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VOL. LXXXV. NO. 17.
NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1917. Copyright, HIT, ty the Bun Printing and Pulltthing AetociaUon,
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WAR CUTS ROLL
OF COLLEGES 10
TO 50 PERCENT.
Thousands of American
Students Sacrificing De
grees to Defend U. S.
FRATERNITIES HARD HIT
Professional nnd Trade Schools
Send Big Quotas Into
Army and Navy.
America's college population, student!
from football field and fraternity, from
laboratory and library are answering
the war call with unequalled patriotism.
Information from officials of colleges
and universities of the East and middle
West Indicates the enrolment figures Mils
fall will be from 10 to 50 per cent, lower
than those of last fall. This means that
thousands of college youths men, as
they always are called on the campus
In each of the country's Institutions of
learning are sacrificing degrees for the
war cause.
In most Instances heaviest losses are
felt In the upper classes, the junior and
senior classes. Those who enter col
lege nowadays as freshmen almost with
out exception are too young for service.
Most second year men also are under the
age limit; 'still, most sophomore classes
this fall will be considerably Btnaller
than normal.
Enrolment figures In; most cases,
show big Increases in women students.
In some Instances, as In one or two de
partments at the Columbia summer
school just ended, the number of coeds,
extra and unexpected, more than made
up for the great loss In men students.
Despite this the summer school enrol
ment was 200 under what If would have
been without the war. When Cornell
opens September 28 the number of
women students. It is believed, will be
larger than ever before.
Athletlas an Reduced "rate.
Reports Indicate that athletics will be
continued In most of the colleges and
universities. 'though on a reduced -scale.
Previously It had been given out that
sports, especially football, would be dis
continued on account of the war. but
cognizance has been taken of requests
from Washington that these sports go
forward uninterruptedly as much as
possible, on the theory they will con
tribute to the nation's manhood. Mili
tary training, though, will be substi
tuted for- more Intensive football and
basketball practice it Is believed.
The reduction In students necessarily
nilt handicap fra is Brittle and other
societies. Many of them depend largely
upon support of upper class men, and
It is from these ranks the greatest
exodus from colleges la taking place.
An official at Columbia University, him
self a fraternity man, says Columbia
fraternities especially will be hard hit.
For one thing, a greats many members
have enlisted In the army and navy, or
have been selected In the draft or gone
abroad with the Red Cross. Fraternity
houses at Mornlngside pay exceedingly
high rents, and unless the societies are
well supported by their members, or
break a rule which many of them have
by taking In freshmen, their treasurers
may find themselves in distress. The
official at Columbia believes, however,
that alumni members of these societies
will come to their aid and that few of
the forty houses will be forced to close
for the winter. Reports from some of
the colleges nay the fraternities either
will have to rent out their rooms to non
members, a practice which never before
has been tolerated, or give up their
houses temporarily.
Professional and trade schools are
more generally affected by the war than
the colleges. Such students are more
mature of age and have learning which
li of value in a military way. Engineers,
for Instance, and medical students are
greatly in demand at this time. In
tome instances Instructors themselves
arc enlisting In such numbers that their
departments are forced to suspend.
Many Unlisted In Sew RngUnd.
New Kngland appears to be most serl
eusly affected of any part of the coun
try, arcorillnK to reports from Boston.
Here university prospects for 1917-1S1S
are extremely pessimistic. It Is feared
the average enrolment wULCrop In pro
portions ranging from 20 per. cent, at
Harvard to 5ft per pent at the Unl
ersity of Maine. Other institutions will
lose varying proportions of their upper
class men, and nowhere in this part of
the country Is there the sllghest op
timism In regard to entering classes.
In .Maine the State University has
raised its tuition rates and many of tho
Instructors hava been dismissed. De
creases even in freshman classes at
Hrown, Dartmouth and the western
Massachusetts institutions are bln;
looked forward to by college officials.
At some of the colleges, where under
Krailu.it e life is centred around fraternity
fcoun-s, as at Amherst, Williams and
Partmouth. the leaders of the principal
fo'letles are almost panicky about
economies and the vacancies brought
about by the war. Many of th' frats. It
Is said, with national reputations already
have made plans for tetrenchment.
I-av-t ear the infantile paralysis epi
demic caused a delay In opening New
Kngland ItiKtltutlons of learning. This
fall three of the Maine colleges Bates,
Colh and tho University of Maine will
potpone opening until October 11, a
month later than usual. The war la
largely responsible for this, and one of
the leading contributing reasons Is the
large number of students engaged in
emergency work on the Aroostook potato
farms.
Undergraduate publications will In
many rates be suspended. One of these,
the Harvard Illustrated, already has an
nounced such Intentions, while the Har
vard Crimson's publishers Bay that if It
does not suspend at least' it will reduce
its size. Publishers of tho Lampoon, how
ever, believe they can continue this hu
morous magazine as usual. The Vale
.Vrirs and the Brown Herald will oe
lessened In size.
SITUATION AT BROWN.
I'rrobiiinn (leases .Normal, bat
Upper Classra Itrriared.
Sp'tial lleipatrh to Tus Sex.
Providence, R. i Sept. 16. The new
colli ei. j;4r t Brown I'nlverslty will
open September 26 and plans are being
niiHic tn ineit changed conditions and
lii'iiilcnn brought about by the entrance
of the United States Into tho war.
