The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1917, Page 2

ee ee eee ee 0 eee eee \ re-established their beady Bile around Verdun were it fhons for the conduct of the war in vain, they created new ‘ ROME REPORT OF KAISER'S PLANS. ROME, Dee, 24.—The report that a new German peace hand is supported by apparently reliable information wivich high quarters here. it ts sald that on Christmas Loa fatlon containing peace proprnals, irr may be expected of merely another manoeuvre intended to throw Alles responsibility for continuance ¢ of THREE AUSTRIAN GENERALS SHOT IN TILES IN ITALY Rome Reports That Forces) Which Cross Piave River | Were Driven Back. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Three 5 Teuton divisione—approximately 60 000 men—were literally cut to plecew by the Italiane in the Gorman of- fonaive againet Col, Barretta and Monte Agolone, according to a" epetches from Rome. Commanders of the seventh and eighth Austrian brigades and Gon. Pfeffer, commander of the fourth Austrian division, have been seriously wounded, captured prisoners declared. With the recapture of positions on on Monte Asolone the Italiana have positions over ? the menaced portions of the Itallan lines, For three days the defenders fought under a terrific artillery fire and against ssphyxiating gases. Lonsen on both sides were enormous, ROME, Dec, %4.—Knemy forces which had crossed the Plave River at; Vecchia have been driven back over the river, the War Office announces. On the mountain front, the state- ment says, the Austro-Germans pasaed the Italian positions in the Astago seo- tor in the ye oe" of Buso Monte-Val- bela but stopped at the Italian rear _* positions. ‘The Italians are counter attacking | with satisfactory results. _—————— U.S, MIR MECHANICS ° TRAINED In FRANCE American Aviators Will Find a Big Force of Assistants When They Arrive. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Dec. (by the Associated Press).—When the American alr fight- ers begin arriving in France in large numbers they will find a corps of sev: ral thousand American air mechanics | * trained on this side of the Atlantic waiting to assemble, repair and care for their machine Tho Associated Press ts able to an- ponece that arrangements have been mpleted for training a large number oe mechanics this inter in barony that mony repalp, unite alre h ey will recross as needed when Arrangements also have been ma the ‘catabliahment the Unt ‘of flying schools for Italian avi- ——— GERMANS TAKE OFFENSIVE OW MACEDONIAN FRONT the Defeated Three Times on Cerna in Effort to Anticipate Allied Drive. H WASHINGTON, Deo, 24,—Germany » ted a powerful offensive in Macedonia, probably to anticipate the Allied campaign about ready to begin. Along the Cerna River three violent ; attacks against positions held b; ' Hiallans have been repulsed wit heavy losses, official despatches | stated to-day. "The fighting continues. | AMERICANS IN NO PLOT TO AID THE COSSACKS Action of Red Cross and Ambas- sador Francis Defended by Officials at Washington, WASHINGTON, Dec, %.—Netther | the Re4 Cross nor American Ambas- | sador Francis at Petrograd is involved | in any conspiracy to ald Gen, Kale- | dines's counter-revolution in Rusala, | officials declared emphatically to-day, | replying do Leon Trotaky's charges that such a plot was afoot. Francis, it was explained, had a right to request uninterrupted pass- gage of a Red Cross train to Ros- tov for the Roumanian Red Cro PTO a to advance money to the mission if he actually did so. \ These are the two charges apon which Trotzky framed his claim that Francis was leagued with the coun- ter-revolutionists, hinting apparently that the train carried supplies for Kaledines instead of for i Rouma- Pian Red Cross mission, extended no recognition to the Bol- sheviki regime as the, de facto Gov. ernment. It explained that none of the Governments th far had con- sidered the Boishe power as