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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07

pedo room, in the very depths of the
shiu
when ] entered the room two of
these deadly things were suspended
rom the ceiling. They looked to me
like miniature Zeppelins. The torpedo
that was to be fired stood in the cen
ter. ready mounted, and was sur
rounded by several sailors awaiting
orders. The officers explained to me
that these torpedoes were SO costly
that in a maneuver of this kind tor
pedo boat was in the vicinity to fol-
low the discharged torpedo, and cap
ture it and return it to the ship. | had
The opportunity of seeing for the first
time the ingenious machinery used to
handle these explosives. When all
was ready for firing, was taken On
deck to observe the torpedo's course
after firing.
The torpedo boat, which was to fol-
low the torpedo, was lying near on
watch. 1t had been originally planned
that was to go on board the torpedo
boat and take part in the chase, but
the sea was too rough to launch
boat, so took my position with some
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
FREE RUSSIA
IS ENC|RCLED

PETROGRAD. Wednesday, March g..
soldiers delegates at Moscow on Mon
day, NJ. ProkrOvsky, leader of the sec
ond peace delegation at Brest Litovsk,
explained the treaty with the central
powers. Deeply moved, he begged
those in sympathy with the democratic
revolution not to deceive themselves.
The new frontiers traced by Ger
many, NJ Prokrovsky declared, con-
stitute ring of iron around revolu-
tionary Russia. He said the Germans
were endeavoring to stifle the revolu.
tion, the conquests of which were re-
duce1 to nothing by the economic
demands of Berlin.
The decree Matchmaking the banks
had fallen into abeyance because the
German terms had the effect of con-
verting the banks into German con-
Germs. Military evacuation by Russia
of Esthonia, Courland and Livonia gave
the enemy full authority in these
regions.
M. Zinovieff, president of the Petro-
grad council of workmen's and soldiers
delegates: NJ. Sverdloff and others
from Petrograd addressed the confer.
ence. They said the Russian repre-
sentatives were obliged to sign the
peace agreement as a tactical measure
owing to the situation brought about
by Ukraine in agreeing to ignominious
peace terms. The meeting adopted no
resolution.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07

That gas masks hold high place
among the war souvenirs Of the men
back from No Mans Land is we'll ex-
planned by the photographs made
when Major A. w Owen found his
own old gas masks in the hands of a
friend and tried them on again. The
days of ku klux clans were recalled
by the grim pictures that resulted
Major Owen, officer commanding
western division of the British Can
adian Recruiting Mission, was asked
by T. j. Wall of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, to explain the intricacies of
his two souvenir masks from France"
To interest some new recruits, Major
Owen undertook to do so and dis
covered two old comrades of trench
ralds-his own masks. Now he knows
how he looked to the Germans.
Many of the officers of recruiting
depots have souvenirs from gas masks
to saw-tooth bayonets and remnants
of aeroplanes. The temper of the
recruits is shown in the zest they
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
PERSH|NC TO "AMERICAN|zE"
SECTOR ON FRENCH FRONT

Included in the corps troops are
many units of heavy artillery equipped
with guns ranging up to 10 and II
inches in calibre both for fixed en-
placement and for mobile artillery.
Many Big Guns.
This comprises the artillery reserve
OF the corps. The great general ar
tillery reserve of the field army is
under direct command of the army
commander and included in his So
called army troops.
The organization schedules show
that General Pershing is to be equip
ped eventually with artillery of all
calibres on a scale not heretofore
dreamed of. The proportion of artill-
cry to army rifles adopted by the war
department is greater than that OF
either the British or French armies and
the tendency of the department is to
increase the big guns.
Included in the heavy artillery as
signed to corps or field army COM
manders will be whole brigades of anti
aircraft guns, mobile howitzers of six
eight, ten and even twelve inch cali
bre, rifles of similar size including
heavy long range naval guns and
probably, as soon as they are available,
batteries Of the monster American 16-
inch naval rifles recently developed.
With this array of guns, enemy depots,
twenty miles or more in the rear of. his
trenches could be kept under lombard
ment
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07

