Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 3, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Sérvice - Flag ©VOL. LIX—NO. 132 'POPULATION 29,919 ‘Nonwm_fi CONN., MONDAY, JUNE 3, GERMAN TROOPS SWEPT BACK BY * TERRFIG SWASHES OF A French Forces Have Recaptured Important Vantage - Points in the Center of the Line ENEMY FAILED IN EFFORT TO CAPTURE RHEIMS French Have Retaken Longpoint, Corcy,. Faverolles and . Troesnes—The British in the Region of Arras, Lens and Bethune Are Keeping Up Their :l'rench Raiding—The Expected Great Battle on the Italian Front Has Not Broken—German Airplanes Again Have Delivered an Attack on Paris, and Several Persons Have Been Injured By Bomb Explosions. . — . The -strength. of Gen. Foch’s re- serves ‘has been'felt by the armies of the German crown prince in the “battle’ for Paris” East of the line running from. Seissons to Chateau Thierry, where the Germans Satur- day _in a continuation of their mighty strokes gained sevéral additional vi lages ‘and’ then attempted to proceed further westward, magnificent oppo- sition was imposed by the newly strengthened lines and, with terrific smashes, the Freneh forces recaptured Longpont, Corey, TFaverolles and Troesnes, vantage points in the cen- ter of the line leading to the forest of Villers, Cotterets, which seems to be the present objective here of the ene- my. The Germans, however, still have in thelr possession the village of Vaure- 2is, lying to the west of Soissons, and further south Saconin-Et-Breuil, Chaudun. Licy and Bouresches, the Jast named.directly west of Chateau Thierry. - A little to the southwest of Chateau' Thierry the enemy has reached the Marne. Nowhere has there been any at- tempt by the invaders to cross the viver and at all points east of Chateau Thierry they are hugging the north bank of the stream. It is not improb- able, however, that the tactics of the Germans have in view the fording of the river when the time is more pro- pitious, for ‘in the center of the line hetween Chateau Thierty and Rbeims they have pushed back the allied front ncross ‘the Rhimes-Dornans road be- tween Oilzy-Violane and Ville-Tin- %'ardencis and are ‘pressing.onward | toward the, Marne, Thi§ is the only | roint on . their left -~ wing. . howeter, | whére. the _ene een m&efl to | make withstdnding the fact fown new ai- visions into ‘battle, some, of ;them the best trained troops in the German army. Havihg failed in all their efforts to conquer Rhalms’ by, diréct assault, it now seems, to be_the intention of the Germans further to widen their occu- pation of the territory lying south of the Rb#mes-Dormans road and there- by outflank the cathedral city and bring about its capture. In the fight- ihg in the immediate vicinity of Rheims the enemy won Fort de La Fompelle, but his tenure of the posi- tion was short-lived, for the French troops in a counter-attack reconquer- ed it. Taken in all the seventh day of the new battle found the allied line from Soissons to Rheims, although it had been bent back at various points, not so hard pressed as on previous days and seemingly more capable of resisting the enemy’s onslaughts. Just how many men the allies are oppos- ing against the forty-five German di- visions that are now actively engaged on the Soissons-Rhimes front has not become apparent, but the fact that on the west the enemy is being not only held but driven back at points and on the southern end of the salient he has been unable to make but slight new progress is apparent evidence that a turn in the battle is not far distant. The British in the regions of Arras, Lens and Bethune are keeping up their trench raiding operations against the Germans. Saturday night contin- gents from the London forces invaded a German trench southeast of Arras and took 47 prisoners and a machine gun, while east of Lens and north of Bethune similar manoeuvres were suecessfully carried out and other Germans made prisoner. There is considerable artillery activity by both sides on the.northern sectors of th | western front.; A As vet the expected great battle has not broken in the Ttalian: theatre. There has been only moderate artil- Jery activity along. the gwhele front. The Italians and allied aeldtors, how- ever, are busily engaged ‘in reconnais-'|H sance work and bombing attacks over the enemy lines. German airplanes again have deliv- ered an attack on Paris. Several per- sons were injured .by -the bomb ex- plosions, GERMANS 6EI;IBERATELV ‘BOMBING HOSPITALS. Several Hospitals Were Hit—One Was Almost Demolished. With the British Army in France, June 2-~(By The Associated Press).