Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 1, 1918, Page 4

dlorwich Bulletin and Qoufied 122 YEARS OLD Subscription price 12¢ 8 week; 50o -nfilm-ln- 2 Entered at the Postorfice a1 Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter Telephome Calls: Bulletin Business Office 480, Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-, Willimantie Office, 635 Maln Street. Telephone Norwich, Friday, Feb. 'CIRGULATION 1901, EVErAge ..iieccesrseesns 4412 1905, sverage ... .5,”5 danuary 26, 1917...... 9382 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The auoeluad Press is exclusive- Iy entitled to the usa for republica- tion of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and also the local mews published herein. All rights of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved. the hotels, the good restaurants in the clubs of New York any approaching a ration system on bread or meat on the five open days. 'Let him see if he can find one good restau- rapt or hotel in- which meat or wheat bread are not served on the two elose: days to patrons who demand them.” The purpose of the seciety is ap- parently to do the same thing regard- Ing the food qrestion as was done re- garding the raising of an army—put everybody on the same basis of eom- pulsion instead of depending upon volunteers. If such a thing is done there will be no one to blame but those who have refused to comply with the food administration’s requests. WARSHIPS AS ICEBREAKERS. Just at the prosent time much of the | JOK water transportation is either tied up or seriously impeded because of the ice which has formed or accumulated in the sounds along the coast. Ves- sels coming to Saybrook Point find that it takes about twice as long as usual to get there from New York and barges of coal destined to this end of the Sound -are stalled at Bridgepert. The same situation prevafls in Vine- yard and Nantucket sounds because of the ice obstructions and for this reason much coal which would other- wise be available for New Emgland cities is detained. Down in Chesgpeake bay where a like condition prevails one war ship not otherwise engaged has been put and another has been assigned to sim- ilar duty. It is of course not intend- ed that the mavy should be utilized for such purposes and it camnot be expected that it will be takep from much more important work to render this service but in view of the suc- cess which has been attained there it might not be a Qad idea to use any others which are available for improv- ing these icebound conditions and aid- ing navigation wherever it is possible. Certainly New England needs this fuel which it is prevented from get- ting and if powerful warships with their heavy armor can be brought in- gl to use for this purpose they ought to *Right is More Precious than Peace” — e BTOP THE WASTE ON STREET LIGHTS. In connection with the coal short- age not a little trouble is being ex- perienced by the public utilities in getting sufficlent fuel to operate their plants that service of various kinds which the people depend upon may ‘Be furnished. This same trouble has ‘been experienced by our own gas and electric department so much so that it has been necessary to deny power to certain factories, to shut off all the street lights on a few occasions and to inadequately meet the demands for igas. +In view of this state of affairs and the indications that no great relief ;can be anticipated for some time it ‘ealls for the overeoming of every bit of waste that exists, and in this con- nection it does not seem as if we were tdking advantage of the opportunity for materially: reucing the number.of street lights for a part of the night if ‘not entirely. There are streets which are much better lighted than they meed to be for safety and protection. Half of these lights could be made to do without any bad effects in view of the existing condition regarding- coal. 3t used to be the case years ago that there were no lights during moonlight nights and when the “bug” lights were first installed they used to be put out at midnight, and certainly we can now get along without many of the lights all tke time and a half of most of them after midnight in order to as- sure power for our industries and a sufficlent supply of coal to keep the plant in operation for the meeting of household requirements. There isn't much sense for the United States fuel administration to ask people to save gas and eléctricity as well as coal when no effort is be- ing made by the lichting department. Inasmuch as other cities are overcom- ing waste in this way, why not Nor- wich? .THE CONVERTED GERMAN SHIPS Although Germany didn't intend that ‘we should get the benefit of their fine ships which had been tied up in the harbors of the country for the period of the war, their intentlons have been overcome, partially through their own actions and partly because of the me- chanical skill which has been display- ed on this