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IN TRENCHES.
Progress of Hostilities on All Land
Fronts, in the Submarine Zones
and in the Up in the Air
Battleficlds.
WAR BULLETINS

Despite the tact that a formal treaty
of peace has Deen signed by the cen
tral powers and the Bolshevik govern
ment of It lighting continues at
many points along the eastern front
Not only Teutons advancing
inst the demoralized Slavs, but the
Turks are also gressors in
Minor Rep S state that the
man troops are operating near Trebi
zond, on the southern shore of the
Black sea.
Raids by German troops in Lorraine |
were repulsed with losses, and artil- |
lery was active on the Verdun front, |
the French official report says.
A preliminary peace treaty hetween
Rumania and the central powers was
signed, says a dispatch from Bucha-
Under the terms of the pre- |
agreement Rumania cedes |
the province of Dobrudja as far as the

The Council of Na Defense, by
community
tional
the creation of an council in
every city, town and hamlet in the nt:
tion, intends to enlist the operation
of every fa y it he war
Purchase of 65.082 acres of lanc in
the White mountains and southern Ag
palachians for incursion in the eastern
national forests w urnorized
Hoover is on the trail of profiteers
who boosted prices on Matzoth for the
Jewish P
asSsover,
The «convention of the Prohibition
party in Chicago voted for a close alll-
ance with the national party, but re-
Jected a proposal for a complete
merger,
destroying war
with its manu-
bill passed
Drastic penalties for
material or interfering
facture are provided in a
by the A section to
strikes
Shot and
ran at twenty-one, tl
five brothers who fought the
James Randell, American, of
town, Mass.
Isaac I?
house, prevent
was nullified
gassed in France, a vete-
e sole survivor of
Germans,
Charles
is invalided home
Marcosson advocated the

shooting of a German spies and
then wide publi means to curb
German pro idists here and warn

ed business men they must be pre-
pared to nieet a commercial war
'
German-American War

The Ameri
were sent to the fr
American staff color
with French troops in

ed a Prussian lieutenant in an enemy
trench,
An American patrol of nine, which
had hidden in a shell hole near the
German line when it became
night, dashed at noon
and
tion without a casualty.

ACTOSS
Land reached the Amer

American troops on still another sec-
Dunube to the central powers, Ru- | tor of the western front have repulsed
mania also undertakes to further the { @ German raid with losses. The new
transport of Teutonic troops through American position is in Lorraine. The
Moldavia and Bessarabia to Odessa.
French troops have checked two Ger-
man attacks on their lines north of the !
Chemin and near Malin-
court Wood the Belgians repulsed an
attack against the Bois du Trapeze |
and the British carried out a number
of successful raids.
Russia the
bridges to the Chinese
ently to prevent
des Dames,

destruction of
rontier, appar-
Japanese advances.
begins

ol. 2.
WASHINGTON |
2. %o
o Cd
The Gepariment of the interior an-
formation of a “United
Army” of 5,000,000 hoys
nounced the
States Garde n
and girls to supply vegetables, small
uit and eggs.
A call for 5,000 nurses before June
was made by the U. S. A.
The war finance bill is passed by the
senate, with an amendment cutting out
the provision giving the administration
complete control of issue of securities.
Troops and supplies for the Ameri-
can army in France now are moving to
General Pershing's forces In adequate |
number to crush the enemy, and on
scheduled time,
Sentiment seems to be
Washington that the United States |
should join with Japan in opposing the |
German advance in Russia by sending
an armed expedition into Siberia. !
The various secret service and in- |
tigation bureaus of the government |
have been holding weekly conferences |
growing in |

for two months to co-ordinate their |
work and avoid duplication, it was re- !
vealed in Washington, |
the embezzlement of |
ars from the French
American
manufacturers, Frank J. |
I'rench sol-
Washington
Charged with
several million doll
government in dealings with
notor truck
Goldsoll, wealthy
dier, is held ir jail at
retired
awaiting extradition proceedings.
Robert S. Lovett was appointed by
William G. McAdoo, director general
im-
un- |
railroads.

to have control all
and extensions to be
of railroads,
prov ements
dertaken on the countr
Amer building a $25,000,000 |
ordnance France, where not
will be kept in re-
100,000 artillery