suf- jor mission, and it was proper for him| The State Department sald it had} has reache Emperor Williarn will isue a dects whether explicit conditions of the war cannot be ascertained ARMY OF 100,000 “TRIBESMEN SENT ANS Isis Bolshevik Government savas Mountaineers to Check Kaledine’s Revolt. PETROORAD, Dec 4—An a 100,000 formed from mountain tribesmen is moving againat the rear of Gen. Kaledin'n revolting Cossnck forces in the Caucasus, the Holshe- viki Government announced to-day. Gen. Antonoff, the military com- mandant of the Petrograd district, has gone to Kiev, with instructions to negotiate with the Ukrainian Rada is an offort to settio the differences between it and the Bolshevik! Gov- ernment. It im réported that the authortiios| of the new Ukrainian Government) are ready to accept proposals look- ing toward a peaceful arrangement, The movement for harmony !s at- tributed to the fact that the grow- ing dangers of the situation are be- tent by the Bolsheviki, For the same reason they are believed to be inclined to modify their attitude of) hostility toward the Constituent As-| sembly, which Is likely to meet with- in @ week. There are numerous reports of Military activities on the part of the Ukrainians and Cossacks, but appar- ently there have been no hostilities on a large scale of such a nature at to indicate important developments. ‘The supposed impending arrival of Germans here is the universal topic of dincussion in the city, but every one seems to have a different ver- sion, Many centre around the con- centration near the city of a large force of released German war prison- ers, Thousands of German war prison- ere are flocking toward Petrograd from all parts of Russ! T Germans have been pushing trade with Russia since the frontier was opened. They are making the most of a commercial opportunity such as the world has never secn before, inasmuch as Russian indus- tries are neatly dead and the Ger- mans have no competition, The Germans have refused to admit M. Zinovieft, a close ussuciate of Nikolal Lenine, and other Bolsheviki whom the Soldiers’ and Workmens delegates wished to send in to spread thelr doctrines in the German army, ‘They aleo declined to admit Trotsky's newspaper printed in German for army propaganda, ‘The Bolwheviki are negotiating with the Social Revolutionists of the left for the formation of a coalition gov- ernment, wherein the latter will hold the Ministries of the Interior, Jus- tice, Posts and National Affairs, A despatch from Tashkend, capital of Turkestan, describes the lynching under horrible cireumstances of Gen, Korovitchenko, who was Kerensky’s military commander in the province, It is reported that the Germans are moving troops from the Russian northern and western fronts to the southwestern and Roumanian fronts, May Move ™ STOCKHOLM, Dec, 24.—The Brest Litovak peace conference {s to be moved to some neutral ground, pos- sibly Stockholm, early in the New Your, according to word received here to-day DENTIST HELD AS SLAYER OF THREE-MONTHS BRIDE Tries to End Own Life After Writ- ing to His Mother, “Il Wanted to Be an Honor to You,” RICHMOND, Va., Deo. 24.—~"1 want 4 to be an honor to you, but a great trouble has overtaken me and I am not able to bear it, God only knows my trouble, and Just how it came about." | ‘This was the farewell message Dr, Lemuel J. Johnson, twenty-three-year- old dentist of Middlesex, N. C., now 1d on the charge of killing his bride of three months, wrote to his mother before he attempted to end his own Mfe last Thursday night in Wilson, N, C. Declaring hia innocence of the charge against him, Dr, Johnson was to-day in the jail hospital, eH was not re- quired to go to court to answer in Person when his case was called, and | preliminary examination was Axea for Jun. 3 | ‘Tho body of Mra, Alice Knight John son, the nineteen-year-old wile of the dentist, may have to be exhumed if the Coroner'y Inquest is conducted Mra. Johnson died as the result of tak [pe stable to ed@nstitute even a iy Government, which ts the ss, 0 Same. eam nh iA fog poison, The police the ry is that ‘ane, Was unaware that shel capsule sh ny | ing recognized to an increasing ex-| THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER Police Furnish Real Christmas to Poor Kiddies; Crowd Getting 6 rifts at West 20th St. tation eee ee eee e eee ereneenee eee coe oe 1917. 