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THEj FARMER: FEBRUARY 22, 1918
TEUTONS SEIZE
COL. PARKER NEW
HEAD OF 102ND
WHOLE, STAFF OF
"SPECIAL ARMY"
EGIMENT ABROAD
EKMIMHAKE
DEATH LIST OF STRANDED RED CROSS SHIP
PLACED AT 102 PASSENGERS AND CREW
SUFFER TERRIBLY IN STORMY SEA
FROM COLD AND EXPOSURE CAP
TAIN AMONG THE LIVING.
St. John's, N. F., Feb. 25!
Forty survivors of the steamer
Florizel have been taken off by
the coastal steamer Prospero,
which now is on her way to St.
Johns. Capt. W. J. Martin of
the Florizel, Chief Officer
James, Marconi Operator Car
ter, two seamen and John
Kielly, a passenger, were
among the survivors.
The death list is given as 102
in a report from the Gape Race
agent of the Marconi Telegraph
Gx
Tho Prospero stood by all night
while the Florizel was pounding on
the rocks. A wireless message from
the Prosper to John Crosbie, minis-
. ter of shipping, sai-Z the rescue ship
-hoped to embark the survivors safely
and forward their names soon.
The first batch of survivors was
taken oft In three lifeboats and four
dories but the sea was so rough that
they were unable to approach the
shore, near which the Florizel struck
early Sunday morning while on a
voyage from this port to Halifax and
New York. All iiad suffered terribly
.from cold and exposure. Steamers
met the boats and took the rescued
aboard.
The wireless, message early today
was the first word of hope that any
of the 77 passengers and crew of 69
had been saved. The Prospero report
ed every effort was made to transfer
from the battered hulk.
IMdnister Crosbke said it would be
impossible to give the corrrct number
of the dead until he had received defi
nite reports from the relief ships. All
told, there were 146 persons aboard
the Florizel when the vessel sailed
from here on Saturday night. There
were 77 passengers, including 12 wo
men and four children, and 69 officers
and men in the crew.
Frantio efforts were made by rela
tives of the passengers aboard the
Florizel to learn the names of those
picked up by the Prospero. The first
tnesase from that vessel saying at
laast 40 persons were waiting to be
rescued held out hop that others
might be saved, and the Prospero's
pommander was directed by the min
ister of shipping Do send the names
at the earliest possible moment.
Many of the lost yesterday had tried
to oeaoh shore in small boats, which
were tossed about and swamped. Re
ports last night accounted for seven
bodies washed ashore.
HcCUlBER DENQUNC
MERICAN
MEN HOLDING UP SHIPBUILDING, CONTRACT HOLDERS
WHO ARE PROFITEERING, AND CALLOUS OFFICIALS
ARE SCORED BY NORTH DAKOTA SENATOR.
Washington, Feb. 25 Denouncing the Bolsheviki surren
der to Germany, Senator McCumber, Republican, of North Da
kota, told the senate today that a "Bolsheviki" sentiment in
America was of no less danger to the cause of democracy
against, autocracy. Profiteers, labor slackers and government
officials who fail to stand against them were assailed by the
senator in vigorous terms.
Unless conditiona change, tho sen
ator declared, only a collapse of the
Central powers can save the Allies
from defeat.
"Search the worldi's history," de
clared the senator, "and nothing can
be found even to approach this most
i damnable treachery to the faithful
and bleeding allies this blackest
treason to the country and national
honor.
"So, tod we have seen the effect of
this Bolshevik s3entiment, 'more, still
, more, always more,' regardless of jus
tice, regardless of patriotic duty, in
the shameful delay in ship construc
tion on which the very life of a great
world principle depends, and we are
told that all munition plants, every
line of industry on which the life of
,ithe government depends, soon will be
reduced to the same cortdiition of im
potency as the ship building pro
gram." In supply profiteering. Senator Mc
Cumber said, he would name one
shin yard. Hog Island, Pa. The foun-
. elation of that yard, he said, "is laid
on graft," and the cost of construc
tion, he said, will too "three or four
times the government's original
ti'mate," adding "this single hold-up
of the government probably win cost
not less than $30,000,000."
