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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
FIRE SWEEPS
KRUPP WORKS,
SAYSREPORT'
, Disaster May Represent the
First Fruit of Bolsheviki
Government.

Amsterdam, Dec. 21.-Krupps
in flames" was the sensational
news brought here today by work
men from Essen. the home Of Ger
many's and the worlds biggest mu-
nitions plant. some thirty-6ve miles
from the Dutch frontier. They as
serted the famous gun works had
been burning for twenty-four hours.
SERIOUS DAMAGE.
The story told by these workmen
was somewhat modified by dis
patches from the frontier later in
the day. but these. too. vague as
they were, indicated serious damage.
Large Scale Disaster.
Military circles were quick to realize
what a large scale disaster at the
krupp plant would mean. To the
allies 1t would be worth a dozen army
corps. since it would suriously cripple,
o II not wholly paralyze, the Kaiser's
military machine.
The throwing out Of Jobs or 100, COZ
men and women working in day and
night shifts in the Essen works would
De only an incidental feature of g ca
tastrophe resulting in the destruction
OF krupp's plan in the big Rhine town.
haf
pends for easily two-thirds of its guns
and ammunition.
A well-informed authority here ven
tured the theory tonight that the re-
ported disaster may represent the
first fruit of the BoIsheyiki agitation
FOR q German uprising to overthrow
the kaiser's government. It was
pointed out by this informant that
one Of the main factors that crippled
the Russian war machine as far back
as two years ago when the Gar was
stlIl IN power was an unending series
OF mysterious munitions plant ex-
plosions. some of which cost thou
sands of lives.
These blasts invariably preceded a
big Russian drive and had disastrous
consequences when in the full swing
OF such drive as Brusilof's last
Galician offensive ammunition stores
suddenly gave out. While these dis
asters were generally attributed. in
Russia and abroad to the workings
OF German spies.S there were, many
who suspected the >Bolsheviki agents
Of having hand in them.
Reds Declare Selves. -,
The Reds" have often openly de-
ciared that they will stop at no act
Of violence to accomplish the social
revolution they seek to bring about
Since the peace paFIeys with Ger
many, TrotZky has more than once
declared that the overthrow of the
present governments in all countries
IS the Bolsheviki's aim. The recent re-
establishment of mail communication
has given the Russian radicals an op-
poTtunity to spread their propag ganda
over and behind the German lines,
among the German minority Social
lists whose party refused to vote for
the latest war credits.
Some Dutch munitions experts. who
have visited the Essen works were in
clined tonight to doubt that the report
Cd disaster could have wrecked any
material part Of the Krupp plant. They
asserted that the precautions taken
at Essen were of such a nature that
a destruction of the plant or even
the greater part of it appeared incon-
ceivable.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
TROTZKYDE
TO HUNS LURE
FOR ENTENTE
Organized Opposition to
Bolesheviki Appears to
Be Growing Hourly.

London, Dec. 22-"we did not over
throw Czarism to kneef before the
Kaiser" Leon Trotzky, the Bolshev-
Xxi foreign minister. is today quoted
as having said in addressing the
Council of Workmen's and Soldiers
Delegates.
The news from the Russian capital
tended to confirm yesterdays report
that the Russo-Teuton peace parleys
have been broken or because of Ger
man insistence on terms not to the
liking of the Muscovites. There was
no direct statement to that effect,
however. though Thotzky in his lat
est public utterance did announce
that Russia would fight offensive
terms.
For the present. therefore, dipIo-
mats here are inclined to believe that
the Brest-Litovsk conferences have
been suspended rather than broken
of and that Trotzky is using the
interim to swing defiance and threats
over the Germans heads. at the same
time trying to lure the allies into
the peace parley net.
Meanwhile organized opposition to
the Bolsheyiki appears to be grow
ms 4lSpdlCnSS lcll OIL NIO-
lent all-day street battles in Petro-
grad. The Ukraine is reported to pre-
sent a solid armed front TO the
Radicals.
Trotsky Claims Plot.
TEotzRy announced the discovery
Of q widespread plot by the consti-
tutional democrats designed to over
throW the Bolshevfki regime. He
promised sensational documentary
evidence.
As to the Brest-Litovsk negotia-
tfon." The Bolsheviki in clear-cut
stumbling block Is the German in
depreciation of the term "annexa-
tion.r The Bolshiyiki in a clear-cnt
remuneration Of all that the word
implies.
The Germans say I'VE do not want
to annex any territory, but wish
to make certain border lands in
dependent with free economic inter-
course between them and their imme-
diate western nighbor. which is Ger
many. They do not disclaim the
right Of the same intercourse with
Russia. but with that country's pres
ent state of Industrial dissolution it
is taken as a foregone conclusion
that the Independence" would soon
develop into absolute economic vas
salage to Germany.
Considerable quibbling also is in
dulsed in over the term "seIf-defini-
tion." Austria, for instance, with
all her repeated declarations against
annexation. is known to insist upon
an independent Poland-under Aus
trian suzeraity."
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
Daniels' Anti Booze
Order Is Flouted by
Black Jack Pershing

