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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
Snow in North Tier
Hampers R. R. Traffic
By Assocfafed PreEs

Williamsport, Pa, Jan. 22-Five
inches of snow fell over the north
ern tier to-day. Train movements
which were just recovering from
the congestion of weeks were again
hampered. although the railroads
used extra motive power i'm an ef
fort to keep trains going in and out
OF local yards. Officials feel they
have the upper hand of the situa-
tiop. Double-header locomotives
are being used on passenger and
freight trains on several railroads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
Pershing Reports Death
of an American Killed
in Action at Front

Washington, Jan. 22.-General Per-
shing to-day reported Corporal Wal
ter Roberts. Infantry. killed in action
January 20. No details of the en-
gagement were given. His mother,
Mrs. Kate Roberts. lives at Hartline,
Wash.
General Pershing also reported the
death OF Corporal Frank l.. Coffman
in railroad accident. His address
was r. f. d. No. l, Freeport, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
Deer Kept Alive by
Farmers Who Carry Hay

Williamsport. Pa, Jan. 22.-To-
days fall of snow increased the
depth in the mountains to two and
a half and three feet, covering
bushes and low trees and robbing
birds and game of their natural
food. Birds and small game are
dying from starvation in numbers
while larger game. such as deer, is
kept alive by farmers who carry
hay and other food to their haunts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
By associated Press

Washington, Jan. %. - Colonel
Roosevelt came to town to-day and
received a steady stream of callers
at the home of his daughter. Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth.
The Colonel frankly said his pur-
pose in coming to the Capital now
was to help speed up the war and
confer with friends in Congress. He
disclaimed any purpose of replying
to Senator Stones speech in the Sen
ate yesterday.
Il am infinitely less interested in
what Senator Stone says about me
than in what the President says
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
WEATHER FORECAST

For Harrisburg and vicinity; Snow
this afternoon, probably con-
tinuing into the night; not
not much change in tempera-
ture, lowest tonight about IL
degrees; Wednesday fair and
colder.
For Eastern Pennsylvania. Snow
this afternoon and Tonight.
probably heavy; Wednesday fair
and colder; strong northeast to
north winds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22

Clarence E. Weber, chief clerk
in the city treasurer's office for the
last two years, was elected city
treasurer to-day, succeeding Harry
F. Owes. Commissioners BURNETT,
Gross, Hassler and Lynch voted for
him on the ninth ballot taken in
Council in order TO fill the post.
Mayor Keister voted for Edward C.
First on each of the nine ballots.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
Baltimore Has Heaviest
Snow of the Winter

Baltimore, Nd, Jan. 22.-The
heaviest snowfall of the winter thus
far in this region set in last mid
night and continued steadily to-day,
seriously interfering with the move
ment of railroad traffic and the work
of clearing the freight congestion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
Bandits at Detroit
Escape With 900

Detroit, Jan. 22.-Three bandits
entered the jewelry store of Ralph
Dewey, in the downtown district this
forenoon, bound W. Il. Gringer. the
manager and escaped with valuables
said to be worth $4,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
SENATE ACCEPTS CHALLENGE TO-
CROSS SWORDS WITH PRESIDENT
PEACE FIGHT
LOOMS BIG
IN AUSTRIA

Copenhagen JAM 22-The Local Anzeger, of Berlin says
that unless Leon Totzy the Bolshev foreign minister
ceps demands the Central Powers when he
BresLovsk January 29 the Central Powers will break off
negotiations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
LATE NEWS
GERMAN WARSHIPs CAPTURE SUGAR

GERMAN WARSHIPS CAPTURE SUGAR
copenhageA-The capture by German warships
the Dutch steamship Luna, 1869 tons gross from Hol
land for Sweden with cargo of sugar is reported in
Stockholm dispatch to the National Tdende The Luna
was taken into Swinemuende
LILLY BECOMES AIDE TO GoETHALs
Washington-Joseph Lilly, of Norton, Lilly ana
Company "a New York shipping firm, has been offered
and it was said here today has accepted place as
aide to Major Gepera Goethals in charge of the arm.
quartauslster corps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
HAKKIAGE LICENSES

