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Eleven Persons Killed
j and Forty-six Others .
I Injured.
CITY SURPRISED
j Many Bombs Dropped
, and Several Mouses
Demolished.
i
1 LONDON. March 8. Eleven persons
I wc killed and forty-six others -were
I injured in lasL night's airplane raid on
! London, according to the latest police
i reports, says an official announcement
! today It is feared that an additional
; sk bodies are in the ruins of houses
! wrecked
The official report reads:
) "The latest police reports stato that
i 11 were killed and 46 injured in last
, night's airplane raids. It is feared
: that in addition to the ahove six bod
: ies are still buried In the wreckage of
houses. All the casualties occurred in
i London,"
Several persons were killed by the
i destruction of private houses in north -
eastern London. The house of a vicar
; iras partly wrecked but the clergy es
caped. He is a special constable and
; had left home for duly when the warn
ing came a few minutes before the
, explosion which damaged his resi
. dence. The vicar worked throughout
: the night, assisting the wounded and
homeless neighbors.
! "Last night's air raid appears to
have been carried out by seven or
I eight enemy airplanes, of which two
i reached London. The first two raiders
; approached the Isle of Thanet at about
10:55 p. m. and proceeded up the
i Thames estuary. Both were turned
tack before reaching London,
"in the meanwhile the third raider
Vt. came across the "Essex coast at 11:20
f p.m. and steered west. At 11:45 p..m.
! it vras reported over east London. A
; for minutes later it dropped bombs on
the southwestern and northwestern
; districts. At 11:50 p. m. the fourth
raider, which had also come iu across
j wsex, dropped bombs to the north of
London and then proceeded south
across the capital, dropping its re
maining bombs on the northern dis
tnct between 12:20 and 12:30 a. m.
iho remaining enemy machines, all of
t pich camo across the Essex coast.
! ere turned back before thev reached
loadon,
,cerlam amount of damage was
caused to residential property in Lon
don. Several houses havo been dam
aged, "The raid demonstrated that Ger
i !" aviators no longer depend upon
moonlight, it was the first time the
Tn?y had attempted a nighC raid over
JJMoa when there was no moon. The j
Mm,ero out- however, and there j
hv .. . wlnd- Londoners were taken 1
ToS rprIso whcn th0 warning signals
UlSr, S0Uded- Theaters were just
. ed 5 The streel were soon clear-
, arnin to avoid danger from
1 te?ffi? was generally heeded, every
V hi . ? covcr-. or a lime the gun
. was heavy."
llDfliMire.atest d!mage in London was
hZl t n Jhe northwestern section
hwiB?c Anbombs demolished several
1ln ihiV j? ! . dainage and casualties
'Parallel ullct Avas conQcd to two
altlloueh ns usual windows
tlSq !e? for a radius ot several
' lhk area S ra,der appeared over
'jafedtred? of nersons were Just pre
WS M ?uesert their homes most- of
ttoto S hree stoiy buildings, for the
1 'Istial shelter of two near-
i fin to Hii Ubes vrhen tne bombs b-
ITelHn?"1 bomb made a square hit
concrSh n ,a thrce stor' dwelling of
'io floor?"? ,brlck1 crashln& through
eforo 11 exPloded. While
ftttee! r special constables and vol
Uore hn Ucrs wcro bus' there three
Won vfeI1 nearby in luick auc-HaDdrmiro-.vmbu,ances
arrived speedily
' tacunrV 8tandins the confusion, the
i'anthfr,l?r,ked effectively under the
""teg in V, barraee- For twenty min-
He bar?, be bombing of this district
farrago was continued.
1l AUSTim mUST GERMAN.
IlK ?KTex-' March 7.-A move to
llrriciinJ rerFan language from the
II e hofil ca"serr vigorous debate in
oro TASH'A ON
. WITNESS STAND
I His own testimony failed to save
Bolo Pasha from the death sentence
recently passed on him by a French
conrt martial. This is the first pic
ture to reach the United States of
Pasha on triaL ,
PRJNCE OSCAR
Fifth Son of Emperor Wil
helm May Be Made Ruler
of Finland.