The law and Mr.. Daniels
won't allow booze in the navy.
The marines are q part OF the
navy.
Therefore. you say-but lis
ten.
The marines in France are
under army regulations. army
orders and army pay.
Therfore. as Mr.. Daniels him
sef admits, though the sailor
can't drink and the marines in
the navy can't drink, those as
signed to the American expe-
ditionary force come under the
latest order OF General PERISH
ing allowing his men in France
TO use light wines and beers.
The Pershing order has just
been issued.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
Alleged |. W. W.
Workers as Dynamiters

Sacramento. Cal, Dec. s2.-wili-
lam Hood and G. +. Voetter. AL
legged members OF the 1. W. W.
were arrested this afternoon as sus-
poets in the dynamiting OF the ex-
ecutive mansion in an attempt to
assassinate Gov. VIM. d. Stephens
last Monday night
Hood is said to have had In his
possession BOX containing 30
sticks Of dynamite, the sane
amount and grade the police say
was used in the governors mansion
blast Following the arrests l. W.
w. headquarters were .raided and
20 taken into custody,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
TEUTON PAPER
DEMANDS FALL
OF KAISERISM
Article by Siegfried Balder
Widely Circulated, Hints
Broadly at Revolution.

Declaring that the German constI-
tuition allows one man-the kaiser
to send men to slaughter. to violate
treaties, to order men TO aid and abet
him in crime. Siegfried Balder. calls
upon the German people to arise
against the HohenzolIern rule and
save their nation in the eyes OF the
world.
Mr.. Balder's article is entitled
kaiser and War" 1t was printed
Germany. A copy Of 1t was received
here and translated by the Committee
on Public Information which made
it public last night.
Denoanees Emperor.
What is the government 10 which
you so trustfully confide everything,
wealth. honor. happiness and life?"
asks Mr.. Balder. At its head are
an Emperor and a few dozen princes,
whom you do not select. They are
educated in an atmosphere Of artifi-
cial importance. everyone whom they
meet Is servile, money is at their dis
and acts of the Emperor and his gov
ernment have no greater moral
authority than the words ana acts
OF an eccentric man. educated and
mis-educated in an environment and
in a conception OF human life far
different from those of the average
citizen and OF his dependent and
trucking sycophents.
sfTf fHranA M
selves around the strong oak OF the
German Fatherland. to suck its
strength like a clinging parasite, be-
cause they are incapable Of supporting
themselves. then tear them out. The
oak will not fall. No. it will only then
reach its full growth and develop its
full strength.
"Ycur German FatherIand will not
government and the twenty-six fed
Grated states go to the devil. She has
still enough strong sons to hold her
hrm against every storm. He who
opposes his government by no means
does wrong TO his Fatherland.
ANY man who harms his native
country is a base scoundrel. This s
equally true il it be the Kaiser him
II
guilty, it is the duty Of every man In
Germany resolutely TO oppose him and
his government.
"Your princes. and above all, the
Hohenzollern. are descended from the
most successful robber barons OF the
Middle Ages. We no longer live in
the midst of robber barons as they
did 500 years ago. Therefore we no
longer need a robber baron 10 defend
our civilization.
Appeal for Revelation.
Not till the bells ring for peace
can we tell who is victorious, and
only fools ring those bells before their
time.
THE German constitution allows one
man to kill the residents OF that coun-
try. even civilians resisting violence.
to overrun its territory, TO burn its
homes, to plunder or destroy provis-
ions and movable wealth.
How long will you still wait? How
many men must still find a bloody
grave? How many more nations must
array themselves against us, before
you change your pirate law for one
that accords with the conscience and
the sense of justice Of civilized hu-
manity?"
Theoretically a revolution might
take place as smoothly as a change
Of a factory from individual TO cor
porate ownership. Is it harded TO die
for the cause Of truth, freedom, right
and civilization than for lies, tyranny,
madness and villany?
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
Chief W. J. Flynn, Of
Secret Service, Resigns

Chief VIM. ]. Flynn. of the Secret
Service. has resigned to take effect
January 1. it was learned last
night. 1t is understood he will be-
come chief of police of New York
City under Mayor Hylan.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
Checks Foe Says Berlin.

