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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-12-21

tars Is obtained, and from the latter
bayonet attack, sniping, grenade and
liquid fire work. Thus the methods in
use in both armies now holding the line
against the Boche are absorbed.
There are 81 French and British Of
ficers on the job. A number expressed
enthusiasm at the mental and physical
stun In the future American command
ers, and it was easy to understand why
after seeing them at work. For they
are the pick of the home training
camps, coming from every branch of
professional life, university graduates,
former army enlisted men, patriotic
sons Of patriotic and wealthy fathers.
Intellect is written all over their
physiognomies. "As sure as shootin',
they'll deliver the goods"
Work Like Enlisted Men.
Company formation is preserved
among them exactly as if they We're en-
listed men. Each company is split
into two classes Of about seventy-five
men each, and, to facilitate identified
ton in instruction, every man wears q
broad band around his service hat
these ribbons denoting the particular
branch Of warfare in which he is spe-
cializing, for there are special as well
as general classes.
Machine-gun specialists wear q yell
low ribbon, hand grenade men orange,
rifle grenade red, bayOnet experts
white. liquid fire blue, and so on, with
the good, OlG-fashiOned tried and true
American ritieman wearing q band of
green.
1t is General Billiards. intention to
have this first lot of men act as in
structors for their fellows to follow.
And point I noted with genuine pleas
ure was the absolute cordiality be-
tween the British. French and Ameri-
can officers, those instructing and those
being instructed.
Appear as One Family.
They were truly as one family and
truly working together as brothers and
allies in great cause. The stuff they
showed BODIES i'll for the barbarian
D"NhCs Ava "lilNh gus UC
General Billiard drove some miles
to q special school where American
aviation mechanics are receiving in
struction from French experts. Courses
In repairing all kinds of airplanes are
In progress, including the practical re-
building Of fighting or observation
plane.
The work at this school consists of
textbooks and lecture instruction in
The afternoon, with practical work in
The forenoon. This practical work con-
fists in part Of the removal from a
machine by q French expert of some
important or unimportant part, which
he American has to find as missing,
md improvise or reinsert into position.
Every imaginary trouble that can
come to an engine is deliberately Gre
ited, and the student has to locate the
:rouble and master it. The French in
itructors are high in praise of Ameri
IAN aptneSS, as shown in this school,
md several told me that, as mechanics,
les Americans" were "epatant."
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-12-21
AMERICANS GET
GRIM TRAINING
Pershing's Men Quick to Learn
Tricks Of War,
better Than WEST POINT

School for Young Soldiers Behind
Lines Produces Results in Fast Time
Go Through All War Tactics Tn.
der British and French Instructors
Mentality and Physique Of Men Ex.
cites Admiration.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-12-21
CNE-LEGGED MAN NOW
WANTS TO DO HIS BIT

Fort Mcpherson, Gao. B.
Fins, thirty-siX, is determined
not 10 be n Stacker. He has but
one leg, and the toll of box-mak-
ing has told on his general
health. and one-leggeG men are
unsuitable for trench work. But
Fink has asked Maj. G.. V. Heidi
to enlist him as fireman.
81 can SIRE make Il boiler
hum" he declared, and said his
employment as fireman would
release man for active service.
The matter has been taken up
with Washington.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
NOT OPPORTUNE TIME
For Formal Conference for Discussion of
Peace.

London, Dec. 2l.-Foreign Secretary
Balfour made a spirited reply in the
House of Commons yesterday afternoon
to attacks by Arthur Ponsonby, paci-
fist, regarding the war aims of Great
Britain and her allies, the published YER
sions of which, Mr.. Ponsonby said, did
not tally with the proposals of the
secret treaties.
Mr.. Balfour in his response declared
that President Wilson's statements on
war policy were absolutely identical in
spirit with those of the leaders of
thought in Great Britain. He did not
think there had been in the whole his
tory of the war more powerful state
documents than those issued by the pres
ident of the United States.
When Mr.. Ponsonby sneeringly charged
that the allies were shelteringly them
selves behind the presidents reply to the
pope, continued Mr. Balfour he presumed
the member meant no more than that
when a statement of policy was admir-
ably made by the head of the great
American republic it might not be neces-
sary and very often was unnecessary,
that it should at once be repeated on this
side of the Atlantic. The British govern
ment, he continued, had not refused
conference on war aims, but the prob
lem presented enormous difficulties and
it was his belief that friendly conversa
tions were better than formal confer
ence for the discussion of these delicate
matters.
In any event, added Mr. Balfour, all
the allies, including Russia, were strong
ly of the opinion that this was an mop
perfume moment for such discussions.
What was desirable was discussion of
war methods rather than of war aims.
Mr.. Balfour defended at length the |
governments procedure with regard to
the agreements between the allies con-
cerning Constantinople, Persia, etc. He
declared that Italy properly deserved
some rearrangement of territory in her
favor.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
46 DEATHS
IN WRECK
Passenger Train Crashed Into Rear OF
Accommodation Train at Shepherds
vile, Kentucky, Last Night.

