Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 25, 1918, Page 1

VOL. LIX—NO. 48 Cabled Paragraphs Chancellor to Address Reichstag. Amsterdam, Feb. urter Zeitung says 3 chancellor, Freidrich Von Payer, will address the reichstag tomorrow in re- gard to internal affairs. WEEKLY REVIEW OF MiLITARY OPERATIONS 3Y BOLSHEVI GOVERNENT Lenine and Troliky Ready to Accept the Hard Pe‘ Terms Dictated by Germany - Tells of Increasingly Important Activ- ity by American Forces. ‘Washington, Feb. creasfng important activity by the American forces on the western front and the return for rest at a leave station of the mer who have completed their duty in the trenches are ted in this week's review of military s by the war department. renewed Russian t the Germans was the most important development of the week. “Hitherto little opposition' has been offered to the advancing Germans,” department says, yet clear what preparations the Russians are making to meet the ene- my, Owing to the disorganization of the Russian forces it is difficult to presage what effective opposition they may be able to place in the path'fo the invaders.” - Of the western’ front the review “While no major und recorded in the west, yet the en- tire front was the scene of hard driv- en assaults of a minor character. \"Our own forces are taking an in- creasingly important part in the op- MEANWHILE TEUTONS CONTINUE' INVASION ° Nowhere Have the Germans Met With Any Systematic At- tempt to Hinder Their Progress—They Have Coptured Numerous Towns and Several Thousand More Russian Prisoners—In Petrograd a State of Siege Has Been De- clared by the Russian Military Authorities—Rumania Has Entered Into Formal Negotiations With the Central Powers—On the Battle Fronts Only Minor Engagements Are Taking Place. i : “and it is not “Last week we recorded the par- ticipation of our artillery in the very successful thrust made by the French in the region of the Butté du Mesnil. This week the presence of our infantry ina very important area of the Che- min des Dames is reported. Here the patrols have been outside our barbed wire and have undertaken a number of scouting expeditions in No Man's Land, which were successfully carried t the time our detachments were into the trenches, er hostile shell fire; theless our men Imade therr way to their stations without confusion or It is useful to note that action in this, one of the most active sectors. of the en- The Bolshevik government in Rus- by Nikolai Lenine and Trotzky, has acceded to the de- mands of Germany and announced its readiness to accept the hard peace térms which Germany has laid down. Thus, apparently without hesitation, the Russians are prepared, in an effort to stop the inroads the Germans now are making into their country, to add to the enem: vast holdings more of Russia’s most territory, extending from the Gulf of Finland southward to the Black sea, and even to withdraw her troops from Finland and give back to the Turks what has been taken from them in battle. . The surrender seems abject. Russia is immediately to send a delegation to Brest Litovsk, there to discuss with German representatives the final de- talls of the peace and sign the com- Kronstadt and Petrograd. Meanwhile the intérnal situation in Russia continues chaotic. So bad have conditions become in Petrograd that a state of siege has been declared by the military authorities. Looting and other reprehensible deeds will result in sentences of death and all explo- sives must be turned over to the au- thorities on pain of the holders being decldred outlaws. papers have been suppre: orgais have been warned inaccu- rate information published in them will Tead to the arrest of the editors and their staffs. Rumania, cut off from her through- the disaffection of Russia, at last has. entered into formal peace ne- gotiations with the central powers, ac- cording to advices reaching london. Those past masters in Teutonic allied politics, Von Kuehlmann and,Czernin, respectively the German and 'Austrian foreign ministers, and Radoslavoff, the Bulgarian premier, are treating with M. Averesco, the Rumanian_premier, at a point near Bucharest. like the terms sia, represented Leon ‘I our forces now themselves very creditably. “During the weel General made a personal inspection American sector northwest He visited all our first Line observation posts, battery emplace- ments and other points of interest. “Our men who have completed. their first period of duty in the trenches have arriveq at the rest center. es- tablished at Aix Les Bains. “Along the French front the ememy reacted energetically in the southwest of the Butte du Mesnil. ter a sanguinary encounter the Ger- | mans succeeded in regaining part of the trenches lost last