New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL | LOCAL NEWSPAPERS ERA —TEN PAGES. LIOYD GEONGE 08 | BOLSHEVIKI REPOME ROBERTSON DISPUTE) o N'T) TCHER NOFF 1 DVINSK AND LUTSK FALL TO { British Premier Explains Recent Army Changes to Gommons GERMANS WITHOUT STRUGGLE HUST AGT%TH THE ALLIES successfully attempted to Hnw up the bridge across the Dvina river. BRICE FEBRUARY 1918. THREE CENTS IGHT HURT BY EXPLOSION )N U. §. CRUISER MONTANA age C Prs H e };10“‘5 RECIPROCAD DRATT BILL WITI BRITAIN IS SIGNED Washington, Ieb. 19.- ing of the army draft between Great Britain United States was announ today. Earl Reading. ambassador, affixed his to the document official act in Washinzton Under the treaty the ited States may draft into mili- tary service British subjects in this country between the ages 20 and 45 years, while Great Britain may draft American izens living within its juris- detion between the ages of 21 ana 31 Later it was the treaty with had been signed. 2 Up actice, Only In- Obtained awt + During ion by ment. o erlin, Feb. forces have entered oflicially announced German war office. ture statement reccived S AND fin NAMES GIVED AT Depose iof Subordinated 5 TATE posed 1 Dvinsk, it to General Welfare of Count today by Berne, Switzerland. cording to Vienna dispatches Trotzky, the Bolshevik foreign ister has forwarded a wirelss message to Count Czernin, the Austrian foreign minister saying: The German gov- ernment, having re-established a state of war with Russia without even giv- ing the seven days previc otice, I have the honor to usk vou td inform me whether the Austro-Hungarian government also considers itself in a state of war with Russia and if not whether it Dbelieves it possible to e upon the condi-|reach a practical vealization of the Germany, says an' agreements worked out at Petrograd.’ _— ———— - — tween Petrograd & M. Tchernoff chairman of the ‘shg 10 LEAVE ON'FEB. 27\ ARRAS ANTICIPATED aligned with the MinigfGIN 548 = beey rograd in January Tq¢hernoff was 98 P themifr,f:,]f\i‘” | British Secure Advance Informa- | tion of Offensive From Prisoners candidate. The nexy§ day the assem bly as 0 up by force by the Bolsheviki and it yfas reported thatthe Bolsheviki intended to arrest Tq NEW POISON GAS INVENTED hernoft. y Attack Feb. 19.—Ac- Leon min- Engaged in War Against Central Powers, Ile declares, Commanding Officer of Naval Train- | Feb. today London, 19.—Premier Lloyd made the house of awaited state- Tecent army the government the chief Vienna, Feb. 19 London—The German army group under command of General Alexander van Linsingen, according to an official statement is- sued by the Austrian war oflice, has occupied the Russian town of Luts] in Volhynia, without fighting. London, Feb. 19 | forcea to sign pea tions proposed by ine Siation at Norfolk, Makes Of- | George in cammons his eagerly the cial Denial of / Long £overnment under the" there of the Telegraph ¢o escaped to R Rumor of Wholesale | ment reg changes. wrding Hc anxious tc that also W announced Canada Poisoning of Men Stationed There ) ot { —Thirty-five Made Ti1 y Eating | =) said was services of General Robeitson of staff Hash. 50 long as it was compatible upon the tussia. is now policy Great The gavernm DEMANDS NATION {ana co-oper: , mand is to set { to co-ordinate strategy of The general principles laid down at he recent session in Versailles of tho war council were agreed to by the premier told the house. 1t was agreed that there should be e authority with execu- tive powers. The only difference which arose was as to its constitution. The first proposal at Versailles, he umtinuml, was that the central au- thority should consist of a council of chiefs of staff but this was abandoned inasmuch as it regarded unworkable. Washington, decided upon in common with been trid Feb. 19.—Eight men injured in an explosion of case dur target prac- Montana. A brief 1wy department today details and did not give of the men hur 1 denial was is recent n board death h, which 1sed) Britain's allies sed lic micr wis e said policy of the nt ba upon hid the cruiser e i fTered s ough oncerted e de- wuthority the allies. up a centr. sucd by the reports of an the battleship of Licut. Command- save rise to the ru- | Sen. Johnson Insist on Permanent o cninna” doen | GOYETIIeEDE 0 nersmp of Lines | PG \PROTESTS RATE OF INTEREST “alifornian t of t s | | supremc ; .n (K | | Governor Orders Men Taken From Class 1 A Registration. L n Sclfishness Exposed. London, Feb. 19.