The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1918, Page 2

ie THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 191 ITALIAN, FRENCH, BRITISH GUNS FIRE IN UNISON ON TEUTONS | Deputics Haase and Voatherr, also Socialists, with the mutiny im the German Fleet. The Vor- waerts © its report of a Reich- stag debate quoted a derr Haase saying that the concemned tors wore accused of disirib- uting pamphlets, given to them by Deputy Dittman, which had been passed by the Connor.) A national demonstration ts being) Organized as a protest against the ar He of Herr Dittmann. Hugo Haase, @ foctalint deputy, appealed to Chan- cellor von Hertiin, The Chancellor bald he was powerless, as Rerlin was entirely in the had hands of of the military. | BERLIN POLICE LIGE CHARGE | UPON CROWDS AS THEY oo ARMY HEADQUAR- ERS, Friday, Feb. 1 (by DEMAND PEACE AND BREAD "sy. Fm + cr oe ax Janother powerful effort yesterday to Tram Cars Overturned by Rioters; redeem the situation west of the and From Behind Them They Fire on Police. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2.—Rioting in AUSTRIANS SUFFER TERRIFIC LOSSES ON ITALIAN FRONT a 70 Per Cent., in Twenty- First Rifle Division. cently won a notable success, but was beaten back by the combined action Sata ot Pi aradey: way atavied ey & |! os Infantry and artillery without! | reac! his objective of Monte di the police were try- | Tuching shot fired when bs Val Bella, where the Itallans are ing to disperse a crowd, which was proceeding toward Charlottenburg crying “peace and bread.” The police charged the crowd with drawn sabres. ‘The strikers sought shelter behind overturned tramears and fired or hurled projectiles at the police, who were unable to keep the excited people under control. About thirty ttrikers were wounded and taken to, maintaining thelr position. The extent of the enemy losses in the fighting early this week is now known to be larger even than the first accounts indicated, the fuller details making thie evident. The 21st Rifle Division of the Austrian forces had 6,000 men put out of action, or about 70 fp hospital per cent. of Ite fighting force. Crowds at various places attempted| Brigades of the 18th and 6th further riots d reliable detach- Austrian Divisions had casualt amounting to approximately 50 per cent. But the most terrible loss was inflicted on the 160th Landsturm, which ef several thousand men in line has only a few hundred loft. The magnitude of such los wae due to the triple artillery fire of the Allies, maintained for tents of cavalry and machine-gun corps have been collected in the neighborhood of Berlin. “Isolated and Insignificant excesses” in Berlin yesterday are reported in A somi-official statement received here to-day from the German capit Work ts said to have been resumed at Hanburg and Dantzig. For the most part traffic was main tained iggerderly manner, the stat forty consecutive hours, often ment ad Publication of ali the] eross-firing from two or three been resumed. | directions simultaneously. An unusual feature of this artillery action was the complete unity brought about among the Italian, French and British batter This was so marked that one of the chiefs of the artillery staff explained: “At last we hav ized unity of command right in the face of the enemy fire.” As an Illustration of the destructive nature of the triple artillery fire it may be recorded that an enemy bat- tery with four monster 240-miiliuetre guns was destroyed completely. The enemy was using an old church as | one of his principal ammunition depots and when the church was| blown up be was cut off from sup- plies of ammunition in that sector, | In consequence all the enomy bat- | teres around Foza and several other points remained silent, The whole action disclosed unusual | Gemoralization and confusion in tt GERMANS PREPARE GREAT AIR DRIVE | TO WIN DECISION Aerial Offensive of Spring Ex- pected to Be the Greatest of the War. LONDON, Feb. Acrial warfare on a scale never before dreamed of | may in Europo this epring and summer. Germany will be oxpeoted enemy lines. While this was due probably begin the great sky offen- | chiefly to the artillery concentration, sive, and bas been preparing for It |i! also indicated that, owing to in- for