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The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
RUSSIA'S BIG PORT
TAKEN BY GERMANS
RUSSIANS ORDERED TO EVACU-
ATE THEIR TRENCHES WHEN
ATTACKED BY GERMANS.

| New York.-Riga, Russia's big
port on the Gulf of Riga. is in the
hands of the Germans, and its garri-
son and the civilian population are in
retreat eastward.
Following up the advantage gain
ed in driving the Russians across
the Divina river on both sides Of
Ukskull, the Germans threw bridges
across this stream and soon were on
the heels of the former defenders,
who gave the invaders little trouble
in their march up the eastern bank
of the Dvina toward Riga, Is miles
distant.
Seeing the disaffection and the in
ability to stem the tide of the ad-
vance, the Russian commander order
ed an evacuation.
With the falling back of the Rus
slams from the city proper and the
advance of the Germans northward
along both sides of the stream, the
Russians, still defending the western
bank around Dahlen, seemingly are
in danger of being caught between
the two fast moving bodies of the
enemy and made prisoner.
Behind them the Russians in their
retreat are laying the country in
waste, burning villages and farms.
Whether the city itself remains in
tact has not yet been made known,
but doubtless the guns in the fortress
and the ammunition stores either
were moved or destroyed to prevent
them falling into the hands of the
Germans.
Aside from the strategic value of
controlling the Gulf of Riga, and Of
a base nearer IT, mouth of the Gulf
of Finland, at the head of which
Petrograd is situated, for the moment
it is impossible to see the Importance
of the German gain, especially with
the near approach of winter, when
military operations in this northern
region are almost impossible
Riga, capital of the government of
Livonia, had a population of more
than 100000 before the war, and
aside from Petrograd, was the most
important Russian commercial and in
dustrial town having access to the
Baltic. 1t is situated at the southern
extremity of the Gulf of Riga, a
stretch of water 100 miles long and
so miles wide Riga lies where the
Dvina empties into the gulf The port
is ice-bound during practically one
third of the wear II had a very large
German population before the war. 1t
was founded in 1853 by German mer-
chants as a storehouse. The city pass
ed through the control of various
northern nationalities during the CEN
turtles until finally in 1921 it was in
corporated with the Russian empire.
It was the third seaport of Russia,
only Petrograd and Odessa exceed
ing it
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07

&C C.
Common ordinary coke, usually val
ned at from 81 to Sc, has gone to SIS
and $40 on account of the war
Petitions are being sent to Herbert
Hoover from all over the U. S. re-
questing that bakers be made to put
more bread in the loaf, since wheat
came down.
Certain witnesses in murder case
in Alaska were carried 1000 miles to
to testify and face the prospect of
spending the winter in the frozen
North.
Reports from sociological workers
In Ohio indicate that wives are less
faithful than husbands or else more
forgiving.
President Wilson has decided that
21a cents per pound is fair price for
news print paper.
Byron Nelson, son of Congressman
Nelson of Wisconsin, has been arrest
ed at Madison for failure to register.
He will be prosecuted.
Rail lines whose rates are said to
discriminate against certain points in
the west have been ordered to issue
new tariffs.
About lao negro soldiers are in
prison at Ell Paso, Tex. charged with
recent rioting at Houston.
Hundreds of Indians from various
reservations in the west, southwest
and northwest have enlisted in the
new national army.
Ten women banner carriers, picket
ing the White House. have been
placed under arrest.
The peace meeting to be held in
Minneapolis has been run out of the
state by the governors refusal to al
low the delegates TO meet.
New legislation under consideration
would place an additional tax of $780,
100000 on excess profits.
The press of the nation Is of one
opinion on the presidents reply to the
pope's peace offer.
The president viii appoint a board
who are to fix the price of copper.
It is expected to be around zoe.
The plan Of raising letter postage
froIa to 8 cents was killed by a
Senate committee.
Cardinal Gibbons in a recent speech
announced that no peace could be
considered by the United States which
did not include full reparation to Bel
GUM.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
GERMAN REICHSTAG
DEMANDS THE TRUTH
SIGNS OF AWAKENING IN GER
MAN EMPlRE-kAiSER WILL
HELM CRITICISED.

