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That Is the Charge in Latest
Starling-Harris Trouble.
Corn Knife Brandished by Har-
ris Some Time Ago.
HE WAS PUT UNDER BOND
Second Outbreak Followed Con-
YersatiOn at Front Gate.
Startling Girls and Beaux Were
the Disturbers, He Said.

Gun play has come as climax in q
neighborhood row between the family
of Ross Harris, HOG East Eighth ave-
nue.. and Mrs. Ollie Startling, 110s
East Eighth avenue, according to the
story told by Mrs, Starlirg's husband
in the court of Topeka today. A corn
knife, it is charged, was the first
weapon brandished by Harris, who is
a telegraph operator for the Santa Fe.
to which Mrs. Startling objected. That
was two months ago.
Mrs. Starting Swore to a warrant
which caused the arrest of Harris IN
a charge of disturbing the peace. Kent
Raub, county clerk, went on a peace
Raub and Harris worked together for
years. Mrs. Startling claimed that
Harris threatened her with the corn
knife. Harris left the corn knife in
Raub's office as an evidence of good
faith.
Enters lately into the troubles of
the two families two young girls in
the Startling family, old enough TO
have beaux. Two of the Startling
daughters, accompanied by a neigh
boring girl and three high school boys
gathered in front of the Startling home
the night before Thanksgiving and
talked.
SluIaber Disturbed.
Their conversation interfered with
the slumber of Harris, whose home is
just a few feet from the Startling resi-
dence. Harris stuck his head out of
the window and demanded cessation
of conversation, and his remarks also
were insulting, Startling declared.
One of the girls companions invits
ed Harris outside to stop the CONVEX
sation if he could. 1t is claimed that
Harris came out of the house and
pulled a gun in the youths face.
An alias warrant, calling for the ar
rest of Harris a second time for dis
turbing the peace. was issued from
the court of Topeka Kent Raub stated
that he would demand that Harris
move away from the nefghborhood or
he would take his name from the
peace bond.
Startling Makes Threat.
Startling stated that the trouble
first started over a remark made by
his little boy to the little daughter of
Harris. Since that time Harris has
been brooding over the affair and
can't keep it off his mind, Startling
asserted.
'If the law doesn't stop this con-
| tinual uproar, 1 will" said Startling
TODAY.
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U. S., However, Doesn't Join in
Threat to BOlsheviki.
Charge Violation Allies Treaty
Against Separate Peace.
VERY SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES
Much Speculation Why Amer
lea Didn't Sign Message.
Probably Because q. S. Wasn't
in Original Allies Pact.
BY JOSEPH sHAPLEN.

Stockholm, Nov 3O.-Allied mill
tary officials, except American. nave
served formal warning on Russia
BolsheviIxi authorities that in attempt
ing a peace with Russia, Germany is
ruthlessIy casting aside solemn treaty
obligations.
According tc reliable information
here the notice was in the form OF a
ioirt note and specifically announced
that the protest was made sin con-
forrnity with precise instructions re-
ceived from authorized representa-
tives.'
The note was delivered to the Boil
sheviki commander.
Agreed to Stick Until End.
The widest speculation was aroused
here over the news that no Ameri-
cans signed the note.
The allied message announced "a
protest in the most energetic manner
against Russia's violation of the con-
ditions of the treaty of August %
i1914 in which all the allies. includ-
ing Russia, solemnly agreed not te
conclude a peace separately.
The message concluded with the ad'
monition that ''the signatories consid.
er it their duty to warn Russia tha
violations of this pledge may cause
very serious consequences"
Undoubtedly the reason the United
States did not join the entente nation:
in the warning to Russia is that the
United States was not party to the
treaty of August %, 1914, referred
to above and technically is not nov
sewed up in any war treaties with the
entente allies
Indicates Wilson's Policy.
The omission of American sigma
lures to the note reported above ma!
| be very significant of the policy o
the United States toward Russia.
If President Wilson follows will
that nation the policy he sdopted to
ward Mexico, it will be that the Unitef
States will not interfere with tn,
working out of the peoples nationa
| aspirations provided America is no
affected in that process of evolution.
] Such an attitude applied to Russi;
would mea~ that the United State
would neithe-. disapprove nor approv'
| of the Boisheviki and would permi
| the Russian people as a whole t
work out their own democracy, thi
government having full faith in Rus
sia's inherent ability to save herself.
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IN A MO.
British War Loss in Nov. Larg-
est in Several Months.
OF Total Casualties, 26,O26 Are
Killed in Battle.

