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The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
HUGE APPROPRIATION
BILLS IN PREPARATION

Washington, Jan. 3.-Congress, re-
convening at noon today, after its hol-
iday vacation, planned Immediate ad-
journment until tomorrow, out of re-
spect for Senator Ncwlands and Rep
resentative Bathrick, who died during
the recess. The big, war Legislative
program will begin tomorrow, when
President Wilson Is expected to out
line his plan for government operation
cf railroads in an address to a joint
session.
Bills embodying the presidents
ideas already have been drafted and
are reaey for. ,intgoareti jon ip4- hotll
'peifsaS. 4t the cDiiciis LON aof lhd md
dress. Speedy action on the Iiecess,lr3
railroad legislation IS looked for.
Next Monday the senate expects to
dispose of the Walsh -Pittman coal
and oil land leasing bill, and Jan. 10
the house plans to vote on the wom-
ans suffrage amendment
Huge appro priaticn bills are in
Preparation for early action in the
house. which also plans to consider
waterpower development this month.
The house also will consider as first
On it" program the senate bill author
izing the treasury to purchase $1,000
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
BROTHERHOOD HEADS
AND M'ADOO CONFER
Director General Turns Atten
tion to Railroad Labor and
Finances.

Washington, Jan. 3.-Railroad labor
and finance questions engaged the at
tention of Director General McAdoo
and his staff today, along with the
movement of coal to New England
and the east.
Heads of the four railway brother
hoods were called into conference to
discuss the general employment situa-
ton under government operation. AL
though the union chiefs had no inten-
tion of pressing their demands for 40
per cent. higher pay at this time, it is
understood their case will be taken up
along with many other wage matters
as soon as the railroad administration
has disposed of the more pressing
transportation problem. Many railroad
executives are prepared to recommend
a general increase, especially for unor-
ganized labor, to prevent the men from
going to other industries where wages
are better.
John Shelton Williams, comptroller
of the currency, and the director-gen-
erals advisor on railroad financial
questions. discussed with Mr.. McAdoo
the situation which will develop soon
when railroad companies bonds and
other obligations fall due.
Since Director-General McAdoo be-
came head of a unified and govern
ment-controlled railroad system a
week ago the main tangible result has
been the acceleration of coal ship
ments, and a beginning of the clear
ing up of congestion in railroad yards
by abolition of all priority orders.
Surveys also are under way looking to
a practical pooling arrangement.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
KAISER AND HIS
LEADERS CONFER
Hitch in Brest Litovsk Peace
Proceedings Arouses Activ-
sites Of Politicians.

londen. Ian, "a ~ Ihs ,si4usfion
created by The hitch in the Brest-Li- :
tovsk negotiations, dispatches from
Amsterdam Rejecting news from Ber-
lin show, has aroused the activities Of
the rulers and politicians Of Germany
and Austria Hungary.
Emperor William yesterday received
in join audiepce Chancellor Won Hert-
ling, Field Marshal Won Hndenburg,
Gen. Won pudendorff, Finance Minister
Won Rodern and Foreign Secretary
Won kuehImann. The foreign affairs
committee of the German bundesrat,
under the presidency of Count Won
Danal, discussed the Russian situation
at the chanceIIor's palace. Chancellor
Won HertIins had long conference
with Admiral Won Tirpitz, the former
minister of marine, and Emperor
Charles received in audience Prof.
kucharevski, the Polish premier.
Foreign Secretary Won Kuehlmann's
return to Brest -Litovsk, after a hur-
ried visit to Berlin, is said to have
created surprise as did his conference
with reiehstag leaders who were sum-
moned suddenly.
Leaders of all parties were present
at the conference, according to infor-
nation in Amsterdam, ard they in
formed Or. Won kuehlmann they ad-
hered strongly to the demand that the
reichstag be summoned as speedily as
possible. II is expected that the de-
mand will be discussed at Thursdays
session of the reichstags main COM
mittee.
The feature of the conference is said
to have been the outspoken speeches
of Philip Scheidemann and Friedrich
Ebert, for the official socialists, and
Hugo Haase, for the independent So
cialists. They are credited with hav-
ing told Won Kuehlmann his attitude
in the Russian negotiations was pref
judicial to peace. They told him that
to say one day that Germany wanted
no Russian territory and to say the
next day that it wanted virtually all
territory occupied by German troops
justified entente statesmen in declin-
ing to place confidence in the word of
Germany's leaders. The foreign sec
rotary is said, however, to have made
complete explanations"
1t is said that both Won Kuehlmann
and Count Czernin, the Austro-Hun-
garian foreign secretary, returned to
Brest-L Litovsk, where they were ex-
pected to arrive yesterday with new
instructions.
The Leipzig Zeitung, the leading in
dependent socialist newspaper. COM
menting on the Brest-Litovsk situation
and the activities of Won Kuehlmann
and the government, says:
Germany now reveals her eastern
peace aims. Everybody in Germany,
Russia and entente countries now
knows that she is not aiming at a
just peace, without annexations and
such as Won Kuehlmann
depicted. but at a peace providing for
an enormous increase in Germany's
military. political and economic
strength.
"These intentions must strengthen
the war will of the entente. Germany
intends really to annex all territories
she now holds. Her excuse that the
of these territories have
declared their willingness to be severed
from Russia is untrue. Individuals
may have done so. but they always
have been irresponsible, acting on some
German suggestion"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03

