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New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Strike of Gas Mask
Makers Is Settled

Officials of Rosenwasser Brothers,
who are under contract to manufacture
100000 gas masks for the govern
n,ent, announced yesterday that a
strike of 5000 Of their employees at
their plant at Long Island City has
been settled and that the government
work, which has been partly suspended
since the strike began last Thursday,
will be resumed tomorrow.
The company has been producing gas
masks at the rate of 1000 day. II
is also manufacturing for the govern -.
ment army shoes, leggns, aviators'
coats and gun covers. Some Of the
employees quit when the firm required
them to sign a contract not to strike
for six months When the strikers
were replaced by other workers the
strike in the plant became general.
S. B. Berkow, for the company. an
nounced that an agreement, to take
effect tomorrow. had heen reached.
He said the company would take back
half OF the strikers at once and the
others would be given their old jobs
xs soon as possible
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Stuyvesant Fish, Jr., to
Enter Officers Camp

Stuyvesant Fish, jr., whose brother,
Hamilton Fish. was killed in the ranks
CT the Rough Riders in the Spanish
American War, is among the civilion
candidates accepted for the Field Ar
tillery Central Officers Training School
at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky. The men
whose names were made public yester-
day are the last who will be selected
from civil life for officer material. the
War Department having discontlnued
the practice on August g. Those who
vicinity are: Douglas Church, ia
West Seventy Street; Sidney
Gruenbaum. 1924 University Avenue;
Robert O'Grady, 46l Marion Street;
Carl Egner. 81 Wall Street; Arthur G.
May, 311 West Ninety Street;
Max Kleiman, 11l6 Avenue j.; Sidney
Mattson, 242 East Fiftieth Street;
Harold Tobey, 25 Broad Street; w.
3. Marsh, 120 West .Seventieth Street;
Abraham BaroT, 617 East l81st Street;
Lewis P. Jones. 500 West 1G5th Street;
Albert R. Levin. room 344, 80 Church
Street; John D. McGeary, 1Ss st. Mich
West End Avenue: V. 7. Frank, 1893
hroadway; P. J. O'Connor, 72O East
1S1st Street: B. f. Hurlbut, $50 West
1O4th Street; Louis Ranger, 97O Park
Avenue; Isaac Laude. Is William
Street; w. B. Davis, 829 West End
Avenue; T. L. Chapman, SO William
Street; ]. l.. Nesbitt, II Battery Place;
/. S. Flory, 81 Wall Street; Russell
Dague, 434 West 12Oth Street; Stuy-
vesant Fish. jr.. 81 Wall Street; Arthur
4. Baer, IS Hanson Place, Brooklyn;
James W. Thomas, 546 Fortieth Street.
Brooklyn; Reuben ]. Friedrichs, 597
New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn: William
Reydel, 1875 Madison Street, Brooklyn;
Leopold Sulzberger. Burton Avenue,
Woodmere, l.. l.; Edward NJ Kennedy,
"a Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn; W. Jo-
seph O'Hagan, Asbury Park, n. j.;
John Henry McGill, Stamford. Conn;
Sinclair Wallace Armstrong. 1s6 High
Street Middletown. Conn: William A.
Knight, 160 Main Street, West Haven.
Conn; Mortimer f. Johnson, New
Britain, Conn; Harry Albertus Won
tlacht, Milford. Conn, and Walter
Sherwood Belts, Western Avenue,
Marlboro N Y
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

