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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
ITALIANS GAIN
LOST POSITIONS
Points Lost and Retaken Sew
eraI Times Definitely Re-
gained After an All
Days. Battle.
BY Associated Press.

High military opinion, recently eX-
holding the Piave line and saving.
Venice are increasing hourly seems
likely to be strengthened by the one
of today's Italian official statement,
showing continued successful resist
ance by the Italians to the furious at
tempts being made by the enemy to
pierce their northern front.
The Italian first and fourth armies.
defending the northern line, We're the
forces that added to the record OF
their already notable achievements. An
encircling movement in the Monte
Meletta region, northeast of Asiago. wa
completely frustrated by the first army.
although great forces of Austro-Ger-
man troops were employed in the at
tempt.
Throughout yesterday the Teutons
attacked the Italian positions between
the Brenta and Piave rivers. Several
positions We're lost more than once, the
statement says, but all We're retaken.
Towards evening the last Italian
counter attacks definitely stopped the
AuStro-GermanS.
The positions and trenches lately oc-
curied by the Austrians We're strewn
snow, as it was impossible to bury the
slain because of the rapid shifting of
the lines.
snow lay six inches deep along the
slope and drifted in places to a depth
of five feet.
Rations are served once daily but
with extreme difficulty in the midst of
such a whirlwind Of action. The skies
are gray but stars show at night.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
YOUNG RANCHERIS
KILLED BY NE|CHBOR
Constable Witnessed Tragedy,
Which Occurred in Cherry
County, Nebraska.

Ellsworth, Neb., Nov. 24.-Guy Cat
low. a young rancher living northwest
of here in Cherry county was stabbed
to death by |. l.. BlaZily, a neighbor.
1t is said there had been trouble be-
tween the two families and Blazky had
sworn to al information for the ar
rest of Mrs. Catlow, the young mans
mother. When Constable Nounie ar
rived to serve the warrant the young
man prevailed on him and tehy went
together to Blazky to see if the diff
Guilty could not be adjusted without
having the arrest made.
Blazky is said TO have been in a bad
mood and threatened Catlow with a
gun. The TWO men diSarmed him and
then, without warning, he drew a knife
from his pocket and stabbed Catlow
several times. death resulting instantly.
When the constable then tried to ar
rest LanZky he resisted and the con-
stable was forced to shoot, Gripping
the Infatuated men. He is now in the
Cherry county Jail.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
CAN'T FIGHT GERMANS.
THEY POUND EAC4 OTHER

Washington. D. c.. Nov. 23.-Charles
D Norton. of the Red Cross war coun-
Gil, who has Just returned from q
visit to the British. French and Ital-
ian fronts. recounted his experiences
at a meeting today of Red Cross work
ers at Headquarters here.
"Our troops in France We're in high
spirits. They are keen to fight. A
group Of Santa Fe railway engineers
got into a hot quarrel with a group Of
Union Pacific men n the Red Cross
nurse who took them off to the hos
pital in the ambulance. said: Why
do you fight each other: why don't
you wait and fight the Germans
""That's Just the trouble. Miss; there
isn't any Germans here was the reply.
Along the line I heard French Of
ficers laughing at the antics of the
men of one of our regiments.
ION leaving their ship. instead of
Pullman cars or comfortable American
day coaches. they found on the dock
freight cars bearing the mark, for 20
men or eight beasts Instantly each
carload of troops adopted the character
Of an animal. and as they passed
through the station crowded with vel
coming Frenchmen. one car would
burst into bleating like sheep, another
would whinav like horses. or moo like
cattle"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
EXTENT OF CHANGES
AND BUYING LIMITED

Chicago NOV. 2S,-The days of the
big bulls and bears on the Chicago
Board of Trade are ended until the war
comes TO an end
Directors Of the board it is learned
authoritatively have agreed with the
attorney generals office to BASS the
following drastic rules the moment a
big operator starts u drive either up
or down" in the grain market:
l.. The placing of a limitation upon
the o of grain a trader may trade
In during a single day.
> The placing of a limit upon the
breadth OF f~luctuation which grain
prices may take either up or down" in
g single day.
Activity of late in December corn has
resulted in several big traders being
1tnloncd before Robert w. Childs,
acial assistant to Attorney General
Gregory. He outlined to them what
might happen if their trades assumed
u~nWarrantcd proportions.
The effect. e without formal pas
sag of the rules indicated above has
been the elimination of trading ac-
counts of SEQ, 600 to 1000. 900 bushels Of
grain, as has been common in the past,
and in the future the small trader-the
man with 10000 to $4,000 bushels-will
be the factor to be dealt with.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
AMERICAN MISSION
MOVES ON TO PARIS

