ANERIGAN PLAN
ADOPTED BYALLIES
Premier Lloyd George Tells
Commons of Decision
FOR CENTRAL AUTHORITY
Wilson Saw Peril To Allied Cause—
Determined United States Should
Not Waste Her
Strength.
London. — Premier Lloyd-George made
fn the House of Commons his eagerly
awaited statement regarding the recent
army changes He sald the Govern-
ment was anxious to retain the serv-
tces of Gen. Sir. William Robertson
as chief of staff long as it was
compatible with policy decided
upon in common Britain's
allies,
The Premier said the policy of the
based upon as
sumption that the Allies had suffered
in the past through lack of
and co-ordinated efforts. it
decided to set
to co-ordinate
Allies,
80
the
with Great
- the
jovernment was he
concerted
had been
authority
thi
up a central
the strategy of
Document Most Able.
The Premier that the
elusions reached the
very powerful repre gentations
delegates of other
ably the American
“1 hesitate for some
Premier in referring to
representations, “at whether 1
House of Common
ted by
asserted con
were result
by the
governments, not
Government
time,”
the American
sald the
not read in the 8 the
very cogent
the American
the cas
is nN f the
pubmitted to a
The ly reason why I
it to the House is that it is
with the plan of operations.”
documents submi
delegation,
for the present proposal It
documents ever
rence
ilitary conferen
} $
do not read
mixed up
Represents Great Britain.
) need that
The Premier Gen
Sir Henry
been ag
ain on
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terrible
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linson had
t Great Brit
said
realit
done
for some char
order to ef
han
han had hith
direction of
nad decided
sel up
nate the
the last
decided
body
some
Prari
ie Freq
READY FOR THE HUN DRIVE
es Pre To
nsw \Zia &
any V fates Sv
Counter If Ger
iss Treaty.
pared
of paper,’
considered
advantageous
Fhers ) t th the fullest
cognizance has
cent massing of
S8wike border,
of the re
en
Germans near the
which, however, must
be regarded as a possible blind to dis
tract
y Projec ted
attention from the real point of
offensive
been zuggested in
in connection with the re
ner] Smuts to Switzerland
has
been reported to be poll
ter, but
may have been really military
which, perhaps
MITE THE COUNTRY’S SCHOOLS.
Students’ Desire To Join Colors.
Washington Wholesale resigna-
tions of students to join the fighting
forces are seriously impairing the in
comes of the country’s enlleges and uni
versitiea Dr. P. P. Claxton, commis
gloner of education, gave notice that if
many of the institutions were to con:
tinue their work financial aid from the
outside would be necessary.
CLAST WRECKS FOUR BUILDINGS.
Three Men Burned In Explosion Al
Wayne, New Jersey.
Wayne, N. J~Three men were
glightly burned in explosions which de
gtroyed four buildings of the Wayne
Powder Works here. Windows in
towns nearby were broken by the ter
rific force of the explosions. One wet
house, one dry house and two whee
mills were completely destroyed. o
CALMLY AWAIT THE HUN DRIVE
With Full Knowledge Of What It
Means, Tommies Are Resolute
And Unafraid.
Officers And Men Feel That German
Offensive Will Mark Turning
British Armies in the
utter absence of panic
Field —With
or dread,
of battle. Unlike
garts, the British do not pretend they
are longing for carnage. The fight
ers are ready, with jaws set resolutely,
calm and unafraid.
Not that the troops underestimate
what Is coming On the contrary, every
that army in the
individually understood
quite so well the importance of an
approaching battle
First, its
never so high.
Second, leaders and men never were
so thoroughly in each
dence
Everyone appears to feel that in all
any
world ever
because
intelligence
other's confi
of
bluffing is a
the that behind the
discontented
war,
Ns”
NES;
although Hindenburg
out
» u
arvel that
undoubtedly has
punch he
not win
everything
og nt thi $
got into this
not—will
1
Formerly only the knew
generals
} about
the fact that
depends muck
Allied
Was Today every
wise 10 upon
some exient
perhaps an early
peace
of the Here and
increasing. there is a
front there
raids are EDC
radic lay machine
BILLION-DOLLAR BILL PASSES.
Deficiency Measure.
m-doliar
TWO-CENT COINS NOW ASKED
Recommended To Meet
Change In Newspaper Price
Was?
35 SAILO FROM HASH
Case Not One Of Ptomaine
Or Ground Glass.
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KALENDINES SUICIDE
Shot Himself
London General Kaledines, leader
f Cossacks, has comn
the Don itted
uleide, the Russian officia
Petrograd
General Kal
has been rumored
One report was that he
news agen
declared in a dispateh
received here liner’ re
ported sulcid for
several days
shot himself
ment of the
itself with
after the civil govern
y
ion
the Bolsheviki
district voted to ally
FALL KILLS NAVAL OFFICER.
Lieutenant Commander Bausch Tum.
bles Down Hatch,
An Atiantie Port Injured in an
accident on a battieship, Lieutgnant-
later on the hospital ship Solace.
Lieutenant Bausch fell down a Lateh
and his akul! i= said to have been
broken. The Solace was near by, Two
other members of the ships crew were
reported injured.
TO BRIDGE THE BOSPHORUS.
