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2 8 Pages VOL. XXXIV, NO. 329. Lru JVLJ (T A ft MP ID Qua TEN KILLED IN BOMB BLAST IN POLICE STATION Deadly Missile Explodes While Officers Examine Italian Who Brought It In Many Missing. A-"rirtl"l Pre srv !: mii,vai;ki:i:. Wis.. -,v. 2 4. 'J'vn persons are known to have been Kill I. a number injured and several are believed to lc missing as a re- i the ten- 1 Milt of a bomb explosion in tral police station tonight. The bomb was tauen to the station . i ill., I : . J an Italian wno saui ne uiscovt-n-u it in th- basement of the Madonia del Pompeii Catholw Italian district. The near the station hy Mabuiey. Malone. church in the Italian was "met petective Peit escorting hini into the station, plated the bomb, which was enclosed in a black box. .ii a table in the waiting room while he took the man into the oliice of J'. .lice Lfeut. Flood. Itomh i:plth. Detectives were on the second floor of the building ;t the time re sponding roll call. When they a me down the stairway and noticed the black box one picked it up to examir-e it. Tho bomb then explod ed. The lower floor of the building was shattered and every window throughout the structure was broken by the shuck. It is believed that many of the prisoners may have per ished. Anions those known dead are: IVteetive Stephen II. Stecker; luteethe John Seehawer; Detective Fred Kaiser; v heteetive Albert Templin; operator Spindlcr; Henry Oeckert. desk sergeant; Catherine Walker; Detective David .lrien; Ietective Frank :. Caswin; Detective Iaul Weiler. AmniiR the seriously injured are: Detective Fred Hartman. Detective J'ergen. Lie-it. Flood, in charge of the sta tion at night, escaped. niletl With Liquid. According to one of the detectives the bomb was a cylinder shaped af fair, about one foot in length and eight inches in diameter. Insorte.i in th top was a small bottle of liquid, su pospdly nitroglycerine. The explosion which was heard throughout the main section of the i Ity. brought thousands of persons to the scene. DetalLs of firemen were dispatched through the building. "n the sec ond story where the police operators work, the body of lMward Spindler was found. Hp was killed at his post by a metal missib that came through from the tloor below. Two .Men rcaiM Seated at either side of him were Arthur Van Pieterson and Otto Ger lach. Neither was injund beyond the shock of the explosion. t Further Investigation of the sta tion proved that all other occ.ip.ir.ts of the building escaped unscathed. Lieut. Hood, in Iiis otf.ce. win thrown from his chair and stunned, but he was at work in the sp;ad room death house hefote other r i ners arrived. Mazuinni Not lUamotl. Maruinni was absolved of all lame by the police. The woman killed had gone to the police station to report a robbery ami w;is stand in C in the hall waitir.tr to -. t into the lieutenant's oMiee when the boT.b exploded. The detonation of roupht thousands of .'..it ion. Inside of 30 the explo people to ;on th nil nute rela tives of police olf.cers f,-,i:i t ar- riw. They beeped for information ,s to the ll.t of dead. I urkr.es- ar.d ?Jie mangled condition of th bodb-s LiaycJ id er. tit: cat Women fought for er.trar.ee to tb.e ...lilding and fainted while struggling Aitb. patrolmen on cuard. Snno ii S!hm kin Out. When a searching partv - iipp'd . ith fire departmer.t l:.:i:ts entered the square roon. the :.e was .-hocking to ep. ib.. stern Haired tCONTINUEI JN I'A'n: SIX ) New Slogan for South Bend-"SOUTH BEND, IND., AND PROUD OF IT'-By Serg'L John Howard Giving His Address to Newspaper Men in the Trenches of France After Firing the First American Shot at the Germans iff SOUTH DAY AND NICHT FULL LKASKD wn:i; TLLLuvriiic SEIiVICE- AI KEY AT Map of Haigs fr BAPAllMt " W v " arras : I " s"' llöK' (,,::-::, v:.fr. ZI r ' ' , v SB..' ... , " I .sscol?t : i;... . ... toMisi I I I I JpLRCNN ' TT-W Startini; with a surprise attack Tuesday, Nov. 20, the third Brit ish an.iy, in a two-day battle, plunped forward toward Cambral for the biKest pain of any single action on the western frort. More than a dozen towns and villages and man y thousands of prisoners have al ready been taken, with the British still pressing on. The insert map shows. (1) the British drive at Cambral, (2) scene of pretentious French attack at Craonne, and (3) the Verdun sector, where live'y fighting is also reported. POOL EASTERN ROADS INTO ONE SYSTEM War Board Takes Radical Railroad Centralizing Step to Insure Maximum Ef ficieny During War. Asr.