Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 29, 1918, Page 1

VOL. LIX—NO. 25 POPULATION 29,919 ARMY MEN ERICA WILL HAVE HALF A MILLION With é Million More Trained and Eduipped Ready to| Follow as Quickly as Ships Can be Provided ' | BAKERS INFORMS SENATE MILITARY COMMITTEE Tells the World That the Work Accomplished by the War Department is Greater Than Was Demanded by Its Critics—There Are Now More Than a 100,000 American | Soldiers in France—Tells of Efforts to Bring the Finan- cial, Industrial and Military Strength of the Nation in Cooperation With Great Britain and France in the Most | Effective Way. —_— Washington, Jan, 28—America will have an army of half a million ‘men in Francesearly this year, with a million moer trained and equipped ready to follow as quickly as ships can be pro- vided to carry them—and the outlook for ships is not unpromising. Secretary Baker gave this informa- tion to the nation and to the world today in a statement before the senate military committee, baring much that untll now has been carefully guarded with the army’s military secrets, in answering charges that the govern- ment has broken down preparing for war. From early morning until late aft- emoon the secretary addressed the committee and & crowd including many members of houses of congress gathered in a big hearing room of the senate office building. He spoke extemporaneously, beginning with de- tails of the mammoth task of build- ing an_army of a million and a half, answering such complaints of ineffi- clency as were cited by Senator Cham- herlain in his recent speech and de- claring that such instances were iso- lated and not general. Some ques- tions were asked and Mr. Baker from iime to time bad assistants go to the telephone for reports on specific ques- tions. Then, toward the close of the day, the secretary delivered a dramatic general statement of the American war plan, telling of the coming of the ailied missions, of the day and njight conferences with men from. the of battle in which the plans now be- ing executed were adopted, and of success beyond expectations in build- ing the afmy, and its industrial sup- ports at home, transporting men across the ocean, constructing railroads in France and preparing to strike the en- rmy with every resource at the coun- try's command, When Mr. Haker closed it was ap- parent he had created a profound im- pression. Chairman Chamberlain said ¥0 before he left the stand. There was no_attempt at cross examination. Mr. Baker’s statement follows: Secretary Baker's Explanation. “Now, gentlemen, about the plan of “he war. It will be remembered that this war broke out in August, 1914. We went into it in April, 1917, so that for two and one half vears, or more than two and one half years, the war had been going on. It was not as though war had broken out between fhe United States and some country, each of them prior to that time hav- ing been at peace with one another and with everybody else; so that an immediate plan should be made in the United States for conducting war against its adversary, but we were coming into a war which had been going on for two and one-half years, in which the greatest military experts, all the inventive genius, all of the in- dustrial capacity of those greatest countries in the world had for two and one-half years been solving the prob- Jems of what kind of war it was to be and where it was to be waged. Problem How to Reach Enemy. *Jt was mot a thing for us to decide where our theatre of war should be. ‘The theatre of war was France, It was not for us to decide our line of fommunications. Our line of com- wunications was across three thous- and miles of ocean, one end of it in- fosted with submarines. It was not for us to decide whether we would have the maneouvering of large bodies of troops in the open. There lay the entagonists on opposite sides of No Man's Land in the trenches at a death grapple vith one another. Our antagonist was on fhe other side of that line, and our problem was and is 15 get over there and get him. Had to Study the Situation. “It was not the problem of doing it cir way and letting everybody else take care of himself. In the first place, we were going to fight in France, not on our own sofl, and not on our adversary's soil, and therefore &t the very beginning it was obvious that the thing we had to do was not to map out an ideal plan of campaign; Mot to have the war college, with its apeculative studies of Napoleon and everybody else, map out out the theo- rectically best way to get at some ether country, but it was the problem of studying the then existing situa- tlon and bringing the financial, the in- dustrial and military strength of the United States into co-operation with that of Great Britain and France in the most immediate and effective way. That problem could mot be decided here. I fancy in this audlence there are men who have been in the trench- es. The altogether unprecedented character of that problem is the thing Which every returning visitor tells us caunot be described in words, cannot be put down in reports; to be comprehended at al. Question of Abstract Speculation. “It is easily imagined that we might have perfected an army over here and carried it across the ocean