New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1918, Page 1

ey HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS e NE\)/ BRITAXN I'TAIN HERA CONNECTICU T, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1948, —SIXTEEN PAGES. % i 'W ENGLA\ID TROOPS hGHT ON CHEMIN‘DES-DAMES LINE Soldier Irom This Section Drops Into Shell Hole and oner of German | - Makes Pris Without Assistance. RTILLERY RAGING FRENCH SECTION Dominance of Valley of the .)'m-fl:ml Gained by British Through Capture of Jericho—Force Only 25 Miles I'rom Turks’ Line of Communica- tion With Arabia—Englishmen | Caught in German Raid, | With the American Army-in France, | Feh. 22 (By the Associated Press)— | In « patrol fight, Americans from | units under instruction in the famous | Chemin-Des-Dames sector, killed one | " Ge and captured another. Ona | A\mcrican was slightly wounded. This is the first time it hasg hcen’ permitted to reveal the fact that new | American units have entered the | The troeps have been there for | we, suffering r presence was certain there. iils of the 'Hh\\dll«(lv\n the cingle- s was ! i the enemy they vere Do vet are al patrol fight as by the unoffi re- | prisoner taken was cap- | anded Dby young 1 from one of the New who, during the eng dropped into a shell hole a German hiding ther brought him in, American forces ! line on one of the darkest of nizhts | through a shell-pitted region dotted with shell-wrecked tow 'l‘ho! i por turec \ Jand st ment, top later n L ites ge- on =~ | and | entered ti French general commanding the sec- | tor, a hero of the Marne, greeted them as comrades in arms and kissed the American flag. The artillery duel continues ni!ht‘ and day but only slight damage has | been done to the American lines. American shells appear to be hi important enemy positions with regu- | larity except when a ground haze ob- | scures observation. Activity in the ished and numbe chines continue ican lines. A large number of are now opposite the tor. JERICHO TAKEN BY AUSTRALIAN FORCE has not dimin- of German ma- the Ameg- ir cross to German A c guns | sec- Town » in Palestine Dominated Valley of the Jordan and Is Near Turks’ Line to Arabia. London, 2 captured Je office reports. The W Feb. 22.—The British, have cho, in Palestine, the war city was entered hy A\Mralun\; troops yesterday. Little opposition was encountered. Subsequently the Australians established themselves on | the line of the Jordan and the Wadi Auj The official statement reports continuation of bad weather North and northwest of Jerusalem the British advanced positions were 'y extended slightly and rendered secure. During the.fighting of Wednesday the casualties of the British troops were again slight. Y tho the capture of Jerusalem, tho have been pushing steadily ahead, striking out to the north and east. Official statements from London in the last few days have reported *rapid progress, and avparently the Turks have offered no determined re= tance. Aside Since British from its historical import- ince in connection with the British plan to free the Haly Land from the domination of the Turks, the capture of Jericho is of little significance. It consists merely of a group of ;qu’th-l hovels and a few shops, with about 300 inhabitants. Tts chief strategic alue lies in the fact that it gives tho British domination of tr Jordan, and also control of a networlk of highways radiating from the town A further advance eastward of 25 miles, however, would take the British | to the railway from Damascus to Mec- ca, whi would cut off the Turks’ line of communication with Arabia and greatly assist the revolting Arab tribes which are co-operating with the Brit- ish trer the Dead northeast of Jerusalem FALL ty of S 14 mil BITUMINOT Geological Survey I Heavy Slump. mes Railroads for ton, Feb, —Bituminous coal production in lowest rate since September, making public the figure geological survey blames entirely railroad con 1916. In today the the stion. The 1000 tons, aily ter than y's statc the on | their valley of tho | Jericho is near the northern ex-| January was at the | JIN ROUILLARD - VIGTIR OF WAR Company E Soldier Killed, According to Advice Re- ceived From War Depart- ment by Parents a private in Com- Infantr Hea be James Rouillard, E, of the 1024 U. somewhere in T pany S. now killed by accident within the nce, American | lin Private Rouillard is the firs New Britain member of the American | peditionary Forces to meet his death abroad and to him belongs the honor also of having been one of the first local men to valunteer for serv- ice overseas in the great war. The young the son of Mr. and Mrs. ouillard, of 14 Beatty stre fternoon they received tel ram from the War dep: advising them of son’s trag ath. The War de- :nt notified the parent: upon its - receipt