Petrograd, Jan. 3.-The IL
vestia today gives the text of a
pamphlet, which the bolsheviki
are circulating in the German
lines, in which it is declared that
the peace conditions submitted by
the central powers show the Aus
tro-German promises of demo
cratic peace to be "unconscion-
able lies.
After describing the actions
of the Germans in Poland and
Lithuania in recruiting forced
labor and shooting hunger strik-
ers, the pamphlet says;
"The German government only
found support in Courland from
the hated slave-owners, the Ger
man barons who have their proto-
types in the Polish land owners. -
The document declares Ger
many desires to free the peoples
on Russia's western frontier from
the scope of the Russian revoIu-
ton in order to subjugate them
with German capital, impose an
Austrian monarchy on Poland
and make Lithuania and Cour-
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
FRENCH CAPTURE
MANY PRISONERS
AT MOqETOMBA
Some Austriafe, First to Be
! Captured, Ednd to Be in
| Ranks s!Eas"y-
NEW MILESTONE IN WAR
Veteran Officer 1elIs Thrilling
Story y battIe.
Never Saw Z x9re Miserable,
Pitiful, stss Lot of Sol
NEW MILESTONE IN WAR

italian Hs6 e in Northern
Italy, janis 2.- the Associated
Press.) The FrsfS in their recent
successful opsratidl n Monte Tombs
captured more pris9 fs than they had
men engaged acookfu to a veteran
officer who witnsss6Q 4he fight.
at was 4 rscord- king fight in
many respects" ~ sclared. "The
French took more M oners than they
had men engaged, which Is among the
records in military slpals. They also
captured their frs6 Austrian pris-
oners, which IA arotl1{r milestone for
them, as heretossrs fSy had captured
only Germans. AT
"In addition to the 400 prisoners
we counted $50 dead 6n The ground,
and no one knows hzlw many more
were in the cavsrnst 4hd Snder the
bushes. The perfect french military
system enabled ths0 to accomplish
this with insignifio4}@t Iesses--Iess
than fifty men. 49,
INC THtietH NtotIRI uWfsioH, tHe
one attacked, is coyseidered good
fighting orsanization But the Aus
TRANS were accustonSd to fighting
Russians and Rumania and this was
the first time they rad the highIy
trained French, troops The result was
that rs~nsss and nds3kipIiHe were
swept away before discipline and
training.
when the prisoners were brought
in never saw a more miserable, pitt
full, starved lot of soldiers. When the
officers were lined up there were for
ty-two Austrians and two Germans.
The Austrians were told they would
receive the usual treatment given Of
ficers and gentlemen, but the two
Germans were told plainly that they
would receive exactly the same treat
ment given French officers in Ger
many. The group of Austrian officers
was impressed greatly at this and
openly declared their hatred of the
Germans. A little later we heard the
Austrian soldiers cheering and it
turned out they were cheeri,- their
French oaptors."
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03