According to Registrar Frederick T.
Continued on Bitth Pag,
SAYS FRANCE WILL
INSIST ON VICTORY
Henri Bouillon, Telle Slovmke
No Other Peace It PoitibU.
Henri .Franklin Bouillon, Minister of
Missions Abroad In the neit French
Cabinet, asserted yesterday afternoon
that France would make no peace save
one that was founded on victory. The
member of the French Ministry and
Mayor Mltchel spoke at Carnegie Hall
yesterday afternoon before the Bohe
mian National Alliance and the Slavic
League. Telegrams were sent from the
meeting to President Wilson and to
President Polncare pledging allegiance
to tho firsthand saluting the second In
recognition of the heroic, defence made
by the people of France of -all people,
especially of Belgium.
"A victorious peace Is the only peace
that France ever will -make," said M.
Bouillon, commenting upon the peace
propaganda, that is being conducted In
this country. "Some of the paplflsts
wish to stop bloodshed; others are Im
pelled by the German propaganda. The
war 'cannot stop until' we restore Justice
and liberty upon the ruins of Prussian
militarism. We prefer even death to
the conditions that Germany would im
pose if she won. We shall give every
thing tha't the world may be cleansed;
that the power of brute force may be de
stroyed." TORPfcDO FAILS
TOHITU.S. LINER
Biff Ship, Here With 100 Pas
sengers, Received Warn
ing of German Raider.
A dramatic tale of how a big Ameri
can liner which reached an Atlantic port
yesterday barely escaped joining the Lu
sltanla and numerous other vessels that
owe their destruction to German torpe
does was told by passengers who,seemed
glad to place their feet once more on
solid earth.
These .same passengers there were
100 on board asserted the ship received
wireless warnings of the enemy subma
rine oft Mantucket andi altered her
course accordingly. On this point, how
ever, the steamship's officers refused to
comment.
This was, the only word received of
the U-boat which was reported to have
shelled an unidentified British vessel
Friday morning sixty-five miles south
east of Nantucket lightship. In shipping-
circles it is believed this Is the sub
marine concerning; which wireless warnings-
were sent out from Cape Race,
Newfoundland, on September IS, and
that she Reflected her course to try her
hick In more southerly waters. Scout
ships are still carefully patrolling the
coast from Maine to the Vlrjlnla Capes.
It was a woman who best told the
story of the liner's adventure. At ex
actly 11:18 A. M. on the second day out
from a European port a sailor stationed
on watch near the stern gun sprang
from his position and shouted : "Torpedo
coming!" Simultaneously another mem
ber of the gun crew, who was standing
In a lifeboat, repeated the warning.
Gunners rushed to position, whirled
their gun In the direction of the oncom
ing torpedo and tired one shot, which fell
harmlessly In the water some distance
away there was no plain target. Then,
as the steamer swerved, the torpedo,
now almost under the stern, was seen
to disappear twenty yards from the ship.
When the attack occurred a majority
of the passengers were on deck. An
alarm was sounded, but there was little
confusion.
William Snell, a negro survivor of the
crew of the Belgian steamship Belgian
Prince, which was sunk by a submarine
July 31 with a loss of thirty-eight lives,
was on board. He confirmed the cable
reports that he and others of the crew
were ordered on the deck of the U-boat,
their lifeboats destroyed and their cork
jackets taken away, after which the sub
marine submerged, leaving them to
drown. He escaped because he man
aged to hide his Jlfe belt under his coat
Also on board were Capt. Charles Da
vis and four members of the crew of the
American schooner Laura C. Anderson,
which was sunk with bombs August 29.
after being stripped of Its stores, by the
crew of a German U-boat.
Mr, and Mrs. Ralph C. Norton of Chi
cago, who for the past three years have
been engaged In relief work among Bel
gian refugees and also "among the sol
diers and their families, returned to the
United States to solicit further aid for
the war victims.
ERROR IN WIRELESS?
"Tjr Department Believes Haider
Story Is Hoax.
Special netpatch lo Tnr. Sti.
Washington, Sept. 1. There may
be or not a U-boat skulking along the
Atlantic coast as far as It Is possible to
learn from the Navy Department And
there may have been or not an attack
upon a merchant vessel sixty-five miles
off Nantucket last Friday morning.
Officials of the Navy Department, as
serting that they have no Information
corroborative of the stories brought to
New York by a British steamship ana
an American tanker, incline to the belief
that the sensational report either was
the result of a hoax or erroneous read
ing of wireless signals.
The .Slaaconsett wireless station at
about the time that the two merchant
' steamships report picking up the second
"distress" call, heard from a British
merchant vessel reporting her position,
which, the Navy Department says, was
In about the spot where the submarine
attack Is supposed to have been made.
It is suggested by naval officials that
her wireless might have been mistaken
for an S O S. How this error In read
ing might have occurred Is not ex
plained. TWO KILLED IN FEUD.
West Virginia. Farmers Accasrd of
Snooting Four fax Hanters.
Fairmont, W. Va.. Sept. 18. As a
result of a feud said to have existed
for some time between farmers and fox
hunters In the vicinity of Rlvesvllle snd
Lowesvllie, near here, Harvey Hayhurst
and Albert Thorn are dead and Charles
Musgrove and James Hayhurst are suf
fering from gunshot wounds. The four
men were shot early to-day while seated
around a campflre. The shots were
fired from close range.
