Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 12, 1918, Page 1

15 AT A VIRTOAL Drive, Which Has Lasted Eight Weeks, Has Been Halted by & (By The Associated Press) Bight weeks to the day, and for the first time the great allied offensive of Marshal Foch is at a virtual pause. True, both the British and French on lisolated sectors of the front ex- tending from Flanders to the east of Soissons - again have recorded dd- vances, but Wednesday witnessed no such progress by the allies toward strategic objelives as past days ha brought them—before the tofrential rains turned the lowlands into im- passable marshes and ‘the badly wors- ted enemy rushed Jarge . reinforce- ments forward to Stop the gaps through which the British, French and American armles were threatening filtef and wreck his entire military situation. During the eight weeks that have passed the allied troops have cleared almost in its entirety the enemy-held territory from the Marne to the Aisne in the great triangle which had Cha- | teau Thierry at its apex and Soissons and Rheims, respectivély, its western and eastern anchor points; from Sois- sons to Arras the old bulge westward 10 Montdidier and toward the door- step of Amiens has all but been oblit- werated and the allies now are standing across a large portion of the old Hin- denburg defense line and virtually are upon the remainder of it, while to the north In Flanders the deep salients which threatened the English channel ports have been bent eastwarq and the enemy is expelled from the vantage points from which he had expected ultimately to make his drive in an =ndeavor to gain the seaboard and thus cause a diversion of the trans- port service from England to southern France It is not fmprobable‘ that Foch, when the skies have cleared and the marshes disappeared, again will take Torrential Rains and Heavily Reinforced Lines of Enemy —Its Resumption is Probable as Soon as the Skies Clear. up with full impetus his task of put- ting the enemy on his mettle, and continue for the two months of geod fighting weather remaining, if not be- yong that period, his efforts with his own now great forces to drive the Germans farther bnck toyard the Rhine. The British and French troops ap- parently are in a hard race for the prize of St. Quentin, forces of both armies now being at eqgidistant points west_of the city--the British in the vicinity of Vermand and the French at Btrillers and Coupy. To the north the British in local operations have made further progress north of Epehy in the operation which has for its purpose the driving of a wedge mid- way between Cambrai and St. Quen- tin, and also_have successfully sus- tained heavy counter-attacks by the Germans near Gouzeaucourt, where the .Germans are trying hard to hold back the British push toward Cam- brai. North of the St. Gobain massif the French have .made additional slight advances, notwithstanding the bad condition of the terrain and the strong forces' of the enemy aligned against them in an effort to. prevent the turning of this important position from the west. Heavy artillery activ- ity is in progress all along this front, and likewise on the sectors northeast of Soissons and between the Aisne and Vesle rivers, the operations on which have a direct bearing on those north of the St, Gobain forest. In Flanders’ the British have been successful in local encounters near Armentieres and in the region of La Bassee canal. Additional American troops have landed at Archangel, northern Rus- sia, to aid the other allied forces in the putting down of the disturbed con- ditions in that region. NO EVIDENCE PRESENTED IN THE DEFENSE OF DEBS Cleveland, O., Sept. 11.—The idéa's of the socialistic belief anl the hard facts of the law of a land in deadly earneSt about winhinz a war were presented to a federal jury here to- day and tomorrow Eugene V. Debs will know whether he is to pay the penalty for violation of the espionage act, The defence presented no evidence and Mo argument save that presented by the defendant himself. Four times candidate of his party for president, and famous 2s the most eloguent of its prators, Debs expended his elo- querdce in admitting every fact al- ieged by the even de- clinfig_to repu ribidly anti- war programme of the socialists adoptéd at St. louis. He pleaded only that the constitulion guarantees the ht of free speech. His attor- neys, Seymour Stedman, William Cun- rea, Joseph Sharts and Morris M. Wolf, sat quietly as spectators while the tall gaunt defendant whose worn zray stit hung loosely from his angu- lar frame, declared his willingness to die in prison for the principles of so- ilralil‘.'n to which he has devoted his life. Judge Westenhavener's court was packed with spectators, mostly stand- ing up the better to see and hear, At the opening of court tomorrow the judge will charge the jury which will then retire to consider a verdict. During the forenoon the govern- ment compieted the presentation of its case and argument was opened by Assistant United States District At- terney Joseph A. Breitenstein. Debs spoke at the opening of the afternoon session and District Attorney Edwin Wertz closed. ° Debs' speech, he said, was a com- plete confession. It was a confession not enly that he opposed all wars, but that he actively opposed this one and the machinery by which it is prose- cuted. The district attorney traced the careful wording of the defend- snt's speech at Canton Ohio, on June 16 whicih led to his indictment, to his outspoken declarations of the St. Loufs Anti-War programme, MAN KILLED IN EXPLOSION AT THE EDDYSTONE PLANT Philadelphia, Sepf. 11.