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

{ \ = INEW BRITAIN H —TE N PAGE SINESS 05 CRUSHED 0 GERMIAN EMPEROR ABDICATES DEATH IN TUBE ci | Paris, Nov. Z.—In heavy type they r be considered now as an 3 5 Temps today prints the following un ] complished tact. Oflicial publication der a Geneva date is delayed for an opportunc mo- 1 The abdication of William IL | ment” “Green” Motorman in Charge BAVARIAN ROYAL FAMILY WILL CLAIM of Wooden Train Wrecked ' GERMAN CROWN IF KAISER ABDICATES ¢ mier has notilied Berlin that the Ba- Moden, REW Is ARRESTED sariahroyaiStanulySclauns S pers Bt o o i was in command of : ial throne in the event of Emperor | £or on the western front during William’s abdication, covding to the | much of the war Sing August 10 he HOMIG]DE GHARGED socialist Leipziz Volks Zeitung, which | has not heen with his troops is quoted in a HHaguc dispatch to the | reported that following a quarrel — Daily il i main headquarters he left the army, The reigning { Bavaria s | tion Ludwig 111, He was born January The royal house of Bavaria is de- Them With Steel Coaches—Man at 1845, and became regent in succession | scended from the anicent counts of to his father, Prince Luitpold, ! Wittelspach, who flourished in tho Controller Declares Brakes Failed giog Dacember 12, 1912, He was pr welfth century. Duke Maximilian of Used in Spite of Order to Replace claied king on November 5, 3 varia was elevated to the rank of succession to his cousin, King | tor of the Holy Roman empire Labor Disputc. who was deelared incapable of ruling | during the thirty years' war. Elector Lecatse of mental infirmity. King | Maximil Joseph was raised to the New York, Nov. 2 With the death ! Ludw married February 20, i rank of king by Napoleon Bonaparte toll placed at 98 by the Brooklyn p 1863, \ Mavie Ther Yin 1805 to Operate — Accident Followed The heir apparent is Crown Prince | FELTRES /" st LIANO g FonTANELLE . \Q o 7 4 e ICASTELFRANCO CIT']Z}DELL 7 VALENGIENNES CAPTURED BY CANADIAN WARRIORS S . BORIS ABDICATES BULGARIAN THRONE et e i o, k| AFTER. REIGNING ONLY SINCE OCT. 3 Brookly Copenhagen, Nov. 2.—King Boris of on the railroad from Sofia to Varna. ria, who uscended the throne on | I the middle ages Tiernova was the { capital of Bulgaria, It is a city of considerable commercial importance and has a population of ahout 12,000 Stambuliwsky, the new leader of | Yesterday's strike of motormen, ulgar md motor switchmen of the company, | Octoher 3, has abdicated. which was coincident with the tra \ peasant government has been edy, was settled durving the early | cstablished at Tiernova under the morning hours, company ofticials | leadership of M. Stambuliwsky, who | » recing o rveinstate 29 discharged | has been the chief of *the peasants| N° Bulsarlan government, was but recently released from prison. When ion emplt I'he company pre- | and agrarlans of Bulgaria for some | %S ) : E u Bulgaria entered the war in October, viously had refused to obey the orde ime 5 ) ¢ he order t 191 ment for life after conviction on =« charge of anti-militarism, He re- mained in prison until September 30, when he was pardoned by King Ter- dinand prior to that king's abdication For many years Stambuliwsky has heen the leader of the p wnts and ! Tiernova is situated on the Yantra | agrarians in the Bulgarian parlia- river, a tributary of the Danube, and ' ment. ! PR o ced to prison- of the war labor bourd and take back M. Stambuliwsky, who is orted | Roay nienoed ioainnison the men 1o be the head of the new government § Interest in the investigation cen- ' in Bulgaria siaid 1o be in command | JO UBWLIONON 'SLMo’| WRI[IA uo podor Of @ republican army of 40,000 men, the ill-fated train, who was arrested | according to a Zurich dispatch to the on a charge of homicide at his home ; Central News carly today, after he had fled from the ene in terror, Mayor Hylan, who | visited Lewis in the Flathush polico station soon after his arrest, issued statement e was going 30 miles an hour. No SIS IS KILLED IN AGTION, 0 SENATOR HLETT President Timothy Williams of the Transit company, asserted that man e wae o rainen esviten | Member of 58th Machine | Contradicts Statements Made wable of running a train. Lewis was Gun Company Drafted in Campaign Speeches ssed into service