week. A fur- ther attempt in which three German battalions participated was repulsed. In_a third assault the Germans took e |125_prisoners, but the French, forces regained the lost positigns after a At last accounts the German armies in the east were giving no heed to talk peace, but on the contrary ware methodically pushing forward over the more than 500 mile front from the Gulf of Finland region to Volbynia and still with any systematic attempts to hin- their progress. umerous additional towns been captured and several thousand more Russians made prisoner. In ad n_nearly 3,000 German and Aus. Prisoners of war haye heen lib- principal Dot on o FiAgion is rapidly being aj notwithstanding _ the The troops here _are being pushed forward in -foréed marches, the desire of the German high mand evidently being to capture the port, which would be available, if ne- cessity arises, as a base for operations war vessels against imposed on_Ruseia, those ‘that will be offered Rumania will be hard ones. said to embrace territorial acquisitions for Bulgaria and economic preferences for Germany and Austria. On the battle fronts nowhere has. been an engagement of great dithensions. :On the Tine there have been several ‘ patrol e with the Frenchthe ags) st ‘the Germans; of greater | nowhere meeting Already' they are rtillery duels took place along the decided increase -in intepsity of bombardments was snow-covered vity all along the front continues violent on isolated sectors. The Ger- mans have tried to.outgun the Amer- icans in- their . sector As on several former occasions the “Americans retaliated with such fierceness and accurac; enemy desisted. entire front. northwest of | "“The British have taken over an additional segment of the French line. The transfer of an appreciable mile~ age of the front below St. Quentin was made to the British without diffi- culty or delay. CONFERENCES OPEN IN MEXICO CITY TODAY Concerning, Raising Export Restric- tions Against Mexico, 'y of aim that the of a fleet of ) LETTERS COMPROMISE BERKMAN AND GOLDMAN TO PREVENT DELAY IN FOOD SHIPMENTS oot py and Indian Revolu- | Railroad Administration Will Ba. Fur- nished With D: Washington, Feb. 24—Out of the xander Bertman and (discussion between the food and rail- ‘Were co-operating | road administrations oyer responsi- with Har Dayal, the German spy and | bility for delays in foor shipments has #fown a plan by which the railroad they were sent to prison for violating | administration ‘will be furnished daily drgft law, were made public by |with reports not only on th ed: Attdrney Generdl Gregory in amswer|for the f y on the car needs to radical protests against the im- prisonment of the anarchist leaders. tion Propagandist. Washington, Feb. 24.—Letters indi- e cating that Ale: Mexico City, Feb. 24—Conferences Bmma Goldman will be resumed here on Monday con- the raising of the States export restrictions against Mex- Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador, and Rafael Nieto, acting secretary of the treasury, arrived to- day from Washington, where an asree- ment was reached' subject to Presi- dent Carranza’s Salvador Alvardo, former goveron of Yucatan, also will attend the confer- #ices presumably in relation to the shipments of ‘sisal to Indian revolution propagandist, before the food administration, but for the allies as well. _Within a few days, the food admin- were two letters, dated Oct.|jétration announced Itoright, it will 20 and Oct. 26, 1915, and both urged |complete an organization to Berkman to send over to Holland com- | this information, rades to help in the movement for a reyolution in Indlra.l The first asked also for letters of introduction from |(rasion g “Emma or yourself” to prominent an- ro L archists in every country of conti- nental Europe. FOOD SHIPMENTS TO GERMANY HAVE BEEN CUT ; purchasing agencies will supply their demands direct to the food requirements will be reported by, regional transpor- tation agerfs to be named. : The daily report plan was decided on in response to the declaration of Director General McAdoo that According to Senor Nieto the pre- liminary agreement provides that the United States shall allow $15,000,000 American gold to enter Mexico and in return Mexico will remove certain transport restrictions mine products. Senor Nieto -also an- nounced the establishment of a credit of_$25,000,000. What arrangements made regarding the admsiison of food- stuffs info Mexico has not been an- nounced, but J. A. McCarthy, Mexico banker, who has been répresentative of the United' States food .administration in Mexico = City. 1| conferred today with the national food Mr. McCarthy believes that Mexico will be divided into two north and south, to facilitate the distribution