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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
GERMANS TELL OF FIGHTS

Berlin, March GERMAN troops,
after an engagement yesterday, dis
persed bands north and south of Bir-
zula on the Shmerinka-Odessa line,
the German war office announced
today.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
STUDENTS ADOPT DAUGHTER

Grinnell, March ct must be a
girl"
With this stipulation the men of
building three of the mems dormtores
at Grinnell college recently voted to
adopt a war orphan.
Whether French or Belgian made lit
tie difference to the men. but they
were unanimous in their demand that
1t be q, girl
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
ADOPT IOWAN,S BOOKS

Mt. Vernon, March 9.-"Class Room
Methods and Manag ement." the latest
text book Of DR.. Belts, head of the psy-
chology department at Cornell college,
has been adopted by the Iowa Reading
Circle boArd fcf statewide use among
the teachAs OF Iowa. Missouri and
West YkrgAia-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
A BOX FROM HOME


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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
RUSSIA LOSES
z TRA Transports
IN SEA fICn I
Naval Battle With Germans
Results In Disaster, Re-
port Declares.

London, March 9.-Two Russian
transports were attacked and sunk by
German destroyers after fight south
of the Aland islands on Thursday, &C.
cording to a Copenhagen dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph company.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
REPRIsAL, HUNS SAY

Berlin, March 9.-"Paris was
again attacked with bombs last
night" the war office announces,
"as reprisaI for the throwing Of
enemy bombs on the open towns
Of Treves, Mannheim and Pier
masens on February 10. The at.
tack was very effective"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
FOES REPORT ON FIGHT

Berlin, March 9.-Troops of Crown
Prince Rupprecht on the Flanders
front yesterday brought in numerous
prisoners after lively accommodating,
says the official statement issued to-
day by the German general staff.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
German Airn1en
Scatter Bombs
In Paris Raid

- ARTS, March 9. - German
aviators raided Paris last
night. Early reports show
that bombs were dropped with
some loss Of life and property.
Signals that all was clear were
given at 1880 a. m.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
NEW GOVERNMENT FOR SIBERIA

Pekin, March 9.-Plans for the reN.
toration Of popular government IA
Siberia under Admiral Kolchak, for
mer commander Of the Russian Black
sea fleet, through the organization 0$
any army to cooperate with General
Semenoff, the leader of the anttboy-
shevik government in Siberia, are II
preparations it is learned here. Az
ready a newly formed organization q
Russians has begun enlhting men foe
the support of General Semenoff ana
yesterday four field guns and fifteen
machine guns we're forwarded to hlua
on the Manchurian railway.
The new organization is under tn
leadership of Prince Nicholas Kouda-
chef, Russian minister to China; Lieu
tenant General Horvath. Russian milt-
tary commander at Hardin and former
chief Of the Russian railway admins
tration there; NJ. Rusanoff. provisional
commissioner for the province Of
Amur, and M. Lavoroff, provisional
commissioner for the province az
Irkutsk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
B0LSHEyIKI
DESER 7 { ID
BY II 0Tzk1
Author of Present Conditiog
Resigns From Lenine Cab
met; Japan Is Reported to
Have Promised Aid In
Siberia.
COSSACKS REVIVE
MOVE FOR REPUBI1C

Petrograd, March s.-Delayed>-
Leon Trotzky, in an address at q
meeting of the maximalist party TO-
day, announced that he had reeiKned
as commissary for foreign Affairs.
AS the bolshevik foreign minister,
Trotzky, whose real name Is LIebor
Braunstein, WAS the most important
member of the revolutionary govern
ment formed after the overthrow Of
kerensky last November. Although
Nikolai Lenine, as premier, was the
nominal head Of the government, Trutx-
ky virtually controlled Russia's des.
tiny up to the second peace confer.
ence at Brest-Ltovsk.
1t was Trotzky who made public TIA
text OF secret documents exchanged
between former Russian governments
and it was he who proposed the arml-
istice to the central powers early in
December, which eventually led to tho
abortive conference at Brest-Litovsk.
The negotiations we're disrupted IN
mid-February and hostilities resumed.
The Germans then submitted partia'
peace terms, but TrotzH took no par
in the conferences. =,
FORECAST BY BERLIN
Trotzky's resignation is the secm md
among the Russian leaders forecast
by Berlin. On February rs Berlin RI.
ported that Ensign Krylenko, COM
mander Of the Russian armies, had
been superseded. A dispatch receiN
ed in London Thursday, said Krylenko
had resigned owing to differences
with the council Of peoples commits
saries. Trotzky's resignation was fore
cast by Berlin last Tuesday. Tho
Withdrawals of Trotzky and Krylenka
leave Lenine as the survivor of thu
Bolshevik ruling triumvirate.
WAS POLITICAL PRISONER
Having escaped from Siberia, where
he was sent for political offenseD,
Trotzky was an exile at the outbreak
of the war. He was expelled from Euf-
ope for preaching peace and arrived
in New York on January IA, 1917. bur
but returned to Russia last April. af
ter the overthrow Of the imperial g0N
eminent.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
SAY JAPS ARE LANpEo


