Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 18, 1918, Page 1

City | Nurtheast of Od&ssa GIVES GERMANS WATER ROUTE OF EREAT VAI.UE Nem — TheSw:etConpeanmequohetharufy ing the Peace Treaty With Germany—Before Adjourn- |7 mg&eCmpuspraved!heRmvdoftbeCapiul FromPetrogndtoMucow—NoCbmgem&cSmmn in Siberia is Noted—At Numerous Places the British /i Are Under Heavy Bombu&nenb——N&r Toul the American Guns are Active—On - _the * Austrian-Italian | class. In 1395 he was given the de- . FmMmlndiumde:eTeuhmueShofl lybAttunptBlgOlfmve. With the ratification of thn treaty of peace with Germany, the Soviet con- gress In Moscow has dissolved. = But the Germans have not vet ceased their iuroads into Russia’s riches: territory fa the south. Nikolayev, the great navy yard city northeast of Odessa and ‘headguarters of the high command ef the Russian Black Sea fleet, is tlie lat- est prize that has been wrested from the Russians. Situated at the mouth of the Bug River, the capture of the town gives the Germans a water route of great value through the rich agri- cultura) country from Volhynia to the Black Up to the ias: some of the Chiet members of the Soviet congress op- posed the hard terms of the Germans, but to no avail. Warning was sounded by several of them of a further Ger- man attack and of the necessify :for amalgamafing for resistance. ' Before adjournmeént the congzress. -approved the removal of the capital from Pe- trograd fo Moscow and late dispatches 'say that Petrograd has now been com- pietely ‘evacuated . No change in the situation in Si- beria Ras heen noted. As late ag Sat- urday the Jupanese, according to Pre- mier Terachi. had not decided that ould be done ‘by Japan with regard 0 the menace pf the Bolskeviki :nfl |the Tierman ments who are .l m h\\':ah i nl%‘ mig} Un ue- B & the «mtlre hv-n Japancse on. Inereass in Fighting MV‘ly th the &pprosch of, aay witnesses r_n interease and nnmery ars ;| - the North Sea to the Swiss fron sses with- ) out numer “patrol” enclmnlcn. which ut times reach the intensit; al- | most of hattles. and ariiliery. duels. f6 violence but Yittie short of thi= groat exchanges of shells which in the past year reaches ‘t e high water. matk in intensity. Probably. fl'u- most nmbmo the altempts b the French troops over a wide front in the Verdun sector. The attack Fas delivered after preparatory. & fire lasting ten ho Berlin .war office That the charaeter ment that the troops came into to hanq encounter. It is claimed by Betlin that at another point in this r gidn the Germans penetrated Franch Dbatialion, mg the Bri i frov 5 Haig’s man are under heavy hombavlmnn's from | Sweden lupphu “ per eent. “of the iron. ore used by Germany. Aviator Paul F. Baer of Fort Wayne PHEMIEH TERAUCHI HAB SO IN- ['downed a German airplane. FORMEB PARI.IAMENT CHURCH AND SEVERAL 'OTHEF G-r-lm hdhlu Russiar wl\.m gl n:srnovzn The total amannt of loans now ex- Thnrsdzy March - 14 (Vh tended to.the allies is $4,960,600,000. Il eported that are trying, to organize two | German war -prisoners Mud rained from the ‘skies at Co- THE ARMY IS WARED lumbuu :0., 5o the weather forecaster m-mmbcm cITY 'wo cavalry corps also are Maximalists in Siberia have mur- dered 150 Japanese at Blaguvlm Tank Ste; hip Tried to Esca it hensk, capital of the Amur provi ince. I z edr The 21-story Century building, No. 74 Broadway, New York, was sold to Franklin Paltll fo! 31500 000. Sflm J belnl fn’l'med. The Press is Almost Un Urging Mablmn n, But the Con- stitutional Pnny s Onond. The Plants of the Johnstown Tribune -‘-m‘l Johnstown Leader Were Dam- lpd—On'm of Fire is Unkmwn. v.rk-‘wmne{ sten, Conn., March 17.—Hen- a’g right, fofer dean of mfi ‘his home here v;on g@ hld been in hiHn‘ health ime. Professor ‘Wfllht wn; hom at Win- Surgeon Gemul Gorgas uppnhd to congress for additions to the medical | , AR Atlantic Port, March 17—At the corps to safeguard the health of the|g oS e between 3 Johnston, Pa. March 17—Fire tcday roved the First Lutheran church. the Lincoln building, the Suppes build- ing and several other business build- Insl on Franklin street. and the George Kline store on ‘Main street, a block an ipsurance loss of 00 in.the heart of the city, Mr. mm alleges the destruction of his property was caused by an incen- The plants of the Johnstowr. Tribure ahd Johnstown Leader were damaged. THe origin of the fire is not Tokio, Saturday, March 16.