New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL ‘LOCAL NEWSPAPERS BRITAIN HER. PRICE THREE CENTS, - NEW WBRITAIN CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1918. —TEN PAGES. STATE OF SIEGE DECLARED IN GERMAN STRIKE CENTERS Drastic Action Taken by " Government in Hamburg, \ltona and Wandsbeck, Copenhagen Is Informed. SHIP BUILDING AT VIRTUAL STANDSTILL Strike at Vulcan Plant Extends to Silohm & Voss, Tmportant Construc- tion Concern—700,000 Quit Work | in Berlin—St and Soldiers Clash in Suburbs—Political Plo$ Suspected. | | | | s e | Copenhagen, Jan. 31. —A state of siege has been declared at Ham- burg, Altona and Wands- beck, according to the Hamburg Echo, a social- 1St :w\\‘spaper. The now TLond essation of Hamburg Jan & work i is virtually complete, according to a Daily Tele- dispatch from Petrograd. The hus extended from the Vulcan Hamburg to & Vo shipbuilding demand an on the basis of no indemnities. Want Reichstag Summoned. gram strike Shipbuilding works in the rks of Blohm an- other The peacc und large concern. immediate annexations strikers ¥ The socialist party leaders in Ger- many, according to a statement in the Berliner Tageblatt, forwarded by the Amsterdam correspondent of the entral News, have asked President | Kacmpf of the Reichstag to s the Reichstag immediately in the alarming events of the days At a meetig of the Berlin strikers Wednesday, the paper adds, a resolu- tion was passed declaring the strikers wovld oppose to the utmost of their power any reprisals against = their leaders or representatives. Among the views expressed in dis patches from Holland in regard to the German strike is one that ths German government is exploiting what hardiy amounts to more than a peace time demand with the object, 1t possible of producing a more serious movement in allied countries, where it apparently helieves the govern- ments are less able than itself to con- trol such movements. Another correspondent gathers from the German press that the German sovernment intends to make the strilke movement a pretext for break- ing off the and ASC! immon view of past few i bing it to the machina- tions the Bolsheviki with whom, therefore, it would be impossible to lold further conference. The semi-official Norddutche Alle- gime Zeitung, commenting on the po- litical aims of the strike committee warns the strikers that they will achieve nothing by their action in re er to the negotiations at Litovsk. Instead of furthering peace movement, it says, the stri will prejudice tho megotiations and encourage her encmics to resist Ger many’s just c The paper, ment expects sult of calm the foolishne rewne work. Clashes between soldiers and strik- ers in the suburbs of Berlin in which lives were lost are reported in a dis- patch from tieneva to the Daily Fx- pre The troops in some instances refused to fire on strikers the dispatch adds Many Industries Included. The strike movement embraces gov- ernment and private shipbuilding yards, the mining centers and numer- ous important factories in the Berlin districts. There is news of the forma- tion workmen’s council on a model of the workmen's and soldiers’ souncils in Russin. The minister of the interior has been asked to sanc. tion the mectings of the workmen's council. According to some reports the strike nvolyes a number of munitions fac ories and some submarines wharves but up to this time the railroad and telephone services have not been in- volved. The union of labor, an Telegraph dispatch says has issued a wike leaflet, declaring England and America only await the moment when Germany is weakened by internal strike leaflet, declaring England and her trade, and smash German compe- lition. The appeai says: We want no hunger peace, there- fore down with mass strikes. Our fu- ture is at stake.” of res aims. adds that the the strikers consideration govern- s the re- to realize their attitude and of of a n Exchange The German strike is still growing In magnitude the Exchange Telegraph correspondent at Copenhagen re- ports, In Berlin 700,000 persons are strike, he report 58,000 of these women number of socialist leadera 2d in various towns, anthority Berlin ne "he tn (Uontinued on Third Page) Brest-Litovsk negotiations | GOVERNMENT FORGES IN FINLAND WINNING Defeats for Red Guard Re- ported—Anarchy En- gulfs Country. Stockholm, Jan. 30.