THROWS. OFF MASK.
Petrograd, Wednesday. Jal

Petrograd, Wednesday, Jan.
2.-(By the Associated Press.)
-Petrograd newspapers ares
unanimous in declaring that
the Germans and the Austrians
have, after one week, thrown
off the mask and made it clear
that the central powers do not
want a real democratic peace.
The Pravda says:
''German imperialism is
again beginning to show its
claws"
Germany's apparent unwiI-
lingness to give Poland, Lii
thuania, Livonia, Courland and
Esthonia the privilege of free
self definition is the rock upon
which the negotiations have
split. Other peace conditions
are ignored by the bolshevik
leaders. who say that Germany
q opposes the most vital princi-
pie underlying the Russian
revolution. In an interview
with newspapermen Foreign
Minister Trotzky said that
peace negotiations probably
would not be resumed at
Brest- Litovsk, as the Russians
oppose stoutly the principle OF
annexation.
On Tuesday evening, at a
Joint meeting of the central
executive committee of the
congress of soldiers and work
mems delegates, representa-
tives of the peasants deputies,
the Petrograd workmen's and
soldiers council and represen-
tatives of the general army
congress for the rehabilitation
of the army, a resolution was
adopted unanimously declaring
that the German peace terms
were unjust. 1t denounced
Germany's attitude toward the
Baltic provinces as tyrannical
and authorized the government
to take steps to transfer fu-
ture peace negotiations to a
neutral country.
Russians generally favor
Stockholm as the place for the
peace conference, but it is said
the Germans are not willing to
go to Sweden.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
AMERICANS KILLED
BY MEXICAN BANDITS

Tucson. Ariz.. Jan. 3.-Two Ameri-
cans were among the thirty-six per-
sons killed yesterday and two among
the wounded when the Yaqui Indians
attacked a Southern Pacific train south
of Empalme. Sonora according to
messages reaching the railroads Of
fees here today.
The railroad reports also said. Mexi-
can federal troops in jursuit of the
Yaquis encountered a party of raiders
last night, and lost five killed. The
Yaqui losses were not given.
A relief train which went out from
Guayamas returned this morning with
the bodies of the dead.
The attack occurred between. Ma
poll and Lencho. about forty miles
from Guayamas. Encountering an OBJ
struction on the track. the engineer
stopped the train. when the Indians,
who were hidden in the brush, at
tackled the train fro mthe rear. 1t was
in the rear coach that the massacre of
the passengers occurred. The Indians
fired through the windows and doors
until every man, woman and child had
been killed or wounded. The military
escort of about seventy men on the
train was dispersed.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
SOUTH CAROLINA
FACES EPIDEMIC
State Health Board AcknowI-
edges Serious Spread of
Meningitis.

n coin}Isa5tn- s.. G - Ian. SSe-Eaie state
board Of health, in a statement issued
today, noted the possibility of state
wide meningitis epidemic. The disease,
which has been prevalent at Camp
Jackson, near here, has appeared in
various sections of the state, the
health board reports. In each case, it
is stated, contact has been traced to
one of the several military camps.
The quarantine ordered at Camp
Jackson several weeks ago because of
the disease was lifted last Sunday.
Three new cases and five additional
deaths in the last twenty -four hours
among the troops at Camp Jackson
were reported to the state health office
TODAY,
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
GERMAN DEMANDS
MEET OPPOSITION
FROM ALL CLASSES
Radical BOlshevik and Ardent Peace Advocates
II Find Fault-LeOn Trotzky Declares Gov
ernment of Russian Workers Will Not
Accept Plan Outlined.

Perograd, Jan. 3The bohevk foreign minister, Leon
To declared today that the of the Russian workers
would not consent to the German peace proposals
The Russian delegation officially has suggested the
central that the meeting place of the delegates be
transferred neutral SOIL and has certain articles
in the Austro- German terms already submitted
The halt in the RussoGeman peace negotiations and ndica
of German refusal Stockholm
revived universal discussion in Peograd of resumption of fight
ing with greatly reduced army probably three million
Even the radical bolshev the peace
have been by the German position They
that resumption of hoses is imminent and express belief
that possible organize and make army
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
CHINA HAS 125, 900 MEN
BEHIND FIRING LINES

New York, Jan. 3.--China already
has 125,000 men behind the firing lines
in Mesopotamia and France, DR.
Wellington Koo, Chinese ambassador
to this co utnry. said in an address
here today before the chamber of
commerce of the state of New York
When the Chinese commissioners now
in the United States return to their
own country their advice to their gov
ernment. DR.. Koo said, undoubtedly
would result in increased military ac-
tivity.
China intends doing her utmost in
this struggle against autocracy," the
ambassador declared.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
CRISIS IN AUSTRO-GERMAN
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