—Renewal of tWe German attack on great Russia ful- | fills the expectation widely expressed here since Germany’s negotiations with the Bolsheviki at Brest-Litovsk The view often has been expressed that Germany had peace less in mind than to secure possession of what valuable in Russia. The manner in which Germany played off the Ukraine against the Bolsheviki is regarded as a character- istic example of German diplomatic traditions. It is felt the Ukranian call for German help has been issued at Germany instigation to give her a | hasis of taking in order to resources ¥ pss members of the Ukrainian rada and the Ukrainian the Brest-Litovsk peace conferen including Chairman Holubowicz z rested and tried for treason to 4 people. Some of those affected this order have been arrested at Kif while others fled ta Berdichev. Another of the official agency d| patches reports Odessa resembling military camp. Fierce fighting curred there on three consecu days, is stated. The defeat) T said to have d cupied the railway station and fof fied themselves. Renewed fighting a desperate character began in whi the ships in the harbor joined, firi] sells of large calibre, the victims it declired, numbered 4,000 includil the cammander of the Bight ar corps The dispat reports several hours of fighting at near ended in the Jaying their arms gene: o delegates Makes 35 111 At Norfolk. Feb. 19—Rumors that number of men had been pois- t the Norfolk naval training re cleared up today by a | Captain Dayto: the officer, that 3 of his slightly ill recently beef ha He said evidence of poison i n tho were Hash W a lar oned a <hington, Declares People Would fi it The final 15 per cent. of the first draft, 72 men from the two local ex- | cmption boards, will entrain for Camp Devens on February 27, one week from tomorrow, it was an- nounced today. Arrangements have : HUN AIR RAID been made whereby the railroads can | | ON LONDON FAILURE handle the men on this day, but the | 1 exact hour of leaving is yet to be de- termined. F¥From the first board will leave and will go from the second district. The receipt of a notice from Gov- ernor Holcomb today upset some the calculations of both exemption boards where the final quotas had been practically made up. This com- munication stated that the men who are to go in the final 15 per cent. must be taken in conformity with their order number from the regis- trants in Class 1 A of the question- | naire, notwithstanding the prior pro- ceedings or oid orde Thus, it was stated by the secretary of the second exemption board, the list of men =o- i will have to be revised for the | final quota had originally been made of elizibles from the first draft hid heen held ove Under this new svstem some men who thought that would not have to go with will be inducted into whiie some others who up their minds that they called will in reality not The second board secre- tary states that under this amended ruling the entire quota of men can be secured from those with numbers under 600. At the first exemption board there was some doubt expressed as to what course to pursue inasmuch the draft rezulations state that information shall come from the intant general. More complete de- tails are expected immediately how- ever, and the lists of those going will : killing his wife, Lena, isho - six-year-old daughter, | Probably be published tomorrow Ao Thursda ster-in-law, iss ' . " night Can In addition to instructing the araft | -0 ! Moy as to how to make up the fi St | nal quota, the governor's message or- she not ex- . ;| dered the draft boards to proceed e :l\'"l"’?" with the physical examinations of all 3 . ass 1 A men immediately. himself and died class 1 A me Y. troubles are the report from Pay for Watered Stock Under Pro- forc by e was apding oas ruade wting corned there was no other foreign <h and that most now back at work. by MAY CLOSE WAR PLANTS ! o posed Arrangement—Arraigns Hog | Expected at Any Moment— by Island Shipyard Profitcers, \rtiilery to Have Important Role— i Qor has ha it substance krainians of the Washington, Feb, ).