New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1917, Page 1

@ 0r parti b -} ) § ! HERALD BEST OF ALL AL NEWSPAPERS | 'PRICE THREE CLNTS. 3 TAIN HERALD BETTER BUSIN E 8 —= NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1917. —TWELVE PAGES. HALIFAX DESTITUTE BEING GARED FOR “army of Surgeons and Nurses Are Rushed to Stricken City JJCHOL CHILDREN KILLED Witness of Terrible Disaster Tells Story of Schwool Being Cut in Two, Children Being Slain—Other Stories of Horrible Deaths. Halifax, Dec. 12.—A revised esti- Merate today of the explosion casualties reduces the death list to approximate- Iy 1,800. The known dead total 800 and it is ! believed that not more than 1,000 bodies—and, perhaps, only 900—still lie under the debris of shattered and , burned buildings. = ' The list of victims is steadily be- coming smaller as relatives are re- united and refugees who left the city return. From 300 to 500 persons are totally lly blind, and 200 children have each lost both parents, accord- Ing to American and Canadian work- ors investizating the situation. The formidable estimates made during the hours immediately after the explosion apparently were due, it developed today, to the fact that the Jgentifications of some bodies were counted several times. The relief workers explained that even today’s revised figures are not to be regarded 1s final, inasmuch that many families were destroved, no members being alive to report such loss. It is estimated that 500 houses are wrecked beyond repair, that 500 oth- ers were totally destroved and that wanother 1,000 can be restored to use. Explosion’s Force. Boston, Dec. 12.—Kenneth Casson, # who returned to his home yesterday ] s after a tour of service with the Tufts college hospital unit in France, said that the vessel on which he crossed ‘the Atlantic was damaged by the tidal wave thrown up by the muni- tions steamer explasion at Halifax. The vessel was 35 miles off the coast when the great sea drove over her, knocking down nearly everyone on deck and destroying the pilot house. Conditions in the town of Dart- mouth were particularly ~distressing Loday. wave had not received medical at- tention up to this morning and the rescue system today is being re-or- ganized so they may receive aid at once. Among them the investigators found four hundred men, women and children. Detained at Harbor. % The Hague, Dec. 11.—The Nether- lands Overseas Trust was informed today by the British legation that the Dut:h steamship Nieuw Amsterdam, with a cargo for Belglan relief, is be- ing detained at Halifax, having been provided with no safe conduct or distinguishing mark, and also having . passengers on board, Under these circumstances, and es- pecially in view of the recent seizure “sg by the Germans of the Belgian re- " ‘- «i‘s lief steamer Haelen, the British gov- rhment cannot undertake the respon- stbility of permitting the Nieuw Am- sterdam to continue her voyage, the Overseas Trust was told. The Nieuw Amsterdam, the crack steamship of the Holland-America line was the first Dutch vessel to leave New York after the embargo was im- posed several months ago on the Dutch steamship. She putinat Hali- fax some time ago and there were tears for her safety at the time of the explosion. She carried 300 pas- sengers including 10 /Americans, and 10,000 tons of corn for the Belgians. Maker of Tag. Melrose, Mass., Dec. 12.—Charles 0. Bourne of this city, said today he was the maker of the tag found on “ the carrier pigeon captured in Hali- fax yesterday, causing an investigation by the authorities of a report that it bore a mesage in German language. He said that he sold similar tags in large numbers to pigeon fanclers throughout the continent and that there was no way of tracing the owner. He explained the numbers HOT WATER PLANT INTERRUPTS DINNER Explosion Partly Wrecks Home on Daly Avenue While Iamily Is Enjoying Meal. Louis Neuhoff, a plumber, and his family were seated around the festive board at their home, 107 Daly avenue, this noon, when the heating appara- ! tus in the cellar blew up With a loud detonation and crashed through the | floor in the next room, part of it lodg- ing in the ceiling. An alarm for fire was rung in from Box 414, but the | fire department had little to do. Neuhoft allowed the fire to die out last night and it is believed the ap- paratus froze solid. A slow fire was started this morning in the firebox with the result that steam generated and sought the line of least resistance, which happened to be the top of the boiler. The top of the boiler also sought to escape and plunged through the roof of the cellar and into the ceiling of the room abave. The plas- ter was wrecked and the windows in the house were shattered. SERIOUS ~ CHARGES Alleged to Have Plotted to Destroy Private and Public Property. Detroit, Dec. 12.