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New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Pictures Blight War
Has Put on Germany
lnterned Englishman, Freed,
Says All Life in Country Seems
To Be Suspended
[.Stuf Correspondence I

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Thc state
ment Of an Englishmar who was in
termed in Germany at the outbreak of
the war and who recently was per-
mitted to return home pictured the
interior Of Germany as Il place where
all life and energy seem to be sus-
pended or absent. He said, according
to advices received here to-day, Of his
trip out of Germany:
That journey of twenty-siX hours
by train was extraordinarily indicative
of the condition of the people. The
whole country seemed to be blighted
dead. We passed only two trains
though we were on the main line from
Berlin. During the whole Of the jour
rey we saw only three chimneys out
OF which smoke was coming.
Scarcely any persons were to be
seen, either in the towns or the vii
lagos. Nothing was being sold at the
stations. nor, SO far as we could see,
in the streets. There were hardly any
wagons carrying merchandise. All life
and energy seemed to be suspended OF
absent.
population must be on the frontiers,
while the women and children remain
al home i'll their unheated and unlight-
cd houses. I do not want to overdraw
the picture, but it greatly impressed
me. know the route quite we'll, and
am familiar with its normal aspects.
No contrast could be more striking.
My idea is that Germany is standing
the hunger test very patiently and with
an endurance that may last loNg
time. Soldiers to whom we spoke on
the journey were outspokenly social
istic, describing the war as mere folly
but there was 10 hint of their ever
giving political effect to their views"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Germans Starving,
Norwegian Says
Merchant Warns That Entente
Must Conquer or be
Conquered
Especial Correspondence

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29.-R. O. Krerc-
noes. representative of the Harald
Anderson Shoe Company, the largest
wholesale shoe house in Norway, who
IS IN st. Louis, on his way to Wash
lngton. TO confer with DR.. Nansen, Nor
ways economic representative in the
United States. declared in an interview
here that Germany is starving. and it
IS premature for the Entente to be
talking peace, as their goal is in sight.
We have this information" Kro-
gehoes SAID. from neutrals who daily
leave Germany. They relate awful
stones of German military atrocities
against their own people. who are
clamorlng for food. The poor people
OF Germany are shot down in the
streets i'll food demonstrations.
You must crush the German mil
ltary power or be crushcd-do not
temporizc. They are merciless. Nor
way shall never forget the murder of
Its citizens on the sea, and we are
heart and soul in sympathy with any
plan that will end Germany's military
power for evermore.
Were we to view the situation from
a military standpoint, it would appear
that Germany has won the war. But
the contrary is true. German peace
talk is not prompted by the military
situation or by humanitarian motives.
German peace talk is forced by inter
nal conditions. The people have found
the kaiser's promises Of early victory
empty and from promises the German
has turned to savage measures
against the German people.
You must win, or we Shall all ho
conquered" " ~
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Even German Socialists
Look Foruard to a
Great Colonial Empire
[.Si0f C0yycsrondcpccl

WASHINGTON. Jan. 29-Gcrmans
may look forward with high assurance
to great German colonial empire, ac-
oording to n we'll known German Ma
jority Socialist, DR.. Lersch. Excerpts
from an address by INN. received here
to-day, reveal that some influcntiai
Socialists also favor imrerialistic poll
cics. In speaking at Chemnitz on the
future of German colonies, he ridi-
culed the idea that they would remain
in the hands of Britain. He said:
Before we agree to the surrender
of our colonies we must be borne down
On every frontier where we are now
victorious. And what possibility is
there Of this?" Defeat, he maintained,
was absolutely inconccivable. He de-
clared that TO wrench her colonies
from Germany, would be national
humiliation, for which there could be
no equivalent in gain elsewhere, and
concluded:
"Lct us be quite sure that we shall
not lose our colonies, not because it
would break our hearts to lose them
but because we can compel our enemies
to yield them, and more besides. We
may look forward with high assurance
to great German colonial empire"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Czernin Did Not Send
Speech to Wilson
But He Promised Socialist
Delegate That President
Would Get 1t "Immedi-
ately" by Telexraph

WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-The story
that Count Czernin told Austrian del
egates he had sent copy Of his war
aims speech 10 President Wilson in ad-
vance Of delivery was exploded to-day
by cable received at the State De-
partment quoting an extract from the
"Beriner Tageblatt" explaining that.
refusing to transmit his address di-
rectly TO the President, Czernin said
he would get it in "immediately by
telegraph"
The "Berliner Tageblatt" said:
ut would be wrong to take Czernin's
statement too literally and to believe
that the American President received
directly or Indirectly from Austria 4
SPECIAL report on the speech. The facts
arc as follows:
"A Socialist delegate requested Ger
nm to transmit his reply to Wilson
through the interme ediary of a neutral
country. Czernin refused, saying Will
son would get it (the speech>. inn ,ro
a'ately by telegraph. Thus the av.
preston at the same hour is not ~ ~
be taken literally. With the excent;or
or Czechs and the Socialists whe sra ,n''
1erred direct communication to W;,son
All others were satisfied with Czernin,s
reply. It can be reiterated that thara
vas vas no direct. communication and th.t
.ne sood o'flces of neutral powers were
not requested" were
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Trotzky to Seize
Rurnania's Gold
Reserve in Russia

LONDON. Jan. 29.-Leon Trotzky.
Bolshevik Foreign Minister. announced
to the Congress of Workmen's and Sol
diers' Delegates on Saturday night the
decision Of the government respecting
reprisals against Rumania. These in
clude the breaking off of diplomatic re
lations, the seizure of Rumanian gold
reserves in Moscow and the outlawing
of Lieutenant General Stcherbatcheff. # i.
the former commander in chief on the
Rumanian front.
Trotzky said that the Rumanian
gold reserve amounted to $500, 900
and that the custodian of this fund
had been placed under arrest.
1t is understood that General Stcher-
batchetf has been cooperating with the
Rumanians in disarming Russians III
Rumania and Bessarabia.
Reuter- disratch from Petrograd
dated Monday says that the Rumanian
legation received ten hours notice to
leave Russia and would start for
stockholm at midnight.
A dispatch from Berlin. by way Of
Amsterdam, says that the Rumanian
Premier, j. {. {. Bratiano, has re
signed. He will be succeeded, accord
ing to the dispatch. by General Eofoza
Averesco, former Minister of War and
lately commander of the Rumanian
forces in Dobrudja.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
lnterned as Agent of
German ImperialBank
San Francisco Man Called
Berlin's Agent in the
United States

san FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.-George
Boden, for the last two years in charge
Of the foreign exchange department Of
a large San Francisco bank, was az
rested on presidential warrant to-
day and interned as dangerous enemy
alien. Federal officials announced.
Documents which the authorities
contended showed that Boden had been
Pacific Coast representative of the
German Imperial Bank of Berlin. we're
seized. Authorities declare Boden was
ordered out of Japan in February, 1915.
when he was the representative of the
Deutche-A Asiatische Bank. on a charge
of conveying valuable military infor
nation to Berlin.
The arrest, Federal officials believe.
will result in the scotching of Ger
manys alleged extensive financial
system in the United States and japan.
which has bee maintained in snite
OF the war. TOR nearly three years.
Federal authorities said, Boden has
received $500 a month from the Ger
man Imperial Bank for activities here.
These activities. they asserted, did not
consist alone of financial transactions
While IN Japan, it was alleged, he
carried on German propaganda through
two newspapers he controlled, and also
mad secured subscriptions in Japan and
the United States to Germany's several
war loans.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Red Guard Cuts Wires
And Gables From, Finland
tSt0f Cor.espon |

WASHINGTON, Jan. o.-Dispatches
70 the State Department. from Stock
holm to-day stated that the telegraph
and telephone wires. via Haparanda. TO
Petrograd, and the cable to Ciborg had
been cut by the Red Guard. There was
received by the department. almost 81
multaneously, however, cablegram
from Petrograd
The Red Guard were reported also IT,
have occupied the railway station at
Helsingfors.
All telegraphic communication with
FINLAND was reported broken Officials
here believed the difficulties were
caused by the disorders in Finland.
inns government anticipated no seri-
Gus obstacle to communications with
Petrograd, as there are two routes
Stok
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Glasses Bolsheviki
With the Romanofs
Sack Says New Rulers Are
Worse Than the Czar-
Revolt Urged

