Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 11, 1918, Page 1

Thrusts of Serious Nature Are tente Armies and American Forces TEUTONS HAVE BEEN BEATEN IN MINOR ATTACKS . - Everything in the Way of Modern Warfare, Including Liquid Fire, Has Been Used by the Germans Against the Am- eficans, Who Remain Undaunted—More Activity is Being Shown Along the Front in Italy—Little Informa- tion Has Come Concerning the Situation in Russia— British Airmen Have Bombed the Great Daimler Motor Factory at Stuttgart. The continuation: of the patrol at- tacks by the Germans all along the western front in France and Belgium indicates that, their line having been heavily reinforced, the day is not far distant when the entente armies and the American forces will be asked to withetand torusts of a more serious Bature. jauged by the firmness of the British, French and Americans in meeting the ememy assaults in the past few weeks, and the feeling of oplimism that prevails from head- quarters staffs to the men in the trenches, a warm ‘veception may be expected by the enemy when he Jaunches Bis attack. -In the past fort- night from Belgium to the Swiss fron- tier the Germans have essayed minor gitacks, in nearly -all of which they Bave been beaten before they reached tie entente trenches. Where a footing luckijy was obtained the German ten- ure of the position generally was short lived, for counter-attacks expelled them. Everything in the way of modern warfare—even all the cunning devices af “frightfuiness” which the German mind has invented. not omitting liquid fire—has been tried against the Amer- icans, but nowhere has the enemy been able to dent the front held by Geyeral Pershing’s men. On the con- traty, the Americans hive answered | the German offensives with a spirit great bravery’ and, aithough they hive suffered some casualfies, they bave bade the enemy feel the effects| S of their guns. and fire. One thirg that has been apparent .in ali| the affrays that have occurred in thag strip of territory between the trenches known as No Man's Land is that the Germans do not like coming into hand- to-band encounter with the Americans and invariably give ground ¥n thel face of their vicious do-or-die attacks. As in France and jum, the ac- tivity alohz the entire fighting front in northern Italy is heighteming, and i here also the patrol engagements and the artillery duels seemingly signalize the approach of bitter fighting. Doubt-. less with the spring- thaw the enemy will endeavor fo force his way from the mountain reglons out upon- the plains of Venetia nad also to cross the Piave river and formi a junction with his_northern armies. Here, however, the Italians having been heavily rein- forced by the British and French, san- guinary encouniers may be expected. Although the yreakdown in the Rus- sian army in Asiatic Turkey was ex- pected to release thousands of Turks who might be sent against the British operating _in Mesopotamia and Pales- tine, the British commanders in these two regions apparently are unafraid. Both of them again have driven their lines forward, 'Lieutenant General Marshall having- captured Hit, on the Euphrates river, S0 miles west of Bag dad, and General Allendy in Palestin having sgone forward for-an average depth of between two and three miles on a front of 13 miles northweet of Jerusalem. Little additional information has come through concerning the sHusion in Russia as regards either Great Russia, Little Russia ‘or eastern Si- beria. Reports from Sweden say that a force of German infantry ‘and artil- lery has invaded Finiand, landivs at Abo from ths Aland islands. The Cos- sack leader, General Semenoff, is ex deavoring to put dewn the opposition of the Bolsheviki along. the Trgns- ister: he mit bas: in | to" discuss Jeot.ot Japan’s infervention in ria. British airmen . have saccersial bombed the zreat Daimler motor fac tory. at Stuitgari, where for o lons| asivs manutacture of adr- | i < ani | wera bom d wEich . Was carrie TO PROTEST INCREASE, OF RENTALS IN NEW LONDON Employers of Help Are Asked to Sub- mit Documentary Evidence. New London, Conn.. March 10.