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New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Concession to Berlin,
Threat to SlQu Seen
InPren7ier's S Stand

LONDON, May 1.-THE latest de-
velopments in the Austrian situation
apparently can be summarized as econ
cession to the Germans and threats
to the Southern Slavs," says a dispatch
from The Hague to "The Daily Mail"
"At least" continues the correspond
ent, "that is how the Czechs and the
Southern Slavs regard the decision of
Premier Won Seydler to introduce for
Bohemia alone the Encouragement of
the provincial administration which
was promised nearly a year ago for
all Austria.
1.-THE Austrian Germans are press
ing for number Of administrative
changes which would give them influ-
ence over the machinery Of the gov
numerical proportion. Tho Czechs con-
slider the concession to the Germans is
an obstacle put in the way of the reali-
zation of their own demand for the po-
litical independence of Bohemia, one
and undivided.
"Von Seydler's announcement has
infuriated the Czechs. The Southern
Slavs are furious over the proclamation
that stern measures will be taken to
repress disturbances in the South.
The German reactionary press is urg-
ing the government to quash the re-
bellious tendencies of the Czechs and
the Southern Slavs by force and to
use the military to commander food
stuffs in the agricultural districts,
pointing out that the Ukraine develop
ments have shown that force alone
overcomes obstacles when normal po-
litical administration becomes impos-
sible owing to local conditions"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Gen. Pierce Assigned
To New York Guard
Especial Dispatch to The T,ibure)

topectdt Dispatch to The T11bnre)
WASHINGTON, May 7.--Brigadier
General Palmer E. Pierce. who as a
member Of the General Staff held mem
bership in the War Council, with the
War Industries Board and on the Ma
tional Board for the Prom otion of Rife
Practice, to-day was assigned to COM
mand the saith Infantry Brigade of the
New York National Guard division at
Camp Wadsworth
Other changes affecting the New
York National Guard division, an
nounced to day, include:
First Lieutenant Louis D. Koop, 464
East l4lst Street, New York, relieved
from + duty with the 1o2d Engineer
Regiment, promoted to the rank Of
captain of the quartermaster corps, and
assigned as assistant to the construct
ing quartermaster at Wadsworth.
Captain Louis C. Raecke, III West
Seventy-sixth Street, New York. hon
orably discharged firm the 1o7th In
fantry Brigade az unsuited for over
seas service.
New York Guardsmen promoted in
cluded:
To be captains - First Lieutenants
Clarence S. Martin, Oswego, and Harry
W. Hayward, Newport.
To be first lieutenants-Second Lieu
tenants G. f. Mosher, Rochester: E. P.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Russian Crews Reject
Peace With Germany
Remnant of Black Sea Fleet
Shells the Foe i'm
MariupoI

LONDON, May 7.-Despite the signed
peace pact between Germany and the
Bolsheviki, remnant of the Russian
Black Sea fleet bombarded the harbor
establishments of Mariupol, on the
north shore of the Sea of Azov. after
it had been occupied by the Germans
according to an official announcement
made in Berlin to-day.
The statement reads:
"In the harDor establishments of
Mariupol we were bombarded by Rus
sian ships"
1t is understood that part of the Rus
sian fleet in the Black Sea has been
captured. 1t is believed here that the
ships which bombarded Mariupol are
a few units of the feet which have
eluded the Germans. There is no indi-
cation whether the ships were manned
by Bolsheviki or by some other force.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Hays Goes to Capital

Will II. Hays. chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, will 20
to Washington tonight to confer for
the next three days with the Repub-
Iican Senators and Representatives
with reference to organization matters
in the various states.
chairman Hays said that while the
national committee would not under
take to dictate the form of cooperation
between men and women Republican
voters IN states like New York. he be-
lieyed that men and women of the same
pontical faith should work shoulder to
shoulder in the same organization. ~
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Sued for Separation,
Says He Was Roped In