eighteen months. When her Zep- | ternal conditions, the enemy forces ¥ t 0 orin pelins proved futures, sho turned her |"8V° fallen far below their forimer |standard of effictoncy avery attention to expanding her facilities for making airplanes in im- While «a convoy of prisoners was | being taken to the rear an enemy air- monse numbers and offered every possible inducement to youths to join | PA" fying low, sought to interrupt inthe serial servion. ite pre There were no anti-air Yoo Hoppner, one of Hindonburs’s |<T#{t suns around, but the machine cides, has been given plenary pow: an ea oe poe ad na ers to speed up the production of (+ 1),, bringing down of an airplane aircraft. Owing to the present stale: |) 0 a : mate on the western front, the Ger- man high command believes a great, , Mterregation of prisoners gave con- firmation of reports mans have moved troops from 'ho| Russian to the French front during | the period of the armistice, This was| wocomplished indirectly by granting ‘teave to the best troops on the Rus- sian front, The places of theso men were filled from tho invalid class, ani | they were not taken back to that air offensive may win, preceded by that the Gor.) en unprecedented number of air raids on the civilians of London and Paris. The Allies are preparing to meet this drive. France is turning out thousands of new airplanes, while Britain is straining every nerve to | increase her productivity, and Amer- ‘oa is expected to send bunureds and thousands of bombing and com- | f°" bat machines into action in the sky.| An Observer who has arrived from The British War Office, in elaborat- | the field of the fighting reports hav- ing bon pass Baga bd bed bee” | Ing seen and talked with a number ri tha ‘3 into fusny Tueaday, declared to-day that [°F the captured officers and men ae he raiders had deswended low enougn | they were brought back for interro- ‘ouse their machine guns on German | gation. I iey were @ miserable looking moving Nghts 10 |jot, ne says, many of them wearing earchiights, trains, thi d build tn cach dl the TORE Oe Pua er ie ais litalan uniforms taken during the linvasion of the Fruill region. trict vis@ed, and on villages in the | All the prisoners agreed to the Moselle r district. furious nature of the fighting and Altogether, 6,857 pounds of bombs were droppea from @n average height the exceptionally heavy loxses caused by the concentration of the fire of the of 1,500 feet, One pilot made four at- tempts before reaching bis objective, Italian, French and British batteries, The trenchos were levelled and the because of the dense fog. ——<——— links between the forward and rea: Hines swept away, thus stopping all LEMAN, DEFENDER OF LIEGE, WELCOMED BAGK TO PARIS: si"! uit ocala 'in the work of the artillery and the General Who Checked Germans in Five Thousand Casualties, or, the As-| ' |Brenta River where the Italians re- | With enlisting oMcers and soldiers to! agaist Gen. Kaledines, the Hetman of th ROUNANIAN ARMY TAKES KISHINEFF Odessa and Orenburg, How- ever, Are Captured by | | the Lenine Forces. | LONDON, Feb, 2.—Tn response to appeals from the local Bessarabian | Government, Roumanian armies have | taken Kishinef, capital of Bessarabia | and scene of the rreat Jewish masna- ren of fifteen years ago. News of this open clan) between the Rouman- ‘Sang and Rolehevik! comes trom Jansy, seat of the Roumanian Government ines the Austro-German armies cap- tured Bucharest. Odean, according to the «nme de. epatch, which was dated Sunday, was captured Inst Saturday night by the Bolshevik!, and their forces are now in full contro! of that city. Odesma ts on the Black Sea, about 98 miles southeast of Kishineff. It ts the most important city and seaport of South. ern Russta and js the fourth Russian city in population. Bolshevik troops also have captured Orenbur~, 750 milee southeast of Mopcow, capital of the Government | of Orenburg, according to a despateh from Petrograd. Only Thursday tt was reported that Gen. Dutoff, loader of the Cossacks tn that section, had been dofeated. In South Russia, including the Cri- men. the Mussulmans are eaid to have | formed a government in opposition to the Bolshevikt, and are co-pperat ing with the Ukraine. More than 20,000 Mussulman troops are reported to be acting againat the Bolabovik forces. pela“ COUNTER REVOLUTION SUPPRESSED IN RUSSIA| One Leader Arrested and Killed by Sailors—Sixty Others Are Put in Prison. PETROGRAD, Feb. 2.