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tiussia, Dismayed by Oncoming Hun Horde, Determines to Defend Country From Enemy Invasion
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LXXXVII No. 46 20 E&GES
BOLSHEVIKI CHANGE
MIND; WILL RESIST
GERMAN INVASION
Opposition Will Be Given the Teuton Army Sweeping
Eastward Into the Heart of Great Russia, Is Decision
Reached by Bolsheviki Leaders; Chaotic Condition
/ Exists in Russian Navy
WEIGHT IS GIVEN TO RUMORS
THAT TROTZKY WILL RESIGN
i
foreign Minister's Name Is Missing From Proclamation
Ordering That Hun Advance Be Resisted; Trotzky
Reported to Have Cast D eciding Vote in Favor of
Accepting German Peace
By Associated Press
LONDON, Feb. 22. —"Defense to the death"
against Germany is ordered in the proclamation of
the Russian commissioners, Reuter's Petrograd
correspondent telegraphs. The commissioners ap
peal to the soldiers to destroy railways and provi
sions, and compel the bourgeoise to dig trenches
under penalty of death.
Petrograd, Thursday, Feb. 21. —(Midnight)—A proclamation
ordering resistance to the German advance, calling on all Russians
to defend the fatherland and declaring Petrograd in a state of
siege was issued tonight from the Smolny Institute, the Bolshevik
headquarters. The proclamation was issued at the order of the
People's Commissaries and is signed by Premier Lenine and En
sign Krylenko, the Bolshevik commander in chief.
The Bolshevik! government again
has changed its mind and has or
dered that opposition be given to
tho German army now sweeping
eastward into the heart of Great
Russia. All Russians arc summoned
to the defense of their country in
a proclamation signed by Premier
and Knsign ICrylenko, com
mander-in-chief of the Bolshevik!
armies. Petrograd has been declared
to be in a state of siege.
Germany is advancing into Rus
sia to restore the monarchy and the
privileges of the landowners and the
capitalistic classes, the Bolsheviki
government in Petrograd declares in
a proclamation to the people, and it,
calls upon them to resist the German
armies and defend the republic "to
the death."
All Russians must co-operate in
the dfeffinse, the bourgeoise classes by
compulsion ir necessary the official
proclamation declares. Petrograd has
been declared in a state of siege.
Explicit instructions are given the
peasants and workers to take all
measures to prevent valuable prop
erty from falling into the hands of
the Germans. Railroad rolling stock
and food supplies are particularly
mentioned. Everything must bo done,
the people are adjured, to keep Ger
man militarism from crushing the
working classes in Great Russia and
the Ukraine.
Gorman Navy Aids
As the German army advances,
the German navy is aiding in the
campaign against Ksthonia and
Petrograd by investing Peval, the
.second in importance of the naval
basfes on the southern coast of the
Gulf of Finland. German troops
have bene landed there and forty
live German warships are nearing
Ihe harbor. The Russian navy, how
ever. may offer little resistance.' It |
is reported as being completely dis- :
organized, both as to equipment and I
morale. Removal of Russian war
ships at Reval and Helsingfors to
Kronstadt is considered unlikely be
cause they have been idle so long.
In taking Minsk and Rovno and in
pushing their campaign swiftly on
When you buy a
THRIFT STAMP
you arc paying for five 4
shells for a machine
gun or rifle.
Isn't that worth while?
i THE weatheH
For lliirrislinric nnd vlrlnltyi Cold
Jliltl Hllitw, with ftlialitly ivnrinrr
Mrnllirr to-nlichtt *nturduy un
settled and warmrr.
For F.HMern I'rnnn.vlvnnlni < loudv
nnd warmer o-ntKht, probably
IlKht niiow) Km tic nouthras't
Inds.
Aotc—l.egul holiday! no river re
port or detailed wenthrr con
dition*.
Temperature: 8 n. ra., 2fl.
Nuni ltl*m, CiSS n. m.t setM, 6i27
p. m.
Mooni Full moon, February 25.
44 p. in.
Itlver Ntncei 14.1 feet nbore lon-
Mater mark.
Ymlrrday'a Weather
lllKhrl Irmprmt urr. It).
l owent temperature. 10.
Mean temperature, 14.
Aormal trmperuturc, 31. i
other sections of the long front the
Germans had captured large quan
tities of war material, including
more than 1,300 gains and 9,000
prisoners.
Trot/.ky May Resign
Weight is given to the reports that
Foreign Minister Trotzky will resign
by the fact that his name is mis -
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; British Forces Capture
i Ancient City of Jericho;
I Little Resistance Offered
), .London The British have captur
( j ed Jericho, in Palestine, the war of
f I fice reports.