Checks Foe Says Berlin.
The Berlin war office. while ac-
knowledging that the Teuton forces
are still confined to the defensive, as
serts that the Italian assaults both
yesterday afternoon and evening
broke down before heavy battery fire.
The Italian operations of the last
two days appear to have chopped OF
the apex of the narrow wedge driven
into their lines in the Asolone region
and thus to have removed for the
time being the dangerous threat to
the Monte Grappa stronghold to the
east. Monte Grappa now stands at
the main bulwark between the enemy
and the Venetian, plains. and unless
he can compass its downfall 1t is un-
likely that his prodigious offensive
will succeed according to the plans he
Is following. While the initiative has
not definitely passed to the Italians,
they are now pursuing more aggres-
sive tactics than ever before and are
far on their way toward breaking
down the enemy's campaign between
the Brenta and Paive.
Infantry Fighting Lively.
Lively infantry fighting along most
Of the French front is recorded in the
official statements today. The Crown
Prince continuing his local thrusts
and Petain's troops replying with sue
cessful incursions into the enemys
lines. At Hartmannsweiler-Ko in
the Wovre, the French drove the en-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
Fire Destroys u. S.
Submarine Chaser;
Two Severely Hurt

An Atlantic Port, Dec. IA
United States submarine chaser
was burned to the waters edge
late this afternoon by a fire which
was said to have originated in the
engine hold. Two of the crew were
injured and taken to a naval hos
pltaL The ship was beached.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
Explosion Wrecks Rubber Plant.

Newark, N. J.. Dec. 22.-Four men
are reported missing following an ex-
plosion which wrecked the factory of
the Newark Rubber Company here
today. Raincoats were being manu-
factured for the government at the
plant. 1t Is believed that the explo-
sion was caused by a bomb.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
German Diplomat Fined.

san Francisco. Cal. Dec. 2a.-Georgs
Roedik, former German consul al Hon,
noiulu. who turned states evidence i,
. me Hindu plot cases, was TO-DAY fineI
Ilo'oOc by Federal Judge Van Fleet
his was the first sentence iInnoseS
IN the case in which thirty-three ars
Dn rial for fomenting a revolution IN
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
DOZEN NAMED
IN KIDNAPPING
OF KEET BABY
Claude Piersol, the Alleged
Slayer of Child, Tells
Story Of Blackmal.

Springfield, Mo-, Dec Ia
wholesale abduction plot which
would bring into the fold of the kid
nappers men of wealth who would
be held for ransom was unfolded
tonight in the alleged confession Of
Claude Piersol. 20. convicted of
kidnapping Baby Lloyd Keet. and
who is alleged to have slain the
child after the authorities got hot
on the trail of the kidnappers.
PLOT AGAINST FATHER.
According to the alleged confes-
sion. it was the plan of the gang at
the time they kidnapped the Keet
baby to kidnap J. Holland Keet. the
father, when he was enticed to a
lonely spot to pay a 5000 ransom
Tor the baby release.
IL Persons Implicated.
E. L. Sanford. vice-president OF
the Holland Banking Company and
chairman OF the State Highway
Commission. also was said TO have
been a victim of the kidnappers and
held for 100000 rSnsom.
Piersors confession is said TO
give the details of the abduction
and accidental death of Baby Neet
The baby is aid to have died OF
laudanum poisoning which the al
legged conspirators gave him 10
make him sleep.
Twelve persons. including those
already under arrest. are implicat-
ed in the abduction Warrants
have been issued and arrests are
expected shortly.
Make Adams. Il. charged with
the attempt to kidnap C. A Clem-
ent. and recently released from jai,
has already been taken in custody.
A man named Reilly is said by
Piersol TO have been the leader OF
the gang.
1t was Reilly. according TO the
alleged confessions. who climbed
into the window OF the Kest home
and took the baby. Reilly il saN
TO have handed the child to Dick
Carter. who carried Il to q wait
ing automobile where the baby was
handed to . woman member OF the
gang.
Piersol took an active part In -tte
abduction bat at no time touched
t-e baby. he says in his confession.
He was stationed at the Keet home.
he says. with Cletus ADAMS, Make
Adams. Dick Carter ana others who
are named but have not yet been ar
rested.
The Keet baby was taken to q
deserted house close TO the Green
and Christian County line. Piersol
AYERS he took food for the baby
and guards to this place the next
day.
Piersol does not know when the
child. was moved TO the Crenshaw
house. on which estate the baby was
found, he says. but believes it was
taken there the night after the alb
duction during a violent storm.
PiersoI Makes Denial
Piersol declares he knew nothing
about tine plot 10 kidnap the baby Un-
til Taylor Adams put it UP TO him
He denied writing the ransom" let
ters which experts swore he penciled.
But since the alleged confession was
written, according to Sheriff Mackey.
in whose presence it Is said to have
been penned, Piersol practically sd-
mitted writing them.
The post card which was mailed 10
Keet from Kansas City and which
was the last communication received
by him from the abductors, was mail
ed by Taylor Adams. according to
Piersol's statements The latter is said
to have stated he bought the card in
a store here and that Reilly mailed 1t
to Adams with instructions when TO
drop it in the mail in Kansas City.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-23
ITALY FORCES BACK FOE
IN FACE OF HEAVY fire:
FRENCH FIGHT FlERCELY
Infantry Battling Along Front Results in Sue
cess for Petain; Germans Repulsed Near
....s. Verdun; Bombarding Rheims.