Clarence Jacobs R. WeaVe
Mchard acAIer and MarEaret Welsh EinrrsburEt Joseph
sadie H.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
MORE U. S. OBSERVERS

With the American Army in France-More American
observers have begun work at the front with Frsrci
pilots in French aPanes While their flights are in th
nature Of instruction they arc carried out under actua
battle conditions.
PEACE NEGOTIATION POSTPONED
Peuograd-Monday-The peace negotiations at Brest
Litovsk have been postponed for few days. Forciga
Minister Trotzly is again in Petrograd and according
to the evening newspapers, is preparing another note
TO the entente allies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22

CONTINUED ON Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22
= WILL ISSUE "sTARs AND sTRIpEso

sAsIlsFe4rs-rhoy sts+e Roara NJ Agri-r,,r,. ps..s
It's annual convention ro-oay wnen vve.nv. nla.
baugh addressed the delegates The big agricultural ex
hibit also opened in the Emerson Brantngham building
43AUTo TRUCKS BURNED
Philsde lPhia--Forty-three automobile trucks were
consumed in fre which swept the garage Of the Amer
lean Express Company last night The building was com
Pletely destroyed causing loss Of sI6oooO
ATTEMPTED RAIDS REPULsED
London-"Attempted enemy raids last night east of
YPres were repused," the office reports Other
wise the night was quiet on the whole front"
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
We Are About
to UnScramble
the Balkan
Eggs
Copyright, 1918,
New York Tribune Inc.

trian and Bulgar armies have been
routed by Serb forces, and the latest vic
tory between the Cerna and the Vardar
is only one more in glorious cycle Of
triumphs. 1t was the Serbs who broke
the force of Turkish invasion at the
Danube centuries ago, it was the Serb
who, first of Balkan people, achieved
independence; indeed fraction of the
race, in the Black Mountains, never
yielded. Now it is a Serb force which
has cracked the keystone of the Ger
man arch between the Danube and the
Golden Horn.
Nor is this all. If we are 70 insure
ourselves against a new German drive
to the Near East we can only do it by
erecting a Serb state between the .Adri-
attic and the Danube sufficiently strong
to bar German advance when supported
by an even stronger Rumanian state to
the east. We can do this merely by
adding to the Serb and Rumanian states
which existed before this war Austrian
and Hungarian districts peopled almost
are soon to have the chance to reward
our brave Serb and Rumanian allies and
in rewarding them to build a stronger
dixie against the German flood We allies
have already paid heavy price because
three years ago we offered to Bulgaria
Greek, Serb and Rumanian territories
as price for support The price did
not prevent the Bulgar from making his
treacherous attacks. We must avoid re
peating that mistake if we would keep
our Greek Serb and Rumanian friends
and thus insure the ultimate creation of
a Balkan confederation strong enough
to bar the German pathway to the east
and abolish all German dreams of Nit
teleuropa.
In the present article | have confined
myself to the political rather than the
military aspects of the Bulgarian situa-
ton, for the military aspects are by
contrast minor. Politically the action
of the Bulgarians is the most important
eastern event since the Treaty of Blu
charest. Itmarks the beginning of The end
OF Mitteeuropa; it is the first authentic
sign of the ebb of German influence and
power in Europe. The weaker allies
are going ashore. Bulgaria may be
drawn back to her German alliance tenn
porarily, but German influence will not
again be the same in Sofia, and it must
similarly wane at Constantinople.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
Black shows Mtteleuropa with Bulgaria eliminated

