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WI. cnN'c DrArr TTpMc
FAIL TO PLEASE THEM

RERLrN. Thursday. Jan. lo.-Fla
London, Jnr 11.-Thr Tacnblatt says OF
President Wilson'S speech:
"Mr. Wilson would And himself mis-
taken if he assumed that tho RcichstaR
majority WAS ready to negotiate peace
on tho basis which he declares to be
the only one possible
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Governments Control Of
. News Print Paper Under
Attack in the Senate

WASHINGTQN. Jan. 1l.-Proposed
governmental control OF the news print
paper industry was under fire in the SEN
ate again today with Senator Harding
an Ohio publisher. leading the oPpost-
ton. he Counsclled economy OF con-
sumption. and attacked the plan as So
ciallstic.
Under an unanimous consent agree
ment reached late today. final vote IN
the print paper resolution will be taken
on next Tuesday.
With hut few Senators in their seats,
debate on the resolution continued
throughout the day. Senator Harding
declared the measure .wns socialistic and
said tie American republic was head
ing straight for state socialism and con-
troll BY the "BVlshevks.
Senator Smith Of Arizona. urging the
bill az necessary to insure supplies OF
paper. praised the newspapers and par
ticularly their work for the Liberty
Loans Asked by Senator Watson II this
resolution. by giving control over print
paper to the president. would not permit
the rankcst sort Of press censorship 10
bn set up In the United States. the Ari-
zon4 senator said it would not and added
thut there had been no protest against
the resolution on the part "f the ncws-
pnprrS
Speaking in support Of the resolution.
Senator Thomas said:
Il believe private operation. or buSl-
ncss nj all times is "intn"nti% preferable
To government control. hat believe that
government control IS necessary in GER
tain Instances. and this Is one
Tin. S"nat" adjourned over until Mon
day. when consideration OF tho Dill be
resumed.
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FIX COPPER PRICE.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1l.-A price or
o3ls cents 4 pound for copper for the
next four months was fixed today al
a conference here between federal
authorities and copper producers.
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SUPPORT PLEDGED.

HUNTINGTON. Jan. 10.-Resniu-
.:ons piedEinC their whole heatred sup
port To Or. II. 4. Garfield national ru"l
administrator. 4. r. 1.and. deputy tuei
administrator. and william e. mcAi'oo'
OF railroads were adopt
rd here today.
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G,rird hat contracts for Lewis machine
guns were mad" tar1ily.
Chairman chamberlain. challenging
,Il,. srcrrtarys statements regarding ed-
cqIacy of rifle supplies ut cantonments.
asserted that lack Of machine guns and
truck: are Delaying training work.
Failure 10 prepnr" for war was
brought un by Senator Wadsworth and
Secratnry Eaker insisted that needs for
prc7ar.dncss in 1916 were ns obvious 20
congress as to the executive branch.
Events since. he conceded. woulG Hare
radr larger military appropriations ad-
viSabic.
Mr.. Baker left the stand early today
70 a,tcEd a cabinet meeting. Flo will be
hack tomorrow for further cross ex-
animation.
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Death for Seven,

MONTGOMERY. Ala. Jan. IL
Seven persons were killed and IS IN
iured at Cowarts. Ala. and the entire
town was DESTROYED by tornado TO-
dav, a report received at the local Of
fee of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
way said.
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FIVE KILLED IN
III l|TTEMP TED
BANK ROBBERY

CAMP FUNSTON, Kansas, Jan.
11.-Four military policemen and
a banker were killed here tonight
when a band of robbers attempted
to rob the bank at the army can
tonment here. The robbers, it
was stated, wore soldier uniforms.
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EVEN MgJNITICN PLANTS MAY HAVE TO SLOW
DOWN OWING TO GREAT SHORTAGE in FUEL

WASHINGTON D. c.. Jan 1-Evcn plants making NUM-
other supplies may have curta fuel consumption
during six days. Fuel Administrator Garfield said tonight
public that effort would be made to
dist rbu available coal where needed and that
paraty would be shown any section rorrtsnJ
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Blizzard in the West.

