The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1917, Page 1

? ’ other than any third country whitch * treaties. Allies Agreed to to Furnish Big Guns, Says Crozier eorrenty (97T: ey a _ [covets Boca ie AA) nEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 91, Vk Tl —-— CT TO BUY COAL FOR F - <a ence orld, ["Cirentation Ronkn Open to All” | _ 1917, 16 PAGES PRICE Rhone eres ALLIES TO MAKE SERIOUS REPLY ON PEACE » LLOYD GEORGE 10 CONFER WITH CLEMENCEAU ON REPLY TO GERMAN PEACE TERMS aise Serious and Reasoned Answe Were to Be Given by the Entente Allies. 26,000 LAY DOV ARMS. Cossacks in Finland Go Home and Other Troops Aban- don Trenches. LONDON, Dec. 31.—The Manchen- ter Guardian says |t is the intention of the British Governme: Austro-German Presented officialiy, to return ous and reasoned reply Ligg@ Goorge has ar d to visit France, according to the newspaper, te confer with Premier Clemenceau on tis subject. ‘The terms referred to are those pre- sented by the representatives of the Central Powers at the negotiaflons with the Russians at Brest-Litovsk These negotiations were interrup for ten days to give the Entente Al-| Hes opportunity to state whether they} when the; torms of peace are) a seri Premier would join in them. The principal point in the Aus German outline of peace terms w sal acceptance of the Russian formula of no annexations or jndemnities. In addition to the points set forth} in yesterday's advices from Brest- Litovsk regarding the provisional! agreement betweon the representa- tives ef Russia and the Central Powers, another clause is Included, the precise meaning of which is not clear, A Reuter despatch trom Am- sterdam gives the clause thus It was agreed that both legally and economically one country should mot be treated less favorably by an- cannot appeal to treaty rights.” The German wireless version of this clause reads: “It wos agreed that, respecting al! rights of intercourse and economic Telations, none of the countries which is a party to the peace arrangement shall be treated less favorably than any outside country in respect to which treaty rights do or do not exist.” This probably is in effect the fami- Nar “most favored nation" clause which frequently ts included in ‘Tha Times prints a long letter from tts Petrograd correspondent, dated Saturday, which purports to substan- tiate the viow that the Bolshevik re- volt was managed by Germany and that the movement is essentially anti national and anti-Russian "The Bolshevik Government is ex-| tremely efficient, energetic and decisive though faced by nolsy opposition from the privileged classes who are doing all they can to check it by sabotage and Mbel, according to the Petrograd corre- @pondent of the Dally News. ‘Any attempt to turn out the Bol- ghevik Government by force would re- quilt only in anarchy favorable to the Germans, says the correspondent, He writes enthusiastically about Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik Foreign Min- ister, wito told him that the war would be decided by social rather than mill- tary pressure. Trotzky is quoted as qaying: “WOODS TO RETAIN POST UNTIL HYLAN NAMES SUCCESSOR: Denies He Will Head Police Again—Inauguration to Be Simple, Mayor-elect John Comminsioner Hylan sum- | Arthur Woods this morning and asked him to noned, Police remain as head of the Police Depart- ment until @ successor is named and installed in office. and afterward made public the fol- Woods consented | lowing letter to Judgo Hylan “In accordance with our conversa ion this mor ng, Iam glad to com- | | ply with your request that 1 continu in office for a few days until the ap polytment of my successor.” Mr. Woods denied that the appoint- ment had been offered to him, and Predicted that he would be out of office in a few days, Judge Hylan's plans are still mys- terious, He was cool as the weather thiy morning In his attitude toward those anxious ones who begged for Just 4 hint of what happen to-morrow. had ono rep! “No announcement will be made to-day of the lst of appointees.” This \9 the plan for the ceremony to-morrow, A few minutes before noon Judge Hylan will go to the City Hall and mect Mayor Mitchel, in the latter's private office, At noon the yor and the Mayor-elect will pd to the Mayor's public reception room, and ono of the briefest, informal inaugural ceremonies Now York has known will take pla Mayor Mitchel will aay a few words. Judge Hylan will say fewer Then Hylan—Mayor Hylan—wil! re- tire to the private office and suin- mon the men he has selected to help is going to For everybody he | dae been definitely agreed upon bx MPADOO TO RASE PAY OF 1,500,000 | RAILWAY WORKERS Also Takes Bleps Steps to End the Freight Tie-Up and Coal Shortage Here WAAHINGTON, Dee. 31.