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Evening star., 1918-02-16
B. W. ASHBY NOW CAPTAIN.
Native of Washington Promoted
From Lieutenancy in France.

First Lieut. Bertrand W. Ashby. ma
tive of this city, now with the American
expeditionary forces in France, has been
made a captain, according to word just
received here from Medford, Mass, where
he made his home in recent years.
Capt Ashby has brother, Robert T.
Ashby, serving as sergeant in his COM
pany. Both boys were born in Washing
ton Their father, Vernon Ashby. was a
Virginian and descendant of the Ashbys
who distinguished themselves in the rev.
olutionary war.
Capt. Ashby is twenty-seven years old
and his brother is twenty-five. The elder
boy was member of the District Ma
tional Guard nine years ago. When he
moved to Medford he joined the New Eng
land National Guard Division and went to
France with that organiza ton. The Ash
by boys have a step-sister, Miss Harriet
G. Jones, living in Massachusetts.
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d to see if he were iokine.

and hard to see if he were joking
Perhaps" said he at length, per
haps it won't make anay difference to
you, but it will make lot of differ
ence to me which one catches Danny
Meadow Mouse. He is too small to di-
vide and I've watched and waited for
him too long to help some one else
catch him.
Reddy had secretly been hoping that
he could make a bargain with Rough
leg whereby they would take turns in
trying to catch Danny and that he
would have the first turn. His plan
was to get Roughleg to attract Dannys
attention. while he, Reddy, crept up
and caught him. But now it was very
clear that nothing of this kind would
do. Roughleg was too suspicious. He
must be content with just getting even
with Danny and let it go at that.
'Listen." interrupted Reddy '.As you
say, Danny Meadow Mouse is big
enough for only one and you are to be
that one. 1 will go hunt him as usual.
I'll make great fuss trying to dig him
out Of the snow He'll come out Of an
other of his little doorways to watch
me. He always does. At least he al
ways puts his head out and sometimes
he comes out altogether. You be sail
ing around right overhead. He'll be so
interested in watching me that he'll
never think to look up for you. That
: will be your chance and Danny Meadow
Mouse will never laugh at either of us
again. Now what do you say?"
RoughIeg studied and studied Reddy's
plan before he replied. He couldn't
imagine Reddy Fox doing anything
from which he wouldn't receive the
greatest benefit. But study as he would
he couldn't see but that this time Red
dy wasn't thinking of self
"Perhaps," thought Roughleg. "he
thinks that II he helps me catch a meal
this time I'll help him some other time.
And so will! So will"
So Roughleg agreed to become a part
ner of Reddy Fox in trying to catch
Danny Meadow Mouse and it was
agreed that they should try Reddys
plan the very next morning.
Evening star., 1918-02-16
HAVE Color IN YOUR CHEEKS
Be Better Looking-Take Olive
Tablets.

If your skin is yellow-compIexion
paIlid-tongue coated-appetite poor
'-you have a bad taste in your moutI,
"a lazy, no-good feeling-you should
take Olive Tablets.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets sub.
stitute for caIomel-were prepared
BY DIR. Edwards after IL years of study
with his patients.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets are q
purely vegetable compound, mixed
with olive oil. You will know them
by their olive color.
To have a clear, pink skin, bright
eyes, no pimpIes, a feeling Of buoy.
ancy like childhood days you must
get at the cause.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets act on
the liver and bowels like caIomeI-
yet have no dangerous after effects.
They start the bile and overcome
constipation. That's why millions of
boxes are sold annually at
10c and Csc per box.
All Druggists.
Take one or two nightly and note
the pleasing results.
Evening star., 1918-02-16
Grain Saves Lives of Birds.

County Game Warden E. B. Donald
son of Fairfax county. Va. is of the
opinion that most Of the birds in Fair
fax county have been saved from star
walton by the prompt distribution OF
grain at many points where the birds
could get it. The grain was distributed
Just at the time when the partridges
and other game birds needed it most
and they are now putting on fat and
should another freezing snowy spell
come the birds will ne in good condition
quite plentiful in many sections OF
Fairfax county and comparatively few
dead birds were found during the in
tense cold Of the winter. It is probable
that the next hunting season in Fairfax
VIII be limited to one month as it was
last fall
Evening star., 1918-02-16
GEN. PERsHING REPORTS
CASUALTIES IN HIS ARMY

