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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
10 PAGES
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, THURSDAY MOIiXINO, NOVEMBER 1, 1!)H
10 PAGES
.VOL.XXV. NO. 178
FROM FLANDERS COAST
TO RIVER LYS GERMAN
A TTA CKS- CONTINUING
Fighting is Reported Along,
Yirtuallv the Entire Front i
Without Any Appreciable
Change Noted in the Sit
uation A LUES STILL
HOLD TRENCHES
1.1 - ti I
1l'"' i ir.-Mi VM-i-i
nian rorcos Again At
tempt to Dislodge the Al
lies, and Continuing Of
i'ensive Lose Manv Men
associated prkss dispatch!
LONDON, Nov. IS. The latest of
ficial communications regarding the
operations on the western battlefields j .
are much the same as in preceding
.lay There has been fighting vi, - j
appreciable change in the situation.
From the coast of Flanders to the j
I;iver Lys, on the Franco-Uelgiaii bur- i
iler, much of wliich was flooded In'
the allies to prevent German attacks,
there has be;n a repetition on a
smaller scale of the inevitable Her
man bombardment preceding; infantry
.attacks.
In isolated spots there have been
attacks in forte, but the British and
French say these, were repulsed.
Around Vpres fresh German troops
again attempted to force the allies
out of their trenches, a task which
the Prussian guards failed to accom
plish. Both sides, as indicated by
the casualties among the of if errs, are
losing heavily in the fighting, but the
Germans are on the offensive. Their
losses are said to be enormous. The
French zouaves, who have frequently
distinguished themselves, were again
utilized to dislodge the Germans trom
Lixschoote, over which there has been
much fighting. These incidents il
lustrate the situation. First one side
and then the other grains an advan
tage, but when all is told, the gen
eral situation is about the same.
In the east the Germans and Aus
trians h.;ve turned after their retreat
from Vistula to face the Russians in
Fast Prussia, and in Poland, before
Cracow. Each of these regions prob
ably will provide a bis battle, but the
most important will be that in Po
land, where the Germans are sending-
their best and strongest armies,'
hoping to smash the Russian center.
This would compel the Russians to
fall hack to the Vistula and relieve
Silesia from immediate danger of an
invasion.
Concerning the fighting in the
Palkans and the near east, only scraps
of information are reaching the out
side world. In South Africa, General
Louis liotha, commander-in-chief of
the defense forces, repot ts the dis
persing of additional rebel com
mandoes and the capture of guns, am
munition and provisions. The Earl
ot Crewe disclosed in the house of
lords today that in Fast Africa the
Indian troops are employed against
the Germans. That there has been
heavy fighting is shown by the fact
that the British casualties already
number yflO.
The following wireless was received
tonight from Berlin by the Marconi
Wireless company:
"In the latest fighting against tr.e
Servians, the Austrians captured
forty-two guns and thirty-one ma
chine guns. After three days' fighting
the Austrians defeated the Monte
negrins near Frabowr. The Servians
are now concentrating three divisions
in fortified positions south of Bel
grade. It is reported thnt Armen
tieres, France, has been bombarded.''
Libau is Bombarded
PETHOGRAD, Nov. IS. Tonight's
official statement says:--,
"Yesterday morning a Germitn
Miuadron of two cruisers, ten tor
pedo boats and several steamers ap
peared belore Libau and bombarded
the city and harbor, setting- fire to
several buildings. The same day the
Russian Black Sea fleet, which had
(Continued on Page Three)
Federation Urges Federal
Settlement Plan Adopted
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18. The
American Federation of Labor adopted
resolutions requesting that the presi
dent insist that the Colorado mine op
erators immediately comply with Cue
federal plan for a settlement of the
strike in that state and in the event
they refuse that he take necessary
steps to have a receiver appointed to
operate the affected mines under fed
eral supervision until the civil and po
litical rights of the people are estab
lished. With regard to the trouLle within
the ranks of the organised mine work
ers of Montana, the convention in
structed the executive council of the
federation to use its efforts to bring
about industrial amity and union
solidarity in that state.
The committee on the executive
council's report took up most of the
fternoon session presenting lis re
port, which virtually approved every-1
thing done during the past year by
the executive council of the federa
lord
ROBERTS' BODY
RESTS AT HIS HOME
! ASCOT. England. Nov. IS.
