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The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
POLES CAUGHT
BETWEEN TWO
ENEMY FORCES
Bolshevik Army Menace on
One Side; Huns on
Other.
ARMY LACKS RIFLES
Small Force Remaining Un-
able to Meet Emergency;
Ask Allied Aid.

Paris, Dec. 2S-Cnless the Allies give
military aid soon. Polish liberty VIII
risk another compromise. Whle a
BoIshevik army is marching west
ward recovering Russian control ot
the Baltic provinces and the Germans
threaten to re-occupy Russian Poland
bands. supposed to DE commanded oy
Prussian officers, are ravaginS East
ern Galicia, or Austrian Poland. and
Germany is gathering a strong army
guarding Prussian Poland
Thus again Poland is Gripped Pc
tween three powers while her own
army lacks arms, and her principal
legions are i'm France. lacking trans
ports to get home. Though renounc-
ing the plan of a military expedition
against the bolsheviki the allies may
he forced to bloch the Reds " ad-
vance if they-~ish to keep faith with
Poland. whose fate hangs in the bal
ance. Haste is imperative.
This situation was explained today
BY a member OF the Polish national
committee. He asserts Germany has
an army OF SD00OO we'll disciplined SOL
diers guarding the PrUssian Polish
frontier.
Against the Germans We cannot
hope to make military resistance, "
said Meryan Heyda. former editor of
the POsen Courier. the Polish national
organ i'm Prussian Poland
H'Our new frontier westward depends
entirely upon the decisions of the
Peace Conference which controls the
guarantees from Germany on the
Western front.
Those who believe Germany lacks
an army or her Eastern frontier are
mistaken. Against the advancing Boil
shevtki We cannot rely upon negotia-
tons. They are outlaws ameDable
only to force. They destroy every
Vestiss Of civilization and conduct
themselves worse than Tartars.
We hope that the allies will now
remember POland's services and sacri-
fees in the war and help us. first. to
transport our own troops home from
France, Italy. Canada. Archangcl ant
Siberia, and. second. to give US direCt
help in stemming the Bolshevik tide
BY siYine us arms for our voluntary
army- in Poland.
The BOlshsvik flood will not reeede
unless IL il diked somewhere"
The French press continues to intf-
mate that the allies might form a
volunteer corps for fighting the Boil
sheviki in the Ukraine. with Poland
Finland, Siberia and Archangel as
bases.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
CICCHINO LAID
DANGER PLANS
Gave Companions Slips for
His Wife In Case He
Disappeared.

The puzzle OF the -Cicchino dis
appearance became more intricate
with the introduction OF new de-
tails Yesterday.
Detective Jacob Berman. OF head
quarters. investigating the case at
the steel plant. discovered that
CiCchino, an engineer OF the Wash
ingtOn Steel and Ordnance Com
paEy, who disappeared from his
home. 81 II street northwest, De
cember 2l, had made provision for
notification of his wife and chill
dren in case of his disappearance.
Three little time slips are the
new elements in the case. On the
back of each is written the name
and address of the missing man.
Three of his friends al the plant
claim CicchinO gave them ;hess
cards to be given to his wife in
case of his disappearance.
They were all perfectly fresh and
clean when taken by Detective Ber-
man. They had not been delivered
to Mrs. Cicchino.
Search for a mysterious individual
who disappeared from the steel
plant during the early part Of the
" Sth " GF NoA AAfO OlA sNENtludg ON
Detective McDuffie, of the Eleventh
precinct.
The harbor police dragged the
river part Of the day yesterday. but
nothing was discovered.
Police admit that any one Of a
Oumber of things could have hap
pened. The blood-stained shirt was
so badly slashed and torn that the
final opinion has simmered down ia
the belief that this was intention
ally done, with the object of throw
ing off pUrsuers.
The fact that the Cicchino family
had lived amicably is basis for q
theory that he did not desert his
wife.
Yet the police are not altoge thet
certain he is dead.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
HOLIDAY CROWD
BLAMED FOR FLU
Congestion Responsible for
Spread Of Disease, Says
DR.. Fowler

