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VOL. LTII. TROOPS UNDER HEAVY FIRE FIVE SOLDIERS ABE KILLED FOES AMBUSH YANKEE PATROL Five Americans Killed, Four Miss ing and One Wounded During Clash. ONLY ONE MAN ESCAPES TRAP Survivor Crawls 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 its harassing bombardment of the German line. Although considerable activity is reported In No Man's Laud, 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. U. 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 Man’s Land at night by a superior force of Germans. The spot where the encounter oc curred 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 arouud 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 a 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 confi dence that the sector was in good hands, and, if attacked, that it would be defended with great valor. U. S. SEEKS SHIP WORKERS 250,000 Men Must Be Enrolled This Week—Hurley Asks Aid. Washington, Feb. 11. —Because ships are the primary factor in the winning of this war, and their construction de pends upon labor, 250,000 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 enrollment is complete. The board wants men will ing to give a good day’s work for a good day’s 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. It is planned to make a careful se lection of men whose places can be filled without hardship. Men working in the yards are placed in the deferred class in the draft. It is urged that mechanics go at once to the nearest enrollment agent of the United States public service re serve of the labor department or to the local enrollment 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. GROUND GLASS KILLS HORSES Seventeen Army Animals Found Dead In Cars at Waco, Tex. Waco, Tex., Feb, 11. —Ground glass, mixed with feed, caused the death of 17 horses of a United State Infantry supply company, which arrived here from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., according to military authorities. The animals were found dead In the cars, and a careful examination of their feed dis closed the pulverized glass. Govern ment agents are investigating. THE WATERTOWN NEWS POLES CAPTURE TOWN Revolting Troops Win Smolensk From Bolsheviki. Scandinavian Refugees Tell Harrowing 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 Mousuitsky 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 50,000, is situated about 250 miles southwest of Moscow. Stockholm, Feb. 11. —Scandinavian 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 mowed 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 i? 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 Tokio, the accounts indi cate. SPIES BLAMED FOR BIG FIRE Freight Cars Loaded With Munitions Burned at Newark, N. J. f Newark, N. J., Feb, 11. —Fortj 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 $400,- 000. Another fire in a plant manufactur ing goods for the government was dis covered five minutes after Clarence Hodes, a watchman at the Klaxon com pany’s factory, Newark, challenged a prowler and fired four shots at him. The loss was $25,000. FOE’S ARTILLERY IS ACTIVE London War Office Tells of German Raid on British Trench. London, Feb. 11. —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 Counelieu. 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 were catlve 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 v. ar office report. 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 a 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 ican 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. ICE FLOE CAUSEsIwodEATHS Fishermen Climb Trees and Are Hurled Into River. Cairo, 111., Feb. 11. —Advices re ceived here from Rosiclare, 111., tell of the death by drowning of two men and much property damage as the re sult 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 *wept down the river. ■l' HI ♦ ***** *■!■■!■ * <■ * * ■• • • ;; British Labor Leader ", Coming to United States :: William J. Thorns, M. P., noted Brit ish labor leader who, according to an English newspaper, will come to this country as a member of a labor dele gation which will soon leave England. CH ANGE !N ARM Y STAFF Reorganization Provides for Five Main Divisions. Each Section Will Be Covered by an Assistant Chief of Staff—To Ad vise Secretary of War. Washington, Feb. 11. —A general re organization of the general staff ol 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 cU 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 sev eral weeks. The secretary stated thal a reorganization of the departmen 1 ' was in progress on his first appear ; ance before the senate military affairs : committee. Reorganization of several i ° lof the bureaus and other important ; Improvements preceded the genera 5 I staff alterations. 1 The general reorganization of th( i staff is viewed in some quarters as 1 a result of the congressional agita tion for a war cabinet and a muni J tions director. At the war depart ment it is declared to be a natural outgrowth of the rapid development of the war program. There went about forty-five members of the gen eral staff when war was declared. This J number was increased immediatelj | and now is about eighty. Most of the present members are in France. The official announcement of th reorganization says: “The burden upon the chief of staff the assistant chiefs of staff, and the . officers forming the general staff, it their duties in connection with the ad ministration of the army program bj the military establishment has so in creased that it becomes immediatelj necessary to organize the general staff | into responsible divisions.” The chief of the general staff, with the assistance of the war council, is ,to be the Immediate adviser of tht ! secretary of war. He and the wai council are charged with the planning and development of the army program in its entirely. 