Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 21, 1917, Page 1

VOL. LIX—NO. 221 POPULATION 29,919 H, CONN., MONDAY, MAY 21, 1917 8 PAGES—64 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS ] The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Populationr PRUSSIAN PLAN OF Cabled Paragraphs “Now the Americans.” Amsterdam, via London, May 20.—All the German papers print the news of the arrival of the American destroyer fotilla_in Furopean waters under a single ‘headline. The Loyal Anzeiger heads the item: “Now the Ameri- cans!” Dream of a Military Unit Stretching From the North Sea to the Mediterranean SHIPPING BOARD IN HARMONY WITH GOETHALS orous Denial of Rumors of Dif- ferences by Chairman Denman. Washington, May 20.—Chairdan Denman of the shipping board issued a vigorous denial tonight of the re- ports widely crculated and repeated omw the floor of the senate, of dfferences Vi WOULD CUT EUROPE PERMANENTLY IN HALF |zeoveen members of e bourd ana mbanager of the emergency fleet corp- craton. Statements that the board has abandoned its wooden _shipbuilding 2, ol 1 programme at the instance of General Germany’s Next Peace Declaration is Expected to Suggest a|procram o =2 B Dealiues or Snueea declaration that already contracts have Renunciation of the Long-cherished Plan of Conquest— |fec"4iop tat already contracts have Present War Map of Europe Shows That the Major Part of others will be let in the near fu- “Before entering into the wooden shipbuilding project the board can- of the Kaiser’'s Program Has Been Accomplished—|Tasica the steel shipbulldine industry and found that it could get no con- . rR S s W 1 tracts for the building of steel vessels Austria-Hungary’s- Submission to s o | v T account. While we did not know it at Complete—Bulgaria Entered War on Promsie of Parts |the time we atterward discovered that of Serbia, Creating an Austria-Bulgaria Border Line. Washington, May 20—Germany’s | mext peace declaration, expected to suggest a programme of territorial re- nunciation on the east and the west, lis regarded here as largely answered ibeforenand by information revealing for the first time the full scope of the limperial government's espirations for cougquest in the south. Would Cut Europe in Half. This information discloses as one of the primary aims of the war a plan {for consolidation of an impregnable military and economical unit stretch- ing from the North Sea to the Medi- terranean, cutting Europe permanently half, controlling the Dardanelles, the Aegean and the Baltic and event- ually forming the backbone of a Frussian world empire. In the lMght of German history the plan shows implicitly the kaiser has followed out the blood-and-iron po- litico methods of Bismarck for devel- copment of Prussian power. Consider- ed in view of the preseat war map, it shows that the major part of the kalser's war programme has been ac- complished, regardiess of what dispo- sition 1s made of conquered territory in France, Belgtum and Rusaia. Premature Truce Would Help Ger- many. A full_realization of this situation, which will form a sinister background for consideration of whatever renun- ciation proposals the imperial chan- cellor may meke, adds a new force to the repeated declarations of allied statesmen that the Germa n peace ma- noeuvres are in reality war moves and that & premature truce only would give Germany a resting perfod in which further to Prussianize and prepare for & greater worid war for territory to “he southeast which she has conquered under the guise of a friendly alliance. Although officials bhave refrained from definite public expressions of what the United States might demand s a peace guarantee, these poshsibili- fies recall with recurring _emphasis Fresident Wilson’s declaration that America might fight until “the world is made safe for democracy.” They bring into relief Foreign Minister Talfour’s warning that hard fighting #till must win the war, the conviction of the American army general staff that the country must prepare for at least three vears of war and the fact that prospects of an early peace have been discredited as visiopary in vir- ‘tually every allied capital Plan Is Being Carried Out. How minutely defined is the German yplan and how accurately it is being carried out have become fully appar- ent only with the opening up, during he last few weeks, of several new av- enues of information. The return of American_diplomatic agents from the ntral Empires, the visit of the French and British war missions, de- tailed confidential reports of the re- cent frank expressions in the reichstag and in the German press, and the de- ductions of alert American agents abroad watching the newest peace moves, have supplied the explana- tion of more than one hitherto obscur- ed feature of the German policy. In her southeastern conquests, it is now epparent