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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-02-18

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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
ATTACKS AGAINST FRENCH
POSITIONS ARE REPULSED
Violent Artillery Duel North Of Aisne
Results In Germans Being
RepuIsed.

London, March 1.-THE Germans
north Of the Aisne have been engaged
in a violent artillery duel with the
French. Northwest of Rheims and
near Bezonvaux attacks against the
French positions were attempted but
repulsed. The French on the other
hand carried out successful surprise
attacks on the German trenches. Ber-
lin admits the retirement Of the Ger
mans before the British near Irles.
On the Russian front there have been
only minor operations and artillery
activity. There Is still no news con-
corning the situation In Roumania.
Local artillery actions m in prog
ress along the entire Austro-Italian
front. An unofficial dispatch reports
the sinking Of the Danish steamer
Rosborg. while on q voyage from Bal
timore to Denmark. Six members of
the crew were killed. The dispatch
does not state whether the steamer
was sunk by a submarine or a mine.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
PR0GRESSNES PLAN FOR
LEAGUE OF LIBERALS
Invitation to Members Of All Parties
Is Extended BY Acting Chairman
Of Party.

New York, March IS. - Announce
ment that negotiations are under way
with Progressive Republicans. Demo
Gratis, Prohibitionists, Socialists and
representatives of other parties ito
meet with a committee of Progress
sives and discuss plans for the for
nation Of a League of Liberals" is
made by Matthew Hale, acting chair
man OF the Progressive National com
mittee, in issuing a call for a conven-
ton of enrolled members OF that par
ty in st. Louis April IL, 13 and IA.
Mr.. Hale asserted that the radical
Ism OF the Frogressives OF 1912 now
had largely become the law Of the
land" The Solid South, he said;
would yield only to a third party.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
FREIGHTER REPORTED SUNK

New York, March IA report is
current in shipping circles that the
8-700-ton freight steamship Ohio fly
Ing the French flag has been tor.
pedoed. The vessel left here Feb.
ruary 10 and is overdue in Havre. The
French line said 1t had no confirma.
ton of the report but had cabled for
Information. The Ohio, one Of the
largest freighters in the Allied serv.
ice. was well armed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
Sights Teuton Raider in Sea Lane.

Sights Teuton Raider in Sea Lane.
New York, March 10.-The presence
Of q vessel suspected as a German
raider in the Q lane travej1d by ships
running between New Yoiisand Medi
terranean ports has be1f. fported by
Capt. d. M. Nicoll OF ~ American
steamer Suruga. whichk krived here
from Havre and the Azores. Captain
Nicoll said that when the Suruga was
north or the Azores In the direct track
OF the New York-Mediterraxean trade
he sighted . strange vessel bearing
down upon him. The vessel steam
"a complstsly around the suruga-
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
TEUTONS MAY OFFER PEACE
ANOTHER PRoFFER WOULD NOT
SURPRISE OFFICIALS.
Fall of Bagdad and Serious Ford
Situation Makes Another Proposal
Among the Possibilities.

Washington, March 13.-The Ameri-
can government, having announced it's
intention to proceed with the arming
of merchantmen intending to go to
Europe in defiance of Germany's ruth
less submarine campaign, no further
details on the situation have been CIV
IN out.
Many interesting questions relating
to the new policy remained unanswer-
ed. The only statement authorized
was that nothing will be done by the
government not ia strict accord with
international law.
Because of reports of bad food con-
ditions in Germany, the fall of Bagdad
to the Allies and others news looked
upon as u~nfayorabie to the Central
powers, some officials considered fur
Their peace suggestions from Germany
as among the possibilities.
President Wilson, although practic-
ally recovered from the cold which
kept him in bed most of last week,
still remains indoors.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
SHOOT U-BOATS ON SIGHT
MERCHANTMEN ARE TOLD
Can Expect No Warning Of Attack
and May Protect Themselves by
Firing First.

Washington, March 12.-American
armed merchantmen will be empow-
cred to fire on Teuton submarines on
sight.
The state department made this
plain in declaring that neutral ships
ear presume that there will be no
visit and search by German subma.
rines, as Germany has served notice
on the world that she would disregard
that mandate of international law.
This Interpretation, given officially,
brought the possibility of war ex-
tremely near. The mere appearance
of a German submarine or its peri
scope in the presence Of an American
armed merchant vessel would entitle
that ship to take all measures on pre-
caution on the presumption that the
U-boat's purpose was hostile according
to the opinion.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED ARE
INJURED IN ENTIRE DISTRICT
SWEPT BY SUDDEN
WIND STORM.
MANY HOUSES DESTROYED;
DAMAGE OVER 100000
Hurricane Sweeps over Eastern In
diana and Southwestern Ohio Car
rying Death and Destruction
in lts Wake-Death List
Expected to Increase.

