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Evening star., 1918-11-19
HEARINGS ON PROPOSED
HIGHER RATE Of FARE
1nterstate Commerce Commission
to Consider Protests of W. r. and
E. Suburban Patrons.


Hearings on the proposed increases
OF cash and commutation fares on the
suburban lines of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company are
to be held before the Interstate Com.
merce Commission tomorrow. The
first is on the proposed rate increases
on the Washington and Rockville line
OF the company. to be neld at 1o
o'clock tomorrow morning, and hear
ings on increases on other Maryland
lines Of the company will follow.
Patrons Of the Rockville electric
line declare that the increases pro-
posed for the four zones Of the line
are unreasonable. The present COM
mutation rate in the first zone. ex-
tending from the District line to Alta
Vista, is $1.10 for q Communication book
containing tickets good for dfty-two
single trips, to which Is added a s.
cent cash fare for transportation In
the District
Evening star., 1918-11-19
Must Be Disarmed.

Besides the craft delivered. Germany
had four older dreadnaughts. but their
surrender was not required They must
be disarmed and laid up in German
ports, however.
The perfnger is the largest of the
battle cruisers. her displacement being
Is. 900 tons ard length SIT feet Her
armament consists Of eight twelve-tnch
rifles and her designed speed was thirty
knots an hour. There is no mention OF a
cruiser Hindenburg In naval records
available here. but this ship probably Is
a sister Of the Derfinger and originally
was named the Lutzow.
The Seydlitz is a battle cruiser OF
$4,000 tons and carried ten 11-inch
guns. Her speed is twenty-ntne knots
and she was completed in 1913.
The battle cruiser Moltke. sister
ship Of the Goeben. was completed In
1919 and soon afterward visited this
country as the flagship OF fleet
which President Taft reviewed at
Hampton roads She then was re-
garded as one Of the finest battle
cruisers ahoat, being $40 feet long. Of
22,600 tons displacement and S5.5
knots speed. She had ten 11-tnch
rifles In her main battery.
The Won Der Tam was built in 1910
and has a displacement of $500 tons
Her speed 10 27.6 knots an hour. and
her armament consisted OF eight H.
inch rifles ten 3.9-inch rides and
many smaller guns
Evening star., 1918-11-19
vess Is to Be Given Up.

~S
A Berlin telegram gives this list of
the vessels to be handed over:
Battleships-Kaiser. Kaiserin. Ko-
mig Albert, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Prinz
Regent Luitpold, Markgraf. Grosser
Kurfuerst, Bayern, Konig and Fried
rich der Crosse.
finger, Seydlitz. Moltke and Won Der
Tam.
Frankfurt. Koeln, Dresden and En-
den.
The German cruiser Dresden was
sunk off Falkland Islands by the Brit
ish, under Admiral Sturdee, while the
Emden was sunk in the Indian ocean
after it had raided shipping IN the
far east. 1t is probable that old ships
had been given the names OF the ships
sunk or that new ships have been
built to replace them.
Publication of the names OF the
hattleships and cruisers which were
designated by the associated gov
ernments for delivery reveals that
Germany is stripped OF at least haii
of the fleet of dreadnaughts which 1t
had in commission or building when
the war began and practically all
Of it's battle cruisers.
The dreadnaughts Kronprinz Will
helm, Grossen Kurfurst, Markgraf
and KONG are OF tne same cype'
each $50 feet long and of $4,000 tons.
They were designed for a speed of
twenty-three knots and had just been
completed when the war opened. They
were armed with ten twelve-inch and
fourteen 5.9-inch guns.
The Prinzregent Luitpold. Konig Al
bert, Kaiserin, Kaiser and Fried
rich der Crosse were completed in
1918 and are 564 feet long. with a
speed of twenty knots and Of 1900
tons They also carried ten twelve-
inch guns each and fourteen 5.s-inch
rifles.
Available naval records here do not
show a battleship cavern, but 1t Is re-
srded as possible that this is one Of the
three newer dreadnaughts completed
since the war started. These were au-
,horized In 1913 and 1914 and were to
have been Of 10000 tons displacement
with eight fifteen-inch rifles each.
Evening star., 1918-11-19

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Evening star., 1918-11-19
GERMAN WARSH|PS
SAIL FROM KEEL
BattIeships and Cruisers on
Way to Surrender to
the Allies.
SUBMARINES ARE READY

