Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 11, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOL. LIX—NO. 244 POPULATION 29,919 GERMAN TROOPS BEING CHASED ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY TOWARD GERMAN BORDER !Nowhere Are the Once Formidable German Armies Attempt- ing to Stand in Force—Le Cateau, the Important Junction Point Twelve Miles Southeast of Cambrai, Has Been Penetrated by the Allied Troops—From North- wes!otheimn&eAmeriunmdFmdemieoAre; Pressing Forward—Both in Macedonia and Palestine the Allied Forces Are Pressing the Enemy Hard. i The Associated Press.) The men of the once formidable German armies holding the Hinden- urg line from morth of Cambrai to St Quentin are facing easiward, de- ated and in retreat Their backs are. the targets fo the ritish, American and _ French iroops, who bitterly fought them, step y step, out of supposedly imprezna- e defences and now are harrying he macross the open country toward e German border. Nowhere is the nemy attempting to stand in force True. the German border is vet a ng distance away: but the past two days of chase have materiaily de- reased width of the area sep wing the invaders from their own thine line Cateau, the important junction twelve miles southeast of Cam- rai. represented Thursday night the «int of deepest penetration by the ed troops. The British were the sters of it. All along the front, however, the British, American and ren have been steadily vressing forward t r infantry forces, taking imerous towns and villages, while ar in advance of them the hoofbeats e cavalry horses intermingled with the roars,of the whippet tanks the staccato barking of the ma- hine guns inside the moving forts, So fast has been the reure of the nemy that at various points the al- od forces afoot lost contac with m The retreat, which is over a front of about 35 miles, from the south of Douai to the regton east of St. Quen- in, has left in the hands of the ailies, n addition to the towns taken. val- able lines of communication and trategic positions of hizh import- nee and driven in a wedge that seem- ngly will force the Germans every- where from the North Sea to the ty of Verdun to fall back. South- vast of Douai, one of remaining tronz points in the German line in se north, the British are standing in trun, twelve miles southwest of Va- ennes, the pivotal point in the cnemy’s known next definite line, and ten miles to the south the city Is out- flanked at Solesmes. Meantime the French and American armies on that part of the line run- g from northwest of Rheims to the Meuse river still are pressing for- | Cabled Paragraphs Vienna Tramway Employes Strike. Paris, Oct. 10.—\ majority of the tramway employes at Vienna have struck, demanding increassd pay and a war allowance, says a despatch from Zurich, Switzerland, to the Temps. TWO ARMY CASUALTY LISTS CONTAIN 726:NAMES Wasington Oct. 10.—The -following casualties are reported by the Com- manding General of the American Expeditionary. Forces: Killed in action 91; missing in ac- tion .26; wounded severely 200; died from wounds 62; died fror. accident and other causes 6; died of disease ward in the converging. movement |29; died from aeropfane accident §; with the armies in the west and grad- | prisoners 6; total 425. ually are forming the entire war| New England men are: theater mto a huge sack.” The Amer- Killed in Action. icans continue slowly' to’ advance up| puiioio voe” Gorctert Boston, the eastarn side of the Meuse, whiie ! west of the river, in conjunction with | the operations of the irench, the: have all but obliterated the great Ar zonne forest as an enemy defence po- sition. To the ‘west of the forest in the Aisne valley and ‘still farther westward the French also have made further gains. Throughout this en- tire region the Germans still are o fering _ stubborn resistance, main| with machine guns, realizing the Im- portance of holding back their foes| while their armies in Belzium and farther south make good their retro- | grade movement. ’ Both in the Macedonian theater and in Palestine the allied fcrces are pressing the enemy hard. Albania is fast being cleared of the Austro-Hun- xanian troops, while in Serbia th: | New Canaan, Conn, enemy is neartng Nish, ‘harassed by | Sergeants—Joseph B. Boudrot, Bos® the Serbians. At last accounts Gen- |ton, Mass.; William J. Sproule, New- eral Allenby still was driving the Ot- | port, Maine. toman_troops morthward in Palestine. ' Privates—Alexander A. Bearman, So lightning-like are the manoeu-|Brockton, Mass.; Louis Skretos, Man- vers of the allied armies on the va- |chester. N. H.; Dennis J. Lyons, Wor-| ous battle fronts—from the North Sea to Verdun, in Macedonia and in Palestine—that except to the war e; pert with his military ‘maps constant- Iy before him it is almost impo: to visualize the situafion and real ize the swift strides the allies are making in defeating the common ene- my. In France and Belgium in three weeks five important -cities which had sible | Mass.; Thomas L. Moscariella, S. Nor- | wolk, Conn.; Carleton T. Harlow, Co- tuit, Mass. 1 Died of Wounds. 1 Corporal Nicholas Spallas, Stough- ton, Mass. Private Frank E. Williams, Athol, Mass. Died of Disease. Corporal Ernest W. Foster, W. Box- ford, Mass. Privates—Domenico Abbiente, E. Boston, Mas: erick, Maine. ; Harry R.Perkins, Lim- | Died of Accident and Other Causes. Private William Falls, R. I. Severely Wounded. Lieutenant George R. Stevens, Jr. H. Davis, Cental cester, Mass. Charles Chapman, New Bedford, Mass.; Ambrose Frascina - | Waterbury, Conn.;_Charles = Ganye Greenwic, Conn.; Fred Maass, Willi- mantic, .Conn.; John O'Neil, Law- ence. Mass. Missing in Action. Captain James Edward Welch, Jr., been in German hands for four vea Charles H. O'Brien, S. have been recaptured. Dixmude, Ar- | Boston, Mass., Walter H. Tillotson, mentieres, Lens, Cambrai and St.