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LANE EDITION [ “Circulation Books Open to Al | NE CENT. | PRICE O Copyright, 191 Co. New ¥ CZ by The Pre Publishing ‘ork Worl). NAL DEFENSE COUNCIL ACTS ON NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1917. t ‘Circulation Books Open to A ] 20 PAGES AR DEPOSED BY THE DUMA; To-Day’s Weather—FAIR. 10, FIVAL PRICE ONE CENT HASN'T ABDICATED; IN HIDING PRESIDENT NAMES BOARD TO CONFER ON PLAN 10 AVERT RAILROAD STRIKE oo Brotherhood Chiefs Refuse to Parley Further—Rumors of Disaffection in West— Passenger, Mail and Milk Trains Get Five Days Grace. WASHINGTON, March 16.—The Council of National Defense, in- cluding several Cabinet members, at a meeting here to-day took up the threatened nation-wide railroad strike. Immediately after the meeting the Cabinet members went to the White House for the first meeting in two weeks, called primarily for a discussion of the railroad situation : Decision by the Government to take a vigorous course of action in the strike situation was indicated this afternoon when, following the Cabinet meeting, * Secretaries Lane and Wilson, President Willard of the B. & O., and Samuel Gompers have been designated to confer with railway man- agers and Brotherhood chiefs on the Hope was expressed country could be thus averted, Secretary Baker issued the follow-@ strike. a tie-up paralyzing the commerce of (he ing statement late this afternoon “Acting under a plan suggested by the National Council of De- fense to-day Secretary Lane, Secretary Wilson, Daniel Willard and Samuel Gompers, all mem TE, OHIO GOVERNOR READY TO RUN THE RAILROADS UNDER MARTIAL LAW CG following statement .in con- nection with the threatened railroad strike: “If it becomes mecessary to avert a food farm ney or to give the President of the United States co-operation, | make m. law the law of the State, take over the rail- roads and run them,” Columbus, O., March 16. ov. ; bers of the advisory council of the COX to-day issued the Council of National Defense, wil! go to New York to confer im- mediately with representatives of both sides with the end in view of bringing about an adjustment of the differences and avoid a ous situation developing at a time of international crisis “This action was taken subject to the approval of the President, ri will and his approval has been given.” | = . engin of the Atchison, Topeka and Unless President Wilson, with the| Santa Fe and the firemen of the I @upport of his Cabinet should | nols Central are alno reported to have interpose the vast powers of the decided to ignore a strike call national Government, a nation-wide Reports have been received from railroad strike will be declared to-| points on the Pennsylvania system, morrow evening at 7 o'clock the New York Central’ system All hope of a compromise agree-| Great Northern system, the t ment between the Big Four union Pacif and the Chicago, M chiefs and the railroad managers dis Paul system that appeared this afternoon, when the | ¢hsinemen and trainmen are not k union leaders announced they would for a strike have no further dealings with ¢ Some Cubinet members, ) Conference Committee of Railroad Unoffictal reports, are in favo Executives. lowing the unions to strike, They d If the uriion leaders have an think the strike would | propos to make we are The President, Was here to receive them,” said patches state, looks upon th Lee, Chairman of the Managers’ Con-| strike as a strike against the Govern ference Committee at the Grand Cen- nt—in view of the ding tral terminal. crisis—as well as a strike against the “Our door ts open too,” sald W. @ Lee, spokesman of the union chiefs “Wo are willing to let the ratlroad managers play in our yard If they will cross the street to the Belmont Hotel.” Telegrams received from Western and railroads The oMecial strike order issue Cleveland March 10 was m in New York to i in p (Continued on Twelfth Page.) — of Patten Confirm this afternoon Appotntmen thern railroad centers indicate that all is not har-| WASHINGTON 6.7 monious in the unions over the propo: [ate to-day con*rmed th olntmer aition to call a strike at this time. It| ‘Thoma Pa to be Po fs claimed by the Ratlroad Managers |New Yori Committee that the eng 4 und — conductors of th Louis-South- | western—the Cotton Belt Rou Last Two Days of Big Sale. 4 $10 Men's Overcoats and Suits, $5.95 which Edwin Go 4 Chairman he “Mub’ Clothing Corner Hrontiisy have notified the gr amloera ut : opp, Woolworth Build their unions that they will not obe Ws ale Ovkenat a strike call is, tan ‘own The St. Louls Southwestern, it ai a 40 Ade Gur anaciat price wald, has an agreement with its on dny & Saturday, 96.08 & $6.98, Open wi , Wtutday mMght till 10. Hub Clothiers, @inemen which !3 satisfactory. ‘The Broadway, corner Barclay Street —Adve U.S.NAVY GUNNERS GERARD GREETED “WARNED OF FIRING BY GREAT CROWD: SQUAD IN GERMANY 10,000 JAM PIER ——_ of | Reception Begins at Communi- paw Depot and Ends at the City Hall. }Paper Declares Crews Armed Ships Will Die If | They Attack U Boats. CITES FATE OF FRYATT.