—Presentation of direct testimony was continued by the government today at the trial here of Albert C. Kaltschmidt and five other persons on charges of plotting the de- struction by dynamite explosions of private and public property in the United States and Canada. Since the trial began a week ago the government has placed on the stand four men indicted originally with Kaltschmidt. Two of them were brought from a Canadian prison where they were serving sentences for al- leged complicity in the plots charged to Kaltschmidt. All four have testi- fled that they took part in Kalt- schmidt’s alleged plot. Checks, drafts and other papers in- tended to show that Kaltschmidt was paid by representatives in this coun- try of the German government also have been offered by the prosecution as evidence. It is expected that a week to ten Some of the people who wers . days will be required to complete the /injured by the explosion fire or tidal|'cdse. ¥ CONNECTICUT CO. Hartford, Dec. 12.—The cut company has for two years been considering ways and means for in- creasing its revenue, made necessary by conditions, said General Manager John K. Punderford of the company testifying today at the hearing before the Public Utilities Commission on the increase in trolley fares here. He said that it seemed to the company that the most logical way to secure this was through an increase in fares and that consequently the advance from 5 cents to 6 cents had been made. DOCTOR CAVILY FINED. Bridgeport Man Charged With Man- slaughter Pays $500. Bridgeport, Dec. 12—Leopold Fichtl, convicted in the criminal superior court here of manslaughter for the killing of Balenty Janowiczky by stab- bing, was fined $500 and costs today by Judge Gardiner Greene, who said there were circumstances in the case that impelled him not to inflict a jail sentence. On October 20 last, during a saloon row, Fichtl and his brother-in-law, Caspar Schick, were beaten over the head with a club by Tony Tomaswicz. Ficht] ran to a nearby restaurant, got a sharp bread knife and returned to the saloon. Tomasawicz had left in the meantime but Fichtl thought Janowiczky was the wielder of the club and he plunged thé knife into Janowiczky killing him almost in- stantly. THREE MORE STARS. Three members of the Herald re- portorial staff of the Herald have en- listed in the army in the past 24 hours, the latest being Maurice D. (Chief) Meyers, who is enrolled in the signal corps, aviation section, and Es- monde J. Phelan, police reporter, who has enlisted in the ordnance corps. AGAINST THIS ALIEN| Connecti- | COMMISSION FOR EDMUND T. FELT ANGELINE THOMSON | ESTATE $33,541.10 Largest Holding Was $16,000 in| Landers, Frary & Clark Mig. Co. GERMOND ESTATE $18,196 Invested in Manufacturing Concerns in This and Other Cities Money Represent Bulk—Two - Valuations Filed Today in Court of Probate, . According to an appraisal filed in the court of probate today by William | H. Judd and E. W. Schultz, the estate | of Angeline B. Thompson is valued at $53,541.10. The will was filed yester- day, leaving $550 to two employes and the remainder to Mrs. Thomp- son’s three sons and the children of a deceased daughter. The inventory follows: I 365 EDMUND T. FELT. Edmund T. Felt, the 22 year old ison of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Felt {of 96 Lincoln street, has been com- | missioned a first lieutenant in the | United States aviation corps, having | just been graduated from the aviation school at Fort Omaha, Nebraska. Lieutenant Felt was graduated from the local High school in 1913 and attended Dartmouth for three vears, enlisting with some other Dartmouth