Shepherdsville, Ky, Dec. 2l.-The
death toll last night when Louisville
| & Nashville railroad passenger train
crashed into the rear end of an accommo-
dation train here had reached 46 to-
day. The number killed was at first
placed at 3S, but additional deaths
among the badly injured caused re-
vision of the figures Many of the in
the death list will be increased even
further.
The wreck occurred just after the To-
cal train had pulled out of the station
and the blame seems to hinge on whether
the fast train had been given clear
block Efforts to bring the latter to a
halt were futile and the heavy locomo-
tive with the weight of heavy steel
train behind it crashed into the rear of
the accommodation with a terrific i'm
pact. The two wooden passenger coaches
and the baggage car, making up the
smaller train, were splintered.
Virtually every person aboard the ac-
train, both crew and pas
sengers, were either killed or badly in
jured. None of the passengers aboard
the fast train were killed, though a num-
Der were injured. The locomotive was
demolished and the heavy steel coaches
making up the train were thrown from
the track
A relief train was made up at Louis
vile and rushed here with physicians and
nurses. By the time it arrived most of
The injured and the bodies of the dead
1ad been removed from the wreckage
ly volunteers
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
GERMANS REJECTED
RUSSIAN PEACE TERMS
SOUGHT COAL.
Governors of New England Importuned
Garfield at Washington.

Washington, d. c., Dee 2l.-Arrange
ments for improving the gwater trans
portation of coal from Hampton Road
and other tidewater points to New Eng
land to relieve the critical coal situa
tion there was discussed here yester
day at conference between Fuel Ad
ministrator Garfield, j. j. Storrow, fue
administrator for New England, ant
state governors and senators from that
section.
DIR. Garfield presented plans under
which coal for New England will be de-
livered at tidewater from the West Vir.
ginia and Pittsburg coal fields through
distribution orders that will direct ship
ments from mines in the western part
of the fields to western points and from
mines in the eastern coal sections to
eastern points and tidewater.
The fuel administration was told that
curtailment of electric railway traffic in
Boston already had been made necessary
by the fuel shortage and that lack Of
coal would result in extended Christ
mas recesses in the schools of Boston
and vicinity
Those comforting with DIR. Garfield, be-
sides Mr.. Storrow were Governors Me
Call OF Massachusetts,, Keyes of New
Holcomb of Connecticut and
Graham of Vermont; Harold Sewell, rep
resenting the governor of Maine, and
Senator'S Gallinger, Billingham, Brande-
gee, Mclean, Gerry and Hale.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
HURRY RETURNS
FOR RED CROSS
Subscribers and Canvassers in Washing
ton County Are Urged to Speed
Up Their Work.

! Returns from the Christmas member
| ship week campaign of the American
4 Red Cross are coming slowly and are yet
so partial that no fair estimate can be
made. The campaign does not close until
! Monday evening The captains in the 20
towns and cities of Washington county
have been requested to send in their re-
turns Immediately after the close of the
campaign. A special effort viii have to
be made and cooperation furnished by
everyone to obtain Washington county's
quota. Do not wait until you are invited.
Step into headquarters and obtain one
or more membership certificates for your
family or your friends, and give it to
them as a Christmas present.
The purpose of the service flag which
is given with each membership is that it
may be displayed in the windows of all
the homes and Illuminated on Christmas
eve. as a testimonial of the united and
patriotic spirit of the American people in
support of the war and of those engaged
in fighting our battles. II symbolizes our
feelings in such a beautiful way that no
truly American home will want to be
without a Red Cross service flag, and no
true American win have other than a
feeling of pride in displaying it,
Small red crosses are furnished to
paste upon this flag. indicating the mum
ber of members in the home Those who
have already joined may obtain a flag
at headquarters in the Aldrich building.
or from Mr.. Ayers in room 4, jackson
The manufacturers are requested to
return their lists of subscriptions to-
night or early in the morning to Mr..
Ayers, SO that the proper number OF
service flags and crosses may he deiiv-
,red Tomorrow
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
VERMONT DAUGHTERS HosTEssEs
To 43 Sailors From the Charlestown
Navy Yard.