side of the water in over- coming the destruction which the com- manders of the vessels eaused on or- ders from Berlin after it was found that this country could not be kept out of the war. By its treatment of this country as 4 neutral Germany made its first move to deprive itself of these ships. By smashing the machinery it hoped to so embarrass the United States that it eould make little use of them, but it is a welcomed report which haz just been made to the effect that while Germany has been able to sink 69 of cur vessels, most of them small ones, this country has put into service these disabled ships and they have been en- gaged in the transpertation of our troops to Europe. We have gained as the resnlt, in less’ than a year's time, an increased ton- nage of 500,000, including some of the best and speediest ships afloat. Ger- many finds now that it wasn’t playing trump cards when it thought ¥ was and we are now gaining an impertant advantage in the very direction where it 1s most needed. Though it didn't intend to, Cermany has piayed into the hands of the United States and the greatest possible benefit is being taken of it. COMPULSORY FOOD RATIONS. * Phrough the American Defense mo- ciety an effort is being made to gon: vince the members of congress of the nécessity of putting this country on a food ratiening basis, It is the desire of this orzanization to take this step before we are actually forced to it and with the idea of effecting a necessary and much larger saying than will oth- erwise be made on foedstuffs. In terming the present plan a fail- ure because the eountry in general is not responding to the demands the go- ciety sets forth in a cirecular which it has distributed to all members of the senate and house that “In our epinien the situation is a farce and eur food conservation 18 to a large extent' a « fallure. It is our observation that only be employed. This part of the coun- try certainly needs all the assistance that it can get. —— THE' ITALIAN OFFENSIVE, That the strength of the Italian forces, augmented by the British and French troops, is on the gain instead to say nothing of the acquisition of valuable vantage points from which the efforts of the ememy to dislodge them have been unsuccessful These efforts are being made in the very section where the Austro-German forces offered the greater menace. Tt ‘was by way of the Asiago plateau and the mountains to the north of the Ve- netian plains that the enemy has been planning upon rolling back the left wing of the Italian army. Apprecia- ble success was attained as long as the benefit of the broken Italian line could be taken advantage of, but time and winter weathér have come to the assistance of the Italians, They are now in fighting trim again. Their de- fenses have been established and they are prepared to do effective offensive work against the invaders. They are showing the same fighting spirit that they did before the debacle on the Isonzo and in striking now they are catching the enemy under decidedly unfavorable conditions. All of this is bound to have not only an excellent effect upon the troops at the front and the people who are sup- porting them but a decidedly depress- ing effect upon the ememy country where interlor conditions’are decided- ly uncertain if not precarious. EDITORIAL NOTES. It was never intended that horse sense should be limited te the beasts of burden, There is not going to be any very large number who are going to mourn the passing of January. More shocks are being reported from Guatemala, and if reports are to be relied upon thera are others being feit in Germany. The man on thé corner says: It doesn’t make much differénce what it is, the sacrifice is always less when everyone else is doing it. There can be no question as to which contributes the more to safety, the sanding of the sidewalk or the use of it unsanded for sliding purposes. There are reasons to belleve that the kaiser is getting more satisfac- tion out of the cold winter in this ecountry than he is in northern Italy. The Russians have no reason to be surprised that Germany is faillng to respect the truce. They should have known what to expect from that coun- try. Germany is reported to be suffer- ing from a sf¥Mage of castor ofi, but that will be better news to the chil- dren than a decision to close the schools. H ~ Those wha are sighing for a de- cided change in climatic conditions don't stop to think what a deluge of sprirg poeiry such a thing is bound to bring forth. The reports about interior condi- tions in Austria and Germany seem bad, but they are mot so bad as they ought to be to tring about an earlier ending of the war. The experienee of that man who was buried under many tons of coal in New York was eertainly ;hard, but it is a decidedly novel one in these days of fuel shortage. It +he weatherman has consideration for the suffering public He. will gradually taper off this eeld weather so that the great