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EAGERNESS OF SACIMY FORCES OFFICERS TO CHECK ARDOR Private Secretary of American General, Visiting in Milton, Tells How Soldiers Hone for Action. HE VISITED THE FRONT MILTON, Ind., Nov. 30. American Eoldiers in France were not stationed in first-line trenches lor a long time because they were too eager to get at the Boche, according to Vernon Thompson, who is visiting in Milton, who returned about ten days ago from the French front Thompson is the private secretary of Major General Greble, who was sent to France by the war department on an observation trip. General Greble is now in Washington. French and American military authorities now in France feared to put the Americans in the first line of trenches at the start because it was believed they would do something rash. Now their officers must keep close watch on American soldiers to keep them from foolhardy risks. Soldiers, returning from the trenches, give varied opinions as to when the war will be concluded. Mr. Thompson says. Some Say In Spring. French and. some American soldiers believe that with the concentration of all forces, including the forces of the many people who will not be compelled to shoulder a xife, may bring the war near its end sometime in the spring. - Canadian and English soldiers, some of them wounded, all war-weary, though glad to be serving their country and more than willing to fight to . the finish, believe that the war may be prolonged for several years. But all of them agree that the success of the troops at the front depends in a large measure on the concentration of the forces of the country at home. Bollmeyer to Enter Aviation Service Fred J. Bollmeyer, former city editor of The Palladium, who has been driving a munition transport behind the lines in France, may soon go into the aviation squadron according to a letter received by his father, J. Fred Bollmerey. " Bollmeyer left a position on a Cleveland newspaper last June to drive a truck for France, without compensation. He has been in France for about six months. According to the letter received by his father Americans in France who have been employed in various branches of service by the French government will be mustered into the service of the United States. If this is done, Bollmeyer says he will join the aviation squadron. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United State Weather Bureau Cloudy tonight. Colder in the north and central portions. Saturday fair and colder. Yesterday Today's Temperature Noon 43 lYesterdav Maximum 45 Minimum 35 For Richmond and Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Colder tonight and Saturday, probably followed by fair weather. Southwest shifting to northwest winds. General Conditions The storm over the far south Wednesday moved northward out of the usual path and cloudy and unsettled weather with occasional "rains resulted east of the Mississippi river. The Canadian storm moving eastward across the lakes will probably be followed by temperatures of freezing or below within the next thirty-six hours.

"The Providence Journal W0Sdy

(Reprinted from the December World's Wor.) John R. Rathom, Editor of the Providence Journal, is the man who discovered and exposed the German plots In this country. He is the man who forced the recall of the precious Von Papen and the notorious Boy-Ed. He is the man who unearthed Dr. Heinrich Albert and his $40,000,000 corruption fund and sent him back to Germany. He is the man who discovered and revealed the plot to restore Huerta to a German-made dictatorship in Mexico. " He is the man who proved that the Lusitania warning was sent out by the German Embassy on orders direct from Berlin. He is the man who exposed William Jennings Bryan's "peace at any price" Interview with Dumba, Ho is the man who sent Consul-General Bopp, at Ban Francisco, to prison for two years for eonspiraer. H is

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Marine Cried When Illness Caused Him to Leave France