|PARADE UP BROADWAY. May Be Treated According to|Sergeants of Envoy’s Old Usages of War, Though | Company in Twelfth Regi- | Not of the Enemy. ment Guard of Honor, BERNE, March 16.— The crews of armed American mer- Switzerland, Ambassador James W. turned to New York to-day and was chantment who venture to fire upon| given a reception ft for a conqueror German submarines before a state! coming back from the wars. of war exists bet een Cermany and the United State: ust exp to meet ters and evil bands and auto- the sami faté ad Capt, Fryatt, who ‘merce rate! | was tried Hye German eotirtemaM al, BOvilem Mewecalled Envoy! 4 Merlin Accompanied by an escort of sold- Gerard re-| Policy of the New Russia to Give Power to People, Says Mini | eas * |No One Had Confidence in the Government, He Declares. |COMPL TELY ISOLATED. | Final Victory in War Predicted | as Result of the | Revolution. | i] | PRTROGRAD, March 16, —"The | problems which we are going to solve of the re-establishment in Russia of a power capable of giving the people final victory over the en-/ omy,” said Prof. Paul Milukoff, the ster Milukoff new Forelgn Minister and one of the Most prominent Adveral leaders of Russia, In a statemepipg-faxtenthe Associated Prot Noprright hy Central Prof. LAberal the Paul overthrow N Pi Duma, who took @ | of Premier his axsoctaten, Minis olgn Capi Mi! arty | has b the we Photo ikoft, the lend n ng Stur eon new IBERAL PARTY LEADER WHO OVERTHREW RULE OF RUSSIAN PREMIER) Service.) jer of Russian n the nd For NURSES AVERT FIRE PANIC IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL Burning W Thr Thick ¢ ward on t kite M of He and had congeale Jand executed, warns the Muenchner| reached the City Hall shortly before “The great crime of the late Gov~ | Nenesto Nachrichten. o'clock, where he was formally wel-| ?ment consisted of throwing the | | sastims,"' the Bewepaper sayn country into complete disoi on! ee, st newspaper BAY! comed hy John B. Btanchf ate un in mplete disorganization |"that President Wilson realizes the . and subjecting It to the hardest trials |fate to which he ts subjecting his Mf OF the Mayor's Committee and) This state of affairs might even have artillerymen. If, without being at-| by Mayor Mitchel on behalf of the! had dangerous effects on the inmue of tached to the forces of the enemy,! city the war. The increase of popular |they take part In hostilities or make yfayor Mitchel luaded Mr. Gerard iscontent was the cause of the turn | forcible resistance, they may be is ; ‘ which events have taken, The anger treated according to the usages of Wi erving fidelity to oy of the people was such that the Rus-| | wea b 8A0| BIEN 8) lution was almost the short | ident Wilson, knowing these) f apie silane tsetigeie Bove ‘ost bloodless in history | International law, pro-| Mion ; ~~ them to tigh Government was com ceeds to arm America hantmen| Preparediies © denounced Pa etely isolated, which confirms the must assume resp tor| © we And specifically “4! tact that no one had confidence tn It the eventuality th sea ae be thie! pad who opposed The great events of the last few dayr nen will meet the f Capt.) U does Ray make it possible for the people to Fryatt GRATEFUL FOR THE RECEPTION, gain fresn confidence. ‘These | = Goa GHAKOE gain fresh confidence, These events ai, Geka a will increase popular enthusiasm and ALLEGED GERMAN SPIES Pe oa canes reply was as follows:| multiply the nattonal forces, giving Free ieraiiardeices w how deeply 4 them at last power to win the war T0 BE TRIED WEDNESDAY Yr J , te reception to-d During a few days the Duina at | tow nate am for the 1} i taolf the attention of the aan | w vken by your Ma Y| whole nation and was the of George Vaux Bacon to Be Chief) W'S but in summing wo 1 moral force, To-day it has Witness for Government Against | nember that 1 had. the waalotanee [material force also at tte disposal, | | HAM OE t t had the asi F Nee at army take Sanders and Wut g oy ed band of secretarle : I side our brings news bear | Federal Judge Van t to-day set] Of @ Amal but tactful family of one.