New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF LOCAL NE“(/S PA RITAIN HERA L PRKCE THREF CLNTS. BRITAIN CONNECTICUT SATURDAY MARCH 2, 1918. —TWELVE PAGES. STARVE PETROGRAD INT SURRENDER, Al OF TEUTONS NO PROPOSAL BY JAPAN FOR ANY | MILLITARY ACTIVITY IN SIBERI PREPARED 10 PROTECT FAR | ,7 London, March | | Lt. statement —Tcuter's following the meeting Japan's was in intervention 1t is quits ual visit forcign embassies. usually made by the ister. @ in nne 31 Sibe e d the from an authoritative Japane. jssud is unu for a sourco m London: e Ui E Rcloflom Cent "al i it for Freight Con- “Japan has put forward no sugges- regarding any action that he C sary as a resultg of the Lussian situation. The plain s are that a ew days ago Japan made inquiries to | the Allicd governments v an | expression of their views atest developments in Russia has been no proposal, military other- wiso by Japan. DT ‘MANS KILLED “It is pointed out that .!‘uu‘n PSKOV QCCUPATION | oéreciacncs witn aihies whieh ~outd suggest that there had even been any question of aggrandizement in the mind of Japan. There was no such | thought when Japan embarked on hostilites and if she has to extend operations, her object will not be ag- grandizement. “The new menace threatening the Far Iast diately involving Japan's Japan’s interpretation of her is that she is responsible for the maintenance of peace and security in the Far last. A German menace al- ready exists in Idast Siberia and was well known to the Allies before thoe latest German advance into Russia.” Did Tloyd George London, March 2.—FPremier Lioyd | George visited the American embassy Friday evening and had an important conference with Ambassador Pag ys the mn_\‘ News, which o may March 2 A from today denial of d George had had an impo Mr. Page. ans Appealed March 2 London, Page country ¢ authorized Premiocr embussy ference Londc The the r departed rly ine th The and with did | Says Uk Amsterdam, cision of the ernment to was) send troops explained ve Ukraing the upper liament { having nt Ulcranian Lerlin Anwounces Fortress of Kiev Premier von taken in respo for sistar zovernment Tas Been “Liberated” — Interier ‘:1:”‘ ur the cuest ma cvents in U to interrere of foodstuls Districts Against Separate TPeaco reauest one directl: and imme security. position i With Central Powers and Cail on was T e Kiaine Bich thre Staunch Defense with th People to Make o 2. \zainst Invaders. Bed Guard Deme March rman forces Finnish on the Mos- which placs for tho a dispatch dated Friday, re- Fxchange Telegraph Garmans probably intend, adds, to cut off supplies ograd and force the capital late by famine. Laree columns of German tro correspondent says, marchin Novosokoliniki. Enemy occupied the on of their movement toward Stockholn, cre indications a tion among the innisl and their Russian the Vasa correspondent of t Nyhete The troop. Manerheim, the gove are reported to be only 10 1 Bjornenberg, on the Gulf o west of Temmerfors. Bologoie, rograd Iroad, of freight center Petrograd, on - sing trograd the from 1 Visit Embassy ? 2 of Co niner the i Pe capit trom to believes th are towards sta, forces have Klias in A Petrograd March a the Dai vessel d also being struck lost. An Amsterdam Mail says a §bo and two Ger- man mine sweepers ran into minps] off Vlicland Island and were blown | mines today six miles off up carly vesterday. A German vessel ;of Vlieland, in North Holla in the vicinity lowered boats to save | course of attempts of Ger the crew but high seas made it im- | save the crews one hout possible to reach the crews m’[.sur and capsized. Five wrecked vessel and the boat drifted |this boat were landed on t March In the cap- | to the island. { According to the Ha the Germans one of The dispatch Jearned | heavy gunfire hear in suffered heavy | from Ymudien fishing | ity last night. n caused by Berlin London, to torpedo dispatch Iy Fortress of Kiev “Liberated” ’erlin, March —(British alty per Wireless Press)—The fortress of Kiev, on the Dnciper in the Ukraine, g erated,” the German announced today. March naval ves boat German e small Hague, German sian been river has i Germans Killed by Russian Trick Amsterdam, - turc of Pskov by the German battalions losses through an explosi the retreating Rus dispatch published Zeitung Cologne. | inst Scparate Peace. March 1.