danger of floods will be prevented. The kaiser declares that he begins “a serlous and decisive year.” There can be little question about its being gerious and if we mistake not the de- cision” will be against him. . Russia finds itself in the strange position of trying to make pease with Germany, which means Germany’s benefit, and engaging in waplike dis- | cussions with little Rumania. to work Keeping the channel open and |that day she¢ was at our house, when relieving vessels from their muom\u told, me I was fat, she was so of the decline is pretty conclusively shown by the recent operations in which they have not enly driven the enemy back but if the reports are true have taken many prisoners and guns and destroyed two divisions of treops, any rea)| M. “Where've you been?” Connery de- manded indignantly, as Mrs, Connery slowly entered the house. “I left the office a whole hour earlier than us- ual; you told me you weren't going out at all” “Oh, John, please don’'t be cross,” pleaded his _ wife. “The awfulest thing happened—" “Happened!” ‘“Yes, and I've been out to Mame Benton's.” - A slow smile illumined Connery's eountenance. 7 “I thought you were off with Mame Benton for good. The roast she gave about your former robust condition was e hot one.” But Mrs, Connery falled to ee’ the @, “John,” she began tremulously, ‘Fm so sorry that I ever said anything about Mame's being thin that I can never forgive myself. “She called me up this morning shortly after you left, and asked me to come right over. At first I was a little oftish, and then she said, “Eliza, you're one of my oldest friends, and I want to see vou today sure.” Her words sounded so queer that it wor- ried me, so I said I'd be right over, “When I got there, John,” Mrs. Connery’s voice quivered with exclte- mwent, "I found that she was going to the hospital late this afternéon. She's been sick for some time, and that's what made her so frail; no matter what she ate or how much care she took Of herself sho got thinner; and completely disgusted with herself, that the sight of me, -contented and tubby, just made her -ache to hurt some one. I never let on that I cared a bit about what she said, and she’ll never know how perfectly miserable I was all those weeks. “l was just getting her calmed down a little,” Mrs. Connery settled herseif comfortably, “and we were planning what things she'd take with her to the hospital, when who should call but two dear friends of hers. They belong to the same card club agd they've recently been blessed with _operations. “What they did to that poor soul was pitiful. Time and again I tried to change the subject, but nothing would do those gladsome spirits but to exchange personal - experiences. How they did enjoy themselves! But poor Mame! “One told her not to be the least bit nervous when she started to take the ether. They both assured her in one breath that a person seldom died LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Why Should They Be Shown Special Faver? Mr. Editor: I noticed in today’s Bulletin that Governor Holcomb has ordered that all places of business shall be closed at 7'p. m., except &a- loons, bars and tobacco shops. Why has this special favor been shown to these three? Why should they be al- lowed to remain open until 10.30 p. m. to gather in the nickels amd dimes, and the stores which carry food and clothing, absolutely necessary -to the comfort of the community, be closed at 7?7 State after state has outlawed the saloon and the bar. Why does Connecticut treat them as though they were her greatest blessings? - ‘We women are constantly reminded that we must conserve food;;’ we must conserve coal; we must conserve lights if this war is won—and we are doing our utmost to do it Why are the sa- loons and bars and tobaceo shops taken under the protection of our gov- ernor and permittel to waste al] three while schosls, churches and other busi- ness places are closed? Bvery woman who is struggling to keep the fires burning should protest against this unjust protection and li- cense given to two of the most de- grading influences in our midst. We are grappling with the appalling prob- lem of a shortage of 35,000,000 tons of coal. Why has not our government shut down all the breweries for the pe- riod of the War? It takes one.pound of coal to make onhe pint of beer and it is estimated that the 1,300 breweries in the United States every year con- sume 2000,000 tons of coal. If the 190,000 saloons in the country had been closed, which it has been com- uted use a total of approximately 1,000,000 tons of coal. what a vast help it would have been in solving this problem, which has brought so much awful suffering upon our people. If it is true that this shortage is due to a lack of cars to transport the coal, as I was told it was by one of the largest business firms in the state, then why not forbid the use of a single car for the transporting of beer, so long as there is need of