Germany has followed almost Gut the long-established plan of the T'an-German league, whose propaganda bad been regarded outside of Ger- miany as the harmless activity of ex- remists, too radical to be taken seri- ously. <Coupled with this pian, as an instrument of economic solidation, the German officials have used with only =light modifications the system of cus- toms union expansion which aided in Sormer years to extend her domination over the other German states now making up the empire. Maps of Greater Germany. As early as 1911 the Pan-German jeague is said to have circulated a def- inite propaganda of conquest, With printed appeals containing maps of & greater Germany whose sway from Fiamburg to Constantinople and then southeastward through Asiatic Turkey was marked out by boundaries virt- ually coincident with the military lines held today, under German officiers, by the troops of Abstro-Hungary, Ger- many, Bulgarian and Turkey. Ad- hesion of the German government - eeif to such a plan was not suspect- led by the other powers aithough the propagandists were permitted to con- tinue their activities unhindered and to epread their appeals in a country of [strict press supervision through _the iPan-German Gazette and other radi- jcal publications. How closely the !German government did adhere to the iplan in reality has been demonstrated |clearly, it is considered now, by the icourse’of the war. Following in Footsteps of Bismarock. Following in the footsteps of Bis- marck, who used the Franco-Prussian war alliance to bring (Baden, Bavaria and Wurttemburg into the German confederacy and then into the German empire, Emperor William chose war as the means of establishing the broad pathway to the southeast which was essential for realization of the dream ©of a great Germany. The subjugation of Austria-Hungard, iavhich would have presented a difficult task under ordinary conditions, be- came in these circumstances com] - uvely simple. A polygot combina- of states having little in common the verge of dissolution. Austria-Hungary’s submission now | Apri] that unless the is declared to be complete both In & |tonnage was stimulated there was a military and economic sense. The |good chance of the German winning commanding armies, abetted by political and in- |leader, entered . into dustrial agents scattered through the |with the shipping board and pro: evidently ~are |ty supply us with a very Jarge amount holding the Austrian and Hungarian |of steel for shipbuilding within the populations in a union which neither | period of a very fow months, increas. the hardships of war, the death of the |ing gradually from the present time inspiratio n of out-|t; a maximum to be reached about Oc. country by Germany, emperor nor the the reason for this was that the Brit- ish government had contracted for nearly all the available space in Amer- ican vards. ‘General Goethals did mot ask him but we assured him that his manag- and apparently held together only by |erial powers should be absolute that the decaying genius of the aged Bm- |while he could call upon the board for peror Francis Joseph, the dual mon- [any assistance that he might archy was resarded -everywhere as on [that the board would not attembt to n. Her help-|interefere with any of his policies. We before Russia’s armies be-|have endeavored to the best of our came apparent early in the war and|ability to carry out our share of the the eagerness with which Germany |pargain and we know as everyone else l:al;e? :nde :’ppomnmltt}; “tm'ng:er‘l:d knows, that the general at this di- s polnte as_empl - |cult task has giv e sa eerful sightedness of the German plans. i e g Austria-Hungary’s Submiss need, energy and devotion of genius to the jon Com- |Dation that he did to the canal. “The men at the head of the steel producing industry realized late in production of her the war. They got together, clected a communication ed side influences such as the Russian |toner. revolution can break. What Was Promised Bulgaria. steel shipbuilding “General Goethals thereupon bezan upon a plan of organization of the industry, ' which Bulgaria’s declaration of war on the|throuzh standardization of construc- side of Germany was actuated by a | [Rroush standardizatio German diplomatic coup which in it- | o WORTC, SN0 TRODTS self is regarded now as a further evi- increase the dence that & clear roed through the |pony EGUND IN WOODS Dardanelles was considered in Berlin as a preliminary and imperative pur- Dose of the war. It is pointed out that NEAR BRIDGEPORT the only concrete cause for action set | Evidence of a Terrific Struggle Be- forth in the Bulgarian war procia- mation is that “the central powers have promised us parts of Serbia, cre- ating an Austro-Bulgarian line.” German-Bulgarian __ armies, for the Man Was Killed. 