— British Red | Cross = hospitals have again come under the German bombing scourge. ‘This latest attack began at 10.39 o’clock Friday night and the hostile airmen raided the same group of hospitals which suffered on May 19. Several hospitals were hit and the casnalty list among patients and the workers is considerable. One hospital was almost demolished when an enemy aviator dropped an ‘explosive on it after getting his bearings by letting fall a brillant flare which lighted up the whole district. One Sister was killed at fhis place and several others ‘wounded, one-of the latter probably fatally. raid lasted two hours, but thahks to the fact that most of the hospitals were not crowded the casnalties, wer: much lighter than in the previous bombardment. One hos- pital, which had a large number of wounded men in it, was bombed, but owing to lacky eircumstances com- paratively few were killed or wound- ed. The preecautions taken saved a heavy loss-of life. One ho,splla% had one ward destroy- ed and two other wards damaged. Sev- eral attendants -were kifled in this place, and ‘there were other casuziries. The operating tent of still aadther hospital was wrecked. $100,000 IN GOLD IS COMING FROM CHINA As the Result of the Recent Ameri- can Red Cross Drive There. Shanghai, June 2.—As the result of the rgcent American Red Cross drive for funds it is estimated that China will remit at least $100,000 in gold to New York. Fifty thousand associate members were errolled in, the course of the campaign. The result is con- sidered most gratifving by the orzan- izers of the movement and is taken to indicate the good will of the Chi- nese towards the United States. GERMANY TO LICENSE IMPORTS INTO FINLAND The Dutsche Bank Has Established a Branch Office at Helsingfors. Stockholm, June 2.—How little in- dependence remains in Finland and how completely the Germans occupa- tion of Finland has been effected is indicated by an announcement today that all licenses for importing goods into Finland must be approved of by German officials. The Dutsche Bank has established a branch office at Helsingfors for the control, of financial operations. The Interborough made application to the Wiar Finance Corporation for a loan of $37,700,000 for three years to complete equipment of the sub- way and elevted extensions. LLIED RESERVE " TO ADJUST D:lFFERENCES WITH Cabled Paragraphs New Bedford Man Cited. Paris, June 2—Sergeant Frank L. Bailes, of New Bedford, Mass., was cited for a first iieutenancy in the French army aviation. service and awarded the decoration of the Legion of Honor. The official compilation credits Bayles with: bringing down 11 German machines. Criminals for German Army. Copenhagen, Saturday, June 1.—The Prussian Diet hds-sent to the Ger- man reichstag a proposal by which persons imprisoned for several years would be aliowed to enter the army for the formation of special regiments. LATEST CASUALTY LIST CONTAINS 85 NAMES. Sixteen Men Were Killed in Action -and 11 Died of Wounds. ‘Washington, June 2.—The army cas- ualty list today contained 85 names,| divided as follows: Killed in action, 16; died of wounds, 11; died of accident, 3 died of dis- ease, 4; wounded, degree undetermined, 13; woundeq severely, 29; wounded; slightly, 5; missing in action; 4. The list' follows: i Killed in action: Sergeant Eugene C. McKibbin, S. D.; Corporal Doss B. Haas, Nashville, Tenn. Privates: Ole K. Arneson, Brantford, N. D.; Anthony ‘C. Caputo, Creekside, Pa.; Alexandro Cassealeno, Boston; Ernest M. Clark, ‘Charlestown, Mass.; Vincent J. Cutillo, Boston; Frank Faffl, Lamont, Iowa; Mike Grba, Anaconéa, Mont.; Theo. Hesse, New Haven; A Earl H. Hines, Los Angeles; John Aumustus Kley, Buffalo, N. Y.; Charles H, Lynch, ‘Winchester, Mass.; Charles W. Rupp, ‘Woburn, Mass.; John Sweeney, lLaw- rence, Mass.; John A. Woods, Medford, Mass. Died of wounds: Sergeant Elijah F. Pettis, Gordo, Ala.; Corporal Charles R. Simmons, Sherman, Te: privates James Axxon, Macon, Ga.; James F. Carson, Dutton, All; Jerome J. Crowley, Boston; George Friedel, Ful- ton, Ill; Burton Patters: Orient, N. Y.; Charles Sacchetti, Pittsfield, Mass. Clarence Santy, R. F. D. 8, Green Ba: ‘Wis.; Benjamin W. Smith, Gardiner, My James J. Stanton, Central Falls, ROL Died of accident: Corporal Robert I Morton, Birmingham, Ala.; Privates William A. Meinke, Horicon. Wis.; William J. White, Cambridge, Mass. Died of disease: Privates Karney Brymer, St. Louis; Joe A. Carbon, Athens, Ga.; Car! Breen, Providence; BEqQ_Stegal, Coweta, Okla. Wounded, degree undetermined: Capt.. Charles J. Biddle, Philadeiphi: Privates Carl G. Brown, Indianapolis; ‘William Dowell, Carbon, Ind.