|Hopedale, Mass. Quentin now are in allied hands, while Prisarer: sille, Douai and Valenciennes seem-| . . . o Ceorer 8 ingly are all but eaptured. Serbia | Corporal George D. Furlong, East ehortly is to b fully reclaimed ang|Rutland. Mass. the Turks soon will know the Holy Land no more. THURSDAY A FTERNOON’S LIST. TO MAKE COLUMBL!S DAY LIBERTY LOAN DAY Boston, Oct. 10.—The Liberty .0an ommittee of New Eugiand . today ent out a call to every section 1o make Columbus Day, Liberty Loan Dy and to agmange for such demon- sirations as epidemic conditions will rermit ery New England bank was notified to keep open Saturday to eceive subscriptons. Today’s report showed $15,011,000 in new subscriptions, or only about half of the amount necessary for cach of the nine remaining davs of the drive The report was based on returns from %88 banks and it brought the total for e district to $235,554,000 One of the first service units to versubscribe is the Boston navy ard, with a quota of 3600,000, its of- ers reported subscriptions of $628,- 00 Connecticut, with 57 per cent. of its uota raised, leads the other states n this district. according to official gures here. Maine, with 36 per cent. second BERLIN FEVERISHLY AWAITED PRESIDENT WILSON'S REPLY Paris, Oct. 19. rman newspapers eived in Switzerland indicate with hat feverish intensity Periin await- President Wilson's reply to the cace proposals of the Central Pow- rs, says a4 despatch from Berne to ¢ Temps. Deep foeliag was arovsed the German capital on Oetober 7 en a rumor spread that President lson had rejected the German of- In other cities reports were circu- ed that an armistice had been greed upon. The gsod news was sted immediately in publc places, » advices say, and the crowds could conceal their joy. A part of the erman press rebukes the population »r mot awaitine receist of the reply with proper digmity. 47,000 REFUGEES BROKE THROUGH TURKISH FRONT London, Oct. 10.--Mesopotamian jcspatches received here record the arrival inside the British Iilaeanor 47,- 060 Armenian and Russian retupbes fros Ururmian, Persiah Ar: menia, who broke through the Turk- ish front and made their escape. Another 10,000 refugees, according the despatches, are distributed in Kurdistan towns or ar: wandering in the hflls. The Turks pursued them but were driven back by British cav- Iry. lLater the Turks encered Urumiaih nd massacred 200 persons, mostly old men. It is reported that 600 Chris- tian women have been distributed among the Turkish troops and the Moslem inbabitants of Urumiah BARONESS IONE ZOLLER HAS BEEN INTERNED Knoxville, Tenn, Oct 10.—Baroness jone. Zoller of New Yok, whose hus- tand is said to be an officer in the Austrian army, has been ordered in- terned at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for the period of the war. She is now in cus- tody I New York and will be brought 10 south when the infloenza epidemic subsides. Raroness Zoller reomtly was tried in the federal court hern on an espion- age charge. but was rsleased on pa- role. District Attorney W. T. Ken- nerdy announced today that violation of the parole had caused the order for her internment. DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW MAY REMAIN IN EFFECT Washington, Oct. 10.—The daylight saving law would remam m effect un- til resginded by congress under a bill passed today by the senate. The measure, which was endorsed by Chajeman Baruch of the War Indus- tries Bourd, in the intdrest of fuel woenomy, NOW goes to the house. Un- der the present 'aw’the clocks would v turned back an henr on October LANSING TALKS OF JUSTICE TEMPERED WITH MERCY | Auburn, N. Oct. 10.—If another world war .§ (0 be prevented, strict Jjustice the common good must be the underiying mbtives of those who are charzed wwith the responsibility of drafting the peace Lreat- after. Prus- slan militarism is crfushed, Secretary Lansing said tonight in an addre here. He was speaking at the celebra- tion of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of Auburn Theological Seminary. While stern justice must be tem- severely {tton 58; wo.nded causes §; died irom wounds 4; from aeroplane ~accident wied wounded, degree undetermined 4;to- tal 301 New England men are: Killed in Action. Privates—James G. Somers, Bangor, maine; George Zeidlis, New Bedford, Mass. Died of Disease. Private Abram G. Fiske, Cliftondale, Mass. Wounded Severely. pered with merey, Mr. Lansing said, | Lieutenant Arthur H. Alexander,| when the time comes to baiance the [ Wellesley, Mass. Sarhi e account the authors of the -frightful| Serseants—Edward J. Wilkie. Bast Wrongs committed against manking |BOston, Mass. James D. Morgan, should not be forgotten.” He urged,|Winsted, Conn.; John J. Dyer, Jr. however, that the American people| Privates—Gust Demopales, West- discriminate between the ignorant and [field, Mass.; Emile A. Milot, Westford, the intelligent, between the responsi-|Mass. ; 3 ble and the iresponsible, between the| Wounded in action (degree unde- master and the serf. At_a period in his address Mr. Lansing said, “the hour umph is drawing near; the d war lords is almost over.” a applause swept the state where the address was delivered. The audience was composed of hun dreas of college presidents and pro cocors representing the greatest re ligious and educational institutions of of tri v of the orm of when | armory, termined) : Private Karl " | Mass. e 14 Segren st Boston, Missing in Action. Privates—John C. Donaldson Paw tucket, R. L; Vincent P. Hurley, Ma! den, Mass.; Joseph Julius Schissler, Bristol, Conn. . MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES. f Summary of casualties . 