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SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1918?SEVEN
Editorials ? Advertisements
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PARTS-FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES
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WEATHER
Rain and warmer to-day, followed by
colder at night. To-morrow fair
and much colder. Southwest
gales shifting to north?
west.
Full Report on Page 13
FIVE CENTS ??
York City
Lone American
Routs a Patrol
Of 40 Germans
Sentry Start? One-Man
Offensive When Enemy
Enters Trench
Two Teuton Fire
Projectors Captured
Pershing's Artillery Active
in Recently Occupied
Lorraine Sector
[By The Assort ated Tress]
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Thursday, March 7 (delayed).
_-A lone American sentry this morn?
ing attacked an enemy patrol of about
forty men, some of whom had stealthily
entered an advanced American trench.
jHe drove them off, killing the leader
and wounding others.
The first reports of the encounter
were that another raid had taken place,
and all along the line details were
being awaited eagerly. Investigation,
however, showed that one American
started what there was of ah offensive.
The name of this man is mentioned
in all reports of the affair, and Jie
has been congratulated heartily by his
officers and comrades for his courage
and level headedness.
The sentry saw the patrol advanc?
ing, and looked on as the Germans
began to drop cautiously into the
trench. He knew that an American
patrol was out along the wire not far
away, and counted upon its help after
he opened fire. There were four men
in the American patrol.
First Bullet Kills Leader
By the time five Germans had en- !
tered the trench the sentry decided he
should delay no longer, especially as '<
the under officer who was leading the j
Germans had approached within a few
yarda of him.
? The sentry opened fire rapidly, with- ,
out challenging. The German leader ;
fell at the first crack of the rifle. The !
others in the trench hurriedly sought
protection, but they were not quick '
enough, for the sentry's bullets caught \
?some of them.
As the Americans began firing a Ger
man some distance outside the wire i
shouted: "Come out! Come out!" The
Germana needed no second invitation. !
In fact, those who were still in the \
'wire already had started out. The |
small American patrol saw the enemy j
trailing back across No Man's Land, '
under fire from the sentry and from
'Americans at a point further along ,
the line. The patrol joined in the fray ]
and helped to speed the Germans on >
their way by hurling a large number '
of hand grenades, some of which .
probably took effect. Four rifles were
found in the American lines.
Break Up Liquid Fire Attack
Patrols, both American and German, j
constantly are seeking opportunity to
inspect the opposing lines, and the !
Germans on this occasion certainly did
got wish to be discovered. They cut
the American wire with the greatest ,
caution, making no noise, but the
seatry who later drove them off was :
watching their performance all the ?
time.
American troops in the sector north- j
west of Toul have been subjected for ',
the first time to an attack with liquid
fire. Enemy troops carrying flame pro- i
jectors were just opening the attack
when an American patrol which hap
gated to be near by fired on them. The
Germans fled precipitately, pursued by
the Americans. They dropped four :
projectors, two of which were flaming.
The Americans went into action so j
quickly that the enemy had no chance
to light the other two.
Take Pictures of Captured Projector?
No damage was done by the flames. >
The projectors lay in No Man's Land
?or three aayn. Early this morning
they were hrought in by an American
PatroL All had been punctured by !
?hots from the American trenches.
r8*' tn's evening the projectors were j
taken to headquarters. They were :
?trapped to the backs of the men v/ho ;
Brought them from No Man's Land, and
potion pictures were taken. They are '
J'a typ? long familiar on the Western :
iront.
Enemy snipers have been exception- ?
?l'y busy in the last twenty-four hours ;
P a certain point, with more or less :
?Mees?. Various parts of the Ameri- '
?? sector were bombarded, without
?ffer-.Rg great damage. Many valuable
P'ntg in the German portions were
wmbarded with success by the Ameri- .
g? artillery. A gap in the wire
!Cj?a?h which the Germans apparently
?ought patrols were emerging was j
covered with hursts of machine gun fire !
?"night long and even to-day.
An enemy observation balloon ?h the .
?ar of Montseo caught fire this morn- j
??? and was hauled down. There was !
gWt aetivity in the air all day. fol- ;
SS*, r'ombing expeditions of last ;
BPt, during which the Germans threw !
ij?T?M**r t'^wns behind the American
?MM bomb?, aerial torpedoes and heavy :
PU?. They set the fuses and dropped
PS? from ?heir airplanes, but the only
^"'i*?* to dig large holes in the
?round.