!. 'overed w ith the Cnion Jack,
I with his sword and service hat
resting- upon it. the coffin eou-
tnining the liody of Field Marshal
Lord Roherts of Kandahar, now
! lies in a small room in the mod-
est home where the great soldier
: wem to conduct tamiiy prayers.
i ;,nc! in which there is
small
altar and a crucifix. The coffin j
armed from Folkestone hy spe-
cial t i d in today. The eeremonv
was simple. The coffin was oar-
vied by employes of l,ord Roll- j
cits' estate to the home, where
brief services were conducted by !
the rector of Ascot, attended by '
I-ady Roberts, her daughters find ;
a few privileged friends.
;
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WllSOH ASSUMS
M'Adoo Business
Outlook Is Good
associated press dispatch!
NEW. 'YORK. Nov. IS. The presi
dent's reassuring statement to Secre
tary McAdoo in connection with the
opening of the federal reserve bank
ing system was almost the mam
topic of discussion in financial
circles. Taken in conjunction wltn
the completion of the $l;S,",000,0(iO cot
ton pool, it was hailed as an augury
of betterment in other directions.
Another step toward the restoration
of normal financial conditions was
recorded when a committee of bank
ers and bond dealers organized after
the outbreak of the war to supervise
dealings in unlisted bonds and un
listed guaranteed stocks announced
its retirement. A well established
market is now prevailing for thes-:
securities and absence of all danger
in the loan situation enabled the
committee to take this action. In
dustrial conditions are of greater
promise, according to authoritative
trade advices. Copper mend scored
cnother fractional advance and pur
chases of pig iron increased mate
rially. o
MUST DIVERSIFY CROPS
McAdoo Issues Warning to Southern
Cotton Growers
f ASSOCIATED I'RSSS DISPATCHl
WASHINGTON", Nov. 18. A warn
ing was given by the officials of the
federal reserve board and the treasury
department tonight that the south
must learn the diversification of crops
and make a reduction in cotton acreage
next year, if it is to get the full bene
fit from the J13...u00,0oo loan fund just
'omnlcted. to insure material increase
in the price of raw cotton for next
year p crop.
-McAdoo in a formal statement called
this, "the other pressing and important
problem" with which the south must
deal. He urged the raising of other
food products, which he predicted will
find a ready market, particularly if the
European war persists.
"The southern farmer" said McAdoo,
"therefore has an unusual opportunity
now for changing exisiting methods
and habits with a certain profit and
permanent benefit to himself."
STEADY DEMAND FOR
WAR LOAN FUNDS
LONDON'. Xov. IS. There has
been a steady demand, but r.o I
I i rush on the central banks to get !
'. prospectuses of the new British !
j war loan of $l,7f0,000,000, with
interest at three and one-half
per cent, at a price of ninety-five, I
I redeemable at par March 1, 192S. j
The stock exchange views the
loan as a pood investment. Some I
j members believe there will be a I
J further loan next April. I
I I
tion. The jurisdictional dispute be
tween the United Hatters and the
Cloth Hat and Cap Makers and that
between the Gas and Water Work
ers and the plumbers' organization in
San Krancisco was referred to the
executive council for further action.
Other resolutions advocated im
provements in the federal steamboat
inspection service, and favored the
retirement law for superannuated fed
eral employes.
A resolution introduced by Dele
ftate Andrew Gallagher of San Fran
cisco, asking the federation's status
on the Newspaper Solicitors' I'nion
of San I-'raneisco and asking what
help it expects to give that union
provoked discussion, during which the
question of the strength of the Solic
itors' I'nion came under discussion
Questions asked in a resolution by
the union were not answered by the
committee reporting the matter, but
were referred to officers of the fed
eration.
1SSIA HAS
MIT!
PROHIBITING
Since Mobilization Began,
Sale of Vodka or Other
Spirituous Liquors Has
Been Kffectually Stopped
bv the Government
EXT I RE COUNTRY
BETTER FOR IT
Peasants Show Different
Spirit and There is Now
an Almost .Total Absence
of the Minor Crimes in
the Countrv
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH!
PETROGRAD, Nov IS. There is
prohibition in Russia which means that
not a single drop of vodka, whiskey,
brandy, gin or other strong liquor is
obtainable in a territory populated by
l."0, ftoo.ooo people covering one-sixth
of the habitable globe. People who
formerly consumed $1,(hio,oii0.000 worth
of vodka yearly have suddenly been
forced to become absolutely abstemious.
Vodka manufacture is a government
monopoly so prohibition is easy of en
forcement. On the day of mobilization
it is declared that officials made the
rounds of public places, sealed up the
supply of liqiwr and declared its fur
ther use wuuld he prohibited. As a re
sult there has been a remarkable
change in the people. There is no
drunkenness and the peasantry show
better living and better health.
Places formerly unsafe for men may
now be visited by unattended woman.
