The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1918, Page 1

EDITION Copsrii it, 1018, by The Press Publishing (The New York World), Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ _NEW “YORK, “THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1918. “Cirenlation Books Open to Al 14 PAGES CITIES UNDER MARTIAL LAW. 'S.PUTSENBAREO QUTCOME OF WAR DEPENDS NEARLY 2,000,000 STRIKERS IN ENTIRE GERMAN EMPIRE Hamburg, Altona and Wandsbeck in a State of Siege — 58,000 Berlin Women in Ranks of Strikers—De- mand Peace Without Annexations. BY RAILROAD MEN fAltona and Wandsbeck aro in Wage tiegae ises | Pening ‘Be: the Hamburg district. Altona ad- joins Hamburg. Its population fore Federal Board Aver 40 Per Cent. in 1900 was 161,000, It is the seat of important industries. Wands- beck is three miles northeast of Hamburg. In 1900 its population Was 23,000. it has iarge brewing @nd distiiling establishments) The Berlin newspapers, with fow exceptions, have been published. T statement says there: have been no @isturbances anywhere in the empire. | —_——— WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Demands Nearly 2,000,000 on ike tm the|/for wago Increases pending before erman Empire. the Railroad Wage Commission are AMSTERDAM, Jan, 31 (British| (Admiralty per Wireless Press) € strike has been extended in districts near Berlin, especially in Tegel, Ald ershof, Spandau und Mariend Where 500,000 men have quit work. an ag gate of 40 per cent., tt to-day, The demands 1 of nearly $500,001 half of the ratl © of last year disc » | on with the capital and are wuit- @ similar number of workmen are| FORAY BFO Stl | a Rear from'there now." on strike in the remainder of the|feaching the commission. In nearly |'"5 t0 Coat Utomo’ tome rine empire. every case the labor union seeks to! 1, wetween this country and pain Linoluding the 700,000 reported jrepresent all members of the par-| os Guba as well ax Mexican and ou rlin, the above indicates ticular trade whether organized oF! couthern American ports and reach @ total of nearly 2,000,000 strik- | Wnorganized and the wages commis-| into the Pacific far as the Phil ers in the German Empire.] sion ix said to bo prepared to accept | ippines. Clergymen vainly exhorted the|this principle. GAR irikers in Hamburg yesterday to] Many of the demands are for much | WAGE BOOST FAVORED Gontinue their work, says the Cologus| more than 40 per cont, They ask in| the trades union headquart and trades on parity with em-| adopted a resolution opposing the es of 0 industries, and in @en-German Fatherland Party and/addition a flat tncrease to provi House Committee Recommends @emanding immediate peace without |for higher cost of living within the| Increases of From 10 to 20 Per annexations or indemuities, betier| last year | oe tl Iabor conditions and improvement of| | 14 van ha 1,800,000 | Cent, for All, the food supply. | way lovyees organized, Wit WASHINGTON, Jan. %1—Waae A deputation waited on the general! the last few we however, tho un- of from 10 to ® per cent. f fe commana of the t and aald| organized men met in gre cin Nore cin ig Ad rs woul t | sroups recommended to the House to-day the strikers would not resort to V'0-/ and ser allroad Ad-| hy the Postaffice Committee. This will jence. a . j mintste atl a OF Commi: njaffect several thousand employees of 58,000 Women the 700,000 With ‘the. aid ptatieticlana| i? NOt eae aeoali es a ee: Strike . and examiners | Comunis ie ial LONDON, Jan. 6 German] * A he : aie = etrike is still growing in magnitude, |" gabe yo the Exchange Telvgraph correapor AT aosie aan tata BILL TO AUTHORIZE CITY pr orts, In Ber-|Jn many instanc dent at Copen! lin 700,000 persons are on strike The commiss n Was Motified te reports, 68,000 of theve being won . y f td ee “ye eg oF te on A great numbe leaders] hearings of the commission and to have been arrested in various German] give any assistance possible in check- towns, according to this authority ing BP the st uteme nts of an rita is Le ts to compromise di ‘The fact that Berlin i Lintin the Interstate Commerce @ thick fog has mate it im e a Administrat for the authorities ent the d Raitlre © made today with semination of pamphicts, the reports) votes. At 4 polle whe weir a majority state, fimit ‘ 4 The Vorwaerts, in a scathing artl-|for having the (Continued on Secon ates Page.) Announcement The increase in the price of all the one cent New York papers to two cents gives the dealers an increase of 50°, over thels pre- vious profits. Notwithstanding this, there has been a disturbance in the distribution, baxed, in some instances, on a misapprehension. will be submitted to ep hand during the Some of the dealers tear that they losses through unsold copies remaining readjustment period This is fing newspapers decided to take back J copies until the dealer can regulate his order on the s Companies, taking only the number of papers tor which he regularly bas a sale. a misunderst nmon tairnoss, the all u Ne ON GOODS 10 SPAIN, BY STOPPING SHIPS, igs Ordered Suspended | and Guards Put on Six Vessels Here. WASHINGTOD -Be of certain conditions in Spain, which , Jan, 3 ause | the Government considers to the a vantage of Germany and discrimin, tory against the United States and the Allies, the War Trade Board to- day ceased to issue licenses for exe port of merchandise to that country and held up ships about to sail for Pe tn, . Orders were received here to-day | trom Washington to hold all steam- ers of the Spanish St hip Line in port until further not When the lerter reached here the Alphonso XII was ready to sail with 250 passen- nd cargo for Barcelona, Spain here are six largo steamers of the ey in the harbor, «!! of which, jn- cluding the Alphonso XiL, were put under guard At the offices of the Spanish Line, Pier No. 8, East River, jeere it was said the order from Washington was not in the nature of a command to suspend jsailings, but it was admitted that there should be no sailings until | Washington was heard from. | “The order may be changed to- morrow,” said one of the officials. "We cancelled the suiling of the Al- phonso XIL, but that may be changed at any time. We are in eommunica- TO OPERATE GAR LINES Assemblyman Takes Step at Albany to Provide Public Ownership, a a ixth King Assemblyina introduced 9 ing TEPPELN Wonks ATTACKED, | BIG EXPLOSION INDIGATES ZURICH, Wednesda Jan. DO. tremend: x a panied by gunfive and £ a huge column of fi as hi ¢ lon of Friedrichsliafen r vaya @ telewrn edo All from Lhe. committees will uct actor ON ACHIEVEMENTS THIS YEAR, ~ PRESIDENT TELLS FARMER Appeals for Supplies to Enable Men to Fight for Freedom of Mankind. WASHINGTON, Jan‘ “The culminating erisis of the has come. The achievements of this year on the one sido or the other must determine the issue.” Thus Wilson warned tho farmers of the President to-day country | iddress he UL, te» in making public an planned to deliver day ut Urbana, 16 Farmers' ston at the University of Winols, Urbana. The by President James of the 1 in the absencs feerctary of Agricu' ture Mouston, wio was to have rep Conference is in sos- fn od message was deliv sented the President, after it was found the latter's indisposition would make it impossible for hi be present, Mr. Hous ton was pre from participating by the te pee transportation facilitie ; dtr And in facing this crisis, ie said: |, He tie “It has turned out that the forces that fight for freedom, tho freedom | of men over the world as ¥ traordinury and unexpected 4 ree steinsea tien eee) QN WILSON PEACE AIMS materials by which men aro to live| are and to fight “And it will be our glory when the| Foreign Relations Committee to war is over that we have ed} Meet Following Call tor In- Base -MALSriAe end. AUPE NAG ILROEs dorsement by Owen abundant and it wil 1 the me re} 7 glory because, in supplying them, we| WASHINGTON, Jan, 31 After Sena- have mado our supreme effort and| (or Owen had introduced « resolution to "We aro fighting,” tho Provident] io. Word pea _piipelples continued, “as truly for