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The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1918-12-13
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

FOR RENI-Storage room for auto
mobiles. ]. M. Shive, phone 1879.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1918-12-13

FOR SALE-House and lot. N. J..
Walters, Admr. lift
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1918-12-13

WANTED-Plain sewing to do at
home. Mrs. Art Young, ia w. Lib
erty street, Medina, o. 15-2
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1918-12-13

FOR SALE-Home Oak heating
stove. Phone X142, Medina, o. lift
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
Meaning of "Sinn Fein."

'Sinn Fein" pronounced Shinn
Fain) is Celtic expression meaning
yourselves alone" and is the name and
motto Of an Irish party which con-
Strues it as meaning both for and by
the Irish alone. 1t dates actively from
1906 and claims to be more practical
and comprehensive than any of the old
parties that have aimed at Irish indie
pendence or self-gOvernment Among
other things, it proposes to establish a
purely Irish parliament, army and
navy, mint, civil and consular service,
judiciary and school system; also the
economic reorganization of Ireland by
it's own people on purely Irish basis.
including merchant marine, stock ex-
change, banks etc.; all official and
business matters and correspondence
to be conducted in Gaelic, the use Of
English language to be boycotted in
public Offices schools and business.
These and many other interesting re-
suits are to be accomplished by pas
sive means and peaceable methods. 1t
is not stated exactly how, but by some
kind of social and political pressure
without violence
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
THUG ROUNDUP In CHICAGO
Greatest Criminal Drive in the city's
History Made.

Chicago, Feb. 1.-THE greatest Grim
inal roundup in the history of Chicago
was made here. More than 800 sus-
poets have been arrested. The police
expect to have 1000 under arrest. Sec
ond in Importance to the crime crusade
was the activity of the police and in
vestigators for Second Deputy Funk
houser against vice, in accordance with
the government order requiring strict
enforcement of the five-mile law.
The federal edict provides that no
house of i'll fame be operated within
five miles of a site, camp or building
housing soldiers or sailors. This
means that practically every disorder
ly house in Chicago will have to be
put out of business.
More than 200 men and women were
rounded up in the vice campaign and
score of disorderly houses, flats and
hotels were raided. All prisoners were
turned over to Hinton G. Clabaugh,
chief of the bureau of investigation of
the department of justice.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
TROOPS UNDER HEAVY FIRE
FIVE SOLDIERS ARE KILLED
POLES CAPTURE TOWN
Revolving Troops Win SmoIensk
From BO!SheViki.
Scandinavian Refugees Tell Narrowing
Stories of Wholesale Murder by
Red Guards.

London, Feb. 11.-Polish forces
which recently revolted from the
Russian army under the leadership
of Gen. Dovbor Mousnitsky have cap
tured Smolensk from the bolsheviki,
according to advices from Vienna for
warded by the Exchange Telegraph
correspondent at Copenhagen.
Smolensk, capital of the Russian
province of that name and which had
a population before the war of slight
ly less than $4,000, is situated about
25O miles southwest of Moscow.
Stockholm, Feb. 11.-Scan dinavian
refugees brought to Stockholm by the
first Swedish relief expedition tell har-
rowing stories of wholesale murder by
the Red guards in Helsingfors and
Tammerfors.
In the latter city, according to re-
ports some of them bring, 70 youths
were stood up against a wall and
moved down with machine-gun fire
while they wept and pleaded for
mercy. Their bodies were then
stripped and mutilated.
The Red guards are reported hunt
Ing down students remorselessly and
the total murders in Helsingfors, it iS
estimated, will reach into the hun
dreds
The situation has got entirely out Of
the hands of the socialist leaders of
the type of Senator Manner and for
mer Premier Toxic, the accounts indi-
cate.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
WAS CALLED BY WASHINGTON
First Cape Cod Canal Engineer to Be
Pressed Into Service Because of
Demand for Experts.

