Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 22, 1918, Page 1

s B Germans Attacked In Waves With Greatly Superior Numbers of Men ERE INFLICTED ON THE ENEMY HEAVY LOSSES W ‘Betlin Claims That 183 American Prisoners and 25 Machine | bu Guns Were Captured By the Germans—Attempts of Specially Trained Germans to Crush the Americans Were Frustrated—That a Great Sea Battle Is In Prospect at an Early Date Seems Probable—British and French Troops Are Aiding the Bolshevik Troops to Protect the Mour- mansk Coast Against the Finnish White Guard. S i The German high command having Likewise, all the terrain which the been unsuccessful in plercing the)French in this region were forced to British front in Flanders and separat- | give up temporarily has now been re- ing the British and French armies,|taken. The German official communi- essayed a stroke against the|cation in what seemingly is a half- Amerjcans and the French southwest)hearted admission that the attack was of Toul—and here also it seemingly |repulsed and that the Germans lost has failed utterly to bring its plans ;hat thae‘y( hatcrl' g;tn:l«_ific z‘tgu ot:re Ger- to fruition. ans, “after the dest n enemy Although the Germans attacked in|works, returned to their lines of de- ‘waves with greatly superior numbers | parture.” of men, the Americans and Frenchmen | Just what the Germans are planning have held all their positions ang in- |for the future on the long line north- flicted heavy losses on the enemy.|ward irom La Bassee to Ypres, where ‘What gains were made in the initial [everywhere they have met during the o hts have been entirely re-|past week with a stone wall of resist- tri and Sunday night saw the|ance, has not yet become apparent. American and French lines restored. Nowhler: hnge &flhwdthrfnwznh dowI)ll tt'lie lates . |sauntlet and offered further e e-'zl;:: -ua:u&tlgg 'x)u:fl czx;l %",',':f;‘"{’;; against the staunch line that is facing 5 § them. They have, however, on nu- ,American prisoners and 25 machine Buk /guns were captured by the Germans,|Merous sectors carried out violen ‘8vho cut their way for about a mile gombardmem.s. ‘b;)“ “; u’e;" they have an uarter into the American lines | Peen answered shot for shot. ahd g duarter Intg, the American lines | ™ The only fighting in Which the men confirmation of this statement or of | °f elther side left thelr trenches was the added claim that the Americans |neéar Robecq, no: . of assee, shmtajfisd heavy casuaities. where Field Marshal Haig's men threw ol emy frol Vi ne at trained Germans to crush the Ameri-|lowing up their recent foray into the cans. Everything the enemy had in|(Cattegat, where they destroyed Ger- stock was brought into play in the|man trawlers, British naval forces fighting, which lasted from Saturday | nave penetrated into Helgoland Bight well into Sunday. Shells of all cali-|ang offered battle to the German war- bres, includins gas missiles, were used | ships, which retired behind the mine prodigaily, /but the Americans, not-|felds. The British opened fire on the e oyt troyers was-hit. . ... fought tenaciously and:zave growma-ny %d French troops have land- inches, and then only when they had|eq on the Kola peninsula, projecting exacted & tremendous payment for it e 1 Gariodin STREd ‘o Wotmded into the Arcti‘f o;eann,nand are co. g operating with the ‘Bolshevik troops Although the ememy was able to|to protect the Mourman coast agalnpst reach the shell-torn village’ of Seiche- |the Finnish White guard. This op- P prey, the Americans rallied and in|eration probably has in view the safe- bloody hand-to-hand fighting reversed | guarding of Archangel, Russia's prin- the situation and regained the town. Icipal port on the Arctic. TWENTY BRI‘OK BUILDINGS DESTROYED AT HEMET. Ond Woman Was Probably Fatally Injured by the Earthquake. San Bernardino, Calif., April 21 oy~ ed me woman probably fatally injuréd by the earthquake at Hemet toda¥, according to J. O. Ridenour of this &ity, who left Hemet by automo- bile immediately after the tremor. telephone and telegraph lines weer down and water and gas mains ‘weré broken- in many places. The only buildings left standing in the - business district there are the postofice and the bank, according to reports received here from persons who fled after the earthquake late today. it ‘was also reported that there had beest 'some loss of life, but this state- ment had not been verified here. PROTEST MADE BY NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE Against an Order Issued at Camp Funston Regarding Negro Soldiers. Boston, April 21.