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THRONGS FLEE
FROM PETROERAD
Outgoing Trains Filled to the
Uimesi Capacity
STATE OF WAR IS DECLARED
Premier Kerensky Orders General
Korniloff to Resign In Consequence
of Latter’s Demand For Power.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph from Petrograd tells of the
commencement of the partial evacua-
tion of Petrograd. “People,” says the
eorrespondent, “are hastily leaving the
city. Outgoing trains are filled to
their utmost capacity and there are
tremendous crowds at all stations.
“The government is taking meas-
ures to empty the city. It intends to
remove the numerous educational in-
stitutions having boarding ‘establish-
ments and also to give facilities for
the removal of the private effects.
These steps are principally connected
with the question of subsistence and
are only partly the result of the mili-
tary situation.’
Premier Kerensky has Joplared that
a state of war exists in the town and
district of Petrograd. ™
Premier Kerénsky has ordered Gen-
eral Korniloff, commander-in-chief of
the Russian armies, to resigh in’ conse.
quence of General Korniloff’s demand
for supreme power. General Klem-
bov:ky has heen appointed ‘comman-
der-in-chief.
An official statement says that Gen-
eral LokomsKy “also proved'd traitor,”
refusing to take command of the Rus-
sian armies in succession 40 General
Korniloff,
The Soldiers’ and Work Jody.
the statement adds, has ordered all
the army organizations to obey the
provisional government against the
‘conspiracy, stating that General Korn-
iloff will ‘be’ punished for treachery
and that General Klembovsky will pro-
visionally succeed to the chief com-
mand.
! The central executive committee of
the soldiers and workmen has suggest.
‘ed to all army corps and naval com-
mitiees thet they refu~e to obey or-
«ters from General Korniloff or Gen-
eral Lokomsky.
Kerensky’s proclamation was in part
as follows:
+ “Former Premier Lwvoff arrived in
Petrograd Saturday demanding in
LGeneral Korniloff’s name that I de-
diver all civil and military power to
he generalissimo, who would form a
‘nem government at his pleasure.
j*““FThe authenticity of thw summons
‘was afterwarfls confirmed by Kornil-
loft personally—by telegram from head-
quarters. f
“Considering this summons an at-
tempt in certain quarters to profit by
our country’s difficult situation to es-
tablish conditions contrary to the con-
quests of the revolution the provision- i
al government recognized the neges-
sity of charging me for the father-|
Jand’s safety and the freedom of the
republican ‘regime, to take urgent in-
dispensable measures and to cut at the
root of all attempts against the su
preme power and rights of our eiti-
zens, won by the revolution.
“] am, therefore, for the main-
tenance of liberty and public order,
taking all measures, which will be an-
nou: rod when the proper moment ar
rives.
“At the same time I order. General
Korailoff to hand over all his fune-
tions to General Klembovsky, comman-
der-in-chief of the armies on the north-
ern front, which armies now bar the
enemy’s way to Petrograd, and I or-
der General Klembovsky to assume
provisionally, the functions of genernl-
issimo. : :
“Secondly, I declare a state of war
in town and district of Petrograd. I
appeal to all citizens to remain calm
and fulfill their duty to the fatherland
against a foreign enemy.”
MEN WITHOUT COUNTRY
That's What Conscientious Objectors
and Aliens Will Be In Canada.
Conscientious objectors and citizens
of alien birth are made “men without
a country” by the new franchise bill,
which is before the house of com-
mops in ‘Canada.
While disfranchising these classes
of men, the bill gives the vote to 400,-
900 mothers, wives, widows, daughters
and sisters of Canadian soldiers in
foreign service:
It is estimated 50,000 men will be
deprived of their citizenship if the bill
becomes a law. They include enemy
aliens who have become naturalized
since March 31, 1902, ecnscientious ob-
jectors and members of sects who re-
fuse war service on religious grounds.
AMERICAN HOSPITAL HIT
Bombs Dropped By Germans Kill Med-
ical Officer of Harvard Unit.