one to transport coal? Think of the number of cars that are used daily not only to carry the beer to the different saloors, but the etuff needed to manufacture it! 3 Is it not about time the power £hat be began to talk about the sugar used in beer and about the in used in beer, and about the coal used in beer— and let the women rest a bit? Tt seems to me it is the duty of every woman who loves her country and her home should protest against any fa. vora being shown to the saloons and bars, If theatres must close at 10, why not the saloon? One-half homr more means a greater opportunity for the husbands and fathers to booze while the wives, mothers and children are suffering from cold and hunger. Thig is pre-eminently a woman's question. New Zealand has ordered the saloon of 9 a. m. and 6 p. m. What a con- trast to Connecticut! The census re- ports show that the brewers nse three and one-half times as much coal as the bakers, nearly six times as much as the printers and publishers, mine times as mueh as the manufaeturers of beots and shoes and twenty times as much as the manufacturers of men's clothing. Is not this woman’s brobiem? Bvery hour that the saleons and bars are open money is thrown away, men are made inefficient for life's duties, the heme is darkened—all because beer | breat] is allowed to be sold. Saloons and bars eell beer, been contains aleohol, aleohol is a mareotic drug. which has been proven distinctly harmful. ‘Why does the gevernor permit galoons and Lars to haye three and eme-half hours mere to sell it than the baker, the groger. the meat market? ARTNDA C. BUTLER ROBINSON. Denielson. Jan. 30, 1918. Beliveries .. First and Second Liberty Bonds. Mr, Editor: The Liberty loam com- mittee of New England has received statements from a number of pesple that they have not received their first or seeond Liberty bonds. To the sub- peribers of the first and second Liberty leans this information should be in- e uesm? department has fur- nished the federal reserve banks with 3 1-2 cent. coupon bonds and 4 per cent. conversion coupon bonds in sufficient quantity to~complete deliv- closed hetween the hours | Lo t; that is, of course, Sy & They asked about 0 @nd about her nurse. They said that everything de- pended on the nuree, that some of them “"th.: neglectful that they just let eir patients pass away Quring those first awful days when one couldn’t even see one's own hus- band. They had the most rrovrd tell about Feisior chills were and Mame nery demanded. Mrs. Connery ingly. “You'd stand just as much chance stopping a Kansas eyclone! I dld gently suggest that the LeBlank was a wonderful hoepital, and my re- mark was just like putu:: on more steam. The one whe talked the most raised her hapds and murmured, ‘Oh, you p-o-or dear, rot that hospital! It's terribly mismanaged. y the nurses and internes make love nigit and day, and the patients simply moan for attention’ At last I hed an inspiration. I pretended that the phone had rung; it's in a little cor- ner of the hall, and they couldn't see me, so I on an imaginary con- versation. 1 spoke quite low for a while, then I said loudly enough to be heard, Y'es, two friends are call- ing’ 1 waited a minute or so, and then I said quite distinctly, ‘Certain- 1y, doctor, I'll tell them you wish her kept perfeetly quiet.” “T walted until T could compose my features, before I left that dark cor- ner. There wasn't a_sound from tye. sympathetic' omes. I in the doorway, trying to look embarrassed, and they tactfully took the hint—they knew that I knew that they'd heard every word I'd said. “They bent over to Kiss weeping cupfuls. “‘You poor dear, what hour?' one Mame, gasped. “Mame told her 8 o’euolck tomorrow morning. “‘Never! Oh, never!” the weeping ones entreated. “It's —Friday!” “I took them firmly by the arms, and got them out of that house some way. They gave me their telephone numbers, and asked that I call them when they can see Mame.” “Of course, you will” remarked Connery. “I will not!” emphatically respond- ed his wife. ‘The only thing I regret is that I didn't have a bottle of chol- roform handy. I can’t think of any- thing else that could have shut ’em * up!”—Exchange. eries on interim certificates preserited for exchange of bonds. So far as the department is advised there is no rea-. son why every subscriber should not receive thre bonds to which he is enti- tled upon presentation of his interim certificate to the federal reserve bank. Inasmuch as a holder of interim cer- tificates s entitled to receive -the de- nomination of bonds desired at the time he presents his certificates, it is not always possible for the depart- ment and the banks to anticipate re- quirements, and it may be found, upon presentation of such certificates, that the bank is not able to make delivery in the denominations required; but the department has abundant bonds on hand to meet all requirements in this respect, and the delay would be mo- mentary