'i Since the capture of Jersalem the
British have been pushing steadily
ahead, striking out to the north and
east. Official statements from Lon
don in tho last few days have re
ported rapid progress, and apparent
ly the Turks have offered no deter
mined resistance.
I Aside from its historical import
ance. in connection with the British
plan to free the Italy Land from the
domination of tlio/Turks, the. capture
| of Jericho is of little significance, it
consists merely of a group of squalid
1 hovels and a few shops, with about
300 inhabitants. Its chief strategic
, value lies in the fact that it gives
the British domination of the valley
of Jordon, and also control of a net
j work of highways radiating from tho
j town. A further advance eastward
i of twenty-live miles, however, would
take the Britisli to the railway from
Damascus to Mecca, which would cut
oft the Turks' line of communication
with Arabia and greatly assist the re
volting Arab tribes which are co
operating with the British. Jericho
. is near the northern extremity of the
| Dead Sea, fourteen miles north east
'■ of Jerusalem.
The ancient Jericho, which was sit
i Vr,vi„ tO ,.. the T est of the modern
t Jericho, was a town of considerable
I sizs. It was the first Canaan Ite city
| inTof trunufets." 0 by the
Americans Kill One Hun
And Capture Another
in Patrol Battle
J}y Associated Press
With the American Army in !
!• ranee, Feb. -22.—1n a patrol light
Americans trom units under instruc
. tion In the famous Chcmin-dcs-
Damcs sector, killed one German and
captured another. One American
was slightly wounded.
This is the first time it has been
permitted to reveal the fact that new
American units, have entered the
line. The troops have been there
for some time, suffering slight casu
alties, but their presence was kept
secret until it was certain the enemy
knew they were there.
Details of the patrol tight ure as
yet unavailable beyond the unofficial
report that the prisoner taken was
captured single-handed by a young
American from one of the New
England states, who, during the en
gagement, dropped into a shell hole
on top of a German hiding there
and later brought him in.
The Ameriea.n forces entered the
line on one of the darkest of nights
through a shell-pitted region dotted
with shell-wrecked towns. The
French general commanding the
sector, a hero of the Maine, greeteil
them as comrades in arms and
kissed the American flag.
HARRISBURG, PA.,FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1918.
FLOOD VICTIMS
APPEAL TO CITY
FOR ASSISTANCE
Mayor Keistcr Receives Urg
ent Appeal From
Lock Haven
| PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING
River Choked With Ice Here,
Keeps Within Its
Banks
Lock Haven, seriously flooded and
almost Isolated, has appealed to Har
risburg for relief.
The Mayor of Lock Haven at noon
to-day called up Mayor Keister, of
Harrisburg, and asked him if this
city cannot come to the aid of hun
dreds of people of that town who j
are suffering severely from hunger 1
and cold. Provisions, blankets and
medical supplies are needed imme
diately and later pumps will be re
quired to clear cellars of water. The
condition is such, the Mayor says,
that prompt measures must be taken
to prevent the homeless from starva
tion or freezing.
Mayor Keister got at once into
touch with the State Health Depart
ment, which rendered such prompt
and valuable aid when the town of
Austin was swept away some years
ago, and also called upon Andrew
Patterson, president of the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce, and j
Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert, head of the I
Harrisburg Red Cross chapter, to !
co-operato in everyway.
Mayor Keister got busy at once on
the measures to be taken for the
alleviation of suffering in Lock Ha
ven, rendered heatless.lightless and
almost foodless by the high water
and ice of the past three days. The
Red Cross Society opened its head-
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CITY PARKS AND
STREETS USED AS
PUBLIC DUMPS
Oflicials Find Winter's Refuse
Scattered About in
Profusion
I ADMIT NASTY SITUATION
Council's Failure to Provide
Collections Brings Inev
itable Result
| City officials yesterday afternoon
| on their ash Inspection trip over the
city were shown a series of public
: dumps in parks, street intersections,
j on pavements, city school property—
j conditions unprecedented in the hls
| lory of the city.
| Commissioner Lynch had charge
:of tho trip. With him were the
other three commissioners. Mayor
| Keister and other city officials. That
| Mr. Lynch has been doing some pri
j vate investigation work was evident
j from the start as the autos sped
J over a definite route, passing places
| where the worst conditions exist,
j While the city officials on the trip
j admitted the situation was bad,
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Rifle Expert to Speak
Before Commerce Chamber
j The Chamber of Commerce is
j sending out a special call for the
llarrisburg public to get in on an
uncommonly interesting event which
j takes place at 8 p. m. to-morrow at
the Board of Trade building. It is
called a "smoker" and it is free to
everybody who will call at head
quarters in the Dauphin building, or
write or phone for tickets.
