, who was to have spoken at the meeting after she had finished. He said he thought he would not go back to New York today as he had planned but would wait to see what turn events would take. Cheers and Hisses. Long before Chairman Whitehead opened the meeting the hall was | crowded, many- apparently being drawn to it by the agitation of the past week seeking to forbid it. Fre- quent cheers and some hisses greeted | the speaker during the part of her speech that she was permitted to de- Hver. When she was ordered to stop | the audience made an excited rush for | the platform, chairs being overturned and benches thrust aside, while cheering, yelling and hissing added to the din. For a few momcnts the sit- uation looked serious, but the police and federal agents working together, kept the situation well in hand and succeceded in clearing the hall . As soon as this was done, Mrs. Hale and Whitehead, who had been | arrested, were taken to police head- quarters, where they were charged with breach of the peace and held for a hearing in $500 bonds each. As they left the hall more cheers and hisses greeted them, and a large crowd followed them to the police station, but there wag no disturbance. Police action was taken after a conference between federal agents and local officers at the meeting. Later it was said that the matter had been turned over to the city authoritles and it was not expected that a fed- eral charge would be made. The meeting had been announced as in commemoration of the 130th an- niversary of the drawing up of the constitution of the United States. In the course orf her address Mrs. Hale said she felt she had a right to “ad- monish’” the president out of the scriptures, because she had worked for his election. Now she did not know whether to apologize for having | Ldone so or to be proud of him. One of the best things he had ever said in her opinion, was his remark about being ‘‘too proud to fight”. She said, she claitned her constitutional right to criticize the president for “turning away from the peace vote of the Reichstag”, which she said repre- sented the German people, adding that had this government received this vote as it should the world would now be very near peace. The presi- dent, she said, had not answered any peace proposals until therc came one from ‘“that greatest off all spiritual autocrats ‘n Christendom—the Pope.” “War,” she declared, “is born of cowardice and based on craven im- aginings. An individual is made to kill another individual with whom he has no quarrel in a conflict brought { about by the trader behind the lines. | 1t is stupid and shameful, and it is | time for the world to make common cause to end this travesty. It is ahout i time for the people to tell their rulers to stand aside and that they them- selves will make the world safe for democracy. rebirth.” Champior: of Germany. Referring to Germany she said that | “the kaiser was frightened of being I attacked when he went into Belgium, but that does not justify this country in going over to fight Germany be- cause of a belief that fifty yvears hence Germany may make war on this coun- it Germany, she asserted is not trying to Germanize the world, and said that though Germany had | Jorance absolutely beaten In 1870 yet that country has continued to live its life and prosper. Ai this point the police took a hand. Farlier there had been a conference Letween them and the federal agents, but it was explained later that at that Government must have a i CONSULAR AGENCY HIT. ‘Washington, Sept. 17.—De- struction of the American con- sular agency at Dunkirk, France, by a German bomb on September 7, was reported to- day to the state department. The consular agent, Benjamin Morel, wWas uninjured and the archives of the consulate wore saved. GOMPERS ACCUSES COPPER INTERESTS Head of A. F. of L. Charges Con- spiracy to Discredit Labor Unions in Western Towns. Washington, Sept. 17—Appointment of a commission to investigate labor conditions in Arizona copper mines, as advocated by the American Feder- ation of Labor, was proposed today to President Wilson. President Gompers of the labor | federation has laid before the presi- dent charges of federation investiga- tors that agitators connected with the Industrial Workers of the World were encouraged by copper produc- ing interests for the sake of discredit- ing the labor movement. Most of the miners recently deported from Bisbee were union members and not I. W. W. men, and this was known to company officlals who promoted the deportations, the federation of labor charges. Chicago, Sept. 17.