I- S. Gun? Active in New Sector
American anti-aircraft guns drove off '
?fci-u enerny machines of the army <
EJ2 ?f'K? the Jin?? to-day. One :
?-ray airpUne was driven down out of
?Tlm. behind the German line after
kthPf1 b*.wla which thrilled the men
.here wa?, comparatively lively artil
?7 rinn* last night and to-day on the
g? Metion of the Lorraine front,
tr?ir" *n"!f'can troops are now in
fLgi'"^ '-!tt* this evening the enemy
s? ??iu Am?"r!ean positions heavily,
??.?" ? * **rU,r> ?* on the front north
)P* ?' Tou!, the American artille/y ?s
its ?^ m *ff'et,v*"?*i and accuracy.
HA,'1t.ar*! registering well on points
3??s?*.JflVn*m}r lir'*?' "?f'-oiftlly on
?H. ' batteries ??d working, par?
lai u**/>f * ?*w. Iwt probably tern*
Zr'i' ?m H is not permitted to dis
tW??*,,efen c*??*H?es, no matter
""* ??7 occur.
Features Within
Part III, page one?
Killing Zeppelins in their stables. A feature of HiVaire
Belloc's military article this week.
Part III, page five?
It is a clean American Army that fights in France
for a clean peace.
Part III, page four?
Nothing Now as Usual, by William G. McAdoo.
Editorial page?
The Rattle ?f the Snake.
Part IV, page one?
A vacation between wars. That is what peace now
would mean, says George Bernard Shaw.
Part IV, page eight?
Stone Ships. A study of the wonderful possibilities of
pouring a merchant marine into a concrete mould.
Part III, page six?
Hear Samuel Gompers! Never was there so much
democracy in everyday life; therefore, never was life
so good.
Casualty List
Rule Caused by
French Warning
Addresses and Dates Valu?
able to Foe, Pershing
Reported
WASHINGTON, March 9.?The War
Department's order deleting the ad- !
dresses of next of kin and dates from
the casualty lists given out here was
officially explained to-day as having re
suited from representations of the I
French government to General Per- ?
shing that the casualties as published !
in this country made accessible to the
enemy valuable information.
At the s'ame time the order of the de- j
partment was brought up by Senator j
New, of Indiana, who introduced a reso?
lution requesting the department to in?
form the Senate why the order had
been issued if such information would
not be "inconsistent with the interests
of the service."
Senator New asked immediate adop?
tion of the resolution, but Senator
Williams, of Mississippi, Democrat, ob?
jected, and the resolution went over
until Monday without debate.
French Warned of Results
In explaining the reasons for the or?
der Major General Peyton C. March,
acting chief of staff, made public a
paraphrase of the cable message re?
ceived from General Pershing recom- I
mending the change. General Pershing j
said the French government had di- j
rected attention to the unquestioned I
valuable information which the Gcr- j
mans could obtain from statements
giving the exact number of casualties
resulting after a raid, and from official j
statistics in the form of casualty lists ;
which gave the precise effects of a gas j
attack.
It cou?d not be learned whether Gen
eral Pershing specifically designated i
the features to be deleted, or left this j
to the decision of the department. Nor!
was there any explanation of a state
ment in an Associated Press dispatch
to-day from American headquarters ;
that the rule forbidding discussing of \
casualties among the American forces !
was "temporary." Whether this re- '
ferred to a prohibition imposed by i
General Pershing on correspondents in |
France or to the department's new or- j
der was not made clear. \
General March explained that the !
French government has never issued a
casualty list of any kind since the be- |
ginning of the war. The War Office I
in Paris, as soon as a name is received,
notifies the Mayor of the town from
which the soldier came, and the Mayor
personally notifies the soldier's family
or next of kin.
British Plan the Model
The British government, according to |
the chief of staff, issues weekly lists
which contain only the information i
now given out in Washington, while
the German government long ago dis- j
continued the practice of posting in j
towns the names of the killed or;
wounded from those towns.
