MOUNT JOY STAR AND NEWS, MOUNT JOY, PA. LATEST NEWS IN | ABRIDGED FORM Events That Concern the Two Hemispheres Recorded to Be Read at « Glance. BULLETINS ABOUT THE WAR. Progress of Hostilities in the Heavens Above, the Earth Beneath and the Waters of the Seven Seas, * 4 WAR BULLETINS i » POPPE POSE EPY PPPOE POP ed a Russian delegates sign peace with the central Litovsk and German) vasion, according to a Petrograd said the delegates feared more severe demands unless they sige ed the new compact, which ir ed the te ( Russia 8 10: Zzive up three provinces probably going to Tur key Russia was ambassador the taken to keep order in § ored the proj newspapers urged caut rese Jritish press fav some of the The French shatter the { attack a German flicting h on Aisne front, in or losses in savage hand to hand fighting. the capture Chavignon,” Jerlin officially reported of ten Americans ‘near which defines the American sector, Japar. stands ready to hurl her ar- riies into eastern Russia as a check to German domination the moment such a course may seem desirable in the eyes of Nippon and her European and American allies, A strong German attack, following a heavy barrage fire, against the Ameri- ‘an trenches in the Chemin des Dames | sector was repulsed with The | well placed American machine guns sent streams of bullets into the ad- | vancing enemy, and as the German | barrage fire lifted the American artil- lery quickly laid down a curtain of fire, the Germans retiring without a single ! prisoner. losses, Horo 200 of | . : WASHINGTON $ . Boceworsorsossese. oreo ero President Wilson began the second Year of his second term, and the twelve months just passed t sformed from a peace lovi “Ist” into a determined military leader and dominant figure in world war. Financial aid for farmers in loans for seed and stock and in transport- 1( is proposed in a bill soon the The country will be divided into f{ great aviation departments, each in charge of a brigadier under a scheme at Washington. that will ing labo: be presented in house, general, discussed Secretary McAdoo announces the third Liberty loan campaign be opened on April 6, the first anniver- sary of the United States’ entry into the war, and urges patriotic strations on that day throughout country. demon- the Rain ey rebukes the crities in Doctor in a speech telling of the beneficial re- sults of the fuel order and dec a circular sent out by the Conference | Committee on Preparedness must the enemy. Representative Congress of Garfield ares Li ave given comfort to President Wilson with Secretary Lansing and House and agreed that there hope of peace in the German lor's speech, to which the Presider likely to reply. The administration wins house passes the railroad bill ing provision for large rate powers for the President. certifi was in conference Colonel was no | chancel- it is when the contain- making Sales of war saving ates and thrift stamps from December 1 to Feb- ruary 25 amounted to $70,798,886. Samuel Gompers pleads for an ei’ ht hour day the meat i declaring that “labor will win the war. us a witness for the employ- ees in industry at the ers’ V, mike ev sacrifice” to WPL IO « CHP IOO DPI OCO POI P POISE EO H GENERAL Were o POON PIS SIO OPES Feceos japan’s i tvention in Siberia is un- del scussion by the allies and the United States, the prevailing i in Washington being that Japan al take up the problem of far should Keeping Germany out of Naval reports east, told of the *«d guard, in beating IL a submarine. es took a specta lar dror V IST 1 1 hes I rail reasonable possibili ld District who t d lost £10, house iness nian y Swann he 000 in a York his check for turned over to the his name were not &John Doe” gambling inqu Three aviation fields will soon be in ase near Mineola, N. XY, iad proffers gamb the same amount to city’s poor fund i drawn into | and pork anf AMERICANS WIN [3 Fesowano oF rowan + GERMAN INVASION Franco and Sooo in camps efor { FERDINAND OF RUMANIA § DE! d on x me to 3 li ve u | : : T | : Foe Makes His Abdica. ; OF RUSSIA ENDS H ay 4 hor Y : wu . li . FIRST BAT ! LE i tion One Fcace Condition, : | § 1 mn ( S—— | fovrawererorvorressvsorcrvercssostt { - Ns mp wx | Germans, Expecting Easy Tri-| ss—— Bolsheviki Delegates Forced to nas, be ue \'ut te | Umph, Are Surprised by Re- | | ign Treaty by Fe il of More = publican y P ; | : ommit at a sistance and Take Flight. | { Onerous Conditions. uncheon in New York pledges Repub- | lican support of the war till victory is | - . Cont operators and mitroad oficiats | ASSAULT LONG + PREPARED | (TURKS GET NEW REGIONS. in joint conference at Washington act | —— | s——— accordance » supplies of fuel in actual needs. oppositior Currency with Determined Killed in Our Trenches ana Three Taken Prisoners, Two Wounded. led by the mmittee, | | nce | | | Banking and blocked the passage of the war fir bill and upset ation of the Finance Committee by limiting the the recommend With the American Army in France, business activity of directors of the | American troops repulsed a strong | government corporation | ire : : wl Steel producers at New { German attack in the salient north of | ference decide to demand { Toul. There were many Ameiican cas- from the government 1, ies, one of the killed being a cap- Midshipman Willi K. B. Swope | tain who was graduated frem West resigned from the | academy on | pgint jn 1917. wand of Secretar) ! S His raid was a complete failure mother, now the Bi 0h a German prisoners remaining ii er becam 1 1 "i : ner Eas : i oie 1 American hands. The ground in front a a 1 cod | of the American tren Ss : with German dead, tv nominations. including some A driving wet snow s fall best two-vear-olds, | e hee the Germans opened fire on t 1 e for tl ky Derby. ican salient with every weapon at "command. Seventy-sevens, heavy BOCPL LOL POCO CPOE PPS SOLE 6 shells and gas shells fell in a perfect r ican W $ i ¢ German-American War $ wind on our trenches for half an . » At the same time other el ey HOPI PP POOP 0800 ISLE) EEOEE : : shells in Cn great numbers were dropping Reproduction : the American battery positic ms, France in fields 1 Tr . : Sa : ia on I'he Germans, evidently thinking that is starting the prepar: rite Amer: Wh ol 5 ito Raid : He Aamericans in this section, having flying field on Long Is Yes 1 yp : : : Five Americans were killed, five se 410 one taste of gus a few days ago, 4 PCE \ 1Hie n : a tr a ! oF verely wounded and four slightly Woulq Jear, it row, let loose great wounded in action north of Toul on | : antities of Po 2enons gas, but the ‘ 2 1 | men put o ir ‘ ang oe March 1. Second Lieutenant Harold re I ih ht 1 ir m 28h, and only a | F. Eadie was among those killed. gas Were affectea by it. .o intense i was the fire that the woods back of Lon- American engineers resident in the salient were shot to pieces, don have rendered invaluable service A ens e S to the allies by solving difficult war | At Six o'clock the barrage fire lifted | problems | on the trenches to the right of the the eating of beef | salient, and Germans, numbering 240, ! Restrictions on Tues- | came sweeping forward under the pro- were lifted, except on cay, by the food administration in an | tection of their tire. They came for- effort to conserve wheat. | ward, apparently intending to make a | The Americans repulsed a strong | big haul, and jumped into what was attack near Toul in hand to hand fight- | !eft of the trenches, but there, instead ing. The ground front of their po- | of the easy time anticipated, found the sition is strewn with German dead, | Americans all ready for battle. Fierce | behind | hand to hand fighting began. al- | : | Americans Killed and Wounded. Germans were left The American ca Among the dead is a three and prisoners ties were severe, West Point Hero Slain—Ten Teutons | | eral operation of railroads was passed | Batoum, Karaband and Kars, caucasia, Are Surrendered—63,800 Officers and Men and Mass of Munitions Also Taken. Berlin, via London “By | the signing of the peace treaty with Russia,” says the official communica tion from headquarters, “military movements in Great Russia have ceased.” The through ing to the official Germans in advance Russia have ea 1, accord- from I communication general: headquarters, 6,800 oflicers and 57,000 men, 2,400 guns, 5,000 ma chine guns, thousands of motor ve hicles, S00 locomo ves and thous: of railroad trucks. The official statement says: Eastern Theater, Front of Prince ign min- of Ru- | brother the Count Czernin, Aust Operations ini f : . Bavaria ordered King retire ister, . teil ‘ after the lapse of the armistice 1 to aty have lea to great successes. (‘ol peo- x Count Kirch- their glorious represent ve. : y I'roops under (en, bach have hastened in march through and Isthonia to the suppert of the oppressed inhab- itants, They accompanied by de- | tachments of troops from the Baltic is- = = lands, which ng Rate Making Power Given Abso- | frozen Moon thonian regiments lutely to President. Reval and Doipat have been captur- SF NANASAS NALINI INNIS RAILROAD BILL PASSES Livonia were across Is- advanci and were sound, also by ee | ed. Our troops have arrived before | Reverses Amendment to Keep Author- | Narva. | The armies of Kirchbach and Eich- | ity in Interstate Commerce horn continued in their uninterrupted | Commission. advance by way of Dvinsk and Minsk —_— | and after hard fighting captured Washington,—The bill 10 govern fed- | ’skov, Polotzk and Borissoff. At Bo- | bruisk a junction with the Polish divi- by the house by a vote of 337 to 6. | sions was effected. Two Democrats and four Republi- Detachments of the army group of ; General von Linsingen, with the ap- cans voted against the measure when . : the Ukrainian government, have opened fighting on railway line from Luncinica, via schiza, on the Dnieper, as far as Gomel, and have had several engagements. Other under von Knowzen ix a proval of 'hey were Thom- and Gordon, Ohio, Dem- Oklahoma ; Deni- Iowa, and Ram- the final test came. 18, Kentucky, erats, and C Illinois; Haugen, the Roet wandler, son, seyer, Iowa, Republicans, divisions Genera captain, a 1917 graduate of West Point, | Whig i - Five Americans, in- The senate previously had passed | have cleared the roads leading from : cluding sutenant re 1 five ’ : Cieff © s Kipv.S sriniia. railway whe log 4 farce ent into Xo Mans | Se vere ly se 12 | oe be tilled, Eve the bill, which immediately went to Kieff and the Kiev-Shmerinka railway ae 3, 0 » . alior » > f > » » t rr as i or is Land to attack the ns scorned a a and om, slightly conference for settlement of differ-. line of the cneny er breaking his mm tH ton innce was | ‘Wounded in the German raid against resistance In co-operation with the I'he German-American Alliance was gal bot ' ; hh esi A peration h 1¢ 10 ‘Pier , 1 nee tween the two houses. I'he on : terined the “zreatest internal menace |* ie American trenches to the north of) ences G3 3 ive 3 : g | Ukrainians Kieft was captured. Ger- t i th great i ! Piss ar Ales Ng hin wuse bi ovides for the return o ; we have in this country today” by a | atoum. period ending June 30, 1917, but the | : . Te on NN NN NI NI NI NS NIN NI NI NINN NINN S NSS house bill is a little more elastic. The house gidopted an amendment which | Ho bi wos President discretion- take into consideration spent improvemen the roads between June 30 and December 28, 1017, the day they were taken over. would give the ary power to WORLD’S NEWS IN i $ CONDENSED FORM i Foor - o¥ - a NEW YORK.—Theodore Roosevelt JAPAN | READY TO ACT. { will be deaf in his left ear the rest of | = — his life, according to the statement is- | Russian Peace Pact Expected to In-| gyed by his physicians on the eve of oo fluence Entente. his leaving the hospital, but otherwis Washington. ion by | jie is in “better shape than before.” the United PARIS.—British and French senti- | lies in indorsi ment is strongly opnosed to permitting | Germany and Austria to share in the | | division of the raw materials of the | world after the war, WASHINGTON.—Edward N. Hurley terms | announced that the nation would place many and | 26 completed re- | March, and would la | vessels this month. CHICAGO.—A new federal round-up anarchists agitators for ts by Prompt decis the 1g the proposed Japanese result pact, States and entente al- expedition into Siberia the German-Russian may peace gned. rnment } that in e been 1 nas Japanese gove 1S made 1Se peace Ger agreed upon vessels in service in Japan immediate action. uncl Bolshevi would be p t 34 additional 24 CENT AIR STAMP. of and sabot { has been ordered in response to com- Minimum Letter ~ Pobtags by New | plaints of I. W. W. activity in the log- Service 27 Cents. i ging camps of the northwest. This | Washington.