It a pretty dark-eyed, dark-haired French girl 'threw her arms around your neck, cried a little and then kissed you, just after you had landed in a French seaport would you want to return to the United States very soon? P. A. Routh, Richmond man, who was with the first United States marines to land In France with General Pershing's forces, didn't Routh is a son of E. C. Routh, 201 Randolph street And Routh, who is In Richmond on thirty days leave of absence because of illness, cried when be was told, after landing in France, that he was too ill to remain and would be returned to one of the naval hospitals in the United States for treatment But It wasn't just because of the pretty girls that he wanted to remain in France. He had Just come from "this side of hell" as be calls Haytl, where he had been serving, before he was sent to France, and he wanted to see active fighting on French soiL Glad to Leave. Routh, while serving in Haytl, the little country in the Straits Settlement near Cuba with an addiction to revolutions, contracted yellow fever. When his regiment of marines were ordered to leave the revolutionary coaitry, all were happy because it meant a trip to France. ' It was believed that he would be able to go with bis fellow marines. But when they arrived in France he was too ill and was sent back to this country. Had Rputh remained in France he would now be in active service on the great firing line. "The French people went wild when the Americans landed," Routh said. "French girls and women kissed the soldiers as they marched along, marching by their sides to the music of a big band playing the Marseillaise and the Star-Spangled Banner." Karl Kempel .also a marine, who formerly lived In New Paris, is also visiting in Richmond with Routh. LEVI MOORMAN IS DEAD ON COAST Levi Moorman, 68 years old, died Wednesday morning at his home, 2535 East First street, Long Beach, California. Mr. Moorman was a former resident of Richmond. Prior to his coming to 'Richmond he lived near Fountain City moving from there to what is known as the Levi Moorman farm west of Richmond on he National road.'4 , . j - . - Several years ago he moved to California with his family. He is survived by his widow and one daughter Miss Lulu .Moorman, who was a teacher In Richmond for a number of years, and two sisters, Miss Sarah Moorman and Miss Harriet Moorman, of Richmond. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at the home in Long Beach. END IN SIGHT LONDON, Nov. 30. The end of the East African Campaign before Christmas is predicted by the Reuter correspondent at Ndara. He declares that by that time the German commander in chief will either be a prisoner or in exile. RELIEF DINNER CAMPAIGN The dinner which was to have been held Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the Y. M. C. A., for the Armenian Relief committee and workers who are assisting in the raising of $3,000 for the work, has been postponed until Saturday at 12 o'clock. Workers are eager to cover Richmond as rapidly as possible. They will be busy Friday evening making a thorough canvas. Field Secretary Mead A. Kelsey, who was in conversation with Mooshek Vorperlan, a 17 year old Armenia boy, when he was in New York recently relates the story told him by the boy as follows: "I lived happily with my father, mother, two sisters and brother until March, 1915, when suddenly our town was surrounded by Turkish soldiers and we were Imprisoned and tortured. "First they tortured the professor the man who warned the Government that the Canadian Parliament bulldat Ottawa was to be fired, three weeks before It was burned by .German agents. In brief he is the man (without official authority) who was for three years the eyes of the Nation, guarding it against the treachery of the German Government. He has been a patriot of the highest order in the face, first, of early unbelief and ridicule on the part of our own Government: and then of slander and abuse on the part of the whole pro-German element in this country. ' . Preface to Exposures. 5 "The Providence Journal will say this morning;" that phrase, familiar to every newspaper reader in the United States, has been the preface to the exposure of nearly every German plot that has been told to the American public sineo the World War began, Merely to list all thaae expesures, firing only the barest outlines of

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Both have served In Haytl and both have been in the hospital before coming here. What does an American soldier, on foreign soil, want more than anything else? American tobacco say Routh and Kempel, and its mighty hard to get at times. While in Haytl some of the men were forced to pay fifty cents for one small package of American tobacco. If smokers who thay at home realize what a smoke means to a soldier coming in from a hard day's work they would be more generous to the various tobacco funds he says. Both plead for the observance of a "smokeless day" or a day in which the smokers will give as much money to the soldiers' tobacco fund as they spend on smokes for themselves that day. GUARD UNITS ARE ACROSS WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Thursday , Nov. 29. (By The Associated Press.) National guardsmen from every state in the Union have arrived in France, it is today permitted to be announced. They are among the troops now training, or lately arrived. While it is not permitted to disclose the identity of units, it may be said that all thoso which sailed from the United States have arrived safely and that some already are in training within sound of the guns on the battle front The guardsmen have been arriving in the American zone for many weeks. They are scattered somewhat bat as far as possible the units from the same state have been kept close together, except in one case. They found the regular army had made good preparations for them and while many are billeted in houses in French towns others have been quartered in low wooden barracks specially erected. ' The guardsmen are all in good health. The reason why it is not per mitted to mention units by name is that if one is mentioned the way is open to mention all others, which means the revealing of identification numbers and other information which is of importance to the enemy. But for the, information of the relatives and families of the men, every one who Bailed from the United States has arrived safely In France. Five7 Acquitted of Slaying Parson Who Opposed Draft Law YORK, S. C, Nov. 30. Dick Norman, Ezell Bolin and Fred Penninger, white, and William Sanders and Frank Twltty, negroes, charged with murder in connection with the shooting to death of W. T. Sims, a negro preachere, by a mob five miles souti of here Aug. 22. stand acquitted today as the result of the verdict reached by the jury after ten minutes deliberation. Sims, unpopular with some members of his congregation, had passed some remarks in opposition to the draft law. POSTPONED; IS PROGRESSING of history !n our American Missionary college. They beat him with sticks; they burned his hair; they burned his fingers and finally they crucified him. All the time he was murmuring, 'Oh God, all this for your sake!' 3,000 Deported. "After two months of this terrible torture 3.000 Armenians 550 males and 2.450 women and children were deported lo the Syrian and Arabian deserts. "My eldest sister was a beautiful girl. My mother tried to make her less beautiful. - She knew what was likely to happen to her. My mother cut of my sister's long blond hair, but they could not take out her beautiful eyes. "On our way to the deserts, a Turkish officer saw my sister and asked Continued on Page Eight names, dates, and places Involved, wouia require several columns of a newspaper. To reprint all the thousands of original cablegrams, letters, checks, photographs and codes on which they are based would fill a fivefoot self of books. This mass of data, accumulated in three years of ceaseless search, is stored in triplicate in vaults in Providence, New York and Washington. Copies of every item of it have been Bupplied, as discovered, to the. State Department in Washington or te some other braneh of the Government. It Is literally the foundation stone upon which has been erected the whele structure of our present enormous secret service, and it is the cause of the awakening ef the American people to the hideous menace of Germany's coldblooded assaults upon our very existence as an independent nation. How has it happened that a provincial aewspaper (it Is called "the Rhode Island BiBle in its own territory) has been the means ef diselesiag facts

