General Kaledines, in Control of Russia's Food HARRISBURG t§i|2|l TELEGRAPH M • oiar- JnscpcnDcni LXXXVI— No. 294 14 PAGES JERUSALEM COSSACKS REVOLT; ESCAPE N HALIFAX HAS CLOSEESCAPE FROM SECOND , DEATH VESSEL Another Munitions Ship Catches Fire in Harbor; Explosion Is Narrowly Averted SHIP TAKEN TO SEA AND SUNK i Many German Residents of Devastated City Are Ar rested on Suspicion; Oth ers to Report Monthly By Associated Press Halifax, N.SSt. t Dec. 10.—A re vised casualty list to-day showed I.JOO known dead 2,000 unac counted for. 6,000 wounded and 25,000 homeless. This to date is the toll of the great fire here Thursday which swept over an area of two and a half square miles, after the explosion of a munition ship in Halifax harbor. Only a part of the burned sec tion has been explored for the bodies of the dead. Analyzing these figures the mili tary authorities who have worked with the one idea of estimating the approximate number of the dead, de clared the total would be increased through failure to obtain word of the missing. It has been four days since the disaster. In that time, they said, it should have been possible to hear from most of the missing through information bureaus and other agencies. Estimate -1,000 Bead An estimate of 4,000 dead, regard ed as too high by many officials Sat urday night, was accepted more gen erally to-day as most nearly ap proaching the exact figure. It is be lieved hundreds of persons lining the water front and watching the spectacle of a big ship on tire with out thought of an impending explo sion, were hurled into the bay by the terrific upheaval and drowned. Their bodies may never be recovered. While searching parties have dug through acres of the ruined section to which the tire spread after the Mont Blanc, the death ship, blew up, the work is far from complete. How many dead may be under the great area of debris was a matter of con jecture this morning. llurlul of the Dead Burial of the dead in the explosion [Continued on Page I.] ONLY 3 DAYS left for men between the ages oi 21 and • I 'ours to enlist in the •viir against the linn. After thn time all registered men must tal their chances in being placed '.n whatever branch of the service • lie government decides. THE WEATHER Fur IfHrrixhurK mid vicinity! Fair continued cold to-night and Tuesday) loncnt temperature to night about 2 degree.*, below aero. For Fnstern Pennsylvania! Fulr to-nlicht and Tuesday, continued cnldt fresh northwest winds. River The Susquehanna river nnd all its branches will remain generally Icebound anil nearly stationary, except local rises may occur where the channel becomes choked with lee. At Ilnrrlshurg the river will remain frocen and nearly stationary at a stage of about four feet. tienernl Conditions Inder the Influence of the storm now passing off northeastward down the St. I.nwrence river, snow has fallen In the northern tier of stntes from Minnesota enstwnrd to New York and In the Ohio Valley and Tennexsee and In the l.ower Mlsxourl Val ley In the laat twenty-foul hours, the amounts being ntoxi ly smnll. except In the vicinity of Buffalo und Ferry Sound. It Is - to 34 degrees colder thnn on Saturday morning over near ly all the eastern half of the country, except New Knglnnd, with temperatures lit or below xcro In the Ohio, Middle nnd Lpper Mississippi and Missouri valleys and over, most of the l.ake Hellion. Temperature! 8 a. m„ 6. Sunt Rises, 7i20 a. M.i sets, 4i:to p. m. Moon I New moon. Heeember 14. River Stage! 4.1! feet nhove low niter mark. Veaterday's Weather Highest temperature, JS. I.owest temperature. It). (lean temperature. 10. Normal temperature, 31. Jerusalem Falls To the British London, Dec. 10. —An- drew Bonar Law, chan cellor of the exchequer, announced in the House of Commons to-day that Jerusalem, after being surrounded on all sides by British troops, had sur rendered. JERUSALEM, CITY OF ANCIENT FAME, FALLS TO BRITISH After Being Surrounded on All Sides, Defenders of 'Golden City' Surrender HISTORY IS PRO I'D ONE Home of Christ's Activities Has Been in Hands of Aliens For Thousand Years The capture of Jerusalem by the British forces marks the end, with two brief interludes, of more than 1,200 years possession of the seat of the Christian religion by the Mo hammedans. For years the Holy City has been in undisputed owner ship of the Turks, the last Christian ruler of Jerusalem being the German emperor, Frederick 11, whose short lived domination lasted from 12 29 to 1244. i Apart from its connection with the I campaign being waged against Tur- I key by the British in