| ing witness to the continual growth next Wednesday a for the} wckitg Of our ent De-lor power of the forces of national trial of Albert O, 8 sand Karl] partment of State, and no less al ie: Shin nentoays several] times, the approval, the wise counsé ent: considers it weeks ugo and now Jefault ‘ e okt ul sonnet of Lie jindispensable that th abdication of of $20,000 ball, charged ¥ igat-| ! an hie ¢ he Emperor be confirmed and the ig in United States a itary whl ’ 1 Lincolin—our Pres en temporarily intruated to terprise against ¢ with | Woodrow Wilson 1d Duke Michael Alexandrovitch which this nation 4 on | nding to-day very near n is our decision. We conalder tt The two prisoners ar nat t of war, but I want to nposalble to alter it | cal having ser fre t If we should b en to England to s ution flict it will be on SAYS RUSSIA WAS ON a win upnovting | VERGE OF QUITTING ALLIES ke Vaux : nity of the United newspaper A Jon n war, 1 lef | pal witt ma | Wannel \ i : ke ft 4 s and J JONDON, Mareh 16.—"Prof, M Py esses to GLAD TO SEE GERMAN NAMES|' Paap be ipa , Te -_ IN THE LIST. : Laat pee y «la da st r . sig BELGIAN RELIEF SHIPS Commie tur cents naga . . , r menittee ars Ile the confidence ot | PARED BY U BOAT. 4 5 che ‘ Socialists and labo ship bi st od f. ’ ‘ 1 Ge i one an Mintater of W c rma * Du ep ona = mee " 1 glasse a ‘ th ‘i ne " weve y r t ” aving now ua i y 1 know Metat Lys fm \ at Musmta w a ‘ W f inah para t r f 1 , ; ’ ’ 1 M Duma ed rhe 1 ‘ M H 1 be ' r i 7 | TE ery : i \ wan only] iw \ ft 1 w t k t ie 1 rhird Page a iM r Telephone Beekman 4000, —A4 (Entries on Page 12.) t by id step of revolution,” wus up. Mi war cau a floor po! | Wax the floc wh Me ywlx patient excitement 4 ther sher, of the 1 nd he his amor 0. BR was ward The placed rhe ie Johns | red wax | fand delegates representing the ————_ 4 _____ UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE TO PREVAIL IN RUSSIA; NOBLES JOIN REVOLUTION Czar Was Advised to Step From the. Throne by Grand Duke Nicholas, Whom He Had Humiliated While Directing Victorious Army. AMNESTY TO BE GIVEN TO POLITICAL OFFENDERS LONDON, M 16.—Czar; Nicholas’s abdicati of the throne of etait aha. effected, he lor of the Exechequer Bonar Law announced in the House of Commons to-day. The Chancellor read a telegram received from the British Ambassador in Petrograd. It stated that while the Czar’s abdication and appoint- ment of the Grand Duke Michael as regent had been de- cided upon by the executive committee of the Duma, such steps “had not yet been effected.” The message concluded: “The Czar’s whereabouts are not known.” *At a conference of the members of the Duma Executive Committee wkmen, which lasted until 5 o'clock this ransitional period morning, agreement was reached concerning ¢ | before the election of a Constituent Assembly, The executives insisted in the interests of the war on the necessity of order being re-established before the holding of the elections, The workmen at first opposed the proposals of the Executive Com- mittee, but later the Socialist Deputy, Kerenski, accepted the portfolio of Minister of Justice on condition that the Constituent Assembly would be convened The elections will be based on universal suffrage. PETROGRAD, March 16.—The Grand Duke Nicholas, command- ing the army of the Caucasus, telegraphed President Rodzianko of the Duma to-day that, in ement with Gen, Alexieff, Russian Chief cf Staff of the Army, he Such action, he held, the only px te jon and av zar to alnticate. advised the ( ave R wil ble step to , bring the war to a successful id fateful cir Fifteen assemblies of the nobility met to-day and adopted + resolu deciaring thelr participation in the popular revolution, Th ution vigorously assailed those officials of the old govern- ment responsible for the crisis which resulted in the overthrow of the Czar, Minister of Justice Kerensky, of ew Provisional Government, to- day decided upon a Ken amnesty to all political offenders The populace and e fully sympathetic troops of the city brooked a¢ wition to thelr con Baron Stokelberg fired on a group of soldiers from his window, His ouse Was promptly stormed. The baron was dragged out. He was carried the side of the quay and summarily executed Count Fredericks, the aged Mfulster of the Impertal Household and Aide de Camp to the Emperor, was discovered tn hiding. His Iife was ut he was sent to prison t in jes of the other regime, eanwhile bis hous been comple wreoked t s Kiet 1 r ! as a spy, Was discovered in hid. ut the Chinese Legation promptly took her tn custody FORMER MINISTER HAS NARROW ESCAPE, Yo more dramat ' red in the last few days of rioting o arrest of tt Mir \ Sukhomlinoff, i and of ba artied ‘ The soldiers 1 his instant execution, reca ; former Min- Juplicity and t able dew Deputy Kereusk Suratof, one « Duma leaders in the revolt ster of Justice in the Pre 1 in He ap- he mob to spare the Minister's life, declaring Justice would be meted out to him. He declared Sukhomlinoi desired nothing better than The crowd waver ate execut and Kerensky won the day, hen the sold.r:y demanded their former chief's degradation, @uk- Bu