LONDON. March S The Finnish
government has asked the German em
peror to appoint Prince Oscar, the fifth
son of the emperor, king of Finland,
the Afton Tidningen of Stockholm says
, it learns from diplomatic circles there,
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch.
Prince Oscar of Hohenzollern will
be 30 years old next July 27. On July
31, 1914. Prince Oscar, apparently
against the wishes of his father, con
tracted a morganatic marriage with
Countess Ina Bassewilz, who had been
lady in waiting to the empress.
Prince Oscar suffered from heart
trouble during: the early months of the
war and was reported to have collapsed
after leading a victorious charge at
Verdun on October 3,. 1014. He re
turned to duty and narrowly escaped
capture in Poland in December of that
year. There were few reports con
cerning his activities during 1915, but
early in 1916 he was slightly wounded
in the head and thigh on the eastern
front. v
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BY WjMM
Women in Uniform Under
Same Rules as Men and
Must Obey.
NEW YORK, March 8. Women in
uniform or members of parties in uni
form cannot be Herved alcoholic bev
erages in lending uptown hotels.
"The government's regulation Is
perfectly plain," one proprietor stated
in an announcement today. "An uni
'form is a uniform whether worn by a
man or a woman. If a woman is in
uniform, It Is impossible for her, or
any member of her party to have
liquor in any form. Wc have no dis
crimination in the matter."
Hereafter, women doctors, nurses,
motor drivers, yeomen and telephone
operators and all other women in
kbaki or blue will do exactb' as the
men in uniforms. They will drink
"soft drinks" or nothing.
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BRITISH CASUALTIES
LOWEST M MONTHS
LONDON, Thursday, March 7. For
thc'first week of March British casual
ties were 3343; the lowest of any
week for several months. The official
report for the week ending today fol
lows: Killed or died of wounds Officers
63; men 628.
Wounded or missing Officers 178;
men 2473.
The lowest previous week fqr sev
eral months was the last week In Feb
ruary in which there were 3571 casual -tics.
The total casualties for Febru
ary, a low month, were 1S.9G1,
PLAN AGAINST
AMERICAN LINE
Germans Suddenly Double
Height of Camouflage and
Much Work Going On.
TALK IS OVERHEARD
Complain of Americans Blow
ing Their Works to Hell
Every Day.
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WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. Wednesday, March S. (By
the Associated Press.) The enemy
apparently has something he is plan
ning against ur- troops in the sector
' northwest of Toul.
His camouflage constructions at cer
tains places ' have been suddenly
doubled in height and much work is
going on within the enemy line.
Last night an American on patrol,
who understands German, heard this
conversation within the German
line.
"Come here, Fritz, take this pick
and pry that stone loose and then
throw that dirt out. Those
over there. We work all night
to fix things here nnd they blow them
to hell in the daytime."
The men in the American patrol
who made a sudden dash for the
American lines from a shell hole near
the German trenches where they had
i been hiding have explained why they
I started out In broad daylight on their
I backward sprint- They had lost their
way in tho dark in No Mark's Land and
got into the shell hole after wandering
for several hours. Finally tho men got
! hungry and all of them decided they
would rather take a chance with Ger
i man bullets than go any longer with
j out food and water.
I The sun camo out today, drying out
, the ground and the trenches and tho
I men's damp clothing.
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JAPAN Al CHINA
MAY JOIN IN WAR
In Event of Extreme Measures
in Siberia Chinese Troops
May Co-operate.
