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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22

the diplomatic break with Germany
as leading to a state of armed neutral
ity have now been fulfilled. The overt
act" described by him then has actual
ly come; if in fact it had not been
committed when the President went
before Congress again. Since then he
has established a state of armed neu-
trality without the specific authority
of Congress.
Official reports were received from
Consul Frost, at Queenstown, and Con-
sui General Skinner at London, tell.
ing of the sinking of the City of Mem
phis, the Vigilancia and the Illinois.
These dispatches confirmed press re.
ports, but added few details
International lawyers and constitu-
tional experts here showed no hesi-
fancy in saying that President Wilson
has full authority to interpret this as
an act of war, and announce that this
country considers that an actual state
of war exists by reason of GeTmany's
fragrant assault on American shipping.
Such action would be subject to the
approval of Congress.
Despite the unwarned sinking of the
big passenger liners like the Califor-
MIA and the LaConia. the jeOpardizing
of Americans on nearly a score of 9th
er vessels, and the sinking of three
other American ships-the HOusatoniC,
the Lyman NJ. Law and the Algonquin
some officials, inspired by the Presi-
dents announced reluctance to believe
that Germany would carry through
her threat. have Clung desperately to
the hope that some slight respect for
international law might still be shown.
German sea warfare may fairly be
stated, however, to have surpassed
even the most pesSimistiC forecasts
here. That she actually means to
send every vessel to the bottom that
dares to venture within her forbidden
zones is now accepted as a fact. Neu-
tral, passenger and Belgian, relief ap-
pear to be all in the same category.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
MANY BELGIANS STARVING
According to Messages From Railroad
Men-Germans Not Deliver
ing Packages.

Havre-The Belgian government
continues to receive information con
cerning the fate of Belgian railroad
employees.
According to postal cards sent by
these men, and which are in the pos
session of the Belgian government,
they are in real distress, some of them
begging that necessities be expedited,
as they are starving.
Parcel post packages, such as are
sent to prisoners of war, have been
forwarded, chiefly to the prisoners
camp at Guben, but the Germans are
said to have refused to deliver them.
The Germans are charged with hav-
ing refused to put these men in the
category of military prisoners or in
that of !nterned civilians. to whom the
German regulations permit the send
ing Of parcels. 1t is reported that the
Belgian railroad men still refuse to
work for the Germans.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
NEW REGIMES PROGRAM

London.-The Provisional Gov
ernment in Russia has issued the
following appeal to the people, ac-
cording to Reuters Petroerad cor
respondent:
"citizens: The Executive Com
mittee of Duma, with the aid and
support of the garrison of the capt.
tai and its inhabitants, has sue
ceeded in triumphing over the OBJ
noxious forces of the old regime in
such a manner that we are able to
proceed to a more stable organiza-
tIon of the executive power with
men whose past activity assures
them the country's confidence"
The names of the members Of
the new government are then Civ
en-, and the appeal continues:
"The new Cabinet will base its
policy on the following principles:
"1. An immediate general am
nesty for all political and religious
offenses, including terrorists acts
and military and agrarian offenses.
"2. Liberty of speech and of the
press; freedom for alliances, unions
and strikes, with the extension Of
these liberties to military officials
within the limits admitted by mill.
tary requirements.
"3. Abolition of all social, relig-
ous and national restrictions.
-. To proceed forthwith to the
preparation and conVocation of a
constitutional assembly, based on
universal suffrage, which will es-
tabIish governmental regime.
rs. The substitution of the po-
lice by a national militia, with
chiefs to be elected and responsi.
BILE to the government.
"e. Communal elections to be
based on universal suffrage.
az. The troops which partici-
pated in the revolutionary move
ment will not be disarmed, but will
remain in Petrograd.
"8. While maintaining strict mil
itary discipline for troops on active
service, it is desirable to abrogate
for soldiers all restrictions in the
enjoyment of social rights accorded
other citizens.
THE Provisional Government de-
sires to add that it has no intention
to profit by the circumstances of
the war to delay the realization of
the measures of reform mentioned
above"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
THIRTY-FVE BROUGHT DOWN
French Captain Mentioned For De-
struction of German Craft-Ber-
lin Announces Progress.

