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CBRUARY 212, 1918
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THREE ( ENTS
El ??where
Senate Beats
Federal Rail
Ownership
Indefinite Supervision Is
Defeated by Sixty-one
to Ten
Rate Fixing To Be
Decided To-day
House Is Expected to Take
Final Action Next
Week
WASHINGTON, Feh. 21. Cham?
pions of government ownership lost by
is overwhelming vote in the Senate
to-day their fight for indefinito control
0f the railroads after the war. An
amendment to the Administration rail?
road bill offered by Senator Johnson.
cf South Dakota, and providing that
government control should continue
until Congress otherwise ordered, was
defeated, 61 to 10.
Determined contests over disputed
(sections upset plans for passing the
bi!l to-day in hoth houses of Con?
gress, but the Senate disposed of all
important amendment, and will reach
final vote to-morrow. Discussion was
continued in tho House, where, under
f.n agreement to close general debate
it 6 o'clock to-morrow night, the lead?
ers expect to pass the measure early
next week.
Senate dehate was limited after 2
o'clock to-day to ten minutes, and to?
morrow it proceeeds under a iivc-min
Bte' rule. The first test of strength
yjon ? ic i ff? ? ' i of the so-called radi?
cals to amend the corp.omisc draft
Brought out by tho Senate Interstate
Commei : Committ? e came on an
amendent by Senator Cumins, o? Iowa,
desigi c! i" reduce by about $173,000,000
coinp? -ation to be paid the railroads.
1; b ti : to 4-4 1 : t ffeet, Si 11 -
stor ? unvmins proposed that govern?
ment compensation to the railroads
should cover only normal dividends paid
- . . last ti ??< c years and that
earnings abo' i divide',4 , should be
Vote for Indefinite Control
The ten Si tiaior?* supporting the pro
pi? ?il t?i reinsert the original Adminis
ilion "in' isioi.i ndc ' nitc go*, ern
rrcnl ? ;.- m ivere:
D -:??? rat - Ai r i ;-, Jol h-.->n, of
: ikota; Kirby and Phelan.
?' on ca? uro i, Johnson, of
?...' fornia; Jone -. \\ : hington; Ken
; m, Non i nd I'oini
1 vot? " : eep d ? ; decisive.
senator Johi on. of Cali fo rnia, \c iio led
government r? i/ncrship,
thai did not ( xpect to
i Ifort.
Semi: : ipporting the Cummins
Den icrat : Ashurst, Gore, Hardwick,
Hend? rson, Hitchcock, Uollis, Johnson,
?f So Kcndrick, King, Kir?
by, Reed, Thomas, Trammell, and
Republicans: Cummins, Gronna,
Johnson, of California; Jones, of
Washingto; ; Kcnyon, McNary, Korris,
Suthcrlai ?'. . 4 ','..- ?i end.
An amendment by Senator Robinson,
of Arkansas, to el niinate a provision
granting carriers an addi'tional allow?
ance, aggregating about $6,500,000 an?
nually, for : ? ?-pent on improve
iJgents ? yi ir, adopted., 4! to 34.
On a v he Senate rejected
Senator ( unu - ' ami ndment to
pi-,-,. ?_-,,\ ,.?-; ;... ? , . .,,; }lfter t he wn r
?i boai il ol ? men. Mr. Cummins
s ? i : ' would t* ; ecord vote on
'-i??? propo ;?! i?,- morrow.
An amei dm? nt ofl'ercd by Senator
1 r? 1 nghu> en, of New Jersey, and
adopte?!, i-rovid? thai the new law
shall i ou ntei Fere w il h slate taxation
of railroad
In Discuss R;rtc Fixing
In 1 ? ?-..': contest to-morrow, in the
senate, the provision allowing the
President to initiate rates, subject to
approval by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, is expected to be the prin?
cipa! controversy. Late to-day Sen?
ator Poindaxter introduced an amend?
ment providing that the commission's
authority shall not bo interfered with
except that the President, if necessary.
Waj supersede the commission's or?
ator Lewis declared the Admin
str tion bill was a forcrunm ?- of gov
n ment control over various public
Utilities and predicted that the ques?
tion would be the great domestic issue
?i 'he next presidenial campaign.