of roll cabled over by Details concerning ® | death of the voung soldier are lacki | the only information being that it oc curred on February 7, the result of an accident. Private Rouillard was 24 years old when he enlisted in Company E, then of the First Connecticut Infantry, last summer He went to New Ha with that command and when it w merged into the 102d U. he vemained with went to France fall. e had written frequently to his mother, father and brother and all of his let- ters were full of cheerful news and breathed a spirit of patriotic mination to do his bit for Sam in fighting the Bo The dead soldicr is one of three hrothers who are fighting in the Am- erican Expeditionaty Force. One of the brothers, Albert Rouillard, is a private in Company E, the same com- mand that the dead soldier was a member of, and the otker brother is a member of Company I, alsa recruit- ed in this city. before marched out from Britain with Company I, James Rouillard re marked, “Yes, we're all in the army Ana if vou want any I vounger brother, Jcseph, go.” Mr .and Mr the dead soldier stunned at the tragic news which came to them this afternoon. It is understood that Pr- vate Rouillard’'s remains will be buried somewhera in France until affer the war., when they will prdt v be brought back here to his na- tive city. While William Denby, Catherine T of Ple the f Britain this the soldier W Philias nd th the day's General Tast Uncie more, is ready 1 i Rouillard, ire parents of | | t | son of Mrs. asant street, nati son cat war, 1dian nh New ting in nber of Force ate | member of ary Force | rifica, | PROT T WAR ADVERTISING | | Women Join Movement to Mal struction Penal Offensc | New York, Feb. 22.—Art, organizations here ident De- slump | civic and | women’s joined to- | day in appeal to Pres tment it a urging m jation king obl 1| s immedi- ! the | S. Infantry | the same unit and | deter- | to | WASHINGTON MODEL FOR GIVILIZATION French Ambassador Says His Spirit Should Animate Country RESULT UF WAR CERTAIN “The Work Must Be Done So That It May Not Have to Be Done His Over Again,” Reference to War— Address by Senator Harding. Washington, Feb. of Washington was extolled by M. Jus- serand, French ambassador, and Sen- ator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, in addresses delivered at a commemora- tive mass m n 22.~—~The memory i held here today un- the Ameriean der the auspices of Sons Daughters of the Revolu- tion. “Everybody “knows the | all French ington:; how Frenc citizenship him as being ‘one of the benefactors of humanity,” and how, when he died, the French nation went into mourning, officers wore crepe, and our lown at half-mast. M. Jusserand, feeling net Wi mn revolution, was bestowed on imanimity of or our who gs were “Ta conduct oneself well is a harder | sk in da of gloom and anxiety. both, Washington stands a model knew all the trouble which n. from delays, mishaps and mis ment, but never thought of a patched- up peace.” The ambassador said that Frederick the Great, who, while entertaining American envoys sent during the revo- lution to arrange a commercial treaty, wrote his brother, Prince Henry, that he intended “to drag out negotiations so as to take the side for which for- tune shall declare herself.” He de- scribed as a German invention the story that Frederick had presented In He ‘Washington with a sword bearing the | inscription: “From the oldest to the greates Re in the warld.” st as Washington Did Referring to the present war, serand declared: The fight is on. As we shall no more resist than Washington did, even at this most perilous hour, result is certain. The work done so that it may not have to | done again. 1In this we are, all of us, | with you whose enthusiasm, valor, | resourcefulness and inexhaustible gen- s bring us snch cheer and comn M. ator Harding that the | time bad come to maxims | contained in Washington's farewell address concerning the pernicious ef- fects of eternal dissension in a nation- al emerzency. “In our mighty have added to the | Washington | senator. in party | pear or s development we perils of which warned,” asserted “The danger has not been irrender to faction. “Our growth, diver: | our nation wide communic profit-bearing selfishnes filled the land with organized | tions, not geographical | ton so much fearcd, but | industrial, agr ural | sional, h seeking to interests of its own, not tifieation at tir but ace in exacting priviles | through the utterance threats. If popular survive, it must to all men and fe: NINE BURNED T0 DEATH Victims our tion, our fac- Washing- commereial, and profles- promote the without jus- a men- and favor of political overnment is to int exact justice ar none of Fire in FParmhouse Peabody, Mass., Were Members of Same Family. Peabody, Mass.,, Feb. ine