}"Charley Hawkins, Marion, Tnd.; Mansfield G. ‘Hysbands, Indianapolis; Harold McCoy, . Indianapolis; Winfield Orndorff, Vincennes, Ind 1918 TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS of War Labor Board ITS EMPLOYES NO USE FOR UNION MEN Newcomb Carlfon, President -of the W. U. T. Co,; Declares Employes Must Choose Between Employment or Membership in C. T. U. A. New York, June 2. — The Western Union Telegraph Co. has declined to sybmit to the jurisdiction of the na- tional war labor board which sought to adjust the differences between the company and those of its employes who are members of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America. i The Western Union’s decision be- came known when the report of an executive session of the war board held here yesterday, was made public to- night. It embodied a report by W. H. Taft and Frank P. Walsh, joint chairmen of the board, who conferred with Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union in an effort to com- pose the differences between the com- pany and those of its employes who had beer dismissed, it was charged, because they joined the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America. Complaint against the company's action was taken to the War Board and Mr. Taft and Mr. Walsh made an investigation. They then submitted prom’se hased on the principles under- |1ving the work of the war board. This platform recognizes the right of men to organize and helds they should not be discharged for membership in treples unions or for legitimate trade union activities. Compromise Proposed. This compromise proposal, under which the Western Union was noj re- quired to recognie the union and by which the union was bound not to use the strike as a weapon, was submit- ted to Mr. Carlton but he positively to permit employes of his company to join the union unless a referendum of all the company’s workers showed that a majority of them. favored such a step. Correspondence between Mr. Taft and Mr. Carlton followed with the re- sult that the jeint chairmen ended their report to the board yesterday with this statement: “In view of the correspondence, it does not seem useful to further pro- long the mediation. The construction of our principles as set forth in Mr. Taft's telegram to Mr. Carlton leads to the conclusion that the Western Union should accept this compromise * * * = jt declines, however, to do $0, or to submit to the jurisdiction of this board. amd no_further action of the board is, therefta®;~recommended, except the publication of this report of the section, and the vote of this board upbdn the report.” In his final letter to Mr, Carlton. Mr. Taft wrote: Taft Asked For Reconsideration. declired | Shank, Jr, Vincennes, In R. Stump, Lake, Miss Thompson, Salem Ind.; Ullery, Indianapolis; Clarence O. liams, Oakland City, Ind.; John Wilson, Greenfield, Ind. Severely wounded: C. Bates, Columbus, O. elt, South Duluth. Minn.; Edward F. A. Sergeants .; Amandus Hunt Chicago; Paul |rights.”” sa'd Mr. Carlton in a state- . Jewell, E. Bismarck. N ment issned tonight, “but it recognizes . Shea, Roslindale, Mass.: that its emploves mst chose between | H. Tanner, Lewiston, Tl.: Cook Frank |emplovment with the company or ‘Ekman, Jr., Bjoineberz, Finland: Pri- | membership in the C. T. A. U. with vates Claude Allen, Austell. Cornwall, |employment in the many other tele- England; John Caputo. Boston; Ed-|graph pesitions oper to them, for the ward A. Cox, Jersey City: Walter J.|Western Union employes less than 20 Dinnee, Boston; Enrick FI erié, Ja.; James T, Ferris, B ward J. Finlay, Revere, I J. Hickev, Charlestown N Hoidic. Detroit John Kane Sam Mintz, Lyndhurst, N. J ick J. Maulvern, Roxbhu Thomas O'Dea, Boston: Poinros, New York; Peter Ansonia, Conn.; William Nashville, Tenn.; Taylors Falls, Minn.: ‘Margie, Minn. George E. Earl Axel N. How- Corporals Golden, , Dorchester. , Cow- : Ed- J: Constantine Schultz, Stinson ‘Warren A. Tangen. John T. Toad New Bedford, Mass.; Thomas F.Wals Killstagne, Ireland; Dominick Zuts Erie, Pa.; Wagoner A. O. Spaghaugen, “I ask you.to consider again .this 1 before a final rejection. Of course your submission to.our juris- diction is a matter of moment. I de- recafe an attitude on the part of an ver of men so widely distributed h may defeat the usefulness of our hoard.” “The Western Union is not seeking to deprive any one of his inalienable per cent. of the total telegraphers in the united States. The company says in effect to its employes: Will Discharge All Union Men. “If you desire to join the C. T. U. st part. So Tong as you tion with the company 1 have every protection and a full ht of appeal, but we cannot agree that vou shall join any organi- zation which imperils the continu’ty of the telegraph service which this company is expected to provide for the sovernment and public of the United States.” Slightly wounded: Privates- John{ Mr. Taft and Mr. Walsh, their re- Ferguson, Stornoway, Scotland; John|port showed, recommended to Mr. Fleming, Kansas