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New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
BRITISH TAKE PRISONERS.
War Office Reports Successful Raids
in the Amiens Area.

London, July 17.-Raids carried
out last night by the British in the
Amiens area east of Fillers-Bretton-
neux and near Hulluch, on the front
to the north, resulted in the taking
OF prisoners, the war Office announced
today.
In the Sornme and Ancre sectors,
to the northeast of Amiens. and in
the Arras region, north Of the scarpe.
the enemy artillery was active last
night. similar activity was displayed
by the German guns in Flanders, In
the district northeast of Bethune and
to the north OF Railleul. --.--------
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
WASHINGTON EXPECTS
PEACE OVERTURES
Statements of Baron Burian Accepted
As FOrcrunncr of New Aus
trian Negotiations.

Washington, July 17-There is only
one opinion in official circles here as
to the note addressed by Baron Buri-
an, the Austro- Hungarian foreign
minister, to the Austrian and Hun
garian premiers on the subject of
peace. That is that this evidently
carefully framed communication was
negotiations Immediately upon the
hoped-for successful conclusion of
the present great German drive
against the Entente forces along the
Marine and east Of Rheims.
Baron Burian's argument is direct
ed to meet the American association
of the right of regeneration of
reading between the lines of his note
that he is quite willing that this prin-
ciple of self regeneration should be
applied to the peoples in Entente
countries, but reserve to the Austrian
and German governments the right to
absolute control of the subjugated ma
tons within their borders. In this
he follows the principle laid down by
the Germans who negotiated the
Brest- -Litovsk treaty whereby Russia
was torn to pieces.
1t is believed for the present at
least this last note will not elicit any
formal response from the Allies or
America
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
PROUD OF THEIR SON
NIr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
Glad Quentin Had Chance to Serve
His Country.

Oyster Bay, n. Y, July 17.-"Quen-
tins mother and l are very glad he
got to the front and had the chance
to render ONE service to his country
and show the stuff there was in him
before his fate befell him.
This statement was issued by Col.
Theodore Roosevelt today after press
dispatches had furnished confirma-
ton Of earlier reports that his son,
Lieut.. Quentin Roosevelt, had been
killed in an aerial battle in France.
Col. Roosevelt said his plans rel
ative to attending the New York
republican convention at Sara toga
Springs were unchanged and that no
would deliver an address at the con-
NpItiOn tomorrow.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
U. S. AVIATORS WIN
Five German Airsnips and One
Balloon Destroyed by Americans in
Fighting on the Marine.

With the American Force in France,
July II (By the Associated Press }
Five German airships and one balloon
were destroyed by American aViators
in the lighting over Dormans on the
river Marne.
Xenos Miller of Wooster. Ohio,
brought down a balloon and fought off
three FOkllcr machines. Charles
Porter, of New Rochelle, n. Y,
knocked down Il German whose ma
chine fell "a thousand feet. Francis
Simmonds, of New York City, brought
down two German machines in the
sa me flight Arthur Jones, of Hav-
wards, near San Francisco, brought
down one airplane and Ralph ONeil,
OF Noga1es, Artz destroyed q two
scatter. ~
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
HeyoIutiOnistS Advance,

Peking, Monday, July Is (By The
Associated Press) THE town of
Klutshevsk, in the southwestern eX-
tremity of the Transbaikal region,
has been occupied by the Czecho-
Slovak forces following their capture
Of IrkutSk. The BolShevil1i are re-
ported concentrating at Verheru-
dinsk.
A dispatch from Manchuria an
nounces that Gen. Semenoff, the anti
Bolshevik leader, has occupied Shar-
asun with his forces.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17

Paris, July IT,. 5s
night threw new forces M
on the front south of the N|Sg Il
attacked the Allied lines NORTH 9f Il
Agnan, the war office announced I'd
day The enemy succeeded in penl
trating into Bourdonerie. The bal
tie is continuing in the woods immed
ate to the south of this point.
On the front further to the east til
French held the enemy in the south
ern outskirts of the Bouquieny Wod
and at the village of Nesles.
A powerful attack likewise wd
made by the Germans in the directid
of Monvoisin, but they were drivd
from this locality by French coud
ter attack.
On the front between the Mard
and Rheims the fighting developd
violently in the Courton Wood. Til
Germans attacked in the Vrigny I'd
gion on this front but their assauh
here broke down completely
Along the line to the east q
Rheims the Germans delivered Iocas
notably in the Prunay I'd
gion. These efforts by the enemk
were fruitless.
In renewed assaults upon BeauA
mont the enemy suffered a sanguira
ary repulse.
The French positions throughoua
the region to the east of Rheims werH
intact
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
ENEMY AIRDROME BURNED.
22 AirplaneS Observation-Disclosures
Suspect RcNOIutiOnists In Army.