only. Regarding the registered bonds, those at 3 1-2 per cent, have been is- sued as rapldly as requisitions have been received “from federal reserve banks.. Dec. 15th interest, however, has been paid and the bonds are in process of issue. The issue is current. Those at 4 per cent. have not yet been issued. To close of business Jan. 26th, 12,- 272 677 second Liberty coupon bonds of the denominations of $50, $100, $500 and $1,000@-of total face amount $2,- 426,147,600—have been forwarded to federal reserve banks for delivery on subscriptions. In addition thereto, something over 92.858 “coupon bonds of the $5,000 and $10,000 denominations —of total face amount of $704.080,000— also have been forwarded. Total ship- ments of coupen bonds accordingly aggregate $3,130.227,600. Requisitions for second Liberty reg- istered bonds so far received total $167,222,600. These bonds =re in process of issue. Practically every requisition from federal reserve banks for coupon bonds has been filled and requisitions for registeréd bonds are being executed as rapidly as possible. Yours very truly, Lib.nly Iaoan Committee of New Eng- land. 3 JNO. K. ALLEN, Executive. Manager, Publicity Com- mittee, Boston, Jan. 30, 1518, STORIES OF THE WAR Speedy Battleplanes. (Associated Press Correspondence) Flying at e speed of 80 to 140 miles an hour and at a height of 2,000 to 3,000 feet in one of the latest and fasg- est British battleplanes, a correspond- ent of The Associated Press inspected the outer air defenses of London on o crisp morning recently. Few Americans have any adequate idea of the magnitude of these de- fences and their present high stete of efficiensy, Millions of ponuds have been spent on them and an army is constantly ip manning end maintain- ing them. A motor ear took the correspondent to “somewhere in the outskirts of ndon, ‘“where it passed through roads camouflaged by ehrubbery to a great aerodrome, one of the finest in England, This aerodrome several ‘Americans among ite most ef- ficient flyers, but it is not permissis ble_to give their names, _ Upon- the party’s arrival Fngland®s crack dare-devii flyer put on & “show.” This man, who lools more like a meek, wild-mannered drygeods clerk than a wizard ‘of the air, put ths maohine through a series of performances that made even some of the veteran fiyers who :Mch-d inim% helzv hold t‘t‘n‘eh' . Loeping the P, nose ing, hanking, volpianing to within a few feet of the earth and then t- ing the mose of the machine skyward for a rise at express irain speed were but a few of the moves this pilot went through with kis observer. When he came dewn the eerrespondent was taken up in the some machine but with another pilot, for a ride through the clouds and a bird's eye view of the| outer defences of this' particular part of Londop, This machine was a * * fighter, This type of machine mpunting 3 syn- chronized machine gun, has earned the reputation ef being perhaps tie most reliable of the ting plancs turned out by the British mannfac- turers. The pilot on the trip was a young member of the Bflg: Flying Corps who was to to nce the next week. The right hefore this flight he had b up fighting wg;.b German Gothas at a height of tween 11,000 and 12,000 fest. ‘The machine rose to 8,000 feet in jen "minutes. It started off the ground The things' had at 2,000 feet. Aerodromes with battleplanes ever ready for the Ger- man raiders could be seen dotting the landscape. “Batteries of anti-aireraft guns could be discerned here and there. / I .The flight around the outer city was made at an average speed of 3¢ miles an hour, over factories and suburbs, a great arsenal, a famous school and a town best known for its American colony. Up aloft the weather was typical of the Néw York autumnal day. There was just a hint of frost on the roof tops which made them show up more plainly than usual through the light mist. All was quiet and peaceful in an’ aréa Which the Ewesenu of the Gothas would in an instant transform into a battlefront, encircled by the barrage from the an- ti-aircraft guns thousands of feet ?n- After completing the circle of the metropolis the fighting plane slanted back to earth at 140 miles an hour. “That's not really fast” remarked the pilot. “In actual fighting we often have to make 300 miles an hour and the plane is buflt to stand that speed without the slightest danger,” MEN WHO CAME BACK TURKS CLEAN COMPARED WITH THE HUNS Copyrighted by the British-Canadian Reeruiting Mission, Bf Capt. J. B, Willoughby, Stationary Hespital No. 5, Queens University, The Turks have always had a pret- ty bad name but they are good elean fighters compared with the Huns. |#¥ This was the opinion of all cur men during my eight months’ service in Egypt. They used their own meth- ods, to be sure, but there were none of the atrocities which have made the Germans notorjous. Had not the Eeyptians in and around Cairo been so thoroughly loy- al it would have gone much harder with