Boston, Dec. 2l.-At a Christmas party
| given at Hotel Vendome yesterday after
noon by the Daughters of Vermont, the
special guests were 43 sailors from the
Charlestown navy yard and Common
wealth pier, who were accompanied by
George Sturtevant, assistant Y N. C. A.
secretary at Commonwealth pier.
Preceding the entertainment there was
a reception. In the receiving line with
Mrs. o. b. Johnson. president of the
club, were the guests of honor, Mrs
Samuel w. Mccall, Mrs. Oliver Crocker
Stevens, honorary president; Miss Helen
NJ. Winslow, founder of the club; Col.
John Gilman and eN- Mayor Walter C.
Wardwell of Cambridge.
Mrs. Arthur B. Corthell of Winchester,
who arranged the entertainment, was ae-
companist. There were patriotic songs
recitations, fancy dancing by Anna Lem
on and addresses by Col. John Gilman,
Mr.. Wardwell and Col. j. Payson Brad
ley.
A list of Is sons of members of the
club now in the service was read.
For each sailor there was a gift from
the hostesses and silk flag from the
president of the club.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
RUSSIAN OFFICERS IN
FRANCE VOLUNTEER
FOR OUR FORCES
They Offer Their Services in a Body to
the United States
Army.

With the American Army in France
Dec. 81 (By the Associated Press The
officers of the Russian army in France
have volunteered as a body to give serv-
ices to the United States.
The officers are desirous of continu-
ing the battle against the Germans, not
withstanding the Russo-German peace
negotiations, and declare they viii well
come an opportunity to fight to the fin
ish for Russia under the Stars and
Stripes.
The ranking Russian officer, who made
the request that he and his subordinates
be taken into the American service
guaranteed to vouch for every one ac-
cepted. All grades are included in the
request. from second lieutenants up.
In April of last year five contingents
of Russian troops were landed at Mar
settles, after a land and sea journey
of approximately 1850 miles from Mos
COW TO Port Dalny, Manchuria, by rail.
and thence by water. The number Of
men in these contingents was estimated
at something like 25O00.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
FINED $50 FOR ASSAULT.
Barnard Thayer of Orwell Attacked John
B. Monger

Middlebury, Dec. 2l--Barnard Thaye
of Orwell, aged %. found guilty of as
sault upon John b. Monger, was sen
fenced yesterday in Addison county court
to pay fine of $50 and costs within q
hours or Serve a Jail sentence of three
days for each dollar. The fine was paid
Although the jury was out all night
in the case of Joseph Eubar, charged
with stealing a $50 heifer from Michael
Tierney, it failed to agree, and came in
yesterday morning for light" on a "rea.
sonable doubt" II came in again at
three to have the testimony of the re-
spondent read.
The following divorce cases were dis
posed of: Nellie L. Trammal vs..
Charles c. Trammal, alleged neglect and
refusal to support, petition dismissed
without prejudice; Mildred Gordon VS..
Howard Gordon, petition granted, for
adultery; Georgianna S. Batchelder, de-
sertion and refusal TO support, no de-
cision given; Charles H. Potter vs.. Mary
Ii. Potter, petition granted for adul-
terry.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
SENTENCED TO ATLANTA.
Henry Muir Pleaded Guilty to Violation
Of Mann Act.