—Premier Terauchi and Foreign Minister tono told - parliament had been décided upon with reference to the Siberian situation. The military situation has reached a state of perfected preparedness. t night the Selyukai (constitu- ) party, the largest in the diet, held a conference and reaffirmed its position taken at a recent meeting in opposition to immediate mobilization. Press Urges Mobilization. The press is almost unanimous in The Asahi Shim- and the Yorodzu Choho say tHey are unable to understand America's *‘excessivie generosity” sia, now giving supplies to Germany and imperiling the stores at Vladivos- | tok. Suspicions in regard to Japan weaken the allies, they aesert, adding that it is Japan's duty to work in @e interests of the peace of humanity by assisting to crush Germany. kumin Shimbun issues a call to arms, saying that Amerjca friendly but mistaken. The Asahi Shimbun of Osaka. voices the opinion widely held among the middle classes that extensive. mobili- zation would create acute distress i dustrially and in regard to food sup- today nothing Hai Velie of Chicago, a quarter- : mRshe af the seconf iclesaty {hio sval e et apparently was sunk, ac- a flying reserve, was accidentally killed ing to officers of the American tered Yale in the fall u! 1!“. 'ulhx graduated four years vale- lctoflmo(hiachsaudvdfixm highest | mndlng ever attained by ‘any “He was made tutor in A u:fisu.nP in 1871 nnfl professor ‘of Latin in 1876. In 1884 he was chosen to fill the newly created position of dean of the college and held that office until 1909, when Dhe ‘retired.. -He was secrstary of his ing mobilization. The interstate commerce commi: f : - aranted on increase”of 16" per cent.on| 'z Encounter in Bristo) Channel. in The firet took place in the Bristol 5 w s ion DEMONSTRATION AGAINST { PRO-GERMAN. PDAPAGANDA i"rm of doctor of laws by Union col- At Covington, Kye—R ult of Govern- He is survived by his wife, a dhugh— ter and two sons. The eldest son, || Prof. Henry B. Wright, of the Yale e suhool of religion, is now .engaged i general commodity freight rates eastern _ territory. ment. Horu: Poisoned There. w March 17.—A crowd umnled fl! 10,000 which included men, ‘women and children here this after- noon, participated in de demonstration of He was a|against what is believed to be . pro- German propaganda in Covington as - | exemplified by the poisoning of 500 of 726 government artillery horses. ship~ ped from Camp Grant, IlL, for an At~ ot T. Hadley tonight said: brilliant scholar and an able teacher, beloved by both faculty and studen Puarticularly, violent has been the pounding of the shells along the Bapaume-Cambrai - road, Scarpe valley and around Lens. Only one enemy infantry tempted. This ‘occurred north of Lens and. was repulsed. The British were in similar ‘manouvres near Epehy and Cavrelle. American Gunners Active. / On the, ‘American front near Toul the Americans are ever on the alert and frequently open up with their suns against German positions and compel the enemy to evacuate the sectors un- der ‘fire. Posts ‘occupied by snipers listeners and nests of machint gunners recently have been effectively taken care of by the American gun- “The Germans, hoflver, are not permitting the men 0 do all the shoetinz, selves are at times putting the Amer- icans under an extraordinarily heavy artillery fire in which explosive shells of large calibre’ and gas misstfes are used. The Toul sector apparentiy has neen yn:uq Ly the Germans as a fa- .spot upon which - to expend LhGiE nexiols gases, although Luneville has_ not heen forgotten by them in gt R , ms ‘are not wapting from the Inoreass fn the activity- on th - o Au:u,a-ufmq:; : the Germans. Taised by subscription from among his former pupils, stands as a monument | jan¢ic ta the affection ~with which he Was attack was_at- would be appalled if they knew real shipping situation Ten thousand others were unable to get near the field outside the stock- ade of the Covington stock yards, wherein lay the carcasses of hundreds of animals and tbe steadily diminishing number of survivors of the poison plot. ‘Emotions" of the throng had been ch. 17.