London. Nov. 23.-Prior to the de-
oarture of the American mission for
Paris. Col. e. NJ. House authorized the
following statement TO the British Of
ficials, press and public, which he
asked should not be published until
II have been impressed by the won
derful machinery you have created
here at the heart Of yonr empire to
control your part of the war. You
have given the world IN example OF the
efficiency Of democracy which will be
Of lasting value. che glorious victory
realization Of this efficiency and will
hearten every lover OF democracy
throughout the world
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
BY United Press.

With the British Armies in France,
Nov. 24.-The British victory round
Cambria means the war has entered a
new stage. 1t is a war of machines
from now on.
1t was machinery which won the
master stroke against the Hindenburg
line. 1t was machinery which held the
British casualty list so small as to be
almost unbelievable. in view of the
great gains achieved. 1t was machinery
and strategy that permitted the cheap
est victory that a modern army has
ever won.
Foremost in the array of machines
that Genera Haig used were the tanks.
The British can turn out that class. Of
machines as fast as Ford can turn cars
out of his shop in Detroit.
Acting as machine cavalry and unlike
horse cavalry. almost imperyious to
shot and shell, the British tanks saved
thousands Of lives and probably millions
of rounds Of ammunition of heavy
guns-ammunition that costs on an avs
erage of $50 a shot
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
"FIRED" BY BURLEsON
SAYS HE PLANTED BOMB

Faust, a naturalized German, has con-
fessed to Chief of Police Schuettler that
he placed a bomb in the Auditorium
theater last Friday during a grand
opera performance. The crudely con-
structed bomb did not explode. Faust,
who was formerly a postoffice clerk, al
so admitted, the police said, that he had
written Matchmaking letters to James
B. Forgan and Franz o. Ketmore.
Faust said he hated the government
not because it was at wal with his ma
tive land, but because Of treatment he
received in the postal service from
which he was discharged for insubordi.
nation.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
DECLARES VATICAN
HELPS GERMANS WIN
London Post Declares Pope
Had Part in Recent Ital-
ian Reverses.

London. Nov. 24.-The vatican is
accused, in an editorial In the Morn
ing Post, Of being implicated in the
propaganda which the newspapers says
was largely responsible for the recent
italian reverses. Reviewing what it de-
scribed as vatican Vaccinations, the
Post declares that it's political activi-
ties during the war can by no sophistry
be regarded as consistent with the prin-
ciples of neutrality.
From the beginning" says the Post"
the vatican has leaned to Austria's
side and lately has furtively, but
actively, %espoused the Austrian cause"
The newspaper calls on the British
government to look into the matter and
demands that vatican declare defin>
itely on which side it stands.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
MOLVY DEMANDS TRIAL
ON CHARGES OF TREASON

Paris, Nov. 24.-Louis j. Malvy,
former minister of the interior. intro
duced in the chamber of deputies a bill
proposing that the chamber name a
committee of SO members with a view
to sending M. Malvy before the high
court on the charge of treason
M. MalVy explained hat he had de
ferred such action at Premier Pain
leaves request. but as the campaign
had continued ne was compelled to act,
not onlv for the sake of his country,
but for his own honor and his chill
dren's sake.
M. Malvy's decision may have been
influenced by Leon Daudet's article in
this mornings L'Action Francise. of
which the following extract indicates
it's tone:
"A gambler. a d~ebauched swaggerer:
Malvy has n natural taste for every
thing dissolute."
The paper repeats the charge of
treason
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
AGREE NOT TO STRIKE
PRESS WAGE DEMANDS
Railway Brotherhoods Promise
Not to Paralyze Transpor-
tation During War.

