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Evening star., 1918-02-19
RAINY WEATHER AHEAD
Some Rain Fell Today and More Is
Predicted for Tonight and
Tomorrow,

Washington faces a period of rainv
weather. according to forecast today y
by the weather bureau
Rain. which froze as it fell. visited
the capital shortly before daybreak
More is scheduled to fall tonight and
tomorrow. The temperature will re.
main about the same. south winds pre.
vailing. The minimum temperature
since last midnight was 80 degrees.
There will be rain tonight and to-
morrow in Atlantic coast districts and
rain or snow in the lake region and
upper Ohio valley. according to the
weather bureau. 1t will be somewhat
warmer tonight in Atlantic coast dis
tricts. but much colder weather will set
in tonight in the upper lake region and
the OHIO valley. Storm warnings have
been displayed on the Atlantic coast
from Delaware breakwater to Eastport
Evening star., 1918-02-19
CLEMENCY FOR RIOTERS
ASKED OF: PRESIDENT
Plea Includes Five to Be Hanged and
Forty-0ne Sentenced to
Life Terms.

President Wilson was urged, today by
a committee from the New York branch
of the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People to extend
clemency to the five members OF the cath
United States Infantry sentenced to be
hanged for the part they played in riots
at Houston, Tex, August last.
A review of the cases of forty-one
other negro soldiers sentenced to life
Imprisonment as result of the rioting
was also requested. Rev. F, A. Cullen.
as spokesman, placed in the hands of
the President a petition bearing thou
sands of signatures.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
CAPT. CASTLES FUNERAL;
is HELD IN NEW YORK
Private Military Service for Air
plane Victim at "The Little
Church Around the Corner"

NEW YORK. February 19.-Private
military funeral services for Capt. Ver-
non Castle of the Royal Flying Corps,
who was killed in an airplane accident
at Fort Worth. Tex. last Friday, were
held here today at the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION. better known as THE
Little Church Around the Corner" The
rector of the church. the Rev. DIR.
George D. Houghton. and the Rev. Dr.
Herbert L. Shipman. chaplain of the
104th Field Artillery. q. s. A.. offfciated.
A detachment of the Royal Flying
Corps escorted the body to the church.
The palIbearers were officers from the
flying corpa.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
HASH CAUSES ALARM
Rumors of Poisoning at Norfolk
Training Station Due to
Corned Beef Dish.

Rumors that large number of men
had been poisoned at the Norfolk naval
training station were cleared up today
by report from Capt. Dayton, the COM
manding officer. that thirty-fve of his
force were made slightly ill recently
by eating corned beef hash He said
there was no evidence of poison or
other foreign substance in the hash
and that most of the men were now
back at work.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Hindenburg and Ludendorff Expected to Hurl
Vast Forces Forward Against Allies
Any Moment.
WILL RELY ON SURPRISE ATTACKS,
TANKS AND STRANGE NEW GAS
Optimism Of Teutonc Command Not Shared by Men-Nervous
Expectancy at High Pteh-Comng
Battles Will Be Sanguinary

y Aodat Press.
BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, February
Io-The great the front be
begin and the British front
will be made the between
Arras and St Quentin
Tanks and mysterious gas will be employed by the
through the allied line. Other
farther have
prisoners information CLEANED
in other ways.
plans of German higher command complete
after of intensive training of assaung
and final effort which has
tised so widely in the past weeks.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
5000 INDIANS ENLIST.
Red Men Also Have Bought So, 900, J.
600 in Liberty Bonds,

Five thousand Indians have enlisted
in the Army or Navy of the United
States. Exact figures are not obtaina-
BILE, but that number is given as a
safe estimate by Cato Sells. commits
sioner Of Indian affairs, in letter
made public today to the president of
the American Indian League In New
York city. Commissioner Sells states
that Indians have subscribed to more
than $9.000.000 worth Of liberty bonds.
Evening star., 1918-02-19