"Let us not deceive .ourselves as to
tin. meaning of this measure.'' Senator
p?*wis declared. "This is the beginning
of the government taking the railroads
ti a government agency. Tin? roads
will never be permitted to return to
the former state of personal control foi
private benefit. At tin- same tune this
CO ntry takes over the railroads, it will
take the telegraph and telephone privi
and then the products for fuel,
' ? ularly the lands of coal and oil
it these tinder government direc
,A ! agencies of this nature in this
'??-.;?' ?-. necessary to the public wel
o man, v, ill be taken by the gov
?;- enl as a necessary protection of
;'-' ri publ se."
Railroads Confessed inability
railroad.-. Senator Lewis de
\ ? '? I. confc sod their inability to
'' ' ' ' '? ' ? ituation, and by surrender
-' ' ' governmei admil ted that
one pi er capable to carry on ti"
Jj?r? undei the i I ug conditions vvai
'' ; - oyernmi ut itself.
flic government now conducts the
''4"' and directs them as the proof
u : ? Power and ability to do ? o," he
"' 'l'1''-. "Private ownership of rail
-'?''?'i tailed us for the purpose of
;' ndmg ..; ppliea to ships or for trans
\t".1 Lu- soldier for foreign service.
?\H;it would be the calamity under
Private ownership if enemie were at
{:::,;:;':,? and ?n possession of our
.Let us announce that Cue United
1 >--au'a 's a government and shall as
f*?^ governmental responsibility in
I I, '??'??... all public agencies of human
?.,?a^)from, bci?g a monopoly of pri
" ? ? ?'????a-. Senator Lewis said,
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Be on Fifth Avenue To-day
To-day Now York will sec her own, rifle on shoulder, in the olive
drab, belted for war. At 1:30 this afternoon... Fifth Avenue, that
heard the shuffle of their untrained feet as they marched away last
fall, wavering, uncouth lines of civilians, will sound to the tramp of
20,000 army shoes slamming along in the route step. Instead of the
half-abashed youngsters who straggled away to camp a few months
ago the city will see men transformed. She will see them, not as in?
dividuals, but as firm ranks of fighting men?part of the First Na?
tional Army.
This will probably be the last parade of these men until they
have been "over there" and are homo for good.
Only One Line Aero Hangars
Will Run Fast Planned Atop
Trains to West New Hotel
McAdoo Orders Big Eastern Roof of Commodore Will Be
Lines to Cut Com- Landing Place for
petition 'Planes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-?Fast pus- The Hotel Commodore, which is bc
senger train competition between New ?,lg built at Forty-second Street and
York and Chicago, Chicago and St. ' Lex?ngton Avenue, will bo prepared
Loui?. Washington and Southern ; B .? ?. , . ...
, .. . , . ? soon after it opens its doors, late this
points and other important passenger : bOU" ?ilA-L U1 '
, ... , ,. . ? , ,, ?ivnar to furnish accommodations lor
terminals will be eliminated soon, the>C!ir' tu
railroad administration announced to- j man and 'plane. Tho hotel is to con
day. Certain roads will be selected for! struct a twelve-story building nt C2U
Disloyalist Sent
By U.S. to Berne
To Be Recalled
B. D. Allinson, Who Pre?
dicted Our Defeat, Must
Answer Draft He Defied
Record Unknown to
State Department
He Is Now on Way to Berne
?He Edited "War," Peace
Propaganda Paper
*" [Staff Correspondence]
WASHINGTON', Feb. 21. Brent Dow
Allinson, associate editor of "War?"
pacifist, and forecaster of defeat for
tho American forces abroad, to-night
is rn route to Berne, Switzerland, to
fill a berth in tho American Legation
in,that storm centre of diplomatic ef?
fort among the warring nations.
But the appointment conferring this
post on him will be withdrawn just as
soon as he can be reached by the State
:*a?-t passenger trains and other lines
devoted inure extensively to freight
traffic.
Investigation lias been made by A.
II. Smith, regional Director for the
East, to determino whether the New
York Central, Pennsylvania or Balti?
more & Ohio should be used for fast
passenger trains between New York
and Chicago. It is understood the New
York Central is beine; considered most
favorably because of heavy freight on
the other two lines.
The elimination between Chicago and
St, Louis is under consideration by K.
II. Aishton, region director at Chicago.
('. 11. Markham, regional lirector for
the South, is working on the Couth.