"Like conditions prevail," he con
tinued, "throughout the country
wherever, speeding up production has
become necessary. Contracts of the
most atrocious character, always
against the government, have been
PICK UP CREW
OF DANISH SHIP
An Atlantic Port,
Fob.
25 An Amer
here today
lean steamer arriving
troug-ht 17 membora of the crew of
the Danish steamer Tranquebar, who
.were picked up at sea. There had
fceen no previous report of the loss of
toe TranqTChar, a vessel of 2,453 tons
gross.
The Prospero, a staunch coasting
vessel, had been dispatched to the
scene of the disaster at the first re
port from Placentia Bay, 75 miles
around the coast from Broad Cove,
but after her departure government
authorities felt her task was hope
less. With the sealing ships Terra
Novra and Home she stood outside
the cove while reports were sent by
observers on land that the sea had
not sufficiently subsided to allow the
launching of boats before daylight
When naval gunners had shot a
line from the shore across the bow
of the Florizel as she lay submerged
from her funnel aft and saw no at
tempt on the ship to make the line
fast, it was believed that all on board
were dead. About midnight, how
ever, watchers reported lights had
been seen in the wireless room and
the forecastle, showing some persons
still alive. Later came the message
from the Prospero reporting that she
was alongside the Florizel and ex
pected soon to take off the survivors.
The report added that their names
would be sent as soon as possible.
Forcing his ship against a blizzard
in which a blinding snow was driven
by winds reaching hurricanep ropor-
tions, the Florizel's commander, Capt.
W. J. Martin, yesterday morning
sought to round Cape Race on hia
voyage from here to Halifax and New
York. Apparently, however, he mis-
Judged his position, for the Florizel
rushed on the jagged rocks of Broad
Cove on the east side of the island
north of the cape. The region is un
inhabited and means of rescue were
not available. One wireless njessage
said the steamer was rapidly break
ing up, and nothing more was heard
until rescue parties reached the
scene. They reported boats could not
be used and expressed doubt whether
any on board could be saved. Through
the day reports came that the ship was
going to pieces and that her after
decks were submerged.
The Florizel, queen of the New
foundland boats, was owned by the
New York Newfoundland & Halifax
Steamship Co., known as the Red
Cross Line. Built in 1909, in Glas
gow, with sloping sheated bow rein
forced by concrete, she had been used
in the sealing trade and this winter
had done service as an ice breaker in
New York harbor.
Among the passengers who em
barked at St. Jons were John Shan
non Munn, managing director of the
line, and his three-year-old daughter,
six cadets of the P.oyal Flying Corps,
Major Michael Sullivan, commander
of the Newfoundland forestry battal
ion, and several prominent New
foundland business men.
BOLSH
O. K.'d by government officials. The
government pays every dollar of ex
pense for raw materials and yet pays
individuals enormous profits. Men
who never saw a ship yard, men who
had no capital, have been given con
tracts to build ships and they in tutm
have contracted to sub-let those con
tracts to others, retaining big commis
sions. Banks have charged immense
bonuses for obtaining contracts for
their customers and all this within
the knowledge of, or easily obtainable
by government officials."
Despite the fact that the nation
needs ships as never before, in order
to transport troops and supplies
abroad and "notwithstanding the pa-
fcriutic fervor of Mr. Gompers, union
labor in our shipyards is slacking in a
most shameful and disgraceful man
ner," the senator declared.
"Just how long the American peo
ple will submit to being robbed, first
by the material men, then by the la
borer, and then to having both rob
beries encouraged and acquiesced in
by the government, the Lord only
knows.
"If the country is robbed, it is the
fault of the officials In charge and not
because of lack of power to prevent
it."
The death of every American sol
dier abroad by reason of delay, hin
dering the government in its efforts
to speed up construction, is chargea
ble not alone to slackers and idlers,
but to members of congress as well.
Senator McCumber declared.
RECIPROCITY IN
FISHING MUDDLE
Washington, Feb. 25. With the ap
proval of President Wilson, Secretary
Redfield has issued orders to custom
collectors to allow Canadian fishing
vessels to enter and clear between
American ports and the fishing banks.
Reciprocal privileges have been asked
from Canada from American, fishing
vessels.