and found Az-wholly unadapted to its task and e might weil,have been that the army that we sent over was just one thing' that they did not need, and that some pther thing which we might have sup- plied would have been the thing es- sential to their success. “So that from the very beginning it was a question of abstract specu- lation here, but a question of study there to find out where our shoulder to the wheel could be put. Told of Britain's Experiences. “They realized that, and so Great Britain sent over to us Mr. Balfour and General Bridges and a staff of ex- perts_ They came over here and you saw Mr. Balfour in congress, at the ‘White House and in public meetings at one place and another, but the group of experts whom they brought over with them you did not see much of, and yet they distributed _them- seives through the war _department and their ordnance experts sat down with General Crozier, their supply ex- perts with General Sharpe and his as- sistants, their strategists sat down with the army war college, and all over this city there were these confi- dential groups exchanging informa- tion, telling how the thing was over there, what we could do, what they ad- vised us to do, what experience they had in developing this, that and the other implement or supply, how cer- tainplans which one might naturally have evolved out of the past experi- ences of the world had been tried there and found mot to work at all. Exchanging Information. “They were exchanging information, giving us all that they thought was helpful. And then came Joffre, with his wonderful reputation and his great and charping gersonality, and he mads 4 gréat figure here and we welcomed him. ‘It was a tremendous inspiration to see the hero of the Marne; but with him came this umb.-—mmm of fif- teen or twenty or ~five young T encinamy | l:nmu. ectamica French army, s experts, experts in_arms, experts in supplies, experts in. and man- ufacture, and they. us not merely the formal and problems, but they brought over them men who were in from the in their reorganizations of #heir industries, in their mobilization of their plants, and we satslown with little groups until fimlly we collected and extracted alt the mation which they could give us from their respective countries. And every country which has“been brought in the war has brought us that sort, or sent us that sort of a staff of experts, and it has been necessary to compare notes and with this ds a basis, to form such an idea as might be formed of what was the thing for us to do over there. Impossible to Draw Picture. “But that was not enough. They admitted that it was_impossible to draw that picture. They could de- scribe to us and bring the specifica- tions and drawings for a piece of ar- tillery, but they could not tell us why the British theory of the use of ar- tillery was by the British preferred to that of the Fremch. They could mnot picture to us a barrage of heavy howit zers as compared to a barrage of T guns. They could mot picture to us the association of aireraft, balloons and mobile aircraft with artillery uses. They could tell us about it, but even while they told us the story grew old. Warned of Strength of Adversary. “The onme thing they told us from the very beginning to the end was that this war, of all others, was not a static thing; that our adversary was a versatile anq agile adversary; that ev- | ery day he revamped and changed his weapbns of attack and his methods of defense; that the stories they were telling us were true when they left France and England, but an entirely different thing was probably taking rlace there now, and they told us of large supplies of weapons of one kind and another which they had developed in France and England and which, even before they got them in sufficient quantity, manufactured to take them from the industrial plants to the front, were superseded by new ideas and had to be thrown into the scrap heap. “They said to us, this is a moving plcture; it is something that nobody can paint and give you an idea of. It is not a static thing. Officers Sent Over to Observe. “Therefore, it became necessary for U8 to have eyes there in.instant and immediate communication with us, and we sent over to France, General Per- shing, and we sent with him not mere- ly a division of troops—to that I shall refer in a moment—but we sent with him perhaps.] can say safely the ma~ jor part of the trained, expert per. sonnel of the army. You know the size of the official corps of the regu- lar army in this country when the war broke out. It was a pitiful handful of trained men, and yet it was neces- gary to divide them up and send over to France officers of the highest qual- £ 3 ity so that they would be at the front and see in the workshops and in the would take place immediately back of the front so that they could <ee the thing with their own eyes, and sénd us back the details by cable every day of the changing character of this war. Staff Experts Busy Every Minute. “General Pershing’s staff of experts and officers over there runs into the thousands, and they are busy every minute, and every day that the sun rises 1 get cablegrams from General Pershing from ten to sixteen and twen- & apgas long, filled with measurements