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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18

oners. Many of the prisoners were stragglers, but among them were the crews of several lost or isolated ma chine guns. In some cases they had been taken from countering patrols.
 There was much German activity today on the extreme right of the line where the enemy vigorously shelled and gassed the woods north of Port a-Mousson and in the vicinity of Mar roy Machine gun action north of Beney was spirited while the German artillery was active from Haumont to the Monplaisier farm. To the east of the Moselle there has been some skirmish- ing but il was of little consequence. The allied outposts are gradually push ing towards that region.
 The comparative ease with which the Germans were driven from the positions they had held for more than three years is believed in some quar-. ters to have been a result of under- estimating the ability of the Ameri can. It is considered possible that they expected General Pershing's troops, carried away with enthusiasm, to over- step the limits of prudence by advanc- ing into region where they might have been forced to sacrifice large numbers of men or to retire. It las been specifically stated, however, that the operation was one for limited ob- iectiYes only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18

waiting along the Piave to liberate Italian soil with their arms.
 Messaggero says:
 "The first thing to be ascertained is whether either the Austrians or the Germans really want peace, and if so, do both want the same kind of peace, principle of which admits the inde- pendence of peoples? We already know that both desire to go back to pre- war conditions, with few conces- sions from Italy and France and a free hand in the orient. Snch a peace would be most disastrous catastrophe for the allies and the liberty of Eu- rope and the world.'
 The consensus of opinion is that the note will remain unanswered, as too vague and that the proposal is being. made to allow the Austro- Hungarian government to assure the people that it has done it's best to bring about peace, but that the allies refused to listen.
 The sem-official Vatican organ Cor riere DItalia reflects this view and says:
 "Austria's invitation should not create dangerous illusions. It is inter- esting as the first official public step taken by any belligerent for peace, but the peace conception of the belIiger- ents is still too divergent to give hope of conclusive conciliation The sim cere friends of peace prefer that the war should continue rather than a truce should be arranged leading to new fighting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
BOARDS ID MAIL
 QUESnONNA|RES ID
 REG|STRANTS TODAY
Ten Per Cent to Be Sent Daily to Men From 19 to 36-Six Days in Which
 to Return Them

Washington, September 17.-Local vest Marshal General Crowder to be- gin mailing out tomorrow question: naires to all of the r1en between 19 and 36 years of age inclusive, who registered last Thursday, except Prit- ish and Canadian subjects, who have 80 days to voluntarily enter the British and Canadian armies
 Ten per cent of the questionnaires are to be mailed by each board each day until the entire group has been sent out, Provost Marshal General Crowder announced tonight. and under the reg ulations each registrant is given seven days to fill out and return the docu- ment EA4S
 Tt is. however the earnest hope of this office that the registrants will not require as much time as this" General Crowder said, .and that every effort will be made to turn the questionnaires in properly answered as quickly as pos sible. Under the maximum time al- lowed local boards in mailing out and returning then the questionnaires for the entire age group should be back in the hands of local boards within three weeks of tomorrow
 Approximately 6.010,000 men are in the 13 to 20 and 32 to 36-year classes to whom questionnaires go. it was said. There are also some 10000 additional men, between q and 31 years of age, who were added to the draft rolls Thursday, registering for the first time. and these also will be classified
 The date for the drawing that will in a measure, determine the order of calling the men into service, will be announced soon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
DECATUR VETERAN
 HOME FROM FRONT
Sergeant Williams Sent Home to Instruct Newly
 Called Men

Decatur, September 17.-(speciaD Sergt. T. Earl Williams, Co. E, 167th regiment. Rainbow division. of Deca- tur, veteran of many hard fought campaigns, is now the guest of his parents, MT. and Mrs. T. H. Williams. He is one of the noneommissioned of ficers sent home by General Pershing as military Instructor, and is en route to Camp Lewis, Washington. Sergt Williams is displaying with commendable pride a match box taken from captured German soldier as we'll as a cigarette case also given up by a Boche prisoner. He wears gold chevron on his right sleeve to indi- cate that he has been wounded and two gold chevrons on the left sleeve which indicates twelve months in over seas service. The young officer was gassed at the battle of Champagne About 100 members of Company B have been wounded in action,' Sergt. Williams stated. However the major- ity of these wounds were slight and were not carried in the casualty lists The company has seen much hard serv- ice and in the battle of Champagne 1t went for 16 days with but 14 meals, and for three days went without meals although some of the boys ate Ger man reserve rations which had been captured. The meat tasted a good deal like mule"
 The county council of defense met at the courthouse last night with E. C.. Payne. chairman, presiding. The infor- nation was given out that absolutely no new buildings were to be erected, save those which could be shown to the county and state councils as contributory to the winning of the war. Community councils were reported as organized at Hartselle, Falkville, Verhermosa, Danville, Eva. Slipup, Trinity, somerville, Austinville, Flint, Decatur and Albany. Clyde Hem drfx announced the appointment of I. J. Kuhn as publicity man for the fourth Liberty Loan drive. A committee conn posed of Rev. L. F. Goodwin. Clyde Hem drix, A. F. Jackson and T. A. Bowles, was named to devise means of financing the county council of defense, So as to relieve E. c. Payne of that burden, which he has carried since the organization of the organization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18