Paris.-Capt. Guynemer, famous
French aviator, has just brought down
his thirty-fifth airplane, the following
official account of aerial activities be-
ing issued:
Capt Guynemer brought down his
thirty-fifth enemy machine and Capt
Doumer his sixth. The other enemy
machines, attacked by our pilots, fell
to the earth, one north of Dernyen-
Laonnois, the other east of Roye. Ac
cording to information which is at
hand, in addition to the nine German
airplanes which we report had been
brought down by us on March IL, a
tenth fell near ChavOnne"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
Announcement Came as Sur
prise to Brotherhood Chiefs
Who Were In Bed When News
Came to Appear In Confer
enCe Room
VICTORY, WON BY TRAINMEN
War Peril Prompts Roads To Make
Concessions-Empioyes Are AS
sured an Eight-Hour Day and Pay
For Ten Hours Under the Agree
ment-Detaiis Being Worked Out
BY Mediators.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York.-The Conference COM
mittee of railroad managers author
lied President Wilson's mediators 10
make whatever arrangements were
necessary with the railroad brother
hoods to call off the threatened strike.
| The formal letter in which this author
ization was made, signed by Elisha
Lee, Chairman of the Managers Com
mittee, was as follows:
In the national crisis precipitated
by events which we heard the national
conference committee of railroads
joins with you in the conviction that
neither at hCme nor abroad should
there be fear or hope that the efficient
operation of the railroads of the coun-
try will be hampered or impaired.
Therefore you are authorized to
assure the nation there will be no
| strike and as basis for such assur-
ance we hereby authorize the Commit
! tee of the Council of National Defense
! to grant to the employees who are
| ABOUT 10 SLFlk6 WHdleNGI duJuSILnSuL
your committee deems necessary to
guarantee the uninterrupted and eff
cient operation OF the railroads as an
indispensable arm of national de-
fense" Secretary Lane issued this
! statement:
Regardless of the decision of the
| Supreme Court on the Adamson law
the basic eight-hour day will go into
effect. The details are being worked
upon by joint committee, which will
have its negotiations completed.
Victory For Trainmen.
The decision reached by the man
ayers at their midnight conference
means that the brotherhoods have won
an important victory. although 1t does
not bring them all their original de-
mands.
Immediately after Secretary Lane
had made his announcement the broth
erhood leaders sent kilograms to all
the general chairmen informing them
that the strike had been declared off.
| The announcement of the managers
that they had yielded apparently came
as a surprise to the brotherhood
chiefs, for they were in bed when
summoned again to the conference
room.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
FRENCH CABINET RESIGNS
to Hand Resignation To
President.

Paris.-The French Cabinet, headed
by President BRAND, has resigned. An
official note given out after the cabinet
meeting says:
THE Council of Ministers met at
Elysee Palace. The Premier reported
on various consultations he had had
with a view to completing the cabinet
so it could present itself to the Cham
ber After hearing him the cabinet
decided that circumstances compelled
it to leave to the President of the re-
public complete liberty to interpret the
situation in the best interests of the
national defense. Consequently, the
President of the Council put into the
hands of the President of the republic
the resignation of the cabinet"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22