men in the navy last April. Later he transferred to aviation. He has been assigned to Fort San Antonio, Texas. fil‘eutenzmt George Middlemas, heavy 2 | artillery, left today for San Antonio, ““h:;isgfw@]g?o“““ oo 6,900,00 | TeXas. Lieutenant Middlemas_ won A oot et {his commission at the last Platts- Fire Arms Oc @ i3 2.320.00 burg officers’ training camp. Shas Soverel.gns Tra ' 2 * Lieutenant Thomas F. Jackson, in- ltanu—y. left today to report at Camp | | i Frary $16,500.00 shares Landers, & Clark @ 45 : shares Stanley Rule & Level Mfg. Co. @ 390 shares Anaconda Min- ing Co, @ 55 shares New Britain M chine Co. @ 58 shares Union Mfg. @ 85 ao6s shares Trumbull tric Co. @ 27.50 . shares North & Judd Mfg. Co. @ 58 780.00 2,090.00 8,120.00 . 6,290.00 Elec- 1,375.00 1,392.00 ing Co, @ 100 - 100.00 | pix, Wrightstown, N. J. Lieutenant shares Scovill Mfg Co. Jackson is also a graduate of Platts- @ 410 R burg, shares Russwin Lyceum Herman Fogelson of 224 South Co. @ 5 cee Main street, employed as a stenogra- Two $100 -Liberty Bonds | pher at. the freight depot, left this @ 98 ... 196.00 ' morning for Washington, D. C., to Deposit in Savings | join the ordnance corps in which he Bank of New Britain . 2,978.13 | enlisted yesterday in Hartford. Deposit in New Britain Na- Ray Finnegan of East Main street tional Bank has applied for enlistment in the Cash on hand naval reserve at the New Haven re- cruiting office. Joseph Cotter has also applied for a first class seamanship in the reserve. Basil Riley, James Gilbert, Mic}l:ael m Fitzpatrick have o OF provate today by I G. Vib- | “Miomas Kerrigan and George Tal- erts and F. S. Chamberlain. Th EStEte cvmintsChia ot~ etook—in, Loy hatequest ordered o Taport: .4t manufacturing enterprises, the lur-] Tarold Swift son of Mr and Mrs. gest holding being $6,840 ir the | yonn R. Swift of 165 Pleasant street American Hardware Corp. The total s zome to Fort Slocum to join the ue of the estate is $15,196 The cintion corps. inventory of stocks other than Ameri- e can Hardware Corp. follow: 22 shares U. S. Steel 1st pfd. @ 108 el FIRST YANKEE SHOT oo : ~ AGAINST AUSTRIANS | shares Axr;enc;l,n Bmss‘ Co. @ 200 'Rep. Tinkham of Boston L2o0)) Pulls Lever on Lower shares Colt’s Patent Arms Piave. 4,100.00 4 20.00 193.97 126.00 i | $53,641.10 | Estate of George B. Germond. | An appraisal of the estate otj | | 20 5 Co. @ 57% shares Stanley Works @ 80 shares Scovill Mfg. Co. @ 390 . shares North & Judd Mfg. Co. @ 57 ... shares Santa Ffilalie Mining Co. 1,140 value Italian Army Headquarters, North- ern Ttaly, Dec. 11, (By the Associated Says That Social Press)—The first American shot against Austria was fired by Represen- Are Much in Error. | tative Tinkham of Boston on the low- Washington, Dec. 12.—Vigorous re- | er Plave when he pulled a string firing pudiation of those social workers “who |a large caliber 149 milimeter gun, are inclined to think of military ser- |sending a shell hurtling across the vice as an incubator of immortality”, | Piave to the ‘Austrian positions. is contained in the annual -report of A huge cloud of black smoke Surgeon Gen. Braisted of the navy, |marked the place where the shell made public today. The only source | burst. The Italian batterymen gath- of statistics in this connection that can |ered around the gun and raised a be relied upon, the report states, are | cheer as thc American congressman those of military services, leading to | fired. the incvitable result “that the person- | nel of the services appear in a bad light.” DENIES IMMORTALITY Surgeon ceneral Workers ARE FREED. “There is no available standard of comparison for civilian population,” | Dr. Braisted continues. “The fierce light of publicity beats upon the men of the army and navy and no definite statistics can be set forth contrasting male civilians with them." Steamers Locked in Ice Able to Navi- zate Down the Lakes. Detroit, Dec. 12.