Gen. Pershing's latest casualty list
shows that Cadet Conrad P. Hazen,
Signal Corps, of 4O2 West 11Sth street,
New York, died February IL as the re-
suit, of an airplane accident.
Private Randolph Fauntleroy died
February 4 of gunshot wound. He lived
at Center Cross. Essex county. Va.
The following deaths from pneumo-
mia were reported:
Private Thomas H Kirkpatrick, Fay
etteville, N. c.
Private John H. Squire, R. F. D. No. l.
box 30, st. Matthew's S. C.
Corporal Gordon E. Gilman, Madford,
MINI.
Civilian Samuel Rodgers. 1881 Clay
street, Paducah. KY.
It was Second Lieut.. John T. Ma
guire, infantry. of St Louis. Mo. and
not Second Lieut.. John ]. Mcguire OF
New York city, as previously reported,
who was slightly wounded in action in
France FebruarN6.
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idleness due to lack of coal. Urgent
deficiency bill carried $612.43S appro-
priations for the District Of Columbia.
Johnson bill against rent prohteering
was considered in the House. Senator
Sheppard proposed "bone-dry law"
for the District of Columbia. The
draft boards reported SAT registrants
of the District of Columbia ready for
service. John B. Dickman was ELECTED
head of Central Labor Union. Hugh
Lewis, private, 18th United States In
fantry. a Washingtonian. was reported
missing after engagement with Ger
mans on the American sector in
France. Kenneth Hugh Nash, private
in the ordnance department of the
United States Army. died at his home
here. Among others who died during
the week were William u. Webster,
civil war veteran and business man,
and John NJ. Rankin, lawyer.
Evening star., 1918-02-16
PROGRESS OF WAR.

The bolshevik government of Russia
announced end Of state Of war without
signing peace pact with the central
powers; Germany announced signing OF
peace with Ukrainia: red guards were
reported to have committed acts OF ter
rorism lin opposition to the move OF
Finland for autonomy; Lithuania pro-
claimed independence. Bolo Pasha,
charged with treason against france,
was sentenced to death. King George
of Great Britain, opening parliament,
asserted duty to prosecute the a war u, 70
the west front were reported prepared to
meet the expected great German OMEN
siye. Austrian troops assumed onensiVe
southeast of Messines: British forces
drove off German raiders near Epehy;
German raiders were driven back py
the French west of La Bassee; Italians
held in check an enemy attack west OF
the Brenta river. Nineteen British war
ships were reported sunk by U-boat
activities; another Spanish Ship wa was
torpedoed by a German submarine. YER
non Castle, British aviator. well known
as a dancer on the American stage,
was killed in an aeroplane accident at
Fort Worth. Tex.
Evening star., 1918-02-16

Russia steps formally out of the war
by act of the bolshevik government,
which seized the reins of power in Pc
trograd last November. and almost i'm
mediately opened peace negotiations
with the central empires. The author
ity of this government seems virtually
unquestioned at present in northern
Russia, and the Teutonic powers have
already assured the cessation of even
nominal hostilities along virtually all
the remainder of the original long line
in the east by signing a peace with the
Ukraine and isolating Rumania-
Although cutting little figure in the
war for nearly a year past, Russia's
great, indeed vital. part in the conflict
comes forcibly to mind as the circum-
stances leading up to her exit are re-
viewed. Becoming belligerent on
August 1, 1914, through Germany's dec
laration of war upon her, her troops
were soon sweeping through East Prus-
STA, creating a diversion which ham,
pered the Germans in their first dash
through Belgium and upon Paris.
Though disastrously defeated by Hin
denburg at Tannenberg, she rallied
quickly and by winter was hammering
again at the German borders. and her
great armies oyerrunning Austrian ter
IitoTy IN GallCla were at the creSIS OF
the Carpathians and threatening an in
vasion of Hungary.
Russian Stand Rigid.
1t took the bulk of the Austrian
armies and large proportion of Ger
many's virtually an entire years cam
paigning in 1915 to break Russia's hold
on Galicia. drive her out of Poland and
the lower Baltic territory and force
her armies under Grand Duke Nicholas
to the line of which Brest-Litovsk, the
scene of the recent peace negotiations.
formed the keystone. Beaten back. but
net yet disorganized. she fought through
1915, creating havoc among the Aus
trian armies in Volhynia and Galicia
and in Asia Minor, driving the Turks
out of virtually all Turkish Armenia
The opening of last year found Rus
STA, under the old bureaucratic regime,
virtually at the end of her tether. Her
oppressed, war-worn people were ripe
for the revolution. the latent flames of
which German propagandists had skill
fully famed, and in March, 1917. came
the crash, the deposition of Emperor
Nicholas and the formation of the first
provisional government The conser-
vative element among the revolutionists
first held sway and the determination
of Russia to remain in the war was fire.
Quently affirmed.
Evening star., 1918-02-16
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