KANSAS CrTY. No. Jan. 11.--"hat
x,.:;hsr observers say is one OF tne
c,n>1 severn blizzard$ in years. swept
nvr~ the southwest last night and 10
d. with a strong wind pil!ng up the
unusually heavy snow into deep drifts
ana caused decentralization To trans
pnv;arion and wire communication
generally throughout Missouri, Kan
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Obios Camp Sherman Men CO "Over There so Days


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Snow and colder Saturday; cold wave
by night; Sunday fair and cold
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Sweden Will Send
roops to Alands

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 23.-The Swed-
ish Rigsdag has adopted the govern
ment's proposal for military interven-
tion in the Aland Islands. The vote in
the upper house was without debate
and in the lower house the proposal
was adopted by a vote Of 131 to Is.
LONDON, Feb. 23.-Bills dealing
with the right of Sweden to send con-
scripts outside of the kingdom for spe-
cal duties, and financial credits for
the purpose of sending guard of
Swedish soldiers to the Aland Islands,
we're introduced Friday in the Swedish
Parliament, according to advices from
Stockholm.
Professor Eden, the Swedish Pre-
mier, expressly emphasized that the
project is to be carried out under an
agreement arrived at between the rival
factions on the Aland Islands, The
government intends to carry out only
temporary measures until March !,
1919, for the protection of the popula-
ton of the islands, and denies that
there is any political phase of the ac-
ton Of Sweden.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Signing of Pact
With Spain Denied
staff Correspondencel

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The State
Department denied today that an
agreement between Spain and the
United States, respecting the export
from Spain Of commodities for the
American army in France, and the ex-
portation of cotton. oil and other arti
cles to Spain from this country. had
been signed
The department has just received
cablegram from Ambassador Willard
at Madrid, who is the principal nego-
tlator for the United States. stating
Spain's conditions. 1t is understood
that these. to which the American rep
resentatives have not assented. relate
principally to bunker coal for Spanish
vessels in American ports, which has,
been denied them, and, according to
statements in Spanish circles here.
practically alone is preventing the
signing of the agreement.
The Spanish Embassy received late
last week a cablegram from the For
eign Office at Madrid, it was stated to-
day, indicating that an agreement with
the American government had been
reached, but that it had not been
signed because OF the detention of
Spanish shius in American waters.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
| uscania Death List
Has Seven New Names
War Department Adds to Rolls
of Identified Americans
Who Perished

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The War
Department tonight gave out an addi-
tiona! list of the names of sixteen
Identified dead of the American sol
diers who lost their lives in the tor
redoing Of the liner Tuscania by a
German submarine February 6. Ten
o. them previously had been reported
IN Associated Press dispatches from a
Scottish port
The six not previously identified
were:
Privates Sterling Collonn. St. James,
Ark; Arthur N. Harvey. Eau Claire
Wis; Joseph R. RedAeld. Glendale
O. Ore; Edward l. Routt, Pecan Gap
Tex; Thomas S. Wasson, Kosciusko
Miss, and Claude w. Walker, Los
Angeles.
Walker had not previously been
listed as unaccounted for and no an
nouncement was made as to the unit
to which he was attached.
With the reporting of these six
names, the Associated Press list of un
accounted for stands at 66, including
80 unidentified dead buried on the Scot
tish coast.
An Associated Press dispatch from
London last Wednesday said latest fig
ures at American army Headquarters
there showed that 204 Americans had
lost their lives on the Tuscania. 14O
of whom mad been identified and buried.
Thirty-two unidentified had been buried
leaving 32 missing, who presumably
had gone down with the shin
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Berlin Paper That Reported Attack
On Government Promptly Silenced

