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VENICE ART TREASURES
ARE GRAVELY DAMAGED.
Teuton Bombs Dropped With Deadly
Accuracy on Historic
Works.

By the Associated Press. 4
ROME. March Grave damage was
done to the Ducal Palace. the BridRe
of Signs, the Church of st. John ana
Paul and the Church Of ST. Simon, 40
well as other treasures of Venice, In
a Teuton moonlight air raid over that
city February &c. Fifty enemy air.
planes took part in the raid. dropping
300 bombs. 1t was the most violent
raid on any Italian objective since the
war began.
The raiding airplanes made three or
four circles over the martyred city.
dropping with deadly accuracy fifteen
bombs against the Ducal Palace, ten
bombs on the Bridge of Signs, 1--WE
near the Church of St John and Paul
and upon the Church of St Simon. The
damage to the last-named structure,
which is on the Grand canal, was very
great. one of its marble columns being
thrown down.
Two hospitals were struck by bombs
and 1t is a miracle that damage to
priceless monuments in the city was
not worse. The entire casualties were
one man killed and two women wound.
ed. =
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American .aviators in France. sleeping
in fur suits at night to protect them
selves from the cold. are not keen on the
proposal of Gen. Pershing that aviators
get no increased pay because of their
service, according to a letter received
by the authorities of Georgetown Uni
versity from Lieut. William G. McNulty
of the class of 1914, who is flying some
where in France" His letter. in part,
is as follows:
Eight of us are living in a Swiss hut
and are very happy. A Swiss hut is a
roof. is made of quarter-inch pine
boards, straight sides. hut clap-boards.
and the light filters in; also everything
else that wants to.
THE roof has some patent tar paper
on it, and. thank God. doesn't leak. The
hut has a wooden floor, a door at either
end. three windows on a side. only in
stead of window glass there is tightly
drawn cheese cloth. This is good for
ventilation. the authorities say The hut
is thirty feet long and fifteen wide. AS
it is put up in sections. it's rather airy.
.sr Have Ravenous Stove.
In the center of the room is round
stove twelve inches in diameter, and
it east up wood like sponge sops wa
ter. There are four cots on each side.
At one end is a piece of tar paper,
which we use for blackboard. On all
sides are our clothes hanging on nails.
and ropes stretched from rafters, and
next each bunk is our trunk. suit case
and dufffe bag, and over every cot is
our bedding roll. For seats we use our
cots and one or two folding chairs.
Two of the men have large wardrobe
trunks. One on it's side is used as a
table, on which an oil lamp and some
magazines rest. The other. on the OPP
posite side of the room, also supports
a lamp. Strung from one of the rafters
is a lantern.
an the center of the room we left a
space, and tonight we are all gathered
around it. It's little chilly, so I
have on my bonnet de police a little
olive drab hat which is made to wear
on the side of the head.
by the way. it's frightfully cold out
side. 1t has showed all day and is still
at it. We're perched on top of a bleak
hill, five little huts along a north and
south road, facing piece of woods and
nothing to stop the wind. You can see
your breath in every corner of the
room.
Paul NJ, a man from Wisconsin, a
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5000 FRISCO CLUBWOMEN
APPEAL FOR SOLDIERS
Ask President to Remove Death PEN
atty From Four Sleeping
Men in France.

SAN FRANCISCO. March Am ap-
peal by 5000 San Francisco clubwemen
for clemency for four American soldiers
in France subject to SENTENCES of death
for sleeping while on sentry duty was
telegraphed to President Wilson to-
night after the adoption of a resolu-
ton by the San Francisco City Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs. The telegram
said:
While we realize the need of Army
discipline, especially in war time, and
while We appreciate the breach involv-
ed OF sentry falling asleep at his
post In: the presence of the enemy,
nevertheless. the San Francisco City
Federation OF Women's Clubs. repre-
senting 5000 women, respectfully APP
peal to your excellency's distinguished
sense of humanity to extend ciemency
to those accused, particularly in view
of Gen. Pershing's reference Of these
cases to you.
-rhe methers Of America win appaand
Xoof 1Gn1omcH. n & * 80 ~,
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CONFERENCE POSTPONED.
Union Men Unable to Take Part in
Wage Discussion.