City.; Frank Mat- |Carlton that the Western Union re- tern, Mobridge, S. D.: Emilio Fornovolosca, Italy; Edward J. Evanston. Ind. Missing in action: Lieutenant Thomas J. Kirk, Medford, Mas: vates Henry Halas, Detroit; Wi Hopke, Brooklyn, N, Y. Prisoner (previously reported miss- ing in action): Private Edward Roberts, Iroquois, S. D. Killed in action (previously reported ‘W. Ferraro, wounded): Private Frank Middletown, Conn. Mori, Stein ceive 4 committee of its own men only, who déesired to present requests for better working® cond'tions or compen- Elmer | sation, and if an agreement could not D. Mackay, McKeesport, Pa.: Scrzeant Pri- be reached the matter should be refer- red to the war board and the question disposed of according to its rules. They stipulated that the company was “not to be required in any way to deal with the union or to recognize it.” Proposals of War Board. | They stipulated also_that the union | should agree with the War Board that in any effort by its members to se- am M. in the s and putting the ey The captive Germans in France have land of their new endeavors. . The site into fit shape fo rthe American troopers. the ex’treme pleasure of helping captured Teutons are put {cure better cond'tions of labor it would | not itself “initiate and that it would not permit its members to use the strike, but that it would submit its grievances to the national war labor board and abide by the decision un- der its proceedure.” If any employe of the Western Union a member of the union it was propos- ed should fail to conform with the agreement and to abide by the rules, and - principles of the board, “The Western Union might discharge such employe and that the national war la- bor board would sustain such dis- charge.” Mr. Carlton, according to the report, {declined to accept this proposal, but tendered another in which he declar- lea that his company ‘“holds that its first obl'gation is to the government and, the public, in an uninterrupted and competent telegraph service. The com- pany has reached the conclusion that this end cannot be achieved if its perpetratCrs are members of the C. T. Referendum Vote Suggested. } Mr. Carlton ppinted out that the op- ‘erators now have a basic eight hour @day, premium for overtime, vacations with pay, semi-annual premiums, sick- ness benefits at full pay for varying periods, pensiog and life insurence. He of the company’s operators did not want to join the union, but he was willing to submit the question to a se- cret referendum ballot under the direc- tion o the War Board. In this referendum the operators were asked if they wanted to join the . T. U. A. or whether they were in !favor of an organization to be con- the ! ined to Western Union employes, to work | “such an organization to have the right ' of collective bargaining, but mot to em- jexpressed the opimion that a majority | | | i i i | Preparing For Big Naval@gagement WHICH IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR AT ANY TIME ON THE HIGH SEAS Admiral Cleaves Says United States Now Has a Large Number of First Class Battleships Side by Side With | 1 "the British Navy. New York, June 2.—The United States now has a large number of first class battleships “preparing side by side with the best shins of the Brit- ish navy for an engegement on the bigh seas which is expected to occur at any time with the German fleet,” according to a statement made in an | address here tonight by Rear Admiral Albert Cleaves. line of secrecy,” declared Admiral| Cleaves, “when I say that a few days ago there came an alarm to the heads of the British navy that the German battleships were about, to come out for | this expected engagement on the high seas. I know that the Bri heads gave the first class American battleships a post of honor in prepa- ration of the atta ploy ghe strike or affiliate with any| organization which employes the strik either for itself or for others. “Office; of the organization,” he proposed, “were to be employes of the Western Union and differences between the or- ganization and the company were to be arbitrated before the National La- bor Board. “In the event that a majority of our telegraph operators vote affirmatively on question one,” Mr. Cariton’s prop sition continued, “the company wi withdraw its objection to that union and membership therein will no longer be cause for dismissal but we spe 1 lage of that the company shall not be called |28 pan; i caled| orain were destroyed. 