RIEFS BY CABLE WIRE, WIRELESS Great Events That Are Chang- ing the World's Destiny Told in a Paragraph. LATEST WAR BULLETINS 8hort Chronicles of Past Occurrences Throughout the Union and Our Colonies—News From Europe That is Not All War News. y 2. v WAR BULLETINS y, Povosred The Russian delegates to the Brest- Litovsk peace conference have decided unanimously to reject the terms of- fered by the Germans. David Putnam, of Brookline, Mass, and Austin D. Crehore, of Westfield, N. J, American aviators in the French army, both shot down German air- 2 planes on January 19. 4 Germany is recalling her U boats to their bases preparatory to adopting a new campaign. General Pershing reported the deaths of three more men killed in ac- tion. The names of two Americans wound- | ed and one ill appeared on the Canga- | dian casualties list. A Bolsheviki papers have branded Am- bassador Francis and threaten his ar-{ rest, { Some news of a reliable nature has | begun to trickle across Le Sw ! frontier which proves that Austria- Hungary is in the throes o1 her great- | est economic crisis since tha war, The demands for food and peace— immediate peace—accompanied by violent demonstrations, are spreading like wildfire throughout stria-Hun- gary. The Turkish cruiser Miduilu, for- merly the Breslau, was suni and the Sultan Yawuz Selim, formerly the Gceben, was beached by British war- ships in a sea battle at tle entrance Ald to the Dardaaelles. The British lost two smal! monitors, the Raglan aud the M-28 »: ores ° WASHINGTON 3 eorecorrrosrs | Gen, Tasker H. Bliss, chief of staff, | who_ i Paris, will represent the rudy Son the Supreme ya It we discovery of “im- purities” in candy Supplied to canteens of navy ships was the reason for th order susindiug the sale of candy to Ae men, e Senator /Newland’s estate is valued at $528,500, consisting of securities. All but $15,000,000 of the Second Liberty loan has been paid into the treasury. The government wants 150 aunt- ants for the aviation service. They will keep track of the cost-plus profit contracts and will be commissioned as reserve oflicers at from 32.006 to $36,000 a year. salaries ranging America’s foreign rad: for the year of 1917 amounted to $9,178,000, Colonel toousevelt's acrivae' in Wasn- ington rallied congressional opponents of the udministration’s conduct ol the war for a drive to “sveed up.” Mr. McAdoo, director general roads, declares in ati roads never will nal metheds of operation. Mr, McAdoo hol'ers of Liberty bond: persons who are cftering of rail- Investig 1 £0 hack warning te | worthiess se- ISsues a OW: curities in exchange for (he Honus. Comptroller of the Currency \Wil- liams reports 194 new natiocal banks in 1917, with aggregute capite exceed- ing 372.000.000. Ei thousand ents in the regular army are eli for promotion to second lieutenants in the National army. shteen second lieuten- le General Pershing reported to the war department the deaths of five! American soldiers in France from pueunuonia, Hee > $ GENERAL » .» HF Soldiers in the Departiuent of the Eust have taken out 10,182 gove ment war risk insurance policies, us gregating in value §84,433,000, All the anthracite coal in Newport has been used, and the local fuel com- mission has commandeered 300 tons of soft coal. A party of 454 interned Germans who have been detained at Angel Is- land left there for Hot Springs, N. C., fc - permanent internment, Nesy York with 11.000 bys of » ore gas introduced i Ie sin Ed the New ) Ci a Collnission shed we first death oc oO yid out W sit’Y The As \ . COOK. \ Four men pleaded se \ drugs in the cri: » federal district court in New You The University of Pennsylvania wil not open a summer school this year ase in attendance because of the decre due to lo the war. | of | tercoliegiate basketball game, 22 to 20. | #e oN ’ i Mike O'Neill, last season manager i of the Shreveport club of the Texas | ounce MOUNT JOY STAR AND 50,000 DESERT | —— ~ wn The use of fish skin for sole *eather Is a late experiment, authorized by the United States government, which proved to be practical, Count Albrecht Montgelas, whe has Y | been writing art criticisms for a Chi | a | Cugo newspaper, was arrested on a | Presidential warrant accusing wim | - with being a German enemy alien who 1s 4 menace to the United States, An explosion in a stove ut Syracuse i i | endangered the lives of the family of | in Constantinople From { Nicola Procino and set fire to the | Palestine Fia---. | house, { | - | Lieut. Albert C. Smith, One Hun- | | dred =n Seve fi ry © ew | Ye dred and Seve nth Infantry of Ne w GENERAL FALKENHAYN QU:TS. York, was acquitted of the charge of | | striking an enlisted man, - The mailing privilege wa: denied ro Even Turk Officers Refused to Acqui- | the rish World, the Gaelic-American | ogee in Program of Their Teuton and the Freeman's Journal, and the | Commander, and in Three | last issue of each is held in the post . | Days He Quit, | office in New York. Austin, Tex., has gone dry by a ma- | —— fority of 102 votes. London.