shevik forces, Red Guards and German
and Austrian prisoners.
The railway to Samara is open, ac-
cording to Consul Harris, from Irkutsk,
but trains are not running through to
Moscow. The Czech commander, he
said, had reported that as late as July
10 they had lost ESQ men killed and
1900 wounded.
A Czecho-Slovak spokesman in Wash
ington said to-day:
"The Czecho- Slovals front In Russia
consists really Of two fronts. A fairly
definite idea may be formed of the
situation on the less important front,
the one extending from Lake Baikal
east toward the Pacific.
There are $4,000 Bolshevik troops,
consisting mainly of former German
and Magyar prisoners of war, we'll
armed and equipped and holding the
Amur line from point east of Irkutsk
to the Ussuri River, between Nbolsk
and Chabarovsk. Opposed to them are
$4,000 Czccho-Slovak troops, a few
oiIIAsH ana french troops, the Amerl-
can regiment that has just arrived at
Vladlvostok and an unknown number
OF Japanese troops.
Attack in Rear by Japan
"The japanese will send strong
force by the Manchurian road and get
il. the rear Of the German-Magyar
forces. They have difficult stretch
OF country to negotiate and a strong
force to conquer, but there is no doubt
that they will do their work efficiently
The only, difficulty is the question of
time. They must defeat the enemy
control 1000 miles of railroad and re-
pair the destroyed bridges and tunnels
before winter sets in
The principal battle front of the
Czecho-Slovaks is located in European
Russia. along the Volga River and even
to the west of it. Bolshevik accounts
coming through German sources, have
given the strength of the Czecho- -Slo
vaks and the various elements, consist
ing both Of other Austrian Slays and
of Russians, as 100000. This doubtless
is exaggerated. with view of explain
ing the inability of the Bolsheviki to
defeat the Czecho-S -Slovaks
1.-The Czecho-Slovaks west of Irkutsk
number only $4,000 men, a large pro
portion of whom must be kept along
the $500 mile stretch Of the Siberian
Railroad between Lake Baikal and Sa-
mara. and the balance are lighting the
forces that the Bolsheviki have sent
against them"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Registration Facts
For Men Just q

Those acho must register: Men
who have become twenty-one years
OF age between June 8, 1918, and
August "a, 1918, inclusive.
Date Of registration Saturday,
August "a. 1918.
Time: Between I a. m. and 9
p. m.
Place: At headquarters of local
board covering address of regis
trant If in doubt, inquire at once
at nearest local board or at police
station.
Penalty for failure to register:
Loss of right to deferred classical
ton, prosecution for misdemean-
or and possible immediate induction
into military service.
Provision will be made for the
registration by mail Of any person
who expects to be absent on regis
tration day from the jurisdiction Of
the board where he permanently re-
sides, but in such a case extreme
care should be taken By him to see
that his registration card reaches
his home board on or before Angus.
"a. Such persons are advised 20 ap-
ply at once to local board for in
structions as to how to proceed.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
French Cruiser Is
Sunk by Submarine
American Destroyers Rescue
All Except Thirteen of
Vessels Crew

PARIS, Aug. 1.-THE old French
cruiser Dupetit Thouars has been SUM,
By German submarine, it is officially
announced to-day Thirteen of the
crew are missing. American destroyers
rescued the remainder.
The Dupetit Thouars was cooperat-
ing with United States naval forces in
protecting Atlantic navigation.
The text Of the official announcement
reads:
"One of our old cruisers, the Dupetit
Thouars, which was participating with
the American navy in the protection of
navigation in the Atlantic Ocean, has
been sunk by a German submarine.
American destroyers rescued the crew,
OF which thirteen are missing"
The Dupetit Thouars was an armored
cruiser, built at Toulon in 1899. The
vessel was 452 feet long, with a beam
of 63 feet and depth of "a feet and
had displacement of 1857 tons. She
had an indicated speed of % knots per
hour and carried an armament of two
7-inch, eight 6-inch and four 3-inch
guns. The ship was also equipped with
cwo torpedo tubes. The normal compile
mcnt of the Dupetit Thouars was $40
men.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Berlin Newspapers
Oppose Active Aid
For Souiet Forces

