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Vol. LXXVHI
Xo. 26,209
rCopTTl-rht 1918?
The Trlbnnc Am'n'l
MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1918
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Notice
To Tribune Readers I
AndjDthers?
Tfie newsdealers' war on
Hearst papers begins to-day.
Nobody can say for sure what
will happen at first. The Amer?
ican News Company has adopt?
ed, for one day afe least, an
unexpected attitude. It will
pretend that nothing has hap?
pened, and deliver all papers
as usual. But this means that in
addition to all the other papers
it will deliver Hearst papers to
newsdealers who have cancelled
their orders and do not want ?
them and will not pay for them, i
Obviously this is a temporary
line of defence.
The American News Company
buys the morning newspapers!
from the publishers in bulk at
one price and resells them in
parcels to the newsdealers.
When the newsdealers re?
solved to stop selling the Hearst
papers and to begin their war
in Brooklyn Monday morning, j
the other publishers, except those !
of The Tribune, notified the
American News Company that
they were going to stand by
Hearst and instructed it to with- j
hold their papers from all deal
era who refused to handle l
Hearst's. Thereupon the Amer?
ican News Company announced i
on Saturday that other morn- '
ing newspapers would be sold
only to newsdealers who con-j
tinued to handle the Hearst
papers as usual. Nevertheless,
the Brooklyn newsdealers, who.
had agreed to begin the war, ]
sent to the American News |
Company Saturday their can- I
cellation3 on "The New York
American," to take effect Mon- i
day morninrj. I
Then the news company for
some reason changed its mind
and gave out word that all
newsdealers would be served
with all newspapers as usual this
morning and that the cancella?
tions received from anti-Hearst
dealers would be ignored. So,
all through Brooklyn this morn?
ing "New York Americans"
win be "sold" to newsdealers i
who have discontinued to buy !
them. What the newsdealers
will do with them remains to be
seen.
The Tribune is standing with ;
the newsdealers.
The anti-Hearst activities in;
Manhattan to-day will come not
nom the newsdealers but from
the newsboys.
To .Ail Newsdealers?
Any newsdealer who is cut
off from his supply of other ;
"ewipapers for refusing to l
handle Hearst papers can get
Tribunes either at the Main Of?
fice or at points of distribution '
tat will be announced later.
The Tribune Association.
Negro and Whites in
Riot at Camp Merritt
Sackensack, n. j., Aug. is.?a
net between negro troops and a com
WBy of the 50th Infantry, doin?? mili- ,
tir? police duty, is reported to have \
^rred at Camp Merritt last night. :
y*1* negro soldiers are said to have '
?*?>> killed and eight others wounded. |
**?ssdquartera officials admitted that!
* Wt took place, and said that they i
.^ 5?ard that one man had been '
<I;H But further than this they !
??Id not verify any of the stories ]
?'<? ?bout camp to-day. The officials :
'a,<? that a full statement would be '
"rtoesmfng.
T}i* riot it reported to have taken
P'aee ?n Y. M. C. A. Hut No, 1, which
>* m the heart of the camp. The ,
??"?ibl? I? ?aid t0 have started wh?>n
* n*ffro trooper and a white sergeant
l"* into ? fight and the white sergeantI
'?Ornad a cut in the race. There were
**S 2,000 soldiers in the place at the |
*?*? Fearing sortons trouble between
whit? and negro troopers % call
*?? sent for the military police.
A ?"Jjpany of the Fiftieth Infantry
^?Ponded and wat (luelling the din-!
-?'bance, when, it Is ?aidV negro sol
?WH recruited hastily, entered the!
'* ?sa then that the real trouble '
**tsn.
-???liUrjr police received ?as?stanos ?
^Mhs r?9t was put dowo.
Franco-British Score New Advances;
Baig Gains on 4-Mile Flanders Line
Anti-Wealth
Riots Sweep
Over Japan
Mobs Are Stoning Capital?
istic Classes and Destroy?
ing Property
Houses Pillaged at
Big Recreation Resort
200 Stores and Caf?s in
Tokio Damaged; Troops
Are Called Out
(By The Associated Press)
TOKIO, Thursday, Aug. 15.?There
was serious rioting in Tokio last night.
Mobs attacked and damaged property
in the business and theatre districts.
The rioters also entered and pillaged
houses in Aeakusa, the great recreation
resort of the middle and lower classes.
A number if disturbers were wounded
by the swords of the poW:e.
The newspaper comment here seems
to indicate that the food riots through?
out the country are an expression of
growing social unrest among the people
and to reflect the belief that the empire
is advancing toward a social crisis. The
riots are spreading like wildfire, involv?
ing alike the poor and the middle
classes, who feel impelled to protest
against economic conditions.