-Dhrector| | General MeAdoo will pay his 1,600,000 rajlroad employees more money. This ls tween President Wilson and jeade f the four great brotherhoods and|~ will cover increases for all employees whether members of the brotherhoods or not. The Government will not meet the| full 40 per cent. increase demanded by the men, but an agreement in as- sured, This question, together with/| action to relieve congestion at the ports of New York and Newport News, now bearing the brunt of the heavy export freight shipments, ts occupying McAdoo « arcemtion to the! exclusion of other probleme new. Hin plan is to divert immediately freight directed to these points and send {t to Boston and Philadelphia. The long haul of freight from the! central part of the country, for which | the Eastern roads have been actively bidding, will be eliminated and all \such shipments will go to New Or- leans and other Southern points which have been practically Idle, McAdoo 1s already turning his at- to financing tmprovements in terminals and equipment. Some of the 1,800 locomotives under order in) American plants by foreign govern- ments will be requisitioned. Some lines will be stripped of engines and freight cars, which will be placed into service in congested territory, Additional terminal facilities and} storehouses witl be constructed at| tidewater ports and at the big inland railway centres, It will be weeks, | probably months, before the common | use of present terminals at New York, Jersey City and Chicago can be worked out, Immediate steps are to be taken to relieve the coal situation in New York and New England. Mr. McAdoo called. into conference Fuel Administrator Garfield, How- urd Elliott of the Rallroads War Board, Walker D. Hines and Alfred H, Smith, Mr, McAdoo's asistants; Interstate Commerce Commissioner Anderson, Chairman Starr of the Boston Public Service Comission and Edward Chambers, in charge of the transportation end of the Federal Wood Administration, It was the consensus that priority orders issued by the Government have him administer the city’s affairs | After Judge Hylan's interview with Police Commissto Woods to-day he held a brief consultation with William P. Burr, who is st Corporation Counsel, and another wit former Park Commissiontr Henry Smith, who ts to be Park Comnils- sioner of Manhattan again, according| to the slate. —_——_ BROADWAY DARK SIX NIGHTS EACH WEEK, IS NEW ORDER; ONLY DIM ON SATURDAYS ‘eclipse of “Great White * Rule Goes Into Effect Jan, 2 and Will Be Enforced. Total Wa “The German Democracy looks to the Russian revolution, It ts the} recognition of thin fact that compels | (Continued on Seoond F Page.) Anat Ble eabase BR WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, Aveade Politzer (World) Building, (68-68 Park How, ¥, City, ne, sailings, do, via all Rafe Central and Ser American and parcel cheek room ers and moncy ‘Const wise, Se an ’ Every night in the week except Satur- |“ day ts to be “lightless night" in Now York, a# well as throughout the whole |State, according to the statement insued to-day by © Fuel Administrator A) bert 1, Wixain © New order, which will be as rigid ly enforced ax the combined powers of the Fuel Administrator and his Commit tee on Fucl Conservation can make it will go into effect on Wednesday night, ‘Delophone Lisckwea 6000adri, Jan 3, been responsible for the coal shortage in New England and other sections By New Year's nforning Federal Distributer Snead dectared, @ supply iiticient to meet the demands of the needy begin to arrive in New York from the Pennsylvanta flelds, The New York City and State dis. tributers are to be instructed to meet tho demands of the suffering poor first of all. ‘The domestic needs of those better off will next be considered and finally the essential industries, Sup. plies will be doled out sparingly to the jess essential manuufactortes until the famine is entirely relieved. _ will Deliver per 100 , SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. 