yesterday, it was O CIELEINTG L3 150 Ll In October, 1917. Here. Wooden Car Years Old, Ithough Lewis was a motor switch- Another phase of today's investiga- SergeantiHar B o tion that attracted interest was the| " Gcent Barry Berson, son of Mr. Senator (. ¢ Hemenway of fact that the train of five cars was | 1@ Mrs. Abraham Berson of 37 Olive | Hartford, whose attack on Senator composed of wooden declared to | street, has been Killed in action, ac- | George W. KlotU's record in the legis— least 25 years old. Most of the | cording to advices received from the |lature caused a stir in this oty lust were ed to splinters. The | war department. Berson has been-in S public service commission ordered the | the thick of fighting for months and company to replace its antiquated | had numerous narrow escapes from ooden rolling stock with steel sev- | death previously. - In letters recently cral months ago, but the company | published in The Herald he told of ontended war conditions made it im- | Iving for hours in a shell hole while possible the Huns were bombarding an Amer- Wednesday, has written @ letter to Mr. Klett in reply to the latter's answer to the charges that he blocked ! progressive measur Senator Hemenway's letter fol- low " “Hon. George W. Klet, Identification of the dead, the ma- [ican trench New Britain, Conn jority o hom were local residents, Sergeant Berson, before entering | «pear Sir progressed slowly at the morgue to- | the service, was in the milk business in “My attention has been called fo a published statement to the effect that in a political speech in New Britain More than 100 persons | Hle leaves besides his parents five | vesterday you decluced cortain e injured in the crash, according | brothers, Barney, Geor Nathan, | statements of miae, at a similar meet- police estimates, and it was be. | Samuel and Frank. The last named (ing th lay. AMany vietims were badly mu- | this city, and is a brother of the pro- ited that identification was walmost | Prietors of Berson RBros.' coal yards. night befors were inaccurate, ed some of these will dic is in the nay “Refore making the statements I did Al during the night thounsands Berson was one of the second con- | j verified the statements used by con- ere attracted to the scene of the | {ingent to go fo Camp Devens, leav- | sulting the Journal of the Senate. 1t aster, the wtest traffic accident | IN& this city with the group going to | cannot be that you were as careful in t ity's history, hundreds of anx- | c@mp October 4, 1917. He was sent | gubstantiating yaur denial and yvour| men and women in search of rel. | Overseas early in the spring of 8, | charges oflinaccuracy. vent to police stations where |2Nd has since that time been in thel “You state that vou voted for Sena- sodies were taken. The hodjes | DATdest kind of fighting with the 58th { tor Koppelman's bill for deendent - were removed to the Kings eoun. | Machine Gun company. The young |children. This is procisely what [ soldier was one month short of being [ stated, as the published report of my e striking employes of the tran 5 vears of age talk in the New Britaia Herald will git company returned to work today Mis 1ma Stillwell of North street | shaw if you will consult it. What T has received official notification from | did say is that when technical defect the war department of the fact that | were found in the bill you refused, as her son, Private Ernest Wilcox, is|majority leader, to permit an ad- missing in action. Wilcox, who is|journment of a day or two in order 19 years of age is one of the boys who | that the defects might be remedied left this city with Company I {and the bill passed at the session of This is the second time that Wil- { 1917 instead of being put over two Crew Charged With Homicide, cox's name has appeared on the offl- 3 . Had the Dill been y °d then Willlam Lewis, the train dispatcher | cial casualty from overseas, he |1t would have been of particular bene- into service as a motorman, | having been d s wounded In ac- | fit now whea hundreds of widows are nuel Russof. a guard on the | tion on June being left with children to suport, as were arraigned In a police court result of the Influenz epidemic It y on a charge of homicide and| OIILDREN'S [HOME FCURCHASK, | W&S my opinion then, and it remuins held for examination on Thurs- T | my opinion n th it would have pe h magistrate | refused’ to|| ., It Was anmounced: today by Rev. J.