—One man was killed and seventeen other per- wons were mjured today in an explo- sion at the shell loading plant of the ESddystone Ammunition Company, sear Chester. The dead man was Os- sar A. Scott, colored, formerly of To- ledo, Ohio. Most of the seventcen mjured are colored women, none of | *hom is expected to Qe. Officials of the company sald the saplosion was purély acecidental and is supposed to have been lue to the :r:!-lnm of a colored woman in diing “T. N. T 1t is believed she dropped a quantity of this high ex- plosive In the room where two hun- dred persons were at work. That there was not a large loss of lie is due to the fact that after the explo- sion last year when 139 persons were killed, buffet walls were placed in the bulldings to prevent great destrnc- tion of life in the big plant in the evént of a‘severe explosion. The building in which today's ex- plesion occurred was completely Wrecked. It was a one-story affair, and the monelan lou is comparative- Iy small. GERMANS USING WOMEN AS MILITARY AVIATORS the American Army in France, 11 (By The Associated Press).— the Germans are using women as aviators is indicated in a re- in »a machine recently brd'\t down by the' Americans the plhv.mwl;:.:a killed, was a woman. ca of a company of the . infantry says, the pilot of a plane brought down near Ser- €y Aug. 28 by Lieut. Miller Thomp- son of the American air force was a w—u The discovery of the sex of W .was made, the captain’ his men buried the enemy x‘ and her observer. 'I{QIRIE YALE UNIVERSITY | PUBLICATIONS SUSPENDED Now Haven, owlm Sept. 11.—Three Yale . mmny wb wlll not be .l-ud when lhc pens, of war conditions. Tbe \nle N a daily, the Bi-Monthly Record and the Monthly are to sus- pend publication, it was stated here !hl:qt. Although no éfficial an- wm...”“ . Jones 1154 Lord St. 651 NAMES IN TWO ARMY CASUALTIES ‘Washington, Sept. 11.—The follow- ing casualties are reported by the Commanding General of the Ameri- can Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action 27; missing in ac- tion 91; wounded severe! 183; .died of wounds 14; died of disease 6; died from aeroplane accident 1; wounded severely from aeroplane accident 1; wounded, degree undetermined 8; total 331. » New England men are: Killed in Action. Sergeant Michael Cappiello, 220 Wooster St, New Haven, Conn. Privates—Luigi Cerulo, 65 Whiting St. New Haven, Conn.; Herbert A. Cahoon, West Brewster, Mass. Wounded Severely. Sergeants—Frederick Anderson, Jr., 42 Chestnut St,, Everett,” Mass.; Louis O. Fischer, 122 Hurd Ave. Bridgeport, Conn, Corporals—Francis 'P. Johnson, 17 Clarkson St., Ansonia, Conn.; Alfred J. Houle, 129 8th §St, Leominster, Mass.; Raymond F. Charboneau, 211 Greene St., New Haven, Conn. Privates — Nicoline Zaccoaro, 102 Charter Oak St., S. Manchester, Conn.; Harrison M. Cooper, 11 Castlegate Rd, Rochester, Mass.; George H. Beckwith, Box 289, Lakeville, Conn.; Arthur J. Belinian. 30 Larkin St Bangor, Me.; Earle F. Bliss, 14 Horace St., Springfield, Mass.; Antonio Bos- co, 267 Davenport Av New Haven, Conn.; John M. Casey, 65 St. Waterbury, Conn.; Arthur Coyle, 32 Taylor St., Neporset, Mass.; T. Diebner, 37% Sargent St., Glouces- ter, Mass.; Raymond G. Dole, care William T. Grant Co., Waterbury, Conn.; George J. Laurent, 42 Kimbell St., Fitchburg, Mass. Missing in Action. Corporals—Jack J. Brennan, Franklin S New Haven, Conn.; Clayton S. juires, Montowese, Conn. Privates—Frank C. Bacon, 561 Con- gress Ave. New Haven, Conn; Wiil- iam T. Coolahan, Old Point Rd, Mil- ford, Conn.; Jeremiah Pitts 721 Washington St., Quincy, Mass.; Kanon Bayko, 36 Tickford St., Hartford, Conn.; Andrew Cagnular; 122 Eim St., Windsor Locks, Conn.; Zuozupas Cervaicjus, Enfield, Conn.; Wasyl ‘Worochook, 9 Broad St, Seymour, Conn. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON’S LIST Kilied in action 84; missing in ac- tion 58; Wounded severely 118; of wounds 36; died ffom aeroplane ac- cident 1; died of disease 7, wound- ed, degree undetermined 16; total 20. New England men are: Killed in Action. Sergeant Harry E. Johnson 13 Hub- | bard St., Bloomfield, Conn. Privates—Richard P. Donnelly, 760 Winthrop Ave., Beachmont, Mass.; Stanley Kadelski. 15 edgar St., New Haven, Conn.; Alexander Kolodzeon- zyk, 24 York St, New Haven, Conn.; John Mayne, Boston, Mass.; James J. Murphy, 103 Cedar St, Roxbury, Mass.; Arthur L. Socia, 556 Elm St., New Haven, Conn. 29 New Park Ave, Frank J. Duquette, Providence, R. Joseph M. Cleary, Hartford, Conn.; 14 Stokes St., L; Clyde Thompson, New Javen. Conn.; Alesando Patete, 31 Ruggles St., Franklin, Mass. Wounded Severely. Corporals—Edward Leahy, 406 Main St., West Springfield, Mas James F. Kmney. 