Mesopotamia, ; the fall of Jerusalem marks the defi j nite collapse of the long protracted ! efforts of the Turks to capture the 1 Suez Canal and invade Egypt. In sentimental and romantic as- I pect, the capture of Jerusalem far I exceeds even the fall of fable-crown -1 ed Bagdad. The modern city of Jeru j saleni contains about 60,000 inhabit | ants and is the home of pestilence, filth and fevers, but in historic inter est it naturally • surpasses, to the 1 Christian world, any other place in 1 the world. Since the days when Jo seph wrested it from'the hands of Jebusites to make it the capital of i the Jewish race, Jerusalem has been ■ the prize and prey of half the races! ! of the world. It has passed succes-1 sively into the hands of the Assy-j i rians, Babylonians. Greeks, Romans, Persians, Arabs, Turks, the motley crowds of the crusaders, finally to 1 fall before the descendants of that ' Richard the Lion Hearted, who ! strove in vain for its possession more than seven hundred years ago. General Sir Edmund Henry Alien by, the victor of Jerusalem, was transferred to the command of the British forces in Egypt, which have | continued the Palestine campaign. In June of this year. He was in com mand of the third British army in ! the western front during 1916 and at the head of this army General Alien by commanded the British right wing in the battle of beginning on Easter Monday of this year. British Forces Relieve Italians Along the Line of Piave River Defense By Associated Press Paris, Dec. 10.—Violent artillery fighting occurred last night on the I Verdun front east of the Meuse. "The artillery fighting was violent for a time in Alsace and also on the right bank of the Meuse. in the re -1 gion of Chambrettes," says to-da.v's official report. "An enemy raid against our small posts south of Coi beny was repulsed." British and French troops have taken over from the Italian sections of the fighting front between Lake Garda and the Adriatic. The British are stationed along the upper Piave, but the position of the French has not been disclosed. The Austro-Ger mans have not renewed their violent attacks on the Asiago plateau, the i strong defense of the Italians appar ! ently having forced a cessation of in ' fantry activity to allow for the re forming of units. There has been artillery activity between the Brenta | and the Piave and along the 'ia#e. while Italian airplanes and airships have been attacking enemy \mp.* I and communication behind the lines. . On the front in Prance there has been no marked infantry action and artillery action has been confined to the CambHa and Ypres areas. Out post encounters and raids have oc curred on the Cambrai front and near Lens. A German offort to en ter the French lines near Bezonvaux, Verdun region, has been repulsed by the French with considerable casual ties to the enemy. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1917 RUSSIA'S FATE DEPENDS UPON RESULTOFNEW INTERNAL WAR Supreme Effort Is Being Made by Old Army Offi cers to Take Control From German-Dealing Agents DON COSSACKS LOYAL TO OLD OJMMANDER Plan to Cut Off Food and Money to Put an End to Peace Negotiations Now; Under Way By Associated P>ess London, Dec. 10.—The coun-. ter revolt in Southwestern Rus-! sia, under the leadership of' Generals Kaledines, Dutoff and' Korniloff. apparently is aimed at seizing the authority in that re gion and in cutting off food: supplies from Siberia. Accord-! ing to the proclamation of the Bolsheviki government General Kaledines' forces are menacing! Eskaterinoslav, Kharkov and 1 Moscow. In Jie province of Orenburg the Bolsheviki have been overthrown by General! Dutoff. For some time General Kaledines j has been gathering his forces in the { Don region where he has been joined ! by former army officers and leaders i of the old provisional government. He has been reported to hold most i of Russia's gold reserve and hei probably controls the Don coal re-1 gion and a gre.it portion of the grain-growing territory around the! Black and Caspian seas. Attack Under Way Tclieliabinsk, an Important rail-i way center in Northeastern Oren- [ burg, is besieged by General Du-j toff's troops. In the Caucasus Gen- j eral Karauloff is attacking Tchecli-1 enrev and Inguslier. The proclamation says the "ene- j mies of the people'' have undertaken' a last attempt to destroy the cause i of peace and says the constitutional Democratic party is providing the means for the revolt. The procla-' mation reads: • "While representatives of the Congress of Workmen's and Sol- j [Continued on Pose J).] Warm Clothing