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' - LONDON, Jariuary 15 (As sociated Press V Indications ' . w.4..j ' - a-ii ., jrniviuaj . u . carl yv attempt by the German ' ' It.J k- '.M-'. r armies to start thetr anticipated drive Upon various .salients of the n-.! i- j i j' ' fore . the first , of , the -year; by , a . series, of stortns whiclf haveJol- lowed . one faat ' upon the . th(r and made infantry atiacka n im possibility. Unless further, storms shall prevent he launching of the attack! js expected ta occur -soon, perhaps -f within , the riaeict day or tW t'X-S's V' ARTILLERY.. QUICKENS : 1 A ' ' VA v 2 II v .; Official: reborts tV Paris; Ust ; tfeM'r'iV. quickening: oi 'thelaA - r' " i -rtithrvjc.. Jntolf Pr,r of Viol-' ;T f J? . AVCtCnf -iS Ciiili: liiAk l.ai LufMieeu! nualll I f. '-Lr'iiLL'i'f', ccc . tiv i.s uf ,lcti,eiuall,ed for ; days,' directed 3,at 'ivarioOs points along tne Champagne Tront but most especially; to the north of Louvemont .. '. ' General Haig; jn ,hs official re port, told of Violent artillery fire by the enemy and specifically mentioned the barrages directed at St. Julien 'and a salient to the southeast of Hargicourt. General Haig also reported that early in the day the enemy raided a British outpost southeast of Armienticrs. BRITISH AIR RAID ,One of the most highly suc cessful air raids yet conducted by British aviators was carried ,'on yesterday upon - Karlsruhe. A' large number of craft entered into the engagement the objec tives being the railway station and several munition factories at Karlsruhe and in the immediate vicinity. One and quarter' tons of high explosive bombs were dropped by the British airmen. FIRES STARTED D..ru. f ii Bursts of flame came from all irections following use of these directions following explosives, a number being ob served from the buildings which were made the objectives and at the sidings of the main railroad junction. Observers In aircrafts afterward reported that large fire was started in the, factories alongside of the railwivjr. ' Photo graphs which they X6ok con firmed these reports. ' Efforts were made to repel the attack by the fire of anti:aircraft guns and by the enemy's air fleet but these were without suc cess arfdhe Britons with few exceptions, returned within their own t lines highly elated by the' splendid success they had achieved. GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES ARE DAMAGED BY FIRE WASHINGTON, January 11. (As sociated Press) -A great quantity of trmy supplies and food supplie valued at $1,000,000 were destroyed today or ruined In a fire in the quartermaster Luildlug. SUPPLY SHIPS TO SOLDIERS GET People Ht Home Must Vait fdr Fuel ven : If uff erinfl js t tailed But Efforts Are ' ;Ti Supply Jhcm , ' WASHINGTON,' Juwiry' 15 (iii- j fiifwl trm) Diwctor of .BuilrOBdi MeAdoo )s BMdinit tt effort t rl don without kanprlnir tk mbMlutIy MoecaHiry pr((iM of nf preparation and military ahipaMnta. H voatoMay tabliahed a limited priority for nhip. Himita of ensl to Nfw York Wherd (Ma ufferid(f from th ih6rta)f hai pr kapa bwa womt beranM of tb larpor population tbaro thfta la . other itia. Thi prforrty af eoal ahipmeatt girt th fuel tha right of way directly after absolutely eneatial gorerameat auppllea and equipment; J.-,v....' " .;. Fuel Controller OaVfielj lat avenlitf iesued a ntateroent in connection wlta tha fuel situation, while ha deplored tba suffering oixl extreme Utwomfort la the borne knd place of buaineaa reMioand by the eoal horU( aad the complete u pact tin a; of bulnea eoa ditlon In so matir faetortna aad other plants, ae declared tnat snipe tarrying munitions and . snnplie of food ; aail elothlng ta the soldier over thi aeaa mast be given full bunker and thi mu"' " aven if it had to b at b at home, :the erpease of the' people at home. Bunk" ' other ships, he said, might I wit,.lmt tha roadurt of tha WB, ?lullt om flrt ,u the ana h H and the nation fight- , in g force must be kept (applied with all requirements which will add to the efHrieney of the service of the United States 'ia th war. ' ;. v ,, - Ia the Middle West aad parte of the East the storms had generally abated yesterday, and transpertatttro was being rAuaicd