—Permanent Kaiser's Soldiers Not Enthusiastic | are men ! government ilroad than government control for period of the war was advocated | Senator Johnson of California to- | in a speech opposing the senate | of the administration’s railroad | <iais ownership of r Concerning Assault, rather the e British Army Feb 19 The western Headquarters The German men 35 ™ Mausible No Damage and No Casualtics, Offi- | Franc (B ot ieniee great \seociated of trol the anarchy gain of con- the Press) ot o offensive e £t Claim—Gun Defense Oper- of natural Ukraine \ dispateh tograd Leon Three Units of General Electric Co. front may ex- ates to Perfection. pected to to and as fur concerned, the m on the |and St. Quentin Artillery and a will be employed by the attempt to break throuzh line Other 4(”7(}\\ will be further south facts come known through « mans anda other Ficld Marshal von | General Ladendorfr realized t the tack in which a ploved duce ihe Despite trainir the German the of the are undertaking enthusiasm, it dorff infantry e e Times from Pe- IFebruary 15 quotes Bolshevik foreign min- | ister, declaring in his report on the ending the negotiations at Brest-Litovsk that the Germans terms included the- retention - of - Poland, Lithuania, Riga and Moon Island and an of 800,000,000 pounds | gold. at any moment the RBritich main sector now froutier will be Arras now take the inevitable y wernment control of the tor declared, whatever might be essential Feb. 19.—The General |to make that government control Electric Co. has Tiotified-the navyedim DETmancent. government ownership, or partment that it shortly will have to |[at least, leave th that shut down three of its great plants |immediately upon the termination of engaged on war orders for the United | the war, we might follow to its logical | States and its allies because the ship- | conclusion what already have ® ping board’s action in taking tank ,partly dome.” the Gulf Refining Co. for | The California s has cut off its supply | Visorously at the proposed rate of | | compensation to paid the roads | in the trade |urder the provisions of the bill and and | ©pposed the senate’s plan to turn tho over |Toads back to private management 18 many | months after the conclusion of peace. ol | America Has Paid Pri to supplement the merchant| In support his du\u‘ul{un for | supplying the naval and mili- | sovernment ownership he said that forces abroad | the nmtl~ had broken down umur the has been brought to |Stress of the last few months; that, ttention of the shippin board | if Lh(x country is to have eflicient a request that some arrange- |Dational transportation, the roads be made immediately for [must be nationalized and operated by | oil to necessary |one directing head; that the Aweri- | can people have “paid the price of | i private ownership,” and that, “despite | barriers or obstacles, the tion is marching straight to the goal of pub- lic ownership, and the people at last | will come into their own.” | Senator Johuson argued that the | maximum compensation should not be paid the roads at a time when all the rest of the mation is being asked to make the greatest sacrifice. “What thig proposed rate mean added the senator, “is that the in- ter, on the outstanding bonds of the railroads will be paid in accord- with the interest rates fixed; it means, in addition, that upon the stocks of the railroads will bo paid by the government of the United | States something in excess of eight of his employes. Morris said he had | per cent. per annum; it -means that that the decision had been | thig percentage in excess of eight per reached that such matters should cent, per annum is paid on all tho ettied by arbite with the benevo- | go0k of all the railroads; it means nt and welfare department of the | yp,¢ this percentage (and I am speak- And'remarked thatmany € only the minimum) shall be t same h Fucl | h Nikolayi nia Phreatened by Shortage of as i dated London, man air failure declar: no Feb. 19.