per- sons, all members of the family of Morris Miller, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the Miller homo near here early today According to Reuben | who wa | l Miller, a son, s employed on a near-by farm, | the family co ed, besides himselr, af his mother and fath nd seven brothers and sisters. He said that all, with t exception of two older ters, were at home last night, and the lice and firemen continued their s of the rui for other bodies. recovered were burned bevond The Morris po- arch Thoso | | recog- eco ice list of Miller: M Minnie, and dead follows: Miller; Sadie, 1 m, a girl, 0 1 Se baby Three ruing Methad destrayed hur ot 2 loss of at ¢ ss g | ‘. SAVED Wilson | and | general in Europe | the | raust bo | be | tha | association, but in party ap-! these have | at | of | PRUSSIANS CLOSING Austrians and Germans March From Two Directions on Capital JOINED BY UKRAINIANS Dispatches State Invading Force Is Small But Utter Disorganization of Russians Offered Unhindered Path- way. Feb. London, —Austrian and German troops are advancing in the south simultaneously with | mans the north, and Ukrainian itl‘OOflS are reported to have joined | them against the Bolsheviki, accord- ing to a Petrograd dispatch to the Morning Post. The Polish legions of the Russian army have offered an armistice in the prevailing civil war on condition of free passage in any direction and now are trying to reach | Warsaw. The German advance into Russia 1s not tne march of a conqueror for nowhere up to the present have they met any serious opposition. The comparatively rapid progress is as- cribed to the fact that the Germans found a clear passage. Dispatches from Petrograd, none of which are dated later than Wed- nesday, indicate the jinvaders a:m making their own pace in collecting immense stores of weapons, muni- tions, food and other valuable prop- erty, which the disorganized Russian armies abandoned in their hurried dight. The strength of the German | advancing army is not believed to be | great. A Petrograd dispatch to the AMorn- ing Post says there is only one divi- sion of cavalry and one division of infantry. According to the correspondent, there is nothing whatever to prevent | them from. reaching Petrogdrad | they wish, for the demoralization of the Russian soldiers is so complete that orders to resist the invasion would be impossible execution. Moreover, the enemy could ily re- duce the capital to famine, which al- ready is closing its grip on the peo- ple. The Bolshevik German peace and German advance W trograd in various w. Wednesday’s reports. ‘The correspondent of the Times says profaund disgust and shame was felt | and uttered by serious and intelligent | people and w reflected in the non- Bolshevik newspapers. A report to the Morning Post says the saner element the Ger- in i capitulation to a the news of the received in Pe- ¥s, according to i | tions with the Allics, unification of Russia and the aban- donment of the dreams of amateur statesmen. The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Mail says a majority would wel- come the arrival of the Germans in the hope that they wauld restore or- | der, the feeling being that anything is better than the present condition. As to the decision to surrender to the Germans, accounts differ. Somae say that Premier Lenine, and others Ioreign Minister Trotzky, was Te- onsible for the capitulation. The correspondent of the Daily News, who | has been in close relations with Bolsheviki, the Council of People’s commissaries, which voted on the question, Trotzky, who had been the last, unexpectedly ather side. The chan to one of | their enemie surrender surprised both and friends and threw | their supporters into confusion. The foreign embassi says the Times, knew nothing of the Bolshevik capitu- jation until Tue v night. They be- lieved the Rus intended to resist the German advance at all hazards AYD SICK UTIIATI Authorized TO Adoo to Tnvestigate Distressed Companies. Washington, e Wilsor ministra Feh authoriz 22 President oad ad- in the power whose has tion interes rolle through t inding 1ty be companic financial gered N may d M by i osts tor rected thorities istance rea opi « Genera A N wnd nec increas and rat R T cested | This pla sutlined in corr between the president ral published s « espond 1 the today. | ence | t direclor-genc 20, ar-«'{‘a~|§ probably with 1 Saturday: temperatire. ain and vicinity senevally iy, <now tonizht g sdowly pisine VISE ON PETROGRAD if | of the population call for closer reka- | looking ta the | tha | avs that at the meeting of | in favor of fighting to | went to the' e in the Bolshevik policy ! endan- | ¢ “DEFENSE TO THE DEA ISSUED BY BQ London, Feb, Disorganization in the Russlan navy reached an extreme point and there 1 hood of any order being