126 AUTOS ARE LOST IN FIRE Machines Valued at $500,000 Wrecked in Rochester Fire. Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 11. —More than 125 expensive automobiles, all owned by Rochester’s wealthiest fam ilies, were totally destroyed or so bad ly damaged that they are almost worth less in a fire which swept through a big garage. The loss is placed at a quarter of a million dollars. The ori gin of the fire Is unknown. Gasoline and oil tanks took fire and exploded, spreading flames In every direction. 5 MASKED MEN ROB HOTEL Robbers Obtain $1,500 From Cleveland Hostelry and Flee in Auto. Cleveland, 0., Feb. 11. —Five masked bandits entered the grill room of a ho tel here and. enforcing their command of “hands up” with a fusillade of shots, obtained $1,500 from the cash drawers and escaped in a waiting automobile. As the men left the place one of the patrons an hooting at them and one of tf ■; rafts fell wounded. A patr a • 1 'htly wounded in the Many Injured In Car Crash. Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 11.—Manj passengers were cut and bruised when a car on the Rochester & Syracuse electric line jumped the rails anO rolled down a 20-foot embankment. WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1918. NAMES OF DEAD ON TUSCANIA 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 Individual—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 2,180 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 department’s 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 650 names from vari ous parts of the country, of whom about 150 are from middle Western states. The survivors in the lists made public total nearly 1,800. There are about 300 survivors whose names have not been made public. It 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, its commis 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 2,006 soldiers. Survivors in Camps. Londonderry, Ireland, Feb. 11. —All the American survivors from the Tus cania, with the exception of about 100 sick or injured, and a party of 142 who landed in Scotland, are quartered in two military camps. Sick Are Improving. An Irish Port, Feb. 11. —A corre spondent, who visited the sick and in jured Americans confined in hospitals lu two widely separated Irish seaports, found them progressing favorably. FARMERS THANKED BY WILSON President Sends Message to Head of Illinois University. Champaign, 111., Feb. 11. —The war resolution passed by the Illinois farm ers’ war conference has ellcted the fol lowing response from President Wilson to President James of the University of Illinois: “1 need not tell you with what deep appreciation I have received the copy of the resolution adopted by the con ference of corn growers and stockmen. It has given me not only deep gratifi cation but genuine reassurance, and I hope that there will be some means by which you may convey to the members of the conference an expression of my gratitude. “WOODROW WILSON.” WAS CALLtcfBY WASHINGTON First Cape Cod Canal Engineer to Be Pressed Into Service Because of Demand for Exoerts. Thomas Machin, the engineer charged by a 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 News-Record. 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 mure than three hundred years ago and finally opened to commercial traf tice in 1914. ♦■<■ * ■ ■ ■!■ **** >t * fr ’M **M< * 4* *: Aviator for France 2 *1 Wants to Fly for U. S. I o t ' ' *' ,*! * >•?• •-y • >*m ■ ■■'■■ •■■fM Nathan P. Oakes of Providence, R. 1., a member of the famous Lafayette Flying corps, has returned to the Unit ed States and offered his services to the United States army. He has been an air pilot In the French service for seven months and he wants to ar range his transfer to his native corps. THOMAS A. EDISON IS 71 Inventor Reported as Being “Some* where In America." New York, Feb. 11. — Thomas A. Edi son Is celebrating his seventy-first birthday today. The employees in his West Orange plant had a luncheon in honor of the event, but Mr. Edison was not there. He is described by his secretary as Somewhere in America.” CHINA’S PRESIDENT TO QUIT Bitterly Reproaches Self for Country** Political Trouble. Peking, Peb. 11. —President Feng Fwo-Chang, in a remarkable mandate Issued here bitterly reproaches himself for the country’s political trouble. He declares he Is too weak for the burden Imposed upon him and forecasts his re tlreraent from the presidency as soon as order is restored. Meaning of “Sinn Fein.” “Sinn Fein” (pronounced Shinn Fain) Is a Celtic expression meaning “ourselves alone,” and is the name and motto of an Irish party which con strues it as meaning both for and by the Irish alone. It datt% actively from 11)06 and claims to be more practical and comprehensive than any of the old parties that have aimed at Irish inde 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 its own people on a 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 sults are to be accomplished by pas sive means and peaceable methods. It is not stated exactly how, but by some kind of social and political pressure without violence. Razor Strop Rhymesters. The dearth of barbers has forced a good many men to shave themselves who, before the war, regarded even a safety razor as a fearsome and dan gerous implement. There is a kind f moral satisfac tion in sha\ ing one’s self which is in duced by no other toilet function. I know a verse writer of some distinc tion, 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. Eg lantine, whose affection for “The Rav enswing” was inspired by