IN FRANCE EARLY THIS VEAR Cabled Paragraphs Finnish Delegates for Peace Meet jon, Jan. 28—The Finnish Diet nus lactia fve dejegates to loakt after Finland’s interest in the Brest Litovsk peace negotiations, says a despatch to the Bxchange Telegraph from Co- penhagen. U. S. Silent on Irish Question. London, Jan. 28—Andrew Bopar TLaw, chancellor of the exchequer, an- nounced in the house of commons to- day, that no messages, official or semi- official, emanating from high quarters in Washington and pointing out_the urgency of a settlement of the Irish question, have been received by Pre- mier Lloyd George. and formulas and changes of. & milli- | meter in size, great long specifications of changes in details of things which were agreed upon last week, and changed this week, and need to be changed again next week, so that what we are doing.at this end is attempt- ing by using the eyes of the army there to keep up to what they want us to do. “Already you will find in vour fur- ther examination into some of the bu- of the department, some of s, when they come down. find that schedules which you were agreed upon, weapons which were selected and which we had started to manufacture, have been so far dis- carded that people have forgotten the names of them almost, 4nd new things substituted in their place, and those forgotten and new things in places. Double Duty For Home Men. “So that if one gets the idea that this is the sort of war we used to have, or if he gets the idea that this is a static thing it is an entirely erron- eous idea, and when ' you remember that we had to divide this little hand- ful of officers that we had and send 50 large a part of them to France, and then think of those who remained at home, you will realize, I am sure, that] those who remaimed here had the double duty, insufficient for either as- pect of it in numbers—and they still have this double duty—they had to go forward with manufacturers, work out industry and industrial relations; they had to see about supplies of raw materials and manufacture finished products, and make from day to day alterations and changes that had to be made, and they had to be ingenious with suggestions, to see whether they could devise on this side something which had not been thought of over there. Had to Listen to Suggestions. “They had to be hospitable to sug- gestions ‘which came- from the other slde; they had to confer with the for- eign officers who were here and were constantly being changed, so that men fresh from the front could be here to advise with us, and in addition to that every one of them had to be a university professor, going out into the life of the community and selecting men who had mechanical experience &nd knowledge and training, and add- ing to his original equipment the scientific training, that finishing touch which made him available for use, as a military sclentist. Built Special Departments of Army. “As a consequence, this little group ‘Which staved here have built the great special departments of the army. ‘The: ordnance department, starting, T think, with 93 or 96 officers, has now, as I recall the figures, something like 3,000 officers. They have had to be trained, they have had to be special- ized, and that has had to go on con- their temporaneously with this tremendous | response-to the changing conditions on the other side. Change of Industries. “Tn the meantime, when we started into this war, I think it was common- 1y known throughout the country that our contrfoution at the outset might well be financial and industrial. The industries of this country were large- Iy devoted at that time, the appropri ate industries,.and-many converted in- dustries were largely devoted to the manufacture of war materials for our allies_ “As T suggested this morning when we went into that market we found it largely occupied, so that our problem was not zoing fo a shoe factory and saying ‘Make shoes for us’ but it was going to a factory which never made shoes because all the shoe fac- tories were busy making shoes for neople from whom we could not take them, and saying, ‘Learn how to make shoes in order that you may make them for us.’ Machinc Guns, Arms and Ammunition. “Now, of course, that is not true of shoes, but it is true of machine guns, it is ‘true of other arms, it is true of ammunition, it is true of forging ca- pacity, which was the greatest defect in the country, and all of this time we had not, merely not to disturb the programme of allied manufacture in this country, but had not to cut off the supplies of raw material to our allies and we had not to disturb the industry of this country to such an extent that products upon which they depended for the success of their military op- erations would be both agricultural and commercial and industrial products. “At the outset the idea was that we would be a financial and industrial as- sistance to our allies during the year 1918, and I think I probably can read from the Metropolitan Magazine for August a suggestion which will show what the current expectation of ¢he country was. The editor of the Metro- politan Magazine was protesting against what he believed to be the in- tention of the government at that time.” Editorial in Metropolitan Magazine. Here