Although no official total OF in
fiuenza cases were reported yester-
day. DR.. w. c. Fowler. District
Health officer. stated last night that
the recrudescense of the disease had
reached the stage when anything
could be expected"
The holiday crowds and the
weather of the last few weeks is
responsible for the development of
the disease, in the opinion of DR..
Fowler.
During the shopping season." he
said. last night, many persons
crowding together give the organ
isms causing the disease plenty of
opportunity to spread and breed. 1t
is NV personal opinion that the
crowds at the holiday time were the
scenes of the spread of the mic
robes"
The influenza hospital. at 612 F
street northwest, which opened
Christmas Eve. now has forty cases.
The capacity is estimated at eighty
five patients.
DIR E. w. Scott, of the Public Health
Service, in charge of the hospital.
stated that from observations in the
handling of influenza cases here, and
elsewhere, the disease in Washington
and all over the country is growI.g
in its scope of spreading the con-
tagion. - q.
He pointed out the necessity of Con-
gress taking prompt action to appro-
pirate a liberal amount Of money to
be used in an effort to stamp out the
growth of the epidemic.
He said he believed that unless some
concerted action is taken Immediately
through a Federal Appropriation the
contagion will extend to a more alarm
ing extent, particularly in the con-
gested sections.
In army camps Influenza is on the
decline. From several of the large
camps not a singlei case was reported
for the week ending December "a
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
BY ROBERT WELLS RICHIE,
stan Correspondent Universal
Service.

Paris. Dec. 29.-1t is possible to
reveal now one of the most dramatic
secret chapters of the American war
spy activity, whereby the German
Austrian food administration was
nearly wrecked last winter by almost
100000 spurious bread tickets cir
culated in the Central empires.
The story was told to me in Client
early in November by a secret service
man. who had participated in a plot
which cost the lives of two American
two American patriots.
Early in January, 1918, We American
spies, one woman, Bohemian born,
crossed the frontiers of Germany
from Holland and from Switzerland
with counterfeit tickets printed in
Washington.
Working with condolences among
corruptible food administration Off
cials in Dresden Munich Frankfort,
Berlin, Prague and Vienna, they. sue
ceeded in distributing over a million
bread tickets, Then all five escaped
to neutral countries. Again in
April, a second attempt was made
through the same channels and more
than $4,000 tickets were distributed
before the German secret sercice.
seeking the cause of the unprcndntd
incra in the Drank tocks managed to
take UP the train of the Bohemian
woman spy and of another.
Realizing they were discovered,
the Americanspies attempted to es-
cape to neutral countries, but the
woman and one of the men were
caught
Rost Litzenauer is the name of
this American patriot. She was shot
at Prague, together with her COM
panion, whose name is not known.
Rosa was formerly an obscure
music teacher at Milwaukee. She
had volunteered for spy work in
Washington as soon as America en-
tered the war.
This girl died, not knowing that
she had helped to create more
havoc among the German and Aus
trian forces than a division of
American troops could, have caused
for the flood of 1000, 900 spurious
tickets circulated during five months
so depleted the bread stocks that
the Teuton food administrations
were forced to reorganize their en-
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
WAR HISTORY
WILSON'S TASK
Friends of President Say He
Is Peculiarly Qualified
As Historian.

Woodrow Wilson, apart from the
conspicuous hOnOrs of the moment,
in the opinion of many observers
and students of world events, is des-
tired to reap enduring fame as the
author OF the history of the great
war that in rUture generations will
rank as an authoritative account.
Not only is the Presidents fitness
for the task universally conceded.
but his intimates assert that no
Intellectual undertaking would more
completely match his literary in
ClinatiOns or more strongly appeal
to his ina aginatiOn.
His numerous State papers penned
before and during the progress of
the war are not only part and parcel
of its history, but have already
been acclaimed by the civilized ma
tions of the world as masterpieces
of dictiOn and as the accepted ex-
pressions of the aims and princi-
pies of the nations aTrayed against
the vanquished central powers.
The Presidents friends assert that
il was his vision which foresaw and
shaped the wars end. Americas un-
selfish participation in the latter
stages of the conflict and her complete
detachment from the causes which
precipitated it, they say. render Pres
ident Wilson peculiarly fitted to write
a judgment upon the moOted cues
tions which would be accepted by the
majority of mankind.
1t is added that the Presidents pos
sible selection as the first actual, or
at least honorary, head of the pro-
posed league of nations would not
interfere with his possible authorship
of a history of the war, but, on the
contrary, would render such a venture
not only highly appropriate, but more
probable.
In all the discussions as to the prob
able author most likely to strike a
universal chord of responsiveness and
the one whose writings are most like
" to be accepted by posterity. the
name Of President Wilson leads al
others.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30