—Em- 1 i i rers of help who have documentary : evidence of raises in rent beyond what is_reasonable in this city have been nskéd to present this evidence at a meeting of the New London war bu- rean tomorrow. It is stated that the local war bureau has instructions from | the state council of defense to bring | to their attention all instances of ex- orbitant rental raises with the inten- tion of taking such action as will bring ahout a federal prosecution under the profiteering act against the profiteer- ing landlords. Due to the great demand for ren- | tals in this city at the present time because of the influx of naval men : ! and of workers in war time industries, ‘helping Italy ang her people in di¢- jdeatk, e described the final incident 1l sorts of places to rent have heen ®t a premium for some time and re- cently a very general raise in:rents b In many cases, and navy men “have claimed, these have put the price for houses ‘and apartments far beyond itelr ability to pay. FOUR MEN HELD FOR DEATH OF CARLO. GUARNERI Who Was Shot in West Haven on the Night of January 10. New Haven, Conn., March 10,—Four men are held criminally responeible by Coroner Bif Mix, for the death of Carlo Guarneri, an émploye of the Connecticyt Company, Who was shot ddwn West Haven on the night of under arrest, but Castigiione has of S e not Cortmer finds that they con- spired with Vincenzo Plezge, another employe = the Connecticut Company, to rob qu'anwho is “hen and where taey couid And Goar when Gua- they ranieri, but was not present when the | Railroad Bilt, attacked. man was ITALIAN MILITARY MEDAL FOR RED CROSS WORKERS Awarded for Distinguished Work on thg Malian Front. medal’ for has been to Major Guy Lowell of New Blakiston Wil- age o, | BUSINESS CONFRONTING f | Vienna that the Rumanians are efac- i &HE Bukowina- in time | the. | diplomat, died at his” home here at| DEATH COMES TO i GEORGE VON L. MEYEHJ “ad Beon Postmaster General, Secre- | tary of Navy and Ambassador to! Italy and to Rus Boston, March. 10.--George Von, L. Meyer, former cabinet -memiber. and LL15 last night after an iliness of sev- eral weeks. Mr. Meyer ‘was stricken in January | with an -cttack of pleurisy- and this apparently weakened him and. made It more difficult to resist the effects of @ tumor of the llver, from which he died. It was not known untll-a! few. 's;a0, however, that higs con- Pty e nlerl iy yrges Mr. Meyer's last public sppearance was on February 10 when he- attended |fr! a Si mass meeting at Tromont Temple, called .to’ discuss pians. for tress. because of the war. He, was' one, of the prineipal speakers, al- ! though it was noted by his friends that he was far from well. Long regarded as one of the fore- most ' citizens of . Massachusetts, Mr. Meyer had served as American am bassador to Italy and to Russia and| subsequently was ~postmaster-general in President Roosevelt’'s cabinet and secretary of the navy under President He was in'Mis 60th year, Funeral services of George Von I | Meyer will be held at the cathedral | church of St..Paul's in. this city on _Bishop Willlam Liwrence of the Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts, will officiste. Im rec- ognition of Méyer's services ic the navy a detachment of biuejackets wil! serve as active pall ‘bearers. Among_the honorary pall bearers | nator Henry Cabot Ladge, | Rear Admiral Leigh Palmer, President A L:ymnce w}}. of Harvard uni. Ph_!l.ll:p Dexter. ; g “fli e burial will be at Hamiiton. The eervices at the, grave will be private, | ! ————— i : Urgent Deficiency, War.| Finance and Selective Draft. Washington, road control bill about to President Wi ind three major taks at the head of its legislative pro- gram—disposition of the two fil?flon dollar -u tfitm‘"i.u DL with endme of enemy Property in the United States, the war finance corporation ‘measure and clranges in the selectived raft law. erence. Teport on the rail- m%“ the ‘senate to- then goes to the house. s on amendments fo , to. empower the -property an to 'the piers :lthfi and Hamb: i H i CONGRESS THIS WEEK. ported from accordance With peace treaty and that iretired from the jfirst hoisted the internationa] signal iwas paid to this by the Coprmoran. ling on Dewevs |American admiral for the clash and have: occu- (soll’ 3 é preliminary- clash with n&‘ Guards, = ol with - iresulting in a few casuaities on both lsla_u, General Ssmenoff, leader of the !Cossacks, 'has formed a new front {along: the * Siberian railway, where he jis endeavoring to break the Bolshovik | control. The Bolsheviki -are. using) heavy guns under the direction of = German_officer. ARY OF WAR BAKER IN FRANCE He is “to Study Rosults Already Achieved by the American Army. Paris, Mar. 10—The American sec- retary of war, Newton D. Baker, -has arrived at a French port. Secretary Baker ‘plans to. spend a brief time in France, inspecting in person the concrete results already achieved ‘in the efforts of his gepart- ment o place in the field this year an army that will be a factor in the cam- pain. the eve of his departure, Mr. Baker told members of' the press who have been in- the habit of seeins him every day that he did not expect to be away for any considerable length of time. . The secretary and his party Tleft ‘Washington without ony other af tempt at concealment of their move- ments than a req that