—A telegram of protest against an order said to have been issued at Camp Funston, Kas., requesting negro soldiers and officers not to go where their $resence is not desired, was addressed to President Wilson today by the National Erual Rights league here. The telegfam read: “The National Equal Rights league calls upon you to countermand Gen- eral Ballow’s bulletin No. 35 for the 92d division, Camp_Funston, Kas., en- joining officers and soldiers to refrain from going into public places where their presence is resented because of color. E “His dictum that asking public ser- wice is putting pleasure above the general good is not applied to white soldiers, destroys all civil rights, causes fresh discriminations, fosters race prejudice, humiliates our race, and degrades the army uniform.” NEW ENGLAND LiBERTY LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS Hartford is Leading Connecticut Cities With Total of $6,837,000. STREAMS OF WOUNCED | GERMANS FROM FRANCE | Are Filling the Hospitals, Monasteries and Convents in Belgium. Amsterdam, Apgjl 21.—The streams of wounded Germans from France and Flanders, says the frontier correspon- dent o fthe Telegraaf, continue so great that all the hospitals, monas- teries, convents and schools, not only in Brussels, but in many towns south of the PBelgian capital, are filled to overflowing. The Germans have even requisitioned private houses for hos- pitals. Fofty ambulance trains entered the north station at Brussels daily last week. Many of them were made up of cattle cars in which there were litters of straw for the wounded men. 25,000 WOMEN IN PARADE AT PHILADELPHIA Boston, April 21.—Partial tabulation today of Liberty loan subscriptions actually turned in to the New Fngland committee by various cities and towns showed two which had exceeded their quotas in the first two weeks of the campaign by -more than 200 per cent. Lyndon, Vt, stands first on the list with an over-subscription of 278 per cent., its citizens having taken $118,- 000 of bonds while the allotment was only $31.200. Meredith, N. H.. with a 202 per cent. over-subscription, is the other two star town.. Its quota was §42,000 and subscriptions $127,000. Among the subscriptions totals re- ported were: Connecticut — Hartford $6,837.000; New Haven $2,850,000: Wa- terbury $1,456,000, In an'Effort to Speed Up the Liberty Loan Campaign, — - L) 2 Philadelphia, Aprif; 21— Twkeaty-five thousand women .and’girl war werk- ers, representing- “100 © organizatiens, paraded here yesferday in an effort to speed up the Aiberty loan cahpaign in the Third federal reserve district. Mrs, Woodrow son, wife of the president, was expefted to arrive in the eity shortly &fter moon to review the Speotacle. x Amofig the Teatures™ werp women workers from the Philadelphia navy yard.and the Frankford ‘arsenal in uniform. Three hundred ', Armenian women, whose sons or husbands have been_killed during: ¢ cched dressed it black., ceasion. Was led by a’nuniber of prominent wémen on_horseback, . LONG RANGE GUNS ! HAVE KILLED 118 PARISIANS fh_Sevchteen Days Since March 23— Wounded 230, ON LOOKOUT FOR BRITISH AND CANADIAN DESERTERS Police in American Cities Requested to Aid in Round Up. Boston, April 21.—Orders have been issued to the police in American ci ies to arrest all deserters. from British and . Canadian armies, according to officers of the British and Canadian recruiting’ mission who announced to- day that one deserter had been picked up here and returned ~to. Montreal. Plans for rounding. Up ‘men who left countries underythe*British flag' to come to the Unfted States have been perfected, it is said, and names of Ca- nadian draft dodgers and deserters re- ceived from Cafidg}p have been turned over to the B Dglice, Paris, April 21.