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New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
BRITISH AVIATORS
 RESUME RAIDING
More Than 300 Bombs Dropped on Belgium and FraDcc-SCvcn
 Focmcn Shot Down.

London. Jan. 26--Aerial activity on a large scale on Thursday owing to favora ble weather is recorded in the British official statement today. It saws more than 300 bombs were dropped on the Courtrai Ledghem and Douai railway stations, the air drome near Courtrai and on German bi!lets west of Cambrai. German hangars at Douai and other ground targets were bombarded and seven hostile machines were brought down fighting and five others were driven out of control. Two British ma chimes are missing. As soon as 1t was dark British night f1iers bombed a German airdrome northeast or Ghcnt and other airdromcs near Courtrai and billets around Roulers. All of the machines returned. At the same time other machines reached several objectives in Ger many making direct hits on fac tories, docks and in the town of Mannheim.
 The barracks and railway station at 7rest. the steel works at Thion- vile and tho railway stations at Saarbrucl1en and ObCrbillig also were attacked with excellent results, the statement says. and the pilots re- ported large explosions at all objec- lives and d big fire at TreVes. One British machine failed to return" The admiralty announces that naval aircraft bombed a German air drome at Varsscnaere on Friday, making direct hits. All the machines returned
 Tn patrol fighting on Wednesday, the admiralty announcement says further enemy aircraft were de- stroyed and two shot down out of control one British machine IS missing.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
HOME GUARD ADJUSTMENTS.

Hartford, Jan. 26-More than l. 900 men were discharged from the Connecticut Home Guard in 1917 that they might join the fighting forces of the nation. accordinG to a report from the military emergency board today. In addition, about 100 officers resigned for the same reason There were 16,SOO enlistmcnts in 1917. The total discharges numbered ,, I32. The army got SOP, navy 107, draft 2O1, National Guard 154 a d other branches of service hundreds moro The roster on Jan. l, 1918 showed GG0 officers and 13.300 en- listed men.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
RAILROAD NEGLECT
 CAUSED CONGESTION
Commissioner McChord Says Lo-
 COmotiVeS Were Not Cared for ENGINES NOT PROTECTED
Machines Allowed to Freeze Up in Roundhouses and Damaged By Ice -ssNew Haven'' Unable to Accept 1000 Cars.

Washington, Jan. 26.-Gross negH- gence by railroads under private man agement in giving proper care to To- comotiVes is a principal cause of the present freight congestion, according to report presented today to Direc- tor-General McAdoo by Interstate Commerce Commissioner McChord After ana1yzing the reports of inspec- tors who have investigated conditions at the principal points of congestion in the east for several weeks, MT. McChord announced that hundreds of locomotives which are sorely needed in the present emergency are idle in shops and roundhouses, frozen through neglect or lacking repairs which might have been made if pro- per forethought had been given by local railway officials.
 In many specific yards and ter minals where scores of trains are stalled for days awaiting m motive power, Commissioner McChord said, showed that engines lay In round- houses without doors to protect them against cold and that machinery was damaged by the ice which encrusted it. For lack of rapairs, other loco- motives were operated with steam seeping from loose fittings, and power was reduced corresp Ondingly.
 This condition was reported to be due partly to the scarcity of machin- ists and repairmen, who have been drawn to other industries, but very largely to negligence of local railway officials in making preparations be- fore winter arrived.
 Shortage of locomotives prevents normal movement on the New Haven, Baltimore and Ohio, Erie, Philadel- pha and Reading, Central of New Jersey and other lines. At the liar lem river terminal New York, nearly 4.000 cars were held by roads for de- livery to the New Haven. which was unable to accept them because of lack of engines
 Assurances that adequate numbers of railroad cars will be furnished for transportation to seaports of Allied purchases of foodstuffs was given by Director General McAdoo today in conference with Sir Richard Craw- ford, comm ercial adviser of the Brit ish embassy; Andre Tardieu, French high commissioner, and Count di Ce- clier, the Italian ambassador and high commissioner.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26