Perhaps these men were so mag
unanimous because they had been in
battle, and in terrific battle, and they
talked not the idle prattle of land
lubbers. Their judgment was based
on actual experience and observation.
These men of great physical strength
and stature, some with boards like
those of Neptune, We're ready at any
moment to face any danger, were as
happy and carefree on board the ship
as group of children romping in the
park.
After our talk in the cabin I walked
on deck for an hour with the Lieuten-
ant, who was on watch 1t was a moon
less night, and only now and then a
star was visible behind the gathering
clouds. Not a light was to be seen on
the ship or on any of the ships lying
near Only in the passageway there
was an occasional electric light, but
shaded and dimmed in such a manner
that it had weird and uncanny ap-
pearance. The darkness was so in
tense that l had difficulty in walking
about, but presently my eyes became
accustomed to it, and / began to see
gradually the monster tunnels looming
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
Dainties aboard Hun Ships as People at Home Sarpf

NEW YORK, March 7.--Newspapers
from Switzerland, which have just
reached this country contain interest
ing articles by Ferdinand Kruselmann,
telling of his recent visit to the Ger
man fleet, near Kiel He had an op-
portunity of observing how a torpedo
is fired from a ship, how the wounded
are cared for during g battle. and was
shown through every part of the war
ships below decks.
"On the evening of the first day."
writes Mr.. krugelmann. who is a
Swiss journalist, Il was invited to the
cabin of the commandant. had as
my companion and guide the Chaplain,
of the ship. and we had a delightful
talk. The officers told of their voy
ages to the far East and their adven-
lures and experiences in distant coun-
tries. In the course of the conversa-
tion reference was now and then made
by these men to the enemy, but in
such tones of admiration that it was
relief, in these times of hate and bit
terness, to be in an atmosphere purged
of these poisons, and. strange to say,
on battle ship which, after all, is
only an instrument of hate.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
Americans Interned in
Germany After War Was On

AN ATLANTIC PORT, March l.
Due to better system of food distrf-
button and more rigid control of food
supplies by means of ration cards. the
last winter in Germany was not so
severe on the poor people as was the
previous winter, according to Miss
Elizabeth Mccain, an American, who
with her three sisters arrived here
today on Danish steamship. They
left Germany last December, she said,
after residing in that country for Ii
years, and were on their way to make
their home in Philadelphia.
The people are hoping for peace to
come soon,' Miss McCann said, Il do
not believe there will be an uprising
of any consequence as long as the
war lasts for the Germans apparently
have every confidence they will win.
We made our home in Hamburg and
we were practically interned from the
day America entered the war.
The German people know America
has joined the other nations against
them but they seem to believe what
they have been told-that enough Am
erican soldiers to help the allies to any
extent will not be able to cross the
Atlantic
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
rs Benedicts Accepted,
IL Rejected for Army
(By Associated Press)

Twenty-six men who were examined
by the army medical board here Wed
nesday afternoon passed and twelve
were rejected. The men were recently
married men who were placed in Glass
One by the District board. Those who
passed We're:
Perry T. Gibson. Alonzo Curry, Cliff
ord Weisbrod, Robert Steward. Charles
Woodson. William Wells, Ray H.
Davis. Howard Meyer. Lawrence Tay-
lor, Russell Bailey. Timothy Baldwin.
Hugh r. Foss, William l.. Taylor,
Walter Burkhardt, Elmer Young, Jesse
Beals, Walter Pohlentz. Fred A Seikel,
Floyd Lamb, Harry r. Brown, Howard
j. EIstro, Forrest Davis. Frank I. Hale,
Raymond G. Stemple, Carl Russell FL
liott and Homer w. Ramsey.
Those rejected were: Walter f.
Whetsel. George O'Brien, Melvin 0.
Ramsey. Earl Kinley, Edward Wolfer.
Walter Riggs, Harry Morgan, Paul
Bietry. Dale Y. Martin, Robert Fl
Wiechman, Vernon Horn, Walter Ell
stro.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07