Washington, d. c., Nov. 24.-possi-
bility of immediate suspension of rail-
way transportation as a result of the
four brotherhoods' proposed wage de-
mands was removed and progress
toward amicable adjustment of any
wage controversies during the war was
made at a conference between PreSl-
dent Wilson, the fou brotherhood
heads and members of the federal med
iation board.
AS a result of the conference the
brotherhoods are left free to formally
present and urge their new demands
upon the carriers under a virtual agree
ment with the president to avoid a
strike or other cause of a ~transporta-
ton tieup until after full discussion and
consideration.
A definite issue in the wage negotia-
tons, it was assured, could not be
reached before the first OF the year, as
the demands will not be presented until
December 2. Further developments will
depend, first, upon the carriers dis
position of the new demands, and, sec
ond. in event of q deadlock, upon fur
Their negotiations agreed. to at today's
meeting at the White House,
Agree to Avoid Strike.
Cryptic statements We're issued by
President Wilson and brotherhood
chiefs after the two hour conference, in
which the president announced that the
brotherhood heads agree, lin case Of
any critical situation Of controversy
=" i = to consider any proposed solu-
ton in a spirit of accommodation n
patriotic purpose"
The brotherhood statement was in
similar vein. declaring willingness to
discuss and consider any solution
= " y if a situation should arise
y,1,jnl -l,notA,c Tho ,,fArypyytin, nf
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
FIGHT ON TEUTON TRADE
PLANNED BY u. S. MEN

New York. Nov. 23.-The first of a
series of II conferences planned to con
slider foreign trade with the United
States during and after the war and
was attended by more than 500 repre
sentatives of concerns engaged in for
eien trade from various parts of the
United States. DIR. Edward Ewing
Pratt. who recently resigned as chief
Of the federal bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce to become vice
president Of the Pacific Commercial
company. presided and delivered the
principal address.
1t is our privilege to put German
trade out Of business wherever we find
it." DR.. Pratt declared. TT is u gov
ernments duty to see to it that no Ger
man concern-either in name or in fact
is permitted to exist in this country,
and to cooperate with Il allies in an
Initiating German trade, as far a. pos
Sible elsewhere"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
TRoTzkY NOTIFIES DIPLOMATS.

PetrOgrad, CThurSday). Nov. 22.-Ihe
note of leon Trotzy, the ~bolsheVikl for
eign minister. to the allied embassies,
conveying the announcement of the pro
posal for an armistice. reached the en-
bassies last night. The text follows:
Il herewith have the honor to in
form YOU Mr.. Ambassador, hat the all
Russian congress of soldiers and work
mems delegates organized on October
26 d new government. the form of a
council of national commissioners. The
head of this government is Vladimir
Ilich Lenine. The direction of the for
eign policy has been entrusted to ME
in the capacity Of national commits
sioner for foreign affairs.
"Drawing attention to the text of
the offer of an armistice and a demo-
cratic peace on the basis Of no nnexa
tons or indemnity and the self deter
mination of nations. approved by the
all-Russian congress of soldiers and
workrnen's delegates. l nave the honor
to beg you to regard the above docu-
ment as a formal offer of an immedi-
ate armistice OF all fronts and the i'm
mediate opening of peace negotiations
an offer with which the authoritative
government of the Russian republic has
addressed itself simultaneously to all
the belligerent peoples and their govern
ments
Accept my assurance, Mr.. Ambas-
sador. of the profound respect of the
soldiers and workmen's government
for the people of France. which cannot
help aiming at a peace, as we'll as all
the rest of the nations exhausted and
made bloodless by his unexampied
slaughter.
(Signed) 81. Trotzky.
National Commissioner for Foreign
Affairs"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
TRANSPORTS COLLIDE:
ATTACKED, ESCAPE SUB

A French Port. Nov. 23.-The latest
American TRANSPORTS to reach here had
an exciting trip through the subma-
rino zone. The first night in the zone
two transports collided. One was slight
ly damaged. While the other had a
small hole torn in her bow and a few
projecting guns damaged. Temporary
repairs We're made and the ships pro
ceeded.
The following night a submarine at
tackled the transports. The wake of a
torpedo was seen off the bow of one Of
the vessels. but no coming tower or
periscope was visible. The transports
raced ahead and succeeded in reaching
port safely, where the collision damage
was repaired.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
Federal PRISONERS
TAKEN FROM ABERDEEN