London, March "Details of an al.
legged landing Of Japanese troops al
Vladivostok in January are given in
the Petrograd newspaper Novaia
Zhizn, Of January 10, which has Just
been received here. The paper says
that the japanese cruiser Mikado ar
rived January IL and was followed by
two more cruisers January IA.
Four thousand soldiers were land
ed and numbers of officers continue
to arrive in Vladivostok daily, accord
ing to the newspaper. The Japanese
admiral assured the local workmenss
and soldiers council that the arrival
Of ships and troops should not be con-
sidered as the beginning of military
operations, but that they were there
to protect Japanese subjects.
1.-THE Japanese embassy at Petrugrad
January 20, denied Japanese forces had
landed at Vladivostok.1
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
HELP FROM JAPAN

Admiral Kolchak, who is veteran
Iof the Russo-Japanese war and was the
head of the Russian naval commission
THAT visited the United States b,
year. is at Shanghai.
It is proposed that General Sem
enoff, with the support of the forces
ito be organized to reinforce him, shall
advance from the town Of Manchuria
lon the Northumberland aikal Dor.
der, as far east as Irkutsk, some 400
miles distant on the trans-Siberfan
railroad. There he is to await Japan.
|ese support in money and men which
1t is declared have already been
promised him.
From Irkutsk to the Ural noun.
tains on the border Of European Rus.
STA, is q distance of about j, 800 miles. ]
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
GERMAN SOCIALISTS FLAyEp

Premier IAenine and Foreign Minister
Trotzky are the signers of message
sent out by the Russian government
wireless ordering the bolshevik repre-
sentative in Sweden ITO have NO, deal
ings with the German, socialist In.
periarists." The message follows:
I'VE can not negotiate with strife
breakers, such as the partisans OF
Scheidemann 1.-THE German majority
leaderl who are traitors to the Won
ink 49,
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
SPORT.

Lieut.. Edward Rickenbacher, the
former automobile racer, has added
another aerial victory to his record.
The Princeton eight-oared shell crew
defeated Cornell on Lake Carnegie at
Princeton, N. j., by less than one-half
a length The time for the mile and
seven-eighths was nine minutes fifty
one seconds. Cornell won the fresh
man race by three lengths in ten min
utes seven seconds.
An elaborate program for Liberty
matinee" the first card of the Gentle
mems Driving and Riding Clubs twen-
ty-first racing season, to be given at
Denver City Park as free show, June
1, was outlined at a meeting of the
club members. Hundreds of Red Cross
girls will be there in their white cos
tunes and wells for Sammy show
err" and coins will be tossed out by
the sportsmen to help the work of
mercy on Flanders field.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
WASHINGTON.

Director General McAdoo announced
that soldiers would be carried On the
American railroads for the duration of
the far at the rate of cent mile
Mexico's sudden and unexpected sus-
pension of diplomatic relations with
Cuba is looked upon in Washington as
an indirect move against the United
States, which possibly may foreshadow
a breaking of diplomatic relations
with this country.
President Wilson fixed the price of
zinc for a period until next September
as follows: Grade A, IL cents; plate
f. o. b. plant, IA cents; sheet, %. b.
plant, Is cents. The prices are sub
ject to the usual trade discounts and
differentials in effect on Feb. 13 last.
Draft officials wish it clearly under
stood that no person who has attained
the age of FL since June 6, 1917, or
who will attain that age on or before
June 5, is excused from registration
June unless on that date he is an ac-
tual and active mem Der of the military
or naval service.
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INCREASE RAIL Rates
Passenger Fares Advance to Three
Cent Basis June 10, and 25 Per
Cent Freight Raise Ef-
fectiVe June IS.

ngton.-Increases in passen-
ger fares to 8 cents per mile, effect
i've June 10, and general freight rate
increases of approximately Is per
cent, effective June 25, as approved
by President Wilson, were ordered by
William G. McAdoo, director general
of railroads.
More than $850,O00,O ,OOO-the in
creased operating expenses for 1913
is expected to be raised by these in
creases in rates, according to the
Railway Administration.
One hundred and ninety-six rail
roads and all steamships in lake and
coastwise trade under federal control
are affected.
These sweeping changes in rates
were announced, following the grant
ing to railroad employees of the larg-
est wage increase recorded, amount
ing to $300,000,O00 yearly.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
GEN ERAL.