20 —The Bridgeport, Conn., May border | hody o fa man, believed to be that of Creatlon of such a junctlon, |G, Gozzi, an emplove of a local arms now well established by the Austro- | i tory = breaks | out hunting for wild flowers In Cham- was _found by a picnic_party down a hitherto formidable barrier to | pariains Woods om the outskirts. of German expansion southeastward. German Grip on Turkish Industry. this city today. Shrubbery and brush for some distance near where the body was found trampled down and it was T e case O ke N dom |evident that a terrific strusgle had ination is believed here to be even taken place before the man was kiled. more complete than in Austro-Hun- | f2ken Z|Gozzi _had a long gash on the neck. sary and Bulgaria. Not only have Ger- | Sozzl had a long gash on the neck man officers led in defending Turkish territory and eradicating inharmonious elements such as the Armenians and Syrians, but it has been learned that German industrial _organizers have taken a firm grip on Turkish industry and a large delegation of German pro- fessors has been sent to spread Ger- man kulture among the people. These developments throw a new light on many events before the war. Among_them is_the long unexplained deciaration of Emperor William _at Damascus in 1908 that all Mohaméws- dans might confidently regard the Ger- min emperor as “their friend forever. There also is a complete understand- ing now of Germany's eagerness to se- cure in 1399 a concession for the Bag- dad railway, an artery of communica- tion now indispensable to the German operations. General Policy During the War. Fitting in squarely with an actuating there for about three days. Mother and Five Children Burned. Middieport, O., May 20.—Six persons, Mrs. Jokn Betzen and her five children, were burned to death in their home at Minersville, near here, late last night. Mr. Betzen was away frof home on a fishing trip at the domains unbroken. Tt is regarded as glving a sinister color to recent move- ments for a separate peace for Austria- Hungary or Bulgaria, in the region where German conquest is most safe: to the eagerness with which German leaders have taken up the cry of “no annexations” so far as the great northern powers are concerned: to the German chancellor’s recent reichstag speech indicating that the government was not yet ready to renounce its ter- ritorial gains in France, Belgium and desire for conquest to the southeast is | Russia “while all other matters are left the general German military policy during the entire war. It is noted that even the expense of recessions on the in suspense.” Any renunciation of ter- ritory, it is expected, would exclude Poland, which would be made a “free” castern and western fronts, Germany [state under the German plan but has taken pains to overrun quickly Serbla, Montenegro and Rumania and to keep in check all allied attempts to strike at the southeastern pathway from the Dardanelles or Saloniki. Not until the present British advance in Asiatic Turkey has there been any se- rious danger to any part of the greater stretch from the Baltic to the Persian gulf. Work Going On Before the War. would remain wholly under German domination. " What War Must 'Accomplish. The turn of affairs is accepted, too. as bringing Austria-Hungary more clearly into relief as the area of pos- sible operations to impose a barrier between Berlin and Constantinople. ™1 that connection is recalled the decla- ration of the allies, replying to Presi- dent Wilson's peace note in the light In consolidating this territory, it is|of knowledge which only now has be- revealed, the economic element has | come available here, that the war must been given a conspicuous place. This |accomplish “the liberation of Italians, work was going on before the war, although it had not reached a matur- ity comparable with the economlic ef- of Slavs, of Rumanians and of Tzecho- Slovacs from foreign domination; the enfranchisement of populations sub- fort by which Prussia bound the Ger- [ject to the bloody tyranny of the man states in the customs union of | Turk; the expulsion from Burope of 1838 forty years before she brought |the Ottoman empire” and the “restora- them under the empire. A comprehen). |tion of Serbia, Montenegro and Ru- sion of the present danger prompted | mania.” the allled economic conference at Paris, where plans were made for Nucleus of a World Germany. Such a program, it is pointed out, Thooting the German trade war after | ,qu1q effectuaily break up the greater the war. Germany now established as_the nu- It is problematical to officials here cleus of a world Germany. It would Dow Iar CermEny DML K0 ShonI0 G cus. & | Timanien Sesian Dasder Deace be made now with renunclation | p;ier between Austria and Bulgari o mtory on the S3st and west |\ j1q further enlarge this barrier by in political consolidation of the great restoring to Rumania her 3,500,000 