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AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN A FRENCH VILLAGE. American soldier boys have taken something besides lighting prowess to Franca They have tucked in their hearts a great load of love for humanity, and it is evidenced by their quick taking to French children in particular and to French conditions in general. The photo shows an improvised barber shop in a French village. This tonsorial parlor has not all the necessary equipment, but the Sammies make no complaint. While the operation is going on soldiers waiting their turn are talking with the kiddies In a language which is neither French nor English, but is mutually understandable.

American Engineers Volunteered as Stretcher Bearers After Preparing For Byng Advance

American engineers played a large part in the preparations leading up to the successful British blow toward Cambrai last week. These are the first American troops to take part in operations on the British front and a delayed Associated Press dtapatch says that they have been building railroads in the Somme district for nearly four months and for a long time have been working within range of the German artillery. Not content with building and running the vital communication lines, the American engineers entered the firing line during General Byng"s push to act as volunteer stretcher bearers National guardsmen from every state in the union and the vanguard of NOVEMBER1 BAD. -MONTH FOR FIRE Fires during the month of November caused more damage than was caused during the combined proceeding months this year, according to Fire Chief Miller Friday. The total less during the month is estimated at $2,732. The fire department answered twenty alarms. Most of the fires could have been prevented according to Chief Miller. Defective flues and sparks from chimneys, lighting shingled roofs caused the greater percentage of the fires. Peace is Suggested by English Marquis Much discussion has been provoked in England by the publication of a letter from the marquis of Lansdowne, a veteran political leader. He pleads for a revision of the war ajms of the allies and an attempt to obtain peace before the war leads to the ruin of the world. The letter has caused such a sensation that it is understood it will be the subject of debate in the British House of Commons, probably early next week. All of the London newspapers but one bitterly score the marquis for launching peace suggestions at the time the maximalists and Germans are treating. GERMAN PAPERS PLEASED WITH LA N DSDOWN E'S LETTER LONDON, Nov. SO. The newspapers in Germany today published the Lord Lansdowne letter on their front pages, telegraphes the Amsterdam correspondent of the Exchange Telegraps company. The German newspapers consider it a "beginning of England's getting reasonable." 1 that usually are procured only by the secret agents or governments and kept guarded like precious jewels in the most sacred archives of their State departments? It has happened because: - . . Sensed Big Pacts., . ' 1. John R. Rathom. editor ot the Journal, sensed from the first hour of the war that we were a World Power with world-wide interests ; that we were one of the jobjects of Germany's mad ambition to destroy democracy the world over; and that the cataclysm in Europe was, no less for us in America than for Great; Britain and France, the crucial test of all history.; S.Because Mr. Rathom, encouraged and financed by the owners of . his conservative old New England paper, and working witH the loyal aid of a dozen newspaper reporters, has beaten the German secret service ' agents at their own. game a hundred tiroes since the war began. 8. Because he had the foresight to have taken down la writing and kept