Petrograd.-Russia appears to be in
O. fair way toward solving the great
est problem with which, perhaps, any
nation was ever confronted. Order is
growing with incredible rapidity out of
the chaos of the last week, and the
new Government, gathering up the
broken threads of national and munici-
pal life. is striving to set the organiza-
tion of the country in motion so that
the conduct of the war will suffer as
little as possible from the revolution.
The members of the new Ministry
already have assumed their posts and
the Government buildings, empty and
deserted for four days, are again open
for official business. The banks, all
the commercial and financial houses
and some of the factories have already
responded to the new Governments
appeal opened their doors and ex-
pressed a willingness to do everything
in their power to effect as quick re-
covery as possible from the paralysis
of the last week The soldier-police-
men are guarding the streets in place
of the old gendarmes.
Hundreds of messages have been
received from all over the country de-
claring the allegiance of important cit
les and fortresses to the new regime.
Moscow, Kharkov, Tsaritsyn and Vo-
logda already have formally acknowl-
ad0ad tho Dow Government and On for
as is known not single section Of
the country stands out for the old or
der of things. Supported by unanimous
vote, the present Government is, in
reality. a Government of the people
The Council of Nobility has held
special meetings in Is provinces and
indorsed the new Government
The old regime of Conservatives has
been supplanted by a Government of
Liberals. NJ. Kerenski, the new Minis
ter of Justice, is a Socialist. He ac-
cepted the portfolio on the stipulation
that there should be absolute freedom
of speech and of the press, and full
political amnesty The Cabinet has
been chosen exclusively from present
and past members of the Duma. 1t
was named by the Executive Commit
tee of the Duma. in conjunction with
other Deputies and representatives of
the workingmen and the soldiers.
Prof. Paul Milukoff, the new Foreign
Minister, informed the correspondent
that the new regime was determined
on the elimination of Emperor Nicho-
las and of the regency of Grand Duke
Michael.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
GROSS TONNAGE OF 7s1 500 DE.
STROYED BY SUBMARINES
IN FEBRUARY.

BerIin.-Merchant ships of an ag-
gregate gross tonnage of 791 500
were destroyed in February as
result of war measures of the Gen.
traI Powers, the Admiralty an
nounced.
The statement follows:
ain February 369 merchant ships
of an aggregate gross tonnage of
781,5oo were lost by the war meas
ures of the Central Powers. Among
them were 292 hostile ships, with
an aggregate gross tonnage of 644,-
600, and rs neutral ships of an ag-
gregate gross tonnage of 137,5oo.
Among the neutral ships 81
were sunk by submarines, which
is 1876 per cent of the total in Feb
ruary, as compared with 29 per
cent, the average of neutral losses
in the last four months"
There is a wide disparity be-
tween the official German figures
of the destruction of shipping in
February, the first month of unre-
strcted submarine warfare, and
the figures given out In England. It
was said authoritatiVeIy in London
on March that in February Ger
man submarines sent to the bottom
in round numbers 100000 tons of
shipping. No mention was made Of
ships destroyed by mines.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
Navy Loses Best Gunner.

Observation-Disclosures with the
announcement that Lieut.. Thomas M.
Upton, U. s. N, has been dismissed
from the navy on a charge of intoxica-
ton, it has been learned that Lieut..
Upton holds the record as the best
marksman in the navy. In gunnery
exercise he made a record of straight
hits without miss, firing from a tur-
ret at long range. RI. Adm. Palmer
made an appeal in Tipton's behalf, ask
ing that he be placed on probation
instead of being dismissed. The dis
missal has created much comment.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
Capital Breathes Easier.

Washing ton.-Word that the rail-
road strike had been called off brought
mingled satisfaction and relief to ad
ministration officials Particularly in
view of the sudden increase of tension
over relations with Germany it was
felt the settling of differences between
the railroads and brotherhoods re-
moves big menace to proper internal
preparations for national defense.
News of the agreement reached the
White House after President Wilson
had reti. ed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
All Youths Must Train.

Albany, n Y--Boys in this state
between the ages of 16 and 19 years
are now members of the Corps of Ca
diets of the state of New York. The
Military Training Commission has
given that name to tEc arnly of boys
subject to military training None be-
tween the ages mentioned entirely. is
exempted. The cadets soon will get
orders providing a schedule of three.
hours week of drill, target practice,
study or other military duty.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
Alexis Condition Grave.

Petrograd.- revolution overlook
the imperial family when all the chill
dren, except Grand Duchess Marie.
were afflicted with measles. Grand
Duke Alexis, 12-year-old eTstwhile heir,
who was reported dead, still lives, but
is very i'll. His attack of measles was
complicated by the breaking out of the
old wound in his foot, dating from the
alleged attempt on his life about four
years ago. He was just reported as
likely to recover. He contracted the
malady from a companon at the
front.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
PAYS FOR 16O
ACRES OF Land
From the Crop Of Wheat on So
Acres in Western Canada.