the. press refrain “from reporting his deperture. The newspapers again worked in hearty co-operation to-make the jour- ney as safe as possible from German submaripes for the party. No hint of the trip has been printed. For ‘several months the war secre- tary has been eager to see for himselt conditions at the front and to talk over with General Pershing, the man upon ‘whom the full burden of respon- sibility for the entire American war programme in France has besn plac- ed. the many problems that have arisen to impede tie earrying out of the department’s plans. It was im- possible for General Pershing to. come home for such a conference. Mr. Bak- er, therefore, determined, aftar many conferences with President Wilson, to 2o himself on an. inspection tour, Wl will, he-believes, bstter it him for his great ponsibility in meot ing General Per,ing’s requirements in fighting men and materials and keep- ing in operation a supply line more than 3,000 mi%es long. Tt is regarded as probable, too, that the: secretary will take the opportuni- ty to inform the American commander in the field very fully as to aill ' the hoves and aims of the - government | srihch are at Totrinston, Conn, - March - e T. Steels, ‘@ or ‘Vice president of the Coe.Brass branch of the Amer- ‘can Brass Company, died at his home here 10day of shock, aged 74 years. He 'Coe Brass Company n- 1916 after having been connectéd with it ‘about 41 years. He was a veteran of the Ci ‘war, an ex-presi- dent ‘of the ‘Army and Navy Club of Connecticut and represented the town in the legislature in. 1887. Admiral Von Diederichs, * Amsterdam, March 10. Admiral on_Diederichs, commander of a Ger- man squadron’ off - Maniig-during ' the Spas American War and- ‘who ciashed with Admital Pewey, tie com- reander of the American squadron. in “‘°d Philippines, is’ dead: at Baden- ion between Admiral Dew- Admiral Von Diederichs: arose © the German officer’s disinclina- tion to observe the rules of the block ade establishad by the American com- tagpder in Manila Bay. Admiral Dew- ey insisted that the warships of the neutrals eptering ‘the ‘bay should re- port to the ‘Americans and was up- beld in ‘tkis’ contention by the British navel -camavander. - The _Germans, revértheless, sought to evade the rule and on several occasions there was tetion. 2 In a book ' published by Admiral Dewey in 1914, three years before his at Manily Bay as follows: “Vice Admiral Von Diederichs was wiconvinced. ~When ' later - the Cor- moran. which wis an old offender, was sighted coming up the bay, Flag Lieu- umby was sent to make sure that she stopped to report, in keeping with: the customs of other foreign men- of wxr.” When the Cormoran saw the ‘McCulloch -approaching she turned .and steamed towards .the northern part of the bay, compelling the McCulloch " to follow. Brumby ‘I wish to communicate.’ ' No attention Ther: Brumiy fired a shot across her bows, which had the desired effect. “On_the following day Vice Admiral Von Diederichs sent a capable, tact- ful young officer of the staff to me with & memorandum of grievances. ‘Wher. I heard them through I made the most of the.occasion by using hiin 25 2 third person to state can- didly-and. firmly my. attitude in a.ver- bal message which he conveyed:to his superior so \successfully that Vice Ad- miral Von Diederichs was able to-un. derstand my point of view. There 0 blockade or breach of the etiquette which had ‘been established by the sommon sonsent ol~ the other forgign commanders,’ Admiral Von Diederichis, comment- book, blamed the intimated that it never woulq have arisen if Dewey had protested official- ly about the “trivial incident.” These, he said, included the firing of the shots by the Americans in order to stop two German pinnaces. GOLDSOLL HELPED SPREAD GERMAN PROPAGANDA Under' Arrest on Charges Preferred by French Governeent. - 1 New - York, March 10.—inti io |that Frank Goldsoll, under :‘:rn:: l;: Washingion on charges of profiteering preferred by the French government, may have been actively interested in the spread of German propaganda in s were made tonight cker, deputy attorney general, in making public his reply to the application “of “John_B. Stanchfleld for a permanent injunction restraining | Attorney -General Lewis from having further access to Gold- Soll's papers. - The attorney »general undertook ‘his investigation affairs 3 at am - Gold. the request of " th | Fage, GOT EIGHT OF RAIDERS OF TOM|TEN OR TWELVE A SQUADRONS EAST RANCH . { WERE IN RAIDING PARTY FRIDAY POSSES HAD HARD RIDE|13 PERSONS KILLED £ Rangers Were in. the Saddle for Forty | One of the Raiding Machines Was De- ‘Hours in Pursuit of Outlaws—T! stroyed—Sixty-one Defensive Air- Twelve Other Randits Have Been! planes Defonded the Capital—Little Separated. " ! Damage Was Done. Corpus Christi, Tex, March.10—| Paris, Saturday, March 9.