—Last night's Ger- raid on London proved the official statement tos There was no damage casualties. German fliers another clear attack was metropolis from outside tco received. The tive on the outskirts heavy for two hoars. Fi reports from of London the defense never was more effective than Monday night when it prevented German acrial raiders from reaching London. The Germans were engaged hotly Eventually they made off toward the cast co KILLS FAMILY AND SELF Slays Wife, hirust Trotzky between Cil—Appeal Made to Government. Sen g B Odessa, Tk e down Washington, and new mysterious i enemy in the the Allied delivered have be- ptured gus Ukraine Amsterdam delegation has \ppeals eb. to e way open so 1O RLrmany. 19.-—~The U the Brest-Litey issued a appea peoplc took advantage of moonlight night. Their failure as far as the concerned. Reports have not yet heen of guns of indemnity Lly in Ger- Daily N | from Petrograd reporting with 60 cpidemic conditions whose the intensive | « jan conference ws has dispateh | the German dated February 13 | Berlin spreading there, | « fatal. Tho | was attributed to starvation | nd return of soldier clothing presumably carried gorms infection. Nearly 600 disease are reported in and the infection spread through lack a presums we wis s sCources. . : Hid appoe: methods hattlc known sired assurance and h they troouns nator protested | batrae dispatch, protestin Londc steamers o overseas traffic of fuel oil. ls: hetween nburg and to have of typhus per t ian Bolsk viki and 1 bar the united with slan arm former the Ukraine looting The from be the up old at- s deserters from under the ¢ gendarmes and ar destroying, outlying who sse ships, employed e the Mexican oil American gulf ports, were taken recently along with areat tankers and general long well il is em- pro- s ymmand invadil burning a fields sy gun e too results last 2 the hospital have this the service, had made would be have to go. : quota the have been skepti offensive with 168 of i appeal declares th government lied when it descrik infection of clothing and of | this movement as rising of s in which the sick were taken Ukrainian the central ra s as, a other ri fleet wh put. | ene said s Petrogr 11 of new their to success and a tary the witl task to General 1dr no people and situation rada according reported recented at Laon and asked men wore willing to fight Only five non-commissioned and privates stepped forw others declared their desire by arrangement prisoners von body how to Al bourgeoise ! is Taden Not ssed of Krylenko b, statement Captured. ment may many finish. officers The INVOYS FILE JOINT PROTEST ON DEBRBT London, 1o Denial by the oD ‘3 is made delivering supplics a o issued offici industries rent Daugh- 7 : Russian that ilev 1Te news agency etrograd captured Mo- sign Krylenko inder-in-chief. as ACKING HEAD QUIZZED Witness Stand Be- d o Polish and Rolshevik This report is piece of German Polish officers sheviki the s patch the war, {aken Chere were | avolutionary south | cparged Ar- ment of a Prisoners were | pojghevik The Fln- import troops n ter and Sister-in-Law and all have ad- Wounds A e seiz n Mother-in-Law, comn described Punish . B Object to Repudiation of Natis sritisi Foc in Flanders, ZAmaSLEr \n British Columbus. shoot d aged his Anna and Ha Steele, ously woundi Mrs. Sallic O Fel 19.—After Nelson & o invention rrested by to Reuter Petrograd, have been | city for trial before a | tribunal. They are | iih resisting the disarma- Polish Uhlan regiment by troops Morris On ondon, Teb. 19 i i Obligations and Confiscation Last Wivern the Bol- dis- et out by in Fininders, i Houtholst mnounced 18, fore Arbiter in Wage Scale Dispute rnleg troops according from to a of Property. his aged 2 ng his Cruit, that pected to live Forrest 12, an insurance turned a gun stantly. Dom ported hav —Believes Workers Well Treated. o wood Petrograd, Feb. 19— made by Allied and the debt The prot neutral diplom repudiation of Russi; by the Bolshevik Minister Trotzky co seri- boards: n-law, S office today two other successful raids ; ind