]: Hayes, part original lot 8. square 7so;
5000.
NO. 3s15 STREET NoRTHwEsT-Robert
D. Millholland to Emily B. Millholland,
part lot 81. Linthicum estate; SO.
MOUNT PLEASAST-Carrie P. Robinson to
Joseph F: and Mary E. Holland. lot s41.
square 2s75; SO.
NO. 61c 9Th STREET NoRTHEAsT-Henry
W. Szegedy ct to yinnetta N. Wells.
lot 70, square S34: $40.
ALLEY NORTHWEST between Connecticut
avenue and 18th street, Rhode Island ave
nue. and street-Union Trust Company,
trustee. to Annette Hull, lots 46 and Al.
square 159: $3.4O0.
NO. 511 STREET NoRTHEAsT-Mary l.
839; $40.
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NATIONAL.

Will H. Hays was elected chairman OF
the republican national committee The
lemocratic national committee voted in
favor of woman suffrage Thomas w.
Page was nominated a member OF the
tariff board. The capital issues commit
tee of the Federal Reserve Board was
organized. w. C. Braisted was renom-
mated surgeon general Of the Navy:
Mai. Gen. George Barnett was renamed
to head the Marine Corps; Brig. Gen. G.
K. Hunter was retired. Francis j.
Heney announced his candidacy for
Governor Of California The Post Office
Department announced prospective es-
tablishment of a flying mail service be-
tween Washington. Philadelphia and
New York. Floods in the Ohio river
and elsewhere did much damage to
property Jim McIlharron. negro, slayer
Of two white men, was burned at the
stake by Tennessee mob. John Snow
den. negro, was condemned to hang for
the murder of Mrs. l. NJ. Brandon at
Annapolis, Md. Fire caused 100000
damage at Vassar College. Former
President Roosevelt was reported i'm
proving. Lieut. P. c. March, jr.. son OF
the chief of stan of the Army,ywas
killed by a fall with his aeroplane.
Among those who died during the week
were: Dolly cambridge. famous White
House cook: Charles Barron. actor; DR..
j. B. Callahan. distinguished dentist.
Evening star., 1918-02-16
Caution, Indeed.

From L0ndon Opinion.
Young Mistress-"Youf master thinks
cook ought to bon our drinking water.
Tell her to start today"
Maid-''Yes'm."
Yong Aistress-'.AnA4 tau 7har to be
sure mot to buxA u.
Evening star., 1918-02-16

Policeman Irwin G. Cousins was,
placed on trial at Richmond yester-
day for murder in the first degree for
killing Harry Gayle. fifteen years old,
who was killed while running from
the homo Of II. n. Wingdeld.s
Evening star., 1918-02-16
THINKS THE AUSTR|ANS
ARE 1|R|NG OF THE WAR
View Of an Americanized Subject of
That Country Now in United
States Army.

The people OF Austria are tired of war
and would welcome peace in tho belief
Of Louis s. Dergans. young American
lied Austrian OF this city. who has en-
listed in the Medical Corps of the
United States Army.
Dergans bases his belief on letters he
has received from his brother, Stephen
K. Dergans. an Austrian soldier. now
prisoner in Italy. Stephen told his
brother he never wants to return to
Austria while tho present form Of gov
ernment prevails. Stephen wrote that
he and nearly all the young men in the
part of tho country in which he lived
entered the army only when conscript-
ed.
He was wounded in the Tyrol noun
tains on March z5 last and has been
an Italian prisoner since that time.
Would Demand Peace il She Dared.
Discussing the letter. Louis observed:
Il firmly believe Austria is tired of
the struggle and would make a move
now for peace If she dared. but the
country is in Germany's power"
Louis. who Is an accomplished young
artist was born in Vienna and came
to this country about ten years ago.
being then seventeen years Of age. He
resided in San Francisco, where he be-
gan the study OF art About a. year ago
no came to Washington with the ex-
peotation~of going abroad to finish his
Evening star., 1918-02-16

