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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
WARSAW Poles Quit
Work, Angered by
Treaty With Ukraine

LONDON, rep. l6.-A general strike
in Warsaw is reported by Reuters Am
sterdam correspondent. The German
papers print only brief and unsatisfac-
tory dispatches regarding the situation
there.
Students and workmen are said % be
planning great demonstrations. The
streets are being patroled by military
detachments. mounted and afoot. The
theatres have been closed Represent
tatves of the Austro- Hungarian For
eign Office are reported to have left
the city. Everywhere the greatest eN-
element prevails, the advices declare.
The resignation of the Polish min
istry at Warsaw. the bitter feeling OF
the Polish members of the Austrian
Parliament and other indications OF
Dissatisfaction in Poland as a result of
| the peace agreement that gave the
province of Cholm to the Ukraine are
reported to be causing anger and alarm
Iii the German press. Many news
papers, according to Amsterdam ad-
vices, are attacking the Poles sharply.
"Must Not Tear Down Net"
The "Cologne Gazette" says the Cen
trail Powers cannot permit the Poles "to
tear the net we have just spun in the
East for the advantage of all con-
cerned," and declares that peace must
not be endangered at the very moment
it has been arranged.
The "Morgen Post" says: "If Ger
many is to have any security in the
East the Polish desires must be opposed
Immediately. The Poles have declared
"a state of hostilties The results Of
This attitude must be shown to them;
otherwise the German Empire win lose
all its prestige in the East"
A Berlin dispatch TO the frank
furtcr Zeitung" says: ar .ofts IL
Warsaw papers that Polish regiments
Of the Russian army have offered -
place themselves at the disposal OF the
Warsaw government arc causing Sc
rious anxiety in political circles in Ger
many.
"At the moment when the whole Polish
nation, in Poland. Austria and else
where, is opposing the peace with the
Ukraine the formation of a Polish army
is especially significant"
The reports thus mentioned seem to
suggest that the Poles have suddenly
appeared as an important military
factor. The Polish lcgons have stiff
tened their discipline and increased
their strength under General Musnicki,
who offered their services to the Polish
Regency Council.
The Importance of the movement in
Poland is shown in a Warsaw dispatch
which appears in the "Vossische lei
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Price of Rice to Drop
April l; Surplus Large

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-Reduction
IN the price of rice is in prospect for
April /, the Food ton an
nounced to-day. Distribution figures
show that there is surplus. after de-
Quoting the million bags purchased for
export to Europe, of 5O.OO0,O00 pounds.
April l, the food administration an
This surplus is ample for domestic re-
quirements.
The increase in the cost during the
last few months, the administration
explains, has been due to the fact that
most rice mills wer eworking to ca
pacity in supplying the Allies, thereby
depicting the home supply.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
bolsheUiki Angered
BY German Treaty
With UkrQiniians
IStoG' Col2.esnondencel

-; WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-OFicial adj
h,ses received in diplomatic circles
ts ste, indicate that Germany and Aus
th"a;.nuhgary may have to reinforce
th s.r INES on the Russian front, rather
,ra "n withdraw more troops to other
,h a, tneatres, and that the conflict on
C CO, front may be renewed soon. The
hsn'rai Powers have been more en-
oS S'!1sassed than benefited by the action
,au me bolsheviki in breaking off the
,,gio,latlons at Brest-Litovsk, and de-
,,Looppiiizing the Russian army without
Nerriiafing formal peace.
,es mere is certain prospect of con-
NJ between the Central Empires and
,.r .,Anerf Russia for the control of the
s s;t; of Ukraine, and the Bolshe-
da s, are believed to be all the more
A''es'hined not to respect the peace
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

that only in the valley Of the Astico
were there even patrol encounters and
artillery actions.
On the lower Piave, however, the op-
posing forces have engaged in spirited
combat. Opposite Montello, British
reconnoitring parties succeeded yestcr-
day in crossing the swollen stream and
reaching the invaders lines. An Ital-
ian patrolling force, debouching from
the brldgehead at Capo Sile, caught a
small enemy post by surprise, inflicted
casualties on the garrison and returned
without losses to their own lines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Berlin Editor Admits
Unfair Peace Tactics
The Nc1o York Tribune
EOrojuD Drcec R7,ro1,,