—Coincident with the | time ‘undesirables will be deported. | opening of the first aerial mail route | Probably from 3,000 to 4,000. between New York and Washington on April 15 there will be issued a new stamp. This stamp will cause the let- ter to which it is aflixed to be sent by the The present plan is to sell the stamp for 24 cents, which with the regular postage will mak 27 cents. It will be cheaper WASHINGTON. — Leaders of the | German-American Alliance failed to convince members of the Senate Inves- | tigating Committee that the organiza- | tion's charter ought not to be revoked. NEW YORK.—The Jewish Socialist | the cost | League called on all Socialists to take r and quick- | an active part in the fight against telegraph Prussianism, | { air service. in Trans- reason of | matter can be | full | ii MAJ GEN. P. C. MARCH SPs rrr ress rtN ; U. 8S. Chief of Staff Has : 3 $ Just Returned From France, over overrvrrvrrrorrrorrorrse rrr Changes in the personnel of the gene eral or were expected to follow the arrival « Peyton C. March, act- ing or of staff, who will have a free Gen, hand in selecting his aids. THIRD LOAN APRIL 6 Begins on Anniversary of Amer- ica’s Entry Into War. Secretary McAdoo, in Announcing the Opening Date of the Campaign, Says He Will Ask Additional Authority. Washington. — Secretary McAdoo named April 6, 1918, as for the opening of the third Liberty loan campaign. It is the first anniversary oi our en- trance into the war against the Kaiser. the date The amount, terms and conditions of the loan have not been decided, Secre- tary McAdoo said, are dependent upon further islation. Secretary because these fea< leg oy In making the announcement Mc “I expect to ask the Congress at a Adoo said: early date to grant the necessary addie tional authority. Of course the opens ing date of the campaign is somewhat dependent upon the new legislation, but it is hoped and believed that the considered and deters mined in ample time to begin the came. paign on the date suggested. “April 6 will forever be a consecrated day in American history, and it scems peculiarly appropriate that the opens ing of the second year of our particia pation in this war for the honor and rights of America and the freedom of the world should be celebrated with a nation wide drive for anoth2: Liberty | loan. “The campaign should begin with great demonstrations of patriotism in every city, town and hamlet in the country that will truly express the spirit of the aroused America. On this date every American should pledge anew to his government the measure of his resources and re- solve to make every required sacrifice in the same fervert spirit that impels our gallant sons in the trenches of France and on the waters of the At- lantic to shed their blood in Ameri- ca's sacred cause, “The campaign in all probability will last three or four weeks, and announce- ment of the opening date is made at | this time in accordance with my proms- all matters as soon as cone des ise to inake nected with public the loan | termined and in order that ample time may be given every community pare for the event.” Secretary McAdoo declared that with Liberty bonds selling at 96 on the Stock Exchange the stabilizing of the to pre- Liberty bond market and the mainte- nance of these bonds near par. consti- tute grave financial questions. He said this in a communication to the House Ways and Means Committee, MEAT BAN IS LIFTED. | Greatest Need Now Is Conservaticn of Wheat. Washington.—Temporary suspension of the meatless meal and of the re- strictions against the use of pork on Saturday was announced by the food administrator, Herbert C. Hoover, as a readjustment of the food conservation program. Increased meat production and .te necessity for still greater saving .in ( wheat, it was declared, K O\ change advisable. make he, r NEW TYPE AIR BULLETS. Successful Tests Made of Special American Cartridges. Washington.—The ordnance depart- ment has developed special types of bullets for use in airplane work in France, and tests of these missiles in- dicate that they surpass those in use abroad. These special types of bullets are intended to pierce the armor of | military airplanes. Some of them are | of the tracer type and others are in- cendiary bullets, intended to explode se gasoline tanks. ’ ————