would necessarily be the surrender of
all conquered territory, Rumanian as
we'll as Serb and Greek
On the other hand, if there were first
a defeat and then loss of most of the
territory, accompanied by the threat of
an invasion of Bulgaria itself then Bull
garla might be expected to make peace
gesture. and If this gesture were sim
cerc and carried with it the promise of
evacuation Of conquered territory, the
demobiizaton Of Bulgar armies and the
abandonment Of the German alliance,
then Bulgaria might be certain of escap-
ing IRON the conflict without loss of ter
ntory and with possible compensation
IN Thrace and at the expense of Turkev.
Ia abandoning Uskub and Nsh she
might hope to gain Adranoplc and
Midia. And she would end the terrible
drain of the war. which was no longer
profitable. and might, given German de-
feat, prove fatal.
Such, briefly, is the Bulgarian sltua-
ton as II has developed in nearly four
Years OF war. Bulgaria was and still
remains the single bridge between Ger
many and Austria on the north and Tur-
key and the Near East on the south
Break that bridge by eliminating Bull
Garia and Turkey is isolated, bound to
1all prey to Allied armies, if not to in
ternal revolutions which will hasten her
surrender. Turkey once at the mercy
OF the Allies, there is final end to Ger
man dreams of expansion in the Near
East, for the Allied purposes as to Tur-
key contemplate the liberation of en-
shaved races and the naturalization of
the straits under international control
The elimination of Bulgaria would in
sure the eventual liberation of Serbia
manly held by Bulgar armies, and the
equany certain escape from German con-
lfoi or kumanla, plundered and resent
Jul. 1t would open a new Austrian front
and threaten the invasion of HUNGARY
and Bosnia. Allied armies would he
able to join hands with the disloval Aus
tflan subjects among the Jugo- Siavs. AS
to the moral and political effect of such y
change upon the people of Austria and
hungary, 1t would be enormous. while y
reenhstment of Rumania on the Allied
side would be almost certain.
Now recognizing that if Bulgaria
makes a separate peace Germany will
lose all possible Balkan profit for her
great SACRIFICES, and will be thrown back
upon the dubious Russian fields as the
sole opportunity to acquire political or
eventual economic gain from the war
fealzlng that the existence of Austria
"lll be gravely imperilled by a restora-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06

occupy the kavala district, while they
had persuaded the Turks to cede to
Ferdinand the strip Of territory facing
Adrianople which insured rail communi-
cation on Bulgar soil from Sofia to Dede-
agatch, on the Egcan
In this situation it at last became plain
to the whole world that if Germany
could retain what she has acquired bv
conquest and alliance in the Near East.
it she could continue to hold Serbia and
dominate Rumana and Bulgaria, as well
as Turkey. after peace was restored she
would in no long time become the great
est power in the world and her armies
would reach India and Egypt The Brit
ish Empire was threatened the French
and Italian colonies in North Africa
were endangered the Black Sea had be-
come German lake, like the Baltic
Moreover, the collapse of Russia and
the elimination Of the Slav as a great
power removed all curb to German am
billions on the eastern flank and added to
the German conquests in the Balkans
vast regions Of Russia
Yet, despite this peril, visible in 1915,
when Serbia fell, unmistakable a wear
later, when Rumania was conquered, ac-
centuated by the collapse of Russia, there
was no immediate remedy for the Al
lies, who in the present spring were
confronted with a life and death strug-
gle in France and were actually obliged
to recall men and guns from the Balkans
to save Paris. Save for British Colonial
troops operating from the Persian Gulf
and from Egypt and slowly advancing
about Jerusalem ana Bagdad, no Allied
operations were possible, and these were
relatively minor, for, If Germany could
continue to hold the road from Berlin to
the Golden Horn, she might subsequently
send troops south and, employing the
Turk armies. remadc and stifIened by
German contingents, sweep Allenby and
Maude's armies out &C MesepctamiA AIS.
Palestine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06

ton of the Serbian front, nothing is
more certain than that both Germany
and Austria will make q supreme effort
to restore the compromised situation in
the Balkans. And that this is being
done we are already informed by Berlin
and Vienna, in both of which capitals
there is to be discovered unconcealed
dismay, for the loss of Bulgaria would
be far greater disaster than an en-
forced retreat behind the Meuse on the
West front
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
w 7ar~Wcarjness Playce',
w a Strong Part