—Approximately 35 lake freighters imprisoned in the ice in the Livingstone channel below here and near Port Huron, were expected to | resume their trip down the lakes today | after having been released by power- ful ice breakers. They were all in the Detroit river today waiting for a pas- sage 1o be opened in to clear water in Lake Erie. | Ice from six to eight inches thick is CHRISTMAS TREE FUND. Public Contributes $138.75 Through | Mrs. Traut and Press. The plea for the Community i large barn on the farm of E. D. El- | tryving | Mr. Eiwell was crushed against a wall 29-29 printed on the tag as indicat- - Dantiel E. Pouzzner enlisted yesterday Ing the bird’s number in its coop. in the signal corps, aviation section. Three stars will be added to the Her- Reliet Ship There. Halifax, Dec, 12.—The Boston re- lief ship Calvin Austin entered the harbor today Montreal, Dec. 12.—*“Little hills of jead children” were seen in Halifax ty A. Sendell. a Montreal business man, who has arrived in Montreal with his story. Death struck all \round Sendell when the French mu- Jtions - ship Mont Blanc blew up Phursday morning. Men were in- startly killed before his eves. “We passed one school that was :ut right in two,” he said. ““There ittle bodics piled one upon the other. Little hills ot dead children. the sight »f which. when I thought of my own #ix little ones at home, made my heart real I w; :ves and run blindly away from it all. sount of the death 1,1l is taken (Continued On Eleventh Page). were scores and scores of «compelled to cover my “T am convinced that when the final it ald service flag which, at present, boasts of five. SUES FOR DEAD MAN. Melkin Hagopran of Newington, ad- ministrator of the estate of Zavan Hagopian, has brought suit against H. The plaintiff alleges that the deceased loaned the defendant $150. The pa- pers were issued by Judge E. B. Hun- gerford and Deputy Sheriff Stockwell has attached an automobile belonging to the defendant. The writ is return- able in the court of common pleas on the first Tuesday in January. PERRY’S BODY UNCLAIMED. The remains of M. J. Perry, who {tal Monday as the result of injuries sustained by a fall at the Stanley Works last Saturday, are still un- claimed at M. J. Kenney's undertaking parlors. Efforts have been made to locate relatives in New York and Oma- ha, Neb. Marshall of Hartford to recover $300. ! died at the New Britain General hospi, ! Christmas tree donations is meeting with generous response, giving evi- dence that New Britam is in favor of such a public Christmas observance. Contributions received at the present time amount to $138.75 and have been sent in as follows: New Britain Herald New Britain Record 30.00 | Mrs. Elise Traut .. s 73.75 i this amount does not cover the | expense of music and lighting ex- penses it is hoped that the Christm community tree contributions will continue to pour in so that the com- mittee in charge will be able to carry ..$35.00 | DOOR SPORTS, | Chicago. Dec. 12.—A campaign to raise funds to erect buildings for in- | | door sports at various army canton- | ments was started today by the na- tional amateur athletic union, Charles A. Dean, president announced. The money will be raised by direct sub- scriptions and from receipts of vari- i ous athietic events. reported in St. Mary's river at Sault St. Marie. B. C. MOREY RESIGNS, Was Employed Publi as Tnvestigator by Charity Department. It became known today that Burton C. Morey, employed by the charity department as investigator, had tendered his resiznation. It is not | known whether he has made plans | for the future. Mr. Morey has heen investigator for three j to accepting the chairman of the commissioners. employed ars. Previous | position he was board of charity a; s ¢~ f WEATHER Pee. 12.—Fore- cast for New ritai d cinity: Fair colder tonight, Hartford, { tending to rob him. ! killed in the attempt. minimum ncar zero. Tues. day fair, continued cold. CoC T D ESTABLISHED 18 STORM OF SHELLS [AMBASSADORS FREED FROM IN WAKE OF FIRE Large Calibered ghot Loadedi With T. N. T. Bombard Towns | INGENDIARISM IS SUSPECTED DOING F Bolsheviki Decrees That Russia’s Representatives Shall Do No Further Duty | to Perform in Action. One Man Has His Head Blown on | INTERESTING VIEWS by the Explosion—Causes Damagce in Wilmington and Othcer Towns | Surrounding. Wilmington, Del., Dec. 12.