William Gessert of Plymouth, wis.
charged with advising his son not to
report to q draft board for examina-
tion, has been sentenced to five years
at Leavenworth penitentiary.
Evening star., 1918-02-16
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Breaking up of the ice in the Poto-
mac river resulted in damage along
the water front and a number of boats
being caught in the floating mass; the
crew of the dredge .Selectman was
rescued by Lieut. O'Malley. U. s. A..
with the aid of the fire department.
under thrilling circumstances. Fed
eral railroad administration ordered
Investigation of possibilities of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal Public
Utilities Commission ended hearings on
gas rates. Borland amendment. pro-
posing eight-hour day for government
employees In Washington, met with in
creasing opposition. c. r. Wilson,
local food administrator. asked co-op-
GRAFTON Of grocery clerks Pubic
schools reopened after eight days OF
Evening star., 1918-02-16
FOREIGN.

President Feng Kwo-chang Of China
announced his desire to retire. declar-
ing hts deficiencies as an executive The
Pan-American Society Of the United
States elected Robert Lansing honorary
president August Phillips presented his
credentials as minister to the United
States from the Netherlands. The
house of assembly of United States Of
Africa denied franchise to women.
Headquarters of the Clan-Na-Gael in
Dublin were raided by police and twen-
ty-eight arrested. Abdul Hamid. de-
posed Sultan Of Turkey, died. Sir Cecil
Spring Rice. retiring British ambas-
sador to the United States, dropped
dead in Ottawa, Canada, on his way home.
Evening star., 1918-02-16
Began Offensive in July.

Indeed under Kerensky as minister of
war. her armies in July. 1917, began an
offensive in Volhynia and Galicia which
was in the full tide of success under
Gen. korniloff when the fatal disease of
disaffection among her troops, which
for some time had been manifest, broke
out epidemically and stopped the effort
dead.
Since August last Russia has figured
in the great world conflict as a mill
tary factor only by reason that she still
held numbers of German and Austrian
troops on her frontiers, awaiting the
forces of disorgSization within to bring
about her final disintegration. This
process, struggled against in vain by
Kerensky, as premier. through the sum-
mer and early fall last year, was con-
stantly accelerated by virtue of the di-
vided authority set up at Petrograd
The council of soldiers and workmen
representing the proletariat and claim
ing virtually supreme power, systemat.
ically antagonized the constituted gov
ernment, clamoring for the opening
of peace negotiations and finally in No
vember formally took over the power
it had long, in fact exercised
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Shes At It Again

NBustsa Transcript.
~ % 6ooA Of those delicious cada-
49, an1AW3c2seGts eo&kuSsd Old Ma
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Recent History of Russia.

The rest is comparatively recent his
tory. Under Lenine and Trotzky an
armistice was brought about on all Rus.
sian fronts December 4, and peace nego-
tiations with the central powers were
opened at Brest-Litovsk December %.
The central empires agreed to adhere
to the general principles of no annexa-
tions. no indemnities and self-determi-
nation Of peoples and there was held
open to the entente powers the appor-
turfity of joining in the negotiations
and have them lead up to a general
peace.
:. No favor was found for this PROPOSE
tion among the allied nations, however,
the good faith of the Germans in par
ticular in making this offer being
doubted. This doubt was later found
by the Russians themselves to be well
founded. and Germany was charged by
Trotzky with masking territorial am
bitions under her specious interpreta-
tion of the doctrine of self-determina-
ton.
Declaration Of Independence.
notwithstanding this, however, the
negotiations were continued Mean
Evening star., 1918-02-16
Examples Of His Art.

Tho war made this Impossible and he
settled here. In his apartment in the
Manchester. 1926 NJ street, are a num-
Der of attractive paintings which he
has completed since coming here. Fore
most among these is one Of Great
Falls. He also painted several autumn
scenes along the Potomac. The young
artist prefers portrait paintings to
Landscape work. and has done a num-
ber Of Washingtonians.
Dergens will leave probably tomor-
row for New Jersey. Although he is
going into the Medical Corps. he ex-
poets to be Transferred to the Camou-
mage Division before going to France,
Evening star., 1918-02-16
Entente Should Make Reply.