60, 000 TEUTONS REPORTED CUT TO PIECES BY THE ITALIANS APPOINTMENTS YET, SAYS HYLAN; WOMEN ASK JOBS . “Nothing Deti Decided ! +| Upon,” Adds Mayor-Ele: ] ‘ &| Gloom Among Job-Hunters. . an * | ave no announcementa a maid Mayor-riect Hylan 4 day when . app ments * Then he cant atm neokers by wadding 4 “Nothing i« definite } upon } $ | net one.” | ; Apked wie het predios * \tion that William J n ia » be | T | Police Cormminnt ' Hylan $j aald: “Let the papers p printing | their storie 1 +4 Roth aftrag m" suffrage! @ | leaders have bee May 3 to ure nt of ® | Women to numerous municipal offlces 3) Mrs. Norman he White » Chairma York Sta * | Suffrage 1 K with hin * | She w women we f have represen it no definit ¢ | offices or candid ere prom . The le f w ny » Mmanded f h f 4444 eee wert e §44446-P404-6-5004 lowing | anion One J i} clal Sessions to p de ay ! 2 s dren's Court: Commissioner of ( Christmas Greeting fue Comuisstcne ue chet ‘ Peesident of the Parole Board, four) toGen, Pershing From GISOUEES ue (ie wohool Beard eye Among ¢ applicants for the Christian ee | |sudsesht arn Clarice Barright Wren, Lue!! Pugh and Mrs. Btevenso: Mi Wald, Com TO ee Vek Word of the Henry ‘ ment, has (Special Cable Drwpatcn to The World.) Lass AHA he Gee Ease OE LONDON, Dec, 24. 4 women for Commissioner of Corre peas Bhi G ALLENBY, Commander in tho a Judge Hylan cynica sked r e Ce Pee ~ sae “How about that item of $25,000 for Allenby Advances One Force|] Mer 0! ihe Buin Pre || Majority Socialists callsis and IMPpe-|tne Henry Street setilement which North of Jaffa and Another |] ing striking, nistoric christmas || rial Government at Odds, Pees Rae ae reo East of Bethany. greeting to Gen. Pershing: Radio Message Shows. surprise over the fact that he w “The British troops in Beth- ——__ | being solicited to appoint to office LONDON, Dee. 24.—Gen. Allenby’s lehem on Chri rene. Be ee w ABHINGTON, Dec. 24 sepa peers hone ilasecsavee Sree! troops in Palestine continue their ig: ond at difficulties’ bet n the mp¢ | Mttchel's candidacy Anon his entle advance on the plain of Sharon, fepe thas through the sch German Government and the Ml 4 wero Misy Mary Cita, north of Jaffa, and have occupied four ment. of their commen: pur- Jority Socialists hafe resulted from| Chairman of the Sew York City Syf- more towns. The official statement pose the law of force may the conclusion of an armistice with|fragé Party, anc Miss Mary E. on the operation reads: yield to the force of law and Russian Maximalists, the Committeo) a * be a Karate fan ante “On Saturday morning, with naval peace and gree wil reign at | on Public Information learned Yo-day | Pero of Mayor Milchal. The Nudge co-operation, our left continued the \& length on earth. in a radio message from Lyons,|way polite, but. frigid, advance north of the Nahr El Auja, ——— | France | caliterere Satie een cane Boa, reaching the Iino Sheikh el Ballu- German military authorities, the) Other places which are claimed for WHITE HOUSE TO BE OWNED | BY KIDDIES T0-MORRO tahel-Jelil, about four miles north of the river, gushing eastward and south of te river, we ocoupled Fejja) and Mulebbis, This was followed by | message says, are strongly opposing Socialist assemblies and are doing ali within their power to thwart an ex- pansion of the Socialist oe , he message 1s quoted from Zurich the capture of Rantieh, on the Turk-| President's Grandchildren W ill} | despatches to a.French news agency: ish railway to tho north, and Khel- Have Huge