Following their policy of attacking
military hospitals both near the front
and in the rear, German airmen
dropped several bombs on a group of
British-American; hospitals on the
coast of France.
One bomb fell in a hospital occu-
pied by a St. Louis unit, wounding one
man. Other bombs fell on a Harvard
hospital. . killing one and severely
wounding three other officers of the
medical corps of the American army.
Sixteen other persons, five of them
Americans, were wounded.
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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSD ALE, PA.
HOW MR. WILSON HEADED
DRAFT LINE IN CAPITAL
Photo by American Press Association.
PRESIDENT ON PARADE.
Presiden: W.l:cn showed his faifi
in the new nat onal army by heading |
the parade in Loaor of Washington's
drafted men. He made a noticeable
figure in straw hat, blue coat and
white trousers and shoes and proudly !
carried an American Hog,
WHISKY MAKING ENDS
John Barleycorn Takes Count—All |
Distilleries Closed.
John Barleycorn gave up the ghost
Saturday night at 11 o'clock. About
600 distilleries and at least 8,000 men
quit their business.
The law will permit production of
spirits for nonbeverage purposes and
for the fortification of sweet wine, but
experts believe that only a few dis-
tilleries can adjust their machinery to
turn out the “high proof” alcohol need-
ed for industrial and medicinal use.
During the fiscal year ended June
30, 1916, 847 distilleries were regis-
tered and 635 operated throughout the
country. °
These are the latest figures avail
able. The most regent gensus of man-
ufacturers show that: 6,203 wage eara-
ers worked in distilleries. It is inti-
mated that this total has since in-
creased one-third.
Kentucky, with 202 registered dis.
tilleries, and California, with 165, will
be the states hardest: hit by the new
law.
Proancylyenis hast 5 Ohio 44, M:s-
souri and Ma: -yland 28 each, and New |
Xork 20. i ;
RAID on RADICALS
iy |
Papers In Headiarters. of I. W. Win |
Many Cities Seized.
The “clean up” of the advocates; of
sedition has begun in ‘earnest through-
out thesUnited States. Agents of the
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department of justice, --co-operating :
with Washington oificials, were gaih-
ering evidence on which many of the
oppercats of the natien’s “war ‘policy
are likely to be sent tc prison...
Advocates of sed.ticr
agents of the Indust y :
the World, leaders of the foro =
language press and the like are bein
closely watch ed while ev.dence a
has been gzihcred quietly against
them is being “o. k'd.” before beilg
presented to grand juries. :
Officials of the depariment of ju:
1itted tha! they hid quit te
poriz_ 11g. While refusing to tell wait
steps have been and are bsing t XK
they declared that some of the advo
cates of treason, both of low ard hi: h
degree, will be held responsibis 1
the sentiments they utter. Prosecu
tions will come under both national
and state laws.
JAPANESE IN HOUSE
United States Assured Its Aid Is
Welcomed,
Personal assurance from the em-
peror of Japan to the president and
the people of the United States that
Japan heartily welcomed the United
States as an ally and would stick by
her until the aims of the war are ac-
complished, was given by Viscount
Ishii in a speech in the house.
“Our message reiterates an assur-
ance of unchanged sincerity of friend-
ship well understood by the people of
the United States, but it is a message
which has never found opportunity
such as this for delivery,” the Jap-
anese statesman said. “Your courteous
permission for us to occupy a place on
this historic rostrum and to speak
within the hearing, in fact, of the
hundred millions of people of the Unit-
ed States of America, carries with it
a forceful manifestation of the senti-
ment which we believe the United
States entertains towards my coun-
try.”
Yankee Schooner Sunk.
The sinking of the United States
schooner Carl F. Cressy after an all-
night shelling by a German subma-
rine was reported to the state depart
ment. The attack took place Aug. 23
in stormy weather.
AWAIT ACTION BY
SWEDEN'S PEOPLE
Washington Hopes Changs In
Government Will Gome
EXPOSURE OF DUPLICITY
Capture of Messages Discloses That
Germany Has Made Use of Swedish
Diplomatic Channels.