of foodstuffs, and that boards will be named to insure an equitable distribution and (o prevent ould furnish all the cars nacessary = T move food if the food administra- By Northern European Neutral Coun- | tion would notify him where the food to be moved was located. mrent which ®recipitated the discus- sion, Food Arministrator Hoover had asserted that railroad congestion and lack of cars threatened the eas: with & food shortage and had retarded the administration’s -programme for feeding the allies. TWO ALLEGED MURDERERS ARRESTED IN CHESHIRE tries 65 to 85 Per Cent. ‘Washington, Feb. ments from the northern European neutral countries to Germany have been cut §5 to 85 per cent. gince last by th eopening of America’s ex- port control as disclosed tonight in the first annual report of the war trade bomrd. The effect has been also to decréase to a marked extent ship- ments of other commodities from neu- 24.—Food ship- administrator. Waterbury, Conn., Feb. 24—T+wo al- urderers wanted in Bristol. R. ., were arrested in West Cheshire, Captain James W. Goff of the Bristol police came here AT A COCKING MAIN |this morping with a warrant for An. tonio Carotuniti on the Near Greenwich—One Man Probably|having murdered Givoanni Luis Cabrera, Mexican delegate to the postponed neutrality congress at Buenos Aires, recently credit of $250,000 in New York to buy cereals for Mexico in Argentina. near- here, today. CASUALTIES REPORTED P BY GENERAL PERSHING Private Earl Woodin of Sherman, a Victim of Preumoni Washington, Feb!.24d—Among the Americari_soldiers in France reported 24 from disease was Private Easl :Woodir: engineers, Sherman, Conn., from pneus General Pershing also noti -|war department that Cadet Harold K. Buckley, of the signal corps, was ' ed in an aeroplane No details were cadet's father, Edward G. ,Bulkley, lives in New Yori city. Bight artillerymen were - slightly wounded in action' an Febs ruary 21 in a despatch tonight from headquarters 3 Among them was Frederick A. Sliter, i ingared agother man in the arm when a party of| The latter Captain: Goft recognized shot 2s Saturday Stanzione, who is under near Green. |indictment for the murder of a fel- low countryman in Bristol on June 9, At the time of that murder, one was out on bonds for the Bradshaw Bradshaw, | ‘was'held up and rob- £§ie é today_as having F o4 ng?— - { ¢ I i? i ) ] | ) ¢ i b | OUTSPOKEN IN THEIR CRITICISM OF. GERMANY. he'-Polish *Members ‘of "the Austrian OBITUARY. Edward H. Warner, ‘Hartford, Conn., Feb. 24—Edward slon of the state, died at_his home here t0day, ased 44 years. He was an organizer in 1913 of the Copnecticut insit company, which was to bave a steamboat line between #his city and New London, but the project was abandoned because the promoters of 1he reichsrath was expected uniess | were unable to secure dockage facili- -Strelitz was sudden. the Poles ceased their attacks. Board Meets Today| 25 Year Sentence|.:pazes s = TO FORM ‘BASIS OF RELATIONS BETWEEN-CAPITAL AND LABOR FOR PERIOD 'OF WAR The Subject of Strikes is Rogarded as Perhaps the Most Important to ‘Come Before the Conference. ‘' Weshington, Feb. 24—TFive repre- sentatives each of capital and labor will meet here tomorrow at the call of the government to lay down a basis of relations between capital and labor during the war. The representatives were named by the national industrial _conference board, representing . employers, and the American Federation of * Labor, representing employes, at the sugges- tion of Secretary of Labor Wilson, who has been directed by President Wil- jon to formuldte a labor program for the war. Representati: of Employers. The representatives of employers are Loyall A. Osborne, New York, vice president of the ‘Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company; Charles F. Brooker, Ansonia, Conn., president of the American Brass company; W. H. Van Dervoort, East Moline, 1lls., president of Root & Van Dervoort Engineering company; L. A. Loree, New York, president of the Delaware and Hudson, and C. Edwin Michael, Bridge and Iron cothpany. “Labor's Representativ Representatives of the workers are: Frank J. Hayes, Indianapolis, presi- dent of the nited Mine Workers; the Brotherhood of Carpenters; J. A. the Brotherhood of ~Boilermaker: ictor Olander, Chicago, representa- {tive of the Seamen’s union, and T. A. United, Garment ‘Workers, general public. nment to-take control of war in. war progduction. : Important Subjects. Besides strikes, other iiportant. sub- Jects fo° be dealt with irclude. b for waze dete: 08 to disctimination against union or non. before- the ccnference. as numerous. " Strikes and Lockouts. taken only as a last resort. ed throughoutthe war. What Capitalists Contend. cut if the limitation