Three brothers, John, William and
-v. .vlu If,iHr nrnmlnent farnMr, nf
'Lowesvllie, have been arrested and
! charged with the shooting. It Is said
' i. . n .i .Vim farm nf Ih. Vvmm
brothers were burned recently and it Is
believed by the authorities that the
shooting was an act of retaliation,
ARGENTINA PUTS
BAN ON WIRELESS
FROM GERMANY
Government Withdraws Its
Pel-mission for Receipt of
Messages From Xauen.
LEAKS FROM U. S. TO END
Overseas News Agency Was
Obtaining Despatches From
South America.
Bur.vos Atres. Sept. 16. The Gov-
ernment has withdrawn permission
granted to a German wireless company
in aiiempi to receive wireless niessig-es
from the German station at Nauen.
-Foreign Minister Puevrredon Informed
the Associated Press to-day he la satis-
fled that the expulsion of Count Lux-
uurs. me uerman minister to Argentina,
has not closed the Incident growing out
of the telegrams the Minister sent to
Berlin through the Swedish Legation
here. The Minister said he would not
grant the request of the Senate to ex
DlaLn the tttisilnn . . .
- - - - . " . . . OHI tl BCDBIUII
to-morrow, as the Government thinks It
xuuiu uo impruaem 10 discuss the mat
ter as It now stands.
Tho Mlnl.U. i.- , .. .
cApiauicu mat no
discussed the recent German negotiations
i aupposeaiy secret session of the
.iU uui v-ouni iuxourg caDled
his remarks to Berlin a few days later.
Energetic Action Predicted. '
Minister PuevrreHrtn Hrla.,l v. ...
aenttne llnv.mm.ni in,A.i.j ...
' , ,. ...... i.i.itiuuu iu Hui en
ergetically, but not precipitately. In up
holding the honor of the republic and to
close the present incident favorably.
iiie Argentine Government has sent
cables to Dr. Luis B. Molina, the Mlnls-
ui oerim, concerning the negotia
tions, but no official response has been
received. Tim Pniwiim . i i . i
the delay Is due to difficulties of trans-
...isoiuu aim me censorsnip. Tne Argen
tine (!ovrnm.nt )ia nnt - 1
- - " ..... hilm i vj ix re
quest from the German Government for
auic cjimuci ior vjount L.uxuurg.
The Foreign Minister said he be
lieved Germany would make concessions
V retain the friendship of Argentina,
but exnialnerl (hat M.ml,f.ln K..
the two countries will end unless the re
public obtains the assurances and con
cessions desired.
An atltl.n.rm.n I ,
by foreign residents here was prohibited
iu u.j u) uie uovcrnmeni.
Tha German wit-.i... I 1
Ins: lanrelv of m,.,a.B. fMn. .i,.
official Overseas .News Agency, which
were sent to this country through the
Sayville station before the entrance of
the United States Into the war. Is dis
tributed from Nauen. It has been re
ported on several occasions since the
milieu aiaies ana uernmny severed re
lations that Information was being sent
to Germany by wireless from South
America.
PERSONA NON GRATA.
Argentine Minister .otlles Ger
many of l.ailmm'i Dismissal.
LOTCDOV. Rent lit TV.- 1..,IR.
-- r -v. . i.v sc..lV
Minister hanrtH n urn in .v.- n
- v .iiv man
Foreign Office yesterday In the name of
his -Government announcing that Count
Luxburg had ceased to be persona grata
as the German MinlhtAr n nn.nn. a ,....
and consequently had been handed his
ti...jNi in, nL-miuinB ioa iteuter oes
patch from Amsterdam, quoting a Berlin
telegram. The Minister made It plain,
however.
' - - - - tilt IAICU
exclusively against Count Luxburg per-
nuimii) ,
A Bemi-tofliclal Berlin message received
at Amsterdam, havr a rifgnatr-h .
Iteuter's, readi :
"An alleged report by the German
Minister tO MAXlPA mn(Fnlne Ua
Swedish Charge,' published by the Amer
ican State Department, la unknown In
ncrun omciai quarters.
PAN-GERMANS ANGRY.
Nmapsprrs Complain of Count
l.nxltars'a Dlploraa.Hr Blonder.
Amsterdam, Sept. 16. Tho Pan-Ger
man newspapers, which have taken a
longer time tnan the remainder of the
German press to digest Count Luxburg':.
famous iiespairnes to tne German For
eign Office through the Swedish Lega
tion in Argentina, complain of the
Count's lack of discretion and caution,
and Indeed appear to be very cross with
ever' one concerned.
The newspaper Taealiche Itumlschau
of Berlin says It was' not absolutely
necessary ror tne count to announce by
cable, the most rapid channel, that he
regarded the Argentinian Foreign Min
ister as "a notorious ass." It thinks
that might have been said later.
The .citung am Mittag asks If It
would not havo been suttleicnt to call
the Foreign Minister pro-Kngltsh, and
wishes to know what political conclu
sion the Berlin Government could have
drawn under any circumstances from
such a blunt characterization of the Min
ister's Intelligence.
The A reus Zritvng, like several other
newspapers, protests Indignantly against
the Interpretation placed In enemy coun
tries on Count Luxburg'H famous expres
sion, for which It l)as discovered a new
meaning, namely, that persons In life
boats were to be taken on board ubma-
rlnes Instead of being left off enemy
roasts.