1&on to recognize that union nor shall it be required to deal with offters of that union, as such whether employes or otherwise.” Mr. Taft’s Reply. _To this Mr. Taft replied: “I do not think our principles include the closing non-union shop ‘n the status quo to be maintained. I don’t thipk our plans require us to igncre or invite a breach of existing contracts of -employment in which the men affirmatively azree not to join a union. I don’t think you have such contracts with your men. A mere understanding that men will be discharged who join their union does not constitute such a contract on their part not to join unions. I think the proclamation of the president is not in accord with our principles of action by “him approved,.theugh *the making of them would be legal. Waivers Contemplated. I board acts contemplates a waiver by, employers' of such a right, just as it| contemplates a waive the legal right to strike as a method d of securing inductrial peace. ’h]i these views, I think that your last| proposat does not square with the| principle upon which our board must act, if the issue is made by the em ployes part of our board. You deny to a majority of oyur employes a right | to join a labor union. presented by me to you at i vhich you should | in the interest of industrial By it you do not recognize the | You deal only your employes. harged for joining a union, which under our | plans an emplover should not prevent their doing. The union would agree with the Board not to order or permit a strike under any ci | to rely for a red ly on the lodging comp s by committees of your employes with our | board and the boards’ action thereon. | You would be given the express right | under such a compromise to dis i any employe who sought remed grievance in any other board would sustain the dis Under such a comprom v would be consistent with our princ ples, the board would have the power to secure you against the danger of a strike as completely as practical ma- | chinery can provide against it. Thus | would be removed the danger of re- | sort to a strike and consequent public | injury upon which you fave your ! obligatio nto exclude union men from | your emplov.” | Record of Vote. | The motion by which the report was | accepted and ordered ziven to thel accept peace. union or deal with it. with committees of i You take back your men dis | nt for | public also provided that the manner | the in which individual members made known. They For the report: William H. Taft and | Frank P. Walsh, joint chairmen; Vic- tor Olander, representative Interna- tional Seamen’s union; T. M. Guerin, | representative United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners: Adam Wilkin- son, representative United Mine Work- Thomas Savage, International As- sociation of Machinists; T. A. Ricket United Garment Workers. Opposed to the report: TLovall A.| Osborne, vice president Westinghouse | Electric Co.: F. C. Hood. president of | the Hood Ruhber Co.; C. E. Dwinmi- chael. Virginia Bridge and Tron Co.: W. H. Van Dervoort, president Root & Vandervoort FEngineering Co.: B. L. ‘Worden, president of the Lackawanna | PARIS AGAIN ATTACKED BY GERMAN AIRPLANES. Several Bombs Were Dropped and a Few Persons Wounded. Paris, June 2.—Enemy airplanes at- tacked' Paris this morning. Severa bombs were dropped and a few per- sons were wounded. The alarm was sounded at 12.08 a. m. and the enemy machines were vigorously bombarded. | The all-clear signal was given ai 2.05 a. m. Most anything can be gotten by sticking everlastingly to the job and the entente navies appear to havel made this apply to the submarine— Ohio State Journal. A Safe Bank. ‘We hear a lot of German efficiency, but we bank a lot more on the co- ordination and co-operation now ap- parent in this country.—Bridgeport Telegram. consumers to lay in supplies of coal next week. Michigan for May is estimated at 20,- 000,000 pounds. us of 20 to 33 miles of the city will escape war travel tax. for the Emergency Fleet Corporation was launched at Jacksonville, Fla. J., is to be known as Astoria Casino. It was a famous resort of Germans. was killed in an aero battle in France. the All-Russian Executive Committee declared Russia will continue the war. during the week ending May 25, was announced by the Department of La- bor. 10,000,000 women knitters are divert- b ing wool supplies from essential pur- T am not going beyond the border | Doses. lantic port marine in mid-ocean; she fired a tor- pedo, but missed. Ambassador to Spain is ill in Madrid with j which is epidemic. bridge, | the Y. in a motor accident. of the National War Board will try to settle the strike of 800 Scranton, Pa., street railroad men. Ttalian Chamb: | pointea_Comm 1 in the United States. "{at Niagara Falls, N. Y., the Russian Government attempted to stop Ambassador Francis from send- ing messages in code. 1825 the British flag, hanging in the lobby of a hotel, on the floor. 