THE FULTON COUNTY NEW8. McCONNELLSBURG. PA. PRESIDENT ASKS WAR Ofl AUSTRIA Message to All the World Outlining America's Peace Ideal Present German Govern ment Impossible in League of Honor , Washington, Dec. 4. President Wil son delivered to Congress an address, considered so Important in its rela tions to International affairs, that It has been transmitted in advance by the Government to practically every ' other capital in the world. Immediate declaration or war against Austria-Hungary was recommended by President WlUon. , The President did not, however, recommend a declaration of war against Turkey and Bulgaria at this time. The President spoke, as follows: Gentlemen of the Congress: Eight months have elapsed since I last had the honor of addressing you. They have been months crowded with events of Immense and grave sig nificance for us. I shall not undertake to detail or even to summarize those vents. ' The practical particulars of the part we have played in them will be laid be fore you In the reports of the executive departments. I shall discuss only our present outlook upon those vast af fairs, our present duties and the im mediate means of accomplishing the objects we shall hold always in view. "Our Object la To Win the War." I shall not go back to debate the causes of the war. The intolerable wrongs done and planned against us by the sinister masters of Germany have long since become too grossly obvious and odious ' to every true American to need to be rehearsed. But I shall ask you to consider again and with a very grave scrutiny our ob jectives and the measures by which we mean to attain them; for the purpose of discussion here In this place Is action and our action must move straight toward definite alms. Our object is, of course, to w,in the war and we shall not slacken or suffer ourselves to be diverted until It Is won. But It Is worth while asking and answering the question, When shall we consider the war won? Prom one point of view It Is not necessary to broach this fundamental natter. I do not doubt that the Ameri can people know what the war Is about and what sort of an outcome they will regard as a realization of their pur pose in It As a nation we are united In spirit and intention. "Let Dissenters Strut Their Uneasy Hours." I pay little heed to those who tell me otherwise. I hear the voices of dissent; who does not? I hear the criticism and the clamor of the noisy, thoughtless and troublesome. I bIbo see men here and there Sing them selves In Impotent disloyalty against the calm, indomitable power of the nation. I hear men debate peace who understand neither its nature nor the way we may attain It with uplifted eyes and unbroken spirits. But I know that none of these speaks for the nation. They do not touch the heart of anything. They may safely be left to strut their uneasy hour and be forgotten. But from another point of view I believe that It la necessary to say plainly what we here at the seat of action consider the war to be for and what part we mean to play in the set tlement of Its searching Issues. We are the spokesmen of the American people and they have a right to know whether their purpose is ours. They desire peace by the overcoming of evil, by the defeat once for all of the sinister forces that interrupt peace and render it Impossible and they wish to know how closely our thought runs with theirs and what action we pro pose. t They are impatient with .those who desire peace by any sort of com promise deeply and indignantly im patientbut they will be equally im patient with us if we do not make it plain to them what our objectives are and what we are planning for In seek ing to make conquest of peace by arms. "This Intolerable Thing Must Be Crushed." I believe that I speak for them, when I say two things: First, that this Intolerable thing of which the mas ters of Germany have shown us the ugly face, this menace of combined In trlgue and force which we now see bo clearly ss the German power, a thing . without conscience or honor or capac- ity for covenanted peace must be crushed and, if it be not utterly brought to an end, at least shut out from the friendly Intercourse of the nations; and second, that when this thing and Its power are indeed defeat ed and the time comes that we can discuss peace when the German peo ple have spokesmen whose word we can believe and when those spokesmen are ready in the name of their people to accept the common Judgment of the nations as to what shall henceforth be SENT ALL OVER THE WORLD All Known Means Of Communication ' To Spread Tha Message. New York. President Wilson's ad dress to Congress was heralded throughout the world by the United States Government The achievement Is regarded aa .probably the greatest publicity fest ever , undertaken. Dis tribution of the message abroad was personally directed (from this city by Coorge Creel, chairman ot the Com Rr'itee on Public Information. the base of law of covenant for the Ufa of the world we shall be willing end glad to pay the full price for peace and pay it ungrudgingly. We know what that price will be. It will be full, Impartial Justice Jus tice done at every