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 17.-German in
tervention in Russia, to assist the Boil
sheyik government, is strongly op-
posed by the "Germania," of Berlin,
which is in close touch with Chancellor
Won Hertling. The newspaper declares
that Germany's sole interest in Russia
lies in the restoration of orderly con-
ditlons. Germany therefore has been
friendly to the Soviet government.
Continuing, the "Germana" says:
"But if we should intervene to up
hold the Soviets or any other govern
mcnt, we could not possibly succeed, in
asmuch as the decision in this matter
is the Russian peoples own>affair."
Bellin newspapers of all shades of
opinion, including the "Tagliche Rund-
schau." the "Kreuz Zeitung." the "Tage-
blatt" and the "Vorwarts," express
themselves as opposing Intervention in
favor Of the Boshevik
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Russia S Racial Enmities
Expected to Assist Allies
N NJ Narpovch Says English Should Have Little Trouble
Establishing Contact With Czecho-Slovaks
the Volga
Especial Dsrctch TO The 7',ibune)

Especial Dispatch to The 7',ibune)
WASHINGTON, Aug. I'M. NJ.
harpovitch, Of the Russian Emba ssy. g
native of Georgia in Russia. who
WAS at Tiflis after Turkey joined the
Central Empires, declared to-day that
it will not be extremely difficult for the
British forces at Baku, on the Caspian
Sea, TO establish contact with the
Czccho-Slovak troops on the Volga,
through the instrumentality Of the pro-
ally Armenians and Gcorgians and the
Nationalist Russians in the Don re-
gion.
M. Karpovitch disclosed the fact
that German forces sent through the
Black Sea for a time had occupied
Tifiis.
The Bolsheviki never were strong. he
SAID, IN the spaces separating the Brit
lsh and Czecho-Slovak expeditions.
Both on the Volga and on the Don ami
IN the Caucasus and ~Transcaucasia
the absence of an industrial prolc-
tariat has provided no soil for the
Planting Of Bolshevist ideas, the
masses being composed Of peasants and
small land owners.
Mr.. karpovitch said it was "wonder-
full and splendid" that the landing of
Allied forces on the northern coast of
Russia, the dispatch of japanese AMI
American troops to Siberia and the ar
rival Of British expeditionary forces at
Baku occurred simultaneously.
Never Pro-German
The people of Russia never have
been pro-German, he stated, but many
of them have thought that the creates
force in the world was Germany's,
therefore making it a supremely happy
coincidence that the appearance Of
Allied forces in Russia at three ex-
tremities of the country took place at
the same time as the magnificent Allied
victories in France.
These occurrences, Mr. Karpovitch
said, will make an important impress
sion upon the imagination of the Rus
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Crew of Madrugada
Brought Safely TO Port

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA Navy
Department report to-day announced
the arrival at an American port of 3,
Norwegian steamship with the crew
and naval radio operator from the
American schooner Madingadah. De-
partment officials said the name evi-
IDENTIFY was garbled and that the men
rescued undoubtedly belonged to the
power schooner Madrugada, shelled Of
Winter Quarter Shoal on Thursday.
The Madrugada was under the Amer
ican flag when she was sent to the bot
tom. 1t was learned that the shin
cleared as an American craft, but was
TO be turned over to a Brazilian firm
on arrival at Santos, Brazil.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Says italian" Tried
To Get Men to Desert

Apprehended Friday night in Pitts
nargh, Giro Lucchi, another man in
ne group which the Department OF
Justice is striving 70 show received
rs Inspiration at the Office of the
Croatian newspaper, "Narodn List"
edited BY Frank Zotti, at 81 Park Row,
Is now on his way, under close guard,
% this city.
Luechi, whose home is in Brook
iyn, is believed 70 be the agent
whom Arthur Sacher, Zotti's clerk,
' said to have sent to Camp Dix to
PERSUADE drafted Italians to desert.
According to the afidavits of five SOL
aers, Lucchi went among them declar-
las 1t was foolish to take up arms for
ne United States and assuring them
nat If they would apply at the home
u Arthur Sacher, at 43o Sixty first
Nreet, Brooklyn, they could get civil
an clothes and money, and so get per-
Ranently free Of army work.
IN order to gain admittance to the
amp, Lucchi is said to have obtained
:; ;s1ihcate Of Italian citizenship from
.ae Italian consulate here. The De-
mtlman. of Justice holds that he ac-
st'rss tiis through misstatements and
...ssc3r.sentations- Il is upon the
.ssonical charge Of saving 80 obtained
elslzenshlp certificate that he was
arrested.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
New London Girls
In Indian Pageant