ES
EVIKI
Berlin Feb. 25, via London. Ger
man troops have occupied Pernau, a
Russian seaport in Livonia, muss
northeast of Riga, and Dorpat, 157
miles northeast of Riga, the German
War Office announced today.
In the German advance to Dorpat
3,000 Russians were taken prisoners.
This flying detachment traveled 130
miles in five and a half days.
The advance guard of Gen.Von Lin-
singon s troops, in tne soutn, nave
reached Zhitomir, 85 miles west of
Kiev.
In Rovno the whole staff of the
Russian special army fell into the
hands of the Germans.
FINNISH TROOPS
REMOVE RUSSIANS
FROM ALAND ISLES
London, Feb. 25 The Swedish
force which seized the Aland islands
consists of 500 soldiers, an Exchange
Telegraph Co. dispatch from Copen
hagen reports. These troops will
form a guard until the end of the
war.
Six hundred Finnish White guards
left the Aland islands on Swedish
steamers which brought them to
Sweden. They then were taken to Tor
nea, in Finland on the Swedish bor-
der.The Russian soldiers on the isl
ands also will be removed. They
probably will be sent directly to Fin
land.
It is reported that 500 White guards
who took refuge on the Pelenge isl
ands have been defeated by Red
guards, a large number of them,
mostly Finnish students, being killed.
PERSHING THANKS
WOMEN WORKERS
MAKING GARMENT
With the American Army
France, Feb. 25 (By the Associated
Press) A cablegram just forwarded
to the surgeon-general in Washington
mentions the great value of the gar
ments that volunteer Red Cross work
ers are making in the United States
for the American expeditionary forces.
The message contains Gen. Pershing's
appreciation of the work done. It
recommends that the medical depart'
ment accept a.n offer of 100,000 con
valescent uniforms which has been
made bv American women.
Gen. Pershing says the work done
by American women is of service in
promoting the morale of the army,
and is of value because it releases
commercial labor for other purposes,
EXCESS PROFIT
REVIEW BOARD
WILL BE NAMED
Washington, Feb. 25. A board of
excess profit reviewers, consisting of
about a dozen representatives of spe
cial industries or business, will be ere
ated soon by Internal Revenue Com
missioner Roper to make ruling on
specific questions involved in returns.
BRIDGEPORT, 95
HEARS 98-YEAR-OLD
RELATIVE IS DEAD
Derby, Feb. 25 Mrs. Elizabeth
Nichols Peck, aged 98, Derby's oldest
resident, died today. She was the
widow of the Rev. John L. Peck, once
a well known Methodist preacher, and
mother of the late John W. Peck, for
30 years superintendent of the Derby
schools. Mrs. Peck's surviving rela
tive is Lucien Peck, 95, of Bridge
port.
BITUMINOUS COAL
OUTPUT NORMAL
Washington, Feb. 25 Good weath
er and a clearing of car congestion
brought bituminous coal production
almost back to normal in the week
ending Feb. 16. The week's output,
the geological survey announced to
day, totalled 1,804,000 tons, nearly
1,000,000 tons more than that of the
previous week. An average produo
tion per working day of 1,847,000
tons was the highest since early De
cember.
SPORTS AT COCK
FIGHT ARRESTED
Greenwich, lea. za. Twelve men
arrested for being present at a cock
ing main in a Weaver street barn
yesterday were fined nominal, sums by
Judge James R. Mead today. William
McCuen, owner of the place, was sent
to jail for 30 days, but sentence was
suspended. McCuen will pay the costs
of the case.
Prosecuting Attorney James F
Walsh said today that the police were
on the track of other men who attend
ea tne main, area oi tne rour men
who held up the crowd and robbed
the members of it.
'QUAKE IN AMOY
KILLED 10,000
Arooy, China, Feb. 25. Nearly 10,000
persons lost their lives as a result of
the recent earthquake in the Amoy
hinterland, say latest reports from
Swatow.
SEEKS SEVATORSHIP
Chicago.Feb. 25. Joseph E. Davies,
chairman of the Federal Trade Com
mission, announced today that he will
resign to enter the Senatorial race in
Wisconsin.
0 Rugs and Two Dozen
Blankets Silenced
the Explosion.
NITRO-GLYCERINE
USED BY ROBBERS
'inger Print Expert is
Baffled, Cracksmen
Wearing Gloves.
