Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 4, 1918, Page 1

GERMAN TROOPS HAVE CEASED THEIR INVASION huwmhAmmmnc.mnamfiquf Russian infantry—Attacks Have Been Made by the Ger- t the enm-fifln. .elu.llt ;..,.m‘a., Bolsheviki Realized That Any Further Delay Would be vice between Norway and. the United | States will be started whenever the American government granta i AR;rn.Lsnv IN ACTION ALONG AMERICAN SECTOR. Germans Are Trying to Punish Amer- icans’ With a = Deluge of Shells. With the American Army in France, March 2—(By The Associated: Press). —There has heen extraordinary antil- lery activity along the American on the Toul front since yesterday’s At- tack was repuised. The enemy, appa Palish Deputy’ Von Trampszinski As- sérted That Poland is . ed'Worse Than an Enemy Country. London, Saturday, March 2. — The German Boverment's “infamous war policy” was assailed in the reichstag in ‘the course of Iriday's debate by Herr Vogtherr, an_Independent So- r y clalist, according to Berlin advices sent from Amsterdam by the Reuter cor- vespondent’ there, Japan' _Whether the Germans Enter Petro- grad—Ready for Any Eventuality. Ko/ GoVERNWE AR Attitude Rome, Saturday, it not sflf!fprr‘leuu : coucm!m . March' 2.\ — “The government at Tokio will act ener- getieally , but it is impossibié to say in what way, have the enemy know anything of its plans” General Semiba of the Jap- anese army is guoted here as declar- TM.’ unvlmuam Hong Kong)| Jocm Club disasts fl' 3 Saving of ‘corn “so that vast sup- plies may be sent to the Allies was urged hy Food Admlnhmwr Hoover. ITS PLANS Am-nu s nbm] to Japan must have Yised by a Japanese. diplo. :nn.ue or. Cousular.officer in- this coun- Ty, 'Depends Upon The names of four American gassed, one serously ill and one Who died was contained in the Canadian casualties list. o Food Administrator Hoover ruled that near-beer makers can only use 30 per cent of the materials used last year. being ‘desired to The National War Savings Commit- tee of Now York announces that New York's. quota of $5,000 000 WIA ex- Roshctmn Has Been Tomporafl'iy Sumnded Food Admmstratmn ' N AN INCREASE IN THE MEAT PRODU mans in Various Sectors Along the French Front—No | ontiv angered by his failure, is <rying = Nb’ Motal. Canduesta: e e s LB ot |oseded. Wh“" B“t Hlicre 1s Mo Tntonhon ;o o “ i . .. ' | punish the American troops ) e 5 3 3 ali > Further Fighting Has Been Reported in the Positions fltuge o shells, but hot moch damage EhEhadenmag qlimebumiie aot il Ready For Any Eventuality. The Kaiser summoned represent. strictions Already in Force Against the Use of “’!‘"r‘ “Japan's attitude; continued the gen- eral M the interyal, depends upon the eneniy's action—whether the Germans enter ePtrograd and, should they do so, whether they will stop thebe or in- vade, even without military action, the remainder of eastern Russia under the pretext of re-establishing order and organizing supplies. and thus.reacn Si- b apan, the general _declared, atives of the reigning families in Ger- many fo call at the. Great Head- quarters. and friendship = with Russia” Herr Vogtherr. declared. “In"the case of the Ukraine peace Germany and Aus- | tria_already are quarrelling over the booty. The war we -now. are waging in_defenseless Russia serves only the propertied. elasses of the disputed ter- ritory. In Lithuania: we_have made no moral conquests. The Luthuanians ong to-be back in Rus of all calibres were counted along the front from noon yesterday until noon today, while many more fell uncounted. Some ten-inch projectiles battered towns behind thé American line. American infantry and engineers who had been cleaning up the scene of ‘the fight on Friday found some bodies buried. Among thern was a surk geon of the reserve corps and. a Held by the Americans—Priceless Treasures of Art in Venice Have Been Gravely Damaged by Teutonic Air Raiders. i TlnAlIl_esH:veMaderthermdlnaeud Den for Foodstuffs. It is proposed to erect a monument in the Island of Islay, Scotland in com- ‘memoration of the dead soldiers of the Tuscania. increased demands ' for bre these enlarged demands being ca to some degree by shortage in ‘Washington, March 3. — Temperary suspension of the meatless meal and Federal authori is at Detroit, took t Vi v ev ity. of the special restrictions against the Russia has bowed to the Teutonic|gation acceded to the new demands |giretcher hearer who was killed when| ~Not Allowed to Know'the Truth, '| Y29 7eady for any eventuality. Sl Lour Germans whom they | (€ 2P0 on “Safurday was _ anc | vals from the Argertine. It is, alt The Boisheviki commission-| While it is understood that all the g shell Hit a frat-aid station. “We arc not allowed to know the | DISCREPANCIES IN RUSSO- dian factorjes Y ‘0 dynamite Can- | hounced by the' food administration | fore, necessary for the food ems sent to Brest Litovsk have-sign-|Teutonic allies have signed the form-|" Another' German prisoner has been|truth. - The Fatherland party is pure tonight as a readjustment of its food | tration to urge a still further ed the treats of peace presented by the|al treaty ending the war with Russis.