show for the grim side of the war and
disregard for its horrors 1T is time
to CO. said one man, John Payne of
Milwaukee, who made careful provi-
sion for his wife and four children and
presented himself ito do his Bit
The gas mask has assumed the i'm
poltance of the daily rations in this
war, recruits are told. On active SER
vice, soldier carries both MASKS so
that If either be damaged there is
still one left. 1t takes ten seconds to
put on the helmet; fifteen seconds Is
slow work, according to the Major,
slipping the hood over his head in a
twinkling.
The PHI helmet is cloth hood with
goggles, saturated in chemical COM
pounds which absorbs and transforms
the deadly gas as the soldier breathes
it through the cloth. He exhales
through a compressed rubber tube.
With the box respirator, however, he
draws the air through a box contain
ing charcoal and other purifying chem
icals which absorb the poison.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07

WASHINGTON, March BASED
upon the three line method of trench
! warfare evolved in France, the war de-
partment. it was learned today, has
approved a plan of organization which
fixes six divisions as the strength of
an army corps.
Three or more corps will constitute
field army and the immediate pur-
pose of the department is to complete
the organization of the first field army
in France in the shortest possible time
to give General Pershing the strength
to hold fully "AmericanlZed' sector
of the front. The plan leaves to Gen
eral Pershing the determination of the
number of corps and the number Of
field armies needed and also author
ICES him to recommend commanders
for the higher units.
BY the six division army corps plan
each corps will occupy a front sector
with two divisions, while two replace
ment or reinforcement lines of two
divisions each will back them up. The
effect is to produce the line of depth
necessary for the type of warfare now
in progress.
Feed Third Line.
Replacement troops sent from the
United States are fed into the war
machine in France at the third line.
They move forward in regular order
as their training progresses and arrive
at front line trenches to fill in casulty
gaps only when they have been thor
oughtly seasoned.
To fulfill the functions of an army
corps it has been found necessary TO
place under a corps commander, in
addition to his six infantry divisions
approximately 10000 men known as
corps troops. These comprise artillery
units, engineers, and all types of serv-
ice battalions for WORK on the com
munication lines of their own corps.
A similar organization of about 10000
men is necessary for each field army
of three corps. These field army
troops maintain the lines from the ad-
vance base of the army back to the
sources of supply. In the case of Gen
eral Pershing's forces this line con
meets with the ocean transport service.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
DEMAND
WAGE INCREASE

Richmond's fire fighters Thursday
| morning presented a demand to the
| board of works and through the board
to the council for an increase in pay
from $50 month to 800 month.
The petition was signed by every
fireman in the department 1t asked
specifically for twelve and one half
percent increase and, as their present
pay is $50, the increase would make
their pay $50. The board will present
the petition to council without recon-
mendation.
William Plppen, a member of the
department, appeared before the board
and made emphatic protest against the
administration policy of refusing to
appoint the hold-over firement and
holding their undated designations.
Il am speaking for all the boys
when l say they want to know where
they stand right away" said Pippen.
Fire Chief Miller explained that
several of the firemen have chances
to get other jobs and they would like
either to be appointed or discharged
at once.
"The board will get at that when it
gets some other matters Strengthened
out but you can't force the board to
take action" said Mayor Zimmerman.
There has been some trouble in the
fire department and we're going to
hold those designations"
The board placed the street depart
ment under the general oversight of
the city engineer and awarded con-
tract for supplying the city's 1918
crushed stone supply to the Rhein-
helmer quarries of New Paris, O.. at
their price of S1.10 ton.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
Civic Bodies Ask County to Pave
Streets to Retain Natco Plant