—Analysis of the CGrrman long range gun bombardment of Paris that shells have fallen on séventeen days since March 23 and thaa with the figurés for two days leading scientist of Germany who~ shar with ‘Gugliélmo Mareoni for distin- mn 118 persons were killed and 230 |of fmproved methods-of wireless “telo- injufed. graphy; died easly today at a Brook- Paris was shelled by nine German|ivn hospital.” h Wwas caused by. & batteries from Jan. § to Jan. 27, 1871, at which born in Fulda. Ger- a riod 105 Pari: killed and a‘ge injured. the covenant to resist the i fiflmmnwm'fis!fi% ‘army_uniforms. ‘New York in January after an investi- ; gation of thefts from freight cars of | miesage receivel Saturday by '‘the andise which officers estimated : police. “the “Nobel prize in 190’ | Mo#ton announced that sentence would > Cabled Paragraphs Bombardment of Paris Resumed. (Paris, April 21.—The long range bombardment of Paris was resumed Secretary Kuehlmann to Resign. Amsterdam, April 21—The Borsen Zeitung of Berlin maintains that the resignation of Dr. Richard Keuhimann, Secretary for foreign affairs, may be expected, notwithstanding all contra- dictions. It mentions as his probable ccessors Dr. Karl Helffericty and Admiral Paul Von Hintze, German minister to Norway. JAPAN IS TO TURN OVER 66 STEAMERS TO THE U. S. Deliveries Are to Begin This Month and Continue Until July, 1919. Tokio, Monday, April 15—(By The Associated Press). Negotiatoins which bave been in progress for some time between Roland S. Morris, the Ameri- can ambassador to Japan, and the Ja- banese government and shipbuilders the nounced today by the war trade board are expected to release 157,000 dead- weight tons for shipping for war uses, making a total of 1,657,000 tons which will be available annually until the war is won, through lessening demands for foreign goods which the country can do without. The largest single item on the list of savings is quebracho wood, used in tanning, the restriction on this being estimated to save wood still can be brought in if carried as deckload® or in vessels unfit for Through MONDAY, APRIL. 22, 1918 I;ei';ning of restricted ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY BY THE WAR TRADE BOARD TO RELEASE SHIPPING Demands 25,000 tons. The Hliditions to List of |Severe Earthyuake Restricted Imports| Southern For Foreign Goods It Is Expected to Re- lease 157000 Deadweight Tons of Shipping For War Uses. Washington, April 21.—Additions to list imports an- have been concluded. Sixty-six steam- ers, aggregating 514,000 tons dead weight, will be turned over to the United States for use in the war, Deliveries of the vessels wili begin in April of this year and will centinue until June, 1919. The ships have been placed in these three categories: Frist—twenty-four ships. 150,000 tons, will be chartered through the government to the United States ship- ping board for a period of six months. Deliveries will be made in April and May. The difference between the In- ter-allied charter rates and the rates paid by America—about 18,000,000 yen —will be paid by the Japanese gov- ernment, Second—fifteen ships, aggregating 180,000 tons, new or partially buiit, for which the United States will re- lease one ton of steel for one ton of shipping. The United States will buy the ships at a price which will vary according to delivery which has been fixed at May to December. Third—twenty-seven ships, of 234,- 000 tons, to be built in Japan hetween January and June of next year. Tha United States is to huy these ships paying $175 per ton, and releasing one ton for two tons of shipping. The new vessels will average 3,600 tons each. ANTI-CONSCRIPTION MEETINGS IN IRELAND Pledges to Resist Draft Were Admin- istered by Priests. Dublin, April 21. ed Press). (By the Assoq Throughout' Treland ciat s THE THIRD LIBERTY LOAN| Boost By Buying iour Bonds Today DOWS BROKEN Several Women Were Injured Panics at Theatres—Shock Was: of Twenty Seconds Duration — Two Cities Were Destroyed. vere earthquake of 3.23 this afternoon. Angeles. tensive. Man Trampled to Death. One fatality was reported, a man being trampled to death in the rush of a crowd on the municipal pier at Santa Monica, near here. Hundreds of persons who were