-i.iteii Ires Service: WASHTNCTON. Nov. L4. Opera tions of all railway lines east of Chicago as ,-.ne centralize;! system was- ,( ide.l on today by the rail road war board to obtain a maxi mum of erbcieney in traMio move ment. Cars and trackage facilities will be pooled regardless of owner ship or the railroads individual in ter t. This almost revolutionary move was' announced tonight after an all day conference between members of the war board and government otH cials at which many remedus were ottered for the freight congestion that has paralyzed transportation in the east. It was adopted as the best and readiest means of meeting a Situation that has threatened the production and despatch abroad of war materials. Tudor Board's Control. The roads wid be operated by a committee of vice presidents of the lines under the general direction of the war board, itself comprising flvs of the country's railway heads. The committee of vice presidents will be given full authority to adopt any treasures found necessary to insure vtücier.t operation. The operating program calls for the following: Diversion of locomotives, em ployes ar.d machine tools fioni a extern t eastern railroads. l'tili7at!on of repair shops on 1.C iNTI MT'I ' ON ''AC.F SIX) I fit II Great Victory 1 I i rnAifsj' WAUNCCUKT fi V-- MAt-INCOUT -1i . --. iA R0I5LL VEKMANO ssvk.-.rT ATTILIY FAANCILlM t crvits IO nniii-rccrt-R. bttvx .ist,. SOLDIERS TO GUARD GOTHAM WATER FRONT Orders Are to Shoot All Per sons Not Identified Entering Barred Zone Near Piers and Docks. .ss-. iated Press Service: WASHINGTON. Nov. lations under which the 4 Regu New York water front will go under military guard Sunday midnight to bar alien enemies were announced tonight by the department of justice. acting under Pres't Wilson's recent alien enemy proclamation. Similar regu lations will be applied to other coasts and to lake port qs soon as soldiers are available. The soldiers will be armed with loaded ritles and will have instruc tions to shoot all persons, aliens or citizens, entering the barred zone 10O' yards from piers, docks and warehouses, unless identified by special private guard? to be sup plied by pier owners. Blue uniforms will be worn by the soldiers to dis tinguish them from other military forces, and to lessen the danger of accidental shooting of person claiming ignorance of the guards' identity. IIojh to Curb Plotter. Alien enemies under the presi dent's proclamation may not enter the prohibited zone ur.der any cir cumstances and miit move out if they already have business or resi dence places within the ICO yard limit. By this strict system of patrol the g-overnnient hopes to eliminate the possibility of enemy plotters causing fires and explosions on piers and in water front warehouses. The orders issued tonight, are the r'.rst installment of regulations (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 1 v tnor, BEND SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, BOURLON WOOD WEST OF CITY NEAR CAPTURE Blcody Struggle on Slopes Goes Against Germans Fontaine is Reported Ablaze. Associated Press Service: BRITISH HEADQUARTERS N FI IA NC Ii, Nov. 24. Houiion wood which dominates Cambrai from the west, is probably in British hands; this morning as a result of the sang uinary struggle waged jesterday ou its slopes. Bourlon village, at the northwest fringe of the forest, was still held by the Germans who fought bitterly all day against the advancing troops. The enemy also retained his hold on the village of Fontaine about which intense light ing proceeded throughout