—All is quict at Helsingfors, a dispatch from that city reports, but fighting is under way at other points in Finland between tho Red Guard, which is supporting the revolution and the White Guard, which is uwpholding the government. The White Guard is fighting with en- thusiasm and scoring success every- where, notably at Uleaborg, Kajanail- mola and St. Michel, disarming the ted Guard. In fighting Twesday near Kaemera station the Red Guard lost 87 killed and 127 wounded while the White Guard lost only cht killed and one wounded. [ London, Jan. Finland is going through a social revolution similar in aims to the November revolution in Petrograd, says the Petrograd ci spondent of the Daily News in de- séribing the Finnish situation. The forces opposed to each other in Fin- land, however, are very equally bal- anced, he adds, and a comparatively | painless revelution, like that pushed through by the Russian Bolsheviki, is unlikely. The latest advices from Petrograd | report continued fighting and disor- | ders in Finland, but the destruction of telegraph and telephone lines is pre- venting much news from coming through. The railway telegraph sys- | temn is still in operation, but at many places these wire facilities are in the | hands of the Red Guard. 1t is understood that the expelled members of the Rumanian legation, | wno started for Stockholm, got no further on their way through Fin- | land than Terijoki, about 30 miles from Petrograd. Many of the wealthier residents of Petrograd fled into TFinland to escape the revolutionary troubles in the Rus- sian capital, thinking to find a safo Some of this class took their | them. The breal rre- retrout. { entire fortunes with ing out of the revolution now makes {it appear that they cscaped from ono evil only to encounter another equal- {1y as great. | | The members of the Finnish senate | are said to have taken refuge in Vasa. Most of the news of the pu situation is coming from Stockholm and Copenhagen. It consists largely | of reports of fighting in which Gen- | eral Mannerholm, commanding the protection corps, which scems to bo the national guard formed by the Winnish government, claims successes. General Mannerholm is reported | marching to attack Helsingfors. Three Finnish steamers arrived in Stockholm on Wednesday. One them reports wild scenes and extremo | misery among the population in Abo and Viborg. Anarchy almost scems to prevail everywhere. ASK $500,000,000 RAISE Forty Per Cent. Wage Increase Sought By Railroad Mcn Half of Operating Expense Last Year. Washington, Jan. 31.—Demands for wage mcreases pending before the Railroad Wage Commission are for an aggregate average of 40 per cent. it was disclosed today. represent a total nearly $500,000,000 this year or about half of the railway operating income of last year. A number of Tequests for more pay are still reaching the commission. In nearly every case the labor union seeks to represent all members of tho railrond wage earners organized or unorganized and the wage commission is said to be prepared to accept this principle. Many of the demands are for moro than 40 per cent. cases an Incr ta place trades on a parity with employ other industries, ana in addition flat increase to provide for the higher cost of living within the lat vear Less than half of the 1,000,000 vail- way emploves are organized.. Within the last few wecks, however, the un- orzanized men have met in groups and sent petitions to the railroad ad- ministration or wage commission asking definite increases With the aid of its statisticians and examiners the wage commission ex- pects to determine certain rates of in- crease considered just for various classes of railway labor and probably will scale down the demands in many instances. An aftempt also will ho made to make the wage grants pro- portionate to pay in other industries. The commission was notified today by a number of railway executives it representatives of the employers would be named to attend hearings of the commission and to give any as ststance possible in the way of plifying or cireeking up the statements of employes certain of MOUNTTION PLANT WRECKED. St. Louis, Jan. 31.