us, Their attitude was a tribute to Enclish statesmanship and good management, and in the hour of need they treated with the utmost consid- eration and respect the English and everything English. Prussianism couldn’t be- expected to appreciate such conditions on the part of eéolo- nists, and Cairo was the stamping ground for German propaganda. I once heard that the Turks were hav- ing an awful lot of funerals. It was considered wise to investigate and it was found that the coffins contained nfles and ammunition for the Egyp- tians. But thére was little or no trou- " KEITH. VAU! FEATURE pieTy Mat. 216 -~ Eve. 6:46 and 8:45 " IDA MAE CHADWICK AND DAD In the Funniest Comedy Singing and Dancing Act of the Year Entitled WIGGIN'S POSTOFFICE THE HALKINS l Master Shadowgraphists N ERNEST Du"".l.l NORMA TALMADGE in The Secret of the StormCountry Six-part Picturization df Grace Miller White's Famous Navel. CURRENT EVENTS I FOUR SHOWS ' SATURDAY Auditorium Theatre MATINEE 2:15 EVENING 6:30, 8:30 PRESENTS * Dustin Farnum in THE THRILLING AND AMUSING, PHOTO-PLAY OF IRISHMAN’S RESOLUTE STRUGLE AGAINST THE POLITICA RUPTION OF A BIG AMERICAN CITY. “A Son of Erin” - A YOUNG L COR- DAMAGED_NO GOODS. _Laughs Only. CURRENT EVENTS _THE BATTLE OF AISNE ble with the natives. We were making history in full view of the pyramids, and on the site of Napoleon’s first repulse. There was the old fort back of the citadel, and the main barracks just outside the city of Cairo in Abassia, with the crest of Napoleon over the main entrance of this imymense building. Al] the fighting conditions were very different here from that de- scribed on the Belgian and French onts. .~ The Germans made great preparations for that last attack on the Suez Canal. Caravans had transported their supplies and water, but they were badly handicapped by the trip across the desert. The sand is like so much powdgr and .the horses sink into it up to their knees. The Australian light horse came in ~¥e- hind the mountains and made a flank attack, and the rest of our forems met. the enemy on the front. routed them and fol'owed them until they could go no further for lack of wa- ter. This was the last big battle of any acount. Since then there have been only a few skirmishes and raids. Part of the time I was at Cairo, Port Said, and at Luxor, at a conval- escence home on the Nile about 300 miles north of Cairo. And there the casualties came in—British, Austral- ians and New Zealanders, and among them I was particularly interested in the Maoris, an Australian troop, short, dark chaps, very pleasant and intelligent. GLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES The kidnapping .of Carl Minster has caused a sensation in Holland, where great indignation is felt at the method adopted by the Germans to remove from Holland a man who was incon- venient to their espionage sérvice. Minster, a revolutionary socialist, has been for some time in Amsterdam, where he established and edited the propaganda newspaper Der , Kampf which was printed ir Gérman. I heard him lecture last August before a large audience of German deserters in Am- sterdam on “Three Years of War.” He was a vigorous critic of Prussian mili- tarism, and through his newspaper he endeavored to warn escaped Ge:mans against the machinations of the in- numerable male and female German spies who were always on the lookout | for opportunities to recapture desert- ers. He has now himself fallen a vic- tim to a German plot. Minster received a repoft that a let- ter would be handed him at Kerkrade, in Limburg, in the name of the.Ger- man minority sogialist leader, Herr Haase. Ten minutes’ walk from Ker- krade station a house adjoins a bridge over the brook which formeé the fron- tier between Holiand and Germany. The bridge is shut off by a boarding, through the door of which enly one person is allowed to enmter at a time. The frontier is unrecognizable, and it is not known even to the people of the locality whether half the bridge is in Holland afd half in Germany, or whether the whole belongs to Germany or to Holland. As soon as Minster had passed through the boarding he was attacked first by one man and after- wards by four other men. He resisted with all his might, but was overpow- ered, dragged to the German guard, and conveyed the same day to Beria. As Minster is an American ¢itisen, baving been naturalized 12 yéars ago, it seems probable that his abdnetion will lead to diplomatic intervention. I hear that the Dutch authorities are paying serious attention to the matter. —London Times. Speaking at the Alexander theatre, Petrograd, Dec. 22, in celebration of the armistice, Trotsky said: #We did not overthrow the ¢zar and the bourgeojsie in order to fall on our knees before the German kaiser and beg for peace. If we are offered un- acceptable conditions which are op- posed to the bases of our revelution we shall lay the corditions before the constituept assembly say De- cide!" If the