3 a commission to making of such contracts after the|threads was created. comprise the commission. tion calling“for information about pro- fiteering and for a statement of rev- “I think the plan upon which our | ™S Faised by taxation and bonds. by employes of | On the other | e | must stand trial for living with Ida|iS that of supplying the.people with | the |shot down Saturday morning off the; | commandant of the camp, was slightly Condensed Telegrams Governor Edge of New Jersey urged The .copper production of mines in New York commuters within a radi- The first wood and steel ship built Schuetzen Park, near Hoboken, N. John L. Mitchell, son of the late .S. Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin, Premier Lenine in a speech before Settlement of 23 industrial disputes Representative Olney told the House . A steamship which reached an At- reported sighting a sub- Col. Joseph E. Willard, American the affection resembling grippe Henry C. Shaw, a lawyer of Cam- Mass., doing war work ‘with M. C. A. in France, was killed William H. Taft and Frank P. Walsh Guiseppe Revione, member of the of Deguties was ap- oner of Aeronautics Fire in the Grand Trunk stock yards N caused dam- $200,000. Eighteen cars of It was learned in Washington that Albert Pearson of Seattle was fined in Washington, when he threw The Argentine battleship Rivadavia, Through a bill passed by the Senate, standardize screw- Nine men will Senator Borah introduced a resolu- Joseph Lopez, 25 years old, was kill- ed here yesterday when he lost control of the motorcycle he was riding and it crashed into a tree at New Haven. Senator King of Utah demanded that Congress transfer the Forest Re- serves to the custody of the Interior Department from the Department of Agriculture., Lorlys E. Rogers, New York lawyer, while he was the husband of | r of Prof. Giddings of Colum- | bia University. alters, Three British army surgeons arrived! at an Atlantic port en route to the Chicago Medical Congress. They cers in the war zone. Cadet Hector Strathy Miller, was | instantly killed in a collision in mid- | air between two airplanes near the leaside aerodrome at _Toronto, Ont.| Cadet Miller lived in Winnipeg. It is reported that a Zepplin was Jutland coast by a British torpedo boat | destroyer. The crew of the air was | drowned, according to the report. s i New York police issued a list of taboo occupations under the anti-loaf- ing law. It includes “bogus stock broke hotel and bulletin-board | loungers. “gteerers and barkers for| ight-seeing cars and shows,” amateur baseball players. New York State losgs $3,000,000 transfer tax of the estate of the late Lamon V. Harkness, Standard Oil man, by a_decision of the Appellate Division. The decision holds that Mr. Harkness was a resident of Kentucky Cotton textile workers in the mills| wage scale giving them increases of in the two eastern counties of the state will start work today under a new from 10 to 13 per cent. About 9,500 hands will be affected. Senator Johnson, of Ca®fornia, read in the Senate a letter fro V. S. Me- Clatchy, of Sacramento, protesting against the inequalities of the draft quotas which do not give the states’ credit for the number of their volun- teers. Capt. E. P. Webb, Adjutant of an aviation camp at Indianapolis, was in- stantly killed, and Maj. Guy Geahart injured when the machine in which they were making a flight fell here; vesterday afternoon. Following an hours meeting held Saturday night, employes of the Scran- ton Traction company, operating over the streets of Scranton and between this ciey, Carbondale, and other points decided to return to work and await the decision of the War Board to bring about a settlement of their griev- ances. GERMANY CLAIMS SWEDEN HAS VIOLATED NEUTRALITY In Her Shipping Agreement With the Entente Allies. { Amsterdam, June 2.—The entente ailied shipping agreement with Swe- den is an unfriendly act on the part of Sweden towards Germany,” writes Count von Reventlow in the Tages Moscow is Declared in a State of Siege GEN. KRASSNOFF HAS DECLARED HIMSELF DICTATOR IN COSSACK DISTRICT The Dictator Declares That the Don Government ls at War With the Russian Republic, But on Friendly Terms With the Ukraine. London, June 2.—A state of siege has been declared in Moscok, accord- ing to a Helsingfors telegram for- warded here by the correspondent at Copenhagen of the Exchange Tele- gram Co. 3 DECLARED WAR AGAINST THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC General Krassnoff, Self-Proclaimed Dictator of the Don Cossack District. Moscow, June 2.