It is the intention of the department
to give out the lists as soon as they j
are received from abroad, it was ex
plained. Until further notice one listj
a day will be published by the adju-l
tant general's office, mimeographed |
copies being provided for newspaper
correspondents. After explaining the
department's action, General March to?
day expressed the opinion that "the
patriotic press" would sustain the rul?
ing.
Adjutant General McCain to-night
reiterated his statement that there was
no cause for anxiety among the rela?
tives of soldiers in France and that
all relatives of men killed, wounded or
dying from any cause would be notified
immediately.
?-? " ?
Sinn F?in Forbidden
To Celebrate Revolt
Dublin Military Authorities Pro?
hibit Demonstrations During
Anniversary
DUBLIN, Friday, March 8-?The mili?
tary authorities have posted through?
out the city a proclamation prohibiting
the holding of meetings and proces?
sion? between March 16 and March 27.
Plarmid Lynch, Sinn Fein "Food Con?
troller," was arrested Thursday in con?
nection with the recent commandeering
of pigs in Ireland.
The prescribed period would include
the anniversary Jays of the abortive
Iriah Rebellion of 1018..
Mayor Inducts His
Sister-in-Law Into
$2,100 Police Job
Miss Alma O'Hara Is Ap?
pointed Executive Clerk
of Department
Miss Alma O'Hara, whose sister
Marian is the wife of Mayor Hylan and
whose brother Irving is the policeman
bodyguard of Mayor Hylan, was ap?
pointed executive clerk of the Police
Department, at $2,100 a year, yester?
day?not by the Police Commissioner,
but by Mayor Hylan.
Great secrecy was thrown about the
appointment, not even Police Commis?
sioner Enright being taken into the
confidence of the Mayor and his family.
Here's the manner in which the news
became public:
Grover Whalen, the Mayor's secre?
tary, appeared at Mr. Enright's office,
accompanied by Deputy Commissioner
Ellen O'Grady and a woman whose iden?
tity was not revealed. They were
ushered immediately into the office
ahead of the newspaper men who had
been waiting some time. After fifteen
minutes the trio reappeared and left
the building.
"Another woman in the Police De?
partment?" was the first question asked
by the reporters when they were ad?
mitted to Mr. Enright's office.
Mrs. O'Grady Didn't Know Her
When the Commissioner replied, "Oh,
no; she's just a friend of Mrs.
O'Grady," the scene of the questioning
shifted to the office of the Deputy Com?
missioner.
"Friend of mine Oh, no!" Mrs.
O'Grady said. "I never saw her be?
fore in my life until Mr. Whalen
brought her in here and introduced her
as the new executive clerk of the de?
partment. I understand her name is
O'Hara."
Knowledge that O'Hara was the
name of Mayor Hylan's wife and also
of the detective-sergeant who has been
assigned as his bodyguard caused the
scene to shift again?this time to City
Hall. Detective Sergeant O'Hara ad?
mitted that his sister had received the
appointment and wanted to know,
"What difference does it make if she ,
is an O'Hara, huh?" The reporters
didn't argue the point i.nd pressed on
to the office of -Mr. Whalen.
"Miss Alma O'Hara has been ap- ;
pointed executive clerk of the Police
Department," Mr. Whalen said, and
added, in answer to the all-absorbing
question: "Yes, she is a sister-in-law^
of Mayor Hylan."
Back to Headquarters scurried the
men charged with furnishing the pub?
lic with police news.
Enright's Smile Missing
"Miss Alma O'Hara has been ap?
pointed executive clerk of the Police
Department," was Commissioner En?
right's greeting. But the usual smile
was missing and there was no evidence
of great pleasure at having another
member of the Mayor's family saddled j
on his department as, in reply to a
question, he said:
"How do I know if she is a relative
of the Mayor's? I never asked O'Hara I
or the Mayor." '
Later, in announcing that Miss j
O'Hara lived at 98 Howard Avenue,!
Brooklyn, Commissioner Enright said j
that, while Miss O'Hara had been ap- j
pointed as executive clerk, she will not
perform the duties of that office. She
will be assigned to work with Deputy j
Commissioner O'Grady and the four
women detectives in the Social Wel?
fare Squad. Frederick A. Hackett, who
served as executive clerk, was pro?
moted a day or two ago to the positior. I
of secretary of the department. j
It also developed yesterday that Mrs. |
Donald Grant, the wife of a retired
inspector who draws an annual pension
of $1,750, has been working as a stenog?
rapher at Headquarters for several
weeks. No announcement of her ap?
pointment has been made. Inspector |
Grant, when he retired, was president
of the Inspectors' and Captains' Benev?
olent Association.