Friday. The latest information from thi--place was that it was ablaze. The British yesterday advanced their line still further to the wst of Moeuvres and there were meagre reports indicating that this jdr.ee was very closely invested. Many more German gun.s have been found among the material captured, the number being estimated at about 100. Mort Irisvonors Come In. Prisoners were still coming back this morning. The correspondent passed two squadrons of mud-riear-ed Germans near the British front, who were being brought back to the cages. The fighting yesterday at Bourlon wood and around Fontaine was of a most desperate nature. Bourlon wood and the village are situated on high ground which affords extensive observation in all directions. The forest itself comprises r,00 acres and while the ground is dry it is covered with a heavy undergrowth, making l.n advance up the slopes difficult. The British troops yesterday morning were holding a line on the low ground about the southern fringe of the wood, and f'om these positions it was neeessarv to charge up the slopes in the face of a tremendous concentration of machine guns. Tank Help Infantry. The infantry, cooperating with the tanks, pushed forward in the morning and hard fighting ensued immediately. Hy 1 o'clock in the afternoon they had battled forward half way through the wood and two hours later the infantry were occu pying a line through the center of the wood and to the northwest of Fontaine. At noon the Germans began put ting a heavy aitillerv and machine - un barrage along the roads to the i sol,lM of tn' wtoi rendering com munication with the advancing troops more difficult. Hand to hand fighting with bayonets began almost as soon as the British entered the forest. This continued with great fierceness throughout the afternoon, the assaulting troops gradually forc ing th Germans back foot by foot toward the northern edge of the for est. Whether the wood is firmly in British hands now fs not absolutely certain but the enemy still retains his hold on the village, which Is strongly fortified with rapid tire .3 Counter Attack rail. Iate in the afternoon the Ger mans delivered a determined toun ter attack from the north ir, fn attempt to oust the British but the latter held firm and drove the Ger mans back. In the meantime a fierce conflict was proceeding near Fontaine. The Germans were defending this place with rifles and machine uns which they fired from the roofs and win dows of the houec. About .":nii in the afternoon tanks were reported to have forced an entrance and the place was said to be in flames. The German? were able to maintain themselves in the village. however. and were still there at the latest reports. Two counter attacks in the neigh borhood of Cantalng were smashed yesterday afternoon. The British made a slight advance in this re gion durinc the day. LID Ü Ii Li U Li JO ' L-J M ;1CY NEWS-TIMES SUNDAY, NOV. 25, 1917 Russ Ambassador Repudiates Rule Of Bolsheviki sm iatcd Press Service: WASHINGTON, Nov. J4. Boris Bakhmetef, Russian ambassador to the United States today formally repudiated the Bolsheviki govern ment in Petrograd and announced that he would recognize no control that seeks to break from the en tente and make peace with Ger many. At the same time is was announc ed that three of the ambassador's chief aides had resigned to avoid having further relations with the Bolsheviki and that similar action would be taken by the leading naval and military members of the Rus sian mission who came to this coun liy witn Mr. Bakhmetef and who since have been temporarily attach ed to the embassy. Will l ight win, r. s. All of those leaving the embassy with possibly one or two exceptions, it was announced, would seek ser vice with the United States in the war against Germany. They includ ed Lieut. Gen. Vladimir H. Hoop and Bear Admiral De Richter of the naval and military mission; John Sukine, first secretary, and F. De Mohrenschildt, secretary, whose wfe is a daughter of Sec'y Mc Adco. Tho two secretaries already have volunteered their