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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
One Chinese
GeneraIMakeS
Self Obeyed
Compels Russian Station
Master To rovide Him
With a Special Train.

Vladivostok, Russia, Nov. s.-(Cor-
respondence Of the Associated Press)
A Chinese general with his seven
wives and a small body guard walked
into the station at Hardin a few days
since as the Vladivostok train was
about 70 start and demanded accom-
mediation for himself and party
The Chinese Eastern. although a
joint Russian Chinese property. is
operated by the Russians in conjunc-
ton with the Siberian railway.
The Russian station master con-
suited his watch. shrugged. and said.
Mia" which is the Russian equiva-
lent for 1T can't be done" He ex-
planned that the train was full and it
was leaving on time
Without further pariey the general
dispatched members of his bodyguard
TO hold the train One man clambersd
into the locomotive and covered the
engineer with a revolver. Others
mounted guard on the car platforms.
Then the general ordered the sta
tion master 10 procure a car "Qui-qui."
which is Chonese for Instantly with
out any back talk" on pain OF very
serious consequences 10 himself.
Twenty minutes later the train
pulled out with the Chinese general
and his seven wives. aboard in
spacious private car.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
HUN AGITIT0RS IN ARGENTINA
HARANGUE AGAINST BLAGKLIsT9
Try to Incite Anger Against the United States and
Allies by Declaring Blacklists Are Responsible For
Increase In Cost Of Living; Pro German League Is
Supported by Only One Newspaper In Country.

DUENOs AIRES, Argentina, Nov. g.
d Correspondence Of the Associated
Press. )-German propaganda here has
taken in the form Of a well organized
campaign Of street corner soap box
speakers haranguing against the al
lied blacklists- The speakers base
their arguments on the high cost Of
living which they trace to these black
lists.
Evidently a large number Of speak
ers have been engaged, for in all parts
Of the business district and at all
hours there are small groups OF listen
ers around 4 speaker who is mounted
on a wooden soap box. And as he
moves from one corner to another he
is followed By a mounted member
OF the security squadron.
These speakers are advertised as
being members Of the "Liga Pro-
GQuidad," which might be translated
IS the Equity or Justice league. This
league has an officer near the bust
ness center. over the entrance to il
is 4 shield that was so prominent
curing the Luxburg neutrality cam
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
Siberian Train Porters
Reap Hdr0est, Smuggling
Opium Into Manchurid

Vladivostok, Siberia Nov. Opium
smuggling from eastern Siberia into
Hardin offers such alluring rewards
that scarcely an opportunity is over
looked by train porters and conduc-
tors. Across the Manchurian from
tier the hillsides are ablaze with
poppy fields. The prepared drug viii
bring triple its purchase price y
safely delivered in the Manchurian
town
A young American woman. travel
ing in a private car from VladivOstok.
recently unearthed a mysterious
package in her compartment. The
car porter seeing IL in her hands at
tempted to snatch it, Being a young
woman of spirit, she grabbed up a
pistol. whereupon the porter fell upon
his knees and begged for mercy. With
little persuasion he produced from
beneath the young woman's berth a
dozen mote similar packages. They
aggregated several pounds of opium
Other Americans on board were
summoned and it was decided to turn
over the opium and the porter to the
first customs officer encountered.
This was dOne-in the station at Har-
bin The customs officer confiscated
the drug, thereby earning a reward
of several hundred rubles. but de-
clared he had no authority to arrest
the smuggler and the porter went
his way.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
BRITlN5 SHOW
Pep AND DASH
On Sightseeing
Tour See More Speed
Than Thew Dreamed OF.

London, England. Nov. s.-Twslve
American editors and a college
president being personally conducted
about England and to the various
points OF interest In France. returned
home WITH a revised view OF tbs rsla-
tive speed OF America and England.
The whirlwiad speed OF their trip
almost gives rise 20 = question as TO
whether his maiesty's government
may not be pulling their leg"
Certainly. II there had been any
prearranged plan to outspeed the
Yank at his own game. the pace Of
conferences luncheons. Inspection
trips. dinners, concerts. and the Ike
could not have been faster. The min
istry OF information. which conducted
the tour OF the American editors, had
practiced on the Canadian and Aus
tralian editors. By showing them how
England works at the war. at sea and
ashore in the British Islands, and in
the trenches Of France this ministry
had perfected the business Of sight
seeing tours until the Yankee editors
found a smoothness OF clock work
a bout all arrangements One stunt
dOvetailed into another so closely that
the folks at home. some OF them tes-
titled, went letterless- There was no
time for letter writing. and occasional
cable reporting progress had to the
extent Of communications home.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
Moscow Priests Strike
Against Bishops Arrest