—Samuel | aroused to a high pitch of patriotic for eight years|fervor when an interruption from a - | man - giving the eral assembly | Schmidt, 22 years old, rearly bmught rs aj ied at his home | about his lynching. here today, at 68 years. 3 Horace L. Bundy. Hartford, Conn., March L. Bundy, a retired portrait phato pher, whose work had attracted u(eu* meeting decided - to tion about the state, and a collaborator| to congress calling upon ihe congres- i pended. of the late Charles Noel Flage of this | sional lawmakers to evact a law in- 1 city, died at his home here today, aged | terning every ememy. slien within ‘the | Commune of Petrd borders of the United States and nal ing more stringent the Jaws gov all seditious and traitorous acts. _The investigatie: of {of the horses is “To Yale men of every age and pro- fession ‘the news of his death “will direct . personal nate . judiciary EVACUATION OF PETROGRAD 'HAS BEEN COMPLETED. None of #he Population Will Be Per- mitted to Lcava Hereafter. T.ondon, Thursdny, evacuation of Petrograd has - hbeen At it was, he was!completed, according to a Reuter des- severely beaten hefars police locked {patch from that city, quoting an offi- cial communication. imlation wiil be permiited to leave the \mde!' the auspices of the Citizens' Pa-iecity hereafter and in order to make order is obeyed all hpusenger “iain service has been sus- brmx a feeling Both house and senate i adopted the conference report on the BEFORE WAR CRITICIZED statewide . prohibition bill, now go to the governor. Texas which will March 14—The Colonel Roosevelt cabled to Captain Archie, that he was “more proud than can be imagined for. his receiving the war crpss.” s son, Began. None of the pop- The. mass meeting of proiest was e Sea A a memorial government to take The council of commissaries o zrad,” which wxll be the official designiition of Petrograd ing(and the district surrn\mdmg it in fu- ” !tur 6, has-authorized the reappearance of the ' poisoningof all so-called ourgeoise newspapers ng conductsd by which had heen suppréssed since the ‘ederal: agents and it is md that' sr - bol‘“:flfn the 11 Covi 2 £t A srtmzk 18 DRIFTING HELPLESSLY prec: | Her Prodillar Has Been (’erud Aw:y Off the Canadian Coast. Paris authori theatres, movjng pictures shows that are not near some place of |and justifying to personal (;xg’nd; his shelter from: the John Henry Capstick. representative s’ from zhe Fifth district r-ey, ied eplg tndur n.t hj- fi nnnin; of t)ne German offens "{riven wtian Atlatic purt © Governor Hunt, of Anum, has n& dal. A ,ed Colonel Morgan, his troops now stationed | Globe-Miami mining district. ith' “artillery eume from the in several transports ed by an ice breaker, guards refused o surrender and the Gdrmms bombarded the town for half forcing the Red -uards to The Germans l\usslan torpedo boats and some mine an .. Mr. Capstick wu £ remncm Samuel P, Dav . 5 March 17—Samyel , puet, humorist and newspa- known as “Sam Da- his home here toda. )avis was one ‘of the journa’a at Vir- N. Y., seized ’“r mj“f‘ il A Canadian Port, March Russion steamer was' drift; Iy‘in the Atlantie® propeller was: carried the vessel sent out wireless ¢ al Sinee then she has dri ed over two hundfed mile: A government steamer. _was ordered ta the rescue from ¢ i barrier of ice prevented reaching open sca dispatched from here was communication with the Ru have sufficient coal lone. ukewlu in Maced & ‘great xnm i Al a most. fll ol' Lhe from Take Oshrida. eastward Loe guns bf Loth sides are hnimerlnn Two United States ambulance driv- {ers were commended by American and I"rench officers for bravery for remov-| ~Our wounded men on the battieficld. | PRISONERS BRUTALLY EXECUTED BY THE BOLSHEVIKI | ! Some Have Been Burned to Death and Others Beheaded. mous nurmg the Bonanza days of the Comstock Jode. Mr. Davis came here in 1875 and for more than three decades figured prom- in.the newspaper history Word reached Truro, N. S., that 20 men were burned to death when the|to lumber camp of A. A. Sutheriand at was destroyed by G um on totally town of Monastir and remaining remnants of its civilian pop- wn again has been lerce bomhardment by A second steamer| -Loriion, Saturday, ) Alvin Siding, N. to the Daily M tells of tortures that are the Bolsheviki ious licalities. says’'that in