Aberdeen, S. D., Nov. 23.-United
States marshal and assistants left here
today for Sioux Falls and Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, with a batch of prisoners
recently convicted in the federal court
here. hos taken to Sioux Falls are
persons sentenced to the state peniten-
tiary for selling liquor to Indians and
for failure to register.
Three prisoners were taken to Fort
L~eavenworth. They are Gunderson and
Brown. convicted I. w. w. members,
and w. G.. Tisdale. the music teacher
who plead guilty to sending obscene
matter through the United States mails.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
PUT RAIL WAGE HIKE
I'M PRESIDENTS HANDS

Washington. D. c., Nov. 23.-De-
mands for wage increases soon to be
presented formally to the railroads by
the o bro~therhoods of employees, will
be passed on to President Wilson, and
succeeding developments will depend on
what action he nay take OF counsel he
may give.
their position will be that the increase
sought amounting to S109. 000,0 900 IN
nually. cannot be granted without in
creased revenues.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
VERSENKTv
PROGRAM CARRIED OUT

London, Nov. 24.-In the house OF
lords Admiral Lord Beresford, retired,
directed attention to the increasing
number of ships hat are missing with
out trace" and to the disclosure in the
communication Of Count Won LuxburR.
former German minister to Argentina,
Of Germany's plans for the sinking Of
vessels in this manner
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
SPANISH SHIPS CONVOY
U-BOATS TO BAIL?

Rio Grande Do Sui, Brazil, (via Mont
tevideo.) Nov. 22.-Fishermen and pas
sengers on coastwise vessels report
having seen a submarine near this port
and Brazilian warships have been seek
ing it. The crew and passengers Of a
vessel which arrived here recently re-
ported having sighted a Spanish sailing
vessel off the Island of Arvoredo. The
belief was held hat this vessel was
n of several that were conveying sub
marines.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
NEGRO SHOOTS POLICEMAN
WHO PUT HIM OFF TRAIN

Dubuque. Ia, Nov. 24.-Patrolmen W.
g.. Campbell n Earl Kirkpatrick were
shot and the passengers on an Illinois
Central train were thrown into a panic
when the policemen tried to put Jim
Lewis. a negro. off the rain. The negro
escaped after the shooting.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
SEEK FOOD DEALERS
WHO HAVE NO LICENSE

Washington. Nov. 23.-All state food
administrators were instructed by Food
Commissioner GOV today to ascer-
tain and report the names of 'manufac-
turers and dealers subject to federal
license who failed to obtain licenses
November /. They purpose to begin
prosecutions immedia<.ly.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
GERMAN oFFlcEs RAIDEn

Peoria, Ill, Nov. 23.-The Offices of
Die Some, a German newspaper, pub
hshed here. and the homes of its pro-
prietors, l.. 2. Wolfe and Herman
Goldberg, were raided by secret service
operatives headed by District Attorney
John Dougherty and Government In
vestigator w. H. Jones, Of Chicago.
Books, papers and records We're taken.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
FAKE BRITISH SOLDIERS
IMPOSE ON AMERICANS

New York. Nov ga concerted
countrywide effort to round up fake
British army officers. who it is said,
have imposed on the American public
in many ways. is to be made by British
army officers now in New York, it was
announced today.
An investigation has disclosed, it
was said. h a at least so men are
posing as British officers and now op-
Grating throughout the country.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
BY Associated Press.

British Army Headquarters in
France, Thursday, Nov. 22.--The
impression which existed in the
minds of many soldiers that the
British tanks were freaks OF
little as instruments of war, is
being wiped out on account OF
the achievements of the great
army of these mighty engines
which on Tuesday morning
broke through the main Hinden-
burg line and carried the war
miles into enemy territory. The
tanks serve the entering wedge
without which this triumph
probably would have been i'm
possible. Furthermore, their
employment made possible the
arrangement of the secret attack
which would have been out OF
the question had the artillery
been brought into play.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
eoMe PLoTrER SENTENCED.

Montreal, Nov. 23.-Imprisonment for
life was the sentence imposed today by
Justice Pelletier on Charles Edouard
Monotte, one Of the alleged dynamiters
arrested in connection with the attempt
several months ago to blow up the
summer home Of Lord Athelstan, pub
Usher of the Montreal Star.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
TO PUBLISH SECRET NOTES..