Near Tears
In Church
Eyes Glisten As He Speaks
Of His Mother from
Carlisle Pulpit.

Carlisle. England, Dec. 2S.-"It is
the conscience of the world we are
now trying to place upon the throne
which others tried TO ursurp."
Thus President Wilson today con-
cluded a brief but touching address
from the pulpit in which his mater
nal grandfather preached sermons
three quarters OF a century ago.
Deep emotion vibrated through the
Presidents words and his eyes
Elistened as he spoke OF his mother.
who was born here, and who emf
grated, with her father, to America
when she was : years old.
A silence even more solemn and
reVerent than that which is natural
in house of God lay upon the
congregation OF the LOwther Street
! Church as Americas Chief ExecG-
tive spoke. The eyes of the whole
assembly literally cIung to the
Presidents lips. and in all those
eyes shone a singular light. the
liEht of pride at being able to claim
as Jessie WOOdrOw's boy" the man
to whom the whole world looks as
its leader. out of suffering and
chaos to peace and new order.
just Humble worshIpper.
In words and manner Woodrow VIII
son appeared before the people Of his
mothers home town. not as an il
lustrious statesman, but as an humble
worsmpper, in short, truly as one OF
them. His address was as follows.
The feelings which have been eN-
cited iH me- today are really too in
timate@and too deep TO permit public
expression. Memories that have come
home to me today Of the mother who
was born here, are very affecting. and
her quiet character. her sense Of duty
and dislike Of ostent8tion. came back
10 me with increasing force as these
years of duty have accumulated.
Yet perhaps it is appropriate that
in a place OF worship / should ac-
/ knowledge my Indebtedness to her.
! because. after all, what the world is
now seeking today is to return 10
, the path of 1uty.
Il believe that Il this war has
drawn nations temporarily together
in the combination Of physical force,
we shall now be drawn together in
a combination Of moral force that
will be Irresistible. and it is moral
force, as much as physical force that
has defeated the efforts to subdue the
world
| The knowledge that wrong had been
attempted aroused the nations, and
they have gone out like men upon
a Crusade. And so it is from quiet
places like this, all over the world
that the forces accumulated which
will presently overpower any attempt
to accomplish evil on a great scale
Like little rivulets that gather into
the river, and the river, into the sea
so there go out from communities
like this streams that vitsliEe the con-
sciences Of man. and il is the con.
science of the world we are now try
ing to place upon the throne which
! others tried to usurp."
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
COAL MINERS SLOW
UP, REPORT SHOWS
Decrease Noted in Both Bitumin-
Gus and Anthracite.

There was a decrease in the pro-
duction Of both bituminous and an
thracite coal during the week ended
December 81. according 70 figures
made ubuiC yesterday by tn Fuel
Administration.
The estimate places the production
Of bituminous at lO.l36.OOO net tons
and Of anthracite at l.SSs.OoO net
tons, compared with 1876. OS0 OF b.
luminous and 1924, 900 anthracite
during the previous week. During
the corresponding week OF last year
the production was lOs23, 900 net
tons of bituminous and l,77S.OOo net
tons Of anthracite.
The decrease in bituminous wes
largely in the Ohio. Pennsylvania
and West Virginia districts. In MT
nois, Indiana and the fields South
and West slight gains were reported.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
Right Man in Right Place,
British Verdict on Wilson
English Writer Declares Him Great Because
Pre-eminently an American, with All the
Best Features of Race Outstanding Rec
ognized as Personifying Race that Ig-
nores Little Ills, but Bleeds at Sight of
Injustice.