31.—The city authorities at the Instances of the Committee on Public Bafety and jClty sel Local Fucl Board to-day began the istribution from the city yards of thirty-five tons of coal in 100 pound lots to families without fuel, making Jdellverton in city trucks, Care was xercined t that the fuel was to these who had none. The 1 wa ents por hune Provided coal can be plan may be continued f the winter | which M. Tardiou of the French High | Commission asked the War BRITISH AND FRENCH AGREED TO SUPPLY U. 5. ARMY WITH BIG GUNS FOR THE YEAR 1918 PERSHING. TROOPS ~ WITH FROZEN FEET Gen. Crozier Testifies Proposal Was Voluntary — Lewis Gun Not Up to Inventor's Claims, WASILINGTON, Dec. 31 on fen war inquiry was turn ordnance situation when a Gen) take | Crosier was permitted to stand again to-day. Gen. Crosier asked to be put ee. END COLDEST HIKE: "0 COAL COMING ‘INTO CITY TO-DAY; CRISIS AT WORST Thowands “Who Who Have No Fuel Must Do Without, Ad- mit Local Administrators. Practically no addi to New York City's fuel supply may be « pected to-day or to-morrow, accord to Fuel Admintotration officials land the ‘ing factora in the coal trade by Persons who are without coal will have do without. More than half of the retail coal yards here f to open for business thie morning, the largest coal men tn NEW MAYOR URGES ACTION BY BOARD OF ESTIMATE TO BRING RELIEF FROM COLD Calls for Appropriation to Buy Coal | to End Suffering—Eleven Dead in Below-Zero Wave—Hospitals Face Fuel Crisis. Mayor-elect Hyli's first official action will be to relieve the frees ing populace by a distribution of coal at the city’s expense, if necessary, oath, He read a prepared statement | Think of Valley For Forge as They | th trade here announced. Appeais| He invited A. H. Wiggin, Federal Fuel Administrator; Arthur Willams, dealing first with borrowing artillery from the allies for Gen. Pershing’s | forces, Desire to make America’ forces of actual aid on the fighting! front as son as porsible was a prime factor, Ge: ter said, in the wrtd lery loans from France Correspondence was Huddle Together or Burrow Into the Snow. By J. W. Pegler. produced 1) | certain picked, crackerjack marcht init of American Depart: | and the ment to order French artillery that French deliveries exceeded number promised Conferences between the heads of|pitals with frozen feet, the British, French and American) faces and other ailments due to bitter Governments abroad regarding fur-| ooig, {nivhing of artillery to America’s!" * forces were recited by Gen. Croater.| “Valley Forge had nothing on Somewhere Eve, 191 He produced a letter from Gen. Bliss, Chief of Staff, stating that British and French munitions heads had formally assured him that their artillery and ammunition production had #0 In- creased that they would be able to completely equip all American forces arriving abroad in 1918. PUTS RESPONSIBILITY WHOLE COUNTRY. “Iam not trying to excuse the site uation that requires us to depend on our friends for heavy artillery,” sald Gen. Crozier, “but tho responsibility | Tests on the whole country, How he had, during previous years, often asked Congress for large %p- propriations for artillery and that he and other army heads had many| times called the country’s attention to the need for more artillery, was related by tha General. in France, said @ young Chicagoan, drawing up his coat collgr closer around his head as @ protection against the tcy, wind-driven snow. “My feet are swollen so darn big {with the cold that I'm afraid to take off my shoea—I couldn't ge#’em on again.” The mardhers arrived at a group of primitive villages down the valley last night—after fighting the wind In their march for many weary miles. After @ supper of scorchingly hot soup and stew, the Americans crawled into barns and into the an- clent houses fully clothed, their heads incased in knitted helmets. They wrapped up in thelr heavy blankets and huddied together tn |sroups of three or four, sharing each | ON “This 19 a plain statement of the | other's body warmth against a wind! case,” said Gen, Crozier, citing one |that whistled through windows and instance before the war in which @/drove snow through chinks in the “modest programme” of artillery a> | walle. propriations calling for $1,200,000 was ome burrowed into straw piles, cut in half by direction of the Bec-|Others made their beds under the retary of War and then further re- | Mapping canvas covers of the motor- duced by Congress to $210,000. No|trucks, considerable appropriation, he said. aoa raga was made for heavy artillery unti!