—( say that ¢ it Dutch is was ians, a of Interior Ag Vologda, Russia, the Associated Press)—The iaterior of Ru following the examplo Moscow, strongly separate many men’s and provincial ARMY FRAUD SCANDAL of L Work- many a, declared peace wiih Soldiers” Cot centers are is: mobil- ization orders proclaiming a fig the finish in behalf of the revoluiion. An example of the tendency being shown in interior Russia to follow the of Moscow and declare separate peace with Ger- a fight to the limit for is furnished by the ac- tion of the Council of Soldiers’ and nen’s delegates at Penza, some southeast of Moscow. The council has declined to approve the igning of peace treat with the | Powers and has declared for | holy war. The council at Narva, | vote of 40 to 18, called for gen- | mobilization and against a sep- | peace. mobilization beer in Kazan province. In these orders all the sovicts are urged to fight Germany to the bitter end. Similar action has been taken by the councils at Voronesch, in southern central Russia, and in other cities. In Moscow the Social Democrat, Bolsheviki organ, declarcd Thu day: | honorable. “The Russian proletariat, with all| The Lipper: its strength, must dismiss any thou | night after a raid on their offices hy of a disgraceful surrender of its aims | a federal agent and a warrant asked and must rise to of the | for by Captain Erickson of the army revolution arms, Either death r intelligence bureat = Father and So Treasury Wa at Point of Revo Crook Says Lipperts, Implicated by Gereral, Is Claim. neils in uing ht 1o mple inst a many and for the revolution 1 who March Plar treasurs off expectation of believed to revealed today police Chicago, id on the City hall in $2,000,000, there, fession, Chicago, March ~Henry Lip- and ed las to defr nishing his son, Ralph, were t night. echarged with icon- government in supplies and linked tho ud the of rmy whose case had been name of Brig. en. Cruse, U. S. A were admitted to bail in bonds ot $10,000 each today. Arraignment was set for March 12 and while \waiting arrival of sureties the elder discussed the cha S. wrong construction has been | on my relations with Gen. | and the quartermaster depart- T said “I have known Gen. for 14 vears and always have found him an = = upright gentleman and a real soldier. N NY M | Tl prove, at the provor time, that | GERMANY MUST [ our ations have been entirely were miles > the Bmerson According to who is held in recent robbery railroad a dato and werc the office The plan guards wero the day fixed eds the police, connection of Centr the collection Central a a b station, € the hold up the point failed about than _— sy 1l arate General a ter ! Lipper “The placed Cruse to cvery orders have | at of issued becat the had ment, Cry a on were arrested a Visitor to Berlin Reports he defense <ununation of Peace victory In his statement before the comm sioner asking for the warrant, it was ! charged the tain that Ger W) had admitted to him in Wash- | in that in January he had re- $1,500 from the elder Lippert ement had been entered Lippert was to pay month i s Far Off. it Vinsterdam, March Rotterdamsche Cour long-interview with a | returned recently from lin here he talke number of prominent perso ling Baron von Dem Bussch hausen, secretary fc sws, Prussia Dr. Salf Licut. ( of o re by WELL TREATED P" GERMAN CAPTORS nt, ‘pers 156 zton | ceived a | ana | into j him on Igotz | No amounts an to ¥ by $300 a estimate of a which of American Captain, Prisoner 5 has heen the alleged | transactions. The contrac Good | woolen blankets for the army iR Stein ‘ The BANDITS ROB PAYMASTER rer of under affairs; Dr. 1 the interior, colonies and an ministe consensus of opir was the arriving at that Germuany da relinquish any m untess certain that have been that cn out as traudulent | Mendi, | for | of ays Food and Livin ,m A ts we Conditions Wero for Pruss Copenhagen, March 2.—John Cam- eron, captain of the American sclioon- Beluga, his wife, Mar A ear-old daughter, Janita Francisco were the only prisoners on board the ol er o $8.900 Puyroll, Shoot Guard and the trem it - : e Denmark Auto. German us tor zathered culty at tions i will 1 or their A Ameri- | n | n Sy L | ¥our Hizhwaymen Hold Up B B vantaz Wi, W northern e: while port Germans teamer I wer e Ho 5t ith London of peace Yet, ontinue other ashore on h Jutland, re attemptir Capiain | Flee in fed and | | my and it y T Bombine adm were 1 said, military things the Dutechman, said casion to mec the American the bandits held 2.