The Mount Joy star and news. (Mount Joy, Pa.) 1878-1918, March 16, 1918, Image 2
WORLD'S NEWS IN | MIDGET FORM Long Siviies of Big Event: Told| in Brief Paragraphs for Quick Reading. ABOUT BOYS 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 { | 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. | 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 | | German offensive on the western front, | | the 1 | | | | | | it was in f | | | discussion 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- | | convinced the to attempt another | ed a defensive rather than They believe that " foresaw a great allied ef- step. | | | | | 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 | | | { | | 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. WORLD’S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM WASHINGTON.—Buried deep in the Teutonic | ains | to save the | are | “rec- | his | conveyed in | the | Undertakes Gigantic ° Task of Unifying American Railroads. = « oo mm = — on fr Cd T= re — —— fp r—— 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.