headquarters in France and Belgium
| last night reads:
| During the night an enemy party
assempted ate nf nds to raid . one Of our posts
our rifle and machine gun fire Hostile
artillery has been active southwest of
Cambria and in the neighborhood of
| Armentieres and also southeast and
| northwest of Ypres."
German Filters Brought Down.
Ten German airplanes were. brought
down and six more were disabled by
British airmen Sunday according to an
omciai statement on aerial activities is
sued last night Hundreds of bombs
have been dropped on various targets.
and Monday British aviators raided
Treves and ThionvilIe. The statement
reads:
There was fine weather Sunday and
the lncessant bombing that had been
IN progress for thirty-six hours con-
tinued. More than six tons of bombs
were dropped on various targets and
airdromes in the neighborhood OF
Tournai. Lille and Courtrai
| again there was severe air fighting,
enemy scouts making determined. but
| unsuccessful. attacks against our bomb
ing machines. Ten hostile machines
were downed and six others were dis
aoied- Three of our machines are miss
ing. sunday night there were further
"A
pomos was dropped on the railway.
Several burst and a fire was started
All our machines returned
ioday our bombing squadrons raid
way, station at Treves and the steel
WORKS and railway station at Thion-
VINE with excellent results. All the
machines returned safely"
Guns Busy on French Front.
PARIS, February 1s-Heavy artillery
nghting is reported in the official COM
lmunicatlon OF today. 1t follows:
Violent artillery actions occurred
ourlns the night in the region south
OF the forest of st. Gobain, in the sec
Ior OF Chavignon. and northwest of
from the remainder of the front"
The Belgian official communication
issued last night reads:
On FEBRUARY II our artillery silenced
barded enemy organizations near 81
georges, Dixmude. Woilel and Klooster.
schooL The enemy directed artillery
nre against our trenches and communi-
Pervyse. Caeskerkerke, St jacques ca,
peiie and Merckem. There was bomb
hghting near Dixmude There was
sight artillery activity during the
night OF February 1913. The Germans
attempted to approach one of our posts
south OF Dixmude and were repulsed,
| "On February 10 there was a Iivelv
bombardment of German intrench,
ments along the whole front. Our hat
iteries vigorously caught under their
fire enemy detachments and enemy hat
teries in action near Mannekensyere
and Slype.'
Turks and Bulgars in West.
! AMSTERDAM. February 10. - The
iNieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant reports
from the frontier that thirty thousand
Turks and Bulgarians are understood
to have arrived at verviers, Belgium
fourteen miles east of Liege.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Solon's First Trip in Air.

It was the first time in the life of the
Ohio solon that he ever made an air trip
he confided Now. he declared, if he en-
ters the military service. it will be as a
United States aviator. Representative
Rising at II 30 o'clock, the big BIZ
plane was headed towards Georgetown.
Then Col Lee turned the machine
toward the Capitol and shot over the
northwest section of the city like a
bird After thirty minute spin the
machine returned to the polo grounds.
Col. Lee gave Washington a new
thrill today by apparently bringing his
machine to standstill high above the
ground. From a lowly position on the
old earth the big airplans appeared to
he painted against the heavy clouds
when the aviator would drift at a pace
almost unnoticeable.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Chairman Hays to Give Dinner.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. February 49,
Chairman Will H. Hays of the repub-
Iican national committee has issued in
vitations to all former national chair
men of the party to be his guests at a
dinner at the Union League Club in
New York next Monday evening, he
said here today. The next day, Mr..
Hays said, he expected to see former
President Taft, Charles E. Hughes and
possibly Col. Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
ARMY DRAFT TREATY SIGNED
First Official Act of British Ambas.
sador Earl Reading,

Signing of the Army draft treaty be-
tween Great Britain and the United
states was announced today. The new
British ambassador. Earl Reading,
affixed his signature to the document
as his first official act In Washington.
Evening star., 1918-02-19