the American aero fleet have arrived behind the front in France. Many of the former guardsmen already are undergoing training within sound of the guns at the front. Meanwhile American aviators are training actively with the American troops. Lenlne's Regime Ended. Conditions in Russia apparently remain greatly unsettled. It Is reported that Lenin e's government has given way to a socialist coalition cabinet, in which the Bolshevik! are represented. On the various war fronts there has been little change. Heavy artillery activity continues in the Ypres sector. No infantry actions of importance are reported from the Italian front but the opposing cannon are very busy. AT JT AGAIN! WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. All the oppressives measures which characterized the German Invasion of Belgium and many of the acts of barbarism which revolted the civilized world, semi-official dispatches from Rome today aay, are now being practiced by the AustroGerman invaders of Italy. Near Zenson, the dispatches say, the invaders placed Italian women and children before their troops as they advanced and the Italian soldiers were compelled to sacrifice their innocent countrymen. In the Friuli region, war taxes, requisitions and conscription of labor is being practiced as it was in Belgium and northern. France. FEW DEATHS REPORTED FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga., Nov. 30. Two hundred and forty cases of mumps and eighty cases of measles prevail among the thirty thousand soldiers at this post, but there have been few deaths and the situation is not alarming. Adequate Supply of by Member of Gas consumers in Richmond can depend upon the customary supply of gas all of this winter, in the opinion of K. C. Krick, vice president of the Logan Natural Gas company of Columbus. O. Krick came to Richmond for a conference with Fuel Director Bates. . Use of natural gas for Industrial purposes is to be regulated both in Ohio and Indiana. Krick Informed Director Bates, and under this regulation normal gas supplies to domestic consumers can be assured, except in

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on file every wireless despatch sent by the great Sayville and Tuckerton stations since the day war was de clared in August, 1914, and the ingenuity to decipher masses of these despatches .in code, including thousands of damning messages from Von Bernstorff, Von Papen, Boy-Ed, Dumba, Von Nuber, and scores of nameless others, to the German and Austrian governments, " 4. Because, in his efforts to serve "his country, he succeeded in getting his own reporters into confidential positions in the twelve most important Teutonic headquarters in the United States, and received from them almost daily reports . and original documents covering every phase of German plots and . German propaganda. These men he placed In: ;.:v,. ;.' The German Embassy in - Washington; y- . ". v -v ..- -' . ( .. .' The German Consulate-General in New York; - The Austrian Consulate-General in New York.

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Berlin reports the repulse of Italian attacks against positions west of the Brenta and west of the Piave. Despatches from the British front in France report an attack by the Germans In progress In the region of Connelcu in the Cambrai battle area. The point struck lies at the southerly base of the salient formed- by General Byngs recent advance. The early advices did not disclose whether the attack was merely a relatively unimportant counter attack or a more ambitious attempt by the Germans to push in behind the British west of the Scheldt and compel them to abandon the hold they have gained on the east bank of that river,- in the Masnleres region which seriously menaces Cambria from the south. STAMPS HERE Government thrift and 'war saving certificates will be sold in Richmond beginning next Monday, Postmaster Beck announced Friday. Richmond's first allotment of 2,000 war savings certificates and 1,000 thrift stamps were received Friday. War savings certificates will cost from $4.12 to $4.23, according to the date of purchase, and will be redeemable on January 1, 1923, for $5, which amounts to four percent on the amount invested. Thrift stamps will sell for twentyfive cents each and when $4 worth of the stamps are obtained a war savings certificate can be secured for them by paying the difference between $4 and the current price of the war savings stamp. War savings Btaxnps can bo purchased at the Richmond postofflce for $4.12 during the months of December and January. ' The thrift stamps do not bear interest. The stamps will be 6old at banks, factories and many stores. Gas Seen Distributing Firm the event of line breaks, which can be occasionally anticipated. The Logan company serves the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company and recently the gas supply has been quite low at times In Richmond. Gas shortage which has occurred so far this winter has "been due to both a coal shortage and the fact that many industrial concerns which have hitherto used gas only during the summer months have been depending upon this fuel for winter use. The German Consulate in Boston; The Austrian Consulate in Cleve land; The German Consulate in New Orleans; The German Consulate&eneral in Chicago; The Austrian Consulate-General in Chicago; The German Consulate-General in San Francisco; , The Austrian Consulate-General In Philadelphia; . The German Consulate In Denver; The German Consulate In St. Louis Will Tell History That, in barest outline, is the story. Mr. Rathom himself is going to tell the details of it in a series of articles in the World's Work, beginning in January. . The purpose of this present article is to give some idea of the man who did these things. But it may be well to suggest the character and scope of his forWeoTnIng articles by an attempt