—A structure occupied by the 1V company was wrecked f todas explosion and two were serionsly injured been eng for the Henderson early men 1 story m i ged in the i government, of | The demands | They ask in some | | 13 WL Christ of the local fuel commit- | is | | | l | {'men ay ORDERED TO GIVE UP EXCESS GOAL William §. Dieht Ordered Tw0= Tons With Fuel in Bins SOLD It T0 A NEIGHBOR Corbin Screw Co. Official Forced to hare Supply After Investigation By Chairman Christ of Lecal Com- mittec. Administrator Russell's ruling that no coal will be sold to citizens already having a supply is being thoroughly enforced in this city as is shown by the action of Chairman State Fuel re- | w | tee in moved Diehl, corpo claimed sufficient excess teet two tons of coal cellar of William ser of the Corbin Ser ion, 4t 26 Cedar street. It was | that Mr. Diehl already had a supply of wo | t Po- Stanley house ardering from the man coul and (1 wer Robe traific mir Works, wha Mr. Diehl Chairman tons of coal Diehl home and menced an investigation. that Mr. Diehl had not ly to the office of the City Coal and | Woad Co., where it was bLought, to| order the coal, but had sent a. repre- sentative. Under the ruling of Ad- ministrator Russell, Mr. Diehl's re- presentative should have filled out a blank, showing how much coal was in the Diehl bins and the average con- sumption of the household. This item was not attended to it being claimed by Manager Johnston of the coal company, according to Chairman | Christ that the matter was overlooked | in the rush of business. He did not know that Mr. Diehl had a supply of coal in his cellar. In order to straighten out the dit- ficulty, it was decided that Mr. Diehl | should sell the two tons of coal to Mr. Poteet, whose hbins were empty The neighborhood was aroused by the din and the residents were worried for fear the government was con- lives in as Christ 1 twa | hada arn that immediately com- learned gone personal- | to | sripting private supplies of coal 6,602 ENROLLED FOR MILITARY SERVICE City Has 8,119 Men Between Ages of 18 and 45 Years, According to Records. Military At the present time there are 6,602 men between the ages of 18 and 45 years who have not been rejected for military service, according to the re- port of William Zeigler and Thomas J. Smith, registrars, who have fin- ished the military enrollment of tho city and today forwarded their re- port to the adjutant general at Har ford. The total number of names on this vear's military enrollment is 8,119, | a; 6,794 of a year ago. | itemized list shows that there men in the ecity totally in- for military work and so urgeon. There because he the state. Chamber- ss of the | men en- ! national | 129 moro the draft| against The are 25 capacitated designated by the pc Aso one exempt is an executive oflicer of He is State Treasurer F. 8. lain. In making their canvas city the registrars found 93 listed and serving in the guard or naval militia and having left the city in quotas. Those listed on the such as men in the last 15 of the first draft, number 7 are 51 exempt because they are postal employes otherwise exempted by law. These above named men total 1,517 who are exempt either because they already serving or otherwise, Subtracting these figures from the to- tal enrollment leaves 6,602 enrolled for military duty. | It possible in making up their that the registrars did not secure name of every New Britain man in the service, but they took name that was given them in house canvass and any may possibly be aecounted for by the fact that relatives of such may have left the city, or they may have had no relatives here to tell the registrars about them AIR RAID ON PARIS Killed, 50 Wounded by German | man i reserve, per cent. nd thero | the now every their omissions house to Avie ators—Berlin Sayg Attack Was in Nature of Reprisal, Pari raided 31 last an, Paris ziven at 1i were thrown at Paris and suburb: Twenty persons were killed wounded in last night's air raid announced otficiall One of the German brought down The mide prisoners. German airplanes | night. The alarm | 30 o'clock. HBombs various points was and it 50 is machines occupants was wero Berlu reprisal,” issued 14 Jan. 31, via the war ymb \s L statement London oflicial t we dropper tons ou s i s REBELS CAPTUR ¥ YOCTIOW, 1 Yocl upper | terest | mentg | treaty. | nation FATE OF AMERICA HANGS IN BALANCE President Wilson Sends Message to Farmers Spurring Them On SUCCESS IN THEIR HANDS Compliments Agriculturists On Vic= tory Orops and Asks Them to Show Even Greater Returns to Insure Success of Allied Cause. Vashington, Jan. 31.