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CHIL WAR IN
GERMAN CAPITAL
Government Rushing Troops to
Berlin
BLOODY STREET FIGHTING
Ebert Government Realizes Now It
Must Fight—Radicals Have Set
Up An Opposition
Government.
Copenhagen. — Government troops
Rave occupied all the public bulldings
In Berlin, and thousands of govern.
ment troops are still entering the cap-
ital,
The Berlin correspondent of the Ber.
fingske Tidende, who sends this in-
formation, declares that the Spanta-
cans have been beaten.
There was lively shooting Wednes-
day forenoon at many points, includ-
ing the Brandenburg Gate, which the
government forces had captured dur-
ing the night. Several persons were
killed or wounded.
The troops of the government di-
rected an incessant fire from machine
guns on the roof of the Chancellor's
Palace in the direction of Unier den
Linden and Wilhelmstrasse. Latter
the firing Increased intensely, and par
ticularly in the neighborhood of the
Brandenburg Gate, and many more
people were killed.
A state of siege has been proclaimed
in Berlin, according to a late dispatch
from the city.
probably was made by the Ebert gov-
ernment.)
London. —German government
sages picked up by wireless here say
that pants of Berlin are scenes
bloody fighting.
The government, it is added, is tak.
ing all necessary measures to destroy
“the reign of terror.”
The messages say that some
of Berlin already are without li 2 t and
water. Provision depots have been
stormed by the Spartacans and th
wae
paris
been interrupted.
mitted by the Copenhagen correspond.
ent of the Exchange Telegraph Com-
pany say that negotiations between |
ity Socialists) and Independent Soclal-
ists failed.
More Government Troops.
Basle.—Troops loyal to the Ebert |
government have arrived in Berlin
from Potsdam and driven the Spar
tacans as far as the Tiergarten and |
reoccupied the printing works, accord.
ing to the Frankfort Zeitung. The
government, the newspaper adds,
decided to take energetic measures
and has assembled a large number of
troops. Premier Ebert has issued a
sanifesto to the “workers, bourgeolse
and soldiers,” denouncing the Spar
tacans as being responsible for many
persons being killed and wounded.
MAY MODIFY BLOCKADE,
Supplies Will Be Permitted Soon Te
Reach Central Powers.
ade of the Central Powers, Such miti.
gation, it is pointed out, would be
granted in order to admit of the pass
ing in of food supplies for Czecho- |
Blovakia, Poland and sections of Rus- |
&la and other territory which it is de-
reached except through
which the Central Powets are holding.
CONGRESS TO HOLD SERVICE.
Joint Session In Honor Of Colonel
Roosevelt Planned.
Washington —8teps toward a me
morial service in the Capitol on 8un-
day, February 9, in honor of Colonel
Roosevelt were taken in Congress. The
Senate unanimously adopted a resolu
tion by Senator Wadaworth, of New
York, providing for a joint session and
suthorizing committees to make the
arrangements and invite the President,
Supreme Court Justices, members of
the Cabinet and other officials to par
ticipate,
FRANCE'S COAL GONE.
Mines Cannot Be Brought To Full Pre
duction Under Three Years.
Washington —Three years will be
required to bring the coal mines of
Northern France to full produetion and
| efface the devastation wrought in
ilig conl flelds by the retreating Ger.
mans, sald a report to the Fuel Ad
| Men WITH DEPENDENTS
T0 BE RELEASED FIRST
Cruisers Huntington And St. Louis
Coming With Artillery Troops—
600 Marines Who Fought At
Chateau Thierry On Way.
Washington.-—Commanders of com-
bat divisions in the United States were
authorized to discharge first from their
forces those men whose allotment pa-
pers show they have dependents, and
second, such men as would be affected
adversely in obtaining civil employ-
ment as a result of being held further
in service,
It was learned that the instructions
regarding demobilization of combat di
visions already affect a large propor:
tion of these units, in one instance,
the commander having been instructed
to release 46 per cent. of the men
under his command.
Huntington And 8t. Louis Coming.
The cruisers Huntington and St.
Louis sailed from Brest January 2, and
are due at New York January 16 with
about 3,000 troops. The Fifty-seventh
Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, and
the headquarters of the Thirtyninth
Coast Artillery Brigade are coming
home on the Huntington. Onethird
of the 1,700 officers and men of the
Fiftyseventh Artillery aboard this ship
are from the New York National
Guard.
Aboard the 8t. Louis is the Three
Hundred and Forty-sixth Field Arti}
lery, comprising 46 officers and 1.256
men, nearly all of whom will be sent
to Camp Lewis, Washington, for de- |
mobilization.