~A counter- reyolutionary plot has been unearthed ‘by the Bolshevik authorities in Petro- grad, It was heads by Ensigns Sine- brukhoff and Wolk, who were charged Ensign Sinebrukhoft nd killed by sallors who were taking him to to the Smolny Institute, Sixty other office and soldters have been arrested by tho Bolsheviki. pati Medal 40,000 POLISH TROOPS ARE BARRED BY GERMANS Permission for Their Return Polam! From Russia Is Flatly Refused. PETROGRAD, Feb, 1.--About 40,000 Polish troopa in the Russian army who have maintained their unite in tact im the face of the Bolshevik re- or-anization measures and who had expressed a desire to return from Russia to Poland have beén stopped by a German objection to the plan. Germany has absolutely refused permit, thelr repatriation. These trooos are still commanded by their old officers, having restated | lo to the Bolshevile idea of reducing the ofitcers to the ranks and clocting | ne.¢ ones, | Members of the Bolshevik peace | delegation at Brent-Litovek have been refused permission by Dr. von Kuchl- mann, head of the German delegation, to visit Warsaw. Dr. von Kuehimann | allowed @ member of the Ukrainian | Rada who bad participated in the peace negotiations to go to the Polish capital ——— GET 10 YEARS FOR DROPPING WILSON SPEECH IN GERMANY Two Captured British Airmen Sen- tenoed and Reprisals Are Demanded, ANSTERDAM, Feb. 2.—Two cap- tured British airmen, the Tagos- soitung of Berlin says, have been son tenced by a German court-martial to ten years’ imprisonment for dropping a | hostile proclamation in Germany |infantry. The few trenches remain ing were Hittered with dead, and the Belgium, Was Wounded and Cap- tured, Gets Out of Germany. survivors wer d for the moni part on their knees, hysterically PARIS, Feb, 2.—Gen. Leman, detender | erying or pr ay GERMAN TRENCHES RAIDED BY LIVERPOOL TROOPS Prisoners Br ae Back, Says Lon- of Liege against the man sévance early in the war, arrived in Parle night. He was greeted at the ation jan Minister and representa. tives of President Poincare and Gen. Dubail, the Military Governor of Paris Gen. Leman was Governor of Liege Bt the outb of the war and his mal don War Office—Paris Also lant defense checked the German ad . e Vance through Belgium several days. Reports Capture of Men. 3° Tota. “Owing to. iN health he was| LONDON, Fob. 2—"Durtng the night Teleaxed by the Germans carly last maki beanies) teanel caked ecember and made his way. out of) ® Party Of Liverpool troops success: ermany to France by way of Switser- fully raided the enemy's trenches land. southeast of Armenticres, and brought back prisoners, the War Office re- Fire De * at Quebec ae ee Atonk: Yard Meith as eananieeaatio’ Wan tensed,” GUEBEC, Feb. 2.—The entire fire PARIS, Feb. The night passed in fighting force of the was called to ‘day's official communt- Limviiu, « » -day by @ fire that was some artillery destroyed se at the Que « in the region of Burnhaupt-le- Dec Stock Yards re no cattle Haut (Ale A raid north of Mortier an the ng done only Wood enabled us to brink back prisons on Mondey, era, LONDON, Fob. 2.—Reprimls are de- manded by the Daily Mall for the ac- tion of the German military authort ten tn sentencing two British airmen to ten years’ imprisonment for drop- ping leaflets In Germany. Tho news- paper, which features the story to the exclusion of most other news, says: “The enemy ‘6 carrying out the threat published after the report that a million copies of President Wilson's declaration of peace terms would be dropped from airplanes in Germany. | other is red. | American | GENERAL WITH PERSHING | PIGKEDFORAGTINGGHIEF | fi STAFF OF THE ARMY! WH AYeoy ht vee. P ® 4 Ps Fa5G5S2-9250H oor aad U5. SOLDIERS ARE IN TRENCHES 69 FEET FROM GERMAN LINE (Continued from First Page.) ! nF) EYTON.C,MARCH $ | | ‘ d200rd | mes slipping from the @uckboards nto water above their knees. They are probably going out on patrol. Tf the position {» near the enemy Ines hardly a word is ever spoken, and when a word is necessary it is spoken In a whisper, | Far away to ono