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New-York tribune., 1917-12-23

offered offensive" peace terms the
Russians would fight against it. o.
1--WE did not overthrow Czarism TO
kneel before the Kaiser he cried.
Continuing, he said: "But if through
our exhaustion we had to accept the
Kaiser's terms we would do so to rise
with the German people against Ger
man militarism."
The report is reiterated to-day that
the Russian delegation to the peace
conference at Brest-Litoysk has been
recalled because the Germans would
not accept the Russian terms. 1t IS
"The Daily Mails" correspondent in
Petrograd who now makes this declara-
ton in a dispatch filed on Thursday
and just received.
The news reports from Petrograd in
dicate serious division in the Peas
ants Congress, which has been in ses-
sion for fortnight in Petrograd. The
right wing, led by NJ. Tohernof, III
sists that all power shall be given TO
the Constituent Assembly. which will
decide upon peace, the land question
and other reforms, while the left Is
dominated by the Soldiers and Work
mems Delegates. The latter take the
position that the Soldiers and Work
mems Delegates should be given au-
thority above that Of the Constituent
Assembly. All attempts to heal the
breach have failed. The left wing has
slight majority.
Officers OF the Baltic feet have
adopted a resolution protesting against
the latest reform, which places the SUI
preme command of the fleet in the
hands of the body of elected sailors
and makes all posts elective. The res
olution OF protest declares that the re-
form If carried out will paralyze the
feet and prevent peace on demo
cratic basis. because 10 impotent Rus
STA peace will be dictated by the i'm
perialists Of the enemy.
NJ. Tchernof, former Minister Of Ag-
riculture. and Nine. Catherine Bresh-
kovskaya and other Social Revolution
ist members Of the Constituent Assem-
bly, have proclaimed their determina-
tion not to submit to Premier Lenine
and Foreign Minister Trotzky. but 70
convene the Assembly and 10 endeavor
through it 10 carry out a programme
Of peace and land freedom.
Leon Trotzky has informed the Mos
COW representatives in the Foreign Of
fee that landed property belonging "a
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Lafayette Fliers
Get Commissions in
u. S. Air Reserve

WASHINGTON. Dec. 22-Victor
Raoul Lufbery, William Thaw and
twenty-five other Americans who have
been flying with the Lafayette squadron
have been commissioned in the aviation
reserve ot the American army on
recommendation Of General Pershing,
the adjutant general announced to-day.
Lufbery. Thaw and John +. HufTer
got commissions as majors. Commits
sions as captains were issued TO
Charles j. Biddle, Phelps Collins, Ken
meth p. Littauer, Walter Lowell. David
Mex. Paterson, Robert Soubiran, Rob-
ert l.. Rockwell and Kenneth Marr.
Dudley l.. Hill was commissioned as
CAPTAIN for service as instructor, and
these men were commissioned first
lieutenants;
Paul f. Baer, William b. Hayiland,
Charles II. Jones, Granville A. Pollock,
Leland l.. Rounds, Joseph {. Stehlln,
George +. Tunnure, ir., Frank W. Wells,
Charles II. Wilcox, Charles {. Johnson,
Charles Ii. Donal, jr., Henry S. Jones.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Canada Bars
Liquor Imports;
Will Be Dry
Manufacture of Alcoholic
Beverages To Be Stopped
Soon Until After the War

OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 22.-Importa-
tion of intoxicating liquors into Canada
after next Monday is prohibited, and
their manufacture will be prohibited
after a date to be determined later,
Premier Borden officially announced to-
day.
The Premier said there would be an
investigation and consideration Of the
conditions in the liquor industry before
the date for prohibition of manufacture
is decided upon.
Tie ban will remain in force during
the war and for one year after conclu-
sion of peace.
The action was taken, the Premier
stated, by virtue OF "the unmistakable
mandate" given the government De-
cember II (the date OF the Canadian
election) for the vigorous prosecution
Of the war and for "the employment
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Germany Starving,
Catastrophe Near"
"Vorwaerts" Warns