ENSIGN ALBERT d. sTURTEyANT.
The Navy Department had been unable
up to late hour today to learn anything
definite of the fate of Albert Dillon Sturte-
want. young Washington flyer, who was
reported missing after going out on an OBJ
servation trip in a big seaplane some
where in European waters'
The boys father Charles L. Sturteyant,
patent attorney. of 2110 LIE Roy place, re-
fuses to believe his son dead. He ex-
pressed the hope today that he may have
been picked up by a patrol boat.
Meager dispatches received by the Navy
occurrence, but indicate that he was fred
plane plunged down.
Educated in D. c. Schools.
The young flier's mother, Mrs Bes-
sic Dillon sturtevant. is dead. The
boys grandfather, Albert L. Sturtevant,
was well known here.
Young Sturtevant began his educa-
tion in the public schools of the Dis
trict and attended Western High School
for three years, leaving there to finish
his preparatory course at Andover He
was graduated from Andover in 1912
and entered Yale University.
At Yale he distinguished himself in
athletics as well us in his studies. He
rowed on varsity crew in 1915 and
1916, being captain of the crew in the
latter year. Graduating in 1916 from
Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. he
took up the study of law at Harvard
until shortly before the outbreak of
war He was twenty-three years old
last May.
Enlisted in Reserve.
On the day the United States entered
the war young Sturtevant enlisted in
the naval reserve. He spent the spring
and summer at the aviation schools at
Huntington, l. l., and West Palm
Beach. Fla, perfecting himself in the
handling of airplanes.
He went ''over there" in September,
ana. following detail of two months
in France. was sent to England. His
father received a letter from him last
week, dated January 80.
His father spent the entire morning
endeavoring to get some more definite
information from the Navy Department
of the accident which befell his son.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Bolsheviki Escape to Riga.

| LONDON. February 19.-Rumors are
current in Easa that the bolshevik gov.
ernment in Petrograd has been over.
thrown by the social revolutionists. un-
der the leadership of NJ. Tchernoff, ac-
cording to the correspondent there Of
the Politken of Copenhagen, says a
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company. Nikolai Lenine and Leon
Trotzky are said to have escaped to
Riga
Evening star., 1918-02-19
German Purpose in East.

Renewal of the German attack on Great
Russia fulfills the expectation widely held
here since Germany consented to nego-
tiate with the bolsheyilli at Brest-Litovsk
The view often has been expressed that
Germany had peace less in mind than to
secure possession of what was valuable
in Russia. and that the temporizing at
titude toward the bolsheviki would be
maintained only until the moment she
awaited had arrived.
Doubt is expressed whether the move
against Dvinsk is merely the turn OF
the screw expected to make the boil.
sheviki grant submissively what Ger.
many wants or will be followed by SER
the action is denounced as mere sharp
practice. though il also is regarded as
the inevitable consequence of the amaz-
ing chaos to which Russia has been
reduced through the lack of leader
strong enough to guide the revolutions
ary outburS..
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Ukraine Leaders Held.

Further belated dispatches from
Petrograd received today give additions
al details of recent happenings in
Russia.
An official news agency dispatch
dated February II announces the boil
sheVik authorities ordered all the mem-
bers of the Ukrainian central rada and
the. Ukrainian delegates to the Brest.
Litovsk peace conference, including
Chairman Holubowicz, arrested and tried
for treason to the people. Some OF
those affected by this order have been
arrested at Kiev, while others fed to
Berdichev.
Another of the official agency dis
patches reports Odessa resembling q
military camp. Fierce fighting occur
red there on three consecutive days, IL
is stated. The defeated Ukrainians ara
said to have occupied the railway sta-'
tion and fortified themselves. Renewed
fighting of a desperate character then
began. in which the ships in the harbor
Joined, firing shells of large calfbee,
The yictimar It 10 declared, upnabage4
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Wears Water-Tight Jacket.

At the hangar on the Polo Grounds
Representative Overmyer found Col.
Lee preparing his plane for fight.
Introduction followed and within
twenty minutes the House member. a
water-tight jacket strapped around
him. was in the air with the British
pilot.
There is not the slightest sensation
of fear" said Representative Overmyer
after the flight. land one doesn't get
half as much excited as he does when
looking through the window in the top
Of the Washington Monument.
"Once, when 1 was upside down, rid
ing on my mead, 1 thought the ground
was above me. The clouds were be-
low us q part of the time.
1T was a wonderful experience and ]
would like to make flight often. l con-
ceived the notion l wanted to make trip
today and accordingly this morning 1 set
out to find Col. Lee He greeted me very
pleasantly and said he will be glad to
take other officials of the government on
flights over Washington.
IL felt no sensation of sickness or fear
The wind rushed against US very hard, but
not enough to sting or hurt. 1t takes a
few seconds to fly over the river and
distance certainly is no object with bi-
y,1a
Evening star., 1918-02-19
German Armies Begin New In
vasion of SIav Soil-Dvinsk
and Lutsk Taken.
UKRAINIANS BEATEN
IN Fierce BATTLES
1000 Killed, 1000 Injured in
Clashes With Lenine's Forces
at Kiev.