‘a is

hitse in
only al equipment
pair but will reload
ses a day.
General Crowder urges prompt pas- |
gage of resolution quota of
each district on number in- |
basing
in Class 1
tion.
stead of on the popula

| officially
first American observation balloon was
placed in service at the front. The
artillery activity was normal, but the
airplanes, with more favorable weath
er, were unusually busy.
Men in the second draft will not he
drawn on settlea dates to form new
divisions, but will be called from time
to time to fill up units already organ-
ized, it was announced.
Secretary Daniels orders a five mile
dry zone around each of the eight per-
naval stations and «
France deco
manent nmps
Premier Clemenceau of
rates six American soldiers,
tenants, two and
vates, for heroism in action when the
Americans beat off the German raiders
northwest of Toul,
War department
$450,000,000 from Congress for
tion program.
two lieu-
sergeants two pri-

additional
avia-
asks

SPORTING

la)
Miller Huggins, manager of the
Yankees, obtained Outtielder Ping Bo-
die of the Athletics. Huggins had to
buy Burns of Detroit and then trade
him to Connie Mack.
Ed Walsh has got a job at lose.
Fielder Jones, according to a St. Louis
dispatch, has hired the former W hite
Sox iron man to teach the Browns’
twirlers the spithall. This means that
he is probably to be the pitching coach.
Any one who starts teaching the Spit-
ball at this stage of the nationul game
is in about as profitable a
the man teaching German history.
position as

“Pep” Young signed in Detroit. leav-
ing “Hack” Spencer, catcher, and Os-
car Vitt, third baseman, as the only
Jennings holdouts,
Unless the plans of M: ager John
Chapman of the Newark
are changed it is probable

Velcdrome
that the
| first bouts to be staged in Jersey under
the Hurley law will be seen in the fa-
mous bicycle racing track.
Farm work will take the place of in-
terscholastic athletic competition by
Suburban High School League boys of
Chicago this year. The decision was
reached at a meeting of the

leagye.
Tom Jones, once Jess Willard’s man-
ager, still has a high opinion of the
big champion’s fighting ability. Jones
doesn’t agree with many boxing critics
who say that Jack Dempsey can beat
both Fulton and Willard,

WLS?
MIGHT ANTAGONIZE RUSSIA.
| Bent a
MOUNT JOY STAR AND NEWS, MOUNT JOY, PA,
N OPPOSES 1 eovor's. pawsserors [
PLAN) | rome sre sy eu |
President Holds Occupation of |
Siberia Is Contrary to Amer-
ican Principles.
JAPAN’

Fear Is Expressed That Occupation
Would Result to the Advantage of
Germany—This Government's
Position Officially Defined.

Washington.—President Wilson has
note to Japan,
positive impression in Washington. It
according to a {
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is believed to contain a vigorous pro-

test inst Japanese intervention in
Siberia,
The position of the United States
against Japanese intervention is its
own. It is unmistakably indicated in
capital that London, I'uris and {
Rome have approved Japan's action. {
There were further positive indica-
tions that Japan will intervene. Ter |
change when the Presi
dent's reaches Tokyo, but a
change is not looked for.
The developments of the past few
days are by far the vital since
this country entered the war,
Japanese troops are reported to be
on their way to Siberia, but Tokyo
decision
may
note
most

fails to confirm this,
Chinese participation in the pro-
spective campaign is expected, but
hay ens Parteination Is 10 be nan The departure ot Stephen ’anare-
fested is undefined, % : t3ai fre
"mm tal 3 : la toff, the Bulgarian minister, from
I'he decision which President Wil- Washington ostensibly for a vacuiion
son has reached will, in effect, call f Plorida was tooled upon in some
upon Japan to lay her cards on the quarters in Washington as a forerun-
table. The position of the allies in ap- ner of the severance of diplomatic re- |
{ be reflected as follows:
| supplies at Vladivostok to T~.ton uses

proving intervention will save Japan lations with his government,
from declaring herself for or against
the entente. The attitude of the Unit-
ed States may force her to declare by
actions if not by words whether she !
aims for Dermanent conquest on the
AMERICAN ARMY READY
The light in Which the government ' Troops and Siapline Reaching
France on Baker’s Scheduie.

of the United States views the whole |
problem of intervention in Siberia may
Cpening of Major Operations on West-
ritory without the consent oi Russia | ern Front Sure to Find Ameriga
is a violation of Russian sovareignty. Able to Hold Her Place.
To violate the Russian covereignty | —t
violates all the ideals for which the! woshine on.
United States entered the war. {
ig % for General Pershing's
The possibility of the conversion of Froce on scahedule
To use armed force un Russian ter-
d supplies
forces now are
time, it
Troops an