Sought by Local Red Cross For Halifax Blast Sufferers The plea of relief organizations at Halifax will be answered by Har risburg people through the local Red Cross Chapter. Contributions of money have poured into local head quarters in the Fager schoolbuild ing and further subscriptions are be ing solicited by Red Cross workers. "Overcoats, warm clothing, and money are desired most of all." said Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert, president of the chapter, this morning. AH con tributions should be sent to the Fa ger building, or by motor messenger. | Among the contributions received J this morning was a worn two-dollar bill given by an aged man. He was | pressed by the workers to give his : name so that a receipt could be j I given. "I receive my thanks from | | <-.bove," he said. A young woman came into headquarters and gave $5 | a pennies, nickels and dimes, to the , | woman in charge. "I have been sav , ing up my small change for the past ! three months," she said, "and this 1 $5 is the result. It is going to the I Red Cross to help the sufferers in I Halifax." A number of other con- I j tributions were received. Plan to Bring Fresh Fish From Lake Erie to Reduce Cost to City Consumers Plans to put into operation in Har j risburg the sale from the car sys- I | tem of fish from Lake Erie tried last .week in Altoona and New Castle, will be laid before Donald McCor- ' mick. Dauphin county food admin istrator, to-morrow by Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust. Foust has arranged with the Erie fisheries people to inspect the fish for wholesomeness. The car will be sent here this week and the sales will be made direct under the supervision of the food administrator, who will be asked to designate the salesman. Sales from the car will reduce the prices of fish and if the plan works it will be made a weekly event. OFFERS SIOO REWARD In an effort to show how ridiculous are the stories about Red Cross workers selling sweaters, William Jennings, chaiiman of the Citizens' War Committee, to-day offered SIOO reward to the man or woman who can prove the tale. "WHAT DOES HE SAY, HIGHEST?" "HE SAYS YOU MUST BE WIPED OFF THE MAP" I : j,' POWER OR LEADERSHIP IK THE MOOERN WORLD --MOT MM. TDK! UK BEEN DONE warn CAN W6H161 mmm ** m 3f •SQ&yCMvm PMEMftKtR AMOR 6 ' NE MTIONS. ' /IwlStkiJr iSPv'. Ml WHER THAT HAS BEEN BONE - (&, mm n mm m &E " TALK OF SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE. SESSION HEARD Matter Has Been Under Dis cussion at Capitol,, but Advised Against Calling of a special session of the Legislature in the event that Con gress passes a prohibition amend ment and including in the call cer tain election reforms which have been demanded by Senator Boies Penrose in recent statements has teen discussed extensively on Capitol Hill within the last few weeks, but a number of the Governor's close friends have advised against it. For some time there have been per sistent rumors that the Governor had been talking with callers the propo sition of a session to enact certain laws growing out of the Philadelphia situation and criticisms which have been made •of election and other laws. The forecasts of a prohibition amendment In Congress haVe revived these subjects, but it is understood, that the leaders of the state admin istration are of the opinion that in stead of beating the other side to it in the way of legislation it might be I playing" the opponents' game. Every state official spoken to atout the matter has refused to deny or affirm that there' has been any discussion of the matter. Intimations that the strained rela tions existing in the state Commis sion of Agriculture will come to a showdown soon were strengthened to-day when it was reported that Secretary of Agriculture Patton in tended to ' protest to the Governor against action of the four members of the commission who attended the last meeting in rejecting appoint ments to the bureau of markets. These appointments have been hang ing fire for some time, but at the re cent meeting it is said they were re jected. All information on the sub ject is refused at the Capitol and none of the commissioners is here. WHAT! NEGATIVE GRAVITY USED IN WORK ON PENN-HARRIS HOTEL? Being a member of the Ancient and Honorable Order of the Sons of Rest comes harder and harder as the Penn-Harris Hotel gets higher and higher: and relatives of the Ancient Order are now threatening to have lunacy commissions named by the courts if the of Rest don't stop ruining their eyes trying to see what the plumbers are doing in the ceiling ot the seventh