London, Nov 30.-November's cas-
ualties among the British army forces
were greater by far than those of any
recent months, according to compila-
tions today from published casualty
lists.
During the month ended today.
Britain lost 12O.679 officers and men
in killed, wounded and missing.
The losses were divided thus:
Killed Wounded. Missing. Total
2an Gffleers so sS.4oe $sss $50 Ss 115,sf7 81
Totals =. .26,o26 ss,774 5,S79 12O,619
The figures for recent months
have been:
July 1889 killed, wounded and
missing, officers and men included
August 60.373; September los, ,430 and
October S3,55S.
One fact remarked upon was the
fact that the November lists show a
greater increase of casualties among
men than among officers.
The November increase presumably
is not directly attributable to the
losses in the recent great drive around
Cambria, since the war office has as
serted the losses were unusually
small, considering the gains achieved
and were less than the number OF
prisoners taken-which was close to
eleven thousand
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OFFICIAL WAR
STATEMENTS

London, Nov. 3O.-Active enemy ar
tilIerying southwest and west of Cam
brai and east of Ypres at various
points was reported by Field Marshal
Haig today. He did not mention in
fantry actions.
In the neighborhood of Gavrelle
hostile raiding detachments were
driven off yesterday evening.
FRENCH.
Paris, Nov. 30.-"The night was calm
over the whole front" the war office re-
ports, except in the Argonne where the
artillery on both sides showed par
ticular activity and in the region of
Chambrettes where after series of vio-
lent bombardments the enemy undertook
a large raid in which he was repulsel
completely"
ITALIAN.
Rome, Nov. 30-Intense artillerying
all over the Italian front was reported
in today's official statement A British
monitor in action near the lower Piave
scored direct hits against an enemy
bridge and boats in the vicinity of
Passarella.
GERMAN.
Berlin, via London, Nov. 30.-Numer-
Gus English and French prisoners were
brought back by German storming de-
tachments in various sectors near the
coast, today's official statement de-
clared.
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PROMISE TO ITALY
Secret Treaty Under Which She En-
tered War Is Given Out.

London, Nov. -30.-A secret treaty
between Great Britain, France, Russia
and Italy has been given out by the
Bolsheviki government, according to
a Petrograd dispatch to the Daily
Mail. 1t comprises the terms on which
Italy entered the war, Great Britain,
France and Russia agreeing to Italy
annexing the Trentino, Southern Ty-
rol, Istria, Dalmatia, certain islands
in the Grecian archipelago and terri
tory in Asia Minor and Africa Article
XIV of the treaty is reported to read
as follows:
France. Great Britain and Russia
take upon themselves to support Italy
in her disallowing representatives of
the Holy See to take any diplomatic
steps for the conclusion of peace or
regarding matters pertaining to the
nreseuf war"
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KAIsERIsM Is MAIN ISSUE.
q. S. Firm Not to Negotiate With Him
but With Delegates of People.
RY j. w, T. MASON.

New York, Nov. 3O.-America's at
titude toward Lord Lansdowne's plea
for restatement of the allies peace
terms will determine whether the end
of the war has been brought nearer
by the spirit of the conservative lead
er in the house of lords.
B. It is no secret that President Will
son desires that a formal statement
of the allies terms be made as the
result of the present Paris conference
But there is a possible difference be-
tween President Wilson and Lord
I.ansdoWne that may make their views
irreconcilable. The presidents reply
TO the pope's peace proposal declared
that the United States could not take
the word of the present rulers of Ger
many in peace negotiations.
IansdOwne OverloOks This.
Lord Lansdowne's statement is ca
pable of the Interpretation that he is
willing to do so.
This point marks a divergence be-
tween the Lansdowne spirit and the
Wilson spirit Nevertheless, Lord
Lansdowne's open support of re-
statement of the allies war aims indi-
Gates that the American delegates to
the Paris conference will probably
succeed in their desire to place pub
HcIy on record exactly what the
democratic nations of the world are
fighting for.
Announcement of this character
WOulQ Iall IN Will AAeAhSdOWAlG .
proposal, but it need not follow his
suggestion to the end. President Will
sons purpose would doubtless be
served if the allies were formally to
declare that their terms were subject
10 negotiations only with representa-
tives of the German people. respon-
sible to the reichstag and not with
agents responsible solely to the kaiser.
Gives Russian Peace a Prop.
Lord Lansdowne's declaration un-
ouestionably comes at an opportune
moment for the new Russian govern
ment It can readily be interpreted
as iustifying the peace movement
within Russia. In this respect Lord
I,ansdowne's influence may serve to
check the growing attitude of severity
in certain allied circles toward the
great embarrassments the Russian
revolution is encountering. If. by
chance, peace by negotiation should
come suddenly. it would place in a
different position extreme critics of
the trend of Russian affairs. This
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1S MINERS BURIED
Rescue Squads Work All Night
To Rescue Them.
Illinois Coal Mine Wrecked by
Terrific Explosion.

