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New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Labor
Conference Soon
Will Be Called
British and French Are
Determined to Solidify
Their Aims

LONDON. Dec. 30.-The British La
bor party is taking steps to folio" up
tho campaign for the solidarity OF the
workmen of the Entente Allies nations
in which a beginning has been made
by the French and British labor or
panizatiors IN framing their war AIMS
The next action contemplated Is an
assembly Of The inter-Alllcd labor con
ferences. y,..
The views Of the American Fedora
tion of Labor will be invited as
conference without American particI-
ration would be useless.
The Central News says that IN yes
terdqy's conference between Premier
Lloyd George and the labor leaders
the Premier made 1T clear that any
proposal that British labor put for.
ward can be dealt with by the Allied
Governments as n whole. Mr. Lloyd
George said that as far as Great Brit
ain was concerned there wOuld be no
separate peace, and he emphasized the
understanding between the Entente
powers that peace was Impossible
while the militarists ruled Germany,
the Central News concluded.
The negotiations that are proceed
ing between Premier Lloyd George and
the laborites over the governments
programme to obtain more men for the
army are regarded as highly impor-
tant. The Premier is asking for the
cancellation of exemption Of certain
classes of labor, which the Asquith
government gave the laborites when
conscription was introduced.
II was then intimatcd by the gov
ernment that events might make the
withdrawal Of exemptions necessary.
The laborites now are disposed to urge
upoa the government the acceptance Of
their war aims platform as the price
for the acceptance Of additional con-
-,rfpftou
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31

Austrian prisoners Of war, held in Pet
rograd Saturday for the purpos@ OF or
ganizing an international propaganda
among the prisoners OF Russia, and at
which Hungarian officer named Rud-
niansky was elected president. Rudni-
ansky said:
Thanks TO the Russian revolution, |
can speak my innermost thoughts free
ly. Our first thought now Is general
peace and freedom for all nations. Let
Russian freedom teach Us TO obtain a
like freedom at home"
The first speaker, Czech, made a
violent attack upon Count Czernin, the
Austro- Hungarian Prime Minister. who
recently outlined the Austro- German
peace terms at Brest-Litovsk, charac-
terizing Czernin's programme of self
definition within the limits of the Aus
trian constitution as an imperialistic
fraud.
"If separate peace is luded."
he said. eve shall be sen. > fight
against the Italians, French and othel
Allies. That we will not do. There
was gendarme Of Europe, the Russian
Gar, but he was oyerpowered. There
remains another eendarnfe, the dynasty
of the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzol-
lcrns, who, too, must be overthrown."
During the meeting Trotzky's official
newspaper. "The Torch was distlib-
uted freely, and eagerly read by the
assemblage. Speeches were made by
Czechs, Poles, Slovenes and Austrian
Serbs.
In the course of an interview Baron
Keyseilingk, discussing the details Of
the enforcement of an armistice in the
White Sea and Arctic Ocean. said that
the Russian representatives insisted
that Russia must be protected against
submarines. Baron Keyserlinck took
the position that the Russian feet must
remain inactive and that movements of
German naval supply ships must cease.
The Germans asked for three days re-
cess in order to communicate with Ber-
lin before replying.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31