Monday, Feb. 25
Ycggmen of. a post graduate
order were at work in Bridge
port last night and according to
Detective Captain Cronan, pull
ed one of the neatest and clean
est, jobs at safe cracking he has
ever seen. Entering Lee Bros,
furniture store, 1379 Main St,
from the rear the yeggs, drilled
the doors of the two-ton safe,
soaped the seams, built a cup
around the hole they had bor
ed, filled the vents with nitro
glycerine and with expert ac
curacy detonated the charge
with, an electric battery obtain
ing $1,000.
The store was entered over the roof
of a shed on the Arch street side.
The windows offered but little resist
ance to the powerful tools carried.
Once inside the store the burglars lost
mo time in getting to work drilling
the safe in the office at the rear of
the store.
Gloves were worn by the yeggs so
that no trace was left for Lieutenant
George Haux, the Bertillon expert, to
work upon. When they had drilled
the safe near the lock between the
two heavy doors, had soaped the
seams, and poured the charge of ex
plosive into the soap cup, they piled
25 comforters and 10 heavy rugs about
the massive steel safe that the explo
sion might? be deadened.
So powerful was the charge of
soup" used that the heavy doors of
the safe were torn from hinges and
locks and hurled almost through tho
building. Experts say the detonation i
must have rocked the entire structure
and had it not been for the cunning
manner in which the thieves deadened
the noise with the rugs and comfort
ers, the explosion would undoubtedly
have alarmed the three families living
in the same house next door if not
the entire neighborhood. As it was
no one heard even the faintest noise.
When the- safe had been blown the
yeggs took the contents to the floor
above and examined them at their
leisure. All papers, checks, money or
ders, or other valuables that might
prove incriminating and awkward to
get rid of, were left with the rifled
money boxes, while the cash amount
ing to 1,000, made up of bills of small
or med&um denominations, and the
receipts of the weekly payments on
furniture formed the booty.
The yeggs left their kit of tools be
hind, yard upon yard of insulated
electric wire, detonating caps, steel
bits and braces, soap worked into
the consistency of putty, and other
equipment usually forcing the layout
for the professional yegg. The rea
son for leaving all of tais stuff be
hind was undoubtedly because it
would prove very suspicious if found
upon them at any time.
George B. Davis, the manager of tha
store, was in the building yesterday
afternoon about 3 o'clock and at that
time everything was in order, so it is
an established fact that the safe
cracking occurred sometime last
night. The robbery was not discov
ered unUl opening time this morning
and the police were immediately no
tified. The loss will be covered by the in
surance as the Lee Brothers have a
policy with the Travellers' Insurance
Co., covering burglary. In the clean
up. the cracksmen overlooked $11, a
ten and a one . dollar note.
In discussing the case Captain Cro
nan said: "This is the first safe
blowing in Bridgeport since Thing's
shoe store was paid a visit by yegg
men about two years ago, and those
fellows two years ago were amateur3
compared to the birds that pulled off
the job last night
"I have never seen a neater or
cleaner job done by cracksmen and I
have looked over the w-orK of some
of the most notorious in the world.
The fellows who did the Lee job are
experts of the highest order. They
overlooked nothing but the $11,
which they may have left for luck.
They had a complete layout of the
store and offices and from all appear
ances spent considerable time in plan
ring the affair.
"There are no new features con
nected with last night's job, but it
differs from the ordinary yegg work
inasmuch as they took no chances and
were not careless even t othe most
trifling matter. The men are too
dangerous to be allowed at large so
we must get busy and get them."
CHINESE SQUELCH
MONARCHIST PLOT
Peking, Wednesday, Fob- 25 A
conspiracy to assassinate Gen. Tuan
Chi Jui, the former premier and now
war commissioner, has been discover
ed by the authorities. Several ar
rests, including those of three Japan
ese, have been made.
The plot is alleged to have been
promoted by monarchists for the pur
pose of avenging Gen. Tuan's defeat
of Gen. Change Hsun, who led . the
Manchu restoration effort last July.