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GERMANY IS PREPARED TO TALK PEACE WITH RUSSIA Chancellor Von Hertling Tells Reichstag Extremists Have Only to Send Delegates to Berlin. SAYS TEUTONS WIN (By Associated Press) Germany is ready to discuss peace with Russia if envoys with full powers are sent to Berlin. Count Von Hertling, the new imperial chancellor, declared yesterday before the reichstag. He exressed the wish that the present efforts of the Bolshevik! would bring peace. In a review of the military situation, the chancellor said that the armies of the central powers have been generally successful and that the submarine warfare was successful and that the allies were unable to make progress against it The chancellor declared that the central powers still stood by their answer to the peace note of the pope. He said that the central nowers were not resonsible for the prolongation of the war and, held out as a warning to others "the glorious advance" into Italy. Apparently the chancellor did not state Germany's peace terms specifically nor did he mention the reichstag resolution in favor of pea.-e, without annexations and indemnities. Progressive Rejoices. N Deputy Fishbeck, a progressive! said he rejoiced at the chancellor's words regarding the Russian offer of a neaceful raDDroehempnt and rioolared that the chancellor's policy was calculated to pave the way for reciprocal confidence. The collapse of the Italian army, Herr Stresemann, National Liberal, declared was a merited punishment for the Italian government and means the collapse of Italian hopes for Austrian territory. Count Von Westarp, Conservative, declared that the successful demand for the dismissal of Dr. Michaelis from the chancellorship signified a serioug attack on the emperor's con-stitutlaaaL-riehts, and this limitation of the emperor's lights has been shown more clearly by the dismissal of Dr. Helfferlch, the vice chancellor. Even in the. appointment of Count Von Hertling. he added, the emperor's freedom of decision seems to have been maintained insufficiently. The Russian offer must be given full importance, Herr Haase. Independent Socialist, declared, but a separate peace with Russia is not enough. He added: "We want a general peace without annexation east or west" AUSTRIANS ALSO ARE READY TO TALK TERMS WITH RUSS (By Associated . Press) Austria-Hungary has officially replied to the Bolsheviki proposals, stating that it recognizes them as affording a suitable basis for entering uponnegotiations for an armistice and a general peace and that the AustroHungarian governmert is ready to enter Into such negotiations. AMERICA TO DEAL KINDLY WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 The American government is shaping what Is described as a tolerant policy in dealing with Russia In her present straits, so as to show hope and faith, for the ultimate triumph of the sane, democracy. It was declared today that even should the Bolsheviki conclude an armistice with Germany there is no present intention to broadly list Russia as an enemy, and that the American government is at pains to hare all the peoples of Russia know its atuiuue. Contracts for supplies of materials Tor Russia, it was said, would go forward as usual in the hope that they would be applied to the cause of world democracy to tell briefly three of his experiences in combating German plots: When the war began, in 1914, most Americans regarded themselves as interested, but aloof, spectators of the most colossal drama ever staged in the world's history. That it might concern them in their own dearest honor and possessions did not for one moment enter their minds. But Mr. Rathom knew otherwise. He had traveled pretty much the whole worldEurope, Africa, China, Australia, and the United States. He knew, of old, Germany's ambitions; particularly Its designs upon the Monroe Doctrine, and its subtle and carefully organized propaganda to consolidate the Germans in the United States for the working out of the American end of its dream of world dominion. Hence, the day war was declared, he began to probe the German activities-in America, knowing well that soon ilsvwhnM-

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