?-?-?
Paris Again Bombed
By German Fliers
Some Loss of Life and Prop?
erty, Early Reports
Show
PARIS, March 9. -German aviators
raided Paris last night. Early reports
show that bombs were dropped with
tome loss of life and property.
Signals that all was clear were given
at 12 : BO. a. m.
WIIITK SULPHUR 8PKIN??H, W. V?,
Thfl Oreenbrler. European plan. Wondarful
curative waiero. N. V. Office, TIio I'la/.u
?-A<Jvt.
Dernburg Got
Relief Fund
Raised Here
German-American Alliance
Turned Over $800,000
to Him
Entry of U. S. Into
War Stopped Work
Officials Admit Activity of
Organization in Oppos?
ing Prohibition
WASHINGTON, March 9.?More than
$800,000 collected by the National Ger?
man-American Alljance for the relief of
! war sufferers in Germany before the
United States entered the war reached
the hands of Dr. Bernhard Dernburg,
chief German propagandist in this
country at the time, according to evi?
dence to-day before a Senate committee
holding a hearing on a bill by Senator
King, of Utah, to revoke the alliance's
charter.
J. Tjarks, of Baltimore, treasurer of
the alliance, told the committee he
turned the money over to Count von
Bernstorff, former German Ambassador
to the United States, and produced
checks covering a greater portion of
the vast fund which had been indorsed
over to Dr. Dernburg by von Bernstorff.
Dr. Dernburg came to the United
States soon after the war began, in
1914, and came prominently into public
notice by his defence of the uinking of
the Lusitania. He travelled extensive?
ly, lecturing and writing, and his activ?
ity finally became the subject of an in?
vestigation by Department of Justice
agents.
Not Sure Where Money Went
The result of that inquiry never was
announced, though its purpose was
known to have been to determine
whether Dernburg was connected with
German sabotage in this country. Soon
afterward he acted on a hint of the
American government that his presence
here was no longer desired and re?
quested the State Department to ob?
tain a safe conduct for him. Great
Britain at first declined to agree to
his return to Germany, but finally ac?
quiesced.
When asked to-day by Senator Wal
cott, of Delaware, whether any of the
money which Dernburg received was
used for propaganda work, Tjark.s said
he did not know, and added that if it
was so used it was misapplied. He
justified the action of von Bernstorff
in delivering the money to Dernburg
on the ground that the latter was "re?
garded as the representative of the
German Red Cross."
Some of the money, the witness said,
reached Germany, as was evidenced by
acknowledgment received by the donoi'3
from widows in that country. Some
of it also was used for war relief in
Turkey, the witness said, but those
checks were not turned over to Dern?
burg.
After the United States entered the
war, Tjarks said, he sent notices to
the members of the alliance to cease
Continued on Last Page
Victor Berger
Is Indicted as
Foe of America
Ex-Congressrnan From Wis?
consin Accused of Twenty
six Disloyal Acts
CHICAGO, March 9.?Victor L. Ber?
ger, former Representative from Wis?
consin; Adolph Germer, national sec?
retary of the Socialist party; Irwin St.
John Tucker, a Chicago Socialist; J.
Louis Engdahl and William F. Kruse
were indicted by the Federal grand
jury here to-day, charged with ob?
structing recruiting, encouraging dis?
loyalty and interfering with the prose?
cution of the war.
The indictments, returned February
2, but withheld by District Attorney
Clyne, charge twenty-six overt acts.
?It is charged that those indicted con
| spired to violate the espionage act by
j speeches and articles printed in certain
| publications.
Engdahl, -who edited "The American
! Socialist" before it was denied mail
i privileges, last September, now pub
j lishes "The Eye Opener," a Chicago
I Socialist paper. In a statement to?
night hje declared' "every word in 'The
j American Socialist' was put there to
; promote the best interests of the great
! mass of people," and that if "that is
j unlawful then freedom of thinking in
| the United States is dead."