The general assembly of the Pres
byterian church in the United States
of America, in session at Columbus,
Ohio, adopted resolutions urging
against a prematurely negotiated
peace and urging continuance of the
war until decisive victory is won.
The Athletic Carnival at Broadway
Park in Denver for the benefit of the
Red Cross was attended by 5000 peo-
pie and $4,000 realized for the worthy
fund.
Food rationing of the $4,000 to $4,000
people of Lower California has been
completed by the United States, it was
announced by John. B. Elliott, collec-
tor of customs at Los Angeles.
A forty-acre farm of reclaimed land
for every soldier and sailor when a
victorious peace is won and the boys
come back from the trenches and the
submarine zones is the reconstruction
idea being advanced by Secretary of
the Interior Franklin K. Lane.
H. NJ Lambert was burned to death
and two other women were seriously
injured when fire swept printing es-
tablishment at San Francisco engaged
in manufacturing celluloid Red Cross
buttons for use in the war fund COM
paign.
General pay increases for nearly g.
100000 railroad employee were an
nounced by Director General McAdoo,
effective Saturday, June 1, and retro
active to last JAM 1, carrying out sub
stantially the recommendations Of the
railroad wage commission.
The Red Cross second war fund Sat
urday passed the $100,000,0O0 mini
mum total mark, and kilograms an
nouncing subscriptions continued to
flow into national headquarters at
rate that swamped the compilers.
The number of men known to have
lost their lives when the explosives
plant of the Aetna Chemical Company
at Oakdale, Pa, was destroyed was in
creased to 107 by the discovery Of six
bodies in the T. N. T. house.
Several persons were injured some
of them seriously, in tornado which
struck Bern, near Sabetha. Kan.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
ARIZONA NEWS NOTES.

A. B. Carmichael succeeds J. w.
Flynn on the Yavapai county exemp-
tion board.
State Land Commissioner w. A..
Mouer has announced his candidacy
for governor.
A dance at Buckeye netted the Red
Cross $65.
Eight persons were arrested at Bis
bee and taken to Tombstone to answer
bootlegging charges.
The mystery has been solved at
tending the disappearance of William
Petrie of Grown King, Yavapai coun-
ty, his body being found in a ravine
near the Wildflower mine, in the
Bradshaw mountains.
A verdict of accidental death was
brought by the coroner's jury sitting
at Jerome in the case of Francisco
Soqui, miner who fell 25O feet down
the Dorothy May shaft at the Green
Monster and was instantly killed.
Inspiration Consolidated Copper
Companys production last month of
9,250,000 pounds came up to expecta-
tions, showing an increase of 100000
pounds over March, and the. best out
put since June of last year.
The preliminary examination of DR..
F. G. Norman of Phoenix, charged
with a criminal assault upon Mrs.
Ethel Murphy, while the latter was
under the influence Of narcotic, was
concluded in the capital city and the
defendant was discharged.
Tombstone officers were advised
that Jose Gomez who was wanted for
the killing of Joe Donaldson, the dep
uty sheriff at Ray, was caught by Con-
stable Lewis of Sonoratown, near Ray,
Lewis, after delivering his prisoner at
the Jail, went to Red Cross headquar-
ters and signed over to the organiza-
ton the $1,000 reward offered for Co.
meg capture, $500 by the county and
$500 by the Ray Mining Company.
Arizona people were liberal contrib
utOrs to the Red Cross during the
week designated by President Wilson
and Governor Hunt for the drive.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
WESTERN.

Chairman Goodrich of the Phoenix
Red Cross announced Saturday that
Arizona had contributed 100000, don-
BILE it's quota, to the second Red Cross
fund.
There were $4,000 new oil wells
drilled in the United States in 1917,
compared to 24,60O in 1916.
A bill for the restoration of capital
punishment, to be submitted to the
people next fall, was introduced in the
Senate of the Arizona Legislature.
A snow and rain storm general over
Montana relieved the crops in the CEN
trail and northern sections, which had
begun to feel the effects of dry
weather.
Nelson Morris, millionaire Chicago
packer, chairman of the board of di-
rectors of Morris & Co., left for Camp
Grant, Rockford, with a quota of forty
one men from Chicago Board No. 13.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
FOREIGN.