Minor crimes have been almost elim
inated. The reform was brought about
chiefly by Demitrovich Tcheliseff, a
peasant hy birth, originally a house
painter, later mayor of Samara and
now a millionaire. .
Sneaking of what he accomplishe-l
for the cause of sobriety In Russia,
Tchelisheff says:
"I was reared in a small Russian j
village. There were no schools or
hospitals, or any of the improve
ments we are accustomed to in civil
ized communities. I picked up m
fducation from old newspapers and
stray books. fine day I chance"!
upon a book in the hands of a mini
jik, which treated of the harmfulness
of alcohol.' It stated among other
things that vodka was a poison. I
was so impressed with this, know
ing that everybody drank vod
ka, that I asked the first physician
I met if the statement was true. Ho
said. "Yes." Men drink it, he ex
plained, because momentarily it gave
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ness. i-rom mat itme i oecioeo t
take evey opportunity to discover
more about vodka.
"At the end of the eighties ther"
enme a famine in Russia, followed by
agrarian troubles. I saw a crowd of
peasants demand from a local land
lord all the grain and foodstuffs in
his granary. This puzzled me. I did
not understand how honest men
could he indulging in what seemed
to me to be highway robbery. But
T noted at the time that every man
who was taking part in this Incident
was a drinking man, while their fel
1'W villagers who were abstemious
had sufficient provisions In their ow.l
homes. Thus it was that I observe!
the industrial effects of vodk.i
drinking.
'At Samara I decided more thn.i
passively to disapprove vodka. At
this time I was alderman -ind many
tenants living In my houses were
working men. One night a drunken
father in one of my houses killed his
wife. This incident made such a
terrible impression on me that I de
cided' to fight vodka with all my
strength.
"On the supposition that the gov
ernment was selling vodka for reve
nue, I calculated the revenue re
ceived from its consumption in Sa
mara. I then introduced a bill in
the city council, providing the city
would give thiB turn of money to th ,
imperial treasury, requesting at tlri
same time that the sale of vodka be
prohibited. This bill passed, and the
money was appropriated. It was of
fered the government, but the gov
ernment promptly refused it.
"It then dawned upon me that the
Russian bureaucracy did not want
the people to become sober, for the
ipasnn that it is easier to rule auto
cratically a drunken mob than a
sober people.
"This was seven years ago. Latar
I was elected mayor of Samara, the
capital of the Volga district, a dis
trict with over a quarter of a million
inhabitants. Subsequently to holding
this office I was elected to the Duma
on an anti-vodka platform. In the
Duma I proposed a bill . permitting
the inhabitants of any town to close
the local vodka shops, providing alsi
every bottle of vodka should hear a
label with the word "poison At my
request the wording of this. label, in
which the evils of vodka were set
forth, was done by the late Count
Leo Tolstoy. This bill passed tlv
Duma and went to the imperial couii
cil, where it was amended, and was
finally tabled."
WANAMAKER SENDS
llulinj leai:ig i'hiladelplna; John anama!;er cheering the sitanier as it pulled cfT. v
Salvos from the butteries of whistles and sirens from the river and deep sea trmnp craft, as well as fro:i
the mills and factories o.i both shores of the Delaware liver, greeted the mercy ship Tlielnia as she started o.i
her way to succor the Haitians, loaded with two thousands tons of supplies ' for them, donated l.y the lion.
John Wanamaker, former postmaster general and merchant prince of Philadelphia ami New York. Mr.
Wanamaker is seen at the right cheerinjr the first of tl:e mercy ship:; he. lias cliaitered to convey material aid
to the poor of war-ridden Helium. It is expected that another ship, la:ger than the Thclma. will scon set on
a similar mission to distribute food, clothing and medical supplies to the war zone. It s hoped that this stvond
ili:p will leave Thank.s";ivin;r day.
DANIELS INSTR UCTS COMMANDERS
NOT TO EMBARRASS UNITED STATES
JUDGE KING
SEES VALLEY
III ONE OAK
Visiting Legal Chief of tlu
Reclamation Commission
Crams Two Days of
Sightseeing into 10()-MiU;j
Automobile -Journey
"That's a good diversion dam."
Chief Counsel Will R. King of th"
Cnited States reclamation enmmis
tiion confined his comments on tlv
irrigation work in the Salt River Val
ley to the abve terse statement,
when he hail glimpsed the concrete
rlruclure that divides the waters of
the Salt, Tonto and 'rde between
the north and south sides.