Even so pro German writer as
Georg Bernhard, managing editor of
the Berlin "Vossische Zeitung," ad-
mits the unfairness of the methods en-
ploycd at the peace conference Of
Brest-Litovsk by the German com
missioners, who pretended to uphold
the right of small nations while aim
ing at the annexation of Russian
Poland and the Baltic Provinces
Under the caption "Unfair Methods"
Bernhard says
I'VE stated some time ago that the
German Peace Commissioner had the
choice of demanding corrections of
the frontier or conceding to the ma
tions of the western Russian provinces
the unrestricted right of determining
don't know whether the Russians
the frontier. Perhaps they would have
rejected, perhaps they would have ac-
copied. such a proposition from the
outset; perhaps they would have nc
Eotiatcd. But +Lere would not have
been any chance of accusing our COM
missioners of pcrtidy. The victor
would have outlined his conditions,
the conquered would have rejected
them. That would have been simple
affair, and each party would have had
an opportunity to draw conclusions
from the situation.
What has been done creates for
Germany an international situation i'm
every respect similar to those we had
continually to endure under Chan
ces,or Won BcthmannH ollweg. 1t sur
masses ovpu tho famous Mov;c,p 49,.
1t means a diplomatic and political
failure and such a guilt that the
German Chief Commissioner to Brest-
Litocsk must be recalled and also re-
moved from. his Office as Secretary of
Foreign Affairs"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Red Cross Works
For Belgian Babies
Plans Clinics and Day Nurseries
for Children With Mothers,
and Homes for Orphans
Associated Press Correspondent

lasaONIdltu tftSs correspondent
BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN
FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Jan. 25.-A
campaign to save the lives of Belgian
babies in that part of Belgium which
is free from the German invader has
been inaugurated by the American Rec
Cross through its department for Bel
GUM. The Bclgians realize that the
lives of their children must be con
served. For that purpose the problem
or reducing the present high death rate
will be attacked by committee OF
prominent persons who have been an.
pointed by the Minister of the Interior
TINS committee will approach its
problem from several angles. In ref
ugee centres it will establish clinics
where mothers can bring babies for
frequent examination. Day nurseries
Will be established for the children of
mothers who work. Arrangements will
be made to care permanently for aban-
doned or orphaned babies The com
mittee will do home visiting. follow ur
maternity cases and children left in
day nurseries, and attempt to improve
conditions under which babies live in
their homes. General Improvement of
housing ana llNlng cOndltlOnS Will also
be undertaken.
The American Red Cross is erecting
an additional building for the Home of
the Queen, where several hundred
young children are sheltered Children
from four to fourteen years of age hav
been taken in the home, but no pro-
vision has heretofore been made for tne
babies. The new structure will shelter
one hundred infants who arc now liv-
ing where they arc exposed to gas and
shell attacks from the Germans The
construction is being done by the Bel
gian Army.
Another home for Older children is
being built by the Red Cross under the
direction of the Minister of the In
tpriOr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Gasolene Ordinance Hearing

Handlers and users Of gasolene arc
'nvited BY the Fire Department to at
tend public hearing to be held at
icon 1921, Municipal Building. at 2:3o
p. M. February 81. Suggested amend
nonts to the city ordinances governing
delivery of gasclenc in tank wagons are
to be discussed: The hearing is to be
presided over by the Board of Haz-
ardous Trades.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

the party leaders in the Rcichstag that
there were no grounds for prosccu-
ton.
The attempt Of Michaelis to rally
support in the, Reichstag on jingo
issue resulted in his downfall and in
obtaining for the Radical Socialists the
standing of q serious political party
!hey are opposed to all votes of credit
Tor the war and for an immediate stop
page OF fighting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Storm Limits Action
In Northern Italv

LONDON. Feb. is. The mountain
front of Northern Italy is again in the
grip OF storms, which have precluded
all but the smallest military actions,
the Rome War Office reporting to-day
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-08-20
U. 5. TO FORCE issue ,...e.
ON WESTERN FRONT
Americas Effort Promises to
Transform Military Situation.
Great Things Next Year.