"EW LONDON, Conn, Aug. IT,
many New Yorkers Of the summer
,''ony here are actively Interested in
~" :, L"ndon's pageant. TO be presented
=, ,"0fsday afternoon by Mary l. Jobe,
p BE mountaineer and explorer, on the
an.eIot Avenue estate Of Mr.. and Mrs.
mesery Caldwell Dawson. Forty
,syth2 girls from Camp Mystic will
Sc PAT in an Indian masque. ar
e1.sd 1ssd oy Miss lobe, and there will be
xasnc dances under the direction Of
~ ,a.yaret Crawford. all proceeds will 90
France. '~'ie''s"' N"''o'e" u
n'aong those in the play are Katha-
e.. % ,5ronson, Mabel and Emily Dun
se.. helen Harmon, and Martha Tai
SSz S., of Nsx York: Emily Joyce, Of
os'1vr.nrnorc ~ vnorc College, and Lucy Oliver,
knoxville, Tenn. The play tells a
sna OF the determination of the Pc
~. indiana by the Mohe1ans and the
il. ts"n'ai settlers under John Mason.
"a acton taking place on Pequot Hill
g,..IIfsa w. Ifsat Hill, now occupied by Camp
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
attooed Kaiser To
Be Cut From Chest

BALTIMORE. Aug. l7.-Arthur Ran
dolph Martin, Of Paden City, w. Va,
who used to be tattooed man in a
circus, is going to decorate the Marine
Corps just as soon as ne rccovers from
an operation that soon will be per-
formed.
Prominent among the landscapes and
portraits which adorn his body is a
picture OF the Kaiser tattooed on his
chest The operation will consist Of
removing that picture.
"I'lI be back to enlist in few days"
he told recruiting sergeant, "but first
I'm going to the hospital and have the
skin that has this thing drilled into it
removed and new skin grated in its
place. A fellow was just telling me
what an sll-iired lot of baths marine
has to take. and I certainly don't want
to enlist until / can take my clothes
off without running the risk of getting
licked every time I do it,"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

sian people and have tremendous moral
effect.
Explaining the situation in the Trans-
caucasus, where it is believed the Brit
!sh forces from Baku will undertake a.,
advance into the Caucasus, Mr.. Kar-
povitcn stated that after the signing
OF the treaty of Brest-Litovsk the
situation in that region became most
complicated. There are three princi-
pal nationalitics inhabi.ing it, the
Georgians, the Armenians and the
Tartars.
The Georgians and Armenians are
Christians. and historically have been
opposed to the Turks. The Tartars,
however, have the same religion as the
Turks. They were loyal under the en-
prc.
Feared Allied Aid
The arrival Of British forces al
Raku, Mr.. Karpovitch believed, will
work great and immediate change in
Transcaucasia and in tho Caucasus.
What the Gcorgians and Armenians de-
sired and what the Tartars feared was
Allied assistance. The display of force
made by Britain will have the effect of
giving new heart to the Gcorgians and
Armenians and at the same time intimi-
dating the Tartars, possibly reconvert-
ing them. Mr.. karpovitch stated that
British prestige is very great in the
Central East.
1t is his opinion that the purpose Of
the British expedition is not to DESTROY
the oil wells and return TO Mesono-
tarnia, but to establish q base at Baku
for operations purposed to assist
Russia.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Every Six Minutes
A Merchant Ship
Moves at u. S. Port
United States Shipping
Board Charts Activities
Of 1000 Vessels