18 to date the United States and Canada, who|officers — deaths 44: wounded T6: enthusiastically received his message | total 120; enlisted men—deaths 1.082; to prepare for spiritual —supremacy | wounded 2,100; in hands of enemy over material considerations in thelos: missing 130; total 3 336; grand peace that is to come. NO OVERTIME EXCEPT FOR OVER 48 HOURS A WEEK Washington, Oct. 10.—In announcing awards in_ three labor controversies today, the War Labor Board laid down the rule that no worker shall draw ov- total 3. 456 The following casualties are report- ed bv the Cdmmanding Generl of the American Expeditionary Forces (inciuded in above total): Killed in actipn 19; died of wounds received in action 4; died of diseas 2; wounded in action (severely) 15 in hands of enemy 2; total 42. ertime or extra time pay unless he| New England men are: works forty-eight regular hours a Killed in Acti week, except where iliness or some| PR on: other kind of just cause presents. FPrivates—Tohn W. Anderson Bos- This poliey meets complamts that Mass; David H. Gorshel, Rox- have come from many war industries that sore employes make a practice of layirg off during the week to work overtime or Sundays for higher rates of pay. Today ruling puts this prac- tice naer the ban and at the same time provides that excessive over- time neither shall be permitted nor ex- acted. In order to keep overtime with- in reasonable limits it is ordered that where more thar two hours in excess of eighi heurs work in one day is re- quired, avertime shall be paid for that day, 1egardless of whether the work- er shall have worked the regular echedu'c that week. Tiie i wards were in controversies be- tween the employes and managements of the smerican Locomotive Com- pany of Schenectady Y.; the Mason Muachinery Company of Taunton, Mass,, and the United Engineering Company of Youngstown, Ohio. In each case the standard eight hour day, with time and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays was nrescribed. SOLD HONEY DILUTED WITH CORN SYRUP New York, Oct. 10.—For selling honey diluted with corn syrup with- out designating the aduiteration on its labels, the Standard Refining Com- pany of thi by suspens for Your waeks, 1 beginning Oct. city has been penalized m of its business iicense ry, Mass. WOMEN MAKE ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION AT CAPITOL Washington, Oct. 10. ‘Woman's Party members had another demon- stration on the plaza in front of the senate wing of the capitol today in protest against the senate's failure to act favorably upon the federal suffrage amendment. Capitol police took -ban- ners away from the women. some of whom struggled and kicked but no arrests were made, The police after seizing the banners placed the women engaging in the demonstration in the guard room in the hasement of the capitol. Two of the women escaped from the room during the absence of the guard, but six were held until after the Senate adjourned and the members left the capitol. The police estimated that forty_banners were confiscated during s of the National tonight announced Woman’s picketing Party would be resumed tomorrow in front of the senate office building, the sen- ate not being in se: ion. FURTHER TESTIMONY IN TRIAL OF “BABY DOLL" Bridgeport, Conn. Oci. 10.—The state’s star witness, by whom it hopes to prove that the bullet dred throuzh the federal food board announced to-|the door of the Keystone club by day. The company, it was stated, has | Jake (Texas) Hankins, struck and contributed to the Red Cross $2919 | killed Morris Pannell previous to the representing the “excess in price by |riot last December 13, occupied the reason of adulteration. greater portion of the time today . in the trial of Hankins anl William GERMANY’S REPLY TO (r by D(\:ll\ Thnm:;s l\'or the 'F;urdz»r of Pannell. He is Policeman Thomas PRESIDENT WILSON DRAFTED|3i McNamara who was with Ser Copenhagen, Oct. 10.—The German reply to President Wilson's note was drafted after a conference of Prince Maximilian, the imperial - German geant James the club as Burns in the ‘hallway of ergeant Burns was push- chancellor, Vice Chancellor Von Pay er, the minlsters and military repre- sentatives of the government. This information is contained in a despatch received here from Berlinfl ing Pannell back into the ciub. Po- liceman McNamara testified that he -|was hit by two of the ihree bullets fired by Hankins, and from his de- seription of the positions of the three men the third would have hit Pan- nell. |ed for the submarine, I i | i I Ticonderoga, an H, CONN. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS - ¢ It !-;.l:meghsoo ixsim Were — Ship Disappeared Completely Within Seven Minutes After Struck. A British Port, Monday, Oct. 7.