The entertainment committee has
been most fortunate in geting Major
W. A. Garrett, general manager of
the Remington Arms Company and
the man who is now making the
new Enfield rifles for our forces In
France. Major Garrett is not so sup
pressed as the usual military man.
Ho has a rare eloquenfte and such a
definite knowledge from first, hand
of the situation in France and
every one with a friend or a
relatives "over there" will be re
paid by hearing him. Sent by
our government as a member of the
commission of railroad executives
charged with determining what rail
road facilities would be needed by
Pershing, Major Garrett, a former
executive of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway, will have much
to say that will interest railroad
*nen.
MADE DEMOCRACY
i- '
J^P &■ % \ ]\ . , TV'
G'tovcuca?b to 'Ycw-fuh^tcov
GREAT leader of men, we have come.'
We have come to the crossway and left it behind
With its weakness, its trembling and fear,
And we're paying the debt to the great Lafayette,
For America's sons are not men to forget
When the fate of a nation draws near.
Great leader 6f men we have come!
Through highways and byways of struggle mid stress,
Through war years and peace years till now
With the eyes of the world on our dear flag, unfurled;
With our answer, flame-tipped, in the great vortex hurled;
Thy name is the pledge of our vow.
Great leader of men we have come!
To the simple deep secrets of God-given life
Where we glimpse through the veil of the dawn
Till the forms of our dead and the blood they have shed
Form the beacon of light by which we are led
With the sword of America drawn!
ANNA HAMILTON WOOD.
Written l'or tUc Telegraph
SURVEY OF FOOD
SUPPLY IN CITY
SHOWS PLENTY
| General Conditions Found
Good by Donald McCor
mick in Investigation
j A survey of the food supply for
Harrlsburg and vicinity lias been
made by the county food administra
tor among the wholesale dealers and
millers, it showed more than 2,000,-
000 pounds of staple commodities on
hand at noon to-drfy. The survey
does not include the stock held by
grocers nor those commodities sup
plied the city by the dealers and
farmers at city markets.
These figures indicate, said Don
j aid McCormick, that there is an am
! pie supply of all foods on hand.
| Dealers state that the amounts vary
; during the week, but that the totals
i given Indicate the general conditions
iof those several commodities. The
I supply of potatoes is given as good,
! though no accurate figures could be
supplied, owing to the fact that many
grocers receive their supplies direct
from farmers, while a large number
of consumers buy direct from the
producers at the city markets.
The amounts of the various staples
on hand arc as follows:
Flour, 200,000 pounds.
Corn meal, 20,000 pounds.
<>at meal and rolled oats, 80,000
pounds.
Beans, 119.000 pounds.
| Sugar, 63,200 pounds.
Meat, 1,031,000 pounds (sufficient;
for a month or six weeks).
l,ard, 30,000 pounds.
Canned vegetables and fruits, j
I 634,000 pounds.
Despairing Cry Reaches
Emperor William's Heart!
fly Associated Press
Amsterdam. Feb. 28. Emperor
William, according to the Frankfurter
/.eltiing. replied tft a message from
the 1,11 berk Senate, appealing to him
to help the Ksthonlans, as follows:
"Your words have found a lively
eeho m my heart. The despairing cry
of distress which Is ever more urgent
ly reaching our ears from* the Baltic
rountry shall not go unheard. FfTcc
tlve measures must be taken to safe
guard the tortured population from
the burning and plundering or robbery
hordes and end the state of completo
lawlessness."
CITY TO RALLY
AT PATRIOTIC
MEET MONDAY
Noted Speakers to Appear
on Platform
Here
Harrisburg'* Safety Commit
| tee will take possession of Chestnut
j .Street Hull Monday night for a real
; jubilee mass meeting, to which the
public is cordially invited, and it is
fair to predict that every one will
have a. "lively and interesting time.
It is the plan of Chairman Charles
C. Stroh to have an old-time com
munity song festival, reviving some
of the Civil War popular airs and led
by a good band. Tile singing will
start promptly at 7.30.