LONDON, February 49,
Russia is now forced to sign
peace upon the conditions pro-
posed by Germany, says an
official Russian statement re-
ceived here today.
The official statement was
signed by Premier Lenine and
Leon Trotzky, the foreign min
lister. It protests against the
German resumption of the war,
and says the council of peoples
commissioners is now forced to
declare its readiness to sign a
peace as dictated by the delega-
tions Of the quadruple alliance
at Brest-Litovsk. 1t promises
to give a detailed reply with
out delay to the German peace
conditions.
BERLIN, February Ie, via
London. The official an
nouncement read:
Eastern war theater: Yes
terday evening German troops
entered Dvinsk. They met
with little resistance. The ma
jority of the enemy had fed.
The Russians were not success
full in blowing up the Dvina
bridge, for which preparations
had been made.
'On both sides of Lutsk
(Volhynia), cur divisions are
on the march. Lutsk was oc-
cupied without any fighting"
Reports indicate the Bolshevik lead
ers, Lenine and Trotzky, have fallen
Germany has returned to the attack on
the Russian front and the bolshevik gov
ernment must face its greatest test il
it still is in power-the force of Ger
man militarism. Invading armies have
crossed the Dvina at Dvinsk and are ad'
vancing eastward from Kovel, Volhynia
to aid the hard pressed Ukrainians and
to protect the food supplies in the new
country. This is the first military &C.
tivity on these fronts since late last
Both Dvinsk and Lutsk have
been taken.
What opposition the Russians can or
will offer the Germans is problematical.
the Russian army has been
much weakened by the rehabilitation
order and strife in the ranks, the boil
Shevik red guards have been successful
against the Ukrainians and other op.
posing forces in southern Russia. a
week ago delayed dispatches from
said the bolshevik leaders
were doubtful if Germany would at
tack, and apparently had no intention
to fight the invaders. The food short-
age in Great Russia is becoming des-
perate. The situation in the Ukraine Is
serious. which may account for Ger
decision to act. Bolshevik troops
hold Kiev, the capital. where 1000
persons were killed and 1000 injured
in several days of heavy fighting, and
bolshevik adherents are destroying
railroads and food supplies. In Odessa
also there has been fighting.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
S0[0N LOOPS LOOP
WITH BRITISH Filler
Mr.. 0vermeyer Shares Thrills
of Ride in Clouds With
Col. c. F. Lee.

Representative Arthur w. Over
myer of the thirteenth Ohio district,
made a long flight over the city to-
day in biplane with Col. c. F. Lee,
a member of the British Royal Flying
Corps He is the first member of Con-
gress to make a fight with the British
officer.
They assembled to height Of approx
imately 1000 feet, remaining in the
air for half an hour. At times the
Garth beneath them was lost to sight
.nrough the mist. The machine sped
over the city in the face Of a heavy
gale more than 5000 feet up.
Not content with a simple, gliding
trip. Representative Overmyer expe-
rienced the sensation of the spinning
nose dive, the biplane dropping for a
thousand feet before it turned it's nose
upward. Col. Lee, at the wheel. then
proceeded to loop-the-loop twice over
the Washington Monument.
Imbued with the desire to know how
an aviator feels when he ascends to dc
battle with the enemy. Representative
Overmyer set out from the House Of
flee building this morning. determined
to make a trip with the English fiier il
the latter would accept passengers.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
WEATHER.

Rain and warmer tonight; tomorrow
rain; colder by night.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending 2 pm. today: Highest, 33, at
$3.50 pm. yesterday; lowest, 80, at 1880
am. today.
: Full report on page 16.
Evening star., 1918-02-19

Germans Driven Oh.
The enaeial statenent from British
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Turks and Bulgars in West

AMSTERDAM. February 10. = The
Nleuwe Rotterdamsche Courant reports
from the frontier that thirty thousand
Turks and Bulgarians are understood
to have arrived at Verviers. Belgium,
fourteen miles east of Liege.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
All Male Inhabitants Shot.

"A shell burst near the Eleventh company, and wounded seven men, three very severely. At five o'clock we were ordered by the officer in com mand of the regiment to shoot all the male inhabitants of NOmeny, because the population was fOolishly attempt ing to stay the advance of the German troops by force of arms. We broke into the houses and seized all who resisted, in order to execute them accosding to martial law. The houses which had not been already destroyed by the French artillery and our own were set on fire by us, so that nearly the whole town was reduced to ashes. It is ter rible sight when helpless women and children, utterly destitute, are herded together and driven into France" (From the diary of Private Fischer, Eighth Bayarian regiment of infantry, Thirty third reserve division.)
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
Too Many Servants in Britain.