na- Tt southedst. It ia point- | 115 o1y " Ty castern: Himeary and prob. That it is the i oA bo. Sxpecie 1o Bomand ot Tases | DIy to ferhia 500,000 Serbo-Croatana Eome expansion for Buigerie. and ast|in soutiiern Austria and a large sec- tomtion of emoush of tae Sommaeica |tlon of Bulgaria; would establish at Balkan territory. to' insure the. eenia | the crucial southern point of the dual ::ASOBMDOD]Q. " 5 o Earin and Turkey tore o ongary. Bul- | boland by the addition of five million fon, Germanizing their Industdns unq | Poles now under Austrian rule; would surrot he whol s estaptianed oo Scomomic entity | o vard of two million Slavs to Russia tariff wall, has been made cl the Gelarations of Frederic Naumany | then detached Turkieh territory to the B B ts of &n soondmiinl e i & mah (e Detuntin empire a free nation of 7,000,000 Tzecho-Slovacs and in the north a free restore one million Italians to Maly and and in addition would dismember the south by liberating the Armenians and Four Men Instantly Killedin Explosion IN POWER PLANT OF THE RE- PUBLIC IRON AND STEEL CO. AT YOUNGST OWN, OHIO Investigation Begun on Suspicion That the Explosion May Have Been Caused by War Plotters. Younstown, Ohio, May 20.—A mys- terious explosion in the power plant of the Republic Iron and Steel company at noon today caused the instant death of four men and injuries to eleven oth- ers. Five of the latter were seri- ously hurt and it is believed one may succumb. An immediate investigation was be- gun on a suspicion that the explosion may have been caused by war plot- ters alohtough company officials were inclined to discountenance such a sus- picion. The explosion was in a turbo gen- erator in the power plant of the open hearth department. Heavy machinery for yards about the generator was blowa to pieces, crusning out the lives of the four victims and pinning oth- ers to the floor. The roof was blown off the building and many were burned in the clouds of steam that enveloped the place. WIDE PUBLICITY FOR LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN. Startling Posters Are to Be Placed in Shop Windows. Washington, May 20.—Almost every avenue of publicity in the country treasury officials announced tonight, is filled with patriotic _organizations which have fallen into line to march with the liberty loan campaign to suc- ce: Already, the campalgn, vet in its opening stages, is bringing results from. every section of the country in the form of increasing subscriptions. The three-day period at the start dur- ing which officials were not wholly safisfled with the nation’s response, has given way to a determination of patriotic co-operation which for sheer immensity has not been excelled in the country. Soon the shop windows of the coun- try and the windows of the nation’s banks will blossom out in startling posters of red, white and blue to carry strong appeals to all passersby. One of the posters depicts the Goddess of Liberty, leaning forward with eyes ablaze and pointing finger with the plea “Buy a liberty bond lest I per- ish.” “One million of these will be distributed. “Buy a liberty bond” will be flashed the latter part of this week on every moving picture screen in the country. An all-star movie cast will enact a “liberty loan play” which will be wide- Iy distributed. Pittsfield, Mass., will suspend business entirely betweer 10 and 11 a. m. next Friday so that the entire town will have an hour to buy bonds. Clergymen of all denominations will open a liberty loan week Sunday, June 8 with reference from the pulpit to the nation’s needs. More than fifty thousand life insurance agents will take a day off from selling insurance and sell bonds instead. FRENCH TORPEDO BOATS ENGAGED A GERMAN FLOTILLA Onie of the French Boats Was Damaged In the Action. Paris, May 20, 1130 p. m.—French torpedo boats had an encounter earl this morning with a_German flotilla, in which one of the French war vessels suffered some damage, though all re- turned to port. An official statement issued today reports the Incident as follows: “A patrol of four French torpedo boats about one o'clock this morning encountered a flotilla of German de- strovers making toward port. After a brief engagement, the enemy flotilla retired at full speed in the direction of its base. Our torpedo boats re- turned. One of them suffered some damage.” ROOSEVELT ABANDONS VOLUNTEER ARMY PLAN Has Notified All the Men Who Offered to Serve Under Him. Oyster Bay, N. Y. May 20.—Colonel Roosevelt announced tonight that all men who had volunteered to serve with him under the American flag in France had been absolved from _ all further connectfon with the movebent and that the only course open to them now is to enter the milltary service in some other way if they are able to do so and if not to serve the country in civil life, OBITUARY. Rev. Patrick Keating. Norfolk, May 20.