London, Eng. Nov. "a strike Of
priests" in Moscow was one Of the
incidents of Bolshevik rule. Bishop
AndrOnic. of the Perm diocese. a man
of considerable influence among the
Russian clergy, had been arrested for
his outspoken opposition 10 the Boil
shevik regime and all the ecclesias-
tics in that district went on strike
in protest again his imprisonment
They refused to perform the ser
vices their office required, and the
devout muzhiks and townspeople
were greatly mortified. A number
of striking clersymen were arrested.
charged with counter revolutionary
activity.
After a thorough examination by
the local commission for the sup
preston Of counter revolution. sabo-
tage and speculation, they were re-
leased upon signing 4 pledge that
they would never take part in agita-
ton against the soviet government
nor in connection with the arrest OF
the bishop.
What became of the bishop and how
the strike ended, has not been learned.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
RUSSIA FACES
COLD, FAMINE
Neither Fuel Ncr Food
Are Sufficient to Garry
Through the Winter.

London. Eng. Nov. s.-CCorre-
spondence OF The Associated Press. )
Russia Is facing a winter OF hunger
and cold. augmented this year be-
cause Of the extreme scarcity Of fuel
which prevails in all parts Of that
country. The lack Of coal has been
keenly felt ever sincs the loss Of the
Donetz basin TO the Germans early
last spring. It affected the railroads
and caused factories to be shut down.
The Czecho-Slovak operations in
Siberia and IN the Ural region have
prevented any relief from that direc-
ton.
Very Little Wood on Hand.
The stores of wood in Moscow and
Petrograd, owing to the lack OF
transportation facilities and other
difficulties too numerous to mention,
are far from sufficient to meet the
demands Of a long winter. A MOSCOW
paper estimated months ago that the
supplies OF wood in that city would
hardly suffice to satisfy the needs of
public utilities this winter, and that
in consequence all private enter
prises and homes could not hone to
get even a limited qutntity OF IT,
To one who has experienced the
discomforts of a cold Russian winter
even under better conditions, the sit
uation is far from aIluring. The
chilly atmosphere of an unheated
apartment darkness in the streets
and homes. the quiet Of a city undis-
turbed by the rumble of street cars
and motor vehicles. and. lastly. the
uncomfortable feeling OF an empty
stomach-such are the prospects OF
the coming winter in Russia.
BOlsheviki Are Divided.
R0lCheTiE leaders ara divided IN
the best means Of perpetuating soviet
Russia One faction wants a real
army TO fight Germany and believes
actual war with Germany will be
necessary. Another faction. which in
cludes those who lean toward the So
ciai revolutionists. would wage
guerilla warfare against Germany
and attack Germans wherever and
whenever possible The third and
predominant group urges the preser-
walton of the BresI peace
Many foreign observers believe the
flower of the Russian army and the
best Of the old officers fell in the first
three years of the war. Other OBJ
servers care confident the officers
and men OF the disbanded army con-
stitute a mass out Of which a smaller
army will some day be created TO
overthrow German oppression
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

paign but which had disappeared, the
shield of the Pro-Neuh ality league, so
designed rs to make the office appear
to be an office Of the Argentine gov
eminent.
Tha shield IS the same size and
shape as those which designate gov
eminent offices. bears the same kind
OF lettering and has in its center the
Argentine national coat Of arms.
Last year this shield guarded 2
doorway at one Of the busiest corners
in the city and at the head of the
stairs WAS the neutrality office which
was maintained with German funds,
supplied largely through the news
paper. La Union. At the head OF the
stairs it now guards the office of
the 'Pro-Justice league" organized to
stir up IL feeling among the Argen-
tines on the argument that the allied
blecklists are responsible for the high
cost of living
The only newspaper in the city sup
porting This league is La Union. the
newspaper for which count Won Lux
burg, The former German ambassador
here, asked and obtained a German
government subsidy of 10000 pesos a
month.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
IS
THREAT ENING
OVERTURN JAPS
Menaces the Empire Itself,
Says Leading Toxic
Business Man.
WORKERS ABSORB
WESTERN IDEALS