It is remarked that the uprisings
often are anti-capitalistic in nature,
the mobs attacking and destroying the
property of the wealthy and voicing
anger at evidences of luxury. Geisha
girls have been stoned as they have
driven through the streets in automo?
biles and the houses of the rich have
been assailed.
Low Wages the Cause
While the war has created million?
aires and increased the luxuries of the
rich, it also has increased the misery
of the poor because of insufficient
wages being paid. Factory hands
especially are stirred up by the ring?
leaders of the riots, which are the first
of the kind to occur since Japan was
opened to Western civilization.
Disorders broke out in Tokio on
Tuesday night. A crowd of 5,000, which
was prevented from congregating in
the park, marched to the Ginza, the
great retail thoroughfare of the city,
where they stoned and damaged 200
stores and restaurants, raided rice
depots and unsuccessfully attacked the
Ministry of the Interior. Ninety ar?
rests were made and twenty policemen
were injured.
Tokio last night was occupied by
heavy detachments of police and in?
fantry. The newspapers arc forbidden
to publish news of any kind relative
to the rice riots.
Troops have been CF.llod out in nearly
every important city in Japan. Kven j
the naval station at Mair.uru is affected
by the unrest. Two thousand work- !
men there are rioting in conjunction |
with the populace.
At Nagoya, noted for its manu- ?
factures of porcelains, a mob estimated ?
to aggregate 30,000 persons rioted. At j
peveral places the soldiers fired on the |
disturbers. At Kobe the soldiers and
police also were obliged to use sabres ;
and bayonets ?gainst the. rioters.
Five Hundred Arrested at Saka
The food disturbances are increas- j
ing in violence. At Saka during a ;
demonstration, telephone wires were
cut and several tramways were forced
to suspend service after passengers had j
been wounded. Troops, including cav- j
airy, were called out to suppress the !
rioting, and twenty-five policemen and
many rioters were hurt. Five hundred j
persons were arrested. In outlying j
towns the people attacked the police
with bamboo spears.
The disturbances at Kobe resulted in ;
the burning of a great rice warehouse
and ?cveral factories and houses and a
large number of rice stores.
The seriousness of the situation led ?
to a special meeting of the Cabinet, j
which decided to appropriate $5,000,- j
000 for purchasing store'' of rice l'or j
distribution among the people at a '
moderate nrice. The Emperor, moved !
by the distress, has contributed ,'?,000,
000 yen to the national rice fund. ?
Streetcars are being utilized in Tokio |
by soldiers who distribute rice in dis- J
tricts where suffering is reported.
The press joins in a tribute to the
Emysror for hi? generous contribution i
indicating the spirit of the ruler and |
the wealthier classes, but the news- I
paper? generally blame the government I
for its tardy remedies. The Conserva- ?
tive newspaper "Jiji Shlmpo" especially j
entiche? the government, saying that ?'
as a result of it.i policy Uie nation ttnds
Hae-ii in tue throe? of insurrection.
Foe Forming Gas Units
For 'Service After War'
(By The Ae.sociattd Press)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
. FRANCE. Aug. 19.?A German order
recently found on the battlefield re?
quests the different units to furnish
lists of officers and men who have
shown aptitude in the gas section,
and who "desire to continue in that
service after the war."
The order invites even mutilated
coldiers, whose infirmities do not in?
capacitate them for this work, to send
in their names.
Three Men Taken
In Espionage Raid
Near Aviation Field
Two Houses and Hotel Are
Entered by Government
Agents at Hempstead
HEMPSTEAD, L. I., Aug. IS.?Secret
Service men, backed by military police
detailed from Camp Mills, raided a
hotel anil two private houses overlook?
ing Mitchel Aviation Field early this
morning and arrested three men on
charges of violation of the espionage
act.
Carrier pigeons are said to have beer
observed flying from one of the house?
in the direction of Fire Island, and ii
is suspected the birds may have beer
used to relay messages to F-boat com?
manders, whose seamen readily coulc
reach the shore in a collapsible boat
i In one of the other places visited wai
found, it is said, a German officer':
uniform, and in the third was a rooiT
decorated with a single picture whic!
was draped with the German flag
When the flag was removed a portrai
of the Kaiser was revealed.
The raid was conducted with grea
secrecy and the charges against ; li?
men were shrouded in mystery. Tin
government detectives intimated, how
ever, that the arrests were considere?
of prime importance. It is believe'
that the men were taken to the Ray
mond Street jail, Brooklyn, and wil
be arraigned in that borough to-mor
row before a United States Commis
sioner.