head of the commission against the counter-revolution, and the attempt on the life of Premier Lenine were direct results of this condition of tyranny said the advces. Besides the 500 per sons who were shot in connection with the death of Urtszky, large number of other persons are held for execu- tion in the event that further at tempts are made on the lives of the bolshevik leaders.
 general search Is being made of the homes in Moscow of the we'll to do and of former officers in an eff fort to secure any shred of evidence upon which to make arrests, said the dispatches. The prisons are filled to overflowing and executions continue daily. In many cases, it was said sentences are passed upon the slight grounds that the accused might be dangerous to bolshevik power. In addition irresponsible and avenge- ful gangs are venting on innocent per sons their desperation over the daily declining power of the bolshevik
 All newspapers in Moscow except the bolshevik organs have been sup pressed since July 1 the dispatch added
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
SOUTHERN BUSINESS 1. MAN ENTHUSIASTIC
General Manager of Jack son Vehicle Company Tells
 of Improvement

H. D. Warden, treasurer and general manager of the Jackson Vehicle com pany. 3O0 South State street. Jackson,
 Miss, is another we'll known southern
 business man who has given his un- qualified indorsement to Tanlac for the
 benefits he las derived from it's use.
 MT Warden says:
 T have gained twenty-five pounds on
 three bottles of Tanlac and feel better
 than l have in years. When first came to Jackson I weighed isl pounds. took
 malaria and fell off until had lost 4O pounds. My weakened. nervous condition made me very irritable. I had such pains in my back and sides that l couldn't sleep and no medicine I took seemed to do me any good.
 My family induced me to try Tanlac
 and I began to improve at once. I have gained 25 pounds already and at the rate my weight and strength is coming back 1 will soon be as we'll and strong as l ever was. The malaria Is entirely gone, ~any stomach is in splendid con- dition. the pains have left my sides and back, my nerves are steady as rock and feel like different person. Tanlac Is sold in Birmingham exclu- siveiy by Eugene Jacobs drug store and
 Patton Pope Drug Co.-AdY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
Shuttle Trains Urged
 From Camp to Anniston
If Indorsed This Means Special Trains Can Be Operated From Camp Mcclellan to Birming- ham-Camp to Have S1,0OO Men
 in Early Spring

Washington, September 17.--(Spe- cial. )-Following the announcement of new cantonment for Camp Me Clellan, the chief of the construction division of the quartermaster's de- pertinent recommended today the op- eration of shuttle train between An niston and the camp.
 This recommendation was sent to the adjutant general. From him it will go to the director general of railroads. This action, if interested, will remove the greatest obstacle hitherto in the way of the plan of the Southern and Seaboarc to operate special trains into Birming- ham.
 It is an established fact that when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
U. 5. CONTROL O|L
 LANDS PROBABLE

Washington, September 17.-Government control and operation of western oil and coal lands is inevitable unless the House and Senate conferees break the deadlock which is preventing the final passage of the oil leasing bill, Senator Pittman Of Nevada declared today in the Senate. Such a result would be disastrous to the west, he said, and would drive pros pectors to seek foreign fields.
 T believe the President has the power to take over these lands,' the senator added T believe if we do not pass this bill he will take over the oil and then the coal lands, then the copper and then every exhaustible resource"
 The principal differences between the conferees, Senator Pittman said, is over the leasing policy and the proposal to give the Secretary of the Interior sole discretion in the matter.
 Senator Borah of Idaho said he did not think the President now has authority, to take over and operate the oil and coal ards. AH fs @ sN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
.ONLY MALT AND
 HOPS FOR BEER
President Prohibits Use of Any Other Foodstuffs by
 Brewers After Oct. l

Washington. September 17.-Use of any foodstuffs except barley maits and hops in the breweries of beer and near beers after next october l is prohibited by a proc1aRation signed by President Wilson. The President previously had ordered the brewing of all beer stopped next December l.
 The proclamation signed today was not made public nor did the food ad- ministratcn issue any statement ex- blaming the conditions which has caused it to recommend the action to the President. It was understood, how ever, that the purpose was to conserve stocks of corn and rice, which in re- cent years have been largely substituted for barley In brewing.
 In announcing the new order food administration officials said today that even after. the breweries are shut down December i they will have on hand in their vats sufficient stocks of beer to last from two to six months. Tie sale of this will not be prohibited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
REIGN OF TERROR BY BOLSHEWKI IN
 CENTRAL RUSSIA Position of Populace Tragic and Citizens of Entente
 Are Endangered
WHOLESALE MURDER CAMPAIGN CONDUCTED
Thousands of Persons Shot Without Even SembIance of Trial, Many of Whom Were Guilty of
 No Wrong