Special Cable Washngton
London. Dec. The Italian forces between the Brenta and
Pave Northern Italy, yesterday their counter drive
the Monte Aone region and wesd from the enemy further
ground, Rome announced tonight.
HOLD NEWLY WON GROUND.
Picked troops from Gen. Dazs army corps against the
positions recently by the invaders and achieved remarkable
the face of adverse atmospheric conditions. The newly
ground held against strong ausoGeman stroke the
Italian statement says.
The Democratic advocate., 1917-07-06

A number of local residents visited
the Gettysburg Camp, Sunday and
many automobiles passed through
town to and from the battlefield.
Miss Anna Nusbaum, who recently
returned from the hospital, is conval-
escing.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore,
spent a few days last week at the
home of Miss Mary o. Shriver, here.
Mrs. Hilda Gallagher and two sons
of New Jersey, are guests of Miss Bes-
sic Shriver.
Miss Mary Reinecke, of Westmin.
ster, was a recent guest at the home
OF Miss Mary Bankert.
The Democratic advocate., 1917-07-06

tended. The Rev. S. C. Hoover, of St.
Mary's Reformed church, was the or
ator of the day and DR.. l.. D. Wetzel
delivered the eulogy. Music was fur
nished by the Union Mills band.
The rush of the pea season at the
Shriver Canning factory is over.
Farmers in this section are making
hay and state that the crop is good.
Others are cutting barley and wheat
viii be cut this week. Cherries are not
1bundant in this section.
John Humbert, of the local canning
factory, expects to be ready for the
he@7 season in the near future.
The Democratic advocate., 1917-07-06

This is a remarkable statement 10
make; but, coming from the source it
does. it is worthy of consideration of
all philanthropic men and women. Had
the speaker made his statement more
general and applicable TO the country
as well as to the cities it would all the
same be worthy of credence.
The life Of every one depends large
ly upon the start made. There are
those who are started right and then
depart from the straight but narrow
path, but they are the exception and
not the rule. Thousands of little IN
fOTtun2teS may be said to be born
criminals, the offspring of criminal
The Democratic advocate., 1917-07-06
Photographs With Bubble Background.

Professor Boys Of England, expert
menting with bubbles, obtained some
very large ones, which in the sunshine
changed colors so beautifully that he
conceived the idea of using them as
backgrounds for photographs.
These large bubbles were blown with
an ordinary bellows, says the Popular
Science Monthly. The soap solution
was heated and a large-mounted fun
mel was dipped into it. The bellows,
connected with the funnel, was then
worked very gently. Bubbles with as
great a circumference as two and a
half feet were easily obtained.
The Democratic advocate., 1917-07-06
Newfoundland DoQs,

A reliable authority states that orig
inally the colors of the Newfoundland
dog were red, brown, brown and white,
bronze, red and white, and black and
white; but these have given place to
two orthodox colors-black (Which is
generally prefered), or black and
white. The famous English artist,
Landseer, in his celebrated picture, "A
Member of the Royal Humane So
ciety," painted a specimen of the lat
ter colcrs, and hence the black and
white are sometimes called "Landseer
NeWfOundlands."
The Democratic advocate., 1917-07-06
In the Circuit Court for Carroll COUNTY

