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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-08
Ip, p FACTORY Being Buried
'uaerground in Fear Of
american Air Raid.

EW ynpsx ys Leased Wire Service. ]
Ks cash' Feb. S.-The Krupp
II, Is sgh,many's hai1y famous munitions
| OF Ama.s ns put under ground for
word dherlcan hralcan air raids, ACCORDING
kers on 0usht = here today by pas
! Rottaraa,ne M Inc Nieuw Amsterdam
lwtng IN unoa,med informed Passengers tho
wei we're cleaned: iaces and opin-
pasna Amy 4 Is :, planning a submarine
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-08
!. German u Boat Thought to Have Been
Destroyed After Tuscania had Been
Torpedoed.
MORE SURVIVORS ARE PICKED UP
pures on Disaster Remain Unchanged,
Showing 21O Missing, Which Includes
145 American Soldiers.

of the Lusitania and has been fol-
lowed in a number of instances when
the quarry was regarded as particu-
larly important.
Tales of the bravery OF soldiers
and sailors aboard the Tuscania were
legion today. One of the most vivid
concerns woman-an unnamed
stewardess of the transport.
The life boat in which she sat
was crowded when it pulled away
from the steamer Despite this, sew
eral others who were swimming
about in the icy waters were pulled
aboard.
With the little craft crowded to
capacity. another soldier swan along
side. There was no room for him.
He was too exhausted and numb
from the cold to cling to the gun
vale unafded.
The stewardess leaned far over
the side at the risk of falling over
board and clutched his hand. In this
stra ined position she held the sol
dier's head above water for half an
hour.
When they were picked up it was
discovered that she was clutching the
hand of corpse.
A medical officer from the Tus-
cania declared most of the deaths
occurred among the men who jumped
overheard when she was first struck.
The transport began to list immedt-
ately, he said, and there was no way
of picking them up until the life
boats were lowered By that time
many Of them had succumbed to ex-
posure.
Landing Of Survivors.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Survivors
Of the Tuscania to the number OF q
OBS have been landed at Irish and
Scotch points, navy department.
cablegram announced today. This
included officers, men, crew and pas
sengers. This report, however, is ap-
parently incomplete.
The navy department statement fol
lows:
1.-THE navy department today receiv-
ed cablegram announcing seventy
six officers and 1922 enlisted men OF
the army, who sailed on the transport
Tuscania have been landed at Bun
crana, Ireland: that sixteen officers
and seamen of the crew have been
landed at Iarne and that approximate
tly $40 officers and enlisted men OF
the army have been landed at lslay,
Scotland.
! "In addition, approximately ninety
| nine soldiers and members or the
crew are in the military hospital al
| Londonderry; ten soldiers are in
Lough Foyle hospital at Londonderry;
and nine soldiers and two Of the ere"
are In the county infirmary at Lon
donderry.'
Our reports concerning the sink.
| ing of the Tuscania are very sketchy,
said Secretary Daniels today, and
have no confirmation Of the British
statement that the submarine also
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-08
RUSSIAN PEACE
DELEGATES FIRM
See Signs of Germany Backing
Down From Firm Stand
That Her Terms Are
Supreme.
NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED
Separate Peace to he Agreed to Only
n No Other Kind 10 Probable,
is BoIsheviki
Attitude.
NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED
[By Joseph Shaplen, United Press
Staff Correspondent