—A ter- rific bombardment, o’clock this morning with shells such as are used in the war zone of Europe—Aflying in direction, aroused New Castle and immediate vi- cinity, as well as Wilmington. and other distant points and soon devel- oped into a fire which had broken out in one of the most dangerous sec- tions of the shell-loading plant of the Bethlehem Stecl company, about a mile below New Castle. The blaze, of unknown origin—in- cendiary, many believe—started in the shell-loading house in which were stored 10,000 shells laaded with T. N. T., one of the most violent of all explosives used in war, and 30,000 empty shells. The fire had scarcely started when the contents of the load- ed shells began to fly in every direc- tion. The building, which was a frame structure about 100 by 150 feet, burned like tinder, and, as the flames reached the loaded shells, the latter began to explode, and occasianally one would be hurled out of the building. One man, Theodore Jacobs, of Har- Tison, N. J., the chief of guards, was killed, his head being blown off by one of the shells. So far as could be learned, no other person was killed either in the fire or because of the explosions. Several were slightly hurt while running to escape danger, but none of the cases, as far as known, was se- Tious. All ambulances were quickly sum- moned from Wilmington, while phy every and New Castle. Among the first local physicians ta respond were Dr. V. M. Myers, sccretary of the board of health, and Dr. Perkins, city physi cian, who hurried down in a motor car oon as the call came in the health oftice. “WERT SALARY INCREASES Tealth Commissioners to Recommend \dded Employes. Pay for Three Department The seskion Health Board at its voted to monthly yesterday ask the common council its to grant salary increases total- ling $740 to its employes. The de- tailed schedule to be presented will call for the following increases : Mrs. Gertrude Bowen, department clerk, $600 to $840; Chief Inspector Fred McEnroe, $900 to $1,200; Plumb- ing Inspector Thomas Quinlivan, $1,- 800 to $2,000. The health commissioners also rec- ommend the purchase of an automo- at next session bile for the use of the superintendent, | Dr. H. F. Moore, with the provision that. if such a car is purchased an added salary item of $600 for trans- portation will not be included as at present. The board voted to order the Pleas- ant street dump closed. Other rou- tine matters were discussed. FRIGHTENED HORSE. Fire i 'w Fairtield, Doir Considerable New Fairfield, Dec. knacked over fire that Sta Damage. 12.—A fright- ened horse a lantern and started a destroyed a ! well in this place last night. While to Tescue the horse and two animals from the burning building, and two of his ribs were broken. Al- though badly crippled, he succeeded in saving the animals, but was himself severely burned before aid arrived. ALLEGED MURDERER. Bridgeport, Dec. 12.—Joseph Bal- zarano, wanted in connection with a murder in Pittsfield, Mass., in March 1915, was arrested in a rooming house Lere today by Inspector D. J. McCol- gan of Pittstield, assisted by the lo- cal police. Balzarano and two others it claimed lured Vincenzo Cresci of Pittsfield to Washington mountain in- The victim was Balzarano es- caped while his companions were caught. LEWITT WINS CASE Judge Orders Non-Suit Against Ben- jamin Solomon. Judgment for the defendant was ordered today in superior court in the case of Benjamin Solomon vs. George LeWitt, both of this city. Solomon sued LeWitt for $1,000, al- leged to be due him as commission on a real estate deal. A non-suit was entered by the court today. Saul Berman of Hartford was counsel for LeWitt. shortly before 8 | to | OF THE WORLD WAR Exchequer Announced in the Brit- ish House of Commons on Monday Surrendercd to the Forces Under Gen. Allenby. Petrograd, Dec. 12.—The Bolsheviki have dispersed the senate, the highest | Russiag court, and all the other courts of Petrograd in keeping with the re- cent decree of the People’s Commis- | saries substituting new revolutionary | trfibunals. The only opposition met was at the congress of county judges | who refused to be disposed. They ! were arrested by soldiers. | The soldiers, ;men in each district, according to the | broclamation, name a permanent | president of the court and six jurors: | the latter serving only one week. Th | prisonment and banishment. Each | juror ean cause an arrest in an emer- gency but the entire count must fap- | prove later. | prisoner to be released. The Petro- srad advocates congress has decided to ignore the law. | i ! Banners Displayed. London, Dec. 1.