Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 15, 1918, Page 1

’ i ] MLLIONTONSDUTCHS 10 B BROGHT O ' VESSELS NOW HELD IN PORTS THE WORLD OVER CONNs FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1918 By the Governments of the United States and Great * Britain on March 18 ————— MH-veNanhndQnBeufleofHMoFmof Germany’s Threats to Sink Thém—Every Arrangement Has Been Made to Compensate the Netherlands for the Ships—Formal Notice Has Been Presented to the Hague by the Diplomatic Representatives of the Allied Govern- ments—The Netherlands Minister Has Made a Personal Appeal to President Wilson to Modify His Decision. e Whshington, March 14—A million |instances of destruction ~of neutral tons of Dutch ships, now held in ports | Danish ships on voyages between Ice- the world over, through Holland's fear }land and the Danish mother country of Germany’s threat to sink them if [entirely outside of the war zone nor they venture out will be brought into upon _the ~multitudinous ‘mistakes’ the service of the United States and | whereby Dutch and other neutral ships Great Britain on March 18, clinging to the precarious narrow way Unless the Netherlands t |left open through the prohibited zone braves the menace of Germany’s pres- |are torpedoed outside the zone by U- sure and voluntarily accepts an agree- | boat commanders, whose word that the ment under which the ships would |vessels were within the zome is later be put in trade, the United States and | accepted unquestioned by the German Great Pritain will taks them over un- |prize courts.' Prominent ship owners der international law, availing them- |in Scandinavian countries have stated seives of a sovereign right which Ger- | their belief that many sinkings were many herself has hitherto exercised |inspired only by the intention to gct under the same authority. Hid of neutral tonnage so A rorm: nted crease the relative value of German - "n‘:::. 'm"" - g ""“;d shipping available at the end of the o T e e Drssented | war. Examinations of the captains of torpedoed ships before the marine British diplomatic representatives of |courts in these countries bear out this the allied governments' intentions. AS [pelief, the testimony repeatedly show- a result, today, the Netherlands mini- far out- "o ot Ehitlna aEting whlts fn: | L.t Yemenia;were, attacied far ou structions of his government, made a 3 final and personal appeal to President Food Ships Held Up. Wilson to at least modify the decis-| “The intent of the Germans to pre- fon. vent neutrals receiving food and sup- The Associated Press is enabled to|plies under relief agreements con- state that the president saw #o rea-[cluded with the United States is il- son for altering the decision and that |lustrated by the German veto placed unless the ships are turned over by |upon the temporary modus vivendi next Monday a presidential proclama- | with Holland, providing for the pro- tion will be issued taking over the|visioning of that country. Two food ships in American of which |ships loaded -with supplies ,for Tho there are about eighty. more, | Netherlands along with eleven Belgian Sowever, are in British or other allied |reliéf shipsghave been waiting in ports on the seven seas. American for weeks unable 'to Action Has Been Forsed. sail because of the rofusal of Ger- JjFrom the American official point of SISY B oS\ wnsagiaitut amogat jow, the gotion {s one Into which-the: allied governments have been forced | v ious pian of the et by the German duress of Holland, which may now sec her ships in trade again, and can point out to Germany that they were taken through no will of her own. Coming at a time when the dire need of the allied catise is for ships, the acquisition of a million tons is of tremendous importance. Netherlands to be Compensated. Every arrangement has been made for the compemsation of the Nether- lands for the ships. They will be in- sured and armed, and if any be lost fhey will be replaced, besides mater- fal compensation for their use, the United States will permit the export of breadstuffs and cattle foods which Holland needs sorely for her own peo- ple, and in addition will restore the interrupted trade of Holland with her colonies by guaranteeing bunkérs for her ships in that trade. H Under this arrangement Holland is still left enough ships for her own needs and has been notified that plen- tiful supplies of food await her if she sends bottoms to carry it. By this arrangement, officials pointed out, fur- ther responsibility for food shortage in the Netherlands, if there be one, will rest on Germany, if continued threats coerce Holland into . keeping her shipping in harbors. American and allied officials have no fear that the move will force Hol-{ land into the war. ori- ties being to gather ail Dutche ships into home harbors and then prevent any of them from sailing by thres! to torpedo any vessel leaving Holland waters. To relieve 'the food sitna- tion in Holland the war trade -bvard has finally authorized the trans-ship- ment of the food in question from the