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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
Purpose of British Commander
Is to Cut Railroad Comnuni-
cation Between North Sea
and German Army,
PETAIN IS EXPECTED
TO DASH TOWARD LAON
This Week, It Is Believed, Eng
Iish and French Reinforce
mentS. in Ample Numbers
viii Reach Italian Front,

Again the artillery duel on the
FLANDERS front has reached tremen-
dous proportions, and il is not un-
likely that Field Marshal Haig has
in preparation another dash forward
from the region of Passchendaele to-
ward the town Of Rouiers and the
important railway lines serving the
German front from the North sea
southward. The Germans, anticipating
another of the irresistible operations
of the British commander-in-ch chief.
are directing their heavy gunfire on
The positions in the neighborhood of
i'asschendaele and Langemarck and
south Of the Polygon wood.
10 the south the big guns of the
French and the Germans also are
active along the Chemin des Danes,
and the present week doubtless will
witness another attempt by Genera
retains army here to press forward
toward Laon.
The British troops In Palestine are
giving the Turks no rest. Jaffa has
been captured by them, the Ottoman
forces offering no resistance, 1t is
stated that the Turks are in retire.
ment northward.
The German naval forces encoun-
tered by British light war craft in
the North sea Saturday were forced
to seek a haven of safety under the
protection of their battle fleets and
! behind the mine fields of Heligoland,
The British warships chased the
fleeing enemy as far as was com
patible with safety, and when last
seen one of the Germans was on fire
and another apparently had been
damaged A German mine sweeper
was sunk. The British naval uni.
suffered slight material damage and
there were few casualties among the
crews
Sebastopol Joins Lcnine.
The latest unofficial advices from
Russia indicate that Petrograd and
MOSCOW are still in the hands of the
BOlshevki and that Senastopol, the
| big naval base and arsenal in the
Black sea, has gone over to the
! Workmen's and Sailors delegates.
the sailors of the fleet having sworn
allegiance to them.
All along the Piave river the Ital-
ians are holding the German and
AustrO- Hungarian armies in check
Nowhere have the invaders been
several places where they previously
had gained access to the western
bank they have been brilliantly
counter-attacked and forced to with
draw to the rivers edge. The Italians
have captured considerably more
than 1000 prisoners and taken twen-
ty-seven machine guns. In the Fagare
zone the enemy has been completely
vanished and forced to give up his
position.
on the northern front from Lake
Garda to the region south of Feltre
violent Austro-G German attacks have
been repelled according to the Rome
war office, although Berlin asserts
that northwest of Asiago and be-
tween the Brenta and the Piave riv
ers the Italians have been driven
from strong mountain positions.
No advices have come through to
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19

show that the British and French re-
Inducements have reached the Ital
ian line in any considerable numbers
but the few days which it was an
nounced last week must intervene
before they could stiffen the front
now are at an end. Therefore, 1t is
presumed that, with the Italians
having borne the brunt of the Teu-
tonic allies attack during the last
week unaided, the present week with
the aid of the allies in their line,
will turn the balance of the scale in
their favor
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
. e%~~ o o 0 Q . . . . .
tsv so.a,ns JOURNAL SPECIAL LEAsso ~'ssI


London, Nov. 1S.-The Maximalist
commissioners have closed the Russo
Swedish frontier at Tornea, accord
ing to the Petrograd correspondent
Of Reuters Limited, who adds that no
one is allowed to pass without special
authorization from the military reVo-
lutionary committee. Continuing, the
dispatch says:
"Hostiities have ceased in Moscow
Terms were signed whereby the So
called white guard surrenders its
arms and the committee on public
safety dissolves.
THE MaXimalists' conditions to con-
senting to a composite socialist gov
ernment includes control of the troops
in the Petrograd and Moscow districts
and the systematic arming of work
men throughout Russia.
ut is reported that troops amount
ing to an army corps under orders
of the army committees have reached
Luga en- route to Petrograd to end
civil war and the dictatorship of the
MaXimalis,s.
"The Ukraine assembly has declar-
ed the independence of the Ukraine.
1T is stated that the Cossacks sup
porting Premier Kerensky on;y num-
bered 300"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
GENERAL KALEDINES
IS GATHERING COSSACKS