Christopher. Ill. Nov. 3o.-Desper-
ate efforts were being made today TO
clear away the debris that entombs
probably eighteen miners in mine No.
IL of the. Old Ben Corporation here
which was wrecked in an explosion
last night.
All but eighteen of the men ena-
ployed in the mine had been account
ed for up to this morning. Both air
shafts and the big main entrance of
the mine are blocked with tons Of
wreckage.
Equipped with gas helmets rescue
teams worked ceaselessly in shifts
thruout the morning clearing away
the opening to the mines while rela-
tives of the miners, many of them
women with babes in their arms stood
in the cold frantically awaiting some
word from the interior of their loved
ones.
Rescue trains were rushed to the
scene from surrounding towns and
villages.
Heat Handicaps Rescuers.
Because of the heat in the mine the
rescue crew was not able to penetrate
far, and there is little prospect of a
thoro search of the workings until
this afternoon. An unconfirmed re-
port has it that twenty-eight men are
entombed.
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WORK FOR COALITION
Russian Factions Still Trying to Gel
Together for New Government.

Petrograd, Nov. S0.-A coalition
government, consisting of Bolsheviki
Minimalist, Internationalists, the left
parties and Social revolutionaries, was
in process of formation today.
The new government will consist of
a ministry representing all these polit-
ical factions which will be responsible
to parliament composed of 10S mem
bers of the workmen's and soldiers
soviet. an equal number of representa-
tives of the peasants congress, 100
delegates from the army and sixty
from the trades unions.
Lenine Makes Concession.
London, Nov. 30.-The government
of Nikolai Lenine has fallen, accord
ing to a Petrograd dispatch dated
Wednesday. 1t has been succeeded by
a coalition cabinet of advanced social
lists in which the Bolsheviki are rep
resented
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GAME in FRANCE
American Soldiers Had Grid
iron Sport Like Home.
Engineers Defeated Infantry
All Had Turkey Dinner.
(Bv the Associated Press.)

With the American Army in France,
Thursday, Nov. 29.-Every American
soldier in France spent a real Ameri-
can Thanksgiving Thursday. He
dined on turkey and all that goes with
it, until he could eat no more. The
feature of the day was a football game
in which a team from the engineers
defeated team fir, n the infantry.
The game was watched by thousands
of American troops and thousand
French soldiers who were home from
the front on leave.
The shouts from the representative
T -oters were heard far afield and to-
wards the end of the game the French
soldiers, getting the hang of it, be-
came just as enthusiastic as the
American, and joined the cheering.
Virtually all instruction work and
drilling was suspended for the day
and in some places the men were per-
mitted to stay out an hour later at
night.
In nearly all camp messes the men
supplemented the dinner with boxes
of cigars and other luxuries and for
the time many an American soldier
thought he was at home.
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NEXT OFF TO FRANCE.
Three Divisions of Regulars-East,
Central and West-Are Scheduled.