There is no recrimination in the
answer Of Raymond H. Weaver, sales
man of automobile supplies, to the
separation suit of his wife. He
speaks in terms Of the highest praise
of her, and puts the blame on friend
of Mrs. Weaver, an elderly woman,
who, says Weaver, "roped him" into
the marriage. All that Weaver asks
is his freedom as from "cage," as he
puts it. He said he thought $40 a
week alimony and $50 counsel fees
would be "princely sum" to pay his
wife, but Justice Greenbaum awarded
Mrs. Weaver $25 week and $100
counsel fees pending the trial
Mrs. Weaver's suit is brought on the
ground Of abandonment. Weaver, in
answer to his wife's application for ali
mony, said:
can no longer live with my wife and
retain my reason?" He mentioned that
Mrs. Weaver is seven years his senior,
and added "the marriage was brought
about through friend of the bride. an
elderly woman, who left no stone un-
turned to rope him in" Immediately
after the marriage, he said, he found
he had married the whole family.
"My good wife," he said, "always de-
ported herself toward me as mother
would toward son, particularly in
habitually demonstrating with me, be-
cause in my business as a salesman of
automobile supplies l had acquired
most of the vices that go with the
business. While my wife always
wanted me to spend the full returns
that were produced by me through my
convivial associations, she insistently
pointed out the error of my ways in q
manner SO kindly, but no less inop-
portunely, that l was almost dis
tracted"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Germans Bombard Red Cross
Mission Fleeing From Jassy

way. The engineer matched the en-,
CINE. He was an elderly Russian OF
Bolshevik opinion, and had to be lea
with rubles and cognac almost as 1re-
quently as the engine required wood.
He carried his family along with him
in box car next to the engine, and
whenever meals or other domestic at
fairs required his attention he stopped
the train and went "home" to his box
car.
Just outside Odessa the engineer be-
came dissatisfied with the flow of
rubles and cognac and went on n
strike. The French officers tried to
reason with him, but he was obdurate
and departed with the engine and the
box car leaving the remainder of the
train standing on the main line. After
some delay the French succeeded in
finding another engineer and engine
and the train proceeded.
The striker apparently suffered a
change of heart soon after he left the
train, for the next day, when the train
was hundred miles or so beyond
Odessa, he, with his engine and home
caught up with the train. He begged
the French officers to take him back
cined to reinstate the old engineer,
and the last seen of him he was taking
his engine and box car backward on
the return trip to South Russia.
On the second day, when the train
bearing the Americans was about 200
miles north of Odessa, one Of the doc
tors saw flash of fire away off on
the horizon. 1t was followed quickly
by loud explosion and a great geyser
of earth and rocks as shell burst in
field about half a mile from the
moving train. The first shell was fol-
lowed by many others, the lombard
ment continuing for five minutes.
Nobody knew what was going on,
but the general belief was that the
train had come within sight of dis
tant German observation post, which
was trying to direct the fire of it's
batteries on the railway track. Mill
tary men on board declared the shells
were SO inch or larger. The shells
appeared to fall in q regular line, as
II the gunners had the railroad care
fully registered. The range was lit
tie too great for the German guns,
however, and all the shells fell short.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Tree Limb Kills
Brooklyn Officer

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May g.
Lieutenant Earl T. Williams, of Brook.
lyn, and later stationed at Camp Devins
died in Dickinson Hospital, Northamp-
ton, Tuesday night, as resultof being
struck by limb falling from tree in
Northampton.
The accident occurred Monday after
noon during high wind. He and
Lieutenant Smith, also of Camp Dew
ems, were calling on the family of
Harry T. Curtiss. AS they left to 90
for their automobile Lieutenant wifi
Jams was struck on the head and his
skull fractured. He was twenty-nine
years old. ''N
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
British Defeated
In Palestine; Turks
Report Much Booty