Christmas Tree | “Word comes from Berlin that the belda-Khelbireh, four miles south- in the Library Pies es a ae Farkit Magn Maximalists has, a offect, pro- cast of Ration, Bffective aerial! WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Presideut | Gucoq gortoun difficulties between the work was carried out on enemy Wilson will turn over the White House | tmperial Government and the majority transports and infantry,” to-morrow to his xrandchildren, ¥ ancle) Socialists. ‘he latt in fas advertise An eariler, but delayed report, told | 14 sien Sayre and litt! n Wilson| openly their ideas about peace condi- GE SnD SRRERE Oem ere LOW OR SS i A Th Mb huge Chriat-| tions and those tendencies of which the McAdoo. will be a huge -| tions and. thos h (he Holy Lass. 8 read: ee ak ea aitrare Pan-Germanists and the militarists "Gen. Allenby Yeports that at mid- | |mas tree tn the mansion complain, Numberless incidents have night of Dec, 20-21 sur troops, cross-| Out on the Virginia roud, leading 10)" y” aus prohibition of the meet: | ing tho Nahr el Auja (four milos|the President's favorito golf cours, | ranged for lust Sunday in Berlin north’ of Jaa) on rafts and lept Mity kiddies will be a to-morrow|}y the majoritists ls not an bridges, selzed Khurbet, Hadrah, !yy one of the White Howse autos laden | case j Lesgagodinehet ah eed Rekket and Eli inn toys and candy, These children| “The communication of the Social- | Nokhras. These localities are Roar | 4 ily salute the President he jour-| ist Party In the protest that was ad the mouth of the river and incluts|"® % f eee ne ~ldrdssed to the Imperial C anceltor | commanding ground three miles north |He¥# to his Kame mentioned a large number of abuses | of it, They captured 305 prisonors,| One hundred and twenty-five turkeys] ea ny military authorities eleven of whom were officers, and ten| went to employees e White House] oe ainat the right of holding nen || machine guns. to-day—each a xift from the President. | pan. Germanists other! “Other forces captured Ras es| War ts curtailing the celebrations of] TN Tee ne Social Democrat| ey _|the elders at the Mansion and Cabinet} hand, A Zandy, two miles norineast of Hethe | omes. But the children will find Old] majority for thelr anti-national at-| any, taking (IFNy Drischers, tWO mas | sete oa the fob this year an usual titude. They complain, notably, of chine guns and beating of three coun- |" Hogey, Hetty and Jack an article in the Chemmizer Volkstim. tor attacks. Secretary Baker, It Ix wha men, In which 1% found this signi-| “Gen, Allenby also reported thefol-|roing to got Just what they ficant passage | lowing captures since the commences |tyetty, a deka; Jack. « lo ; igre v-bteen erent ment of operations: Ninety-nine gune| graph apparatus and Morse c dook.} ional Liberals arid Progressives are and howitzers with carriages; about|and little Pexey, a “booful doll ane eotoltita tbe plaudit of ¢ 400 limbers, wagons and other vehi-| Morgan Frank Daniels and Jonathan | 9 '8# 6° eX? Neca eimatnla an cles, 110 machine guns, more than| Worth, younger sons of the Secretary | annexationist views the principle, ac 7,000 rifles, 18,600,000 rounds of smatijof the Navy, will reeciy ne present} cording to which people should have arm ammunition and more than 50,- ch from thelr parent rme ajcontrol over their own destinies. 