| captured in front of the: American wire | suing . a . bloodthirsty. propaganda GERMAN PEACE TERMS| £\ o yoootis 0 his. Jalos | Eonservation programme. Increased | tion in the consumption of bread Germans. according 1o an official state- |it is said that. the economic and lcga! | entanglements. One of the German|against foreign countries. We are | e e A - | Verdes ranch i Califoraia. & reparr | Meat production wnd the necessity for | breadstuffs generally, if' we are ment from Berlln, which adds_ that|phases of resuming. peaceful relations | prisoners taken during the fight has|sold body . and ‘soul to . the military |Pointed Out By Japanese Foreign®Min- ed in better health, He will reosain | Still -greater saving in wheat, it was |meet our export necessities. - litarr movements in Great Russiz |will be,taken up individually by eachlgince died. Among the German dead |caste. We are pursuing an infamous _ister Motono. there Andefinitely, Geclared, make the change advisable.| “Experience shows tht the Pave coased ol PN o who have heen buried were the lien-{war policy.” | The suspension is made effective for |sumption of breadstuffs is in 1t was reported on Saturday by the hile rlin says at the German tenant and captain leading the attack.| At this point the vice president call- ndon, Mar associated with the consumption ased, —On his_speech ar| Thy _|an_ indefinite -period; znd probably it Bolshevik commissioners that they |invasion has ce Austrian tro0ps| The latter was taken from the Ameri- |ed the speaker fo order hut he in- |Tokia on February 24 in reply to in- | borsuloc haimicion G0 ational Tu- | Wil last for three months or longer. |meat. For varioas reasons our were about to sign the treaty. Thie|have occupied three mora towns - in|ean’ wire entanglements. - On his body |eisted on continuing his speech. terpretations of representatives, more members was indorsed by Sur- |, Since all restrictions on consump-|piles of meat for 3 meport was telegraphed to Lenine and | Ukraine and have captured three divi-|was found a complet.,\,iu of the| “High wages in the munitions in- |count Motono, thx Japanese foreign!geon-General Gorges. tion of mutton and iamb had - been | months ‘are Urwd!hwll"“ww{th e Trotzky after the delegaies sent to|sions of Russian infantry, as well as|American position. Gustry,” Herr Vogtherr declared, “are | minister, is reported by Reuter's To- | ¥ gt lifted previously, the food administra- | we can supply the Frest Litovsk had met the German|the staffs of two Russian army corps.| Gas shells were @ropped into one corrupt wages for the purpose of keep- ing workmen in good ‘temper in the interests of carrying on the war. The imperial chancellor has food sent to of the meat products, which transpor- tation facilities render. possible and at | the same time somewhat increase own consumption. In these circum- tion now sasks the public for the time being to deny itself in meats only beef and pork on one day a week— kio correspondent as saving that some es were to be found in the various reports of the Russo-Ciermar: | peace emissaries. There is little informa- tion available as to the details of the meeting between the peace delecations. Attacks by the Germans in various sectors along the French front have featured the official reports from Par- A navy base hospital made up of physicians, nurses and enlisted men from Leland Stanford University have town back of the American line early this morning but only a few cases of gas poisoning have developed so' fur. negotiations. It was there- e w i Tuesday. but the Bolsheviki sald they realtzed |is for the past couglé of days. In one| All.the prisoners taken By the(him from Bavaria thereby infrinsingforo difficult at that time, he poisted| oo (¢ War zone Increased meat consumption, food | stances, the food administration hat amy further delay would mean|raid near Rheims. the Germans occu- | Americans say they do not believe that|the law.” out, to formy a definite idea concern Government officials announces that | 24ministration officials bel}i\é\‘:v & tor et tlie - on PiiadE more onerous conditions and they [pled a small position, put were imme- | Germany can win the war.. They did Accused an Admiral. the actual conclusion of