TOXIC. Japan. Nov. 9.-(Correspond-
l ence OF The Associated Press.)-
The recent food riots In Japan are
dangerous symptoms Of a widening
social cleavage. in the opinion OF To-
shio Fujiwara, a leading business man
Of Toxic and an authority on social
questions. He contrasts the conditions
under which the working class OF ia
pan live with the enormous profits OF
great enterprises. and sees In the os-
tentation Of the countless war million
aires a social irritant which IS causing
the theories OF western agitators to
work on the minds OF the japanese
wage Gamers.
Fujiwara thinks that Japanese
skilled Workmen have already ac-
CURED the ideas OF the working peO-
pie Of western countries He adds:
These ideas. unfortunately mostly in
wrong sense, are steadily working
upon the minds Of our working people,
especially those in big cities like To-
kio. Osaka, etc" He continues
Leadeds OF the nation are there
fore strongly urged to adopt some
measures for relief Of the general dis
content SO that disaster may be avoid
ed Should this general discomfort
OF the working class be left without
remedy, We nave more serious out
bursts and these may bring about a
catastrophe to the empire"
Fujiwara urges that japanese
statesmen learn a lesson from Ameri-
can and British statesmen in the
handling OF the national problems, es-
Decially food problems. Improvement
Of the living conditions Of the working
Ing classes in Japan. he believed TO be
imperative. and this reform
should De inaugurated in the big cities
Of Toxic and osaka.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

HLADIyOSTOCK, Russia. Nov -
V Correspondence Of the Associated
Press).-Gen- Gaida's Czeeho-Slovaks.
fighting their way through $500 miles
Of hostile territory. furnish a tale no
less thrilling than that related OF Cor
tez's drive from Veracruz to the an
Client Aztec capital in the 18th cen
fury. Like his illustrious predecessor.
ne saw his forces grow as his sue
cesses multiplied. but his successes.
also like those of the adventurous
Spaniard. were due to his unflagging
courage and ingenious tactics and to
the loyalty OF his men
When the order came from Petro-
grad eountermanding the permission
given for the free movement OF the
Czecho-Slovaks toward V1adivostOk.
II found them strung out IN a thin
line from the Volga to VladivOstok.
A II day truce, following the first
serious clash at Irkutsk, when the
BOlsheviki undertook TO disarm a
trainlOad Of CZechs, applied only 70
eastern Siberia and was utilized by
Gaida's men TO get a running start
for the plunge through the thicAtest
OF the struggle Thereafter his policy
appears TO have been TO constantly
prepare and execute some new sur
prise until the enemy was in such a
state OF nerves that the approach OF a
body OF CzechO-Slovaks, no matter
how small, was likely TO throw him
into a panic.
Fights Way West.
Assisted by Cossacks and by Czechs I
from Chillabinsk. Col Kadlets. then I
commander Of the Czech forces west /
Of Irkutsl1. fought his way west to
0msk taking towns en- route. He in 4
proved the time during the armistice I
to clean up the line westward 10 the .
Trails
Meantime. with resumption Of hos
tilities TO the eastward, the Czech
Slovak forces between Krasnoyarslz
and Irkutsk found themselves hard
pressed and near to the end OF their
resources. Kadlets doubled back east
ward and. by a series Of flanking
falling upon the Bolshevi-
Il in the night. stampeded them time
-fter time. In this way he pushed
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

A MEXICAN Advance Zone, France,
n Nov. Correspondents Of The
Associated Press-)-Two thousand SOL
dier-bakers, turning out 1000, 900
pounds Of bread a day-this is the
vast and animated work one sees here
at the American army field bakery,
which supplies the staff Of life to the
American army in the entire area of
the advance zone.
II is a bakery OF tents. unlike the
ordinary bakery within brick walls
and with whizzing machinery. but a
field bakery right out in the open air
and open fields, half a military en-
campment and half an industrial city,
and Ike all army camps capable OF
being picked up and transported to
another point in a few hours
Camp Stretches Far.
A city Of tents marks the site Of
this huge camp bakery. along the
country roadside about q mile outside
Of the large cities OF the advance
zone-nameless as are all places in
the zone Of advance. The camp
stretches over many acres. lately
plowed ground Of a big farm. but now
humming with the activity Of a huge
productive enterprise. Above the
tents one sees countless smokestacks
OF the bakeovens. belching black
smoke and in the open air hundreds
Of soldiers, stripped to the waist.
bending over the huge masses Of
dough. and hundreds more manipulate
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
Declares Turks Must
Pay For The Wrongs
Done The Arnenians