Copenhagen-A warning that I'M
less the German government heeds
demands of the Reichstag for reforms.
the majority parties will take meas
ures, has been given before the
Reichstag Main Committee. Resolu-
lions of the majority, introduced by
DR.. Karl Heine, Socialist, demanded
of the political censorship and limita-
ton of the military censorship to facts
connected with the conduct of the
war and criticism thereof. 1t was de-
clared to be notorious that the mill
tary authorities exercise a sweeping
political censorship of the German
press on the pretense that publica-
lions of a political nature may affect
the military spirit of the people.
DR.. Heine gave the government
four weeks, until the assembling of
the Reichstag, to amend its ways.
Otherwise, he said, the Reichstag ma
jority would take steps. The govern
ment has received some half dozen
earlier warnings of a similar nature
and its response in the present case
will be test of the influence of the
present majority in the Reichstag.
Kaiser Criticised.
Speeches and announcements Of
Emperor William were criticized in
the debate on thu censorship. Matthias
Erzberger, Centrist leader, and Dr..
Heine called attention to the effect
caused by the emperor's impulslve
statements which sometimes run
counter to the ostensible policy Of
the government. The emperor's crit
les probably had particularly in mind
his recent utterances in regard to
England which he said is Germany
arch enemy and must be defeated at
any cost.
DR.. Heine appears to have demand
ed freedom for the press to discuss
such utterances of the emperor. Herr
Eraberger asked whether Chancellor
Michaelis assumed responsibility for
what was said by the emperor. For
eign Secretary Won Koulhmann re-
piled that he did The misleading
"denfals" by the Foreign Office Of
Premier Kerensky's statement that a
separate peace offer had been made
recently to Russia and of the mes
sage said by former Ambassador &C.
rard 10 have been sent by Emperor
William to President Wilson at the
outbreak of the war, were brought up
Herr Erzberger said the official COM
munications were coming into wide
discredit abroad owing to the many
self-evident contradictions in them.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
FOREIGN.

Forty destroyers and battleships
were recently assigned to convoy a
fleet of IL merchantmen into Brit
ish port.
1t is reported that recent confer
ences in Russia have utterly failed to
restore the morale of the Cossack
army.
London and Paris papers are partic-
ularly enthusiastic in the endorse
ment given the presidents reply to
the pope.
Theatrical companies in England
are heavily hit in a new order which
prohibits the carrying of scenery from
one place to another.
An American army officer in
France, failing to secure proper tele-
phone service across the country, got
mad and built line.
Cables dispatches report the preva-
lence of bread riots and strikes
throughout Austria.
Forty youths have been sent back
from France for lack of age, fraudu-
lent enlistments and other reasons.
German authorities in Alsace-Lo-
raine are selling off all the property
owned by French citizens.
German aviators seem to have
taken particular dislike to hospitals,
as far as dropping bombs is con-
cerned, particularly those manned by
American surgeons.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Drop Poisoned Candy.

Plymouth, Mass.-German airmen,
flying by night over a French town
near Rheims, recently dropped pois-
oned candy, causing the death of many
children who ate it, according to a
letter from Brownlee B. Gauld for
mer Harvard University student who
now is driving an ambulance on the
western front. The letter also states
that the Germans are continually
Smelling hospitals"
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
A Second Liberty Loan.

Washington.-Th opening of the
next Liberty loan campaign has been
set tentatively by the Treasury De-
partment for October 1. Subscription
books will close November 1. The
amount, the interest rate, the denomi-
nations of the bonds and other details
win be announced after Congress dis
poses. of the pending bond bill In
dieations are that the next offering
will approximate 3,OO0,O00,0O0.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Sick Soldiers Back in U. S.

