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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Bride From Altar
Joins the Rout

The crowd became more varied the
further we got. At Rpolto ! saw "a
bevy of little girls all dressed in white
coming out of a church where they
had received their first communion. All
joined us as they were. Somewhere
else | saw a woman in her wedding
dress and white slippers tramping in
the muddy road. already separated
from her husband. Peasants fleeing
from the mountains that here dominate
the plain joined US, some carrying
chickens tied under their carts. others
trying to drive their cattle and hogs.
The crowd got panic fits increasing
IN frequency as we nearcd the Taglia-
mento. Reports ran along the line that
our troops were blowing up the bridge,
others that the Germans had posses
sion of it. This meant the tramping Of
women, Of wounded. the fright Of
mules, the curses Of men.
Then for time all settled down to
the dreary, cheerless tramp, tramp
When we came to the bridge, . wooden
the crowd, unable to pass quickly, was
thrown back upon itself, forming a
deadlock
Frightful struggles took place to get
in the entrance line. Babes in arms
were sutiocated. People abandoned
their bundles Of riches. Automobiles
were overturned and flung down the
banks. Crazed men unhitched horses
and tried on them to swim the stream,
running high because OF the recent
rains. We were more and more fire.
quently bombarded by aeroplanes
Women sa. down refusing to move and
were trampled where they sat. A banker
from Udinc, loaded with steel box
OF gold and paper money, wildly and
vainly offered 10000 francs to the
driver Of motor about to take its
turn at the entrance to give him ride.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
| an1nany Real
Enemy Of Jews

Iammany Hall has Indirectly so be.
smirched the name Of the Jews of New
YORK that they became the epithet 70,
opprobrlum, shame and indecencv
throughout the civilized countries. Mn
merous books and dissertations ware
published in different European Ian
guages on vice, gambling and gang
stcrs in New York City, and the Jews
were principally identified with them
None others could feel this insult
and malignant accusation more keenlv
than the Jews of New Yor,. did, and
none rejoiced more than the same .Tcws
when the Mitchell administration cradi-
Gated this evil.
Were the assertions against the
Jews founded on facts? The inten-
ton of the writer is not to engage in
whltewashing or defending the Jews.
However, the truth must be told.
Throughout the benighted period Of
Jewish oppression, of false accusations
and criminal libels heaped against the
Jew by malcvolent individuals, and
even whole nations, there was always
one great virtue about the Jew which
even his bitterest enemies could NOT
deny-the purity Of Jewish home life.
If it was not praised and lauded. as it.
rightly deserved, it was at least not At :
tackled.
Shakespeare, who did not hesitate 70
picture the Jew Shylock as a hideous
monster, could not help but depict his
lchderest feelings for the honor Of his
daughter. German anti Semjtisn, laid
at the door of tie Jew all sorts Of
degradation, but among them lewdncss
was not mentioned.
True, there were exceptions. But no
Jew VINO ever dared to deal in vice and
barter with woman's honor in the Old
World could hope ever to enter syna-
Sogue. TO be accepted'as a member of
the Jewish community, or even live
close to Jewish neighborhood.
A German writer. Franz Hoffenyel.
author Of "Das Laster New Yorks"
i"Nice in New York;: Berlin. 1914}.
maintains that it was the Jew who in
troduced prostitution in this city, which
was hitherto puritan centre"
The writer wildly recollects his ar
rival in New York in the fall Of 1886.
He was then lodged in house on Eli..
abeth Street. What he saw the first
day on that street astounded him. Re-
ginning at about ? in the afternoon
and continuing until dawn the follow.
ing day, hundreds of unfortunate won
en- were parading the sidewalks of that
street. exchanging plcasantrics with
the uniformed police. while brazenly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
American Born Soldier.
Fighting Where Ger
mans Broke Through,
Tells Story of Disaster
to Second Army
By an ltalian-Americ

