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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Work of Swedish Doctors.

Many of the Swedish doctors and sis
tiers made the long trip from Germany
to the far north and back again hun
dreds of times 1t was narrowing work,
for on each trip some of the invalids
died, while several of the conveys in
cluded dozens of raviRg maniaes, who
had to be quoted by those self sacrific-
ing Swedish women.
There is a large graveyard at the
frontier tenanted entirely by invaiids
who died before their journey was
ended.
I have seen many pitiful scenes on
the arrival of the hospital trains at
Harpananda- Some of the men brought
there had neither arms nor legs, and in
some cases the head and trunk were
manned. but even the dying men were
cheerful at the imminent prospect of
getting back home to the motherland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
To Grow Wheat on Retaken Land

PARIS. December 24.-The $4,000
acres Of wheat land reraken from the
enemy this year in northern France
may be made to produce enough wheat
next year for 100000 men. according
to the estimate of a mission appointed
by the agricultural department which
has been examining the liberated ter
ritorE 81. s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Rev. DR.. Levi P. Gilbert Dies.

CINCINNATI, December 24.-Dr. Levi
P. Gilbert. editor and minister, died at
his home here today. DR.. Gilbert, who
was sixty-five years old. was formerly
editor of the Western Christian Adyo-
cate and occupied pulpits in Cleveland,
Ohio: New Haven. Conn, and Seattle,
Wash. He was reputed to be one Of
this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
DR.. schweitzer, Chemist. Dies.

NEW YORK. December 24.-Dr. Hugo
Schweitzer, widely known as a chem
zeal expert. died at his home here
yesterday from pneumonia He was
born in Germany hfty-siX years ago.
He has lived in this country for the
past thirty years and was an American
citizen. DIR. SchweitZer had been active
In peace movements since the Euro
pean war started and was reported to
have been connected with the German
propaganda in this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Father Friend of Dickens.

Mr. Pitchlynn is of Indian extraction.
His father was Peter Pitchiynn. chief
of the Choetaw nation, and TO the time
of his death representative of that ma
ton before Congress Charles Dickens.
the British novelist, knew him and de-
voted two pages of his American notes
to most favorable discussion of his
personality and work. They met on an
Ohio river steamboat during Dickens
tour of the states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
TWENTY TWO ARE FINED
FOR BEING INTOXICATED
Police Court Has Nearly Thirty
Cases to Be Disposed of Today
Due to Liquor.

Many Washingtonians. a number OF
whom stated they had visited Baltimore
and procured Christmas cheer" did
not wait to indulge in their intoxicants
tomorrow. but started the celebration
yesterday. with the result that nearly
thirty Of them were in Police Court
today.
In most of the cases Judge Null
lowry imposed fine of SIS, or. in de-
fault of the fine. for the defendant to
serve thirty days at Occoauan. There
were two cases of drinking intoNicat-
ing liquor in public. and In the United
States branch of the court two charges
of violation of section 24o Of the penal
code, which prohibits the bringing into
the District of Intoxicating liquor. not
properly labeled as such. were fled
Fined S25 for Being Drunk.
Those who were ordered TO pay fine
of SIS on a charge of being drunk were
Archie Robinson, Julian Malone, Daniel
Forsythe, Randolph c. Schlerf. Henry
johnson. John Hunter, Samuel s. Ser
want. John Mccormick. Seymour Lieo.
Archie Robinson, George Dawson. James
H Lee. John r. Mclean, Edward John
son, William Christmas. Amanda Ham
mond, william Hightower. John Stan
ton, Lucy Parker, William II. Wade.
Charles Bambry and Edward Powder.
John Stamper and Charles L. Miller
were fined SIS on a charge of drinking
whisky in public.
Dennis J. Raher. former member of
the metropolitan police force. pleaded
4t1sa no raE1
drunk. He explained to Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Ringgo3d Hart he had
lost his place on the force and was
about to re-enist in the United States
Army. He was placed on probation
to abstain from intoxicants for six
months.
John Schultz and Samuel Walker are
charged with violation of section $40
OF the penal code. 1t is alleged they
brought whisky into the District which
was not properly labeled The case
was continued to December IS.
Robert l.. Moran, who was arrested
near the White House yesterday on a
charge of being drunk. demanded a
jury trial.
s'Booze Specials Loaded.
Booze specials" between this city
and Baltimore today carried many
members of the jug and bottle brigade
who want TO indulge in a wet ceiebra-
ton in dry Washington tomorrow
There were SO many patrons of the rail-
way and railroad lines Saturday night
and practically every day last week
that the police thought there would be
let-up today.
There will be plenty last-minute
men in the rush tonight observed a
policeman, and some of them probably
will return with supplies taken in
ternaliy that will mean behind the
bars for them"
Others may neglect properly to tag
their supplies and get arrested. Many
arrests have been made for such al
legged violations, but the legal question
involved has not been determined by
the courts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
MAIL BEING EXCHANGED
BY GERMANY AND RUSSIA
Sweden's Work in the Exchange of
Disabled Prisoners Ended by
Direct Transfers.
b BAssETT DIGBY.
CabIegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.