Petitions asking the county commits
| sloners for permanent improvement of
South Eighth and South Ninth streets,
under the three mile road law, were
signed today by hundreds of citizens.
Committees of the Commercial club
and the South Side Improvement asso-
citation are back of the movement,
whose purpose is the retention of fac
tories in the south side, forced to
leave the city unless street improve
ments are made.
The condition of South Eighth street
is so deplorable that w. F. Bockhoff,
president of the National Automatic
Tool Works, informed a joint COM
mittee of the two civic societies that
he would be forced to move his factory
unless improvements are made by next
winter
Former attempts to remedy the
transportation problem under the three
mile road law were frustrated by re-
monstrances. The petition in circula
tion today has the endorsement of the
commercial and industrial leaders of
the city.
Payroll of $4,000.
The Natco employs between $50 and
300 men, with monthly pay roll of
$4,000. Bockhoff told the joint COM
mittee that he was anxious to stay in
Richmond but would not tolerate In
adequate transportation facilities. He
had suffered under this handicap for
eight years, he said.
The improvements asked for by the
petition are:
Paving of South Eighth street. be-
ginning at the intersection of South
II street, continuing to the intersection
Of South Eighth an1 o streets. thence
east to the intersection of South Ninth
street, distance of seven-tenths of
mile.
Paving of South Ninth street, be
ginning at the intersection of South E
street, continuing to the intersection
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
Uncle Sam Wants Men
for SerUice With Tanks

Wayne County Chairman Albus of
the United States Military Training
association has received a request
from Major W. II. Allen, Sixty-fifth
Engineers to secure few men for
United States Tank Service in France.
Men wanted must be expert mechan-
les, preferably with experience in large
type gasoline engines or steam engines
such as machinists with shop exper-
ience, railroad locomotives, traction
engines, etc.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07

of the Boston pike distance of one
and three-tenths miles.
The improvements are not of such
magnitude that they will entail large
expense on Wayne township which
will bear the cost under the provisions
of the law.
The Natco has had several offers
to leave Richmond, one of them from
Plattsburg, n. Y.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
TRENCH RAIDS
INCREASE ON
ALL SECTORS
IN FRANCE
German Advance into Russia
Suspended and Thrusts
Are Made from Flanders
to the Vosges.
FRENCH REPULSE HUNS

WASHINGTON, March 7.-Ambass
ador Frances. eporting to the state de
partment under date of March 4, SAID
- was temporarily quartered with the
eiamese and Brazilian diplomats in 6
club house placed at their disposal by
the mayor of Vologda. He added thai
few Of the Red Cross and publicity
workers were still in Petrograd.
(By Associated Press)
With the cessation of the German
advance into Russia. military opera
tions in the European war fields are
again confined to trench raids, artiil
cry bombardments and corollary aerial
activities.
New Raidine Tactics.
Both sides are almost equally active
in the newly developed raiding tactics,
in which the artillery arm is freely
employed by way Of preparation and
support. The German raiders, how
ever, were somewhat more aggressive
than usual during the last sc hours,
according to the indications in the
official reports which reveal thrusts
by German troops virtually all along
the line from Flanders to the Vosges.
The artillery fighting along the
French lines centered chiefly in the
Verdun region where it was accom-
panied by raids which the French re-
pulsed. Bombardments also have oc-
cussed at various points in Lorraine,
but there Is no mention Of the Amer
lean sectors in this district having
been further driven at by the German
infantry.
The German advnce into Russia
was suspended on Tuesday. Petrograd
dispatches declare, and its resumption
on Wednesday appears to have been
only to accomplish the consolidation
of the German line delineated in the
peace treaty along the Esthonian and
Livonian borders.
French Repuise Raid.
German raids on the Verdun front
last night were repulsed by the French,
the war office announces. The cont
munication follows:
Rather heavy artillery fighting oc-
Cured in the regions of Cormicy and
Rheims. Last night the Germans
made raids against our trenches at
Avacourt wod and northwest of Hill
34i (Verdun 'front.' Our fire every
where checked the assailants and pris-
oners. including an officer. remained
in our hands.
Our lines were bombarded inter
nittently today in the region of Avo.
court and north of Douaumont. At
times there was heavy artillery firing
at various points in Lorraine and
Alsace.
"On Tuesday three German air
planes were brought down by our
pilots and two by the fire of our anti.
aircraft guns.
Macedonian front-There was reci-
procal artillery activity west of Lake
Doiran in the Cerna Bend and north
OF Monastir.'
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
SCREENS COME DOWN