l Chancellor von Hertlingss gpeecI, l the Main committee of the Reichst, warned the military leaders of the in perlal government that if they did n, bring about peace between German and Russia they would be hurled .fro1 power.
 If the United States had not ed tered the war, we may be sure til Russian revolution would long ad have brought a general fpeaceI Scheidemann said. What about tFi army? Suppose the army should cad ture Calais and Paris; would thd mean peace? I say, mo-
 Suppose the army conquerd France and England. Would thJ mean peace? I say, no; for we wouj still have to conquer America
 Herr Scheidemann fiercely attacktI the militarist leaders, declaring thI their attitude toward Austria wa likely to lose for Germany her laI friend.
 If our government leaders cannI free us from these patriots. sal the social democratic leader. "thI had better go. I warn them that they do not bring us peace with RuI sia they will be hurled from poweiI
 q cannot see the day, HeI Schidemann went on, when Gel many will say to the Entente:
 We accept your terms. We as beaten but just as little can see tl E day when England. Franco and t | United States will say the same to us s1
 Regarding relations between Gel many and Austria, Herr Schedemarf said an indication of the Austrian fee ing toward the present German < gime might be gathered from the ia . that during the recent demonstrE tions in Vienna, the Austrian emperI was once attacked by speakers, b the German emperor was openly al repeatedly insulted. This was due said to attacks from German iunkeE on Austria. He declared the junlzI press had been demanding that Cd many should be freed from Austria
 Touching on President WilsolI peace terms Herr Scheidemann sail Regarding Alsace, there is nothil | for Us to redress. It will remain ouj But as for Belgium, let us cease mel ding in Flemish politics.
 Let us seek in honor to save IN world from new bloodshed in ts spring. Let Us give up illusions both sides. Rem member that the fe z ing among our people is most serio If you permit the Russian negotH tions to break up and the peoplN hope to be disappointed, what eN can be expected but catastrophe 2"
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
Soldiers Chase Enemy
 Agent Running Away
 and Sergeant Escapes : Death by Inches.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT MILLION DOLLARS
Oil Barges, Pier, Warehouses and Freight Cars Acknowledgements Blasts Lane Through Ice to Allow Fire Boats to Approach-Plant of Submarine Boat Corporation in Dan- gCr--TrOOpS Block Public.

Newark, Jan. 26.-More than a mll- lion dollars worth of property was de- stroyed today in a fire believed to be work Of German spies which burned up oil barges, a pier, warehouses and freieht cars on Newark bay close to the plant of the Submarine Boat cor poration and storehouses of the quar- termaster's department of the army.
 The blaze was discovered by sol diers, who claimed they saw a man running away from the scene shortly after the fire broke out. When they tried to stop him a shot was fired and a bullet went through the hat of the sergcant in command of the grard. The man who fired the shot escaped.
 Several hundred feet of dock was burned before dynamite was used to stop the spread of the flames.
 Extra Guard Has Been Ordered.
 This plant was recently inspected by Chairman E. N. Hurley of the United States Shipping Board, who ordered additional military guards for the property The order was given, it was said because of hints of a spy plot which reached MT. Hurley. The keel Of an 5000 tons ship was recently put down in the yard.
 The barges were lashed to a wooden dock which was being used by the quartermasters' department and in or der to save it soldiers and workmen dynamited the dock to prevent the spread of flames. The Submarine Boat Corporations fire department t, realizing the fire was getting beyond their control, summoned the Newark fire department. Dynamite was used to blast a channel in the ice so New York fire boats could reach the barges.
 Sixty guards and 200 soldiers are engaged in protecting the terminals and boat building plants where thou sands of workmen are employed. While the fire was in progress the sol diers created 9 fire zone and kept shooting their guns in the air to pre- vent any one from approaching the blaze.
 Three women and fourteen men were in the barges when the fire start ed and they have been rounded by the military guard and placed under de- tention. No lives appear to have been lost.
 Sergeant McCabe, in charge of the soldier guard, states that as the fire started he saw a man run from the barges to one of the storehouses where he appeared on the roof. McCabe climbed a ladder and as his head ap- peared above the roof gutter a shot was fired and the sergeant's hat was sent spinning to the ground. The mar !. escaped in the darkness.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
Rioting in Germany Reported.

London, Jan. 26.-The Amstcrd, correspondent of the Express says il extraordinary reports are current q, corning revolution in Germany a that there have been rumors of gr, disorders in Berlin during the past f days, the rioters cIamoring for pea The correspondent admits that o flrmation of these ruInors is imno, ble but thinks it Is remarkable that telegrams, either press or conlmert were received i'll Holland on Fri direct from Berlin all coming roundabout routes. None of Thurs, morning Berlin newspapers have rived
 Another dispatch to the Fxcha, Telegraph company from petrog dated Friday says:
 'The Bolsheviki newspapers to,
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New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
Tow Released from lee.

Vineyard Haven, Mass, Jan. 26.- Nlne tugs with - c0aI-laden bargcs in tow Tor Boston left here today after belng held in port since Thursday by great drifts Of ice off Nantucket Sho@lS. There was strong northwest wind and tug captains say they eX- pected to reach Boston by tomorrow. Reports brought in by vessels indi- catcd that ice conditions had improved and the fleet would be able to pass the shoals With the aid of sails holstau on the barrc#
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
French Editors.