Washington, September 17.-Infor r. nation reaching the state department today from a neutral country threw nsw light on the situation in central Russia, where a reign of terror con ducted by the bolshevik has made the position of the populace tragic in the extreme and is endangering citizens ot the entente powers who have been un- able to leave the country
 Declaring that the outside world
 cannot have true conception or
 the actual conditions. the dispatch
 es said that since May the boishe-
 yfk extraordinary commission
 against the counter revolution has
 conducted campaign of wholesale
 murder. Thousands of persons
 have been shot without even
 form of trial, it was said, and
 many of them probably were in-
 nocent of the political views for
 which they were executed.
 The assassination of Moses UritSZky,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
PROMPTNEss COMMENDED

London, September 1S-The promptness, as well as the substance of President Will. sons reply to Austria Hungary Is ap- proved by the London morning papers Even the pacifist Daily News urges the allies to follow the American lead and indorse the points enunciated by Presi- dent Wilson, using the situation to drave the wedge into Germany and her allies The Times admires the promptitude of the reply as heartily as it agrees with the line taken by the President
 The Morning Post says that the answer is framed in only terms which betit the occasion.
 The Daily Chronicle thinks that the allies cannot fail to be influenced by President Wilson's example, which makes it certain that they will reject the Aus trian proposal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
French Girl Goes Through Shell Fire and Gas to Bring
 Information to the Allies

With the American Army in Lorraine, Monday September 16.-(By the Asso- ciated Press. 1.-The devotion of French woman to her country was recorded last week at one of the American headquar- tera to which a woman whose name cam not be mentioned had made her way through shell fire and over a region filled with gas and traps to bring to the allies information regarding the Germans.
 With her mother and younger brother the young women, who is not yet ~, had lived at Soulere farm from the day it fell into the hands of the Germans four years ago. Four other brothers are in the French army The mother and daughters aMere forced to remain within the German lines and witness the day by day conversion of their property into a German clubhouse. During those four years the two women endeavored to placate rather than to antagonze their captors. From German officers who fre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
NOT SITRPRtSED

Amsterdam, September 17.-Washington dispatches indicating the attitude of the United States as to the Austrian peace offer are prominently displayed in all German newspapers.
 This precipitate rejection of the Vienna proposal does not surprise us, says the semi-official Nord Deutsche Allgemene Zeitung. The Americans want to take the lead Now, as before, they preach force, which is to lay Europe in ruins
 ..We shall have to wait to see whether Americas allies will allow themselves to become intoxicated with this doctrine of force or whether there will be recognition ot the fact that an interminably pro- tracted war will lead Europe to ruin and leave only one claimant to the bankrupt estate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18

quented the farm the young woman learned information which she recognized to be of the utmost importance when she heard the barrage Thursday morning she determined to run the risk of crossing the nearly three miles separating her home from the allied lnes
 Telling her mother and the others that she had her work to do in the garden the young woman left the house. She slipped away toward the American lines, al- though every road was swept by allied and German gunfire After many difficult ties and narrow escapes the young Wom, an reached the American lines and told her story. In return for the informa- ton she brought she asked that every effort ~be made to rescue her mother ana brother The Germans attempted to maintain their position at Souliere farm but the Americans overcame them in desperate fighting The mother and broth' CT were brought to American headquar- ters today uninjured and there was a joyful reunion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
OUTRAN KITCHENS

Paris, September 1.-The Americans advanced so fast in their recent offen- sive that the supply trains and kitchens were unable to keep up with them. Red Cross workers carried light food and to- bacco to central traffic points along the battle line. One Red Cross outpost sta- tion loaded supplies into an ambulance bound for a field hospital When the ambulance arrived near the hospital it found a Red Cross field kitchen in a road serving passing troops and the wounded.
 On the second morning of the offen- sive Red Cross workers went to the bat teries and dugputs and served the troops there with chocolate and cigarettes. A great majority of the soldiers here ap- peared to have lost their pipes and to- bacco and the distribution was greeted with much enthusiasm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
AUSTRIAN EFFORT TO BEFOOL ALLIES
 CLOSED INCIDENT
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Accordingly, before the central powers can have any peace discussion with the entente powers and America they must agree to the principles of: No secret treaties freedom of the seas except to suppress predatory nations that fail to re- spect covenants; the removal of trade
 barriers; reduction of armaments; ad- justment of colonial claims with refer enee to the wishes of the governed pop ulation; the evacuation of Russian ter ritory and abandonment of economic control therein; Independence of Belgium with indemnificatien; restoration of AL sace-Lorraine: sa readjustment Of Italy's frontiers; autonomous government for the different nationalities of Austria Hun gary: evacuation of Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro: relinquishment of Turk. lsh control, of non-Turkish populations, an independent Polish state. and final ly, a league of nations to guarantee po-i litical Independence and territorial in tegrity to great and small states alike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18