be solution OF the problem, So far IS
II HAD a solution, was obvious. There
were both in Turkey and Bulgaria STRONG
elements opposed TO Germany As the
war dragged on both nations We're DO
coming affected by war WEAKNESS.
Turkey had fought Italy, the Balkan
States and was now fghting TIE Western
Powers, and the burden Of the three
wars, two Of them utterly unsuccessful
and the third becoming unfavorable,
was heavy. Bulgaria had similarly
fought Turkey, Serbia and was now at
grips with four great nations. The sacri-
fees of both nations had been enormous.
and IT German fortunes in the west be-
gan to wane and the link between Berlin
and Vienna on the one hand and Sofia
and Constantinople on the other were
broken both the Turk and the Bulgar
might quit.
But there was only one way to break
this link, and that was by an operation
upward from Salonica toward and to
the Danube, by successful push from
Salonica to Belgrade And this. in turn.
was only possible if the Bulgar army
could be defeated, decisively defeated.
and the war carried into Bulgarian ter
ritory. AS long as the Bulear army
stood and Bulgaria continued to hold
Serb and Rumanian territory, as well
as Greek. no Bulgar government would
consent to make peace with the Allies.
since the first condition of such peace
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
sbh Me Greatest Internment
a. Camp in Europe

And here, at last, we may turn to the
military aspect. For nearly three years
the Salonlca front has been source of
weakness to the Allies, because it has
drawn their troops away from the main
field, while the Germans have been able
10 assign their task in this region to the
Bulgars, who were not available for ser
vice in France or Belgium Only few
German troops. and not many more Aus
TRANS, have been employed in the Bal
kans, while the British and French
alone have had nearly a quarter of a
million locked up in what the Germans
have not inaptly described as the great
est lnternment camp in Europe"
But now, when Ludendorff is fighting
Tor his life in France and Austrian
troops are aiding him, or are nassed in
Italy against possible Italian offensive.
the Balkan situation makes an imnera
tive demand upon German reserves.
urgently needed in Flanders and in Lor-
raine, and, as a result, Germany has to
weaken her armies in France to save
A4~~ PNSiItO4l III 1DulSdIld. AS cONSo-
quence the Balkans cease to be a side
show for the Allies; they have become
a very important circumstance in the
main drama. If you desire a parallel
it is to be found in the Spanish situation
of 1913, when Napoleon, fighting desper
ately IN Germany, was obliged to send
troops to Spain, which, had they been
under his hands in Saxony, might have
prevented the disaster which overlook
the great Emperor at Leipsic.
We shall do we'll to be wary of too
great immediate expectations in the Bal
kans. Bulgaria may have sought bv
the threat of surrender to compel her
German ally to send troops, already
asked and refused, while at the same
moment sounding Allied capitals to
gather an idea of what terms were OBJ
talnable. She may have sought merely
to save her armies by resorting TO a
familiar ruse. But this ruse almost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06

dNINCt. the treaties of Brest- Iitovsk
and Bucharest eliminated Russia
~ and Rumaria from the war there
has been no more important:
political event than Bulgaria's cry OF
"l<arsrad." on the morning Of her great
military defeats in Macedonia This de
lection or collapse of Bulgaria carries
instant doom to the German Mittel-
europa; it separates the Central Pow
ezs from their Turkish ally and it
restores the old barriers to German OK
pansion toward the east, to deisiolsk
which Berlin ana Vienna risked world
wa7.
We are justified IN regarding the Bul-
Gar!a; gesture with every possible sus-
picion until thnre can no longer be any
question OF the Bulgar good faith, and
there can only be ell end Of suspicion
.vnsn 3ulgar armies are demohiliced and
Serbian. Rumanian and Greek territories
occupied by these bulgar armies re-
stored to their rjgatful owners.
On ire other hand, the terms Of Bu.-
Elrian surrender now made public in
official statements seem to prove that the
BulgArs have yielded Internationally and
shat the armisticc insures the elimina-
son of Bulgaria from the war.
And the meaning of the removal Of
Bulgaria not merely from the war but
from the domination of German intiu-
ence is to be found in the slightest ref
erence to a map of Central Europe on
which is recorded in black and white
the present condition of the German Nit
teleuropa and the condition which would
result from the transfer of Bulgaria
from German to Allied control 1t would
mean the removal of the keystone of the
German arch opening from Europe to
Asia Minor
We are beginning to be perfectly
familiar with Mitteleuropa. The world
understands now that in the years pre-
ccding the war Germany was laboring
to construct great central empire
which should both insure to her the domi-
nation of Europe. as Napoleon possessed
1t in his great period, and, in addition,
with Turkey and the straits of Dards,-
nelles and Bosporus included in the en-
pire. enable her to escape from the fatal
embrace of sea power and lay hands
upon Asia Minor and even upon North
Africa, to approach Egypt and India
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
Mitteleuropa, will fall swiftly and surely
into Allied hands