The raid revived rumors, that tw
men had been caught tampering wit
motors of aeroplanes on Mitchel Fieh
Officers in charge of the raid woul
not comment on these rumors or upo
the fact thai some had connected thei
with the arrests.
Earlier rumors said that, followin
the discovery that the enemy was see!,
ing to disable aeroplane motors, a nc
inquiry had been ordered into recen
aeroplane accidents dating back to tli
death here of Captain Resnati, of th
Italian army, early last month.
Shows Kaiser
In 1909 Sowed
WarSeedHere
I Deputy Attorney General
! Becker Gets Proofs From
Former Pro-Germans
Cash From Bazaars
Spent for Kultur
Von Skal and Others Tell
How Bernstorff Got
"Charity" Funds
i
I Revelations obtained from American
?citizens of German birth who admit
; aiding the cause of Germany before
;tho United States entered the war
were made public yesterday by Deputy
I Attorney General Alfred L. Becker.
They disclose that Germany as long
r.^o as 1909 was trying to win this
country to her side in the world war
'she then was planning.
Wearing Liberty bond buttons, the
Allied colors. Red Cross pins and even
service- flags, these naturalized citizens
hare been reporting?by order?to the
, office of iho Attorney General during
i the !ns? few weeks to submit to ex
! animation concerning their part in Ger
? many's efforts to influence public opin?
ion in the United States.
The information obtained from them,
dovetailed with knowledge obtained
from other sources, has established
that Germany began to launch a world?
wide propaganda campaign at least n
year before she declared war on France
rind Russia.
Bernstorff Got I ho Cash
It proves that funds raised in this '
country for the German Red Cross and \
for the rciief of German soldiers']
widows and orphans were turned over ?
to Count von Bernstorff and used by \
him as fuel for the German propaganda j
machine. It also has been established
that the scheme of educating the pub- ;
lie to th" "value" of German kultur as ?
applied in America was similarly ap- \
plied in most of the other nations of .
'.tie earth. It was successful in Turkey. I
Among those who have been exam?
ined and whose admissions were made
public yesterday by Mr. Becker were
(??-?oiire von Skal, Commissioner of Ac- i
- -.- _
Continued on page three I
Our Men Gain
Under Deluge
Of Hun Shells
Push On at Frapelle, in'
Vosges, Under Hail of
2,500 Projectiles
Repulse Enemy Raid; j
Wipe Out Salient
Americans Again Display
Valor; Advance Opens
New Gate to Germany
' ?>U The Associated Prepx)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
LORRAINE, Aug. 18.?The Americans |
early to-day gained more ground on
the scene of yesterday's victory at !
Frapelle, Lorraine, despite a total of j
-,300 shells dropped by the enemy on
the village and a raid by forty-five
Germans, which was repulsed by the
American artillery and automatic rifle \
fire. !
In the Woevre an American patrol .
had a lively engagement. One Ameri?
can, wounded in nine places, heroically
carried a wounded comrade to safety.
The German salient wiped out by the
Americans in the capture of Frapelle ;
yesterday was important because it
commands the outlet from France '
through the Saales pass and the pass I
of St. Marie mix Mines into the Rhine
Valley.
Frapelle is a small village, five miles ;
east of St. Die, which has 20,000 popu- '
lution. Both are in French Lorraine. i
Berlin Admits Withdrawal
Of Vosges Advance Posts ?
BERLIN, Aug. 18.?"In the Vosges
our advanced posts, which had pushed
forward in this region as far as Fra?
pelle, yielded to an enemy local thrust,
in accordance with instructions or the
command," says the German War Of- ?
fice statement issued to-day.
???-?- ? -
Haig Decorated With
French Military Medal
PARIS. Aug. IS. Field Marsha! Sir
Douglas Haig was decorated by Pre?
mier Clemenceau with the French mili?
tary medal at headquarters in the field ;
to-day. The award was made on the
recommendation of Marshal Foch.
ANYBODY KNOW WHERE THE FIRE ESCAPE IS?
Kaiser 'Horrified9 by Allied Air Raids
While Own Men Bomb Open Towns
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 18.?The ,
?^*- Cologne "Gazette" prints a |
telegram sent by the direction of j
the Emperor to the Burgomaster
of Frankfort, stating that the
Emperor "deeply sympathizes in
the misfortune which has befallen
the open town of Frankfort as the
result of an enemy attack which
was contrary to international law
and claimed many victims."