peace the Tnited States merchant marine | }SeIf curtail the use of wheat and fo would sign the treaty without further|diately ‘ousted byw.'the French. In|not want to fight but had to. % dincussions Russia lost by tha delay that ensued when Trotzky announced that the war. %o far as Russia was coucerned, bad ended. hut refused to sign the formai their assailants. Chemin des Dames treaty. In that igterval between the bresking up of the first Brest Iitovsk |statements say that meeting and the ome leld late last week, the Central Powers added mat- rially to the demands which were out- line.l when the now famous “Hoffman |was that line’ was drawn by the commander of | relinquish thro rman forces on the eastern front | Prince wxll.’nl ot Turkey was the beneficiary of these changes in the peace terms. The new demands included tha* Russin re- linquish the regions of Batoum, Kars Germ: been sent lnln Fit other engagements the French beat off No further fighting has been report- ed on the American-held sectors near Semi-official German and between the Central Powcrs and Ru- mania are “progressing favorably. of the demands made by the Teutors King Ferdinand of Rumania that the Aland Islands are being used as the base of operations. The Alands Some of the American mi been found THE SUPREME COURT and north of Toul Austrian peace negotiations " One Number of Cases. * Washington, Mar. -3.—The ‘suprem wn_to his hrother. Hohenzolern. e reported ro have e, and it |5 maid the customiary recess. fons it be handed down in a n-m of case and action is expected on the al general's motion seeking pel institute contempt’ procg!!fln‘l zn&m and Karaband (Karabagh) to the |are under guard of Swedish troops sent | Federal Jud;; Killits, of Toledo, Turks. These regions are 1: Transcau- | there. by agreéement with the Russian |for: alleged nlmeg af'a. casia and mark a o - | factions. eonrt vrdcr W dition to the sultan's in thay g ‘art tn-Ventee fes. sectian. of tho warkdh. The. dacteion ot |Have: Been-geavels; RAMREEL. b7 Tar ] Contembt™ n’ h:inhli Tha right of peoples fo self-determina- |toric air raiders, who, appeared to we. |ugainsb-Frank Hays, interniti tion was the pretext upon which The [ 1ect historie bmInGe ang monuments | ident .and other. officiaks. of new terms were added to the treaty. 1t is possible that the Bolsheviki dele- ! very smal. ED CROSS FEEDING CHILDREN IN PARIS GERMANS HDNE. Four, Rice, Milk and Sugar. Parls, Saturday, Mar. 3—Ons hun- dred under-nourished school. ckildren of the overcrowded southeast corner of Paris received their first” taste of American Red Cross food todav in the form of scientifically prepared sweet- ened rofis made of fiour, rics, miik and sugar. There also was a substantial bar 6f chocolate for each of the little ones. Doctors of the children’s bureas working in Red Crose dispensaries has found that the children, who includ- ©d many repatriated from the north. suffering oftener from lack of proper nourishment.than from fllness. Thes decided, therefore, to make this addi- tion to the daily food which repiaces the slice of bread and a piece of cho- “colate which wete traditionally given to French children at four o'clock in the afterncon. Since the war bezan this old custom has been abandoned |large mumber ot de: and the children also suffered through | ers, lnd‘-'dms an of miseing a hot mid-day meal because of | hin: their mothers' absence in munition fac- tories. Distribution of the rolls will ke made British Army in activity continues western front. In ! the enemy in one case made such a nature thal in the category of on ‘E‘r(dly night. Germans, however, Germans 1 pany heaquarters. In other sections through the oxisting uates’ club IJSSdElm streegA, é\'e‘w dH:\- school canteens. | Misk Adnis Matin Has ‘Abnounced | TO BOYCOTT PRODUCTS "fiféchflm Tondon_county:’ Saturday T0 SUPERVISE OCEAN 0 Her Candidacy. MADE IN GERMANY | as their targets, The casualties were on wwnw FRONT. Food Scientifically Prepared Contains|In Two Nilhh at Laast Ten Attempts at Raids Ware Made. (By The Associated Press).—German ! has attempted at least ten | | ralds, some of considerable size, and | an oper-uon (2ssinst tho Portufuest | The Germans attacked under a. tee- mendous artillery barrige front of three thousand yards. Th' tack and suffered heavy lossen The eame night a jarge pv.\‘u of Ithe vital parts of airplanes with light | by nine officers ‘raided” |armon “Tracer cartridges,” leaving u|at 3 p. m,.at the Bridzeport the Australians under. 2 heavy barrage | trail of smoke, are used to enable the | School,, Bridgenort: and micresded in panstrating to o com 1 machine gun NEVADA_\&OMAFEEEKZ" ed Mine Workers of Ameriea | 4 there are ' Russia; . ed violation of injunctions - on of the case of ma!aé?:h?