In dissolving the Russian Con-
stltuent Assembly, representing the
will Of the great mass of Russians, the
Bolsneviki revealed a tyrannical and
hypocritical policy in accord with that
of the Romanoff regime, in the opinion
of A. j. Sack, director of the Russian
information Bureau of this city, who
ISSUED statement yesterday to bear
out his assertions.
1--WE now possess Documents" says
the statement, (which illustrate strik
ingly the extreme hypocrisy with which
the Bolshiviki treated the Constituent
Assembly until the very last moment,
when it became evident that the ma
iority Of the assembly, which means
the majority Of the Russian people,
was against them"
When the formation Of Lenine's gov
crnment was announced, the staten ent
says, one Of the main aims of the
Bolsheviki was proclaimed to be the
convocation of the Constituent Assem-
bly,. When the elections showed that
the country repudiated the Bolshevik
programme and an anti -Bolshcvik ma
lority in the assembly was assured, the
Leninc government went back on its
cation OF the assembly impossible By
calling the Congress Of Councils Of
Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates
"Russla will not accept the Bolshevik
tyranny without decisive fight" Mr..
Sack predicts. land the first round of
this internal struggle will be between
the Bolsheviki and the Socialists Revo.
.utionists.' He reveals proclamation
published by the Central Committee
Of the latter party four days after the
Bolshevik revolt, which says in part:
"Comrades: You have been deceived
IN the basest. most scoundrel-like man
ner. Power has been usurped by the
Bolsheviki alone.
there will be no bread. The Bolsheviki
revolt will completely disorganize the
railroads, and the transportation of
bread has been attended with diff.
cuities even before their revolt. There
vii! be no money. You will get no
wages and no salaries.
"The Bolsheviki are leading you to
the point where the mills and factories
will close down, and unemployment.
starvation and death will follow. They
promised You separate peace, but in
stead OF this they are giving you a
new and more di1ficUlt war at the front
aNt. new civil ~'ar within the coun-
try.
iAey promised You land and liberty,
but the counter revolutionary forces
Will make use CT The anarchy created
by the Bolsheviki to deprive you of
both land and liberty.
The only way to suppress the an
archy and the counter revolution, al
ready jubilant, is to form new demo.
cratic and revolutionary government.
which Will be recognized by the entire
country. Join hands with the ALL
Russian Committee Tor the Salvation
Of the Country and the Revolution.
unite with the Socialist parties"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
2 Nelu Assistant Secretaries
OF War Created in Bill
Framed at Bakers Request

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-At the "a.
quest OF Secretary of War Bake,
Chairman Dent Of tie House Militarv
Affairs Committee o-day introduced :,
blll creating two additional Assistant
secretaries vi War.
he bill WAS introduced" Cba;,ma,
Dent SAID. TO put the War Dena,t-
meht on the same baeis as other execu
1--WE departments, most of which hav.
'hree or four assistant secretaries. Tn
oill was drawn in the War Department,
and introduced it to-day at The re-
quest OF Secretary Baker. The measure
gives the Secretary two new assistant
secretaries, in addition to Assistsns
Secretary of War Crowell. for the NV.
pose of relieving ham of some of IN.
detail work of his Office. The measur>
provides salary Of $4,000 a wear for
each secretary. The responsibility 81
the office OF Secretary of War still
centres IN Secretary Baker"
Just what functiors the new assist
ant secretaries will have could rot be
ascertained at Secretary Bakers offico
Today. IT was said tnat no division -
the work had yet been made.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
2 Paterson Grocer Who Made
Big Sugar Sales SUSPENDED

WASHINGTON. Jan. 29-For selling
an excessive quantity of sugar to an
grocer, Of Paterson, n. j., has been or.
dered by the food administration to
suspend business entirely during the
month of February
Nochlmson sold 400 pounds of sugar
to theatre manager who offered to
give one-pound bags to the purchasers
of admission tickets.
DR.. II. l.: Russell, dean of the College
Of Agriculture of the University of
wisconsin, has been appointed an aid
to Food Administrator Hoover. to CO.
ordinate the production problems of
the Department of Agriculture and the
food administration.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Allies and America
Will Exchange Views
Before Talking Peace
LSta.f Cox1.espondellcel