LONDON, November 10 (navnI)-
German submarines to be handed
over to the allies have passed
through the Kaiser Wilhelm canal
on their vvay to England. accord
Ing to advices received In Copen-
hagen from Kiel and transmitted by
the Exchange Telegraph Company.
By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN. November 1s-The
first section of the German deet to be
delivered to the allies left Kiel On
Sunday for the North sea-
This section Of the feet comprised
the battleships Bayern. Grosser Kur-
fuerst. Kronprinz wilhelm, Markgraf.
KONG Albert and Kaiserin. and the
battle cruisers seydIitz and Moltke.
Will Take U-Boats Out.
LONDON, November 1s.-Consider-
ing the surrender Of German ships to
the allies. a German wireless message
received here says that at a meeting
Of U-boat crews at Wilhelmshaven,
November Is. it was resolved to take
the submarines out whenever the nee
essary orders were received.
LONDON. November 1s.-The pro-
gram for the surrender Of the German
fleet, as the result of conferences held
between British and German naval au-
thorities, is that the ships will leave
German ports on Wednesday and will
be taken over by the allies on Thurs
day.
King George and the Prince of
Wales will review the grand feet at
Rosyth on Wednesday. Later the fleet
will sail for the rendezvous assigned
for the surrender ceremony.
Expected to Be Impressive.
The Times naval correspondent, writ
ing on the subject Of the submission of
the German fleet, says:
1.-THE surrender In accordance with
the armisttce conditions will be made
to a force in which the navies of France
and America, as well as our own, are
represented. In its outward signs the
business cannot fail to be impressive.
1.-THE appearance of the long lines Of
vessels to be surrendered, carrying re-
method of their transference to the
allied escorts; the exchange of flags on
the German ships when that happens
and the striking Of the colors which
have replaced the imperial ensign, the
ancient token Of yielding, will be
among the more interesting features of
the manifestation.
Evening star., 1918-11-19
WOODROW WILSON
TO Be DOMINATING
FIGURE AT PARLEY

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1918-11-19
Soldiers Help Boost Fund.

~ The management Of Loew's Columbia
allowed the boys from Walter Reed Hos
'Y,ital, who saw Private Peat" yester-
day, as its guests. to turn the occasion
into a war work drive. and consider
able sum was collected from the audi
"ence
&c. Charles W. Darr made an appeal for
subscriptions. The boys also sold sew
.eral hundred copies of Seneca G. Lewis
very successful song. Homecoming
Week in France" which were donated
and the entire proceeds were turned
over to the war work fund.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06

ton and gave all the credit for the
great success of the conscription
acts operations to the draft boards
required self-abnegation of the high
est type.
But the public thinks all the more
of General Crowder for his action
and will see to it that he comes into
his own in due season. Meantime. he
has won for himself even greater re-
spect and fuller confidence than ever
on the part of the draft boards. No
more graceful or forceful compli-
ment to their devotion and efficiency
could have been paid.
1t is true. as General Crowder
has said. that the draft boards have
worked hard and faithfully. No
body but the members themselves
know the extent of their sacrifices.
Every day since the law was passed
they have labored without thought
of reward. They have placed the
business first and their
own second. and until General
Crowder spoke in their behalf they
had received small praise and much
criticism as their reward.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Frederick w. Robbins, superin-
tendent of Williamsport schools, has
been taking part in the national
education association meetings at
Pittsburgh.
Postmaster r. M. Root, of
Pottstown, ended a dilemma for the
Red Cross of. his town by giving it
large room for work.
james A. German, the food adj
ministrator at Hazleton, knocked out
a trust of blueberry pickers by rul-
ing that berries on mountains did
not belong to any one and those
who tried to prevent picking would
be arrested.
&C. LaRue Munson presided at
the celebration of Pine Creek In
dependence Day, at Lock Haven.
Colonel r. S. williams, who
was stationed here year ago as in
spector of the National Guard, is in
command of the 301st Infantry.
DR.. John Alleman, of Green's
burg, has been elected head of the
Uniontown schools.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
THE SCANDAL MONGER
woman to the holy father went

A woman to the holy father went,
Consession of sin was her intent;
And so her misdemeanors, great and
small,
She faithfully rehearsed them all;
And, chiefest in her catalogue of sin,
She owned that she a tale-bearer
had been,
And borne a bit of scandal up and
down
To all the ong-tongued gossips in
the town.
Granted the absolution asked of
But while for all the rest he pardon
He told her this offense was very
grave,
And that to do fit penance she must
go
Out by the wayside where the this
ties grow,
And gathering the largest. ripest
one,
Scatter it's seeds, and that when this
was done,
She must come back another day
To tell him his commands she did
obey.
The woman thinking this a penance
fastened to do his will that very
night,
Feeling right glad she had escaped
so well.
Next day but one she went the priest
to tell;
The priest sat still and heard her
story through
Then said, There's something still
for you to do
Those little thistle seeds which you
have sown
/ bid you go regather every one"
The woman said, But, father,
'twould be vain
To try to gather those seed again /;
The winds have scattered them both
far and wide,
Over the meadowed vale and noun
tain SIDE"
The father answered, Now 1 hope
that from this,
The lesson 1 have taught you will
not miss;
You cannot gather back the scat
tered seeds,
Which far and near will grow to
noxious weeds,
Nor can the mischief once by scam
dal sown
BY any penance be again undone."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
A FeU HdrDeUiSnlS