Voronezh thP du\l“ has been revived for turg- . and that in Kazan four veasants, adjudged guilty were condemned to be hurned 1380 he marnied Mrs. 1 idow of Harry \(imhles ed: ity Appeal. assum- ing ownership of that publicatior, Fx’e was born at Branford. i He is-survived by two flal ghters. One of his brothers, Robert is, is editor-in-chief of the Mun- publications in New York, placed ynder ¢ heavy" -projectiles and tais " attack forty more of the mon- combatant populace were killed. Both Austria xnd Hnn experiencing a_ Twenty-six persons were announced 2s missing after a collision in the §t. jeorge’s channel between naval vessel and the British steamer Tritish fo port for a fuel g supply and will taks up the search for the ‘Russian tomorrow. GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY CALLS FOR FERZRAL TROOPS To Protect Oil Producers From Mob nEary again are | ;. m in proness! n Pudapeut and 'thu and -threats intervention against the dluaflufled workmen -have been made. German newspapers continue to cry | alond for an intensification of Ger- i submarine ‘w-rf.re in conse- auence of the decision by States ang Great Brifain to take over Holland’s mefcantile marine lying in American and. allied ports. Lord Newton announced in the house of lords the other day that there were 49,817 combatant prisoners of war in Engiand and that 4,000 more are ex- pected shortly. BERLIN MAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT. Harry Smith, Widely Known as an Author and Writer of Plays. The entire nopulace of the viilage, says the correspondent. execution in Barnapol, Siberia, of four had been condemned the boys were pullic- . while the other was tor- his head was erush- Tn Zmievo the merchants were each- ordered to hand over one hun- witnessel the k Borland amendment to the legislative bhill to in- crease the working hours of govern-| Ppince Lichnowsky goes on to say ment employes so as they will work a d full eight' hours a day. 3 17—Goyernor toright wired Chicago, asking that 2 wmmnv ‘tured and finall ch 17.—Harry James ! Smith of Perlin, Conn.. regarded by the ross ae the foremost American Red STRIKES AGAIN. N RROGRESO IN AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. One in Budnpn! is Band to Bc Anum‘ ing Large Proportions. Amsterdam, Marca Strikes are again in progreas in Austria and Hun- @ary dnd are spreading rapidly, ac- cordinz to reports appearing Ger- A Vienna despatch r Zeitung of LBremen, dated says that o sirike -has begun dapest and is aseuming large prnwr!lon«x legraphiic communication bstween Budlwk and Vienna was suspended on Thursday. A Vienna despatch to the Anzeiger of Rerlin coniirms the report of last week that workmen in rallway shops have gone on strike. It says Vienna and neighboring in- dustrial centers ave affected by the moévement. ' The men in the railway sh pa of oue line quit work on Tues. 7 and were joined on Wednesday by thé sh rkers of other rmilways. | Under (hreat of military intervention the men ‘returned to the shops, but did not work., BRITISH AIRPLANES MADE ' Thirteen Tonz of Bombs Were. Dropps on the Enemy's Billets, Londen . March 17.—Great bombing raids agains; Cermany have: been car- ! ried out by British airpianes. The of- ficial announcement of the raid say: we again raided Qer- barracks and raii- way station at Kaiserslautern (Pava- ria). Dirat bits were observed at the station and a Jarze fire broke eut. larze number. of. o machines, which were dtiven off, All of our ma- chines. mtunx "O. y thirteen to:is of bombs on the enemy’s billets, {'plans ‘to retu Bcb\thed e:mnhn:! venty<four hou And thres two hoestile o n!romf.v i "“Ei A # the 4ct of rising was seen posal to protect oil Signboard field of counties where mob violence ha: resorted to in a quarrel over Tights between the Southwestio: troleurn rompnn;n which ig de dred thousand rubles. ed to do so had stones tied about the necks and were thrown into the viver. ANNIVERSARY OF BRITISH EVACUATION OF BOSTON 142¢d War Observed ‘in the South Bos- ton District Yesterday. 