Kruse is editor of the "Young Peo
I pie's Socialist Magazine," also pub
' lished here.
Wants Immediate Armistice
Mr. Berger, who is candidate for
i nomination for United States Senator
! from Wisconsin on the Socialist ticket,
i in announcing his platform this week,
1 said if elected he would work for the
! passage of a resolution by Congress
? directing the President to summon the
j warring countries to an immediate
j armistice and peace conference. His
] platform also calls for withdrawal of
! American troops from Europe to pro?
cure absolute "security for this coun
! try." The Wisconsin Senatorial elec
I tion will be held April 2.
Seymour Stedman, counsel for the
; National Socialist party, issued a state
! ment to-night in which he expressed
; the view that "war profiteers and
; monster capitalists are the most in?
terested in this prosecution."
"The books, papers and documents of
our national office have always been
! open to party members and public offi
' cials," said the statement.
"For six months the Federal authori.
| ties have been watching to find some
, thing of a criminal nature to be used
? against officials of the party.
"Socialists are the one class of citi?
zens who believe in a lawful, orderly
change through education and politic:?!
; action. They are presumptious enough
j'to believe that the policy of the gov
! ernment. in war and out, the attitude
! of the President, in war and out, are
? subject to criticism.
"Socialists the world over have op
! posed war, and the system that makes
war inevitable. We do not consider
: opposition to a condition or policy as
? equivalent to breaking or violating the
i laws of the country."
Relative to suppression of the indict?
ments, Mr. Clyne said, "the govern
' ment felt that the announcement should
' be made at this time to develop o'ther
', angles of the case."
Trotzky Quits; Revolt Againist
L?nine Grows; Loyal Russians
May Join Japanese in Siberia
Army of Slavs Will
Take Part if Tokio
Decides on In?
tervention
Decision Hinges
On U. S. Attitude
Japan Considers if the
Proposed Move
Would Alienate
Washington
[Staff Correspondence]
WASHINGTON, March 9? A division
of Russian troops may accompany the
Japanese army into Siberia, if the
Entente powers, undeterred by the op?
posite views held by the American gov?
ernment, continue their insistence that
Japan intervene in Russia.
The Russian division would be formed
of Russians loyal to the Allied cause
who have left European Russia on ac?
count of the Bolshevik excesses and
are chiefly in Japan and Northern
Manchuria, there being a large colony
at Harbin.
The participation of Russian forces
with the Japanese army would give the
expedition an appearance of Russian
acquiescence in the invasion, and there
is reason to believe that the organiza?
tion of the divivsion. has passed the
contemplative stage and is now being
undertaken.
The State Department, the Japanese
Embassy and the Russian Embassy
would make no comments to-day on
the question, but in Entente diplo?
matic circles it was learned that the
Allies and Japan are likely to reach
a very early conclusion, their decision
to be based upon one supreme con?
sideration. That is, whether the occu
: pation of Eastern Siberia by a -Jap?
anese army, in contravention of the
declared counsel of America, will have
the result of affecting the attitude of
the United States toward the war.
Analyze U. S. Attitude
Allied dinlomats here are believed
j to be advising their governments that
i opinion in the United States on the
| subject is divided, and that while
? President Wilson was discouraging in
: the reply he dispatched to Japan's in
| quiry, the American government
j stopped short of protesting against the
proposed Japaneso action. This fact
has led them to believe, in the absence
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4
Lvoflf Heads New
Eastern Government j
PETROGRAD, March 9.?The j
"Pravda," organ of the Bolshe
viki, prints a dispatch from Ir?
kutsk, which says:
"The ex-president of the Coun?
cil of Ministers of Revolutionary
Russia, Prince Lvoff, has consti?
tuted in the Far East a new Rus- ;
sian government which at present
has its seat at Peking, and which
is awaiting the landing of Jap- ??
anese troops at Vladivostok, in or?
der to enter Siberian territory
with them.
"Telegraphic communication be?
tween Vladivostok and Irkutsk is
interrupted. The Soviet of Vladi?
vostok is mobilizing its forces for
resistance and is forming a Red
army."