Completing a hundred mile auto
mobile journey yesterday evening.
the visitor discovered that he hid
crammed into one busy day all h"
program that he had mapped out for
a brace of afternoons. Instead of j
making the luncheon with W. J. Mm - ;
;ihy at Ingleside the end of bis aftei-j
noon's trip. Judge King and bis
guides concluded to make a more ":- j
tensive exploration, and the resul t
was they went to Granite Keef,
crossed the river, struck across tn
mesa to the Roosevelt.' road, looked
at the transmission line and cunc
home via the sonthside. This com
bined business with pleasure in a
ery satisfactory manner.
The Murphy luncheon was attend
ed by Judge King, President John I'.
Orme and Secretary C. A. Van !er
Veer of the Water I'sers , Supervi.i;
ing Engineer Prank W. Hanna and
Project Manager C. H. Pitch, Division
Counsel E. E. Roddis. Engineer W. P..
Elliott. Legal Advisor George 1).
Christy, George Goodall and L. H.
Cake.
Today' Program
Judge King will occupy himself a'.l
day in office consultations with ihe
engineers and chiefs of legal divi
sions. He regrets not being aide to
make a trip to Roosevelt, but his tim.'1
ig so limited jie cannot make all in -.
project features he would like to.
Tomorrow morning the council and
governors of the Water L'sers' asso
ciation will meet in special session
at ten o'clock in order to take no
with the visiting legal chief the mat
ters of project cost survey and time
extension.
In the afternoon, at one o'clock, t'l"
same matters will be discussed at an
open meeting in the farmers' room
of the water temple. The irrigatirs
are to be present and hear for them
selves what explanation Mr. King will
make of Secretary Lane's plans for
cost accounting.
Immediately after the afternoon
session Judge King will take his le
parture for the coast.
SHIP LOADED K SUPPLIES TO BELGIANS
jCables Or'tiYers of Cruisers
j Tennessee and North Car
olina Not to Take Steps
Calculated to Involve This
, Countrv With TurkeV
MA V EN PLAIN
SIIOO'ITNC INCIDENT
I'i'om Some Messages Infer
ence, is Drawn That Shot
at Ship's Launch May
Only Have jjeen Custoni
arv Friend lv Signals
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
WASHINGTON. Nov. U. Secie
lary Diniels cabled the commander.
ef the cruisers Tennessee and North
Carolina to act only upon Washjiv-s
ton instructions and take no steps
.-lleulateJ to embarrass the I'nited
States government.
Secretary Iianiels cabled the com
manders of the Tennessee a.nd Noriii
Carolina not to take any step cal
culated to embarrass the Cubed
States, and await further old rs.
These .steps followed a message from
Captain Benton C. Decker, command
er of the Tennessee and paraphrased
by the navy department:
"Captain Decker wired that while
proceeding from Vourlah to Smyrna
to make an official call his boat was
fired at. The consul was anxioun
for the safety of the consulate, and
the Tennessee proceeded to and left
(Continued on Page Seven) '
Ambassador Morgenthau
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl
WASHINGTON. Nov. IS. Tlv
I'nited states government directed
Ambassador Morgenthau at Con
stantinople to ask the Ottoman gov
ernment for an explanation of tne
firing by Turkish land forces at a
launch from the American cruiser
Tennessee, proceeding from Vourla.t
to the American consulate at Smyrr.u,
Asia Minor.
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IL5 TAKES
T
K A SHOT
Resumes Triumphant March
on Capital at Head of Ten
Tl i oi isand M en E i ght i ng
at Naco Ohregon Stalls
North
I ASSOCIATED IT.f'SS .ISPATCll
WASHINGTON. Nov. I Si. Villa hap
taken possesion ol Leon without firing
a shot. He is now marching south
on Silacon. on his way to Mexico
City, according to a message from
George
agent.
Carotbers, American consular
i-eon :s a raiiroau center Petween
jAgnas Calii ntes -and Mexico City, j
t'arranza had mi-r B'.O'iO men there
. ..... .. - .
I during the Aguas1 ('alientes conven
I tion to prevent Villa's pisible move
ment toward Mexico City, and !t is
understood this force iuis been with
drawn to IrapuntoV forty miles south
of Leon and mile from Mexico
City.
Villa, in command of the troops
under the control of the Mexican con- i
vention at Aguas ("alientes, is march- .
ing on Mexico City. The forces of'!
General Pablo Gonzales, loyal to Car-
ran Ml.' are gathered at Queretaro and i
trapuato, where the first important
j clash probably will occur. These
facts were reported by ( onsiilar Agent
Carothers. From Consul Silllman
came a dispatch saying the condi
tions are far more serious in Mexico
t'ity than they have been since the
parleys, for peace began. He regards
actual hostilities as inevitable, though
(Continued on Page Four.)