Senator Weeks interrupted to ask if that was the magazine of which Theodore Rooseveit is associate editor. ~ Secretary Baker replied that Mr. Roosevelt was z contrfbuting ed- itor, and continued: “This magazine came out in August, and this editorial says: Since it is our war we want to put everything into it so as to finish it in the shortest possible time, so that the world may-be restored. To our mind the whole plan of the war department has_been flavored with a desire to hold off until the allies finish the war for us’ You see the editor w h what he supposed to be the in- tention of the war department at that time, that we were holding off so far Traffic Completely interfered ~with, ; Tied llqhy Blizzards HEAVY FALL OF SNOW FROM MIDDLE WEST TO NEW YORK OFFICIALS ARE WORRIED Railroads Are Accepting Practically No Shipments Except of Fuel and Food—Fear Floods Might Follow. ‘Washington, Jan. 28—In the face of blizzards which completely stopped traffic on many eastern railroads to- day, the handling of sufficient coal for homes and important war industries in the eastern half of the country be- caie a more serious problem than at any time this winter, Fuel Administrators Worried_ Officials of the fuel and railroad ad- ministrations were frankly worried, but explained they did not believe it necessary to declare another five day industrial shutdown, in view of the general observance of today as the second “heatless Monday.” No exten- sion of the official eastern freight em- is necessary, railroad adminis- tration officials said, hecause railroads ments except of fuel and food. Heavy Fall in Middle West. There was a general and heavy to New England. sleet storms interfered with tral while in some sections rain fell. Fear of Floods. Added to the concern of railroad ad- a sudden thaw. Virginia today railroad authorities re- ported streams swolleu snow threatening interruption of coal ‘movements. as actual military operations concerned, and letting the fighting. “What he says we should have done, and I.ask your particular attention to it, is thi . “"We should have strained every energy to have zotten from 50,000 to 100000 men to ‘rance this year. Exceeded Programme of Editor. “That is, the year 1917. I tell no se- cret, but it is perfectly well known te everybody in have far ex wers dct what in “August, refers to it as ought to, have st« a vain but hopeless effort to accom- plish.” In respense to a guestion by Chair- than thy August, 1917. He' continued: “And then the editor goes on: ‘And by next vear, 1918, we' could have had of 5 More Than 100,000 Men in France. “Now, instkad of having 50.000 or 100,000 men in France in 1917, we have imany morc men than that in France jand fesiead of having a balf of million men who we could fird sny way we will have more than one-half mil- ilion men in France early in 1918, and | jwe have avaiiabie, if the transporta- | i tion facilities he prospect i8 not unoromising. one nd one-half miliion who in 1913 can by shipped to France” Replies to Senator Weeks. i secretary knew who, wrote the editor- }ial, and Mr. Baker Said he thought it j was attributed to Mr. Wiggin, the edi- | tor-in-chief. i “Why,” asked Chairman Chamber- {1ain, “have you not felt it proper to et the public into your confidence with reference to the things that you are telling now?” “Senator, I confess T have hesitated retary. “I have here a statement from Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, in which he is quoted as saying in a German newspaper, in contemptuous fashion of us, that we have' advertised our preparations for this war in an unworthy manner.” “Do you think, for a moment, Sec- retary Baker,” said the chairman, “that there has been any time.within the last year that the German secret service has not' been fully advisea as to evervthing we have done?” Cermany is Mystified. “Yes, Senator, I know. If I may re- ly upon the confidential information which we get from confidential sources, the German government is still mys- tified as to the number, of men we have in France,-or have had there at The chairman said he doubted. this. After some discussion as to the policy of governments in_anmouncing mili- tary secrets, Mr. Baker said it was not the policy of the American or other governments to do so and added: “I am saying this now, because you have asked me why I have held back these facts until now. I am saying to whether I could get the number of sol- diers Great Britain has in France or at home. I could get an approxima- tion; I could get whatever information might be deemed helpful to the im- mediate military object to be accom- Britain or France wther one, the act- front. Precaution is Necessary. “It may be that that precaution s unnecessary, and yet that is the pre- caution which military men have ob- of 1917 a zealous advocate of immedi- ate military activity laid down as the obtainable programme a thing which has since been muitifold exceeded. 