PARIS, Dec. f0.-In an interview
with VI. Gustave Herve, the Socialist
editor and publisher Of "La Nictoire,'
Lord NorthcliiFe. shortly after his ar
rival in this city, declared that it was
the German propaganda in America
that delayed the entrance Of the
United States into the war. He said:
During the first period Of the war
many people in Europe were losing
their patience with America on account
of what they believed TO be the slow
ness Of the Americans in joining in the
great crusade.
"As far as ! am concerned, ] have
so often travelled through the various
sections of the United States, which
differ from each other as much as the
various countries of Europe. and |
know so we'll the gigantic force of Ger
man propaganda among the people
100000 of whom, it is said, are OF
German origin, that never shared
this impatience.
Consult the Telephone Book
Consult the telephone book of
typical city like Cleveland and you
will find that only IS per cent are what
you may call Americans of America.
The rest are German-Americans Aus
trian-Americans. Hungarians, Poles,
Greeks. Ruthenes. Slovaks, Croats,
Swedes. some negroes and certain types
Of ill-defined nationalities, few Eng
lishmen. Scotchmen, Frenchmen and
Irishmen-this is the strange melange
which VI. Roosevelt calls our polyglot
boarding house
at was an easy task for German
propagandists to convince a population
ct such n kind, a certain portion OF
which left Europe only IN order 10
escape the war and military service,
that France. England and Italy have
thrown themselves on poor little Ter
MANY with motives of revenge, con-
quest and commerce.
"Lonc before the Allies learned the
entire Importance Of the press, moving
pictures and words whispered IN the
car. the GermGns-thanks to their
LEGAL residents, their cousuis, their
steamship companies, their insurance
companies. their banks and their brew
eries-began a violent propaganda
against the Allies in America. But IN
order to struggle against these sym
pathies. which were spreading every
where. the majority Of Americans OF
America, like DR.. Eliot. president OF
Harvard University; Roger Bacon. who
is now member Of the General stan
Of the American army, and Colonel
Roosevelt. were expressing themselves
eloouently in favor of immediate IN
teryontion.
when the Americans began 20 un-
derstand the real character OF Ger
many their anger continually increased,
rot only because of Germany's offences
against their liberty and democracy but
also on account of the treachery OF
Won Bernstorff and the other German
guests of the Republic against the ma
tion which was receiving them. Il IS
thus that they entered the war with
an entirely American enthusiasm, de-
rmination and tho-oughness.
Although they entered the war with
out any preparation. with the eZcep-
ton of the navy, which is excellent in
certain respects, they have succeeded
in six months in forming an army OF
million and a quarter soldiers, many
of whom are daily arriving in France.
Points TO Naval Increase
"They have tripled the personnel Of
their navy, they have rapidly construct
ed great number Of naval units, they
have built gigantic factories for the
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
us. Troops Kill 6 Mexicans

EAGLE PASS, Tex, Dec. 30-At
least six Mexican bandits were killed
in a fight with United States troops
and Texas Rangers on Saturday at San
jose. Mexico, opposite the lrdlo
ranch, twenty miles south OF Eagle
Pass, according TO an official statement
here to-day at military headquarters.
The Americans had crossed into Mex
leo on the trail Of Mexican cattle
thieves. There were no american cas-
ualties.
After the bandits, said 20 have num-
bered fifty. were routed the Americans
returned to the Texas side. The pur-
suit Of a "hot trail" across the border
followed u series of raids on the Indio
ranch, in which il is estimated that a
thousand or more head of cattle had
been driven across the Rio Grande.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
British Prisoners Interned
More Than 600 Reach Switz-
erland From Germany

OTTAWA, Ontario. Dec. 30.-A
Reuter- dispatch from Zurich, Switzer-
land, received at the Ottawa agency
to-day, states that a party of British
war prisoners, consisting of eighty
four officers and 554 men, has arrived
there from Germany.
The officers, including Brigadier
General Victor Williams, Of the Cana
dian expeditionary force. are going 10
Montreux and Vevey. The men will
be interned az Chateau Dock.
The party on the whole looked well,
the dispatch said, those interned in
North Germany appearing to have had
much worse time than those in South
Germany.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Says Captives Eat
Grass in Germany
1,500 Died in Month of Star
walton, Declares Canadian
Back From Prison Camp

MONTREAL, Dec. 30.-Captiycs in
German prison camps eating rrass,
starving German civilians beseeching
the prisoners 20 sell them food. a pris- %
oner bayonetted for trying TO save
others from burning TO death these
were some of the horrors recounted by
Alexandra Fontaine, once captive Of
the raider Moewe, who arrived here
from Europe to-day.
Fontaine is a sixt-year-old French
Canadian farmer In November, 1916,
he saw an advertisement for foreman
to accompany horses the transport
Mount Temple. He was engaged and
they sailed November 26 Ten days
later, when nearing the Irish coast,
they encountered a vessel which opened
fire on them, killing three sailors.
The captain signalled surrender and
the crew was taken aboard the raider,
which turned out to be the Moewe.
For fifteen days the captives were
kept in the dark. sufocating hold,
sleeping with their clothes soaking in
bilge water and being allowed out for
air only one hour a day.
They were then transferred {, cap
tured American ship, which landed
them at Swnemunde, and they were
hurried of to the prison eamD at Bran
denburg, where Fontaine spent eight
months.
IL have seen starving men eat grass
there he said. "Over fifteen hundred
prisoners died Of starvation in a month.
and but for the Red Cross supplies We
would all have been dead The civil
population appeared to be starving also.
for they besought US to sell them bis
cults. The German guards we're bru.
tai. saw one bsyonct a prisoner who
tried 20 save other prisoners from a
burning building in which a hundred
lost their lives"
Fontaine was made to dig graves be-
hind the trenches until crippled with
rheumatism, when he was exchanged
as an incapacitated prisouer
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Pan-German Press
Urges Berlin People
To Hiss Kuehlmann
Calls Him Betrayer of Army
Secretary to Report to the
Kaiser on Peace Farley