95 Calumet St., Pittsfield, Mass. - Privates—Charles Altiparmakis, 34 Pleasant St., Thompsonviile, Conn.; Gordon O. Derby, 71 Chandleer St., Sebastiano Berto- Rochester, Maine; lami, 26 Water St., Wakefield, Mass.; Francis J. Hallock, Bantam Road Litchfield, Conn.; ' Carl A. Johnson, 403 New Britain Ave, Hartford, Conn.; Stephen Lapanski, "23 Dexter St., South Boston, Mass.; Frederick LaPlante, 214 Cambridge St., Worcester, Mass.; Earl A. Schiller, 81 Maple Ave., Stam- ford, Conn.; William H. Merrill, 7 Cheney Place, Loweell, Mass.; Everett A. Walker, 4 Benedict St Somerville, Mass.; Levi O. Peterson Ave, Orange Conn, Scott, 209 South St. Bristol, John H. F. Tobin, 785 Atlantic St Stamford, Conn.; Dewey G. Toucl ette, 10 Arch St, Ansonia, Conn.; Bdward W. Truelove, 1355 Hamilton Ave., Waterville, Maine; James B. G. Valentine, 22 Brechin Terrace, And- over, Mass.; Albeert Syble, 18 Assent St., Worcester, Mass. SergeantArthur T. Cambell, 148 Brewster | Louis | 128 ¢ died |* _CONN., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER - 12, 1918 TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS ad Engine Troubl ¢ed Bdnn; Convo;.__l“g London, Tuesday, Sept. 11.—(By A. P.)—A troopship with 2,800 Ameri- {can soldiers on board has been torpe- doed. All hands were saved. The troop- ship was beached." In order to save time, instead of launching the boats the men clamber- ed down ropes to destropers, which swarmed around the stricken vessel and came close alongside. This opera- tion was greatly facilitated by the fact that the sea was not rough. The troopship was one of a large convoy -approaching the English eoast. The vessel was torpedoed 200 miles from the shore at three o’clock Fri- day afternoon. The transfer of the American sol- diers from the stricken vessel to es- corting British and American torpedo boat destroyers was quickly made without injury to any one. They all escaped injury when the torpedo ex- Dloded, and they were soon on their way to a British port. There was no sian of. panic on hoard, and the admirable behavior of the men was especially gratifying to the officers. Many of the troops came from Chi- cago and Cleveland, and a large per- centage of them| were factory hands of foreign exfraction. Their be- havior - proved at they had assim- ilated the true 'spirit of the Ameri- can soldier. Depth bombs were dropped by the convoying vessels. and several sol- diers told ~ The Associated Press correspondent that they saw the German submarine lifted clear out of the water after one of the depth- bombs exploded, and then entirely dis- appear. Something had gone wrong with the troopship’s engines, which com- pelled her for a time to lag behind the rest of the convoy, but the trouble had been fixed up and she was fast catching up with the other trans- ports when a tornedo hit her just for- ward of the engine room. 1 at once began to sink Manv of the soldiers at the time were taking baths. They did not wait fo dress. but made for the deck with what little clothing they conld hastily lav their hands on. The water was rnsiing in at such a rate that it was thought the steamer would quickly founder. To the surprise of most of the sol- diers the troopship did net sink. Some means apnarently were found to check { the inrush of water and she got near enough to the short to bhe beached. It is hoped that the vessel ultimately can be saved. Confirmed by Washington. Washington Sept. 11..—News of the torpedoing of the British liner Per- sic, with 2,800 American troops on board in the war zona September 6 was given to the American people to- day through the British admiralty and then later tbrough the navy de partment. All the soldiers were res- cued by accompanying destrovers. the steamer itself being beached and the enemy submarine is believed to have been accounted for. SENATE HAS PASSED THE MINERAL PRODUCTION BILL Washington, Sept. 11.—With minor amendments the bill providing gov- ernment stimulation of production and distribution of minerals nzeded in t prosecution of the war, was pa today by the sénate without a re: vote, A similar measure has pa: 1the house and differences now ladjusted in ‘conference. The senate draft autaorizes president undeveloped or insufficiently ed - deposits “of metals or named in the bill or minos, smelters cr plants which in his opinion are capable of producing minerals need- ed for the war. The bill also appro- rriates $50,000,060 to be used as a re- velving fund to carry out the pur- poses of the law and gives the presi- dent authority to creats ore or more corporations to stimulite production and supervise distribution Discussion of the measure which was indorsed by President Wilson, Secretary Lane and Chairman Baruch of the War Industries Board, be"an.hl the senate Monday. In explaining the purposes of the bill, Senator Hender- son, chairman of the mines comnnt- tee, said it does not affect gold, sil- ver, zinc, copper and lead, but only |the' production of manganese, }Yos- pnorous, petassium, radium, mearcury jan d 26 other minerals and ores. Pow- jers conferred by the bill terminate vears after peace is declared. the to take over and operats develcp- minerals HOUSE CONTINUES DEBATE i ON WAR REVENUE BILL | Washington, Sept. 11.