London, July 17.-The destruction
by fire of u new German airdrome,
with % airplancs near Nivelles is
attributed to the work of German
revolutionists in the army, says an
Exchange telegraph dispatch from
Amsterdam today. NiVelleS Is II
miles south Of Brussells
Ten Bclgians and two German
non-commissoned officers have been
arrested.
The day before the fire, adds the
dispatch, a secret meeting occurred
in u canteen at Nivelles where the
scheme for the destruction of the
airdrome was discussed
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
RAID 33 HUN TOWNS.
During June Allied Aviators Pay
Many Visits to EncmY.

Amsterdam, July 17.-Thirty-three
air attacks were made in June by the
Allies against German towns and
cities, according to statement issued
at Berlin.
The report admits slight damage
was done to blast furnaces in the
Saarbruecken region and at Ludwigs-
hafen, while the damage to private
houses is said not to be inconsider-
able. Thirty-tour persons have been
killed and 81 severely injured. Thir-
ty-fiVe others suffered slight wounds.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
Huns Advance 6 Miles.
General Attack Halted.

With the French Army III France.
July 16 (nighD .-(By The Associated
Press) The stoppage of the gen.
eral German attack appears to haye
been the feature of today's fighting. ;.
The enemy is resorting, momentarilyI
at least, to local actions supported by
strong artillery.
South of the Marine the Germans
were turned out of st. Agnan and
ChapelIe- Monthodon by Il counter at
tack which enabled the French and
Americans to regain heights over
looking a portion of the course of the
Marine.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
Americans Capture Prisoners.

washington, July 17--Gen, Pershing's
communique for Monday, reaching
the war department today reported
that 500 prisoners were taken by the
Americans in their counter attack
which drove the Germans back to the
Marne. east OF Chateau Thierry.
The communique for Tuesday re-
ports the cooperation Of American
troops with the French est OF
Rheims in successfully repulsiug en-
envy attacks at all points
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
SPANISH BOAT TORPEDOED.

Athens, Greece, July 17.-It is an
nounced from a Spanish source that
Spanish steamship on which
Minister Lopez de Vega was return
ing to Spain, has been torpedoed by a
German submarine. The ship flew the
ministers flag. The diplomat and his
family have been rescued. The Ger
man government had been notified OF
the minister's departure n week in
Advance
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
L. S. GENERALS HONORED.

London, July 17.--Gen. John J.
Pershing has been awarded the
Grand Cross Of the Order of the
Bath, and Gen. Tasker II. Bliss, AM
erican representative at the supreme
war council has been given the Grand
Cross Of the Order Of st. Michael
and st. George. This was officially
announced tOday.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
GERMANS KILL OWN MEN.

Paris, July II, Havas)-Nmcty-
four Germans were killed and -
wounded on the night of July 1915
when five German aviators bombed q
prisoners camp in the region of
Troyes, thirty miles behind the
French battlefront. The aerial bonn
bardmen lasted an hour Two French
soldiers Of tbs camp guard were
wounded
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
People Request Protection.
Bolshevilx Ready to Flee.

London, July 17.-Reports re-
ceived in Toxic state that the Boil
sheVik leaders in the Irkutsll region
have taken alarm at the coup exc
cuted by the anti-Bolshcvill elements
at Vladivosto1 and are preparing to
flee towards Mongolia, according to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from TiCn TSin.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
MOONEY IN DEATH ROW.

San Francisco, July 17-Accom-
panied only by Sheriff Thomas Finn
and q deputy. Thomas j. Mooney left
here at 10 o'clock today for the
"death row" in San Quentin peniten-
tiary. where he is under sentence to
be hanged on August 20 for murder
in connection with u preparedness
day bomb explosion here.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17

London, July 17.-Some 500 per-
sons die Of cholera daily in Petro-
grad, according to travellers arriving
in Copenhagen, says a dispatch from
the Danish capital to the Exchange
Telegraph Co. At Saratov hcusands
of persons are suffering from the dis
ease. The malady has spread to Fin
land,
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
ANOTIitlR HOSPITAL BOMBED.