point, and to every nation that the final settlement must affect, our enemies, as weir as our friends. You catch, with me, the voices of humanity that are In the air. They grow dally more audible, mora articu late, more persuasive, and they come from the hearts of men everywhere. They insist that the war shall not end In vindictive action of any kind; that no nation or people shall be robbed or punished because the Irresponsible rulers of a single country have them selves dona deep and abominable wrong. It Is this thought that has been expressed In the formula, 'no annexa tion, no contributions, no punitive In demnities.' Juat because this crude formula ex presses the Instinctive Judgment as to right of plain men everywhere It has been made diligent use of by the mas ters of German intrigue to lead the people of Russia astray and the peo ple of every other country their agents could reach, In order that a prematura peace might be brought about before autocracy has been taught Its final and convincing lesson, and the people of the world put in control of their own destinies. Autocracy Must Be Dethroned. But the fact that a wrong use has been made of a Just idea Is no reason why a right use should not be made of it. It ought to be brought under the patronage of it real friends. Let It be said again that autocracy must first be shown the utter futility of its claims to power or to leadership In the modern world. It la impossible to ap ply any standard of Justice so long as such forces are unchecked and unde feated as the present masters of Ger many command. Not until that has been done can right be set up as arbiter and peace maker among the nations. But when that has been dona as, God, willing, It assuredly will be we shall at last be free to do an unprecedented thing and this 1s the time to avow our pur pose to do it We shall be free to base peace on generosity and Justice, to the exclusion of all selfish claims to advantage even on the part of the vic tors. Our Task la To Win the War. Let there be no misunderstanding. Our present-end Immediate task is to win the war, and nothing shall turn us aside from it until it is accom plished. Every powor and resqurce we possess, whether of men, of money or of materials, is being devoted and will continue to be devoted to that purpose until it Is achieved. Those who desire to bring peace about before that purpose is achieved I counsel to carry their advice else where. We will not entertain It We shall regard the war as won only when the German people say to us, through properly accredited representatives, that they are ready to agree to a set tlement based upon Justice and the reparation of the wrongs their rulers have done. They have done a wrong to Belgium which must be repaired. They have established a power over other lands and peoples than their own over the great Empire of Austria-Hungary, over hitherto free Balkan States, over, Tur key and within Asia which must be relinquished. Teuton Allies Must Be Liberated. Germany's success by skill, by in dustry, by knowledge, by enterprise we did not grudge or oppose, but ad mired rather. She had built up for herself a real empire of trade and In fluence, secured by the peace of the world. We were content to, abide the rivalries of manufacture, science and commerce that were involved for us In her success and stand or fall as we had or did not have the brains and the initiative to surpass her. But at the moment when she had conspicuously won her triumphs of peace she threw them away, to estab lish in their stead what tLe world will no longer permit to be established, military and political domination by arms, by which to oust where she could not excel the rivals she most feared and hated. The peace we make must remedy that wrong. It must deliver the once fair lands and happy peoples of Bel glum and Northern France from the Prussian conquest and the Prussian menace, but it must also deliver the peoples of Austria-Hungary, the peo ples of the Balkans and the peoples of Turkey, alike In Europe and in Asia, from the impudent and alien domina tion of the Prussian military and com mercial autocracy. Does Not Wish To Meddle In Austria, We owe it, however, to ourselves to say that we do not wish in any way to Impair or to rearrange the Austro- Hungarlan Empire. It Is no affair of ours what they do with their own life, either industrially or politically. We do not purpose or desire to dictate to them In any way. We only desire to see that their affairs are left in their own hands In all matters, great , or small. We shall hope to secure for the peoples of the Balkan peninsula and for the people of the Turkish Em pire the right and opportunity .to make their own lives safe, their own fortunes secure against oppression or injustice and from the dictation of foreign courts or parties. ' And our attitude and purpose with regard to Germany herself are of a like kind. Nearly every known means of com municationexpress train, telephone, telegram, wireless and submarine cable was utilized In transmitting the address. While an operator in New York was clicking off its text on a trans-continental wire direct to San Fwncisco, where It was imme diately relayed to the Orient, another at his side was sending a Spanish translation to Colon, Panama Canal Zone, from where it radiated through out Central and Southern American Capitals. It is estimated approximately 36.