on 'delayed schedule. Cooler weather had.foltovfVd the storm la the Middle "Atlantic aad. ' New England States, i ' V ive Large Number of Bricklayers Will ;; Be Serit To Work In England and litter To I Continue Con ; strticuon Work lq France WITH THE AlfEBICAN ABltT IN FRANCE. January IS (Associated Press) Extensive - training quarter Will be established .ia: England .and France for a corps of several thousand mechanic to repair and care for the machines of American arimen. Wash ington ha been asked to send to ling land, 1300 bricklayer and carpenters and also a large number of laborer for 'construction work' at the training quarters. Yhen the work in England ia completed the construction men will come to France to build quarters here. It is inadvisable to mention tha number of men who- will be trained ia England. It is sufficient that the army is determined to have more than enough effiicent men available, for America 'a success in the air will de pend primarily upon thi corps of me chanic. . Flying school for Italian aviator are to be established via the United State for two purposes first, the conditions In certain sections or the United State are better than in Italy and, second, the utilisation of training aeroplane and equipment in the Unit ad State will save the tonnage in volved in transportation to this side. Expeditionary headquarters has rec ommended that the American govern ment provide for the construction of schools, the manufacture of aeroplane ' " engines on iiauan moueis ana tne .feeding and hoesing of skilled pilots atudent. , Ih expense is to be met ty Italy at prlee to be determ ined later. It ia arranged to have the programme become effective la the middle of 1918: - , .;v- . ;, T Officer Who Takes Life Says Made His Own Reason CAMP FUNSTON, Kansas, Januury 14 (Associated Press) Capt. Lewis B. Whliler, of Halins, Kansas, was found dead yesterday, having shot himself with a rifle and hi death partially ex plain the mysterious robbery of the army bank on Friday night, when bau dlts killed four men guarding the bank and took money and Liberty Bends. Captain Whlsler loft a note for a woman, saying he had meditated nut nide for a long time but had had no rea son. "Yesterday I made myself a reason." he wrote. His suicide occurred follow. Ing the lssuanoa. of an order that all eaptalna should report to headquarters and have their finger print taken. The sole survivor of the fight in the bank had said that one of the bandits wore the uniform of a captain. COL FIRST IS SUICi SUSPECT WAS BAND! HONOLULU, IAWA!I iTtRRlTORY," AUGUSTUS 'V-XFprmerly Representative pf Sixth Massachusetts District. "7' 'J ' " , , v . . WAeiilNOTON, January I5r-(A ssocla bail. Press) Major Augustus P. Gardner, wko resigned hla seat in nougress, where he represented the sixth Mas sachusetts congressional district, in order to give his services to the country in military capacity died in Camp Wheeler of pneumonia yesterday, the war de partment fennouaoed last night, ... : Long before the United States entered the war Bepresentativ Gardner was a earnest aad coastant advocate of preparedness. He constantly urged Investiga tions of condition of tha army and the navy and hi speech? before eommiueos of eonirres. on tha floor of the house and before commercial organisations were a constant reminder to the people of the neea or preparation and a spur to sober u.iuv mvimu 4, ftu rpiMiiuu ,vi wwbiuim wvi, bui .uDuriiMnn. tvr three years and niore he was the leader in the house of representatives for pre paredne. V 1 In tb Cuban Campaign Gardner served efficiently and came out of the Span ish American War with the rank of Colonel, lie was therefore well posted ou army needs and his studies pave him an insight Into needs of the navy that was but little Short of hi acquaintance with army affaire. In Mar last he resiirned his seat ia ronsress and entered the military survive. While his aonrse was recognised as highly commendable there was still dee)! regret that he should leave legislative labor at n time when the country wa called upon to put into effect the policies which he hud so lung and so fearlessly advocated in the face of stroug opposition. OCi Hi His death