side of the porl-| tion a white stream shoots up to the sky and breaks throw a light as if from powerful electric batteries. ‘The reflections! show wire entanglements and scrubby bushes on the hills nearby; then the lights die out, All the while there Is the Intermit- | tent roar of guns and a whistle as of | express trains as projectiles of dif-| ferent callbres go rushing over the) American trenches seeking a German target. The American soldiers have become #0 accustomed to such sounds that now they apparently pay no at- tention to them, Every now and then the sound of a shell explosion is aud- Ible, but most of the time the artil- lery targets at night are too far back from the trenches for the men to hear the projectiles explode. COLORED LIGHTS WARN OF THE GAS ATTACKS. Every man in the line at all times has his eyes open for two kinds of colored rockets. Ono is green and the The first means asphyx- fating gas and the other calls for a barrage. And the green light to the men in the line means more than anything for in a@ gas attack they know that their Ives often de d upon the speed in which gas masks ure adjusted after an alarm is given, Intermittently during the night there comes from different parts of the line the single crack of a rifle, as a sniper fires, or the rapid spit of a machino gun at somy Suspected point or object, for the machine gunnars shoot frst and ask questions after- ward, n the daytime it ts cause the men In the what t# before them and there aro no deceptive shadows. Also their eyes can occasionally glance skyward as shrapnel breaks there with a hel- low sounding pop. Not infrequently during the daytime a man looks sky- ward and then quickly bends his head so that hls shrapnel helmet faces in the direction of the bursting eholl. SEE MANY THRILLING FIGHTS IN THE AIR, During the past tow days there has been no aerial activity because of the fog, but during tho clear days pre- ceding the bad wefther the men in else, different, bee ne can seo the [ine witnessed many thrilling fights in the air, German airplanes, coming over at a considerable hevwh on observation trips, would be shelled Vigurously as they came within range. Usually they fly in groups of three, but they separate when the shrapnel, puffs begin to break among them, trail of smoke from follows the enemy planes sky until they are out of ra If tho Germans, after ducking and dodging shrapnel, back of the lines, inch — airplanes climb up after them and every time the Gerinans turn tail and retire At other times our men waten French airplanes under the fire of n anti-aircraft batteries, The Jodgo this way and that if ow, or continue straight on course if they are high in the metimes the shrapnel bu close to the plane and [f ft ts a Ger man machine every man in the line forgets What he is doing for the ino- ment, hoping that a plece of shrap ne} will find its mabk and the enemy Will dash to the ground, Tho Germans first began to drop prop- aganda leatiots In the Allied lines more | than three years ago. The practice helped to wreck Kussia and causo the disastrous Itallan retreat.” The Daily Mall wants tho reprisals | to take the form of putting German officers and prisoners on the same ra- tons and Itving conditions as Hritisa prieeners undergo tp Germany n at lenat one occasion the men | hav seen & ™ eae come down, Tt ‘fell within the ¢ line, but by the way it tumbled from the aky there |was no mistaking what had tap pened to its occupants, and cheere {and yells aro: line te the other To-day the whole American poat- tion Ix bathed in white. For has frozen to trees, bushes, poles, wires and the ground. In some places the ice coating is nearly an inch thick All the men apparently satisfied with the food, Tw e day are always eerved and somo- from one end of the Artillery \- into white balls that| }; GEN. MARCH SLATED “TOREAD U.S. ARMY. AS CHIEF OF STAFF | Commander Abroad to Act for Bliss, Now in European War Council. WASHINGTON, Feb. Gen, Peyton C. March ts slated to be- como Art Chet of Staff of the Army, if Porshing can spare him from his ent duties as Chief of Artillery of the Expeditionary Forces. been received as yet from Gen. Pershing. Tha ction of Gen. March means | that Major Gen. Bliss, Chief of Staff, | is to remain permanently No reply haw in Europe as the American military representa- tive ot the Supreme War Council now 2.