officials of these railroads discussed the operation of such trains, congressman threatened them with criticism because of their desire In this respect, and their contention that they could not oper- ate even shuttle trains between Anniston and the camp. If shuttle trains are operated. according to the recommenda- tion today, congressman will not oppose the operation of special trains into Bir- ningham.
 As Camp Mcclellan at present are 26,Veo men. This number will be increased within two weeks to 40,000. By next spring three divisions or S100o men will be in the camp. This in connection with improved railroad facilities will mean that of the S1,000 soldiers, Bir- mingham will have to care for thousands of soldiers and their friends
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
GERMAN TR|CKERY
 TOWARD UKRAINE
 FULLY REVEALED
Plots Against Loyal Rus sians to Insure Complete German Sway Shown by
 Secret Documents

Washington, September 17.-GermanI triekery in breaking the Ukraine awayI from the bought-and-paid for boishevikI government, plots against laval RussianI soldiers and their leaders to insure cofnk plete German sway after the false peack| conference at Brest-Litovsk and furtherI evidence of the precautions of the Teu-| tons against bolshevik preaching in theirI own ranks are shown in teday's in-| stallment of secret documents from Rus-I sia made public by the United StatesI government.
 Communications written in January dis-| close that the bolsheviki were fully in ! formed of what the Germans were do- ing in the Ukraine, and knew that peace| treaties with the Ukraine and Rumania| were coming. They also learned quickiy| enough that Germany was disposing of| their hopes to see their revolutionary propaganda take root on German soil
 Notes from the German intelligenceI service to Trotzky, the commissare or| foreign affairs, showed first that Turk| with a Russian passport was sent toI Petrograd to keep watch over the Rus~| sian commander in chief, and that aI month afterward, late in February, rel inoval of the commander in chief, Geh-| eral Bonch Bruevick, was demanded.j Bruevick, whose continuance in the pol sition was stparticularly no longer desir-I able' to the Germans, was turned out| and General Parski, named by the Ger-j man intelligence service, was appointed to command the Petrograd district
 Another note from the. intelligence ser-| vice complains that .'the agents sent| to kill Generals Kaledin, Begaevsky anal Alexeff, were cowardiy. tionenterpris ing people," This same document showsI that as long ago as December, 1917, for4l mer German prisoners of war were. be- ing dressed in Russian uniforms to fight loyal Russian soldiers.
 The significance of the documents isl discussed in notes by Edgar Sissor1, whol brought the documents out of Russia for the committee on public informaS- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
INDICATES WEAKNESS

Rome, Monday, September 16.-The Austrian peace proposal is received here as an indication of the weakness of the central powers. .,
 Popolo Romano says:
 "The Austro- Hungarian note has been foreseen for sometime. It is surprise that Vienna should begin such music. However, let us be not deceived. Meanwhile our soldiers are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
PREPARED IN MARCH

Paris, September .-(IaVas. )-Ger- many's offer to Belgium was prepared March 17, 1918, according to the Echo de Paris, by near relative of Queen Eliza beth. residing in Switzerland. This per- son. the newspaper says, after confer ence with Chancellor Won Hertling and the German foreign secretary, specified in writing the new conditions of the cen tral powers The Belgian government transmitted the German offer to the en- tente allies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
GERMANS IN DARK

Amsterdam, September 17.-Nothing is known in competent circles in Berlin regarding the London report that Ger many has made a separate peace pro- posal to Belgium. according to dispatches received here from Berlin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18

Great Britain comprises England, Scotland and Wales, all parts of one island. and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland includes Ire land as an addition. The British ern- pire consists of all these and India,a the colonies, other islands. protectorates a nd danpndencjes,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
FOURTH INTERALLIED
 LABOR MEET OPENS

London. September 1.-The fourth inter allied labor and socialist conference called since the beginning of the war opened in London today with representatives of Great Britain. the United States, France Italy. Belgium and Greece in attendance. The American delegates are Samuel Com pers, president of the American Fedora tion of Labor; John F. Fryes, William Bowen
 Questions arising from the war formed the chief subjects of discussion. A state ment by Mir. Gompers on the views of American labor was awaited with great interest It is reported that A. F. Kerr ensky, former Russian premier, might at tend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18

An English biologist tells us that yawning is a common habit of cod. saithe. copbler. plaice and various oth- CT kinds Of fish From his desc, ip. tion the piscatorial yawn Is much like the human vawn. except that it is done under conditions that would cause hu- man strangulation.