is raised. Capital asks that wage increases He reckoned on a basis of increases in costs’ of living, and labor asks that the following additional considerationg be made factors: The equity of the established wage, the question as to whether the rate was obtained by col- lective bargaining, a comparison of the' rate with similar establishments in which the rates were euufbfixhedl Equality of representation 'on ad- Justment board ,is di alike by by_ collective bargaining, and .a, com: parison with rates in other districts. capital and labar. Labor in. addit insists that if the mem! on #djustment board is unev. -1n’nunbv, the odd person should represent the ‘public. Labor asks that there must be good will and demands recognition by. em~ P{Oyegs n!‘ the er:‘?mo‘;; interests of em- ployes. It further demands applica= ftion of democratic principles as op- posed_ to autocratic authority in in- Labor further asks that whenever The [¢mployes have a common complaint or CAPT. DAVID ‘A, U. 8. INFANTRY. 16TH o IS OF GERMAN DESCENT | mén in- Canad wil e reviowed and Erdeaviesa to Risldnits. Evadeiriants L pn earend; Acministyution, suncubosd foundland During a BIII‘IdII‘Ig Blizzard ing Against Relatives and Friends in the German Army. Ne: rk, Feb: 24.—Captain David| Bituminous mined in January, 1918, PR AT Tnfamty, U, 8 | was at the lowest rate since September A., has been sentenced to dismissal|191F, The output was 59000000 tons f:am tf_he service and confied at hard |-sh g bor for twenty-five years by a gen- oo R oral courtmartial hela at Goversers| The Department of Justice has plans Henkes, who is of German|Drepared for the immediate drafting descent, endeavored commission saying he did not care. to | to jail. fight against relatives and friends. e Urged Acceptance of Resignation. Captain” Henkes, who was stationed - % at-San Antonio, Texas, last May wrote | Defense, R of 10,500 Barrels of Dry Codfish for New York and 1,200 | to the secretary of war, “;gn;lgl;fimh tg g % % accopt the resignation; whicl ad| Eleven. men were t in a mine i already submitted, and giving “easons | pear Crystal Falls, MflFTm” were. -Barrels for Halifax. $ which, he declaréd. would no longer 4 allow him, to serve as an officer of the|the others. 3 American army. “Further service as a_commissioned| Secretary Dai officer must sooner or later to Europe, and there bring me in con- flict with my relatives and friends, though for the time being my legal enemies,” Captain Henkes wrote. itish tramp | 7ard today, and it is believed that all |moderated somewhat toward morning,: father came from Germany. My moth-| steamer Veturia lost off the Atlantic|on board );éere lost. her commander, thinking he had | er was born here shortly after the ar-| coast, were landed by, an American rival of her parents. We have many | coast guard ship. i other relatives and friends there. I ——— Naval gunners sent on a special Sent Wireless Call. cannot force myself to the conviction| The American ed Cross at Milan, take me | repeal the: law , al-| they are on dut; Roanoke, Va., president of the Virginia SS| The ship struck in Broad Cove about that I am Capable of making war on|Italy, a great transfer point for sold- |the bow of the partly submerged ship|; % my kindred upon their soil in a man- ner that would become my dut; ‘William L. Hutcheson, president of % may not Lz required to under this T 'seriously doubt - to witistand it, and would 3 tet of my country, fal |friends, what at least e consefquences.” Captain Henkes suggested as an al-| by putting it into loaves of bread was ternative that he be given service in|folled by the warden of the Salem some_other field, although he express- | county, N. J., jai belief that the best vould be the immediate acceptance of i The surgeor-general of.the Ameri his resignation.. Was Ordered to France. e 88 Captain Henkes soon after he haa|De defettive ph submitted his resignation, was order- |. e s resignation, was order’|' Secretary of Interior Lane announc- nklin, Kansas City, president of Rickert, Chicago, president of the The ten men will name two others to represent in the conferences the course | The_conferences will begin, officials declare, with ‘the essential points of Jdifference. few in' number. The first| aim in getting the two sides together is-to reach an arrangement that will do _away with strikes and lockouts, and make possible a government labar program which will operate so that it 29th, 1815, | 55.000 acres of public domain in New | would fbe daybreak before the Sea|nalling for htlp and some had lashe Teeome necessary neither for the : ‘sener- | Mexico and North Dakota. moderated enough to make it possible | themselves In the rigging. Washington calling attention to s nor {0 