/, the same riot of rejoicing and he
is housed under the roof tree of the
King.
For the causes of such dramatic
transformation scenes it is usually
| necessary to look beyond the man
who is the central figure in them,
however worthy he may be, to the
forces that are working behind him.
We are accustomed to say that the
value of title is the value of the
man who wears it, but 1t is much
more true that the Importance of a
public man is according to the i'm
portance of his public position and
during the past four years Presi-
dent Wilson has attained to an al
most unparalleled celebrity and he
has richly deserved it.
But it would be folly and rank
flattery to say that his rapturous
reception in Europe is due mainly
to his persoCal achievements.
Personiaessa People.
As president of Princeton Uni
versity he might without more than
a ripple of academic interest, have
thought and said sublime and state
" things, which. coming from the
I President of the United States, have
stirred and thrilled the world. 1t is
above all else because he personi
| fies America, being at once spokes-
| man and visible embodiment of the
American people that the people OF
Europe are now giving him such a
| welcome as no prince of church or
state has ever received in these
islands before.
But, il authority counts for much in
| the making of a meteoric reputation
opportunity counts for more. The mer
who achieve world fame in few
years of their own life time are those
who have been borne along on the
world tide. 1t was so with Robert
Give when he swept up from his desk
in the trading Office in India. to be-
come, almost before he could have
been aware of it, founder and father
of our Indian Empire. 1t was so with
the elder Pitt when, caught up by a
| wave of colossal egotism. he declared
in the darkest hour that England had
ever known that he could save hcr
and nobody else could. and then die
it. being carried along with his coun'
try on a mighty current of fortunate
events which politicians called lucE
and historians have called chance. but
| which students of the laws of life
| know to have been the roll of the
world waves which at great moments
of human upheavals sweep nations tc
the height of their destiny anS lift
men VINO stand for them to dsIhluE
eminence. -
| Couldn't Escape Greatness.
| 1t has been so with President Viii
son, and no previous American Presi'
dent, not even Lincoln, nor yet Wash
I ington. though both took the helm a.
! the top of the flood and guided theil
ship of state through coast shoals al
| difficult as Wilson found in his way
ever had the world tide so sweepingly
with him. 1t was nearly impossible,
| to be President of the United State.
| during the past four years and no
become a world figure after the war.
To say this is to make no deduc.
| ton from the rightful reward of Pres.
| ident Wilson's captaincy. Perhap
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
BY SIR HALL CAME,
The Famous English Novelist and
Playwright.

Copyright. lsis. by Universal service.)
London, Dec. 29-The great Amer
lean who is now the, guest OF the
British nation has had a more rapid
rise to worldwide influence than
any other man in any other coun-
try for a hundred years at least.
When the last edition of the En-
cyclopedia Britannica was published
about ten years ago a quarter Of a
page was considered sufficient to
record the facts of his career, while
two pages and even three were de-
voted to the doings of some of\his
more recent predecessors who are
now remembered no more.
Phe editorial appraisement was
not without Justification. Mr.. Will
son had then lately retired from a
professional position which he hao
sustained with dignity, but without
startling distinction. He had writ
ten a few academic -treatises on
politics and Jurisprudence which had
interested without arresting the
public. He had published one bio
graphy. a life of Washington. which
was vivid in portraiture and excel
lent in style. He had entered the
outer courts of public life with
honor and acceptance, but he had
laid no siege to popular imagina-
tion even in America and outside
his own country he was practically
unknown.
Big Difference Now.
He could travel in foreign lands
without the embarrassment that
comes to modest men from too much
10 h
served of all observers. He spent
several months in our own lake coun-
try. climbing feIls and cycling through
valleys without provoking more COM
ment than any other tourist in Nor
folk jacket with the bottoms of his
trousers tied up by a clasp. But
what is the large space he fills now
in the eyes of the world?
When at the beginning of this
month he sailed from American
shores in a ship called the George
Washington Jselected surely by no
accident of choicel. a salvo of guns
and a salute of sirens followed him
out of New York harbor as far as
the moster Statue of Liberty which
of it.
AS lie AIt NodoA VI
France a fleet of American warships
commanded by two rear admirals.
weEt out to meet him and conduct
him to his port Of debarkation.
Guest-sf All France
When he set foot on French soil.
he was welcomed by the President of
the French Republic. the French
Premier and a vast concourse OF
French people. For the better part
of the week, thereafter he was the
idol of Paris and the guest of France
Lodged within sight of the Tomb OF
Napoleon he was attended every day,
and all day by long queues Of Paris
ians who were happy enough to be
rewarded for their salutations by his
smile.
And now, his visit to the French
nation being over, and his visit to
the British nation having begun. he
is being received in England with
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
TO unity WIRES
OPPOSED OR NOT,
SAYS BURLES0N
Postmaster General Also
Declares Merger Will
Be Continued.
POSTAL FIGHTS PLAN
Quoted, However, As Hav-
ing Approved New Sys-
TEN at Its Inception.