This story of paying for your land
out of one years crop is fully authen-
ticated by a great many farmers in
Western Canada.
And now, all that the farmer makes
is velvet and you find him going more
extensively into stock raising, for all
authorities agree that in a short time
there will be a demand for live stock,
such as even will tax the vast re-
sources of Western Canada. They
will go into stock raising because Of
the adaptability of the country to pro-
vide food and fodder without feeding
grain if necessary. They will go into
stock and improve their places. They
will install steam and heating plants
in fact, many are now doing it. They
districts there is not farmer but has
one. They will beautify their homes
and erect fine barns until thee whole
country will be as attractive as many
of the counties in the best states in
the Union. But we started out to tell
you of tie farmer who paid for 160
acres of land from the crop of wheat
off of SO acres. The Holden district
on the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific
does not appear to the ordinary OBJ
server to be any better than many
other districts along that line, and
probably isn't. 1t was in this district
that John Larcome, a settler, pur-
chased in 1915 100 acres of raw prai-
rie land. He broke and seeded 80
acres. His crop turned out well. and
he sold the greater portion of 1t for
$2,970 His land cost him $16.50 per
acre, or $2,640. So that the crop from
the SO acres paid for the land and left
a balance of over $500, which with
part of the crop left over would just
pay for the cost of operation. This
is not really an unusual case, hundreds
of other farmers in Alberta and Sas-
katchewan having .bCen able to do the
same.
Sales of land are being reported
from many districts in Manitoba. Sas-
katchewan and Alberta at good prices.
And values are yet low, but with the
flow of any value that will take place
after the war, no doubt they will be
considerably increased. The home
steads in the Park sections which are
to sbe had actually free are having
the attention of a good class of set
tiers, who want to go into mixed farm
ng.-AdvertiSement.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
COAST VILLAGES ATTACKED
kentish Coast Is Scene of Firing BY
German Torpedo Boats
and Destroyers.

London.-German torpedo boats and
destroyers shelled towns along the
Kentish coast, but did little damage,
according to an official statement just
issued. The text reads:
Some enemy torpedo boats and de-
stroyers approached the Kentish coast
Sunday morning. They fired a num-
ber of shells at certain coast towns.
There were no casualties"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
CHINA TO TAKE PART
representatives of Neutral and En-
tente Nations Are Told of
China'S Intentions.

Peking, China.-After announcing
the severance of diplomatic relations
between China and Germany, Foreign
Minister WI Ting-Fang called meet
ing of the ministers of the Entente ma
tions and later a meeting of the min
listers of neutral countries.
He presented a memorandum at
both meetings, requesting suspension
of payments of indemnity for the Box
er uprising, consent to an increase of
import duties and modification of Chi
mas undertakings that will permit her
to station troops at Tien-Tsin, along
the Tien-Tsin-P Picking railway and in
the legation quarters as protection
against Germans.
The Dutch legation is protecting
German interests and guarding the
German Legation. The German min.
lister and his staff probably will leave
Peking for Shanghai within five days.
Denmark is looking after Chinese
interests in Germany.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
Ordered 10 Arrest Criminals.

Lopdon.-Telegraph from Petro-
grad, Reuters correspondent says:
Stringent orders have been issued for
the rearrest OF a number of criminals
who escaped during the liberation of
political prisoners. Some of them. dis
guised as soldiers, have been pillag-
ing private houses and threatening
their occupants. Official orders have
been issued that the criminals are to
be shot at sigkN if they offer resles
ance to arrest"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
REPUBLIC TO Be
FORM IN RUSSIA
RoMANoFF DYNASTY COMES TO
AN END-cLAIM TO THRONE
is RELINoUlsHED BY cZAR.
RESTORE ORDER At PETROGRAD
Business of Every Sort Again Set
In Motion-AbsoIute Freedom OF
Speech and Press, and Amnesty for
Political Victims Now Assured.