London.-(Copyright. N. Y. World
i admire the manner in which Amer
lea places her military cards on the
table and interests the whole Of her
people in the immense task which Is in
process of successful accomplishment.
There is something fine in the con-
temptuous indifference with which
America regards the reply which Ger
many may make to American prepara-
| tions; and | think America is right,
because, unless Germany can recruit
in Russia. | do not think she can make
any reply at all.
Not Doing Things by Halves.
Gen. Peyton G. March, whose con-
siderable experience in France is now
at the disposal of President Wilson,
is not doing things by halves. Amer
lea has already, by an effort of un-
paralleled magnitude, sent million
and a half of her splendid fighting
men to France. and, II the manpower
bill passes, what she proposes to do
by her own exertions alone Is to equal,
IL not surpass, in numerical results,
the effect which Germany was able
to produce In the west when she was
at the zenith of her strength last
March.
Very fully indeed has America re-
sponded to the calls of her comrades
in arms, and we have every reason to
believe that the technical equipment
in all parts of her vast forces will be
up to the standard Of the exacting
equipment of modern war;
Some people still imagine that g.
100000 Americans mean 100000 bay
oncts, and one of the most difficult
things in this war has beeh to con-
vince people unversed in military af-
foirg that nrUrn0afn OF pfh
fighting strengths are two very differ
ent things. 1t is best to regard the
eighty divisions of next June and the
number of bayonets and guns which
they will give as the effective fighting
force of America, and to remember
that the 100000 aggregate figures in
clude drafts for the first battles, and
all the enormous administrative ma
chinery behind the lines.
America to Force Issue.
But, even so, American effort prom
ises to transform completely the mill
tary situation in the west, providing
we can last out the next three months,
and it gives promise of great things
next year.
I can see no good military reasons
why we should not now publish the
ordre de bataile of the British armies.
nor whv our intelligence service should
not publish every week or so a dia-
gram giving the German dispositions.
I can see no reason why our people
should not know what everv German
staff officer knows. and I should like
to see the names of our commanders
and a short record of the history of |
each division put down for the public |
to read. President Wilson's policy. so !
say the renorts. calls for the concen- |
tration of the American forces on the |
western front, and here America |
means to force tho issue and win. I'm |
hoe signO ynces"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-08-20
SCHWAB WANTS SHIP
BUILDING PLANS SPEEDED
Advocates Management of Yards Be
Collective Rather Than
Individual,

Philadelphia, Aug. 20.--In an effort
to speed up the governments ship
building program. Charles M. Schwab,
after n conference with representatives
of all the Atlantic coast steel ship
yards, said that the direction and man.
agement of the yards hereafter would
be collective rather than individual
and that piecework would be adopted
as the wage basis. More than ninety
shipyard officials attended the confer
ence, which Mr. Schwab described as
"get-together and speed up" meet
ing.
"The changes of wages, of working
conditions and all other improvements
that are brought about in one yard
plants" said Mr. Schwab. what we
find best in one case will be adopted
in all.
'"The consensus of opinion as to why
the yards of the east are behind those
of the Great Lakes and the Pacific
coast was that the eastern yards
either are newly organized or arc
working on ships of a great variety
of design. while the yards of the west
have been in existence for some time
and are building ships of only one de-
sign. It is not n question of labor or
management. The men and manage
ment of the Atlantic coast yards are
equally as good"
Everything was harmonious at the
meeting and every one present was
anxious to do all possible to increase
the production of their yards, said Mr..
Schwab.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-08-20
HUNS ABANDON HOPE
DRIVING !!G ON TO SEACnAST
Withdrawal in Merville Sector
Final Link in Chain CT
Failures.