Duncan Miller asked the minister of national service, says the London Times. whether his attention has been called to the number of advertisements for servants in households 0f one, two or three persons where seven to ten indoor servants are already kept, and whether he proposes to limit the num- Der of indoor servants employed in each household. The minister of na- tlonal service replied that he had al- ready pointed out how essential 1t is, In the national interest, that no per son should employ more servants than are absolutely necessary. The min lster trusts that the awakened con- sciences of those who have in this respect failed to appreciate their duty will provide an immediate and suffi- cient remedy. If not, he will tell his plan In the general statement on man power.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
"Behaved Like VandaIs,"

August IT. In the afternoon I had a look at the little chateau belonging to one of the kings secretaries (not at home). Our men had behaved like regular vandalS. They had footed the cellar first, and then they had turned their attention to the bedrooms and thrown things about all over the place. They had even made fruiteSs efforts to smash the safe open. Everything was topsy-turvy-magn furni- ture, silk, and even china. That's what happens when the men are allowed to requisitiOn for themselves. | am sure they must have taken away d heap of useless stuff simply for the pleasure of footing"
 August 9th crossed frontier. Inhab- itants on border very good to us and give us many things. There is no diff ference noticeable.
 August 23rd, Sunday (between Bir- nal and Dinant, village of Disonge). At II o'clock the. order comes to ad- vance after the artillery has thorough ID prepared the ground ahead. The Pioneers and Infantry regiment IFS were marching in front of us. Near small village the latter were fired on ny the inhabitants. About 20 tnhab- ants were shot and the village was Ournt-artillery is continuously shoot ing-the village lies in a large raVine. Just now, six o'clock in the afternoon, the crossing of the Maas begins near Dinant :. All villages, chateaux, and houses are burnt down during this night. It was Il beautiful sight to see the fires all round us in the distance.
 August 24.-In every village one finds only heaps of ruins and many dead" From the diary of Matbern, Fourth company, Eleventh Jager bat talion, Marburg.)
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To Ella Bratnober, widow of H. Bratnober, Henry Pulcifer, the ad- ministrator of the estate of H. Brat nober, and all the heirs and devi. sees of said H. Bratnober, and all the> persons having or claiming to have any interest in the estate of said 1T. Bratnober.
 You and each of you are hereby notified that I have performed the annual labor required by law for the years 1915. 1916 and 1917 upon the following described quartz claims, sit uated in the Copper Center Mining District now known as the White Riv- CT Mining District, Territory of Alas. ka United States of America, to-wit. CD Orange Hill Quartz Claim. re. corded in June 1st, 1911; @ Califor- ed July 22nd, 1914: and that unless within the time prescribed by law you pay your proportionate amount of said expenditure your interest," IT. said claims and each of them will be. forfeited to me, under the provision of the Statute of the United States relating to the forfeiture by co-owners of their interest in mining claims for failure to contribute their proportion ate share of the expenditures re- quired by law for such annual work.
 D. c. SARGENT ; District of Columbia SS
 United States of America.
 Personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, in and for the saits district, D. c. Sargent, of Nebesna. Territory of Alaska, United States of America, who deposes and says that the statements in the above notice are true, and that the said parties notified have not contributed any money or labor towards the asses- ment work on the mentioned claim. for the period stated.
 D. c. SARGENT Subscribed and sworn to before ne this first day of November, 1917.
 Notary Public for the
 District of Columbia
 G. s. FERRY,
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04

In the night the inhabitants Of Liege became mutinOus. Forty per sons were shot and 1j houses demol- ished, 10 soldiers shot. The sights here make you cry.
 "On the 23rd of August everything quiet. The inhabitants have so far given in. Seventy students were shot, 200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants re turning to Liege.
 August 24. At noon with 36 men on sentry duty. Sentry duty is A l, no post allOcated to me. Our occupation, apart from bathing. Is eating and drinking. We live like God in Belgium" (From the diary of Joh. van der School, re- Servist of the Tenth company, Thirty ninth reserve infantry regiment Sev- enth reserve army corps.)