—By The: A. P)—The Japanese steamship Hirano Maru, of 7,935 tons gross, has been torpedoed and sunk. It is feared ‘that 300 lives were los:. The Hirano Maru was outward gound from Japan and carried about 200 passengers. The vessel was for- pedoed ard sunk by a German subma- rine early on Friday morning when about 300 miles south of Ireland. The few survivors who were pick- €d up by the American torpedo boat Gestroyer Sterret have been brought Liere. They declare that the torpedo »\(_l'ufll( the steamer in the forward en- gine room. Nothing remained for tt on board, including women and children, but to plunge into the ocean A large number, however, went down with the ship. The vessel disappeared completely within seven minutes after heing struck by the torpedo. The scene was indescribable. The weather was bad and rather hazy. The cries of the drowning were heartrending. Everyhody had heen sup- rlied with lifebelts but only the strongest were able to stand the buf- feting waves and exposure. Providentially the commander of the American destrover Sterret heard the cxplosion and steered his vessel for the point whence the sound came. He found the ship had disappeared and he saw a mass of people stru gling in the water. There were no small boats available so the destroyer'in the had weather steamed about picking up those who still were alive. The American war- ship picked up thirty persone, one of whom died while being brought ashore. Among the survivors were these pas- = First Great Air Raid By the Americans 350 Machines Participated— In the Future No Part of Germany Will Be Safe From Rain of Bombs. Washington, ‘Oct. 10.—Word of the first great American air raid against the Germay camps north of¢ Verdun seni a thrill through war department officials today, aithough no official re- port had been received to furnish de- tails to the exploit. So far as could be learned, however, the participation of 250 machines in this one enterprise marks it as'the sreatest air offensive yet undertaken on the western front in point of the air ferces cmployed. No record could be discovered here to- night showing either allied or Ger- man hombing raids on anything like a similar scale, No official comment could be -ob- taived pending the receipt of formal advices. There is every reason to suppose, however, that a considerable portion of th: Dombing planes used were De Haviland bombers built in the United States and equipped with Lib- erty motors. Shipments of these ma- chines to France have now reached considwrable proportions and recent performance reports from France kayve been encouraging. The language of the account of the raid permitied to pass by the Amer- icar: milit or is taken here to ate that the operation was a joint enterpy with French und possibly British airplanes aiding in_the pro- tection of the Americans. The refer. ence to fifty triplanes as included in the great air fleet found no expression here. If- they were operated by Amer- ican pilots they »re French huilt ma- chines and no details of the equipment obtained abroad by General Pershing have been released for publication. The fact that only 32 tons of bombs were dropped by such a force struck some air service officers as surpris- ing. The ordinary homb capacity of a With Their Whole Souls The boys over there are throwing themselves into i the fight, believing that they can count on these back at home to send them all the guns and supplies they need to win. There is only one way we can doit. must work and save and buy Liberty Bonds with our whole souls the way our men are fighting over there. Nothing less will win. GET YOUR BONDS AT ANY BANK TODAY All of us sengers in the rrst cabin: A, A Young, Louis Durmont, A. B. Askla- , T. H. Butler and Fred J. Karsch. About members of the Japanese crew were rescued. While the American destroyer Ster- ret was engaged in the work of mercy and picking up the men and women struggling in the water, the German submarine fired 1 warship. Both missiles happily missed their mark. After making a thorough search for survivors the Sterret head- firing several shots and dropping depth charges. SCORES OF AMERICANS KILLED ON STEAMSHIP TICONDEROGA An Atlantic Port, Oct. 10.—Scores: of American saflors and soldiers were illed or wounded by shrapnel fired vy a German submarine after it had by torpedoed the steamship Ticonderoga 1,700 miles off the Atlantic coast, ac- cording to. the story told by survivors who arriveq her aboard a British freighter. There were 230 men aboard the American steamship of 5130 tons, and all but the twenty who arrived here today are believed to have perished. The survivors got away in the only boat which was not demolished by the shellfire from the submarine, they said. Seventeen of the men who reached port were mem- bers of a detachment ‘of soldiers de- taile dto care for horses which were being transported. The Ticonderoga was attacked, pre- sumably, on Oct. 2, when she fell be- hing her convoy because of engine trouble. According to the story of the sur- vivors, the submarine was not sighted until she had sent a torpedo crashing into the side of the ship. The torpe- do did not strike a vital spof, how- ever, and the captain crowded on full steam in an effort to escape, at the same time ordering the gun crews into action against the submarine, which appeardee about a mile off. “Our gun crews did not fire more than five or six shots,” one of the sur- vivors said. “The forward gun. was shot away almost at once. The after gun and its crew was done for almost as quickly. Then the men went to the boats, but it was no use, as the fiying shrapnel was spraying the decks and men fell in scores, either killed or badly wounded.” Another survivor declared that - all of the Ticonderoga's eight lifehoats, ith the exception of one, were rid- led with shrapnel before they could be launched. A number of men who tried to get info the eighth boat were killed by shrapnel as they clambered over the side of the vessel, he said. “Finally,” this supvivor continued, “one of our men, in