—While the { ho continued debate today on the | $8,000,000,600 war ~revenue measure !leaders arranged to begin real work jon the bill and amendments Friday tand at the same time pass the new bill lurged by Sscretary McAdoo to facil tate sale of Liberty bonds by making a larger amount of these bonds held in individual hands exempt from in- come surtaxes. Speechmakinz in the house dragged along, with not more than fifty mem- bers in attyndance. Representative Merriit of (f>nnec- ticut, tance tax confiscatory and suggested that corporations’ dividends converted into Liberty honds should be exempt | from the six per cent. penalty placed | upon undistributed dividends St.. Norwalk, Coni. St., Westfield, Mass.; 26 Dixwell Ave., Howard C. Emily Troiano, New Haven. Con Viering, 671 shall, Green St., Medfield Mass. Wounded in Action (Degree Unde- termined). John Mishiwice, 57 White® St., New | Haven, Conn.; Gustave A. Erickson, 387 Main St, New Britain, Conn. William T. Hall 169 Olive St., Hayen ,Conn.; William Jnmleson, ax cent Kraiesky, 48 Water St, Midde- .| town, Conn. o .Previously Reported tion: bridge, Mass. Privates—David Robidau, Nashua, N. H.; Amadeo Alcorace, Wnerbm—y Conn.; Ezra J. Barrett, W Mass. republican, declared the inheri- | FEROT ! ‘Washington St., Middletown, Conn.; Missing in Action. ‘ Corporal Walter J. Roberts, CHff| i | i West Haven, Conn.; George W. Mar- | the sliding wage scale are adjusted | | i Naw | tire aiected area. Spring ‘St., West Haven, Conn.; Vin-;TO CONTINUE TO THROW OUT Sevorely demning the use of soldiers and sail- Wnundod. Now Reported Killed in Ac- | jors in the “slacker rouncups” Lieutenant Henry P. Reynolds, Ux-l ]sl‘alian in New Yerk. | affiliated with the Amalgamated Asso- Privates—Leon Stomsky, 53 Meadow ! T T Condensed Telegrams Hog prices in Chicago set a new Ligh, $20.50. John D. Ry-n, assistant secretary of war, is in . Permission wn denied to the Ar- gentine railways to increase rates 10 per cent, July shipments . of crude rubber from the Amazon district of Brazil amounted to 4,297,385 pounds. The state department was notifie? that Norway has taken over the American consulate at Moscow. The war department announced the acquisition of 1,800 acres oi land near Mount Clemens aviation fieid. Air 'mail service from New York te Chicago will begin Oct. 1.. Satis- factory trial trips were demonstrated. Depohdents of .missing soldiers will receive government aliowances until the soldiers are officially reperted dead. The navy department announced the loss of three saiiors from the United Qtates steamer Von Steuben, on Sept. Commumcltlonl in Argentina are reported paralyzed as the result of the strike of postal and telegraph em- ployes. A credit of $5,000,000 was made by the treasury for the Renublic of L'- beria which has declared war against Germany. Sacretary Lane has appointed Her- bert Kaufman, author and editor, a specidl assistant to the secretary of the interio: New ht rates on castor bean hulls and stems are to be established on points between Florida and south- ern producing Dpiants. An embargo on shipments of grain to Minneapolis will be put into effect today owing to railroad congestion and scarcity of labor, Quartermaster General Wood an- nounced that the requirements >f wool for the fiscal year ending July !, 1919, are 283,124,186 pounds. Germany sent a new note Spanish government blaming Great Pritain for the recent sinking of three Spanish ships by a submarine, Didector McAdoo made a survey of Cleveland terminals and docks and later held an informal conference with three Brotherkood chiefs. Food Administrator Wheeler of I!li- nois announced at Chicago that 1,000,- 000,000 bushels of grain will be sent to the allies this season. Secretary of Agriculture Houston is on a tour of the drought stricken parts of the country to ascertain the finan- cial needs of the farmers. The interstate commission approved the application of the Terre Haute, Indianapciis and Eastern Traction Co. for increased passenger rates. Newspapers in France say the kaiser is extremely generous to high officers, princes and other dignitariés in his destowal of the Irpn Cro: The Brocklyn Rapid Transit Co.l filed with the public service commis- sion passenger tariffs whicn called for 10-cent fares over long hauls. The Canadian Brotherhood of rail- road employes called a strike of mem- bel employed by the Dominiorn Ex- press Co. They demand union recog- nition, Army contracts for 300 houses, util- mes and town planning at Watertown, Y., were let by the war depart- ment ‘to Ed. K. Penno of Syracuse. Generai Diaz returned to Rome from France, where he was attending a conference with President Poincare, Premier Ciemenceau and Foreign Min- ster Pichon. Representative Green tof clared in the house