LONDON, Dec. 3O.-According to an
Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company, DR.. Richard Won
Kuehlmann, the German Foreign Sec
retary, is expected to reach Berlin to-
day on his return from the peace nego-
tiations. He is to be received imme-
diately by the Emperor, and after that
will probably visit Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg's headquarters.
The Pan-German papers, says the
dispatch, invite their readers to hiss
Won Kuehlmann when he arrives in
Berlin for "betraying the German
army"
Macmillan Harden asserts that AL
SAGE cannot be considered an obstacle
to DeaCe.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Belgian ENJOY in Petrograd
Calls German 7 TernlS Useless

LONDON, Dec. 2r--The Belgian Min
lster at PctIoErac is quoted by the
Exchange Telegraph corrc spondent
there as having declared the German
peace proposals TO be unacceptable. A
return 20 the status quo ante belluM
would not solve q single problem of the
war, m the minister's opinion. lie
added. the dispatch says. that the pro-
posed terms failed TO indicate any
means for the prevention Of future con
ficts or for the removal Of the causes
which brought on the present war.
As for the indemr fcation of Bel
GUM. the minister POINTED out that this
had been promised by the Allies.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
New Device of Death
For Each Year of War

The war has produced one great
new implement of destruction for
every year of its existence.
In 1914, the 42-centimctre gun, which
rendered all previous Notifications
usel, $.
In 1915. poison gas. which added
fresh terror 10 war.
IN 1916, the tank" which helped
break the German line on the Somme.
In 1917. the depth bomb, which is
conquering the submarine.
And in 1918. the new instrument Of
destruction will be?
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Chinese Trying to Send
Troops to VIodiuostok

SHANGHAI, Dec 30.-"The North
China Daily News" says the situation
at Harbin, Manchuria, is serious. The
newspaper says also that Bolshevik dis
orders have occurred at Nladvostok and
that the Chinese are endeavoring 70
send troops there.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Press of Allies Will Get
Bakers Weekly Reports

WASHINGTON. Dec. 80. For the
rrst time since Secretary Baker began
issuing his weekly summaries OF the
war situation. copies of this weeks
statement are 90 bc sent abroad by
radio to be distributed TO European
papers.
The document will be turned over 20
the Navy Department tomorrow for
transm issioi 20 various capitals whore
il will be made available 10 the British.
French and other papers on the same
date IL Is relea(d Tor publication in
The United Statcc
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Fierce Fighting at Hkutsk;
City Reporte 1 To Be Afre

LONDON, Dec. 30.-Correspondents
a. Reuters Limited at Pek.ng, Hardin
and Petrograd report fighting at
Irkutsk. East Siberia. between regular
troops and Red Guards and Cossacks
and military cadets. The fighting is Of
the hercest character and has lasted
nearly a week. The entire town is said
10 be afrc. Some quarters have been
destroyed
The local branch Of the State Bank
the telegraph Office and other build
lngs have been burned. The popula-
ton rs starving The Maximalists have
received rcinforcements from Kras-
uOyarsk.
The dispatches add that the Red
Guards have murdered the French
consular agent and two other French
men I'm lrkutsk.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Ship Stranded; Crew Saved

AN ATLANTIC PORT. Dee. 30.-An
unknown steamer stranded oil the
coast here last night in a suowstorm
and a northwest gale estimated at from
sixty to eighty miles an hour 4 hfc-
saving GROW got line 10 the vessel.
and reports late to-day indicated that
the crew had been saved. Two un-
identified steamers and a tug, sup
posed to be the W. B. Keene, with two
barges, were forced 20 anchor. They
were reported in good shape.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Czernin Goes to
Vienna to Discuss
Results of Parlev