Paris, Jan. 26.--"Never was the Al sace-Lorraine question farther from being the sole obstacle to peace" says the Temps in it's comment On the speeches of the German chancellor and the Austro- Hungarian foreign minister. This only is the most vas- thle symbol of the untractable German imperialism"
 The Temps says the German chan celIor fails utterly to follow the req soning of his collaborator, Dr. Richard
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
VETERAN CARRIER DEAD
Peter McAvay, a Postal Employe Over 25 Years, Dies at Homo of Daughter in Hartford.

Peter McAvay, a former New Bri- tain letter carrier, died this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Woods in Hartford. He mad been Tn i'll health for some time. Up to aoout two years ago, MT. McAvay was a let ter carrier, a position he had held for over p years. He leaves two daught- CTS, a son and a brother, who IS a priest in Minnesota. The funeral will probably be held Monday and the body will be brought to this city for burial
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
Continue Peace Parleys.

Copenhagen, Jan. 26.-The r ttonal Russian congress of soldie and workmen's deputies to which t Bolshevik government referred { question of war or peace has auths ized Foreign Minister Trotzky to cc tinue the peace negotiations, a r trograd dispatch reports. M. Trotz will return to rest-Litovsk cal next week.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
NEW ENGLAND COAL SITUATION
 REPORTED TO BE IMPROVED

Boston. Jan. 26.-Railroad officials reported freer movement of coal into New England today and expressed the opinion that with continuation of good weather conditions would show much improvement within the next few days,
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
Austria and Russia Agree

London, Jan 26.-Austria has clared her readiness to conclude separate peace without Germany ; to accept the Russian democratic D gram with the exception of seIf-det mlnatlon of nations, says a dispa from Petrograd to the Exchange T. graph company.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
SCHWARM IN TOLLS
Local Young Man Nabbcd by Spring. field, Mass, Police for Issuing Worthless Checks.

Chief w. J. Rallings this after noon received a telephone message from the Springfield, Mass, police stating that Harold George Schwarm, giving his address as 66 Prospect street, this city, was under arrest there for issuing worthless checks. According to the information, Schwarm has been in Palmer, Mass, for the past ten days where he posed as Dr. Dundewiven. In his posses sion at the time of his arrest was found checks on the New Britain Trust company and the Third National bank of Springfield, Mass.
 Schwarm, it is alleged, passed a check containing the signature "Georg E. Corbin," head trustee of the New Britain General hospital. He is sbout ? years old.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
HXAMIN A9ION FOR PRIEArES

Aver, Mass. Jan. 26.--More than 300 privates and non-commissioned officers of the New England division of the National Army will be given an opportunity to become second licutenants in the quartermaster corps, it was learned today. The examinations will begin Monday.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26

Maynard Mass, Jan. 26.-A large part of the rolling stock of the Con- cord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway company was lost in a fire which destroyed the companys barn here last night. The loss was esti mated at $130,0OO. The cause of the fire was not known.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
Providence Schools Close.

Providence, Jan. 6.-The public schools here have been closed for an indefinite period due to the lack of fI1n1
New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
PEACE PROSPECT
 BY HERTLING
MANUFACTURING TOWN IN CANADA AFLAME Fires Also in New York, Buffalo, Paterson and
 Maynard.

Toronto, Jan. 26.-A serious fire is in progress in Peterboro, an extensive manufacturing town, 94 miles north1 east of here. Wire communication has been interrupted.
 Lindsay, a town 25 miles away, sent aid during the night to help fight the flames.
 The burned buildings included the Royal theater Dominion bank and other buildings. The blaze was caused by boiler explosion. The loss was estimated at s5O0,000. PeterbOro is a port of entry on the Otonabce river and has many manu- factories of iron, woodenware, wool ems, etc. It has a large export trade in grain, pork and lum The fam ous "Peterboro canoes are manufac- tured in the town. The population is about 1000.
 New York, J2n. 26.-- For two hours today, Fire Chief KcnlOn and several companies of his men fought a stub born three e-alarm fire in a siX-stoTy building in East 14th street before the blaZc was brought under control, The damage was estimated at $50, GOO. Buffalo, Jan. 26.---The Nesting ghouse Electric and Manufacturing company S service and repair plant on Lock street, near the water front, was burned today. The loss was $50, ,000.
 Paterson. N. J., Jan. 26.--The Fidelity storage warehouse was burned here last night with an estimated loss of S150.000. One life is believed to have been lost.
 John Soulion, 19, a check boy in a dance hall, is reported to have been buried under the debris when wall of the warehouse toppled over and fell upon the roof of the adjoining building.
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New Britain herald., 1918-01-26

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New Britain herald., 1918-01-26

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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-13
Dropping Saturday Holiday in South.