Staff Correspondent.
| PETROGRAD, Feb. 6.-(DeIayed.)
| Increasing German internal dis
affection is responsible for the
change in tone of the Russian dele.
gates at the Brest-Litovsk peace con-
ferences. Hope is daily strengthen
ing the Russians. There is no re-
treat from their original position and
they may demand that the central
powers apply the Russian formula of
peace without annexations to the
western front.
Brest-Litovsk conferees wired that
the negotiations had been resumed,
with German Foreign Minister Won
Kuehlmann insisting on German
terms, but with a softened tone. They
declared there could be nothing more
! dangerous than compromise. Just
as the Russians have burned their in
ternal bridges behind them, just so
much they resist each concession
demanded Of the Russian revolution,
the delegates said The Russian con-
ferees must firmly declare that they
will agree to a separate peace only
If no other is possible, but only if
such peace is based on no annexa-
tions and the policy Of self determi-
nation, according to their present at
titude There will be that kind of
peace, or no peace, they assert.
The Znamia Trude, organ of the
social revolutionaries of the left, said
today that the Germans would hardly
dare break off negotiations now and
eve must continue our policy of
| deepening the German revolution"
| Referring to Foreign Minister Trot-
sky's reference in his exclusive inter
view with the United Press to an
! elastic policy, the Novayazishiin
! (newspaper) asked whether Russia
should permit German annexations
| in the west, even if they were re-
| jected in the east. The Bolsheviki
/ reply to this was that if the Ger
mans are able to annex territory on
| the western front. it is the allies
fault, as they failed to Join the Brest-
Litovsk conferences.
Rifles and Ammunition.
A PACIFIC PORT, Feb. s.-Several
rifles and several thousand rounds of
ammunitions were seized aboard a
Russian steamer as it was about to
leave port and were taken over by
naval authorities here today.
The munitions were taken upon a
search OF the vessel made prior to
granting clearance, when it was learn
ed several of the fire room crew were
BolshevilNi.
Concealed beneath the stokers
hunks, the guns and ammunition were
found Naval guards were forced tC
protect the searchers with fixed bay.
onetS.
BrusiIoff Arrested.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. S.-General
Brusiloff, commander in chief of the
Russian armies under Kerensky. has
been arrested in Moscow, according
to Berlin dispatches received today
Brusiloff was appointed commander
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-08
No FirelU0rks or CrackGSs
For Next Fourths1f July
Losues Not Permitted THIS Year Anything of That
Kind Will be Popping in Europe

P ease
omorew Fourhs of
con1mite
of
ing sfromth lands of fenemyal Aliens
heruing be by licenses system
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-08

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-08
Rifles and Ammunition.
Brusllom Arrested.

COPENHAGEN, Feb. S.-General
Brusiloff, commander in chief of the
Russian armies under Kerensky, has
been arrested in Moscow, according
to Berlin dispatches received today.
Brusiloff was appointed commander
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-08

Tbe Telegraph Service of The
nailv Gate City and Constitu-
ion.Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-08
THE WEATHER

Fair and cooler tomorrow Lo-
cal temp p. m. 46; Z a. m.
AZ.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
507 u. S. CASUALTIES

otal Since Aisne-Marne Drive Be
gan is 14,o29.
Washington, Sept. THE army
'~ualty list contained 507 names
The figures bring the total Amer
II casualties, since the start of the
.rno drive TO 14,029 The Penn
lrania total since that date is 1876
Killed in Action.
Yam Bailey, Sharon.
':Ai0re SciarrOne. Erie.
Wounded Severely.
hHrle> J. PaSetore. CoraopOlis.
rotromo> Eyiomhiatis. South Beth
lehem
AIRY \. Altemus, Manly Clio.
i'm Boichik, Hawk Run
rhard f. Sherlock, st. Michael.
Ike Barber, Whir>oft.
nmes J. Costello. Pittsburgh.
eplfn- c. Bradley. Burnham.
George W. Crull. Trafalgar.
,alph Herring, Coaldale.
Dorsey l.. Hudson, Vineland, \. J.
%d. J. Anderson. Bergenfield. \. J..
has. H. Schneider Rutherford, NJ
Wounded, Degree Undetermined.
James f. Ashley, Lancaster.
Daniel L. Kelly, Pottsville.
! leonard Pinkey, Coaldale
luigi Strattone, Chester
Elwood Taylor, Dimock
Wayne \. LeVan, Allentown.
William sherman
Missing in Action.
Joseph Malnowski, Reading
George Reick, Stevensville
Norman L. Roe, EYwOod
Leonard ]. Palazzo, West Apollo.
Joseph Cerione, Vineland, n. J.
Laurence ]. Collins, Orange, n. J.:
Anthony J. Marfaro, Jersey City, NJ.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
CREED WORTH LIVING UP.T0
Man Who Wrote 1t Had Proper Appre-
citation of the Advantages of
Life in the Country.