—Major | SENATORS AGREE ON RAILROAD BILL; CONTROL LIMITED, _>— Measure to Be Reported Mon- day Gives President Rate- Fixing Power. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Agreament to report favorably to the Senate on Monday the Administration Railroad Bill was reaohed to-day by the Senate Interstate Commeree Committee, which deotded upon Government con- trol to terminate eighteen after the war, and giving the Presi- dent power to initiate rates surject months * | to appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The committee agreed upon a pro- pitting In France, No official etate- ment was available as to the action | contemplated, but tt is expected that | Gon, March will undertake his new | Sabdleeg in the near future. rhe permanent assignment of Gen Bliss to the War Council! may result | | jin w request to Congréss for authority | Was agreed upon by | to appoint an additional General. As| Without change. (Gen, March will be in fact head of that hoe will be given both the rank | and title of Chief of Staff later, Gen. | Blis« belng continued in similar rank put relieved as Chief of Staff to per- mit him to devot> himself exclusively to hls work abroad Gon. March is fifty-three years old and born in Pennsylvania, from | which State he went to the Military | Academy, Ho has been attached to the artillery branch continuously, with the exception of duty as Major and later as Lfoutenant Colonel of volunteer infantry in 1899-1901 for Philippine service, n. March commanded tho Astor | Bai tery in the Spanish-American War. He graduated from the Artil lery School with high marks in 1 1 served on the General Staff trom 1908 to 1904. During the Russo-Jap- ancse War ho was military observer for the United States with the Jap- anese troops. escent U.S. AMBASSADOR’S FUNDS HELD UP BY BOLSHEVIKI, Only About $15 a Week Allowed for Each Person in the Embassy. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. »bassador Francts and members of HMw stuff In Petrograd are assured of 150 8 per person a week, according to infor+ mation which has reached the State Department, The ruble is now valued at approximately ten cents, The Am reported to the State Department at the time the banks were closed in Petrograd the diMeulty he was in drawing money that had been banks to hls credit havin placed £1 none of the sport of any new order by the Parsienie doveenent closing credits to Ambassador Francis and the dipfomate t focal banks has been reported to | tment tee times there are three, r breakfast the men frequently rot a large bow! of oatmeal ns the principal dish, whi! at dinner there is beef or some other meat and vegetables, Supper some- times brings bacon, corned beef hats of canned salmon. There js always good white bread, made from Ameri- can flour, and plenty of it, The American rogimental headauar- ters fust back of the lina Is estad- Nehed in durouts under the ruins of houses lone #ince knocked down by German shells. It is never known when the enemy may again take a notion to throw a few shells Into the town, so the American commanders | wore determined thelr headquarters should be well protected, Within a certain radius of the front line every member of the American vision to empower tho President to relinquish control of short iine rail- roads up to July 1 if necessary, but after that date control would be re- | tained as over other ratiroads. The provision for compensation to the railroads on the three-year basis the committee The committee has stricken | the army, !t ls regarded as probable | |the bill the section bringing att oe em- ployees under the Federal Workmen's Compensation Act. Under the bill they have the right to sure the rail corporationa for personal Injury. Chairman Smith will endeavor to have the Senate take up immediate consideration of the Railroad Bill. Senators Cummins and La Follette an- nounced they would submit minority reports. As finally agreed upon by the com- mittee tho bill would provide that if the President determined that the necessity for Government control had passed before the termination of the war, or the eighteen months after peace had