‘ 1{;.3 SCHOOL HEADS ASSIS ASSIST Coke Company of e a, BOYS' WORKING RESERVE ACTIVE which sought to prevent umg officiald o ORKING RESER from ~organizing the company’s the ‘court having ordered’ the labor men to make returns on March' 4. DEVELOPING TYPES OF Franée, March’ 8— to increase on tho the last two nigifs Aetial Warfare—Arma lFol Uss i ving_Cartridges. “Pie: Washington, Max a heavy assault of | t it may be plamd‘ attack. This waa ucesssful de. use’ in today Dby the jwar_ department. - | plercing_cartridges, tridges and “tracers.” Buliets able to pieree steel becam necessary, when, in the early, month: }of the war, both sides ‘begam to equi; incendiary - car alorg. fad] in their at- operator tn ascerta ad end four prison-; tents of the enemy's fuel tanks. ficsr, were left be- Recent tests, the ng have WILL RECONVENE TODAY Opinions Will Be Handed Down in a Sourt il reconvens: imiorray; gecer cials, are also to ecme up tomorrow, SM‘LL ARMS AMMUNITIONS types of smal! aerial cludé armor Lriliiatt couster- | whether his shots are correctly aimed, attack drove the epemy oul, and aland the incendizry bullsts fire the con- announcamentt says, indicates that the United States has developed these types of special ammunition to a point fully equal or SENATORIAE NOMINATION | Surpassing anything used abroad. After another interruption, the dep- uty accused’ an udmiral ang a com- mandant ‘at Swinemunde of appropri- g confiscated ~foodstuffs, adding: “We must abolish the whole cf this Michaelis-Capelle ‘management. The Dittmann case (Dittmann was a'Rad- ical Socialist member ef ‘the reichstas accused in connection with the Ger- man naval mutiny) cught to give the reichstag cause for reflection. A gen- eral who,runs wild can, by arresting oboxious representatives ‘of theeo- ple, ‘decimate the reichstag.” Brutal Treatment of Poland. The Polish deputy Von Trampszin- ski declared Poland is.being treated worse than an ememy country, where- Under-Secretary 'Low!m!ud the .have done immense | | e i s 3 warkml’ of "Kultur i the way of school -ad- ior\ ate. He. admilted, how- “the, hnu;t gver, ‘hearts of lhe people w “Help o Prepare For State:Wide Enroliment. ' 3 ‘A’ miseting ‘of principles .and head- imsters of schools has bean planned in vm countv of the state to preperc for % statesvide enrollment driye for the Working_ Reserve which comes the week of. March 1sth. At these meetings, definite plans will be made whereby every boy in the state be- tween the ages of fourteen and twen- ty-ofie will be reached and given an op- portunity- to' eithey join in the produc- tion work or definitely furn it dewn. ‘Arthur” Howe, assistant director of the United States Boys' Working Re- serve, who has direct charge of the en- | roliment ‘work, has given out the fol- s | lowing schedule of meetings for the D & e Fairneld:county, Monday, March 4th, High Litchfield county. Tuesday, March 5th, at 3 p. m. at the Gilbert . school, Winsted; Midalesex county, Wednesday, March Gth at § . m. at the Middletown High School Middletown; Windham and Tolland counties. Thursday, March Tth,"at § n. m, at the Windham High School Wil limantic;. New Haven. county, Tridav. March 8th, at 3 p. m, at the Grad- Jdon’Vocational school: Hartford coun- tWo_countries Should peace be actually 'conclud- he continued, “it goes . without ving that Japan will take steps of the most decided, most adequate character, to meet the occasion. . The withdrawal of ,Ambassador i7chida from Petrograd is due to the-unsettied and dangerous conditions prevailing there. It does ngt mean a rupture with Russia. Regardinz the question af s separate peace. the fullest u ding exists with.Great - Britain, America and the other ‘allies. The consul-general at Moszow will repre- sent Japan after Ambassador [childa’s withdrawal.” GERMANS HAD M Rl ggémsmcm pnamou& Found Upen_the Body of “Prussian: Captain Who Wn ed. With the American. Army in France, ; Saturday, March 2—(By The Associat- ed- Préss).