—Rev. Patrick Keat- ing, pastor of the Church of the Im- maculate Conception here since 1899, died in his §7th year after a prolonged illness. Iather Keating was born in Wex- ford, Ireland. He was graduated from Wexford college and soon after graduation became active in the Feni- an movement in 1867. Suspected of connection with the uprising he was arrested by British government agents and incarcerated in Dublin jail. where he remained a considerable time await- ing trial. ‘The evidence produced by the government, while not sufficient to warrant a sentence of death, resulted in his being banished from his native country for a period of twenty vears. He then came to Montreal, where he studied for the priesthood, being or- dained in 1872. Subsequently he held Mittel Europa. Joint Chancellory. from German domination. American officials have made it clear Some influential men of this group |that in co-operating with the allles even have suggested that Germany go [ the United States was not entering a as far as to be a joint chancellory for | binding alliance to accomplish definite Germany, Austria and Hungary to con- | 2nd detailed terrotirial aims; but there affeirs. Poland Would Remain Under German Domination. is every evidence that the govern. ments understand In concrete form the crucial southeastern element of the situation and realize the enormity of ‘A1l this is taken as revealing the|the struggle that must be won before point of a premature peace which [the world Is should leave the German southeastern “made safe for democ- curateships in Ansonia, Derby, Nor- walk, Westport, Lakeville, Coventry ang at St. Johw's church, New Haven. ‘While an ardent sympathizer in the home rule movement untfl his death, Father Keating assumed a reticent at- titude regarding the question upon en- tering the priesthood. Charles W. Field. Baltimore, May 20.—Charles W. Field, a leading lawyer and one of the directing officers of the Eastern For- warding company of Baltimore, which handled the American business of the German merchant submarine Deutsch- land, died here today. To Recruit Guard to Full Strength ORDERS RECEIVED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT. REORGANIZE CAVALRY Troops A, B, L and M Are to Be Formed Into the Third Separate Squadron, Connecticut Cavalry. Hartford, Conn., May 20.—The adju- tant general’s office announced tonight the receipt of a telegram from the war department, ordering that all national guard organizations not in federal ser- vice be recruited up to full strength and girecting the reorganization of cav- alry units into the Third Separate Squadron, Connecticut Cavalry. The new squadron will include troops A, B, I, and H, the two iatter having been organized only several weeks ago, as Troops C and D. Troop D was recruited from appli- cants who tried to enlist In Troop A, New Haven, but were unable to do as that organization was already up to war strength. The men In Troop D are those who applied for enlistment in Troop B at Hartford. which was also up to full strength. Both troops were recently inspected by federal officers and accepted as na- tional units. The new order auto- matically does away with the designa- tion of First Separate Squardon of Connecticut cavalry. National fuard units desiring to participate in Mem- morial Day parades will be allowed to do so under arms, according to the an- nouncement. RINTELEN, LAMAR AND MARTIN FOUND GUILTY On Charges of Conspiring to Disrupt the Munitions Traffic. Yew York, May 20.—Captain Franz Rintelen of German navy; David Lamar, known as the “Wolf of Wall Street” ang Henry B. Martin, describ- ed as Washington lobbyist, were found guilty here tonight by a jury in the federal court on charges of having conspired in 1915 to disrupt the muni- tions trafia between this country and the entente allies. The jury, which had been out more than twenty hours, disagreed as to four other defendants. The verdict was accepted by Judge Cushman less than an hour after he had sent the jury back to its delibera- tions in the ‘hope that all the cases might be cleared up. The jurors had reported at 9.30 o'clock that they had agreed upon a verdict in the cases of three of the men were hopelessly di- vided as to the others. The custom- ary motions were deferred by the court until tomorrow afternoon when sentence will be pronounced. While no statement was made by the prosecution, it is understood that Frank Buchanan, H. Robert Fowler, Herman Schulteis and Jacob C: Tay- lor, upon whose guilt the jurors were unable to agree, will not be brought to trial again. Captain Rintelen who was pay- master for Lamar and Martin_in the anti-munitions operations of Labors National Peace Council, did not appear at_all disturbed at the verdict. “It is fair and just” he declared when asked his opinion of the verdict. It was intimated that