at this time,' before he had camp i for actual service ou the fighting public a well as to his former legislative PROVING EFFECTIVE LONDON; January 15. (Associated Press) Of thirteen standardized mer chantmen of the new largest and fast- eat type, constructed especially to meet the -danger of .submarine warfare dur ing the year 1017, only one waa de stroyed by submarines, It was an nounced la thelioi e of common yes terday by tha admiralty. It is claimed this . shows the submarine to be com paratively Ineffective against vessels of the new type, designed for speed as well as for carrying capacity and the heaviest losses fall on vessels of older and antiquated type which have not sufficient speed to save themselves. TRAWLERISLOSf T WAS Ifl NO TON, January 14 ( Asso. o is ted Press) That au American trawler operating in the dangeruu 'u oldler enptured by Germany, mine fields of the European waters has Stephen . Loughmao has identified fain been sunk was the new cabled today I u Harry a one of the captives. He to the navy department by Admiral I captured in a struggle tin No Sims. He also reported that no cas- Man's Land No ember 23 and the pic ualtie occurred in the sinking, the tures were originally published in Ger crew being picked up shortly nftir the 'man papers to encourage the Teutons disuster. at home. v tIjESDaY, JANUARYS, i5, Pnoumonid . &,W M J r"t'-"ih PEABODY GARDNER unpreparednesa of the country. for war, thought on tne consequoucea wnich the opportunity to leave the training frout will bu a noun-e of regret to the colleagues. MANY ARE KILLED AS TRAIN LEAVES TRACK HOUSTON, Texas, January Jt (As sociated 'Press) Twelve to eventeeu persona, perhaps more, and all white, were killed early this morning and nine others badly Injured as1he result of the derailment of a northbound train of the Houston & Tei4s Central line. It was a. passeuKer tain and had left -Houston for Dallas late Sunday. The accident oeurred at a switch, sis miles south of Breeand, at three twenty -five a. pi. Two steel coachc directly behind' the mail car wore crumpled iuro a nliapele mass of wreckage- aad it was the passenger board these w bo made up the toll of malties Thrf .rescuer worked in the dark with torches, placing the iriue reported Injured abonrd an express oar, which wh( immediately started for the near est town. FATHER RECOGNIZES HIS i SON IN GERMAN PICTURE CHICAGO, January 15 (AsMo. iute.l 1'rens) Through a picture publihhed iu a newspaper Ihtc of the first Anu-ri '1918.EMI-VEEKLY. 'J TONE Vienna Council Wants to Resign As City Hungers ZURICH, January 15 (Aasocla ted Press) Evidence of how s'erl onily beset for food are the 'Ana. i lrn filter through to tha outside world from time to time. Much fa Instance occurred yesterday when mesxages rereived f rum, Vieana told of disaffection in the municipal cabi net at Vienna snd threats of mem ber to resign Iwcause of their-trou1 hie groalng from the aeute food xhnrtsire nt the Austrian ranltal.' t . L'tterlv dlseouraaed hv 'the la f rressing problems with which 'they Sure confronted, these- reports 41(1, the members of the council. aisclaiin any 1 further responsibility for' the feedin.' of thr city aad insist they Wi!i - refuse to serva logger ualeM they be' relieved of soch reeponsi-bllity.- -;:,.V: . :It'i alf the eitUeas of . Vienna are this winter feeling the pinch of hunger as never before Despite L reports that crop were .improved over lost year, for many commedH tics supplies ore reaching Vienna In 'immllor qunntltie than Jsst, year. Trices are higher bat that l not ab important as tb inability, to ecura ( fnvid of any kind ia sntHcleat qnan' riiie so ibst ncs ana poor are un iergoing similar deprivations. - ' ' See five Schooiert : r. -.