Recently it had been rumored that
Chang Hsun had escaped from the
Dutch legation where he took refuge
last July after his defeat. -
The 102nd United States infantry.in
overseas service and made up largely
of the former First and Second Con
necticut regiments. National Guard,
has a new commanding officer. He is
Colonel John Henry Parker, a regular
army man, a West Pointer, and known
in the army as "Machine Gun" Park
er, because of his study and develop
ment of machine gun fighting, it is re.
ported in letters from members of the
regiment. He was commander, as a
lieutenant, in the Spanish War, of the
First Machine Gun Battalion the Uni
ted States ever had.
A Hartford soldier described his
new colonel in a letter as a man who
would deliver the gcoods. "It was
an inspiring and solemn occasion
when he took his oath before the en
tire regiment," adds the writer. "He
said: 'Not a life shall be lost from
my failure to do my duty. All I ask
is that you men do your best.' '
It is said the morale of the 102nd
has improved wonderfully, the past
month. The men go about whistling
and singing and there is little grum
bling and complaining.
Colonel Parker was General Persh
ing' s right hand man during the Mex
ican campaign of 1916 and is spoken
of by his associates as a "man's man."
When the letter was written Col
oel Isbell late commander of, the
regiment was then at one of the big
hospitals in an administrative capac
ity and Captain Guinan was his adju
tant Lieutenant Colonel Edwin E.
Lamb was divisional provost marshal
Major William F. Alcorn was also on
detached duty. Major-George J.
Rau was acting lieutenant-colonel.
Captain Clarence H. Thompson of
Company K, Captain Freland and
Captain Harry Bissell were acting
battalion commanders.
Colonel Parker, new commander of
the 102d was born in Tipton, Mo.,
September 19, 1866, son of Thomas P.
and Nancy (Maxey) Parker. He wag
graduated from West Point in the
class of 1892 and admitted to the
Missouri bar in 1896. He married
Miss Ida Burr, daughter of G. W.
Burr of Sedalia, Mo., September 22,
1892.
He was commissioned second lieu
tenant of the 13th infantry, June 11
of that year and on April 26, 1898,
was commissioned first lieutenant. He
was major of the fortieth and thirty
ninth United States Volunteers from
August 17, 1899, until May 6, 1901.
In February of that year ne was
commissioned captain and joined the
Twenty-eighth infantry, regular army
and on November 21, 1914, became
major of the Eighth infantry. In
1917 he was major of the Twenty
fourth (colored) infantry.
He is the author of "Gatlings at
battery at Santiago, Cuba, in 1898, and
is an honorary member of the Roose
velt Rough Riders' association of
While in the Philippines trom
1899 to 1901 was made assistant
to
the chief judge advocate.
In 1903 he devised and organized
the first model machine gun battalion
U. S. A., made permanent by an or
der of the war department on Janu
ary 22, 1914.
He was the advisor to the governor
Mantanzas province, Cuba, during the
second intervention and was in charge
of the municipal improvements of the
province. In 1908 he was put on
special duty organizing a first model
unit of machine guns for duty with a
regiment of infantry, and writing
necessary texts for future development
of machine gun service for infantry.
He is the author of "Gattlings at
Santiago," 1898; "Tactical Uses and
Organization of Machine Guns in the
Field," 1898; "Trained Citizen Sol
dier," 1915, and author of a scheme
of promotion by selection to as uper
numerary or "distinguished service"
list, amounting to 10 per cent, of the
number of officers in army -on the
active list, modifying the present sys
tem of "lineal promotion."
SEA FISHERMEN
TO BE LICENSED
R PAY PENALTY
Fine of $5,000 and Imprison
ment for One Year for Fail
ure to Secure Permit.
Hartford, Feb. 25. Salt water fish
ermen, ".engaged at any period of the
year, in the commercial distribution
of all varieties of salt water fish,"
must be licensed. In fact, the Federal
Food Administration for Connecticut
pointed out today that such fisher
men should have applied to "United
States Food Administration, License
Division, Washington, D. C," - and
should have secured their license,
for which no charge is made, by Feb
ruary 15. The President's proclama
tion regarding the salt water fisher
men was issued January 10 and the
food administration officials in Con
necticut issued a warning through the
newspapers late in January that all
fishermen should get licenses under
penalty of $5,000 and imprisonment
for one year.