desperation, swam close to the submarine and hailed an officer, asking him in God's mame to stop firing. “The lieutenant who answered him did so with a loaded revolver, saying that if he did not swim back he would shoot him. “When our boat had only twenty men in it we were ordered alongside the - submarine and made to tie up while the shelling of the dead ang dy- ing on the sinking ship continued. “The leader of our boat was asked some questions which he refused to answer, and suddenly the submarine submerged, and only the parting of the rope with which we were tied pre- vented our going down with it. One of the survivors said the sub- marine was of {he cruiser type and had the Jargest guns he ever had seen on a submarine. One of the engineer of- ficers, he said, whose room was pierceq by a shell from the submarine, de- clared that the shell was an eight-inch twenty today vo torpedoes at thej fleet of the Kind described for such a_short trip probably would be ten times that weight of cxplosives, it was said. The most significant feature of the firsc great American raid. outside of its possible place in the great strategic game that is being plaved on the western front, is the fact that it indi- cates that the United States now has taken its full place beside the allies in the air as well as land and sea. The hombing squadrons which made up this fleet probably represent the fil definite American unit of major ortance in- the independent - air forces which are being built up by the Entente pow The Prit and ench governments now officially de- scribe their hombing operations as the work of this independent air force. What is meant is the navy of the eir that is to be expanded watil no part of Germany shall be safe from the r: of bombs. It is a thing apart from the figiting, observation and bombing squadrons attached to the various army corps which work in close co-operation with the troops on attack or defense. The work of the independent force is bombing muni- tion works, factories, cities and oth- er important centers far behind the German lines. It has been specifically promised that eventually Berlin its will know what'an air raii means. and the whole great project is a direct answer to the German air at up- on unfortified Rritish and [French cities and Belgian towns. Another striking point about the size of the American raiding fleet is the fact that it i3 only the first American blow from the air in this campaign. The very size of that force is a warrant for the overwhelming character of the american air fleets that will come in time. CREW OF KINGFISHER 100 PER CENT. PATRIOTIC Boston, Oct. 10—Captain J. S. 0'- Reilly and every one of the 26 mem- bers of “the crew that manned {he steam trawler Kingfisher when that vessel was sunk by a German sub- marine off the Atlantic coast last month, subscrived today to the fourth Liberty loan. Captain O'Reilly immediately hoist- €d to the masthead of the steamer trawler, Fishawak, to witich he and his crew had beén assigned, an Indus-{ trial Honor Pennant, indicating the vessel's crew was 100 per cent. sub- scribed. The Fishawak as an addition- al aid in winning the war, brought in 165,000 pounds of ground fish to port on her first trip. 1 500 HARVARD MEN SWORN INTO UNl‘I’ED STATES ARMY Cambridge, -Mass, Oct. 10. — Five hundred members of the Student Army Training Corps at Harvard university were sworn snto the United States army today by Captain Carroll Dun- ham, adjutant of the university unit, in the presence of A. Lawrence Lowell, Major General William Crozier, com- mander of the northeastern depart- ment, and Commander Charles A. Williams, in charge of the military units at Harvard. projectile. ~Heretofore only six-inch guns have been reported on subma- rines. The survivors, who were adrift for four days before they were picked up, said that a raic with five wounded men Condensed Teiegrams Aiexander F. Trepoff, former Prem- ier_of Russia, was murdered. The United States apple crop is esti mated at 24 400,000 barrels. Inompson has oversubscribed its quota to the fourth Liberty loan. The Senate Finance Committee cut out the tax on dueg of stock brokers. Dircctors of the Rock Island voted to subscribe $1,000,000 to the Liverty Loan. One hundred and eighty dyes are now being manufactured n the United States. President Wilson held a conference with Secretary Lansing and General March. Hartford's subscriptions to date in the fourth Liberty ioan is $25,000,000. The quota is $16,341,000. A new interallied purchasing or- ganization has arrived in the United States. It is from Brazil. A new bombing airplane Allies carried a full-sized piano from London to Paris. In the eastern region several rail roads passed the 90 per cent. mark in subscriptions to the loan. United States Steel Corporation production of ingots for the past week was 100 per cent. capacity Officials of the War Industries Board admitted that price-fixing of common and other clothing is a possibility. Wm. W. Locks was appointed head of construction at Hog Island to suc- ceed Walter Goodenough, resigned. No more wool will be issued for the manufacture of blankets for laundries, as cotton and felt substitutes will sut- ce. Major-General Maurice resigned as correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle and joined the London Daily News. John C. Milne, for many years one of the upright e Y " | brought about,’ Mr. Garvan stated, by of the proprietors of the Fall River - 3 News, died last night. He was 96|Cne George W. Hoadley, an American s ol citizen of Bridgeport, an old friend of The Post Office