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-Every six
minutes merchant vessel arrives and
another departs from American ports.
From North Atlantic seaports there is
a departure every eleven minutes one
for Europe every forty minutes This
rate of operation does not include yes
sells in the service of the army or
navy.
The merchant fec. of 1900 ships
under the control of the United States
Shipping Board is run as railroad, on
time schedule. The duty Of measuY-
ing ships performances. with their
tasks, is lodged with the planning and
statistics division of the Shipping
Board, headed by f. II. Gay, formerly
dean Of the Harvard Graduate School
Of Business.
Obviously, the division must know
the tasks in detail, and so it coordi-
mates with the War Industries and War
Trade boards in determining and pro-
vidng for the country's needs from
abroad. 1t works on month to month
schedules, or as far in advance as it is
feasible or possible to forecast.
Works With All Departments
In planning the use of ships the divi-
sion works with the food adminstra-
ton in determining the Shipping re-
quirements for food with the War
Department in correlsting shipping
with The requirements of the line Of
supplies for the Western front; with
the War Industries Board in seeking
solution of the problem of bringing
necessary raw imports into the coun-
try, and with the War Trade Board in
preparing the lists of essential imports
and exports.
AS the country has gone more and
more on a war basis, it has been re-
garded necessary to limit the list Of
essential imports to less than 100.
Data on the ships and their trade pro-
vide the basis for operation Of the
vessels under the Shipping Board's S
control. Likewise records are kept of
neutral vessels coming to this country
or linking up with its foreign trade.
Thus the division checks daily about
1000 vessels, 500 Of them being those
of the Shipping Board, 5000 engaged
directly in American commerce and
$500 scattered over the globe and
trading for the most part with the Al
lies or their colonies. Roughly, one
fourth of the merchant ships Of the
world are watched by the Shipping
Board.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Germany Approves Sug-
gestion Made by
Her Ally
Archduke Stephen
May Win Throne
w;,l Send Troops to West
ern Front in Return
for Concession

london, Aug. 17.-Germany has
..oved the suggestion made by Aus
'lr '.e .hst an Austrian archduke be made
r;.o II Poland, the "Lokal Anzeiger,"
= perlin. says it understands. Arch
srte Karl Stephen. it says, probably
u, hs named. Other German news
..,srs also say Stephen will be chosen.
Tho archduke has long prepared him
-. for the role OF Polish King. When
.-;,.d from the Vienna court many
..rs ago he took up his residence at
r,.cow. setting up Polish household
and frequenting the aristocratic Polish
clubs.
u,s children were taught the Polish
language. One of his daughters mar
I'D Prince Jerome Radziwill and an
,.hsr is the wife of Prince Czartoryski,
the Polish leader.
Germany has made concessions "a
.,,tr;a en- the Polish question in con-
,.ouence of the strong stand taken by
rmneror Charles and the Austro- Hun
sar;an government, according to in
formation received by the correspond
en-. of "The Daily Mail" at The Hague,
70 which "The Mail" gives much prom
inence.
It is possible there will be no per-
.onal union Of the crowns Of Poland
and Austria. but the King Of Poland is
certain to be an Austrian archduke,
saws the correspondent, who adds that
the discussion at German main head
quarters had the following basis:
The Germans demanded that Austria
send to the Western front from ten to
fifteen divisions of picked troops, con-
duing themselves to the defensive or
the Italian front. Emperor Charles and
bis advisers made the counter demands
that Germany make further declara-
lions regarding Belgium, guaranteeing
evacuation. restoration and an indem-
nifty, make a powerful movement in the
direction of peace, and chat the Polish
question be solved in manner favor
able 10 Austrian wishes.
The advisers of the Austrian En-
peror, it is declared, emphasized that
the opposition Of Austrian military and
public opinion to the transfer Of troops
10 the Western front was universal.
This opposition could be quieted only
il the government was assured of Pol
,sh support, which could be obtained by
securing from Germany concessions on
the account Of Poland, and if the public
could be shown the German government
aad been influenced in the direction Of
another strong effort to obtain peace.
Short Of this, Austria would not send
troops to the Western front.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Russia to Get Farm Tool.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.~-Advices
received through official channels state
that Swedish agricultural implement
combine has closed, through the offices
Of Germany. advantageous contracts
for large deliveries of its products
destined particularly for districts in
Russia occupied by the Central Powers.
The same firm also has made large
sales in Russia through Petrograd.
Payment for the farm machinery and
implements is to be made with copper,
tin and oils. The Swedish firm ne
gotated with the Bolshevik govern
ment for the supplying of enormous
orders, for which payment was to have
been made in supplies stored at Arch
angel, but these negotiations fell
through.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Floyd Gibbons, Chicago War
Writer, Decorated bv France