The telegram requests that the
Burgomaster convey to the vie-,
tims' relatives the "sympathy of
the All-Highest.',
T>ARIS. Aug. 18.--German bomb
ing squadrons have been
very active in bombarding towns
behind the front during the last
two days. There were numerous
raids on Rouen, where six persons
were killed and five wounded. The
German Gothas flew as far as
Havre, where no one was killed
and no damage done. Two con?
secutive raids on Vernon caused
only material damage.
Several warnings were given at
Dunkirk and Calais during the
period.
Troops Desert Boche Squirt
Bolsheviki as Liquid Flame
Allies Advance On Prisoners
First American Contingent
Reaches Vladivostok;
Cheered Heartily
i H'j The Associated Ptea?)
TOKIO. Aug. M. - Czechoslovak
forces from the maritime province of
Siberia left for Harbin on August 8
over the Chinese Eastern Railway, it is
officially announced.
Along the l'?suri front, where the en?
emy forces number 100.000, quiet pre?
vails, Lt is said. The Bolsheviki and
Austro-Germans are visibly affected
by the arrival of Allied troops, and the
number of desertions from their ranks
is increasing, it is reported.
VLADIVOSTOK, Aug. 15.?The tram
port carrying the first contingent, of
American troops arrived here this af?
ternoon, after an uneventful voyage of
seven and a half days from Manila.
The men were in excellent spirits, and
crowded the rails and ringing, cheering
and being cheered by the men of the
Allied warships in the harbor.
The crowds on the waterfront, ap?
peared amazed at, the noisy entry of
the Americans, as contrasted witii that
of their less demonstrative allies.
Groups of Czechs about the docks were
vociferous in their welcome of the
Americans, who will bo kept aboard
ship in port until the arrival of other
transports, due to-morrow.
The transport bearing the first con?
tingent of Americans lay fojbound out?
side the harbor for live hours before
being able to enter the port.
A lapanese contingent arrived to-day
at Nikolskoye on its way to the Ussuri
River front.
General Diederichs, commander of the
Cr.echo-Slovak forces in Siberia, has
presented a memorandum to the Allied
representative:; here setting forth the
urgent need of speedy assistance on a
large scale and that an advance on
Irkutsk should he ordered. He points
out that if the Allied forces do no:
reach Irkutsk within six weeks the de?
lay will be tantamount to the loss of
all Western Siberia by the Czecho?
slovaks
Irkutsk .s reported hold by Czecho?
slovak forces, but long sections of the
railway te the east arc in Bolshevik
hands.
French Army Mission,
Arrested by Soviets,
Is Reported Freed
PARIS, Aug. 13.- General Lavergne
and the staff of the French military
mission at Moscow, who were placed
under arrest there at the lime the Al?
lied consuls were taken into custody
by the Bolsheviki. have been set a1
liberty, according to a Copenhagen dis?
patch to the "Temps."
Prince Rupprecht
Takes a "Vacation"
AMSTERDAM. Aug. 18.?The
Munich correspondent of
the Berlin "Tageblatt" announces
the arrival in Munich from the
front of Crown Prince Rupprecht
of Bavaria. The prince, the an?
nouncement states, is enjoying a
brief vacation.
In a recent announcement from
Paris it was stated that General
Hans von Boehn, the German "re?
treat specialist," had been ap?
pointed to supreme German com?
mand on the Somme front. The
German withdrawal north of Al?
bert was looked upon in Paris as
the first move by General von
Bochn in the application <-?r his re?
treat tactic?
Atrocities by Germans Are
Described in Testimony
of British Soldiers
LONDON, Aug. IS. Details have
been officially published for the first
time of groas outrages on British pris?
oners and wounded men committed by
the Germans last March. Affidavits of
Scotch soldiers testify to the authen?
ticity of the chaiges.
A private of the Royal High?
landers tells how he and a number of
comrades, consisting of one officer and
fifteen men, ten of whom were wound?
ed, were compelled to surrender near
Monchy March 28. They were lined up
in the original front line trench, and
after some time a Cern?an officer and
two men appeared. One of the men,
under orders of the officer, turned a
stream of liquid fire straight down the
trench in which the Britishers were
standing, and, notwithstanding the fact
that they were unarmed, continued to
spray them for six or seven minutes
The private testified that he and a few
of his companions who were able tc
move scrambled down a communication
trench and got over the top and bael
into the British lines.
.Men Burned in Trench
Another private testified that he ant
other prisoners were marched down t
trench to an emplacement about 6 feei
deep, 9 feet wide and from 9 to 12 feet
ion^r. and, while tightly packed in tht
inclosure, two Germans, one of v.'ho'rr
carried a revolver and seemed to be ar
officer, appeared. The other man hac
a cylinder on his back, and attached t(
it was a flexible pipo.