two Dutch steamers to the Holland {liner Nieuw Amsterdam, which is sail- ing_shortly, . “The present campaign of threats and intimidation against the Scandi- navian neutrals now carried on in the semi-official North German Gazette and other organs of the German press. is obviously intended to frishten the northern mneutrals from completing agreements which benefit the neutrals quite as much as the United States and its associates, New Policy of Ruthfulness. Now success of the carnest efforts of the United States government to rush shipments of bread grain to Switzerland is threatened by the ac- tion of German submarines which, ac- cording to now fully confirmed reports from Switzerland, have made a start on a mew pelicy of ruthlessness by sinking the utral Spanish steamer Sardinero, secured with great difficul- ty to carry/food to that country. The torpedoing of the Sardinero, carrying nearly four thousand tons of cereals for Switzerland, can by no stretch of the imagination be brought within the scope of Germany's proclaimed sub- marine policy, since the vessel was GERMANY'S LATEST CAMPAIGN |engaged not in‘'an ememy but in a ABAINST NEUTRAL SHIPPING |SUPBosedly safe trade for a neutral state, was enrouts fo a port to which . == Germany had explicitly promised to Attributed to Deliberate F_Iln to Make | 1o ve' open a safe passage and was Northern European Nations Depend- | torpedoed outside ‘the prohibited zone. ent Upo nthe Teut: War Lords.| “To add to the deliberateness of the T offense, the Sardinero was destroyed | Washington, March 14.—Germany’s |after the submarine commander had latest. of ruthlessness against imade a thorough examination of tle pping is attributed by the |ship’s papers and convinced' himsell war trade board in a statement to-|of the nature and destination of. the alght o a deliberate plan for cutting [cargo, so that no plea of a ‘mistake’ off the north European nations from |can be entered by Germany. The evi- American and allied food supplies and |dent intent and Fesult of the act was thereby reducing them through starva- 1o prevent Switzérland, whose urgent ton to political and economic depend- |and immediate neea of food is well tnce upon the Teutonic. war lords. known to dny, from receiving While the board makes no reference | the American grain: to destroy a Span- 1o the determination of the United |ish ship for after-the-war trade and States and Great Britain, disclosed to- |to raise by this much the relative day, to take over Dutch ships in|value and importance of each German American and allied ports unless the |ghip afloat at the end of the war. Netheriands government accepts a . pending economic . agreement, its Swiss-American Agreement. statement throws interesting light up- | “By the Swiss-American agreement o0 the situation which led to this de- |of December 5, the allies guaranteed sision. Following is the statement: [to Switzerland for its admittedly ur- 's war leaders are using|gent needs an eight months' supply of the submarine war weapon to prevent | 240,000 tons of cereals, subject to the ulfifiment of American agreements to [assumption that Germany would safe- ‘eed and refieve - # nationals, | conduct the supply ships as specified A mass of cumulative evidence and |in its proclamation on ruthless subma- indications in the of the | rining, which provided a safe route to war trade board show .that Germany |the Mediterranean port of Cette and ‘s empioying the submarine menace to | promised that submarines would not prevent neighbor neutrals receiving |molest such vessels. To accelerate de- iny food or favors at the hands of the [livery and provide for immediate ne- United States and its associates in the |cessities before grain from the Argen- war and to coerce these neutrals|tine, the natural source of supply, ‘hrough starvation into political and |could reach Switzerland the war trade ‘conomic dependence upon Germany |board even procured from the scanty tuite as much as to strike at the com- |supplies in this country 30,000 tons of munications of its opponents—Ger- |grain, which had been earmarked for many’s ostensible aim in proclaiming | the allies and allocated it to Switz- he ruthless submarine campaign. erland, nrnnttu to rep:‘l:ee it later by 5 grain from the Argentine, and had Fo Weaken Competition After the War | friher. proved its £00d faith and de- “Further indications tend to show |sire to help out dependent neutrals by hat the submarines being used, | successful efforts to secure tonnage dong similar dog-in-the-manger lines, |to transport the grain. The plans ©_destroy nentral shipping without |even contemplated bringinz the ships egard to its employment in order to|back in ballast from Cette to accele- weaken prospective neutral competi- |rate shipments and remove any pre lors after the war 2nd 0 @ down |text for German submarine interfer- le to- ence with the ships either going or infer- { coming. mercantile | “It is hoped that Switzerland ana between forty |other neutrals will contrast the re- its ocean ton- ive es of Germany and the the neutral trader may ited States toward the problem of ff as his German | feeding the neutrals and will take due the after-the-war |notice of this latest attempt of Ger- many to intimidate neutral ship owne m—w n_belers, through m!