—Tefl or xas Rangers, headed by Captains|twelve squadrons of bombing airplanes Will Wright and J. Saunders, with the | participated in- the German. raid - on assistance of peace officers and volan- | Paris last night, according to official teers from Jim Hogg county, after e- {inférmation. The casualties were nine ing. in the saddle forty hours. h&veLilled and thirty-nine persops wound- killed" eight of the .twenty Mexiean ed. bandits who raided the Tom _East ranch, thirty-five' miles south of He- bronville, Thursday. night, according to the rangers' report from Hebronville today. Twelve of the. bandits, whose| original number was erronecusly give as thirty, have escaped into Mexico, Killed While Fieeing. Two of the bandits were killed a fow miles south of .the Bast ranch Friday morning. Three others werc killed later while the band was fleeing toward the Rio Grande. i After an all-night ride the posse again overtook the bandits today near Salineno, & Mexican settlement on the Rio Grande, thirty-five miles west of Rio® Grande City. Three more Mexi- cans were killed here, after which the ‘bandits separated. $ AMERICAN PATROL IN SKIRMISH WITH ENEMY Not an Americdn Was Scratched—In- flicted Losses on Enemy. One of the raiding machines was destroyed. -An official statement says the- airplane of the Gotha type was found in the Forest of Compeigne, where it had fallen while returning from the raid-on the capifal., The machine had been demolished and its crew of four burned-to death. - Some_of the raiders came.by way of the Valley of the Oise, others fol- lowed the route of the Marne, while still_others came from the direction| of Greill. I Curtain of Fire. An official account of the raid sa; that the alarm was. sounded at 8. oclock Friday evening and was pre- ceded by canonading. French artil- lery opened fire at 8.54 o'ciock, pro- ducing a violent curtain_of fire from all military posts in the Tegions north and northeast of s, which was maintained without interruption until the raiders departed. Sixty-one defensive airplapes from | the entrenched camps of Paris. took the air, “A large number Gf enemy machines was repulsed by the aerial defense and did not succeed in reach- ing These machifies - were forced to drop bombs in considerable numbers in open fields and in the suburbs, } Altholigh the raiders came in larger numbers than on any preceding raid, | the bombs dropped in the inhabited districts were far less numerous ‘and they did very little damage. . President Poincare visited the places where hombs had fallen and spoke a kindiy word of encouragement to the péople whose homes had -been de- stroved. Bombed Enemy Airdromes. While the raid on Paris was in progress, French aviators. near the front, who kept in constant communi- cation with the capital, - took the air and - bombarded. the air@romes ‘from which the enemy machings arose. * Jacques L. Dumesnil, sunder-secre- tary of aviation. went to{the ptineipal airdrome outside of -Pars: when the alarm was- sounded and remained there throughout the raid. Congrati lating and cheering the pilots and ob- seryers as they rosc in.the darkness} on_their dangerous task. i New arrangements for sheltering the | people and other precautions worked | well and the authorities are generall: satisfied that the efiects of the r were reduced to the iowest desree| vossible. | With the American Army in France, Friday, March §.—(By The Associated Press). A small American patrol ear- Iy this morning meét an enemy patrol in No. Man’s Land near Chemin sdes Dames and fired on the epemy.. A sharp skirmish resulted, the accurate firing of the Americans causing one enemy casualty and undoubtedly three others, The Americans returned to their lines = withont a man being scratched. The troops on the Lorraine front at the same time suffered’an extreme- ly heayy concentrated, bombardment. orthwest of Toul the enemy fired nearly u hundred gas shells into gne of the American battery positions in a short space of time, but not a sin- gle man so far-has been sent to & Lospital because of the: rapidity which gas masks were adjusted. American_artillery blew: up an ene- my_dymp. . The, heavy shells, dronped thefe resulted in a flash followed by mes” and great elouds of smoice. heavily the enémy’s first and sefond lines. * 5 American snipers have been espec- ially active qurin- the past 24 Hours, one ' sharpghiooter - killing a_ German who was walking in a parapet; waile other sharpshooters were successful in hitting other Germans who showed themselves. .Enemy automatic rifles swere especially- active last night_and early. this