moving to
was learned on

high author

is held too remote to be considered. It is felt strongly the opening of |
The possibility of German aggression major operations, in what President
against Japan ic thought equally =| Wilson has predicted will prove the |
mote.
Intervention might be justified if |
human life were at stake. It is not |
justified for the defense of property, i
| decisive year of the great war, will
not be much longer delayed
In previous years April has seen of-
fensive operations set in motion by the
n matter how valuable. : allies. For that reason many officers
: ; oat Sion Yhother these Prin= | yore seem to anticipate raiding and
Tipies ave Bean embogiod mu the noted 0, assaults before the middle of
velieved to be on its way to Tokyo.
They are known to be (he principles
upon which the attitude of the United
States is founded,
The President's decision,
dicated, was reached after an exhaus-
tive examination of all facts and the-
ories. He has been in close tcuch with
the allled chancellories.
tives of Japan have been
consulted.
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next month, which will show in them. |
selves that the ground is being map- |
ped, information obtained and logical |
strategic advantages established by |
one side or the other in preparation for [
a great effort.
To others it appears probable that
10 offensive will be undertaken on any
le before May 1.

Representa-
en considerable sca
informally
Meanwhile during days
there has been less of a
last few |
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German offensive on the western front,
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Japan’s Siberian Campaign Disturbs |
Kaiser,
There are observers here who never
have been Germans
London.—The first news received | actually intended
from Germany since Japan announced drive at the Channel ports or at Paris.
that she is prepared to take action in To these officers the admitted con-
the Far East indicates that the Berlin | centration of German forces has seem-
government is greatly exercised and ! an offensive
is adopting its usual methods of keep- | the German
ing the people in ignorance of the real |
significance and importance of Japan's
move, |
The German newspapers, undoubted-
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convinced the
to attempt another |
ed a defensive rather than
They believe that
" foresaw a great allied ef-
step.

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general sta |
fort this year and were moving to off- |
set it. |
Based upon the three line method of |
trench warfare evolved in France, the
war department, it was learned, nas |
approved a plan of organization which
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strength of
ly inspired by the government, are en-
deavoring to make the people believe |
that Japan's aggressive step is not |
aimed at Germany, but that the island | fixes six
empire, in conjunction with the allies, : an
& about to seize the opportunity for three or ihorc corps will constitute |
self-aggrandizement, and at the same | 5 fog army and the immediate pur-
time to punish Russia for leaving the | pose of the department is to complete
ranks of the allies. | the organization of the first field army
NANAAANAAAAAA~AAA~~~~r~r~rn | in France in the shortest possible time |
to give General Pershing the strength
hold a fully “Americanized” sector
divisions as the
army corps.

or French armies and the t
C2
Se. to
’ x PITH OF T HE ; of the front. The plan leaves to Gen-
GENERAL FOREIGN WAR NEW S eral Pershing the determination of the
| { number of corps and the number of
bk og EN field armies needed and also author-
t, Governor Whitman, Dr. Lhe first list of persons to whom Americans and the allies sunk more izes hm to Fecomuiend commanders
all other ie new rrench decoration, Medal of | German submarines in the month of for the higher haus
New York Gratitude, have been given contains | December than the Germans built in Phe Olgenupion hedites show
of York | the names of the Queen of the Bel- | the same period, Sir Eric Geddes has General Pershing is 10 be juipped
itors” | gians, Mrs. Sharp, wife of the Aweri- | announced. Washington believes y | ¢Ventually with ar IV of ail calibers
¢ ambassador, and many other | boat peril is now in decline, with OD # scale not heretofore drenmed of, |
Americans, | the advanced devices which America | 112 proportion of artillery to army |
war Bonar Law announced the house | is rapidly sending abroad and em. rifles adopted by the war department
are | of commons that G itain’s debt | ploying. is greater than that of either the Brit- |
liberty

ideals of
stands will equal sacri-
fices with
declares
chants’
in New
France,
Mer
funclisos
t and
Reading at
midday
Lord the
ciation

The Wisconsin legislature has repu-
diated Senator La Follette's attitude
r. After
S session,
on the hours in
continuo
seventeen

the

lower li

€
went on record, 53 to 32, as opposing |
the senator's wd and pledging its

support to Presider
Announcen

by the!