A crisis is nearing in the Russo
German peace negotiations and
indications are that definite
break is not far off. The Russian
government has demanded that the
conference, which was to have re-
convened on Jan. q, be transferred
to Stockholm and has protested
against the German attitude re-
eardine occupied territory. A re-
sumption of hostIities is not i'm
probable should the Germans de-
cline to meet the Russian de-
mands.
Emperor William and the rulers
of Germany apparently are aroused
over the sudden change in the sit
uation, and the German and Aus
trian foreign secretaries are re-
ported hurrying back to Brest
Litovsk with new instructions.
German military and political
leaders conferred yesterday with
the emperor and there is wide
spread demand throughout Ger
many that the reichstag be con-
vened Immediately.
Reichstag leaders, at confer
ence with Foreign Secretary Won
kuehImann, discussed the situa-
ton and the leaders of the regu-
lar and independent socialists are
reported to have expressed dis
satisfaction with the German at
titude concerning occupied terri
tory.
A breaking off in peace negotia-
tions probably will upset all Ger
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
SM0OT HAS SUBSTITUTE
FOR INCOME TAX BILL

Washington, Jan. 3,--A substi-
tute for the war tax law is to be
introduced soon by Senator Smoot.
1t would practically reconstruct
the present inoombe and excess
profits tax sections from which ii
is proposed to obtain about three
fourths OF the total amount to be
raised by the bill. Excess profits
rates, Senator Smoot said today,
will be sli ghtly hi CHER but there
will be no additional levies on in
comes.
Senator Smoot said his purpose
in introducing the bill was to sim
plify the law and make it more
workable.
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man plans to press a formidable
attack on the western front. Con-
fidence is expressed in Petrograd
that the Russian government might
put an army of 100000 men in
the field, and the bolshevik Red
Guard, made up of armed Russian
workmen, already has started
toward the fighting front. A
complete break undoubtedly would
compel the Germans to return to
the eastern front the troops they
have taken away within the past
six weeks and would make it i'm
possible for the Germans to renew
trade relations with Russia in or
der to obtain much needed food
stuffs.
Snow and inelement weather are
holding in check any large scale
operations on the western and ltal-
ian fronts. The British and ltaI-
ians continue to repulse enemy
raids at various points, while the
German artillery bombardment in
the Ypres and Verdun sectors still
Is very strong.
Increased loss Of merchantmen
is shown in the current British
and French reports. Through
mines and submarines the Brit
ish lost twenty one vessels, in
cluding eighteen of more than
1900 tons, or nine more than the
previous week, when twelve, in
cIuding eleven of the larger ton.
mage, were sunk. French losses
were nine steamers of more than
1900 tons, as compared with two
in the previous week.
December shipping losses were
only slightly higher than those in
November, which established a low
record. Submarine sinking also
are said to have been more COM
mon in December than in any
previous month, being greater than
the Germans probably were able
to build. The severe weather
conditions are believed to have
added to the effectiveness Of the
submarines, in thst il compelled
them to operate closer together
and nearer the shore. This fact
may account in part for the in
crease in the nuk.5er of U-boats
caught by the allied fleets.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
AMERICAN BANKS IN
PETR0GRAD SEIZED

Petrograd, Jan. 3.-The Moscow
branch of the National City Bank of
New York. which for several days es-
capped the general order for the con
fiseation of all banks there, was seized
by the bolsheviki Saturday night. III.
J. Dreher. the manager, was not ar
rested.
tlonaI City back, which was seized by
uthee bolsheyiki q week ago, expefys q
'arrenGea "a tax q care of thu an
needs Of aAmel1cai residents IL x ~
days. The currency shortage In Rus
sia Is becoming increasingly serious
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
GERMAN REPORT CLAIMS
SLIGHT ADVANTAGE

Berlin. Jan. s. - (via London.) -
Following is today's report from army
headquarters:
Western front: ARTILLERY ,duels oc-
CURED. Near the coast prisoners were
captured IN a successful raid French
attacks in the Champagne north OF
Prosnes and north of lie sfesnil broke
Gown under our fire.
81 Eastern. Macedonian and Italian
fronts: The situation is unchanged"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
TEUT0N ARMIES. BOMB
ITALIAN HOSPITAL