II any country boy ever becomes dis
contented with his lot and thinks there
might be more opportunities elsewhere,
or better place to live than in white
farmhouse, let him read the creed CON-
posed by Edwin Osgood Grover. The
lines might be pinned up on his bu-
reau, where he can see them the first
thing In the morning and the last
thing at night.
81 believe that the country, which
God made, is more beautiful than the
city. which man made; that life out
of doors and in touch with the earth
is the natural life of man.
81 believe that work is work where
ever we find it, but that work with
nature is more inspiring than work
with the most intricate machinery.
II believe that the dignity of labor
depends not on what you do, but on
how you do it; that opportunity comes
to a boy on the farm as often as to a
boy in the city; that life is larger and
freer and happier on the farm than in
the town; that my success depends not
upon my location, but upon myself
not upon dreams, but upon what l
actually do; not upon luck, but upon
pluck.
81 believe in working when you work
and in playing when you play, and in
giving and demanding square deal in
every act of life"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
BRAVE SONS OF FAR WEST
Boys Sole Object in Going to War,
Like That Of Others, Is to
"can the Kaiser"

Maj. e. Alexander Powell, in Scrib-
ner's Magazine, says cit has been my
good fortune to have marched with
many armies, but none of them has
given me the thrill of pride which runs
up my spine when I see these loose
limbed, brown-faced, clear-eyed sons
of the far West go swinging by under
the slanting lines Of steel.
"They are for the most part serious
looking, with a curious set expression
about them which makes you feel that,
though they realize the immense diff
Guilty of the task for which they are
preparing, they intend to see it fin
ished, no matter how long it may
take. Just as their fathers carried the
frontier of civilization westward from
the Mississippi, SO these, their sons,
are going to push that same frontier
from the Rhine.
But that isn't the way that they
would put it. Should you ask them
what they are fighting for, they will
say nothing about the liberty of small
peoples or about making the world
safe for democracy. They will assure
you that their sole object in going to
war is to can the kaiser And, upon
thinking 1t over, 1t seems to me that
their answer though somewhat inele-
gantly phrased, perhaps, expresses the
sentiments of all of u.s."
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
His Wonderful Memory.

Horace Annesley Vachell, playwright
and novelist, had an extraordinary
memory, which stood him in very good
stead when he wrote his play, Search
lights"
He composed the play very rapidly
straight off on his typewriter, in fact
and did not trouble TO take copy. In
these circumstances. he refused to in
trust the precious manuscript to any.
one less careful than himself. Hail
ing motorcar, he brought it up to
town, and promptly left it behind him
on the seat of the cab!
He set himself to retype the play
from memory, and just as he had fin
ished Scotland Yard recovered the
missing copy. Mr.. Eachel. found, on
comparing the two scripts, that he had
rewritten the play almost word for
Torll
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
SAINT SURELY WOMAN Halter
COLOMBIA, 1t Must Be Admitted, Car.
ried His Aversion to the Femi-
nine Sex to an Extreme,

Women have been forbidden ON sew.
eral islands ruled by the Catholic
clergy. One of the most famous of
these is Iona of Icolmkill, called also
l or Hy, small island of the inner
HebrideS, nine miles southeast Of
Staffa, and separated from the island
OF Null by a channel one and a quar-
ter of a mile wide, called the sound Of
lee of Icolmkill; it is in Argyleshire,
and has population Of about three
hundred, whose only occupations are
fishing and raising black cattle on the
bleak moors. From earliest times the
island has been accounted holy and 1t
is still known to the Highlanders as
Eilean nah Druinech-the Sacred Isle
Of the Druids, for whose rites it was
the chief seat.
In 5G3 Conal Christian, king Of the
Northern Scots, granted it to St. Co.
ionba. Brude, king of Picts. con-
Ermed the gift upon being converted.
Colombia built a chapel and a hospice
of wicker and mud matched with
heather among the $50 gray Druidical
monolithS on which rude crosses were
sculptured by early converts. Celom-
ha'S aversion to everything feminine
was such that he forbade even the
keeping of cows on the island. for, he
said, where there is COW there must
be female, AND where there is a fe
male there must be mischief" ANY
tradesman of Iona must keep
his wife Cd the neighboring "Woman's
isle" While the lords of the isle were
brought to Iona for burial, their wives
we're buried on the Isle of Ftnlagah.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
DEPENDENTS TO FILE
EXEMPTION CLAIMS
Registrars Not to Ask For
Deferred Classification.