—A number of pro- cessions, in which banners upholding | the constituent assembly were carried, converged on the Tauride palace in Reuter despath. A series of extempor- aneous meetings was held outside the palace. Early Tuesday afternoon, it is added ore or two of members of the con- tuent assembly met in one of the | committee rooms. No disorders were | reported during the afterncon. Large | banners, expressing best wishes for the | | assembly, - have - been ..placed :across ! many of the streets. Overthrow 12 in London who arc Bolsheviki. Dee. ussian offic stablishing direct communication with General Kaled- ines an other leaders of democratic t organ: | london, fals i Associated Press that the movement I poried not only by the Cossacks bui i by almost all the leaders of the other ! parties. These leaders, it was said, are confident they will be ableto make snoit shrift of the Boishev | They also fecl certain they will be jable to present a formidable fighting force by spring. 1t is said thousands of Cossacks al- ready have left the fighting front and raliied to Kaledines' support, and it s expected he will soon have the en- tire force of 400,000 Cossacks at his disposal. The officials plans embrace loyal fighting elimination of in London assert the the solidification of the forces, the complete the Bolsheviki organi- kzu,uonsx in the cities and towns of | southern Russia, the re-establishment | of order, the re-organization of sup- | plies and the establishment of a new ‘ailied fighting front to protect’ the rich Russian granaries and coal and mineral fields from the Germans. They add that a form of guerrilla | warfare may possibly preccde the re- | establishment of a solid fighting front, owing to the present disorganized state of the army on account of Bolsheviki peace negotiations. The question of Allied support which the officials declare is necessary if Kal- edines and the other forces loyal to Russia and the Allies are to be suc- | cesstul, is one on which much stress | Great Britain, must be laid, especlally the question of eventual ending of an American expe- ditionary army to co-operate with the forces holding the new front. It is pointed out that this would not be in | Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the ' That on That Day Jcrusalem Had ! peasants and work- | have full power to impose fines, im- ' Any member can cause 2 ; ] Sl- | Petrograd on Tuesday, according to a ! cians were also called from this city | tions in Russia declared to the | to overthrow the Bolsheviki was sup- URTHER DUT This opinion also is said to be held" Austria. 4 Official London, Dec, 1: | ficial statement war office Monday here: “During the recent fighting west' off Jerusalem the enemy succeeded - i) pushing his attack as far as the outs skirts of the city and our troops west outh of Jerusalem were tramse ferred to the east of the city.” 4 | Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor 'of# | the exchequer announced in the Brite iish house of commons on Monday; that on that day Jerusalem had suteg | rendered to the forces under Gen, | Allenby. v atement. —The following of: 1ed by the Turk has been receives i That Armistice. Petrograd, Dec. 11.—Representa-' tives of al] the Russian fronts started tonight for Brest-Litovsk to resume the armistice negotiations with the Germans. Lieut. Col. Fokkeh, the general staff member of /the armistice committee informed the Associated Press that the delegation would comi< sist of thirteen members, including | Gen, Skatok, one representative eacl from the northern, western, south western, Rumanian-Russian and Rl manian armies, M. Altflater, the sia val representative and five politiel delegates. Lieut. Col. Fokkeh believes Germans will make considerable coh i cessions. The Germans have clim inated the demand' that Russias troops leave Macedonia and Franc because the Russian delegates sald] these armies were nat undr their co rol. The Russian delegates at Brests Litovek telegraphed to Petrpgrad to: day that the German cnmmand there had demanded the immedial cessation of the distribution of Ru sian literature to Germans and Af trians. 