—One hundred and sixty- Walter Camp is to direct a new sys- thousand Turkish troops-—-more than tem f r training flyers for the army and navy, which is to be put in effect in ell th» 25 aviation station through- out the country, cent, of General Falkenhayn's reorganized Turkish army-—deserted on the recent journey from Constanti- nople to Palestine, oflicial dispatches Wholesale prices for storage hutter The American Society fess . ; : ' [ tell In New York ard Chicago were tixed | ‘“'" at 47 cents a pound. Falkenhayn, appointed by the kai- The United Stutes army needs 300.- | ser to reorganize the Moslems after 000 (rained mechanies, | ueneral Allenby's victorious Holy Chemists of New York formed sn | Land campaign, has returned to Con- hranch of an interallied society which | stantinople and his entire plan for is carrying on a battle of science to | cehabilitation eof the Sultan's forces sorthrow lormanyv’'s he | overthrow Germany's hold on the | has beer abandoned, the reports de- world of chemistry. | clare, i | “More than 50 per cent. of the ro vorsoessercrecory | “More than TO per cont, : $ |S rength of 24 Turkish (ivisions was : German-American War $ | lost by desertions during the journey | “The German government is playing 2 4 | from Constantinople to Palestine, Al-| With fire; Germany's situation is but lit- *¥. . . * » fF, ro fr stria’s.”’ > 1i HOPI 0 00006 0000000000800000000008%F | lenby's report declares, adding that 41 He J Jpterent from Aus! rt ; ailip . Lr a ue : | Scheidemann, leader of the German Ma- Dr. Henry van Dyke, formerly | companies of storm troops which left | jority Socialists, so warned the Germ American minister to the Netherlande, | the Alexandretta district, each 300 | authorities in a speech before the Main reported ror duty as chaplain at the | Strong, reached the front with only | Commitiee rad hb Boston Navy Yard, He is.a member | four ofiicers and 100 men per com.) the Socialist organ Vorwaerts. of the Naval Reserve, with the rank | Pany. { of lieutenant commander, Even Turkish officers refused to “fall | AUSTRIAN STRIKE CONTINUES Defense in” with Falkenhayn’s program and | pledges support to Senator Chamber- | openly voiced = their knowing well the unreliability of the lain of Oregon in his fight for a war : ¢ REVOLUTIONISTS OUTSPOKEN IN cabinet. disheartened native troops. | : Senator Stone assailed Colon The internal situation in Turkey is | PARLIAMENT. Roosevelt as the “most potent agent | acute, Typhus, which a few months | ei of the Iniser and the most seditions | © was claiming 14C victims daily in Socialist Leader Tells Men bers Peo- | person in America.” Republican son- | ( ohstantinople, is increasing. ; 0 sie Will Fight for Demoorativ | ators replied, and the debate was the At Smyrna 500 died from this dis- | eins most bitter since the beginning of the ease in one year, while 30 per cent. of | J war. The administration's conduct of | (he Turkish army has died or become - the war and the sending abroad of | Cabacitated for service through the | London.—Dispatches received here Colonel House were attacked. raviiges of typh | from the costa indicate that the Psychological tests 4re to be em- o in i ployed to weed out defecii es from a ne Million Ausiian Strikers. ‘ x i nevi.—Some ws of a reli the entire army, Examinations so far rene ome news of a reliable nature has begun to trickle across the SQ shown that 2 of the draft men are unfit, have per cent wiss frontier which seemingly proves Walter Spoerman, “muster German | th Ansa and Hongary are m ihe spy,” has been sent to Fort Oule- throes of the greatest economic crisis Tr Fi ih i Se = | since the war began. Hise os he outuiian of Hie yar. i 2 It is estimated that more than a mil- resident Wiison squarely upheld | jon workmen and women have struck. yoctor Garfield's con der declarine Se ni gy I or Garfield's i oal order, declaring | A majority of these were employed t was necessary in orde: to move war | in the war industries, and only small supplies. sorely se led abro: + r ts | uppl : S, sorely hee led abroad. He | sections of them have returned in an- appealed to the patriotism of the coun- | gwer to the bait of higher wages. ‘line try. Congress bitteriy assailed the or- remainder, it is said. are assuming a der, out w ible to do nothing. more than threatening attitude and daily are demanding peace and cheap- Broerossrsesrss OSI e oe : SPORTING 3 9 GPOOIIIOOIII C0000 000000800 er food. %k dr ok ok