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 30.-A dispatch
from Vienna states that Count Ger
ran. spokesman for the Central Powers,
lcft Brcst-Litovsk or Friday evening
for Vienna 10 discuss with the author
itios the result OF the FIRST conference
with the Russian peace delegates.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Bessarabia Declares
Its independence

fETROGRAD. Dec. -Bessarabia
gas declared its independence as the
VI aolda'ian Republic. 90 form "a part of
ihc Russian Federated Rcpublic.
bessarabia is a government OF south
western Russia, adjoining Rumania.
About half the Inhabitants are Ru-
monlans The population is in the
ncirhborhood Of 100000. Kishincv
is the capital OF Bossarabia. which
has an area Of about $4,000 square
miles.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31


while tho rovcrs of thc QuadruplV Al
fancc will ,.;,ba,a,y ,beirs from Po-
.,r;,cirios
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of The Russian government when mas
declared tho RIGHT Of Al peoples living
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the other empire or theIi to'm"Voh
into irdcpcrdcrt states.
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r,llitis, pa the territories when are
voting shall not be permissible until
.bt. ,,,,.,icr 10 5ocidcd Tho cavern
80,
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ne hands of representatives OF the
local populations, elected ccmocrau-
cnily. The date of evacuation and other
circumstance and the oommcntemen'
Oft ocmor.H1at on OF the army a.. TO be
Nct by special military commission.
Germany then proposed the following
form Ton The FIRST articles of a preiIm-
mary treaty which ls 20 be concluded;
Flrst Russia and Germany arc 60
declare the state Of War at an end
Both nations are resolved TO live
together i'm the future in peace and
friendship on condition Of complete
reciprocity. Germany will be ready as
soon as peace is concluded with Russia
and the decentralization Of the Russian
armies has been ACCOMPLISHED 10 cvac-
nate her present positions I'm occuu.cd
puseisr t.rritorv in so far ne no 5if-
fcrcnt infcrcrccs reegIt from, Article .
second Trc Gussian royrrrmcrt
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me hussiah government recognizes
mann 'Sta''ons must ng regarded as ah
eNpi iesslon oi tne viii OF t'e PSopIe'
ana is ready 10 ara" conclusions ihett-
rom, 3' in 'hoSe "lSlI'c'S u" WIT. g."
tne loIeto.Nk SUP ul'' NhS Apply, inc
V'o. lo. OF t'AVD.' %" Is Ho' S"'h aII
Io.loeo lot iI A.l.e.c l. a pNCial
ooIli''ss ION S""'l u'sSu SuSS ana "N lIt
t.N' ana otlSr "o'"'l, ln COM on mug
ana ln accoIoahte WIN the Russian
i9c@ OF the necessary rauhcatIon oy q
plehlsc!ie on broad INES. ana without
'ny mintarF pressure Whatever OF the
already eAls'Ihs pIocl"ma'ioh OF sepa-
l,r etote,.e,t az '''' N"''''' '''''' ''''''
mo Ruetisr 8e,ocatiop took cocni-
-arce NJ fbose Statements and So. forth
i,s s.endnoint os foiioy.s.
Coz it.r5,oirt is tbe+ only ercb
,.,,,;Sas.,tio,, ~ ,,.;ii can bo 'rc,orJoJ
a.. 80 o,rvoss;o, of tbo al 81
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New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Moscow's Rail Connection
With South Cut, No
Food Arriving
Former Member
Of Duma Murdered
Petrograd School Teachers
Go on Strike Against
Bolsheviki

LONDON. Dec go telegram re-
ceived in Petrograd from Novo Tcher-
kask, capital of the territory Of the
Don Cossacks, announces that General
Kaledinc, who recently resigned as
Hetman Of The Cossacks on the ground
that there was opposition to him at the
front has been reelected by 562 out Of
q total Of C3S votes.
Moscow reports that railway commu-
nication with the South has been
stopped sections Of the tracks have
been destroyed and that no food sup
plies are arriving.
The PctYOgrad Den states that the
Cossack leader Karaulof. former men,
Der Of the Ima, and his brother have
been murdered while journeying from
Nladikavkaz. in Caucaucasia, TO Yeka-
tcriuodar 20 attend q Cossack military
gathering.
PetrOgrad Teachers Strike
All teachers. male and female, in the
municipal schools of Petrograd have
gone on strike as a protest against the
IIONtfl4IRS bl lilt lAb4o mi s+AAA A4i
tend 20 remain away from the schools
pending the opening Of the Constituent
Assembly.
II is reported that AN autonomous
government has been formed in Turke-
stan. with VI. Tynyssavaiff, member
of the second Duma, as Premier.
The Siberian District Congress at
Tomsk has elected a provisional gov
eminent headed by President Potanin.
with a coalition cabinet which includes
Constitutional Democrats.
The Bolshevik organ "Izvestia" in
sists on new elections Of delegates TO
the Constituent Assembly in districts
where those chosen "do not express
popular will" such IS constituencies
where social revolutionaries and mem
bers of the right have been returned.
Ukrainian Delegates Get Support
The Petrograd Council of Peoples
Commissaries has issued a statement
supporting the Council of Soldiers and
Werkmen's Delegates Of Ukraine,
which has been established in opposi
tion to the Ukrainian Rada as "the
truly popular power and the real gov
eminent of this territory.
u promises the new government its
fraternal support in "all works Of
peace" such as the handing over OF
land, factories, workshops and banks
10 the working classes.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Marconi Heads Mission