been declared, he could upon his own volition turn back all the railroads. to authorize the President to take con- trol of and utilize canals, on the bill to-day, with indications that a similar provision for the return of jthe railroads after the war would be | adopted there /FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERED JAAK TORFS'S ACQUITTAL He Bought Into This Indictment Charged Jewellers’ Saws Country From Holland. Jaak Torfs, who was indicted in December last on a charge of bring- ing Jewellers’ saws here from Rot- terdam, Holland, in violation of the Federal Statutes, was tried on Jan. # and 9 in the United States District Court, before Judge Kb. 8, Thomas. By direc: tion of the court the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, It was erroneously reported at the time the indictment was found that, in addition to the offence mentioned, |the indictment charged Torfs with car- rying back from this country quantities of ruboer and platinum, Torfs was de: seribed as a German agent who was “ro- | garced ay @ leader in the traffle to supply | Germany with rubber.” Ae a matter of fact, the indictment related only to goods ;Srohstt here by Totfs from Rotter- jdam. It did not charge that Torfs bad taken goods out of the country jor that he was a German agent. it brought out on trial that |he was a citisen of Belgium, a dia mond polisher by trade before the war, and that after he had been re- jected for service In the Belgian Army because of defective eyesight, he (had shipped as a fireman on tho Bel- gian relief steamer Escaut. Torfs tes~ tified that he bought the saws (which The committe¢ also amended the bill |” ‘The House committee also worked | | enemy attempted were stamped “Made in Germany") foree In now required to wear his eaa| maak at an alert position and naver |!" Rotterdam, intending to sell them to be without his shrannel helmet, | at 4 profit here, that he wae willing MAKE THINGS HOT FOR THE | t© pay duty, but that Government ENEMY SNIPERS. agents here arrested him and seized Awbrican gunners and riflemen nave | the #aws without giving him an op- made it hot for enemy snipers during | portunity to pay duty. Torfs testi- the last twenty-four hours. One Gor- | fied that he had no intention of tuk- man sniping post, discovered by a@/ing back rubber or other merchan- patrol, was obliterated completely by | aise, our artillery fire. An enemy macnine gun, secretly placed during a fog| where {t could enfliade our lines, hed to be withdrawn, American ma- chine guns concentrated thelr fire on a nest of busy enemy snipers andy GONVENTION, IS CHARGE compelled them all to seek safe cover, | ’ Amertean artillery — shell the | a enemy first lines accurately with high | explosives, and responded almost in- stantaneously to a call for a barrage from the front line when the men| there saw movements on the other side of the wire, When the artillory fire ceased no Germans were visible, hore Wax no aerial activity because of the for. Three casualiies were reported, Two were caused by accidental bul- | let wounds und one hy shellfire, Observers report that the Germans are becoming nervous and jumpy. This is indicated espectally by the unusual number of flares sent up dur- ing the night. After one series, the Americane got their firat experience with the enemy “flying pigs, num. ber of which were aimed at an obser- vation post without result, Duritg the early hours to-day the set up a mavhine gun in @ position close to a certain American trench, Effective use of rifles and grenades forced the Ger- mans to withdraw, Mensheviki Accuse Editor of New World at Russian Colonial Gathering. When the so-called Russian Colonial Conference resumed its sessions In Beethoven Hall in Fifth Street to-day it found iteelf in a greater tempest than when ft adjourned last midnight The Menshevik!, or conservatives, cusations against Presidént Gregory Weinstein, editor of the Novy Mir (New World), a strong Bolshevik organ. They charged he was railroading the affairs of the convention by having first packed it with Bolshévik delecates, Many of the Mensheviki are openly opposed to the convention with the Imprisonment of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldmun. They said the best men in Russia are being Two American patrols had hard|!