services and Gen. Roop and Admiral De Richter have taken the subject up with t .e state department. Counsellor O. Onou was the third member of the em bassy who resigned but no an nouncement was made as to his future plans. Will rorre V. S. Stand. Ambassador Bakhmetef s repu diation of the Bolsheviki govern ment made known in a formal com munication to Sec'y Eansing was re garded here as likely to force an early decision from the American government as to its attitude toward the Bolsheviki if that element con tinues in power. It was generally agreed that the Bobheviki leaders would not allow today's incident to go unnoticed and it was regarded as certain that they would cable the ambassador his dis missal and name a successor. That would place squarely up to this government the question of recogni tion but it was believed that the United States would take no for mal action until it has ascertained the views of all the governments at war against the Teutonic pow ers. .sst i;itfl Pr.s Servie.: BONDON. Nov. 24.--A Petrograd dispatch from the semi-official news agency .'ays that the mayor of Petrograd has announced that the Germans have declined to receive the parliamentary representatives sent by order of thf Maximalist commissaries, declaring hat peace negotiations could only be conduct ed with the constitutional govern ment of Bussia. One of the preliminary conditions for entering upon pourparlers im posed by the Germans is the with drawal of Russian troops for a dis tance of 100 kilometers 0j miles) while the Germans retain their present positions. Admiral Harris Succeeds Capps -Kl.tf'-d IT- STVlee ; WASHINGTON. Nov. 2 4. Rear Admiral Frederick R. Harris, chief ol the navy's bureau of yards and cocks, Vas named today to succeed Rear Admiral Capps as general manager of the shipping board's emergency tleet corporation. Admiral Capps uked to b reliev ed because of ill health. He was named by Pres't Wilson to succeed -MaJ. Gen. George W. Goethals, who rtsigned after differences with Wil liam Denman. then chairman of the shioping board. Admiral Harris was assigned to the place by ec'y Daniels after the shipping board had asked the navy department to detail another naval officer for the work. He is a civil engineer and as chief of the bureau of yards and docks has introduced many modern business method"? into he service 0) 11 OF BR A NFAVSPAPER FOR TH!: IIOMF WITH ALL THE UK'AL NEWS. p V '7 TOO II Ii II It 11 DO DESTROYERS SEND U-BOAT TO HER DOW Two American Warships Make Quick and Neat Job of Sinking Big Sub marine. Ai.Nfcinteii Press Service: BASE OF TUB AMERICAN FL TILIV IN BRITISH WATLILS. Nov. 24. The American destroyers which were responsible for the lat est sinking of a German submarine have returned to their base with Flags flying. Their victory over the U-boat was one of the edeanest, neatest and quickest pieces of anti submarine work yet recorded by the American squadron. The submarine was disabled by a depth charge, rose to the surface three minutes after the charge was fired, hung hesitatingly at the sur face for a moment and then sank to tho final place of lodgment at the bottom of the sea. Make Job Complete. The pressure of water at the 2 00 feet or so depth at which she sank, soon completed the work of de struction on the strained plates of the submarine's hull. For a long time bubbles and oil continued to rise In great gulps from the grave where she lay .and then the Amer icans made assurance complete in a mariner of which it is unneces sary to go into detail. It was daylight with 'good visibil ity when the periscope was sighted by the lookout of a destroyer, which with a sister craft, was engaged in its cu.stomary duties. The sub marine; commander was just pre paring to fire a torpedo either at one of the destroyers or at a merchantman nearby. PcrisooiK is Sighted. "Periscope two points off the starboard bow," sang out a look out in a voice which could be heard from end to end of the craft. In stantly an alarm to general quarters was sounded and the helm thrown hard over. Signal