—A plan of attack, including | a map of the Amierican positions, in- dicating every ‘dugout, which was re: moved from the body of the Prussian captain . who led the recent aseanit the sector northwest of Toul, how completely the .Germans prepare theif raids. The map goe into such detail as to show every machine gun emplacement, every trench and every depression in the ziound within the American lines. “Our_‘Front Along ' this line are five shaded por- tions, each marked ‘“Nest.” Four rehearsals were held for the attack and the-troops who made ft were specially picked from new ar- rivals of fresh troops in. the sector. They were told that the were in front of them. After the artillery had nearly leveled our position, the Germans started out from their nests, each of which con- tained forty infantrymen, one lieuten- ant and three. pioneers to precede the infantry and five to follow it. The two groltps uponm our extreme right went around this flank and the group upon the extreme left carried out a similar movément there. The two grouns in the cevas had nlanned to attack directly, but the American de- fense changed all tue pans. When they were met by the heavy machine gun fire from our lines they saw ‘it would be impossible to gain a footing there, changed their direction, and followed the other groups around the flanks. The duty of the pioneers:pre- Americans, was increased by 399 seagoing vessels in’ the last six months of 1917. Viscount Ishii, the Japanese Am- bassador .to ‘the United States. was elected: honoraary president of the Japanese Socieety in New York. Captain. Eric Korowitz, who com- manded- the American steamer Roch- ester through the U-boat zone a yeear ago, is dead in an Irish hospital. Dr. John . Baloom Shaw tendered his resignation as president of Elmira college and it was accepted. Il health B & e S Miners of District No."2 mines of Dubois, Pa. United: Mine Workers of America, adopted a resolution asking lhie Government to . take over the mines. . the Jun- Bngland | Fire, Saturday, destroyed: a large one-story wodoen building at Camp Devens, used as a garage and repair shop for the 325th quartermaster’s de- partment. 4 Count” Czernin, Austrian Foreign Mii r, ordered ' King Ferdinand of Rumania to abdicate in favor of his brother or a representative chosen by the people. Five deaths from di American_soldi ported yesterday. Private Thomas J. Mass.. pneumonia. ase among the in Europe were re- Among them was Quirk, fowel;, N The naval tug Mariner was lost in a heavy gale, February 26. the navy department today announced: AIl her officers and -crew were rescued and taken ‘to- port. Joseph W. Harriman of the Harri- man National Bank of New York, sent a letter to Albany; protesting against the ratification of the Federal Pro- hibition amendment. E. C. Porteous. of New York, Sec- stary of the Seaboard Aire Line, has been appointed assistant to John Skel- ton Williams, directd® of finance of, the | railroad” adminstration. Three pullman cars, ‘oné day 'coach and a baggage car of a southbound the pregent there is no intention to add to #he restrictions, alrea.iy in force against the use of flour. the reasons for the change gramme, Food Administrator Hoover faid: compels him to take a prolonged rest. |’ Tn a statement tonight setting forth in pro- “The allies have made further and MATTERS TO OCCUPY CONGRESS THIS WEE'K Administration Railroad ‘Contrel - Bill . Has First Place on Programme. “ugfi:n, Mar, 3—Final. coact nt admi road tially. as proposed ‘months. wnmn two i on'a varied pro- ml;nzz ;itfl cohgressional activity this week. - Senate and hoiise conferees on the méasure -met again today, confi- dent- of early agreément. Before the week end it is deemed certain tnat the legislation will go to the presicent for hig_approval. % Next comes. the administration measure to create a war -finance COE- poration, which probably will pass. the senate early this week, fo be taken up a few days later in the hous Accumulating appropriation bills are to be given much time in both houses. together with miscellaneous army and navy legislation. The annual diplo- matic and agricultural’ appropriation bills are ready for the senate to begin work on as soon as the war finance corporation measre is out of the wa; The house is working on the legisla- tive, executive and judicial = supp! measure. Tomarrow the senate propriations committee expects to com- plete revisign of and report the bil- fion dollar urgent deficiency bill, wita several hundred millions of now war estimates added. Ameng the army bills which their sponsors plan to press this week is the war department measure. unanimous- approved by the semate imilitary committee, (o provide for the regis- tration of men aitaining 21 years of age since June, 5th last and changing the basis of draft from total state po some extent with a view to further de; creasing bread consum : “So long as the present conditions continue the only Special restrictions we ask are the beefless and. porkless Tuesday. “The meatless meal and the m- less Saturday are no longer asked® A NEW PLAN FOR sideration by the fuel. as a means of saving fuel sup Representatives of the fuel s tration left here tonight for New. to attend hearings before the m Service Commission there -at - the subject will be taken up as ‘af- fecting New' York city. The