5 ) Gt . o fatl American authority on sphagnum. ‘oducers in the Those who fai SECRETARY BAKER TALkS WITH PRIVATE SOLDIERS During His Inspestion of Military Establishments. _ imedical corps tute for cotton 2 before n-surgical dress- ings. was killed today in an automo- il Yew Westminsior. | accident near British. C¢ mmnbm Cross service. Mr. Smith was Wlde]x Lrown as an author and as the writer of several successful plays. He had heen engaged work since 1806, part of the time gs at assistant editor of the 'Atlantic Month- s itkiller ass fieadi o Tant and driven away. Y ~was:burned and threats .sent to the heads of the company. K. OF C. NEW YORK CAMPAIGNING FOR 32,500 A derrick- and oil ker's Special Tram in Fra ce, Thursday. (By The Associated Press.) 1~ n b iof inspeection' of American military establishments today Secretary Rufkes tently to tatk with pri impression, and that of tu of lhe civilian members of the par- | ty, ne men are well housed end fed, and. want to get on with their that Boston, Mar. 17 arsary of the evacuation of Boston bx sh_troops was observed in the Doston district - today the customary parade of mili ews of Mr. Smith’s death was, re- Major John A medical resnr\e U Red €ross nttmra.l afl S0t zical dressing, from Professor W. Hotson of the University of Washing- ton at Seattle, norithwestern Five Thousand Teams to Canvass the Archdiocese Until March 25, i i Stars and Stripes from rvesidences and public buildings were reminders that 1 of the district who took part in the parades of former years were fighting on Europ- ¢an battlefields alongside the British: Patriotic exercises were held iv muricipal building with Congressman James A. Gallivan as orator of New York, March 17— of (‘olumbus of New Yori night their campaign for $2,700,(00 for a Catholic. war fund with a n\es:m" at the Hippbdrome attended by tary of the Navy Daniels, Farley .and clergymen of various de- nominations. Five . thousand teams will the archdiocese of New March 25 for the funds maintain chaplains with the American troops and to conduct social welfare work at the camps here and abroad. It Small gangs of German prisoners were ancountered. Usualy They gazed curious] v of war and me commander-in~ A prominent x associated wi and will On behalf of the Read Cross, Mi Smith went to Canada at his own ex pense about a year ago’'to make study of the sphagnum suoply. work he co-operated ‘wi Porter of McGill ' University tire sphabnum commission of (‘:nadn Returing to the United States, he do- nated a car of the moss to the Red Cross and then went to the Canadian Northwest on a mission :Lgflm con: nected with the moss, © < Major Hartwell said today that Mr. Smith was the. onlv authoritv in thé United States on these eties of this growth which ars needed for furgical dressings. Mr, Smith was born in New Britdin, ‘onn., on May 24, 1880, was graduaterd from Williams coilege in 1902, received an A, M. degree from Harvard two vears later and ‘was an instructor at Wilhams and 4t Oberiin. CAMPAlNG FOR BOY WORKERS OPENS TODAY st Qum Due From Cofimcfi:ut, u‘PIlcdd 99500, Neitr the harbor aeve!o ments ul-u the secretary inspected stem of warehouses. pleted there will bo rows of one stury ‘warehouses covering about 2,000 acres. stratehing out for three.and one-nalf ijes, to 2 depth df.a mile. Clonstruction has been begun of a hospital which will have 20,000 beds It will be the'largest in the world The RAIDS IN GERMANY. frxfl!h have the next hrg"s' one, with The Mexican government the’ seven sleamer;i arnd m'l:1 lu;i.a 5 requisition rom the . Mexi- can Navigation commission, to be turn. | S oung) and preparations wate made ed over to the Commission Reguladora de Henequen of Yucatan. E S £ ulations were strictly enforced and to Community drying kitchens for pre- | o couta any persons found violating serving food products are to be es-|gp. " e Reports - indicated that in tablished in every community through- | o past few days large amounts of out New York state, it was announced Jiquor had been shipped here from following a meeting gfhthet S?'e got“‘; New York. Boston and Providence for of Charities, attended by food.and fuel . Sdministrators from nearly every eity,| h° Use Of residents of the dlty at Syracufe, N. Y. A LARGE FARMHOUSE = - IN HOSKINS BURNED $1,000. Secreted in an Old Coat Was Part of the $5,000 Loss. el ordered Te- 'DUTCH CABINET HELD LONG NIGHT SESSION. *1it is Said the Government Has Ac- cepted the Demand of the All was announced that $300,000 already had been subscribed and that :newbers of other creeds were 2iding generous- Iy in the drive. TROOP TRAIN DERALILED Jodis BY DEFECTIVE SW!TH Five Miles South of Schell City, Mo.