fishing off the pier Is your opportunity to prove the patriotism that is in your heart and on your lips. Your opportunity to show yourself worthy of the heroism, the devotion, the self-re- nunciation of your soldiers and sailors. Your opportunity to share in some small degree, the sufferings of those whn stand ready to make the supreme sacrifice for you. All you can do is little enough. , You simply lend your money. Do it, and he olad that you can do so much and sorry that you can do no more. had been administered by priests and subscribed to in a quiet, uneffusive manner, by hundreds of thousands of reople. From every Catholic pulpit conscription was the subject of di course, and the action of the bishops and political leaders was explained. The assemblies where the pledze was taken were generaily outside the churches, sometimes in the open air, sometimes in a hall. Th practice followed in many cases w for the briest to read the pledee, sentence by sentence, the people reciting after him. In other cases the pledge was given by the raising of hands or the sign- inz of a paper. The bishops took part with the in- ferior clergy in = administerinz the pledge, addressine the people and gen- eraily warning them agzainst isolated and unconsidered action. They urged obedience to the orders of tha recog- nized leaders, who act in co-opera- tion, MILITARY MATTERS BEFORE CONGRESS THIS WEEK New Army Measures Are to Be Launched—Expansicn of Army. Washington,: April 21, — Military matters come to the fore this week in congress. Final action on important legislation extending the selective craft act is expected, while new army | measures, which have awaited the re- turn of Secretary Baker from Europe, are to be launched. Further expansion of the army, de- velopment of war production pro. grammes and appropriation auestion are among subjects upon which Mr. Paker is expected to submit recom- mendations to the senate and house military committees. The latter has arranged to have the secretary appear | Tuesday and the senate committee | plans to hear him later in the week. | | of There have been intimations in some Guarters that President Wilson, in a | special address to congress, might pre- sent recommendations for future mili- | tary legislation. DRESSMAKING IN PARIS : | ! IS UNDERGOING A CRISIS Owing to the War Conditions Employ- ers and Employes Are Leaving City. Paris, April 21,—Dressmaking and | alied trades which form one of the! most important industries in Paris are | undergoing a crisis due to the de- parture of their customers. Many em- | ployers also have.left the city and| many employes who made enough | money are allowing themselves a hol- | iday where there are no long range guns or German raiding airplanes. The American commissariat has of- fered to find work for those thrown out o femployment and the offer has been gladly accepted. The government has granted an allowance of one and a| half francs dafly to those out of| work. The department stores are making an effort to help all hands, PLEADED GUILTY OF RECEIVING STOLEN CLOTH. Max Brooks of New York Was Ar- rested in Boston. Boston, April 21.—Max Brooks of New York, known also as Marks Brooks, pleaded guilty in federal court here yesterday to a charge of receiving stolen cloth intended for | He was arrested in m in value at nearly $100,000. Brooks, ‘who 4s under $10,000 bond, pleaded not be’ imposed later. Severa] others were arrested with Brooks and federal authordties are still engaged in matter, . stanc the prepared plicable. exceptions follow: Peohibited Articles. Lime, talc soapstone, except{ shipments from Canada. Shellfish, except from Cahada and Newfoundland (does not include crab meat from Japan). Molybdenum, and Mexico. Tobacco leaf, except from Cuba and | West ‘Indies. Tish, fresh, cured or preserved, ex- cept from Canada, Mexico, Newfound- |1and and Scandinavia. Animal oils from Europe. and boro-carbone, 2 cement for building purposes, chloride | of lime cyanide of soda, dairy prod- ucts, ferro-manganese and spiegeleisen. | lead, magnesite, meat products and preserved starch, stone and manufactures there- of, except shipments coming overland nd by lake from Canada or overland | rom Mexico. Argols or wine lees, bones, hoofs and horns, s wood, ‘hamboo, straw or compositions cork unmanufactured and Aloxite manufactures b not specifically provided for in riff schedules, eggs dried, frozen, or preserved and yolks of egs, fans, fuller's earth, furniture, furs manufactures thereof (does not include fur hats, fur not on the skin prepared for hatter's s from Uruguay), glass and glass- (does not include lenses, and field glasses, optical instruments, eyeglasses, goggles, sur- veying instruments, telescopes, micr&?