hearings in New York were called after Alpert H. Wiggin, fuel ad- ministrator for New York state, had called the attention of some fifty 1s0= lated generating stations in New York city to the advisability of turning over their business to the large central plants, Millions of tons of coal would ha saved, fuel administration officlals say. by centralization: The pian, oo, if executed, they say, would go far'to- wards relieving terminal - congestion. . and lightening the loads carried by rail and barge lines. “It already has been demonstrated, said a fuel administration statement tonight, “that in many iocalities cen- tralization may be effected without bardship and with a considerable say= ing. It is estimated that ap economic saving of $600,000,000 would be fected and the’ fuel requirements of the industries now supplied with elec- ical power cut in half.” REDUCTION IN GIVILIAN CONSUMPTION OF WOOL ulation to the number of men in class one. HEAVY SNOWFALLS IN MOUNTAINS OF ITALY Prevented Military Activity Since Saturday. HaVe Has Reached the Lowest Point Deem- ed Advisable. ‘Washington. Mar. 3—Civilian cons sumption of wool has been reduccd to the lowest point compatible with the interests. of the government and tha wooien trade, Charles Eisenmann said today on his return from a vacation ty, Saturday, March $th. at 3 p. m. at|ceding the infantry wa ol up | ~Nonon passenger train, Chicago - to|. vy, via London, March = 3.—|trip in the south, to resume his duties SHIPMENTS OF FOOD.| Washinsion, Mar 8—Misc Anne| Watérbury Branch of the Order of|ihe "opiing Street buyding Bt the | any ito. that hadikor taen Peokon ar| Lonisville, turned over at Ash ‘Grove,| quiciie- Ve Londom Mercy iess |no vie chatoment of . the istetif g i i L { Martin of Nevada, vica chalrman of the | Sons of Italy Passes Rasolution. | Hartford High School' 'Hartford. the artillery, while the pioneers who|Ind No one was seriously injured. | pross)—“Heavy snowfalls in _the|supplies of the Council of \auomu De-. arine Tramsportaticn Department | National Weman's Party. ht an- See followed carried large quantities of ex- Th E mountains along the Italian front)fense. il Has Been Created. | nounced her candiftacy to filll the Waterbury, Conn., Mar. 3—A resolu- | PHYSICAL REGENERATION plosives for the pur] mose of clegning up omas Farrell, aged 55 years, vet- || " tevented military activity since| In addition to reforms in ’!Y‘" and . - expired terms of the late Semm v.w. tion, binding themselves never to buy OF CIVILIAN: POPULATION | the dugouts. eran patrolman of the Pittsburgh; Pa.| o toraay afternoon,” says the official | trade customs, he explained, more Te- ! Washington, March 3.-Crea lands. “T believe,” she satd, “that the | products manufactured 'by 'Germany & force, was shot and killed by two un- identified mem; while he was"making his rounds ingthe Woods Run seétion. % marine transportation depa beaded by C. P. Doe of 8an Francisco, pregident of the Nort 3 ship company, worked wool is heing used.now i civilian fabrics than ‘ever hefore. fn ' some instances amounting to 65 or 75 per cent. For next winter, the American sol- diers’ underwear will be increased ins statement from’the war office today. “In Podolia, the Austro-Hungary ad- vance troops occupied Zmerinka after o short ‘engagement. When Gorodek was captured a corps of Siberiar crucial problems’ which - this mation now faces are probioms which worsen can help solve, and".which iustioe de- mands they should have a voico in solving.’ and Austria was passed here today at a meeting of Loggia Rogina Elena, No 222, Order Sons. of Italy. The resolu- tion declared that: A “To .buy Augtrian or German pro- COL. NOOSEVELT is T0 - LEAVE HOSPITAL TODAY Is to Be Attempted by the National Security League. Five armed bandits = entered the offices of W. H. Edgar & Con, a Whole- New York, March 3.—The appoint-|He Will Remain For Several Days at a " dered. An infantry de- Y Miss Martin, who is 42 years old, | ducts means to help said nataions to|ment of over 200.committees in thirty Hotel -in. New York. sale sugar concern of Detroit, and ::z‘)")::e;\luino nps - An Slersr. inderment, W Mr. Doe will give graduated from the Univeraity af Ne-|pay their war debts, and not one pen- |States to carry out .its idea for the after. binding. the watchman. - blew | S SHG, PR s nia cam: | dozon garments. 3 leation to overseas enipmcats. John|vada and Leland Starfor ro- {ny, of the Itallans; from now on, shali|Physical regeneration of the clvilian | New York, Mar. 5:—The condition of | Open the safe and escaped with §7,- | "7 n° MG A0 The Rumanian D. Flotther of Ean 7 3o, formerly | fessor ‘of histety at the Uni v of { ever be employed t opay for the ammu- | 0Puldtion of' the country was an- 200, Colonel Theodore Rooscvel, who for 8 to ger the. Nevada and flugh Luckenbach Steamship company, wil| thore be In charge of coastwise food ship-| She took 2 spec ments, and Harold P. Plummer of Los | bridge univarli!