Thomas Machin, the engineer
charged by committee appointed in
1776 by the colony of Massachusetts
with the task of making the first sur
vey for the Cape Cod canal, was
drafted" as an army engineer by
George Washington before he could
make a fair start on the survey, says
the Engineering NewsRecord. George
Washington's letter to the chairman
of the committee which appointed Mr..
Machin read:
'The great demand we have for en-
gineers in this department has obliged
me to order Mr.. Machin hither to as
sist in that branch of the business"
This bit of American engineering
history is recounted by William Bar
clay Parsons, in a paper published in
the Proceedings of the American Soci-
ETY. of Civil Engineers) on the Cape
Cod canal, which was first proposed
more than three hundred years ago
and finally opened to commercial traf-
fee in 1914.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
FOES ARTILLERY Is ACTIVE
London War Office Tells of German
Raid on British Trench.

London, Feb. 1.-THE German ar
tillery is increasing its activity on the
Flanders front in the vicinity of the
Houtholst wood, says the war office
report. The statement reads:
Under cover of a trench mortar
bombardment, the enemy raided our
line west Of Councillor. Five Of our
men are missing.
'The hostile artillery has shown in
creased activity in the neighborhood
of Houtholst forest
Paris Feb. 11.-German raiders we're
cat1ve at points on the Aisne front, In
the Argonne and in the Vosges region.
They were driven off by the fire of
the French, who, on their own ac-
count, raided German trenches in the
Champagne and carried out successful
scouting expeditions elsewhere, taking
some prisoners, according to the VI ar
office report.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
CAN SEND FOOD TO CAPTIVEs
Americans Taken Prisoner by Ger
mans VIII Receive Gifts.

Washington, Feb. II. - American
folks at home can make life a bit cas-
Ter for their boy at the front if the
fortunes of war land him in a German
prison camp. With American troops
taking an ever-increasing part in the
actual fighting, international arrange
ments were completed under which let
tiers, money and nUurishing food may
be transmitted through the American
Red Cross to imprisoned Americans.
German mothers, too, will have the
same privilege of sending reminders
necessities won't be needed so much
to their own sons interned in America.
All communications are to be carefully
scrutinized by the Red Cross. Eighty
thousand dollars was carried in the
diplomatic and consular bill which
passed the house for government aid
for American prisoners in the central
empires.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
CROZIER ARRIVES IN LONDON
Chief of Ordnance May Aid Bliss in
Moving Troops.

London, Feb. 11.-When General
Crozier, chief of ordnance of the Amer
ican army and member of the Amer
ican war council, reached the Ameri.
can embassy he was met by Ambassa-
dor Page and General Bliss, chief of
staff of the American army and Amer
lean representative on the interallied
war council. They were Immediately
engaged In a long conference which is
supposed to have had for its subject
the additional safeguarding of Ameri-
can troops through the war zone. The
departure of General CrOzier had not
been announced in Washington A
cable dispatch from London said a
number of important personages"
were aboard one of the ships accom-
panying the Tuscania.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
GEN. CADORNA is REMOVED
Commander in Chief of italian Army
Ousted Following Defeat.

Rome, Feb. 11.-Gen. Luigi Cadorna
has been removed as a member of the
interallied supreme war council.
Gen. Gastone Giardina, former min
lister Of war, has been appointed to
succeed him.
Cadorna has been virtually stripped
for the time being, at least; of all re-
sponsibility and active connection with
the army, being ''placed at the DISPOSE
ton of the minister of war;" With
him, the two other generals who were
directly responsible for the operations
preceding and following the Isonso
disaster, have been called to Rome to
be at the war minister's "disposal."
They are Gen. Carlo Porro, former
subchief of the general staff, and Gen.
Luigi Capello, who commanded the ILL
fated second army.
This action comes incidentally
with it not as a result Of a powerful
political and press campaign for "ade-
quate punishment" of those RESPONSE
BILE for the Isonso debacle.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
U. S. SEEKS SHIP WORKERS
250,0c0 Men Must Be Enrolled This
Week-HurIey Asks Aid.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Because ships
are the primary factor in the winning
of this war, and their construction de-
pends upon labor, 2500OO men are to
be enrolled during the present week in
the United States shipyard volunteers,
Registration week" has been set
aside by proclamation in each state,
and the organization for enrolment is
complete. The board wants men will
ing to give good days work for a
good days pay, and does not ask them
to sacrifice present positions until
called upon.
The need is great The shipping
board has the money; the housing of
men is being arranged for; the yards
are being completed and the mate
rials are available All that now is
lacking is the spirit in the nation that
will send the best mechanics to the
yards not to disrupt business.
1t is planned to make careful Sc
lection of men whose places can be
filled without hardship.
Men working in the yards are placed
in the deferred class in the draft
1t is urged that mechanics go at
once to the nearest enrolment agent
of the United States public service re-
serve Of the labor department or to the
local enrolment agent of the state
council of defense and register and
then retain their present positions until
called.
Through the council of national de
fense an appeal has been made to gov
ernors, mayors and other prominent Of
ficials TO stimulate interest in their
communities
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
Razor Strop Rhymeste