—British Admiralty Wireless. M. Techertin, the Bolshe- vik foreign minister, in a message to Adolph Joffe, the Russian ambassador to Germany denounces General Rass- moc, who has proclaimed himself dic- tator of the Don Cossack distriet. M. Tchitcherin says: “Gen. Krasnoff is an adventurer who has old himself in turn to one side or the other and who has now concluded an arm with the Ukrain government headed by Gen. Skorpad- ski inviting foreign help with the ob- ject of bringing the cossack masses into submission. “Against the invading foreigners the Cossacks should rise in force. Ev- ery advance by Germany towards the east on the basis of the alleged en- forcement of self-determination is a contravention of her promises. It is no time to strangle Russia. We have accepted their modus vivendi, why will they strangle us?” The dictator says that the Don gov- ernment is a distinct sovereign state which_is at war against the Russian republic, but it is on friendly terms with the Ukraine. REBOLUTIONARY PLOTS IN MOSCOW AND PETROGRAD Czecho-Slovak Troops Have Captured Railway Junctions and Lines, Londdh, June 1, by the Associated i has left an Argentine port for New |[ress.—The discovery in Moscok and York with the Argentine ambassador, Dr. Romul A. S. Naon. Petrograd of a large counter-revolu- tionary plot which stretches through- out the whole of Russia is announced in a Russian wireless message receiv- €d_here tonight. To this plot is at- tributable in part the mutiny of the : Czecho-Slovak troops which have captured several important yailway Junctions and’ lines. The Soviet exe- cutive decided on May 29 to under- take the partial calling .to arms of several class of workmen and the poorer peasants in Petrograd and Moscow and the Kuban and Don re- gions. . At the same time Moscow has been declared in a state of siege. Counter revolutionaries have been arrested in considerable numbers and energetic measures have been taken against the pre: These measures are necessary it is announced. owing to the situa- tion in which the Russian revolution Las been placed. The question dominating all others bread now that Russia has been de- prived of the Ukraine granary. The Kuban and Don regions are, accord- {ing to the Russian statement, menace by a : counter-revolutionary band, which hopes by means of complica- to provoke intervention by for- 2L the work of Amesican medical | ¢isN Powers and thus serve the Rus- sian masses towards famine. In some regions the large owners re mobilizing the well-to-do peasants with the object of resisting the ef- forts of the government to comman- deer the flour depote, and are trving to conceal their stocks for purposes of future speculation, and, finally, agents of the counter-revolution in the various cities throughout the country, says the statement, “are seeking to excite the starving masses against the soviet government.” RUMORS OF ANOTHER GERMAN PEACE OFFENSIVE Amsterdam Says It is Being Talked of in Many Circles. Amsterdam, June 2.—“Is a_ new German peace offensive coming?” is the question now being asked in many circles. What has often been adw cated in German socialistic and radi- cal organizations, namely, that Ger- many should clearly and unequivocal- state the terms upon which she would be willing to make peace is now urged even by the pan-German Kreuzzertung which judges the pres- ent moment as a most opportune one. The newspaper says with emphasis it is not a peace offensive that is wanted. There need be no apprehension, the newspaper declares, that a peace of- fensive will weaken Germany’s posi- tion and it arsues that those who would leave the entire issue to the sword take too narrow a view of this war and show no understanding of its consequences. The Kreuzzeitung goes on pointing out that the absence of a definite gov- ernment peace programme is destroy- ing internal unity while the lack of political activity in the interval be- tween battles tends to hamper the conduct of the war and leads to all sorts of rumors about disagreements between the government and army commanders, The government is called upon by the newspaper to appoint immediate- ly a committee consisting of a leading economist .a colonial expert to com- riete a program but it urges that time presses and that it must be done quickly. $3,000000 TANNING PLANT DESTROYED BY FIRE At Noxen, Pa—Crossed Wires is Be- lieved to Have Caused the ire. ‘Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 2.—Fire early this morning destroyeq the J. K. Mos- ser Tanning company plant’controlled by Armour & Co. at Noxen, 25 miles from here, entaling a loss estimated Zeitung. Continuing, he says: “The agreement does not bfeathe a neutral spirit. Germany may be de- rended to watch Swedish harbors to see that Swedish vessels lying there do not fall into enemy hands.” by the owners at nearly thiee million dollars. Crossed wires in the hair- drying room is believed to have caused the fire. Two carloals of hia's from Chicago and one car «f finished leaiher awaiting transportaiion were Jdesircyed - on raiiroad sidings.