ulus from the Socialist party-one
thought has sprung up among the
masses: If we lose our present hope
for peace. and there is nothing to eat,
there will be nothing more to lose
ave cannot silently witness few
gentlemen following in Brcst-Litovsk
their own policies or those of few
ether gentlemen, and putting at stake
the peace negotiations, perhaps against
the will of the Austrian peace nego-
tiators.
at is impossible to negotiate in
Brest-Litovsk without admitting the
various nationalities of Austria to the
table. The Deputies are silent when
they learn from the press that gen,
e1al struck the table with his fist or
ratified with his sword. thus threaten
ing peace. Neither the Austrian nor
the German supreme commanders have
a right to mix in political afairs
"The tactics of keeping everything
concealed from the people ought to be
ended forever We read in the pa
.pers what is going on in Russia, Eng
land, France and Germany, but we do
even began to suppress all news in the
papers about the present strike in vi
cnna and Lower Austria, of which
everybody knows. On account of the
absolute silence the most exaggerated
lumors arc arising"
Many other Socialist and Liberal
leaders expressed similar views. Dep
uty Seitz, a prominent Socialist, also
attacked the supreme commanders and
criticised them for their interference
IN political affairs. lie charged Count
Czernin, the Austrian Foreign Minister,
as weak and incompetent 10 deal with
the annexationist ambitions of the Ger
man conservatives and junkers. He de-
manded that Austria should not yield
to the militarists, but make peace with
Russia without any annex&ticns.
DR.. Ellenbogen, speaking for the pro-
sressive party, asked the government
to make peace at any cost. "The Aus
trlan attitude as to anncxations," ne
said, lis not in accord WI ~
ises of Count Czernin that he would
make peace without annexations4.The
story of 1866 and 1870 is now beir1fr re-
peated: for after the Austrian and Ger
man parliaments have assumed a deh-
mite attitude against anneXations the
militarists are now acting against the
nations will"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

the wrong done then to the Polish ma
tlon. The country ceded to the Ukraine
is for the most part Polish and Catho-
lie. The population of this country at
the time Of the odious religious persc-
cuton of 1875 by it's own blood achieved
its right to belong to Poland.
"They have not demanded of this
creation to which state it desired to
belong; with a stroke Of the pen they
have decided its fate, and thus the
principle that peoples have the right to
solemnly proclaimed by German diplo-
matists, is outraged and violated in
regard to Poland.
THUS has been reduced to nothing
the significance of the acts of mon
archs and of their promises. The cx-
istcncc of independent Poland, ner
political and economic life, no longer
are more than vain words, for not only
are the interests and rights of Poland
scorned. but they do not even respect
her national territory.
1--WE have sworn in the presence of
God to safeguard the wellbeing, tn :
liberty and the existence of Poland,
and so to-day. faithful to our word,
we raise our voice before God and be-
fore the world, in sight of men and in
sight of the tribunal of history, be-
tore the German people and the peo-
pies of AUSTRIA Hungary, and protest
against this new partition, which we
refuse to recognize and which we re-
pei as an act of violence.
keep What Is Acquired"
ASSERTING once more the violation
OF the spirit and the letter of the acts
of the monarchs, we will retain the
right to exercise the powers of the
state, relying on the will of the nation
and on the firm conviction that the ma
ton desires to possess a symbol of it's
independence and is resolved to group
itself around this symbol.
1T is this wish of the nation which
we desire to take as the support of our
mission and our efforts. We keep. for
the present period, that which has been
acquired; we retain our tribunals, Civ
ing their judgments in the name of the
crown of Poland; our schools, which
were born anew in the Polish spirit.
and if to-day we are not successful in
attaining the end to which the nation
aspires we bequeath to our succe ssors
that which we have received with the
blood of our fathers, and we do not
consent to the mutilation of our coun-
try.
"Warsaw, February IA, 1918
(Signed)
"ARCHBISHOP KAKOWsKI.
JOSEPH OSTROWSKI,
"LADISLAS LUBOMIRSKI"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
The Neso York Tribune
Foreign Press BureGH