Span And Tunne! To Connect Europe
And Asia,
Amsterdam. ~The Turkish Parlia
ment has approved a bill providing
far the construction of a bridge and
tunnel across the Bosphorus, connect.
ing Europe and Asia. Contract for
the work has been awarded to a
Budapest firm and it will begin op
aration in April,
GERMAN ADVANGE
INTO RUSSIA BEGUN
Annonnces the
Crossing of the Dvina
fO TAKE TWO PROVINCES
Keep Troops On Ukraine Front
-—Breach Between Em-
pires,
Berlin, via London Operation
have been resumed on the Russiar
front. The Germans have crossed the
The text of the statement reads
“On the great Russian front, hostili
began %ith an advance on Dvinsi
os
The ina has
heen crossed without
truggle against the g
te wv bos $ }
oops have commenced
ice from the
Threatened Reval,
BR WOeRK we
in Poland.
The Pi
Propaganda
Washington
for
devoted to German
territory,
lispateh from Sw
ported that the
ues Budge!
to be
propaganda in Pol
ian
1918 calls for 2.250.000 marks
ish according
tzeriand It ir Te
Germans are pi
ive campaign of Prus
sianism in Silesia, Posnia and West
Another dispatch says
berg. who were meeting in support of
# united Poland.
and at the funeral great crowds joined
in the procession, while shops
theatres were closed and university
classes suspended
NEGRO KIDNAPPER LYNCHED.
Stolen Baby Later Found Uninjured
In Briar Patch,
Fayettesville, Ga.~"Bud"” Cosby, a
negro, wag lynched near here by a
mob’ after he had attempted to rob
the home of Mrs. Barney McElwaney,
pear Aberdeen, and kidnapped her 2-
year-old baby. The child was found
later in a briar patch uninjured.
FOUND BY U. a
ters Sent Under Swiss Seal
Agent In Running Down
Philadeiphian Caught Many Oth-
ers-—Used Colombian
Mail,
SOCIALISTS BACK WILSON.
Great Enthusiasm Regarding Open
Diplomacy Expressed At Meeting.
New York
of Labor-Socialist-Radical mo
1
1 ans 0 ¥ adot i :
1 cor
miembers
ith enthusiasm that Presi
Wilson has placed as the first
jon of
8 0 ‘ IY arr
condit gram open
covenant ved at
after which t be no private
a pe
GLASS IN CANDY; SOLDIERS ILL.
20 Enlisted Men Ir Hospital At Camp
Forrest, Chattanooga.
Chattanooga, Tenn Twenty enlist
Forrest confined to the
base hospital as the result of eating
are
At the camp it was said that
The candy was
camp canteen and was said to
OREIGN TRADE
Exports and Imports
Allies’ Hand On Neutral Tornage—
Essential Commerce is To
Be Reduced To A
Lees
Minimum.
Make More Reduc
Control Neutral Tonnage.
/tS 1ally all the oceans
owned by the neutrals will
American and Allled servic
many months
Officials de
on the
foreign commerce
lined to speculate
changes in uting
likely to
into
1
tare
ica's
ut of measrures fo be put
force. It is Known,
War Trade Board is inclined 1«
to Latin-America for more materials
and to cut correspondingly coun:
tryv's trade with the Orient. It is prob
able that many articles, such as rugs
and art objects now received from
Japan and China, will not be granted
import licenses. It is likely that as
many rare materials as possible will
be brought up from the South
America’s trade balances will be af
fected considerably by redistributing
grow «
however, that
the
Oxford Professor Saye Wastefulness
Of American Women ls Striking.
Washington, — American women
spend too much money for clothes,
in the opinion of Prof. Stoughtoy Hol
born, of Oxford University, His first
two impressions of America, he sald
here in a lecture, were the amount of
money spent on the American wom.
an's dress and the waste of food.
dA A ANS SI
GERMANY GETS A NEW JOLT.
not Be Used To Enforce Demands.
Amsterdam Count Czernin, the
Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister,
has notified Berlin that Austrian
troops must not be used against Rus.
sin to support any policy which Aus
trina has not approved, but only for
purposes of self-defense against ma-
rauding bande,
ARE SUI RIT,
SUSPICIOUS OF
TROTZNY ‘PEACE’
Germany Worried Over Lates!
Move By the Bolsheviki.
| DEMOBILIZATION
STOPPED
| Order For Russian Demobilization
Said To Have Been Canceled And
Berlin Fears Trick—War
Prigoners,
Amsterdam. Judging from the lat
indications in German press,
ys dissatisfaction and suspicion has
aroused by
| Foreign Minister
the
the latest move of
rotziky important
leaders are sald
to find the
he
TO CLEAN UP U.BOATS.
Sims’ Visit To Rome Believed Con
With Yo Drive
Them From Mediterranean.
nected Plans
Washington “he presence of Vice
Admiral Sims at
not having to with any
assault on Austrian
naval base at Pola on the Adriatic as
Rome ig regarded
here as do
proposed the
plans for cleaning the sub
Natur.
ally navy officials here are not discuss.
ing such plans as they may know of.
but the suggestion that a naval drive
on Pola is in contemplation meets with
a cold reception.
The Austrian base is well located
and flanked by land defenses of the
strongest character. It is very doubt.
up
fenses from the sea without land sup:
port would be favored by any power.
There seems no doubt, however, that
Admiral Sime’ visit to Rome was con-
nected directly with plans mapped out
by the naval section of the Supreme
War Council. It is certain that a
definite part in whatever js in prose
pect has been reserved for the Amer
fean naval forces,
in a general way naval opinion here
appears to favor & bottlingup cam.
paign against submarines in the
Adriatic rather than assault by sea
on the bases,
A.