- Intanil No Wrong Against German Empire. We Intend no wrong against tha German Empire, po Interference with her Internal affairs. We should deem either the one or the other absolutely unjustifiable, absolutely contrary to the principles wa have professed to live by and to hold most sacred throughout our life as a nation. The people of Germany are being tnld by the men whom they now per mit to deceive them and to act as their masters that they are fighting for the vry life and existence of their em pire, a war of desperate self-defense against deliberate aggression. Noth ing could be more grossly or wantonly fa'se, and we must seek by the utmost openness and candor as to our real alms to convince them of Its false ness. We are, In fact, fighting for their emancipation from fear, along with our own, from the fear as well as from the fact of unjust attack by neighbors or rivals or schemers after world em pire. No one is threatening the exist ence or the Independence of the peace ful enterprise of the German Empire. The worst that can happen to the detriment of the German people is this, that If they should still, after the war Is over, continue to be obliged to live under ambitious and Intriguing masters interested to disturb the peace of the world, men or classes of men whom the other peoples of the world could not trust, It might be impossible to admit them to the partnership of nations, which must henceforth guar antee the world's peace. "Must Be Partnership Of All Peoples." That partnership must be a partner ship of peoples, not a mere partner ship of Governments. It might be Im possible, also, !n such untoward cir cumstances, to ad.nlt Germany to the free economic Intercourse, which must Inevitably spring out of the other part nerships of a real peace. But there would be no -aggression in that, and such a situation,, inevitable because of distrust, would in the very nature of things sooner or later cure Itself by processes which would assuredly set In. Wrongs Must Ba Righted. The wrongs, the very deep wrongs, committed in this war will have to be lighted. That, of course. But they cannot and must not be righted by the commission of similar wrongs against Germany and her allies. The world will not permit the commission of simi lar wrongs as a means of reparation and settlement. Statesmen must by this time have learned that the opin ion of the world is everywhere wide awake and fully comprehends the Is sues Involved. No representative of any self-governed nation will dare dis regard It by attempting any such cov enants of selfishness and compromise as were entered Into at the Congress of Vienna. The thought of the plain people here and everywhere throughout the world, the people who enjoy no privilege and have very simple and unsophisticated standards of right and wrong, is the air all Governments must henceforth breathe If they would live. No Opinions Of Their Own. It Is in "the full disclosing light ot that thought that all policies must be conceived and executed in this mid day hour of tha world's life. German rulers have been able to upset the peace of the world only be cause the German people were not suf fered under their tutelage to 'share the comradeship of tha other peoples of the world, either in thought or pur pose. . They were allowed to have, no opin ion ot their own which might be set up as a rule of conduct for those who exercised authority over them. But the congress that concludes this war will feel the full strength of the tides that run now In the hearts and con sciences of free men everywhere. Its conclusions will run with those tides. All these things have been true from the very beginning of this stupendous war; and I cannot help thinking that if they had been made plain at the very outset the sympathy and en thusiasm of the Russian people might have been once for all enlisted on the side of the Allies, suspicion and dis trust swept away and a real and last ing union of purpose effected. Russian People Poisoned By Lies. Had they believed these things from the very moment of their revolution, and had they been confirmed in that belief since, the sad reverses which have recently, marked the progress of their affairs towards an ordered and stable government of free men might have been avoided. The Russian peo ple have teen poisoned by the very same falsehoods thnt have kept the German people in the dark, and the poison has been administered by the very same hands. The only possible antidote is the truth. It cannot be uttered too plainly, nor too often. From every, point of view, therefore, it has seemed to be my duty to speak these declarations of purpose, to add these specific interpretations to what I took the liberty of saying to the Sen ate In January. Our entrance Into he war has not altered our attitude to ward the settlement that must come when It is over. When I said in Jan uary that the ' nations