—I"our powered automobile the pe of Castings Co., of $8,900 in the western outskirts of The paymaster was return A iard who was shot Tho | their car. enjoy uard who was | Toledo, March in | D pped the | ;) ust in' o Cameron says the el the prisoners well until a | a hizh apcd when all were put | and robbed tday Dohler cash today the cits ing from accompanied bandits escaped Edward Keller, the shot, attempted resistance. FHe has n | bullet wound in the neck. At a local hospital his condition was pronounced critical. J. A. Tallman, manager, from whom the money bawus ken, and John Frazer, another the for Jag below o master . Die for Dic parently a had members of of aux- | wan official statement 25 stated the German Wolf had returned months in the Atlun- di and Pacific oceans Al sh admiralty communication of same daie said the Wolf sank 11 and a number of sailing ves- Later reports showed that the Mendi, after her capture lost weed rge of a prizc number of prisoners from | zuard, escaped injury. vessels transferred to her. | The automobile in followed the Wolf | it escaned thes A Febr iliary Gerrt 1ary a bank. cruiser him fter 15 1y surprise the Americans freedon CLOSING RULE DEC j_ Boston reh 2.—Dec whether this ¢ el in mreatest t L Bri s wrly | factory into off evernl wee rvation measa in 2 | were ts I o e o wis ex » be made the ban the which Janic anding engine n New lin Mendi near runaine i f was adminis ton nths untl wer with mitte e office v 1€ Toll & netit of P interned tomobile Such foreign min- —The Austro-Hungarian house of the Austrian par- Seydler The supporter MINES BLOW UP GERMAN WARSHIPs mine s got into the | P " BLANKET DEALERS IN [AHMITS PLOT T0 ROB CHIGAGO OF 52,000,000 s to Be be suy of band re been B | MILITARY STRENGTH View w peace accepted objecetions 10w HUNS CLAIM HEAVY LOSS FOR YANKEES Stilf Punishment Inlicted on American Force, Berlin Reports tor | TWELVE PRISONERS TAKEN xhlu | Statements the | A; EAST ction with sria. premicr o | calls mbassador m tor em bas eport visited rtant of Enemy and United States Oflice Conflict — Tentons Repulsed in Hand-to-Hand Battle e “"\" at St. Mihicl, de- gov- into the | yi¢y sterday in | | man Berlin, March 2 per Wireless attacl ~ (British Pre. admir- —In 1 Ger- northeast the of Seichprey as | yesterday, Americans suftered onse Lo an 1we from The re- uence of 't itened sportation heavily and lost 12 prisoners, | office announces. The Germans penetrated the enches attacked, the statement says Ilast of Rheims the Germans forced their way into Fort Pomptelle, which had been destroyed. the war walized. \ttack at St. Mihiel the American Ariy March 2.—(Associated Pros: Amer n trops repulsed a strong German attack vesterday morning in the St, Mihiel salient north of Toul. The Americans displayed the great- est personal courage, bravery, and | energy throughout the engagement {and outfought the surprised enemy from the instant contact was estab- lished. The raid was a complete inilure, three German prisoners remaining in | American hands. The ground in | front of the American trenches was strewn with German dead. The Americans also lost many ! killed and wounded, including officers. Among the dead was a captain, who was graduated from West Pomt in 1917, llurm;: the attack a town the American line was heavily | and Lhnro were some casualtie A driving wet snow was falling wndelsblad, | When the Germans opened fire on the this local. | American salient with every weapon ! at their command. Seventy-sevens, | heavy shells, and gas shells fell in a whirlwind on the trenches for half an hour. At the same time other en- | emy shells in great numbers were . dropping on the American battery positions. The Germans, that the Americans having had one taste of gas a few days ago, would fear it now Iot loose e reat quantities of poison gas; but Rifled fic mon put their masks wnd few vere affected it. o intense however, that the woods back w shot to pioces, zepulse With I'rance, are in- Lliza- mo CGruard says Dagens General it leader, niles from f Bothnia, all on everal n into island In the to the nd. nians behind elled . here. ien from ther he island. thinking in this section, evidently s on by the fire Iver, of t Vient re and Hand ehting. harrage