LONDON. Dec. 22.-According to a
Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam,
"Vorwarts,' Of Berlin, in plain
spoken attack on the system Of Herr
Won Waldow, the German Food Con-
troller, declares that great masses Of
German people not only are hungry,
but are literally starving. The paper
adds that agricultural producers and
rich residents in towns are living in
plenty, as boarding is no longer pro-
hibited.
Every war prohteer and million
aire," says the paper, "has his kitchen
and cellar full Of ham and bacon. while
the middle class ekes q precarious ex-
istence, spending all it possesses on
food; but 100000 of the masses are
starving, and are unlikely to sit silent.
ave might have within a month an
absolute catastrophe in Germany and q
collapse even worse than Russia, re.
sulting in a German defeat and loss OF
the war"
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
If Browning Gun
Fails Where Will u. S. Be7

II the Browning fails, either because
manufacturing difficulties prevent de-
liyeries on time or because il proves y
disappointment in actual fighting,
where will this country be? Lewis
guns will be made, made in large guam
titles for aircraft use, but these guns
cannot be converted for trench use in
large enough quantities TO arm l,000,-
600 men in less than five months.
The Lewis gun was not rejected out
right. IL was good enough for our Or
craft, but the capacity TO produce these
guns was not developed. The witnesses
said that il might have been increased
to 800 a day-l,600 a day are being
made in England. Not only is this true
with respect TO the Lewis. but other
factories making other types in this
country which the Allies have used and
which this country might have adopted
in an emergency are being converted
into producers Of Browning guns.
Practically the whole fate OF our
armies so far as machine guns for
trench warfare is concerned is being
stsked on the experiment with the
Browning guns. II those guns fail or
are delayed il will be months before
the Lewis guns for trench work will
be available.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Lewis Blames Crozier
Fer Shortage of Guns
Baker Plans Fuloughs for Soldiers
To Provide Workers for the Farms
[Stdf Correspondence

WASHINGTON Dec 2-Secretary of War Baker to-day tod
delegation Federation Of Farm Bureaus whch
had asked exempt skilled farm hands included IN the dra a
he is studying plan to permit boys in the assist IN
crop production. u
This pan uroughs in the spring and a
to boys from whose training had been suieh
advanced on that they return TO their homes ana "o
on the land There ompuon in their taking these work
ing vacations, however, he added
The delegation headed by L. c. Syver and representing "o
f Ner York State Mr. Baker that New YORK
farms had been depleted of harvest the by the draft and
bv the attractive manufacturing plants held out to farm
laborers.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
British Ship Here
With Gun That Hurls
Depth Bomb a Mile

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Dec. PA
British liner, long popular with the
travelling public in peace times and
recently restored to the merchant SER
vice after nearly two years or sea pa
troll as a converted cruiser, arrived here
today with seventy-six passengers
after an unevcntful voyage from Eng
land.
Conspicuous on her bow, few feet
forward of the bridge, was new type
Of submarine gun. The gun Is de-
scribed by persons familiar with its
operation as being Of the mortar type
and capable Of hurting a depth bomb
effectively for a mile. Although the
our crew operating it strives TO hit the
enemy object, il is said that the pro-
jectile Is just as effective if it strikes
the water within hundred yards Of
where a periscope has disappeared.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Germany Hastens to
Retrieve U-Boat Losses
Krupp Plant at Kiel Is Quad
rupled-Admiralty Hides
the Truth

GENEVA, Dec. 22.-The Krupps
have recently quadrupled their naval
plant near Kiel, according to dis
patch from Berlin by way OF Berne TO
la Suisse"
This was done at the request of the
German government for the purpose
Of making up losses in submarines,
which. .he dispatch asserts, have been
heavier than the German Admiralty
admits
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Two Norwegian Ships
Torpedoed; Many Killed

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 22.-The Nor
wegian Foreign Office to-day an
nounced that the Norwegian steamer
Ingrid II had been torpedoed and thaV
only four members Of her crew were
saved. The Norwegian steamer borg
sten also has been torpedoed and two
Of her sailors were killed.
The Ingrid II was Of l,145 gross
tonnage. The steamer Borgsten IS
listed at 1,71S tons. She left an At
lantic port last April.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Bolshevik Minister Declares
Russia Will Fight "Ofen-
sive" Peace
Serious Split in
Peasants Congress
Officers Of Baltic Fleet
Oppose Control by
Elections

LONDON, Dec. 22.-Leon Trotzky,
the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, in ad-
dressing the Council Of Soldiers and
Workmen, says a Petrograd dispatch,
declared that if the German Emperor
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Fifty Million Needed
For War Deficiency

WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. - Almost
$50. 900 900 IN further appropriations
TO complete war preparations during
the present fiscal year has been asked
in deficiency estimates submitted to
Congress since the holiday recess be-
gan last Tuesday.
The navy alone has asked for more
than S45. 600 900 of this. and the largest
single item is $15,450,500 for naval
ordnance and ordnance stores.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
U-Boat Sinks Armed
British Ship; 6 Officers
And 95 Men Lost

LONDON, Dec. %. The British armed
steamer Stephen Furness has been tor
pedoed and sunk by a German sub
marine in the Irish Channel. 1t was
oficially announced to-day. Six officers
and ninety-fve men we're lost.
Tho Stepben Furness was a merchant
man Of l.7l2 tons gross, built IN !9Io
AT West Hartlepool and owned by thee
TYNE Tees Shipping Company, Ito, OF
Newcastle. She was one OF the man man
Merchantmen that have been rehtted
b,, the Admiralty for naval uses.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Reed Committee
Rebufs Hoover
At Sugar Inquiry
Refuses to Accept His Re-
view of Food Boards
Record
[Staf Correspondence

WASHINGTON. Dec. 22.-The Reed
committee investigating for the SEN
ate the sugar shortage, to-day post
poned Food Administrator Hooyer's ap-
pearance before the committee for an
other week and refused to include IN
the record of the hearings a statement
prepared by Mr.. Hoover, explaining the
food administration sugar control
record. A supplementary request by
the food administrator for permission
10 make his statement public was ig-
nored by the committee, with the result
that it has been withheld from publica-
tion.
After some conference among the
committee members, Senator Reed,
chairman of the committee, and
Hoover's sharpest critic. announced
that Hoover's statement would not be
admitted 10 the record prior to an ap-
pearance before the committee. but
added that the food administrator
would have an opportunity with other
witnesses in his turn.
Sugar Growers Heard
The committee devoted its time to-
dav TO hearing the beet sugar and
Louisiana sugar growers. Nothing Of
outstanding Importance developed ex-
cent that the growers took advantage
of their opportunity before the COM
rjttee to laurch an attack on the re-
fners.
The continued postponement Of Food
Administrator Hoover's testimony be-
fore the Reed committee is beginning
TO cause no small amount OF adverse
comment On the one hand, 1t Is al
legged that the Senate committee, prob
ing for scandal, fears to have made
public at this time the Hoover state
ment. for it would have the effect of
bringing the hearings 20 a close with
out the development Of the much want
ed scandal.
What the majority of the committee
wants brought out IN complete discus
sion is the price-fxing policy followed
By the sugar experts of the food ad-
riEistration. They do not want 20
show that price fixing was used to the
advantage of one group and the disad-
vantage Of another as much as they
want 70 show that the fundamental pol
icy Of fixing prices is economically
wrong.
THIS is the main reason for the post
ponement of the Hoover testimony.
Commenting on this before the COM
mittee to-day, Judge c. II. Lindley,
head Of the legal division OF the food
administration, stated that he had. on
several occasions, urged that Mr.. Hoo
yer be permitted to make his statement
at the earliest possible moment, but
had been informed each time that Mr..
Hoover's testimony was not wanted
until "some later date"
Following the delay of last week,
Judge Lindley said, Mr.. Hoover had
sent to the committee a written state
ment covering the entire subject. Sub
sequently. Judge Lindley said, he had
been told that, by majority vote, the
committee had declined to incorporate
Mr.. Hoover's statement in the records.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
information Sent by Per-
sons on Ships for Neu-
trail Countries
Code Messages
In Invisible Ink
Many Face Arrest in
Scheme Uncovered by
Customs Officials

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-Opera-
tion Of system Of regular communi-
cation between the United States and
Germany, Austria and European neu-
trails was disclosed to-day by announce
ment Of customs officials that within
the last two weeks they have found
scores of letters containing inscriptions
in invisible ink or code phrases in the
clothing or personal effects OF ships
crews bound to or from Scandinavian
ports. Swedes and Norwegians were
most prominent in the traffic, and about
one-ffth of the letters were of suspi-
cious character.
Scores Of the letters now are under
scrutiny, and investigations being made
probably will result in arrests of a
number of persons on charges Of vio-
lating provisions of the trading-with-
the-enemy act forbidding transmission
Of communication to or from the coun-
try except in the regular course of the
mail or under license by customs au-
thorities or the War Trade Board.
Officials suspect that crews of yes
sells plying between the United States
and Northern European neutral ports
have carried many letters from German
spies in this country, the documents
being sent to Germany from the neutral
port at which they are landed.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Test That Drove .
Lewis to Europe