Stockholm, Nov. 1S.-Petrograd
was quiet up to Wednesday evening
according to advices from what are
regarded here as reliable sources The
railway employees We're refusing to
transport troops for either faction and
the food situation in the capital was
becoming serious.
There is little definite news from
the provinces, but an apparently re-
liable report said General Kaledines
was assembling considerable force
Of Cossacks.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
BOLSHEVIK. TRY TO
RESTORE GOVERNMENT

Petrograd, Nov II Saturday, 1850
%. m. 1.-The Bolsheviki leaders are en-
deavoring to effect the resumption of
operations by the various brahches Of
the governments most of which have
been disorganized by strikes and the
refusal of employees to work under the
Bolsheviki commissioners.
The newspapers which were sup
pressed in the early days of the upris-
ing have in some instances been given
permission to renew publication, al
though the status OF the bourgeoise
press is still indefinite.
An order of arrest for NJ. Neratoff,
former minister of foreign affairs, and
other officials of the foreign ministry
Is reported to have been issued.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
LLOYD GEORGE WILL
HIT FROM SHOULDER

London, Nov. lS.-The parliament
tary correspondents of the Sunday
newspapers are unanimous in their
anticipation that tomorrow's de-
bate in the house of COM
mons on Premier Lloyd George $
Paris speech win clear the air and
end the controversy which has been
raging the past week. They picture
the premier In q most militant mood
and welcoming the opportunity of de-
Tending his plan for an allied war
council against his critics-represent-
ed as an irreconcilable combination of
radicals, pacifists and militant con-
selvatives.
|. 1t is expected Mr. Lloyd George will
clear away any misconception that his
remarks in Paris were intended as a
reflection on army leaders.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
GERMAN REPORTS SAY
BRITISH WE'RE BEATEN

Amsterdamg Nov 1S.--Strong Brit
ish naval forces fer the first time since
early in the war attempted to break
into the German blight (Helgoland) on
Saturday morning, says a Berlin dis
patch today quoting an official state
ment dated Saturday.
The British were located by the
German guard ships on the Horn
Reef Terscheling line (about sixty
miles out from Helgoland island) and
the advance German naval forces by a
speedy counter thrust easily repulsed
it, it is declared, without losses on
the German side.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
President Wilson Cables House
That Allies Must Coordinate
Armies; Headless Plan Rebuked


the United States favored the creation
OF a Joint military staff on which 1t
would have representation
Coordination Of endeavor in all
matters pertaining to the conduct of
the war was the object for which the
American mission was sent abroad.
This was to apply not alone to econo-
mic problems, but to military ques-
tions as we'll.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
BERLIN SAYS LENYSE
AND KERENSKY SETTLE

London, Nov. 1S.-The Berlin
Tageblatt declares that Premier ke-
rensky and Nikolai Lenine, leader of
the Bolesheviki revolution in Petro-
grad, have effected compromise es-
sentially favorable to Lenine, the Ex-
change Telegraph correspondent at
Copenhagen reports.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
MaximaIists Are Split Up.

London, Nov 1S.-Reuter's Petro7
grad correspondent, telegraphing Sat
urday, says there has been split
among the Maximalsts. The ministers
of the interior, agriculture and sup
plies have resigned, holding that for
nation of coalition socialist govern
ment is essential. Several other COM
sloners says the correspondent, sup
port their views.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
Firing Heard in North Sea.

Copenhagen, Nov. II. Advices
from the island Of Mano say that a
violent cannonading was heard from
the North sea between $3.50 and 10
o'clock this morning. At intervals
there were great explosions. Several
warships were observed on the hor-
tzon.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
NECESSITY OF CLOSER
COOPERATION KNOWN

Washington, Nov. 1S.--Although no
formal announcement on the subject
was made at the time, 1t was general
ly known that when. Colonel House
and his mission left for England that
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
RUSSIAN CORPS
ON WAY TO stop
SLAV CIVIL WAR
Moscow Is in Hands Of BoI-
Shekivi and kerensky Men
Are Said to Have Yielded
on Terms.
AMERICANS ASK FOR
TRAIN FROM PETROGRAD

London. Nov. 1S.-The Ameri-
can embassy at Peuograd, ac-
, cording TO a Reuter- dispatch,
has requested that a train be pro-
vided to convey two hundred
, members of the American col
) ony in Petrograd to Harbin.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
LOCAL REPORT.

