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SURVIVORS OF ILL-FATED RED
CROSS LINER BROUGHT TO PORT
RUSSIA WILLING
TO ACCEPT HARD
HUN PEACE TERMS
Bolsheviki Government Agrees to German Peace Terms
For Second Time Within a Week; Teutons Increase
Demands as Result of Slav Determination to Wage
War; Hertling to Discuss Foreign Affairs
By Associated Press
Berlin, Feb. 25—Via London—German troops have occupied
Pernau, a Russian seaport in Livonia. 99 miles northeast of Riga,
and Dorpat ,157 miles northeast of Riga, the German war office
announced to-day.
In the German advance to Dorpat 3,000 Russians were taken!
prisoners. This flying detachment traveled 130 miles in five and I
one-half days.
The advance guard of General Von Linsingen's troops, in the
south, have reached Zhitomir. 85 miles west of Kiev.
In Rovno the whole staff of the Russian special army fell
into the hands Germans.
retrograd. Sunday, Feb 24. —The Germans late Saturday still i
were advancing into the provinces they had decided to occupy. 1
Jn this connection it is reported they arc executing Red Guards, j
treating them as outlaws, but releasing and disarming soldiers of j
the regular armies.
The Pravda, the Bolshevik organ, declares the Germans arc
restoring shoulder straps to Russian officers and forcing the
Russian soldiers to salute them.
The resolution to agree to the German peace terms was,
adopted by the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian
Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates by a vote of 126;
to 85. Twenty-six members of the committee were not present. I
Washington, Feb. 25.—Count von
ITertling, the Imperial German Chan
cellor. will address the German
Reichstag to-day on foreign affairs,
probably with most attention to the
Russian situation and the peace
terms now offered by Germany. The
Chancellor has not yet replied to the
recent war aims statements of Pres
ident Wilson and Premier Lloyd
George and, if he speaks, he may
take this opportunity to state Ger
many's case once more.
Itussia, as represented by the Bol
shevik government, has agreed to the
German peace terms for a second
time within a week. After the first
agreement the Bolsheviki decided to
light, but the military activity on
their part apparently did not halt by
one step the German invasion. Ger
[ Continued 011 Page 12.]
Russian Peace Envoys
Leave For Brest-Litovsk
Petrograd, Sunday, Feb. 24.—Leon
Trotsky, BoUhevtkl foreign minis*
BARE TRUTHS OF
WAR TO BE TOLD
HARRISBURGERS
No Words to Be Minced in
Pointing Out Dangers
Nation Faces
The Time—To-night, 7.00.
The Place —Chestnut Street Au
ditorium.
The Event—A showdown on
war conditions—with no "ace In
the hole," no cards in the hold
out'' —everything on the table.
The Reason—Time for this
showdown—time to know just
where the United States is "head
ing in."
The Speakers—Howard Heinz,
food administrator for Pennsyl
vania; George Wharton Pepper,
chairman of the State Public
Safety Committee: Lieutenant F. j
A. Sutton, who played baseball j
with bombs at Gallipoli; Judge
George Kunkel; the Rev. Henry
W. A. Hanson.
If there is a lingering doubt in ;
the minds of the 3.000 Harrisburg '
people who go to Chestnut Street |
Auditorium to-night, after the meet
ing Is over, that the European war :
is an opera bouffe war—that it is a '
"cinch"—that it is won already— ;
that food-saving is a press agent's J
[Continued oil Pace 9.]
THE WEAT
Vor HiirrinliurK and vicinity: j
Probably rnln to-olßht :im|
Turda>; narairr to-nliclit, lth
lottrxt temperature about -IS
ileKreeMt colder Tuesday.
I-'or KnMtern Pennsylvania i Prob
ably rata 10-nlnht and Tur*day,
except fair to-nlKht la nouth
ra*t portion: warmer la went
portloa 10-nluht | eolder Tues
day I inrrraalnii KOIMN wind*,
becoming; weal.
I ter, •will not go to Brest-Litovsk to
' sign the new peace terms, nor will |
j any of the other members of the!
I Russian delegation which conducted i
the earlier negotiations there with|
j the exception of M. Karakhan, the!