Department denied that Postmaster-General Burleson had | issued an order checking the increase in telephone rates. Assistant Attorney-General John | ©f, $10.000.000. L P Lord O'Brien said there are mnearly | ‘M. Garvan found” said Mr. h"“_‘{;‘“ { 5000000 German and 2,000,000 Aus- | hat propaganda and crime having trian subjects in this country. At a conference of mining engineers and many of the country's largest firms at Milwaukee an order to_conserve tin was issued. Sir Thomas White, Minister of Fi- nance, opened the second Victory Loan in Canada at Winnipeg. A min- imum of $300,000,000 was asked. With the death in action of William R. McConnell, member of the Prince- ton faculty, the university has her sixth facuity member in_the wa Edward W. Delecon, an broker, committed suicide in his office in Fifth Avenue, New York. by shoot- ing himself. No motive is assigned. The cenate yesterday passed a war department bill authorizing the gov- largest | lost insurance | REVELATION OF New York, Oct. 10.—Revelation the method by which Count Von ‘Bern- storff and other German propagandists, failing in their effort to stop the ship- ment of munitions to the allies by blowing up ships and factories, organ- ized a $2,000,000 psuedo American o poration—the Bridgeport Projectile company—to take big orders from the allies and then purposely fail to fill them, was made here tonight by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property cus- todian, in announcing the taking over of 19,900 shares of the 20,000 shares of capital stock of the Bridgepori, Conn., concern. In addition, Mr. Palmer stated, the company had reported to him other property worth $500,000 held by it and in behalf of Germany. The action followed many months of inquiry by Francis P. Garvan, di- rector of the bureau of investigation of the alien property custodian’s office, and_involved besides Von Bernstorff, Dr. Heinrich Albert Dr. Bernard Bern- burg, Captain Von Papen, Wolf Von Isel, Carl Henen, one time American consul in Mexico, recently inferned, and Hans Tauscher, husband of Madame Gadski, the American repre- sentative ‘of Krupp, Maueer and other German munition manufacturers. Incorporation of the company i 1 was Tauscher’s. It was said to have been financed by the German government to. ithe extent of $5,000,000. although the | criginal plans called for an investment failed to prevent the manufacture and shipment of arms to our allies, the German propagandists conceived the ofyloyal American citizens, ostensibly for the purpose of engaging in the manu- facture of munitions on an_encrmous scale. other then LT3 plies faith, ture ea of preventing the shipments by creating an American corporation, ap- parently dominated and controlled by hinder, making munitions :or what Germany duration of the war. poration buy up all the available suj presses and othér supplies and mate- rials essential to the manufacture of munitions. The plan also invoived the negotiation of contracts with the al- lied governments to supply them with materials of war, apparently in good of fulfilling them The German government according to Mr. Garvan, furnished the money in 1915 Projectile company acquired its land, erected its factory buildings and fully equipped the factory with madginery and certain materials. he said, had made a contract with the German agents not to sell ai tions to any company with which Ger- proximately §5,000,000 was expended. These powder contracts celled and the returneq to Germany. M. |company had contracted to manufac- | Exposure Made by A. Mitchell Palmer, Alien Property Custo- i dian, in Taking Over 19,900 of the 20,000 Shares of the Bridgeport Projectile Company—Germans Organi- i zed a $2,000,000 Corporation to Take Big Orders From | the Allies and Then Fail to Deliver Them. - The purpose was to hamper and it not to prevent altpgether, American manufacturers from considered to be the probable was _planned to have this cor- of powder, antimony, hydrau but in reality with no intention with which the Bridgeport ‘The company, muni- many was at war, and it also had con- 4 tracted for the entire output of pow- ] {der of the Aetna Explosives company, | |Inc., of Jan. 1, 1916, for which an- 5 were can- funds advanced were Garwan also found that the for Germany 2,000,000 shrapnel cases, the obvious purpose of which was to furnish a plausible excuse for its purchase of powder presses, and that protected by guarantee of the Guaran- ty Trust company its drafts properly signed to the ex- tent of $5,000,000. ete., the company was in turn hat it wouid meet | PRESIDENT WILSON'S NOTE | DISCUSSED IN THE SENATE { Washington,. Oct. 10.—President Wil- son’s note of inquiry in response to the German peace proposal was praised and attacked today in the senate. Senator Pittman of Nevada, demo- crat, opened a debate that lasted sev- eral hours by criticising Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican lead- ernment to reimburse citizens _ ofler, for issuing a statement commenting France to whom American soldiers|ynfavorably upon the president’s aoc- who have died were indeted. tion. 