CabIcEram TO me Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
STOCKHOLM. Sweden. December "a
Direct postal communication between
Germany and Russia is now in full
swing. Letters and newspapers from
Russia are reaching Sweden from Ger
many
Sweden's work in arranging for the
exchange of disabled prisoners has
been ended by direct transfers on the
Russo-German front. For three years
the Swedish Red Cross has been busy
meeting train loads of disabled Rus
slams at the port of Sassnitz. taking
them across on the ferry and accom-
panying them aboard invalid trains to
Haparanda, where the Russian Red
Cross took charge of them. Similarly
the Swedish Red Cross workers met
German wounded at Haparanda and
took them to Sassnitz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
For Amendments to Farm Loan Act.

The Federal Farm Loan Board advo-
Gates amendments to the farm loan act
under which many private farm mort
gage bankers may enter the govern
ment system as joint stock land banks.
The board has given warning that 1T
expects interests seeking to break down
the system to file a suit soon to test
the constitutionality of the act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
12.e25, $50, 200 Marks. German Loan

LONDON. December 24-Fina1 figures
for the seventh German war loan were
Il, 625. $50 200 marks, according TO a
Reuter- dispatch from Amsterdam, quot
Ing message from Berlin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
ITALIANS DRIVE HUNS
BACK ACROSS PAVE
Forces Which Crossed River at
Piave Vecchia Beaten, War
Office Announces.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, December 2i.--Enemy forces
which had crossed the Piave river at
Piave Eecchia have been driven back
over the river, the war office announces.
On the mountain front. the statement
says, the Austro-Germans passed the
Italian positions in the Asiago sector in
the region of Buso Monte Valbella. but
stopped at the Italian rear positions,
from where the Italians are counter
attacking with satisfactory results.
By the Associated Press.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
NORTHERN ITALY, December %
Unexpectedly balked in their march to-
ward the plain by the loss of the Monte
Asoione positions within twenty-four
hours after they had captured them,
the Austro-C;erman forces are concen-
tratinS heavily, according to all avail
able reports, north and northeast of
this important approach to dominating
Monte Grappa, y new and unprece-
dentedly vigorous onslaught on the
barriers to the plains is expected soon,
not only al Grappa itself but on the
ASiago plateau and possibly the lower
P!aYe, where enemy troop concentra-
tons also are recorded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Detailed Story of the Fighting.

Official dispatches from Rome today
give detailed story of the fighting on
Monte Asolone They say:
With the recapture of the positions
on Monte Asolone the Italian soldiers
have written q glorious page in the
annals of this war. Their bravery has
prevented the enemy from spreading
his forces to the south and complete
the surrounding of Monte Grappa Our
soldiers fought for several days under
terrific artillery fire and against the
deadly effects of asphyXiating gases.
The enemy suffered enormous losses It
is calculated that in the actions at Ber-
retta and Monte Asolone the enemy has
been substituted, from the 26th of No
vember TO date. Gen. l'feffer, commander
of the 4th enemy division and the com
manders of the 18th and Sth Austrian Bri-
gades nave been seriously wounded.
The enemy command in the CITY of
Udine has issued rules by which all
workmen, women and children are
Obliged to work in the fields from 4
o'clock in the morning until O'Clock
in the evening, with half an hour of
rest in the morning, one hour and q
half at midday and half an hour in the
afternoon. The transgressors of these
rules will be accompanied to work and
watched by German soldiers, and at the
termination of the harvest, thew will
be imprisoned for six months, and every
three days they viii receive only bread
and water.
SLOW or lazy women will be exiled
and lazy children viii be flogged. If
necessary, the commander will inffict
the workmen to corporal punishments
In Macedonia German troops have
recently launched three very powerful
attacks against the positions held bv
Italian soldiers along the Cerna river
All the attacks were repulsed and the
enemy suffered considerable losses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Stockholders Lose by Deal.