Washington. Sept. I.-BecauSe many
men of the new draft ages are eN-
pected 10 refuse To claim exemption
from military service, regardless of
the need for them at home, The pro
vost marshal generals office suggest
ed employers or interested depend
ents should not fail TO file claims in
such cases.
1t is pointed out that the form OF
the que>tionnaire rurpOsely leaves the
exemption claim open to be filled by
others than the regiStrant himself.
General -CrOwder'S staff feels thai
failure To present legitimate eNemp-
ton claims for sentimental reasons
will almost certainly work hardship
and injustice, especially since the local
boards now are being asked Ia con
duct classification at top speed. Gen.
eral failure to have such claims filed
it is said. also will serve To show III
the work.
New regulations to govern eXemp-
ton under the occupational section OF
the law have been published in Sp"
ciaI pamphlet form TO aid boards and
registrants in providing the wider ap
plication.
In a conference. Colonel Warren. OF
provost marshal general staff Felix
Frankfurter. chairman of the war la
hor policies board, and a representa-
tive of the department of agriculture
took up in detail the method of pr
curing three occupati0nal advise
who will Serve with each, of the III
odd district draft boards in canvass;n
The occupational exemption claims.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
ADDS TO HARDNESS OF BRICK
Necessary Ingredient in the
Process Of Manufacture.

Everyone is familiar with the story
of how Pharaoh commanded his task
makers to increase the burdens laid
oD the Israelites by withholding from
them the straw wherewith to make
bricks, says the Popular Science
Monthly. and doubtless many have
wondered wherein the hardship lay.
BY most people, probably, the view has
been held that the straw was added as
binding material much as hair is
used In the mortar; but such an eX-
PLANTATION Is scarcely satisfying when
1t is remembered that the straw fiber
is a very weak one. Alexander Find
lay says in his Chemistry in the Serv-
ice of Man:
"About fourteen years ago it was
found by DR.. E. G. Acheson, to whom
we owe the discovery of carborunArm
and the process of making artificial
graphite, that when clay is mixed with
a dilute solution of tannin it becomes
much more plastic, and the strength
of the dried brick is, moreover, great
ly increased. Although straw does
not contain tannin it was found that
when straw is treated with water, the
extract obtained has the same action
on clay as tannin has, the Elasticity of
the clay and the hardness of the brick
Seing greatly increased"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
IT'S A PREMATURE MONUMENT
Tall ObeIisk Was Raised by the Turks
70 Commemorate Anticipated
Capture IF kut.

Approaching Kut-el-Amara from the
thing one sees nowadays Is a tall ODE
Isk. 1t stands on ground sacred to
no people in the world but the Brit
ish, Eleanor Franklin Egan writes in
the Saturday Evening Post. 1t stands
on the wide, sheiI-tOrn and deeply
trenched neck of land-base of the
peninsula on which the town is built
where for 144 days the shattered rem
nant of British army withstood
double siege of constant bombardment
and slow starvation.
This obelisk was raised by the
Turks to commemorate the surrender
of General Townsend and their VIC
tory over the British forces that had
tired so long and so heroicalIy to re-
lfeve him. To me it was an exclama-
tton point TO punctuate my own aston
ishment!
lights of early EVENING" tall white
shaft in half-circling fringe of palm
trees, lifting itself against a back
ground of placid river, which lay in
short, straight stretch to the north, re-
fleeing the colors of the sunset.
Was ever anything quite so prema-
ture? It makes one realize. as moth
ing else could, how confident the
Turks and the Germans were that they
had the British in Mesopotamia per-
manently defeated Defeated 1t
seems incredible that anyone could
have imagined it. In the face of things
as they have become, that obelisk
seems to me to express kind Of
whimpering enmity, us though it felt
itself strangely inappropriate and
would get away If it could to follow
its builders on the long trail of re-
treat to the north. 1t is monu-
mental misconjecture, the ironic hu
NOR of 1t being unique and thing In
which EngliShmen may now rejoice.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
YkNKS extend
LINE ALONG A|SNE
Menace LaOn, Heart Of HuT
Defensive System.
FOE HEADS FOR CHEMINS
Americans Organize Motor Machine
Gun Detachments to Pursue Re
treating Germans.