the Uberty|y troduced. at and self government of the United) States as if the ution had to b ar of fought over our own revol-| sain and ¢ ry man in every business in the United States must know % time that his whole future fortune | in the balance, “Our national life and our whole economic development will come un der the sinister Influences of foreign control if we do not wir We must win, therefore, and we hall win, I need not ask you to pledge your lives and fortunes with those of the rest of t Nation accomplishment of that great © FORTUNES OF MANKIND ABOUT TO BE DETERMINED "I will not « “ul to tinue and renew and tnerea ir efforts, I do not evo t necessary to do I belle ut you will do tt without any 1 from me, because you u well as I do the need ties of this great hour, w tunes of mankind everywh if about to be deter America has the gre she has ever bad to own fre and in m to lend a helping hand to n ug gling for their f “You remei from whom came the first * mined and 1 ako & Jom, aici tom ev r that it w exington that set aflame th tion that made Avr f and believe that 1 America will w gly a ously stand by t it " “The foresi votion will, I be + @Continued oo Pours Paged niveraity, | NEW U, S, DESTROYER DEADLY FOE OF U BOATS Develapment Pronounced Most Im- portant Yet Made—To Be Ready Soon, WASHING A new sub-| Jan. 31 found to murine destroyer be the most | efficiont of all types—has been developed etary | by the Navy Department, Se Danlely told the House Naval Affairs mitton to-da boats, which are ie foe of the ub | vas tarted, and “in al w pth, Daniels promised, many of these new destroyers will oe] fovreting out the U boats | The boats will Le of fabricated steel | ong.” Dentols sald, “and thete | feiency ties in the fact that they are equipped with the very latest submarine fighting devices, some of which are un known to the public and are capable of developing more speed than any of the ate’ Views, ALL STOGK PRIGES SOAR IN UNEXPECTED BOOM pectation of Early Peace and] Wilson's Address to Far mulat Ma ' and particulart ie Pat | smu saft-| n | 1 41 quo-| arly every k wa United t nk pailrouda and 4 $2,000,000,000 EXPENDED ON NAVY, DANIELS REVEALS pare uy expend hurems fi KILLED IN PARIS. ~-BYAR RAIDERS; SO ARE WOUNDED <aeiietanead Fourteen Tons of Bombs Dropped in Reprisal, Says Berlin War Office. Jan. 31 were killed and fifty wounded in last PARIS, Twenty persons |night’s air raid, it is announced offictally Paria citizens accepted the ratd calmly. Profiting by London's expert ences, they rem indoors during the bomb dropping and cannonading. The attack was made spectacular by the use of star shells by the do- which of French, machines rapidly climbing to high altitudes, fenders, revealed scores As well as the attack- ing forces. One of the German machines was brought down and the occupants made prisoners One Crency me chine wee CF re94 to land in the city on account of en gine trouble. Its pilot and gunner were injured President Poincare visited the wounded victima t “The enemy * the sta ment says, “bombed Paris subi und thon various points in the etty incipally on the right bank of the Phere were numerous victiins, es- en and children struck, peclally wo “Two hospitals wore Berlin Saye Fourteen Tons Were Drop London).— BERLIN, Jan. 31 (via “As reprisal,” says the oficial statement issued to-day by the War OMce, “we dropped fourteon tons of bombs on Parts, “On Christmas Eve and during Jane y, dowplte ¢ warning, the enemy was en In bombing open wald tho defen were ally rman towns, statement fhanks to our the losses and damage The statement add on the I systematic TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON GERMANS BY BRITISH LONDON, that the raid ench capital was the attaak fr first ho air, Jan 31- An oMotal statement on aerial by tho British War OMoce reads: Jons Issued jombing attacks were carried out| Tuesday vigorously against ammu- nition dumps and a men all day 1 while low-fi now en- f the enemy's ps with ma- ¢ gun fire. nt hostile machines were downed in alr fighting and four were Ariven down out of cuatro An ob. flames. Three of our machines are misaing “During the night of Monday-Tues- day six tons « abs were dropped on enemy Dillets, rallway stations, trains and alrdromes, All the Brit. |iwh muct ed anfely, ——> WILSON “SITTING TIGHT.’ Noat 5 1, No One Can Overnet| Tt! He Wires Geox, Cox OLUMBUS, O00 a poner Gur GERMS i Father 4 ateoc min do-eeslet colds and vib —adris This Year to Decide War's Issue, Says Wilson WEATHER—Probably Cloudy and Colder, EDITION Aad TWO CENTS. — PERSHING’S TROOPS HALT GERMAN RAID; HOLD *RENCHES AND INFLICT LOSSES AMERGAN LINE SHELLED BY BIG GERMAN 775 BEFORE CHARGE OF THE INFANTRY |U. S. Soldiers Hold Ground Firmly and Inflict Many Casualties; Two | Killed, Four Wounded, in Latest | Clash—One Taken Prisoner. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Wednesday, Jan, |30—(By the Associated Press).—The American army’s position in a cere tain sector of the French front was raided by the Germans during a heavy, tog shortly after daylight this morning, The attack was preceded by a violent artillery barrage. Two Americans were killed and four were wounded. One American is missing and is believed to have been captured by | the enei, i Ca valties have been occurring almost daily among the American ticops in this sector for several days. It is now permitted to disclose that the recent casualties given out from Washington occurred in this sector, These deaths were caused by shell fire, mostly shrapnel. BATTLE FOLLOWS NIGHT OF QUIET. Last night was fairly quiet throughout the American sector. The and there were the customary outburst of machine gun fire from both sides at points where the opposing lines are nearest. At daybreak this morning the heavy fog which had been enveloping the whole position and the country for miles around for several days became still thicker, blotting out all except the nearest enemy positions, st 7 o'clock three muffled reports sounded through the fog. There were The projectiles exploded on three sides of an American listening post just outside the ‘sual number of shells came over, doing no damage, three whistles followed quickly by three shell-bursts. wire, within 45 feet of an enemy listening post. “Then hell broke loose,” said one of the men there. For fifteen manutes the enemy broke hundreds of high explosive 77s around the post and the surrounding ground, cutting off the men there. Two.oé killed in the first few minutes, Another man who was at the post told the correspondent later, a# he was lying on a cot in a field hospital, that he proaching out of the fog as the barrage lifted. He brought his automatic fle into play and saw two of the Germans fall. He kept on firing until them were tw four Germans ap- shell splinters hit him in the head and arm. “The last | remember, in the time before 1 reached the hosp sald inother wounded man, “is seeing something moving through the fog. I determined to get some Germans and put my rifle to my sulder, jbu never pulled the trigger. There was a fening explosi n be chind zen earth, ice, stones and $s came my way.” D PLOUGHED UP BY SHELL the raid s the scene of ie explosion of sh nection of up by t howed that the ground was One of the men wounded wa bullet. neh filled with wa nd almost drowned ‘bef re | nis captain. Several ¢ wounded had been listed as These were mostly wounds on the hands, It is certain that the enemy ialties from the ind machine gun fire has been as great or greater tha a sniper’s He fell ina was rescued by cidental wound. irg 1 cas American cannon | The dead were buried within the sound an tt ns, One joan wa blown to pieces t ell in a regir dquarters town as | was following his colon a du, | For military reasons it has been inadvisable [ ul earlier or other tela <+- ONE GERMAN RAID PREVENTED BY AMERICAN BARRAGE FIRE aM AN ATM) Wednesday \ n Genoral 4 x i w knows { ny several days agojing (he enem Agu as the ree (yom Gairying OUS dbo raid which|eult of our Sbelliug—but i, secu er A