Cincinnati, March 13.-Twenty-nine
lives, several are missing and more
than 200 were injured, many fatally,
in a tornado which swept over east
ern Indiana and southwestern Ohio.
The largest loss of life was at New
castle, Ind. where 20 persons were
killed and more than 100 injured,
some probably fatally.
The damage will total well over a
million dollars at Newcastle and sew
eral thousand dollars in Wayne coun-
ty, Indiana.
The dead in Wayne county, Ind,
are the two children of Harvey Gray.
Ora Smith, who was hurled a hun
dred feet through the air. suffered a
broken back and probably will die.
Communication Crippled.
The storm crippled wire commune
cation through the east central part
hof Indiana and reports from the
storm were meager.
Physicians, nurses, undertakers and
ambulances were ordered to Newcas.
tie from Indianapolis, Muncia and
other towns surrounding Newcastle.
In the Ohio storm district three per-
sons were killed and four seriously
injured in the Hyde Park section of
Cincinnati, and at Brookville, near
Dayton, me man was reported killed.
T~wenty-three Dead.
Newcastle, Ind, March 12.-Twenty.
three are known to have been killed,
several are missing. more than a hun.
dred persons were injured, some ia.
tally, and property damage to the
extent of s $1,000, 900 by a tornado
which struck Newcastle.
Confusion and disorder followed In
the path of the storm. Those who
escaped injury and death, ran wildly
about the streets, women and chill.
dren crying and wringing their hands,
and men shouting and cursing. The
men finally settled down and began
the work of rescue, digging in the
ruins of their homes FOR missing mem.
bers OF their families.
Killed In Their Homes.
Most OF the dead were found in the
~wreckage of their homes, only two or
three bodies being found in the
streets.
Several fires broke out in the
wreckage on the south side, but the
heavy rain which followed the tornado
kept them from spreading.
The tornado lasted about five min
utes and was followed by a hard rain.
which also stopped In a few minutes.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
RUSSIAN FOOD RIOTS
CAUSE POLICE ACTION
Street AssembIages In P%etrograd Are
Forbidden and Troops Are En-
gagged In Preserving Order.

Petrograd. March 12.-Due to disor-
ders in recent days General Chaval-
of, commander of the Petrograd dis
trict, has issued a proclamation for
bidding all assemblages in the
streets and warning citizens that the
troops have been authorized to use
their arms OF any means to preserve
order in the capital.
The Petrograd newspapers are not
appearing and the tramway service
has been suspended.
A bin has been proposed in the Du-
ma which would vest in the mscici-
pal authorities and town councils the
authority regarding provisioning which
now rests with the ministry OF az.
riculture.
The authorities say snow blockades
on the railroads caused O shortage
of food but that relief is near.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
STARVATION IN GERMANY
FEARFUL CONDITIONS TOLD BY
MEMBERS OF GERARD PARTY.
Believed That When Harvest Is Em.
hausted Teutons VIII Be Com
PEELED to Sue for Peace.

Havana, March 13.-Appalling con
ditions prevailing throughout Ger.
many were revealed when James w.
Gerard, the recalled American ambas.
sador at Berlin, and his party arrived
here from Spain.
While Mr.. Gerard refused to make
any statement before he sees Presi.
dent Wilson at Washington, several
men and women who left Germany
with him said the people were starv.
ing and had reached that apathetic
stage where they did not care wheth-
er victory or defeat came. What
they want is food.
Miss Kathleen Molony, a young
English woman who has been travel.
ing for three years in the countries
at war, was n of those who describ.
ed conditions in Germany as "appall.
ing"
Starving Throsshout Nation.
THE poor are starving throughout
the nation" said Miss Molony. "Ac.
curate reports of the terrible condi.
lions prevailing in Germany reached
Switzerland just before | left there,
and, of course, | saw a great deal
myself.
In the best informed circles il
Switzerland it is believed that Ger
many cannot last another year. When
the coming harvest is exhausted she
will be forced to beg for peace. With.
out farm hands and without fertilizer
there is poor chance for the harvest,
Peace This Year.
x have heard many persons pre-
dict that a peace settlement would
come this year, when the German
people must be made to understand
the failure Of their submarine cam
paign.
Always the Prussian military rul.
ers are keeping the people in ignor.
ance of the true facts and conditions.
Every incident of the wal is distort
ed into a German victory.
but, o their stomachs are pinch.
ing them. The Prussians cannot
make them believe they are not hun.
CRY, and that hunger is becoming
mor intense and wider spread. When
it reaches the troops in the trenches
when the harvest fails, trouble may
be expected.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
More Ships For France.