Brattleboro, Dec 2l.-Henry Muir
aged 20. rowing character who left
Hartford, Conn. with Bessie Whitman
aged l6. and went TO Boston about
Thanksgiving time. pleaded guilty in the
United States court here yesterday aft
ernoon TO a violation Of the Mann white
slave act and was sentenced to serve a
wear and a day in the Atlanta prison.
United States Marshal Carpenter will
take him to Atlanta in a few days. The
girls father. after Muir's sentence, left
with his daughter for Avon, Conn, where
he lives.
After leaving Boston the couple went to
Bellows Falls. where police officers ar
rested Muir because they thought be was
a Stacker. Il proved, however. that he
was not old enough and the United
States authorities then took the pair in
charge. Muir's father lives in Burling-
ton The boy told Judge Howe that he
had been arrested twice before: once for
stealing a ride on a freight train and
once for the larceny Of copper wire.
The grand jury yesterday found u
other indictments.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
SOLDIERS PAY APPLICATIONS
Sent in i,loo Cases Other Than Those
Who Enlisted in Vermont Regiment.

Sent in l,loo Cases Other Than Those
Who Enlisted in Vermont Regiment.
From the office Of the state treasurer
were mailed this morning l,l00 applica-
tions to the families Of soldiers other
than those who enlisted through the lst
Vermont regiment and who will, upon
the return of the proper credentials, be
entitled to state pay. Under the ar
rangement made by c. b. Scott Of the
Office, a card system has been devised in
which II cards are sent to each Of the
soldiers entitled To state pay other than
in the lst Vermont regiment enlistment
and each man viii send one Of these
cards back to the state treasureris office
each month with the proper certification
showing that he has been in service fer
the past month This provides a short
way to get the information as TO the men
who are entitled to paw each month and
places the responsibility Of his getting
his pay upon the man instead Of upon
the state.
Mr.. Scott has completed the disburse-
ment Of the state paw for the month Of
October. = balance of SI6.557-69 having
been mailed 20 the men who enlisted
through the lst Vermont regiment The
November state pay 10 these men viii he
paid about Jan. is.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
SUNDAY .MOVIE"
PLAN ABANDONED
County Chairman and City Captain Call
Off the Arrangements for Next Sum
day Out of Difference to the Per
sonal Request of the Minis
ters of Barre,

To the Times: In Difference to the
personal request of the ministers OF
Barre we have cancelled the special wal
and Red Cross film picture exhibition
which was to have been held at the Park
theatre next Sunday afternoon and even
ing after church hours.
The moving picture theatres had been
invited by us TO put on these pictures.
We were disappointed in not having the
Red Cross reel here last Sunday for use
at the Bijou. 1t did not come until the
next day.
Whatever may he the opinion of our
citizens as to questions of proper Sunday
observance, we hope that everyone will
enroll as members of the great American
Red Cross by Monday evening, Dec. "a.
You cannot make better Christmas
present to the nation.
s. Hollister, Jackson,
County Chairman.
V f. Ayers,
City Captain.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
FEXPECT WAR
DECLARATION
By Republic of Argentina
Against the German
Empire
IN CONSEQUENCE
OF REVELATIONS
More German Trickery Was
Shown in Published
kilograms

Washington, d. c., Dec. 2l.--Declara
| ti9n of war against Germany by Argen
tina was regarded as almost certain il
Latin American diplomatic circles to-day
as the result of new evidence of German
trickery disclosed simultaneously in
Washington and Buenos Aires last night
by the publication of another series OF
kilograms between Count Luxburg OF
Spurlos versenkt fame and the Berlin
foreign office.
Luxburg in one of his messages, dated
Aug. !, last, reported that President Iri-
goyen of Argentina at last had made up
his mind to conclude a secret agreement
with Chile and Bolivia for protection
against North America "before the con-
ference idea is taken up again" The
conference idea" is assumed to have
been the plan for Latin-American neu-
trality conference, strongly supported by
President Carranza of Mexico and much
discussed in some of the South American
countries, while the proposed secret
agreement may explain reports that have
come from Buenos Aires recently of
President Irigoyen's proposals for
league of South American nations.
al lsatit"Aiiti ishH uiptpuiatii quarters
here it is regarded as certain that the
disclosures will result very quickly in an
Argentine declaration of war against
Germany.
No explanation is given of the means
by which the later messages were sent,
though one or two of the kilograms in
batch were among those Civ
en- out previously. The famous "Spuros
Versenkt" messages in which Luxburg
recommended avoiding difficulty with Ar
yentina by sinking her ships withou
eaving trace, however, does not appear
his time
Throughout the messages Luxburg
lwells upon his difficulties with the for
ign minister and upon his influence with
he president. Finally he was conduct
ng negotiations directly with the presi- |
lent although the foreign minister's at
itude made this troubleso e. In the |
concluding telegram of the series, how.
yer, Luxburg, addressing an unnamed |
erson in Santiago, Chile, probably the
ierman minister there. says that as long
s Chile is neutral, Germany after the |
Far viii be able to carry out her South |
american policy Just as well If not more I
asily in opposition to an infatuated
nd misguided Argentina as with Argen-
ina on her side" This apparently was
'ritten when the likelihood Of the presi- |,
ent holding Argentina out of the war
ppeared to be fading.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
TO TRAIN VERMONT BOYS
To Make Them Fitted for Service Of the
Government.