Prussian Quarrel
With Scandinavia
Now Threatening
Denmark and Even Sweden
May Be Victims of
"Full Energy"
[Staff Correspondence]
WASHINGTON, March 9.?Dispatches
from Berne and Amsterdam received
here to-day by Entente diplomatists
say it seems to be the intention of the
German government to establish Ger?
man sovereignty over Scandinavia and
to make the Baltic a German lake. The
Berne telegram follows:
"The Wolff Bureau reports on
March 4 the signing of a treaty be?
tween Finland and Germany. By this
treaty Finland is placed under the ma?
terial, political and moral tutelage of
the German Empire. The German
leaders pretended, on March 4, in the
principal committee of the Reichstag,
j that Germany would go to the aid of
i Finland only in the defence of the lib
I erty of the country threatened by the
i Red Guards, but the German govern?
ment has turned about, or rather has
! revealed its real ambition, which is
i nothing less than to make a German
? lake of the Baltic and establish a Ger
j man sovereignty over the Scandinavian
? states.
"One can conceive of this policy not
being of a natu.re to calm Swedish un?
easiness. It is this which the 'Koel
! nische Zeitung,' in one of its recent is
I sues, expresses. 'It seems,' say this
I paper, 'that an attitude of a part of
the population (Swedish) is showing a
scarcely disguised ill will. While Rus?
sia has ceased to be a danger to Swe?
den, Germany has acquired unprece?
dented power in the Baltic'
"In short, not only Sweden is men?
aced. The German press is showing
singular animosity toward Denmark
because of the Igotz Mendi (German
j sea raider prize) affair, and toward
Norway because of the commercial
I agreement with the United States.
"The 'Hamburger Fremdenblatt,' in
I commenting upon the latter act, asks
I if it would not be well to stop com?
munications and'break off all relations
with Norway. 'The future,' says thi3
paper, 'has in store for us serious
anxieties.'
"The intervention in Finland, the oc?
cupation of the Aland Islands, the at?
titude taken as regards Norway and
Denmark, all seem to belong to the
same pian laboriously worked out, to
establish Germ?n domination over
Scar.dir.avia. Pan-Germanism is de?
veloping and spreading in every direc?
tion."
The cable from Amsterdam shows
that Germany is seeking a quarrel
with Denmark. It says:
"The German press issues a verita
'I blc ultimatum to the Danish govern?
ment, guilty of having interned the
Spanish steamer Igotz Mendi, stranded
off the Danish coast, with a German
prize crew.
"This steamer was a part of the
booty of the raider- Wolf, and con?
tained nearly the whole of the raw
materials seized by the corsair.
"The fact that it was stranded off
the coast of Denmark after a storm
instead of entering Kiel sweeps away
the entire result of the voyage of the
j Wolf.
"Also the decision made by Den
mark in conformity with the Hague
convention, to intern the ship and con?
fiscate her cargo, has put Germany in |
a sf?te of fury. The 'Germania.' organ I
of Count von Hertling ^Imperial Chan- <
cellor) says: 'We shall act with our i
full energy, and if Denmark must suf?
fer the consequences, she will have ;
herself to blame.'
"To those who know the habits of
the Germans, it seems likely that Ger?
many is seeking a quarrel with Den?
mark and even with Sweden."
Four Are Reported
Dead, Several Hurt
In Ohio Cyclonej
FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 9? Four j
persons are believed to have been
killed and several hundred injured in j
a cyclone which swept over Van Wert
County, Ohio, to-night. lt?is reported
here that Continental, Ohio, has been
destroyed by the storm.
LIMA, Ohio, March *9.? Traction offi?
cials to-nieht reported that towns and
cities in several surrounding counties
have been struck by severe windstorms
and that at least two persons have
been killed. A number of residences
and farm buildings have been wrecked.
The roof of a stone crusher near Mid
j dlepoint, Ohio, was blown off and fell
i in the city. It was at Middlepoint
where the casualties occurred.
? ? ?