Paris, March 13.-Taking into con-
sideration the destruction of 400, 900
tons, or II per cent of French Ship
ping, during the war. the Central COM
mittee of the French Shin Owners
association will ask the government
to allot sufficient materials at ship
yards to hasten construction of ves-
sells now in hand, to lay down new
ships and to repair old ones.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
ArgentIna's Plan Opposed.

Buenos Aires, March 10.-Argen.
tina's plan for concerted action toward
peace In Europe through unity Of Lat.
in-American republics is encounterins
opposition from Chile. dispatches from
Santiago declared that the newspaper
Diario nlustrado. suspected an Argen.
tina-Peruvian combination, hostile to
Chile, The newspaper commanded that
Chile Immediately seek an alliance
with Colombia In rets. liation. The
story apparently started much discus.
sion in Santiago, although 1t was dis.
counted In Buenos Aires.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
TO ARM MERCHANT SHIPS
President Has Given Orders to That
Effect.

Washington, March 12.-President
Wilson has ordered the arming Of
American merchant ships under his
constitutional authority.
1t is learned definitely that some
American merchant ships sailing for
the submarine zone will be armed by
the government at once.
Preliminary arrangements have
been completed and 1t is expected that
vessels will be ready to sail In the
near future.
The names of the ships which will
be armed will not be made public by
the government and are not expected
to be published In the newspapers.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
CONGRESS CALLED
IN EXTRA SESSION
PRESIDENT SUMMONS LAWMAK-
ERs TO MEET IN SPECIAL
SESSION APRIL 16.
LEGISLATION IS PRESSING
Executive Convinc. I'd Best Interests of
Country Demand Action by Con-
eress-Needs Support.

Washington, March 12-PEesident
Wilson has called an extra session
of Congress for April 16.
The President signed the proclaim.
alton for the extra session while abed
with a cold.
So much necessary legislation is
pressing for consideration, Secretary
Tumuity said, that the President is
convinced that it is in the best inter
ests OF the country to have an early
session of the Goth Congress whose
support he will also need in all mat
ters collateral to the defense of our
merchant marine"
The proclamation of the President
calling for an extra session reads as
follows:
Presidents Proclamation.
Whereas, Public interests require
that the Congress of the United
States should be convened in extra
session at IL o'clock loon on the
sixteenth day of April. 1917. to re
ceive such communication as may be
made by the executive;
Now, therefore, /, Woodrow VIII
son, President of the United States
of America. do hereby proclaim and
declare that an extraordinary occa'
sion requires the Congress Of the Unit
ed States to in extra session
at the capitol In the city of Wash.
ington on the sixteenth day of April,
1917, at IL o'clock noon. of which all
persons who shall at that time be en-
titled to act as members thereof are
hereby required to take notice"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15

st. John. N. B.. March Especial
military units, designed to permit the
enlistment of men rejected or con-
sidered ineligible because of physical
disabilities, are being formed in the
province OF New Brunswick. Oflcers
are urged to bring these units up to
full war strength as quickly as pcssi-
BILE and to- carry IN q campaign for
Esesaitss Cine u The new bodies Is
. so-caIled bantam battalion" COM
posed cf residents OF this province and
Nova Scotia whose small stature kept
them ont e regular orEanisationa.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
sWEARS MAYOR TOOK BRIDE
Witness Testifies Against Seattle
Executive,

Seattle, Wash, March IL. Loga.
Billingsley, chief witness for the gov
eminent in the trial of Mayor Hiram
c. Gill and others charged with con
spiracy to violate the United States
statutes by importation of liquor into
the state Of Washington, swore that
he gave a bride of $4,000 in bills tc
Mayor Gil in the mayors office on
August 10, 1916, and that the mayor
turned over to him documentary eyi
dence against ~Billingsley seized in tn.
latter's drug store.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
convicted tor sinking their shIp.

Florence. s. c., March 11.-Eight
officers and men Of the German
fressShsc Iaehensels, sunk in Charles
ton harbor January 81. have been
found guilty yesterday Of sinking a
vessel In a n~ayigable stream. They
were acquitted Of conspiracy t o sink
the steamer. Captain Klattenhoff OF
the Liebenfels was not tried. He is
i'll at Charleston.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
CARRANzA IS CHOSEN HEAD
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF MEXICO
BY HEAVY VOTE.
Although There Mas No Opposition
for Presidency Congressional Con-
tests Are Bitterly Fought.