W ASH1NGTON. Jan. o9.-The Allied
governments and the United States
Will Interchange views before apv
peace movement is responded to either
ny the Allies or America. This is the
understanding with Allied diplomats
mere who declared to-day that thew
mad discovered no inclination on tho
part of the Washington government
20 consider ANY peace negotiations POS
S'ble at this time.
High officials express surprise to. d,v
a, the continued belief in Wall Street
nat peace IS near. wall Street pre
1icted an carly peace the day after the
'nieea states entered the war. and has
hot changed its opinion" one official
Salo; HE added. however, chat he did
nol 'l pelieVe the men employed to write
Wall Streets news letters were nos.
sessed OF reliable Judgment.
he State Department received a dis
patch to-day indicating that the opin-
ION is held generally in Berlin ,hst
imperlai Chancellor Won Hertlinp and
me Aust nn Foreign Minister. CAunt
tzernin. cotInborated on their respec-
tive peace addresses.
u,
mere W%s 10 response in the State
Department. TO the view reported to- be
entertained III London and III some Nn -.
tente circles here that the Austrian
toreign Minister'S speech was sincere,
Whether the initiative on behalf of
the Allies and America for peace will
be taken IN London. admittedly the war
capital. or Washington, which is fast
becoming one of the controlling CEN
tres in the diplomatic, as we'll, as the
decisions of the Allies, is be-
ginning to tnT&ge interest among di-
plomat'sts here. .ssAs I'll
neutra! uinloma. stated to-day that
The influence OF the American govern
ment over tnc diplomacy of the Allies.
made possible by the complete partici-
patton of this country in the war has
alrcady Indicated Itself in the attitudes
of France and Italy regarding such
questions as freedom Of the seas and
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Hertling's Suggestion That
Gibraltar Be Given Up
Is Denounced
Germany a Pirate"
One Paper Points Out Wilson
Could Not Have Meant to
Suspend Protection
By Arthur S. Draper

LONDON, Jan. 2S.--Presidcnt Will
sons reference to freedom Of the seas
which drew from Chancellor Won Hert-
ling the suggestion that British naval
bases, such as Gibraltar, Malta and
others, be denounced" promises to be-
come the subject Of a lively contro-
vcrsv The German Chancellor un-
doubtodly hoped to put Britain on the
defensive, and probably had little ex-
pcctation of his suggestion ever being
carried out.
Two interesting comments on this
question appear in to-day's press. "The
Manchester Guardian" says:
"By freedom Of navigation President
Wilson may have meant nothing more
than abolition of the right to capture
the property of private subjects on the
high seas, as we'll, Of course, as the
practice, which is not right, Of sinking
ships with their crews and cargocs at
sight, or he may have meant also to
restrict the right Of commercial block
adc OIL enemy countries.
Advises an "Open Mind"
"On these subjects We should advise
Englishmcn for the present to keep an
open mind. We. too, are blockaded-
illegally, it is true. and also Intellectual
ly, but still not without inconvenience
which later may become suffering We
do not know how a commercial block
ade will work out in practical advan-
tage and disadvantage, and until the
accounts arc made up we should do we'll
no. TO commit ourselves against the
views which are held by our great ally,
America.
"But whatever the President may
have meant, he certainly did not mean
to abolish the right Of blockading the
cncmys fleets, so as to make it easier
for great naval power to capture
naval bases. from which to conduct a
submarine campaign, or to deprcss the
advantages of naval rs distinguished
from a military power. America has
as little to gain by such changes as we
have"
"The Demand of Thief"
The Morning Post" takes much
stronger line. when it says:
"Gcrmany is the foulest pirate that
ever disgraced the seas. The German
demand for ixeedom of the seas is the
demand of thief and murderer for
the removal Of a policeman. But were
Germany as chivalrous as France, as
clcan minded as America, not to her
nor 10 the nations of the world. banded
together, would Great Britain WELD an
inch Of British soil or abate lot Of
her rights at sea.
"When will this country learn that
it is fighting for its life ."
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Especial Correspondence