| SUBWAY OPENING DELAYED. | 1916. Appropriations in preceding years, he said, wore “absolutely t eteguate” Broad t bot 42a ‘ wala rondway subway between 42¢ Machine «un Machir ee © such [Street and Reetor Street will not open mere ee ae 1 but the Ger- tornight, as was predicted by the an {mportant weap sano EMbiic Bervice Commission. Instead, mans, realizing be fod to {tle formal opening will be detayed | else their great future am Juntil next Saturday. In @ statement geoure them in quantitios, Turning to the charges that preju dice had kept the Lowt# American equipment, ¢ detailed the official records of the! Although @ train was operated up Department |Iiroadway from Rector to 424 Btreet LEWIS GUN NOT A SUCCESS |y*sterday, the official trip which the issued to-day Commissioner Whitney says the extremely cold weather han- gun out Of |dicapped men in the handling of in. Crozier | material Hrooklyn Civile Club and the Broad S UNDER TEST, way Aanociation of Manhattan were The first offer, to his know icdse | nave taken to-night from Pacific was received May 2. 1912, » Street, Brooklyn, to Times Square Automatic Arms Cow 2 hus been postponed until next Satur- & special text. The co showed that the Ordnan: day morning —— THE EVENING WORLD Will Not Be Published fered a regular test with am the ut on Ma furnished by test followed, } another Lewis ir Governin test, which was id at field Arsenal, T " rT - denied, hows : | To-Morrow, Tuesday, report slowed 206 times, had y 1 January Ist 18 parte required ror while the Vickers twen (New Year's Day) gun jammed (Continued on Fourth Page.) *) ES troops ended a) heartbreaking hike to-day with « reat! | In & certain ancient hamlet in France, | with dozens of its men crowding hos-| frostbitten NeW Year's for fus! are pour « into the offices of the Vedera! Fuel Administration Federal Food Administrator, and John Mitchell, Chairman of the State and to every doalor from pructically | Food Commission, to meet him late this afternoon at his office, No. $0” every charitable institution, includ- ing hospitals for the insane and trom | East 42nd Street, to arrange for immediate action. thousands of private families and WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN apartment houne owners. FRANCB, Dec. 31 (United Pree) —A| The Federal Fue! Administra- tlen here to-day is considering the recommendation of the con- scription of Iabor to handle frozen coal at New Jersey tide- water points, ‘The Conservation Committee of the United States Fuel Administration | for this State met today to try to ar- ‘ange for the utilization of the Penn. sylvania tunnels under the Hudson | River for the movement of coal from New Jersey to Manhattan. Harry T. Peters, Chairman of thin committe, characterised the coul famine situation to-day as “terrible beyond beitet. “Very little coal will be dumped at New Jorsey tidewater points to-day,” he sald, “Btill less will be brought to New York City, It ts a physical | impossibility for men to work for ten-hour stretches on the exposed oul plers in the Hudson River.” Railroad. officials admitted very little coal has moved to New Jorsey tidewater in the last twelve hours. A considerable part of the tonnage that did reach there was consigned to up-State and to New England poinnts, | “Despite previous experiences with coal shortages, wo aro not prepared to cope with @ situntion such as ex- ists here now,” Mr. Peters satd | "Coal that i» taken from steaming | houses ready for loading argos ix frosen into solid blocks in |@ forty-minute run from the steaming hounes to the piers, “Physical endurance is such that it cannot stand up under the torrif strain of the exposure on our open piers, Men can't work, Woe are up against Jt hard, Tho situation is ter- rible beyond beltef.” | ‘Tho coal famine te 90 acute, the