I secretary of the former delegation. ]
Workmen's and Soldiers' Dele-1
j to-day chose for the new dale* i
J gation M. Zi,novieff, president of the|
, Fetrograd Council of Workmen's and I
'Soldiers': M. Aleyxieff, acting com-
J missioner of agriculture. and'M. So-j
I kolkokoff. This delegation, accom-'
I panied by naval and military repre-!
j sentatives, will leave to-night fori
1 Brest-Litovsk.
f
;uu .ikvitch wii.l figiit
London. Feb. 23. —General Bruje
| vitch has been appointed successor to 1
1 Ensign Krylenko as commander-in-'
chief of the Russian armies, accord
ing to a Berlin dispatch forwarded i
from Amsterdam by the Central!
News Agency. General Brujevitch.l
according to the message, has been j
proclaimed dictator and has ordered
the Russian troops to fight to the!
last. Brujevitch was formerly chief !
iof staff of Ensign Krylenko.
'CASH AND CARRY''
PLAN FAVORED BY
I ADMINISTRATOR
McCormiek to Ask Grocers to
Fix Uniform Prices and
Discount
Plans for having all retail grocers
in the city ch rge a uniform price
for grocery staples sold cn a "c?sh j
; and carry" basis have been worked i
1 out by the county food udministra- ;
tion and will be put before the re- '
tail grocers by Donald McCormiek
iat a meeting called for to-morrow ,
night.
Mr. McCormiek completed these 1
arrangements to-day after many
conferences with leading grocers. '
The food administrator proposes '
j that a discount be granted purchas-
I ers who take home their goods. This
I plan would eliminate to a large ex- |
I tent the necessity of keeping ac- i
j counts.
At a meeting of all restaurant, i
hotel, eating house and lunch room
i proprietors of the city and county
this afternoon, .Mr. McCormiek will
| compare the menus served by the |
I proprietors on meatless and wheat-
Mess days in an effort to make thol
menus on these days alike among
i all the food dispensers. It is said
that because restaurant proprietors i
j are afraid they will lose trade by
j complying with the food regulations!
when other restaurant men ignore
! them, the regulations are not ob-!
I served as closely as they should be.
I An agreement among all the res- j
tali rant men to serve the same menu
on the taboo days will eliminate this
| obstacle to food conservation.
STATE (II !IIK(iK It, IMII.AMt
By Asscciated f'resr
Feb. 15.—Berlin advices
teceived in Amsterdam, as forward
ed by Central News, report a state
of siege has been proclaimed "in
consequence of events in Poland" at
Led* nni V'loelavek. Important towns
in Western Poland.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1918.
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A German expeditionary force has I
landed at Vasa, Finland, and is
pushing southeast toward Viborg.
German troops have landed at Reval,
the great Baltic port, on the way to j
Petrograd. says a late news report.
Another German army, advancing
from Moon Island, has taken Leal
and Hapsal, in Ksthonia. Wenden,
PLAN SPECIAL
ELECTION ON
DRY AMENDMENT
Philadelphia Says Idea Is to
Have It Held Some Time
During Coming Year
Philadelphia, Feb. 24.—A propo
sition to have a special election on
tiie question of the dry amendment |
some time next year and not have
it figure at all in the coming Novem-;
ber election was hoard ot here to- 1
day, says the Evening Ledger.
The suggested plan is for the 1919 !
Legislature to empower the Go\ -!
ei nor to call a special election, or in!
other words a referendum on thej
subject, next year, the results to bind'
the Legislature. A similar plan was!
suggested in Maryland, but the Leg-!
islature declined it.
Philadelphia "drys" are against!
this idea of putting off the question.!
The Ledger says:
"Senator Sproul was in New York i
to-day and could not be reached and i
Senator Penrose liuel gone to Wash-,
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U. S. Military Band
Scores Immense Success
By /IssociateJ Press
Rome, Sunday, Feb. 24.—The !
American military banel scored a
tremendous success at the lnter-Al-'
lied Concert given to-day in the his-'
toric \ ilia llorghese in the presence!
of 100.000 persons. All the authori
ties of Rome were present as also
were T. X. Page, the Amerii'an am
bassador and the American military
officers in Rome.
After the concert 200,000 people]
along the route of the parade joined:
in enthusiastic shouts of "Viva Amer
ica!" "Viva Wilsonl" and "Viva Al
lies!"