fire lifted on the trenches the right of the salient and Germans to the number of about 210 came sweeping forward under the protection of their fire. stored | They apparently expected to make a a con- | hig haul and jumped into what was Henry [ 1eft of the trenches; but there found Americans all ready for battle, hand-to-hand fighting began. American captain rallied his and machine guns and went through the American wire en- ngzlements into No Man's Land and aited there for the cnemy, whoim he expected to be driven out by his com- rades in the trenches. He right, for soon groups | the enemy started back through the { entanglements. The Americans poured deadly fire, but the captain was Quring the fight, being the first of the 1917 class at West fall. the Americans in front of entanglements and in shell still fizhting desperately n barrage fire began sweeping No M#n’s Land, catching running Prussians who had enough of American methods. | The barrage swept back and forth, | making sure of doing all possible damage to the foe. Wi the enemy had been back out of the positions, the bodies ten German soldiers were found American trenches. Two German were entangled in the wire, odies were in sight. Wight throu the snowstorm to | At 6 o'clock the i to ns for ja ice in the obtaining | by the Fierce One men with rifles Emerson, with the al Tllinois | fixed licenses in of person volvers. e mor hall on was expect- in a ! killed member Point to i While | the wire (““_‘ holeg were { the Ameri HOLD 1= | many had he Nieuw prints onage who ! eek’s visit | with a | includ- wdden a en a ns, in it the oflicers ind many o n foreign minister minister ien. von at one point Enemy Leavos Ammunition. round was littered with enemy war. the vi test difli- negotia- pand grenades, destraving dugouts, and incendiar hombs which they had no opportu to use. They managed to drop inc diary hombs in dugouts, | were destroyed by but no | were in them the Germans captured any which is doubtful, there were than two three, possibly tening post. Of the missing were probably buried. now proceeding counted for. prisoners unhurt hands, gr re ilitury her ad- Heice two for five, if one not from: a li: mans them is W he the the on one of by @ h showed in Pris- itted for retter they the raids reasons.” itor, more ar Dig- and ap- | sing for m of German were rept where American ht after Two ounded, welt t scveral colony W other w in Berlin | 1 he his voung for o o it was ¢ soldier when | capturc ISTON. 1 i o From the prisoners the American )sin 1 rules re would tod land WEAT R fuel Hartio < Tor Vicinity sunday. ruel cstri those con at | Wwarm here 1 tonight. of | driven | boxes of explosives for | which | Ameri- | | clover) | the CURTIS EXPOSE ON POTATO SITUATION Alderman’s Accounts Show 3,638 Bushels Are Not Accomned For ;AND THE END I S NOT YET Overdraft to Pay Expenses May Be in Order—City Employes, School Janitors and W Burs Called to Assist in Delivery. Alderman O. F. digest the potato statement today Curtis is unable to question and in a he offers morc lights on the municipal potato prob- lem which he has discovered by per- sonal investigation. In Mr. Curtis’ statement that 3,638 bushels of potatoes disappeared, or are uniccounted He gives his views on ti cost of wgricultural experiment to the and expres: the cpinion that end not in sight, expecting there will be an overdraft Mr. Curtis also takes a fling at Mayor Quigley for claims His Honor has made for progress in municipal departments and insists this 'ess was in a great measure due the mayor's predecessors in oflice The statement follows “There appeared in paper an announcement Quigley he claims \m-p for. | the city the that 3¢ o is Wednesday's of Mayor renomina- reasons for @ statement from His Honor thosec mentioned motorization of th partment appara This augurated and well under during Mayor Halloran's tion by « Callahan else wi do but through? the police Iy It has to time riered witl the city gxpands Honor retires is claimed that the and extended fornier under vears to health wnized ndidacy a fore “Among completc fire was de- in- way us. hairman there to He say doubled from What it force carry is nea been creased city to er tim the continue aft- wis ch nd erow 17 Lo improved wer likely office “The reorg long from ofliec streets were they most the under will mayors, and those who fill