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Tsing Tau Not Defensible
When The Surrender Came
fASSOClATUD PRKSS DISPATCH J
I PEKING, Nov. 18. Tsing Tau wa.i
no longer defencible when the Ger
mans surrendered to the Japanese, ac
cording to the correspondent of the
Associated Press, who was in Tsing
Tau throughout the siege, and who ar
rived here tonight. His delay in reach
ing Peking was due to the Japanese
holding him at Tsing Tau after the fall
as a method of censorship.
At the time of the capitulation the
Japanese artillery had shelled tle
trenches until their infantry was on
the brink of them. When the shelling
ceased, the Germans looked out upon
bayonets and muzzles of machine guri.
Where the Japanese broke the line
they crossed over the dead and wound
ed, of the three big fortresses only
ACTIVITIES OF
CITIES GO Oil
DESPITE WAR
The Euro ean Conflagration
Having No Serious Effect
on Municipalities, Accord
ing to Survey of Clinton
Rogers Woodriff
NO ABRIDGMENT
OF THEIR PLANS
Such Improvements as Have
Already Been Authorized
Will Continue Despite Dif
ficulty in Placing lioans
as Usual
ASSOCIATED PRRSS DISPATCHl
BALTIMORE, Nov. IS. Tha Euro
pean w ar is having no serious effect on
municipal activities in the United
States according to a survey made By
Clinton Rogers Woodruff, secretary of
the National Municipal League, who
delivered his annual address before
that organization here tonight.
With inquiry among many of the
representative cities of the country. Mr.
Woodruff learned that municipalities
were going ahead without the slightest
abridgement in their plans for such im
provements as had already been au
thorized, and although some cities were
experiencing difficulty in placing loans
through the usual channels, municipal
credit did not seem to be jeopardized.
j "Indeed", he said, "the opinion pre
I vails among financial authorities that
! the European situation will in a short
time make municipal securities thti
most desirable in America,"
He reported no recession of interest
' in the commission or commission
i manager forms of city government.
I "What is aptly called the Vanishing
1 system the bicameral form of city
I government" he said, "is to be found
j now in only nine of the largest fifty
i cities, Philadelphia, Baltimore, KanB
taii City, Providence. Louisville, Atlanta,
j Worcester. Richmond, Va., and Cam
bridge, Mass.
"In the light of the events of the past
five years," he continued, "it would not
be hazardous to predict that five years
hence not one of the larger cities will
be risking its business and it future
to the evils of a form which affords
such abundant opportunities for inef
ficiency, and waste and mismanage
ment." Hand in hand with this advance he
notes the progress of municipal home
rule "which in the course of the com
ing generation is destined to become
the settled policy with regard to fTie
relations of the states to the cities."
Nine Iowa cities operating under tho
commission form of government hail,
he noted, lived within their income for
tile first time in 1913. A federal cen
sus also showed that out of 69 com
mission cities, 01vere found to be run
ning at less per capita than the aver
age head expense of the 195 metro
politan centers of all classes consid
ered. There was a notable improvement in
municipal housekeeping accoun;a, he
found. The "happy go lucky way" was
being superceded generally by scien
tific budgets which made both ends
meet. Roth the demand for municipal
ownership and that for effective con
trol of privately operated municipal
utilities continued unabated. Wyom
ing t'nd Utah, he said, were the only
states In the union which had no form
of control to regulate, in some way or
another, the public utilities. There
was still much discussion throughout
the country as to whether such control
should be by state or local commis
sions, with the developments of the
past year seemingly more in favor of
state action in these matters,
He concluded with a reference to so
cial problems. The fear that interest
in work" along these lines would be
abated on account of the great war, he
believed to be unwarranted. "The
very greatness of the European cata
clysm will emphasize the need for
greater social and civic effort," he said.
An increased emigration from Europe
to America was to be expected as a re
sult of the war and this itself would
require no little attention.
the Rismark was able to cenrinue fir
ing. Its guns were dynamiied as the
Japanese scaled the fortifications. The
Japanese rushed into the city streets
pick axes and shovels in hand, shout
ing "Banzai." Almost simultaneously
with the hoisting of the white flag, the
Germans had destroyed all their vessels
including three merchantmen in dry
dock, and all their cannon and military
stores. The German losses were 17(1
killed and between ."00 and 600 wound
ed. The Japanese and British actually
engaged in the land attack numbered
respectively approximately 17,000 and
15.900. The Germans in their last lino
of trenches had 3,800 men. The con
duct of the Japanese, is admitted by
the Germans to have been conspicu
ously considerate throughout the sie?.
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