The dearth of BARRIERS has forced a
good many men to shave themselves
who before the war, regarded even a
safety razor as a fearsome and dam
gerOus implement.
There is kind { moral satisfac-
ton in shaving ones self which is in
duced by no other toilet function. I
know a verse writer of some distinc-
ton, observes a writer in the London
Chronicle, who asserts that his hap
piest rhyming feats always come to
him with the rhythmic sweep of the
lather brush and the razor-not a
safety.
And our novelists, particularly the
Victorian ones, are fond of the dress
ing gown and shaving dishabille of
their heroes.
The most remarkable barber in Eng
lish literature is Thackeray's Mr.. Egg
lantine, whose affection for "The Raw
enswing" was inspired by the glories
of that young woman's hair.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
Change IN ARMYSTAFF
Reorganization Provides for Five
Main Divisions.
Each Section Will Be Covered by an
Assistant Chief of Staff-To Ad-
wise Secretary of War.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Washington, Feb. IA general re-
organization of the general staff OF
the army was announced by the waI
department.
The new plan provides for five main
divisions.
Each division will be under an as
sistant chief of staff. The chief a1
staff and the war council are to CO.
operate in the general administrative
duties Of the general staff.
The changes have been under con
sideratiOn by Secretary Baker for sew
eral weeks. The secretary stated that
a reorganization of the department
ance before the senate military affairs
committee. Reorganization Of severa
of the bureaus and other important
! improvements preceded the genera
staff alterations.
The general reorganization of the
/ staff is viewed in some quarters as
! a result Of the congressional agita
ton for a war cabinet and a muni
! tons director. At the war depart
ment it is declared to be a natural
outgrOWth of the rapid development
Of the war program. There were
about forty-fve members of the gen
eral staff when war was declared. This
number was increased Immediately
and now is about eighty. Most of the
present members are in France.
The official announcement of thu
reorganization says:
1.-THE burden upon the chief Of staff
the assistant chiefs of staff, and the
officers forming the general staff, iI
their duties in connection with the ad
ministratiOn of the army program by
the military establishment has SO in
creased that it becomes Immediately
necessary to organize the general staf
into responsible divisions"
The chief of the general staff, will
the assistance Of the war council, i:
to be the immediate adviser of tht
secretary of war. He and the wal
council are charged with the planning
and development Of the army program
in it's entirety.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
Opening of Suez Canal.

'It cannot be made, it shall not be
made, it will not be made; but If 1t
were made, there would be war be-
tween England and France for the pos
session OF Egypt" So said Lord Palm
erston, in 1851, with regard to the then
proposed SueZ canal
Nevertheless the forty-eighth ami
versary of the inauguration of the for
hidden waterway has passed, writes a
London correspondent The first fleet,
consisting of 40 vessels, passed
through next day, on November IT.
1869. The greatest draught was only
16 feet. How many of those who par
ticipated in the Inauguration survive
Former Princess Eugene 10 one.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
new VESSEL TO
DEFY SUBMARINE
U. S. Naval Advisor Declares Un-
sinkable Ship Has Been
Invented.
GIVES DETAILS ON THE PLAN
Graft May Have Big Hole Blown in
Side and Still Remain AfIoat-
Recalls Secretary Bakers
Statement