A summary of local weather cOndi-
tons for the twenty -four hours ended
AT p. m. yesterday follows: Maxi
mum temperature, SO degrees; mini
mum, 25; range, 23; temperature at
p. m, 46, north wind; clear.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-19
DESPERATE DEESP PEERAA7E STRUGGLE ON RAE CONTINUES ITALIANS HOLDING OUT BRAELY
THE WEATHER
FORECAST.

Denver, Colo, Nov, 1S.-For New
Mexico; Monday fair, Tuesday fair,
warmer east portion.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-08-31
DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS
Are the Voyages of Merchant Ships
Between England and Holland
these Days
(Associated Pressl

Rotterdam, Aug. 19.-(Correspond-
ence).-A record convoy has just
reached Rotterdam from England,
numbering seventeen ships. The es-
corting squadron was. likewise prob
ably an easy record for this route,
comprising, as it did, forty torpedo
destroyers.
The British convoy between Britain
and Holland is now a regular institu-
ton, and is doubtless typical of what
takes place on a far wider and ex-
tending scale in the Entente shipping
world The non-admittance of arm
ed merchantmen to Dutch ports has
route.
Times of sailing are kept secret.
The boats collect somewhere in Brit
them on short notice. The crossing
frequently takes place at night. Some
of the escorting destroyers go on
ahead; others rush along at great
speed on either. flank of the merchant
men, turning and twisting and MAX
ing all kinds of strange evolutions
calculated to ward off and endanger
the lurking German submarine. Three
or four Dutch boats are often includ-
ed in the convoy, for the crossing of
the North Sea alone, with no protec-
ton save that of a neutral flag, has
proven to be merely asking for de-
struction.
Arrived on the Netherlands side,
the escorting squadron stops short on
the border of Dutch waters, and the
merchantmen go safely on int their
ports of destination, constantly pass
ing close by the German cargo-boats
that have recently taken to trading
with coal between Rotterdam and
Scandinavian ports through the chan
mel of Dutch territorial waters.
Shortly afterward a returning con-
voy, which has been lying in the New
Waterway, energies and, under the
protection of the warships, swiftly
takes it's way westward, heavily laden
with such products as Dutch cheese
butter, eggs and meat. Of late the
convoy has crossed and re-crossed in
this way once a week, incidentally
conveying the mail either way. The
mail from England is always very
considerable, including something
like $4,000 to 10000 parcels of food
for British prisoners of war in Ger
many. Occasionally straggler falls
victim to a torpedo, and mine victims
used to be heard of, but the convoy
method on the whole appears to be
remarkably successful.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-08-31

flee this county had outstanding war.
rants unpaid in round figures $685..
900 not including school matters. The
banks were loaded up with Marion
county warrants with no money to
pay them.
The county mad been getting deeper
and deeper in debt. Thousands of
dollars of this debt was probably of
doubtful legality Today this county
has not a single dollar of illegal debt.
We did not lose a dollar on account
of Mr.. Graham's loss. We keep ex.
act accounts that balance to cent;
not dollar of graft. goes.
We have paid off, in round figures,
100000 of our debt On August 1st,
1917. Marion county had to its credit
in cash, in the county depository, s34,-
1895 and have since deposited with
them, as is evidenced by their receipts,
.s1,506.53. making total credits to date
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-08-31
HIS MAJESTY WASN'T AT HOME
Commissioners of Volusia County,
Summoned to Tallahassee to De-
fend Themselves, Couldn't
Find Cats