of the world were entitled not only to free path ways upon the sea, but also to assured and unmolested access to those path ways, I was thinking, and I am think ing now, not of the smaller and weaker nations alone, which need our counten ance and support, but also of the great and powerful nations, and of our pres ent enemies as well as our present as sociates in the war. 000 miles of telegraph and cable wires were called into use in transmitting the message. v Chairman Creel received a copy of the address In this city by special courier from Washington. A corps of typists was put at work In a locked room to make duplicate copies. Mean while, in an adjoining room, it was being translated into French and Spanish. These rooms were guarded as a precaution against contents of the message becoming public pre maturely. Upon receiving word from Wash- We Are 6oekina World Paaca. I was thinking, and am thinking now of Austria barrelf, among the rest, as well as ot Serbia and ot Poland. Jus tice and equality of rights can be had only at a great price. Wa are seeking permanent not temporary, founda tion! for tha peace ot tha world and must seek them candidly and fear lessly. As always, the right will prove to be the expedient "What shall wa do then to push this great war of freedom and justice to its righteous conclusion? We must clear away vlth a thorough hand all impediments to success and we must make every adjustment of law that will facilitate the full and free use of our whole capacity and force as a fight ing unit Declare War Immediately On Austria- Hungary. One very embarrassing obstacle that stands In our way Is that wa are at war with Germany, but not with her allies. I therefore very earnestly recommend that the Congress Imme diately declare the United States in a state of war with Austria-Hungary. Does it seem strange to you that thla should be the conclusion of tha argu ment I have just addressed to you? It ia not It Is, in fact, the inevitable logic of what I have said. Austria Hungary la for the time being not her own mistress, but simply the vassal of the German Government We must face the facts as they are and act upon them without sentiment In this stern business. The Government of Aus tria-Hungary ia not acting upon its own initiative or in response to the wishes and feelings of its own peoples, but as the instrument of another nation. Turkey and Bulgaria Also Germany's Tools." We must meet its force with our own and regard the Central Powers aa but one. The war can be successfully conducted In no other way. The same logic would lead also to a declaration of war against Turkey and Bulgaria. They also are the tools of Germany. But they are mere tools and do not yet stand in the direct path of our neces sary action. We shall go wherever the neces sities of this war carry us, but it seems to me that we should go only where immediate and practical considerations lead us, and not heed any others. The financial and military measures which must be adopted will suggest themselves as the war and its under takings develop, but I will take the liberty of proposing to you certain other acts of legislation which seems to me to be needed for the support of the war and for the release of our whole force and energy. It will be necessary to extend In cer tain particulars the legislation of the laat session with regard to alien enemies; and also necessary, I believe, to create a very definite and particular control over the entrance and depar ture of all persons Into and from the United States. To Restrain Female Aa Well Aa Mate Enemies. Legislation should be enacted defin ing as a criminal offense every wilful violation of the Presidential proclama tion relating to alien enemies promul gated under Section 4067 of the Re vised Statutes and providing appro priate punishment; and women as well as men should be Included under the terms of the Beta placing restraints upon alien enemies. It Is likely that as time goes on many alien enemies will be willing to be fed and housed at the expense of the Government in the detention camps and it would be the purpose of the legislation I have sug gested to confine offenders among them In penitentiaries and other similar In stitutions where they could be made to work as other criminals do. LAWYER SLACKER TO PRISON. Detroit Socialist Fined And Debarred From U. 8. Courts. Detroit, Mich. Morris Sugar, a well-known local attorney and Social ist, pleaded guilty In the United States District Court to failing to reg ister and to attempting to obstruct the selective draft law. He was fined 1500 for the latter offense and was sentenced to one year In the Detroit House of Correction for failing to reg ister. Sugar also was debarred from practicing in the Federal courts. LINER SUNK; 80 LOST. British Ship Apapa Torpedoed 120 Passenger Saved, Lifeboats Shelled. London. The British steamer Apapa has been torpedoed and sunk. Eighty passengers and the crew of the vessel perished. About 120 pas sengers were saved. It is reported that the submarine fired on women and children in open boats. The Apapa was a vessel of 7,832 tons. BIG DRYDOCK FIRE. Loss Of $1,000,000 On