story of the new hotel. Quite an argument occurred this morning along about second pretzel time when John Newton and Edmund James verbally assaulted each other over the question as to whether a certain pipeline wis for running Ice water or gas. And then a little later Arthur a low fellow, cussed out a lot of the members because they laughed at his theory that the floors are held up by negative gravity. Any orte who walks along Third or Walnut streets will sec that between the uprights there is apparently noth ing holding up the terra cotta floors. And when one stops to consider that hitched to these terra cotta floors are 29% miles of piping; of various kinds, then--as John Newton put it—the in tellect Is just naturally staggered. But crea;ilous as are the Sons of Rest, WANDERS FROM FROZEN IN SNOW Enola Man Believed to Have Been 111 From Worry Over War ' Said to be brooding over the fact that he probably would bo drafted, Harry Lowrey, aged 24, of Enola wandered from his home early yes terday morning and was frozen to death before he could be found by his parents. His thinly clad body was found near the Zion Lutheran Church yesterday morning at 9.30 o'clock by Daniel Pierce, who had been searching for him since- 4 o'clock. Soon after young Lowrey left the house his mother was aware of his absence and notified his father who was working in the Enola yards. Searching parties were at once formed by employes of the engine house and the search started. The signal that the body had been found was given at 9.30. His body was found partly covered with snow about fifty feet from the church and about a half mile from his home. Belief that he tried_ to return home before the extreme cold overcame him was shown in the traces that he attempted to rise but was too weak. Lowrey was employed as a hostler at the roundhouse of the Enola yards and was unmarried. MRS. GERARD HAS OPERATION By Associated Press New York, Dec. 10.—Mrs. James IW. Gerard, wife , of the former American Ambassador to Germany, underwent an operation for appen dicitis here , to-day. Mr. Gerard's secretary issued a statement which ! said the operation had been success- I ful and indications were that Mrs. Gerard would quickly recover. they could not stomach the Vendig theory, which promises to rank with the theories of old "By" Nomial and other theorists (Editor's Note:—Per haps he means "theorems"). "Youse la-ads can't kid me,'' swore Vendig "Youse can't force nuttin ir. me bean about-no cantilever prin ciple holding up dem ceilin's. Nuttin doin*. Pipe me eye. D'ye see any green dere? How'j'as get dat way? It's negatH-e gravity: dat's what it is. I know! Once me ol' man he had one of them negative gravity hickeys. hitched it to whatever youse wanted to lighten and den youse screwed a little screw up; an' de neg ative gravity begun to flow. So my ol' man he finally got arrested f'r cruelty t' animals, 'cause he loadened up a load of hay weighin' four tons, put til' little hlckey under it, screwed up th' screw and brought th' weight down to fourteen pounds. Then he hitched a little dinkey donkey to It and drove th' load eleven miles over McConnellsburg mountain to market. So they arrests him. An' my ol' man he gits mad and busts up th' negative gravity machine an' won't never make another." But nobody believed Arthur Vendig, VOLUNTEERS IN -GREAT RUSH TO ENTER U.S. ARMY District Expected to Furnish 1,000 Men a Day Before Lists Close Three thousand men, it was esti mated by Lieutenant Lesher this morning, will be sent from the re cruiting station at 325 Market street, during the last three days of the time in which men between the age limits of the draft may enlist for service in a branch of the service which they choose themselves. Every train that comes into the city brings its quota of men from Central Pennsylvania which consti tutes the Harrisburg recruiting dis trict. The quota that arrived to-day and will be sent away before mid night is easily totalled at more than live hundred men. All these men are being examined at the local office. Since early this morning the great room on the third Moor where the •preliminary physical examination Is given by Sergteant Dardis and Lieu tenant Long, has been packed al most to overflowing by the constantly increasing body of volunteers that [Continued on Page 12.] George M. Appleby Offers Services to Y. M. C. A. Work in French Camps Announcement was made this morning by Robert li. Reeves, gener al secretary of the Y. M. C. A., that George M. Appleby, 216 South Sec ond street, had tendered his services as a V. M. C. A. secretary in Prance. Mr. Appleby is a member of the tlrm of Appleby Brothers & Whittaker, and is a prominent businessman here. The tender of services followed an appeal by Mr. Reeves, for six Harris burg men to take up the work in France. Mr. Appleby is the first man to answer the call, and his standing is so .Ine that there is no doubt of his acceptance by the war work coun cil, for European service. Child Dies of Burns When Driven From Home by Fire Chambersburg, Pa., Dec, 10.