- scopes and plates or discs for use in the manufacture of optical ' goods), glue and glue size, glue stock and raw hide cuttings, human hair and mamu- factures thereof. synthetic indigo, an- imal ivory and manufactures thereof, i licorice root, moss and seaweed, paper and manufactures thereof (does include books and other printed mat- ter), crude paper stock (does not in- clude wood pulp), straw and grass, and manufactures thereof, tea waste, siftings or sweep- ings, and vanilla beans, except when coming overiang or by lake from Can- ada, overiand from Mexico or as re- jturn cargo from European countries and then only when shipped from a convenient port and when loaded with- out undue delay. Quebracho wood, except cargo or on vessels unfit for essential imports. and re specincles, unmanufactured, day and meats, unmanufactured, wood, thereof, “ESSEHTIAT TMpPOrts; thils “exception being made so as to upset domestic industry as _lightly as possible. z Hearings were held on suggestions :to restrict many of the commodities, and to learn exactly what effect the restrictions would have on industry. Bfforts have been made to. include in the restricted list those commodities of which there is an ample supply on hand, which can be produced at home or obtained overland from adjacent countries. The new restrictions, effective May 13, do not permit the importation of | goods originating in other countries, | but coming through designated coun- tries where the restrictionare not ap- The prohibited articles and except from Canada paraffin, BURGLARS MADE HAUL OF $1,800 IN CASH At the Retsof Mines Near Geneseo, N. Y.—Got a Liberty Bond. Rochester, N. Y., April 21.—Burglars made a successful haud at the Retsof mines, three miles from Geneseo, Fri- night, according to a telephone The burglars blew three safes in the ofiire and stole $1,800 in rash and stocks, bonds and business papers guished aghievements in the invention. [guilty some time agofi Federal Judge Eva%)ued %t ;zo,\)on‘ including * $500° in Liberty bonds. One of the safes was “burglar proof,” but its heavy steel from a nitro-glycerine charge. Tracks investigating the|o Efliwo automobiles were door borax, pumice, baskets of edible sub- nor raw seal- opera not as deck crumpled seen near the | o made a mad Tush for solid :ground| when the tremor began to rock tne Several heavy concrete construction. persons were injured in the rush. Chimneys Shaken Down. Chimneys were shaken dowh in va- rious localities and at San Bernardino, about seventy-five miles east of here, a brick building was reported to have collapsed. Two Cities Destroyed. According to authenticated reports, Hemet and San Jacinto, in Rlverside county, were entirely destroyed by the There were no telephone or telegraph wires in operations, but persons who escaped to nearby points reported serious destruction of prop- earthquake. erty and probable loss of life. STATE CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS Discussed Red Cross Work and Other Phases of War Activities. New Britain, Conn., April 21.—Dis- and other were foremost at the opening meetings of the anhnual convention of the Con- necticut State Conference of Chari- ties and Corrections here today. The three days’ program was begun with a jpatriotic rally at which the conven- tion had as its guests the delegates to the New York East conference of the cussions of Red Cross worl phases of wartime act! ies Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Thomas Q. Beesley of Washing- ton, D. C., director of the speakers’ bureau of the American Red Cross, spoke ‘on the work of that organiza- Other speakers were Charles H. Johnson of Albany, N. Y., superinten- dent of the New York state board of charities, and Dr. Peter Roberts of the New tion. International York. Recreational work ¥. ,M.