dk ok ok ok kk ok ok ok ok kk ok kk | German Leader, Disgusied, Back dissatisfaction, ! NEWS, MOUNT JOY, PA. tf t IDEMARN German Who Warn That They're Playing With Fire, PHILIP SCE Socialist 4 { atrike "1 Austria continues formidable and that the of arrest which have been loosed precipitatiug political situation of increasingly grave The democratic move- empire a forces are possibilities, ment in the great impetus, which has been empha- received has sized by the Bohemian demand for selt determination pressed in the Vienna parliament, Reports received in Copenhagen ‘om Vienna, as forwarded by the Ex- f1 change Telegraph correspondent, indi- cate it 200,000 men there are still on strike and that the strike also con- | tinues in Budapest. A Vienna dispatch | to the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin says | that, while work was resumed in part, i the strike in a number of { large factories. continues | understand the business in hand. George A. Crump, widely know X ROCSEVELT TELLS a x Reporting the sitting of the Austrian xeorge: A, rump, widely known as SEVE ELLS vHY * | r 1 Zei ¢ : * )arliament, the Vossische Zeitung a golfer and ore time golf champion ’ ! {1 : . : avd of the Philadelphi arriot Qi ? it X HE'S IN WASHINGTON. % draws a picture of Premier von Seyd- { hile Iphia dist: sy. Gled at es . Lis home : : ~ Z * ler In a state of helplessness, sur- MA alge * Washington. — Col. Theodore *% Re, Yar choci op er b Pincus. the oldest iockev in | ' Ad rounded by excited Czechs and other . ob meus, tne oldest jockey in | * Roosevelt issued two statements % ’ # . on America, is de aged eighty-eight. | + after his i a1 haw i | hecklers, in a scene of turmoil. After 5 eT | after his ai 11 here. In the *| the premier had replied to an interpel He rode Iroquois, an American horse, | & first he said it he intended to *| esioctiagr the Toseintt adont to win the Derby. | % see Senator Chamberlain. which lation respecting the resolution adopt- Ernest Koob, pitcher for the St. | % he did later, and also to confer # | © Ch de al Pandy | Yel : | > rig self deter 1t10 t 0 Americans, filed an application | % with the Republican congres- | En Wd y/ 9 1 ’ 3 4 | F a + Czechs shouted: nent tion service. | * sional leaders, many of whom at- * | peas mao i : 7 ‘ ' { ; ts I “Lies! Away with Von Seydler le wers—Nick | ® tended the dinner in the home of *| _ 0s al Tor Shocker, Fritz Maisel, | * Nicholas Longworth, the colo- *| You are anotier Donera: Foam { referring to the ¢ of Germ nilitaw Gedeon a Les Nunamal and | * nel’s son-in-law. The rest of the * | forrity » the cise gh n e Hh : y cash Or eration for Pratt x statement said: * | representative at the DBrest-Litovsk i lie Plank o Louis i “Also I wish to aid in backing * | Pee conference. i ! man of the Chi * Senator Chamberlai nd Rem x | Victor Adler, the Socialist leader, | $75.000 for Rovers | * Kahn in # | Said that what the workers had no and was | * rsal military | attained in the w of concessions hest fi in the | % traini These gentlemen and | Was only the beginning. He demanded fre: baseball, | % their followers are performing an % | that Foreign Minister Czernin e 3 ’ aoorratm a0d- Brookly + defeated * great public service.” + | through announced prograin, add ! : ul, le T oO f x Te ine: Ra nioni, the Cuban * The second statement follows: * me: : ; rorlie Wath. but. there champion, in third and final block * “I am here to help every man We did not desire war, but ther their three cushion biliia match * who sincerely desires to x | are some in this hall who did. We 2 . ay bh vs yr oe if it whe is 3i- at Havana, 50 to 36. Otis ran out in % up and make effective our work «| must now get out of it what is possi : * = do v NH r 3 » > irelv G3 innir and had a high run of 4 %* in the war. That is, both the uf- % | ble. The monarchy must be entirely The tinal score for the three nifhta: * firmative and the negative side. * | reconstituted. It must become a demo- r le } 3 Zhi as : . ” . Ff nationalities. for piay was 150 to 117 in favor of Otis * to stand by the efficient man and + | cratic federal state of nationalities, for Yoel 1 : . Wi x against the negligent man.” % | which the people are enthusiastic and Jack Johnson is to ve “one or the Pe { 1 i ” & Fi os . * *% | ready to fight. bull fighters” at Barcelona, according ; mri : % ok ok ok dk ok dk ok ok dk dk ok A ok ok ok he ok Ak og to a letter received in New York. Cornell defeated Princeton in an in- Pi7TH OF THE WAR NEWS } of the Syracuse club of the New York State League, will direct the destinies i League next season. # rrr es. ras J Hoo Srre | Dispatches reaching London show a grave situation to exist in Russia, FOREIGN | especially in Petrograd. Advices Ro 3 | from Swedish sources say that se- ’ hi | vere fighting is in progres. in the The Holland-American line steam- | Russian capital and that events of ship Nieuw Amsterdam has obtained | gravest importance are impending. ssion to leave for the United | “he Austro-Germans have evacuated 'Q, territory on the northern mountain front in Italy, behind Monte Tomba, :xtending from the Piave river west- ward. Their defense lines have been moved back to Monte Spinoncia. The section evacuated ‘includes de- fensive positions along the Vailey of Ornio. Mine German s off Cape Frio, Br of Norwegian ported t New York. The recent sudden rise of the River Nahe, a tributary of the Rhine, caused damage of several million marks to Germ: property. General Pershing reported that one soldier 1 killed 181] an ad been in + on the arriv i it is reported that the Italian army,on October 23 ,1917, was not litary defeat. vO wWol in e result of a It was a strike. i Garfield Rejects 24 Hour Day. New York.—A third urgent telegram to Dr. Harry A. Garfield, federal fuel administrator, to help out the coal sit- uation in New York city by issuing an order for the working of all tidewater terminal piers and yards twenty-four hours a day was refused. GERMAN DESTROYERS SUNK. Hit Mines on the Way to Heligoiand— Seventeen Saved. Copenhagen.—Seventeen men from a German destroyer, which was struck by a mine or torpedo, have been landed on the west coast of Jutland. They say five German desiroyers start- ed for Heligoland. The destroyer A-79 struck a mine and sa The A-T3, hastening t i struck a mine and e¢ three others, ing the turned south- ward. MEAT. TO KILL HORSES FOR The bute¢her in question said the 1equest for the slaughter of which . vere of no use for service p poses came from the army authorities, 1 ———— —— CHAMBERLAIN Epoch-Making Contest Launched Between Executive ar.d L.gis lative Branches. | i OF THE TRUTH. Statement Declares War Cepartment Has Proved Efficient — Chamber. lain Proposal Would “Turn Ex- perience Into Lost Motion.” Washington.-—President Wilson plied to the speech made by Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the Senate | Military Committee and advocate of the bill for the creation of a war cab- | inet, at tLe Security League luncheon York. Later Senator Cham- answered re- | | ir iT 1 New berlain the Presicent, de- fending the charge made in his New York When the President's attention was called to the speech made by Senator at a in New York on Salurday he immediately in quired of Senator Chamberlain wheth- speech, "on Chamberlain luncheor er he had been correctly reported, and | upon ascertaining from the ,that he had beec the President felt it | his duty to make the following state- senator | ment : { | | Senator Chamberlain's statement as | { to the present inactior ard ineffec- | tiveness of the gove/nment is an as- tonishin,; and absolutely unjustifiable distortion of the As matter of fact the war departicent has per- | formed a task of unparalleled magni- | tude and difficulty with extraordinary promptness and efficien2y. There have | truth. a been delays and disappointments and plan, all of into the fore- by the inves- pa | bartial of { whieh have been drawn miscarriages ground and exaggerated tigations which have been in progress since th Congress assembled—inv sti- gations which drew indisper sable ofii- their great confusion arisen, but by Boon accomplished commands and deal as from ivibuted and cials con- a o such delay had comparison inevitably | with what has these things, much as they were to be regretted, | were insignificani, and no n.istake has | been made which has been repeated. Nothing helpful or likely to speed or facilitate the war tasks of the gov- criti- I understand *hat reorganizations by legislation are | to be proposed—I have not been con- | sulted about them and have learned of | ernment has come out of such i cism and investigation. | them only at second hand—but their | proposal came after effective measures of reorganization had been thoughtful- lv and maturely perfected, and inas- much as these measures have been the of experience they much more likely than any other to be effec- tive if the Congress will but remove few statutory of rigid departmental organization which stand in their way. The legislative I have heard of would involve long additional delays and turn our experience into mere lost motion. My association and constant conference with the secretary of war have taught me to regard him as one of the ablest public officials I have ever known. The country will learn whether he critics result are obstacles the proposals SOON or his To add, as Senator Chamberlain did, that there is inefficiency in every de- partment and bureau of the govern- ment is to show such ignorance of ac- tual conditions as to make it impossi- ble to attach any importance to his statement. I am bound to infer that that statement sprang out of opposi- tion to the administration's whole pol- icy rather than out of any serious in- tention to reform its practice, - Pore; i w~ Boo WORLD’S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM He - ] CHICAGO.