obeved, cording to an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Petrograd. The naval authorities at Reval report that in order to save the Russian navy from the hands of the Germans it will he necessary to remove the ships at Re- va] and Helsingfors to Krons: This, however, is believed to ho im- possible owing to their d thig time only submarinc removed from these ports. has is no ali- ac- he ques. Berlin, Feb. (Via A regiment of Esthonian gone froops over to the Georn The sthonia co office znnounces German troot advancing in Hapsal, on have captured the the en Washington, Feb. The can general staff is watching the new | German sweep into Russia with little more than academic interest. quite convinced t Russia is no longer a militar to be considered and that the has little hearing, for least, upon the Ameri- factor situation P tle the, other h: La bea of fron and front of to 3! military ores the equipment the inn or it here say, as the ritles captured can be of u long the ammunition saptured with them holds oul. Ohse ers both herc ad in it is understood, are satisficd German drive continues it will with resistance. The greate the dist the advance the more effective that ¥ little ition troops on we gun. oniy supply 5. officers Russ mee mor Gern would ix sist- since of the military expe ay, it would quire numbers u,unmm)41 SITUATION IN RUSSIA HAS NO EFFECT ON OTHER WAR FRONTS RUSSIAN NAVY IN DA FALLING IN] tioms | the sugg as a # edg: becy By fhe Rul land ané tions to" The Finland, mand their’ dispatch add crews at Hell defense. ESTHONIAN REGIMENT DESERTS AND GOES OVER TO INVAD of Finland, and | PISBt). A prociamation Orvblmg Ronneburg, Wol- | sistancé to the G They marched| ing ,/About 100 riles south- | i iherland st of Riga, ‘and were recefved with | i, rejoicing by the inhabitants, the | spom statement says. she tion g trance of the Gu | advanced beyond | mar and Spandan. into Riesh rman advance, defend and deelar Peirog siegeé was issued ton Smolny itute, the dquarters. The procla: issued at order of People’s commicsaries and is sig by Premier Lenine and Fnsign lenko, Bolshevik commander| chief on all Russians to the he the the \llicd Embassies Cling to Posts, London, Feb. —The allied Petrograd, according from the Rus an capita) > Morning Post dated Monday, b { been be. anxious inqui who have 1 assured that as 1s is known the emb will quit the Germ come but not The al it is added, have no intention of ahb | donimg their once greatest ally. troops to man the transportation lines and give the best opportunity for | qe i guerilla warfare. Eventually they think the vast extent of Russian ter- ritory and the great population will form a more definite movement of re- sistance. government sies in v 2en at the present | ¢ of will receive a report from Brigadier General Judson, who has just returned from duty at the American embassy in Pet- rograd. The the view of the G newing war m otherwise tuiled Expect German Petrograd, Th proclamation 10 Public’s P nnouncing sign Germ, >eople’s commiss: iy Ald, 214 they peace ter] aries dec convinced that 8S¢ ill not olution milit turn of h r events in Russia, in | :re, swings upon the object | i high command in re ations. The capture from an unresisting foe | | considered of mo-great-importatce | 1OV the capture of thousands of pris- (ferm oners is regarded as an added emba mit the assment many wa The taking | Crushed of Potrograd. it is conceded, might b desirable for its effect in Germany and particularly in Austria terial and 3 A g Russ in rists sanize wtion, which is DEATH COUNTS TEN ON TERRY M'GOVERN pion Lost Title at Hartford in 1902. New Yorl Feb Terry featherwe Me- former worl died the 9 Govern, cham hospital been ion, t Kings County at 25 this He il kidney morr had only two days. Pneu- monia and trouble, ed with other ailments, brought on the boxer's end within e time he bulance from the hospital. when he died = Josenh Me reputed to carned severzl hundred thousand jars during his fighting career. his retirement from the ring ducted saloons varions was frequently in instit ill health. He w and fortunc had few vears that who was his f his boxing McGovern't behalf. Mrs. MeGovern a week ‘nce McGovern own, Pa., March parents moved to later and ‘““Terry,” as he to followers of pugilism, up in the Gowanus di volilyn, where he res o wi 45 hours frem removed Broo home wife was with MeGovern hid 19. wa in n an am- to one zod was have dol- After he con- times ons al free spender diminished Samuel Harris, the height raised a fund From this has received his 50 0 o at o a on money n income Tc born 1880, 1 a was of Te John His year known brougzht = ph at was 9, Brock- tric il When ' Tis minay Athie MceGov- bouts 1 vears ¢ prel S took 1 . G t abl hitting him to seore @ ts be sobriquet