By this means the railroad adminis?
tration hopes t? save many millions of
dollars without inconveniencing pas?
senger traffic. In many cuses, officials
? point out, the fast trains running in
competition are only partially filled.
Equal Suffrage Plan
In Prussia Dropped
Conservatives' Proposal for
System of Plural Voting
is Substituted
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 21. The fran?
chise committee of the lower house of
the Prussian Diet lias accepted by a
vote of 20 to 15 the Conservatives' sub?
stitute proposal for a system of plural
voting and representation based on
professions and guilds, according to a
Bel ;in telegram to-day.
Consequently the government's pro?
posal, which provided f>>r equal suf?
frage, \\.is declured "disposed of."
- ? -
GRKfVr lil Al. Sl'KIN?? '.', V! ? K.
lia 1'urltj llus Made ll IT'iluous."? AUvt,
Cast Forty-fourth Street, the roof of
which will form a landing place for
aeroplanes, the machines being .shel?
tered in hangars opening upon the
roof and the aviators being whisked
off to the Commodore in a motor, which
an elevator has lifted to the twelfth
floor fr their convenience.
There also will be dressing room?
for the aviators in the aero annex, in
which they may change from leathci
togs to evening clothes if they have
just dropped in for an evening of opere
or a theatre party, and which they maj
use also to resume their air garb il
they haven't, time after their cvenir.f
in New York to return to the hole
to change. In the one ea^c, the aviatoi
may go about his evening's entertain
ment with the assurance that aler
attendants have trundled his "nuchim
into a hangar and that expert me
chanies are on hand with an aeria
currycomb and an Olympic bran mash
In the oilier, by the time he has pullei
: on his leather garments and goggle
Ins sky steed will be at the carriage
block, groomed to the last bolt, am
cylinder.
?\\ arren & Wctmore have tiled plan
? for this novel building, which is classi
lied by an unimaginative Bureau o
Buildings as a garage. Aeroplane c>
ports have been consulted as to th
structure and the roof which will wc
come aviators will have an area oqu;
lo that of sixteen city lots, 25 feet b
100 each.
According to the estimate of tli
architects the structure alone will CO!
| $400,000. 'the property has bee
bought through <'. H. Deppeler, one i
the i ?corporators of the holding con
pany that is to put un the buildiiv
and the iota! cost of land and buildin
will be about Sl.500,000. .lohn Mel
Bowman is another in'coprqrator of tl
holding company. The property is thi
of the ["'red ?pperman, .l?., Brewii;
?? ompany.
Department, lie is believed to have
sailed three days ago. Along with his
dismissal from the legation clerkship
will be an urgent request to return
home and become a member of the Na?
tional .Army through the operation of
the draft law, which, he has openly
defied.
Exposed By The Tribune
The youthful pacifist's dismissal fol?
lowed swiftly upon disclosure by The
Tribune of his opposition to the draft,
his association with "War?" and the
propaganda lie had been carrying on in
the interest of conscientious objectors,
among whom he classed himself.
Information supplied by The Tribune
was verified in a hurried investigation
by the ?State Department, disclosing
his correspondence with the War De?
partment. Chief among these letters
was one to Secretary Baker, published
originally in "War?" and later mailed
to that official, in which he announced
that he would not submit to the draft,
advanced many arguments to support
his claim that this was not a war in
which right was opposed to wrong, and
concluded with a request for some non
! fighting position in the ter-vice of the
country.
Allinson, whose application for the
assignment in the diplomatic service
showed his address to be Henry Booth
House, a social settlement, at 701 West
Fourteenth Street, Chicago, was accept?
ed by the department February I 1. At
the State Department to-day it was
said that he would be stopped in New
York if he had not actually sailed, and
if at sea the consular officer at his
port of arrival abroad would notify him
of his dismissal from the service.
State Department officials disavowed
tiny knowledge of Allinson's attitude on
the war. Third Assistant Secretary of
State Breckinridge I,on.- who ''-[>
Continued on Last Page
Food Crisis In
Next 60 Days,
Says Hoover
Demands Drastic Em?
bargoes at Once to
Clear Railroads
Reserve Centres
Nearly Depleted
Aid to Allies Also Menaced,
Administrator Now
Declares
[ Staff Correspondence \
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.?Only im?
mediate and drastic embargoes to clear
the rails, for the movement of food to
interior terminals and the seaboard
can now save the food situation, both
with regard to feeding our Allies and
the people of our Eastern cities, Food
Administrator Hoover declared to?
night.