2 Decided to Send Troops to France. “Why we decided to send troops to France in 19177 It is no secret. When Marshal Joffre came to this country ‘e British mission from France, whe came from Franc situation which w. sad.: 5t up to that time fully appre:.ated. There had been in Frapce recently .. ‘ucted be- fore that an unsuccessful 1. gjor ffen- sive. The French people 'ad =i iey told us of the now are aceepting practically no ship- | fall | < ! of snow today from the middle west to | °f shecified substitutes. New York and it extended tonight in- | ¥ 5 : Tn the middle west i four ruling for Connecticuc was given ministration officials over the contin- | I uance of cold weather and snow was| Wi the fear of floods which would follow | W In parts of West wth melting | the allies do this gfoup that we 1917, was regardcd as a programme so ideal that the egitor of this magazine thing which we ined every merve in man, Chownctlaln, the. searefary’ sald | duty bound Lo support the profetariat nimum number of men in | 500,600 raen to send over, or any part | ,000 men which we could ship.’ | s could ship to France if ILL 0,00 Hoin 19'RV‘A HALF MILLIGN DOLLAR re available to us, and { you that you could not get from Great | Britain at this minute I do not know plished, but I could not zet from Great ual number of troops they have at the served, ang I have no further point to make in the matter of the number of troops there than to show, as I was; showing when T read that extract, that our original intention was to make our military effort in 1918; and in Ausust red Food Adfilinistratnr Scoville is Upheld IN 80 AND 20 PER CENT. FLOUR RULING FOR CONNECTICUT. FROM GOV'T WORD Reports of Food Hoarding in New Haven and Hartford Are to be Giv- en Strict Investigation at Once. Hartford, Conn., Jan. 28—Doubt as to whether whole wheat and graham flours were to be considered and sold as substitutes for wheat Was cleared up today for.Food Administrator Sco- ville received word from Washington that neither was to be sold to supple- ment the white flour supply. This question was brought up at he Sun- day conference between the food ad- ministration and wholesale grocers. Contracts May Be Carried Out, A telegram from Washington today also cleared up another point under discussion in this state. _That was, it contracts entered into by wholesale and retail grocers prior to the order compelling sales of substitutes wth the sales of wheat flour still were ef- fective. ‘Washington ruled that the new order superseded all flour con- tracts made prior to the new order and ‘uture contracts must include the sale Approval of the 80 and 20 per cent. official sanction by United States Food Administrator Hoover today. Reports of Food Hoarding. Reports of food hoarding e New n and Hartford have been filed Administrator Scoville and these 1 be given strict investigation at once. PROVINCES OF FINLAND |Sharp Fighting is Reported Around and in Viborg. Stockholm, Jan. 28.—The threatened revolution in nland has begun in the eastern provinces, ae- cording to sparse information reach- ing Haparanda. The Red Guard is re- ported to have occupied the railway statlon at Helsingfors, all the toreign consuls have jeft the capital and skarp fighting is reported around and in Vi- borg. The Red Guard is holding Rikimaki and other important junctions; Rus- sian soldiers are aiding the Reds and reinforcements are coming from Pe- trograd.. The Finnish minister in Petrograd has protested to the Workmen's and Soidiers’ Delezates against Russian interference in ¥'innish affairs. He recelved a reply that “Russia’s gov- erament true to it4- principies, long- {in PFinland in it Datile against the innish bourgeoizie.” Th, Bolshevik j commissioner further dec” red that elp had been sent to th: Reds and jthat still more troops would be sent te_them. The Finnish government has sent to Finland’s independence a protest egainst Russian interference in Fin- nish affairs Telegraph communication with Pe- | trograd is broken. | GOVERNMENT CORPORATION Recommended by Secretary, to Make Leans and Advance War Enterprises. Washington, Jan. 28.—Creation of a | half billion dollar government cor- poration to make Joans and advances fenator Weeks asied whether the | {0 enterprises essential to the war and therwise assist in private financing was_recommended to congress. today by Secretary MeAdoo. The secretary also asked that pri- vate issues of securities of more than £100,000 he made subject to the ap- proval of ‘the government body, to be known as the “War Finance Corpora- ton.” Tie ‘Droponsd corporation would | and T still’ hesitate” replied the sec- | h&\¢ power to make advances to banks which finance industries wessential to the war or to buy direct the securi- ties of such corporations, subject to and length of the loans. The "corpora- tion also would make short time ad- vances to savings banks. Further powers of the corporation would be “to subseribe for, acquire and own, buy, sell and deal in bonds ang obligations of the United States” It could issue notes or bonds of its own of an amount not more thal eight times its capital, which would be sup- plied “originally by the government. The corporation would be managed by the secretary of the treasury and four directors to be appointed by the secretary with the approval of the president. The draft of a bil embodying Sec- retary McAdoo's suggestion was pre- pared and will be introduced shortly in both houses of congress. PLAN TO SAVE CCAL ON CITY STREET CAR LINES By Reducing the Number of Stops and