Results so far achieved by the Uncle
Sam Saturday Service League, or
ganized among negroes of the South
by agricultural extension workers,
indicate that the old custom in the
South of observing Saturday or a part
Of it as a holiday among farm work.
ers soon will be largely abandoned.
Six thousand active members in the
league were obtained from eight thou
sand registry cards distributed in
Alabama. Resolutions indorsing the
plan were adopted by the negro agri-
cultural demonstration agents Of Okla
homa and by farmers and teachers at
tending a short course of instruction
at the colored agricultural and. me-
chanical university, Langston, Okla.
The plan is being tried in North Caro-
lima, Tennessee and Texas, and reports
Of progress from these and other sec
tions in speeding up agricultural pro-
duction in the South are being received
by the States Relations Service, United
States Department of Agriculture.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-13
PAYMENT In FULL

Fourteen nurses in one boat were
sucked down with the hospital ship,
Llandovery Castle, when it was sunk
by a German submarine June 27.
These nurses had served, some for
months, some for the duration of the
war, on the battlefield, caring for the
wounded, both Allied and German.
They were deliberately murdered by
the enemy Nothing must obliterate
that fact.
Other nurses in boats and struggling
in the water were shot or rammed and
killed by the submarine after the hos
pital boat had sunk. For two hours,
the submarine tried to remove every
evidence of the wreck. The one boat
which did escape, was compelled to
abandon drowning people, nurses and
wounded soldiers, at the peremptory
command of the submarine command
er.
That is the foe we are fighting.
These facts are published in dis
patch to the Chicago Daily News,
whose foreign correspondence is prob
ably the most reliable in the United
States. They are contained in signed
statements of the few survivors of the
sinking
The enemy must pay for the horror.
He must pay to the uttermost.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-13
PRAISES ITAiY's WORK In WAR
Former Ambassador Says Nation
Should Reveive Great Credit.

BY Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 12.-William
Potter, former ambassador TO Italy
and now federal fuel administrator for
Pennsylvania, says it is time to give
the Italian nation credit for the great
part it has played in the war.
Just consider" said Mr.. Potter,
what might have been the fate Of the
Allies had Italy, with her army and
navy, gone with the Central Powers.
France, at the outbreak of the war,
would have had to divide her army to
protect her Htalian frontier.
THE small but brave little British
Army would have been powerless to
assist France both on the western and
Italian fronts. Italy remained neutral
until her weakened army was strength
ened, cast her lot with the Allies and
helped to hold the Huns until America
came into the war.
Let the American people show their
gratitude to Italy by placing every
where the Italian flag among the Old
Glory, the Union Jack, the Tri-Color
of France and the flag of brave little
Belgium"
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-13
LOYALTY AND HYSTERIA

Occasionally the National Security
League organization of reactionaries
receives comment it well deserves. The
recent attack by this organization up
on the loyalty of the University of Wis
consm is thus referred to in The Pub
lie:
"A private organization amply sup
piled with funds that sets itself up to
issue certificates on the loyalty of
American citizens and to denounce
those who do not meet its private tests
is a phenomenon that should be in
vestigated by Congress. If we had as
little common sense as the National
Security League we should raise the
question of whether or not its antics
were inspired by disloyal persons in
tent on stirring up discord and on dis
crediting patriotism as an attribute
of bigots and witch-burners. Its latest
exploit is to impugn the loyalty OF the
University of Wisconsin. We hold no
brief for that institution, which has
been over-rated and over-advertised
as source of progressive inspiration
and constructive radicalism. But the
attack upon ii by President S. Stan
wood Menken and Professor McElroy
of the National Security League will
not injure the University and merely
makes its authors ridiculous. Cover
nor Phillips of Wisconsin, whose loyal
ty no one ever thought Of questioning,
disposed of the matter with some plain
speaking which must have increased
his popularity in the State. Il am
tired" he said, "of having this insti-
tuition accused of disloyalty by lot
of carpetbaggers who come here to
unravel their shrivelled-up, kiln-dried
oratory that never could reach hu-
man heart, and complain because their
efforts are not enthusiastically re-
ceived, and. would have the country
understand that this institution is
disloyal. 1t is a type of impudence
that is INDUCED in by class Of self
asserted patriots who are the greatest
menace to the country today, because
they discourage what the country
needs above all things in this crisis,
and that is the hearty cooperation
of all the people in support of the
war" Congress should inquire into
the National Security League and its
possible relations which such organi-
cations as the Carnegie and Rockefeller
Foundations. Yet we are not sure
that, So long as it continues to lead
the giation for universal military
training as a permanent institution, it
is not doing the country real service.
1t is likely to make any cause it
champions unpopular"
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-13

The Provost Marshal of the United
States has changed his mind. Know
ing the attraction the Marines would
have to registrants since they are get
ting into the game so actively, he has
decided to let the 1918 class of regis
trants enlist in the Marine Corps. Al
so knowing the attraction life IN the
Navy will have now that there is a
prospect of fishing for submarine, he
will allow the 1918 registrants to en-
list in the Navy if they wish.