SWEDISH PRESS QUIET.
Diminish Sparc Used In Discussing;
ArsTrntlne Affair.
Stockholm, Sept. 16, A desire to
avoid stirring public opinion unneces
sarily Is Indicated In the diminution of
newspaper space devoted to the Argen
tine disclosures, but at the Kime time a
suspicion Is entertained liere that Count
Luxburg. the German Minister to Buenos
Ayres, may have carried his audacity
to the point of uing Swedish officials
against Swedish Interests. News of the
message of itelmich von Kckhardt, the
.German Minister to Mexico, regarding,
Folke crounoim, me Swedish Charge,
continues to attract unfavorable com
ment In the newspapers.
The losses of the Conservatives In the
election apparently are not affecting the
Conservative press, although It Is real
ised the revelations from Washington
concerning the diplomatic duplicity of
the German Minister In Buenos Ayres
has had a considerable effect, The
Continued on Btoond Pago,
Kaiser Thanks Artists
for Wilson Protest
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 16. In
reply to a protest against the
note of President Wilson to the
Pope from the painters of
Greater Berlin the Emperor has
sent the following telegram :
"My hearty thanks for the
loyal pledge from the painters of
Greater Berlin regarding the at
tempt to seduce the German
people into a breach of faith
against their Kaiser and the em
pire. Tho victorious success of
our heroic sonB on the battlefield
can only lead to a peace which
will be beneficial too for German
handicrafts, if all unshakably
and with one mind stand by one
another."
The Lokal Aozeiger of Berlin
says that no protest against
President Wilson's reply has been
made by the city authorities of
Berlin, in contrast to those made
by the authorities of other cities.
NORTHCLIFFE IS
DAZED BY U. S.
Our War Machine Compared by
Him to Wonderful Build
ing of Skyscrapers.
Philadelphia, Sept. 16. The "PueHo
Ledger" to-day prints the subjoined
article written by Lord NortheliOe. The
second and concluding article tcill appear
to-morrow. Thete article) appear simuf
faneouily in the London "Timet" and
the London "Dally Hail."
THE AMERICANS AT WAR.
By LORD NORTHCLIFFE.
Copyright, 1817, Pullkj Ledger Company.
This September, 1917, sees the begin
ning of the growth of a war machine
unequalled In the world's history. The
machine Is being built in the American
way. As I watch Lh procsss I am re
minded continually of the method by
which Americans build their skyscrapers,
whose roots are deep down In the rock
that forms the Island on which New
York stands.
In watching the building of a sky
scraper the uninformed observer feels
that the thing will never begin. For
some' time there Is a blasting of rock,
crowds of men appear with strange ma
chines and nothing much seems to hap
pen. Then gradually but surely a great
steel skeleton arises. The progress does
not seem to be aa rapid as It might be,
until suddenly the passerby finds to his
astonishment that the exterior walls of
the seventeenth or thirtieth story are
finished, the lower stories being yet In
skeleton form. There Is another delay,
and lo ! the skyscraper suddenly finished
and housing ten or firteen thousand busy
porkers. The American war machine is
being built in the same way.
From the staid British point of view
the process is hometimes bewildering.
There are delays, tolerances, repetitions
of European war blunders, criticisms,
arguments, extravngant optimism and
grave underestimation. Sometimes at
the end of a long day one looks back, on
the morning and can see no progress.
But at the conclusion of every, six days
there Is not only an advance but some
times a leap. Tho great giant of the
West slumbered more or lss uneasily
for the first two and a luilf years ofthe
war. He eventually woke with some un
willingness. To-day he Is up and about
and doing. He Is girding on his armor
and fashioning the club that should end
the rule of despotism In Europe.
War More Visible.
Lookers on and critics here In the
United States were astonished to find
that almost without public notice con
scription came -into being. Having ar
rived, it works as smoothly as though It
had been. In use since the Declaration of
Independence. Again tho giant pauses
a while and people begin to wonder what
he is doing, but meanwhile the streets
become filled with khaki. The stern
looking business men and professional
beauties of photographers' shops are re
placed by clean vlsaged officers and
nurses. Tho parks are busy from dawn
to dark with men In shirt sleeves at
drill. Those trying to make business
appointments by telephone find that So
and -So has gone to France or'to the
officers' training camp at Plattshurg or
elsewhere. The war hourly' becomes
more and more a part of the visible
public life.
My American home is some miles out
of N ew Vork city. When I took up my
residence there In June last there were
no signs of war about mc. I went to
Washington and returned after thespace
of a few days, A vast camp, as big an
ours at Wltley In Surrey, appeared at
my doors as though It had grown by
magic. This ramp is not on tho map,
so to speak: It Is not one of the great
cantonments that arc being built with
lightning speed.
Of these soldier cities there are now
sixteen finished, or nearly so. They are
no mere camps. There Is a permanence
about them which makes It difficult to
realize that they aro built In two score
of days. A number of them are being
erected wisely In the sunny and com-
Cnntinued on Fourth Page.
Thousands of Scouts
Enlist to Aid Fund
TT is now ?72,993.13 and going
strong; that is, of course,
THE SUN'S fund to supply to
hacco for the soldiers and sailors
abroad, particularly those in
France.
Yesterday afternoon the Labres
at Richmond Hill trimmed Bill
Hogan's Senators, 7 to 4, in a
baseball game and 1,000 persons
helped boost the fund along.