The butter ration was increased in
London from four to five ounces
weekly.
At Baillieborough, Ireland, John Dill
lon, chairman of the Irish Nationalists,
declared war to death on the Sinn
Fein.
Travellers arriving at Zurich from
Germany declared that discontentcd
Bulgarian soldiers attacked Emperor
Charles train after it had left Con-
stantinople.
President Wilson's speech in New
York is welcomed warmly by Arthur
Henderson, leader of the British La
Dor party and former member of the
war cabinet.
The American steamer Neches was
sunk May IA off Start point, in Ork-
ney islands, in collision with ancth-
er steamer. The crew Of the Neches
was saved, while the other vessel sank
Immediately with the loss of all on
board.
Germany's untiring efforts to TO-
ment revolution in Ireland with the
aid of the Sim Fein are laid bare in a
statement from the official press hu-
reau reviewing this phase of the Irish
political situation since the beginning
of the war.
Less than quarter of an hour aft.
er the British armed merchant troop
ship Moldavia, with American troops
on board, had been torpedoed off the
southeast coast of England virtually
every man had gone over the sides OF
the vessel into the lifeboats.
The admiralty official statement
gives the losses to British, allied and
neutral merchant tonnage due to enc.
my action and marine risk in April
as follows: British, 22O,709 tons; al
lied and neutral, S4,393; total, 3O5, ,102
Clearances in and out of ports, 7,O40,
800 gross tons.
Fifteen German sailors were tried
at Ostend in connection with the Brit
ish naval operations which resulted in
the blocking of Ostend and Zeebrugge
harbors, according to reports from
Bruges brought to Amsterdam by fish
ermen. Thirteen of the sailors were
executed. The other two were SEN
fenced to twenty years Imprisonment.
The American dead, sleeping in the
soil of France, will receive the homage
day. Many Of those who have given
their lives for their country are bur
led in graves over which shells and
bullets are flying close to where they
fell. But wherever they are resting,
their comrades will bear them in mind
and pay tribute to their memory.
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the LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Mexico has severed diplomatic rela-
tions with Cuba.
Serious fighting in Kiev, capital Of
Ukrainia, is reported.
More than 100000 American SOL
diers have been sent to France in
May
French troops repulsed two German
raids south of Hangard wood and in
the Vosges.
American forces in the Montdidier
enemy positions, killing six men and
capturing one.
The attempts by the Germans to dis
arm the Polish troops in the Ukraine
and Minsk governments are meeting
with fierce resistance.
A German submarine of the cruiser
type was sunk May II in the latitude
OF Cape St. Vincent by a British At
lantic escort submarine.
The Cork steamer Inniscarra, bound
from Fishguard to Cork, has been tor
pedoed and sunk. Thirty-seven mem
1bers Of the crew were missing.
The Germans have succeeded in
shifting the concrete laden cruiser
Vindictive, sunk in the harbor of Os-
tend on May 10 by British raiding
forces.
The declaration of war by Costa
Rica on the Central powers brings the
total number of nations aligned
against Germany up to total of twen-
ty-one.
The Rotterdam Masbode reports
that an entente allied air raid was
carried out over Liege. The Longdoz
railway station was destroyed and
twenty-six persons killed.
American troops on the way to the
battlefields of France to the number
of fifty-six have been lost in the tor
pedoing of the British steamship Mol
davia by a German submarine in the
English channel.
The Bavarian troops which have ar
rived opposite the American sector
0OA III W. CSI Va L OQA 0O1AOA CO CoO0cbACAO0
Of so per cent of their effectives while
engaged in the recent offensive in
northern France.
An enemy destroyer has been sunk
in the neighborhood of Zeebrugge by
"a direct hit from an aeroplane. The
mole and seaplane base at Zeebrugge
also were badly damaged by bombs
which British naval aviators dropped.
More than 2,7OO,OOO wounded and
sick men have been returned to the
fighting front and $4,000 soldiers
have been discharged from the Ger
man army as unfit for further serv-
ice, according to report of the state
ment in the Reichstag by Surgeon
General Schulze as contained in the
Berliner Tageblatt of April "a, copy
of which has been received in New
York.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01

surely proved to be. feel better and
stronger in every way since taking it,
and the annoying symptoms have disap-
peared. - Mrs. M. GODDEN, 925 Ma
poleon St., Fremont, Ohio.
Such annoying symptoms as heat
flashes, nervousness, backache, head
ache, irritability and "the blues, may
be speedily overcome and the system
restored to normal conditions by this
famous root and herb remedy Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If any complications present them.
selves write the Pinkham Medicine Co..
Lynn, Mass, for suggestions how to
overcome them. The result of forty
years experience is at your service and
your letter held in strict confidence.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
Red Cross Fund Totals $4,000, 900