Puris. July 1I.--1'WO German air-
planes participated in the deliberate
bombing of the American Red Cross
hos itaf at JoUy on Monday. \
private from Philadelphia was struck
by a piece OF bomb at almost the
identical spot on his back from which
piece OF shrapnel had been removed
a 1eH hours psgTIcnsfYs
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17

Amsterdam, July II (via wireless
press) Premier Lenine is about to
break off diplomatic relations with
Great Britain and any other Entente
power connected with the landing of
armed forces on the Murman coast,
according to news said to have been
received from Moscow by Berlin
newspapers.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17

A dispatch received in London
Monday from Moscow by way of Am
sterdam reported American and Brit
ish troops had occupied the entire
Murman coast in northern Russia. An
earlier dispatch on the same date said
the Russian foreign office had sent
to Great Britain a demand that Brit
ish detachments on the Thurman
coast be re-embarked without delay,
People Request Protection.
The Allied troops on the Thurman
coast are there at the express re-
quest of the Russian citizens there.
The local population has been aid
ing the troops in defending the ice
free harbors and the railway running
south toward Petrograd. German
and Finnish forces have been report
ed to be threatening the Murman
railway near KEN.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
Premier Lenine to Take
Drastic Measures as the
Result of the Landing of
Troops on Murman Coast.
SOLDIERS THERE AT
REQUEST OF PEOPLE

Already Taken Over the Northern
Coast of Russia, Despite Protests
From the Foreign Otfice-PreSencc
of Military Forces There Is At the
Especial Request of the People,
Dispatches Assert.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-17
Baron Burian, Foreign Minis
ter, Says 1t Can Be Ended
the Moment Allies Mani
fest Feelings of Humanity.
FIGHTS FOR DEFENSE
OF DUAL MONARCHY

After the War the Austro- Hungarian
Government Expects to Remain in
Closer Relations With Turkey and
Struggle Charged to tho One Sided
and Destructive Aims of Entente.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-30

batting the people into forlorn hope
which could only end in complete
determination. The death of the
doomed S0,0 900 did not concern these
n1aniacs in whose reckonings human
blood never counted. Their notion
ofImiliS1ry honor was that the whole
people should suffer themselves to
be butchered rather than undergo
the shame of defeat.
ssssey WorsF1iPped Might
with their minds stepped in the
worship of might, they had no ink
ling; Of the revolutionary currents
among the men. They still imagined
that iron discipline was paramount.
Their f1endish plan was to send out
the ships to be sacrificed to the last
ship. The news spread like wild
fire.
At the last stage of the war are
we all to be killed?" they asked.
THE officers harangued, caioled,
in vain. Three times the order was
given. 1t was a difficult position for
men with no backing but their feel
ing Of solidarity. A thousand were
imprisoned at Wilhelmshaven. The
choice between freedom and impris-
onment was not difficult 1t was
revolution. It was the Irony of fate
that the Pan-Germans, with what
was to be their last desperate blow,
should themselves have started the
conflagration. It was this last dew
ilisn crime against the German peo-
pie that sealed their DOOM
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-30
B0LSheiks Worst Kind of
Carpet Baggers Says Man
Who Has Been in Russia

London, Dec. 10.-( Correspondence
of the Associated Press )--The Boil
shevik government in Russia is de-
scribed by man who recently re-
turned !. from that country as "a
carpet bag government of the most
fragrant sort" Theoretically. he
says, the Bolshevik government is
popular and supposed to represent
the will sof the working masses
throughout Russia. In practice local
Soviets have been bowled over when
ever they failed to satisfy Moscow
officials, and outsiders have been
placed in control. A large proportion
of the travelling commissars who go
about, Russia on armored trains to
keep the local Soviets in lips are de-
clared to be agitators from New
York and London.
Applied TO America.
The government is described as
analogous to such a rule as might be
imagined to originate with worknaen
Of New York and Chicago. Carry
ing out the analogy, such a govern
ment would recognize the political
rights of nobody but workrnen in
New Orleans and San Francisco. 1t
WOulu rONeHIHIoW Dy arms any gov
ernment in Seattle or San Antonio
which did not reflect its own views
and would deny the ballot to all per-
sons possessed Of property. Under
such a government New York and
Chicago politicians would be sent
with armed trains to overthrow
Soviets in st. Louis and Detroit
which failed to obey the mandate of
the central governing board Da-
kota wheat farmers and Texas cot
ton growers would be forced to sur
render their products to armed
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-30
TRIAL TOUCHES
MANY SUBJECTS
W i tn e SIS e S in Socialist
Hearing at Chicago
Wander Far Afield