Washington, Nov. 30.-Secretary
Baker has announced that as fast as
men and ships are ready, they will be
sent to join General Pershing. 1t ap
pears possible that the re-grouping of
national army divisions, made neceS-
sary by the use of drafted men to fill
up depleted national guard divisions
will determine the order of the first
national army units to be sent over.
In that re-grouping two national
army division were formed, one repre-
senting the whole eastern section of
the country and one equally represen-
tative of middle states. All of the
far west is already in the national
army division at Camp Lewis. Ameri-
can Lake. Wash.
If the same policy is followed with
relation to the national army that has
been followed in connection with the
national guard, it seems likely that
these three divisions, other things
such as training and equipment being
equal would be the first of the ma
tional army 10 go over
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MAN NEEDS COOL
AIR-HE SHOULD
BURN LESS COAL

Washington. Nov. 3O.-"Man is an
aqueous animal-seven-eigh wa
ter"
This statement has nothing to do
with the fact that the District of CO.
lumbia is liquorless. 1t was made to-
day by DR.. James ]. Walsh, in support
of the fuel administration campaign
to cut down the overheating of Amer
lean homes.
Man needs cool air and moisture
around him. Doctor Walsh added.
"Overheated dry air makes him too
susceptible to disease. In a temper
ature of over 6S degrees it is difficult
for men and women to exist health
fully. If Americans can be taught to
live in this temperature the number of
pneumonia victims surely will de-
crease"
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Open Violent Attack on Ex-
treme South Flank.
Initial Force Scores Headway
Against British.
SEND LAVISH ARTILLERY FIRE
Hun Shells Continue To Delugt
Bourbon Wood.
AviatOrs Report Germans Arf
Destroying Cambrai.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs

With the British Armies in Francs.
Nov 3O.-A new battle ground in the
Cambria fighting developed today.
On the extreme southern flank,
near Gonnelieu, the Germans early
this morning opened a violent at
tack
At the time this is cabled they have
apparently been able to make head
way.
The enemy assault was one of the
heaviest attempts to check the slowly
closing jaws of Byng's wise around
Cambria that Crown Prince Rupprecht
has yet delivered. 1t was character
lied by lavish artillery preparation
and barrage fire from guns lately gal
loped up to the line.
Thruout last night the PruSsians
deluged Bourbon wood and vicinity
with shell fire, which continued heav-
lily today.
Prisoners Haggard; Get No Rest.
Prisoners lately taken declare they
have been practically without sleep
since November 2O-and their hag-
gard appearance and utter exhaus-
ton bears this out.
German officers, they declared. are
fearful that the British wedge at
Bourbon will force a withdrawal south
OF the Scarpe.
1t is this apprehension which was
evidently causing the everlasting shell
storm today
Aviators reported evidences that
the enemy is destroying Cambria and
neighboring towns.
Gonnelieu is at the extreme south
ernmost point of the arc over which
General Byng struck his surprise blow.
It is situated about eight miles from
Cambria.
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THANKSGIVING IN HOSPITAL.
Sick General Orders AH-Day Band
Serenade for Wounded Sammies.
BY j. w. PEGLER.


American Field Headquarters
France, Nov. 30.-An American in
fantry band played all day long yester-
day in the yard of certain Ameri-
can base hospital-because a certain
sick major general of the army in that
hospital learned thae wounded Ameri-
can soldiers in the ward adjoining his
were lonesome. The general issued
orders from his sick bed that brought
the band, with such tunes as my Old
KENTUCKY Home" "Suwanee River"
and the latest jazz stuff, in its Thanks
giving serenade.
But when the correspondent looked
for any signs of lonesomeness among
the American wounded it was not
there. All the Americans were
anxious about was whether they were
going to get enough turkey.
Visits Wounded Sammies.
There was Sergeant Engstrom of
Fort Sill, lying in bed at this hospital.
His left arm was shattered and sus-
pended in a sling from the ceiling.
He grinned just the same.
How'd I get it?' he responded to
my question. well. our battery was
just finishing its turn at the front.
Our relief was due in a few hours.
We had just two shells remaining
both of 'em in our guns, ready to fire.
'"The Germans had been touching
I our positions all day long, and we
frequently had to jump for the dug
outs. Along about loCn a fragment of
a shell hit me full on the chest-but
it didn't penetrate, and was not hurt.
Had a Hunch He'd Get Hit.
Just the same, I had a hunch I'd
probably be wounded before dusk.
''Sure enough, later or and just
about dark, I heard a German gun
boom, a shell whistled-and Sergeant
Peck-he comes from Hartwen, Ga,
and Privates Miller, RissmilIer, Wat
kins, Jones, Levitt and myself hur-
riedly took refuge in our ammunition
dugout. I might just say incidentally
that a few hours before that dugout
was chuck full of ammunition.
''Well. as we hunched down there a
/ German high-explosive shell pene-
trated the roof A fragment struck
my helmet and bent my head back SO
| hard that the rim of my helmet
gashed my neck.
Sergeant Peck's helmet was also
hit There was not any use talking
those helmets saved our lives.
of Gun Crew Killed.
81 was stunned for few minutes
and awakened sorta sickish, but l
managed to crawl to an adjoining dug
out and summon aid We found Mil
Ter and Rissmiller dead and the 9TH
ers wounded AS for me- awakened
I in the hospital"
went ONel u see sergeant Eeck
He lay close by on cot. with a box
! like arrangement protecting his left
| leg, which had been amputated be-
low the knee.
I'm thankful I only lost part OF
that leg he said. smiling. Then he
looked anxiously, Say he whispered
/ please Influence that nurse to give me
some more Thanksgiving turkey. She
/ thinks I'm sicki'"
] The men named by Pegler in the
above story were mentioned in the
casualty list announced from Wash
/ ington Wednesday,
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TO SAVE TEXAS CATTLE
Priority Shipment for Feed Issued by
Federal Official.