that the govern- ment was wasting money. He urged congressional supervision in the future for war expenditures. A great fire is reported in Odessa. Many large buildings were destroved. Food restrictions in Portugal are being enforced. The bread ration is 400 grams daily a person. Regulations limiting the export li- ses to corporations organized under e and federal laws and to resi- dents of the U nited States were an- nounced by the war trade board. The federal foed board announced that the U, S. food administration has decided not to establish any maximum prices on frozen herring. This ruling will apply throughout the season of 1918-1919. The federal w0 the s lowa de- trade commission or- dered t Dearborn Chemical Co., Chi- cago, a%l their salesmen, to stop en- tertaining prospective customers with | liquor, cigars etc., holding that to be | “commercial brib & The railroad administration ordered ' the Lehigh Valiey railroad to discon- tinue use of Communipaw as a ter- minal for passenzer traffic beginning Sept. 15, and to use the Pennsylvania | { The nomination of Josephus Dan iels, Jr., son of the secretary of the! navy, to be a first lieutenant in the| marine corps, was confirmed _yesterday by the senate. Lieutenant Daniel tered the marine corps as a pri soon after the war began. Irving R. Drew, republican, of New Hampshire, avpo'nted to' succeed the late Senator Gailinger, vesterday took his oath of office in the senate. Second Lieutenant R. L. Jacks, pi- lot, an American, of Los Angeles, Calif.; and Cadet H.” W. Bousfield, passenger of Mefrezor, \hmmbw were killed in an airplane accident at Beamsville, Ont,, vesterday. FROST DAMAGES CROPS f IN MASSACHUSETTS Boston, Sept. 11.—Although predict- ; ing a bumper grain crop for Massa- chusetts this year, Commissioner Wil- fred Wheeler of the state department of agriculture said that the frosts to- day and those of the early summer would cut the possible maximum pro- | duction of other crops to the estent of nearly 20 per cent. “The farming season this year has been one of the in my experience,” Mr. !} Wheeler said. ; “Sweet _corn will be the greatest | sufferer, but tomatoes and similar | | products also are seriously affected.” ! SHEET METAL WORKERS NOW PROPOSE TO STRIKE Washington, Sept. 11.—A strike of all workers in the sheet metal trades clation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers will be called Monday in the territory east of the Mississippi river unless certain demands of the men regarding immediately, the war labor board was informed toda: .Such a strike, officials said, would tie up a large proportion of the steel ndustry and probably result in the closing of munitions plants in the en- ! DRAGNETS FOR SLACKERS! Washington, Sept. 11.—While con- in New Yoik city as contrary to law, Attor- ney Genera! Gregory in a letter to- day to President Wilson said the de- partment ‘of justice uniess cpecifical- ly ordered to the contrary by the president, would continue to throw out dragnets for slackers. i the mad attempt of the Bolsheviki to | ficials here fear, Lut they are await- ing further investigation and develop- ments before forming definite opin- ions. In the opinion of officials, the strange infection has been brousht er by persons on reiurning Ameri- can transports. There is littic means lin hand by issuing countrywide warn- {M'CORMICK LEADS THOMPSON American Troops ~ BRIDGEPORT MACHINISTS REMAIN DEFIANT Land at Archangel To Assist Other Troops m Reestablishing Russia—Number Not Du-I " closed. ‘Washington, Sept. 11.— American | troops have landeq at Archangel to| assist the other allied forces there in! their campaign to the re-establish- ment of order in northern Russia. This announcement was authorized tonight by General March, chief of staff. i For military reasons. the number of | soldiers landingz was not revealed, nor was it made clear whence they had embarked. It was assumed, However, that the soldiers had been sent from English camps where Americans are training. General March’s announceraent was | made public through the committee on | pubdlic information, which issued this Smlemenl “By order of General March. the safe arrival of American troops at Arch- angel is announced.” After the allied forces landed on the shores of the White sea several months i 1 ago, there were reports that Ameri- can troops were co-operating with | them, but it subsequently developed that the forces were marines from American warships. The troops the arrival of which is now announced are the first from the United States to be sent into northern Russia. The purpose of the allied campaign in northern Russia is to keep open the railroad from Archangel to Volog- da and ‘D ect the government of the north wi%.h has been set up at Archangei and through which it is hored to re-establisn order in Russia and overcome Germany, re success thus far attending this campaign, has heen impressing Finns into its army in Finland in the hope of gathering to- gether sufficient to attack the allies from across the Murmansk peninsula. TWO MONTHS OF HORROR IN PETROGRAD AND MOSCOW Stockholm, Tuesday, Sept. 10.