come. departinent and mads How tauch credit should the mayor for it, it decide. The plans, even superintendent the ind ha v e been cificient given difficult lation, had later days of the <ent the sram Ipport ve to to and is legi the provided Halloran cime eumbeni carricd « | re ulated the of o'l for in ve it and il termis his efficiency given during > 1t i D1 by the public not miention street has been extended during I thousl of coursc for the street sprinkling the ihis deps niainly to Recks “He hich vied o1 years, done city | in e does anne ing v and car- st threc it had four ye: nor has been tweive thie or mor past which operation past ten o s ‘He fail fire escapes or give the daily Hame. We notice time men on stating that properties much We fa can increase the higher pricc It is property for which it the value there is no hoy un at the in fa the board he knows that they to to mention en put menu many “entl Town or he i of mor al} SOSSOT of a of not e mort- how fuil sale of what one or two e assessed o2 for See time men property i you can sell it value, unl the owner's or use for property vilueless the time being. If fuli-time men food fat salaries can add actual to property, let them means. Real 1 agents 1y and all thosc have to dispose of will no doubt to et higher property. Wonder if will raise prices *There ) ment Whic carried istration has I e sale is for at value all especial- real favor this for the salari usg have by state who chance prices ising everal have mutters of mo- initinted and present admin- independent almosi by prom- been along the nd entirely administrations, theit of former i vk mumicipality s to adaptat the potato ion most an of inent was municipal vaisii frequently This subjeci irst was i is and n has yet delays are conuncil “heer- from being going like produced would raised is so we in Weo people were to be protected from greedy speculator and hard-fisted farmer. That was before the farmers’ convention, in the mayor's oflice, after which potatoes went up per bushel. Then we must buy po- tatoes to hold down the those we raised and sfill the price must the poor farmer who had his hoarded for another gral this Where we at anyway? anyhody tell? From the best in- olitainahle what I rfound to inside the approxi- mentioned of Tt rost difticult t fact in tie municipal news has waned no 1 md cort light i always order and even We g tements orders 1 ful and time to old hot ire not heeded optimistic str time i1t pot th we rapic il ke bushi hay hav putatoes ti if we haa the supply Onee 15 of 1 not heen them. That much T, were not food time potatoes (not to $1 a bushel gel roll at 75 upor to in hear 500 more price of protect crop spring. Can formation hink will mark, the are and be today itaation is ollow \ppropriations for 000 potato nued On Seventh Puage) side- | the | wdministra- | in- ! been | ; for | estato | | | | ! | [ righ Progs | b | forelb | er his make ed hj tends o DRAFT) Men Conscrip! Sent to Tex Fields . rcd < " Sl Cent. of Qu Machlm- Ban of Mim and Bl He Can W arncs Tells Wh Believes Present Incumbent Been in Long Enough | Hartford, March | nor’s office received today | provost marshal-general | calling upon local | induct at once: ~The gover- | om out of the realms from the | report hearsay today a telegram | POsitive announcements of draft boards 1o | candidates than Quigley for the of 1t and comej two George republican mayo ““Call No. 35 for 50 general, engine | NOmination and the campaign 1w | and other special automobile mechar.- | the ranks of the G. O. P, is noy | les or repair men to be inducted for | - e | the aviation section signal corps and sent to Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex- a 1 No for 200 gunsmiths, typewriting machine and ott in- trument makers or repairers, gen- | 1! machinists, to be inducted for av- iation section, signal corps, Kelly Ficld. San Antonio, Texas; call No )8 20 lithographers fo be in in- division signal the air llington Field, Olcott, Texas. nen and men phy military eneral Iucted under the Magor ducted corps, Only aualified may b white sic ‘I these calls the followi: lirected: reh 8, boards may for voluntary possess the requisite technical qualifications have not been filled volintary induction immediately indu of qualified men t allotment by el ss 1 qualiticd men number Imm should given that if po: by volunt