BOSTON. March "A conference ar
ranged for today between officers of the
New England Telephone and Telegraph
Company and representatives ofthe OPP
orators seeking increased wages. was
called Off by the state board of concilia-
ton and arbitration after being advised
that union representatives. were unable
to attend.
The board announced that the confer.
ence would be held early next week and
that assurances had been given that
meanwhile there would be no interrupt
tion OF telephone service. Operators
outside OF Boston already have voted
on the question 81 striking 70 enforce
their demenda. The balrkts we're being
conat96 k4se to6aNk 81,
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Mr.. Francis and Staff
Reach VoIogda Safely;
Americans Quit Moscow

A dispatch received by the State De-
partment yesterday from Ambassador
Francis announcing the safe arrival Of
himself and stan at Vologda February
% said the German advance on Petro-
grad and Moscow was continuing when
he left the capital February rs. The
general belief in Petrograd at that time
was that the Germans would occupy the
city in few days.
Consul Summers. at Moscow. an
nounced in a dispatch received by the
State Department yesterday that all
Americans had left Moscow as well as
Petrograd. He did not indicate to what
place they had gone. but it was assumed
that many had gone to Vologda.
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Continued from First Page)
been put down along the left flank of
the American forces. After sharp fiEht.
ing the enemy retired.
The American and French artillery ef.
fectively counter shelled the enemy
during the attack. which was localised.
and during his retirement.
1t is not permitted to disclose the
number of American casualties. One
of the prisoners captured said that this
was the beginning of a series Of sim
liar raids on a large scale along the
western front.
Berlin Claims Twelve Prisoners.
BERLIN. March Am Official an
nouncement follows:
Between the Meuse and the MoselI1.
infantry. accompanied by pioneers,
penetrated the enemy trenches north
east of Seicheprey. Americans who
were manning the trenches suffered
heavy casualties and lost twelve pris-
oners."
The official French statement of FRI
day night said that at two points on
the front Germans specially trained
for raidfng operations attacked Ameri-
can troops, and that the Americans every
where maintained their lines intact.
inf1icting heavy losses on the enemy.
The attack northeast of Seicheprey re-
ferred to by Berlin, led to heavy fight
ing. after which the ground in front
of the American trenches was strewn
with German dead. Three Germans
were captured.
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u. S. FLYERS. SLEEPING IN FURS
NCOLD FRANCE, WANT MORE PAY
Lieut.. McNulty of Georgetown University
Pictures Life in Sectional Shanty as Men
With Frosty Breaths Hover About Stove.

foot ball captain last year, is sitting on
my trunk writing letters. A mighty nice
chap he is, has still another year at the
University. of Wisconsin. and was
studying chemical engineering when he
left school. He's been down to Nice and
Italy and has mania for going to
places.
bill c., an electrical engineer out
OF Purdue University, is occupying my
chair and toasting his feet by the fire
Now and then he rattles off a tune
from his mandolin. termed Via He's
had a lot of hard luck. He was en-
states and hasn't heard a word from
his girl. He is just getting over some
boils on the back of his neck and
when we left Paris he lost his rain
coat on the train.
Locked Out, Couldn't Explain.
He got into still more trouble. He
hotel and couldn't speak word of
French. So he stayed out in the cold
that time until he ran across an Amer
lean who could talk the lingo.
from Connecticut, can't do anything but
collect junk He's got mania for COL
Letting all the odd things he can find.
we four represent the north The
rest are good old southern boys. Bunk
ing next to me is Brad s.. a tall,
good looking blonde from Alabama
Then there's Jimmy W. a curly
headed chap from Tennessee. Roland
u is boy from Macon, Ga, and
will walk ten miles to talk with any one
from his state.
We sleep in our clothes during the
cold spell. Tonight We will sleep in our
fur lined flying suits. We eat enlisted
mems food and fare well upon it,
Hope Pershing Will Reconsider.
!"'Black jack has recommended that
aviators get no increased rank and pay
AS the French say. take all of that
away and there won't be any volunteers
There's certain amount of risk at
tached to flying above and over the
ordinary military dangers. and we all
hope he will see fit to take back his
recommendation. After enduring all
the hardships of flying. one is due.extra
remuneration. At any rate. that's what
the boys over here in training for the
air think about it.
Were well protected every time we
fly over the lines, SO it's a ffty-fifty
proposition. The Germans, I think,
will give in, in the spring, after they
have made one more determined at
tempt and fail in it,
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FALL KILLS CADET Filler
Clarence J. Bremen Tumbles When
Pilot Tries Tail Spin
in Texas.