(|3al i seribatter ol talcel the necessary grant (Muest made bylan attorney | B Klingbergthat the WChIldren'al( i (A0 ¢t i that lagislntion!in pro- 1 and trafm on the Brooklyn subway and elevated lines was restored to nop- mal. Regret was expressed by the men that thelr attempts to force a settle- ment from the company had resulted indirectly in the wreck the transit company that the de.|Nome has purchased the old Gallagher | nor gorm than to make record for lant be admitted to bail house on Clorbin avenue for fhe ac-|pglding the shortest sesslon of the Lewis told Mayor Hyland and the|¢0mmodation of nhout more | jegislature in the history of the state. | ittorney today that he went to | ¢hildren. The rec influenza cpl- “I challenge your statement that | o'clock yesterday morning | demic with ite high mortallty among | the bill regarding dependents of men | R . adults made the enlarzement of tha il P on Seventh Page) Jiome necessary:, (Continned on Seventh Page) | apparently to the satisfaction of the | @udience. He made clear the issue at | RN WI[‘S[]NSP[EKESMAN] Hundreds of Tons of Steel ! Discharged by Big Ameri- APPEALS FORUNITY | con Guns on Contns, . e { Longuyon and Montmedy. Cummings Denounces Lodge- — London, Nov. Valenciennes has Roosevelt Type of Patriotism | veen et oy e sricien Field Marshal Haiz reports tha { Valenciennes was taken by Canadian | Americans Shoot Deluge of Steel, Political Sniping Must End, ¢ De- With the American Army North- west of Verdun, Nov. 1, (By the As- ociated I'ress)—Hundreds of tons of Desoiibedit s clfish Forces— | steel were fired by the big American guns in the direction of the railvoad Colonel Bleeds Ink Ireely. centers at Conflans, Longuyon and Montmedy snd other points tods in co-operation with the infantry attack west of the Meuse clares—Men Opposed to President Bitterly denouncing the forces that seek to tie the hands of President Wilson and to discredit his admin- tion of national and internation- irs Homer 8. Cummings act chairman of the democratic na- tional committee, spoke from the stage of the Lyceum theater last ev ning to a representative audience that frequently interrupted his specch with applause and cheers. As the man at the helm of the democratic ship—the personal representative of Pre: ent Wilson intense interest Amcrican First Army Advances. With the American Army North- west of Verdun, Nov. 2, 10 a. m. (By the Associated Press)—The American Pirst army continued its offensive hedule the American forces were engaged in working their way for- { ward to exploit their successes of | vesterday. The Germans were con- | tinuing their resistance, which prom- | ised to grow heavier as the higher | und was reached Despite the increased volume of cnemy fire, however, the Americans are steadily advanc . although more slowly than on iriday The line at was aroused in his words as it was realized that he was speaking as a commissioner from the White House, that the sentiments he expressed were the sentiments of the chief exccutive, that the statements he made had the endorsement of the President of tho United ates. Mr. Cummings ripped his way into the Lodge-Roosevelt frenches and turned loose hig high explosive shells noon showed no losses of territory while some improvement of it (had been effected opevation, the American losses in vesterday's fighting were small. On the other hand. the veports indicate the polls next Tuesday—President 2 - that the German casualties were un- Wilson, or somebody else—and flayed without mercy the president’s politi cal critics. Mr. Cummings explained fhat his qenmnetation. wis not timed | CREWS OF AUSTRIAN at the individual members of the re publican party when he said: Tt i WARSHIPS MUTINY not thinkable that the great mass of usually heavy | patriotic republicans who admire the = Eesidentistslieveinishisgilsen i SH0 1 i diretilectia 6 z0lal Stized fand Held justico and are in accord with the world-wide recognition of his wreaf for Respective National ability can be proud of the narrow Counei and vindictive leadership under which movement today Ahead of their | Considering the magnitude of the | | | | | | | Armistice Drawn Up and Handed by Gen. Diaz te Deputation From Austria; U. S. A. Terms Go to Berlin Rome, Nov. 2.