flags were swung out no tifying the sister ship of the exact location of the enemy. At the same time the heliograph began its staccato flashing of orders for a combired attack. A scant IS inches of periscope had shown alvove the surface of the sei, 400 yards distant for a few instants and then vanished. In less time than it takes to tell, the destroyer, under the impetus of suddenly. opened throttles, had fair ly leared jnto the track where th? periscope had disappeared. Release Depth Bomb. At the proper moment the com mander on the bridge released a j depth charge from its fixer! plac.. The powerful explosive, in weight in its steel case ou; a rik I with a little splash into the de stroyer's wake and at the regulated depth responded to the bidding of its valves and burst in a terrific ex plosion. A vast extent of water was upheaval and rose in a column to a great height. That the hnr-'p had found its mark was shown by a mass of oil and bubbles which marked the spot a.s the water found its level. Meanwhile a second destro.ver pa,ssed through the boiling. oily waters and dropped a second depth charge and then followed the tac tics of the hrst destroyer in circling the spot. The f.vo destroyers did not have long to wait. In than three rainutes there was a r-.ish of water and the U-l-oat. w hal--like came to the surface not more thin 400 yards from the c:rt ,if.tr.ye: -. I'xplosio IK' Woik. The Americans were taking no chances on a German trick The gun crews stood with their uur.s and torpedo tubes trained on the fdrieker. enemy ready to -'. lo,,--a shower of steel in th- ; - marine showed b-ht P.ut the V boat was badly stricken; the ex plosive charge had done its u..rk thoroughly. Althou-h th pait of the bv.at appe.il''. been ur-.towchd. t was ev i.b-: hr actions thi: the s-bicr: . . -. i . s. - 1 . ipper ..,,... a s hi I unmanageable. ne n .t j (CoNTINI'i:!' ON PAGK SIN r3 ) APQ V JJ rV U Foes Deadlock in Heavy Fighting on Italian Front .si'i.ited J'ress Srrvi e : ITALIAN HKADQl'ARTKRs IN NORTH KRN ITALY, Nov. 2 4. Heavy fighting continued through ought last night on both sides of the Brenta river, with the result in decisive. Between the Brenta and Piave rivers the Italians are con testing every foot of ground. As-.-riatrd Press Service: ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS IX NORTHERN ITALY, Friday. Nov. 22. The battle of the mountains is raging with unexampled violence. The Italians again hold the Monte Tomba and Monte Pertica positions which they lost last night. The losses have been verv heavy, but the enemy's far exceed those of the Italians. On the outcome of the? mountain battle depends the result of thi enemy's greatest effort to break through the Italian lines to the Ve netian plain. The recapture of tho Italian positions on Monte Tomba was accomplished by a succession of brilliant charges which dyed the snow red and left the ground piled with enemy dead. Monte Pertica was lost and won four times, tho enemy finally being thrown back. Although the losses have been ter rible, those of the enemy are by far the greater, owing to the condition of the fighting field and the desper ate heroism of the Italian troops. I'ull Fury of Battle Break. The battle which had been grad ually gathering force in the last few days, broke in full fury early yes terday and raged throughout the day. the night and today. The tirst tdow was struck at Monte Pertica, where dense masses of enemy infan try were hurled against the Ital ians. The fighting was extremely violent. The enemy's greatest blow was aimed at the strategic key of Monte Tomba and Monte Fonfenera. Here he full force of two divisions, on German, the other Austrian, was hurled in a furious attack on the Italian right wing in an effort to turn the wing and cut off the army from its line of communication along the Piave. Now came one of the bloodiest struggles of the war. which w-pnt on all last nbht and to day with a steady succession of at tack and counter-attack. Outeome in 1 la La m -e. What the outcome will be cannot be foreseen, but the Italian arms have again covered themselves with glory and have snatched back vic tory when it was hanging in the bal ance. Even the enemy yields tribute to Italian valor, for prisoners say their forces are surpric"d at the re sistance met and dis ouceyted by the impetuous bravery of tb- Ital ian troops. jMizpah Stormed by British Troops .V-s. i ii. - I J'rt -s I. .N1 .N, Nov ancient Mizpah, ' The v a rd - ite est 1 , .0" r i tie .if-r'-isajerr. W I Nah wb:s i been storrr.e. i .y the l:riti-h. tbe war off: e armour;- -. !'