Rintelen may be sent to a detention camp rather than to prison because of the as- sistance he is reported to have given the government. The penalty for the offense charged, which was violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, is a vear in prison qr $5,000 fine, or both. Rintelen, who' is reputed to hav spent $500,000 in his propaganda work, is said to hold hizh social and official rank in Germany RUSSIAN GIRLS ALLURED INTO WHITE SLAVERY Many Young Women of Aristocratic Families Have Recently Disappeared. Petrograd, via London, May 20, disappearance recenily of man: women of aristocratic famalies in an gation which uncovered a wide- plot to lure women and girls to “white siavery” after they had been robbed. Details of the plan were obtained by military men wno raided the headquarters of the band where they fourd most of the missing wo- men whom were under the influence of drugs. One girl, a member of a prominent familv, told how she had been held a prisoner and hegged to be released. She and others informed the authori- ties they had been compelled to be- come drug addicts. All had heen rob- bed of their monev and jewels. Many rifled purses were found In a back room. Most of the victims were be- tween 17 and 19 vears old, although several of them were married women. FRENCH STEAMSHIP COLBERT TORPEDOED AND SUNK Fifty-One Persons, Including the Com- mander, Lost Their Lives. Paris, May 20.—The French steam- ship Colbeth, carrying a number of French military passengers, was tope- doed and sunk in the Mediterranean on April 30 by a Teuton submarine. Fif- ty-one persons including the com- mander of the vessel, lost thelr lives. Announcement of the sinking of the Colbert was made this afternoon by the French adrsfiralty. The Colbert was a_passenger vessel of 5394 tons gross. She was 377 feet long and had a beam of 47 feet. 1In April, 1916, the vessel was attacked by 2 submarine in the Mediterranean but escaped her aggressor by superior speed. _ At that time she was shelled by a U-boat without preliminary warning. CHARACTER COMEDIAN TYLER COMMITS SUICIDE. Had Been for the Last Twelve Years a Member of Maude Adams’ Company. New York, May 20.—Frederick ,Ho- bart Tyler, 50 years old, character comedian, and for the last 12 years a memper of Miss Maude Adams’ com- pany, committed suicide in a hotel here today. He had long been ill. Ty- ler began his theatrical career in Lon- don more than 30 years ago. T Va0 g e e e ANOTHER OFFENSIVE STARTED BY BRITISH Honduras broke off relations with Germany, according to official reports to the State Department. The Hotel Eastman, a 100-room summer hotel at North Conway, N. H., was burned, causing a loss of $40,000. George Bakmetefr, former Russian SRS mae s home n Wesh- | With the Idea of Bringing Their Forces North of Bulle- court in Alignment With the Village Plans are under way in BoSton, to care for wounded men who may be brought back after American troops get into action in Europe. The four-masted Schooner Maude M. y Morey, named tor tne wite ot tormer| STRUCK THE GERMAN LINE HARD SUNDAY was launched at Bath, Me. Reprosentative Daniel W. Comstock of Indiana, died at Washington, of . ey a | Dneumonta; He was 11 years oid and | Carried German Positions Over a Front of More Than a M a veteran of the Civil War. Between Fontaine les Croisilles and Bullecourt—( mans Failed in an Effort to Crack the French Line Along the Chemin des Dames—Teutons Have Attacked t Russian Line in the Vicinity of Mittau, Where The Were Repulsed—North and East of Gorizia the Italiar Are Continuing Their Successes Over the Austrians. Commander Wolf at Plattsburgh re- ceived 12,000 new blankets and distrib- uted them to thankful men. Shower baths were put in operation. The schooner Maggie Todd, which ran ashore near Provincetown, Mas 23, while on a voyage from Boston for Venezuelan ports was floated. Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, under sentence of death for the murder of his father-in-law John Peck, was pro- nounced sane by a commission. The casualty list of the Canadian overseas forces, issued by the war rec- ords office, includes the name of C. Cordette, Stamford, Conn., wounded. ‘With Bullecourt firmly in their pos- ,come into the session, the BEritish are giving |the French tre the Uermhns no chance rest nd | with a withering 12 proescnie s Sl enls In Providence, north ‘ot utlecotrt in”allgnment | after ‘the payment milen queniy. and 1iaq no legal standink. § ““o g s aa s 5 eld Marshal Haig's | French positior Colonel Nicholson's army of five|men again strike the German line hard | fromt_ of abou point on the mess line, from oatmeal | Petween Fontaine les Croisilles and |front th th to coffee. Builecourt and hold them despite furi- | ing to the be r £ ous counter-attack: The fizhting here | situation in 8% It rumored at The Hague that a|again