—(By The Associated Press) — July and August were months of horror which| never will ba forgotten by persons who watched Russia’s two great -cities— Petrograd and Moscow—pass through shoot or imprison all persons who dis- reed with their wud efforts to con- ol crumbling European Russia. Sep- - probably will be worse, for the opposition parties are gaining strength through desperation. The lives of the non-Bolshevivi are insafe and evavwhere in Russia self defense is forcing unwilling belliger- ents to take up arms against the ruthless persecution of the so-called commission for the suppression of a counter-revolution which shoot down the bourgeoise by the hundreds. Leon Troizky ‘the Bolshevik minis- ter of war, evidently is " dotermined that his dietatorship of the proleta- riat shall mot repeat the history of the former previsional government * and fail through being too merciful. He d in speeches that.Mos- cow will be reduced to ashes before it is surrendered. Yaroslav. a town on the- Colza 160 miles northeast ‘of Mos- cow burned for resisting Bolse- vik deminati and Bologda, 110 miles north of Yaroslay, is reported to have s the same fate. Night has been hideous in Moscow for months because of tne volleys from execution squnads in the military en- closures where prisoners are kept. oreigners and Russians alike were searched thout warrants and the Reid Guazds marched crowds of men and women prisoner: through the stroets with such r larity’ that pe- destrians hardly noticed them. FEAR EPIDEMIC OF SPANISH Washington, Sept. INFLUENZA 10.—Spanish in- nuen., the strange prostratinz ral- ady which recently ravaged the Ger- | man army and later spread into | I'rance and England with such di {comforting effects on the civilian pop- uiation, has been brought to some cf the American Atlaniic coast aities, of- of combatting the disease except by absolute quarantine and thai ob: cusly is impossible at this time pe- cause it would require interruption of intercourse between communities as drastic as was resorted to "in the| dreaded days of yeliow fever in ine| south. Precautionary measures are consid- €red the best weapons to combat the malady and as the disease is a new one to American physicians, the zov- ernment possibly mav take the meiace ings and general instructions of Huw to avoid the infection if possible and how best to meet it if it be contract- led Spanish influenza, although short- lived and of virtually no permanent serious .results, is a most distressinz ailment which prostrates the, sufferer for a few days during which he suf- fers the acme of .discomfort. IN ILLINOIS PRIMARY | Chicago. Sept. 11—In the face of! the eariy returns from today’s state- | wide primary Mendill McCormick has | defeated Mayor William Hale Thomp- ! sor for the republican nomiration for | United States senaator. | With half the returns from l'hlcagfl at nine o'clock Thompson was leading ! McCormick in the city by 9,475. At! that hour returns from 492 ot of 2-| 972 precincts in the state outside of Cook_county zave McCormick 21,005 and Thompson 9 535. If the present ratio of voting con- tinues, it was estimated that Thomp- son carry Chicago by approxi- mately 20,000 while McCormick will come to the Cook County lire with a plurality of approximately 71 000. Con- gressman George E. Foss was running third. The democratic nomination has been won by Senator James Hambhilton Lewi PERSHING CABLES GHILmEN AMERICAN LOYALTY. LEAGUE St. Louis, Sept. 11.—The Children of American Loyalty league today re- ceiveq the following cablegram from Geeral Pershing children, for your 'birthday greetings. Your big brothers in France send best wisHes. and you may be sure that vour Vis Not Only Repudiate Agreement to Abide by Award of War Labor Board, But Also Refuse to Oley Mandate of Their International Officers That They Return to work. Bridgeport, Conn., Sent 11.—Five thiousand striking union machinists from. Bridgeport munitions piants, at a meeting late today, listened to the ireading of the message from William { H. Johnson, president of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists, calling on the men to return to work within 48 hours, and then voted nnani- mously to continte the strike. The assembled strikers adopted a resolution outlining their position. The strile commitize sent a telegram to Mr. John:ton teiling him of the vote of the machinists and including the text of the resolution. The reso- lution said: “We, the machinists on strike, knowing as we do that we are out for a just cause, wiil cintinue on strike until we hear from President Wilson as to the justice of our ontenticn in remaining on strike until the manu- facturers grant ocur demands “You, above all, Mr. Johnston, should realize by this time that the Bridge- ort machinists know how impera- tively necessary it is to be united and to present a united front 1o the man- ufacturers, who hope to destroy not | only the machinists’ union. hut every crganized labor body in Bridgeport. “Our watchword is: ‘One for alland all