Rome. Jan. Son the whole 'front.'"
says the official statement issued to-
day by the Italian war office, there
has been nothing of importance to re-
port.
"On Tuesday night enemy airmen
dropped bombs on Castelfranco Vene-
to. obtaining two direct hits on two
hospitals. Eighteen patients were
killed"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
HOSTILE RAIDS NEAR
LA BASSEE REPULSED

London. Jan. 3.-"Hostile raiding
parties were repulsed last night south
and southwest of La Bassee,s leaving
few prisoners in our hands," the
war office reports. "The enemy artil-
lery showed considerable activity dur
ing the night east of Epehy."s&
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
SWEET SINGER AND
AUTHOR PASSES AWAY

Bennington. VT, Jan. 3.-Mrs. Annie
Sherwood Hawks. author of many ia
nous gospel hymns, including Il Need
Thee Every Hour" died at her home
here today at the age of SO.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
CONGRESSMAN NELSON
Is EX0NERATED

Madison, Wis. Jan. 3.-The indict-
mont charging Congressman John NJ.
Nelson with conspiracy to evade the
selective draft law w1s quashed by
Irdge Carpenter in federal court to-
day.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03

900 of farm loan bonds. The senate
Plans soon to pass the bill sIbjecting
congressman to excess profits taxes.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
FAIR, SAYS BILLY 'POSSUM

SOMEONE
JUST explained
TO me
WHY an engine
is akin
TO a loaf
OF bread.
WAR bread.
THE one.
A necessity:
THE other,
AN invention:
G. E. d.
NECESSITY is
the
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
Ukraine Makes Demand.

ukraine wakes demand.
Petrograd, Jan. "A small party of
delegates from the Ukraine elected to
the constituent assembly arrived in
Petrograd today and demanded an an
swer from the council of peoples COM
missioners as to when the constituent
assembly would open. A conferences
of all parties except the bolshevid.
from which the members of the left
of the social revolutionists withdrew.
decided that the constituent assembly
should be opened upon the arrival in
Petrograd OF one-third of the, MEM
bership.
STATE OF LAWLESSNESS..
Washington, Jan. 3.--The report also
says a general state of lawlessness pre-
walls in Moscow and that martial law
Is threatened. The report, which is
long one, was so garbled in transmits
sion, that the foregoing facts were all
that could be announced with GER
tainty.
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Washington, Jan. 3.-Dr. Naon, the
Argentine ambassador, when informed
of the foregoing dispatch from Buenos
Aires, said there was no comment he
could make and added in response to
a question as to whether he had re-
signed, mot that know Of"
The government here also has re-
ncivcd nnOt al reNorts without con-
fifanation that Ambassador Naon is to
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| MOTHER of-NUFF sedi
The weather? Fair and continued
cod tonight and Friday.
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PROMISES DENOUNCED
AS UNCONSCIONABLE LIES
Pamphlet Issued by Boshevk So Characterzes Austro
German Promises of Democratic Peace-Twenty
Persons Perish in Mysterious Fire.

land German duchies. 1t con-
cludes:
con such basis the Russian
workmen's government can never
enter negotiations"
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REPORT DIR. NAON
HAS RESIGNED POST
Argentine Ambassador to U. S.
Implicated in Luxburg
Secret kilograms.

Buenos Aires, Jan. St is reported
without confirmation that DR.. R. S.
Naon, the ambassador at Washington
has resigned in consequence of friction
arising on the publication of the sercet
kilograms sent by Count Won Luxburg,
before his dismissal as German min
lister to Argentina, to Berlin through
the medium of the Swedish legation.
In these kilograms Count Won Lux
burg advised the Sinking without
trace" of Argentine vessels and ad-
vised his government concerning Ger
man propaganda in South America.
Some of the dispatches were withheld
from publ cation for several weeks,
and it has been reported previously
that they would be given out was to
be recalled.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-03
Twenty Persons Perish.

Twenty Persons Perish.
Petrograd, Jan. 2.-Eleven hundred
airpIane machine guns and a quantity
of American munitions were destroyed
and approximately twenty persons
were killed as the result of mystic
rious fire and explosion today In a.
military depot in the Gutuyevsky ba-
sin in Petrograd.