%n submarining, thejfepeated from carrying f60d to Switzerland, Was Unexpected, Hull, England, Wednesday, March 18. —Last night's visit to Huil and vicin: ity by Zeppelin airships was complete- ly unexpected. The night was dark and a slight drizzle was falling. Im- mediately after the warning was given the crash of guns was heard, but less than twenty minutes the visitors were again off seaward. Norwégian Steamer Sunk. Copenhagen? Wednesday, March 13. —The Norwegian foreign office Teports the sinking of the Norwegian steamer Skrymer, of 1475 tons gross. One of the crew was killed by the explosion. The steamer Htrella, of 1757 tons gross, also has been sunk. Her crew was saved, FEDERAL OFFICERS SEARCH 1 RUSSIAN STEAMER 'OMSK Whose Crew of 47 Men is in Jail on Charges of Mutiny. Norfolk, Va., March 14—Under in- structions from Washington to inves- tigate with a view to prosecutions if the facts warrant it, federal officials here today conducted a thorough search' of the big Russian steamer Omsk, whose crew of 47 men is in jail on charges of mutiny. ‘The officers uncovered a cellection of weapons of various kinds and com- bustibles. It is the belief of the in- vestigators that members of the crew intended to take possession of the ship as soon as she left port and divert her to a Ru port, to be turned over to Bolshéviki autherities. The Omsk put in here several days 2go on a trip from Galveston to Liy- erpool with a cargo of cotton. The crew rebelled, demanded Soviet rule aboard and drove off the American port guard on the ship. In their search today officials found revolvers hidden away in the suitcases of members of the crew, imbedded in a package of sugar and stowed away in a bolt of cloth. The ship’s cook, the steamer's offi- cers say, has been the ringleader. Shortly after he became a member of the crew, they said teday, the cook began . to preach Bolsheyik - doctrines to the men, urging them fo refuse to obey commands and t0 demand higher wages. The dispute over the wages, the officers said, bropght the situation to a head. Differences between the customs and immigration authorities as. to the manner of dealing with the men ap- parently were straightened out ‘today with the declaration by immigration officers that they had not assisted customs officials to the extent they had been asked because they had no authority in the case.” The case presents the first of its kind of any consequence in an Amer- lee Carried Long N. H. PISCATAQUA RIVER 400 FEET GAVE AWAY|IN RESERVE ! Five Spans Looss Without WWacning : Atlantic and Gulf When No Teams or Trains Were on. UGreat Lal the Structure. Develop. . H Dover, N. H., March 14—Ice loosened by an extremely high tide today wrecked the Dover Point bridge over the Piscataqua: river. The . bridge carries the tracks of the Boston and 'Maing railroad branch line and is also the thoroughfare for highway trafiic between this city and _Portsmouth. Five spans, totaling nearly 400 feet in length, were wrenched away and float- €d down the river. No teams or trains Tere passing over the structure at the time. v Gave Way Without Warning. The Dover Point bridge gave way without ‘warning. Ice' from two to three feet thick had covered Great bay, some distance above the bridge, and many floes had broken away and piled up against the structure. The high tide broke up the ice field ‘and the additional pressure. proved _too great for the bridge to withstand. One Span Anchored. One span which floated away almost intact was taken in tow by workmen from a shipyard, who dragged it out of the current and anchored it. The wrecking of the Dover Point bridge delayed everal hundred work- men in the navy yard and shipbuilding plants at Portsmouth in reaching their homes here. v The damaged bridge was owned by the Boston and Maine railroad _and was built in 1888, connecting Dover Point and Newington. It was largely of wood, 1,650 feet in length, and rest- ed to a’gredt extent on wooden piles. AMERICANS ARE DESTROYING GERMAN GAS PROJECTORS Upset German Plan For a Gas Attack _ona Large Scale. ‘Washington, have been enrolled workers' reserve progress. tries, the piling up shipyards. vice reserve, cluded in the plan. in Siberia and the With the American Army in France, Tuesday, March 12—By The Associ- | 253inst the central ican port since war began. RAILROAD PLANS DISCUSSED BY PRESIDENT AND M'ADOO For Future Organization of Govern- ment Administration. ‘Washington, March 14 —Plans future org;:}uunn, of the gover: for t Y passi Yy weje discussed to- night at a conference bétwéen Presi- dent Wilson and Director General Me- Adoo. i One of the first big tasks will ‘be making contracts with each. railroad company for government compensa- tion on the basis provided in the bill. Under the direction of John - Barton Payne, chief counsel, John