Limiting the Heating of Cars. ‘Washington, Jan. 28—A plan for saving more than a million tons of coal a year by reducing in all cities the number of street car stops and by limiting - the use of power for heating cars has been proposed to the fuel administration. It is receiving atten- tion, but there is no indication as to whether - fuel administration officials view it with favor. The number of stops would be held to eight in each mile and heating would be limited to 4 degrees fahren- heit, as the proposal has been made. is in their country. This Wolf ‘has not only been at their doors, but he has been gnawing for two years and a half at their vitals, and When this ugsuccessful offensive in France had gone.on there was a spirit not of sur- fender, but of fate, about the French Reople, that the mighty military en- overcome them for forty years was at them, and their attitude was that no matter whether every Frenchman died in his tracks, as they were willing to 4o, ‘or not, that it was an irresistible thing, and so they said to us, frank- 1y, it will cheer us; it will cheer us (Continued on Page. 6, 4th Ce.) certain restrictions concerning price in a way that mot only our languase is not adapted to describe, but our imagination cannot conceive. The war gine which they had seen prepared to s yIn ) | Ly are needed from row until April t6 Condensed Telegrams GISYEST 2N The British iabor party has closed the mort ‘important ‘convention in its history. Rumors of, disorders in are confirmed by reports Madrid. Barcelona reaching There are more than 100 cases of typhus in the Petrograd isolation hospital, 7 " Unfavorable weather for the crop movement put the corn market on the up-grade. Harry Rider, of Clayville, N. Y., pri- vate in Company B, 301st regiment of engineers, died at Camp Devens of Ppneumonia. George A. Whi the last survivor of the Greely relief expedition to the Arc- tic in 1880, died at his-home at Pea- body, Mass. The Finnish senate has sent an. ulti- matum to the Russian government de- manding that Russia cease supplying arms to Finnish rioters. The Cunard line, owners of the An- dania, say that two members of the crew of the steamer were lost when the vessel was torpedoed. Crews of all American ships sailing from Atlantic and gulf ports will be put on a special food administration ration beginning February 1. Gas masks of the latest model have been furnished t othe police of Paris, as a protection against gas bombs in the expectation of air raids. Two Mexican scidiers were killed Friday night during the exchange of shots between American and Mexican patrols guarding the houndary. The Bslgian government was advis- ed that the American Red Cross had placey at its dispgsal 2,000,000 francs for the relief of Belgian refugees. Yale will suspend all classes it was announced from February 2 to 7 to aid fuel conservation. The university will not be officially closed, however. A reduction in the price of grade A milk from 17 to 16 1-2 cents a quart to consumers was announced by the federal milk commission of New York. Belgium got another credit of $9,000,- 000, making her total loans from the United States $36 400,000. Total credits to all the allies now are $4,247,000,000. One hundred refrigerator cars weel move the onion crop of western Massa- c;nuse[ts amounting to 1,000,000 bush- els, Department of Justice aaents are in- vestizai nz the fires which caused heavy loss last night to two concerys near Baltimore doing governmént work. The North Dakota senate with only two dissenting votes last night'con- curred in the house resolution ratifv- ing the federal prohibition amend- ment., H. H. Raymond, president of Clyde and Mallory = steamship the! lines, | Was named by the shipping board con- troller of shipping for the port of New all the powers that have acknowledged | YOrk. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturizg company’s service and repair plart near the water front at Buffalo. Y., was burned yesterday. Loss $150.000, Of the 200 steamships detained in New York harbor for want of coal be- fore the federal fuel administration’s five-day restriction order, all have de- parted but 35. The British admiralty announces that a naval aircraft hombed a Ger- anan airdrome at Varssenaere on Fri- day, making direct hits. All the ma- chines returned. Frank H. Gould, survey general of the department of the interior of the United States, dropped dead at San Francisco- from appolexy in a corrl- dor in front of his office. Maxim Gorky, a_widely. known Rus- sian author and editor of the Skovod- naia Zhizn, was struck in the neck and slightly waunded by a stray shot while driving in Petrograd. Reversing an earlier ruling, the fuel administration has held that newsprint vaper mills come within the class of industries that must be closed on the next nine Monddys,.to conserve fuel. While pleading for the exemption of the exemption of her son. Novie Pan- ken. before a draft exemption board New York, Mrs. Sadie Panken, 75 years old, collapsed and died from heart disease. All hope of forcing a . cHannel through the ice-hound Penobscot riv- er apd bay to Bucksport and Sears- port, Maine, was abandoned when the government ice-breaker Zizamia broke her propeller. Mayor Curley