.r.t:-h :io-i?:ed troop- which had .i-':- ar.ced northward were e.j !. ic;k by the Tu Iks. iu:pokt ri:urn, atkoc rni:s. ALKXAXMIIA. I-:--y I -b Nov. .4 Kefugees from Pal'--',:. report that the T-:rk.s in oup twl.-.u .t'l the ( ;e,-- .... r. - are romrnittir.". nost je.ij f il atrra ities upon Je ,v is-i f o-oni'-s in r.il";i.-- , tb.e Ist , tiie ! month le v cv;sed f dence all the leading rn n i o onv at .la a M c f esp-ona'-e MT.d on f i or on conff-ssioii-; by torture wer- conv German court martial e.! r.v bar 'e - f in.i ...r. -. : . 1 1 ' , with inar.v members f Th- lies, refugw-j declare In f.rder to extort .n.fe i- a.bie.l. many r: en .t n i ire ! ;drg orr.e A me r if .an ha-, e ;.e n trippd in ! 1 plblic. .-"'lie v, v..-., r lv ;t l'i: MIM .N T MAIlloN. Ir;d Sw i.:.-;in, ; r 1 o 7. e I ; ; e Co :.iht of acut I.WVVI II . N--V - 4 St. pi. : i w v er. i M ; r i t v a' ! I - ill l'ittsi.il ,'tl LZ3 Pittman TEE WEATHER rr-b- -r.ow IP- ran ;n M o :i . I t . A:x p: PRICE, FIVE CENTS. 40 MEN SAVED; NU üUWNlKÜ ABOARDSHIP Schuylkill Sent Down in Med iterranean Nationality of Submarine Not Reported. Arsciab! Prrj Srvi-e: WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. The American learner Schuyl kill has been torpedoed nnd sunk in the Mediterranean. The navy department ua adicd today that 40 men nf her ere' had been landed at a Mediter ranean port. 'Pi ere va no na val armed uard ahnjrd. Whether there was ! nf life was not known here, hut i: was assumed that the -in men rescued comprised the Schuyl kill's complete complement. Sec'y Daniels made this. ,m nouncement : "The navy dep. irlnient K i" receipt of advices iliat ! of the crew of the American stenmcr Schuylkill which had been tor pedoed, have been landed at a Mediterranean port. No navy men were aboard." Both German and utna:i : in tiie submarines are oreratm Mediterranean, bur nationality of the -o tar the Mjhmarine which sank the Schuylkill '.Tis not determined. itorxi) ix)ir r;i:i:i:cr. WITH KICK Ci;(.() Asfi.-i te.J Prem S.'! i .: NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Tb American steamship Schuylkill Jeft here (ct. Z for Piraeus i;rei-e, with a cam of m i --elbinr,; mer chandise valued at about .,r.' valued at about a half do! Pi! s. a'ent fr the no word tonight iiiil A. ) s her lion and Galanos, revvive-l of loj-s. He i-.üd that if 4" me her crew had 1 een inr.d!. it pcbi by meant that all v.ere s . 1 al though he did not have ;t r: or. J of thrt. number a' : i".I avaüa !!-. Tb' Scbuylkill wn.s commande.j ('apt. OJeorge Ternl! .Ne V V"! i. Thf vessel w a.s a forme of 2 . 2 r' tons gros.--, land in ls2. S.e pasf-ing Gibraltar : ! airo. bi I. e .-tea m r il'.t in hvve- Is l e; rt I it : .fty I BENCH STE VMCi: MMv. Ac-.i i.ited I'res s.f-:i-e; PABIS, .Nov. 2t. News w;,s r- b. ol here today r .r. rr:r. ir. report that the freight c.ct::t ?dair.e had .een mib ink on Vf'!n''l.'iv e;'ht from Licp;.' U Of the 2j Of- : . c r - a : wjtii t h entire I -c -pi e : mf,r; o; exception !Tird m i rt f T.e ;-.vi'.or. '.v ( o m p r ' e -or-- n : rf-n Tb" Pre, to--- grocs w ,-t - o wr-.'-d 'i 4 i y.'. r i. b ;iit in I -. : n r. t NO MORE AUTO RACES WHILE WAR IS GOING ON :.Tf-.l Pr - s. i:v yoi:K. : v. 2 A ir.f : . v.l.; r. . . '(n, - A ;t- ' e r I . s Ji:!r . mere TV -oa: j , i ( , 'lie a- -c b- r der 0! : i ; i t i o n s f o he pr:-M p r . t if a 1 v of ,i iitor:.' ' j .. ar, ir v. i . -a h FEDERAL RESERVES MAKE BIG DISCOUNTS V.'ASIII.N'' i! iBAROTJ R0THERM0RE NEW : BRITISH AIR MINISTER I.. 1 ; fm fc