Washington, May 28.-The Ameri
can people answered Germany's re-
newal of the offensive on the western
front yesterday with an outpouring of
more than 100000 mercy dollars,
swelling the American Red Cross sec
ond war fund to $144,OOO,OOO. Reports
still were coming in from districts at
midnight, and show every state ex-
ceeded it's quota except Illinois. Ari-
zona gave $49,527; Colorado, $1,353,-
439; New Mexico, $126,399 Wyoming,
$199,S14; Montana, $3.50
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01

Germany's great offensive on the
western front has been resumed. With
only brief artillery preparation two
blows have been struck by the Teu-
lied since the disastrous losses were
inflicted on them by the French and
British during the Picardy and Flan-
ders battles In March and April. One
attack was on the line from Voorme-
zeele to Locre, southwest of Ypres;
the other on a thirty-five mile front
from Pinon, north to Scissors, to
Rheims. This is known as the Aisne
sector.
In Flanders the Germans have
gained virtually nothing, but further
south the Berlin official statement
claims that the German crown princes
troops have carried the whole ridge of
the Chemin des Danes and now are
fighting on the Aisne river
On the Aisne front the present bat
tie recalls the fearful fighting of last
summer along the Chemin des Danes.
where for weeks the German crown
prince hurled his men against the
French positions, only to see them
crushed and beaten. The attack here
is really in the nature of a line
Strengthening operation.
1t is being launched from Laon as
fC or OF he oil n
the line formed during the fighting in
Picardy in March and April.
Evidence that the allied supreme
command was forewarned of the at
tack may be found in the fact that
British troops are fighting there.
The German crown prince is in
command in this sector, and this may
indicate a serious effort to break the
allied line.
Crown Prime Rupprecht Of Bavaria
is the nominal commander in Artois
and Picardy, and the German crown
prince, for dynastic reasons, will
srive to outdo whatever success was
attained by his colleague further
north.
The late official reports are known
to be holding positions.
Almost coincident with the new
German assault, the Italians launched
a blow at the Austrian lines in the
mountain region to the northwest of
Lake Garda. According to reports
they have carried Monticello Pass,
village of Presena, Monte Zigolon and
the mountain spur to the east. Before
them lie parallel streams leading
down into the Lagarina valley, and
if they successfully carry out their
attack there, it is possible for them
to outflank the entire Austrian posi-
ton in the north of Italy.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01

SIX years or age ana
had all the symp-
toms incidentto that
change-heat flash
es, nervousness, and
was in a general run
down condition, so
it was hard for me
to do my work.
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com.
pound was recon-
nended to me as the
best remedy for my
fro,1hlao uyh;rh n.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
DRIVE TOWARD PARIS AND At
TACK IN NORTH FALL AT THE
SAME TIME.
FLANDERS DASH FAILS
GERMANS STRIKE BLOW BE-
TWEEN RHEIMS AND SOISSONS
ON FORTY-MILE FRONT.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris, May 28.-A battle of extreme
violence was engaged in from the re-
gion Of Vauxailon to the outskirts of
Brimont (Rheims sector), says the Of
ficial report from the war office. The
enemy at the end of the day had
reached the region of Pont Arcy. The
Franco-British troops retired method
ically and in perfect liason, making
the enemy pay dearly for his futile
success.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
MACHINTSTS WANTED.

For work on machinery urgently needed by indus.
tries furnishing material required by forces at
the front; on strike and seem unwilling to sup
port the boys who are depending upon them to help
shop at good wages can find II here and such as are
Dioyment THE NOCK & GARSTDE ELE-
VATOR CO., 1880 Wazee ST., Denver, Colo.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
that CHANGE IN,
WOMAN'S LIFE
Mrs. Golden Tells How II
May be Passed in Safety
and Comfort.

Fremont, O.-'T was passing through
the critical period of life, being forty
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
Never That.

Never That.
women have suffered everything"
Everything but one thing-the tor
ture Of keeping silent"
The Benson signal., 1918-06-01

Remember the future is waiting for
you. Start now.