issued orders for the immediate closing of nearly every mu- nicipal building in Boston, including wardrooms, gymnasivms and milk sta- tions; as a fuel conservation measure. Thirty-four bodies have been recov- ered from the Allah shaft 'of the Acadia Coal company’s collieries at Stellarton. N. S, in which 87 miners| were killed by an explosion Wednes- day. Longshoremen emplo; on five piers of the Southern ific Steam- ship company on the North river, New York. went on strike for higher wag- es. ‘Federal troops on guard were re- enforced by New YorK police. The public day and evening schools of Providence, R. L, have closed for an indafinite period and the 2,000 tons of coal now.in the school bufldings wiil b turned over to the local fuel committee for sale in 100 potnd. bags. NEW YORK ASSEMBLY VOTES FOR SUFFRAGE PETITION Asking the U. S. Senate to Vote Fa- vorably on Constitutional Amendment. Albany, N;, ¥, Jan. 28—After an outburst of ofatory which has not been equalled this’ session, the assembly of the New York legislature tonight, by 2 vote of 72 to 17 adopted a resolution Detitioning_the United States senate to act favorably on the: suffs amendment to the federal constitution. e e o e e ety i b e It was not until after fifteen mem- bers, most ofthem new, had spoken that the resolution could be'brought to a vote - Because of Economic and From the War—Political Pot is Boiling Food Conditions Resulting MILITARY OPERATIONS CONTINUE AT LOW EBB Attacks by the Pan-Germanists — Aguinst All Persons Who Are Opposing Their War Aims Continue Unabated—An Amsterdam Dispatch Says the Deutsche Tages Zeitung Calls Upon the People of Germany to Revolt and Re- fers to Emperor William as Germany’s Hangman—Out- breaks Are Reported in Bohemia and in Rhenish Prussia. While the military operations on the various fronts continue at low ebb, the political pot still boils furiously in Austro-Hungary and Germany, in both of which countries there have been new outbreaks among the popu- lace because of economic and food con- ditions resulting from the war. Despatches from Switzerland are to the effect that there has been serious rioting in Bohemia owing to a shortage |. in the flour rations, stronz measures | by the police being required to dis- perse the mobs, which smashed shop windows and plunked stores. Likewise ‘severe outbreaks are reported in the industrial regions in Rhenish Prus- sia, where troops had to be called out to deal with the dissatisfied populace. Attacks by the Pan-Germanists against any and all persons who are opposing their war aims continue un- abated in ermany. Announcement is made that Count Von Hertling, the imperial German chancellor, shortly will make a_furth- er statement regarding the Belgian question, offering positive suggestions and proposals. . Nowhere on any of the fronts have the infantry operations risen above patrol encounters an dtrench raiding manoeuvres. TAGES ZEITUNG CALLS ON GERMAN PEOPLE TO REVOLT Refers to Kaiser as Germany's Hang¥ man in Red Coat and Mantle. London, Jan. 23—A despatch to the Iixchange Telegraph from Amsterdam says the Deutsche Tages Zeitung open- iy calls on the German people to Te- volt_against the present regime. “We, too,” says this Pan-German organ, “have a Judas among us to- day. 'He appears in the red coat and mantle of Germany's hangman. Who will save Germany from these traitofs but the German people? It is now, ‘Germans help yourself, and God will Eelp you.” § Although Emperor William is not named in the article, the expression “Germany’s hangman” is meant for the Kaiser, says the correspondent. AROUSED IRE BY DISPLAY OF UNPATRIOTIC SIGNS Crowds Threatened Violence to Frank and John Wood of Southport. Southport, Conn., Jan_ 28.—Citizens of this town were roused to the point of - threatening the persons awd store PRESIDENT HAS NOT RECEIVED CZERNIN’S SPEECH In Advance or Otherwise—Has Seen Only Extracts from Address. Washington, Jan. 28.—It was official- Iy ctated today that President Wilson had not .received a copy of Count of Frank and John Wood today through | Czernin's speech on Austro-Hungarian the appearance of signs displaved in the notien establishment conduet- ed by, the two brothers here today. The store was. closed to business but in the windows were shown these no- tices: “This store is prevented from serv- ing the public by the United States government as follows: - Monday, all day; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after 7 p. m. “Three hundred years of progress: In 1618 he who would not work could not eat. In 1918 he who wants to work | must not.” These quips, viewed here as savor- | ing of disloyalty, have been reported to | Charles H. Lane, federal agent of the | department of justice, and to the dis- trigt fuel administratar, Carl F. Sie- mon, both of Bridgeport. Crowas | gathered in front of the store and vi- olence to the storekeepers was ovenly threatened and some were for demol- ishing the shop but the local authori- ties had been able to prevent actual attacks up to nightfall SUPREME COURT ASKED TO GIVE EARLY OPINION In the Suit of the B. & O. Railroad Against the W. U. T. Co. ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Because of the importance of the guestion to all railroads in adjusting ®the amount of compensation which they ‘will receive under government operation, the su- preme court was asked today to give an_edrly opinion in" the suit of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad against the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany involving an interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Commission or- ders which fixes the basis of pay for exchange of services between railroads and telegraph companies. In the lower court the Western Union was réstraineq from violating a contract made with the Baltimore and Ohio in 1887 providing for the use of the railroad company's right of way | by the telegraph eompany’s lines and for the exchange of services between them. The telegraph company refused to transmit messages on the agreed terms, claiming the commission’s or- der interfered. FIRST DAY DRIV_E FOR SHIPYARD WORKERS! Twenty-five States Have Completed labout 12.30 a. m. Reserve Organizations. ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Reports to the Dnited States employment service to- day at the end of the first day of the drive to enroll 250,000 shipyard work- ers, said state directors of the public service reserve now are established in 43 states and that 25 states have com- Dleteq reserve organizations. ‘First figures of enrollment of work- ers will be made next Saturday. From now until February 16, when the cam- paign ends, there must be ‘an ave. rage daily enrollment of 13,888 for each of the eighteen working days, but la- bor department officials tonight ex pressed belief that the campaign would be a success. : TWO MIDNIGHT AIR . ATTACKS ON LONDON Official Announcement Says Bombs Were Dropped About 12.30 a. m. London, Jan. 29, 1.20 a. h.—It is ‘of- ficlally announced that two attacks by ! air raiders were delivere don London after midnight, bombs being dropped ; The communication just issued says the raid is still in progress. The ‘text of the communication says: “Hostile airplanes crossed the Kent and, Essex coasts shortly before 8 o'~ clock -this evening and proceeded to- ward London. Some of the machines penetrated to the capital, where bembs were dropped. peacé terms, in advance or otherwise, and so far had seen only abstracts from the address. Colonel E. M. House was a caller at the White House during'th eday and his presence gave rise to speculation in_ connection with the report from Europe that a copy of the Czernin speech had bheen forwarded to the president in advance of delivery.. After seeing the president, however, Colenel House said while he could not discuss their conference; he' could say there was no truth whatever in rumors that he was preparing to go abroad again. SPEAKER OF PORTO RICAN - HOUSE HAS RESIGNED, Jose de Diego Has Also Retired from the Unionist Party. Sam Juan, P. R, Jan. 28.—Jose de Diego, speaker of the house of dele- gates and the chief advocate for Porto Rican independence. announced his resignation as speaker of the house today and also his retirement from the unionist' party and politics at the un- fonist convention which last night adopted a platform calling for self- government in_Porto Rico, but under the American flag. 3 The differences between the unionist party and Governor Yager.were. com- posed today by a resolution which ex- pressed the wish for the successful administration of the United States government in the island. Steps for affiliation between the unionist and na- tional democratic parties were taken. § AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SWEEDEN Providing for Charter of Swedish Ships for South American Trade. . ‘Washington, Jan; 28—A preliminary, agreement has been reached betweene the United States and Sweden, accord~ ing to official despatches from London today, providing for the charter of Swedish ships to the United States, to be used principally " in the = South American trade. Some of the ships of the Swedish fleet now in American waters will be, allowed -to sail with their cargoes; while others, it is understood, will be unloaded and put in the service of the United States. Negotiations are pro- ceeding in a satisfactory manner and a final agreement is looked for shortly. A SlXTV‘DAV RESPITE 3 FOR DR. EDWARD C. CHAMBERS. Was Chief Figure in the So-Called “Florida Everglade Land Cases.” Francis s district at- ouri, today re- from Washington ent Wilson had. sixty days to Dr. the chief figure IMlorida Everglade Kansas Mo., Jan. L. Wilson, United Stat torney for western M ceived .a_telegram stating that _Presi granted a_respite o Edward C. in_the ‘so-called the third respite granted . . who was-convicted here a year ago and sertenced to three vears. ZIONIST FUND FOR THE RESTORATION OF PALESTINE: Has Passed the Haif Million Mark in the First Instaliment. New York. Jan. 28.—Officers of the Zionist organization here announced today that the half million mark had been passed in the first installment of . the Palestine restoration raised to meet immedinte needs look- . ing to the re-estabjishment of a Jew- ish, state in Palestine. Beginning Feb. 1, an intensive cam- . paign will be started in 400 cities in the United States to bring the total up to the million dollars desired before the énd of that month. > ¢ fund being |