The American Junior Naval
and Marine Scouts have set apart
the week beginning October 1 to
work for the fund. There are
50,000 scouts and 2,500 of them
will work in the metropolitan dis
trict of New York.
Interest in the fund is growing
rapidly, as you will see from the
story on another page.
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or solicitors.
KAISER DODGES
PEACE TERMS IN
REPLY TO POPE
At Last Minute Germany
Decides to Make Answer
General in Character.
PAPAL VIEWS ACCEPTED
Definite Compensations 'for
Belgium rind Balkans
Abandoned in Note.
Special Cable Despatch to Tat Sen from th
l.onion Timet.
(CopfHcht, tin, all rightt reterved.)
Amsterdam, Sept. 16. At the last
minute Germany decided to eliminate
most of her "terms" In her reply to
the peace proposal of the Podc and to
make her answer general In character.
Tne Berlin Tageblatt't Vienna corre
spondent wired that the German and
Austrian replies were to have been
handed .Saturday to the representatives
of the Holy See.
Those answers, which each Govern
ment had drawn up for Itself, acknowl
edge the Pope's proposal affirmatively
and fall In with his general views for
bringing about and Insuring a lasting
peace, but having regard to the attitude
of the Entente Powers and the United
States they enter Into no detailed dis
cussion of peace conditions.
The Amsterdam Tyd't correspondent
In Germany writes:
"The latest events have not had a
favorable effect upon peace feeling In
Germany. The answer to the Pope's
note bears traces of this."
The correspondent says the Idea of
definite compensations respecting, for
example, Belgium and the Balkans has
been abandoned In the replies, which
have been brought back to the well
known theoretical peace, with assur
ances of the acceptance of the papal
note as the basis for negotiations and
a declaration of readiness to participate
In an agreement to prevent future wars.
At the eleventh hour the discussion of
the details of the so-called nar alms
was recalled.
Is Is not to say that such peace
terms will not follow If, ns the reply
says, the enemy Powers give evidence
of a sincere abandonment of their de
sire for destruction and surrender their
expectation of the disunion which they
hope to create between the German
Government and the people.
By the Auociatei Pren
Romk, Sept. IB. The reply of the Cen
tral I'owers to the peace proposal of
Pope Benedict Is expected within five
or six days, according to Information ob
tained to-day at the Vatican.
BACKS TIRPITZ PARTY.
Bond drr Landnlrte Invites Ger
mans to Join.
Copenhagen. Sept. 18. One of Ger
many's most Important political organi
zations, the Bund der Landwlrte, has
sent out a manifesto extending nn Invi
tation to Join the new Fatherland party.
It intimates that all who desire to con
tribute to the maintenance of Germany's
honor and future should support the
Katherland party by all means.
PARLEY NOT ABANDONED
Stockholm Conference Committer
So Reports.
Stockholm. Sept. IS. Following con
ferences with the Russian delegates who
have returned from their mission to Lon
don, Paris and Rome, the organizing
committee of the Stockholm conference
ln a report on the present situation says
the conference has not been abandoned,
but on the contrary that a date will be
fixed as soon as passport difficulties arc
overcome.
The Russian delegation Is still con
vinced that the working classes of Great
Britain, r ranee and Italy are unani
mously In favor of the conference be
cause they believe that a stable peace,
under which the Interests of, small na
tions wilt not be sacrificed to great na
tions, can only be reached by a common,
concerted effort on the part of the pro
letariat of the entire world.
"The brutal refusal of passports." says
the report, "nppears In tho eyes of all of
us as an exhibition or crushing reaction.
But It will be overcome. Ve appeal to
the workers of Great Britain, France,
Italy and America not lo be deprived
of the elementary liberty to exchange
vlcw. The enemies of Socialism have
resorted to the traditional maneuy.re
against us: tliey nave employed methods
of Insinuation and hnve Invoked non
existent documents to tmpren tho
masses. Above all they have abused the
monopoly of postal nnd telegraphic ser
vices to misconstrue and falsify our
declarations."
The conference has been posrponed,
probably until next year, according to
the Aon6I(idef. The members of the
Dutch nnd ncanmnavian committees, the
newspaper adds, arc about to depart for
their homes.
GERMAN RETREAT FORECAST.
rnpnlntlun tiring- Wltbrirarrn
From rll'lrs In Flnndrra.
Amsterdam. Sept. IS. According to
the llnndchblnd. the population of the
Relglan city of Roulers, behind the Ger
man front, has been removed, nnd tho
transportation of the Inhabitants of
Oetend has been begun. Tho newspaper
says 2,000 persons have departed from
Courtral and that many Belgians have
been forced to work on the defences of
Tourcolng
This despatch Is In line with ndvlces
rpnlvAri fvn Sentemtver 4 from Hare-
brouck, northern France, by the semi
official French news agency mat west
ern 'Flanders was being evnruated by
the Germans as far as tho Courtral-
Thourout line.
BIG POTATO CROP SURPLUS.
Vrnnman Saya IT. S. Should Store
100,000,000 Bnahrla.