commandeer 1abor 1o | the fact that he had Tesigned, and de- and ‘the: commanding oficer - : gouthern department had approved |' .. i i ¢ X o Mimn, &/ managing di- R i hin tettec horepeat- | ik Harild- Kiddse' Balkley |ddtn Stanhon Mum: A e TS given:. (o--the, necessity | BT um,&%‘g“.v%fi v Azair on October 10, while siill on|iN 81 arcoplafic accident in Rigland. Captain Henkes wrote SR another letter to the wdjutant gener- ; ; n h he urged acceptance of ms."f:ad‘{'“m]o\-m - oF-the Tietatio . resignation, and said he ¢id not find| < occasion to add to or alter the already expressed. facts are unalterable,” ing to the sel Zovern dilution of lebor, | AUtY it Franc union. iabor, -admiesion of union agents to plants, methods of adjfusting dis- putes, .rights of Workers to.ofganize. The subject. of strikes' is regarded as_perhaps the most important to come | iews “The un- False to His Oath. Captain , Henkes. was then ordered | guests. foundland officer who it is feared was:up and despatchei %3 the point nears to this country and summoned before o general courtmartial at Governor's| Former Premier Caillaux, who is in|manding the Newfoundiand forestry| The.crew of the Florizel included \targed | the Sante prison, charged with trea- | battalion, returning to his battalion, {one woman, Miss E. McHardy. i In the shipyards alone strikes have produced mofe than 600,000 idle days, swhich 1s equivaient in tonnage .to more than 75,000 tons of ships. In other war industries they have been nearly |Island, where he was formally with violation of the 95th article war. Thi# charge recited that On the subject of strikes and lock- outs both capital and labor have made declarations as to. their attitude. The national industrial conference board has- etated that dny interruption to production operates to the advantage of the enemy, and the American Fed- eration of Labor has subscribed to the same principle, but added the quali- fication that strikes should be under- port and defend the constitution the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; and would ‘bear true faith and allegiance to the same,’” he had written the let- his resignation. : ToNiSmens de : 3 same charge was made in conncction| Squaws of the Gold Hill reservation, | Murdo Drug company, one of the lead- | while she lay here a few days agoand - with the other letter. / bt Hard Labor For 25 Years. the ‘Newfoundiand woolen mills, were |for them to be vaccinated. It is be- . i ilty | Teservation when they did not answer | the Newfoundi: e ) leve & b T ceviiend Intor 5g mm-an:hteh:}unr;;;:tllflrx‘:;nl;iee::mév?:weh to the call of the draft. others on the passenger list. lieveq that at least twenty were de either against union or non-union men and this principle, it is believed, un- doubtedly will be included in the agreement. Closed shops will remain closed where it is possibic to obtain a sufficient ‘supply of union labor and no effort will be made, to close open shops; - althopgh 1 undoubtedly, will be given full rights to proselytize. Both sides are in accard o the point that all legal existingistandards for safety and health of workers should be ter concerning Both capital and labor agree that advocate-general, tives of Newfoundland. Three com- |ing passage and proceeded to Halifax sentence. of the colirt, dismissal_from | The caretaker of property in Texas DAtEVSE. O AN e the’ service and confinement ai hard | belonging to the former German Chan- treal and O. P. Belleveau of Toronto, | York, wioundlaz® and Halifax United States disci. | 375,000, the total income of the prop- B o plinary barracks Tort Leaven- | €rty, be put into Liberty Bonds. 1 e n their way home. ship Company. known - as the kD, Eauses, was deelpnatodias; the FpR ing while fighting her way through|ring Company, Limited, of Liverpool place of imprisonment, and it was de-| Federal Reserve banks and national |\°% “ Hy 16th Infantry, ceases to be an | t0 open branch banks under the pro- N i set- |schedule as she was fre ed gl o Februars 53, | visions ‘of a bill reported out by the|Fcks and at dusk her hull had st e s frequently us The report was signed by . Major | tee. General William A. Mann, command- o = ing the department of the east, and| Miss Jane Gregory, daughter of the ‘Capital, with the support of the g0v- |by Colonel W. A, ernment, insists that - there shall be no limitation put by the unnions on the amount of work a man should do, and labor, evidently willing to .con- cede this point, insists that the rate of pay for plece work shall mot be vetired, | attorney-general, was accepted for an |sailor., HENKES WAS IN TOUCH Of the passengers fifty were saloon | The Florizel conveyed the first New- WITH. GERMAN. AGENTS by e 4 and twenty-scven steerags. AmOng