The South Brooklyn Waterfront - New York. Four large buildings at the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Com pany, on the South Brooklyn water front were destroyed by fire with an tmimated loss of $1,000,000. The origin of the fire Is unknown. United States soldiers on duty at the plant declared that the fire started sudden ly in the carpenter shop, where hun dreds of men were working, and then quickly spread to other buildings. Mexico exported 2,000,000 tons of pe troleum during June and July and the supply is steadily increasing. Ington that President Wilson had be gun delivering the address shortly aft er noon, a corps of telegraph and cable operators, at Mr. Crjcl's direc tlon, immediately began their task ol wiring the message broadcast across the United States to San Francisco there to be relayed to Snanghai and thence to Toklo and Peking; acros the Atlantic to London, where it was picked up and re-sent to the Con tlnent; and down the eastern coast to Panama for re-transmission to Cen tral and South American points. WAR ESTIMATE . FOR YEAR 1919 Government Departmeuf Sends Figures to Congress $13,504,357,030 TOTAL COST To Gain Supremacy Of Air And Carry Out Great Aviation Program $1,129,294,280 la Asked For Army And Navy. ' Washington. War expenses and maintaining and Improving military establishments will aggregate $13,- 604,357,939 for the year ending June 30, 1919, according to estimates sub mitted to Congress by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. This is at a rate of practically 337,000,000 a day. Recognlxlng the value of tanks, as demonstrated by the British, the United States proposes to spend $75, 650,000 in constructing these land dreadnoughts and other armored motor cars and supply trucks. To enable America to . gain su premacy of the air, $1,126,294,260 is asked to carry out the government's aviation progarm. Of this $1,032,294, 260 is to be spent on the Army Avia tion Corps and $94,000,000 for the Navy. That the War Department is look ing forward to open fighting and the use of cavalry Is indicated by an ap propriation ot $28,000,000, sought for cavalry horses. The Navy Department plans to spend $125,000,000 additional complet ing torpedo boat destroyers already authorized, $20,000,000 toward armor and armament for vessels previously authorised, and $32,397,000 for com pletion of submarines previously au thorized. No New Warahlpa Asked. Secretary Daniels did not ask for any warships in addition to those authorized by the last Congress. For the building of cargo ships the gov ernment proposes to spend $899,517, 600. This Is $49,000,000 more than was sought for the present year. The total budget submitted by Mc Adoo Is $5,284,602,496 less than the appropriations made for the fiscal year, -which ends June 30 next, which totaled $18,788,960,437. This sum, however, Included $7,000,000,000 in loans to the 'Allies. The War Department asks for $10,102,599,149, or $2,584,973,276 more than was appropriated last year. The Increase Is due to expansion) of the aviation program, plans for enlarg ing fortifications and arsenals, and a greatly Increased payroll. The Navy asks $1,047,914,027, against $1,496,864,382 appropriated for this year. The Food Administration asks $5, 000,000, double its appropriation for this year. The Fuel Administration asks $2, 600,000 for salaries and expenses. The Council of National Defense requests an increase to $970,000 over the $500,000 appropriation made for the current year. For the relief of American prisoners of war In Germany, $80,000 Is asked, while for care of Germans interned in this country, $1,000,000 Is sought The War Department estimates in cluded. In addition to the billion or more for aviation, $3,427,713,497 for expanding coast fortifications, arse nals and military posts. This is slightly more than was appropriated for the same purposes for this year.. For purchase, manufacture and test of artillery, $225,000,000 Is asked, and to provide ammunition, $2,672,000,000. - On coast defense cannon the de partment plans to spend $12,200,415, and $6,060,000 for ammunition. For alteration and maintenance of mobile artillery, $310,500,000 is asked; $330,000 for alteration of coast de fense guns, and $93,000,000 for artil lery practice ammunition. Defend Island Possessions. Additional coast defense batteries a' e to be constructed In Hawaii and the Philippines. Half a million dol lars is sought for Hawaii, with $201, 0'K) additional for strengthening land defenses, Installing searchlights and otherwise expanding the dofensive I y stem. For the Philippine coast defenses $320,000 is asked, with $33,000 more lor searchlights for the most import nt harbors. A total of $1,433,500 is asked for military purposes In the Island posses sions of the United States, part of which is to build seawalls and im prove harbors. The department wants an appro priation totaling $78,070,100, to in crease facilities at arsenals for mak ing ammunition, guns and other mu nitions. Protection of the Panama Canal re qutres $355,000 for land defenses, in cluding searchlights, armored cars and locomotives. -In addition $2,000, 000 Is