'The Nevada’ senator agreed With To conserve iron, steel and alumi- num the War Industries Board an- nounced a program of curtailed manu- | facture of oil and gasoline stoves and | ovens, eliminating 466 existing styles. German prisoners who arrive at British ports show little appreciation for the Iron Cross. one for a cigarette. Employees nance, Major-General Williams, attaining a production of ~ 100 masks a minute, The Chilean Congress confirmed the nomination of Beltran Mathieu as Am- bassador to the United States. I most of the other leaders in congress | who have discussed the matter for publication in approving both the preqldent’s refusal to propose an armistice while the Germans are on invaded soil and the inquiries address- ed to the German chancellor. He said One Heinie traded of the Single Service Corporation of New- York were com- mended in a letter from Chief of Oxéd» or gas | the criticism of the republican leader | could serve no geod purpoge and woulg 1e1d to destroy confidence in the presi- dent. ¥ Senator Lodge replied, reiteratini {his disappointment that the presiden did not reply that nothing short of unconditional surrender by the enemy would be accepted. and his belief that the note opens the way for negotia- ] {tions with the German rulers, with Further curtailment of passenger | whom the president has said the traffic on railroads is being con-|United States cannot deal. - A similar sidered by the British government as ! a means of saving coal. Mrs. Wellington Koo, wife of Chinese minister in Washington, died | yesterday from pneymonia which fol- | lowed an attack of panish influenza. | She had been ill about a week. Arthur F. Marsden of Madison, long a member of the General Assembly, | was nominated for the senate by the! 12th district - republican convention today. Because of the influenza epidemic the annual Connecticut Baptist con- vention scheduled to be in session in ! Bridgeport Tuesday and Wednesday ! of next week will not be held. On_ account of the epidemic of in- ! fluenza, Cardinal Gibbons has decided | fot to hold the religious celebration | of his golden jubilee of the episcopate ! which was announced for Sunday, October 20. Nominations of Major-General Ire- land to be surgeon-general of t he army and of a number of brigadiers to be major-generals and of colonels -to be brigadiers were approved yesterday by the senate. Life imprisonment was given Angelo | Girardi, by Judge Maltbie New Haven. L. S. Storrs, president of the Con- necticut (trolley) Company, yesterday | declined to make any statement as to in current reports that trolley fares several cities may go to seven cents shortly. 3 Dr. H. S. Reynolds, medical aminer of Clinton died in a hospital at New Haven yesterda operation. Watson S. Woodruff of Orange, a Frank | Woodruff, was nominated for the sen- | the republican 14th disthict brother of former Senator ate by convention today. Dr. John Richard Perkins, of John T. Perki of Spanish attending. G. Herbert Bishop, messenger of the superior court, was nominated for the eighth dis- New, the state senate by trict democratic convention at Haven last night. The ninth district convention named Kenneth “Wynne of New Haven the | view was taken by Senator Poindex- ‘er, republican, of Washington, who expressed the hope thai if necessary trine speecl] combination of { German | that the Ottoman government had pro- {and Austria. England and France would refuse to grant an armistice until Germany had surrendered. 5 No word came tc the state depart- ment during the dayv indicating that the president's note had reached the iancellor, but it was assumed that it was delivered through the Swiss foreizn office probably some time yes- terday. Tr> fact that the chancellor. Prince Maximilian, is to address th reichstag Saturday led to the belief that the prince would have his reply ready by . that time. Evidences that Turkey is crumbling and already is almost if not quite out of the war continued to appear in re- ports to the department. There was no confirmation, however, of rumors posed surrender nor any explanation of the delayed appearance -of the Turkish note said to have .been sent SEEKING AN EFFECTIVE LETTERS REVEAL TRUE CHARACTER OF PRINCE MAX Washington, carefully fostered by the German semi- official pointment of Prince Baden, as chancellor, w: toward many uments written b; of wi ington. One is the text of a speech tha prince delivered las Baden first chambe president, written Hohenlohe. g The papers show the prince in his true character and are accepted here as well justifving President Wilson's ingpiry he speaks for those in Germany who Oct. 10.—The idea so0 press bureau that the ap- Maximilian of a long step ion of Ger- sipated by doc- the prince, copies have just reached Wash- the democratiz s completely di: ch December in the of which he was and the other is a letter Tast January cousin, to his as to whether in seekin: peace have conducted the war up to this time. They disclose - the prince as holding cynical Pontempt the pro-, ponents of democratic government for the Central Fowers. The letter was cailed forth by the , which is some quar was criticized because of the unnafural lofty Christian doc- with brutal German militarism. The speech drew a telegram of com- mendation from the kaiser, the prince ‘wrote his caused be printed for general distribution over the empire. In his letter to his cousin, Prince Max discloses his true feelings when he. said: s I am opposed to western par- ilamentarism for Germany and Baden, I was obliged to say to the people of Baden. or rather of Germany, that T understood institutions were not real remedies for them.” cousin, and rthe junkers thousands of copies of it to its merit, but that such VACCINE FOR INFLUENZA Washington, Oct. 10.