HOUSTON, Tex, March Cadet
Clarence ]. Bremen of the 4th Provi-
sional Squadron. Ellington field, was
instantly killed here today when the
airplane in which he was riding as an
observer fell 300ifeet-
The accident resulted from a tail spin
into which the machine dropped and
before the pilot could straighten out
the plane the crash occurred Cadet
Bremen was in the front seat and re-
ceived the full force of the fall. The
pilot escaped uninjured
The body of young Bremen will be
shipped to his relatives in Chicago
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GERMANS HANG 200 RUSSIANS;
LIKE FATE AWAITS RED GUARDS


LONDON March z-Accordng to q seni-o6ca agency
dispatch been issued the boil
heading importers of German kuur
Woar February 70
investigation hanged
the market
this action resulted from information
gathered around the galows and
shouted ame awaits 500 more"
that all bolshev red guards
will be hanged shot.
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GERMANS DRIVEN
OFF BY THE BRITISH.
Great Activity Displayed by
Teutons All Along Gen.
Haig's Line.
PORTUGUESE IN BATTLE

BY the Associa ted Press.
LONDON, March I'm the course
of last night the enemy's raiding parties
displayed great activity all along the
British front" says Field Marshal
Haig's report from France tonight. In
addition to the six raids reported in
this mornings communication, other
attempts were made by the enemy dur
ing the night against our positions east
of Poiygon wood. In these attacks
his troops were driven off by rifle and
machine gun fire; we secured few
prisoners.
"A raid was carried out by the enemy
on the Portuguese front. 1t was pre-
ceded by an intensive bombardment on
a front of 5000 yards and delivered in
considerable strength In the lighting
which followed the enemy succeeded in
entering our foremost trenches, and Sc
cured several prisoners. but was
quickly and completely driven out by
the counter attack of the Portuguese
supporting troops.
Germans Suffer Losses.
''ln other raids attempted by him the
enemy was repulsed in certain cases
after sharp fighting. and, in addition to
mum Der prisoners lett III our HdHuSr
suffered considerable losses.
During the day the hostile artillery
has shown some activity in the Scarpe
valley"
An official statement on aerial opera
lions says:
Notwithstanding a strong wind and
rain our airplanes made a few flights
in cooperation with the artillery and
dropped more than 200 bombs on vari-
Gus detectives and fired many rounds
he n r toy &c
hostile machines were brought down;
one of our machines is missing.
-Four tons of bombs were dropped
Thursday night on large hostile air.
dromes midway between Journal and
Mons and on billets in the neighborhood
of Douai All of our machines re-
turned"
British Captures in Month.
In February. the British took 512 pris-
GLIDING 16 officers, says another official
statement issued tonight. Twenty ma
chine guns and one flame protector also
were captured.
German onicial Report.
The official statement of today fol-
lows:
Army group of Prince Rupprecht:
The activity of the fighting was revived
in a few sectors in the evening. We
brought in prisoners as result of
raids near Hollabeke and south of ST.
Quentin.
army group of the German crown
prince: At many points we made sue
cessful raids. East of Rheims Hessian
troops forced their way into Fort Pom
pelle. which had been detroyed. North
west Of Prosnes. Rhineland and West
phalian troops penetrated far into the
enemy's positions. Sections of trenches
southeast of Tahure which had remain
ed in the enemys hands since the fight
ing of February were cleared by Baden
and Thuringian troops. On the west
bank OF the Meuse, khenish companies
stormed the enemy's trenches"
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may FORCE RESIGNATION
Of PRESIDENT OF CHINA
Russian Situation Causes Militarists
to Bring Pressure on Feng
Kwo-chang.
~ the Associated Press.