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 5.-British
troops which attacked in Pales-
tine on the eastern side of the Jordan
River have been repulsed by the Turks,
who brought up reserves and caused
them to retreat toward the river, the
War Office announces. The British are
said to have suffered heavy losses.
The Turks are reported to be pur-
suing the British. According to the
announcement, they captured booty,
the amount of which mas not been
ascertained.
The text of the statement follows:
"On Sunday the British attacked on
the eastern side Of the Jordan, but
were repulsed. They had made extern
slve preparations to capture the con-
necting roads east of Jordan.
"On the morning of April 80 troops
and artillery assembled on the heights
and crossed the Jordan, others ad-
vanced near Ariha Aselt, with the in
tention of attacking our rear, but our
troops, in conjunction with the Ger
mans, frustrated the enemy's inten-
tion. Colonel Ali Fuad Bey's troops
withstood for eight days the stubborn
assaults Of the brave enemy.
I'm various engagements our orders
were speedily executed, and the re-
serves came up quickly. The British
retreated toward the Jordan. suffering
heavy losses in men and material. They
are being pursued by us. The booty
has not yet been ascertaned." I
LONDON, May 1.-The version of
the Turkish official statement, as sent
by the Reuter- correspondent. after the
reference to Colonel Ali Fuad Bey's
stand, reads:
Our troops were brought up by
forced marches to the battlefield un
der command of Colonel Boehm and
Colonel ESsad, who, at the head Of his
prave cavalry, charged forward until
ne was wounded and completely de-
featcd the enemy cavalry.
Colonel Boehm's troops captured
during these engagements the guns of
an entire enemy cavalry division.
Thanks to excellent transport work
and railway service, the orders of our
commanding officers were transmitted
to their destination Carried out?) and
reinforcing troops were brought up in
good time. The British retreated
across the Jordan"
The following official statement on
the Palestine campaign was given out
to-day in Berlin:
THE advance by English brigades
from Jericho across the Jordan (Pales-
tine 'front.' has been frustrated after
bitter fighting, which lasted five days.
The enemy was driven back into the
positions from which he departed,
Here German units distinguished them
selves by the side of their Turkish
comrades. The booty captured from
the English was considerable'
The British War Office announced
yesterday that the advance troops hold
ing Es-Salt were withdrawn on FRIDAY
night and that subsequently the bulk
OF the British forces east of the Jordan
passed to the western side, leaving
strong detachments on the east bank
to secure the crossing
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Socialist Warns
Militarists Fruit of
SWord May Be Lost

AMSTERDAM, May THE uneasi-
ness caused by Germany's policy in the
Ukraine, as revealed in the recent
Reichstag debates, was again reflected
In yesterdays sitting Of the Main Com
mittee of the Reichstag.
Hugo Haase, leader of the Socialist
minority, said it was remarkable that
the peace treaty with the Ukraine was
stil! unratitied and that it must he rat
ihed most speedily.
Ihe militarists," said Herr Haase.
run the risk of spelling for the future
tAe Things we have won with the sword.
why should we by our field tribunals
prlng upon our heads the hatred Of the
whole population? We clearly coon-
Grated In effecting a change in the gov
ernment OF the Ukraine for the sake of
the large land owners and capitalists.
Inc hetman's assurance OF his pro
1e;r.nanlsm Is worthless. The new
ministry Is Great Russian, IF the fact
atone that the members of the min
istry place themselves at our disnosa,
ls lncomprehensible, still more incom-
selects them" ' 'i""iiy
~ we help this government to re-
l'".n IN power we are paving the wav
70 .ne reconciliation Of Russia. Such
poicy appears senseless."
pr. G9stav Stresemann, the National
Surely our policy is to support tho
independence and aspirations Of border
peoples in order to weaken Great Rms.
sia. Yet our Ukraine policy tends 70
the, opposite direction. Our action
against the Rada cannot be approved
and viii be long exploited against us.
THE position of our troops in the
Ukraine already is not all that could uld
pc desired, in view of the hostile atti-
tude Of the population. The Russian
bourgeoisie, originally the upholders
of imperialism, are now fighting for
their property, and have therefore in
practice altered their feelings toward
Germany. They now prefer safety'
with close relationship to Germany. to
the dangers of anarchy" "
Herr Won Payer, the Imperial Ger
man Vice-Chancellor, announced in the
Main Committee of the Reichstar to-
day that q special department will be
established to regulate uniformly Ger
many's whole Eastern policy. The de-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Peace Treaty With
Rumania Is Signed

AMSTERDAM. May 1.-THE peace
treaty between Rumania and the Cen
trail Powers wac signed yesterday
morning, says an official dispatch from
Bucharest to-day.
The plenipotentiaries of the four
Teutonic allied powers and Rumania,
under the craftsmanship of DR.. Won
Kuehlmann, the German Foreign Sec
retary, signed the treaty in the same
room Of the castle where the entry of
Rumania into the war was decided
upon. The treaty will be called "the
peace Of Bucharest" and the text will
be published at an early date.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Sentry on Hudson River Bridse
STRANGELY Assaulted