For this amazing situation the only
explanation given by the witness was
the prejudice and personal feeling
against himself Of General Croker.
After due allowance is made for the
inventors temperament in the story the
colonel told the explanation seems i'm
pressive. A striking bit of evidence
was the letter from Il former chief
signal service officer who had proposed
70 test the Lewis guns from an air
plane, the colonel TO furnish the guns
and the aviator free. General Croxier
stepped in and blocked the test by res
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
foreigners is subject 70 confscation
equally with that of Russians.
Great Battle Reported
Raging in Petrograd
By United Press

STOCKHOLM, Dec. pa great bat
tie is raging in the streets Of Petro-
grad, according to dispatches received
here from the Russian capital to-day.
Four army corps refused to obey the
orders of the Bolshevik government to
leave the city. Troops loyal to the Le-
nine -Trotzky powers were sent against
them, and fighting soon became heavy.
The battle was still IN progress when
the latest dispatches were filed.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23

Ukrdinidn troops occupying head
quarters on Southwestern and Ru-
ntanian fronts and moving forwdrd
in Russia TO meet Bolsheriki. Page 5.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Plant at
Essen Reported
ToBe in Flames
Big German n Munition s
Works Nearly Destroyed,
Holland Hears

MAESTRICHT. Holland, Dec 81
British Admiralty, per Wireless Press.
-Workmen from Essen, Germany, say
that the Krupp plant, the great German
munitions establishment, has been
ablaze for twenty-four hours.
LONDON. Dec. %. A dispatch TO the
Exchange Telegraph Company from
Amsterdam quotes the Echo Beige as
follows:
THE Krupp plant in Essen is afre.
Dutch workmen have been ordered to
return to Holland"
AMSTERDAM, Dec. pa dispatch
from the frontier TO the "Telegraaf"
says it is learned from Dutch workmen
that an explosion occurred in the cleo
trio power station at the Krupp plant in
Essen, owing 10 a short circuit. The
building is reported to have been dam
aged seriously.
The plant AZ Essen. the main estab-
lishment of the Krupps, the largest
manufacturers in Germany OF arms and
munitions, employed about $4,000 men
before the war IL has been expanded
greatly during the war. Facts relating
to its present size and the number OF
workmen are kept secret by the German
government.
1t was reported unoficially in Octo-
Der of last year that about 10000 per-
sons, including several thousand wom-
en-, were at work there, and that 10000
were 70 be added TO the force.
Early this year there was strike at
the Krupp works, said TO have been due
20 a lack Of food. 1t was reported that
10000 workers were involved, and that
the authorities combated it by sending
many Of the men to the front, but little
authentic information was permitted 20
come out OF Germany.
Essen is in Rhenish Prussia, about
forty miles from the Dutch border.
Few places in Germany are guarded
more carefully.
No persons unknown TO the German
authorities are permitted to visit the
town. The plant has been raided sew
eral times by French and British air
men. notwithstanding its formidable
snti-aircraft defences. Press dispatches
last July said 100 persons there had
been killed in a raid by French air
planes. and that considerable damage
had been done TO the works.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Scheme Well Organized