morning but did litfle dam- There is normal artillers activ- ity today: ] ith } Red Cross -Active. The American Red €ross mobilized 105 men at the first warning and tén cars spend off to poinfs where bombs had fallen. A numb:i of army am- | WAR CROSSES DISTRIBUTED AMONG AMERICAN TROOPS For the Part the Men Played Eleven Engagements. bulances from Neuilly} aiso were out and Y, M. C. A, workfrs aided in the rescue work. The night was cledr but dark and as the general impression that the Germans reserve their raiding efforts for moonlight niglits] the raid wag a surprise to Parisians; but it cannot be said to haye had much moral effect. A large mrmber of people refused to seek | shelter in the deeper subway stations. | Some, however, walked 'homeward | through the subway tunnels, the cur- rent having been 'cut off at the first signal of alarm. in With the Ameriean Armv in France, Saturday, Mar. 9.—(By The Associ- ated ' Pre: More than fifty French war crosses’ have been distributed amicng the American troops along the Chemin des Dames for, the .part the in eleven .engagements, most of whith were reids against po- sitions they were hoMinz.- A larze number of the recipienfs of the war cross, some of the I f whom arc in_Maine, have be; ng a certain place against wkich the enemy’s at- tacks were especially strong. These troops helped the French to braak up the attacks and -drive off the Ger- man’s. 5. ¥ Some of the men decorated distin Thirteen Persons Killed. i Paris, March 1§i—It is now reported | officially that thipteen persons were | killea and fifty! syounded in : Friday | night's air raids | AMERICAN TROOPS IN i MINOR ENGAGEMENTS With the Retubn of Better Weather Actions ‘Are Increasing. ers in No Man's Land; The only eight of the recipients - of the medals, all of whom are members o ! the same company, h@ve become avail- able. They are Lieutenant Harold Hay Davidson, Chaplain Osiis Bouch- er, Sergeant George, F. Deber, Cor- poral Frank F. Hurley and Privates BEdward Larson, ' Harold = Eldridge, Stuart W. Miller and Charles M. Sykes all of whose homes are in New Ing- and. With the American Army in,France, Saturday, March 8---(By the = Asso- ciated Press). - Some of the Ameri- cans in a listening post in front of their line north of Toul this morning discovered an ensmy patrol fixing their own wire and promptly opened fire. The Germans retreated, leaving two of their number hanging on the barbs. Some hours after daylight a party of five Germans, two infantrymen and ‘hree Red Cross = workers, emeredg rom. the enemy lines and started for their comrades entangled in the wire. The Americans saw the Red Cross brassards and did not fire on the par- ty, which removed the bodies. ' ‘There has been increased sniping activity along. the whole of the Ameri- can front-during the past twenty-four ‘hours. During last night and today the Germans dropped -phosgene shells on several .of the American battery: posi- tions .and mustarg shells in the rear of the line. Owing to the quickness of the Americans in adjusting- their gas masks the shells did no damage. Owing to the return of better wea- ther conditions there was. increased aerial activity, both friendly and hos- tile aircraft fiying over the American line. ‘Ome or two aerial encounters were reported, but they had no defi- nite results. SNOWSTORM SWEPT OVER CONNECTICUT in Many Places Were Piled High With Drifts. New Haven, Conn, March snowstorm of considerable accompanieq by driving winds, swep over Connecticut today, beginning dur- ing the forenoon and continuing vir- tually all day. A material drop in temperature added to the discomfort. Trolley service in outlying districts was hampered and on the New York, New Haven and H?rtt(ord railroad trains were running late through the electrical zone. In /the country dis- tricts the roads’in ‘many places were piled high with drifts making going heavy. 3 AMERICAN ARTILLERY IN VIGOROUS ACTION Bombarding Certain Towns the Rear Areas. Roads 10.—A severity, L i GERMAN TROOPS HAVE LANDED IN FINLAND. ‘With_the American A in France, | ~ ican | Invaders Consist of 2,000 Infantry March 10.—(Evening). Th { atlantic French Line, 48 dead at his Spain, agreed o sell ~supplies - M ML o be memorial day for The armory: of Troop ‘M, at Rech- estor, was Gestroyed By Bre: . e ordered . that. in murder cases. and. sailors” _M"r':';:q s The . dearth of _dyestuffs in the United States is'vertually at an end. The wonian’s state prison at Au- burn, N.'Y., was placed under quaran- Government cannot testify P iery’ Two American councilors arein fi:ll'ne to study the fo/ig conditions in y. s e 2 Twenty-cight men were fined $10 each for attending'cock fights at Bay- ville, L. . % .Girls _are’ working a “boys” in Syracuse, N. Y went on strike. The names of one American wound- ed and one gassed appeared on the Canadian casualties list. messenger » +The boys The Board of Education, at Alton, 11l voted to discontinue the. teaching of German in the High School. A permit was granted by thé Food Administration to the city of Middle- town, N. ¥, to sell milk and fuel. Work on munition plants at Water- town, N. Y., was paralyzed as the re- sult-of a walkout of the union work- ers. - The Pennsylvania Railroad during December. 