December rs
TT ALL began with a leak, and was
part OF the leak.
This leak, sprung in that thirty
mile line Of battle front along the
lSonzo River was due morally to peace
propaganda. physically to the loss Of
two mountains. Be it remembered in
passing that when hole is knocked
into line of trenches if the leak is
not stopped the whole front must fall
back until new unlcakable line is
formed.
The failure first to see this particu-
lar leak and later to stop it cost the
Italians a 40o-milc line consecrated for
two hopeful years in their blood, 3OO,-
600 prisoners. $500 cannon, the huge
Province OF Venice and cold billion
dollars worth of food, stores, NUM-
tons, bridges and railroads.
Though an American, my father was
Italian born, and this is why l was in
the front line of the Italian trenches
those fateful October days, ono of the
half million men making up the Second
Army who failed in their job to hold
the upper 1sonzo. My brigade was
planted opposite the 1,5Oo-foot noun
tains of Santa Maria and Santa Lucia.
two natural fortrcsses on the Italian
side OF the river.
Followed Tactics
Of Napoleon
These mountains had never b.en
wrested from the Austrians. There
tore they formed the entering wedge
OF the Germans who crossed the Isonzo
at Tolmino. just as Napoleon had once
used them to cross to the passes of
Tolmino and enter the heart Of Aus
trIa. Why had We never wrested them
from the Austrians? This is ono Of
the unanswered questions leading I'D
to tho mystery of the less Of the armv. !
But why did not we Of the Second
Army hold on to this key to 1taly's
hearth Can a man. explain why he
suddenly goes mad? think the whole
Second Army was mad. We had been
flooded with italian newspapers, either
printed in Austria or by Italian So
clalists. falsely describing conditions
at homo. The very morning before the
great leak began had read q "Giornale
d'Italia" Of Rome telling Of revolution.
OF riots IN Naples and Florence, with
English and French soldiers shooting
down our people. We were made mad.
too. because we had not had leave in
seven months, though promised it II
we whipped the Austrians during the
Acknowledgements campaigns. General
Cadorna got his vacation, in fact. had
just returned from it the day before
the attack, SO Why not we?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

parallel to it toward Ccdroipo being
blocked with wagons, motor cars and
thousands Of people afoot.
| witnessed the most curious sights.
Rich women walking in high-heeled
shoes, officers wives carrying their
husbands dress swords, peasant women
with immense baskets on their heads
full of household odds and ends. One
had taken in and was carrying her
undricd wash. Soldiers who had thrown
away their rifles were now laden with
heavy loot of no value. One carried n
photograph. A grocer was Juggling his
account books.
This was the advanced part of the
retreat. Probably 100000 people were
ahead of us, with another three-guar-
-ters Of million behind which must
Once I climbed telegraph pole and
looked behind. All visible roads were
so full that they seemed like endless
moving platforms winding over the
plain. Here and there troops of the
rear guard were spread out. firing into
the enemy, who were operating in
small, separate forces. Our light ar
tillery was still checking the advance.
When we reached Codroipo the main
road was fed by the multitudes from
Commons, Palmanova, the Carso army
having followed the road to Latisana,
near the Adriatic Sea. The struggle to
get ahead now reached an indescrbable
degree Of confusion. Tiny Codroipo
was taken by storm. Those ahead who
tried to stop for water were pushed on
and on as by an avalanche. We had
been moving at the rate Of perhaps a
mile an hour Now it was scarccly half
that, what with the breakdowns OF
motors carrying wounded who had to
be transferred to other vehicles Many
motors were abandoned because the
drivers could get ahead more RAPIDLY
afoot,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Jews Above Others
Defeated Mitchell

10 be sure. the Jews were not tho
only ones to throw away their votes IN
hillquit, but it is. nevertheless. 2
lamentable fact that they voted almost
Ell massc for Hillquit and thev. above
all others, should have voted -o,.
Mitchell.
1t would be superauous 70 n,;,oe
words and ascribe fantastic causes for
ane failure OF Mitchsls reelection.
there is only one real reason WIZ
Altchel did not succeed himsels .,d
THIS is because nc was accused IF H.
ing 4 friend OF the rich, and hence
me enemy Of the poor. He was m.
attacked for ineficiency in Office fo,.
aHy'ns himself with crooks and cadets
VI LOT not keeping HIS promises. His
only sin was that he was sunnasoa
TO 'avor capitalism.
inc atmosphere that envelops 4 good
many Of the unsophisticated now i
sucn that should the faintest cry No
raised against anybody BRANDING him
as an ally Of capital even II he be 2
Neiehs"y' MS strength would not
avail against the onslaught.
Inc human mind is ROW running
amucA, and beginning with The pre-
ie'ar4an who has been taught That
capitalism is the destroyer Of man
hlnd, it ends with the professor in the
university proclaiming that unless the
money power is crushed and ami
Inflated 1t will be ultimately the cx-
terminator of society.
Now let us approach the strange
lacts pertaining to the Jewish voters
Of New York City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Riuer of Ruin, Choking All Roads,
F1owed from Leak in Italian Line
Surrender of Kew to
Country's Heart, Loss
of 100000 Prisoners,
$500 Guns, Due to
Spies and Peace Talk