Hoboken, N. Fourteen American
soldiers who were a part of the first
expeditionary force sent to France
are confined in hospital here. The
hospital authorities said none of the
men had been wounded, but were suf-
fering from ailments which necessi-
tated their return to this country.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
$500. 600 To Red Gross.

Washington-A gift of S5OO'UoV
from the Ford Motor Company TO the
Red Cross was announced by the war
Council, in the form of credit on the
Ford factories for a half million ooi'
lars worth of automobiles, amOu
lances, parts, ETC., as the Red Cross
may designate.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Calls Them Traitors.

Ottawa, Ill-Governor Frank o..
Lowden in Labor Day address here.
branded as traitors those pacifsts
who are harassing the government in
the prosecution of the war He said
nothing directly in regard to the pa
cifst row in Chicago.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
NEWS OF WEEK
Told Herewith in Tabloid
Form
Condensed Items of Interest
for Every Member of
the Household
MISCELLANEOUS

A Milwaukee woman has lost Is
relatives in the war. Nine others of
her kinfolk are still engaged in hos
tilities.
A bill in the Australian parliament
would make membership in the 1. w.
w. a reasonable offense.
The state of Louisiana has doubled
her appropriation for education of
negroes.
Industry, Kan, has periodically pre-
scented each of its 10 soldiers with $50.
New York suffragists are planning
a campaign for the ballot, which they
call ''the first battle for democracy on
American SOIL"
After 80 years of wrangling IN the
courts, Ogle county, Ill, has paid an
ancient subscription to long dead
railroad.
Five public schools in st. Louis
will continue the teaching Of German.
The New York art museum is the
recent recipient of bequest of over
100000 in cash.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, member of
congress from Montana, likes the life
so well she has announced for the
United States senate.
New York subway traffic faces a
tie-up, owing to shortage in coal.
The retreat of the Russian army is
explained by the fact that the men
had heard Of land distribution and
wanted to get In early.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Trvinn To Incite Negroes.

Washington = Warning against a
German propaganda seeking to STIR
up instruction among American ne
groes was given in statement issued
by the. Patriotic Education Society.
Anonymous letters and postcards lirg'
ing negroes to rise against the whites
were brought to the attention OF the
society by negro leaders.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
GENERAL

A meeting of the Peoples Council
(paeifists) scheduled for Gary, Ind,
failed to take place when the promo
ter was arrested for sedition.
The new Russian parliament has de-
cided to place women on exactly the
basis of men in all departments of
civil and official life.
Under the new franchise act, Canad-
ian women will be given the ballot in
the near future
A Canadian caucus has refused to
accept the resignation of the premier,
Sir Robert Borden.
Citizens in various parts of the
country are asking Dictator Garfield
to cancel all outstanding contracts for
coal.
a proposition is being considered to
extend the draft law to take in youths
between 10 and 81.
In spite of the war Panama Canal
business shows huge gains. The
year just closed saw 1876 vessels pass
through, as against 1877 last year.
Fearing too much regulation, ice
manufacturers and sugar refiners
have announced substantial cuts in
prices.
The recent explosion at the Mare
Island navy yard Is said to have only
been one of series of blasts planned.
Considerable fear is felt in Okla
homa over the failing supply of nat
ural gas, and heatless winter is in
prospect.
Considerable interest is being
aroused in proposition to teach
American soldiers to sing. New York
heads the movement.
Bradley Jones and Daniel NJ. Wise,
two American scientists, are awaiting
death in an African jungle, their res
cue being pronounced hopeless.
Sugar men promise cut in price
which will save sSO,O00,O0O to the buy
ing public
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Won Papen Still At 1t.