—John Unger, a contractor of Waukegan, Ill, and six others were taken before the federal agent of investigation today, having been arrested after attending a meet- ing of Industrial Workers of the World at Waukegan last night. The federal agents, who were noti- fied that an antl-war meeting was to be held, were on hand to listen to the utterances. At the close of the meeting seven persons were taken into custody. JILTED SUITOR TRIES TO WIPE OUT FAMILY Frank Lombardo Bound Over for Shooting at Girl and Parents. Frank Lombardo was bound over | to the September term of the superior by Judge Kirkham in police court this morning on a charge of attempt to kill. The complainant was Vito Rossman of Hartford ave- nue. His bond was set at $10,000. Lombardo became especially ardent in his love for Rossia, the 17-year- old daughter of Vito Rossman, vester- day afternoon and proposed marriage to the girl. She, however, did not look with favor upon her suitor and when he asked, “What does your heart say?” she told him that she did not wish to see him. Lombardo rushed out of Rossman’s house and threatened Rossman in his yard say- ing, “If you don't give me your daugh- ter T'll kill you.” Rossman was op- posed to Lombardo as his son-in-law so the latter immediately fired filve shots at Rossman, his wife and daughter, but none of them was hit. The shooting aroused the neighbor- hood and Officer Flynn, who was at- tracted by the shots, came to the scene and arrested Lombardo. In court this morning Lombardo had nothing to sa PUT GUN IN MOUTH AND PULLED TRIGGER court New York Infantryman Drops Out of Line and Commits Suicide. Mineola, Sept. 17.—While drilling with his company on the parade grounds here today at Camp Mills, George Neff, Company F, 165th In- fantry, formerly the 69th of New York, dropped back of the line, placed the muzzle of his rifle in his mouth and_fired, the bullet killing him instantly. It is not known where Neff got the service cartridge he used, as it is | against the rules to have such cart- { ridges in the camp. An investigation is being made. Neff, a cgshier, had enlisted in June in the 71st New York regiment and was a member of that organization until transferred to the 69th. He was about 40 years of age. CLOCKS TURY Amsterdam, Holland D BACK HOUR. Sept. 17.—All nd Germany clocks in were put { back an hour at 3 o'clock this morn- The daylight saving schedule be- ing. on April 15. RU! NS AT ANNAPOLIS. Annapolis. Sept. 17.—Members of the Russian commission now visiting this country, were today guests of honor at the naval academy. | WEATHER. Hartford, Sept. 17.—Fore- cast for Ncw Britain and v cinity: Clondy tonight. Tues- merally fair, i (Continued on Third Page.) STRIKE OF 25,000 |GERMANY REGRETS ABUSE ON'PACIFIC COAST Government War Work Blocked by Walkout of Iron Workers WASHINGTON OPTIMISTIC Anticipates Quick Settlement of Trou- ble Which Is Holding Up Work Va ucd at $150,000,000 — Springficld Difficalty Ends. San Francisco, Sept. 17.—Approxi- mately 26,000 iron workers and metal trades mechanics engaged in war emergency construction here and bay citles went on strike at 9 o'clock fol- lowing rejection of their demands for & 50 per cent. increase in wages. The walkout in more than 100 plants was carried out without a hitch, it was re- ported. Feverish 11th hour efforts to avert the strike by employvers and represen- tatives of the United States shipping board followed. Proposals to arbi- trate on a basis of ten per cent. in- crease offered had been rejected by the committee of the iron trades coun- cil, composed of 25 unions, on whose authority the strike was declared. The walkout affects more than $150,000,000 in government ship- building and engine construction con- tracts and antomatically tied up other construction work. \ The Union Iron Works, the Moore Scott Iron Works, both sbipbuilding plans, and the Pacific Foundry, were to close immediately. Settlement of the strike, declared to be San Frincisco’s largest industrial trouble, is entirely in the hands of the federal governiment, employers an- nounced. Sporadic street rioting closely fol- lowed the walkout, sympathizers of one group attacking a United Railroad street car and beating two substitutes replacing striking platform men, ac- cording to police reports. Potrolmen dispersed the rioters. Expect Settlement This Week. ‘Washington, Sept. 17.—Shipping board oificials. are confident that a basis will be reached this week for settlement of all Jlabor disputes in Pacific coast shipvards. On receipt of reports of the strike of iron workers at San Francisco to- day the board made efforts to hasten a settlement of the strike in Seattle shipyards, in the belief that it wil serve as a basis for agreements at Portland, San TFrancisco. Los Angeles and other placos. Only a few minor points of differ- ence on the wage increase and pro- portions to be paid by the government and shipbuilders remained to be con- gidered at a conference vetieen build- ers, union ieaders and shipping board officials. Springficld Strikers Return. Springficld, TIL, Sept. 17.