A special from Tallahassee to the
Tampa Tribune says: Members of the
Volusia board of county commission
ers, their attorney, Judge Bert Fish,
a number of their friends, as well as
those who came to ask for their re-
moval, left Tallahassee this afternoon
after being informed that the hearing
of their matter would have to be
postponed as the governor was not
expected to be in Tallahassee until
Monday next.
He is in Jacksonville now and was
there yesterday, when the hearing
here, to which the Volusia commits
sioners were summoned, was to have
been held. The executive has en-
gagements for tomorrow, Friday, Sat-
urday and Sunday that will keep him
away from the capital.
This is the same hearing to which
County Commissioners Chris. Codring-
ton of DeLand was summoned but de-
clined to attend because, he said in a
letter to the governor, the trip would
be too expensive.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-08-31
BEATING THE U-BDAT
American Navy Operating Against
the Submarines with Marked
Effect
ASSOCIATED Press,

Washington, Aug. 31.-American
naval forces are conveying merchant
craft across the Atlantic, it has been
disclosed officially at the navy de-
partment, and examination of the re-
cords show that the loss of conveyed
ships by submarines has averaged
less than one-half of one per cent.
Details of the convoy system are
withheld. 1t was stated, however,
that American war vessels are regu-
larly escorting fleets of British,
French or other allied merchantmen
across, the protection being supple
mented when the danger zone is
reached by the destroyers and other
patrol craft.
American naval officers believe that
an effective system for checking the
submarine menace is being built up
gradually. Many devices and many
methods enter into the task. Among
other things depth bombs are prov
ing effective. Official reports indicate
that American destroyers have ac-
counted for several U-boats with
these weapons. No announcement of
such incidents will be made, however,
unless absolute proof is available.
No U-boat has been captured by
the Americans. 1t is the best judg-
ment of high officials, however, that
several have been sunk by Admiral
Sims destroyers and they are conf
dent, more confident than ever be-
fore, that the submarine menace will
be substantially abated as the num-
Der of destroyers and other craft
available for the work is increased.
ReDortS from Tondon that the S1h
marines are working farther at sea
than formerly were confirmed by the
navy department. 1t may be that
new boats of greater size and better
lsea-keeping qualities lend TO this ex-
tension of the zone of activities, but
lit is regarded as more probable that
the. increased and increasing vigilance
of the anti-submarine forces is main
| lly responsible.
| The effect of the increasing patrol,
of the employment of airplanes and of
| the addition of new devices to the
anti-submarine weapons, has been to
| force the U-boats under water to
greater and greater degree. Their
Effectiveness is limited in proportion.
They cannot run down a merchant
lship of average speed if kept under
water. They can operate only against
lships that almost stumble upon them.
And all the time they are under water
| they are consuming the stored power
of their storage batteries, decreasing
their range of underwater action and
compelling them to come up at night
and lie idle on the surface while their
Ioil engines are used to re-charge their
| batteries.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-08-31
BREATHING TIME
BETWEEN BATTLES
VIII Likely be Followed by Fierce
Offensive on All Fronts in
the West
(Associated Press)

All three campaigns on the west
ern front seem halted temporarily.
The Italians are showing the most ac-
tivity in their drive against Trieste,
but even there seems to be pause
characteristic of virtually all the
great drives against fortified posi-
tions.
The British report the repulse of
German raid near Lens. No mention
is made of British activities, but the
London. war office intimates a virtual
ly continuous artillery fire.
French artillery activity on both
sides of the Meuse indicates speedy
renewal of attacks against the Ger
mans there.
British casualties were notably less
than during July although there has
been some hard fighting during Au-
gust.
BRITISH LOSSES
London, Aug. 31-The total of
British casualties reported for Au-
gust on all fronts was $1,000.
THE WORK is FORCED UPON
THEM
Christiania, Norway, Aug. 81
Captain Levan. one of the three Ger
man spies sentenced to prison terms,
said German subjects in neutral coun-
tries were forced to obey orders from
the German authorities.
ITALIANS GOING AHEAD
Rome, Aug. 31.-Heavy fighting
continues on the Bainsizza and Carso
plateaus. The war office reports
Italian successes with the capture of
600 prisoners.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-08-31
MARION COUNTY FINANCES