Buenos Aires.--Some of the news
papers insist that Capt. Franz Won
Papen, German military attache at
Washington, is directing the work of
German spies here Persons whose
veracity is not doubted say the news
papers report having seen Won Papep
many times accompanying German
propagandists, and have SO reported
to the British consul.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Russian Militia Resinns

Petrograd. The entire militia,
which has been employed since the
revolution to police Petrograd. re-
signed on account of the refusal of a
demand for an increase in pay.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
PERSONAL,

Thomas J. Flynn of Chicago was
elected president of the American
Federation of Catholic Societies at a
meeting in Kansas City.
Anna Kalama, Hawaiian princess,
kicked on the rate for their taxicabs
in Chicago and was sent to jail.
William Jennings Bryan says:
There can be no peace without the
complete overthrow of Germany"
Donald B. Macmillan. the Arctic
explorer. plans to make return trip
to the frozen North in an airplane.
The pioneer British builder of air.
planes, Harold Barnwell. was killed
last week testing a new machine.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Butler of Ben.
ton, H., have only three sons and all
have gone to the war.
Because Arthur Fitzpatrick, city at.
torney OF Pana, Ill, desires to go to
war, the other lawyers of the town
have volunteered to look after his
work.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Germans Eoroed no Retire,

Berlin, via London.-The Germans
were forced out of Beaumont on the
Herdun front east Of Mouse in recent
lighting, but subsequently recaptured
the village and wooded sections, the
war Office announces. The fighting on
this sector continues.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07

Berne, Switzerland. Seventy per-
sons, including 10 foreigners, were
arrested during demonstrations here
in protesting the high cost of living.
There were several collisions between
the manifestants and the police.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
American Aviator Slain.

Washington first death of an
American naval fiier at the French
front has been announced here. He
was George Herbert Marley, Maple
wood. n. J., machinist's mate, and
was killed in an airplane accident
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
rohn of Recent Riots.

East st. Louis, Ill.-Claims agsis
eating $500. 900 have been filed agaln9.
the city of East st. Louis for danlasss
and for destruction of property az
result of the recent lace riots l e,ad
More than 80 claims have been n'''
for loss of life.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Adversely Report Bill.

Observation-Disclosures adverse
report on Senator Hardick's bill to
prohibit sending drafted trops abroad
without their consent was ordered by
the Senate Military Committee.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07

Chatham is on the east bank of the
Midway, 80 miles southeast of Lon
con. It is the seat of immense mill
tary and naval establishments, in
Guiding a vast dock yard, an arsenal
and EXTENSIVE barracks.
The term naval ratings" applies
to the grade of men on board ship,
usually those before the mast.
Dispatches from towns on the south
east coast say many inhabitants be-
lieyed the raiders were Zeppelins, as
they made much more noise than
usual for airplanes. There was heavy
firing, first at one point and then an
other, and finally heavy explosions
occurred
Shortly before o'clock explosions
and heavy firing could be heard in
the direction of Dunkirk and Calais,
and it was thought raid on large
scale was taking place along the
French coast. This lasted until near
ly midnight, when warnings were Civ
en- and shortly afterward bombs be-
gan to drop
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
TEUTONS KILL l07
IN THAMES AIR RAID
BRITISH SOLDIERS VICTIMS OF
SoRTiE BY AlRPLANEs-MA-
TERiAE DAMAGE DONE.
COAST TOWNS ARE VISITED
Reports From Southeast Show Con-
siderable Damage Done-Naval
Barracks Struck BY Bomb in
Raid Up the Thames River.