GOSHEN, March THE City Coun.
Gil has adopted an ordinance prohibit
ing screens or partitions of any char
acter to hide complete view of the
interior of billiard halls or poolrooms
and soft drink establishments.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07
TURN OVER $4,000

WABASH, March 7.--Members of
the Wabash County Council today ap-
propriated $4,000 to be turned over
to the local chapter of the Red Cross
to be used in making supplies for SOL
diers. All members of the council
voted for the appropriation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-07

For Wayne County by w. &. Moore

For Wayne County by w. (. Moore
Fair and continued cold tonight
Friday probably increasing cloudi-
ness
General Conditions--The cold wave
which is gradually overspreading the
central states extends as far south as
the thirty-fifth parallel Snow was
general but light over the central
states. The temperature has fallen
forty-siX degrees from Tuesday noon
TO Thursday morning but the cold
wave is slowly breaking up over the
west. Temperatures range from zero
70 twenty below in the region of Lake
Superior. The storm over the north
west is already causing rain and snow
over part OF the plain states.
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THE WEATHER

For Indiana by United States
Weather eureau--Fair tonight and
probably Friday. Little change in
temperature.
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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-10
ROCK ISLANDS NEWS.

Mrs j. Works was hostess to the Aid
Friday afternoon.
The Progressive Art Club met with
Mrs. Harding Wednesday afternoon,
May 2. After the meeting repast was
served. The next meeting will be held
in two weeks.
The farewell banquet in honor of
Rev. G. w. Saunders Thursday evening,
May 2, was grand affair and will
long be remembered -by Rev. Saunders
and others ALSO A nice program was
rendered, after which lovely supper
was seSvet in the dinner room by the
ladies.
A large number of young folks at
tended the dance in Davenport May l
given by the drafted boys.
Mrs. j. Slaughter is expecting to
leave the hospital soon.
Mrs. l.. Payne and daughter spent
Thursday with Mrs. B. Morton.
X. Kelly, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Kelly, is getting along fine at this
writing.
The King s Daughters will give pa
triotic entertainment May 16 at the A.
NJ. T.. Church.
Rev. Saunders preached Sunday after
noon to the soldiers and drafted boys.
Not many of the boys were out, but
many who will never be in the draft
were out, the ladies Of course.
The ladies of the Sewing Circle had
an entertainment Thursday evening,
May 2, at the A. M. E. Church.
Rev. Saunders preached his farewell
sermon Sunday evening to a large con-
gregation.
Rev. Walkup preached Sunday even
ing at Rev. Boyd IS church.
Revival meetings started Monday
evening at Rev Boyd's church, SO come
out.
The Lend-a- Hand Club presented a
bible to Rev. Saunders before his de-
parture from the city.
The Reynolds sisters had some SOL
diers to call Sunday afternoon.
A number of Davenporters were over
here Sunday and we welcome them to
our city.
Earl w. Bassett, one Of our home
boys, is over in France.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-10
ALLIED FOOD SHIPMENTS
REACH LARGE TOTAL,

A general idea of the quantity o1
food sent to European allies by the
United States from July 1, 1914, to
January !, 1918, Is given BY figures
just announced by the U. 8. Food Adj
ministration. In that period the Unit.
ed States has furnished complete year.
" rations for 67,10O,933 people. In
addition there was enough extra pro-
tein to supply this portion Of the diet
for q, 1914 $40 additional men.
The total export Of wheat and wheat,
four to the three principal allies Il
equivalent to about 1884, OOO, 900 bushels.
Pork exports for the AZ years amount
ed to almost 1000. 0O0, 900 pounds. Ex-
ports Of fresh beef totaled 443.4S4. 400
pounds. The amount Of food exported
to Russia is negligible compared with
that sent to the western allies.