san FRANCISCO, Jan 29-Profes-
sor Edward A. Ross, we'll known soci-
ologist, returned to-day by trans
pacific steamer after making an in
vestigati tion of the Bolshevik movement
in Russia.
Professor Ross spent five months in
Russia, travelled many thousand miles,
talked with all classes of men and
women, and interviewed Leon Trotzky
the Bolshevik Foreign Minister
Bolsheviki Not Pro- erman
He came to several conclusions, viz:
The Bolshevik movement is not
being fostered by agencies favorable
to Germany.
1t is sincere movement. SPRING
ing from the heart of Russia itself,
having as its object the liberation of
the people, the establishment of
world peace and the institution of a
system Of pure industrial socialism.
1t is based on doctrines seemingly
sound and has -hance for success.
The chief reason why the movement
may fail is because of the lack of a
large number of educated men to take
the positions OF trust and responsible
ity in the organization.
If the Bolsheviki fail, Russia prob
ably will be thrown into a state of civil
strife, which may last ten or even ff-
teen years.
The return of the Car TO power is
one of the possibilities in case Of the
latter contingency. His return would
be marked by q much more "illiberal'
reign than that Just ended.
Professor Ross was formerly at Le.
land Stanford, Jr., University He now
hoids the chair Of sociology at the
University of Wisconsin. He went 10
Russia to investigate tho Bolsneviki
tor the American Institute of Social
Service of New York.
Most Astounding Situation
he most astounding situation tina,
has ever existed in the world, so far
as | know, now obtains in Russia" he
said to-day "There is a total shift;
in their who's Who' All of the mon
Who were formerly in power are out.
ana the class that was despised and
downtrodden before the revolution is
now IN the saddle. It is actually a rule
by the proletariat | find that only
men who earn their living by thei.
labor are allowed in the Council of
Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates and
New-York tribune., 1918-01-30
Investigator Praises
BoZsheuiki;s Sincerity
Professor Ross, Sent Out by American Society,
Returns Saying Maximalists May Build Up
Permanent Government by Workingmen Only

IN the executive committee. The work
ing classes are the masters of Russia.
when ! went to Russia | carried
letters to a number of men who were
prominent in the Kcrensky Provision
al governments BY the time | got
around to present nay letters most of
these men had either been imprisoned d
or had fled. and others had their place. :.
u talked Tor half an hour Will,
Irotzky. | questioned him closely on
matters Of vital Importance to the in
dustrial life OF the nation. I decided
that he IS q thinker about these prob
ioms and that he intends to solve them
oy practical methods if possible. For
lnstan l asked him if he intended to
a'spossess all the owners of factories
ana operate the plants by the govern
ment. NO. he said. we aim at strict
governmental control. bu. not govern
ment ownership; control by which the
owner will be allowed or per cent
on his investment, and by which ar
rangements Will be made for deteriora
ton oil plant and for new plants when
necessary.
Il asked Trotzky if it was the inten
tlon to allow the workmen to take a
share of the profits of the factory as
their remuneration. NO. he said.
profit sharing is an outworn theory.
The men will receive their wages, but
they Will be reasonable wages; enough
to support them
Trotzky Sincere Thinker
"IrotZky struck me as being not the
crack Drained visionary that he has so
often been painted, but sincere think
cr about economic problems. He told
me that he did not expect finally to
triumph in Russia until he had had
moral support from some of the other
countries Of the world"
Professor Ross then continued. with
decided emphasis:
the Bolshevik movement will be
heard OF in other countries. and NAV he
expected to reverberate quite loudly in
the United States. What the outcome
Wlll be none can say. but it is sure
mat the aim is one Of pure industrial
socialism. in which everything of y
public nature is operated for the pub.
iic benefit" r"'
Professor Ross also brought back =
report which. he says, is current ali
through Russia. that the two daughters
OF the deposed Car. Tatiana and OLGA
homahoh, have joined the BolsheviI
movement and are among the most ac-
I've advocates and workers of the new
$; Social order in their prison CITY st
While the Romanotf girls are ont
proselytlng for the Bolsheviki thar
father, Nicholas Romanof. is said - 70
pe Spehding most Of his time in pray
11Hg ana bemoaning the fate which
"uried nm from his golden throne.