~C, A: of ment commission activities; Mrs. on Henry and Dr. Valeria H. Parker of the convention. NAVAL BATTLE OFF FORTRESS HELGOLAND. German Warships Took Refuge Behind Mine Fields. London, April 21.—British and Ger- man light forces clashed on Saturday in the waters east of the great Ger- man fortress Helgoland, the British After the exchange of a few shots at long range the German warships took reffuge be- The admiralty admiralty announced today. hind their mine fields. announcement says: “Brm's‘? Helgolan Bight range. served to be hit. turned without casualties.” SECRETARY OF NAVY DANIELS IN PROVIDENCE Stirred Three Audiences Sunday With Descriptive Addresses. Providence, R. I, April 21.—Secre- Daniels today with his description of the “stuff” in the young men who are fighting un- der the Stars and Stripes on land and sea and by his appeal for a strong, tary of the Navy Josephus stirred three audiences here supporting third line of defence. ! Mr, and Mrs. Daniels and Lieuten- ant Commander Carter, the naval aide, ‘were the guests of the governor and Mrs.. Beeckman while in- this " city. 1 FATALITY REPORTED In Los Angeles, Calif., April 21.—A se- approximately twenty seconds duration shook the en- tire southern portion of California at Dozens of plate glass .windows in Los Angeles stores e broken and several women were injured in panics at theatres in Los The damage was quite ex- in the training camps was diecussed tonight at a gen- eral meeting by Rev. Cyrus Stimson, personal representative of Raymond B. Fosdick, chairman of the war depart- training camp Moscowitz of New York, member of the council of women's organizations for war work, the women's committee on the Conmecti- cut council of defense, also addressed light forces operating in Saturday obtained touch with enemy light forces, who retired behind the mine fields. A few shots were exchanged at an extreme One enemy destroyer was ob- All our ships re- Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, 36 of Camden, gl.nl. is now a mother for the fifteenth e. 5 nited State Mint in 1917 coined 725, 628 pieces, valued at $35,538,908.30. 2 The mutiny of German troops in the province of Limburg is unquelled. Many were shot. Theodore Forrest, a Brooklyn boy with the Canadian army three yeyars, was dkilled in action. Two miles of the Bay Ridge Margi- nal Park section were turned over to the War Department. Two inches of snow has fallen in the Adirondacks. The temperature is 25 degrees above zero. Mary sugar growers of Louisiana turned their sugar acreage over the planting of other crops. President Wilson called off the Cab- inet meeting to confer with Secretary Baker about the airplane situation. A man in the lower part of Jersey City caused an explosion when he kicked a tin can. The can was a bomb. Walter C. Connor was appointed as- sistant transportation manager by the Shipping Board for the New - York district. An official despatch received in Washington , announces that three German planes were downed for every allied one. General Luis Cahallero, with an army of 1,000 men, seized the Govern- ment at Victorie. the state capital of Tamaulipas, Mexico. The schooner Jean Campbell, 60 days from u4 Nova Scotian port, given up as lost, arrived at a Canadian port with a cargo of flour. Cleveland, Ohi protested to the State of Minnesota that Independence Day would be “desecrated by the Wil- lard and Fulton fight.” Judge Garvin, in the Brooklyn Fed- eral Court, sentenced five men for sel- ling liquor to soldiers to terms rang- ing from 30 days to 90 days. Frank de Klyn, aged 70, vice presi- dent and manager of the Huyier cor- poration, confectioners, of New Yerk. died at his home at Danbury, Conn. The main building and many smaller ones of the Tarentum Glass Co., at Breekenridge, Pa., near Pittsburgh, were burned with a loss of $150,000. Recommendations were made to the President to order the Tampico oil fields to be seized by U. S. Marines by the War and Navy Departments. A notice was issued from Columbia University