"Just as he reached the entrance t(
the inclosure." said the soldier, refer?
ring to the man with the cylinder oi
his back, "a flame spurted out in :
stream from the pipe, and caught th?
men who were nearest to the entrance
The other men lay in heap? around am
partly on me. I heard a hissing souik
for a short time. Then it stopped, bu
started again. During this time tin
men were shrieking and writhing. Th<
flame reached right back to where
-.vas. Mj overcoat and tunic caught lire
By this time all the men were on tin
ground."
The soldier added that h* managei
to crawl up the slope and get away.
Two Germans Use Fire
Another soldier related how an of
ficer, wounded in the head and foot
and four other wounded and three un
wounded men, including himself, wen
in an old trench, when two German
appeared and used liquid fire. One o
the Germans, revolver in hand, ordere*
the Britishers to get back to the Ger
man line. The narrator said his hand
and right ear were burned. Three o
the party managed to escape and reac
the British lines, but the German
either must have suffocated or burne
all the five wounded men. as nothin
further had been heard from them.
The British government has protest
ed to the German government fgains
these outrages.
Lithuanians Oppose
German-Named K.in<;
Threaten Revolt if Ruler Unac
ceptable to Them Is
Appointed
LONDON, Au(r. 18 The Lithuanian
demand the right to name their ow
King and refuse to recognize one o
German appointment, according to a
Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchanf
Telegraph Company. The dispatch add
that General I.udendorrT. fifrst quarter
muster general of the German army, i
in receipt of a solemn protest from th
Lithuanian Diet against any attempt t
name a Kir.?; unacceptable to the peopi
of Lithuania, who threaten to revolt i
case such action is taken.
English Take
Town, Push
Ahead 1,000
To 2,000 Yds.
Poilus Capture 400 of
Foe and Drive For?
ward South of
the Avre
Our Men Advance
In Vosges Sectoi
Italians Repulse Ne\*
Austrian Attack on
Piave With Heavy
Losses
August 19, ?:So A. M.
The British yesterday captured th
village of Outtersteen, bctwee
Vieux Berquin and Bailleul, i
Flanders, and advanced their lir
on a four-mile front to a depth <
1,000 to 2,000 yards. Field Ma
shal Haig announced last nigh
Four hundred prisoners we
taken.
The scene of the action was on tl
northwestern edge of the Gernii
salient in th? Lys Valley, fro
which Ludendorft" gradually h
been withdrawing his mon, h
the number of prisoners tak
shows this action was not a nt
voluntary retirement.
On the Picardy front the Fren
took -100 prisoners in actions y<
terday south of the Avre Riv
where the Allies are battling th<
way toward Roye and Lassign;
The Britis'n also advanced betwc
Chilly and Fransart, to the noi
of Roye. They likewise impro\
their positions south of ?uequ
between Albert and Arras, wh
the enemy has been giving up
advanced posts and putting h
self in a posture of defence.
The Americans in Lorraine, foil*
ing their capture of Frapelle, e
of St. Die, on Saturday, ad van
airain yesterday, despite a he;
artillery fire and beat off a r
attempted by the Germans. T
now command one of the east
gateways through the Vosges
Germany.
In Italy the Austrians attempted
recapture the ?-let in th ? PI
southwest of Grave <ii Papado]
which they lost recently. D3
troops neat them bach, inflicl
heavy losses and tailing si
prisoners.
Prisoners say reinforcements
the Picardy front are now o1
brought up guarded by cavalr;
prevent desertion. The state
th? Germans also may be juci
from the fact disclosed yester
that the French victories in
last battle were won with "sec
divisions which are suppos?e
be inferior to the shock divis
organized and drilled e-peo;
for attack. These presum
second-rate troops showed c
superiority over the command
von der Marwitz and von Hu
Second-Grade Men
Won Brilliant Fren*
Victories on the At
11, : The .-'. - at* I Presa >
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY
FRANCE, Aug. 18. The virtorie
the French armies on '.he Avre ai
Thiescourt were won by some o
less renowned division?. which g
ally are known as "sector dtvipi
meaning divisions charged w:th
inir p-irts of the line, while the du
attacking the enemy is assigne
units that have earned the title "i
troop*."
These divisions, without b gle
pa?t to inspire them and without
forcements to strengthen them
tacked the Germans with an ardot
shows thr- fine spirit displayed b;
shock troops pervades the enGre i
and tha' while ?cm* divisions are
renowned than other.?, all ore w
the srea'. ?ar?k ??fore them. The:
called "sector divisions" h*v? ot