New York, Feb. 11.-Means have
been found to make troop transports
unsinkable by submarine, according
to statement made by William l..
Saunders, vice chairman of the naval
consulting board, in an address at a
dinner of the University of Pennsyl-
vania alumni in this city.
Mr. Saunders said that one of the
ships recently Communicated by the
government "now lies at an Atlantic
port and in such shape that she cannot
be sunk by an exploding torpedo"
81 can conceive of no reason why
this information should be withheld"
he added. "On the contrary, believe,
1t is well that the enemy may come
to realize that the time has been
reached when American transports
which that enemy cannot sink are
ready for the transportation of our
troops. This ship may have a hole
thirty or forty feet in diameter blown
in her side and she will remain afioat.
Such a hole would waterlog but one
tenth Of the honeycombed alright
cells.''
Gives Detail of Plan.
Mr.. Saunders described in detail the
plan to keep ships afioat after they
had been torpedoed and the manner in
which it had been developed by Will
liam f. Donnelly, q New York marine
engineer, working under authorization
of the naval consulting board.
1t is understood that the unsinkable
Snip has no fewer than $4,000 alright
cells.
''Of course it will take some time to
equip similarly the large number of
transports we have" continued Mr.
Saunders. "It is my belief, however,
that nothing will be left undOne by
the administration to safeguard the
lives of large troop contingents to be
moved across the Atlantic"
Secretary Baker has insisted before
the senate committee that 100000
American troops could be taken to
France and kept supplied during 1918.
His replies to the questions as to
where the tonnage for the task was
to come from have indicated that there
was some information at hand which
he did not care to disclose.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
NAMES OF DEAD
ON TuSCAN|A TO
BE GIVEN SOON
Washington Busy Checking Up
List of Survivors From
Transport.
RED CROSS AGENTS BUSY
Willing to Do All They Can to Trace
Fate of Any IndividuaI-Sick and
Injured American Soldiers
Improving.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Every Chica-
goan known to have been on board
the Tuscania was rescued.
This fact was established when the
war department made public several
hundred additional names of surviv-
ors.
Still Hope for These.
About 100 soldiers from Illinois,
Wisconsin and Michigan remain to
be accounted for. Out of about 2,18O
troops on board nearly 600 were from
these states. So far, about 500 Of
them have been reported in the list Of
saved. Inasmuch as not more than 113
Of the soldiers on board are missing,
according to the war departments in
formation, it is considered probable
that more than half Of the 100 Illi-
nois, Wisconsin and Michigan men yet
to be accounted for will prove to have
been rescued.
The list of survivors made public
included about $50 names from vari.
Gus parts of the country, of whom
about $50 are from middle Western
states. The survivors in the lists made
public total nearly 1,S00. There are
about 300 survivors whose names have
not been made public. 1t is expected
that this list probably will be complete
tomorrow. With the full list Of sur
vivors the war department then will
be able to check off the names Of the
missing from its records.
Red Cross Agents Busy.
A cablegram received at the head
quarters of the American Red Cross
from William Endicott, It's commits
sioner to England, states that the Red
Cross agents are making every pos
sible effort to aid in the work Of es-
tablishing Identification of soldiers
who lost their lives and whose bodies
were washed up on the Irish coast.
Commissioner Endicott said the
Red Cross agents on the ground would
be glad to do all they could to trace
the fate of any individual whose rela.
tives or friends might make special re.
quest of the Red Cross through the
bureau of communications at Wash.
ingtOn.
The Red Cross agents in England
have shipped to a rest camp, that has
been established, articles of comfort
in sufficient quantities to supply 1000
soldiers.
Survivors in Camps.
Londonderry, Ireland, Feb. 11.-An
the American survivors from the Tus.
cania, with the exception of about 100
sick or injured, and party of 142 who
landed in Scotland, are quartered IN
two military camps.
Sick Are Improving.
An Irish Port, Feb. ia CORE
spondent, who visited the sick and in
jured Americans confined in hospitals
in two widely separated Irish seapOrts,
found them progressing favOrably.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
FOES AMBUSH
YANKEE PATROL
Five Americans Killed, Four Miss
ing and One Wounded
During Clash.
ONLY One MAN ESCAPES TRAP
Survivor CraWIs Back to American
Lines-Number of Germans Caught
in Hail of Shells Fired by
U. S. Artillery.