000 rounds of gun and howitzer am-|*Weater and the latter « neh dic-] Thus they are trying to comb: munition, besides various other | “onary with the barons of the Baltic and stores.” The President and Mrs. Wilson] the Bourghers of Poland with a vy | “Since the Turks were driven out | Walked through the district | to concluding an arrangement which|t of Jerusalem they have t.on con-|#hortly before noon to-day and was] will be fatal to the needs of the pro-| ducting guerilla warfaro north and | Kreetod with ry Christmas’ by|jetarlat on the eastern front, It secks iad att many in the The President is time to act as though thesc cast of tho city, splitting up into) ti iGwledged the greetings with | at tH Ja Bey taste numerous w.uiwil bodies to attack Brits | paitec t were foregone © s {ah outposts, to snipe patrols and gen- rence Ignatius Morrison will pre- - erally to make themselves unpleas- | side at the Christinas tree in the home] chancellor ling's Rass! ant,” says Reuter’s correspondent at fs Vice urea sie hag Mire MArSHA Peac ramme Approved, o-morro’ Claren knatius is the ec 2 ‘the Ger. Jerusalem, telesraphing Dec, 16. | youngster the Marshalls have taken | AMSTE hope the “een , “uch tactics are: greatly facilitated | under thelr wings because his mother }man lee real sans | by the fact that the country ts so | was unable to uMord ord him advantag Chancellor ling a apelan ve hilly and intersected by so mary ra- OrRETR EY ROMA I iis ai vines and small rivers. To improve | PERSHING SENDS CALL pate n {0 the British position the taking of cer- " 1s may be @ wider range of defense. All ‘ Two ‘GERMAN N RAIDS. these moves bave been successfully carried out, This State Asked to Furnish 150 at REPULSED BY BY BRITISH ~ “A pomarkable opportunity to view naeVolunte May Bi this fighting is afforded by the Mount Once—Volunteers May Be . of Olives, which makes what ts prob. Enrolled Immediately London Reports Successes at Point Jably the most wonderful observation} ay nany, Dec, 24.—T on Cambrai and La Bassee |post in tho world, In the clear at~linorities to-day called Fronts mosphere of Palestine objects 6,000|/stato for 160 bricklaye . to 6,000 yards away look us if they | pershin army tn I LONDON, Des, %4.—German troops] wero within pletol shot. The winding |eral wants 1,000 of them | yesterday afternoc attemp to raid course of the Jordan is clearly visiule | which is imper - | aritiah pus ne so\thenay of Ms | and motorboate may be seen skim, |cured only by Immediate volunteering, jon th one B) Eran Wah were y ming the surface of the | Men deairing such may prea |off, tho War Office announced tong | i ent themselves to local boards for im Naiding p rk e which att vo ft Meet to Xow mediate Induction Into army, It approach sh lines in th n-| ling Hai s Shauinen tay bald rrnood of Monchy'-le-Preux i women under consideration. Moxt of Judge Hylan's time to-day was taken up by the widening factional bre. Borough. Th tinct groups claimin patronage and all of them sent de | gates to headquarters. most significant however, esentative of William who was closeted with Judge Hy! The ft In the only one name wi as is numerous tentative That XMAS TURKEYS 42 CENTS; RETAILERS KEEP WORD h !n Democratic ranks of Quec C re new Mayor's there was general understanding that certain slater 1s Congressman Murray bert to be Commission all other callers had been sent Washington ‘Turkey is 42 cents a pound to-day retail, in Washington Mark and there is only one grade—"fresh Killed." ‘The price is lower by about i cents than It was at Thank’ time The rd than 5 any th wh retailer ale AYER, brigade 4 cancellation anted to @ Mass., Market 4 promised market of they would cents a pound profit, y are keeping their word, dropped Christmas jumbe Twenty members of th Co tc for home company ar condit from leav DIED. CROSS,—FRANK W. OF joeg at OAMPR. FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway, 66th at, Wednes day, 0.30 A, M. STURGES,—On Saturday 4 1917, at hie late residence, Park ay FREDERICK, son of the late Jonatha and Maury Pemberton Siurmes, Both year age. Tuneral services wiit be Reld at Grace! Churen, Broadway and 10th at, on Wednesday morn 2M at 10 gtclock, it te ki quested that no owers be Iaverment at Pouvent. ut wh had Ht we nen xis no! 4 Jes among members of the d@ot at Camp Devens to-day caused Tenth Company Men Rule About Five Cents a Pound Profit. headquarters ns w four d omnition and aller of the J. O'Reilly, KR. Hearst, jan on the prepared. Hul- of Docks. Obey iving