—In its fight to, stop the spread of Spanish the public gating the causes of the disease, the conditions which and the part played & idemics of the malady ing an effective vaccine. but announce- ment was made fonight that the mer- influenza~ health service investi- s promote its spread carriers in ep- It also is seek- simu'taneously with those of Germany | vice has as yet been urable to recom- vesterday, for the murder of Michael Flannery, a railroad emplove, the past summer at X following an , son of Greenwich, a New York banker, died in the Pres- byterian Hospital in New York today influenza, after contract- ing the disease from patients he was BULGARS TO SEND TROOPS AGAINST TURKEY Tondon, Oct. 10—The Porte has been advised that Bulgaria is expected to send troops against Turkey in an expedition plarned by the Entente al- lies, according tc_a despatch to the | Exchange Telegraph Company . from | Amsterdam, quoting advices from Con- stantinople, the despatch adds. It is though probable the Bulagrian minister to Trrkey will be handed his passports within - twenty-four ‘hours. ADD BTS i ures with cases BILLY SUNDAY LIBERTY DAY ORATOR AT DEVENS Mass.. Oct. 10.—Billy Sunéay; ngelist, is to_be the Avyer, the day and will Ay into the cantonment in an airplane. Major Barrett O'Harra, ranged .the details of the flight. Mr. urday forenoon and will come here by irplane the 40,000 sol- dicrs. to address FALLING OFF IN DEATH Conditio; showed a slight improvement for the second time since the malady became epidemic in the training places. Dur- ing the 24 hours ended at noon 12,321 new cases were reported to the office of the the disease first appeared reached 211,000, pneumonia cases 25,- mend any that it believes will be suc- cessful. Meantime influenza spread over the country in spite of the strenuous efforts and continues to drastic meas- taken to prevent it. at army camps today surgeon-general of the army 97 new cases of pneumonia and 859 deaths. The total of influenza reported at army camps since ] now has 083 and deaths 7,432, The campaign of the public health service to ! the civilian popula Liberty | ger wa Day orator at Camp Devens on Satur- | ne field and headquarters have been check the disease among ion is now well un- 50 physiians are in . Nearly organized in more than 30 cities in the eastern and southern states. The vol- A ik unteer i Liberty Loan officer at the camp, ar-|of National Defense and the Ameri- Sunday will arrive in Boston on Sat-|can Red Cross are actively Co-operate ing with campaign vani PAROLED GERMAN DARED medical corps of the council the health service in its in New England, Pennsyl- New Jersey and Delaware: senitorial candidate. 5 RATE IN BOSTON OFFICERS TO CATCH. HIM Boston, Oct. 10-—Boston’s eath toll| Augusta, Maine, Oct. 10.—Diedrick NO PUBLIC GATHERINGS from Sranish influenza and pneu-|r (. Speikermann, a paroied Ger- TO BE ALLOWED IN OHI0 | monia for the 24 hour period ending|man sailor, sought by the Tnited Columbus, O.. Oct. 10.—Ohio will be- state immediately as in- cluding theatres, moving picture hous- shools are conern- a result of actior taken late to- officials come a closed far as public gathering places, es. churches and at a meeting of health representing municipalities through- out the state. The action was taken, it was cxplained by State Hea!lh| Commissioner Bauman, not 'because the epidemic of Spanish influenza had assumed alarming proportions in Ohio, but to prevent any such development. It applies to localities where the dis- case has been reported to exist. Every county in the state it was stated, has reported the presence of influenfa in some form, 40,000 cases having been reported since the dis- ease assumed epidemic form. At Camp Sherman, where 788 deaths have occurred during the past two on it had put off from the Ticonderoga and that they iad attempted to tow it ing the night and disappeared, weeks, 81 deaths were reported for the 24 hour period ending at ¢ o'clock to- night. continues to show marked decrease. at 10 o'clock tonight was the lowest in 18 Rurial permits were issued for 96 influenza victims and 28 pneu- monia, a total of 124. Yesterday the death toll was 144. Since the epidemic started early in September, 3,147 have died of the disease. States secret service since April, 1817, when he telephoned to the district at- torney’s office at Boston to say that he was on his way to Buffalo in an automobile capable of miles an hour and dared the officials to catch him, a5 lodged in_jail here BROTHER-IN-LAW OF KAISER ELECTED KING OF FINLAND Stockholm, Oct. 10.—-Prince Fred- erick. Charles of Hesse, brother-in- vas county. Speikerman steamer Wilhelm IT when she was in- terned at arrested ‘|1aw of the German emperor, was elect- ed king of Finland on Wednesday night by the, Finnish landtag. The re- publican mambers of the chamber did not vote. POSTAL SACK CONTAINING Perlin, Oct land.—A po: 000,000 mar) 10, via Basel, Switzer- 1 sack containing 70.- of securities and tre The numbser of new cases re- | ury honds addressed by the post office | is with them, but that it broke away dur- | ceived at the base hospital, however, |fo the imperial chateau was stolen the| His father is day before yestedya. . sequently was paroled to a farm at tonight. He in Washington, Knox this state. 2 was employed on the ew York in 1914. He sub- Lincoln, Mass., where he remained un- til arrested in April, 1917, cn a sus- picion cf being a_Ger ] Charse was dismissed and —Speiker- mann was sent to Lilcoln with instrue- tions triet later BONDS STOLEN IN BERLIN| i< way woest. Speikermann Fortlznd in the morni 1l be taken for his internment. He man erman agent. The to report regulatly to the dis- attorney’s office. A short time he telephoned that he was om will be removed to 5, where steps native of Bremen: agent of the Ger: vears old, Lioyd Line.