With the American Army in France,
Feb. 11.-One American artilleryman
was killed and five were wounded when
the Germans shelled the line held by
United States troops Saturday night.
The American artillery continues it's
harassing bombardment of the German
line. Although considerable activity is
reported in No Mans Land, there were
no further reports of patrol fighting.
The official report on the patrol en-
gagement reported on Saturday night
confirms the engagement and adds that
the Germans yelled "kamerad' in
opening the engagement with the
American troops
Y. S. Troops Ambushed.
With the American Army in France,
Feb. 11.-Five American soldiers are
believed to have been killed, four are
missing and one was wounded when
an American patrol was ambushed in
No Mans Land at night by a superior
force of Germans.
The spot where the encounter oc-
Cured is an isolated one and reports
concerning the casualties inflicted by
both sides are meager.
Only one American is known to have
escaped the trap Of the Germans,
which was laid in front Of our wires.
The one survivor, who crawled back
to the American lines with a bullet in
his chest, is unable to talk
Our artillery Immediately laid a bar
rage around the ambushing Germans
and some are believed. to have been ac-
counted for. The infantry accounted
for others, as it is certain the attacked
patrol fought to finish, according to
information trickling in from the front
line.
American in Command.
An American general now COM
mands the sector of the front recently
taken over by our troops. When the
Americans first entered the sector it
was under the command of a French
general commanding a certain large
unit of the French army. Now we
have control
In turning the sector over to the
American general February 5 the
French commander issued a general
order in which he expressed complete
satisfaction with our troops and conf
dence that the sector was in good
hands, and, if attacked, that it would
be defended with great yalOr
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
SPIES BLAMED. FOR BIG FIRE
Freight Cars Loaded With Munitions
Burned at Newark, NJ j.,

Newark, n. j., Feb. 11.-Forty
freight cars loaded with munitions
and uniforms for the United States
troops were destroyed by fire which
swept the Lehigh Valley railroad
transfer plant, one of the largest
terminals in the country. Two hun
dred other cars were safely removed
from the path of the flames through
the heroic action Of switching crews.
The fire is supposed to have been of
incendiary origin. The loss was $780,
600.
Another fire in a plant manufacture
ing goods for the government was dis
covered five minutes after Clarence
Hodes, watchman at the Klaxon COM
pany's factory, Newark, challenged a
prowler and fired four shots at him
The loss was $4,000.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
CINCINNATI FACES BIG FLOOD
Licking River Goes or Rampage and
Great Damage Is Expected.

Cincinnati, Feb. 11.-Just as mer-
chants and residents in the bottoms
districts and low-lying suburbs of Gin
cinnati had resumed their regular rou-
tine life, following the flood of a week
ago, the Licking river, which empties
into the Ohio opposite this city, went
on a rampage and is sending huge vol
umes of water into the river, causing
the stage to again go beyond the flood
line of so feet. Old-time river men say
that unless the gorges below the city
break, t city will experience the
greatest hood in it's history.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
GIVES DETAILS OF PLAN
FOR UNS|NKABL SHIP
U. s. AIDS war PLANTS
S15O,OOO,0 900 Advanced to Con-
tractors, Says Baker.
Cash Averts Many Failures and la
Speeding Up Production-Many
Small Concerns Helped.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Approxi-
mately $150y00O,OOO has been advanced
to contractors on war work by the
war credits board, Secretary Baker
announced. This includes money for
production Of clOthirg, food, equip
ment and small ammunition.
The advances have stimulated pro-
duction to the highest possible de-
gree. In some cases they prevented
the closing of plants because of ina
bility Of contractors to get money to
meet the pay rolls.
The law permits advances not ex-
ceeding 30 per cent Of the contract
price.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
ICE FLOE CAUSES TWO DEATHS
Fishermen Climb Trees and Are
Hurled Into River

Cairo, ILL.,, Feb. 11.-Advices re-
ceived here from Rosiclare, ILL.,, tell
of the death by drowning of two men
and much property damage as the re-
suit of the breaking of the Stewart
island ice gorge. The Ohio river Is
said to have risen 35 feet In five hours.
The two men believed to be dead were
fishermen, who climbed trees at the
approach Of the flood. The ice cut
down the trees and the men were
swept down the river.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-11
1T. R." TO RECOVER SOON
Physicians Says Colonel Is Steadily
Improving.

New York, Feb. 11.-COl. Theodore
Roosevelt, who underwent two opera,
tions at the Roosevelt hospital last
week, is steadily improving and his
physicians say that his recovery is sim.
ply a matter of time.
Mrs. Roosevelt received the follow
ing message from King George of Eng
land:
1.-The queen and l regret the illness
of Colonel Roosevelt and hope for his
speedy recovery"
There was a stream of callers at the
hospital all day inquiring as to the
PATIENTS condition.