"The next sixty days will be the most
critical period in our food history,"
3|r. Hoover stated. Two inevitable
consequences of continued delay in
moving food from tho producing areas
to interior markets and the seaboard
terminals are predicted by the Food
Administrator:
1. Exhaustion of food reserves in
the large consuming centres, with re?
sulting local food famines.
2. Crippling of Allied arms through
the failure of the United States to
make good its food promises to ?he
Allies.
The railroaci administration is not
solely to blame for the existing trans?
portation chaos, officials of the food
administration point out. During Janu?
ary insuperable difficulties were en?
countered in moving all classes of
freight. However, during, the last three
weeks {})<? railroad administrativ, it is
alleged, has failed to appraise food
transport needs in their full serious?
ness, svith the resuit that the neces?
sary drastic freight and passenger em?
bargo policies advocated by tho food
administration have been rejected.
.Mr. Hoover's Statement
Mr. Hoover's statement follows:
"In response to many inquiries, I
beg to say it is true that, since the
first of l-.'oeembcr, we have fallen
far behind our agreed food pro?
gramme with thi: Allies. By the end
of February wc will be short 45.
000,000 bushels in cereal products,
which we undertook as our share of
their supplies. We will also he
short of the amount of meal, and
pork products that we were to de- '
liver.
"This deficiency is due solely to
the railway congestion since that
dale. The railway directorate since
coming inifi control on January ),
has made effort to find remedy, but ?
during the month of January the
weather was insuperable and. al?
though progress has been made since .
the 5th of February, the situation is
the accumulation of three months'
delays.
"The nest sixty days will bo the
most critical period in our food his?
tory. The simple fact is that the
problem e'oes far deeper than sup?
plies to the Allies. During the last
three months we have far fallen be?
hind in movement of foodstuffs from
the farm- to the consuming and
storage centres. Up to the first of
February less than 50 per cent, of
the normal ratio of corn has been
moved, less than 80 per cent of the
oats and less than 00 per cent, of
the potatoes from November 1 to
January !. We were short in the
usual movement of grains and grain
products into the terminals alone, by ?
over 120,000 carloads over 120,000,
000 bushels and this further aggre?
gated by similar shortage outside th?
terminals.
Corn Supply Menaced
"Furthermore, this year we have
the largest percentage of soft corn ?
in many years, and though we have
a record crop of corn, a consider?
able portion of the soft corn will
be lost b> spoiling unless it can be
moved in the next sixty days to the '.
drying terminals. The least amount
"of grain thai must be loaded for the
next sixty days is 8,000,000 bushels
per day and we have not. yet at?
tained that. Less than this will solve
neither the Allied nor our domestic
situation.
"We have about 130,000 carloads
of potatoes' on November 1, which
should have been moved from the
principal producing centres, and un
to the first of February we had
moved about 28,000 carloads, while
wc should have moved over 00,000
in this period. The result is that
potatoes are [.?led up, spoiling in
the producers' hands, and the con?
suming centres have only been sup?
plied by virtue of the summer gar?
dens and other stores carried over
from last year. There is a gr?a'.
deal of livestock which has beer,
ready for the market for some time,
but is still held in the farmers'
hands through inability to securo
transportation. These cattle are eat?
ing their heads oil" -without inereas
ing their meat, value and are only
adding to the costs of the farmer
and consuming the grain.
Effect of Delayed Movement
"The effect of this delayed move?
ment has been many fold:
"First - To jeopardize the safety
of a great deal of the soft corn
and perishables such as potatoes.
"Second 'fee stricture in flow
of distribution has entirely dis?
turbed the price conditions in the
country by practically suspending
the line of supply and demand. The
margins between the farmer and
the consumer in many commodities
were never wider than they are to?
day, because the consuming trades
are undersupplied and the farmers
compete for transportation. Prices
of the coarse grains have reached
unheard of levels, while the lim?
ited transportation has diminished
th" farmers' returns.
"Third The cost of grains for
feeding livestock has so increased
to the feeders of firyshed cattle
thai they face serious losses. The
Continued on Next Pag?