Mexico City, March 10. - General
venustiano Carranza has been elect
ed president of Mexico by what is
believed to have been the largest
vote ever cast In the republic.
Although the voters had the privi-
lege of writing in or declaring any
name they desired, General Carranza
received all but a few scattering bal
lots. The estimated vote cast runs
all the way from several hundred thou,
sand to a million.
Election is Quiet.
The presidential election was pro.
yided for in articles adopted by the
constitutional assembly which met at
Qneretaro. Many of the old residents
declare that this was the first real
election ever held in the country. Re
ports from various parts of the re.
public indicate that there was n 10 dis.
turbance or intimidation.
Although there was no opposition
for the presidency, the congressional
contests were bitterly fought. The
campaign efforts of the different can
didates in the federal district lasted
until the early hours of the morning
and the streets were Uttered with
dodgers and handbills proclaiming
the virtues of the candidates.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
GERMANY MUST FIGHT U. S.
Only Way to Defeat England Says
Teuton Newspaper.

Teuton Newspaper.
Amsterdam, March 12.-The Keel.
fsche yolks Zeitung. a copy OF which
has been received here, admits that
the arming of American merchant
men will make Germany's position
more definite. 1t expresses the belief
that the Americans win not find 1t
easy to provide guns and gun crews
and says 1t does not believe the dan
ger to German submarines will be
Increased.
I'VE have always maintained,
says the newspaper, that a victory
over England would be impossible un.
Jess we also determined to face Amer
hca."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
Wireless OUTFIT In German. Trunk.

New York, March 12.-Instead of
being a machine for making counter
felt paper currency q scheme by which
Max Wex, a German. was allowed to
have swindled many OF his country
men in various cities. the police de-
clared that the contrivance is q com
plete portable wireless outfit capable
Of receiving messages all the way from
Berlin" This conclusion was reach.
ed after government wireless bureau
experts had examined the black
money making box" Wex also had
code papers In his possession
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-15
FALL OF TURKISH CITY is RE-
GARDED AS SEVERE BLOW TO
NEAR EASTERN DREAM OF
GERMAN NATION.
LITTLE RESISTANCE Is
INDICATED BY REPORTS
Celebrated City Taken by British
Was Once Capital Of Empire of
the Caiiphs-Turkish Resist
ance Weak Since kut-El-
Amara Fell.

London, March 13.-General Fred
erick Stanley Maude, in command Of
the Allied forces in Mesopotamia, has
t~elegraphed the welcome news of the
occupation by the British of the city
of Bagdad, the chief Turkish city of
Mesopotamia and formerly the capital
OF the empire of the caliphs.
No details of the capture have yet
been received. General Maude's story
of the operations carrying events only
up to a few days ago when the Brit
ish, after affecting a surprise eros
sing of the Diala and bridging the Tt
| girls, had driven the Turks back to
within three miles Of Bagdad. 1t is
evident, however, that the Turks have
been unable to offer any serious re-
sistance sipce the fall of Kut-el-Am-
ara.
The Ottomans were said to be hur-
riedly summoning reinforcements
from other theaters of the war where
Turks were engaged, but the distanc-
es to be covered were so great that
additional forces were unable to ar
Ai'O IA tlIiO w cdNO TX iSiCL SlLy
which, after Mecca, occupies first
place in the Mohammedan minds.
viii Rehabilitate Prestige.
The fall of Bagdad, besides ending
German hopes Of hear eastern domin-
ion, based on a Berlin Bagdad rail-
way will reverberate throughout the
Mohammedan empires and, it is be-
lieved will more than rehabilitate Brit
ish prestige in the Far East, damaged
by the earlier loss OF Kut-el-Amara.
Perhaps no more welcome news
could come at a time when the Brit
ish public for the first time owing to
the submarine war is beginning to feel
the effects of the war in a greatly
reduced food supply besides being
thrown into depression by the revela-
tions of the D~ardanelles report. Fur
Their news must be awaited before it
is known whether General Maude
made important captures Of Turkish
troops or guns either before or at
Bagdad.
Losses Believed Slight.
Apparently the occupation was eff.
fected without resistance and with
only slight losses. Even ii the Turks
succeeded in e~xtricating all their
forces, the loss of Bagdad is a grave
blow to them. Bagdad has been the
base for all Turkish operations in
Persia. Up to within a few days the
Turks occupied about 10000 square
miles Of Persian territory, but with
the Russians pressing them closely
from Kirmanshah as well as from the
direction of Erzerum, indications
point to a speedy junction of the Brit
ish and Russian forces which would
soon compel the Turkish evacuation
of Persian territory.