for one, united we fall’ We will stick, we will stick to the end.” ! Althongh -Samuel Javit, business agent of the local machinists’ union, | had said a strike call woull be sent to workers in six other cities if a sat- isfactory settlement was not made by : 2 p. m. today, no call' was sent out. Labor leaders claimed tonight ow - ever, that'-they were assured of sup- port in other cities. . The strike committee announced to- night that 1,400 machinists have left the city since the strike began, se- curing work in airplane plaats on Long Island and in munitions factor- ies in New York, Philadelpiia, Hart- ford, New Haven and other cities. Boy Scouts were employed by some of the local plants today putting up placard advertisements for women munitions workers to replace the men on strike. The strike committee is working on a plan for raising r:omey to finance the strike, so that *he men may receive benefits of $10 a week while they are idle. THREATENED WITH LOSS OF MEMBERSHIP IN UNION ‘Washington. Sept. 11.—Sti chinists at Bridgeport. rotified today by Willis president of the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, that they meust return to their work at war plants within forty-eight hours on pain. of suspension ifrom the internatiogal ‘body. If the nation were not at war, the telegram said, the association would sive unlimited support to enforcement of the strikers’ demands, but the workers were called upon {o remem- ber that the forces at the front need the munitions manufactured at Bridgeport. “After giving careful to the Bridgeport sit: telegram, “and conferring members of the consideration 0" said the with the general executive board, in reviewing the entire circum stances of the case. it is the opinion of the executive board. members as weil as your international president that the integritv and houaor of our association is being very seriousiy endangered by ihe refusal of our members in Bridgeport lo obey the advice and instructions of this office to retur nto work and to endeavor to apply 'the award with the interpre- tation rendered by ihe umpire, and to try if possible, to bring ubout a_ so- lution to the vexing problems con- fronting yvou. “The decision of the umpire is just as distasteful to the international offi- cers as it is to our individual mem- bers in Bridgeport, and were it not for the fact that our country is in- volved in this world coaflict you woull have the unlimited and undivided sup- port of the grand lodge in an effort to orce your just demands for a mini- mum wage. But our members must and should realize that we are in a state of war and that our forces at the front are in great need of the munitions and supplies which are manufactured in Bridgeport and the government locks to you in this criti- cal hour to return to work and appeal vour case, in the event you cannot work your problems out in the man- ner prescribed by the umpire. “The government looks to our as- sociation to see that work is resumed in Bridgeport: we therefore, call up- on you without further-delay to re- turn to work and take up ycur grie ances in the way outlined in my let- ter of Sept. 7. “Failure on part of our members to obey these instructions will® be deemad sufficient cause, much as we would regret it, to suspend all mem- bers who refuse this mandate from all privileges of membership in the International Association of Machin- ists. We therefore expect you tw re- turn to work within 48 hours from the receipt of this telegram.” WHOLE FAMILY OF LATE CZAR EXTERMINATED Tondon, Sept. 11.—The Daily Ex press claims to have unquestionable information that the former em- press of Russia and her four daugh- ters have been murdered by Bolshe- viki. The paper prints the following: “The Bxpress understands from a source which is beyond doubt that the empress of Russia and her _four daughters have been murdered by Boleheviki.. The whole immediate fam-| ily of the late czar has thus been ex- terminated. “It is further understood that the dowager empress, who with her daugh- ter and son-in-law, the Duke of Tiden-| burs, recently -attacked hy Red Guards. who sought te kill all three. Sailors of the Rlack Sea fleet intervened and fought the Red Guards. “For a full fortnight the fight con- tinued, until the Red Guards were beaten. It is now understaod that the dowager empress is safe.” The four daughters of the former emperor anl embpre of Russia are Grand Duchess Olga, born in 189! Grand Duchess Tatiana, born in 1897 Grand Duchess « Marié, horn in 1899 ara Grand Duchess Anastasie, born in 1901, The former Empress Alexandra was born Princess Alix of NEW ‘ENGLAND MEN IN CANADIAN CASUALTY LIST| Ottawa, Ont., Sent, 11.—The names of the following Americans appear in today’s overseas ‘wui!l)lt,\' list: A, <.umm s. Wounded: Lieutenant G. Lyndonville, Vt Edson Worcester, Simm)-—m, Gray, Somerville, W, E. Barnett, Myde Park, R. Bigelow, Danviile, Vt.: A, address given as Spring = CPndron T.awrenc~, J well, Mass.; Williams, given as Thii- lipsdale, R. L:- ing. BLoston: . J. on, New edfm‘d Mass.. D. B. Woodworth. Rnslon A R. Ha'l ittleton, N. H.: H. D faunlt, Central Talls, R. L; W. Fortung, Pittsfield, Mass. e SUBMARINE DESTROYED BY A FRENCH TRAWLER Paris, Sept. 11 (Havas).