1917, saved 73.562 cars east of Pittsburgh by “more efficient lead- ing.” Niko Haldonkovitch Montenegrin Minister of War, now in London, de- nies that Montenegro will make a separate peace. Strict orders were issucd at Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, to the men not to_teil about men traveling from one point to another. “Hank” Mott, strong man who bites nails to pieces at sideshows, was re jected at Oswego, N. Y., by an army recruiting officer. Two editors of the Berlin Vorwaets, a Socialist organ, are to be court- martialed for publishing articles about the recent strikes - Engines built ~_at_the Brooks plant at_ Dunkir (. for the Russian Government, will be turned over to the American railroads. The State Department has learned there is extreme dissatisfaction in Po- Iand over the peace signed by the Uk- raine and Central Powers. Loo: Allen, 'who dropped out .of sight two months ago in_ Baltimore, xmy return to- hils Hiome He is noyw at Bf. Tolls. | Julés Charles Roux, of the Trens-| home in Paris. He was one of the leading shipbuilders of France. The Chilean Goverhment has not de- cided what disposition. shall be made of the 58'Gérman seamen brought into Santiago on the schooner Faieon.: C. H. Morehouse of Horicon, N. Y. a member ‘of the headquarters com. vany of the 303rd infantry, died. bt Pneumonia. at Camp Devens Saturday.| Thomas Stewart of Manchester, N. H, a cripple minus both legs, consent: ed to his fourth son joining the ser- vice. “I wish 1 could offer more,” he said. i | Because he refused to do some work | at Camp Wadsworth. when told by | a superior officer, Private Russel F. Perkins was sentenced to six years at hard labor. The strike of 600 members of the Marine Workers' Affiliation, intended | for today, ference of he United States Board of | Arbitration. | The loyalty , making it a felony | to utter gisloyal remarks about -the’ country, was passed by the Texas! Hopse znd goes to the governor for | hissignature. The War. Department asked Gen- eral” Pershing for. the name West Point capiain who sac life ‘duriug & recent Germanu - American trenches, i Reorganization of ths War Council | ‘was$ announced by the Wor Depart- ment, wit! Major-Fen. Peyton C. March-as head and Mzjor-Gen. soem.| als as quartermaster. Lored Cecil, British Minister oll Blockade, declared he “would mot be surprised if Japan thought it desirable to send troops to Siberia to prevent the country’s Germanization.” 3 Honora O'Brien, the “Iribh beauty” who returned to Ireland last August after she got $100 000 from John B. Manning a retired broker, for jilting her, is now happily married [ personal - effects on the = torpedoed sroopship Tuscania' would be reim- bursed $400 each under a bill favor- ably reported by the Senate Military Committee. All'members of the staff of the rail. road administration, Director General McAdoo announced, haye severed their connections with “private interests to devote themselves exclusively to gov- ernment se: “DR.” MUNYON DEAD 5 AT PALM BEACH, FLA. Teacher, Lawyer, Soci artillery in the past twenty Las Bombarded ‘vigorously certain townsin the rear areas, roads and communicating trenches of the Cer- mans opposite the Toul sector with excellent regults. They shelled a number ‘of buildings in one town in vihich enemy troops were billeted, ke 1 Airplane Accident at Pensacola, Fl; Pensacola, Fla., Mgrch 10.—Machin- ist’s Mate Sazio, of Rome, N. Y., was kiiled and Student Aviator Nash seri- ously ‘injured in-an airplane accident Jate yesterday at the naval aeronautic training station mear ‘here. Officials a: the station issued an dnnouncement of the accidenit today but saye mo. de- ‘tajls. ~Nash's home addres: and a Force of Artillery. Stockholm, March 10.—The expected landing. of -German troops -in Finland is reported to have been effected” in the neighborhood of Abo, a° Finnish port oppositer the Aland Islands and 100 miles weSt of Helsingfors. The invading detachment is said to be com- posed of 2,000 infantry and a force of artillery. No_officialconfirmation of the Teport has. been received. A despatch from ‘Stockholm ‘dated March 8 said that about 2,000 Ger- man’ troops and’ 300 horses had beeh landed on the Aland Tslands from twoq German battiéships and that several as not | German transports were anchored at P Kekarna, ~ | Worker, Ed- itor and Patent Medicine Maker. ‘West Palm Beach, Fla., March 10.