What the common stockholders of the
Chicago Junction Railways and Union
Stockyards Company of New Jersey
lost when they turned over their hold
ings TO the Chicago Stockyards Com
pany of Maine, promoted by ]. Ogden
Armour and F. II. Prince, for guar
anteed 9 per cent per year, was indi-
Gated in a calculation by the Federal
Trade Commission of the present equity
of three shares, the owner of which
could not be found.
Paul H. Clark was the original pur-
chaser. The investment now is worth
1900 per cent more than the $500 which
the shares cost, the equity amounting
to S4,210 and increasing daily with the
increase in value of the company's cen
trail real estate in Chicago.
Meanwhile, other stockholders, who
agreed to the plan on representations
that their investments We're likely to
be much deprecated by removal OF the
packers elsewhere. have continued TO
draw their per cent per annum,
amounting to S162 on three shares since
the plan went into effect, but have not
participated in the extra dividends to
which the owner of the three shares is
entitled, nor the added value of the land
and railroads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
DECLARES FAILURE
TO DISCLOSE FACTS
Francis J. Heney's Answer to J
Ogden Armour, Who Denied
Covering Up information.

In answer to a statement in Chicago
by j. Ogden Armour, denying that any
effort had been made to cover I'D in
formation sought by the Federal Trade
Commission In its investigation of the
packers, Francis J. Heney. counsel for
the commission, issued statement last
night declaring the schedule filed with
the commission by Armour & Co, did
not disclose its ownership of any in
terest in the Chicago stoekyards. and
that the government did not secure
any information to that effect until its
agents seized certain correspondence
between f. Fl. Prince and j. Ogden Ar
mour in safe deposit box at Boston
a few weeks ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24

A street procession of 10000 sunday
school pupils ushered In four-day
Christmas carol festival in Philadei-
nhia Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Witness Theoretical Attack.

Virtually all the officers attached to
the recently arrived divisions composed
of former National Guards Friday
watched a French division carry out an
intricate theoretical attack over hills
covered with snow. The officers at
tendance was for instruction purposes
and they gained much valuable infor-
nation.
In another section of the American
zone United States troops began ma
neuvers involving the theoretical de-
Tense of an important railhead and
junction against greatly superior forces
of an advancing enemy.
The weather is very cold the roads
covered with ice and the ground with
snow. but the troops have become so
hardened none seems to mind the con-
Gition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Debated Long and Seriously.

: The subject of Won Kuehlmann's adj
: dress to the conference was debated
. long and earnestly at the German head
: quarters
: The emperor intrusted Count Won
!. Hertiing with the mission OF signing
: the peace treaty, and Won Hertling APP
: pointed Won Kuehlnlann as his first
delegate, after having personally draft
ed Instructions for the foreign secre-
-fary. The emperor's terms, which in
Greatly are Field Marshal Won linden
,burg's, were disclosed by Won Hertllng
ito nine leaders of the reichstag parties
-in Berlin in the course of an important
private meeting in Won Hertiing's PAL
ace. The conference lasted four hours.
1t is understood that the socialists,
radicals, national liberals and Catholics
~approved without reserve the kaiser
peace teams as set forth by Hertling.
THE only DIRECTORS, Count Westarp of
! the conservatives and Herr Haase of
-tne Independent socialists. Were pacified
$50 that all the reichstag leaders were
5 brought to approve them 1t is con-
ssidered. therefore. that the terms must
be moderate. The papers f1int-that it
lis efrontery to suggest that Germany
land Austria will have to get out of Rus
STA before their hunger is satisfied
: The Deutsche Zeitung refers greedily
Ito all of Rugsia's mineral and agricul-
-tural treasures, which Germany must
..-be enabled in the future TO reorganze
and divide The Neue Freie Presse
points TO the vast stocks of grain in
Odessa, which the Germans must Sc
cure.
Economic Demands Enormous.
It seems sure that Germany will
make enormous economic demands on
Russia on the theory that il she gains
Some sort of q protectorate over the
czar's former. empire she will win the
next war IL she does not win this one
As to territories Germany and Austria
will simply stick to their farcical pre-
fence OF allowing the people in the oc-
cupied territories to decide for them
Pelves." BY this sort of dope" Russia
win be deprived of Poland. Courland
and Lithuania, each province being
turned into an autonomous state in
which Germany would soon have the
upper hand by threats or fattery OF
both.
To oppose Won Kuehlmann's hypo-
critical formula Trotzisy has his fine
sounding. but meaningless peace for
mula- 1t. therefore. seems impossible
that an agreement should be reached
unless Russia surrenders on every point
to Germany's demands. This naturally
would mean the Gernanization and an
Inhalation Of Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
War Orphans Made Happy.