Skelton ‘Williams, finance director, and C. A. Prouty, chief of the division of a counts, the negotiation of these con- tracts will be undertaken immediately. ‘With a fund at his disposal with which to administer the railroad af- fairs, Mr. McAdoo now will fix the salaries of his assistants, most, of whom have severed connections with railroads. Heretofore 'the expenses of the railroad administration have been borne ‘from an allotment from the president’s emergency fund. Provision will be made for the $500,- 000,000 revolving fund established by the bill in_determining the amount of the third Liberty loan. The treasury has sufficient funds to care for minor drafts, particularly since a clearing house for railway earnings and ex- penses is to be established and pay- ments to roads will be on the basis of the difference between actual earnings and the guaranteed rate. STEAMER KERSHAW HAS A BEEN ABANDONED. An Effort Will Be Made to Salva Cargo, Including 17,000 Cases of Whiskey. An Atlantic Port, March 14.-+Imme- diate efforts to_release the 'steamer Kershaw of the Merchants and Miners line, which went ashore early yester- day’ mortfing, were abandoned late to- day when the last members of the crew were brought ashore in the breeches buoy. A heayy sea today swept the craft nearer the beach, and because of the high wind wrecking tugs were forced to give up their attempt to pull the liner into deeper water. At last re- ports the Kershaw had 14 feet of water in her hold. An effort will be made to salvage her cargo, which includes 17,- 000 cases of whiskey, after which an attempt will be made to drag her off the sand. GERMANY AFD AUSTRIA TO DIVIDE RUSSIAN GRAIN According to Despatch Received from Copenhagen Yesterday. congress today, ‘Washington, March 14.— According to an official despatch received from Copenhagen today and quoting from the National Tidende, Germany and Austria will divide equally until July 31 the amount of grain available in Ukrainia. During the early part of this period Austria will have two- thirds and Germany one-third of all grain obtained. During the second ated: Press.)—Four groups of German gas projectors, in addition to the group of 200 projegiors already report- ed destroved, hav#-veen discovered and likswise blown 1 pieces by the Amer- ican artillery. Probably German plans for a gas attack on a compara- tively large scale against the Amer- ican positions northwest of Toul haye thus heen. upset. ¥ : new groups af. projectors. wer cow. cgles lisorganize “The state department. tonight was still without official - knowledge - that the president’s message of sympathy | i the guick work of the observers, the|20d Promise of aid intelligence officers and the artillerists in turn. The American artillery on this front hus been more active than ever in the past fifteen hours. and its shells aldo found lodgment in a number of am- munitiop dumps, which were blown up. Many extensive explosions are report- d Soviets actually was lacking. The correspondent, standing sn & hill, witnessed one dump situated in a Wwo0d go up in a brilliant flash 2nd a great puff of whitish smoke, a tre- mendous report following a few sec- onds later. Explosions and fires also were caused by our shells in zes and a number in the woods beh enemy front. PACIFIC COAST OIL SITUATION IS CRITICAL California Oil Men So Inform Senate Naval Sub-Committee. many. muster the strength Germany probably ‘Washington, Mar. 14.—California ol men appearing before a senate naval sub-committee today, declared the Pa- cific Coast oil situation is critical and that if the sovernment takes over the oil and gas lands in the naval reserves in that state many industries depend- ent on oil as fael will be_compelled to ‘Washington, Mar. Wilson todas manently twelve months at the present rate of| ‘“The department consumption. A bill prepared by the navy depart- ment to authorize the government to obtain title to all the oil land in the naval reserves in -California ‘as well as in Wyoming, was denounced by the witnesses as impracticable and danger- ous. Such a step by the government, they said would check the supply now received from the California reserves, which. are, the most productive in the state, while the present scarcity of oil well 'supplies makes the opening -of new fields practically impossible. CONVICTION OF PAUL DAECHE AFFIRMED For Conspiring to' Destroy Vessels Carrying Munitions. The purpos and over, not mow b; New York, Mar. 14—Conviction of Paul Daeche. found guilty in May. 1915, of conspiring to destroy vessels carrying munitions of war to the al- lies and sentenced to two years in the “(Signe ed here today by the United States circuit court of appeals. Daeche, with Lieutenant Robert Fay PLACED IN two indictments charging conspiracy. He appealed and was at liberty under bonds. until. the declaration of war. ‘when he was ordered. interned. wied Long_|200,000NenEnoled ;B.-&M._B_nflgelAwayg For Shipyard Work in | AT DOVER POINT, OVER ! ANNOURCEMENT M "FARTMENT OF LABOR Ice Loosened by High Tide Wm..