Mayor Calls on Citizens to Aid in
Keeping Parks and Streets Clean
WHEREAS, The people of Ilarrisburg regard with justifiable
pride the fixed municipal policy of many years to maintain a
clean and wholesome city, as manifested in a careful and
constant sweeping of many m.'Jes of paved streets, the conservation
of unusual natural advantages, the development of beautiful parks
as the playgrounds and rest-places of the people; and,
WHEREAS, An unprecedented winter aggravated intolerable
conditions growing out of the breakdown of the system of ash
collection by private contract, resulting in the cluttering of the
streets with ugly and insanitary deposits of refuse and ashes, rob
bing the thoroughfares of their clean and wholesome appearance
and endangering the health and lives of all the people; and,
WHEREAS, A careful inspection of existing conditions has
aroused the Councilman of the city to the importance of immediate
action to the end that a positive menace to the community may be
removed as speedily as possible; therefore,
1. Daniel 1.. Ke'ster, Mayor of the City of Ilarrisburg, realizing
the urgent necessity of prompt and vigorous measures to abate this
city-wide nuisance, do earnestly appeal to f.il ' good citizens to
co-operate with the proper oflicials In restoring the highways of the
city to that state of cleanliness which has given to Harrlsburg its
proud reputation as the "cleanest and best-paved city in the country-"
V ,
fifty-five miles northeast of Riga,
has been captured. Minsk anil
Dvinsk, populous towns in West
Central Rtifao- WHB the tnvc.ders
under General von Linsingen. From
Dvinsk the Germans are advancing
on Pskoff, 180 miles southwest of
Petrograd. Finally, the Austrians
have reduced Rovno, one of the
three great fortresses of Volhynia.
U. S. SOLDIERS
ENTER HUN LINE,
1 TAKE PRISONERS
Action Was in Cliemin-des-
Daines Sector, Assisted
by French
With the American Army in
i France, Sunday, Feb. 24.—An
American patrol in the Chemin-j
! dcs-Dames sector in conjunction ,
with a French patrol, early yes-!
terday penetrated a few hundred j
1 yards into the German lines and |
| captured two German officers,!
! twenty men and one machine!
: gun.
There was some sharp fight
ing and a number of the enemy
j were killed and wounded. There 1
i were no American casualties. The !
, Franco-American patrol was under |
I command of a French officer.
The French war office communi
cation Saturday reported that north t
of the Ailctte river which parallels
i the Ohemln-des-Dames, French
j troops had penetrated the German
lines a* far as the neighborhood of
;Chevrignv They were reported to:
j have returned with material and |
twenty-vvc prisoners, including two
j officers
The presence of American units
I along the famous Chemin-des
| Dames was disclosed in an Asso
] ciated Press dispatch last Friday. In
: a patrol fight the previous day |
j soldiers had '--il.ed one German and r
I captured another. One American
1 was wounded slightly. j
43 ARE SAVED IN ,!
AWFUL STORM AS
FLORIZEL FOUNDERS
Survivors of Red Cross Liner Which Was Dashed to
Pieces on Rocks Near Cape Race Sunday Are Being
Brought to Port; Among Those Saved Are Five Sa- j
loon and Seven Steerage Passengers.
St. Johns, X. F., Feb. 25.—Forty three persons aboard the
Red C ross liner Florizel, wrecked near Cape Race in a storm early !
yesterday, were rescued to-day. Three rescue ships brought the
first batch of survivors to port and others are on the way.
Among the survivors are five saloon and seven steerage pas
sengers.
Most of those saved were members of the crew. Among the
j survivors are Major Michael Sullivan, bound for Halifax, Ralph
j Burnham, of the Royal Flying Corps, Alex. Ledingham, of St.
j Johns. Archibald Gardner and two women, Miss Minnie Daniel
land Miss Kittie Cantwcll.
I
Twenty-two survivors of the Red
i liner Florizel, wrecked at
Broad Cove, yesterday, were res
cued at daylight to-day. A message
from the coastal steamer Prospero,
which had stood by all night while
the Florizel was being pounded on
the rocks, reported twenty others
were alive on the ship.