LONDON, March S. Japan, accord
ing to a dispatch from Tien-Tsin to
the Daily Mail, is reported to have
! intimated that she would welcome
J Chinese co-operation in the event that
extreme measures were necessary in
Siberia, thus desiring to demonstrate
j her unselfishness.
j The Chinese government, if. 13 added,
is reported 'to have obtained docu
mentary proof that the Germans have
j made definite offers of assistance to
Russian revolutionary leaders if they
would cause trouble. The documents
are reported to mention Germany's in
tention to use released German war
prisoners in Siberia against China's
northern frontiers. China hopes to
secure Japanese and American finan
cial assistance to meet the expenses
of the northern expeditionary forces.
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,LL S. CONSUL
LEAVESJINLANO
Swedish Government Asked
j to Send Ice Breaker to Bring
j Out Various Nationalities.
STOCKHOLM, Thursday. March 7.
The American consul at Helslngfors,
Thornwell Haynes, has ndviscd the
American legation here Unit he is leav
ing the Finnish capital Friday with
.about twenty American residents.
I Some three hundred residents of dif
jferent nationalities, including many
Americans are at Abo and BJorneborg
and Minister Morris has asked tho
Swedish government to send an ice
breaker to bring them across (he Gulf
of Bothnia to Getle.
A Stockholm resident has received a
letter from a friend in Helslngfors dat
ed February 23, in which it is said
j that Instead of a regular ration of
grain flour and a half ration of potato
' flour that was to have been issued that
week only fish was distributed. Tho
, letter, which was sent by courier, ex
pressed tho hope that tho United
States for humanitarian motives -would
send grain to be kept at Narvik or
Haparanda and rationed out only on
condition that the Finns stop fighting
among themselves.
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GEORGE VON MEYER
IN CRITICAL STATE
BOSTON, March 8. The condition
of George von L. Meyer, who has been
111 at his home hero for several weeks
with a tumor of the liver, was more
serious this morning and physicians
said there was' little hope of his re
covery, j
FIVE AMERICANS
FIGHTTEN1NS
Enemy Patrol Leaves Two
Dead and Two Wounded
in Skirmish.
U. S. BOYS UNHURT
Germans Prepare for Raid But
Automatic Rifles and Ma
chine Guns Stop Them.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Wcdnesd&y, March 6. (By
the Associated Press ) An American
patrol of five men three nights ago
outfought an enemy patrol of ten men.
They met in No Man's Land and the
Americans opened fire. The Gerjnans
replied and for three minutes there 1
was a sharp skirmish. The enemy re
treated, leaving two dead and two
wounded uayarians who were made
prisoner. Tno American patrol re
turned to its own line without having
received a scratch.
Officers report that despite the fact
that the Germans fired many shells to
prepare the way for a raid, not a sin
gle enemy soldier got into position to
carry it out, the American automatic
rifles, machine guns and rifles stop
ping the Germans in their tracks.
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;alowe
Holdings of the Kaiser and
Von Bethmann-Hollweg
Will Be Sold First.
WASHINGTON, March S. Property
in the United States owned by the
kaiser himself, former Chancellor von
Belhmann-Hollweg, the German
"junkers" generally and the German
' government itself will be the first to
1 go under tho hammer under the plans
of A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property
custodian, to sell German owned prop
erty hero to the highest bidders.
Mr. Palmer's testimony to the sen
ate appropriations committee in which
he proposed necessary legislation,
which was made public today, makes
plain that properties of merely minor
individuals probably will not be sold,
but that the direct purpose of the
move is to break up the outposts, of
German kultur in America.
German Dominance to Go.
"Tho time has come," Mr. Palmer
told the senators, "when the owner
ship of some of these great German
properties should bo permanently .sep
arated from German capital and that
the enemy might as well know that the
connection which he has been able to
maintain with American industry and
commerce Is broken, not simply dur
ing the war but broken never to be
restored.
"The German empire through its
financial operations, has put an indus
trial and commercial chain all the way
across the country and through our
insular possessions. We have become
thoroughly convinced that it would be
wise and highly desirable at this time
If the ownership of some of those
properties could be permanently taken
away."
I If tho legislation be adopted, Mr.