constituent assembly agrees to the conditidns then the Max- imalist party will leaye the constityent assembly and say ‘Find another party to siza!’ 3 “We summon all te a holy war against imperialikm in ajl eountries. If owing to our ecomomic ruin we are unable to fight and are obliged to re- nounee the struggle for our ideals, we will tell our foreign comrades that the struggle for our ideals has not ended, but is only postponed, ag was the case in 1905 when crushed by the czar we did not end the struggle with egatism, but only deferred it. We are now nearer to the Frepch and Britigh peo- ples than hefore.” The military committee has ordered the immediate stoppage of defensive works, buildings, eic., within the Rus- sian front, or which military engineers, the field eonstruction department, and similar branches are éengaged. Tocal workmen will be pald off and will be sent to their homes.. The technical staffs will be disbanded. Unfinished defensive works will be laft in thelr present state. Completsd bduildings and surplus materials will be handed over to the loeal Boviets.—Reuter, in Liondon Times. —_— The Colpgne Gazetts turme to laber, and declares that “revolution is kneck- ing at BEngland’s doors.” It is argus that there j8 great anxiety about the permanence . of conmmhx and great disappointment at the lure of the calculation that British labor, without taking mueh part in the fighting, would share with the ecapitalists” the speils taken from the Germans. The Cologne Gazette eontinues: England’s trade has always had an upward movement after every war. | But what has happened this time? In spite of the most desperate efforts— efforts in which every part of the na- tion was ultimately involved—the aim eould. not be achieved, and the pros- pects at the end of 1917 are gloomier than ever before. The enemy could not be beaten. The working classes, who in the mass have observed an ex- traordinarily patriotic attitude, had, Instead of gaining, to -stake more and more. First they lost the:r rights,.then they lost their profits, and they had to glve their own flesh and bloed for military service, and they had to put up with restrictions on all sides and with the profiteering of the food deal- ers. The munitions legislation of 19% was the beginning, and the economy edicts of the autumr of 1917 are the last stage—for the present. The English character is tough, very patient, but absolutely determined when once it has arrived at certain conclusions. The dreams of interna- tional socialism are a matter of su- preme indifference to the English workman. But he feels in his own person that his position has deteriorat- ed from month to month. The soldiers returning from the front will find among their fathers and their brothers a ferment of which there could be no question 18 months ago. The Cologne Gazette says that no- body, even in'England, can define the existing system of government. It re- views developments during the war, and, after making adroit use of news- paper quotations about the “loss of freedom,” proceeds: The cabinet gives no regular ac- count to parllament, does not cbpsult the party leaders, and hardly answers the questions that are put. It governs Bngland by means of a new bureau- cratic machine, which interferes in everything, controls everythin, and is itself as good as free from parliamen- tary control. At the head of every- thing is the influence of the prime minister, Lloyd George, who, of course, will disappear at the moment when parliament succeeds in recovering its lost power. Lloyd George has tried to strengthen himseif by an electoral re-. form which greatly increases the num- ber of the voters, %ut this is a double- edged weapon. Of the new votes as many will go agaffist him as for him, as soon as the country bas had its eyes opened to the amount of freedom which it hae saerificed without getting the politica] and military successes which Lloyd George promised a year ago. As to this we must never lose sight of a point which the English do not bring Qut into the light—the fact that th ewholeeconomic system af the gountry, its business, its shipping, and its shipbuilding, was most closely link- ed up with the former method of gov- ernment. An interesting service ioow place Jan. 10 at the historic St. John's church, Clerkenwell, when the Knights ef St John of Jerusalem returned thanks for the recapture of the Hely City. The Duke of Connaught,. as grand prior of the order in Fngland, was present, and the sermon_was preached by the Archbishop of Yerk, the prelate. 