-.hedeu. Reguiremers”of Shipyards on the| Are to be Met as They | March five shipyards on the Atlantic ‘and Gulf coasts and the Great Lakes have been notified by the -department of labor .that its employment service is prepared to meet their labor require- ments from the 200,000 mechanics who campaign To Eliminate Confusion. ‘The department in its announce- ment tonight said the yards had been | asked 10 hereafter obtain'their work- ers_exclusively thro ment's employment service in order to eliminate the past general confusion to industry resulting from the luring of skilled workers from other indus- shipbuilding centers and the unneces- sar yinterchanging of laber. between So that the requisitions of the yards| for men may be met promptly, direc- tors of the United States public ser- conducting the. enroll- ment campaign, have been instructed to begin immediately classil all recruits and a special section has been establisned at the department to facilitate the handling of applications from the yards. The Pacific coast yards are not in- JAPAN AWAITS ACTION OF RUSSIAN CONGRESS Before Announcing Intention to Inter- vene in Siberia. - Washington, March avowal of her intention to intervene the courses to be taken by the United States and other governments aligned pected to follow closely upon the ad- Journment of the Russian congress of saviets called to meet today at Mos- Official Washington and diplo- mats here still retain faint hope that the warring factions of Russia may yet reject the German signed at Brest Litovsk, but almost all information ,(hat has reached .here in- the fighil > eople is too wounded to Russian people through the .congress had reached Moscow, but that it*had was taken for granted. had convened also Some little encouragement was found in the aitered attitude of Trotzky, former Bolsheviki foreign minister, as reported. by Ambassador Franeis. The amfbassador said Trotzky had quoted as saying that he favored put- ting the army under “iron discipline” and continuing the fight against Ger- His change of mind, however, is believed here to have come too late. Failure of the Soviets to endeavor to will immediate conclusion the negotiations concerning Japanese PRESIDENT WILSON CALLS UPON BOYS TO ENROLL In the United States Boys’ Working Reserve Week Beginning March 18. called on all American boys of 16 years and over, not per- employed, United States boys’ working reserve. A national enrollment week beginning on suspend. The present available sup-(March 13 has been st aside by the| gyracuse members of the Inter- ply of the state is rapidly. being de- | department of labor. national Bible Students’ Association, pléted, the committee was told, and| The president's open letter, . made| who claimed exemption from military will reach the danger point within | Public today, follows: aside the week beginning March i8th as national enrollment week for United States boys’ of this national entoll- ment week is to call the attention of the young men of the nationa to importance of increasing the food sup- ply by working on the farms, and to urée them to enroll in the reserve. “T sincerely hope that the young men of the country, of sixteen years of age ployed and especially the boys In our schools, will enter heartily this work and join the Boys' Working Reserve in order that they may have the privilege, for such I believe it to be, of spending their spare time in a productive enterprise which will cer- tainly aid the nation to win the war increasing the means of providing o the forces at the front and for the maintenance of those whose services are so much needed at home. ODROW WILSGN." federal prison at Atlanta, was z2ffirm- | GERMAN PRISONERS TO BE and Walter Scholz, was convicted on | Which Are Being Subjected to Air At- tacks by the Teutons. London, Mar. 14—German prisoners of war are to be distributed over areas The court of appeals reversed the|which the enemy’s aircraft Condensed Teiegrams | The Naval Aissrde. nasds1 000 i cruits at once for service during the! war. B8y labor is the only thing that will maintain the normal - production of P v 5 ADE By DE.|Pennsyivania farms. The War Department authorized the establishment of ‘an army aviation school at Charieston, S. C. \ CAMPAIGN| One hundred men taken in a round- up by Pittsburgh police as draft evad- D ers were sent to Camp Lee, Va. Mike Donovan, the veteran boxer, is critically {ll at the St. Francis hos- Coasts and thef pital, New. York, with pneumonia. Unnaturalized Irishmen in the Unit- ed States are not subject to the drat. They haven’'t waited for the draft. The inland waterways of France and the canals will.be used to tran: 14,—Seventy- port supplies for the- American nTm).l The Senate passed the. bill creating two additional assistant secretaries of war. The House has passed the bill. The longstanding fisheries dispute between Canada and, the United States {was settled for the dufation of the i war. . in the shipyard now in Philip Bahn, SF, founder of the wil- low basket industry in New York State, is dead at S: 3 o el mork | State, is dead at Syracuse, at the age Capt. Archibald Roosevelt, a son of Theodore Roosevelt, was wounded in action with the American forces in France. The Rev. Osiah Boucher was award- { ed the Croix de Guerre for distinguish- ed bravery at the front with American troops. v of idle labor in _The Interstate Commerce Commis- | sion refused to readjust rates on sugar | shipments from New Orleans to South | Atlantic. ports. tion of earance The American and Allied legation: staffs Jeft' Jassy for Odessa with as-} | surances of safc conduct ‘from the Rumanian King. | Metal workers in the shipyards ati Mobile, Ala,, will g0 on strike Monday unless they are given an iramediate increase in wages. General Maurice, director of opera- tions of the British army, announced there were indications of an offensive on the western front. i4.—Japan’'s annowncement of Philip K. Glazebrook, a member of Parliament for Scuth Manchester, and a major in.the Ckeshire Yoemanry, was Killed in Palestine. The department of labor has for- {mally “annotinced the settlement of a’ strike of 500 employes of the Puliman Viant at Wilmingion, Del. powers are ex- Dpeace. terms Judge’ Arthur E. Burr, who took of= fice: on Monday as provate officer for Suffolk country, Masg., dropped dead at -courthouse on Wednesday. The New York Senate will resume the fight over the ratification of the prohibition amendment to the Federal constitution next Wednesday. spiiit of the addressed - to the Further shifts in the American army are ‘indicated. Reduction of several major-generals {o the rank of brigad- ler-general is only the beginning. Word that the Capt. George .T. Bailey, Canadian Army Medical Corps, was Jentenced to three months improsonment at Tor- Dbeen| onto, for slurs on soldiers at the front. The destruction of 400 British towns is asked for in the Berlin Tages Zei- tung as a reprisal for the action of the Allies in taking 400 German ships. The Government has asked the clothing manufacturers to return five cents for every soldier's service coat made without padding in the should- er. of' Russia against bring to an intervention. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, sent to the Russian Soviet -Congress at Moscow, the greeting of the organiza- tion. 14 — Dresident| Major Henry L. Higginson, head of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, de- | clared that Dr. Karl Muck, leader of the orchestra, is a Swiss and not a German. to enroll in the service on religious grounds, were of labor has set| nloced in class Aol thel City engineers in New York have working veserve. | piang’ completed for another bridge across the Bast River. It will con- nect with the Bronx at Old Ferry the | point with Whitestone, The whereabouts of the American engineers, Pursell and Nyl, was learn- ed, and the Chinese bandits who cap- tured them near Yeh-Sien are sur- Dermanepily rounded by Chinese soldiers. em- into] Action of some millers in refusing to observe the regulations regarding profits resulted in the Millers' Com- mittee requesting an inquiry into the conduct of the milling industry. Four nurses and to the Pemnsylvan pital unit jumped into the fcy waters at the Battery to demonstrate the ef- fectiveness of rubber life saving suits which they will wear. dostor attached | Ten thousand dollars was collected in three days in New York to aid in furnishing comforts to the soldiers of King Albert, who are holding the three hundred square miles of unoc- cupied Belgian territory. DANGER ZONES Frederick F. Ayer, millionaire medi- cine manufacturer and financier . of Boston, Mass., died at Thomasville, Myiads of Airmen Daily Are Dropping Bombs or AMERICAN AERIAL SCOUTS DOING GOOD In mainly of artillery duels, trench raids University hos- ( “gaged in Aerial Combat WORK i 't IandOperations the American Troops Continue to Local the Defense of Russia—A German Submarine Attempted to Sink Another British Hospital Ship, With 450 Sick Wounded Soldiers Aboard. O L On the major battle fronts the oper-" ill’uyed by German airmen along n.euP R 75 2 ¢ Franco-Belgian -front. - ations continue, as for weeks past, | Tyt [ fion in Russia and Sfertal apparently is still far from being set- = tled. Although the Germans and Aug-s tro-Hungarians still control territory from Finland to Odessa on the sea, it is not certain lhl£ the Ri will not again take up”arms them. The Bolshevik foreign minists Trotzky, has asserted that he will pose the ratification of the with Germany and advocatg the reof=\ ganization of the army for &e defe B of Russia. Meanwhile influential papers in Germany already are ning to see the loss of Germany’s pres- tige in the far east because of machinations in Russia and to out that Germany's Russian policy “played the game brilliantly” for Great Britain, the United States and Japah. Meagre advices from Constantin indicate that with_the evicustion the Russians o ions k| Armenia, the Turks are again haras$ ing the ‘Armenians, but that the. menians are offering resistance, rum, the principal city in Ar already. has been : reoccupied by Turks. and intensive aerial aotivity by all the opusing forces. In the operations’on land the American troops continue to locate and blow to pieces with their artillery German projectors in the Toul region which the Germans re- cently have been attempting to set i large numbers, in preparation, it believed, for a gas attack on a huge scale. American aerial observers have been doing splendid work in spotting out the gas tubes.and reporting their whereabouts to the artillery. Not alone are the gas throwing im- plements coming in for attention by the American gunners, but. German batteries, trenches, wire entangle- ments and_points: of military concen- tration. and munition dumps also are being given practical demonstrations of the accuracy of aim of the men be- hind the American guns. Additional betteries have been silenced by them, trenches and-wire entanglements have been torn to pieces and ammunition dumps blown up. ‘With' the return of good weather myriads of airmen daily are to be seen over-the battle lines, dropping bombs or in acrial combat. -The British, Freneh. and German air services all |{ Are: claiming numeroys. victories for ejr -aviators in -the rine ' the first 10 dayS of Ma ratone, British airmen’ are credited wi accounting for 79 German planes, while the German war office asserts that on Wednesday 17 enemy machines and three captive balloons were de- b 7 ot withstand s of the hospital does were launched the missiles struck the ve badly damaging it, bt. she to make port with difficulty. MEETING OF DAIRYMEN AND SHEEP GROWERS Pass Resolution Calling For the Con- finement of Dogs. WORLD’S LARGEST REINFO CONCRETE SHIP LAUN( 54 Similar Ships Expected to B pleted Within 18 Months, A Pacific Port, March 14. cessful was the launching Here 1o of the world’s largest reinforced con-, crete ship that her builders.announced they immediately would begin con. struction of fifty-four similar ships, and expected that all wouid be com- pieted within cighteen months. Sixteen wecks from the day the concrete was poured into the forms, the | 7,900 ton ship, christened “Faith” took | the water. The huge huil ureenlnd] sharply as it slid sidewise down &! steeply pitched incline, threw up & huge wave in the narrow estuary, then righted sharply ang rode like a ‘buoy.{ - Not a hitch marred the operation. ¥n- | gines will be installed at once and"the | Faith put into commission as rapidly as she can be fitted out, and given & ial trip, it was announced. 3 Experts who witnessed the Jaunching predicted that concrete construction would mark a new era in shipbuilding iand that the speed with which sueh|. ships could be turned out undoubtedly | woulq have an important bearing om ! the allies’ successful prosecution of thf | war. 7 Quality rather than grace is expresss ed iIn the concrete ship's lines, SHe looks as if she might have been carved out of rock, so massive is her- builde, Engineers for the company also said{ that reinforced concrete had, contrary ta_popular impression, notable flexi- bility under strain and would, there= fore, he able to stand the stress sea duty. Hartford, Conn., March 14.—Declar- ing that by reason of the ravages of uncontrolied dogs the sheep industry in this state has become virtually ex- tinet, and also that more than 139 per- scns’ jn Connecticut have been bitten by rabid dogs within the past year, ymen and sheep gtowers of Con- necticut at a meeting here today with a sub-committee of the food supply committee of the state council of d fence adopteda resolution to be pre- sented to the next gentral assembly favoring remedical legislation. The resolution follows: “Whereas in excess of 150 citizens of Connecticut have -been bitten by rabid dogs within the past year, and “Whereas, the sheep industry has practically become extinct within this state by the ravages of uncontrolled dogs, and “Whereas, human life, wool, mutton and livestock pyoducts are of such great importance in the world's crisis, be it “Resolved, that .the livestock men of Connecticut do hereby favor the en- actment of a law that will confine all dogs in the state to the owners' prém- ises when not on leash or in absolute control.” A resolution was also adopted urg- ing the bringing into the state of more livestock for breeding purposes and food. & FIRE IN BUCKINGHAM BUILDING, WATERBURY. Auditorium With Remarkable Acous- tic Conditions Ruined. TO HOLD SERIES OF .? WEEKLY WAR CONFERENCES | ary Committes With the War Council. = Washington, March 14.