THE governments of the entente
sehou1d seek a reply which before all
we'll as to the enemy masses will prove
-on which side are the true ambitions
for conquest and upon whom falls the
responsibility for so much blood. This
can be found by declaring that the
Niles will not consent to enter into
peace negotiations until the central
Nmpires accept the principle that the
/ number and ordering of armies shall
/ no longer in Europe and America be
10 private question for each state and
the jealous privilege of every single
oovereignty, but question of inter-
national interest, which must be de-
eided by the common will of all the
Gtates of Europe and America, repre-
rented bS legal organ.
''The thing is difficult, I know. The
Hon. Sonninno has said so to the cham
her. But it is necessary. If Europe
does not succeed in finding and impos-
ing certain military arrangements and
certain principles of interna tional poll
tics which, after the monstrous aberra-
1fons of the last half century. will give
back human face and form to peace as
however the war ends, universal
0verturning whose amplitude it is diff
4cult to foresee.
Masses See the Need.
The masses half see this necessity
sberhaps better than the educated
GLASSES In the actual and immense dis
order they see and hope for. above
everything else. the beginning of a
long era of universal peace If the
governments of the entente had re-
Allied this state of mind they would
pot have been surprised. as they were
surprised. by events in Russia, and
Derhaps they. too. could have drawn
profit from them. although in another
way from that of the central powers.
Does it not seem to you that the
time has arrived for the entente to
take up this profound and universal
desire Of the masses; this desire to
which is linked the destiny of a CEN
tury of civilization, condemned perhaps
to perish il this desire be not satisfied
this desire which is as strong in the
popular masses of Germany and Aus
trfa-Hungary as in those of the states
OF the entente. in order to unmask at
last the military oligarchies that gov
ern the two central empires? These
olgarchies may play with the formu- :
las OF disarmament and arbitration in
order to catch the world. but they are
the prisoners of their own successes
and their own power"
Evening star., 1918-02-16
League of Nations a Dream.

. As for the league of nations, it is
-out Of the question. We must progress
little by little. he reasons; first the
alliance of the Latin nations, then the
United States of Europe. then some
more bloody wars, and then finally
1000 or 5000 years from now, the
league of nations throughout the world
which will end war. Anything else is
> dream. The Giornale dItalia, the
xepnted organ of the minister of
Foreign affairs, has said so through its
london correspondent. Gino Calzo Be
aolo. who answered Lloyd George. 1t
all reminds one of those individuals
cited by Henri Barbusse in lie Feu':
II only see as far as my feet and l
Forbid others to see farther"
Luckily for the future of the world
there are in this country many who
have cast aside the national limita-
tfons- Among these is the historian.
Guglielmo Ferrero. In an article pub
1ished in ii Secolo of Milan the day
before Lloyd Georges recent discourse
was printed in Italy. Ferrero wrote:
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.FlERRERO SAYS ALL
| must LIMIT ARMIES
Points Out Need of Forcing
a Rulers of Austria and Ger
many to This View.
By EDGAR ANsELL MOwRER-
9fSpecial Correspondence of The Evening

star and the chicago DAILY NeWS.D
ROME, Italy, January 1.-THE in
Aerent skepticism of the average 1tal-
ian makes him refractory to any nov
city savoring of Improvement. Disas-
ter finds him ready enough to believe,
but that this old planet can ever do
away with any of those unpleasant
conditions we have come to know and
almost to love, or better the human
character, or increase the average in
teIligence. or prove that change might
in any tangible way be beneficial to
tho human race, he doubts Thus, nat
nrally, he doubts whether the world
would be any better without secret
diplomacy. His chosen minister of for
eign affairs. Baron Sonnino. is one of
the most secretiye men in Italy and
fundamentally opposed to democratic
control. -.-z -..... ...."...
!. Naturally, too, the italian prides him
self on his realism and is Inherently oH
posed to any attempt to gamble a sure
gain on a possible future investment,
however big with possibility. For this
reason he is a conservative in business
and lagS behind in the worlds industry.
And for this reason, too he refuses in
matters of international politics to sac
rtfce what he calls present necessities
10 the future. If there is to be any
0acrifce, mutual or otherwise, for the
benefit of the world, let the other fe1-
1ow do it first. Thus Baron Sonnino in
the chamber announced that in the
matter of disarmament Italy constitute
ed a special case" where conscription
was and would continue to be neces-
cary. And today the average Italian is
not quite pleased with President Will
son for his neglect to mention Italian
eontrol of the Adriatic among the four
eeen objects for which the United States
<4s fighting.
Evening star., 1918-02-16

Notwithstanding this, however, the
negotiations were continued. Mean
Evening star., 1918-02-16

Take one or two nightly and not
the pleasing results.