Petrograd, via LOndon.-Emperor
Nicholas has abdicated on behalf of
himself and the heir apparent, Grand
Duke Alexis, in favor of Grand Duke
Michael Alexandrovitch. A few hours
later Grand Duke Michael himself alb
dicated, thus bringing the Romanoff
Dynasty 10 an end.
The Government, pending a meeting
of Constitutional Assembly, is vested
in the Executive Committee of the
Duma and the newly-chosen Council
of Ministers.
A manifesto to this effect was then
issued by the DuTa Committee. 1t
was telegraphed to the general army
headquarters.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
ANY CORN LIFTS OUT,
DOESN'T HURT A BIT!
No foolishness! Lift your corns
and caIIuses off with fingers
It's like magic!

Sore corns, hard corns, soft COrns or
any kind of a corn, can harmlesSly he
lifted right out with the fingers if you
apply upon the corn few drops Of
freezOne, says Cincinnati authority.
For little cost one can get small
bottle of freezone at any drug store,
which will positively rid ones feet Of
every corn or callus without pain.
This simple drug dries the moment
1t is applied and does not even irri-
tate the surrounding skin while ap-
plying it or afterwards.
This announcement will interest
many of our readers. If your druggist
hasn't any freezOne tell him to surely
get small bottle for you from his
wholesale drug house.-adv.
Be careful how you give advice,
comebOdy might take it.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
Evacuation of Town.

Berlin.-"A competent German au-
thority states that the district of Ma
molosa has been almost completely
evacuated by civilians" says the Over
seas News Agency (the official German
news bureau). 1T is affirmed that in
the vicinity of Namolosa more than
100 civilians have perished in the ad-
yanced works"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
SYCAMORE REPORTED SUNK

Boston.-Agents of the Warren Line
have announced that they had received
indirect word that the British steam
er Sycamore which sailed from Boston
February 21 for Liverpool, had been
sunk by submarine.
The Sycamore was in command of
Captain P Cummings and had crew
of so. She carried a general cargo,
including munitions for the British
Government, and was armed astern
with 4-7-inch gun. Vessel and cargo
were valued at $1,500,0Q0.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
CABINET MEMBER RESIGNS
General Lyautey, French Minister of
War, Became Famous While
in Morocco.

Paris.-General Hubert Gonzalve
Lyautey, Minister of War in the
French Cabinet, has resigned as the
result Of incidents in the Chamber of
Deputies.
General Lyautey gained fame for his
operations against the Moroccans. He
was the Resident French Governor in
Morocco for number of years.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
LIVES OF employees LOST
Munition Plant at Cologne
Is Blown Up.

CCpenhagen.-A large munition
plant at Cologne was blown up last
week, according to information re-
ceived from German sources by a
newspaper at Holding near the from
tier. Several hundred workmen are
reported to have perished.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
Excessive ontlmism Shown.

Berne, Switzerland.-The Munich
Neueste Nachrichten expresses the
belief that Americans show excessive
optimism if they imagine that as re-
suit of the arrival in Berlin of Count
Won Bernstorff orders will be given
that submarines spare U. S, ships.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22
OHlOAN MAY SUCCEED
THE LATE JAPAN ENVOY

Washington.-It has just been learn
ed that the President is considering
Brand Whitlock, of Toledo, minister
to Belgium, in connection with the
diplomatic vacancy at Toxic, caused
by the death of Ambassador Guthrie.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22

In the light of previous dispatches
from Peking the action taken by the
Chinese foreign minister indicates that
the government is preparing to enter
in these dispatches that negotiations
to that end were under way. and that
China hoped by joining the Entente to
obtain suspension of the payments of
indemnity and permission to increase
import duties.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-22

Copenhagen.-Before abdicating the
Car named Grand Duke Nicholas as
Supreme Commander of the army. The
Dagens Nyheder states that Russian
officials and officers incline to believe
that the Grand Duke Nicholas has the
confidence of the revolutionists and
that he will hold the dictatorial au-
thority over the army until conditions
are settled.