'All that remain ef the tamous Priory of the Knights Hospi- taliers are the choir and crypt ef %t. John's and the gatehouse, now known a8 Bt. John's. Gate. . Scotsmen shoyld have a particular interest in Finland's declaration of in- dependence, for many of the principal families’ in the new Republic bear names of purely Scottish origin — Ramsay, Douglas, Fraser, Montgom- ery, Hamilton, and the like. The rea- son for this is that hundreds of Seots fought under the banner of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden during the Thirty Years -War, and many, gaining dis- tinetion on the battlefield, elected to remain in their adopted country, and settled in Sweden and Finland — then united—founding the families Which today form a great part of the aris- tocracy of the two countries, The Austrian Court has an interest in German New Guinea, to which, though it has been annexed to Austra- -London Chronitle. TODAY AND SATURDAY BAB’S . MATINEE IDOL . ANOTHER OF THE FAMOUS “SUB-DEB"” STORIES Latest War News - in Hearsi-Pathe Weekly BIG V. COMEDY S————————r——e———— lia for more than three vears, the Kaiser has just appointed Privy Coun- cillor ‘Haber as Governor. The chief port of the German part of the great island js Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, and here for many years dweit a man with a history of hjs own, and a knowledse of still more of other people’s, the his- tory of the Austrian Court and its tragedi His name is, if he still lives, Baron del'Abaco. To the ordin- ary person he was simply a handsome, stalwart tobacco planter, with much German efficiency in his metnods. But the tobaceo planter’s life was linked with that of the Orown Prince Rudolf of evil memory and terrible fate, and with that of the Archduke John Salva- tor, who became Johann Orth—and vanished, ~Baron dt'Abaco was a captain of the Imperial Guard at the Royal Palace jn Berlin at the time of ‘the Crown Prince's death; he was on duty on the night that the Archduke disappeared. What he knew he would not tell. He was banished and his estates confiscated, He went to New Guinea, lived a planter's life with his dark secrets locked in his heart, -But he could entertain an English M. P, and from the latter comes the story. The North Sea has never been so productive ag now, savs a “Daily Cronicle expert. The inference is that the restriction of fishinz has per- mitted an unchecked multiplication of fish. When we reflect that an eel may producde 11 millions of eggs, a cod or turbot nine millibn, a Whiting 60,000, a hormng from 5,000 to 50,000 eggs in a seascn, the case for fish prosperity fr. 2 time of freédom of the ceas from trawlers may see establisied. But the rule of lifé is much more com- plex than that. All fishes muitiply to- gether in similarly faverable condi- tiens, and great flsh eat little fish. — ‘London Chroniele. —— 1t there is one thing in Connecticut court procedure more which invites criticism}it is in the re- lations of the city and town courts with the common pleas court, criminal side. Appeals are taken from the minor tribunals to this county court. ! They aré encouraged alike by lawyers hungry for every case which goes up. No matter How regular the procedure, no mattér how just the sentence, no matter how frivolous the ground of appeal, up disorderly house-laws. The purpose of this appeal is not to secure jus- tice, but, in nine cases out of tem, to thwart justice. Such thwarting is not always syceessful, but it is in some cases, because witnesses have a way of disappearing and prosecutors are net as watchful of the public welfare as in the lower courts, after thinking over the case for a month. Now the | to deal with these cases is to | make the puniehment much heavier in | way the upper court when it is found that there is no honest ground for appeal. The gltyation is not a pleasant one to contemplate. discredits the courts, and like all sich things, it should be cut out by vigor- ous .actiop.—Bridgeport Telegram. e It is a cheerful prospect to live in the center of a city of Meriden's size and he without water service from New Years to thi some other date o dar still to be dete Faet is, transportation has busted @own in Meriden's water delivery fol- lowing the fashion of .the nation's tronbles with coal, Streets have been out down end mains left exposed to frost. The worst cases have frozem regularly and brofight both complaints atid expense of thawing to succes- sive regimes of water administration, Too busy laying new mains, building reservoirs, lack of funds and lack of mefl have ‘been the standard ex- ‘cuses. Perhaps the exaggerated weather obstacles of the past month have hit a few more services and tied up the bad spots so tight that the bucket drill three times a day has become a routine. Tt is no credit to a city that is fussy to shut off delingu- ent buyers of water on thirty dayy notice that it falls down on furnishing its ewn service amd throws up iis hands cen the score of expense and lack of ‘equipment and susgests wait- ing patiently for ' spring.—Meriden Journal. 2 the spring calen- In the-Straits Setlements a war tax produced £350,000 and “Our Day” £111,341- Both gums have been remit- ted to En:llnd./ TS z than another | goes the case if it involves | a violation of the liguor, gambling or | It is a procedure whigh Ides of March or | ined by Nature. |