was sangu y and the I sh | Russian lines. lLast w truce is about to be arranged be-|war off reports that heavy casual- |ed an offensive ir but met with no offensive h in the tween Russia and the Central Powers [ties were inflicted on the Germans. as a result of political changes at| Although London makes no men | of the fact, the n war office re- | nor on | | Petrograd. inity ports an offensive by the British along | they threw an attack ag An_extraordinary meeting of the|the li-mile front extending from the |sians, but were Spanish cabinet was called immedi- | region of Acheville to Queant, which | the Hussian artiler ately upon receipt of news of the sink- | means that again the entire front of |there has been the {ing of the Spanish steamer Patriotic, | the Drocourt-Queant switchiine is be- |attack asainat the F of 3,500 tons. ing hammered. Koveika, but here German crown | were dispersed b North and ea The army of the The thermometer registered 37 de-|prince continues ineffectually its ef- grees in Chicago and there were many | forts to crack the French line along |jan tre prostrations. The trench straw the Chemin des Dames. After a shell ses over and the’ 1917 model mermaid fire of great intensity by all calibres of | fresh adv their appearance. guns, and Including asphyxiating gas | counter-attacks projectiles, the Germans Sunday en- | effectives. A num ; Capt. T. L. Huston, one of the own- | deavored to come out of fheir trenches | large quantities of o ers of the New York American League |and attack in force. With their usual | tion were taken Baseball Club, went to Detroit to re- | display of expert marksmanship, how- | of Gorizla the A port for examination for entrance into | ever, the Frenchmen at most places | pierced In the Engineer Corps. held the Teutons to their trenchés un- | who made . a a | reciprocal artillery ~ fire.| In Macedc The large five-story warehouse and [ Wherever the Germans were able to|lated infa office building of Rathbone, Sard & Co. Albany, N. Y., stove manufactu - e ers, was destroyed by fire. The loss | THREE GRAIN-LADEN MENOCAL TAKES OATH was estimated at $150,000. SWEDISH STEAMERS SUNK FOR SECONC Owing to the change from her win- SR - ter to Summer equipment on May 15, | Ten Lives Lost—News Created Great|No Untoward Event During the the licensed carrying capacity of the Indignation in Stockholm. Coney Island_steamboat Taurus was Lt London, M mony in Havana y 20—| Havana, Ma increased to 541 passengers. Stockholm, v ’ ——- News that the Swedish steamers Ves- | of the suprem Gov. McCall, of Massachusetts an-|terland, Aspen and Viken, laden with | ministered to ( nounced that thé Joffre Fund contrib- grain from England, had been sunk bY |cal the oath of office f uted by the children of the New Eng- [German submarines was received here | (arm as president land States for the fatherless chil- late last night and coused much in-|Cyfn dren of France reached $224,260. dignatior Many Liberals we ' —_ The arrival of the steamships, which | hlate spirit of « t The military authorities of Baden |were released under the recent recib- |Lnd there was e ant temporarily closed all cigar factories {rocal agreement freeing the entente al- | Jy 5 po in order to release the workers at the |lies tonnage in the Bothnian Gulf, had | clusion of the ce earliest possible moment for the har- |been eagerly awaited. dent, after referring » The message which told of the sink- | combya = ins said that eight mem Mrs. Owen Picott, aged 60 years, |crew of the Viken and two men @ was burned to death in a fire of un- |the Vesterland had been lost. nertte which Bebrived determined origin which destroyed her | Newspapers of all shades of opinion | G100, WhiCh deprt home at Kittery Me. Three members united today in voicinz indignation at | fy Jreitt erisls of th of the family escaped without injury.|the torpedoing of the Swedish steam- |+ — crs. The Stockholm Tidningen captioned | o2 T %0 T Answering Senate criticism—voiced |its articles “The Germans' Dastardly | 0t of objlgations o in secret session—of the Council of |Deed Against Sweden,” and character- [ WAL before the National Defense, Bernard Baruch de- |jzes it as a “deliberite and bloody | fEetvity, the sacrifios clared the body saved the Government |crime.” It declares that a land which [{{irS700% WHIh v $10,000,000 in copper purchases alone.