The United States. represented by a
contingent of her lighting men, Satur-
day night took to her bosom coo of the
war orphans of France, and made each
of them happy. In addition 10000
francs were raised with which to pro-
vide for the children during the COM
ing year. Each boy and girl received
what they most desired from a gigantic
Christmas tree set up in divisional
headquarters town. An American lieu
tenant played the part of Santa Claus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
PRIZE DIPLOMATS
co TO TALK PEACE
Importance. of Conference
Shown by Representatives
Named by Germany.
TO CONFER IN FRENCH
BY RENE FEIBELMAN.
CabIeSram to The Evening Star ana
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. ioi'.

AMSTERDAM. Holland. December "A.
There will be much historic interest
in the conference at Brest-LitoTsk,
where the delegates, civilian and mill
tary of the central powers meet for the
first time the ENJOYS of the Lenine-
~Trotzky revolutionary government
. Whatever may be the outcome of this
> peace parley. everybody in Germany and
: Austria Hungary considers the Brest-
3 Litovsk meeting not only as a decisive
moment in the history of the present
. German-Austrian-R Russian war, but also
as the first real step toward a general
peace.
e Germany takes the matter with espe
cial seriousness 1t has sent to Brest-
-Litovsk some of the best horses in its
diplomatic stable as the emperor calls
Foreign Minister Won kuehlmann and
his assistants. Councillor Won Rosen-
berg, one of the top men in the for
-eign office, has also gone to Brest-
..Litovsk. With the addition of a num-
der of legal advisers and of Gen. Hon-
s.mann as chief of the military commit
stee OF peace. it is admitted that the
sGerman plenipotentiaries could not
possibly be stronger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Enemy Gains Nothing.

I'm long preparation the enemy has
collected gnheard-of technical means
and masses of ammunition and guns in
order to make his entry into Brussels
over your front, as he proudly an
ncunced. The enemy has achieved
nothing.
THE most gigantic feat ever ac-
complished by an army and one with
ont parallel in history was accomplish
Cl by the German army. ] don't boast.
1t is a fact and nothing else. The adj
niiration you have earned shall be your
reward and at the same time your
pride. Nothing can in any way place
in the shade or surpass what you have
accomplished, however great and over.
whelming it may be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Proves God an Ally.

THE year 1917 with its great battles
has proved that the German people
have in the Lord of Creation above an
unconditional and ayowed aliv ON
whom 1t can absolutely rely. without
Him all would have been in vain.
Every one of you had to exert every.
nerve TO the utmost. l know that every
one of you in the unparalleled drum
fire did superhunan deeds The feel
ing may have been frequently with YOU.
If we only had something behind us:
if we only had some relief 1t came
as the result of the blow in the east.
where it is seen that the storms of
war there are at present silenced. God
grant that il may be forever"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
TREE AND REMEMBRANCE
TO FORMER ASSOCIATE
Yuletide Observance by Employees of
Office of Chief Clerk of
Treasury of U. S.