With the British Army IN France.
Aug. 2o,-By withdrawing their forces
In the .Mervil'e sector Of the Lys sa-
lient. the Germans definitely have
given up one of the Doints from which
drive for Calais logically would he
lnunched. This Is taken to indicate
that the German high command has
Mt least for the time heing. abandoned
hone of reachirg the coast and now
perhans Is vitallv concerned with vet
ting the German lines hack to n nlace
of greater security. The withd~a wal
hero has been eynected for some timc
and 1t continued last ni~ht and TODAY
even on n sliehtlv broader front than
that Of Yesterday. Tho retirement
marked the conclusion and failure of
the effort which Gerr,nrv lar~ohod
oorlv in the snrin~ 10 "Hnish off' tho
British army by driving through to tho
sea.
Suffered Casualties.
Other Withdrawals continue and the
British. taking advontare of tho on
portunitv. have Mt various rlaces
nushed forward where the enor,v has
loft small garrieors. The British also
have battered in the cremv ut places
where ho was not quite ready TO re-
tire such MS hetwcer vierx- Rernn'n
and the Hn nzehrouc'r- Rai'loul railway
Fere local One~nfton ~ained all tho
obinctives, the british advancing their
nositions some di-tarcn and canturng
ore officer end 1st of other rnnks
South cf tho Scr~ro river thn P-it
ish sti'I further 'dvanced their l'na.
while their positions south of the
River Somme were imnroved hv local
actions. An encmv attack which de-
ve'opcd here Yesterday was n COM
nlete failure in evcrv resnect the Ger
mans ~"ffor'~~ honvv casualties
Line CcmrIeteIv Restored.
Whilo the Co~~,ans r,ana~od 70
nenetrato the British nositions ut two
points thev wo~e ouicl,'v hurled out
and tho line this mornine was COM
nleteIy restored. Not single foot OF
ground was cajood bv tho evenly.
Retwenn the Sor,ne and the Ancre
rivers the british limos have heen |
ster dly imnrovcd IN the last few dove
and last night the positions of the
enemv west of Bray were successfully |
raided.
Aside from dcsire to get out of the |
ground which had heen extremely un-
nrofitahle for them to hold. the where |
the British. by reason of their supe-
rior positions. are able to pound them |
day and night. the Germans in retir- |
ing possibly have another motive, |
to estnh,ish n strategic de- |
tense arainst the operations Of the |
tanks should thew anywhere be at |
tackled by the British.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-08-20
CAPTAIN OF U-BOAT SEEN
IN NEW YORK SALOON
Recognized by American Naval
Officer but Makes Quick
Get Away.

Washington, Aug. 2O.-The U-boat
hunt today had been extended to dry
land.
Navy department officials generally
credited the report that an American
seaman had seen in a New York sa-
loon the captain of the submarine upon
which he had been taken following the
sinking of his vessel off the Atlantic
coast And as result, 1t became
known today, a net Is being spread at
Atlantic ports that may bring about
( the capture of the Huns should they
attempt again to make shore.
The American captain was positive
in his Identification of the German. In
fact. the recognition was mutual. he
declared, and the Americans surprise
undoubtedly was responsible for the
Germans escape.
II was SD surprised that for mo-
ment l couldn't open my mouth" he
is understood to have told navy de-
partment officials.
THE next minute he had disap-
peared."
II was learned today that officials
for some time have felt practically
certain that German submarines were
in communication with the shore and
that 1t was not impossible that men,
hers of the crew have at various times
the submarines are equipped with col
lapsible rowboats, and these were un-
doubtedly used to bring them to land.
It is now fairly we'll established that
the raids off coast have been con-
Quoted by three U-boats, and that they
are of the cruising. or Deutschland.
type, having sailing radius Of 10000
miles. They are equipped with gun
fore and aft and are some 500 feet
long. At least one of them Is known
to be equipped as a cable cutter. fol-
lowing the severing of two southern
cables. The cutting of cables is more
a source Of annoyance to the navy. 1t
was pointed out. than anything more
serious. The fact that there is break
becomes apparent at once, and then It
is matter Of comparatively short
time before the, break is located and
the ends of the cable spliced together.
During the repeated raids the dam
age done by the submarines has been
negligible. officials pointed out today.
A few small vessels have been sent to
the bottom. and two Of these have
been salvagcd. A lightshp has been
shelicd and two cables cut. But the
fact that It is now practically accepted
that members Of the crews have been
coming ashore has aroused the navy
department to redouble It's efforts to
stamp out the pest And. II submarine |
have been flashed infor- |
mation from land. 1t was pointed out |
that the sources of their information |
undoubtedly would he revealed II they |
nttempted to make practice Of COM
ling ashore.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-08-20
FRENCH ADVANCE
ON l0-MILE
Tenth Army Again Strikes and
Again Penetrates to Two
Miles Depth.
500 GERMANS CAPTURED
New Gain Threatens Whole En-
emy Positions in Sois-
sons Sector.