- J. M. Munyon, a_medicine manufactur- er “of - Philadelphia, died today at a Palm Beach hotel. Teart failure was said to have been the cause. Philadelphia, March 10.—Few men have had a more versafile career than “Dt.” Munyon. Born at Thompson, Conn., . Aug, .3, 1848, he was in turn a school {eacher, lawyer, social worker, editor, song ‘writer ‘and patent medicine manufac- tufer. He was président of Munyon's ‘Homeopathic Home Remedy company and was rated as a millionaire. He was not a physician. “Dr.” Munyon was married timas-and divorced once, _three s s R e s | Four Persons-Are Known to be Dead and An FINANGIAL LOSS IS UPWARDS OF 5 At Syracuse, |' as put off pending a con- | Demolished and Scores of Barns and Outbuildings V Blown Down—Most of the Damage Was Done No 'eqtofVqut—BigBmMc‘sWeuPi*erp’ Fields and Deposited in the Roads—A Chicken W Blown to the Top of a Telephone Pole, From Whfi‘ Was Rescued. - —— Van Wert, 0. March 10.—Feur per-jhavoc was wrought west am{_‘p@r&k sons are known to be dead, anotirer is|east of the city. reported killed, four persons are in a local - hospital, more or .less- seriously injured, between twenty-five and fifty farm homes are compietely or partly demolished and” scores ‘of barns and outbuildings were blown déwn as the result of a tornado which swept this county last evening. . Heavy Financial Loss. The financial loss in ‘the county is estimated at from $500,000 fo $1,000,- 080, The tornado first strack at Mid- dleburg, traveling - northeast Across Harrison. Pleasant and Upion town- ships. The {wister would swoop down, wreck a farmhouse or possibly two or e, and then jump over four or five miies before doing more damage. Reyforts received here today say that ‘dntinental and Holgate, O., were not wiped out, but that much property damage was done there by the torna- do. No_ lives were reported lost at either place. . Hundreds of farmers from north- western Ohio and eastern Indiana to- Qay motored fo Van Wert county to give aid to farmers who suffared loss. There was very little damage done int the city of Van Wert. ~Most of the Of the four injured in local hospf- tals, only one is fatally hurt, He s Charles Rike, who had a shaft’run through his head when his 2 demolished by the storm as driving home from town. Six mem= bers of the Showalter family in Hi rison_township were more or less se= i riously injured when their home demolished. ~Reports last wight the family had been killed. Ane woman :n the éame neighborhood badly barned when her home wrecked an da stove was upsels Tornado Played Queer Pranks. The tornado played queer pranks. Hundreds of chickens were = entirely denuded and left without a feal One chicken, with only a few feath left, was blown high.in the air a landed on a telephone post, from which it was rescued. , EaE Big boulders weighing a ten were found in the roads at several points, having been lifted from fields creeks and carried many yards. Unlon' township a farmhouse was lift= ed from its foundation and was carried into an adjoining field.” A heavy stove in this house was carried half a mile by the twister. TO DIVIDE COUNTRY INTO TEN MUNITIONS DISTRICTS = iR Te Bring About Close: Contact With Producers of War Materials. Washingtan, Maron-10.—Division ot the -coufitry - into- ten - munitions dis- tricts,” each under diréct charge of a nccessful local business - executive, as announced tonignt by department as a- further step in its poiiey of decentralization and to. |about closer contact.with producers of war. material -, . Ths plan was worked out for Ma- jor ‘General Wheeler, acting chief of mee, by Colonel Guy. E. Tripp; of York, formcrly chairman of the Westinghouse company and now 'chief of ‘the ordnance bureau's, production divisfon. ~Other divisions of the bu- reau will -co-operate with' the district officers, and the finance and inspec- «on _ divigions will have - their - field foroes in the same district headquar- ers. 5 i Heads of the districts, who will set un offices in the citt trict chiefs of the profiuction division of the war depariment, have been ap- pojnted as. follows: Pittsburgh, Ralph 3. Dravo, a mem- er of -the. firm of ‘Dravo Brothers, steel constructors. Cleveland, Ohlo: Samuel Seovil, who igned as president of the Cleveland iminating. Company, to-take the po- on. Rochester, N. F. S. Noble. one of the chief executives of the East- man- Kodak Compar: Boston:- Levi H. Greenwood, of the Wakefield Rattan_Compan New Haven:- Walde C. Bryant, ident of the Bryant Blectric Com- y. Qi oo s : Tred