fpundlaréd regiment across ‘xa Atlan- i steal - | th o assengers were John |tic in October 14, - accompanying That Was Why Heavy Penalty Was The American imer Kentra, ply- |the on P Tlowed to see his wife. “Condensed Telegrams ~The, Food Administration warns. the bakers to obey. the mixed flour rules. An order 'to investigate 'the fish prices in' Boston was issued by the Massachusetts House., Red Cross Liner Ran Aground on the Coast of New- questionaries will be sent out. that meatless days saved 140,000,000 pounds of beef in'four months. pISHESLTRATS S7RE | CARRIED 78 PASSENGERS AND HAD A CREWOF 69 “The Florizel Was Bound From St. Johns, N, F., For Halifax | and New. York—She Had Pounded to Pieces on the Rocks | Within a Few Hours Aftér She Had Grounded—Six Bod- rolmmegiate sbandonment of thel. " jes Have Been Washed Ashore—Steamer Carried a Cargo ‘was ordered by the State Council of his | into service of all slackers sentenced rescued. Little hope is held out for e , 7 St. Johns, N. F., Feb. 24—The crack |ing hours. The Florizel would have | asked Congress to lned Cross_liner Florizel, from St.|to proceed southward along the coast ting aviators in- | johns for New York, by way of Hali- |toward Cdpe Race about sixty miles creases from 35 to 50 per cent while|fax, with 140 persons aboard, includ- | Gistant. Mariners ‘here think she ing 78 passengers, piled up on_theprobably put her head seaward to ride | A ledges near Cape Race during a bliz- |out the storm and that when the wind My | All the crew of the Briti 5 assed south of Cape Race, turned Five Men Were Visible. e train from this city shot a line across 5 a m She sent one wireless mes--| sage of distress which was received at the Cape Race radio station, saying’| that she was ashore and imminent; ierS of the allied armies, received four |tonight but waited in vain for it to be large rest houses. hauled aboard. Just before darkness e blotted the wreck from view, five men, t: Leroy Cutler, long prominent in tht | driven from the forecastle by the giant | janger of destruction. Her wirelessa boot and shoe business a civil war | seas, were seen to climb the forward |apparatus worked haltingly and soon veteran and 32d' degret Mason, died at | sigging, signalling feebly for help. But!wag silent. s Springfield, Mass. when they failed to make fast the line | Nothing further was heard from hek it was feared that they had succumb-|and as the cove is in a remote and: ey into the jail |ed to the cold and exposure. Those!uparsely settled district, it was Bot: five were the only ones visible on|yntjl late in the forenoon that a res. board several hours after the ship [cue party reached the scene. They:| struck. 5 discovered the Florizel lying wel im-ii Somewhere beyond the white mael-|shore and subjected to a merciless:| strom of breakers two staunch rescue |pounding by the heavy sesa. b Trying to get wi can army released from miilitary ser- reteamers, the Terra Nova and the| Small boats could not live im the: vice 600 doctors whn were found to|Home, manned by Newfoundland sail-|gurf and efforts to escape from the. ysically. ors. lay in waiting for a favorable |ship were hopeless, while in the ab- ' moment to send a boat through thelsence of lifesaving equipment, no as- 0 surf. but thoush the storm appeared !sistance could be rendered from shore. his | €d_the opening for public entry of |to be subsiding, it was feared that it| Men could be se=n on the bridge sig- = to approach the wreck. Gradually under the buffeting of the More than 900 of the 17,000 commis- ; waves, the hull disappeared from view he fuct that he 1ad resigned. and de- | sionea National Guard offiers wers | TWelve Women, Four Childran Aboard. | iies; the 0L dinbpestelt (oo Warl i M ) 1d-| gischarged for inefficiency since the| Included among the passengers were |3imogt submersed while men in the| juarlermaster | geclaration of war on German. tyelve women and four children. 4 rigging still ‘signalled frantically but hopelessly for aid. 5 1 ong the first cabin passengers were “gweng Sroters Six Bodies -Washed “Ashore. own8rs of ‘thie-liner, and his| ‘While the watchers looked on the thtée year old daughter Betty. They {hodies of five men and a woman came were going to New York to meet Mrs. |ashore. Four were identified as those | Munn and Sir Edgar Bowring, one of |of Edgar Froude, Captain Joseph Kean, | the owners of the line, for a stay of land Robert Snow, passenzers, and two months in Florida. Six cadets-of | James Long, a sailor. The other bod- | the Royal Flying corps, on their way !ies had not been identified tonight. & from Newfoundland (g join their com- | Meanwhile e ad retary Baker announced e |mand, were aboard. The body of one|made here.to send the Terra