There was just n Christmas tree this
year-no gifts--to mark the usual
YuIetide observance of the employees
OF the. Office Of the chief clerk of the
treasurer of the United States. The
same fund was available that has an
nuai1y gene to the purchase of tokens
but most of the money went 10 the
y. NJ. c. \. fund for camp cIubhouses.
Just enough to pay for the tree WAS
set aside Also. the Individual con-
tributors 70 the fund RENE mbered with
associates whose lack of health has
taken him away.
Gifts for John II. MacWhorter.
John Fl. MacWhorter was formerly
assistant chief clerk and in charge of
the accounts of the big war relief fund
voted by Congress for the aid of Amer
leans abroad at the be ginning of the
war Mr.. 8acWhorter, moresFtban a
year ago. showed signs OF n break
down, BY transfer he was given an
with the public health
service at the service tuberculosis sana-
forum nj III Paso, rex. He has been
there since that time. To make his
holiday cheerful with the remembrance
that he is not forgotten way hack
home each of the fund contributors
sent him reminder.
The tree this year was Norwegian
Christmas tree. The decorations were
all suspended the tinsel forming
icicles. Lee Pitchiynn, who has been
the tree decorator over Il great number
of years, again was the designer and
decorator. The background was of
stars, with an electrically illuminated!
star of Bethlehem behind: Electric
bulbs lighted the tree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Year of Big Events.

In a speech 10 the second army SAT-
urday Emperor William said:
1t has been a year full of events for
the German army and the German ia
therland. Powerful blows have been
delivered and your comrades in the east
have been able TO bring about great de-
cisions.
There has been no man, no officer
and no general on the whole eastern
front, wherever I have spoken to them,
who has not frankly admitted that they
could not have accomplished what they
have if their comrades in the west had
not stood 10 a man.
The tactical and strategical connec-
ton between the battles on the Aisne,
in the Champagne. Artois and Flanders
and at Cambria and the events in the
east and in Italy is SO manifest that
it is useless to waste words on it
with 4 centralized direction the Ger
man army works in a centralized manner.
In order that we should be able TO de-
liver these offensive blows one por-
ton of the army had to remain on the
defensive. hard as this is for the Ger
man soldier. Such u defensive battle,
however, as has been fought in 1917
is without parallel. a fraction of the
German army accepted the heavy task.
covering its comrades in the east I'M
conditionally. and it had the entire An
glo-French army against itself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
Embodies Peace Ideas.

: The Austrian delegation is headed by
sCount Czernin, who embodies the peace
ideas not only of the Austrian emperor,
but more especially of the Austro-
: Hungarian nation. Turkey has sent two
. of its foreign office men, while Bull
garia has dispatched its minister of COM
merce. NJ Popof.
! 1t is obvious that whatever happens
: at Brest-Litovsk the delegates from
Turkey and Bulgaria will play only fourth
: or fifth fiddles.
. The first sitting of the conference
: took place in the Russian castle. which
: is the headquarters of Prince Leopold
of Bavaria. Oddly enough. it was first
to be presided over by Haiku Pasha,
the Turkish ambassador to Berlin. sim
ply for the sake of formality- Another
: odd point is the language to be spoken
during the negotiations.
Won kuehlmann and the other Ger
mans do not speak Russian. while the
: Russian delegates certainly viii not
speak German well enough to conduct
: negotiations. which will. therefore. al
most certainly be conducted in French.
: which both Won Kuehlmann and Count
Czernin speak fiuently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
KAISER PRAISES HUNS, !
CALLS YEAR VICTORIOUS
Declares Eeroism Shown at Verdun
Made Year of Events for /.
Fatherland" Possible. /

AMSTERDAM, December 20. Ems
peror William visited the front north Of
Yerdun Friday, according to q Berlin
and in an address TO the
troops thanked them warmly for their
efforts But for the calm and heroic
warriors on the western 'front.' he said.
the enormous depioyment of German
forces in the east and in Italy never
would have been possible The fighter
in the west has exposed heroically his
body so that his brothers on the Dyina
and the Isonzo might storm from vic
tory 10 victory. The fearful battles on
the bloody hills around Nerdun were
not in vain; they created new founda>
lions for the conduct of the war
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
FELIX MoscHELEs DIES.
Noted Painter, Member of Interna-
tional Peace Bureau ct Bern.

LONDUN, December q. = Felix
Moseheles, tho painter. died at Tun-
bridge Wells on Saturday.
Felix Moscheles was born in London
on February g. 1898. He was q son of
Ignaz Moscheles and the godson of
Felix Mendelssohn. He studied paint
ing in Antwerp and Paris. and his first
pictures were exhibited in those cities.
Mr.. Moscheles was very active in the
cause of international arbitration and
peace. He was a member of the inter-
national peace bureau at Bern.