45 German Warships Moving
On Reval; Armies Advance;
Trotzky Is Ready to Resign
Austrian Socialists Demand Peace
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 21.-?The Austrian Socialists have convoked
mass meetings to support their demand that direct peace negotiations
shall be opened with tiie United States.
The Austrian Emperor has warned the leaders of the diff?rent
Parliamentary parties that he will prorogue the Reichsrath and gov?
ern the country by absolute methods if a majority is not secured for
the provisional budget. *
Czech protests are loud against the advance of the German troops
in Russia.
The Poles are extremely dissatisfied with the Austrian govern?
ment, and demand that the Ukrainian frontier shall be fixed at the
River Bug and that Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minis?
ter, shall be dismissed.
Minsk and Rovno Fall,
Esthonia Overrun
by Invading
Forces
Drive Begun to Wipe Out
Dissension in the Nation
Nearly 1,500 Guns
Seized in Drive
Bolsheviki Surrender
Still on Way to
Commander of
Germans
LONDOX, Feb. 21.?Forty-five
German warships were aoDroach
National Service Congress
Pleads for United Nation;
Taft Warns Against
German Peace
CHICAGO. Feb. 21.?William T.
Taft, Governor Frank O. Lowden, S.
; Stanwood Menken and hundreds of the
delegates representing every state in
; the Union, to-day opened a national
; movement to make every American citi?
zen an active war supporter and elimi?
nate dissensionists at the first sessions
of the Congress of National ?Service
held under the auspices of the National
Security League.
"The time is coming, and we might
as well prepare to face it," declared
former President Taft, "when the seeds
of discontent will be sown, when wc
meet disaster, when with hellish ma?
lignity the Germans will suggest for
fools among v.s a trap of inconclusive
peace. We must have our people edu?
cated 'O stand up against that and
teach the Germans that a moral peo?
ple like us will die sooner than give up
our high ideals. Wc ask no territory,
no money, no indemnity, no additional
?hiwer. We are lighting for humanity,
for the most sacred cause since history
began.
Governor I.owden sounded a cry for
universal service that would call for at
least one year's intensive training by
every able-bodied young man in the
country.
Get Together Drive
Mr, Menken, president of the Na?
tional Security League, outlined the .
purpose of the "get-together" drive
began by the league. lie urged a par
ticularly stern warfare on seditionasts.
In his letter regretting his inability
through illness to be present at the
congress, Mr. Root said:
"Let us be warned by poor Russia's
present position. The Bolsheviki were
very eloquent about peace, 'without an?
nexations or indemnities,' ami they
filled the minds of Russian soldiers
and workmen with the idea to such
an extent that they stopped lighting
and making munitions, but when they'1
got to Brest-Litovsk they found what
the leadere probably knew all along
that Germany had no intention of mak?
ing any such peace.
"She wanted the Baltic provinces of
Russia, and she' seized and purposes to
keep them, and Russia, having stopped
fighting in favor of the kind of peace
slie admired, finds herself in a posi?
tion where for the present she has
nothing whatever to say about the kind
of peace there shall be. We must lie
ware of anything in the remotest de?
gree approaching that.
"Of course there have been mistakes
and shortcomings in the conduct, of the
war -it would be a miracle if then,'
were not. Sincere and constructive
criticism of executive conduct i-, a
very useful thing. But we all must, be
careful that neither shortcoming or
' criticism lends in the slightest degree
to divert or decrease the heartiness
?with which we all support and rein?
force the President and his civil and
?nilitary officers in carrying on this
war.
'I he;; of you as citizens of this
great republic not to let your minds
be carried from the great work we
ha\ e before us."
Elihu Root in a message urged the
: people of the country to forget ob?
structive criticism and stand behind the
President in his conduct of the war.
After sounding a warning to the
"foreign horn disciples of protest."
"?ho, though finding themselves in a
minority, would torce their views or.
! the majority here. Mr. Menken said:
"Every man in khaki is an argument
: for and an advocate of universal mili?
tary training, and in due time we will
have it on broad lines.
"This leads me to suggest that we
have been very negligent in our .-edi?
tion laws and too tolerant in our treat -
i ment of the enemy. 1 do not believe in
the standard of the Hun tUfrit war is
personal, but I insist that no enem;
aliens should be permitted to speak or
gather in free assembly or over five
, persons except on consent of the au?
thorities."