containg filling s procedure is | “Until M applicants | who fully ical and Mareh Loard induc phy is 8 Dby will nmimber their respective ficient m o Cl of public calls may but be ing stead order 1 he in loeal ovder MAN filled nothing herein understood nauction ly these JESTER they Iuctior guther indica n of vin v in local the| memo A. Quigles, E W. Schulty The two annou to the ofiid Irving Jel the com| of tha I ey's pern any i technic; should voluntary trant qualitied. \s fast youid he the on ) f not physic and iy with threc of 1ade men | inductions the wre proner in whi 50 con sent to ard wed andidates ind I3 tions. This vance picuously who have themselves as uspiring Alderman M pro tem. of and formerly spirits in , and iness man lannounced has been sent out thus the hecnuse of completion of dustrial index system only the need The calls herein of the general requisition niwc | General Pershing to fiR with state in the union has lc 1LyOr are General Persl ident h made urgency of requeste but a for the men rein one i Quig arc AL Mayor Luther M Both of their candidacy feel Quig ing chine Barnes, a men in no amost o every en ISR certain ns and ssured success. Mayor ley is like] confident comment of victory and T the advent opponents 1s of his ‘Well, t perfect the m v Britain to. decide of the new the people of \ LOCAL BOYS PROMOTED | e republican | two | Luther J. Parker o Sergeant, Gardner © 50 Ma- | and if hem i the other hand, cach lidates feeis that Britain do want a change in addg istration and feel, from the of their friends and polw backers, that fhey will be ablg “‘come through” with the neces votes at the primary where a pl ity of votes is necessary for a n ination. Jester The Jester public has make such more, more visited by gentlemen pire to the p is up to them the office of | C. Weld a in 101st Corporal chine Gun Company in France. Parker and Gardner | Weld of this city, who left lcre | fall for overseas duty as membe | 1. which was later converted | 101t Machine Gun Battalion, | promoted to non-commis- | officers in their company, ac- | | cording to a letter received by Sers | zeant Anthony C. Malone of the po- | lice department from his son, Harold Malone, also a member of the com- pany. The letter tells of the excel- Jent health of all the local boys, and says that the writer, A. Schade and Gordon Robinson are still privates in | | | Lather J ances oo | into have | sioned heen is o Has Machine positive announcement of is not wunexpected since been waiting for a statement for a Quigley’s i weel he his especially since committee a P last Sunduy and urged to enter B race. The announcement that the company. a Young Malone has been assigned to duty in the commissary department, 3 and his favorite mule has been re- | Barnes has 4l\rnlfnl |4v; enter the placed by an automobile which he is | Whilc s nl”r‘m; is uffl enti now driving at the front. Malone | Wmexpes in political cirele tells of visiting the company with D¢ the story publj which Lieutenant Joseph A. Glover is Sively The Herald a connected on several ooccasions, but WCCES Jul Rl this gentleman he was unable to locate him. .;, : into the ation a takes cornered 17 late will ar more ed ed exi coupls was throw the publican of each ago intim would n t T in exert ¢ d every bit “My hat is in a conference tively didate RESIGNS, Ly on form which ery of influence SCRIPTURE Local Young Man to Become Repre- - sentative of Boston Firm. Otis M. Scripture, vears connected Screw corporation, resignation to otlicials He has accepted necticut representutive Armstrong dealers in ¢ ounce of en to win, Folloy have he & republ Jd not but L past 14 ring. for the with the Corbin has tendercd his of the concern. sition as Con- of the G R. Boston, Mass nig mind it th Alderman made up my to for mayor tated primaries, this mornin yet he has Co., of ! pointed a political \pplies manager, have one named on Monday. wise, Mr. Jester siated that at : time he docs not care to bring in ‘Taking of testi- | names of his principal backers, bu trade commis- | ( ire the voting public, he s the affairs of “about fifty per cent. of the be resumed Monday, that rode Mr. Quigley into o béen reached to hold l']l()l‘l IRS RECESS, PACKING Chicago, March mony in the federal sion’s inquiry into s will s the | that | ehinc no | | packe de- havin On Eleventh cision sion todiy (Continued