Commissioner of Education M. B. Hill
legas has returned from Washington, ID
| c., where he was called in conference by
| the war department relative to voca-
tional education, it having been decided
that the schools of the various states
will cooperate in training men for work
in different departments in the canton
ment service, as well as in other branches
of military life. The schools will take
up the work of training conscripts.
There are 81 vocations used in the army
and it is very probable that the con
scripts in the first and second classes of
the new draft regulations will be as
signed to certain kinds of education in
the schools of Vermont, night schools be-
ing much used in that training. The
government has arranged that Sunday
AFTERNOONS as well as night schools shall
be used in that service training.
The Catholic church has co-operated
with the government by removing all
barriers in its church work so that young
men may be trained Sunday afternoons,
with the exceptions of Christmas and
like holidays.
Some of the kinds of training that will
be taken up in Vermont will probably be
truck driving, gas welding and yulcaniz-
ing, in which there is great need in the
army. Arrangements have been made so
that the school department will obtain
certain information as to the vocations
of the conscripts that these men may be
selected to the best advantage to the
government and the men.
In the cities of Vermont it is expected
that trucks will be loaned to the schools
for the training and that the well
equipped garages and vulcanizing plants
will also be placed at the disposal of the
students for night and Sunday afternoon
service.
Commissioner Hillegas, while in Wash
ngton, also visited those in charge of the |
Smith Hughes fund, which is federal |
appropriation for vocational education |
md of which Vermont gets $4,000 this |
year and $4,000 next year He found |
hat the plans submitted by Vermont |
we're accepted without amendment, which |
$ considerable credit to the Green Noun
ain state; also that they were highly
upon by those in charge of
he fund. The experts who inspected the
Iail school few weeks ago gave a very
complimentary report upon the school
nd its work This school is something
lew in that line of work in the country.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
TALK OFTHE TOWN

At the regular meeting Of Winnetta
council last evening. the officers for the
ensuing year were elected as follows
Nellie Bianehi, Pocahontas; Christina
Jeffrey, Nenonah; Isabella Thomson,
prophecies; Peter Brown ire-electedl
Powhatan; Annie Brown lre-eleetedl
keeper Of records Alice Bresett ire
electedl, collector Of wampum; Mary
Walker tre-eleciedl. keeper II wampum ;
Bella Ralph lre-electedl, pianist; annie
Greig lre-electedl. guard Of forest. trus-
tee for three wears. Mrs. Levin: examin-
ing physician. Dr. Wark. At the close
Of the meeting. ladies night was oh
served. when q good program of singing
and dancing and other attract ions was
given. music for dancing being furnished
BY Miss I1izabeth stephens.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-21
CHURCHES GETTING TOGETHER.
Barre Congregational and Universalist
Societies Have Project.

The Congregational church at a meet
ING last evening made the first move to-
ward uniting its services with another
church during the winter for the pur-
pose of conserving coal. The action was
in the form Of resolution authorizing a
committee of three from the church to
request conference with like commit
tee from the Universalist church and TO
propose to the Univcrsalist church union
service during the months Of January,
February and March. the Congregation
aliSts To furnish church, fuel and choir.
the Uuiversalist church to furnish the
pastor. Following the adoption Of this
resolution. DR.. J. W Jackson, J.. r.
Hutchinson aud e. II. White were ap-
pointed committJS To confer with the
church