war depart: at President Wil-
son had wrized four new decoru-
ions for brave e oi* wounds

in the war against
Suffrage leaders predicted that their
showing in the in New
York would speed the passuize by Con-
gress of the feder

special election
I amendment,
#9]

amounted to th
expenses were He
3, 000,000,000 to
n April,
man sphere of
, 185,000,

dail

asked a new credit of
start the financial yea
The Ger
Russia extends in a
Narva,
Moscow is to be
Russia,
prociaimed a free port, is being evacu-
ated by the government,
The population is leaving and

influence in
from
, to Odessa,
straight line

on Finnish g
he
¢
and Petrograd, which is
Hew
of
to be
capit

3olshevik
the dele-

gates have from Brest-
Litovsek. The 1 have halted
their advance, and 1 rotzky says the
government is prepared to withdraw
as far as the Ural mountains rather
than submit to the defeat of the revo-
lation.
John Redmpnd, Irish Nationalist
leader, died in IZondon.
Sinn Feinerg seized the town of
K.1enagh, in Wexford, Ireland.
. The British made several
endency
the
ish
German troops have established line
68 miles from Petrograd, awaiting
ratification of the peace treaty which
the American ambassador urges the
delegates at Moscow to reject.
Petrograd and Moscow Soviets voted
for ratification of peace.
of the department is to increase
big guns.
With this array of guns,
| pots 20
enemy de-
the
kept under bom-
miles or more in rear of |
his trenches could be
bardment,
successful
raids into the German trenches, re.
turning to their own lines with pris.
oners and machine guns.
Fifteen U boats operating in the Medi.
terranean were sunk in one month
by Japanese and American destroy. ed
ers, according to Capt. Sato Yama- | terests in American
moto, naval attache
Sir Eric Geddes, first
admiralty, tells house of commons
that only one out of every four or
five sumarines which enter British
waters gets back to Germany.
Germany still is adding to the number | ership of American propertyfof an es- |
of divisions on western front. | timated value of $1.000.000.000.
BLOW AT GERMAN TRADE.
Senate Commitiee Votes Authority to |
Sell All Property.
Washington.— The
» deal a death blow
government mov-
to German in- |
and in-

commerce
dustry.
lord of British At the administration's request the |
Senate Apropriations Committee voted
into the pending lion dollar urgent |
deficiency bill an amendment designed |
to eliminate completely German own-

general,
| to accept a
| peace agreement
| cession o
Sector's Air Line Length Is
Nearly Doubled by Ir-
regularities.
REPULSE NEW ENEMY RAID.
and Back of
Soon Is
Three Divisions In
Trenches — Increase
Hint—Corps Commander
Not Picked.
are
eight
front
n troops
Amer
more

Washington.-
than
battle
ongh in
holding something
miles of trenches on the
in I'rance, it was learned, alt}
line their frontage
half miles, This
an air > is omy about
four and a frontage
extension at any time to
illotment for an
is liable to
the regular tre:
army corps,
Irregularity of ( ( lines is
responsible for t r eight miles of
length, They are laid out so that
flanking fire may be obtained along

& points

every part of the

containing hi jut out for
this purpose. The mches also fol
low closely any pro ve slope of the
country and wander up and down hill
The Ame! n sector is understood
to be a division: frontage. which
means that at least three sions of

American give the
troops are
necessary support in depth for the
front lines,
This fact has

by
ind the first
Hunter
here as to who will
General Pershing

corps of his arn
Liggett is known to have acted in that
capacity, but as yet the expeditionary
commander has not made an; recoms-
mendation,
It is possible » French system
will be followed in the American army
so far as the pointment of
commanders goes. [It is the custom of
France to the divi-
that the
corps

2
select any one of
sion commanders in a corps and to
place him at the head of the corps.
He retains his rank as division com- |
case of
major
however, in the

mander,
the

American army would be a
tice is adopted,

If the French j
therefore, the le of lieutenant gen-
eral may be employed only for field
army commanders,
MOSCOW NEW RUSSIAN CAPITAL.
to Aid Former
Enemies.
London.—The Bolshevik government
Rumania
in Petrograd may not keep its engage- |
compact sign-
ment to ratify the peace
ed with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk.
The capital is being evacuated both by |
| the government and the populace.
Moscow will be the new Russian cap- |
ital.
Leon Trotzky has announced that |
the Bolshevik leaders are prepared to
retire as far as the Ural mount
and proclaine a “holy war”
revolution from German imperialisin,
Meanwhile, according to Russian ad-
vices, the Germans have not ceased
their advance into Russia, and they |
{ have landed troops oi the Finnish |
Aland islands,
Meanwhile Run
humiliating
with the
has been forced |
preliminary |
central pow-
The chief Teuton demands
f the Dobrudja, which means
everything south of the Danube,
tification” of the border between Ru-
mania and Hungary, economic privi-
leges for the central powers and sup-
port for the transport of Teuton troops

ers,
| toward Odessa
All Newport Is Dry,
Washington.—By a stroke of
pen, under the authority
the draft act, Secretary of the Navy
Daniels made Newport, R. I., the sum-
mer capital of wealth and fashion, a
“dry” city for the remainder of
war.