LONDON. March "A Reuter- mes
sage from Shanghai deals with the
Russian situation. which. it declares, is
causing alarm and even political chaos
in China. The pressure Of the mill
tarists. according to the correspond
ent's forecast, is likely to force the
resignation of President Feng Kwo-
chang. who, it Is said. is believed to
he virtually prisoner. The sugges-
tion is that he would be replaced pos
sibiy by Hsu shin chang, the guardian
of the former emperor, and it is even
suggested that the young emperor him
self Hsuan Tsung. may be nominated
permanent president.
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People Want to Fight.

Nor do the Germans want peace I'M
til they take Kiev" Berlin announced
yesterday that Kiev had been captured).
They hope. even if they do not take
Petrograd, to cut off this city from
Moscow and the south. The peace mood
is passing-too much of Russia wants
to fight for conquests rather than to
sign a peace treaty. We know we have
pniy the Germans against US. The Aus
trians have refused to move.
cit was reported both by Berlin and
Vienna yesterday that Austrian troops
had gone iato the Ukraine at the re-
quest of the Ukrainians to put down
the bolshsviki.)
II surprised me to see a [ the Smoiny
Institute bolshevik headquarters. so
many Young officers who might be con-
sidered of an anti-reVofutionary type.
offerflig their services to the red army
Recruiting for the new army is taking
or tremendous and orderly activity.
The Petrcgrad soviet. which started
the movement against peace. is sitting
day and night and reminds me of the
days of the revolution of February
1917 when the workmen's and soldiers
committees were busy in establishing lib
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new WAR STARTING;
RUSS SHOW FIGHT
Any Peace Signed at Present
Should Be Discounted, Says
Member of Soviet.
ARMY GETS UNDER WAY
BY ARNO BOSCH FLEUROT.
UAhleEram to The sunday star ana
NeM York World. COpyriEht. IBIS.

PETROGRAD. February - 'Nednes-
aay).-"Have no great faith in any peace
which may be signed at this moment.
said Carl Radek. member OF the Petro-
grad defense committee, to me today
This is rot the situation when peace
which will hold can be signed easily. for
the interior cities of revolutionary Rus
sia are too much aroused in sending 6e-
tachments of volunteers to the western
front. and the new revolutionary army is
lust getting under way
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Prosecution for Waste Of Wheat.

LINCOLN. Neb.. March 2.-Louis
Feilwock. wealthy farmer of Beatrice.
Neb.. recently brought before the
EebrAska State Council of Defense to
exp3ain why he Is said to have allowed
eeyersl thousand bushels Of wheat go
px5eecafed. United States District At
t1<nex = s. Anen setd todAxs 5.
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Gar Never Planned
Separate Peace, Says
Sir George Buchanan

LONDON. March 1 (Friday).-Speak-
ing at a dinner given in his honor in
London, Sir George Buchanan, British
ambassador to Russia. who is now on
leave took occasion to correct the wide
spread report that at the time of his
abdication Emperor Nicholas was ready
to conclude a>separate peace. Sir George
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Home Service Department.

In relation to the morale of the SOL
der affected by news he may receive
from home. the Red Cross has a most
important mission. 1t is now building
up great home service" work, estab-
fishing relations with the Mothers
wives and children of soldiers who
through some unexpected turn of cir
cumstances either are in need or on
the edge of need and yet are sensitive
or diffident about reporting conditions
to governmental agencies. In a tactful.
CONFIDENTIAL way the Red Cross comes to
the aid of such families, and to this end
its home service workers are being
systematically trained. What the Red
Cross is doing and has done for such
families is reported to the soldiers
directly through a Red Cross repre-
sentative. who understands the impor-
lance of keeping the matter confidential
This service is always at the dis
posal of the soldier; he can call on the
home service department of the Red
Cross to find out whether the folks at
home. not wishing to depress him, have
kept the true state of their affairs from
him; he can ask it. without the Slight
est publicity. to look after their wei.
fare, il necessary
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BANCROFT, HISTORIAN,
SUCCUMBS AT AGE OF IS
Noted Writer Who Specialized on
the West Was Author of More
Than 100 Volumes.