Other naval vessels announced as
returning with troops are the battle
ship Rhode Island, due at Newport
News January 12 with the Fifth Anti
aircraft Machine-Gun Battalion, Four i
{ Hundred and Forty-seventh Aero Con:
struction Squadron, Casual Company
| Two Hundred and Sixth, and the bat
:
| tleship Virginia, due at Newport News |
| the same day, with the Seventh Anti |
aircraft sector, composed of the Fifty.
{ first, Fifty-second, ¥Fifty-third Fifty.
: fourth and Filty-fifth Antiairerafl Dat
| teries, headquarters, supply and med
{ feal detachments; One Hundred and |
| Sixth Trench Mortar Battery, Four
Hundred and Elightyfourth Aero Con
: struction Squadron and Marine Casual
i Company Two Hundred and Fifth
EXPLOSION KILLS SCORE.
Othery Injured When Film Exchange |
In Pittsburgh Is Wrecked,
Pittsburgh. —
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Between 15 and 20 per
sons, mostly women and girls, were |
kill and more than a score others
j injured here when a terrific explosion
| wrecked a film exchange bull ding at
804 Penn avenue, in the downtown |
| sect lon of the city. Eight bodies have
| been recovered from the ruins, and
{ firemen, working on the interior of the
| structure, report that many other
i bodies are buried under wreckage,
GEORGE GETS RESIGNATION.
Retires At His Request Not To Em-
barass New Government.
i London.—The entire British Cabinet
has formally resigned, at the request |
of Premier Lloyd George, to avoid com.
plications in his selection of a new
ministry. The ministers will continue |
| to exercise the functions of their office |
until successors are appointed,
WASHINGTON
i
Conversion of war risk insurance |
| held by soldiers, sailors and marines |
| and war workers into, permanent
| peacetime policies will be stariod
| within 60 days.
Steps are being taken by the State
Department to bring home from Tur
key 3.5600 native and naturalized Amer.
icans who have been there during the
war.
Removal of restrictions upon im-
vortation of wool from all non-enemy
countries has been ordered by the
War Trade Board.
Full citizenship was conferred on
162.402 soldiers and sailors up to Jan-
uary 1 under the act of Congress
passed last May.
Road building on an extensive scale
is expected by the government offi
clals this year,
Evidence was given before the Sen
ate Committee investigating German
propaganda to the effect that $380,000
worth of munitions shipped in 1915
to agents of Francisco Villa, the Mex
ican bandit, were paid for by ¥. A
Sommerfeld, now interned as an en:
omy allen,
A commission sent to Burope to
Investigate hes recommended to (he
Department of Agriculture the formu
lating of an international program of
agricultural production for the entire
world, to forestall a possible shortage
, teed and fiber.
executives will recommend
to Congress a system of railroad man:
agement, including private ownership
and government control.
THE COUNTRY. TRY AT LARGE.
GOL. ROOSEVELT
la LAID TO REST
Ex-President Sleeps in Spot He
Had Selected
FLAG DRAPES HIS CASKET
Service Impressive By Very Simplic-
ity—Nation Sends Its Mourners
Teo Join Family And
Neighbors,
Oyster Bay, N. Y.—~Theodore Roose
velt lies at rest beneath a cemetery
knoll near the rambling rural high
way along which he traveled so many
times in boyhood and in manhood be
tween the Ssgamore Hill house, which
was his home, and the quiet village
of Oyster Bay.
Perhaps to no other former Presi
dent of the United States has been
paid the tribute of so simple a funeral
#8 the one which was given Colonel
Roosevelt on the shore of Long Is
land Sound. Military and naval hon-
ors were not his in death, only be
cause it had been his wish, and that
of his family, that the last rites be
surrounded only with the simple dig
nity that might attend the passage of
a private citizen.
But- the American
nation, and
resentatives as did also the State and
the city in which he was born. These
noted men sat sorrowfully in the pews
copal Church, while brief services of
| prayer and seripture readings were
eulogy in which
It
Sagamo
was the noon hour when,
ra Hil homestead, all
of the sons, Lieut.Col
Jr, and Liegt
who are soldiers in Europe,
assembled for a few moments of pri
¢ side of the casket
body.
were baitle
which the Colonel fough
on Cuban soll more
Years ago. The Rev. Dr.
Talmage rector of Christ Church
the comforting words which were the
lay the
the casket flags,
George
for
the presence of Mrs
ghe did not accompany 1
to the church the
46
or to Erave
:
ill services only
Roosevelt
: Sagamore H members
of the
were present
fringing
smmediaie
VICTOR L. BERGER CONVICTED.
Under Spy Act.
Chicago. —All of
found
ourt.
the Espionage law wers
in the Federal CO
The defendants found guilty
Congressman-elect Victor 1.
publisher of the Milwaukee Leader;
Adolph Germer, secretary of the Na.
tional Socialist party; William E.