asked for construction of mili tary roads and railroads in the Canal Zone; $25,000 for repair of fortifica tions, principally structures erected for defense against torpedo attack. Construction of on army canton ment In the Canal Zone is to cost $1,954,560. Requested appropriations for test HE TALKED TOO MUCH. Pasienger Taken From Train By Fed eral Agents. Spartanburg, S. C Telegarms sent here by his fellow-passengers on a Southern Railway train resulted In the arrest by Federal authorities of a man giving the name of J. E. Bronx and claiming to be an importer of surgical rubber at New York. Offi cials said he was held pending Investi gation on the supposition that he may le a German agent, as passengers on of ammunition, installation ot Art control, building of storehouses, etc., bring the total for the defense of tha canal to $7,676,340. For Pay Of Army And Navy. For the pay of the Array $1,003, 933,676 is asked. For this year $844 639,118 was appropriated. For pur chase of food, however, only $298,406, 665 is sought as against $401,600,000 appropriated for this year. To transport the Army from camps to the seaboard and thence to Francs $809,632,026 is sought Purchase and manufacture ot clothing for the Army w i require $883,172,148, the depart ment's estimate said. For the Medical Corps $157,111,894 Is asked, the sum to lnculde the pur chase of gas masks; $1,027,000,000 for engineer equipment for field service, $1,000,000 for military maps, $390,000, 000 for small arms ammunition, $75, 200,000 for ammunition for small arma target practice, $50,000,000 for rifle and revolver manufacture at na tional armories, $1,631,023 for machine guns. For guns and ammunition for home guard organizations the department requested $4,500,000. Thirty-five million dollars is re quested to build a signal service store house In France. For the pay of the Navy $213,229,000 Is asked; for Improving and equip ping navy yards for construction of ships, $4,000,000; for ammunition, $32, 000,000; for new batteries for certain war vessels, $38,309,000; for an am munition reserve $33,000,000; for tor pedoes, $1,000,000. To Bring Home Dead. Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars Is asked to bring home the bodies of the navy's dead, while $6, 000,000 is the estimate put on the needs of the navy's medical division for the year. For arming and equip ping the Naval Militia and Naval Re serve Secretary Daniels asks $1,727, 000. Expansion of the Great Lakes Training 8tatlon at Chicago will re quire $725,000, while Improvements at the other naval training stations will total $2,655,000. Daniels asked $22,153,000 for pay ol the Marine Corps, with $38,958,000 more for clothing and provisions for the "soldiers of the sea." Improvement of rivers and harbors Is estimated to cost $29,507,550, as against $34,831,150 apporprlated for this year. This Includes $2,475,000 for Improvement of New York har bor; $1,155,000 for the Delaware River; $1,540,000 for Norfolk harbor; $1,400,000 for Improving and main taining the passes of the Mississippi River; $5,000,000 for locks and dams on the Ohio River below Pittsburgh with a view to obtaining a navigable depth of nine feet Estimated Pension Department needs fo rthe year are $167,060,000, a decrease of $3,000,000 over the sum appropriated for this year. . Collection of war taxes, exclusive of the munitions, will cost $9,000,000 Secretary McAdoo estimated. This Is double the sum appropriated' for this year. Collection of munitions taxes will require $400,000, and the income tax $3,700,000. Expenses of administering the War Risk Insurance law will be $4,000,000 for the year, McAdoo estimated. The bulk of this is salaries, of 2.600 em ployes, which totals $3,250,000. "This estimate," McAdoo said, "is based on a close study of the ex penses of the Pension Bureau and a number of large insurance com panies." , THE COUNTRY AT LARGE President John J. Stanley, of the Cleveland Railway Company, an nounced that street car faie in Cleve land will be Increased Saturday, De cember 15, to a four-cent cash rate, three tickets for a dime and penny transfer, with refund. Louis Cabrera, ex-ralnlBter of Ha cienda; Carlos Bassegl, president of the Mexican National Lines, and Adolfo Huerta, who succeeds Juan T. Burns as Mexican consul general in New York, arrived at Laredo, Tex., en route to New York. Military authorities began an Inves tigation of the fatal shooting at Camp WaUsworth of Antonio Massuc cl, of Buffalo, N.