The state department is awaiting
word as to how the people of Sweden
receive the news of the exposures of
the duplicity of their government in
acting as an agent for Germany by
transmitting messages through their
own diplomatic channels ‘and in their
own secret code.
Much will depend upon the action
of the Swedish people so far as future
relations ‘between Sweden and the
United States and the entente are con-
cerned.
On Saturday Secretary Lansing
made public copies of three communi.
cations from Count Luxburg, the Ger-
man charge at Buenos Ayres, to the
Berlin foreign office and transmitted
through the Swedish legation in
cipher from the Argentine capital.
The communications had to do with
government affairs in Argentina and
also gave information as to the sail:
| ings of two ships, which the Berlin
government was advised should be
either allowed to go through the sub-
| marine zone unmolested or sunk with-
| out a trace being left (“Spurlor ver-
| senkt”).
{ The seriousness of Sweden's offense
is almost without a parallel in modern
diplomacy, according to foreign en-
voys here, who fail to see how the
* Swedish ‘government can make salis-
| factory amends to the United States
and the entente. The honor and 8:94
| faith of the government of Sweden
has become bankrupt in the eyes of
the world and in the estimation of its
own people.
. Secretary Lansing, in making putiic
the telegrams from Count Luxburg,
German charge d’affairs at Buenos
Ayres, to the Berlin foreign office yia
the Swedish foreign office and by, the
medium of the Swedish legation’s of-
ficial code, necessarily exposes .the
secret assistance which the goyern-
ment at Stockholm must have Ten-’
dered to Berlin in violation of Swed-
en’s professed neutrality and ..in
furtherance of Germany's war. plans,
The fact that the pee
Sweden has lent itself to the tran 7
sion of German messages advis
that ships be sunk by U-boats without
a trace being left of anything or any-
body on board is less important than
the main fact of active co-operation
between the governments at Stock-
holm and Berlin.
It is not a matter that can be dis-
posed of by simply. bla aming Count
Luxburg. Nor can the responsibi lity
I be placed upon the Sw edish legaticn
| in Buenos Ayres, for the legation act-’
I ed merely as an agent for the Swed-
[isn foreign .cffice, . which. took upon‘
itself the task of getting secret infor-
mation safely to Berlin.
. The, whole plan implies active co-
operation between: the Swedish and
German governments in the step by
step process of its execution. Count
Luxburg necessarily = had authority
from Beriin when he handed his tele-
grams to .the Swedich minister in
Argentina inorder: that they might be
translated;into official code of the
Swedish” legation.
These cipher messages had the righ.
to pass unchallenged through the Brit-
ish “or French censors because. .the
honor of Sweden as-a nation was
pledged not to use its sacred diplo-
matie privileges improperly. Arriving
at the foreign office in Stockholm
{hese official ‘telegrams had to be de-
coded by the Swedish government iV
order that’ their: contents might b
known.
In response to the auosTon of what
the United States and the entente may
do, diplomats say they ,cannot see how
the good faith of the present Swedish
government can ever be restored:
WHEAT CROP IMPROVES
Production of 250,000,000 Forecast
For Spring Production.
The condition of the spring wheat
crop Sept. 1 was 71.2 as compared to
48.6 a year previous, 74 the 18-year
average, and 68.7 on Aug. 1, the ‘agri-
cultural department crop reporting
board estimated.
The total production of spring
wheat was forecast as 250,000,000
gust estimate; 158,000,000 the produc-
tion in 1916, and 264,000,000, the 1911-
1915 average. .
Estimating the winter wheat produc-
tion this year at 417,000,000 bushels,
the entire wheat crop was forecast to
be 667,000,000 bushels, against last
year’s 640,000,000.
It was estimated that the corn
crop would total 3,248,000,000 bushels,
against 3,191,000,000, the August fore-
cast; 2,583,000,000 last year’s crop,
and the 1911-1915 average of 2,784,
000,000 bushels.