Nova, & e et e T Adthcimet: Fred |seaiing vessel, to the aid of the Florie| abuse the new law. allowing soldiers | Snow, was included among the sixizel, and a special train carrying phy- | to drink in the homes of bona fide |washed ashore tonight. Another New |sicians. nurses and supplies was mad ? + Fire broke out at 5:15 o'clock yes- colate Company's plant at s .llost was Majorf Michael Sullivan, com-:cst the scene of the wreck . i |son, has been ill for the past three | Which is now cutting ‘timber in Scot- jvessel was commander by Captain W. “hav- | days. He is said to be suffering from |land. J. Martin, a master of long experi- ing taken an oath of office in which, in(}’igesuon. e Captain Joseph Kean, one of the |ence and who wa8 credited with the among other things, he swore to ‘sup- o best known commanders of the New- {full confidence of the owners. The of ;| foundiand sealing fleet, also sailed on |purser, ¥. H. Jones, was. chief purser | pariree, undred farmers from ali| e Florizel for Halifax, where he was |of the Red Cross Line and was serying e | e B e o sal- | to take over his ship. the Sable, In|on the Stephano when the latter was ' | men to form 4 plan to stimulate food | Feadiness for the seal fisheries next sunk by the German submarine oft | = | it month. : the Massachusetts coast. Fo The | P 5 / Thomas McNeil, head of the M ness developed on the steamer | 5 ™ |ing pharmacical conderns in the col- |ull those seeking passage upon her B, sacn the warpath because sev- | ony, and Fred Smythe, manager of|Were told that it would be necessary All but three of the passengers were i terred by this requirement from tak- the mercial trayelers, a Mr. Stevens Ofjor New York by rafl the service and confinement ai hard | eilor, Bethmann-Holiwes, asked that|NeW York, W. W. Dauphinee,of Mon- | The Fiorizel was owned by the New The steamer stryck early this morn- |Red Cross Line, of which C. T. Mow- A h a blinding blizzard. Tn a few hours|and New York, are the agents. In re~ A, |banks in large cities will be allowed {2 > spounded to pieces on the [cent weeks she had departed from her tled under the battering until she was [by the British government as a des- almost submerged. > patch boat between this port and New The bodies washed ashore include |York. the usual stop being made at those of Joseph Kean and _Robert [Halifax. Her passengers have in- Snow, passengers, and James Long, a |ciuded notable personages. She was Snow was cne of six non-com- jdue at Halifax tomorrow morning and missioned officers of the Newfoundland |in New York next Thursday. The ship regiment who were proceeding to To- |Was built at Glasco in 1909 and regis- ronto to join the royal flying corps. |tcred 1,980 tons net. House banking and currency commit- 380 a month’position in the Food Ad- ministration. She told the clerk she had dependents, three adopted Bel- sians. > ing ‘between New York and Chilean |ShannoN Munn, managing director of |other ship: 2 the “original Ca- ports, has stranded near Coronel, |Bowring Brothers Company. Limited, |nadian contingent. Chile, and it is believed will be a|of Liverpool and New York, owners Ok gonhen Passenger List. ‘Washington, Feb. 24 —Evidence that|total loss. The crew was rescued and [of the steamer; Major Michael Sulli- L in spite of his commission- United States army he was in toucoh with German agents, Von Bernstorft's was working for peace at any price before America went to war, largely responsible for the heavy pun- | there being three victims of the explo. [and his wife, who were on thelr way »* Edward Froude, James MecCou, ishment imposed upon Captain David | sion. A. Henkos, sentenced by courtmartial at Governot's Island to dismissal from the service and imprisonment at hard e ; Maloney, wife and child, William This evidence was discovered after —_— The last six named were cadets of the 5 ; Henkes was brought back from France |New London Fire Companies Re- |Newfoundland regiment who wery,to Dodd, P. J. Fitzpatrick, A. Power, J. for trial because of his insistent de- sponded. to a Call for Help. have joined the roval fiying corps ‘at mand that he be allowed to resign to fininte avoid fighting relatives and friends In| New Tondon, Conn, Feb. 24—A new : Germany. On landing he asked to be | brick schoolhsuse in the town. of|buers, commercial travelers and Wwas de- | Waterford, a few miles from this city, [Umber of- women. e 8 nied, but he was permitted to tele- |was totally destroyed by fire ,m,g,‘,'l Major Sullivan had been here on| ¢First Class for Halifax: Frank 0 The passenger list of the steamer the | part of the cargo saved. van, commander of the Newfoundland | - o 2 Forestry Battalion; Thomas McNeil, | Florizel follow, 3 st z com- | First Class for New .York: = Aleo: contributed tofs G _ |principal of the McMurdo Drug com v o S g Smythe, J. H. Baggs, William But- | W ager of the .Newfoundland Woolen gs, oo nnerEe‘;m;n towns last weelc lzxm’l;s e " wiliiam. Buatler an_ architect, |ler, Fred Butler and wife, Patrick Le~ | vite, Y |brey, Robert Wright, James Miller, to Florida; William Earle, a fish mer- | Jrey, Hobert Wrizht, James s 5 | Johne) Be: i, rt SCHOOLHOUSE IN WATERFORD | {fiP; Fdward Bertreas, 'Robert, Snow. 1 lto , . tt. DESTROYED BY FIRE.