—The Allied terms to Aus- | tria in response to her application for an armis- tice have been handed by Gen. Diaz, the ltalian commander-in-chief to Austrian officers who entered the lines bearing a white flag. Official announcement to this effect was made today. The conditions of armistice are inspired by the principles of President Wilson, namely, to render it impossible for the enemy to recom- | mence the war, and to prevent him from profit- ing by the armistice to withdraw from a difficult military situation. TERMS TO GERMANY DISPOSE OF FLEET. London, Nov. 1.—The Versailles conference finally agreed late yesterday on the armistice terms governing the maritime powers of the Central Powers. The proposals contain six points which are believed to throw every safe- guard around the German fleet. WILSON'S TERMS FOR GERMANY Washington, Nov. 2.—Naval terms of armis- tice agreed to yesterday by the supreme war council at Versailles are in substantial accord with views on this subject submitted by the United States through Admiral Benson. This was learned here today, though the exact nature of the terms to which Germany will be required to submit still are held under a confidential seal. Conference Meets Today. Paris, Nov. 2.—The Allicd prime ministers now in Paris, to- gether with Col. I M. [ouse, met again informally this forenoon. There were no definite indications today when their conference would be finished No Indulgence for Austria. W\ ashington, Nov. 2 \n intimation of the drastic nature of their party organization has fallen.” London, Nov Members of the | Later on, Mr. Cummings said: ] crews of the entire Austrian fleet at “There must he an end to spurvious | Pola have mutinied, seized all the | support. There must be an end to po- | ships of various nationalities there and litical sniping. The unity of com- | ge. ed they will obey only their r mand on the battlefield that Wilson | spective national councils, according ir ed should he given to 170 and | {o a Budapest dispatch to the Vos | which turned the tide of war, must be | giuche Zeltung of Berlin supplemented by unity of conmmand at home Rome, Nov. 2. Italian naval forces Roosevelt Shedding Ink succecded in entering the harbor of Gietting away from his formal | ola, the Austrian naval , on I°ri speech, Mr. Cummings said Roosevelt | day morning and sank .the Austr was redding more ink and 1 yattleship Viribus Unitis, the flagship blood than any soldier since the fime [ of the tro-Hungarian fleet, 1t is of of Sancho Panza ficially announced Referring to those who have chal et the v o e et e GOUNT ANDRASSY RESIGNS \ustro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Only Sinee October 25. don v 2 Count Juhi 10 became Austro-Hun forelgn minister on October 25 d according to a Zurich to the Exchange Telegraph Hartford, 3 | east for New Britain and vi- ’] cinity: Tair, cool tonight: Sunday fair. | | Flas Held Office Under Bmperor | S the armistice terms submitted by General Diaz to the Austrians is given in an official dispatch from Rome today, saying “The Italian victory is hourly assumin such proportions that any kind of indulgence toward an enemy which up to the last minute of his dominion has insulted our brethren, devastated our lands and fought with the utmost barbarity would be a crime.” The same message reports that from the sea to the mountains three Austrian army corps are in flight; that all roads are open to Isonzo, the first place where the Austrians probably will at tempt to make a stand Italian naval detachments have occupiec the lagoon between the mouth of the Tagliamento and Caorle, which was protected by monitors and heavy artillery Austrians Leaving West Front. With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Nov. 2, (By the Associated Press.)-—Austrian forces on the German front in the Woevre region are entraining for Austria, it is reported here on the strength of statements by prisoners the \mericans have taken Czechs Seize Great Skoda Works Paris, Nov —The great gun plant of istria-Hung Skoda has been taken possession of by the Czech national mittee, according to a Pilsen telegram forwarded by the (Continued on Seventh Page)