I Palmer stated, it was his inlontion to
j sell only the enemy property in thisi
country in which the German govern
ment and tho "Junker" capitalistic
class are interested and not disturb
that of minor Individuals.
Hun Empire's Grasp.
The Hamburg-American and North
German Lloyd wharves and docks at
Hoboken, N. J., Mr. Palmer told the
senators, '"arc a part of the German
empire's commercial grasp upon this
continent." r
Senator Owen of Oklahoma said he
understood part of their stock is
owned by tho kaiser, represented by
Herr Ballin.
'There is no earthly question about
tho Intimate relationship of somo sort
between the German government and
the Hamburg-American line," Mr.
Palmer told the committee. "Neither
is there any question about the rela
tions between tho German government
and numerous other great industrial
enterprises in this country which havo
come within tho control of the alien
property custodian."
After War Plans.
Plans of tho German shipping cor
porations to hold their docks for ox
tension of German commerce after
the war would be sold by Palmer, who
added:
"That is a fair Indication of the hope
and purpose of enemy capital that not
a day shall olapse when the war is
over before they again put thoir grip
upon the commerce and industry of
America. You cannot strike a heavier
blow at tho enemy today than to mako
him understand that ho has lost his
connection with the industry and com
moroo on tho American continent
"Theso large enterprises aro close
ly affiliated with tho Gorman govern
ment. Whore a German subject has
an investment over hero of n private,
individual character we ought not to
disturb it. But these great industries,
these great concerns financed by tho
Deutsches bank, supported by-the
'SWEDES' HEROINE
IS HOME ON VISIT
Mrs, Ira Nelson Morris.
A littlo rest in Washing-ton and a
little look at Chicago for these Mra.
Ira Nelson Morris Is back home from
Stockholm, where her husband is
ambassador, -where Europe's intrigue
finds its storm center and -where Mrs.
Morris' untiring work 5mong the
children of the poor has won her the
title of the "heroine of Sweden."
junker class, are the kind we ought to
Americanize."
In one city, Mr. Palmer did not
namo, he said seven or dight great
mills were entirely German owned.
German Trust in U. S.
"It is a part of the German trust in
this country," he said. "They are mak
ing chocolate in Connecticut, rails in
Pennsylvania, woolens and worsteds
in New Jersey, chemicals in New
York, lumber in Florida, raising sugar
in Porto Rico and Hawaii, tobacco In
many states In the south, making beer
in Chicago, lead penqils in New Jer
sey and conducting all these concerns,
many of which aro making enormous
profits by reason of the very condi
tions for which the enemy is respon
sible war conditions. If I must yimply
sit hero with the possibility of return
ing both principlo and profits to the
German owners at tae end of the war,
I am doing a tremendous favor to the
German empire, our enemy.
"Tho desire is that tho title as well
as possession shall bo permanently
taken from the German owners."
The American interests in Germany
aro negligible compared to Gorman in
terests here, Mr. Palmer said.
"She is now doing with us exactly
what we are doing with her," ho ad
ded. "It Is his' intention to use the pro
ceeds o'f enemy property to buy gov
ernment bonds."
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PEACE MAKERS
DEADLYENEMiES
Hard German Terms Forced
Through at Brest-Litovsk
Brings Bitter Hatred.
CAUSE OF REGRET
German Workmen Do Not
Stand Behind Agreement
or Kuehlmann Policies.
AMSTERDAM, March S. Com
menting on the outcome of the Brest
Litovsk conference at which peace
with the Russian government; was
concluded, tho Socialist newspaper
Vorwaerts says:
"Peace was concluded, but the dele
gates parted with feelings of deadly
enmity. That such was tho case is a
deeply regrettable event. The German
workmen do not stand behind von
Rossenberg m (assistant to Foreign
Secretary Kuehlmann and chairman of
the second Brest-Litovsk conference)
or the policy for which ho atnnds. Let
us, theroforo, face tho facts and
frankly declare that In this peaco tho
buccqss which was sought has been
denied to Socialism of all shades of
opinion."