—-Coal mines, manufacturing plants and in- dustries generally resumed operations today when 8,000 workers, idle last weok because of a sympathetic strike, resumed their occupations. The decision to go back was reached after unionists had been permitted to parade through the city streets yes- terday. A similar demonstration, in support of striking street car men planned for the Sunday previous, had been broken up by the police. This action brought on the general tie-up. Troops which have been doing duty about the city were returned to Camp Lincoln today. OF SWEDE CABLE FAV( Washington, Sept. 17.—The navy department, after as com- plete investigation as is possi- ble, is satisfled there is no foundation for reports of a hostile submarine off the New England coast. ' NO U-BOAT OFF COAST. | 'TAGEBLATT EDITORS Charged With Treason for Giving Aid and Comfort to Enemy. d Philadelphia, Sept. 17.—Louis Wer- ner, editor in chief, and Dr. Martin Darkow, managing editor of the Phil- adelphia Tageblatt, indicated by the federal grand jury here on Saturday on the charge of treason in publish- ing articles and alleged distorted news despatches tending to give aid and comfort to the enemy, were in the custody of the United States marshal today pending a decislon by Judge Dickison of the district court on the question whether they shall be sub- mitted to bail. The charge of tres son is not bailable except at the dis- cretion of the court. Both men waived the service of bench warrants today and U. S. Dis- trict Attorney Kane asked, but did not urge, that they be held without bail. Counsel for the defendants op- posed the request and said he felt that the $10,000 bail under which the men were held last week on charges !'of violating the espionage act w sufficient. Counsel said Werner had two brothers who fought through the Civil war and two cousins were buried at Gettysburg. Werner, he said, had been a citizen of the United States for 30 years. Dr. Darkow, it was brought out by the district attorney, applied for citizen’s papers in 1894, but never followed up the application. The court granded the request to hold the men without bail under ad- visement and, in the meantime, the arraignment of Woerner, Darkow and three other members of the staff of the Tageblatt on the charge of violat- ing the espionage act was tentatively fixed for Thursday. The three other men ave Peter Schaefer, president of the company which publishes the pa- ver: Paul Vogel, the treasurer, Herman Lemke, business manager. BUILDING AFIRE TWICE. Damage In Indianapolis Business Dis- trict Estimated at $100,000, Indianapolis, Sept. 17.—Fire of un- known origin in the building occu- pied by the American Storage Co. at the edge of the city’s business d trict caused, a loss estimated at $100 000 today. There were two fires in the building within 12 hours. AMBULANCE DRIVER KILLED. Paris, Sept. 17.—Paul Bentley, of Chicago, a Harvard student, died yes- terday in a hospital at the front from injuries which resulted Friday when an exploding shell hit an am- bulance which he was driving. Car- son Ricks, of Eurepa, Cal, another member of the American Field Serv- |ice, Who was injured at the same , time, is progressing favorably. CITY TO CHEER ITS SONS MARCHING AWAY TO CAMP| Mayor Prepares to Give Sol- diers Rousing Farewell When They Leave for Ayer Thursday. Mayor G. A. Quigley stated this afternoon that after consulting with various prominent men and having ascertained the wishes of the com- munity he is making plans for a fare- well celebration, simple but sincere, for the men who leave Thursday morning to join the National Army at Ayer, Mass. Inasmuch as there are upwards of 200 men going at that time the mayor thinks it but fitting to recognize them and, he states, he would like a similar demonstration when the second large contingent goes in October. Orders will be issued for from the first district and 110 men 96 from | the second district to assemble at the . State Armory on Arch street Thur: day morning at 8 o'clock. The mayor plans to have the Home Guard and the City Guard, both in uniform, a platoon of police, bands and a drum corps act as an honorary escort for the new soldiers as they march to the depot to take a special train which will leave at 9:20 a. m. It is also possible that arrangements may be made whereby some of the school children may be assembled along the line of march to cheer the men on their way. Figures compiled at the offices ‘of the two exemption boards show that the entire quota of 513 men has becn raised. In the first district, 1,770 men have been examined by the phy- siclans out of a gross total of 3,833 registrants. In the second district 1.600 out of 3,428 registrants have been examintd. The first board has already certi- fied 808 men, which is 34 more than the first quota. The boards have been notified that of 12 men already sent to Ayer from the second district 10 have passed. Two others are not men- tioned and this is