Evidence that the channels of COM
munication have been kept open ever
since the United States entered the
was has been uncovered, and ofhcials
suspect that much of the information
which the German government is known
70 have received concerning war prep
arations in America has been trans
mitted under a well organized scheme
directed by subjects of neutral coun-
tries, assisted by some Americans.
Twenty per cent of the letters writ
ten in the United States or on ship
board and heretofore sent to Europe
by messenger or by a member Of the
ships crew have been found to bear
messages in invisible ink, or TO contain
code or cryptic phrases suspected OF
holding hidden meaning.
The discoveries were made by Gus
toms officials after promulgatlon. sew
eral weeks ago, Of regulations under
the trading with the enemy act for
bidding transmission Of cOmmunlca-
tions to or from the United States ex-
cept through the regular course OF the
mails. or under license of customs au-
thorities and the War Trade Board.
Until the regulations were promul-
gated the prohibition against such com
munication had not been enforced
strictly, although customs inspectors
and Secret Service agents had seized
many communications of dangerous
nature on ships leaving or arriving at
American ports. Extra precautions un-
der the new rule resulted in the round
up OF many more letters than IT had
previously been thought were carried
by messenger.
Letters Found in Ships
When the rules were established a
strict system of inspection OF shlps,
their crews and cargoes was begun, and
the dangerous nature OF many com
munications found on shipboard was
Immediately discovered.
Before incoming ships were permit
ted to dock crews were mustered and
their clothing and other personal ef-
fects examined carefully. Shore leave
was given only by special license, and
every precauron taken TO insure
against secret passage OF letters from
the vessel TO shore.
This action, taken suddenly without
notice TO the crews, caused the dlseov-
cry of many letters which Heretofore
had been concealed successfully. These
were subjected TO examination by chem
lists and code experts, and one IN ilve
was found suspicious.
Most messages in invisible ink ap-
parently we're only personal communi-
cations from persons in the United
States TO friends or relatives in Ger
many, and although specifically they
bore no evidence of carrying valuable
information to the enemy, they were
held UP on the ground that they might
be dangerous.
Evidence gathered thus far leads Off
cials 10 believe some neutral subjects,
aided by Americans, have made con-
siderable money by promoting the clan
destine traffic in communications 10
eyade the British censorship Of mails
before and after the United States en-
tered the war. These are now subject
TO criminal prosecution, with penalty
of $4,000 fine and ten years impris-
onment.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
wEATH e r

Fair and continued cold to-day and to-
morrow; fresh northwest
winds, diminishing.
Full Report on Page 4,
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
"A SOLDIER OF LIFE"


 By Hugh de selincourt. The Macmillan company. publishers, New York. Hugh de Selincourt in his story. "A Soldier of Life" has done an altogether unusual piece of work. The story has to do with the condition of man who returns from the war crip- pied. and who must readjust himself with ylife. The strength of the story lies in it's characted drawing and in its vivid pre- I sentation of war, particularly it's after ef- fects. The hero. James Wood. is por- trayed with astonishing reality: the reader sees his vain endeavors to get hold of himself, to keep In line his over
 wrought nerves and the hallucinations
 which they induce The effect of Wood s somewhat unbalanced state of mind upon his love affairs. his gradual restoration 1 to health and the problem which this cerates in the various human relation |; ships involved complete novel valuable
 not only from the psychological stand point, but one in which the story inter est" itselfe never lags. OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (RE- VIEWS LATER). "GULLIBLES TRAVELS" By Ring w. Lardner. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. The Bobbs-Merrill company, publishers, Indianapolis. |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
HAVE ROSY CHEEKS AND FEEL FRESH AS
 A DAISY-TRY THIS! Says glass of hot water with phosphate before breakfast
 washes out poisons.

To see the tinge of healthy bloom in land clearer, to wake up without a lheadache, backache, coated tongue or Q nasty breath, in fact to feel your best, Iday In and day out. just try inside bath ling every morning for one week.
 ] Before breakfast each day, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoon full of limestone phosphate in it as a harmless means of washing from the stomach liver kidneys and bowels tho previous days indigestible waste, sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing, sweet ening and purifying the entire alimen- ,tary canal before putting more fcod in to the stomach. The action of hot water and limestone phosphate on an empty stomach Is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans out all the sour lamentations, gases and acidity and gives one splen- did appetite for breakfast.
 quarter pound of limestone phos- phate will cost very little at the drug store but Is sufficient to demons stra te that just as soap and hot water cleanses, sweetens and freshens the skin, so hot water and limestone phos- phate act on the blood and internal or gans. Those who are subject to consti- patton, bilious attacks, acid stomach, rheumatic twinges, also those whose skin is sallow and complexion pa1lid, are assured that one week of inside bathing will have them both looking and feeling better in every way.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
THE THoRouGHBREp. :,

By Henry Mitchell Webster. Illustrated by w. B. King. The Bobbs-Merrill company, publishers, Indianapolis.
 In striking contrast to the vital large natured, efficient Rose" of MT. Web sters earlier novel, ''The Great Adven- true, is the heroine of ""The Thorough bred, his latest novel.
 Celia" who is ''the thoroughbred is punt on smaller, heater scale, and the author having worked over her character and finally to his own liking solved her, gives her forth as a breathing, real, live woman in the story.
 The Thoroughbred tells of the AL fred Blairs, who live in a suburb of Chicago, in well-to-do comfort, Celia, the wife, being an attractive young wom-