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Lemmon of Nevada
A Food Administrator
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WASHINGTON, March 8. H. A.
Lemmon of Reno, today was made
food administrator of Nevada, suc
ceeding Henry M. Hoyt, who renlgncd
on account of Illness. Mr. Lemmon is
secretary of tho stato council of de
fense. He will givo his entire time as
a volunteer to war work,
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MANY VESSELS
BUILTjN YEAR
British .Complete 280 Mer
chant Ships, Aggregating
Over 1,067,696 Tons.
NET LOSS WAS 158
Actual Cargo Imported Was
Only Two Per Cent Less
Than in 1916.
LONDON, Feb. 20. (By mail,) Sir
Leo Chiozza Money, parliamentary
secretary and shipping controller, de
clared in the house of commons yes
terday that 280 British merchant ves
sels of 1600 tons or over were com-1
ploted last year. Thoy aggregate
1,067,696 tons. . I
The net loss of British vessels ot
1600 tons and over during 1917 was
168, involving a loss of 20 per cent
compared with 1916. The actual cargo
imported, however, was only about 2
per cent less. He gave the'following
particulars of merchant vessels of 160Q
tons and upwards completed during,
the past three months and brought,
into service: '
November, 22 ships of 130375 tons
gross.
December, 21 ships of 115,752 tons!
gross.
January, 11 ships of 55,588 tons
gross.
Particulars of standard vessels in
cluded in tho above are:
November, two ships of 9,399 tons
gross.
December, six ships of 2S.931 tons'
gross.
January, four ships of 20,738 tons
gross.
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KP1TIN
Russian Revolutionary Troops
Still in Possession of
Ukraine Capital.
LONDON, Thursday, March 7.
Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine, is
still in the hand of Russian revolution
ary troops and has not been occupied
by the Germans, according to a state
ment issued Wednesday by the Rus
sian official news agency in Petrograd.
The previous message saying Kiev had
been lost to the enemy, the statement
adds, was due to the receipt of a wire
less message, which must have origi
nated from enemy sources.
The German war office in its official
statement of March 3, said that Uk
ranian and German troops had captur
ed Kiev. Since then, however, there
havo been no claims of any advance
beyond Kiev by the invaders.
TURKS FAVOR BOLSHEVIKI.
AMSTERDAM, March S. Enver
Pasha, in an address to the Turkish
chamber, according to a Constanti
nople disrpatch, said the Bolshevikl
had proclaimed that self-determination
was the right of all .peoples, and that
tho Turkish government would not
fail to recognize autonomous govern
ments already established in the Cau
casus and other governments in the
neighborhood of Turkey and would
support them if necessary.
Rumania Forced to Hard Terms.
AMSTERDAM, March S. Explana
tion of the preliminary peace treaty
with Rumania is made in a statement
issued to tho Austrian press at Vienna.
It says that Dobrudja was transferred
to the central powers as a whole in
order to make the decision easier for
Rumania.
The frontier adjustments in Tran
sylvania, in general, mean the protec
tion of the Iron Gates and the Petro
zeni mines as well as precaution
against fresh surprise attacks. The
now frontier, however, will not go
deeply into Rumania. The economic
demands relate particularly to imports
of petroleum and agricultural products
and tho evacuation of Austria-Hungary
by Rumanian troops affects a
strip of Bukowina still occupied by the
Rumanians.
Finally, the statement says, the
stipulation that Rumania must give
transport facilities for the troops and
transports of tho central powers to
Odessa appeared necessary In order to
safeguard the shipment of largo grain
supplies from Odessa by way of the
Volga, Dnieper and Danubo rivers to
tho central empires.
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ALLIED DRAFT "'
TREATIES FAVORED
WASHINGTON, March S. By un
animous vote a favorable report on the
administration bill to givo offect to
Allied draft treatlos which may here
after bo negotiated including those
with Great Britain and Canada, al
ready signed by tho United States, au
thorizing tho president to order regis
tration of such aliens was ordered to
day. by thoscnato military, committee.