Editor Star:
My salary as clerk when I first
took charge of the clerks office was
fixed at $95.0O per month and was
put at that figure by taking the
amount paid Mr.. Sistrunk, my prede-
cessor, each month, on an average for
the last two years of his period of
office. 1t remained at that until the
legislature imposed upon the board
and clerk together the duty of max
ing semi-annual financial statements
a statement that could not possibly
be made to balance because, this couns
ty had great number of warrants
outstanding with which the stub of
warrant books did not agree, and 9TH
er errors. The commissioners were
jointly responsible with the clerk for
this work and had authority to hire
it done and pay for the work. / have
in my possession cancelled check for
$3.50 paid Mr. w. w. Clyatt for MAX
ing up single financial statement,
and Mr.. Clyatt refused to any longer
attempt the work He could not make
the statement balance, not because he
was not competent, he is fully COM
petent; no man could. We could not
get hold of the outstanding warrants
and errors of stub books were such
that balancing a financial statement
was impossible. Gradually these war
rants came in, errors were corrected.
and today our statements and books
balance to cent. Then the legisla-
ture passed budget law placing on
the clerk a new and grave RESPONSE
bility that no clerk before my time
ever had at ALL I and my bondsman
are absolutely responsible for every
illegal or wrong warrant issued, no
matter whether the county commits
sioners ordered the warrant issued or
not. Under the law / audit every dol
lar of this county's expenditures and
am responsible in every way for it as
county auditor regardless of the ac-
ton of the couty commissioners.
took over all of the work that the
commissioners were partly RESPONSE
Bile for, and that they could have hired
anyone to do. and work that no clerk
had had to do prior to my term of OF
flee and the board increased my sal
airy to $135 per month. And that sal
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-08-31

ary, in consideration of the amount of
work and unusual responsibility is not
one dollar too much.
Later when the treasurer's office
was abolished and it was necessary
for the commissioners to have this
work done, which they could have
hired anyone to do, they asked me to
make bid on that work and accept
ed my offer of $4,000 a month. All
of these payments to clerk are strict
ly within the law
Contingencies.
The law of Florida provides that
the several different county funds
shall have contingency accounts, to
be drawn on if necessary to supply
any other accounts that may need ii
and still be legal For instance when
the 1916-1917 budget was made, one
account in the road fund was for feed
of mules. Corn was not worth more
than $1.00 per bushel and reason.
able estimate was made to feed mules
on basis of corn at say S100, and SO
with account of feeding convicts Nc
man could foresee that corn would 60
to $500 a bushel, but when corn did
advance and meat advanced and
everything advanced the commission
ers could draw On the contingency ac
count for any account found short.
This contingency account is moi
only legal. but expressly allowed by
law, and to omit a contingency &C
count would be plain folly. There Is
nothing uncertain about any contin
gency account Every dollar OF it paid
out is exactly like any other dollar
paid out and an exact account of II
is kept In the form Of plain bills pas
sed on by the board in open session
like all of our bills.
And right here j am going to say
that when Mr.. Gray, as state auditor
checked up the county officers aftel
the death of Mr.. Graham he told me
that the clerks accounts in all depart
ments were correct TO cent, and
that he had made no change what
ever, credit for which is due Mr.. T
D. Lancaster. who has charge OF thu
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-08-31

than you who reads this.
OF the 80 mills the legislature fix.
ed mills; the school board fixed 10
mills. Again:
The school board gets all the poll
taxes The county does not get dol.
lar of it. The school board gets more
than the poll taxes and it gets it in
addition to the whole of its 10 mills,
because the county, besides losing all
the poll taxes, which the schools get,
actually pays out of it's Is mills every
dollars of both the assessors and tax
collectors commission on general
school money, about $1,000 in round
figures.
Remember, too. that the commits
sioners are eternally harassed by
everybody for more roads; roads and
more roads, and that they spend $50.
900 in round figures a year for roads
and their next budget calls for $62,.
900 in round figures.
When | went into the clerks of.