Postmaster General Burleson not
only intends TO merge the Postal and
Western Union Telegraph Companies,
but is going TO operate them as a
unified system.
This is the gist of a long statement
issued yesterday by the Postmaster
chief in reply TO a statement by Ed
ward Reynolds, general manager of
the Postal company. in which The lat
ter expresses fear that the Postmas
ter General will merge the lines.
Mr.. Burleson also quotes a former
statement made to him by Mr.. Rcy-
nolds expressing himself i'm favor OF
many or the changes in operation
which Mr.. Burleson has already put
into effect.
The name OF Mr.. Reynolds is not
mentioned anywhere in the Burleson
statement, reference to him being
made as the representative of Clar-
ence Mackay. president Of the COM
pany. and general manager of Mr.,
Mackays company.
snxs HeiFaSoree UniaratIcn.
Mr. BuTleson says that Mr.. Rey-
nolds expressed himself soon after
the Presidents telephone and tele-
graph proclamation as being in favol
of a unified system. and that under
such a system many of the agencies
employed by the competing companie:
could be elimiDated to advantage.
The general manager is also
quoted by Mr.. Burlescn as having
put his approval upon the discon-
tinanuce of many branch offices
hotel offices. call boxes. credit tC
patrons. and special privileges tc
newspapers.
The principal newspapers have
been given preferential services by
the wire companies, Mr.. Reynold:
is said to have told Mr.. Rurlesor
in advocating a change in this
practice.
Suggestion DisrcEarded.
This is one of the recommenda,
tions made by the general manager
of the Postal Telegraph Cable Com
pany, which the Postmaster Gen
eral has not adopted" says Mr.
Burleson.
The Postmaster General makes II
clear that he is going ahead with
his plans for a unified wire system
whether the Postal company Off.
cials are concerned about il or not
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
Girls Apartment Robbed;
Gems Worth $3.50 Gone

Miss Alice A. King. of 312 Chatham
courts. last night told the police that
the following articles had been stolen
from her apartment during the >past
forty eight hours:
One gold wedding ring valued at IS 4
one solitaire &-karat diamond ring,
valued at 800; one three-stone ring.
set with A-karat diamonds, valued at
800. and one gold ring set with a
larte sapphire and diamonds, valued
at s7S.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
American Bark
Burned at Sea;
Crew Rescued

London, Dec. 29.-Lloyd's an
nounces that the American bark
Aryan. bound from wellington to
San Francisco, burned 500 miles
east of Chatam. The captain and
thirteen men have been landed
on Chatam Island in a lifeboat.
The American steamer Tena-
dores is on the rocks on the
Island of Byeu.
Rescuing of the passengers is
under way.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
Bolshevik Warships Aground.

Copenhagen. Dec. 29.-Esthonian
troops, accompanied by British
sailors, have landed near Narva, a
port on the northeastern tip of Es-
thonia- On Thursday British war
ships pursued and finally drove
agcund Bolshevik warships. zone OF
which had been bombarding Wolf
Island