London, Nov. 24,-Leon Trotzky, the
b~olsheviki foreign minister, according
to a Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd,
that the Russian secret dip
Tomato correspondence is in his posses
sion and viii be published Immediately.
1t is reported. the dispatch adds, that
the evolutionary committee at Moscow
has seized the branch state bank there.
1t is there that 100, 900. 900 rubles re
grad.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
BEGINS SENDING
SOLDIERS HOME
LenIne Releases Class Con-
scripted in 1899 as Trotsky
Proposes Armistice, NO.
tifying Entente
KAISER SENDS PEACE PLAN
Diplomat Carries War Lords
Terms to Salvs-Bolsheviki
to Publish Secret Cor
respondence.
KAISER SENDS PEACE PLAN

London, Nov. 24.-Germans and Aus
TRANS have already stripped their lines
on the Russian front to almost moth
ing. Most of their troops in the pres
ent Italian drive came from that
front.
The move was made by the Teutons
With q full knowledge of the feeling
OF the people OF Russia and the further
knowledge that German spies We're do
ing their work so Well in Russia that
all semblance of organized government
must soon disappear and With it all OPP
position to the armies of the central
powers.
h feeling in Russia. among a con
siderable part of the people. is that if
they continued on the offensive, Ger
many, by massing troops IN that front,
might take over vast areas of Russ
TERRITORY. This. they feel, will be saved
10 them ii the central powers are not
aggravated to further invasion
London, Nov. 24.-It is announced
from Petrograd that the 1919 class is to
pe Immediately demobilized and that
orher classes will be demobiliZed as fast
as they can be reached. This inforfna-
zion came by wireless today.
Stockholm. Nov. 24-According to the
Tldn1ngen, a Russian diplomat left
Stockholm yesterday for Petrograd
with orders to hand to the Russian rev
pulmonary government proposals for
peace by the central powers.
Copenhagen. Nov. 24.-"The bolshevi-
XII press agency officially reports from
Petroglad hat all of Premier Keren-
slky's troops ave surrendered and that
the bolsheviki also haVe gained a com
Meta N-irtnJ,N at M0Snpur' cavc n die
patch 10 the Berlingske Tidende from
Hanararla
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
GIRL WHO SHOT FATHER FREED

Kalamazoo, Mich, Nov. 23.-Alice
Carlson a young school teacher who
recently shot n killed her father at
heir home in the town Of Scots. near
here. was acquitted early today by a
jury. The girl declared that she shot
her father because he had been cruel
to her mother.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
BULL JEREMIAH O'LEARY
INDICTED FOR ESPIONAGE

New York, Nov. 23.-Jeremiah A.
O'Leary, president of the American
Truth society and editor of The Bull"
a publication recently barred from the
mails, was today indicted on the
charge of violating the espionage act
and the postal laws.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
TURN OUT TANKS
FAST As F0RDs
iron Monsters Which Saved
Lives of Thousands Do Work
of Cavalry, Artillery
and Infantry.
WAR OF MACHINES OPENS
Cutting of Wire Entanglements
Alone Has Saved Thou
sands of Shells Cost
ing $50 Each.
WAR OF MACHINES OPENS
BRITISH USE 200 HUGE
TANKS IN ATTACK THAT
SPLINTERED GREAT LINE

Amsterdam. Nov. 23.-A Ber-
lin dispatch quotes the Lokal
Anzeiger as saying that the
British used from $50 to 200
tanks in their advance on Cam
brai
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
EcUApoR,s REvoLr ENns

Guayaquil, Ecuador, Nov. 23.-The
revolution which broke out last week
has collapsed and the leaders of the
movement have been arrested.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
INSURANCE AGAINST
U-BOATS AGAIN cur

Washington. D. c.. Nov. 24.-on ac-
count Of the reduction in ships tor
pedoed during the past Few weeks the
surance rate on vessels passing through
the submarine zone from 5 to 4 Per
cent
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
FAMINE IN RUSS CAPITAL.

Petrograd, Nov. 24-The bolsheviki
IS crumbling away while famine talks
in the capital. Today the daily rations
were reduced. The kerensky food
commission remains adamant in its re-
fusal to recognize the bolsheviki sov-
rnmen and this, with the paralysis of
business, left the city today with q
full realization that the people are
actually facing starvation. Eleven boil
sheViki ministers have resigned. h
latest was Verdercsky, minister Of
marines
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-29
FORD BUYS CANADIAN Ronns

Detroit. Mich. Nov. 23.-It was an
nounced here today that Henry Ford
had subscribed $4,000 worth Of Can
ada victory bonds.