(From n. A. Review War Weekly
The German government is CON
sldering legislation to restrain emil
grafton after the war. 1t should
worry! The other nations will see
to that.
The House did well to pass with
out a dissenting vote a bill authoriz-
ing the deportation of alien Anar-
chists no matter how long they have
been in this country. We should
hope so. There are some offences
for which there is no statute of limi-
tations.
The greatest service Henry Ford
could render the greatest number of
people would be to install an addi-
tonal spring in each tin Lizzie!
Mr.. Bernstein himself, in an in
terview in the New York Times, de-
clares his own opinion without hesi-
tation. 1T is nonsense" he says,
Ito talk about the Russians not
wanting the Allies to intervene.
Nine-tenths of the Russian people
would welcome the advent of the
Allies with open arms"
The Frankfurter zeitung declares
that If the Kaiser had told the Ger
man people in August, 1914, what
he now admits to be the truth con-
cerning the origin and purpose of
the war, they would have supported
him as unanimously as they did. Ap-
parently even the Germans are at
last finding out what liar Will
liam the Damned is.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
COL. HARVEYS VISION

The proposal to fly airplanes
across the Atlantic, instead of car
rying them on shipboard, Is highly
interesting, from two major points
or view. One is the relief which it
would afford to our shipping. Air
planes, especially the large battle
planes which are being constructed.
are bulky, and the shipment of
some thousands of them would take
up vast amount of cargo space.
which we should like to see utilized
for the transportation of men and
supplies. II all those planes could
go across with their own power,
through the air, the gain would be
immense. The other point is, that
II atrplans could cross the Atlantic.
they could cross Germany. 1t is
suggested that planes should go
from Newfoundland to the Azores,
and thence to Portugal. Now the
distances from st. Johns to Fayal
is about three times that from Yer
dun to Berlin. If, therefore, 4 plane
can fly from st. Johns to Fayal
without stop. - and of course
there could be no stop between
those places, - it could fly from
.Verdun to Berlin and back again
without landing, and still have a few
hundred miles to spare. Moreover,
Allied vessels could read a point
in the North Sea still nearer to Ber-
lin. perhaps not more than $50
miles from it, and airplanes might
be launched from them. The pros
pect of few hundred American
airplanes cruising over Berlin ana
Potsdam, depositing tons of high ex-
plosives where they will do most
good, is calculated to make us thank
God and take courage. = North
American Review War Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
THE TIDE TURNS

"HERE are indications. that the
tide of battle in France is be-
ginning to turn. Regardless of
whether or not the Germans may at
tempt another smash for the channel
ports or Paris, the allied high COM
mand finds it possible to hit back
viciously at many points along the
line. In other words, the allies have
assumed the offensive, which they
were not able to do when the enemy
was at the height of his power last
spring. Phis is encouraging, both for
the reason that it keeps up morale
at home and in the field and has the
Germans guessing all the time. with
the effect that they cannot easily
concentrate large bodies of troops at
any one point.
This change of policy on the part
of General Foch, no doubt, is due to
the rapid arrival of American troops
in France. A million of fighting men
is mighty factor on the side of the
allies and terrible handicap to Ger
man success. And all the time the
allied forces are going up the Ger
man armies are running down.
Which means that when we get two
million men on the other side Ger
many's fighting strength will be Sc
riously reduced while the allied hit
ting power - '~"reased. Then the
end will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
FROGS AND MONKEYS

~ VEN as the Kaiser apes Atilla.
~ the Hun, so do the Crown
Prince and his official press
agent, Karl Rosner, initiate Baron
Munchausen.
In recent dispatch the Beast and
his son are pictured standing side
by side on hill near the 'front.'
not too near-in earnest converse.
Father" says the Prince, even
the frogs are loyal to the Father
land"
II have long suspected it," says
the Kaiser, "but how did you find
out? Has our chief spy among the
frogs so reported?"
NAY, better than that" quoth the
Prince, recently when we were
dragging up our heavy guns for an
attack on the French the frogs in
the marshes croaked so loudly the
Frenchmen did not hear us. And
when we got into action they croak-
ed even more loudly and drowned
the roar of the guns.
Some" frogs!
Also, some" monkeys!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
JaiLS For Sale
(From the Atlanta Constitutlon.)

ton laws, the people realize that
they will have to contend with the
tiger" but the battle proper has
been won, and there is only outside
skirmishing to round up the lawless
element.
And where the law takes hold in
earnest, and gives the violators the
limit of sentence, just so surely will
the tiger" be tanned, and put out
of business altogether.
With more jails to the scrap-pile,
We'll be getting pretty close to the
millennium! But there is no doubt
that, under widely prohibitive laws,
there will be more room than will be
needed in prison pens throughout
the country.
The faith of one town in a brighter
future, from a moral and commercial
standpoint, with whisky to the dis
card, is based on the experience of
others.
And there is nothing like folly
in that faithl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
THE FIRST MILLION
(Kansas City Starr