—To the farm- ers of the country President Wilson today sent a message calling attention to the country’s need of the farmers’ assistance in winning the war. The message was sent through the Farm- ers’ Conference, being held at the Uni= versity of 1llinois. The message was delivered by Presi- dent James of the university in the absence of Secretary Houston, who to have represented the presi- dent. The president had expected to attend but indisposition made it im- possible and he delegated Mr. Hous- ton, who was prevented from par- ticipating by the tie-up in facilities. The message said: “I am very sorry indeed that not be present in person at the con= ference. I should like to enjoy the benefit of the inspiration and exchange of counsel which T know T should ob- tain, but in the circumstances it has seemed impossible for me to be pres- ent and therefore I can send you a very earnest message expressing my interest and the thoughts which a-con- ference must bring prominently into every mind. “I need not tell you for T am sure vou realize as keenly as I do that we are as a mnation in the presence of a great task which demands supremo sacrifice. We can give everything that is needed with the greater will- ingness and even satisfaction becauso the object of the war in which we are engaged is the greatest that freemen have ever undertaken. It is to pre= vent the life of the world from being determined by small groups of mili« tary masters, who seek their own in- and the selfish dominion throughout the world of the govern- they unhappily, for the mo- control. You will not need to was I can- ment, | be convinced that it was necessary for us as a free people to take part in this war. It had raised its evil hand against us. The rulers of Ciermany had sought to exercise their power in such a way as to shut off our eco- nomic life so far as our intercourse with Isurope was concerned, and to confine our people within the western hemisphere, while they accomplished purposes wh manent a impairment and impeded every process of our national life and have put the fortunes of America at the mercy of the imperial government of Germany. This wag no threat. It had become a reality. Their hand of violence had been laid upon our own | people and our own property in fla- grant violation not only of justice but of the well-recognized and long-stand- ing covenants of international law and We are fighting, thereforé, as truly for the Iiberty and self govern- ment of the United States as if the war of our own revolution had to be fought over again, and every man in cvery business In the United States must know by this time that his whole future fortune lies in the balance. Our national life and our whole eco- nomic development will pass under | the sinister influences of foreign con- trol if we do not win. ‘We must win, ther and we shall win. 1 need not ask to pledge your lives and fortunes with those of the rest of the to the accomplishment of that great end. Year 1918 Will Tell Story. “You men on ize, that struggle fore, vou will realize, as T think states- both sides of the water real- the culminating crisis of the has come and that tha | achievements of this year on the ona side issue or the other must determine tho It has turned out that the forces ihat fight for freedom, the free- dom of men all over the world as well as our own, depend upon us in an extraordinary and unexpected de- cree suste he for materis and to when t which men and it will be war is over that have supplicd these materials and sup- plies abundantly and it will be ail the nore glory because in supplying them by fight the to our we are we have made our supreme effort and sacrifice, ‘In the ficld of agencies and sulture we have instrumentalities, for- tunately, such as no other government in the world can The der ment wriculture is undoubtedly the reatest practical and agri- Htoral world. The banking legislation of tho or has given the far great lendable cap- the country and it has become duty both of the men in cha the federal reserve bankir system wnd farm that show seientific ore tion in the c Ani last mer: ttal the years wecess to th banking loan ystemn he f 10 see to it rmers oblain (Continug WEATHER Havror for New Unsettted colder, md vicinity Fridny a Beithin tonight » and \ nce, for the supply of | 2ol | and | treasurer A | B0t AMERICAN § FOLLOWING RUSSIA TO SUPPORT EUROPEAN UPHEAVALS ¥ i Bolsheviki Declare Red | Army Will Aid Social Revolution. Petrograd, Jan. 31.—An official statement issued today says and peasants’ by the Bolshe- viki that the “new workmen's red army will serve to support the coming social revolution in Europe.” London, Jan. 31.