|Ralph Burnham and Alex- Ledingham. |, Second Class for New York: Joseph. . Sparrow, Edward Greening, John Torguto: (vlg}slu‘lalo, VPVether Guilfoyle, Thl‘luill g e helan, William Gusswell, © Dawid Others on the Passener st o ' |Griffiths, Misses ‘Minnie Danief," 321 zabeth Pelley. : in” | which started in the cellar, presum- |Official business and was returning to Chown, Fred Snow. Edward Bertean, heard him instruct his. wife to burn|ably from the ‘heating plant. Tha|Scotland to rejoin his battalion which [Jack C. Parsons =Newman Sel all his papers. Incrimnating Papers Seized. & Ralplhi Burnam (cadets of the Royal i engeged in lumber cutting, ) m s schoolhonse was hulltfive years ago [T S0Esel It N e aasiner, ans |FI¥ing Corps). Gearge Massie, wife and child, Willlam E, , Charlg vance the employer shall - meect| Before Mrs. Henkes could carry out| Two New London .fire , companies [other of the passengers, was bound o E. Bishop, es s H. Miller, W. W. Daupainee, O. P.. respos for Halifax to take command of the 0L P8 e salected by, the swarkers:aa et the Gnder er’ fioine_wes emiered woi | T mdadto.a call for halp felephoriost o Sable inothe seal fistiery next |Bellevue. George A. Moulton and som, 3 e ti ofica® of the 2 & nt, ly had Count representatiyes. % TROLLEY CARS COLLIDED NEAR WALLINGFORD. Sixteen Persons Were Mare or - Less| Cut and Bruised. S New Haven, Comn., Feb, 24—Six- teen ‘were more or less. cut judge advocate general's these proved that Henkeswmot onl been in communication with Von Bernstorfl, then German ambas: |puring Fighting South of Jimenes— 1916, contributed -to. German, Austran Turkish funds and had been an mctive e pagandist. P Henkes was born in Towa in 187|1y announced in Chihuahua City today and bruised when a Wallingford-bound | and entered the army at the outbreak | that 278 federals were killed' during the of the Spanish-American war ae a|fighting south of Jimenez. The Villa private in Company G, First Wiscon- |106ses were not given but were re- . am Moore, John Kieley, Mic] ‘on- 278 FEDERALS KILLED The . Florizel was a. sister of the |, jiiv: Johm' Connoily, Willism , Patigi steamer Stephano which was sunk by tier. M Mich: BY VILLA FORCES |the German submarine U-53 off Nan- ||oF, Halor Michael Sulivan, Archi- ] it A, tucket on Su}jlfll Tnight, October 8, {)ch;‘) Sesdger, Wi"éemflhflfi. a!xml g She had been continued in_the ser- |- Driscoll, Misses Beaumont. Munn, vice between St, Johns and New York | Trenchard, but since the Uniled States entered |, Second Slass for Halifax: the war, -her movements had not been [ONE: A. G, Tagan, R. J. Fowler, o e s . orge Puddester. Gregory Mahoney, 4 John Lynch, W. Richard, Leonard Ni- Cargo of Dry Fish. chell, John ' Cleary, James Cre b Bandits Lost 300 Men, Juarez, Me., Feb. 24.—It was official- ockwell, | The Florizel sailed from here at $|H. Pearcey, James Bartlett, Charles Wallingford line of the Connecticut|ein intantry. He was made a corporal | ported to have numbered approximate- o Company late tonight at Gravel Pit{and then.a sergeant. Poelingford, Failure of the Wali ford-bound car to, walt-on, the swit for the other is said, to. bave caused| the coilision, Motorman Ashton Le- gates of New Haven'had his ~food |that men are allowed tol o'clock last might with a large num- |Howell, J. Forrest, Joseph Stockley, became a|1y,300, including one general and 4 |pord i ; 3 - Ewltch, shaqs (hees ik St ] ot 1‘:01‘. golorfel, “The federals lost. oix. StAft|Lo, oL, Poosengers and-a carko which |sll of St. Johps, and Ar. Btevens,News and in 1907 he graduated from the in- | officers. . fantry and cavairy. echool of the army. | Germany buy only five|by the Eolshevists, and the premises|left and it grew worse toward mid- |possible fo get aboard the ship be- included 10,500 barrels of dry codfish | ¥ork. and herring for New York and 1,200 Up to midn¥ht watchers at Broad barrels .for Halifax, her only port of [Cove reported seven bodles washed: ! All Russian and - foreign - private | call' between St. Johns and New York. | ashore. M | banks in Petrograd have been closed| A blizzard was brewing when she| Rescue parties said it would he im- bave been occupied- by troops. ©4'night but abated in the early morn- fore daybreak.