London, Aug. 2O.-U pm. y
The French Tenth army attacked
again this morning on a front of
ten miles between the Disc and
the Aisnc and reached maximum
depth of two miles, according to
a disptch from the battlefront.
The advance of the French
troops endangers the whole Ger
man position at scissors and on
the river Aisne.
1t is possible now that the Ger
mans will withdraw to the Che
min-des-Dames.
Before 8 o'clock this morning
the French captured 500 Germans
in the sector attacked.
North of Roye the French have
taken the Bracquemont and
Fendu woods and have occupied
the greater part of Beuvraignes,
according to advices. 1t also is
reported that they have made
progress to the southeast of Beuv-
raignes.
Four Attacks RepuIsed.
London. Aug 20.-Four German at
tacks against British positions at
Chilly, about six miles north Of Roye.
were repulsed during last night, ac-
cording to the official statement issued
at the war office today.
The British lines were advanced in
tho neighborhsod of Vieux Berquin
and Outtersteen in the Lys salient ac-
cording to the statement which says
that 1872 Germans were made prison.r.
Britishers successfully raided Ger
man post west Bray.
Patrols made progress during the
night in the area between the Lave
and the Lys rivers and now are cast
OF the Paradis- -Merville road.
Attack on Twelve-Mile Front,
The attack of the French yesterday
between the N ,tz and the O'se was on
front Of twelve miles and although
the Germans offered a stubborn resist
a1ce. the French made an advance of
about mile
At o'clock last evening the battle
line ran as follows: La Pravim farm,
WhiSh ~ tuWeSt OF FTcSnleTeS,
Arbe- de- Canny. the western outskirts
Of Lassigny. La Rue des Boucandes,
the southern outskirts Of Orval. Lie
Hamel. the southern6butskirts Of Dres-
lincourt and Pamprez. a
Although the advance was a small
ono 1t is regarded as impor ant az II
carried the French line further down
the slopes Of Lassigny massif. The
French also moved up the valley Of
the Disc. the line being between five
and six miles from Noyon.
Extended Fifteen Miles.
London. Aug. 20.--(4:45 p. m)--Ac-
cording to the latest advices reaching
London the front Of this mornings
attack by the French extended over
fifteen miles. Good progress has been
made everywhere according to reports
md the advance on this front since
Saturday Is now over four miles nt
Its maximum depth.
How Line Stands.
The present line follows: From
Plessy-le Val to Le- Four "A -Verre to
Belfontaine and to Blerancourt two
and half miles north of Morsain.
From there 1t runs south to OsIvcour-
VI and reaches the Aisne at CourteI.
The attack todav extended to , point
within three miles from Scissors.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-08-20
ALlIES OWE GAINS TO
~ TRANSATLANTIC ALLY
Says Gen. Won Blume-Profes
a sional Soldiers Not Belt
Ting American Army.

Amsterdam, Aug. 20.-Pvofessional
soldiers like Generals Won Blume and
Won Liebert, unlike SO many other war
critics. do not seek to belitiie the
significance of the appearance of the
American army on the western front
Gen. Won Blume, who Is on the re-
tired list, writes an article on the SUBJ
ject which appears in the Rehinische
Westfalische Zeitung, of Essen. He
frankly admits that 1--WE have to rec
ognize that the Americans, all in all,
have done very smart work and 1t
would be n very serious thing II the
German army command had to face
an American fighting army of mil
lions"
This prospect the German public
must on no account be permitted to
ponder over, and almost Immediately
after the article appeared a semi -offi-
cial statement was issued to the effect
that the exaggerated reports going
about regarding. the size of the Amer
ican army in Europe merit no ere
dence and only exist in Yankee imagina-
tion and entente propaganda. The state
met said further that "the tonnage
question which is already acute will
become still more serious for the en-
tentc when America has to ship her
crops to Europe.
Gen. Won Liebert, who was former
German commandant at Lodz ard who
now is military critic of the Taeglische
Rundschau, of Berlin, tells the public
tina. the American army has actually
become a big factor and the debarlla-
tions in France are proceeding 1eEu-
larly. Gen. Won Liebert lamcnts the
moral perversion," which brought the
Americans to the front and says,
"the French and British owe their re-
cent Successes to their transatlantic
ally, without whom their offensive
would have been doomed to disappoint-
ment.