SAN FRANCISCO, March Hubert
Howe Bancroft, famous American his
torian. died today at Walnut Creek.
twenty miles east of this witty. at the
age of eighty-six years.
Mr.. Bancroft in recent years had
lived quietly at his home near here.
continuing his historical writings.
Death was said to have been due 70
ills incident to old age.
Most of Mr.. Bancrofts historical
works were of the western states. data
for which he began collecting in 1855.
He was born at Granville. Ohio. May
S, 1892, and at the age OF sixteen en-
tered a bookstore at Bunalo. N. T.
where he began his fendhess OF coi-
lecting data. Six years in the beck
store gave him an insight into the
business, and in 1856 he e.
tabiished publishing house In San
Francisco. Cal. He began collecttng
data of the Pacific coast. which Ne
turned over to the University ef CAH-
fornia in 1905. This collection me-
bersd $4,000 volumes. including ~
ertytnAf u1anu6ofipts, ntutly Gtof4f1114
ta16nn &f61a Deom3n4nk vl1noeka ~
wss ne An1hSr e 49, - r
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said there was not a word Of truth in
this report. Doubtless Nicholas had
mich to answer for, he remarked, but
he would never have betrayed the cause
of the allies and was always a loyal
friend to England.
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WHAT THE RED CROSS IS DOING FOR
SOLDIERS AT HOME AND OVERSEAS

rect touch with their boys IL held pris-
oner, outside the letters which prison.
ers are permitted to send home.
Aiding U. s. Prisoners in Germany.
But far more important than the mere
work of communicating with prisoners
is the fact that the American Red Cross.
through the International Red Cross,
send supplies to such prisoners. The
bureau of prisoners relief. under the
, direction of Ellis r. Dresel, has at
Bern. Switzerland. near the German
tions are regularly sent to American
prisoners in Germany. The standard
American prisoners ration consists of
2k pounds OF corned beef. pounds OF
sugar. l pound of coffee. 1 pound Of
oleo. y pound OF pork and beans. y
pound of soap and SO cigarettes.
Surgeon General Gorgas 10 now creat-
ing an elaborate program OF recon-
Struction and vocational re-educatiou.
for American soldiers who may return
from the war a prey to tuberculosis. or
manned or blinded. The home service
of the American Red Cross will have an
integral part in restoring such soldiers
to an Independent and, 30 far rs pos
sible. normal place in civil society. It
will have no active part in this work
Of rehabilitation, for that work Is to be
done entirely by the War Department.
but 1t will take the soldier up from the
time he is mustered out. vocationaily
retrained and with a job obtained for
him until he is solidly on his feet, and
1t will look after the welfare Of his
family during the period Of readjust-
ment. There will be no duplication of
the work of the Army for the American
'mutile," but the Red Cross will step
in as best friend during the dificu1t
transition from military discipline to
civil life under the strange conditions
imposed by the wounded mans physical
limitations.
Research Work Valuable.
Valuable research work is being done
for the War Department by the RED
Cross Institute for Crippled Soldiers
and Sailors at 51l 4th avenue. New
York. This experiment station" IN
charge of Douglas c. McMurtree. is lay
ing basis for the work that the War
Department reconstruction sanatoria wiz
have to do.
And SO it can be seen that from the
day the American soldier is drawn for
Army service until the time he is re-
stored to a normal place I'm civil life
after the war is ended, the American
Red Cross touches his career ana
guards his welfare daily and almost
hourly in one way or another.
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tons in the Baltic. now blocked with ice.
admit of their returning to Russia.
The islands. it is added, are hence
of hostiities.