of first losing fight was disqualified for fouling Callaghan of Philadels | the Bay Ridze C., long before ¥ | e American champion ties and sue- was <oon Terrible phe nim tne His he w om o vhen Shm . McGovern champlonship Dixon, won by the clever s later, on nn., “Young” inoc ne Knocking « cholder. Two yeur i Harttot title to Col egro ti Phanks MeGovern los I mpion hett nver who the P ihe ch out in | Former Featherweight Cham- | complicat- | and | hecause nt i dic | tom dreszed to Russ ants, L co v usti more an workmen and pd says DICTATORSHIP FEAR A MYTH, SAYS COL of e concessions ry from f f revolut working el ! the | exh One: th itscif enormous the co ind the n the Germa threatened hour, has sho fliciently determined to criminal hand of its We had no choeice hu mditions of German il revolution chas in Rh »de Island Calls Attention fo Ne- | the militarism cept the ism ncels them “The German stening to aiming to positions in The eneiny der and cessity of Giving President strong Broad Powers, « Providence, R, I, F Clon- b gress will continue to place wide the pow- government reply to is eviden many import] territory as possi has occupied Dvinsk, Lutsk and is continuing| strangle by hunger the most impd ant centers of t revolution “We cven no are convinced the German working classes will against the attempts of the rull 1z :s Lo stifle the revolution, but cannot predict with certainty W this will oecur. The German imp jalists may hesitate at nothihg for purpose of ‘destroving the authority the councils and taking the land fr| the peasants. “The commissaries call on all 1o councils nd army organizations use all efforts to recreate the ar Perverted elements of Hooligs marauders and cowards should be pelled from the Tanks and, in event of resistance, wiped off the f4 of the earth. | “The Bourgeoisie who, under Ke | sky and the czar, evaded the burg | of war and profited from its misf, tunes, must be made to fulfill thi duties by the most decisive and m ciless measures.” 7 Byt The commissioners’ appeal to { Must Use 20 Per Cent of Substitutes | country aien nrimatcs (oot the G for Flour. mans plan the capture of Petrog Washington, Feb. 22.—State food Defense to the Death. administrators were ordered today to “The German generals,” it says, enforce strictly the food administra. | SI® to establish their own order : Petrograd and Kiev. The republici tlon’s rule requiring bakers to use 20 | jp the gravest danger. The duty per cent of wheat flour substitutes in | Russian workmen and peasants is ( all bakery products by February 24. | fense to the death ot the repul “This rule,” a telegram sent to the | 28ainst the masses of hourgeolsie administrators said, “is an important | IMPeTIAlE of Germany link in the food administration’s m eaantop L Wheat conservation program, upon |71 | OSTAd Sve the success of which depends our Jrano s aaiioson ability to supply the Allies with the Aoll]l)n;-\‘ oners. i wheat flour that is esSential to their . L‘_“ i‘"”“”“] i‘d‘\,““ ';”. against Gi victory and ours.. The list of the | 121y is ordered in the proelamges 3 He of the Russian commissioners, Rgl substitutes is widespread.” | ter's Petrograd correspondent tel 1 graphs. The com: oners appeal the soldiers to destroy railways a provisions and compel the bor geoisie to trenches under penal of death. Although the delegates sent by t Russian commissioners to inform Germans officially of Russia’s capi lation departed for Dvinsk Wednesda 10 news has been received frem the ers and resources of the nation ident Wilson ‘need have Senator Colt ired tod in of the state sembly. on the occasion birthas ongress realizes the . concentration time of war," “and that the pre us, E s in the hands of Pres and 4 o the country tatorship,” de members no fear of a of Rhode an addr gener: of W fsland to ¥ L nec Sity of and co-ordination said Senator Colt, to omplish these ends ent must enlarged powers. Congress in the great war powers conferred by the constitution wupon the egislative branch the government abundant ; justification for clothing our com- mander-in-chief with every authority necessary to win the war. But when the war ends we shall retain on the statute hooks no more of the present legislation than is compatible with public interest and in full accord with the personal rights of the individual under the constitution.” unit in have also finds v of STIFF ORDER TO BAKERS A raph dispat the evacuati ordered P DRAFTED MEN GOING The first and second district ex- emption boards, which yesterday an- nounced the names of the men who are going next Wednesday as the last 15 per cunt. of the first draft guo today eived notice from the rai road erning the hour of dig e train taking the e will leave or tion at 9:45 a 1c men t the . £ an announcement made by t Peve local centh Pa