the oth near Epehy all vas a particularly aftair, resulting in heavy to the Germns, Morri packer; Chicago, Feb. Nelson head of Morris & (o, the took the witness stand today before judge Alschuler, arbitrator in the de- mands of packing hc employes for the cight hour day and higher wage He first was asked by Frank Walsh, attorney for the men, whether he had ever considered the demand 19 onc the old i Is v W against - of Lens on ras front national tuken in ders raid ant | ties Foreign the central executive All Russian workme: congress last night, dicated a t understanding German imperialists . He said: “The protest of all the ambassadd against the nullification of loans lo around us a ring of international i perialists.” The protest presented to Trotzky the diplomates reads: these raids ernment, 15e ance no on in- RUMA\’ \Nq AT WAR WITH BOLSHEVIKI stic timated mittee of the and soldiers’ o Trotzky to Petrog | the Sapreme eb. 15 Bolshevik foreign been appointed food unlimited authority ; Food Dictutor. to caused shoot SeEEAS rad Leon Trotzky minister dictator VERNON CASTLE'S FUNERAL. has with si \rtillery Duel in French Sector. Peb. 19 reported of today, it follows “Violent artillery action ocenr: during the night south of the fore Giobain, in the sector of Cah Dead Airman New York Church. York, Feb. 19.—Private mili- funeral services for Captain Ver- of the ’ tillery ficial Heavy in the “and Sewvices For Paris, i Teld be hting statement is Gen. Kalendines Petrograd 15.—Gen. Kale dines, the Don Cossacks committed suicide at Novo Tcherka a Suicide. Reported to Have Tffected Alliance Feb. a New tar non ST 2 hetman of ompan a5 o With Ukraine to Fight Te- ployes did b e 2 Castle of St ‘It seems ta be a failing of human nature to the present the that been future ¢ commented. for several years employes nted of 40 wero they than said had rours aid gr minimum employment a week and of 40 hou 1ether 11e | | paia States | of the no sto. | but on ev been stck est | cent. t of worked not TRACING VICIOUS RUMORS it or Surgeon Gener lic to Assist in Running Down Tu- mor Concerning Army Camps. 19—Surgeon Gen- u'lm] a campaign by inviting every citizen in the sensational story condition Ieb, Washi cral Gorg ton s toc or me o of rac the oldie that t Camp the of the general. This story been traced to three s we from the camp. or of 16 soldiers h McClellan a frozen , Annis- E OF WHEFAT. 19 A favorable to iner latest to come to the | | but road magnates. | Senator hig porations- he on S ¢ ery t illegitimately imated total stock of ing nothing the greed and the avarico of rail- he Joh discussion people tock of the ly 4 on railroad corp issue of stock at almost fi tl repr ai railroac nson of the legitimate United issues »orations that has issued—watered fty \ese cor- per a d from legisla- | tion to express his approval of Presi- | cret | policy of | time to t | the world | Respects to Hog Isla | senator | work of | mitteo of which Regardir | vana, ing “In on into by the Amer | state of | has | strates agance a otic | its relation ime Jo tho to the iry the o ican affairs developed wil brilliar rete P ) of heerf and the ing congre in the open f 1 Co hnson referred senato he is a the shippin y Tlog Isla he asserted: the contracts governi Intorr mer beg The evidenc 1 saturnalia And the that th it are he mon pr commerce t phantasms \Imost 1 Gorgas Invites Pub- | dent Wilon's recent stand against se- diplomacy addre nt's from orum of esid ntract. to the com- her and tuation. enn entered vith of Agoric pity and ose W studied ho Royal an airplane Corps who acci dent | held Trans was killed in at Fort Worth last Friday here today, at the Church tiguration, better kinown “little Church Around the The rector, Rev. Dr. George D Houghton and Rev. Dr. Herbert L Shipman, chaplain of the 114th Ficld Artillery, U. 8. A., officiated. A “hment of the Roval Rlyin Corpss escorted the body the The pallbearers were officers tiving corps. wers of the as the Corner.” dota to TOO MUCH. 19.