London. Eng. Nov. 9.-The Brit
ish government is determined that
the wrongs suffered by the Armen-
tans at the hands Of the Turks shall
be righted and their recurrence made
impossible, writes lord Robert Cecil.
the parliamentary under secretary Of
state for foreign affairs. TO viscount
Bryce.
Four points mentioned by lord Cecil
as the charter Of the Armenian's right
to liberation at the hands of the al
lies. are:
The refusal OF the Amenians as
a nation in the fall of 1914 to work
for the cause Of Turkey and her al
lies, although offers OF autonomy
were made II they actively assisted
Turkey in the war.
Partly on account Of this courage
Gus refusal. the Ottoman Armenians
were systematically murdered by the
Turkish government in 1915. two
thirds Of the population being exter-
minated by most cold blooded and
fiendish methods-100. 600 men and
women and children being killed
From the beginning of the war
that half Of the Armenian nation un-
der Russian sovereignty organized
volunteer corps and bore the brunt
of some Of the heaviest fighting in
Caucasia under their leader Andra-
mix.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
PIGEONS MAKE
fine G0URIERS
Keep Hea dquarters In
formed of Events When
Other MESSENGERS Fail.

with the French Armies, Nov. "a
carrier pigeon was one Of the heroes
of the most striking episodes OF the
battle of Verdun- During the siege
Of the fort Of Vaux, commandment Ray
nal had no other means Of eommuni-
eating with the exterior. During the
fierce fighting around the Thiaumont
farm. contradictory reports reached
the rear as to the occupation of the
position The carrier pigeon was the
only means by which the officers in
command could learn the exact situa-
ton
While the Germans were making
one Of their strongest attacks, all the
telephone lines were destroyed and
the enenly's curtain fire made the use
of couriers impossible Reinforce
ments were required to hold a posi-
ton with no means OF communicating
with the rear until Lieut.. Col. Girar-
din sent several pigeons back to the
headquarters where they arrived in
20 to % minutes and the reinforce
ments were promptly sent up.
When the Germans made a violent
effort TO take the position OF Froid
terre, Capt. Dartigss, in command
tbere, was cut off from the rear. At
o'clock in the morning he sent
pigeon back 10 announce that the
enemy was within 500 yards Of the
works At 10 o'clock he announced
By the same means that the position
was SUR ounded by the enemy. At II
&c informed the staff that the situa-
tion was critical but that the garri-
son would fab. to tht last man. Thus
kept in tcuch. with the situation the
staff was able to take steps that re-
suited in the breaking Of the line
around the POSITION
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
BuiIdingNewRoads, MoOing Guns,
German Soldiers Have To Work
Harder Than Those Of The Allies
BELGIAN EEFUsEEs

MYTH the American Army in France
w Nov. s.-The German is the hard
est soldier in any Of the fighting arm
les today. And It Is not only discip-
line. the iron, rigorous Prussian dis
eipline instilled into him since child
hood. that keeps him traetable. work
ing like a Trojan all the time that he
is resting from the firing line It is
prudence and caution on his part,
aided and abetted by orders to all
field officers to economic as much
as possible on the wastage of cannon
fodder" owins~to the heavy losses in
Cured since March Fl.
Careful examination Of the belt OF
terrain between the Marine and the
Vesle which the Americans wrested
from the boche, interrogation of pris-
oners as TO activities behind the pres
ent line, and air photographs and OBJ
servers reports show the herculean
tasks the bOche are accomplishing to
escape the hail of shellfire that the
allies are subjecting them to contin-
ually. for French, British and Amer
leans are firing from three to ten
times as many projectiles as the
enemy are
Makes His Own Roads.
In the first place the boche does not
use the established road he finds for
transport and communication He
knows that those roads are accurate
" plotted and registered by American
gunners, so he keeps off them, en-
tirely by day. and nearly enteirely BY
night. He makes trails through the
fields beside the highways. and cuts
paths through woods and forests in
stead of following the wonderful
thoroughfares for which France is
famous
The boehe can use roads that would
be worthless for allies. He lacks motor
transport and moves most OF his sup
plies by narrow gage railways or by
man power. as even bis horse drawn
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
Germans Force Films
To Form 4 Monarchy
Instead OF Republic