Much excitement was created in
Vienna few days ago when Victor
Adler, the Austrian Socialist leader.
and several other prominent liberal
and Socialist Deputies, violently at
tackled the government in the Reichsrat
tor yielding to the annexationst am
bitions of the German militarists
The people of Austria and Germany
they declared, want no annexation ano
are outraged by the attempt of the
German generals to dictate at the
roace negotiations and to frighten the
Russian delegates by rafting their
swords.
1t is interesting to note in connec-
tion with the German attitude toward
these Austrian utterances, that the
Berlin "Tageblatt," which quoted these
anti -annexationist speeches at length
was Immediately afterward suppressed
for three days. On the day following
its publication of the anti militarist
statements, the "Tageblatt," instead of
its customary four pages of printed
material, carried only half page. and
the latter had nothing but the follow
ing words printed across it in larg.
type: by order of the commander-in
chief of the work (Brandenburg) the
publication of the 'Berliner Tageblatt
Is forbidden for the next three days.
The "Vorwaerts" was also suppressed
for three days
After attacking the methods of For
oign Minister Czernin, Victor Adler
discussed the peace negotiations. He
said:
"We are standing to-day before the
possibility of peace, and therefore the
entire world is convinced that peace
must not be influenced by questions of
prestige or future plans. Now we have
suddenly been shown that the peace
negotiations are being conducted in a
tone and manner of which it may be
said that they will never lead to peace
at all.
"!At the present moment-without
any given signal and without any stim
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Vienna Called to Account for
Revealing Poles Manifesto
Germany Demands Explanation of AUSTRIA Calling Publ
cation OF Arrangement Gross Stupidity document
Denounced Berlin for Breaking Faith

LONDON, Feb. 23.--Thc publication
by the Vienna official news agency OF
the Polish manifesto rejecting upoa
Germany has given great offence, says
the Zurich correspondent Of Reuters,
Limited. According to the Munich
"Neuestc Nachrichtcn,' the German
Ambassador at Vienna has been in
structed to demand an explanation. The
newspaper adds that the reading of the
manifesto in the Reichsrath gave i'm
munity to its publication. but that it
was piece of gross stupidity on the
part of the official agency to publish it
broadcast.
The following is the text of the man
ifesto of the Polish Council
"When the allied armies of the mon
archs of the Central Powers entered
the Kingdom of Poland under their
victorious standards they gave out that
they brought to Poland dclivcrance
from the yoke which had weighed on
her for so long.
Guaranteed independence
"Then came acts guaranteeing to our
country an independent existence.
Finally. some months ago, the SOW
ereignty of the Polish state was rec
ognized, and Friendship, aid and CO.
operation We're promised her. And
when the government of the Gar fell
in Russia and the new power began
peace negotiations with the Contra!
Powers Poland was not allowed to par
ticipate in them.
"From the beginning of these nego-
tiations we have demanded constantly
and categorically to take part in them.
A promise was made to admit US to
them, then the reply was put off. We
were lured on until at last the pleni-
potentiaries Of Germany and Austria
Hungary had decided alone the ques-
ton of frontiers, and this against our
rights.
"They have not admitted us in order
to be able, IN our absence. to conclude
A peace at our expense and to acquire
the security desired in the East at the
price of the living body Of our nation.
They have cut off piece Of Polish
territory and given it over to the
Ukraine; they have fallen back into the
lniqUities Of the government OF the
Gar; they have recstablished the Gre
s'Inrreasing the Wrong"
"The Province of Cholm, which no
longer existed, they have reGstablished
and enlarged, increasing by this act
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Turks i'm Retreat
After Jericf1o's
Fall to British
Retirement of Enemy to
North and East An
nounced in London
Great Military Feat
Advance Was Made Over
Hills Resembling Slip
perry Soap
Great Military Feat

