Evening star., 1918-01-19
THE w EEK
Euftome OF Events Ending Janu-
ary 10. 1913.
WAR.

Industries of the United States were
suspended for five consecutive days and
nine successive Mondays. designated as
workless days. by order OF the fuel ad-
mtnistration, for the saving of coal, to
free impeded traffic of shipments other
than fuel and to permit the distribu-
ton of fuel to loaded cargo vessels,
homes and necessary industries ham
pered by lack of fuel; industries all over
the United States entered determined
protest; the Senate passed resolutions
urging suspension of the order. Dan
ieI Willard, president of the Baltimore
and Ohio resigned as chairman OF the
was industries board. John Lind was
named head of an advisory council Gre
ated by the Department of Labor for
the mobilization of labor. Daniel Will
lard, Waddill Catchings and others. be-
fore the Senate investigating commit
tee, advocated a secretary for NUM-
tions as a member of the Presidents
cabinet. with charge of federal pur-
chasing; Director Clifford of the Coun-
Gil of National Defense testified to many
millions of savings through its war
activities Sale of war thrift and war
savings stamps G. O. D. through the
postal service was inaugurated. Freight
congestion of government supplies Tor
foreign and home account was reported
from all sections of the country
The President asked school teach
ers to aid in preparing files OF dratt
resistrants. Walter Spoermann was
arrested charged with attempt to set
fire to the Army magazine near Nor
rison. Va France arrested former
Premier Callaux. suspected of COM
pounding with the enemy. on evidence
in correspondence developed by the
American government and supported
by documents found in a safe-deposit
box maintained by him In an Italian
bank. Nicholas Romanoff. former
Czar of Russia, was reported fugi-
tive: the former czarina was said TO
have developed insanity: Nikolai Le-
nine, bolshevik premier, escaped un-
wounded from assassin's shots; the
Rumanian minister, arrested as hostage
for Austrians on their way to confer
with bo1sheviki in Rumania, was freed
on demand of the diplomatic corps;
Russo-German peace conferences were
again reported in discord, Germany de-
clining to eyacuate Russ soil and to
other propositions: German militarism
held dominant against strong and
growing opposition in the reichstag
and among the people; British labor, in
an appeal to Russia, explained the
necessity for victory to crush mill
tarism: the Hungarian cabinet was
reported to have resigned: German
submarine crews at Kiel were report
ed in mutiny and to have slain thirty
eight officers; rioting in Frankfort,
Jena and Mannheim was directed against
pan-Germanism; manned German Off
GERS and soldiers returned iron crosses
conferred upon them as a protest to.
similar awards to home warriors" The
British minister of the national service
announced the need for a half million
more fighting men. Only eight Brit
ish ships were sunk by U-boats dur
ing the week. German warships shelled
Yarmouth. Italian forces wrested ad-
vantages from the Germans gained in
the Monte Asolone region. The Ger
man trenches in the Vosges~r region
were penetrated by the French. The
British were successful in a raid near
st. Quentin and near Lens