‘ former]. th the Union Angeles, ly Steamehip compsny, will co-ordinate the work of the food administration, the shipping board and the war trade board in marine transportation of loodstuffs. OF JU/ ONE AVIATOR KILLED, THREE SERIOUSLY INJURED AL Aviation Fields Near Fort Werth, T-xFAll British, Fert Worth, Texas, March Boston, March 3. given out by Dr. ~—One | Cracken, national dead and three derfously s | Jundor Red Cross, said that the merger Sundax's toll of (he spinnins Nase e | edded 500,000 new members 10 the ive ¥ ubocta] “trost line eantch S, aviation fields near Fort WA million exikting members of the Jum i Al the victims are members of the |ior Red C: Corps. dead: Mechanic W. A. Haves. in- Jured: Lieutenan: Bate: Lieutenent | Army of Relief Frank Flynn; Cadet Flyer E. A. Olr- this city and voil. GERMAN AIRMEN HAVE { United States. BOMBED PETROGRAD | MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR muzlfluu HiLL |- Wore Held ly the House Yestorday— ( Three Persons Were Killed and -Five Petrograd, March His Life -nh—-lvuhhfl;o!!hn ive Ezenezer. Hill 500,000 NEW MEMIE’R‘ By Merger of Children of American Army for Relief. Children of America Army for Relief with the American Funior Red Cross, & branch of the American Red Cross, was_announced_tonight. Crose and avolded the duplt- cation of agencies appeal children. The ds for sufferers in war etricken | countries has extended. throughout the efty. persons were idlfled and five| Washinston, ll h 3.—The wounded. The material damage was|was in ucdnnwflm unimportant. t constitutiona! law ers.” ial course at Cam-| The lodge has about 160 member: Tagland. i | s recomgandations. TO HAVE SPECIAL FRONT LINE CANTEEN SERVIC INIOR RED CROSS —The merzer of the quest of Army Officials. Boston, Mar. A statomen; |rmy officials the America Henry Noble Mac- director - of the | ron gy e oo i in quarters of had headquarters its work of raising e CAPTURES MADE BY ‘Glm. 5,000 Machine Guns. Berlin, via London, Eulmud. 4 ~The Germans: house | ing to the official communication” fror lay for memorial ser- headquarters, 6,800: officers and \'k‘ in honer of the g:le Representa mjmm 2,400 guns, 5,000 machine usapds of motor . v-mc}pn m mom ¥ ecticut, . by many| E‘n" i and :hmuuzd: of nition which has killed their -Lroth- and an effort will be made to get oth- er Italian societies here to pass sim- American Red Cross Acts Upon Re- -At the request of n Red Cross has arranged to install eith a1l Ameri: actual fighting on the western battle ground at the New England éivisional head- the Red Cross in a cable- grgm' from Major James H. Perkins, l‘nmmi:!!bnv" of the Red Cross in the GERMANS IN RUSSIA. 800 Officers - and 57,000 Men—2,400 British’ Armiralty per Wireless Press). thefr * advance |’ through Russia have captured, accord- nounced ' taday- by the National Se- curity’ League. " The work in the local, commuinities to be conducted by thess committees will be supervised by the league's general committee on physi- cal reserve, which consists of Walter Camp, the veteran trainer of athletes; William G. Anderson, member of the advisory committee of Yale Univer- sity gymnasium,; and Joseph . Ray- croft, member of the war and navy Hepartments. -commission on training camp activities. The idea of the leagzue is to.-have brganized in every city, town and hamlet in the country local commit- tees appointed by the mayor or hoard of selectmen who will form clubs in which. men and women will Ve in- structed ‘in physical exercises design- ed by Mr. Camp and his associates. Committees to co-operate with ‘Mr. Camp have already peen named in nu- merous citles and 'towns throughout the count $100,000 Fire at Greenwich. Greenwich, Conn.. March 3. — The residence of John McE. Bowman, pro- Drietor of the Biltmore Hotel in' New York clty, wu burned here tonight, olzg loss estimat at about $100,¢ Most of the furnishings and valuables were saved. The fire start- ed in the attio from an undetermined cause. E \ some time has been a patient Roosevelt hospital, has progressed so favorably that the former, president will leave the hospital temorrow and take up quarters in a local hotel. Her: it is expected, he will remain Tor sev- eral days under the observation of his ans - and, if his’ convalescence ues as it has for the past week, he will go to his home in Oyster-Bay. In the announcement made at the bospital - today: concerning - Colonel Roosevelt's condition the fear was ex- pressed that he may be permanently deaf in his left ear as a result of the operation he has underzone. His physi- cians added that it will be necessary for Colonel Roosevelt to rest as much as possible for a fortnight in order that he may recover fujly. 