—A ienry He becauso A TALKED man ing is th ur s arrest today ho ha visiting stato about He from pilot here azents - been buildin railroads @ say e in iring f he Philadelphia t Louis Ge tnamake Tair enroutc says stopr Wlorida, o for W PRIKES 19 MEBIA Frank nine’ Le Petrograd, Feb, received an 1 he alliz government a jo ian several patches ted Ukraine Rolsheviki and Rus and ing some talions ments, »ateheff, Kishinev, capits but have drive on the Dneister, by 1 These troo the heen 1o Rumani to Bolshev tumanians the Alexief?, i er reporied the in General Vorones in the \ were <i i the Do rc cherkas During ent metropol Ivanoff, forme thiw WLVTE tforl N wo New 1 cit cinit Rain, wa wesday rain colde " is commanded has ritain erions, — Rumania, dis- sre indicate, has ince with the opposed to the int army, includ- officers and bat- rainian regi- by Gen. Steher- »ps have occupied of Bessarabia, out of Tiraspol ian Bolsheyik 1l n s uizer squadron revolt- at the y executed z general cfeated at Rostoy fled to Novo 1 territory bloody v oo est events in wdimir. and nmander on b, 19.—Fore- and vi- cmer tonight. hut clearing P S have rebelled and joirved number of | The | men were northwest of Bezonvanx to report the front."” vignon. and 'here is nothing from remainder of the British Airplanes. Fob, 1 Ten German air- brought down and six by British airmen Sun- to an o‘ficial statement Iundreds of bombs various targets raided London, planes were morc day, ac disabled ordin last night hoen dropped Monday EXPLOSION KILLS TWO One Othey on British aviators hionville, Missing and 20 Injured at ary, Ind.—Three Hurt By Blow- Un at Powder Plang in New Jerse Hammongd, Ind i) killed, one were injured night which Iron and Steel ¢ Chica blast boilers iron Ifeb Two men is missing and twenty an explosion last ed the [lepubl] ympany’s plant at miles from here. in the tubuular in the structural were by wree Bust s0, four vcenrred and batteries il Falls, N. J hurt tod the Du near \ the Feb. 1 Three when three small Pont Power plant here blew up. Af armed guards doubled. Little rner headquarters a sk government which he attended. government and transfer its power to the local | during k The of the Don Co: sion of the Novo intended to workmen and soldiers’ council. the decision General Kalendines went | ssack cher resign After to an adjoining room and shot him- self. Gen. Nazaroff who succeeded Gen- Kalendines as leader of the Don Cos- sacks ordered the immediate mobili- | ¢ zation of all Cossacks Bolsheviki Novo to fight the troops advancing toward Tcherkask. As leader of the Don Cossacks Gen. Kalendines was opposed to the Bol- | and he was sheviki the leade counter revolt last December. public of the Don was declared Kalendines In January t E president and r of a he re- with premier It was probably the resignation of this government In tive 1916, endines an advance in ed leader 1917 June weeks during June ussian troops under Gen that led to his sui ptured 20,000 prisor Volhyniu. He the Do ol cide: a July Kal ¢ ks Fierce Fighting in Odessa London, dispatches from Petrograd received to- giv day happenin official Jeebru An Adated Iolshc s in 1dditional Feb, 19.—Further b details of Russis ry 12 annour thorities ordered : elated recent | sp pat t the 11 th “In order to avert all standing in the future the repr tatives in Petrograd of all fo | powers declare that they conside decrees on the subject of repudi of Russian national debt tion of property aof all other analogous measures | sorts as wit nationals, and the said | tives reserve o claim at from the Prussian lasses which the decre put on their nationals. In reference to the measures it is explained aggregating millions have already eign capital hour they see government fo: | any | confis that of 1t been sustained by in connection with factories. 1 many re The st cmbassy drafted the diplomatic corp. ting in SPANISIE PROTEST Madrid, 1 rther re cting . 11 be made by S Pre which the tomorrow. The the torpedoing Ceferino early di ntations (o si marine wur in a note prepared by Alhucemas and upon inet will pa will take nish up ot near 10rning Genova in Spa steamer erro N this 1 Amer misund: e st puis, r at the confis hd value inasmuch as they concern thi represent] to themselves the rij » es and measuly ati] 1b! 14 ic| PREPAREY % e m - n