CHICAGO, Aug. 17-Floyd Gibbons
a special correspondent of THE Chicago
Tribune' in France, has been awarded
the CroiX de Guerre with the Palm bv
the French war ministry. according to
special cablegram from Paris to "The
Tribune" General Petain's citation
states that Gibbons was seriously
wounded June 5. while going to the
aid of wounded American officer.
"this giving proof of the finest devo,
ton" Mr.. Gibbons is the first Ameri
can correspondent to get the French
war cross for specific act of bravery.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Carranza Averts
Crisis With Allies;
Changes OilDecree
Tax Is Modified After ". S.
and British Protest at
Proposed Rates

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-THE
threatened crisis in the relations Of
Mexico with the Entente Allies and the
United States apparently has been
ayerted by modification of the new
Mexican oil tax decree by President
Csrranza
1t was learned to-day that on August
II Carranza, in effect, cancelled pro-
visions Of the decree Of July 81 un-
der which undevcloped oil lands might
be seized by the Mexican government
upon failure of their owners to make
declarations and submit to what they
regarded as excessive taxation.
The decree of July 81 was an amend
ment Of one issued in February, which
had given serious concern to the Of
fcers of the British and American
navies because of its interference with
the supplies OF crude oils, upon which
their Dattlesbips and destroyers were
dependent
In addition to representations
through diplomatic channels from
Washington and London. the American
oil producers in Mexico appointed a
committee to confer with the Mexican
government to seek an equitable adj
lustment Of the points at issue. They
we're willing to pay any reasonable in
crease in the rate Of tax on oil pro-
duced and exported. but feared that
the new decree would put them out Of
business and amount to virtual confis-
cation of their properties.
The modification made now hardly
VII! be wholly satisfactory, but it was
said to-day that it appeared to make
concessions paving the way for clear
ing up the situation- between the gov
~rnments concerned.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Three Red Cross Men
Wounded by Foes Shells

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-Three
American Red Cross men were wounded
by German shells in the recent Franco
American drive.
Advices to Red Cross headquarters
here to-day say Lieutenant ]. L. But
tertield, of New York City, was felled
BY shrapnel while leading an ambu-
lance section; w. A. Fox. of Buffalo.
ambulance driver, received a number
Of shell splinters in his body, besides
being gassed, and Captain George B..
Karr was hurt by bomb dropped by
an enemy aviator, being severely
wounded in the hip. All will recover.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Thirteen More of Enemy's
Aces" Reported M;ss;,.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17-Thirteen
OF Germany's leading aviators have
peen llsted as missing in actior since
suly sry, i, according to an official dispatch
avlators who have been thus l;sted
and the number of Allied macb;ne,
with which they were credited VIZ,
9rlnging down are: Leo Wenhardt "A.
Mensh kof. 80; Bongartz and Buckler
50 each; Billik. 81; Wuesthof. 20: vo.
lurcheck: ~; kirchsteiner 27; Puet-
ter 70; Winisch, Fredercks and PIN
hardt, y each, and Richardt. 20. 'NN
The German high command. while
Sparlng OF planes, the dispatch saws
has neen most prodigal in the exposure