— Only One Private Injured. Schell City, Mo, March 17.—Cbarles of Charleroi, Ya., a soldier, was the, onlv person_injured when a troon New York and” Penn- The Hague; March 17 inet council lasting into the night, the government cabled to London a mes- sage whieh, according to reliable in- formation. probably satisfactory conc¢lusion ot the shipping —-After a’ cab- SECRETARY M’ADOO TO MAKE 8"EAKING TOUR‘ varicus vari- Of South, M:ddl. West and East onl ¢, Behalf - of Tblrd Likerty Loan. An Amsterdam despatch on Satur- |day safd it had been learned on ex- cellent authority that the Dutch gov- ernment. had accepted the demand of | the allies relating to the use of Dutch ships in' the danger zone. 49 'NAMES APPEAR IN - LATEST CASUALTY LIST, igl Men Died of Din;u-—om { Wnshm;ton. March 17. — Seeretary cAdoo will miake a’speaking tour of the south, middle Wwest and. east on “Our. formation was attacked: by a | behalf of the third Liderty ioan, be- ginning &t Philadelphia on Qamr:h\ Apru 6, ‘the upenina du) of ‘the «m g Adznn&. the 1ilés south’ of here ‘at 3 o'clock - thls farmhouse in Hoskins, Five coaghes le g the, tracks, severs none’ turning, over. i utt sufisred two broken ribs ‘and a tained back. ngton, h —Quotas s which uch state is to furnish in campaign to enlist a Boys’ Work- r Reserve of 250,000 for the farms, which opens tomorrew, was announced by the department ‘of lnbnr tonight Tke) inginde the Gonrecticut 9,500 " The troops were placed on another detoured over the railtoad, continuing (tlhq!r Joumey with' only a few hours Wuhlngtm, Max-c; 14.—Fnrty-nlne names appear on today's casualty 1 war department. mnt I'none of !he “hostile muchines were (ho third g .wmdrd nvbtely and lhl sPflps With” rel 5 éflafi(‘ o!p- Plnnss'iva‘nm 4 5 = 20020 officer named 1! Tirst Delnwnu 1,»00 and Maryland the family of Joseph McElroy. irold )L Hirsh, 'elightly house was owned by " ¢.mard of Simsbury. Switzerland now- lhl‘hh 26,000 in- | terned war pnsonen’. ¥ AT END OF AN HOUR’S BATTLE IN BRISTOL CHANNEL U-BOAT BEGAN' FIRING Later Halted and Gave Battle—One of the Crew Was Wounded. submarine and an American tank steamship, the Paulsboro of the Vacuum Oil Co. which arrived today, vessel. One of Crew Wounded. ments were returned at| One of the crew on the tanker was" ‘Wichita, Kan,. against 35 I W. . members. Some were interned for the | marine. Two other shots struck the duration of war. wounded by a shell fired by the sub- American, ship, which was not seri- ously damaged. channel on Feb. 24. The American vessel was about 24 hours out from James E. Aller, chauffeur for Ross|% British port when the U-boat was M. Turner, a New Yorker, was fined | Sighted. The tanker tried to escaps heavily for alleged reckless driving in|20d Was pursued. After the Ameri- Greenwich, Conn. can vessel had been within torpedo range for some time without any at- General Ludenorff declared in an in- | émpt being made to sink her in this terview at Cologne that Germany is|Wa¥, the U-boat began shelling her. much stronger in every department than her enemies. Tanker Halted and Gave Battle. The tanker ‘halted and gave battle. Qenator Jones, speaking in the sen- | The officers said the shrapnel shelis declared that American people | ired by the American gun crew. either the | fell short or passed over the U-boat for a time, but finally one struck the submarine fairly in the center and she With administration forces in con- | disappeared immediately. Ahe Ameri- committee | an vessel is one of about 4,000 tons” sume consideration of the | 8Toss. Overman bill tomorrow. GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY By Prince Lichnowsky, German Am- bassador at London When the War Stockholm, March 17.