Copenhagen. Denmark, Nov. g
Correspondence Of The Associated
Press. Finland became a monarchy
instead of a republic solely because
the Firms yielded to German domina-
ton. according to a communication
from Finnish sources published in the
Berlin VOrwaerts. The correspond
ent asserts that up to April last the
Finnish leaders were determined to
organize a republic but in May the
government withdrew the measure
for its organization and advocated a
monarchy. giving as its reason the
fact that Germany desired it.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
Germans Shoot at the Stretcher Bearers
-:I.:- -:I:- -::- -:'- sis
Coruered. Beg LoathSon7eIy For Mercy

NTH the American Army in
w France, Nov. 9.-Compared to
the German soldier Of today who
before the war was supposed to
be civilized, the American Indian
OF frontier days is declared by
an American medical officer to
have been highly civilized.
Deliberate killing by German
troops OF Red Cross workers en-
gagged in their work OF mercy on
the battIefIeIds has aroused the
wrath OF American army Officers.
It Is INSERTED that all during the
Marine battle, the German nvi-
ators swept low over field dress
ing stations, pouring machine gun
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
BY HENRY G. WALES.

vehicles are being reduced continual
" He has not enough rubber and
gasoline for motor trucks.
So the boche lays his narrow gage
railways and when the allied bat
teries begin pounding these lines he
slowly ard painstakingly takes them
up and sets them down elsewhere
But eventually the aviator's camera
reveals the line and II Is bombarded
and bombed.
Now he is using dogs to haul little
vehicles. wagons carrying shells and
ratiOns and machine gun belts Of cart
ridges and other light loads. He has
stripped Belgium and northern France
OF fine. Intelligent hard working ami
mails that have hauled like horses for
generations
His artillery the boche must keep
transplauting continually Many OF
his batteries OF us and loss have not
been in the same emplacements more
than q hours during the last six
weeks. So accurate have allied re-
connaissance and observation planes
become that the boche doesn't wait
for his gunpits TO be spotted He
works all night preparing positions,
moves in the guns. fires few rounds,
and then shifts them again immed-
lately without waiting to be located
by counter battery work
The continual harassing OF roads
and light railways have Much to. do
toward decreasing the German artil-
lery fire. II is a physical impossible
ity for the enemy to get up enough
shells on the average quiet or semi
quiet sectors. In 4 big offensive
where he concentrates everything. es-
pecially his motor trucks and horse
drawn vehicles in a certain sector, ne
naturally makes a better showing by
getting much more ammunition than
in other parts of the line.
In billeting troops the boches have
always favored woods in the past, but
that was before the allies perfected
their new heavy gas with long dura-
ton. The new allied gas, like the
enemy's mustard gas. will hang
around in a wood or forest for days
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

for weeks even If there is much
moisture. Dugouts may not be dug
in series IN depth among the boche,
for that permits OF enfilade fire, 50
they are generally arranged in neat
lateral rows, reducing the danger
from the mathematical cone OF fire
TO the smallest degree The average
shell will either fall short Of the
mark or beyond It. instead OF drop
ping 70 one side or the other.
The enemy, contrives TO keep his
troops quiet during the daytime They
are never seen walking about or en-
gagged IN any forms OF sport, even in
remote back areas Fires are also pro-
hibited near the front during the day.
and men must go without hot meals
When the enemy occupies shelled
villages the garrison OF the town is
always kept in the cellars during the
daytime, a man needing special per-
mission from a foldwebel even to
cross a street II the weather is clear
enough for an aviator or a captive
balloon observer TO see the spot
The terrible incessant batteringI
that the Huns receive from allied
artillerymen has much to do with
their dociIe acceptance OF these strict
rules and they realize. as prisoners
have stated, that although It is mOnot-
onous to have TO sit all day long in
a tiny bomprOof or a camouflaged
shell hole or ruined cellar. II may
result in not being literally bonn
barded or bombed. which would sure
" result when the allied observation
discovered movements and circula-
ton in any particular spot
II is a noticeable fact that under
the incessant fire Of the allies the
enemy is using less and less barbed
wire. Prisoners assert that German
officers are having considerable
trouble in making wiring parties do
their work properly. and allied 0bser-
walton knows that on innumerable oc-
casions they have discovered at day
break abandoned posts and reels of
wire abandoned in front Of the Ger
man positions after n few yards OF
ar.a nclar,nnt had hnan set In rIacn