London.-One hundred and seven
persons were killed and Sc wounded
at Chatham, it is announced officially,
during an air raid
The victims were naval ratings. Six
airplanes took part in the raid. In
addition to the naval casualties one
civilian was killed and six were in
jured. The announcement follows:
Lord French Commander of the
British home forces) reports that
the air raid was carried out by about
six enemy airplanes, which proceed
ed UP the south bank of the Thames
estuary to Chatham. Bombs were
dropped in Isle of Thanet and in tho
Sheernes Chatham area between 10:40
p. m. and 1880 p. m. There were
no army casualties Civilian casual
ties reported at present are: Killed
one, injured six. The material dam
age was slight Our machines went
up and anti-aircraft guns came into
action, but without result. The secre-
tary of the admiralty reports that
in the course of the air raid the fol-
lowing casualties were caused to ma
val ratings: Killed 1O7, wounded
&c."
A dispatch to the Star from Chat
ham says that part of the naval bar
racks there was struck by bomb
during the air raid, this causing Sc
rious loss of life The Chatham dock
yard, the message states, entirely es-
capped damage.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Casualties In Aunns+-

London.-The total of British cas-
ualties on all fronts as reported in
August is 1851, divided as follows:
Killed or died of wounds, officers, l.
27S; men, 10942 Wounded or miss
ing, officers, APP; men, 49.4eO.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Spanish kino Saves Belgian.

Madrid.-Premier Dato has an
nounced that, thanks to the interVel'
ton of King Alfonso, Count Doultfe
mont, a Belgian official who was 10
Gently deported to Germany ana sen
fenced to death, has been pardoneu'
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
pershinn Leaves Paris.

Paris.-The headquarters OF MaJo1
General Pershing, the American coll.
mander, will be moved from Faris y
a point near the training camps.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
French Lake Crack Troons.

On the French Front.-Men from
the German Emperor's favorite units
from Brandenburg were captured in
the latest French attack at verdun.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Mine sweepers Sunk.

London.-Four German mine sWeep
ers were destroyed off the coast y
Jutland by British light forces 81
cording to an announcement lssu''
by the Admiralty.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Gets German Airship.

Paris. Walter Lowell of the La
fayette flying squadron has shot down
German airplane. He probably will
receive the war cross.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
so 600 Made Homeless.

London.-The first detailed account
of the fire at Saloniki says that oV'oVO
persons are homeless and that INC
property loss is enormous.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07

Coal men who, for various reasons,
have stopped the operations at their
mines will be forced to open the
works or face confiscation.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
Academia

Two men were injured in an explo-
sion on the scout patrol vessel AL
freda.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
EIRES.

Fire which did 100000 damage de
stroyed the town of LouHn, Miss.
Only two firms carried insurance.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
LABOR.

Miss Rankin of Montana has come
out flat-footedly on the side of the
strikers in recent labor troubles in
her state.
Frank Harrington, head of the Illi-
nois miners, is very much opposed to
a strike of the men at present. Work
under present contracts should be
carried out, he said.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
WAR sREviTlEs

It is said that on the Verdun- front
more artillerymen are engaged in bat
tie than infantrymen.
Twenty-three British sips were de-
stroyed by German submarines last
week
Federal authorities have given an
order for 1,O74000 gas masks for
troops in France.
Last week 1883 British men and Of
ficers lost their lives on the western
front.
A traveller arriving at a gulf port
Witnessed the destruction of Ger
man submarine and the death of four
OF its crew.
More negro troops are to be sent to
Houston, despite the recent rioting at
that place.
George Henry Manley, a member of
the aviation squad in France, met
death by accident last week
The premature explosion of shell
at Fort Sill, Ok, decaritated Charles
T. Hummell of Medicine Lake, Mo.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1917-09-07
CRIMINAL


Rev. C. w. Lewellan, pastor of the
Murphysboro (Ill) Christian church.
and his daughter are under arrest,
charged with conspiracy to defraud.
Forty Kansas City policemen who
refused to act as guards for street
railway strikebreakers, have been
fired from the force.
George Hubrecht. IA, carpenter of
st. Louis, shot and killed his wife
and then committed suicide.
Henry C. Giles, 60, for 16 years
tax collector at Melrose Park, near
Chicago, is in Jail charged with $780,
00e shortage.
In battle between officers and al
legged bootleggers at Benton, ILL.,, two
men were killed and three injured.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-03-15

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