Study th?> HKI.P WANTED AUS m to?
day's (Sunday) Tribune?you'll Und It a
profitable move, Turn to the Classified
Advertising Columna now:?Advt,
Social Revolutionaries
Form Army; Plan
to Overthrow
L?nine
Germans Advance;
Sink 2 Transports
Don Cossacks to Or?
ganize Coalition Gov?
ernment and Re?
pudiate Peace
LONDON, March %?Loon Trotzky,
] in an address at a meeting of the
I Maximalist party, yesterday announced
? that he had resigned as Commissary
; for Foreign Affkirs, according to a
j Petrograd dispatch dated Friday.
i Dispatches from Petrograd to-day
say that all the local papers confirm
, M. Trotzky's resignation, and that his
I duties will now fall on his deputy,
j M. Tchitcherin.
j On Friday Trotzky's signature ap
I peared beside that of Premier L??
nine on a message sent out by
the Russian government wireless or?
dering the Bolshevik representative in
Sweden to have no dealings with the
"German Socialist Imperialists." The
message, intercepted by the British,
added: "We cannot negotiate with
strike-breakers, such as the partisans
of Scheidemann (the German majority
Socialist leader), who are traitors to
the working classes."
Counter Revolt Planned
Meanwhile the Germans continue
their military operations against Rus?
sia and the Bolshevik government is
I face to face with a new outbreak by the
i Social Revolutionaries, who have de
i cided to organize a national guard to
overthrow Lonihe's r?gime, according
to Dr. Eleff, of Moscow University, who
ir quoted in a Copenhagen dispatch to
j the Exchange TeJ.ejrraph as raying that
the decisioivwas reached at u recent
conference in Moscow. A great army
is now being organized in the Don dis?
trict, supported by Cossacks, the dis?
patch adds, and it is also planned to
introduce a republic in Russia with a
coalition government which would not
accept the German Bolshevik peace.
Professor Eleif asserted that the news
of the new movement had been sup
j pressed by the Petrograd Bolshevik
news agency.
Russian Transports Sunk
The Germans have resumed naval
operations against the Russians. Two
! Russian transports were attacked and
? sunk by German destroyers after a
i fight south of the Aland Islands on
| 1 hursday, according to a Copenhagen
! dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
I Company.
German troops after an engagement
| yesterday dispersed bands north and
: south of J?irzula, on the Shmerinka
j Odessa line, the German War Office
! announced to-day.
The Bolshevik paper "Pravda," ac
; cording to Petrograd dispatches re
| ceiyed here to-day, declares that in
] spite of the conclusion of peace the
| Germans did not suspend hostilities in
i the Gomel-Novo Zybkov sector. They
j advanced here in order to gain stra
I tegic advantages for the consolidation
I of their front.
Moscow New Capital
A decree signed by Premier L?nine
announces the evacuation of the state
institutions at Petrograd. The peo
j pie's commissioners are leaving to-day
I for Moscow, which is to be the new
Russian capital, at le"st temporarily.
i The Commissioner of Education, M.
! Lunacharsky, will remain in Petrograd
i as the representative of the govern
! ment and will be invested with extraor
! dinary powers.
The official organs of the Soviet,
I "Izvestia" and "Pravda,** will appear
; to-morrow for the last time in Peiro
| grad. Both will be published there
j after at Moscow.
Rumama~S?gns
Treaty of Peace
With Bolsheviki
LONDON, March 9.?Conclusion of
peace between Russia and Rumania is
announced in a Russian wireless dis?
patch received here to-day. Rumania
promises to evacuate -11 of Bessara?
bia, including Benderi, on the Dniester
River, forty miles southeast of Kishi?
nev, within two months.
Other provisions of the treaty are:
The evacuated places are to be occu?
pied permanently by Russian troops.
Local authority will be invested it.
local self-governing bodies.
In every town miiitia will be formed
from the inhabitants of that town for
defence of the interests of the popula?
tion.
To Release Prisoners
All Russian prisoners and all those
arrested for political reasons will be
released.
An international commission, with
two Russian and two Rumanian repre?
sentatives, will be created to take up
points of conflict between the coun?
tries.
Rumania will have the right to leave
detachments in Bessarabia for the de?
fence of Rumanian property and in?
habitants residing there.
Commenting on the treaty of the
Central Powers with Rumania, the
Berlin "Tageblatt" recently said that
the Quadruple Alliance had taken the
standpoint that the Bessarabian ques?
tion must be settled between Ruma?
nia and Russia, but that the Alliance
had already intimated that the union
of Bessarabia with Rumania would re?
ceive its approval.
Rumania, the newspaper added, must
herself, therefore, win and hold Bessa