Washington. Sept. 16 With a po
tato crop at least 100,000,000 bushels
larger than the country needs for Its
table, Carl Vrooman, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture, said to-nlglit the United
States would be guilty of an inexcusa
ble military blunder If It did not pro
vide the warehouses necessary to make
use of this sirrplns In such a way as to
release products of equal food value to
th army aad th Allies, ,
RUSS REPUBLIC ANNOUNCED
BYKERENSKY, 'PRESIDENT'
GEN. KALEDINES A MENACE
KERENSKY'S PROCLAMATION
pETROGRAD, Sept. 16. The proclamation of Premier Kercnsky
establishing a republic in Russia follows: V
"Gen. Korniloff's rebellion has been -quelled. But great is the
confusion caused thereby, and again great is the danger threatening
the fate of the fatherland and its freedom.
"Holding it necessary to put an end to the external indeflniteness
of the state's organization, remembering the unanimous and rapturous
approval of the republican idea expressed at the Moscow State Con
ference, the provisional Government declares that the constitutional
organization according to which the Russian state is ruled is a repub
lican organization, and it hereby proclaims the Russian Republic.
"Minister and President, KERENSKY.
"Minister of Justice, YAROUDNI."
The title "Minister and President" ttSxed to the signature of the
proclamation probably refers to Kerenskv's oosition as President of
1 the Ministry and not to the Presidency of the new republic
PRESS ACCUSES
FRENCH DEPUTY
Inquiry Into Findings
Chamber May Prove
Turmel Traitor.
in
PARts.Sept. 16. Semi-official announce
ment was made to-day by Paul Des
chanel, president of the Chamber of
Deputies, that the quaestors of the
Chamber would meet on Monday to de
cide what action should be taken regard
ing the Turmel affair, which for more
than a week has been the principal topic
of discussion In the press.
Premier Palnleve, Jules Stecg, Min
ister of the Interior, and Itaoul Pcret,
Minister of Justice, have decided, after
discussing the matter, that It Is thus
far under the Jurisdiction of the Cham
ber, Inasmuch as M. Turmel is a Deputy,
nnd as such enjoys Immunity from legal
prosecution white Parliament Is In ses
sion, except In the case of flagrant dere
liction of duty.
The affair arose from the discovery,
on July 9, In the Deputies' cloak room
at the Chamber,, of an envelope con
taining . twenty-five SwIsh 1,000 franc
banknotes. The finder, an usher of the
qhamber, handed the envelope to the
quaestors. Nothing was said of the In
cident for weeks, and It was only a
fortnight ago that it became nn affair
of common gossip. Tho name of the
Deputy owning the notes was not made
known.
Ilrrallrd by Mlrharlls.
!, ,, - . . . . ' --...tea U1DVIUDUIC9 in . 1 1 'W I 1 1 Jill j uui.
The discovery of the banknotes jas, ZtU makcs a ,Jm
, recalle however. "" n 5 awa- Coun Luxburg's reference to sink
man Chancellor. Dr. Mlchae 1 made the
statement that he was fiilly lnlTormed b fumM becaus! s d(,spntcnwl ,dIcate
eye and ear witnesses of thing ()at ,1)e HUbm.lrlne warfarc ,,ad not
which was said at the secret sittings of becn ,,, , , , a unchangeably
.the Chamber. It was Intimated that the b ,he proclamatlon5 of , barre(,
banknotes had been given In pajmcnt JIe u alao conctrne(1 hpcauPe tne ln.
for treasonable acts on the part of some c(,ent lnd,ca,es , h)m that ,he Amerl.
uiepuiies.
Kventually the name M. Tunnel was I
made public In connection with the In-,
cldent. He explained that he was the
lesal adviser for Franco-Swim firms
I and received money In fees. It was his
custom, he said, to leave large sums ln
j his locker at the Chamber. Ho added
that his last trip to Switzerland was on
I May 10, and hence It was out of the
1 question that he could have betrayed
the proceedings In the secret sittings,
' which were held In June. He wrote to
the quaestors that as persons In Switzer
land who were In a position to give de
tails of his transaction were making dif
ficulties he Intended to go to Swltzer
land and bring back documentary evi-
dence. M. Turmel left for Switzerland
on Thursday, but was stopped at the
frontier by the Swiss authorities, at
though he had a diplomatic passport.
Prrm Says He Wn lour.
To Interviewers M. Turmel explained
' that as notary of the town of Roudeac
I he cleared 20,000 francs yearly, after
! p,a:ilnK,,1 cVenH,R; ft.n? 'VllX'irt1
I IrtV. This a t r rv nf rlnlvps is lepetved
with hesitation by the press, whirh de- !
clares that Investigation made In his
constituency In Brittany has shown
that he did not pay hla expenses ln the
1914 election until long afterward, and
that he owed a year's rent on his apart
ment in Parts when the war began.
Tl.ni.ll. wltn . pa a.nllnlnt.il U'tlV. Illtn
question whether he could have drawn ' cooperation of light companies adver
. . r ,v, urt ,in vin tWng concerns, municipal authorities
he was seldom In the Chamber, 'rhe
Deputy has notified President Dcschanel
that he Intends to Interpellate the Gov
ernment on what ho himself calls the
Turmel affair, and In regard to the re
fusal to penult him to enter Switzerland.
To a representative of the Journal .M.