We got away just in time. Soon the
German advance guard reached the
Nat1sone and kept coming. disdaininc
to take prisoners. Even before we lef.
an officer on motorcycle had some
how got into the town. Mad, like the
rest OF us, he had begun to shoot at the
statue of Adelaide Ristori, until HIM
self shot by some faithful carabinieri
The main object Of the Germans was
20 save from destruction the millions
of dollars worth Of stores in the ware
houses around Cividalc, winter stores
so carefully freighted from the United
States. But already the plain behind
us was covering with smoke; the stores
were being burned by our gallant cav
alrymcn, who. obsolete as crossbow
men until now, were sacrificing them
selves to protect our rear and check
the Germans until all of value could
be destroyed. Until the death of their
leader, General Rubin de Ccrvin. thew
fought TO the west OF Cividale all dur
ing those first horrible four days.
We got to Udine by aftcrnoon-I
think it was Saturday, though | lost
all count Of time. This once gay city
was being subjected to violent air raids
every half-hour. German shells were
beginning to drop upon the thousands
upon thousands of soldiers and civil
lans thronging its narrow streets. Here
all roads converged from the front and
each new arrival of soldiers convinced
unbelieving inhabitants that they must
curry away. Shops were being closed,
beautiful private residences abandoned
by their unhappy owners, locked ND in
a vain attempt to keep them safe from
The dcspoiling Hun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Italians Thought
Attack Was Bluff

dorna as we'll as for ourselves. The
Austrians in the trenches opposite had
agreed with US not to do any more
lighting for the winter, both Austrians
and ourselves believing tho Pope would
have made peace by then. It was later
| learned that Mackensen's men had
overnight relieved the Austrian troops.
to make sure Of US.
So when the Smelling became fire.
qTent the Wednesday morning OF the
attack we supposed it was some sort
of bluff and merely kept to cover.
Then, Just after bread and coffee, peep
under lift in the fog showed me the
trenches opposite heavily manned and
with Germans. Some of them we're al
ready moving on the narrow ribbon of
No Mans Land, threading their way
carefully among its denominations.
gave the alarm in soft voice to nv
comrades, leapcd to the machine gun
and turned it upon them just as YOU
would garden hose on Grass plot.
All along the line the suffering grew
and grew. hour after hour, and at every
fog lift | watched to see If the barbed
wire cntanglements bore any Austro-
German fruit. Attack after attack was
launched by those driven devils. until
the earth If pressed would itself have
flown with their blood, as ripe orange
squeezed would flow with juice. Their
artillery was given the tip to pour it
into our front line until the cement
hound rock was crumbling about us.
1wo-thlrds Of the sector lay dead or
wounded.
Spies Working
In Italian Lines
ut is no use. it's too late" | heard
comradc yell in my ear. Como on,
we're being cut off. Let's run for it.
The troops at Caporctto have de-
scrtcd."'
recognized in the man a German
who had once lived in Turin. His uni
form was Italian, his voice Bochc.
shot him dead, but already the traitors
work was done. My comrades were
racing down the t.,nnel to the second
line. had to follow. There we were
fired on by our own carabinieri, those
hated policemen, who had been guard
ing our rear for so long. shooting us
when We ran. We scrambled through
them, stabbed them, killed them by tho
dozen From thc socord 1;ro MN -
to the taird line. A bit of she'll from
the curtain fire tore through one of nv
arms, disabling it. Here we made q
stand with the rcinforcements of the
two front lines.
Rus treason vas widening the laak
A Young office. plunged into ducou,
''r& de telephone, ws!d4, demanded
t'iat more men be brought up from the
Imperial Valley press., 1918-11-13
PRESASKE[)
To A | TEND
CONFER '(;E
IN EUROPE
Official Reports Say That
the Huns Ave Evacuating
Brussels and Complying
With Armistice Terms.
(By Associa ed Press J
(By Associated Press)

