Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-02-23
AMERICANS IN FIGHT
Additional List of Survivors and Lost
of Torpedoed Ship Tuscania.
From All War Fronts.
Americans Active.

The armistice between the Russian
and German forces which has been in
existence for several weeks on the
Russian front expired at noon Mon
day, according to the official state
ment issued by the German army
headquarters staff.
Indiscriminate shooting now is go
ing on throughout the city, both by
day and night, but usually is most
general after nightfall. Pillaging, fol-
lowed by shooting, has spread from
Voznessensky Prospect, past ST.
Isaac's Cathedral to Ga1ernaya street,
where private apartments were brok-
en- into and plundered, eliminating In
firing between the pillagers and Red
Guards. The wounded were taken to
hospitals.
Germany has suddenly found herself
involved in a maze Of difficulties on
the eastern front and in danger of los
ing all the large benefits she was
calmly preparing to realize from her
peace with the Ukraine and the bol-
sheviki withdra wal of Russia from the
war.
Poland, that land which so frequent
ly in the course of@history has proved
a thorn in the side of military con-
querors, is threatening to constitute
herself the rock on which the German
hope of peace and gainful expansion
in the east may be shattered. Embit-
tered by the tearing off of a strip Of
their territory to be given the Ukraine
for breaking away from bolshevik and
signing a peace with the central pow
ers, the Poles are in what appears to
be virtually a state of revolt
Even the very weapon which Ger
many and Austria were at such pains
to forge in the hope Of deriving mill
tary benefit-the Polish army-bids
fair to be turned against them.
Only one of the six German ssr-
planes which made an attack on Lon
don Saturday night succeeded in
reaching the capital, it is announced
officially This raider dropped one
bomb in the southwest district, which
caused four casualties. An aerial raid
on Dover was repelled by British pi-
lots who engaged the Germans over
the Kent coast. One large raider is
reported to have crashed into the sea.
Eleven survivors of the torpedoed
liner Tuscania previously listed as un-
reported were announced this week
by the war department as having heen
saved, as follows: Private Hugh Alex
ander, Cumberland Gap, Tenn; Pri-
vate David Cisneros, Brownsville. Tex
as; Private Connor A. Collins, Battle
Creek, Mich; Private Joe Curland,
Evansville, Ind; Private Robert e.
Lee Hickey, Denton, Texas; Private
Marion F. Lambert, Rotan, Texas;
Private Miguel Martinez, San Diego,
Texas; Private Burley c.. Nall, Gar
lington, Okla; Private Rueben Peter
son, Marinette, Wis; Private Irene
Smith. Spokane. WASH; Private Jess
D. Smith, Coleman, Okla.
The war department Sunday re-
ceiyed the following additional list Of
Tuscania dead by cable: Edgar C.
Barnes, father. ]. E. Barnes, Ranger,
Texas; Raymond Butler, father. c. E.
Butler, New Richmond, Wis; Wilbur
W. Clark, mother, Luella Clark, Lam
sing, Mich; John Edwards, friend,
Miss Jennie Barnes, Butte, Mont;
Martin C. Hill. mother, Mrs. Sara Hill,
Wimburly, Texas; William r. John
son, father, Charles P. Johnson, Meta
mora, Mich; William Keown, brother,
John Keown, Sand Springs, Texas;
John G. Robinson, father, William H.
Robinson. Potlatch, Idaho: Thomas E.
st. Clair, mother, Mrs. Ella st. Clair,
Junction, Texas; James A. Schleiss,
brother, Joseph Schleiss, Rice Lake.
Wis: William A. Moore. mother,
Louise Moore, San Francisco, Cal
An American patrol in France hav-
ing passed the first line of German
entanglements and approached the
second line Sunday night was sudden
ly cut off by current of electricity
along the first wire line. Instead of
attempting an immediate return to
their trenches, which would have
meant certain death from electrocu-
ton or machine gun fire. the Amerf.
cans clung close to the earth and later,
when the electricity was cut off, re-
turned in safety to their positions.
American labors Endorsement or
war aims as stated by President VIII
son and recognition that the war
against Prussianism is working
mans war is recorded in declaration
issued Saturday by the executive
council Of the American Federation Of
Labor at the close Of seven-day ses-
aion At headquarters IN Washington.