There were 146 souls, 77 of whom
were passengers, on board when the
vessel foundered
The first batch of survivors was
i taken off in three lifeboats and four
dories, but the sea was so rough
they were unable to approach the
shore, near which the Florfzel struck
early Sunday morning while an a
voyage from this port of Halifax
and New York. All had suffered
terribly from cold and exposure.
Steamers met the boats and took
the rescued aboard.
A wireless message from the
i Prospero to John Crosbie, minister of
| shipping early to-day was the first
! word of hope that any of the sev-
ASH COLLECTION j
BIDS STILL TOP
CITY ESTIMATES
Councilnien Decide That the
Work Must Be Done
Despite Cost
, With $40,000 appropriated for ash'
j collections for the remainder of the !
I year, and the lowest bid received I
] to-day almost $20,000 above that j
I ligure estimated the cost according!
Ito monthly payments. Council to-1
ir.orrow will have to decide whether!
,a contract will be awarded and ef-j
j forts made to raise this additional j
sum.
If no contract is let because of j
j the .high figures, four of the niem
j bers of Council to-day declared they '
■ will take some action to provide for j
; r.sh collection if they must resort I
; to a monthly cleanup,
j Four r-ioposiils were received by,
' Commissioner iia.ssler to-day. Three
! ttf these were for the entire city by
districty and the fourth for the first!
district, which includes all of Alli
son Hill. This bid, however, was
not accompanied by a certified check
I and one of the general proposals
was submitted with a check for
j SB,OOO instead of ten per cent, of
the bid as required in the adver
i tisenu-nt
Ask (i.'i.O.'J a Montli
Steivs, SiniotieUi and Company, the
firm which bid twice before for a {
five-year contract, submitted a pro
posal for twenij -seven months of 1
'collection work, if giv, n the en-■
tire city iho co.-c \v!;l be $160,000 |
lor a month: by districts the
price is i laced at £6,04 - a month.
I StucUcr Brothers Ci nstructlon j
Company submitted bicts by districts
I for a contract foir 1.*,, 27, 39, 51,
or (.:< months.
| The bid under a five-year contract j
for collections in the entire city, !
totals $377,940, or $3,999 a month, j
The i-r.ee increases as the contract!
tiKvj is decreased, the firm asking
$6. .66 a mcr.lh if gi\tn the work |
for fifteen in- ,itl>s.
11. J-... De>'-a!t Hitl)n■ it'.ed a pro-;
liosal to <£•• tr e Work tor sixty-three 1
months for $358,158; or $5,776 a
i month, but the certified check sub
; mitted with the bid was for SB,OOO.
Charles H. Miller bid for the first •
[Continued on I*ae 12.1
CARN'KGIE COHPORATIOX
GIVKS M'OII,I, 91.000,(MM)
By Associated Press
Montreal, Feb. 25.—The Carnegrio
| Corporation has presented McGilt I
University with $1,000,000 in reco*?- '
nition of the institution's "devoted
service and sacrifice towards Cana- !
Ja's part in the war." A letter ac- |
companying the notification refers to I
the award as an expression of ap
preciation and sympathy for the peo
ple of Canada on the part of their
allies south of the border.
enty-seven passengers and crew of I
sixty-nine had been saved. The]
Prospero reported every effort was!
being made to transfer them from
the battered hulk.
Prospero Goes to Rescue
The Prospero, a staunch coasting
vessel, had been dispatched to the
scene of the disaster at the first re
port from Placentia bay, seventy-five
miles around the coast from Broad
Cove ,but after her departure gov
ernment authorities felt her task was
hopeless. With the sealing ships
Terra Nova and Home she stood out
side the cove while reports were
sent by observers on land that the
[Continued on Page 12.]
Y. M. C. A. TO I'XKCT OFFICERS
The annual meeting of members
of the Central V. M. C. A. will be
held to-morrow night at 8 o'clock.
Election of oflicfers, reports of com
mittees and other business matters
will be on the program.
SHOT THROUGH
HEART IN FIGHT
OVER A WOMAN
Murderer Makes Good Escape
With Lead of Thirty
Minutes
Quarreling over a woman, Andy-
Carry to-day shot James Arthur
Watts, aged 37, through the heart
at Watts' home, 126 Adams street.
Mrs. Watts was sleeping in the #iext
room at the time.
Watts died a few minutes after the
crime and Carry made good his es
cape. He got a half hour s;tart oil
the police.