considered strange inasmuch as they are J. J. Griffin and F. P. Howard, the first to leave the city. In the first district nine out of 14 have passed thus far. There is some talk, unofficially, that every man registered in the draft may be ex- wmined within a short time. At pres- ent the governors of the several states are considering the advisabill- ty of such a move and should they so decide all men in this city who have not been summoned for examination ‘would have to appear. This afternoon a joint meeting of i ' ]severnl prominent Hebrews, includ- ing representatives of Jehuda Halevi lodge, 1. O. B. B., was scheduled to be leld in the office of Councilman A. | Gorbach to make final plans for a | banquet and reception to be given to- | morrow evening to all Hebrews of New Britain who have been drafted or who have enlisted. Inasmuch as a | majority of the Hebrews enlisted in the regular service are home on short | furloughs, granted iIn recognition of | ‘the Jewish holidays, it is expected that tomorrow night's affair will be largely attended. HELD WITHOUT BAIL| and | Dispatches Virtyal To Sweden for Mis Courtesy by Luxbul Argentina. WARNS ENVOYS TO| i KEEP CODE SE( Instructions Forwarded Not | close Contents of Mcssages ted Through ockholm’s. sentatives—Liberals Blush pability of Government, London, Sept. 17.—Germal sent a note to Sweden, accor the correspondent at Stockholm Central News Agency. highly ting the disagreeable issues ra account of Sweden transmitti grams to Germany. Germany says she is obliged Swedish government for trans the messages but regrets that resentatives in Argentina shoul sant the telegrams in the phra they did. The Nya Dagligt Allenha Stockholm, which printed th nouncement that Germany ha the note to Sweden, says the G government has instructed all resentatives in foreign count: refuse to acede to any attempt] may be made to force them to to the Swedish government tents of code messages Wwhil may submit to it. Liberals Criticize Goverpm Stockholm, Sept. 17.—At liberal meeting held here toda olution proposed by Profes leader of the liberal party i second chamber, was unanii passed expressfing the deepestd that tire Swedish foreign offig not in a position to deny the. tion that it had forwarded ciph egrams in ignorance of their ! tents, which contents, when rey |awoke the just abhorence Swedes, #hd condemning the oM | ness that permitted’ such acts 1 pen. R The resolution resolutely dem {that the government imme undertake all necessary mea | demonstrate indubitaly to the §% | people its determination to ‘mi all belligerents absolut | toward | trality. Cronholm Is Missing. The present whereabouts of Cronholm, the former Swedish g d’affaires at Mexico City, me {in the correspondence recentlyf out in Washington, as havin employed by the German mints | Mexico, to convey information’ German foreign office, is unkn the Swedish foreign office. Hej placed on the unattached Iist, his recall from Mexico last Due: The reasons for the reeoll a specified, but the tone o tie paper statements concerning it timate that his retirement wal without cause, although the gof nient, it is said, has no know, of the suggestion that a German| oration shou!d be given him fo services or that :this should be ferred secretly. The conserv: tain that the fact of the receal the clvcumstances of it are suffi to absolve tho present governmery any responsibility for his acts 0 titude. The press otherwise Ag) little comment to his case. Socialists Denounce Germany Stockholm, Sept. 17.—The or| ing committee of the Stockhol: cialist conference, in its report o question of holding the confe which, it said, had not been doned but that a date would as soon as p port difficulties been settled, after declaring Stockholm was closely connected the revolution in Russia, express]! hope that Russian comrades close their ranks and depend. Russian demooracy to solve the § ent crists there. 4% “Working classes in all county the report added, “hail with asm the Russian emperor's condemn the counter revolu efforts.’” 9 The committee report hoped German and Austrian | soel would protest against a project tactics tending to weaken the sian revolution and make Germ| an accomplice of the counter revd tion. Declaring that the present cire stances prevented the giving of| definite reply regardi the date) the conference to various requ from France, Austria, Germ: Bohemia, etc.. the committee resol to continue its activities, to publ a collection of documcents from herents, and to issue a general re It also decided to send, if the org izations concerned were willing, d gates to the new inte-allied eenf] ence. The committee asserted that' Stockholm conference must inaug ate a new era in the struggle of f proletariat against imperailism by ¢ re-establishment of an internatio common action. p Hjalmar Branting, the Swedish # (Continued on Ninth Page)