Governor W. E. Lindsey, of New Mex?
ico, spoke on the cooperative plan
adopted by the people of his state, as a
war aid. "We have over-subscribed
every call upon the state," he said.
"We will continue to over-subscribe.
In addition, we organized a state niali
tia and turned it over to the govern?
ment.
Dr. Robert M. McElroy, of Princeton
University an?! educational director of
the National Securitv League, denied
publi ?hed stati menta that all the mili?
tan aid Joffre asked of the United
States was two divisions of a total of
Win First, Then Parley,
Says Viscount Milner
LONDON, Feb. 21.-Viscount Mil?
ner, member of the War Cabinet,
speaking at Plymouth to-day, depre?
cated too much talk about war aims.
"Until the peace negotiations are
reached," he said, "we are lighting
for our lives and the very existence
of the free nations of Western Eu?
rope. As a result of the collapse of
Russia the military party of Ger?
many is again firmly in the saddle.
Doubtless many of the people of Ger?
many loathe the continuance of blood?
shed for mere aggression, but at
presdit they are quite powerless."
Lord Milner contended that it was
no longer a question of destroying
Prussian militarism, but whether
Prussian militarism would destroy
the Allies and dominate Europe and
part of Asia.
"President Wilson and Premier
Lloyd George have made it perfectly
clear," he continued, "that we have
no desire to dismember Germany,
dictate her constitution or exclude
her from a fair share of the world's
intercourse. There can be but one
answer to Germany's challenge, and
that answer may involve greater sac
riliciic and endurance than hereto?
fore."
20,000 men. What Joffre did ask, he
said, was 30,000 men "at once," and
added that the French leader got them.
"To-day we are a people of divided
counsel." he declared, "thinking in
terms of ancient racial prejudices and
hereditary animosities brought from
the Old World. The problem of patriot?
ism is how to make us one people,
looking not upon our diverse pasts but
upon our common future. We are fac?
ing the gravest, crisis in history, and
our first task is to create, by propa?
ganda, unity of thought concerning the
meaning of the war, for unity of
thought is essential to unity of action
in a free government. Had we suc?
ceeded, by the slow process called edu?
cation, in implaiititng in the minds of
cur people the ideas which the present
emergencies demand, there would to?
day be no noca of the quick process
of propoganda, since propoganda is
necessary only in nations v. iiose edu?
cational systems have failed.
"But by propaganda w have secured
unity of thought and unity of action,
and thereby will win the war. When
we have crushed militarism, we -ban
still have to face the problem of pro?
viding an educational machinery, which
will insure that when our next crisis
comes we shall not have to use propa?
ganda methods to make us think as a
nation. We must, prove that a free
government can be as honest, as un
selfish and as efficient as the best
autocracy has ever been. For you can
never make the world safe for an
inefficient democracy."
Firing Squad for Treason
Mr. Taft, in his address, after ex?
plaining the cause of the war and'ad?
vocating a campaign of education to
, unite the morale of the people behind
the American armies, said that it "was
not to be expected that in the millions
who have come from foreign shores
there should not bif some who would
show the base ingratitude ot' a failure
to realize their debt to tin- country
and.a failure to appreciate tile obliga?
tion of their sworn allegiance."
Mr. Taft then urged the "short shrift
of a firing squad" for open treason.
Spies, incendiaries, bomb droppers and
munition tamperers, he said, should be
backed up against a blank wall at sun?
rise. But tiiis most emphatic warning
was against the "fhisperers who are
covertly sowing sediiion and pro-Ger?
man propaganda behind a barrage of
sh-sh-sh-s."
Refuses to Let Philipp
? Name Lenroot Senator
MADISON, Wis.. Feb. 21. Governor
'. Phi ii op's, bill empowering him to ap
: point a United States Senator to fill
j the vacancy created by the death of
j Paul U. Husting was defeated in the
! State Senate to-day, 27 to ?',. lu a mes
j sage to the Legislature read last Tues
day the Governor announced that Pep
resentative Irvine I.. Lenroot was hi
'. choice for the Senatorial seat.
The Otto resolution calling for
i special election in April to till Senatoi
Hunting's place was defeated in thi
Senate, although the Assembly passe?
it. The Assembly also passed the loy
I i a Foil? tte and nine otl er m?