ALBANY, May Alden king, 4
state guardsman on sentry duty 1t
the New York Central Bridge aep,
the Hudson River, was mysterious As.
saulted to-day. King was beaten oys,
the head and his body was thrown oy.,
the railing, falling on float beneag
1t was said at the hospital that II;
back probably had been broken.
All suspicious persons in the vicin;.,
OF the bridge were taken into custcd,
by the guardsmen. This afternoon Il,
teen men were held at the armory.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Persians in F amineGrip.
Lat Dogs, Cats, Grass
Especial Dispatch to The rribune)

1opeo'dl Dfspatch to The Tri6une)
WASHINGTON. May Famine and
pestiience are. gripping Persia. The
1000 shortage is SO acute that the peo-
pie are eating grass, dogs and cats, and
even practise cannibalism, according
to cable dispatch received by the
S.a.e Department to-day through the
being forwarded to the American Cow
mittee on Armenian ana Syrian Relief
at New York by that organization's
representatives. in Persia.
The report stated that the conditions
were very desperate, the famine beinr
accompanied by typhus, and in some some
places food is almost unobtainable. A.
sistance from the United States is Is
asked to relieve the suffering. &C
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
No Offer Made Britain, but
Proposal Is Ex-
pected
Assured Consideration
Much Heavy Fighting Must
Come Before Negotiations
Are Started
By Arthur S. Draper
(.Spccidl DtsDatch to The Tribune)

Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)
LONDON, May 1.-THE trench raid
and aerial reconnaissance phase of Lu-
dendorff's peace offensive has begun.
Peace kites are being sent up and neu-
tral emissaries are attending to the
mission.
To date the peace situation is about
as follows:
First, Germany has made no offer,
nor has the British government been
sounded by a neutral; second, the gov
ernment expects an offer will be made,
and it will give it careful consdera-
ton; third, Great Britain and the Al
lies have adopted the policy outlined
by Wilson's Baltimore speech as the
basis of their attitude toward any
peace offer.
Would Consider Any Offer
7 have good authority for stating
that French and British Socialists and
laborites are agreed that no peace offer
can be spurned without receiving
thoughtful consideration. The French
Foreign Affairs Committee is still inves-
tigating the negotiations of last wear
and, though Clemenceau apparently
satisfied the members of the wisdom
OF his course. some Of the French
statesmen are being sharply criticised
for the attitude they took.
In the enemy countries curious sit
uation exists. While the Kaiser and
Won Hindenburg talk of "new roads to
victorious German commerce." Austri-
an labor is demanding the eighth our
day and is protesting against the food
shortage. The louder the pan-Ger-
mans cry for Strong peace" the
sharper are the protests of the Austri-
al masss against the prolongation Of
the war.
Fighting Not Yet Over
In neutral countries the peace often
slve is causing, less excitement, be-
cause most observers believe that
much heavy fighting must come before
the Oelligerents will be ready to gather
around the table.
The effect of the plethora of peace
rumors is shown plainly in the press,
which has turned suddenly from one
extreme to the othr. Having just
passed through period of grave anxi-
ETY., the newspapers now pretend to see
in the military pause the collapse of
the German offensive power.
The reasoning seems faulty if mo-
ment's thought is given to the size of
the German forces involved in the
fighting a week ago, when the British
and French checked the advance south
of Ypres. Twenty German divisions
were engaged in this battle, or less
than onetenth of the whole German
army in the West. Had this force been
annhilated, which it wasn't, Luden-
dortf would still be in command of an
army larger than any German army
concentrated in the West prior to
March 21.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Ukrainian Government
Threatened to Resie1