™prisoned by tho Bolshevik! who for luck. One was discovered by Ger-|dolng so are being congratulated by mang in hiding and subjected to n | thin convention, while the Bolshevik! chine gun fire, but none of the Amer tcans was hit, One group of Amer- foam snipers discovered enemy ni ers and fired so well that the enemy of this convention protest against the United States imprisoning such persons kinan and Goldman. uideretood, the Menshevihi have retired hastily. It is belleved some Seg ee ee oroteat Keine German casualties were caused. pent to Ww hington. \ largely in the minority, made open ac-) Interfering | BOY HERO BACK WITH WAR MEDALS; (Continued on Second Page.) with her torch! thing I've seen in a long time.” “Say, you're supposed to go down and shake hands with the Mayor,” one of bis companions interjected. Steh- lin blushed. | “Me? I don't want to shake hands and be mado a lot of here. Let's get a taxl Bay.” Btehlin’s modesty was adamant. He would) not talk about himbelf or Nor would he his exploits in the air, say how sertously he had been wounded and under what circum- stances. The young aviator—who has yet to \seo) his = twenty-first went to France after he had been re- jected for admission to the aviation corps in this With he made rapid headway and got his pilot's Iicense, Twenty days after he was @ full-fledged aviator In the French service he brought down bis | first German piane, Later hq trans- ferred to the Lafayette His home ts at No, 2821 Avenus, peated i bay | "CANADIAN CASUALTY LIST NAMES NINE AMERICANS Three Reported Killed in Action, Four Wounded, One Missing and Another Died. Mich, : H. B, Tobin, New Haven, Conn, Sault Ste, Marie, Mich. T. M. Williams, —— CHARGE WASHINGTON PLOT Germans by Stone, Reading and Northcliffe, Raised 250,000,000 Marks, LONDON, Feb. detailing an alloged Anglo-American to foment revolutions im the Centra were tria-Hunga’ . Turkey and Bulgar [leadership of Senator Reading and Viscount was to have branc! tals surrounding Germany, and Germ: Northeliffe, Germany in an effort to incite the work- ers in munition factories to strike, making industry. lating Copies of Wilson’ Committee, to-day chara: port that ganization many “1 learned only last night, erized the re- concerned in an or- ent strikes in Ger- he was to f selves circulating dressea not only in Russla b land, Germany und Austria. Their pur- pose, 1 understand, tx to stir up sentl- ment 60 as to furee Germany at Brest- Litovak to enter {nto the peace the Bol- sheviki desire, the President's GREETED BY MAYOR and go over to Sheepshead birthday— country @ year ago. the French flying instructors Bscadritic. Emmons Wounded and missing—D, Desantos, Hays, Kan. Wounded—W. R. Mackenzie, Free- port, Ill; & R. Taylor, Lower Smithville, PROMOTES BERLIN STRIKE Say Organization Headed 2.--Berlin despatches plot to be organized In Germany, Aus- ‘Tho organization was to be under the Stone and Earl It 3 in neutral capl- spealting neutrals were to be sent into The despatches declare that there was also to be sabotage in the German munition he said, “that the Ruselan Bolsheviki are them- ad- tin Po- ASKS FOR $50,000 LOVE BALM CHARGES HOTELS. VIOLATE RULES FO SAVING OF FOO She's the niftiest Hoover Aide Tells Committee of Women Stern Meas- ures Are Planned. “The majority of restaurants and hotels in New York are not co- operating as they should with the Food Administration.” This charge was made to-day by F. C. Wolcott, personal representative of Food Administrator Hoover, in an- swer to questions at a meeting of the Committes of Women for Food Saving by Voluntary Rationing. One of the women asked how voluntary ration- ing could be applied when one dines at a hotel or restaurant where the, serve one portion for two and where single portions are larger than neces- sary, “The patience of the Food Admin- istration ts pretty nearly exhausted,” sald Mr. Wolcott, “I think it quite likely that pressure will be brought to bear in the near future on hotel and restaurant men who offend. Some of these men are doing their patriotic best, but the majority need preswure —even when their intentions are good." Mr, Wolcott said he belleved there are 125,000 children and 100,000 adults in New York who are under nourished. It would bo an insult to OTTAWA, Ont, Feb, 2.