Turmel said he had gained 00,000 francs
by operations In Switzerland. In trans
actions Involving Switzerland, Italy and
France connected with the delivery of
cattle on contracts In which 14,000,000
francs was at stake, lie said, he ob
tained 30,000 francs. Furthermore, he
said he was consulted In the formation
of seven Franco-Swiss companies for
ullllrlrK water power He explained
that he kept 27.000 francs In Swiss
money because the ecliange rale made
It worth 36.000 francs. He says he left
tho 27,000 francs In an envelope, which
disappeared.
Fnthrr Made Wooden Shoes.
"The truth is that 1 am a victim of
machination against the whole Parlia
ment," he n-lded. 'I was chosen be
cause 1 am unattached In the Chamber
nnd come from the working class. At
20 l was a maker of wooden shoes, like
my father."
One of the mysteries of the Deputy's
conduct Is that ho was regularly at the
Chamber until July 16, a week after the
envelope was found, and mlst-ed the en
velope from his locker the day he levft,
but merely asked an usher to search for
It. He explains that he was In a hurry
to go to a wedding. He did not make
further Inquiries until o.sked for ex
planations six weeks later.
Roosrvrlt to Speak In West.
Col. Roosevelt Is to make three
speeches In the middle West and one In . 0,lier l,orlH ,lf1"' by. lied up since Sal
New Tork State on America's part Jn t tiMay by a strike, will try to icsunie
the war. Ho departs from Oyster Rav
Friday, speaks September 54 In Kansas
City, September 27 In Racine, September
it In Minneapolis and September 30 In
Johnstown, N. T,
CENSOR SHUTS
UP REVENTLOW
His Newspaper Suppressed for
Criticism of Submarine Pol
icy in Argentine Expose.
Special Cable Despatch to Tne Sen from the
London Timet.
(Copyright. 1917, oil r(0t referred.)
Amsterdam, Sept. 16. The Taget
Zcttung and the Bocri.cn Zeitung of Ber
lin have been prohibited from publica
tion by the censor, according to Infor
mation reaching here to-day. The Frei
sinngc Zeitung also announcesfthat it
has been forced to suspend.
Reasons for the action of the German
censor are not revealed In the despatches
reaching here, but the Tanet Zeitung
possibly was slopped owing to Count
von Ileventlow's article on Friday, In
which he attacked the Government's
submarine policy. He said that from
the proposalH of Count Luxburg, the
German Minister to Argentina, concern
ing the treatment to be accorded to
Argentine vessels it anneared that the
order of the day In Ucrlln was to con-
duct the submarine war according to
the wishes of German Ministers In neu
tral countries.
This phase of Count Luxburg's de
spatches Is much more grave than any
other, saya Count von Reventlow, who
reeommends It specially to public atten
tion. J By the Attociated Pren.
Amsterdam, Sept. 16. Count von
j Reventlow. commenting on the Buenos
can Government knows nnd ivvntrnls the
emre ncmral overseaa tcCBraph0 com.
mun,oatlo ln aayns g-eiy ,hat
, rM ,he inlportant glde of ie
afra,r
CANADIANS WIN 90 MEDALS.
Store Heroes at Rattle at
,enn Are
nenrardrd.
Canadian Headquarters in France,
Sept. 16. So numerous have been the
cases of extraordinary courage, re-
sourcefulness and self-sacrifice In the
battle of Lens that it has been fnnnri
necessary to recognise them by award
Ins an exceptional number of military
medals to the men who distinguished
themselves.
The corps orders yesterday contained
i the names of almost nlnetv men thus
honored. I.aat week sixty medals were
awarded to Canadians for distinguished
gallantry under fire.
Fo0I WARNING IN SLOGAN.
Don't Wmlr," War ts.na Raised
In Mnnr Cities.
Washington, Sept. IS. "Food will
win the war don't wnste It," Is being
blazoned im public buildings ln almost
every large city of the country, through
, "''''"'e Treasury Department, with th
l o.od Administration.
Great hlgns are planned for daytime
display, and the light companies will
furulsn free the bulbs and current for
illumination at night.
24,000 ORDERED OUT
IN PACIFIC YARDS
Last Effort Fails to Avert
Ship Strike This Morning.
Pan FnANOtsco. Sept. 10. Twenty
four thousand members nf the'fan Fran.
Cisco Iron Trades Council, employed
mainly on Government Hhlphuildlng con
tracts, It was announced to-night, will
strike 'to-morrow fur an Increase in
wages.
A dnal attempt to prevent the strike,
made at a meeting proposed by James
1.. Ackerson, repiesentlng the Federal
Shipping Hoard, failed. '
It. W. Ilurton, president of the Iron
Trades Council, said a poctponement of
the walkout was Impossible.
The men will report for work as usual
and walk out at ! o'clock If no agree
ment has been reached,
(onfeiences will continue. The first
will be held to-morrow, with Mr. Ackcr
o'on presiding.
The working agreements of unions
affiliated with the Iron Trades Council
explied last night, The men demand a
minimum wage of 6 a day, an advance
of 50 per cent.
!
Plnnnlnic to Knit Orrcnii strike,
i Portland, Ore,, t'ept. 1. Klrvrn
wooden shipbuilding plants hero and at
operations to-morrow mot nine, Hie ow n
ers b.tUI to-day. All tmncrn at a con
feronce declared theie would be no rec
ognition of tho closed nhop, for which
the unions are contending.
Cossacks Believed to Hold
Future Fate of Country
in Their Hands.
NEW CABINET NAMED
Action of Premier Approved
by Most. Representative
National Body.