—A Bolshevik de- ree establishing an all-Russian col- legium for guidance in organizing thé workmen’s and peasants’ red army of the Russian councils republic is an- | nounced in a Russian official wireless | statement received here. The commit- tee will be composed of two represen- tatives of war commissariat and two representatives of the general staff of the Red Guards, Another decree rubles for the army the fund. moncy | to the turned follows? Killed or died of woMl Officers, 358; men, 13,698, Wounded or missing: cers, 1,205; men, §7,756. The January casualtles show a slight falling off from those reported during December, whicn reached a total of 79,257, The total for November was 129,089, reflecting the severe fighting on the Cambrai front in that month, assigns 20,000,000 tion of the red in the war be entrusted be re- orzaniz from The collegium moiey to niust Offi- is and subsequently Petrograd, Jan. 30 ister Trotzky official azeney Persian Foreig Min- according to the semi- has sent a letter to the minister at Petrograd whom he addresses citizen ambassador™ informing him that the government of the Russian republic makes this dee- laration : “The Anglo-Russian 1907 was dir d against and independence of the ple and is null and void Morcover the government denounce; all agrecments preceding and follow- ing the said agreement which may restrict the rights of the Persian peo- plo a free and independent exi ence.’ PRUSSIANS IN BAD PLIGHT reement of the liberty Persian peo- for all time. GEN. PERSHING AT ALLIED WAR COUNCIL to Back Versailles Populace. Situation More Serious Than Reports of Past Week Indicate, Belief in Versailles, France, Jan Pershing, the American commander, attended today’s meeting of the su- preme war council here, together with Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, the chief of stafi of the American army. The session today aroused terest than the preceding of the body, as was which do la Rein was thickly 'd that the police guard was re-inforced to keep the crowd out of the where the ook Washington. 31—Gener Washinzton, 1—A\dvices to today from neu- Germany’s eco- political prohlems are seriousness. Information the department indi that have come in the past jan tral nomic growing received that repor Germany sent the growing countries ind in hy sy more in- meetings hy the of pre- there is socinlists the evidenced The S0 g out crowd vard thro week do not athered. tion of the groups entire as protes more radical against Triano place. The meoting lasted mier Clemencean pr tain, Gen. Fo~h and ( 1t the premier’s left George, the British William R reral staff, ¥ Hughes W at hig left. Pershing were with Prof mier Baron ministe them ik palace, session Telearaphic communication between Sweden and Helsingfors, Finland r according to other ihe fors. HOLD SHIPS FOR SPAIN two hours, Pre- siding. Gen. Pe- Weygand sat David Lloyd had Gen Robertson, chief of Maj, Gen. Sir sub-chief of and Gen, in front at the right Orlando, the Ttalian pre Sonnino, Italian foreign wd Gen. Cadorna beside the left FOLK LEAVES 1. C. C. POST was 5 ad- state department An- was that the members of had left Helsing- tored yesterday to the eport 5 N, Finnish senate premier, aind of Five Vessels Suspended by Washington—War Teade Board ik Ceases to Tssue Export Licenses. An sailing Atlantic Port, Jan. 31.—The steamships to s of five passenger making ready here for voyages Chicf Counsel to Federal Board Will Spain were tod announced, ton. suspended it Washing v was Return (0 Home in St. Louis on orders from Chambher of Commerce Position. hington today Jan sent to W 3 Joseph I"olk the Inte Commerce Commission his resignation the commission’'s chief counsel to take effect before Feb. 15. He will return to his home in St. Louis to become general counsel of the cham- ber of commerce there. He has served as the commission’s counsel for four years. He directed interstate commerce commission’s investigation into the business canduct of the New Haven and other railroads URGES 12 PER CENT. INCREASE W war | ) to suing li Spain. This all shipments reasons but affairs Washington trade board I censes for export Jan. 31 suspended The i to b cobargocs e The dizclosed of with nt is causing American to pay a heavy transactions with cffectually to that not he Inown ountry have it is | fully the n that state Spain at presc is husiness men their pre- mium on that country O KEELS Bridgeport were luid down N Jan. Two keels today at plant of the fousatonic Shipbuilding company, v adjunet the United States Ship- ping corporation. They are for wood- en vessels, approximately 3,500 tons ch. They will be feet six inche: by 46 feet beam. Six hundred men are now at work and it is expect- ed that the ships will be ready for launching as soon as the ice gocs out the Housatonic POSITION. Arbiter in Fall River Mill Controversy Makes Report. Fall River, Jan, 31.