With the American Army Along the
AiSnr. Sept. THE American line on
the AiSne front extended through
Revill0n and then southeaSterly 70 the
line held by the French.
The latter had not YET left their
positions westward from RHEIMS.
Long before nightfali Thursday the
Americans had worked their way down
into the IOwlands toward the AiSne
of the platform from which they ha6
been able 10 look over the next valley
at the cathedral towers in Laon, not
fifteen miles away.
+ Ii is al that point where is located
the heart of the present German op,
eratiomS I.aon is a great communica,
ton centre and must naturally be de,
Tended with the utmost determination
if the allied forces are to be pre-,
vented from driving back 20 it the
German lines from west and south.
French and American troops reach.
ed the south bank of the Aisne be,
tween Condo and Viell-Arcy, an eight,
mile front. American forces occupied
the towns of Dhuizel and Barbonal,
virtually without opposition.
The retirement of the Germans to
Positions north of the AiSne is regard
eh ns only preliminary to their reoc.
cupatinn Of their old lines of defense
along the Chemin des Danes With
their recrOSSng of the AiSne the SEQ
= -
Marine is ended.
In the first they We're driven back
mile ny mile and desperate fighting
marked almost every bit of the terri
tory yielded. 1t was entirely different
III mis- case. 1t was, in fact, a Strate-
gic retreat and has cost comparatively
little in men and munitions.
SO steady and rapid was the with
draWal of the Germans carried out
that French cavalry was employed to
maintain contact at one or two places
he cavalry also contributing to the To-
alton of machinegun nests.
The Americans We're subjected at
ines TO a rather heavy artillery fire,
especially while going over the pla-
teau. For about two miles it was
necessary for them to advance in the
open high ground plainly visible to
the German observers There was
little cover, and both heavy and light
artillery swept the zone, but with
slight effect and without checking 70
any degree the forward movement.
in their endeavor to keep up with
he Germans who are retreating be-
'"nd the river Aisne the Americans
lave organized automobile machine
gun detachments with three men to
"ach car. More than thirty cae S.ere
perating north of Vesle river.
As not much German infantry had
zen sighted the automobile machine
runners were uncertain just where
heir advance might lead them. The
ftir had supplies of food and equip
vent 70 enable them to keep after
e" Germans for DAYS
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
BRITISH ARE
NEAR ST. QUENTIN
They Are Seven Miles East
Of the SOnIle.
FRENCH At HIkOENBURG LINE
Foch's Cavalry Takes Chauncy After
Fliqht OF Germans and Are With
in Eiuht Miles of Laon.

British. French and Americans
leaped forward again against The
Germans.
In the center Of the line running
south from Flanders IL scissors the
British swept on toward 81. Quentin
anal Reached t"wns only eight miles
from thar German base. They drove
directly eastward: on a lWelNe-mlle
FROM for thrrt. miles capturing many
villages.
10 the south General Debeny's
French army has pocketed Ham. To
the southeast the French have occu-
pied Chauncy. on the Disc river, and
proceeded beyond.
ManginS poliuS. who went around
the lower Coucy forest. moving to-
ward Laon. are now in front of the
ST. Gobain forest. which not long
ago hid the German long range guns
thai hontbarded Paris. The Germans
have been forced I" within eight
miles of Laon at one point. They are
behind the Hindenhurg line. north
west of AniZy.
The menace TO la Fere and Iaon.
It is believed in Paris. makes the
Chpmfn dies Danes Lille 100 roSky for
the Germans retreating from the Sois-
sons Rheims 70 hold.
Americans and French are now
STANDING before the AiSne on Il long
front ras1 nf scissors. They have
advanced seven miles from the NeSle
at some places
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07

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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
Wounded, Degree Undetermined.
GUSTS MEN OF DRAFT AGE
Secretary Baker Orders All Class On
Employees Replaced by December 81

Washington, Sept. 7.-Secretary 9
War Baker has ordered the chief
Zach bureau in the war department /
"eplace by December 81 all men Will
n the draft ages who would be class
led in class one, all assigned to du'
n Washington, or in war departmei.
ranches elsewhere, with men phy>'
ally disqualified for general milifar
service
The positions thus vacated may :
also filed by men in the defefrrs
'lasseS where such deferment has be-
granted on the grounds of Dependent
Exceptions are 10 lee made or
where incumhents are indiSpenS.h
and where men not within the dra
age are not available to take The.
places
The chiefs of bureaus are inStrur.'
To report to the adiutant general .
December 81 the number and mann
Of all men within The draft age the
employed in their bureaus and 20 fl!
niSh Il certificate thai each of thpS
is Indispensable and that others ne
within the draft age ar" not availai.
% replace them.