APPEALS ARE URGENT
Responsible Ministry Will Be
Appointed at Meeting of
September 25.
Petrourad, Sept. 16. Russia Is a re
Public, a.cordlng to a proclamation
dated September 14 and Issued last night
by Premier Kercnsky as "Minister and
President." An earlier official announce
ment said:
Pending the definite constitution of
a Cabinet, and ln view of the present
extraordinary circumstances, all af
fairs of State have been entrusted to
M. Kerensky, Premier; M. Terest
chenko. Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Gen. Verkhovsky, Minister of War;
Admlrat Vcrdervskl, Minister of Ma
rine, and M. Nlkitlne, Minister of
Posts and Telegraphs.
The new Oiblnet is of a temporary
character. Only two of its members,
Premier Kerensky and M. Nlkitlne, ars
affiliated with any party ; both aro So
cialists. M. Terestchcnko resigned the
other day because lie hod no party fol
lowing, but was persuaded to remain.
The Ministers of War and Marine never
have taken any part in politics.
Knlrdlnrs's Ponrr Frarcrd.
Although Gen. Kornlloffs revolt has
collapsed and apparently Is dead beyond
revival, a possible successor already Is
looming up on the horizon In the per
son of Gen. Kaledlnes, commander of
the Cossacks, who hold the balance of
power, as It were. In Russia.
The Grand Council of the Don Cos
sacks, -sitting at Novo Tocherkask, has
been ordered by the Government to ar
rest Gen. Kaledlnes. The council has
replied that It Is Impossible to obey the
order because Gen.- Kaledlnes has to at
tend the military conferences of the Cos
sacks In his official capacity as hetman
of the Cossacks.
At tho same time the council passed a
resolution protesting against tho charge
that tho Cossacks sympathized with the
counter revolution. Tho resolution de
clares the loynlty of the Cossacks to the
Government nnd exhorts all soldiers and
citizens In the Don region to disregard
the appeals of Irresponsible belies.
It is expected that the situation as re
gards Gen, Kiiledines will bo cleared to
day. Newspapers report that tho Gen
eral has telegraphed the Government
that he does not Intend to revolt, but the
(Tfii-ni-nman, u o..t.l v. . .... (
I
I -. ...... ... iu H.no evidence IO
I the contrary.
I K,.l...ll..,.-. r .....
Gen. Kaledlnes went to Novo Tcher
kask from Rostov with a guard of Con
sacks and Junkers, while his adherents
guarded the road over which he trav
eled. The commander of tho Moscow mili
tary district has Issued an appeal to the
Cossacks, declaring that as they are tho
natural champions of freedom and order
they should arrest Gen, Kaledlnen and
disband and send home the new Cossack
forces which have been raised without
the consent of the Government. Other
wise, the appeal says, tho Cossacks will
be treated as traitors and foes of the
nation's liberties,
Petrogruii and tho noiglitorlnc dls
trlct aro quiet, but there are indica
tions of a vontinu.iiice of Rolshevlkl ac
tivity. The Council of WorkmonV unrf
'Soldiers' Dcleg.ue of Vysorg. a district
of Petrograd, u centre of extreme an-
archism. has forbidden the local ale of
bourgeois newspapers nnd alo comic
journpls aa being counter revolutionary
The Krnnt-tadt council has demanded
the release of all tho residents of that
town arrested for rartlclpatlon in the
Boishcvlkl revolt in Petrograd on July IS.
Krrrnskj's Jlnte Approved.
The central committee of tho execu
tive committed of the Council of Sol
illera' and Workmen's Deputies and the
executlrc committee of the peasants'
delegates at a Joint meeting Friday
night voted approval by an overwhelm
ing majority of Premier Kerensky's lat
est move, which has distinctly Improved
the prospects for the survival of the
new Cabinet of five.
These two org-inlz.itloivs represent
workmen, soldiers and peasants all over
the empire, unlike the 1'elrogr.id Coun
cil of Soldiers' and Workmen's Deputies,
the Rolshevlkl majority of which mads
Impossible demands. They are the near
est thing to a parliament which Rus
sia possesses,
M. Avskentleff, former Minister of tha
Interior, appealed to the meeting to help
keep the Government afloat He said
great dangers were impending, of which
one was that Cossacks wero marching
on Tarltfn, on th Volga, with the aim
of dividing south Russia from the north
and depriving the north of bread. He
added :
"The provisional Government has pre
oiwi Information that the Germans are
organizing nn expedition In Finland."
For then leasnns, the former Minis
ter said, It was absolutely necossary to
rally around the Government.
.knbrlerT Hntmri Wnrnlnci,
M. HUoheieff, former Minister of La
bov, also warned Ihn meeting, saying:
"General Kaledlnes Is coming here,
ami If we assail the provisional Govern
ment fiom the opposite direction all Is
lost."
Notwithstanding an attack on Piemler
Kerensky by dclegales whn denounced
liim as an Irresponsible dictator, the
sentiment of the meeting was emphati
cally In faor of thn Government. The
only Immediate menace to tlif Govern
ment lire the luilshovlkl of IVIrograd.
whn, owing to the suppression of their
newspapers and their defeat in the Cen
tral Cofnniitlee nf the Council of Sol
diers' and Workmen's Delegates, aic In
an .'intrv tnnnil.
The Cabinet of live, however, needs
to hold together only untir September
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