inviting college men inter- ested .in ‘work -in. munitions plants to call at the University for particulars. The Govérnment took oyer the plants of the Bosch Magneto: Co., owned by enemy aliens. The plants are at Springfield, Mass., B,nd. Plainfield, N. J. James A, Ccrymser, president of the Mexican and the Central and Soutn American Telegraph Companies, died at his home in New York at the age toi T9. George |. Skinner, superintendent of New York State banks, approved the increasing of the capital of the Cent- ral Trust Co. from $5,000000 to $12,- 500,000. Ribbon manufacturers announce that the school girls may have to sacrifice their ribbons because the government Ineed the looms to make belts for ma- chine guns. i Price-fixing to regulate the cost of necessities of life will be pushed at this session of Congress. Chairman Lever of the House Agriculture Com- mittee is speeding up the bill. “If you want to fight,” said Magist- rate Kochendorfer to Arthur Kirchner in the Long Island City police court. “shoulder a gun and fight for Uncle Sam. Don't fight with a woman. Stanislau Zuccario, 32 was killed, and Henry Smartz and Mussp Bruiso, sustained possibly fatal injuries when the three fell 50 feet from a scaffold of the Staten Island Shipbuilding plant. Secretary Baker announced that the addresses of men reported on the casualties list may be given soon. The subject is in the hands of the military advisers. An order of the War Department to the fighting forces o fthe nation urges the strictest economy for this sum- mer when things are so quickly speil- ed. The United States Government has sent a cable to the United States Fruit Co., and the Atlantic Fruit Co., that if needs every available cocoanut shell for war use. Governor Beeckman, of Rhode Island signed the anti-loafing Jaw requiring men between 18 and 50 to work at least 36 hours a week. The Labor Department announced that the college men are enrolling in large number, in response to the re- quest of Secretary Wilson, for farm work. RUSSIA 1S IN TURMOIL WITH INTERNAL STRIFE. Gunera‘l Korniloff's Troops Are Fight- ing the Soviets. Petrograd, Tuesday, April 16.—Hos- tilities have been renewed between the troops of General Korniloff anq those of the Soviets. Rostof-on-Don is in the hands of the anarchists. ‘At Kher- son after the Germans left massacres of officers and bourgeois by soldiers accurred. Teoccupied the town. Criminals at Novo-Tcherkask who begdn to induize in excesses weer dispersed by machine guns. The Turkish cruiser Hamidies and two torpedo boats are reported to have arrived at Odessa. There was severe fighting between the - 'White guards and Red guards yesterday north of Viborg. « French Children Appreciative. Paris, April 21.—School children .in the twelfth ward of the Paris suburhb of Bercy, one of the poorer quarters of the city, wishing to express grati- tude for what Americans have done for French orphans, have decided to adopt the’ first American chilq whose father has been killed in battle and to pay fifty centimes a day to the child for two years. ONE HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED IN RECENT DISTURBANCES BY THE SOVIET TROOPS Armored Cars Patrolling Some Streets and Guards Have Been Stationed About the Demolished Palaces and Headquarters of Anarchists. Moscow, Sunday, April 14—(By The Associated Press).—Soviet troops have effectively stamped out the anarchist organization in Moscow. Its members have departed and the city now is quiet. Armored cars are patrolling some streets and guards have been stationed about the demolished palaces and the former headquarters of the anarchists. Detailed reports of recent disturb- ances show! that 100 persons were killed or wounded, most of them be- ing anarchists. LIBERTY LOAN WORKERS TO REDOUBLE EFFORTS. Instructed by the Treasury to Endeav- or to Make This a Banner Week. ‘Washington, April 21.