—The foreign policy of the German government be- fore the war is criticized severely in German newspapers are urging the|, memorandum written by Prince action | Tichnowsky, German ambassador at against Holland if she accedes to the | London when the war began, which is shipping agreement. published in the Politiken, organ of the extreme left of the socialists. The s decided to closs | memorandum was written in August, all 11916, for the purpese of position, which had been assailed. Only haif a dozen typewritten copies =4 of the document were made. One of ef copy was communicated A 'to with-|to certain members of. the minority at | socialist party, of Germany, but how it Bot across the German fromtler re- ery. ty Food Administrator Albert| After describing the circumstances of Watertown, uw\ pounds of flour hoarded.in lhe home' ,nf a Carthage grecer, and sold i which led to his appointment in 1912 aAs ambassador to England, Prince Lichnowsky says the “moment ' un* | doubtedly was favorable .for a new attenot to establish a better footing with England. He continues: enigmatical Moroccan policy has repeatedly shaken confidence in our peaceful dispesition.. An Austrian collecague who was long in Paris said’ ame: Tf the French begin to forget their desire for revenge for the ¥ran- co-Prussian war, you regularly remind them of it by treading heavily on their toes.” ‘After the rejection of the attempt of Delcasse (then foreign minister of France) to reach an agreement con- cerning Morocco and after deciaring that we had no politi®al interesws there, we suddenly recognized in Abd- el-Aziz (then sultan of Morocco) a Kruger No. 2. Our attitude promoted the Russo-Japanese and Russo-British rapprochements. In the face of the German peril. all other conflicts fell into the background. The possbility of a new Franco German war had be- come evident.” that on his arrival in London he found Sir Edward (now Viscount) Grey (then British foreign secretary) had not Dr. Philip C. Becker of New York, ) ) = and Harry Walters an ex-soidier of Beach, were arraigned Commissionér Hitcheock on a charge of Aruzging soldters to make them unfit | Sor O Apheres. . The aimCof the given up the idea of reaching an agreemerit with Germany and as a be- ginning made an attempt in economic British statesman was not to isolate Germany but to induce Germany to ; take part in' the already established Henry C. Wallace, of Des Moines, 1 o cditor of a farm publication, told the | somginy Tatmemo g the causes of Senate Agricultural railroad embargoes have cost farmers and stock raisers millions in the last friction between England and Ger- many and to secure the peace of the world by a network of aZreements. 49 LIQUOR STORES ‘Fellow employes at the Illinois Cen- CLOSED AT NEWPORT, tral railroad shops at Paducah, Ky., seized Marshall Meyers, kiss the flag and declare his allegiance to the United States. A rectaurant that will accommodate | poeaPoTh B T, Mareh 17_Socretary 850 persons at cne ), > Nex: o vve T & 0hy” 1 BrdinleSiat et fUATor Wi G- ilte oF She Mo at Washington by the government, for g & " 5 the convenience of.the employes of the yestieday. . wifiThe refult Spt A6 ex ordnance department. him | Those' Within F e Miles of the New- port vaal Station, Daniels’ order prohibiting the sale of port naval station went into' effect ®|loons and wholesale liquor sto: in this city were forced out of b £ Efforts to gain an extension of time to allow the dealers to close out their business more profitably were un- to stop all sales at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Local and government offi- cials were ready to seé that the reg- MOTORCYCLE CRASHED INTO TELEGRAPH POLE Georne K. Smith of Bridgeport Killed, * Harold Belcher linjred. \mford Conn, Mar, 17.—Georse K. Simsbury, Conn., March 17.—A: large | Smith of Bridgeport, kas killed and a suburb of | Harold Belcher, also of Bridgeport, se- and occupied by two fami- | verely cut and ‘bruised ‘when their mo- es,. was burned today with its con-|torcycle crashed into a telegranh pole tents, causing a loss. esti d about $1,000, which Antony Perchow-|about two miles from Milford g:m; ai|and a fence on the highway today gky, who occupied the upper tenement with his family, had secreted in an old coat in the attics ’ ed in the attic from a defective chim- ney, it is believed, and that part of the house was. cntirely ablaze before the|fore it stopped, a fire -was-discovered. - The lower tenement was occupted b | hit by an automobile, which cansed it The | to skid. = Smith was about 35 years Mrs. Jay Bar- old and leaves a 'gife. Belcher is about The ‘fire start- a twisted mass. Belcher claims that the mchhe was