1 ] At Mohilev. London, Dec. 12.—Reports of fighta ing at Mohilev, Russian general heads quarters between troops newly ar; i rived there and the Bolsheviki gai rison were received in Petrograd Mo | day, according to the corresponden , of the Times in the Russian capital 1t is also reported that shoek bat. tallong and Cossacks advancing o Mohilev clashed with the Bolsheviki . who were defeated. At Tamanovka. * London, Dec. 12.—The fightihg ! Tamanovka, dccording’'to the Re‘t deepatch from Petro¥rad, appi‘nrl/v 4 rhave. heen between . nien I anti-Bolsheviki battflmm‘k § troops assisted by sailors, Reéd G {rd: infantry and armored cirs sent from Petrograd and troops from Khart ot { The Russko Slovo of Petrograd sayd ‘tbe fightinz lasted all day and al | night It adds that It was very | verc and that there is o great numneg of altics. : Tssues Decrec Petrograd, Dec. 12.—Leon Trotsk the Lolsheviki foreign minister sued a decree dismissing all' Ruj | sian ambassadors and their staffs cause they ignored the Bolsheviki del mand that tacy denounce the Ke: sky government. “We have declared them depriy of all further rights and pensions Trotzky sald. British Sacrifice. London, Dec. 12.—The ungrudgin sacrifices made by the British peop} former Premier Asquith declared 4 an address at Birmingham yesterda; proved that the ancient and u grained spirit of the British peopl had not been sapped by luxury of staled and withered by dotage. “We look to the end,” he @a “‘with the assured and ever growh belief that both in the council cham ber of peace and in the ordering our own household a new era of Iib erty and justice will be opened.” Mr. Asquith said there was abun) dant evidence that the enemy peop! are misinformed of the Allies’ objec which are not to annihilate the G man people but to destroy the tary domination of Prussia. He Germany must learn that the thronement of force is bad bui “An enemy misconception,” he dgf tinued, “is that the Allles, eapecigl are alming at.the struction for their own political economic objects of what vaguely called the freedom of the seas. ! formula if it possesses any relavang can only be used to indicate some n the nature of WAmerican interference | jimitation in war time u pon bellige: with Ru.ss'le.n internal affairs, but a |ent rights of the power which hap case similar to American and British | peng to have command of the se: troops helping France. Hard as it may be for Russia to car- ry on in the face of the great sacri- fices made at the beginning of the war is [and the paralysis of the army under | enemy. the Bolsheviki and German propagan- da, the officials assert that Russia will carry on till the time a general peace is agreed upon in common with the Allies. The fact that the Germans them- selves cannot make up their minds re- ; garding the Bolsheviki peace meeting | the approval of the Russian people is | shown it is said, by the report of a | meeting held at German eastern head- quarters early this month. News of thisameeting was received in Russian sources through what is saild to be a trustworthy neutral source and was to the effect that the civil and military authorities differed on the question. The civil authori- ties were willing to accept the Bolshe- viki offer but the military leaders - pointed out that to make such a peace would only compromise . Germany. No corresponding limitation has be suggested for land warfare where isting conventions have been in th! conflict systematically violated by th| 1 do not think we are likel to hear very much from enemy liff of freedom of the seas. “The Allies are still unflinching. i their purpose to use all legitima methods, economic and military, secure a lasting and fruitful pi which the world needs. The Alll position is stated with perfect Iu cidity by President Wilson in his cent address and 1 especially sul scribe to and endorse the langu he used. When that object is ad complished we shall be free, as h well and wisely said, to base peace of generosity and justice, and to the e: clusion of selfish claims to ad: tage even on the part of victors.” Relations With 1 Paris, Dec. —Louis Toust (Continued On Eleventh Page).