Women Picketer Repents; Is Released.
Mrs. Anne I» Chisolm «of Hunting-
don, Pa., a woman’s party picket, has
had enough of prison life. She repent-
ed, promised Judge Pugh in Washing-
ton she. Toms not picket again and
was for n and went home with her
ig
bushels, against 236,000,000, the Au-
ing —they *
8 4 3 ) : The blen
v new blend
ported and
There’s more to this
cigarette than taste
You bet! Because Chesterfields,
besides pleasing the taste, have
stepped in with a brand-new
of enjoyment for smokers —
Chesterfields hit the smoke-spot,
they let goss fenow 25 are smok-
And yet, they’ re MILD!
fd fp what what does Fhe the
onl
3 si the blend can’t be copied.
xt time, if you want that new
“Sari fy’ ’ feeling, say Chesterfields.
atisfy
Domestic ‘tobaccos.
Loge ea NH yors Tobateo Os
Wrapped i in :
glassine paper ; kt
—keeps them
fra, 10% w
of IMPORTED and DOMESTIC
tobaccos — Blended.
BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ LIVE-
STOCK JUDGING CONTEST
Following a’ custom instituted by
the Somerset County Agricultural
Society, two years ago, a livestock
judging conest for boys and’ girls
will be conducted at the Somerset
Fair on Wednesday, September 26,
at 1:00 p. m. and at Meyersdale on
Wednesday, September 19, at 10:00
a. m. Boys and girls between the
ages of 10 and 18 are “eligible in
either contest BUT NOT IN" BOTH.
State College. Dairy cattle, beef
cattle, horses and sheep will be
judged. A bulletin on HOW ' TO
JUDGE LIVESTOCK and which ‘will
preparation for the contest will be
sent you upon request, to the Farm
Bureau Office, Somerset, Pa. The
judge will also give you further in-
structions on the day of the contest,
just before the work Begins.
All contestants will be given free
admission to the fair on the day of
the contest. Besides this, several
cash prizes will be given. If you are
Farm Bureau at once.
We want you to feel that this con-
test will ‘be of great falue to you in
the fact that you will be able to pick
out the good points and the bad
points of any individual animal.
rm — A —————
in the Stocks.
The term ‘‘stocks™ as an instrument
of punishment is applied in the author
ized version of the Bible to two differ-
ent articles. one of which answers rath-
er to the pillory. The other answers
to the stocks. the feet alone being con
fined in it
Her Quick Wit.
He— Your new hat is charming, but |
fancy it doesn’t go well with that dress
She (enchanted) - Oh, you dear old hub
by, so you really mean to buy me a
dress as well?
The contest will be in charge ‘of an.}
instructor from The Pennsylvania
give you valuable information, in|
to enter this contest, please notify the |;
Cash... nits...
SHOWS GAIN OF—
* Condensed Statement
CITIZENS. NATIONAL BANK
i OF MEYERSDALE, PA. oH
i At Close of Business June 20th, 1917.
pa and’ Investments.
U. S. Bonds’ ee
Banking Hogge, =
Due from Banks and Reserve Agena.
RESOURCES
Total, is 5 354, 329.80
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock eis aaeaT A,
Snrplusand Profits...
Lirculations... .ocec.-.....
Deposits ..................
143.741.
a ak ave Loz.
43,436.
$120,000.00 . June to Gecember, 1916
211,000.00 December, 1916, to June, 1917
"331,000.90 Gain in the past 12 months.
Joseph L. Tressler
* Puneral Director and®Embalmer
Meyersdale, Penna.
Residence:
309 North Street
Economy Phone.
Office
229 Center roe
Both Phones.
The Citizens National Bank
*“The Bank With The Clock With The Mil’;
lion"
Investigation
prise financed and
men of the
Information re
“pon writin request.
000.00
vere eii Auk vee LOBE 18550
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Total.... $1,354, 829. 80
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June 30th, 1916
December. 27th, 1916 ..
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