Washington. Nov. 3O.-Immediate
partial priority of shipments of feed
for cattle in New Mexico and Texas
was ordered today by Priority Admins
istrator r. S. Lovett. Owing to the
scarcity of feed in those states due to
drought, shipments of cotton seed
cake, cotton seed meal hay, straw
hulls, forage from Texas, Louieiana.
Oklahoma. Arkansas and Missouri
takes precedence over all freight ex-
cept live stock and perishabIe human
foodstuffs, railroad materials, coal ana
government shipments.
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The temperature at 2 o'clock was
six degrees above normal. A six-mile
breeze was blowing from the south
west at . o'clock.
Topeka was still under its blanket
of fog this morning, but according to
S. d. Flora, local meteorologist this
is the last of it for a few days. 1t is
expected to be cloudy tomorrow but
rain will not gladden. the hearts of the
wheat men The western Kansas
wheat belt is still afflicted with un-
clouded sunshine, according to reports
from Dodge City and Concordia this
morning. and there is no prospect of
Immediate relief. Kansas has been
sadly neglected in this matter of mois-
ture in favor of the surrounding states.
Oklahoma and Texas especially have
received a good wetting this week.
The temperature in Topeka tonight
is not expected to fall below the freez-
ing point. The highest temperature
fCoutinued on Page Two
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ssFfght Like the Devil" Bryan Tells
Church Audience.

Chicago, Nov. 30.-'T believe there
is but one way TO get a lasting peace
in the present crisis, and that is. to
fight for it. We should all get
together and fight like the devil
That was the advice of William
Jennings Bryan. speaking at the
Swedish Methodist church in Evan
ston-
Il have been a pacifist in times
past. and / still believe in peace"
said Bryan. but the sort of a peace
want is a lasting peace"
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HEADS NEW BUREAU
Chicago University Instructor to Di-
rect Labor Supply Inquiry.

Washington, Nov. 3O.-L. C. Mar
shall, dean of the school of commerce
and administration of the University
of Chicago today was appointed chief
of the section on industrial service of
the council of national defense. Mr..
Marshall will direct an inquiry as to
the labor supply for industries hold
ing government contracts.
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HUNS OUT OF E. AFRICA
Predict End of Warfare in Colonies
by Christmas.

London, Nov 30-The end of the
East African campaign before Christ
mas is predicted by the Reuter- cor
respondent at Ndara. He declares the
German commander-in-chief will eth
er be a prisoner or in exile by that
time.
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BLAST KILLS -FOUR MEN
Explosion in British Chemical Factory
works Destroyed.

Trenton, Ont, Nov. 30.-Four work.
men were killed and two injured in
an explosion in one of the buildings
of the British chemical company here
early today. The building was de-
stroyed by fire which followed.
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KANsANs AT THE FRONT.
Rainbow Division Comprises Guards
from 33 States, ThoroIy Trained

ITOIU 5tsISl'f IIIOEOIy ITdIIItI.
Washington. Nov. 30.-America' s
Rainbow Division is in France, along
with other national guard units They
represent a total of thirty-three states.
While the war department made no
announcement upon receipts of dis
patches telling of the guard units ar
rival, the army censor said it was peri
rnissible to refer to the rainbow divi-
sion as that was obviously meant in
asmuch as General Pershings censor
had passed the news.
NO announcement was made as to