The disclosure by the President
and Secretary Baker that more than
a million troops have been sent to
France will give lively satisfaction
to every American. Particularly
gratifying as showing the national
capacity for achievement under
stress is the fact that it has been
possible 20 send approximately seven
hundred thousand men within n
little more than three months, or
since the German offensive in March
made the situation in France acute.
America can do it, then. The
first million is over. But in the pub
lie qualification let it not be lost
sight of for a moment that 1t is
only the first million. We have be-
gun, but we haven't finished. Every
ounce of Americas strength must be
put into the task of triumphantly
finishing what is now begun, and
that means more millions of troops
must be sent across and as fast as
is humanity possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
LAND AND SEA STRENGTH

r Tally is developing strength
nightly on both land and sea.
Indeed, ever since the Italian
navy first faced the Austrians in the
Adriatic, the Austrians have been as
completely at a loss there as the Ger
mans have been in the North Sea.
Italian deeds of heroism on the water
have been equalled only by the dash
and skill with which the sea fighters
have carried out their daring enter
prises.
The ability of the Italian army to
come back" and reverse the Aus
trian victory of last year is proof
also of the stamina and fighting
qualities of the Italians on land. If
the allies had been under one su-
preme command from the beginning
of the war last years catastrophe
would not have occurred and the
Italians would now be in Vienna.
The American people dearly love
those who are able to turn defeat
into victory. That is one of the rea-
sons why they cheered so Justify the
big, fine looking Italian contingent
in the Fourth of July parade. Italy
has come into her own. The allies
recognize her as one of them and
she will be entitled to the same
consideration and help from America
as this country has extended to
France and England. 1t is a happy
augury for future cooperation that
at last we have an American con-
tingent in Italy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
AMERICANS ARRIVED

In view of the magnitude of this
war and the number of powers, in
Guiding those from overseas, that
are engaged, its end can hardly be
expected through military decisions
alone.
The cleanup of Belleau wood yes
terday with a bag of 264 German
prisoners by one of those powers
from overseas" may be found helpful
in reducing DR.. Won Keuhlmann's
statement to simpler terms-which
are that enough American soldiers
have already arrived on and near
the fighting lines to cripple the Ger
man hope of ending the war by a
military decision in that quarter
New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
EDITORIAL COMMENT

General Won Bernhard, whose
book on Germany and the Next
War;" first gave away Germany's
plans for world domination, has just
been licked by the British. That
wasn't planned in the book.-Kansas
City Star.
It's hard to see how anybody
could expect the Central Powers
kings to win out over the Allies
aces.-Nashville Southern Lumber
man.
We can't help wondering what the
circulation manager OF the New
York American now thinks of it's
editorial policy. - Philadelphia In
quirer.
One trouble with the House of
Representatives is that it is equip
ped with a mighty small Kitchin.-
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Austria Hungry is the new SPELL
ing.-Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
NEVER BE FIRED

ToHN ERICKSON, noted Swedish
- engineer, makes the statement
that the city of Berlin is defend
ed by an immense number of big
guns cunningly concealed in under
ground chambers. which would in
dicate that the German high COM
mand has not been as confident of
keeping the enemy out of Germany
as its vain boasting would have in
dicated.
But the big guns before Berlin
will never be fired. Long before the
allied armies reach the German cap
ital. the German armies will have
been battered to pieces, the German
morale shattered and Kaiserism a
dead issue. The cannon will be silent
the day the allied forces march into
Berlin 1t will be the triumphal en-
try of a victorious army into the
citadel Of a defeated and surren-
dered enemy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
NO FIRES; NO VICTIMS

MOT fire on the Fourth of
IN July.
in the hospital.
How much better it was to cele-
brate the nations birthday as Har-
risburg did this year than to destroy
human life and property by the
crazy use of firecrackers as we did
a few years back.
Even when the government ban is
removed from the needless use of ex-
plosives the public will never con-
sent to go back to the old practice.
We have learned a great lesson. A
few more quiet Fourths and the coun-
try will have abandoned as COM
pletely its former folly as it has the
building of bonfires on election
night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-06
SPEAKS FOR ALL

n RESIDENT WILSON in his
Fourth of July address voiced
the sentiments of the whole ma
ton. Even the most faint-hearted.
and there are few of those, see the
folly of making peace with Germany
before the snake of militarism has
been scotched. The President has
vocalized popular thought to a very
marked degree. He may rest assured
that he has all America with him
solidly on the sentiments he has so
expressed. The Kaiser will
find small comfort in his remarks,
but they are heartening to every
and to the people of the
allied nations.