- - . v 'V. ... ' . Sunk But Own ; Wri-t't -3 I low i S,w,...i-inei RaMWaf.Opoji'-tldvif and Helpless Sailing Craft ATLANTIC 0OBT January :. With the .berthiufi of a Frhh steam- diip it became kaown that the German U-boats a few k weeks ago sank tre schooner In )he war tone, .Two pas scngers, Captain, Andrew Knudea aad William Kr Morgan, of tit American schooner Buby, witnessed the sinkings. Why their vessel was not destroyed is still a pazsle to thorn, for they wt becalmed . eighty -five mile from the French coast when the others were& troyed. The Buby finally was able to proceed on her way and made a .French' port, where ahe discharged a Mrgo -of lum ber. It had taken her four month to get the lumber: from New Orleans to France, . nd the long silenc' caused many persona1 to feel certain ahe had been lost. - Owing to navy regulations, sailing craft are cautioned not to enter the barred son for the time being, so the Rsby will rest peacefully at. a port iu Faince. t- other story of submarine' waa brought to an America port yesterday hi a Spanish essel. . Georira Wedd ed, first officer of the American steamship Aeteon, formerly thelGekman steamship Adamsturn, who war- on of the sixty-five passengers, said that the i-rew had suffered many hardship after the torpedoing of the vessel November 24, as had been previously reported by cable. The Aeteon was only two days out from a French port when,' without wsrning, .the torpedo struck her, said Mr. Wedelated. The captain and crew, numbering , sixty-four men, with - the twenty gunners, took to the open boats. A storm cam np and these four boat were separated. The one that Mr. Wedelsted and seventeen other men were la drifted for two day, when a Spanish steamship picked them up and took them to a Spanish port, where they later heard the other boats had leea discovered and that no live were lost. Mr. Wedelsted reported at once to th office of the Vnited States Ship ping Board at the port where the Span ib vessel arrived. . INCREASED ONE-THIRD LONDON, January 15. (Associated 1'ress) Casualties in the British armies in all of the fighting zones ma terially Increased last week over tha week preceding, numbering 6000 mora, a shown by the report issued yester day afternoon by the government. In the week which ended last Satur day night there were killed or died from wounds 117 officer and 5140 enlisted men. Wounded aad missing there were S04 officers and 19,409 men, a total of 24,9410 as compared with 1,088 during the week preceding. VtBssebMakesXEscane -.- .. .. .... r . . -; . . ' . ' ' ..-.: - - . .... .......... ..... $ , . , , AS TO Germany and ported To Be Showing Teeth To Who AlsMluff LONDON. January 15 (Associated Press) Germany, and Aus tria arc now the ones threatening to withdraw from the peace conference at Brest-Litov.sk and to launch a renewal of the war. against Kusshi. Following the renewal of the Bolsheviki objections to the German terms, as voiced by ister rrotsky. the delegates of the menacing m their words and have delegates that the matter of carrying on the negotiations further does not rest entirely upon the views of the Petrograd spokesmen. ASSUMES THREATENING TONE f The attitude of the. Central Powers, as" expressed for the benefit of the Russians, is summarized in an interview printed in the Col ogne Gazette of Saturday, credited as being tbfc views of high tf ficial'at Vienna. This official is quoted as saying:. ' .r . ' .;) . "The Central Powers find themselves today, in a most enviable military and economic position;'" Therefore.w'e propose to give Rus" sia neither time nor opportunity to carry on mnch further, her bolicy of deceit .. " "If the Russian delegates to the peace 'conference cannot find their, way clear to make satisfactory arrangements for ,4ie signing of a peace treaty and find this way promptly we will break OlT the pourparlers and throw the responsibility for the result of the break -directly . upon .Russia." . '''V;' ' l ' t - "! -k''Y -' . 4 RUSSIANS ALSO ISSUE WARNING r f ' In the gme "qt bluff, the , Russians 6pened the play tsterday by solemnly warning, the German delegates-of the possibility of a renewed brpac ietwen Russia land crniany ' if thef 'government offce) latter peTsited'. in Remanding Jlie right to Vx-cupy Cottrlnr 1 and other of thet Baltic districts and islamLs.. Miti-. a it i-t'n , .pla44r,liWtWi'0nrjid'dt tiatiotis at Bre'st-tyitovsk means that' -Gerniany has tnodiiied her ini tial demaryls for tfrritoryv.- '.;;'' b-.. 