Chicago, Dec -Bolshevism, the
red flag, direct action, industrial
democracy, socialism,, Pragmatism,
trade unionism, war, poverty and free
speech were a few or the subjects
brought into the trial of the five So
cialist leaders charged with violation
of the espionage law today. The de-
Tense announced that it will call
Governor Phillip Of Wisconsin as a
witness.
The Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker,
one of the defendants, resumed the
witness stand at the opening session.
He repeated the substance of numer-
GUS antf-war speeches he had deliv-,
cred. He related a conversation al
legged to have been held with Prof.
David Starr Jordan, President emer-
titus of Leland Stanford, Jr., univer-
sity, in the summer OF 1917 in which
the educator quoted a New York
banker to the effect that the United
States had to enter the war to pro-
tect american investments and loans
abroad.
Mr.. Tucker read lengthy excerpts
from the report of the Federal Com
mittee on industrial relations OF
which Frank p. Walsh, was chair
man, to show the poverty of the
told of writing a reply to President
Wilson's flag day address and the
anti-war pamphlet why we should
fight" Both were delivered to the
american Socialist for publication.
Witness also told OF being arrested
in. Chicago several times for making
radical speeches.
He referred to a speech said to have
been made by Elbert H. Gary. chair
man of the board of the United States
Steel Corporation, suggesting that 5,-.
900, 1000 Chinese coolies be brought to
the United States to take the places
Of men who had gone to war.
Mr.. Tucker said that the real cause
of the dispute between Serbia and
Austria which brought on the war,
was a. demand of Serbia for a seaport
through which to export its swine
the chief product of the country.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-30
when The Boys
Come Home
lBy Assoclated Press. }

Washington, Dec. 30.-The de-
parture from France of three trans
ports with more than 5000 troops,
including wounded and casuals, was
announced Saturday by the war de-
partment. The transport Matsonia
sailed December % and should reach
New York January 3 with the Hath
the l43rd field artillery, both of the
10th division. and number OF sick
and wounded and casuals.
The Northern Pacific, sailing
Christmas Day, is due in New York
January 2 with a large number Of
sick, wounded and casuals, and the
Eighth Trench Mortar battery of the
Eighth Division.
The .Pocahontas, sailing December
"a, is duH at Newport News, jan
uary with the 33Sth field artillery
of the. S8th division and the 126th
field artillery OF the 34th division
and sick, wounded and casuals.
Six Ships Have Sailed
Washington. Dec. 30.-Sailing OF
three transports and of three battle
ships serving as transports. bringing
back troops from France, was an
nounced today by the war DEPART
ment. In all about 200 officers and
$500 men comprise the units of the
six ships.
The transport Koenigen der Ned
erlanden sailed from France Dec. %
for Newport News and will probably
arrive Jan. with the following
troops. Headquarters 163rd field
artillery brigade; 125th field artillery,
comprising &c per cent Minnesota
troops, per cent to Iowa, per cent
to Michigan, per cent TO Montana.
20 per cent to Camp Cody and 19
per cent TO Camp Travis; casual
companies and 327: casual compa-
MES Of Marines numbers 332 and
333.
On the transport Powhatan which
also sailed Dec. 25 for Newport News
where she is due Jan 4, are the fol-
lowing: Headquarters Seth field ar
tillery brigade: f127th field artillery
regiment: 115th trench mortar bat
terry; casual company No. 8; sick
and wounded, 352.
The battleship Georgia sailed Dec.
26th for Newport News and will
probably arrive Jan. Z with the Sixth
trench mortar battalion complete
and the 311th trench mortar battery.
The battleship Kansas sailed Dec.
26 for Newport News and is sched-
uled TO arrive Jan. with the Sew
enth trench mortar battalion, 3rd
and and aircraft sector and casual
companies numbers 800. 323 and 324.
The battleship North Carolina
sailed Dec. 26 for New York and will
probably arrive Jan. 6. She brings
the 18th ammunition train head
quarters, companies + and G.. head
quarters detachment, ordnance de-
tachmcnt and medical detachment;
49Sth aero squadron aiN1 casual COM
panies numbers 201. 202. 203 and 204
of the Marine corps.
The transport Pastores sailed
Dec. 20 for Newport News and will
probably arrive Jan, 5. She has on
board 1.176 sick and wounded accom-
panied by a medical detachment of
eight officers. 40 men and II nurses. |
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-30