the glories of that young woman’s hair. Opening of Suez Canal. “It cannot be made, it shall not be made, it will not be made; but if it were made, there would be a war be tween England and France for the pos session o £ Egypt.” So said Lord Palm erston, in 1851, with regard to the then Suez canal. Nevertheless the forty-eighth anni versary of the inauguration of the for bidden waterway has passed, writes a London correspondent. The first fleet, consisting of 40 vessels, passed through next day, on November 17, 1869. The greatest draught was only 16 feet. How many of those who par ticipated in the inauguration survive? Former Princess Eugenie la one. GIVES DETAILS OF PLAN FOR UNSINKABLE SHIP U. S. AIDS WAR PLANTS $150,000,000 Advanced to Con tractors, Says Baker. Cash Averts Many Failures and Is Speeding Up Production—Many Small Concerns Helped. Washington, Feb. 11. —Approxi- mately $150,000,000 has been advanced to contractors on war work by the war credits board. Secretary Baker announced. This includes money for production of clothir 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. 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 interalMed supreme war council. Gen. Qastone Giardina, former min ister 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 disposi tion 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 responsi ble for the Isonso debacle. CAN SEND FOOD TO CAPTIVES Americans Taken Prisoner by Ger mans Will Receive Gifts. Washington, Feb. 11. American folks at home can make life a bit eas ier 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 ters, money and nourishing 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. LAUDS TROOPS ON TUSCANIA Baker Pays Tribute to Americans and British Sailors. Washington, Feb. 11. —Secretary of War Baker in his weekly review of the European war made public here, notes that German re-enforcements brought from the Russian front are piling up against the western line. Back of these are additional Austrian troops with drawn from the Italian and eastern sectors. The secretary paid a fine tribute to the coolness of the American troops aboard the Tuscania and to the Brit ish for their work of rescue, and then said: “The sector in Lorraine, where our forces are in contact with the enemy, continued relatively active throughout the week.” CINCINNATI FACES BIG FLOOD Licking River Goes on Rampage and Great Damage Is Expected. Cincinnati, Feb. 11.—Just as mer chants and residents in the bottoms districts and low-lying suburbs of Cin 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 Hood line of 50 feet. Old-time river men say that unless the gorges below the city break, f ' city will experience the greatest hood in its history. John L. Sullivan's Pets Dead. Boston, Feb. 11. —John L. Sullivan’s favorite horse and dog are dead. The former died and the latter w, hot by a farm hand after it had i ;i ! u cow. Torpedo Sinks Spanish Ship. Madrid, Feb. 11. —Official announce ment was made .hat the Spanish steamship Sebasth.i: of 1.500 tons was torpedoed while .mi ,i voyage to New Ikwk. The cr*.v ..., NEW VESSEL TO DEFY SUBMARINE U. S. Naval Advisor Declares Un sinkable Ship Has Been Invented. GIVES DETAILS ON THE PLAN Craft May Have Big Hole Blown in Side and Still Remain Afloat— Recalls Secretary Baker's Statement. - New York, Feb. 11. —Means have been found to make troop transports unsinkable by submarine, according to a 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 commandeered by the government “now lies at an Atlantic port and in such shape that she cannot be sunk by an exploding torpedo.” “I can conceive of no reason why this information should be withheld,” he added. “On the contrary, I believe. It 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 afloat. Such a hole would waterlog but one tenth of the honeycombed airtight cells.” Gives Detail of Plan. Mr. Saunders described in detail the plan to keep ships afloat after they had been torpedoed and the manner In which it had been developed by Wil liam F. Donnelly, a New York marine engineer, working under authorization of the naval consulting board. It is understood that the unsinkable slrtp has no fewer than 12,000 airtight cells. “Of course it will take some time to equip similarly the large number of transports we have,” continued Mr. Saunders. “It is ray 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 1,500,000 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. THUG ROUNDUP IN CHICAGO Greatest Criminal Drive in the City’s History Made. Chicago, Feb. II. —The greatest crim inal roundup in the histofV of Chicago was made here. More than 800 sus pects have been arrested. The police expect to have 1,000 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 ill 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 a 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. r “T. R.” TO RECOVER SOON Physicians Says Co.onel Is Steadil) Improving. New York, Feb. 11. —Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who underwent two opera tions at the Roosevelt hospital last week, is steadily improving and las 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 : “The queen and I regret the illness of Colonel Roosevelt and hope for las speedy recovery.” There was a stream of callers at the hospital all day inquiring as to the patient’s condition. Thief Wounded in Duel With Police. Chicago, Feb. 11. —A lone bandit en ters the Garfield theater and while a photoplay was showing held up the cashier, the manager and a footman, escaped to the street and staged a spectacular duel with two police offi cers. He was wounded ami cap mod. Tiu- audience of 700 persons r bed from tlie theater at Gm s i r.d he abuts ad No. 165.