Judging from the complaints and
inquiries that are coming into the
food administration office daily, many
fishermen have not complied with the
provisions of the President's proclam
ation and the orders of the food ad
ministration, which is preparing to
proceed against any unlicensed salt
water fisherman who engages in the
business for profit or who offers his
catch for sale rather than for his own
personal use. Wholesale fisherman
have been licensed since November 10
and their licenses will suffice. Like
wise, paid employes of fishing firms
do not require any license otl-er than
that held by their employers. The
sea food which comes under the regu
lations, which the food administration
will shortly issue, includes all salt
water fish, menhaden, crustaceans,
and shell fish, such as oysters, crabs,
lobsters, and clams. The control given
the food administration will enable
the fishermen to increase their
catches and will give hem opportun
ities to broaden their operations.
The Durham Miners' Association
decided to support the British Gov
emment's Man Power bill.
LENINE DECLARES FOE IS KNEELING ON CHEST
OP SLAVIC EMPIRE BUT PROLETARIAT
WILL CONQUER FRANCIS DECIDES TO
STAY IN CAPITAL SEND ENVOYS TO
BREST FOR PEACE CONFERENCE.
London, Feb. 25 Germany
plans to restore the monarchy
in Russia, says a telegram dated
Friday in ,Petrograd to the
Morning Post. It asserts that
the Grand Duke of Hesse has
been appointed the commander
in the Riga section of the Ger
man front.
"His sister," the dispatch
adds, "the former Empress Al
exandra, as the guardian of her
son, the former tsarevitch. is
the favorite German candidate
for the throne x x x."
"The former emperor will not ac
cept the throne from German hands.
The Bolsheviki have provided a form
of government which the Russians
alone understand pure despotism.
They have paved the way for the re
turn of the monarchy."
Petrograd d ispatches to the As
sociated Press say the Germans late
Saturday were still advancing into the
provinces they had decided to occupy.
In this connection it is reported that
they are executing Red guards, treat
ing them as outlaws, but releasing and
disarming soldiers of the regular
army.
The Pravda, the Bolshevik organ,
declares the Germans are restoring
shoulder straps to Russian officers and
forcing the Russian soldiers to salute
them.
The resolution to agree to the Ger
man peace terms was adopted by the
central executive committee of the all
Russian council of workmen's and sol
diers' delegates by a vote. of 126 to
85. Twenty-six members of the com
mittee were not present.
Gen. COtant Mirbach, commanding
the armies occupying Esthonia and
Livonia, has issued a manifesto to the
population declaring they now are
under German police power. He or
ders the release from prison of all
barons of Esthonia, declaring they
are under the protection of Germany.
Violation of the proclamation will
be punished under German laws.
"Kidnapping" of barons into Russia
Is to be punished by holding Bolshe
viki as hostages.
Petrograd, Sunday, Feb. 24. "Their
knees are on our chest and our posi
tion, is hopeless," declared Nikolai
Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, in the
course of his long speech to the cen
tral executive cdmmittee of the all-
Russian council of workmen's and
soldiers' delegates in which he insist
ently urged the acceptance of the
Austro-German peace conditions,
however oppressive and unfortunate
they might appear.
mmm
OSTA Rl(
INSURREGTOS LED BY
GO
G
ED NEAR PUNTA ARENA PEOPLE THROUGHOUT '
COUNTRY GENERALLY LOYAL.
San Jnsp. fin c.a Rif-n. Feb.
has been put down ana oraer
The troubles had their inception
last Friday when a band commanded
by Rogerlio Fernandez Guell, editor
of El Imparcial, a pro-German news
paper, which had been suppressed by
the Costa Rican government, attacked
a passenger train from Punta Arenas,
capturing some of the passengers.
This band continued looting along the
railroad line until the forces of the
government arrived and routed the
rebels. Some of the insurrectionists
were captured and the others fled in
disorder, being followed up by the
troops.
TWENTY MEN AND ONE MACHINE GUN ALSO BROUGHT IN ;
BY MIXED PATROL MANY GERMANS KILLED
IN SKIRMISH U. S. BOYS UNHURT. -i
With the Chemin des Dame
France, Sunday, Feb. 24(By
An American patrol, in conjunction
with a French patrol, early yesterday
penetrated a few hundred yards into
the German lines and captured two
German officers, 20 men and one ma
chine gun.