In the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
Thomas 0. Polk, ct al. Plaintiffs. vs. Jere
Wheelright. ct al. Defendants
Ordered by the Circuit Court for Carroll Coup.
ty. this goth day of June 1917 that the
sale of the property mentioned in these nrm r,'
ceedings. made and reported by Thomas O
Polk, Trustee, appointed by decree of this
Court to make said sale, be ratified and confirmed
unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on
before the 23rd day of July, next; provided a
copy of this order be inserted in som { weekly
newspaper, published in Carroll County Maryland
once in each of three successive weeks before the
10th day of July, next.
The report of sale states the amount tc be
Sl3.5O00O.
EDWARD o. CASH. Clerk
True Copy,-Test
june 22-3t EDWARD O. CASH Clerk
The Democratic advocate., 1917-07-06

EDITORIAL NOTE. - William Le-
QueuK, who here chronicles for hfA
friend. Count Ernst Won HeltzendOrn
the Iatter'H revelations OF the Inner
life of the imperial German court, has
long been recognized throughout Eu-
rope aH the pOsseBBor of it's innermOst
secrets.
The English "Nho'S Who" says OF
him: "He has intimate knowledge OF
the secret service of Continental cOun-
tries and is considered by the govern
ment (Of Great Brittany an authority ON
such Matters" Another authority says;
tfFew people have been more closely az
ISOLATED with or know more OF the
astounding inner machinery of Ger
many than he"
LeQueux probably has more sources
or secret information Mt his command
than any contemporary In civil life- and
for the last six years the British Gov
ernment has made valuable use of his
vast store of secret information through
N specially organized department with
which LeQueux works n voluntary
assistant.
Count von HeItzendorfR became an In
inmate of LeQueux several years prior
TO the outbreak Of the war; he has been
living I'm retirement in France since
August, 1914, and Ii was there that Lc-
Qucux received from the crown princes
late personal adJutant permission to
make public these revelations of the
inner life of the acknowledgements
the demOcraciea of the world might
come TO know the real but heretofore
hidden, personalities of the two dOmi-
nnnt members OF the autOcracy Ii is
now arrnyed against.
The Democratic advocate., 1917-07-06

~ Y AUGUST 5, 1914, | shook
the dust of Berlin from my
feet. crossed the French
>> frontier, and have since re-
sided in the comfortable old-fashiOned
country house which you assisted me
to purchase on the border Of the love-
ly forest of Fontaincbleau.
And now, You have asked me to
reveal to you some Of the secrets of
Potsdam-secrets known to me by rea-
son Of my official position before the
var.
You are perSuading me to disclose
some facts concerning the public and
private life of the emperor. of my
imperial master, the crown prince,
known in his intimate circles as
willie" and of the handsome but long
suffering Cecil duchess of Mecklen-
burg who married him ten years ago,
and became known as "Cilli.' Phew
Poor woman! She has experienced
ten years of misery. domestic unhap-
piness, by which she has become pre-
maturely aged, decp-eyed. her coun-
tenance at times when we talked wear
ing an almost tragic look.
A Strange, InexpIcable Affair.
In the early days of 1912 / found
myself as the personal adiutant of his
imperial hIghnesS the crown prince, in
volved in very strange, even mex
plicable affa3'.
The drama opened in the emperor's
palace in Berlin on New Years night,
1912, when, as usual, q grand court re-
ception was held.
In the famous White salon, with its
ceilings gaudily emblaZoned with the
arms of the Hohenzollerns as bur-
graves, electors. kings, emperOrs, and
what-not, its walls of cOlOred marble
and gilded bronze. and its fine statues
of the PrusSian rulers. we had all as
SembIed and were waiting the entrance
of the emperor.
Of sudden the tap of the chamber
lain's stick was heard thrice, the gold
and-white doors instantly fell open,
and the emperor, his decorations
cleaning beneath the myriad lights,
Smilingly entered with his waddling
consort, the crown prince, and their
brilliant suite.
The Cause of the kaiser's Annoyance.
All of us bowed low in homage, but
as we did so I saw the shrewd eyes of
the "all-highest one" which nothing es-
capes, fixed upon woman who stood
close to my elbow. As he fixed his
fierce gaze upon her, saw, knowing
that glance as I did. that 1t spoke vol
umes. Hitherto ! had not noticed the
lady, for she was probably one Of those