The list of speakers should attract
any one with a desire for accurate
intonnation and those who merely
ask to b e entertained. Harrisburg
will have its first peek at Howard
Ilelnz, l'ederal Food Administrator
for Pennsylvania, who knows about
as much as Hoover concerning the.
intricacies of this job. Ueutenarit
Sutton will tell something of genu
ine war adventure, for he lost a band
in an individual battle with a Turk- 1
Ish soldier In the (tulipoli campaign,
lie bus been through SSeppelin raids,
in the trenches and pretty much ev
erywhere in the war activities. I,ast,
but not least, there will be CSoorge
Wharton Pepper, chairman of the
Public Safety Committee for this
state and an eminent Philadelphia
lawyer.
Allied Ministers Will
Remain in Petrograd
Unless Germans Enter
By Associated Press
J,ondon, Feb. 22.—The Allied em
bassies in Petrograd, according to a
dispatch from the Russian capital to
the Morning Post dated Monday,
have been besieged by anxious in
quirers, who have been assured that
as far as Is known at present the
embassies will quit the city If the
Germans come, but not otherwise.
The Allies, it is added, have no in
tention of abandoning their once
greatest ally.
I ENGINE WRECKED
CARRYING BOY TO
CITY AMBULANCE
I Engineer Critically Hurt in
Crash at Reading
Depot
LAD HAS ARMS CUT OFF
Fire Alarm Sent in When
Escaping Steam Alarms
Workmen
In a double accident on the Phila
delphia and Reading Railway this
morning, Theodore Levan, 627 Ben
ton street, aged 10, and Joseph P.
Schell, 1512 State street, engineer,
were seriously injured add were
rushed to the Harrisburg Hospital
for treatment.
The Levan boy received his injur
ies when a train ran over him after
he had fallen off a moving coal car
on to the tracks east of tower MB,
between Twenty-sixth and Twenty
seventh streets. Schell received his
injuries when his engine, on which
he was rushing the injured boy to
the hospital, crashed into the Read
ing station, tearing off the cab.
Steam escaping from the engine,
I i
which pushed its way through the
bumper, the iron gate and the plat
form where the passengers take the
train, clear back to the stone wall
.of the station, and coal flyiug from
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DEMAND FOR
HOMES IN CITY
EXCEEDSSUPPLY
| Even Apartments Arc Hard to
Find by Persons Who
Must Move April 1
SITUATION IS SERIOUS
• Realty Men Expect No Relief
Until After the
War
There are no houses for rent in
Harrisburg.
Even apartments to which per
sons, who must move April 1, have
been turning in increasing numbers
because of the scarcity of dwellings,
are almost impossible to get.
A decided Increase in the popula
tion caused by the unprecedented
prosperity of the industries and
business houses and the great op
"erations of the munitions plants is
said to have made the demand for
homes in the city and suburbs with
in a live cent trolley car limit great
er than ever before in the city's his
tory. As hundreds of leases expire
April 1 the shortage is said to be
serious.
Sec No Relief
Realty men to-day were of the
belief that there will be no mater
ial relief from the situation until
after the war. Whatever number of
houses may be built until that time
will not be large enough to make
; a material difference, it was eaid.
Building operations necessarily will
be held up to some extent because of
the uncertainty of getting shipment
of materials and the labor short
age.
The number of houses listed for
| rent by various real estate men to
day consisted almost entirely of
dwellings with a rental of J4O or
more a month. The number of
dwellings of medium rental that are
being advertised are negligible and
lor the first .time in years persons
are advertising in an effort to rent
either an apartment or a dwelling.
Intending to put an advertisement
for the sale of his small house out
on Allison Hill, a resident of the city
had the misfortune to see the no
tice inserted as "for rent." It ap
peared in an evening paper and be
tween 8 o'clock and 10 that night
his phone rang exactly thirty-two
times. Eighteen more calls jangled
next morning.
Germans Take English
in Raiding Party
i?>- Associated Press
Feb. 22.—"Early last night
a largo party of the enemy raided
two of our posts in the neighbor
hood of the Ypres-Roulors railway
and a few of our men are missing,"
says to-day's War Office report.
"A raid attempted by the enemy
early yesterday morning agalnßt
posts held by Belgian troops tn the
Merekem sector was repulsed by ar
tillery and machine-gun tire,"
Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION
FIRST CONTRACTS
FOR BIG MILITARY
DEPOTS HERE LET
James Black, Contractor; Aviation Depot Additions at
Middletown to Cost $800,000; First Unit of New
Warehouses Will Cost $750,000$ of Brick and Steel
Construction; Committee at Washington Hopes to
Switch Site Back to East Bank of Susquehanna
Washington, Feb. 22. —Con-
tract for the enlargement of the
aviation depot, near Middle
town, has been let to James
Black, of St. Louis, at an esti
mated expense of SBOO,OOO.