w a hington, Nov. 13.-High
sources in Europe are urging the
president TO attend personally the
peace conference. The president has
not indicated how he resards the sug-
gestions. A member of the official
family is understood TO be advising
against such a step, on the sround
thai it would involve useless risk ana
would accomplish nothing that could
not be accomplished ihroush dele
gates.
The president, answering the ap-
peal of Chancellor Ebert to mitigale
the fearful conditions treatened
throush the armistice conditions.
promised to aid Germany in the MAJ
ter of food for relieving The distress
ing want He said steps swould be
takene eimemediately 10 organize re-
lief, but desired to be assured thai
public order be maintained in Ger
many so that an equitable distribu-
lion of food could be guaranteed
Imperial Valley press., 1918-11-13
WASH ORDERS
CLASS|FY|N
|8 YEAR OLD.
REG|sTRANTS
New Telegram From Pro-
vOst Marshal General
CrOWder Orders Board
to Continue Work.

Orders received by The Ell Centro
Exemption Board this morning from
Adjutant General Crowder in Wash
ington definitely settle several mat
ters of importance to The draft men
of Imperial county. These instructions
are denial of previously published
reports.
"Please tell the registered men of
Imperial county that orders just re-
ceived from the national capital re
uuire all men between the ages of
10 and 36 10 file missionaries and
make them subject 10 medical exam
ination with the possibility of cal
into the service" said c. w. Bari on,
member of the board.
"This new order also applies to IS
Near-olds. While it does not apply
to the older class-37 I'd 45-this
board would like to see every man
in this class file his questionable SO
that our records may be complete and
accurate.
"We do not known the meaning or
necessity for the orders, but in all
probability they mean The collection
of records which will be placed on
file in the government archives with
view TO future universal military
training"
The Exemption Board warns al
registrar 10 pay no attention 10
previously published or circulated re,
ports, but to comply absolutely and
faithfully with The above orders.
The telegram instrucls The board
10 continue teh physical examina-
ton and classification of reeistrants
18 years old, and to discontinue the
same for registranls between SO and
As Years"
Imperial Valley press., 1918-11-13
RED \ HEAD.
SAYS CHAPTE
FLU
ENCY
Neglect Is Charged to the
County and City Officials
by James w. GlassfOrd.

The following charges against
persons in auIhorit in county and
city governments were made today
by James w. Glassford, president
of The Imperial Valley chapter Of
the Red Cross:
"That the county and city officials
were not properly handling the in
fluenza situation.
"That some victims of the malady
were now in critical condition or
had died because these officials had
neglected their duty. -.
"That several cases Of official
buck passing had been uncovered IN
both city and county governments, :
the detriment of The sick and suf-
fering."
Mr.. Glassford authorized the fol-
lowing statement:
"AlIhough the influenza epidemic
has been with us for several weeks
an6 has constantly grown worse, Oh :
ficials of neither the city nor the
county have risen to the occasion.
"Today The Red Cross is the only
agency that is attempting TO stay
the ravages of the disease. We are
doing everything possible to relieve
the situation and in the course OF our
work will uncover such facts as will
place the responsibility for the la
mentable conditions where it belongs.
eve are not doing this to gel any
official 'in bad.' We are doing 1t for
the public, and after our inves!isa1-
ton is completed we will leave II %
the public to place the blame"
This statement of President Glass
ford's' was called forth by the find
ing of a horrible case in little
shack in the New River country,
where two large families were found
living in a hovel, with three of their
members dead from The influenza AMI
others near death.
II was found that J. R. Adams,
supervisor for the district, had been
appealed to by the Red Cross aides
and had issued orders for lie SUI
ferers 10 be removed to the county
hospital and The dead taken 10 Inc
undertaking parlors.
Meanwhile, with all The official
buck passing, the dead bodies occn-
pied The beds of the house, while The
sick were compelled to lie on the
flooor.
Cases of almost similar import
have been found locally. Red Cros
officials declare that they have OBJ
tained little or no support from
either county or city officials, and
cite The case of The county supervis-
ors as The most constructive action
taken by local officials. The board
authorized Carl Arfwedson, supsrin-
tendent of The county hospital, 10
spend any amount Of money he de
cided was necessary to fully equip
the institution to care for Influenza
patients.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-11-13