LONDON, Feb. 23. - The Turkish
forces disiodged by the British by the
capture of Jericho, in Palestine, have
retired to the north and east. the War
Once announces. The statement fol-
lows:
The enemy, dislodged from the
jericho area, retired north of the Wadi
AuJa, on the northern bank of which
they have left posts on high ground,
and eastward across the Jordan. on
which they hold bridgehcad at FL
Ghoraniye. Otherwise there is nothing
to report"
Much Importance is attached to tho
arrival of the British on the banks of
the Jordan, Reuters Limited learns
from an authoritative source. General
Allenby's advance from Jerusalem was
carried out under great difficulties. 1t
was made during heavy rains and when
the British had to march over hills
comparable only to masses of slippery
soap.
Possession of Jericho is an important
step toward establishing touch between
the British and their Arab allies. The
british Will be in direct contact with
the Arabs for the first time. which
should be great announcement to
them, as they have fought long and
hard contest against superior enemv
numbers.
General Allenbys force is now en-
camped along the Jordan, which prob
ably is fairly high. 1t is a swift. deer
ana narrow stream, with a very
treacherous current, and is in a coun.
try which will supply food and fodder
With the latest advance the British
position is quite we'll defined The
right flank rests on the Dead Sea anc
the left on the Mediterranean, so that
II the enemy wishes to attack he car
make only frontal assault The Brit.
access to the rich lands east OF the
sea. They also menace the railway
running toward Damascus, while the
country has better roads than that
around Jerusalem.
Capture of Jericho, the military cor
respondent of "The Daily Telegraph
says. deprives the enemy of one of tho
chief local points in his defensive
scheme in Palestine.
"The advance" the writer saws
should result in the clearing out O.
Ciic enemy IRON west OF the Dead Sea
since it gives the British line acros.
Palestine. 1t endangers the enemy'
motor boat flotilla, which has had 1t.
base at the mouth of the Jordan. ane
cuts off from any Turks now left ives
of the Dead Sea, as we'll as from those
on the east, where they are exposed t,
the bold raids of the Hedjaz Arabs
their means of support from thi
source.
ut must not be forgotten that tn,
Arabs are working their way up tn,
Hedjaz railway, and already have beer
in action directly east of the Dead Sea
Turkish forces, acting in Hedjaz ant
Southern Arabia, already virtually ar.
cut off from the outside world Gen
eral Allenby, having scattered the
Turkish forces concentrated west o
Jericho, is now free to choose lin,
for an advance northward by whateve
route seems best"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
3 Americans Killed.
Is Injured in Action
Sidney M. Cowley, of New
York City, Dies of Acct
dental Wound

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Three men
have been killed in action, five severe
ly wounded and eight slightly wounded
General Pershing tonight reported to
the War Department.. The dead are:
. Privates Thomas V. Ratcif, Clarks.
vile, Tenn; William H. Scott. Calvert
City, Ky, and Ralph I. kingery, Onta-
rio, Cal.
The severely wounded were:
Corporals Edwin f. Titus, Manches
ter, Conn, and Thaddeus Blazej ejowski
Meriden. Conn.
Privatcs Thomas Morrison, South
Manchester, Conn; Walter P. Moran
Norwich, Conpy, and Gustave H. Her
manson, Ans6nia, Conn.
The slightly wounded were:
First Lieutenants Guy |. Swctt
South Paris, Me-, and Thomas M.
Holmes, Albany, N. Y.
Second Lieutenant Edwin c. Call
Dexter, Me.
Privates Romes Nadeau, Somers-
worth, N. H.; Clyde +. Andrews, Crono
Me-; Peter Rubcck, Egcland N. D.;
Walter Brodowski, Lenox, Mass; Will
lam II. Hale, somerville, Mass.
Private Fred Kopanske, Of 215O West
Thirteenth Street, Chicago, died as
result of wounds received in action it
also was announced, and Private Sid
ney NJ. Cowlcy, of 306 West Fourth
Street, New York, succumbed on Feb
ruary to accidental gunshot wounds
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
No Indications Yet
OF German Attack
Allies Still Force Minor Fight
ing on West Front; French
Raid Successful

LONDON, Feb. 23.-Another dny has
passed without further signs OF the
German offensive IN the West develop.
ing. The events chroniclcd in the off
clal war statements were confined t,
the usual raids and artillery duels.
The French north of the Ailctte. on
the front where American troops ar,
stationed for experience, made an in.
cursion to near Chevrigny. The,
wrecked German works and returned
with twenty-five prisoners, including
two officers, and some booty.
In the Champagne, where American
artillery is in action. Pctain's men alsc
penetrated the hostile trenches, taking
ten prisoners.
The British took prisoners at sew.
cral points. The Scottish troops can't
urcd some Germans near Monchy-lc
Preux. Another raid was made east OF
Wytschaetc.
Haig reports that the German ar,
tillery was active near the Mcnin Road
south of IIoutholst Forest. between
GouZeaucourt and the Scarpc Valley
and at several points between Lens and
Armcntieres
An enemy raid on Hill 70. near Lens
was rcpulsed with loss, and rifle fire
drove off a party which attempted tc
reach British post north of Pocl
capcllc.