—The new frame residence of George Ilein back, near Mercersburg, burned to the ground last night due to an over heated flue. The family escaped their nightclothes with much diffi culty. One child died this morning | from burns; another has pneumonia. I Everything in the house, even cloth ing, was destroyed. STOCK EXCHANGE BURNED By Associated Press Tokio. Dec. 10.—The Stock Ex change building caught tire to-day, probably from a defective line, and the flames spread to the surrounding business section. The exchange was closed temporarily. The records stored there were saved. PROHIBITION LAW UPHELD By Associated Press Washington. Dec. 10.—Idaho de crees upholding the validity of the state prohibition law and declaring it a reasonable exercise of the state police powers were to-day sustained i Uv the Supreme Court. 1 Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION PATRIOTS MUST i SERVE IN ARMY OR RED CROSS Only Two Classifications For Loyal Americans, Says Mrs. Gilbert jREADY FOR GREAT DRIVE; i City Divided For Campaign of Mercy to Aid Fight ing Yankees Harrisburg Never Slacks In the Red Cross campaign last spring Harrisburg led Pennsyl vania. • , In the First Liberty Loan cani ! paign Harrisburg, in proportion to j its population, led Pennsylvania. In the Second Liberty Loan cam paign Harrisburg led Penrtsylva | nia. In recruiting for the Regular Army Harrisburg furnished so j many men it was free from requi- I sition in the draft. | In recruiting during the last six I weeks Harrisburg has sent so 1 many men that comparatively few will be called in the second draft. | In the Red Cross Christinas drive for 38,000 members Harrisburg | should live up to the reputation it has established for itself since the ' beginning of the war. Harrisburg has never slacked. I ' ' j "These are the days in which every | loyal American must be in one of j two places—the Army or the Red | Cross." i That was the statement made tfiis I morning by Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert. I chairman of Harrisburg chapter ot ! the Red Cross. For months Mrs. Gil ! ber has been hard at work at Red ! Cross headquarters. She has been in close touch with the Red Cross or | ganization's efforts In foreign fields ' and at home; and her work has given | her an insight into what has been [Continued on Page 4.1 X CONVICTS TO AID IN WAR WORK New York ,Dec. 10.—Plans to take convicts from be , „ hind prison walls and put them t work to aid the govern *f* mtnt in the prosecution of the war are to be worked oui -S at ■ conference of prison experts to be held in Washing; ]£* ton to-morrow, it was announced here to-day by William 1 # * T* H. Wadhams, a judge in the Court of Central Sessions. |J INHERITANCE LAW UPHELD "?* Washington, Dec. 10.—The lows c.cllutrral inherr . threatened to Jn destroy a double dwelling house on Myers avenue occu- T pied by two families, Drawbaugh and Ilorter. Half z 4 hundred school boys rushed up the chemical :r. J.ie, X opened on the burning house and had the flames i"id r Tj control when apparatus from Harrisburg arrive J. Th< 4* loss was under |3OO. | HELDON FALSE PRETENSE CHARGE X Harriaburg—D. A. Donovan, formerly of Harrisburg. jk was arrested at Pittsburgh, and brought before Alderman 4 Deshong to-day, charged with selling stcck under false X pretenses. He ,was held under (SOO bail. J MARRIAGE LICENSES Wilbur W. Hocli, HlKliplr. nnl Cnroljn I. Ilranrit. Mlddlr- L towns Amliroue U. Ilotfnn nod Maude M. Ilurlew, Lflmgnn. COAL SITUATION BAD WITH COLDER WEATHER COMINI Great Hush For Fuel Maki * Anthracite Dealers Pessi mistic Over Situation | ZERO WEATHER TONIGH" ! River Already Closed am Traffic Impeded by Storm's Effects Coal dealers were unanimous f their statements to-day that the eo:' situation in Harrisburg is acute. TlS COUNT Hy Associated Press Berlin. Saturday. l>ec. S. V I London. Dec. JO. —The marriage liei i to-day of Count Christian Guntli< ■ Von Bernstorff, son of the form* > ambassador to the United States ar i Mrs. Marguerite Vivian Burtc i Thompson, of Burlington. New Je sey, is reported by the Berlin newi papers.