'The col- onel has expressed his determination to fill speaking engagements in Maine on March 28, /ané his physicians say they believe He Will be adle to o o, provided he exercises due caution. at Four bandits an automobile held up and robbed the paymaster of the Doehler Die Castings Company of '$8900 in cash today near the factory ionh the Western outskirts of Toledo, io. W. G. McAdoo, Railroad Director directed that the Confederate Vete- rans shall have special rates and no interference of transportation to® their reunion this summer at Tulsa, Okla. The Rhode fsland Utilities Com- mission approved the issue by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road of perferred stock to the amount Of $44 220,000 for the purpose of fund- ing. the company’s indebtedness. Capt. Albert Knox Dawson, a pho- tographer connected with ‘the Officers’ Reserve Corps, was_exonerated by a court martial -at Governor's Island, SWITZERLAND HAS CLOSED HER FRONTIERS Is Now Completely Isolated. — Food Question is Becoming’ Sericus Geneva, Saturday, Mar. 2—By the closing, of her. frontiers at midnigh: witzefland again finds hersell cjm- etely “isolated in Europe.. Meagtime * Germany’s National Debt. Sl iy iy Count- Von Po- vice chane mb- the food quogtion, especiaily as 1t re- lates to bread, is becoming more geri- ous daily. ~ The reserve stocks ' of wheat, ‘even if the present small ra- tion™ is still further reduced, will be exhausted within the nest six or sev- cn weeks. which trieqd him on a charge of mis- appropriating Gevernment property. George Von L. Mever, former diplo- mat and former member of the cabi- nets of Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, who .is seriously ill at his home in Boston, passed a comfortable dav ves- terday. but his condition 1.! still con- sidered critical. A favorable réport of the Senate ‘was prdered by a committee on a bill ‘providing nfahibi(lou in Hawaii dur- government declared itsel? ready enter upon ‘a fresh armistice prepar- atory to negotiations in corinection with peace parley= on the hasis of con- ditions fixed by the central powers. BRITISH EMBASSY IN PETROGRAD PLUNDEDED By Russian Troops Immediately After the Staff Left. Tondon, Mar. 3.—The Brilish embas- sy was plundered by Russian troops, in command of a colonel, immediately after the embassy Staff left Petrozrad, according to a Petrograd despatch re- ceived by way of Dusseldorf and Am- sterdam. Another report savs that the Rus- sian troops broke into the embassy while the British charge was still there and, ignoring his protest, burncd some dociiments and confiscated others, The charge, it is understood, made a pro- test.to Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, who Teptied that the government- could not he held respon- sible for the outrage. OBITUARY. James R. Graham. Hartford, Conn., March 3—James R. Graham, a.constable here for about twenty vears, ‘an active democragic worker and widely known among poli- tieians throughout the state as “Sunny. Jim,” died today, aged 72 years. It ing the, war with a referendum vote within two years after peace to .de- termine whether the law shall be per- manent. * At URGED TO STUDY THE FARM LABOR SITUAT“»‘ Urban People Requested to Render. Assistance to Farmers. Washington, Mar. 3. — 'S Houston of the department of ngricul- ture today issued a call to urban peo-.. ple to study the farm labor situation’- and to render assistance to farmeers Quring the coming crop season. =5 “If coldiers are willing to sarve in { the trenches and risk thefr Hvaz” de- clared Secretary Houston. ‘“many divilians can well afford to spare a part of their time to serve in the furrows and in the harvest fields. In mamn: towns. and cities’ there are men . who. have had farming experience, who ara: able-bodied and who would doubtless be willing to Serve the nation in tha field of agriculture at this (lme, —_— RUMANIA NOT SUB’MTTINB TO THE CENTRAL POWE' Kihg Ferdinand Has Conditions Laid Down. London, Mafch 3—A Copenhagén despatch to the Exchange Telegraph, Company; under date of Sunday, saye - Ieace riegotiations ai Bucharest fail-s «d, King Ferdinand having. refused conditions. laid down by the powers. Was ‘said of him (hat for years he was the first man to.put on a straw hat in the spring and the last to cease wearing one in the fall. ‘An Amisterdam despatch announces’ that Field Marshal Mackense:t,