{ Kruse, editor of the Young Socialist;
{Irwin St John Tucker, writer and
J. Louls Engdabl, editor of
are:
The defendants were charged with
to viola'~ the Esplonage
disloyalty and refusal of duty among
| the naval and military forces of the
United States and with interfering
recruiting service and the
the Selective Draft
A —" A SR
. CASUALTIES NOW ALL IN.
1,000 Additional Clerks To Speed Work
Of Publicity.
Washington —~Complete lists of cas
ualties among the American Expedi
tionary Forces have been sent tw
Washington and 1000 additional
clerks have been put to work in the
AdjutantGeneral’s office to get them
out as speedily as possible.
Secretary Baker, in making this an
nouncement, said another thousand
clerks would be added to the Adju
tant General's force and at the rate
lists were being handled it would be
only a short time before all of the
names were published,
—-
GENERAL BELL DEAD.
AM SA.
Commandar Of Department Of The
East Vietim Of Heart Disease.
New York-—-Maj Gen. J. Franklin
Bell, commander of the Department of
the Bast, died at the Presbyterian Hos
pital in this city. His death was due
to heart disesse. He was taken to
the hospital three days ago for ob
servation, but it was not realized that
his condition was serious and his
death came as a complete surprise. He
was 63 years old. ;
NOTED PHILATEL ST DEAD,
Seb
Mation in World,
PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION
ON ROOBEVELT'S DEATH.
Bays Former President Had Endeared
Himself To The People By His Stren:
uoue Devotion To Their Interest.
Washington. —The following proc
lamation on the death of Theodore
Roosevelt was cabled from Paris by
President Wilson and issued at the
State Department:
“By Woodrow Wilson, President
of the United States of America.
“A proclamation to the people
of the United States:
“It becomes my sad duty to an-
nounce officially the death of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, President of the
United States from September 14,
1801, to March 4, 1909, which oc.
cutred at his home at Sagamore
Hill, Oyster Bay, New York. at
four fifteen o'clock in the morning
of January 6th, 1019. In his death
the United States has lost one of
its moet distinguished and pa-
triotie citizens, who had endeared
himself to the people by his stren-
uous devotion to their interests
and to the public interests of his
country,
“As president of the Police
Board of his native city, as mem-
ber of the legislatures and gov.
ernor of his State, as civil service
commissioner, as assistant secre.
tary of the Navy, as Vice-President
and ag President of the United
States, he displayed administrative
powers of a signal order and eon-
ducted the affairs of these various
offices with a concentration of ef:
fort and a watchful care which
permitted no divergence from the
ine of duty he had definitely set
for himself,
“In the war with Spain, he dis.
played singular initiative and en.
ergy and distinguished himself
among the commanders of the
army in the fleld As President
he awoke the nation
gers of privale
lurked in our financial and in
dustrial syrtems. It was by thus
arresting t on and =
lating the pu f the
fo the dan
control which
he attent
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fF dhy
opened for
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that he w
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rendered on t) the funeral
“one this fe dav of Jan
unry, in ear of our Lord Nine
Thousand Nine Hundred and Nine
and of the Independence of
America
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the 'nited States of the
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MANY GIFTS TO PRESIDENT.
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tured Austrian Cannon,
Milan During his visit to Milan
One was a statuette made of captured
Austrian cannon representing Ital
conquering the Austrian Black Eagle
Another was an {lluminated volum
presented by Gianni Caproni, the alr
plane manufacturer, describing the
The volume was dedi
cated to a giant airplane which Ca
proni Is building of a
flight.
TO WAR oN BOLSHEVISM.
National Security Longue Plans Propa
ganda Campaign.
Washington Plans for an extensive
propaganda campaign against the |
spread of Bolshevism as a part of the
post-war work of the National Security
League were discussed by Col. Charles
E. Lydecker, president of the league,
before the special House committee in.
vestigating activities of the organiza.
tion during the last Congressional
campaign.
ideas were general in Congress, Col
onel Lydecker sald he thought not.
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HUNS BEEK JOBS IN FRANCE.
ed As Soon As Frontiers Open,
German waiter who before the ‘war
worked In Paris and at Nancy. He
voy of returning French prisoners. He
presented himself before the smployer
whom he had served before running
away to enlist In a German artillery
regimedit. As soon as frontiers are
open another invasion of Huns to seek
work ls expected.
B—
New York Customs Officials FP
To Cope Against Such.
Important Commercial Centers
Destroyed Beyond Repair,
Country Should Be Forced to Pay for
Ruthless Destruction as Far as
Within the Power of Its
People.