Congress accused of failinp; to suppor
the war programme.
ing Reval on Wednesday, according
to a message received by "The Ex?
press" from its Petrograd corre?
spondent. Troops have been landed
at Reval and "The Daily News"
Bolshevik correspondent telegraph?
that Trotzky will probably resign.
Reval is the great Russian naval
base on the southern coast of the
Gulf of Finland, guarding the water
approaches to Petrograd. It is
about two hundred miles from the
: capital. Since Helsingfors, the sis?
ter fortress on the opposite shore,
: is now in the hands of Finnish
rebels, Kronstadt is the sole remain?
ing defence for Petrograd.
"The Daily Mail's" Petrograd cor?
respondent, telegraphing Wednesday
afternoon, says that the latest de
j velopments there have made impos?
sible measures of assistance which
the Allies were preparing to give
i Ru-ssia in her light against the
. enemy.
Minsk and Rovno
Fail in Unresisted
Drive of Germans
LONDON, Feb. 21. ? Overrunning
helpless Russia in an unresisted drive,
: German troops have invaded Esth nia.
cr.ptured Minsk and Rovno and at every
join on a front of more than 400 miles
are continuing the advance.
It was announced in Berlin to-day
that a general commanding an army,
125 officers and 8,7*10 men had been
taken, besides 1,353 guns, four to live
th usand motor car-, 1,000 railway car?
(many laden with food), airplanes and
vast stores of supplies.
The speed with which the enemy i??
moving may he seen from the capture
of Minsk, a city of 105,000. 468 miles
southwest of Moscow, announced in the
supplementary war statement given
out at Berlin tiii- evening. Miinsk is
about fifty miles from tin- former bat
tleline. This distance has been cov?
ered in only thro days, operations hav?
ing begun al the conclusion of the
armistice last Monday at noon.
??"inland also has corne into the Ger?
man field of operations. Four boatload?
of Finnish soidiers who had served in
the German army and German volun?
teers have arrive?! a* Vasa, on the west
coast, to lead the campaign against the
Bolshevik Red Guards.
(?enera! von Eichhorn commands the
northern half of the a?!v%nco into Rus?
sia and General von Linsingen the
southern.
Crossed oi. the Ice
At the northern end of the line, Ber?
lin announces, regiments crossed Moon
island Sound on the ice from the Moon
islands, captured last fall, and took the
town of Lea!. 'The.'; are in a position
for ?i rapid advance on Petrograd by
way of Hapsal and the coast railway.
In Livonia one column is proceeding
along ih" c?.a-: and lias passed Perni
??nl and Lemzal. Another has captured
Wenden, fifty-five miles northeast of
Riga, and now stands before Wolmar,
, fifteen miles further on. Feeble re
sistancc was made near the coast and
as a result 500 prisoners ami twenty
gun? were taken the.?-.
Bel ?? ii n Dvinsk and Pinsk the Gcr
man cavalry is riding east fas'?, seizing
important railway and highway june
tions. The German official statement
does 'oi bother with the details, prob?
ably because ti-." towns and village?
taken are numbered by the hundred.
From tii" phrase used of the taking
of Rovno, thai il :?;;>. been "c'.< ared of
?4,- Russiai -," some resistance i to be
infer? d, this seems to have been
kly o\ ercomc. The great Russian
fi rti tria igle in Volhynia, Lutsk
1 ? ibni - !?<'. no, - ; "??? completely in en
?-.i. y ha? ds For th? fii t time in 1 he ???? ar.
Advance on Pskoff
German troops, having occupied
Dvinsk, are advancing toward PskoH,
180 miles south, southwest of Petro?
grad, according to a Reuter dispatch
from Petrograd. They also have occu?
pied Hapsal, Esthonia, and their cavalry
is pushing toward Mohilev, the forme?
R issian General Headquarters.
I'iie "Novia Viedomsky," the dispatcv
adds, say* the Germans have occupied
Molodeohno. an important railway
junction northwest of Minsk.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Petrograd, dated Wednesday, says:
German airmen arc reported to ha-- >?
raided Regitsa on Monday. Many bombs
were dropped a'.?l several persons wer?*
killed. The raiders disappeared toward
l". ?nsk.
i two hours after the armistice
e i ?'i Gei nan troops entered Dvinsk?
tl i- dispatch saj it was 2 o'clock on
took place, i'li'j lied _u_.__ B-CttDM- ??