ROME, Dec. 3O-Willam Marconi,
inventor Of the wireless. has been ap-
pointed Italian High Commissioner to
the United States.
Senator Marconi was member of
the Italian mission which visited the
United States last spring. After his
return he served on the staff Of Gen
eral Daz, the Italian commander in
chief, giving special attention TO the
wireless system at the front.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31

s. Petrograd dispatch of Thursday
said the peace negotiations had been
postponed FOR ten days to give the En-
teute nations opportunity 20 indicate
whether they would participate. A
message from Brest-Litoysk on the
same day spoke of the continuation Of
the discuss ons. and apparently infOr-
NAL negotiations are being conducted
.lurinc. fhc recess
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
I4o Broadway

FIrrn Av, Oyvrc, MADISON AYR. OTrcr
Fifth Ave. & 43rd ST. Madison Ave. & Doth s..
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-08-29
Find Difficulty In Filling
German Ranks

Copenhagen. Aug. 26.-The
difficulty which Germany is ex
periencing in obtaining men TO
fill the ranks is shown by an in.
terpellation presented in the
reichstag by Deputy Davidson
calling attention to the practice
OF the military authorities in re-.
calling to the service pensioners
who have been discharged for
disabilities. The interpelIon
says men receiving pensions for
nifty per cent or more of total
disability, and even crlpples to
whom supplementary pensions
have been granted are Being
constantly forced into the armv
again and that in some cases
men are taken from hospitals
before their treatment is com.
pleted.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-08-29

The Italians are still pressing
their offensive against the Aus
trians who are slowly but surely
being driven back by the resist
less onslaught. The French
continue their successes in the
west, and the other fronts are re-
ported quiet. There is much
peace talk and it is reported that
the betting in Wall Street has
been five to one that the war
will end within sixty days. This
10 entirely too early. how
ever. in our opinion. We see
no chance for peace before next
summer. No German peace
will be considered by the Allies,
and some hard fighting IS ahead
before Germany is thoroughly
licked.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-08-29

A law ought to be passed
making it a misdemeanor to
shovel dirt into a public road in
heaps. 1t IS not hard to realize
that we are a long way from a
satisfactory method of building
roads when one rides over roads
that have been made worse by
the seml-arnual, so-called road
work. A few burrows are plowed
in the bitches and the dirt and
rocks are thrown into the road
with absolutely no regard for
making the road smooth. The
hands" are warned out when
the road is as dry as bone and
the required number of days are
spent, and then it's.aIl over, ex-
cept the dust or the mud as the
case may be. One man and two
good mules with a road drag can
do more at the right tine in half
a day than a dozen hands with
shoVelS can do in a whole day.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-08-29
Three Sons in Service

Mr.. Will Elkins and family
left early Sunday morning after
a visit to his parents, Rev. & Mrs.
J. w. Elkins. MIR Elkins has
joined the Officers Reserve at
Fort Oglethrope.
Lieutenant Reid Elkins paid a
short visit to his parents last
week. He has just returned
from Fort Oglethorpe where he
won his spurs" as End lieuten
ant in the Cavalry. He will be
stationed in Columbia where
he will train recruits at the Can
tonment.
Mr.. Paul Elkins is at Camp
Sewer in the Ambulance CORDS.
so IT seems that Mr.. and Mrs.
Elkins are doing their bit" for
Uncle Sam" bv giving him
three boys.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-08-29

One day last week a man to
whom our face was familiar but
who was unable to call our
name walked up and looked us
over and asked, bv way of strik.
ing up a conversation Are you
practicing law in Union county
now" We hardly knew whether
to thank him for compliment
or to hit him for inSinuations.