crusaders at whatever price the CEN
trail Soviet officials chose to pay.
Banks and industries Of all sorts
would be nationaIized. Title to farm
land and city property would vest in
the government.
80 Per Cent Own Property.
Workmen, the traveller says, COM
pose less than 10 per cent of the
population of Russia. Consequently.
the assumption Of spo5esmen Of
radical labor circles to sociaIize Rus
sia was more chimerical than it
would be in a highly industrialized
country. RUSSIA is an unorganized
primitive agricultural contry; so per
cent Of its peasants possess property
which falls within the confiscation
lines as defined by Lenine Siberia
and the other undeveloped farming
sections of Russian domain offer ex-
ceptional opportunities to industrious
settlers and there every man stands
or falls according to his own in
dustry and merit. Such districts, it
is stated, feel no need for efforts at
specialization and were the first to re-.
sent the domination of representa- 4
tives of the Lenine government.
Insults offered by the travelling
commissars and their armed bands
have aroused the antagonism of
Christian organizations. including
the Russian orthodox church. 1t is
asserted that few of the agitators
from America are American citizens
Almost without exception they are
said to be anxious to return TO the
United States. They are dissatisfied
with Bolshevik Russia and, after de-
nouncing the United States in pub
lie speeches confess in private that
they would rather live in America
than anywhere else.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-30
ENDORSEMENT OF
GEORGE BY
VOTERS PROVES
over " HELNING
Possible That Asquith May
Retire from Politics,
Following Defeat
(By Assoclated Presg.l


London, Dec. 29.-(British wireless
serVice) Lloyd George and
the coalition government won more
sweeping victory in the general elec-
ton than had been expected.
Not only was H. H. Asquith, for
mer premier, defeated but his per-
sonal following from the house of
commons has been reduced to 81.
1t is believed that new seat will
be found for him, by one of his fol-
lowers resigning in his favor as soon
as parliament meets.
In the defeat of Reginald McKen-
ma. Walter Runciman. Sir John ST.
mon, Herbert Samuel and Thomas
McKinnon Wood, the front of the op-
position bench is deprived OF all its
principal occupants. There have
been suggestions that Mr.. Asquith
might retire from politics as result
of his defeat, but this view is not
encouraged by his personal friends.
Should he retire. however, he prob
ably would be succeeded in the Lib
eral leadership by Mr.. McKepna or
Sir John Simon.
While the Labor party as whole
has strengthened Its numerical fol-
lowing in parliament, some OF its
more prominent members have lost
their seats. The most notable defeat
was that of Arthur Henderson, the
de facto leader OF the "oId Guard
of the Labor party. The fact that
James Ramsay Macdonald and Phil
ip Snowden lost also is striking.
The defeated women candidates in
clude Miss Christabel PanlShurst,
Mrs. Despard, sister OF Field Mar
shaI French; Mrs. Pethick Lawrence.
Miss Violet Markham and Miss Mary
Macdonald.
In Ireland the success of the Sim
Fein party was sweeping, only seven
members Of the old Nationalist party
succeeding In escaping defeat.
John Dillon, chairman of the Ma
tionalist party lost his seat for East
Mayo. to Edward De Valera.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-30
Neze, Submarine
Has 12-inch Gun

New York, Dec. 3O.-NaYal officers
who arrived on the vessels that had
formed the Sixth Squadron of the
Grand Sea fleet told Of a new sub
marine of great size that England
has built, and which carries twelve
inch gum This newest addition to
Britain's fleet is said to be longer
than the latest type of German u
boat. The big gun was mounted
forward, and its principal mission,
they said, was to lombard Helgoland.
The submarine would come up near
the German stronghold and fire but
enc shot. This accomplished her mis-
sion and she would return to her base
According to reports. the recoil of the
gun was so heavy that the submarine
was sent about six feet under water.
Another development of the sub
marines the officers said, was a
vessel that was capable OF making
twenty five knots on the surface. She
was said to be driven by steam They
learned of this vessel only when she
tied up to an American dreadnought
in a fog. This boat carried four inch
guns and a crew of fifty men. She
was equipped with long-range wire
less apparatus. An officer who in
spected her said that when submerg-
ing the two stacks folded back and
the openings closed automatically.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-30
BLIZZARD and
COLD WAVE ARE
DUE, WEA'T Her
FORECAST SHOWS

4 The snowfall of the last is hours
may develop into an old fashioned
blizzard, according to the forecasts
of the U. S. weather bureau
The cold wave and storm flags
are being displayed today ON the
weather station in Moorhead, and the
temperature has been falling during
the afternoon.
REPORTS received this afternoon
from several North Dakota points in
dicates that the snowfall is general.
Snow tonight; probably Tuesday.
Cold wave with temperature below
zero, and strong northerly Winds" is
the way the forecast for the Moor
head district reads, as announced
from the Moorhead station this NOR
ming.
About six inches of snow has fall
len since Sunday evening, being very
light. and should high wind devel-
ope, q real old fashioned blizzard
would be assured.