—The follow-| put cards in the homes of such ing American names appear in to-| people, he sald, warning them to save day's casualty lat: food. They are already saving more : ee in re igs aye food than they ought. The further and, Ore.: windsay, Los An-| 94. ag Ore: An, Aiccray, “Atpena, |¢#¥iNe must be done by the well-to- do and the rich, The committee decided that the re- cently published ration card should be modified tn one particular, The . |card placed no limit on the amount of cream served for table use. card will permit the use only of much as necessar’ This is expect- ed to result In a saving for the make Ing of butter, Mrs. F. Gray Griswold, Chairman, asked Mr, Wolcott whether war bread is being served to soldiers, He said it was not, —_—_— U.S, WILL TAKE OVER FUEL Oil INDUSTRY SOON Presidential Proclamation to Put the The new ! | Powers are published by Cologne news- Entire Business Under | papers, according to an Exchange Tele- es lgraph despatch from Amsterdam, In License System. Washington on New Year's Day it Is} WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The Goy- that 250,000,000 marks was sub-|@rnment to-day took the final steps seribed for this purpose, ‘The revolutions | toward taking over administration of the fuel of! industry, By Presidential proclamation to be {sued soon the: tm dustry will be placed under the Fyet Administration and be conducted under license, AMUNDSEN ON VISIT TD PERSHING CAMP Explorer Getting Information About Expeditionary Force for Scandinavian Press, WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, ; WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN absurd" Was how Senator wn, Chair | prance, Friday. Feb. 1 (by the Asse man of the Senate Foreign Kelation clated Press).—Capt, Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, and Capt. Oberdyng. of the Swiss General Staff, aro visiting the American Army zone, Capt. Amundsen came by arrange- ment with the State Department for the purpose of obtaining information concerning the American Expeditionary force for the Newspapers of 6a@in- dinavia, Capt. Oberdyng wilt remain for a week, visiling all points ip the sone. ‘Shrapnel helmets were tssued to-day mployees for ™ Grace Suse | tel proteniin Suriny ait Tas, Awe suit for” #00 damages, altoging| STEAMER MONTREAL SUNK, breach of promise to marry, —_——— was filod to-day by Miss Grace Fisher against G. Schirmer. Summons and coruplaint were served upon the defendent at No. 3 Hast 434 Street, the rite oceupted by G. Schirmer, musiv publishe According to the papers, Schirmer is alleged to have promised wets MESSENGER BOYS STRIKE. A. D. T, Youngsters Make Dema; and Quit Work, Union Telegraph offices Western in this city had some trouble to-day in get ting their messages defivered becaus: of the of the strike Telearaph Jot the strik of 2 to 8 cents ber message and for hour work. Tho Postel alfected by it having its own messenger > — 1 Employee In fo Death. Levy, @ postal employee, of No 1380 Fifth Avenue was instantly killed American District The conta ‘Velegraph Company ts not |the strike service this morning when he fell through an shaft in hia residence to the ground at ed air » floors below. Levy home il for some time.” it te suppose Vat tn opening a window to obtain freeb alp be lost bis balance, had been LONDON, Feb, %.— The steamship Montreal has been sunk in a collision, There was no loss of life and two de- ‘hroyers took off the crew. The other to marry | vessel in tho accident sustained itt Miss Fisher during ao dinner ongage. | damage. ment, eb. last, The plainti(t ca seat she made éxt reparations for the ‘There are two British steamships ended to keep pro nl ec. |owned by Canadian Pacific Rallwa: rained a Malan Ficrense Powers [Company, and its port is London, mao & Gunn appeared for the plain other, of tons. 1s owned by the and its port 2 yearn, beloved ¢ Mug) and Catherine Edouard Montuaue, Hugh and Miobmel rickmore, County Mery and Bernard MeCallan; native of Tyrone, Ireland: diet tors, Tunera! from the re po hee prether, Bernard MeCallan, 394 8d @ on Monday, Feb, 4, 19 thence to the Shi uady of Mount Corm et management frequently declines té