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WASHINGTON.—Buried deep in the

Teutonic |
ains |
to save the |
are |
“rec- |
his |
conveyed in |
the |

Undertakes Gigantic ° Task of
Unifying American Railroads.
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former
Joard of the Union
director of the
Judge Robert 8. Lovet:
chairnuan of
Pacific and priorities
War Industries Board, who has heen
appointed chief of a new division of
betterments and additions of the rails

road administration.
WOMEN'S VOTES DECIDE
Four New York Cor-::s3s D..tricts
Carried by Democ- ts.

Congressmen-elect Say People Showed
They Are Behind President
[ Wilson.
—New York Demo-
congressional seats
New York City.
crats won all four
voted for in a special election,
They them all by decisive ma
won
jorities, for which they have to thank
the women, who cast their ballots for
the first time in New York state for
congressional candidates,
The women polled practically 50 per
cent, vote cast. They put
themselves almost solidly oa record in
the administration in its
of the entire
support of
war policies,
Griffin,
Republican,
trict. There were
| men,
In the
district Donovan,
Bollem, Republican.
| totalled 3,815.
In the Eighth Congressional district
| of Brooklyn, Cleary, Democrat, won
i over Morehouse, Republican. The wo-
| men’s vote totalled 10,011.
In thie Seventh district of Brooklyn,
complete, John J. Delaney, Democ ‘at,
| defeated John S. Gaynor, Republican,
{ The women who voted totalled 7,059.
Senators and representatives of both
{ major parties kept the telephone wires
from Washington busy up to the time
the final figures were announced,
With the representation in the Liouse
| standing 20 Republicans and 211
Democrats, tremendous interest center-
ed in the outcome. Had the four con-
gressional districts returned Repib-
licans in place of the Democrats w ho
| previously represented them the house
control would have been changed,
The women’s vote was grouped into
| two classes—the business women and
the “baby carriage” voters, as a poli
tician characterized that of the mothe
ers who wheeled their offspring to the
polls.
The business women voted early, for
the wost part. They appeared at the
polls clad for their work in offices or
| stores. It was characteristic perhaps
that they proceeded about the new ex-
perience of voting in a more business-
like manner than did the mothers who
the dishes were washed
marketing performed.
Democrat, won over Furlong,
in the Twenty-second dis-
3,213 votes by wo-
Twenty-first Congressional
Democrat, defeated
The women’s vote
| voted after
and the day's
| Election officials declared that the
{ women, despite the entirely new ex-
} pertence of voting, displayed a keen-
| ness of intelligence in most instances,
which enabled them quickly to see
tL.rough the machinery workings ineci-
dent to securing, marking and casting
the ballot, .
“diplomatic and consular” bill just A number of policemen were amus
taken up in the senate is the pathetic ¢! at requests made by earnest faced
item: “Peace Palace at ‘he Hague. mothers to “mind the baby” while they
$1,045.25.” This is America's regular | voted.

contribution.
LONDON.—Rioting in Christiana, in |
arrests |

consequence of wh many
made, is reported in dispatches
vin Copenhagen. Crowds stormed
bakers’ and butchers’ shops and there
were demonstrations the Par-
liament building.
WASHINGTON.—House
vield and a
were
before
conferrees
complete
MADISON, Wis.—The deadlock of
the lower house of the Wisconsin leg-
islature, which had lasted a week, was |
broken after an all night session, and
the loyalty
amendment censuring Senator La Fol-
lette for his attitude in the war, was
adopted, 53 to 32. The resolution was
passed by the state senate ten days be-
fore.
WASHINGTON.—America is in full
understanding with Japan regarding
the proposed move in Siberia. The
only question is whether Russia would
misconstrue the arrival of foreig
resolution,

Lo fvaans
agreement is |
reached on the administration rail bill. |
containing an |
| Women also voted at town elections
in Orleans county, up state, and made
Albion, the county seat, and many sur-
rounding communities “dry.”
In Vermont, where women cast their
first ballots in municipal and township
elections, they turned Burlington and
St. Albans, two of the largest cities,
from the “wet” to the “dry” column
and left only 11 places in the state
where liquor may now legally be sold,

PASS WAR FINANCE BILL.
| senators Abprove $4, 000, 000,000 Credit
Measure, 74" to 3.
Washington.—By a vote of 74 to 3
the senate passed the war finance cor-
poration bill, giving power to extend
credit up to an aggregate of $4.000,-
( 000,000 to firms and corporations en-
raged in war industries. As passed it
was appreciably modified. The sena-
tors voting against were Hardwick of
Georgia, Democrat, and Harding of
Ohio and Sherman of Illinois, Itepub-
i licans.