-Y., attached to Bat tery D, One Hundred and Sixth Field Artillery (New York National Guard.) A committee representing Western sheep men left Salt Lake City for New Orleans, to inquire into the possibili ties of moving millions of sheep from Western States to Southern States. Five hundred boys and girls, win ners In the Ohio corn growing, food raising, stock feeding and domestic science contests, left ' for a week's trip to Washington and New York. With more than $2,000,000 In cash in its vaults and deposits aggregat ing $7,000,000 on its books the Louis ville branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis opened for business. Two thousand members of the Cleveland branch of the Internationa) Molders' Union have decided to ask a wage Increase from $4.60 to $6 a day on January 1. FAVORS DECORATIONS. Would Allow Soldiers And Sailors To Accept Foreign Honors. Wahsington. Representative LInth icum, of the Foreign Affnirs Commit tee, Introduced a joint resolution pro viding that men of the Army and Navy be allowed to receive decora tions from foreign governments at war. with Germany. the train reported that he had "In dulged in suspicious talk." The pris oner said he Is an American citizen. A woman of a Massachusetts town made application for a Liberty Bond, and In answer to the question on the blank as to the denomination desired, she filled In Methodist Driving a Diesel engine with gas made from peat is one of the develop moats of the coal and oil shortage in Denmark. IFAX DEAD MAY EXCEED 2,000 n : j. inousanas More Wounded many raiaiiy MUNITIONS SHIP BLOWS Up "rn End Of ci W In Waste And PreptrtyT Damage Will Run nto Millions. Halifax. N. S.-Wlth the toll of de. t steadily mounting, it is believed All LI u ilUv persons perished In the explosion and fire which fii... the collision in Halifax harbor tween the munition laden French ehlp Mont Blanc and Iorna. with supplies for the Belgian Rellef Commission. The disaster, which has plunged the uuimmuu iiuu mourning, probably will i nun. no me nwsi rearrul that everoc curred on the American coniii,B, Residents of Halifax and thousand' ui vuiunieer rener workers have been "lurl u t me extent of the horrors. i , Thousands of persons were Injured and it is expected many of them will! oie. YrlM..Aii., .11 it. , i.iuoii an me norm end of thoi city was luid waste, and the property uninuBs win run rar into the millions. A part of the town of Dartmouth across the harbor from Halifax, was also wrecked. Nearly all the build ings In the dockyard there are id ruins. The zone of destruction in Halifax! Itself extends from the North Street! Hallway Station as far north as Afrlc villa to Bedford Basin, and coven 11J area of about two square miles In th section known as Richmond. TDd buildings which were not demolished b.V the force of the terrific explosioJ were destroyed by the fire which fol lowed. Scores of persons were injured i the collapse of the railway station; Arena rink, military gymnasium, sugaJ refinery and elevator. The crew of the Mont Blanc escape! safely from the blazing vessel. Th pilot asserts the collision was due confusion of signal whistles. The collision, which resulted probably the worst disaster In the hi tory of the Dominion, occurred neai Pier 8, in the narrows leading iron the harbor to Bedford basin. Thi munitions ship was bound from Nrv York for Bedford basin, when the re lief ship Ioma, bound for sea, crashe into her. The Mont Blanc was pierced on thj port side almost to the engine rood The other ship, which was only illghl ly damaged, backed away when fl.ira burst out on the munitions ship tni was abandoned by the crew. The captain of the Mont Blanc al.M ordered his crew to the boats, as hi realized an explosion was Inevltab: The men reached shore safely beforl the tremendous blast seventeen mi utes later which blew their ship pieces and wrecked a large part the city. , The business life of the city had M begun for the day when the town wal shaken to Its foundations by th plosion. Persons In the street well picked up bodily and hurled to in ground. Occupants of office bulldM cowered under a shower of fallln glass ' and plaster. Houses in W Richmond section crumpled up w collapsed, burying their tenants. In the main part of the city whe the buildings are chiefly of rtone i concrete the damage was connnea 'he shattering of windows and nm of the casualties In this section w onused by flying glass. TO COMMISSION RUTH LAW. Resolution Opening Army Gates Women Introduced. Wash!ngton.-A resolution design to permit Ruth Law. the avians ho nnmniluulnneri In tllO amy N Hon corps was Introduced by RT, sentative Hulbert. of isew iu.- nMnnlnlltl It UrYMl M mi thorlze army listnient of women between 18 In the discretion of the Presiuen. Secretary of War. World War in Brief . .... .....i ins of Gcm-I me careiuuy i" -j Byng.the British comnnderJ 1 draw his troops ai vni - j the Cambral salient to more te aa ran- ed OUl I positions, nave u - ,thj perfect order and apparent y 1 the Germans even having knowieu. of the movement. I . .... -.a made Hl The railing Daw - ......hV sary by wedges driven in o the. alia last week by tne i, .-' ter several sectors threatened J , the British anoum uv . . ... tTivim an n,v hold their position.. . tending before cbiu'. - - (,j about 18 miles, tne - - bJ 10 miles, wltn me i north in the region of Mom"' 1 .. PnnnB leU. I In the soutn neai As a result of the back, ment the Germans c aim patlon ofGralncour .An - and the n.. " unconte Marcolng and that their gain has been to ' front! two and a hair mm- - i six and a quarter miles- J . The Berlin War OB. munlcation announcing , j the Meletta positions A, new offensive ,pf the ie Prl 11000 Italians have been er and that more than 60 j have been captured. j
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