|is capable of such a deed is capable of b s biect ¢ anything. Appeals to President Wilson and| The Viken was a_new Congress for absolute prohibition in [in 1916 and was on her fir: the United States during the ar were |was 264 feet lonz and of 18 ‘adopted and_telegraphed to Washing- | zros ton by the Southern Baptist Conven- [* The Vesterland was of 4,018 tons tion. gross and built in She sailed 5 from Savannah January 24 for Goth- The Salvation Army will send and|cnbuarg and last reported to have maintain twenty fully equipped am- |rived ai lorweck on February 12 bulances with the first overseas ex-|Aspen was of 3,103 tons sros pedition of troops for the battle fronts. | built at Sunderiand twenty sting of crops regardless of sex. > suppress the | declared: “The he ard | halting the re 5 built | TO TRAIN 3500 MEN She FOR BATTLE AIR tons . Formal ment's Policy as to af Announcement o Washington, Ma AT~ [rnouncement of the & Che las to all types of and |peling was mad. years ago. |Council of Natio The plan was approved by the War|She sailed from Philadelph wary | Howara . Coffi e Department. 23 for Stockholm and was last reported | couneils ndvinoes t at Kirkwall February 9. All the ves- [of the mieeeape Searching for evidence of activities |Gals were owned in Gothemburs. Oty erate of German agents in the engineers’ el Phe - Shteor. almed P strike, police in London raided a meet- [ p 0T TO OVERTHROW THE el 2 ing room of strikers and confiscated production of a mir reports from engineers' delegates in GOVERNMENT OF COSTA RICA {mnl“ o the provinces. ue D om 00 t % Former President Gonzales Is Said to [UCAtON of from 5000 . The body of C. Wharton Smith, of be Implicated. ducing capacity = dur Baltimore = was found Jate last night near a_sanitorium, at Bethel, Me., at which he had been a patient for some | gy time. The police said he killed him- self by shooting. ear. San Jose, Costa Rica, May 20.—A |YRTuo ooes 0 rcaching plot o overthrow the layrerats produeri, present_government of Costa Rica, of \which President Frederico Tincco Is OGS oF the ariy: head, has been uncovered by the au- || j s AT Edward Haviland, a dog fane thoritics. The former president, Al- |8 'pr soiaco hioct : Wall _township, Monmouth county. | fredo Gonzales, who was deposed 1ast | o7 the baclard Aot New Jersey, through counsel, declared | rapuary, at which time Tinoco as-|f X'° peeds genes that because of the high cost of dog|sumed controi, other officials of the |Naffonal Cash Fepister ¢ feed be was unable to pay his wife |former government and Germans resi- B’ 1. Aot pomers - alimony of 36 a week. dent here and’in the United States are |wha “will wee o Ahan Sy alleged to be_implicated. A aaviser to the hoar The Brazilian government antici-|firm in New York is declared to have LA e pates no serious trouble with a large |furnished $100,000 for the organiza- (NEW ENGLAND MEN TO colony of Germans in Brazil and was |tion of a revolutionary movement. TODAY assured of the loyalty of Brazilians of | " The brothers of the ex-president|ARRIVE AT PLATTSEURGH TODA German decent, ‘according to a notelmade an attempt to leave Costa Rica = Z- SE8 ‘handed to Secretary Lansing. but were prevented by the authoritics New York Banker, Rojocted, it I . |and the parents and sisters of Gon- from Nervous Breakdown. Former Police Capt. John F. Tappin|ales who were granted permission to e dismissed from the force by former |leave the country, took refuge in the Plattsburgh, N Commissioner Cropsy was granted a|American legation. than 600 membe new trial by the Appellate Division of serve corps the Supree Court, Brooklyn Tappin|T0 HELP IN WORK OF lecture dellvered a 1 was dismissed for making alleged false Christlan aseo; Satomenta. SELLING LIBERTY BONDS. | [B5FHED 4007 e : ¥ univeraity Five hundred dollars for distribution | Secretary McAdoo Recommends Ap- A New York h among the war orphans of the town pointment of Committees. the stock exch of Hesse-Cassel, Germany, was one of camp In the the bequests in the will of Jullus| St Paul, Minn, May 20.—Appoint- | was rejected Brandau, filed in Brooklyn. Mayor | ment of committees in states, 'rural | ramoved to & Lanarden, of the Prussian town, is|communities and cities to help in the | inz from n made the executor. work of seliing liberty bonds wae ad- | he ocated by Willlam G. McAdoo, secre- | tional guardsmen i expected t o Massacre of Palestine Jews. tary of the treasury, in a conference | here tomorrow Stockholm, May 20, via London, 11.58 | with banikers, business men and farr- —— p. m.—Telegrams from the Jowish go- ers of several northwestern states ar| Senator Lane in Critical Condition. cleties in Palestine received by the|the capitol here today. The secretary ator secretarial department of the social- |advocated a brisk campaign in behalf Lane of Orogon, continue ist ccg ference here say a fresh mas- |of the bonds. . gravely ill today at a hospital here sacre of Palestine Jews, resembling the | Because of the hoarseness from | Attending physiclans announced that Armenian massacres, is threatened and [ which he was suffering yesterday, Mr, | there had been no change since las appeals are made to the soclalists of | McAdoo gave up his plan to addrees | night, when he was reported in & criti- al countries. student army officers at Fort Snelling cal condition. 2 ] ncisco, May 20