LONDON. May 7. The Ukraini an
government has sent note to Berlin
intlmating that it will resign if sew
erai German officials are not recalled
cy Germany, says Reuter- dispatch
note specifically mentions General Won
Elchhorn, the military commander, and
Baron Mumm Won Schwarzenstein, the
German Ambassador.
Whether the note referred to above
was sent by the old Ukrainian govern
ment or the new peasant government
is not clear. Probably it was sent by
the old government and led up to the
arrest OF members of that government
by the German military authorities
when they protested against the meas
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08

partment will direct the border states
under orderly government and admin
istrative conditions. The department,
Herr Won Payer added. will be ncor-
porated in some existing smperial de-
partment
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Specially Qualified Men Called

WASHINGTON, May IA requisition
on all states except Arizona, Delaware
and Vermont for 4,o6O specially quail
fed draft registrants to go to camp
May 20 was sent out to- day by Provost
Marshal General Crowder.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08

Brecht, W. D. Coulter, E. H. o'Rcurt,
". E; Taggart and R. A. Neill, ali .!
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Sedifion Bill
Passed.; Goes
To President

Continued from page l
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25
POSSIBLE RACE WAR
Predicted by Methodist
Bishop of China

New York, Feb. 24.-In spite of the
world war the Methodist Episcopal
church will commemorate the centen-
ary of its missionary work this year
by entering upon world program OF
missionary endeavor, according 10 a
statement made here tonight by B1sh-
Oh w. Bashford Of China.
Had our churches spent S4o,ooo'ooo
in Russia during the last 40 y~Srs,' de-
cIared Bishop Bashford, Russian de-
mocracy would have stood firm in the
crisis brought about by the revolution
and this have been worth s4o'ooo'uoo
in Fastening the termination OF me
war on principles necessary TOR the iu-
ture security of the earth.
"a vast responsibility rests before
nc We must first win the war and
then win the world. Two great obsta-
c,as meet fisherman militarism and
,,orat weakness. The first we are IN
-, fair way to solve but the second we
still face. Half the world needs 10 De
brought into line. A huge posslple race
war is the alternative.
al am not needlessly alarming, ThoSe
IF us who have studied conditions over
the world see it. 1t is of no avali 10
declare such a race war lmposSlpie.
Civilization thought such a war as Is
at present going on out of the ques-
ton With the colored races now
slightly Communicating the white races
of tho earth. with South America. on"
of the two great unoccupied regions Oh
the earth. filling up with mixed whl'e
and colored population: with Malaysia,
the other great unoccupied region OF
the earth. filling up with Oriental races
which will number three or four nun
drod million before the close or INC
century-who doubts that II the "hlte
doubts that if the white races continue
TO dominate every continent by mill
tarv power and to exclude the yellow
races from five of the six great con-
tinents and to limit their countless
millions to portion of Asia there VIII
arise race war in comparison with
which our present struggle will prove a
skrmish."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25
STATE OF CHAOS
THROUGHOUT RUSSIA

Amsterdam, Feb. 24-The state of
chaos in Russia is described by an eye
witness in the Lagos Zeitung. Passen-
gers on trains have been frozen to
death owing to the lack of glass in the
car windows. When the German and
Austrian delegations left Petrograd
they had not eaten bread for days.
There are only two locomotives in Pet
rograd. one of which is capable of only
ten miles an hour.
Repairs formerly costing 10000 rub
les, now cost 10000 rubles. The rivet-
ing of a boiler costs 10000 rubles,
Which says the correspondent is not
surprising, as the riveter gets forty
rubles for a days work of three or four
hours.
There are a half million unemployed
in Petrograd and the industrial pro-
duction Of the country has sunk to five
per cent of the normal.
In some Of the districts most Of the
blast furnaces have been eXtinguished.
Sugar production has been reduced
from 100 600, 900 pools. a pOod is about
sc IL pounds to 100000 pools and
next year will not reach 100000.
The chief Of the finance ministry is a
college student The fifth army chief
is a former actor. The chief of tele-
graphs is a clerk. The governments
reporter of the financial commission at
Rrest-Litovsk was clerk who, says
tie writer, had not the faintest notion
of the simplest exchange problems
The commander Of the noted Pavloff
regiment is a woman.
A Dutch resident of Petrograd, in a
long letter published in The Hague
Nieuwe Courant, says that lynching
occurs daily. After detailing seizures
at the capital and many extravagances,
he concluded;
Russia is so completely disorganized
that it will be years before She recov-
ers"