—Liberty loan workers throughout the country were instructed tonight by the treasury to redouble their efforts to make this a banner week and if possible to raise the total of subscriptions from $1,- 371,000,000, obtained in the first half of the period, to near the three billion dollar minimum goal. Headquarters reports show that only about four million persons have sub- scribed so far, and this is only one- fifth of the twenty million subscribers which it is hoped to enroll Aparently one in every fifteen adults has bought bonds. In the remaining two weeks the task of local committees will be to go over their respecitve fields carefully, look- ing for persons who intend to sub- scribe, but who are procrastinating. Liberty day, Friday, will provide one more high light in the campaign and {hundreds of communities are plan- ning big parades of soldiers and bond subscribers, or rallies with noted speakers, to celebrate the day. The third loan campaign apparently is proceeding faster than the second, for when the second was half over only about $800,000.000 had been sub- scribed. Montana, whose quota was $9,000,- 000, has reported subscriptions of $14,- T41,000. North Dakota, with a quota of '$6,500.000, has reported more than $10.000,000. Indications are that South Dakota also has subscribed its quota of va.wo-_Man;squ - has...con- tributed $38.800,000. Northern Wiscon- sin and northern Michigan have about $8,000,000 each. “Subscriptions are astounding,” says the Minneapolis district’s report. Mc- Leod county, Minnesota, has oversub- scribed by 33 per cent. and 34 per cent. of its pepulation are bond buyefs. In New England 349 communities have been awarded honor flags. BOLSHEVIKI BATTLING WITH FINNISH WHITE GUARDS. British Marines Sent Ashore to Aid the Russians. Moscow, Sunday, April 14—(By The Associated Press). — British and French troops have been landed at Mourmansk, on the northeast coast of Kola peninsula, in the Arctic ocean, to reinforce a British marine detachment sent ashore several weeks ago. The entente allied troops are co-operating with Bolshevik forces in protecting *he Mourman coast and the railway against attacks that are being mads by Finnish White guards. Russian. Red guards also are acting with the British and French troops un- der the} dirkction of the Mourman Soviet war council, which consists of one Engliehman, one Frenchman and one Russian. y Finnish White guards have attacked the Mourman railway near Keb, 276 miles south of Mourmansk, and 20¢ mijles west of Archangel, but have beer repulseq by the entente forces. The Bolshevik and foreign troops are act- ing in harmony and residents along the White eea coast appreciate thai the entente allied assistance is saving the district from isolation and domi- nation by the White zuard. MISS JEAN BAIRD DEAD IN DORMITORY Dean of Baxter College—Mystery Sur- rounds Death. Beaver, Pa., April 21.—Despite ef- forts of county and college authorities. the mystery surrounding the death of Miss Jean Baird, dean of women of Baxter College and known as a maga- zime writer, who was found dead in ier room in the rollege dormitory last night, remained unsolved tonight. Be- ing unable to obtain a response from the room odcupied by Miss Baird, the matron of the dormitory called the president of the college, Dr. H. D. Has- kell, who, with a physician, forced an entrance to the room. The body of the dean was found lying across a bed. Examination by a physician showed she had been dead several hours. A search of the room revealed a spoon and a small bottle, An autopsy held this aftermoon resulted in an- nouncement from the county coroner that the stomach of Miss Baird had been burned by some acld. KILLED FELLOW WORKMAN AND; THEN SUICIDED An Albanian in Waterbury Was Be- lieved to Have Been Insane. ‘Waterbury, Conn., April 21.—After fatally wounding Ibrahim Hassan with a .32 calibre revolver in an Albanian boarding house at 33 Taylor street about 10.30 o%clock this morning, Is- mial' Abdula placed the gun to his ‘temple and fired two shots into his brain, killing himself almost instant- Hassan died at 11.15 tonight in St. Mary’s hospital, where he had been rushed by the police shortly after the . An argument is thought to have been the motive for the deed, although Acting Medical Eaminer Dr. Frederick G. Graves, who made an in- vestigation of the case, stated that he believed Abdula to be temporarily in- sane. Both men were iaborers and far as is known have no relatives this countsy.