—A new pol- fey of co-operation was inaugurated | today when the war department called in the senate military committee for.i the first of a series of weekly confer ences. with the war _council. The. status of military preparations an operations were laid frankly before the senators-in confidence. Similar meet- ing with the house committee will bes gin tomorrow. Senator Hitchcock of Neb said later that over-sanguine rep had been put out concerning the tion programme and that the departs ment was investigating the question. = Waterbury, Conn., March 14, —Buck- ingham Hail building, at the corner of {Grand and Bank streets, and next to the postoffice, was partly burned this afternoon. Not only was this one of {the most pretentious ‘business struc- tures but it contained an auditorium which had remarkable acoustic con- ditions. This portion of the building is_ruined. The fire itself was held to the upper stories. The loss had not been esti- mated, The city will suffer in a gen- eral way, as the Buckingham auditori- um was practically the only place in which public concerts .could be given under satisfactory conditions. Senate M MIDDLETOWN YOUTH PRISONER OF 'WAR IN GERMANY. Joseph Gassar, 16, Enlisted Under are sub-|Ga. He was 96 years old. Mr. Ayer half the proportion will be reversed. |judgment of conviction on one indict- | jecting to atiack in their raids, accord- |had been spending the ~winter here. —_— Tent but sustamed it on the other, |ing to the Evening News today. “This,” | He.was born in Ledyard, Conn. CAUGHT IN PROPELLER BLADES OF AIRPLANE. Corporal Favreau of Indian .Orchard, Mass,, Lost Half His Face. San Antenio, Tex., March 14—When an airplane he was attempting to start at Kelly field No. 2 this morning.sud- denly lurched forward, Corporal Cyril J. Favreau, -29, of Indjan Orchard, peller blades. and the lower half of his face torn away. At the base hos- pital, Fort Sam Houston, it was said tonight Favreau will live. They will also note the same German fagpia determined to prevent receiving food supplies except upon German terms.” - o ¢ iam, women, have been deported stipulating that its decision would not | says the newspaper, “is being done be- cause the allied governments have learned that prisoners of tseir nation- |operator, was found guilty of murder alities in German hands reduce the sentence imposed. CITY OF CHARLESTON, W. VA, George Tompkins, Philadelphia coal already hove |in the first degree in connection with l: d ingall towns which the |the shooting to death last July of Mrs. CONFRONTED BY FLOOD. | Sooe Peaconony ke Sine Ho f i’ the rman government R ¥ Business is at a Standstill and the City | °° */**< Darkness. Charléston, W. Va., March 14 —With the falling of another heavy rain late Mass, was caught in the whirling proJ {today. the city of Charleston tonight |1t is Free from lce, Except for Fl ing Cakes. was confronted by the worst flood conditions since 1901. Business was e at a standstill with water filling the Hartford, Conn., NAVIGATION RESUMED ON CONNECTICUT RIVER. considers likely to [ Caroline Humphries, by a jury in the criminal court at Ebensburg, Pa. The commissions on union of the Presbyterian .Church, north, and the Presbyterian Church, south, failed to agree upon a plan for the proposed merger of the two great church bodies at the final session of the joint con- ference at Atlantic City. March 14—The cellars of the principal business places. | Connecticut river is practically free| Secretary Daniels today instructed ‘The flood had put power plants out of | of ice, except for floating cakes, be- |ail commission- and the'city was in dark- | tween here and Long Island sound, and | tion, to give-42 hours leave begirning |' The flood affects about threé|navigation was resumed today with [with the evening of March B7 to men spirit toward Holland, which Germany |square miles of - territory in, the city. |the departure from {his city of a tug|of Jewish faith in the nav¥ that they » The Hartford-New'| men . and | York line steamers will start ness. P - and four barges. All. Germans - in S to India. Friday. AT . val commanders, in their discre- v bbserve the Feast of the Pass- on|cver. Similar orders were given in ~ lthe army last week. trips BALFOUR CONFIDENT OF JAPAN'S LOYALTY, In Carrying Out Any Decision That Might be Reached With Allies. London, March 14—Speaking in the. house of commons today on the situa< | Name of Kowaleski. Middletown, Conn., March 14—The probability that it is Joseph Gassar and not Joseph Kowaleski of this city Who is a prisoner of war at Branden- burg, Germany, developed today with the receipt of a letter- by Mrs. Fred- eri¢k Gassar of this city from her son Joseph in which under date of Dec. 12, 1917, he told of having been cap- tured by the Germans. He enlisted under the name of Joseph Kowaleski, His letter said, having - procured Kowaleski's birth certificate, himself was under 16. About a month ago word was re- ceived here through the Red that Joseph Kowaleski of Middletown was a prisoner of war at Brandenburg. out any decision that might be ed and declared that in this : he had drawn no distinction between. | Japan and the other allies. of securing the. freedom of small. tions and saving the world from domiination of one greedy power, Balfour said, nothing could be unfortunate than the coincidence be: 2 hmakm?nn‘m-fl" 5= war that was. be ed by sia and her allies. He was an optims" ist about Russia. he add nof as he Mrs. Simon Jurszak, 40 years old, burned by the explosion of an oil stove at her home in Middletown, died Yesterday afternoon at a hospital there. G g