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Artillery Activity In- 1
tense at Many Points on I
tie West Front. ;
FRENCH REPULSE 1
Heavy Attack May Oc- j
cur at Any Time !
Americans Expect
Blow.
I
LONDON, March 8. "The enemy's
artillery was active last night in tho ;
neighborhood of Ribecourt and tho j
Scarpe valley,"" the war office reports.
"Considerable artillery activity do- j
vcloped also on, both sides -in the 1
Ypres sector between the Menin road
land Houtholst wood." I
Russian revolutionary troops have j
struck back at the Germans who de-
clined to halt their advance when L
peace was agreed to and have taken G
Jamburg. 68 miles south-southwest of
Petrograd, from the invaders. Jam- .
burg is a railroad town on the Luga j 3
river and the Germans had moved a
there from Narva to straighten out j
their line southward toward Pskov j
after peace terms had been reached. (
Differences between Ensign Krylen
ko, commander-in-chief of the Bolshe- ;
vik armies, and the People's Commis
saries, are reported to have led to the J
resignation of Krylenko, who recently j B
had urged the Russian people to use ' H
all means at their command to resist KJ
the central powers. This is the first E
split among the men who have com- r
posed the Bolshevik government, al- ; Kj
though there havo been reports from ; ffi
time to lime that either Lcnine or . m
Trotzky or both would resign. m
German claims that the Ukranian RJ
city of Kiev had" been occupied arc j m
denied in Petrograd, which says that ; f
the city is still in the hands of the ', j
Bolshevikl, who captured it more than
a month ago from the Ukranian rada, i i
which later made peace with the Ger- j 1
mans. Berlin's announcement of the j j
capture of Kiev was made just after i '
Russia and Germany agreed to peace J,
terms nnd since then there havo been ) j!
no reports of military activities in that i i
region.
In five days Germany has forced j
terms on three different governments j
Russia, Rumania and Finland. The ' 3
Finnish government apparently sub- j
mitted to the German terms in order 3
to gain military aid against the revolu- 1
tionlsts, who hold much of southern j
Finland along the Finnish gulf. With
Finland and Esthonia under German ;
suzerainty, the gulf of Finland is taken ! j
from Russian control and Great Russia
has less than 150 miles of coast line j
along tho gulf.
Although the Germans apparently
will permit King Ferdinand to con- j
tinue to rule Rumania, the victorious !
enemy has compelled his victim to j
agree to humiliating terms. Important :
wheat, oil and salt concessions are to j
be given Germany, which is to con-
trol tho Rumanian railroads for fif- i M
teen years and is to have' a most fav- ) K
I orable trade agreement with Rumania w
which loses the Dobrudja and control Kl
jof the Danube. Bj
j Raiding operations' have not yet de- B
vcloped into largo operations on the In
western and Italian fronts. The artil- Kg
lery duels, however, continue intense ft
at important sectors. All the entente Vtt
armies from the North sea to the H
Adriatic have withstood enemy raids, ffl
while at the same time successfully Hi
penetrating the Teuton lines. K
WEATHER HINDERS INFANTRY. iff
ROME, Thursday, March 7. Tho I H
Italian war office issued tho follow- Hj
Irjg statement today: jffi
"Unfavorable weather has hindered m
all infantry activities and greatly min- jOi
imized the activity of the artillery. ffljj
Our batteries fired with somo persist- B
ency on enemy troops in movement on
the Brcnla and In the region of Col
del Borottn. Reciprocal bursts of fire I
occurred in Val Lagarina and in the I
plnin south of Ponta di Plave." B
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NOTED SHIPBUILDER DIES. ! ffl
PARIS, Thursday, March 8. Julius ffi
Charles Roux, president of tho Com- fl
pagnia Genorale Transatlantique (the H
French lino) is dead at his homo here. m
He was ono of the leading ship owners fj
and ship buildora of France. ! fT
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