Black is also given the con
tract for the first of the big ware
houses to be erected in the
vicinity of Ilarrisburg, where it
is planned to establish great
military depots'. This first unit
will cost $750,000.
This is only the beginning of
the Harrisburg development, it
is understood, which it is ex
pected will run very high into
the millions. The work is to be
completed, if possible, in 90 days
and Mr. Black has left for
Harrisburg to inspect the pro
posed sites. These structures
arc to be of brick and steel con
struction.
The foregoing dispatch from
Washington leaves no doubt that the.
Government means to go ahead im
mediately with its program in the
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4* CHAMBER TO AID FLOOD SUFFERERS 4
X Karri'bur-,'—The Chamber of Commerce late this ait- JT
| ernoou agreed l to underwrite the Lock Haven relief fund "£
I T ot ?'.OOO Contributions to the fund arc being sought X i;|
I*l* for the wcrk. Y
X UKRANIANS JOIN GERMANS 4
London—Austrian and German troops are advancing
• in the south simultaneously witlj the Germans in the
north i troops arc reported to-have joincrl |
them nst the BAlsh'eviki, according to * Petroerad fl
4
£ dispel 1 ■ the Morning Post. The Polish Legions of j
T the Russian army have offered an armistice in the pre '
gt vailir.g civil wir on condition of free passage in any
X directi a and now are trying to reach Warsaw.
4* MEATLESS DAYS EFFECT BIG SAVING
4*
Vs ' • Meatless days in the United State Jiave £*
fsa e 10.000,000 pounds of beef in four months, the food 2*
* admniistration announced to-day. During this perio
L
X 16. ,0 : 3 pounds of beef were exported to the allit X |
4* together with 40,000,000 pounds of pork products.
T RETAIN SECURITIES PROVISION j '
4 Washington—The Senate retained the provision •
. authori.: ng the President tb buy and sell railroad I
f securitic • with $500,000,000" revolving fund, defeat :ig 55
Xto i" - ■r.T.itich by Senator Kirby, Democrat, of Arka .s. j|
<4,- to :'rikc it out. > Ifc
T 11j .AL r : CONDITIONS SHOW IMPROVEMENT T
(f v.. hington—Health conditions in ail American 4
t Army camps showed decided improvement during the JL ■
4* v.cck enrii.-.g February 15 and for that week there was a
w tb
i lower .-; .'h rate trr all camps than at any other time
J since la it November Deaths,in all camp.-, Regular Army, ▼ |
<| N.r i 31. .1 Guard and National Army, for the week, |
I 177 of which 96 resulted from Fewer new X'
jr cases of the more serious diseases;-especially pneumonia' J f
l|t and meningitis, were reported as compared with last £
week. The regular's show the highest death rate—l 2.9 per Jfc
| year. £ 1-
f MARRIAGE LICENSES £
Oainnn I'nrknril, HnrrKbiir*, nnd Vlritlnla ||, TIIItHii Ulna
<■* hum ton. !¥. V.I Knrl K. *mullim unil lOrmp K. Klurte. Netv < titnl.-r- \
i land. Henjnmln A. \V>INM find nr> IS. HlrKel, l.,kei. <<>„„,l,| u , 1
*#* (iromr ti. Weber, \\ r( K.lrvlt v. un.l l;,l„ u 11. Kenford t'liVm
yenr, I njellc-
vicinity of Harrisburg. Mr. Black
could not be located by reporters in
Harrisburg tb-day, although it is un
derstood that he and Major Gray,
the engineer in charge, went in com
pany over both the Middletown and
tlie talked-of New Cumberland sites.
Financial reports say that Mr.
Blaclc is a masonry builder and con
tractor of high rating with offices
in St. L>ouis, Detroit, Chicago,
ton. Omaha and Seattle. It is under
stood that he has the backing of
the great City National Bank, of New
York.
Whether or not the military de
pots will be erected at Middletown
or between New Cumberland and
Marsh Run, on the west side of the
K,
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Nine Members of Family
Dead in Morning Fire
By Associated Press
Peabody, Mass., Feb. 22. Nine per
sons, all lAembera of the family of
Morris Miller, lost their lives in a lire
which destroyed the Miller home, near
here, early to-day.
Reuben Miller, a boy of 19, who
was employed on a neighbor's farm,
was the only member of the family
who escaped.
The police list of dead follows:
Morris Miller. Mrs. Miller, Sadie
Miller, 20; Rosie Miller, 15; Minnie
Miller, 42; Samuel Miller, 8; Harry
Miller, 5; Esther Miller, 2. and a baby
girl two months old.