Watts had been away from Steel
ton lor a few weeks and came back
last night. It is believed the two
men had an argument about sonic
thing which happoned a few months
ago, before Carry left the town also.
Carry is said to have fled across
the lawn of a building owned by the
Bethlehem Steel Company and when
last seen was heading towards the
tracks of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway, lie wan not pursued for
thirty minutes, as the shooting was
not reported at lirst. Watts' body
was removed to the Wilt undertaking
parlors.
It is said Carry shot at Watts five
times, then chased Mrs. Watts into
a neighboring !io\isc and threatened
td take her life.
Twenty-five Tons of
Dynamite in One Blast
Tons of stone will be loosened at
the steel plant quarries at Hteelton
late this evening when twenty-five
tons of dynamite are discharged. Ac
cording to officials at the quarries
the blast will be put off at 6.30 1
o'clock. This is the largest amount
of dynamite to be put oft at one
time in the history of the town. Last
summer a blast of fifteen tons was
put offbut to-day's is expected to be
almost twice as large.
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X MAI RESCIND LIGHTLESS NIGHT
T New York —The rescinding of the lightless night ordc: J j
j probably will go into cffect.jn this state within 24 hours, *
jl tt was said to-day at the office of the Stat* fuel adminis- ,■
4* tration, after the receipt of ,i communication from Wash- • ,
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7 BEGIN ACTION AGAINST ALDERMAN J 1
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♦ Harri jburg—Habeas corpus proceedings have been •
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X begun against Alderman Edward J. Hilton to get the '
; T sen, a local * 1
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X ne.xt M. r.day * J
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J SEVERAL DEAD IN WRECK i
y Columbia, S. C. —• ty are reported dear. I J
. and about twenty-five injured in a train yvfeck to-day en 11
♦ the Columbia and Greenville branch of Southern ! # J
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§ ALLB2C I MURDERER BELIEVED v CAPTURED \ I
-Steelt —Late this afternoon t wai reported that J",
T* Andy Carry, the ntgro who murdered -Arthur Wsu at '• 3
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MARKET CLOSES HEA\&- V*
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I* ENSIGN*KRYLENKO SHOT 1
T I--, n-Ensigu Krylenko, the Rusdan commander- s*>
in-chief, was shot and slightly wounded irt the neck on X
♦ Saturday in Petrograd by,a Socialist, says an Exchange
4* Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam.
jjj 10.000 DEAD IN EARTHQUAKE X
4. Amoy, China —Nearly 10.000 persons lost their lives L
Xas a result cf the recent earthquake in the Amoy Hinter- ▼
land, *y 1 -test reports from Swatow.
BOARD OF EXCESS REVIEWERS T;
T Washington—A board of excess profits, reviewers, 4*
Consisting of about a dozen representatives of special X
X Industries of business, will be created soon by Interna. T
Revenue Commissioner Roper to make rulings on specifu
£* questions involved in returns. J
BRITISH OCCUPY KIIANA BUHAYET
London—British forces operating along the Euph- '9
X rates riv. in Me opotamia h.-.e upied Khana Bura- V
yet, meet! ig with little resists ice fi Ml tht Turks, thirty f
Jfa of whom ".ere captured, the \vt< oft :e announces. T
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J NO COMPROMISE WITH GERMANY V
Washington—There to be no • mpromise with Ger- L
L man traders aind German "comforters" in neutral coun- T
7 trier., and a policy of "rck nation" is to be en- H
j forced by the War Trade Board during the war according '|9
*s♦ to the fi. ■- annual report of Van e C. McCormick, its ♦£>
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| chairman, to the President. The board depends on trade X
agreements rather than coersion in its operations, the re- 4®
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ports say.
ACTIVITY BEHIND HUN LINES ***
Washington—Large troop movements behind the <£>'
•$ X
German lines at -night art reported from the American X
t,ector northwest of ;ul. The artillery bombardment 4*
4 .there has been most intense. X
t WILL LEAVE WHEN NECESSARY T
•f* Washington—American Minister Morris at Stock- Mr
holm to-day forwarded advice gathered from allied diplo- 4*
mats in Petrograd that all the embassies there had made
4* arrangements to leave on February 23 if it became nccev *i
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