law be ended Immediately and thai
general elections be held to lake ac
ton on the problems arising oul OF
the economic and political reorganiZa
ton of the country.
(By Associated Press)
Mudros, Island of Lammons-Nine
British aeroplanes landed at Gala'a,
a suburb of Constantinople, two days
after The signing Of the Turkish ar
misice, October 81. The first AL
lied officer to reach European Turk
ish soil was Flight Commander Hen
ry Wiser, a Canadian graduate OF
Yale.
The Turks gave The airmen an en-
thusiastic reception. They declared
themselves thankful that Turkey had
been cleared of the Germans, who
fled 10 Rumanian and Russian por's
on the Black sea.
(By Associated Press)
Washington, Nov. i3.-Rumania
has reported a declaration of war
on Germany. This is interpreted as
a measure intended 10 disarm and
drive out the German army which
has been depressing the Rumanians
since The Treaty of Bucharest was
signed. Official advices said that
General Coanda headed the reorgan-
lied government.
(By Associated Press)
London, Nov. ia Serbian Off
cial communication says Cettine, The
capital of Montenegro, has been lib
Grated.
Serbians entered Versecz, Hun
gary, 25 miles north of The Danube,
Sunday, and dispersed and captured
remnants' of German rear guards. A
number of guns and some war mate
rial was captured. The Serbians al
so entered Novissad.
(By Associated Press)
Havre, Monday, Nov. 1.-THE Bel
gian war office announced that the
Belgians entered Ghent and contin-
ued their progress until the armis-
tice became effective.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-11-13
PEACE BAIL IS NOW
REDUCED TO $1,000
BY COURT ORDERS

Granting The application of de"
fendant counsel, Judge Isaac May
field yesterday reduced the bond Of
j. D. Kirkham, South Fern district
rancher, for preservation of the
peace, from $4,000 to $1,000. This
sum the prisoner Immediately de-
posted in the hands of the court
and was released from custody.
Kirkham also turned over to his
wife the sum of $500, with the un
derstanding that she is to leave The
Fern district within thirty days. The
charge against Kirkham was thai
of threatened offense, specificalla
that he threatened to kill Clifford
Omar, a rancher for whom his wife
was working as cook.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-11-13
British Food Controller
Says European Situation
Is SeriOus-TwO COun-
tries to Feed World.
(By Associated Pross)

London, Tuesday, Nov. 13.-John
Robert Clynes, British food control
ler, said today that the food situation
in Europe continues serious and Will
necessitate. large shipments until
spring.
1t is confidently expected that
America will back any British sac
rifices which may be necessary in be-
half of The needy peoples of Eu-
rope.
He said the situation was prevent :
ed from becoming critical by Ger
lain amount of wheat flour reserves
which had been accumulated in Eng
land.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-11-13
vii nS0N INVITED TO PEACE pARLEY
Grass
New Crop

Introducing new crop 10 the I'm
perial Valley, The home of diversified
AGRICULTURAL industry, Renfrew &
Beatty haev reported success 10 Coun-
ty Horticultural Commissioner Waite
in their experiments with Rhodes
grass on their 480-acre ranch, stu
ated four miles west of INLAND.
The ranch will be utilized for stock
raising. They have found that The
of rich Valley land and
climate causes the grass to grow in
profusion and on the hard alkali soil
it produces tonnage greater Than
that of alfalfa.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-11-13
VALLEY RESIDENTS
ORGANIZE UNIQUE
ASSOCIATION HERE

The following Imperial Valley men
have formed an association, to be
known as the Trapping, Hunting and
Prospecting Association: Will Jones,
Tom Edwards, Jack Anderson, Thos.
Miles, M. C. Mackafee, Sam Davis,
Will Wallace, Ben Bennett, c. NJ.
Crawford, E. d! Mackerway, jeff
Williams, M. Boyd, B. Williams, Sam
Davis, E. d. McKelley Tom Simmons,
Sam Miles, u. Hall, B. S. Streeter.
Each man is expected TO pay the
license for carrying heavy arms and
has pledged himself to turn over his
"finds" in prospecting TO the asso-
citation the sharing to be in the form
of dividends.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-11-13
INSURANCE PLAN.
(By Associated PresS)

Washington Nov. 13.-The gov
ernment is Fastening preparations
for reinsuring returning soldiers and
sailors. Each of The four and one
quarter million men holding volun-
tary government insurance will be
permitted within five years TO con
vert their policies, without further
medical examination into ordinary
twenty paymenh life or endowment
policies maturing at The age of 62
or into other prescribed forms of in
surance. 1t is expected that The cost
will be one-fourth less than similar
forms offered by private companies