There was some sharp fighting and a
number of the enemy were killed and
wounded. There were no American
casualties. The Franco-American pa
trol was under command of a French
officer.
The French war office communica
tion on Saturday reported that north
PLANNING DEMOBILIZATION.
Amsterdam, Feb. 25 The German
and Austrian trade unions are engag
ed in a squabble over .demobilization
programs. According to the Aus
trian labor paper Der Kampf, both
are agreed that, after peace is con-
1 1 j i' n n wnrk.r RliniilH hj IfAnt i n
X the , army longer . than is absolutely
-V?-f
"This peace must be accepted as a
respite." he continued, "enabling us
to prepare a decisive resistance to the
bourgeoise and imperialism. The pro
letariat of the whole world will come
to our aid."
Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik foreign
minister, will not go to Brest-Litovsk
to sign the new peace terms, nor will
any of the other- members of the
Russian delegation that conducted
the earlier negotiations there, with
the exception of M. Karakhan, secre
tary of the former delegation.
The workmen's and soldiers' dele
gates today chose for the new delega
tion M. Zinovieff, president of the
Pearograd council of workmen's and
soldiers' delegates; M. Aliexieff, acting
commissioner of agriculture, and M.
Sokolkolkoff. This delegation, accom
panied by naval and military repre
sentatives, will leave tonight for Brest'
Litovsk. The Allied ambassadors, at a con
ference yesterday at the American
embassy, determined to remain in
Petrograd pending developments. The
general belief in embassy circles is
that the German terms which the
Bolsheviki have agreed to accept are
couched in such ambiguous terms
that they must be cleared up thor
oughly before the actual status of '
Russia can be ascertained.
Some members of the embassy
staff have already left, while others
will leave by way of Siberia on a
special train together with many Al
lied nationals. The ambassadors
however, have not yet reached a de
cision. Ambassador Francis, J. Butler
Wright, the counsellor, Norman Ar
mour, second secretary, and Private
Secretary Johnson and a sufficient
staff of clerks will remain in Petro
grad,
M. Karakhan, who was secretary of
the Russian delegation in Brest-Litovsk,
explained to Tho Associated
Press today that the Bolshevik gov
ernment considers most ambiguous
the part of the German terms con
cerning the demobilization of the Rus
sian army. A literal translation of
"up to newly formed battalions," M.
Karakhan said, may either exempt or
include the new "Red army."
"This is disputable," he addied. "I
think of course that they meant the
Red army also must be demobilized,
but on this we will not yield without
discussion. We think we are entitled
to an army on at least a peace foot
ing. That would be sufficient to ac
complish our internal purposes."
M. Karakhan declared Russia's po
sition toward the Allies now undoubt
edly be that of a neutral, adding:
"We will not support Germany. The
only support it will get will be indi
rect, from the resumption of commer
cial relations."
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25 The rebellion in Costa Rica :
nas neen completely irawi.
VnBtprrtnv there was another small
movement in the outskirts of Cartago
and a similar one in Turrialba, but
the rebels in these places were dis
persed almost without resistance.
The movement has had no echo in
the rest of the country. Order has
h.n comDletelv restored and the
'Costa Ricans, almost without excep
tion have offered their services to tn
government.
The casualties in the fighting were
only three killed and five wounded.
There was no destruction of property.
Railroad traffic has been re-established.
s unit of the American Army in
the Associated Press) :
of the Ailette river, which parallels
the Chemin des Dames, French troops J
had penetrated the German lines as
far as the neighborhood of Chevrigny.
They were reported to have returned
with material and 25 prisoners, in
cluding two officers.
The presence of American unit3 '
along the ramous ehemm fces 2Srmes
was disclosed in an Associated es
dispatch last Friday. In a patrol fight '.
the previous day American Ei'ldters '
had killed, cce German and captured "
I another. One American was Wouno .
j ed slightly. j
necessary on military grounds, but in :
regard to the exact process of de- -mobilization
they differ. The Aus- :
trian unions demand discharges ac--
cording to age, while the German :
unions insist that the first considera- ;
tion should be given to particular
callings and groups of workmen, the';
motive being to bring about the eco nomic
revival as soon as possible.