'r .: . '. vV ' Ah eiarly despatch from Petrograd states that the armistice be tween Russia and the Central Powers has been renewed, this time , Until February 18. T Russian delegates will return to Petrograd today 'to confer further with their government'' When the negotia tions are resumed, the peace missios will assemble at Moscow. " ; BOLSHEVIK! PRESS CLAIMS, SUCCESSES ' The Bolsheviki official press agency yesterday announced a fur ther victory, for the government troops against the1 Cossacks of the Don, the Kaledin forces having been driven completely out of. the valley of the Don, which the Bolshevikl troops have occupied. ;This advance gives the provisional government control of a most import ant coalfield. '.'.;-' Following the lead of Berlin, the Austro-Hungarian' govern ment yesterday officially recognized the new government of the Fin nish Republic, Emperor Charles formally receiving a Finnish dele gation. ' - H 4. i '.j' LABOR LEADERS TO Supreme Court Calls Upon Heads To Answer Contempt Charges WASHINGTON, January 14. (As sociated Pres) -President Frank Hay and fifteen other officials aad leading members of the United Iron Workers of America were today or dered by the supreme court to show cause why they ahould not b declared in contempt of court for violation- the court's injunction restraining the rep resentative of tb -union from at tempting to organise employes of the Witehmann Coal and Coke Company of Wheeling, West Virginia. lhe court ordered the m.ners' offi cials to appear . in court at noou on March 4 and show cause why they should not be adjudged guilty of con tempt ot the supreme court and of its authority and jurisdiction and be pun ished accordingly. The court has already handed down a decision declaring it Illegal for unions to interfere evith the contract ual relation of employer and employe by attempting to otnanize employes who are under contract 'to their firm. not to become union member. Thi decision was handed down only a few weeks ago. The United Mine Workers are said to have disobeyed the ruling. AMERICAN ARMY NOW HAS OWN MILITARY POLICE I'AUIS, January 13 ( Associated Press) The American army now has its own military prolice in Paris and thn principal American military center in r ranee. They have just made their ap pearance lu Place de L'Opera wearing the regulation uniform with a black arm badge with the letters M. P. for "military polio" in red. This makes the third police force operating In Paris, the British army having had its special military police here for som time. WHOLES UMCER u 4?M 'J. PEACE Austria Re BoUKeviki Premier, Lemne and Foretgn Mm-. r Central Powers are xiecoming sharply intimated to the Kussiaii OPPOSES PLANS F03 ; NEWDEPARTCeiT General Barnett Objects. To In terference With Marine Corps WASHINGTON, January 13 (Amo elated Press) Strong opposition to the proposed cabinet office of sooretary of munition waa voiced before the aenat investigation committee, the committee ou military affairs, by Oen. George Bar nett of the Marin Corp, provided the power to purchase munitions and op-' pile which it proposed to confer opoa sucb official would iaferf ere with th ' purchasing system of th marine corps which he claimed waa highly efficient and giving eminently satisfactory .re sult. , , ' ', . ( . . ' .' Since it has bn reported by rep-, reutative who called in the Proei- 1 dent that he la opposed to the creation , of the proposed aw department soma ' of those who wer previously openly in its favor are abandoning . the plan.. Among these, it wa reported yester- A day. is Daniel Willard. ehairnoae. at. mo council oi. national ucrense,., v MOTHER OF COLONEL' FAY ; v KNITS MANY SWEATERS 8 A Cfi A MENTO. ' Jaii , ci 1 1 S '21 ' A ' ' V thouitk . seventy three year old, Mr.'! ' Mattia A. Fay of San Diego, mother'-' ' of Lieut. (Jol. Herbert R. Fay, assistant ' adjutant general of California, already, has knitted thirty-eight sweaters for American soldier. For a period ; C :' three days before Christmas she knitted a sweater a day, the last one in 11 V '. hours. . , . Mr. Fav was the "war bride" tt Lieut. William W. Fay of . tha Thir- ' 1 teenth Massachusetts volunteer lu 1801, and eh served a a nurse at the batf.l fVAnft HMnn k.. kHUK.M.l - - - --wh.w.hk aaw pvhpii back to health , after ba had Wn wounded lu the battle of Anttetaiu. "-, . " '.' ' v. . .v.-.'V.v-. --v V ( -