By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
In August, 1914, the city of Lens in
northern France was a prosperous
It
was known as the Pittsburgh of
one great source of supply of fuel for
Its steel and fron mille
supplied much of the material for
shipbuilding and
other industries. Its people were in-
fortable homes, surrounded by the
modest luxuries of an industrial com-
munity,
All that Is left of Lens today Is a
crumbling pile of debris. No single
wall of the city Is still standing, and
hardly a plece of a wall as much as
ten feet square can be seen amid the
terrible ruins. Both the bulldings
and the machinery of its factories are
gone completely, Its coal mines are
flooded and the machinery with which
they were operated has been destroyed.
And all this because Germany start-
ed a war for the purpose of conquest;
a war in which no principle other than
that of selfishness was involved, To-
day Germany is a crushed nation. Her
plans for world domination miscarried,
her armies have been defeated, but
before these things happened the city
of Lens had been destroyed.
1 stood amid the ruins of what had
once been the attractive and prosper
ous industrial community of Lens and
watched hundreds of her people who
had returned after the Germans had
been driven back, as they searched for
the spots on which their homes had
once stood, as they dug into the debris
they can be made to pay for them so
far as dollars can pay.
And with the passing of this city
there passed away many thousand,
lives of British soldiers who today lig
buried around the place they so brave
ly defended. One possibly better re.
alizes here the terrors of this war than
aut any other one spot. Here the Ger-
mans held the hills to the east of the
city, and the British defenders occu
pled the low-lying fields between the
hills and the city. For them dugouts
or deep trenches were out of the ques
tion as the land is but little above
sea level, And here, in what is almost
a marsh, the British Tommies lay
month after month, through winter and
pummer, a fair target for the Boche
guns on the nearby hills,
When I was in Ypres late in Octo=
ber, many of the people to whom it
had been home, were there digging
hopelessly in the rubbish in a vain ef-
fort to find some small thing that could
be associated with the homes that the
Germans had destroyed in their effort
to secure world domination by a war
of conquest,
City of Walls Only.
The city of Menin in Belgium, was
not shelled by either army, and yet it
is a city that Germany should pay for.
The walls of Menin are standing, but
it is a city of walls only, The floors,
the roofs, the joists, the doors and win-
dows and the door and window casings
are gone, all torn out by the invading
Boche, with the result that the people
of Menin are as homeless as the
ple of Lens and Ypres and hundreds of
other cities and towns in the invaded
countries,
I rode
tieres, Bailleul,
through devastated Armen~
La Bassee, Douasi,
Cambria, Roisel, Peronne, Albert, Ar-
res, Bt. Quentin, Guiscard, Noyon,
Chauny, Thiaucourt, Vigneulles and
hundreds of smaller towns, and the
story of devastation was always the
same, with but little variation, devas-
tation caused by the Boche, and for
which the Boche should pay, and for
which the price assessed will never be
high enough.
In many ways the hellishness of the
Borhe has been demonstrated. The
city of Arras has suffered such
complete destruction as has fallen
upon many other cities, Here the Ger-
man gunners centered their fire upon
not
in an effort to rescue from it some one
thing, some memento of that home they
had loved as much, or even more than
we Americans love our homes. I saw
the tears on the cheeks of many as
they tolled. I saw an old woman car-
rying away, as the only thing she
could finds a piece of a broken chair,
devastation, this misery?
There Is But One Answer.
Are the broken, homeless people of
America or Belginm to pay? Or are
To be sure, the city of Lens was de-
| stroyed by shells fired largely from
British guns. Bat they were fired into
the city because the invading Ger
mans in the city must be driven
out that not only France, but the
world, might be freed of the menace
and to the accuracy and efficiency of
Counld the people of America have
the cathedral, and day after day, week
after week and month after month
they continued to pour a rain of metal
upon this beautiful old church until
today it is nothing but a mass of pow-
dered stone. QCGermany cannot give
back that cathedral of Arras, but she
can pay and should pay for the need-
iese, senseless destruction.
And the fair cities and towns that
have been so ruthlessly destroyed are
but incidents in the devastation caused
by this war, and for all of which Ger
many and her allies, and they slone,
are responsible, and for all of which
they should pay.
DO YOU YAWN AT CONCERTS?
if So, There Is a Reason, Which Is
Thus Explained by Modern
Song Writer.
If a person yawns during a sym-
phony concert and twists his program .
instead of being absorbed in classical
music it may not be his fanit. It may
be due to an undeveloped pituitary
body, which is located in the brais,
back of the temples,
This is according to Cyril Scott, the
song writer, in his “The Philosophy
of Modernism fn Connection With
Music.” Mr. Scott says that this pitu-
as body in highly susceptible to th.