—An advance in wages of 12% per cent. to 35,000 mill operatives by the textile manufac- turers of this city, is a fair offer, Charles W. Ellis, foderal arbiter sent here to settle the wage difficulty, de- clared in a report filed today. The findings were reported manufacturers and representatives the both sides having ag to accept them as final. The increns will eifective for six mornths long of river. BEASTERN STAR New chupter CONVENTION. Haven, Jan. 81.—The srand Connecticut Order the 1 its 44ch annual ses. The gathering i matron Waterbury, and lLe rd Ni rand master { Masons in Connceticut, made an ad- iress of welcome. i'he necrology re- the 2 the death Ieda of Hartford, zrand v clected unions, of or Le istern S here pened by ennie Murgroft J Lir he toduy 'QUAKE NEAR CLEVELAND. Cleveland, Jan. 81.—Father Oden- bach ef St. Ignatius college today re- ported that the selsmograph records shows earthquake tremors Drobably local at 4:40 yesterday afternoon. There were no preliminary waves to the ihree main waves. Father Oden- bach estinmates the vibrations curred 300 miles iun was « pust gre Mrs, ol port Mrs of INisk Oific were dur- oc afternoon. of Cleveland. within Police Called Out to Hold Boule- ! had been listed as accidental woun ings. There were mostly wounded d the hands. It is certain that the enemy’s ulties fro mthe American cannon ay machine gun fire has bcen as gre: or greater thar ours. The casualties given out in ington recently cover a recent These were within the sound range of gums. One man was blow to pieces by a shell in a regiments headquarters town as he was follo ing his colonel into a dugout. Three men were killed by one shd which fell in a trench and anoth died of wounds in a hospital. Qut a few of the men sent to hospi were wounded in the uppart part the body or on the head from shraj nel i TLast night was fairly quiet througl out the American sector. The usu | number of shells came over, doing damage and there were the customa poradic outbursts of machine gun fi | from both sides at points where tl opposing lines are nearest At daybreak this morning the heay { fox which has been enveloping 1l | whole position and the country ff miles around for several days becan| still thicker, blotting out all exce the nearest enemy positjons. At o’clock three muffled reports sounde the fog. There were three whistl followed quickly by three shell burs The projectiles exploded on thrd | sides of an American listening pos | just outside the wire, within 45 fe of an enemy listening post “Then hell broke loose,” said one 4 the men there. or 15 minutes ti broke hundreds of high expl ve round the post and the su rounding ground, cutting oft the md there. Two of them were killed in I | first few minutes. Another man who was at the po| told the correspondent later as he Wi lying on a cot in a field hospital thi he saw four Germans approaching o j of the fog as the barrage lifted. brought his automatic rifle into ph and saw two of the Germans fall kept on firing until shell splinters. him in the head and mrm. “The last I remember in the th before I reached the hospitad,” another wounded man, “is something moving through a fog. ! determined to get some Germans, put my rifle to my shoulder, but nevi pulled the trigger. There was a dea ening cxplosion behind me; fro earth, ice, and shell spling came my way:" Inspection of the scene of the showed that the gound was plough up by the explosion of shelis. For military reasons it has be| inadvisable to send earlier or-oth details. = Austrians Caught Asleep. Ttalian headquurters, northern I Jai. 30. (By The Associated Press. witnesses of $he Italian attack iago plateau tell a story thrilling interest. TFrom their counts it appears thut the first Itg ian rush was in tne darkness ab o'clock Monday morning. The sleg ing enemy forees were taken by pri: The Aloini were in the thil of this fighting and by daylight thi had swept the first line trenches bad taken an old church whi formed a strategic point in the ene line of defense. They were vigoro ly supporting the heroic Sassi brigaj which took and retook the height Colonel DelRosso three times agai the stubborn, desperate resistance the enem 17s | stones enemy early to right on It tighting and in the eurly Italian stormin eastern and by 11 o'clock Tuesday morning hi cut their way to the summit a were establishing themselves firn in defiinite control of the key tion. movements were a df sereen the main movemel where a oke was the height of Monte was here that the md oceurred versior on the d 1ivered Valleba It hours troops slopes, the western Little Actively on British Front. London, Jan. 31,—The offic (Continued on Third Page)