Mitteleuropa, will fall swiftly and surely
into Allied hands
And the first Bulgarian gesture gives
Us reason to look confidently toward the
elimination of Bulgaria at no distant
date. We are sure Of Greece now. Ser
bia awaits deiverance, but will remain
faithful to the Allies Rumania, too,
awaits our coming, and recent reports
indicate that She viii take the field again
the moment communications with the
west are restored, as they will be when
Bulgaria quits. Indeed, there are midi
cations that Rumania may not delay
action that long. Thus, after three
years we are in fair way to restore
the situation in the Near East, to regain
the advantages lost by blindness and
worse in 1915 and 1916, to unscramble
the Balkan eggs.
But the present situation shou!d be
viewed with Il full understanding of
future problems. Unless as conse-
quence OF victorious war we erect
Rumanan and Serbian states sufficiently
strong to hold the line of the Danube
and the Carpathians against new Ger
man attack, unless we deal justly with
nghtful Greek aspirations, unless we so
zeal with Turkey as to remove all chance
OF return OF German domination of
the bosporus and the Dardanelles in
the future, We shall miss the great on
portunity and preserve the dangers
which precipitated this world conflagra-
ton
AS 10 Bulgaria, none of her territory
IS demanded, either by our Greek or our
Serb allies, but no foot of Greek or Serb
territory should now or hereafter be
surrendered to the nation which has
treacherously attacked all of her neigh
pors, pursued selfish ana murderous am
billions and broken faith and honor with
all OF her western friends There never
was nation which in decade had
more thoroughly deserved the CONTEMPT
Of civilized mankind than the Bulpar
For the crimes of the whole people there
may be no adequate punishment con-
celVable, and there is a sound prejudice
against mutilating a country, even when
It's international relations have been
marked by long series Of crimes. But
there should be an end of the talk, par
ticularly in this country, of an aggran-
died Bulgaria.
1t Is the Serb who deserves all of
our sympathy and all of our admiration.
For SIX years Serb armies have been
fighting VIGOROUSLY for liberty. for the
freedom of their own people and for the
freedom of the Balkans. Turk, Aus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
Kamerad' Forecasts the End Of Mitteleuropa

never prevail victorious armies do not
interrupt their pursuit of a beaten foe
merely because the foe suggests peace
conversation without giving any guar
antee.
1t may be- too, that Bulgaria, having
been told that she must evacuate Serbia,
Greece and Rumania and demobilize her
army, or enlist on the Allies side, will
choose to continue fighting for little
longer in the hope that German aid will
arrive. Much depends upon the stua-
ton Of Bulgarian armies, and this is not
yet disclosed. But if the armies are de-
stroyed or captured, then German aid
will hardly change the situation for the
Bulgar people, who will be threatened
by Allied invasion on the one hand and
by the occupation Of their country by
German armies on the other.
Meantime, there is this to be said:
When Bulgaria is eliminated by con-
quest or by separate peace the Ger
man Mitteleuropa dream, become a fact
in this war, will be at an end, and q long
step, the longest, perhaps, will have
been taken toward peace, because Ger
many will not continue in fight which
holds out no prospect Of profit. AS for
Austria, Bulgarian surrender will mean
the prelude to invasion and re
bellion invasion from Serbia and from
Rumania, rebellion on the part of her
Slav subjects. north and south alike.
Turkey, too, cut off from the trunk of