—Max Breitung, a nephew of E. N. Breitung, who was arrested in this city, was ordered interned for the duration of the war. Breitung is un- der indictment in the ship bomb plot. OTTAWA.—W. J. Hanna, food con- troller of Canada, has tendered his resignation, and it has been accepted. He will be succeeded by H. B. Thomp- son of Vancouver. WASHINGTON. — The war depart- ment has leased extensive hotel prop- erties at Cage May, N. J., for use as | military hospitals. Col. Louis Brekin- | of the Medieal Corps will be ed in charge. WASHINGTON.—The first Ameri- Enfield rifle turned out at the inchester plant for American troops Presi I canized 1 \ x oad was presented to PRESIDENT FLAYS | MAX BRE Indicted German Interned at Fort Max Breitung, under indictment iy New York for alleged conspiracy to 4 stroy munitions ships and steel plants through- out the country, was interned in Fort Sheridan on a Presidential warrant. GREAT BRITAIN WANTS WHEAT 57,000,000 BUSHELS REQUIRED AS CONDITIONS GROW SERIOUS. Lord Rhondda Says America’s Help Now Vital, but Allies Will | Win. London.—Great Britain calls upon the United States for 75,000,000 bush- els more of wheat in the next few vr months. This was one of the most important | statements which Lord Rhondda, Brit- ish food controller, made in an inter- view with the Associated Press. The controller described the food shortage { { in Great Britain as most serious. but f} not such as would be detrimental te the health of the population with prop- er management of supplics and will- ingness on the part of tho people to accept equally nourishing substitutes for some food they had been accu: . tomed to. He referred to the difficulty of dis- cussing the subject frankly without giving encouragement to the exagger- ated hopes in Germany that this coun- try was suffering severely from lack of food. He drew a sharp distinction between conditions in Great Brit and in Germany, where the public health, particularly that of women and children, had been dangerously under- mined by lack of nutrition and semi- starvation and where the working ef- fectiveness of the men had been de- creased 30 per cent. In Britain, he said, the self denial thus far practice had actually improved tlie physi condition of the nation. “With the help of the United States we shall pull through,” he declared. «1 would feel very +despondent over the 1 sition if the United States had not come into the war, but I have un- bounded faith in your ability and good will to help us wark out the problem. Our situation would have been a happy one but for the shortage of c¢reps in Italy and France. wpPhe war will be won by England, It is a test of endurance between Eng- land and Germany. We are today where Germany was two years ago. have no fear of failure on the fighting r L line.” Ninety-eight Killed in Coal Mine. Halifax, N. S.—The deatw toll of the explosion in the Allan shaft of the Acadia Coai Company's collicries at Stellarton was placed at 98. Company officials said 105 men were at work in the mine at the time. en JOHN D. PAYS $2,500 TAX. New York Attempts to Get Account- ing From Oil King. Cleveland. — County Auditor Zan- gerle sent information on property holdings of John D. Rockefeller in Cu- vahoga county to J. A. Cantor, presi- dent New York city tax department. Mi. Rockefeller holds 247,502 elares of Standard Oil stock, worth $569, 600,000, and held real property in Cie vahoga county worth $311,000,000 ix 1914, on which he pad $10,000 taxed in four years. WATER FAMINE STOPS MINING. Several Anthracite Collieries in Pen sylvania Shut Down, ilson to be preserved as a person: | sauvenir. Pottsville.—Overshadowing the ALBANY.—Assemblyman Thom: . | ability of the railroads to move of Staten Island i | qu y from mine to rtharket, a wg tiie number ot | famine has tied up eral big n traction es in New York city. | lieries in' Pennsylvanga’s ant QUEBEC.—Canada will have com- | field, and jabout a doen other ¢ plete prohibition dating from May 1, lieries aret. on the ver f a shi | 1918, following action by the local gov- | down. Thousands of lodded coal car ernment. Quebec has voted to sol remain in raNirogd classfcatior yards “dry” on that date and is the last | and on sidingsS\NgLhe cofigestion, how- province to fall into line, ever, is being ggRdually pleared.
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