return of hundreds of th to office buildings and | Sunday holiday, that € trator Frederick B. | Brooklyn has asked the © {servation Committee's authority te board with puannds a) Adminis: Gunnison of al Con run coal trains directly under the North River om the Pennsylvania |tracks, through the Pear station and out to Long Isla If this is not done, sald Gunniso: | Brooklyn will be freezing tn 'tlrety before other di | With but 00 tonn al on hand in the Hronx and no prospect of mot ting any more t u x Deputy Fuel ‘Adihinistrator Hall sald the situation Was never as sorious 48 {tis now, The coal now on hand Mr Hall said would be exhausted to-night nd if ne more was forthcoming there would bo m@ch suffering anong both rich and poor, Hull declared tivat ent fons continue for a fow more} o would have to t ve and churches to t 7 for sleeping quarters in order that the women and children may ke that} itty after the | “Cut the red tape,” was the new Mayor's declaration “Let us get ‘goal to the people at the eartlest possible moment. My heart bleeds fer ‘their suffering. Something must be done at once,” + ‘The new Board of Estimate, come |sinting of the Mayor, the President of |the Board of Aldermen, Comptroller |and the five Borough Presidents, wilt be summuned to meet to-morrow at noon, |ministration takes offic’, in order 30 |vots funds and take such measucpe an are necessary. This action follows suggestions “of the country from the Ohio Valley || The Evening Work! made to se eastward, Tho cold ia now || Mayor-elect that the State law was Passing to sea. | sufficient for him to use city money and olty agencies for the purchase and distribution of coal to the needy. Although no offictal announcements of appointments have been made by Judge Hylan, he summoned Willan Burr for consultation ana directed Dims to proceed at once with authority $6 take whatever steps were needed é speed the relief. This action confirmed previous intimation that Mr, Burr will be named ax Corporation Counsel to» morrow and become chief of the mew | Mayor's cabinet BURR ASSURES NEW MAYOR OF | HIS AUTHORITY, p Mr. Burr laid before Judge Btylab tho emergency fopd law passed at the extra session of the Legislature last summer and assured him that ft ¢ov. ered the emergency. The specific seo~ Uon allowing the city te buy and dis. tribute coal ts as followa: “Any municipality th this State may, in case of an actual or antiel« pated emergency on account of @ WASHINGTON, I moderation of the cold wave, be- sinning to-night, was forecast to- day by the Weather Bureau for TO-DAY'S TEMPERATURE. | Degrees below sere, Mi e@eveasens ial Ls cooen FRENH CAPTURE 1 AOD TEUTONS ON mt! funds or om mu- nicipal credit and provide storage for and nell the same to ite tn. habitants tn such manner and through such agencies as it may determined; but before the exercise of any such power or authority by any muniolpality it shall have Berlin, in Announcing Begin- ning of Offensive, Admits Loss of Positions, the consent in writing from the ROMB, Pec. 31—In the Monte} state Food Commission to exere Tomba region on the northern front] else such power.” he French have captured enemy In the mean timo eleven deaths from ‘ . the corroding cold have been recorded positions between Oateria DI Monfer- 11. 14) cotropolitan district and bour ona and Maranzine, the War Offer by hour the number of persons who drop in the streets through exposure is mounting. Bellevue Hospital suffered so greatly innounces, ‘They also captured about 1,400 men and 69 machine-guna and even cannon BERLIN (via London), Deo, st. | t-day from lack of heat—40 degrees French Infantry, taking the offensive | ’¢/Me the highest possible to obtaia in ittacked and succeeded tn penetrat-|MOst of the wards—that some of the Ing parts of German positions around | ™ployees were told they could ge Monte Tomba, to-day's offictal yo. {Nome Other hospitals throughout the port stated ity report ‘hat unless rellet comes iit VIBNNA, Tec, 31 (via London) wenty-four hours thelr patents must suffer With the low reoord of 18 degress Counter measures against the Ffench are {n course of preparation in the warn, below sero--just 17 degrees leas than Monie Tombs ares, the War Oitice te Poary sila the Pole—roadhed at “ immediately after the new ad-*