—The ex- ploit of a French trawler, the Au- tomne, which succeeded in destroying: a submarine which was attacking-a British steamer in the Mediterranean, described in a despatch to the| Matin from Toulon. The trawler was patrolling the Med- iterranean when it received a wireless call from the British vessel. which was being attacked thirty miles os Mar- seilles. AithSugh the submarine had submerged, the Automne traced it and | succeeded in destroying it with depth bombs. The Brifish steamer returned ; safely, to Marseille. ARREST OF AN ALLEGED SWINDLER OF “INVESTORS” | New Yolk Sept. 11.—Join Holub, indicted here for the alleged swirdling of “investors” in his reputed war con- tract business. was arrested today in | El Paso, Tex., according to word re- ceived tonight by the district attor- ney's offite. Holub is charged with having obtained $100,000, in sums ranging from $100 fo $10,000, from prominent men and women to whom he represented that he held govern- ment contracts which would pay high dlvlden(k TO INDEX GERMANY’S VIOLATIONS OF WAR LAWS Paris, Sept. 11.—The French gov- ernment has resolved to confide to an international committee, on which all the entente powers will be represent- ed, the task of authenticating all vio- tions of the law of nations which has been staving at Yalta, was| 'nhnr in Camden. I untouched TRANSMITTED INFORMATION TO GERMAN GOVERNMENT New York, Sept. 1l.—Information has been obtained that Miss Wanda Kreutingzer, a Postal Telegraph Com- pany operator who was taken jato custody here today, bas transmitted directly to the German government irmportant information regarding mu- nition ships,” obtained from eable- grams and telegrams which passed toroug! her hands, accorling to a siatement tonight by federal officials. These transmissions, the statement said, were made in 1914 and 1915. But | within the last six weeks, it is as- scrted, Miss Kreut!ngzer has furnish- ed similar information “to pergons she Lelieved to represent the hnperiai German government.” The operator has been under surveillance for some time. Miss Kreutingzer, who is a resis- tered enemy alien, told her examiners she was born in Posen, Germany, 42 vears ago and she has been in the United States twenty years. She has been employed by the Postai company for sixteem vears, working as an oper= ator in the Chicago office until the outbreak of war, when she obtained a transfer to the New York office. According to the statement, Miss Kreutingzer received no money for | her services, doing the work “be- cause of her love of the homeland.” A presidential warrant ternment as a dangerov has been reque: for her in- enemy alien ed, it was-arnounced. $150,000 FIRE LOSS IN SHIPYARD AT CAMDEN Phlhd(‘]phla Sept. 11.—Fire to- d the new portion of the Shipbupilding Company’s N. destroying the angle shop and the power house. The main part of the plant was by the flames. No official estmate of the Io: was made but firemen of Camden mated the dam- age at about $150,000. The fire soread to one of the six new concrete ways on which a certain number of destroyers are being built one of the vessels was slightly d maged, according to the Camden firtmen Company officials refused to issue atemant except to sal that the believed to have been- ac- It is said to have ted in of the angle room where @il was stored. CONSOLING PREDICTICN BY GERMAN MILITARY CRITIC -London, Sept. (( (Via Montreal).— Captain Von Salzmann, military critie of the Vossische Zeitung of Derlin. has written a. significant article in which he predicts that a heavy British a tack soon will be made on Cambrai He declayes the Gtrman lines before Cambrai cannot be regarded as final lines of resistance. Von Salzmann deprecates the im- portance of the St, Quentin canal and says the main defense lines lie further east. He adds that the Germans can, without running any risk. voluntarily abandon all the territory south of the Aisne and retire to the Chemin des Dames. COLVILLE BARCLAY MADE MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY Washington, Sept. 11.—Colville Bar- clay, who has been first counsellor of the British embassy here for several years past and who now is in charge in the absence of Lord Readi heen elevated to the rank of minister plenipotentiary. He will remain at- tached 'o the embassy for the present, which us will have three ministers in addition to the ambassador, Sir Rich- ard Crawford and, Sir Henry Eabbing- ton-Smith holding that rank. JOURNALISTS OF BRAZIL HAVE CCNFIDENCE IN ALLIES Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 11.—The journalists of Brazil. who have been holding.a congress here, passed a reso- lution by ‘unanimou} vote in which confidence in an allied victory in the war was expressed. The solidarity of s the Germans have been guilty of on the westem front, says the Echo de _—— the. gnleme press. in support of the allie€ in the conpxct was pointed out and la.uded