J. Rohinson; presi dent of the Lowrie & Robinson Lum- er company. Cincinnati: Charles T.. Harrison, of Sincinnati chamber of commerc Chicago: E. *A. Russell, vice presi- dent of the Otis Elevator. company. New York: Samuel C. Allen, chaire man of the Lima Locomotive Works. Philadelphia: John C: Jones/ of the Harrison Safety Boiler Works. The_territory covered by the differ- ent districts has been clearly outlined by the department and tne compara- tively 'few industries which "are not embraced in these districts will deal directly with the production divisi in Washington as heretofore. TROUBLE OVER A" CAT RESULTED IN SHOOTING Arthur Nichols of Fairfield Shot His Common Law Wife. Fairfield, Con Mar. .10.—Arthur Nichols, colored. 45, is under -arrest on a technical charge of breach of the peace, and his common law_wife, Luln Nichols, is-at a hospital in Bridsevert, suftering from serious injuries, as the result of trouble over a'cat, it is al- leged, at the Nichols. home in the Greenfield Hill district early todav. A more. serious charge, it was said to- night, may be braught against. Nichols According to ‘the woman, Nichols shot Der in the lez witn a double bar- relled shotgun when she objectsd to his .killing _the eat. the ‘shooting, but asseris, according o the police, -that jt was unintentional and’that the woman ihréw herself in the way when he fired at the cat BRITISH NAVAL AIRCRAFT * BOMBED RAILWAYS And " Billets at St. Pierre Made ‘Direct Hits. Capelle— London, March 10.—British - naval aircraft yesterday bombed' blllets and railways at St. Plerre Capelle, making direct' hits on sheds and starting a fire, saye an official siatement today.lof the uppes upon [officer discov Soldiers in motors were fired were_aitacked, -but. on was -brought down in the Brifiah saturned o _enemy. { Nichols admits | FIREMEN IN FALL RIVER, * ' COTTON MILLS TO. S‘uufi Unless Their Demand for an Eight Hour Day is Granted. Fail River, Mass. throwing into idleness of 30,000 texi workers, with a, resultant helt in manutacture of goads for g ]of the stationary firemen ‘in the 100 cotton mills in this city. The firemen voted yesterdsy to strike immediately, the night men being ordered to- away from the mills tonight and the - day shift to refuse to report fof. work - on Monday morning. = The firemen's. union last week presented demands an eight hour day without reduction facturers’ association -intimated they were willing to take under sideration the matter of a sh working day, but flatly refused closed shop demand. Labor leaders said tonight that nefr- ly every mill in the city was concern- ed in the Strike, which went into :3. fect at midnight. SAFE CONDUCT ISSUED - 3 FOR COUNT VON LUXBUR By the British Government—He Will Sail on Steamer Vllplflifl‘._ Buenos Aires, March 10.—The Brit ish_government has issued a safe con: duct for Count Von Luxburg, the for- mier German ambassador to Argentina. to sail for Sweden. He will ‘sail shortly on the steamer Valparaiso. A =afe conduct for a medical attendant to accompany Count Von Luxburg was refused, although such a step had Leen_recommended because of the for- mer ‘ambassador’s mental condition., A despatch from Buenos’ Alrés March 2 said the Argentine overnment had_requested the Brgitish -minister tc obtain a safe conduct for Von Lux- burg. The despatch added that it was understood the American embassy on Luxburg be- would not object tp ing permitted to sail THREE STORY TENEMENT IN SOUTHINGTON WI}‘@ Half a Dozen Families. Were- Driven From Their Homes in Snowstorm, Southington, Conn., Mareh 10— a dozen families were driven fi o their homel into a blinding snowstosm by the-burning of a three story te_fi; ‘ment building here late today. 4 fire started in an unoccupied apart- ment on- the third floor *from an-un- known cause. The estimated joss is between $8000 "and $9 0f was injured. The hi 3 were cared for by neighhors/ The building was owned by Thomas Rich. 1t was at one time used as a hotel ‘but had been Temod=lled for ten- ement purposes, It was °formerly known &g the Qriental House, The livery stable of J. H. Tobin, located next to it, was slightly dam= aged by fire. L FIRE DESTROYED PLANT OF ATTLEBORO SUN And Odd Fellows' Block—Loss Esti- mated at $100,000. Attieboro, Mass., March 10.—Fire: early vesterday troyed the = Od Fellows bleck, a four-story bricl building, and the .plant of the. boro Sun, which occcupied the: two floors. Other occupants of building were the local lodges of O Fellows, several otndr fraternal sanizations, and Clte Solicitor. W. Ceady, whose offices were on s, When asp ‘the fire it had dway the firemen were the building.. but. they sue ¢ _-in «protecting afijacent prop- :rns‘. The loss was estimated at $109,