the Food make more and th he about cents. P. Q, Foy, market expert, stirred things up on the Jersey side yester- day by charging that the Adams Express Compan was #0 badly tied up that fowl were dying in crates from exposure and lack of food. The mpany admitted that th was ngestion, but said it was nothing inusual for this time of ye > louthreak of Measles at Camp Deve Lo An outbreak leave of soldiers. preparing to word came that been aud din th i ) Massachusett Compa from y from Weate ty -ntth ence of family, | | | | \ | Americun Wounded, VEW YORK MAN WINS CROLN DE GUERRE FOR SERVICE IN FRANCE ky Tells French Ambassador Maximaliots May Be Led to Wage Revolutionary War, teen Tree evi Foretan Minter, ae « levued by the Havas PARIS, Munday, Pree Anoney, called on Jonah Moulens, the French Ambassador to Nw and on of that the Molahewiles wished to ; princtote of “demeoretic peace." leaving to the peoples the Mant dispose of themectves, The Ambus- ving Avked him what he would : nar & pence + Trotaky the peace L would not be slaned and thet the + Maxtmaliats might be ted to ; itlonary wa y added that “If publie epinton t trotak ‘ : chm war the question t omatituent i nolnded by faylon . the Boleheviki succumbed te : stance they ate meeting with a the country would be miven ; The Ha oneluder ‘ tt conversation, which is correet . hout. must be considered as ore- relati » FOUR GERMAN N AIRPLANES i WINGED BY BRITISH Airdromes of Enemy's Night-Fly- Squadrons Are Bombed by Allied Flyers = ing Qt rie SER LONDON Dec. Four German planes were brought down by Brit- aviators on Saturday, accord: © statement on aviation activie the War Offtce, The statement wh army Casanitl vr was poured he enemy infantry on Saturday. In TAWA, O ‘ v fighting four hostile machines were NeCine Memon Se -kinericanay tdown, After dark our alrplanes Dutton, M war Ha, W vombed W enn, F H Wilkinson William Sage, New B, McLelland, Apy the alrdromea of the enemy's squadrons and {important ions. Many hits were obs 1 our machines returned “y Dalian, rk. night-f railway tained. Hey, Fellows! Come Over! SHE Sent LOFT CANDY! URE ENOUGH! The bay in camp has received hie Christmas box, It has been packed with tender care and every comfort has been provided for him, Preserved Fruits, Jell Handkerchiefs, Mufflei mean for this chap’ ate friends on Christmas mora ing! What a lot of pleasure a nice box of Loft Sw would bring to some boy you know in tent or bar get the Packa SPC, MINK DY— That old fanbl holiday — mixture, sting of Curamels. if Hon Bo crenms finest Oli a entry dy woh smlinelta ATES of mont eritiest candy Niet ela Variety be itn work of riebly emboosed GRADE ASSORTED Checolatee——These vee elite strictly to thet uty ang ran TES ‘outwly ‘at more GOLHAM ASSORTED CHOCOLAT GOLD. BEAL or Bon Bons and Choco ASSORTED CHOCO~ LATES Hon Bons Chocolates ive dekree of Cand Every sweet iy 0 gem beautiful pack to the most Fr: SIL oHOCOLA im MAMA Cherries, rich in wcheus Julce, tree in Fondan ‘Crean In cloaks of 49c HINO: 9 fection, tanty mene’ i Premium ND. xi fT Bon Bons and Chocol, toe and ae anaes acked fn ‘rlebly Taco cy emeetlied with tock and: key. ihennnelyes a aac’ AOE ani Ge Mei CR OMELET: | prices elsewher Booxn nox OC PER BOX : 24¢ Nei 5-Lb, Boxes, ®1.055 WE CANNOT ACCEPT ANY C. O. D. ORDERS, Our stores will remain open to-night, Monday, Dec. 24th, until 12 o'clock midnight for the convenience of late shopper: 84 BARCLAY ST, *472 FULTON STREET, #29 CORTLANDT STREET Et RAat aerathier: *PARK ROW & NASSAU “149TH ST. & THIRD AV 197 MARKET STREET, 266 WEST 125TH STREET Fr NEWARK, i “1289 BROADWAY, 400 BROOME STREET rf) BROOKLYN. 23 WEST 44TH STREET. TRE 50 BERGEN AVE South of Loew's 149th St, Theatre M. to 12 P. Christman Da: day on ascount of the Wemendeus Hk i ansort Me nin he Smaller, siz * for the Gfove Ca sr, FAMILY —Twelve cunning tittle th the habit. eo! p oxen, of (Bronx © specified welebt includes the container, € of