Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 50, 9 January 1918 — Page 1

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Vm VT TTT MO Palladium and Sun-Telegram HiCHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 9, 1918. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

FRENCH MAKE SORTIE INTO HUN LINE ON MILE FRONT

Machine Guns and 1 50 Prisoners Taken and Defenses Destroyed Before Raiders Returned. FOE EFFORTS CHECKED By Associated Press) French troop s in the Wovre have enlivened the virtual Inactivity on the western front by successfully completing a sortie into the German lines east of St. Mihiel. The German positions on a one-mile front were penetrated and 150 prisoners and some machine guns captured. After destroying the defenses and shelters the French returned to their own lines. The French also made an attempt against the enemy lines near Ammerzwefler, in Alsace, according to Berlin, which claims the thrust was repulsed. Paria announces the checking of German attempts in the region of Mont Teton in Champagne. Meanwhile the artillery duel northeast of Verdun and if upper Alsace, continues active. Unable To Hold. German troop3 in a local attack of Bullecourt, west northwest of Cambrai, entered the British trenches but a counter-attack ejected the enemy who left 18 prisoners in the hands of the British. Berlin reports the failure of a British thrust on the BoesingheStadin railway, northeast of Ypres. The German artillery is still active in the Ypres sector. Bad weather on the Italian front has reduced infantry operations to a min imum but the artillery is busy on the northern line bet ween Asia go and the Piave. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his review of the 1917 campaign up to mid-November, says that the additional strength the Germans have gained from the Russian and Italian failures has largely been discounted. He declares that the ultimate destruction of the German armies ha3 been brought appreciably nearer. The offensive campaign planned for 1917 failed of completion but on the western front, the allies gained the victories of Arras, Vlmy, Messines, Flanders, Verdun, Champagne and the Aisne. BIG PATRIOTIC RALLY PLANNED A gigantic patriotic conference for Wayne county will be held in Richmond, February 4, according to a telegram received by Dr. E. R. Churchell, president of the Wayne council defense, from State Chairman Will H. Hays. The program will be the largest that Richmond has ever had. No definite program is ready for announcement as yet but according to Dr. Cturchell. the men who will speak will be at the top of their department. Dr. Churchell also said that some one who had been in the trenches and knew the European war would speak at this time. An all-day program is being planned. HOSPITAL SHIP IS TORPEDOED (By Associated Press) The torpedoing of the British hospital ship Rewa, a 7.300 ton vessel, is announced. All the wounded on board were saved, the only casualties being among the crew, three members of which are missing. The steamer was sunk in the Bristol channel on the night of January 4. She is declared to have been displaying all the markings and lights required by the Hague convention for the protection of such fblps. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Waether Bureau Fair continued cold tonight. Thursday fair. Today's Temperature. Noon 18 Yesterday. Maximum ."...20 Minimum 14 For Richmond and Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and probably Thursday; continued cold, ne:ir zero. General Conditions Two storms, one over the north, the other over the south, are moving eastward . toward each other and generally fair weather has resulted. Abnormally cold weather prevails over the plain states and the temperature will fall below zero throughout Wayne county tonight. Another storm probably will appear over the west by Thursday, coming from Britlt-h-Columbia, but will not reach In re during the next tairty-six hours.

NEW BRITISH ENVOY TO U. S.

Earl Reading, New British ambassador, and Lady Reading.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 9. (Speciall Earl Reading, lord chief justice of Great Britain, is coming to the United States as ambassador to succeed Cecil Spring-Rice and to be the direct representative of the British war cabinet. Much of the routine embassy work will be taken off Earl Reading's hands, leaving him free for war work. He is bringing with him to Washington Lady Reading. While Earl Reading will have the

Quakers Should Fight Too Says This Richmond Friend

Robert H- Shaw, Hickslte Quaker of Richmond, Tuesday declared himself in favor of Quakers bearing arms, as well as other American youths, against the common foe. x "There never was such a necessity as now for Quakers coming to the front," he said. "With the state of affairs that now exists, it would cause a psychological effect on Germany if the entire forces of this nation were banded together to defeat her." Mr. Shaw is 75 years old and was born and reared in the beliefs of the Hicksite Quakers. He has been a resident of Richmond since the spring of 1S60. He resides at 312 North Fifteenth street. Much Is At Stake. If Friends do not actually bear arms they should do everything within their power to aid the government he says. There never was as much at stake in any war as there is in the present with Stories of Many Deaths in Devens Army Camp are Branded as Anti-American AYER. Mass . Jan. 9. Array , officials at Camp Devens today branded as "anti-American propaganda" : reports of wholesale deaths and sickness at the cantonment. The official records disclose that of the 44,000 young New Englanders here, only twenty men have died during the four months 6lnce the camp opened and that several of these deaths were due to accidents. Only two deaths have occurred during the past month. At the base hospital 5.010 men have beep admitted for treatment during the four months and all but a hundred now confined there have been discharged as cured. SPEAKERS PROVIDED EATON. O., Jan. 9. G. F. Aldrich. J. S. Brigham and Dr. Mary Anderson will be speakers provided by. the state for a farmers' Institute to be held in Eldorado, Jan. 14 and 15. They have lectured before institutes already held in Preble county.

London Papers Call President's Speech "Epoch-Making"

LONDON, Jan. 9. Only a small portion of President Wilson's address to congress, arrived in time to be printed in the first editions of the London morning newspapers and was not given special prominence. The principal pages of the second editions, however, were recast completely to enable a big display of the main parts of the address, which evidently is destined to cause an equal 'or greater sensation than the speech. made Saturday by Premier Lloyd-George. In the introductory notes the president's address is called epoch-making and the item in the programme referring to freedom of the seas is made conspicuous by large headlineR. The Dally Chronicle in an editorial note which defers full comment until tomorrow, expresses ' "keen satisfaction that President Wilson has once more seized a great occasion in order to give the lead, not only to his own nation, but to the conscience of civilized mankind." "The effect produced by Premier Lloyd-George's statement," it . adds, "mu?t be strengthened and deepened immensely by the appeal in which

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title of ambassador, purely diplomatic matters will be in the hands of a charge d'affaires, the earl controlling war activities. His work, according to the understanding in official circles, will deal mainly with financial and general business matters. Col. E. D. Swinton, originator of the British tank, will accompany the lord chief justice as an attache. the kaiser trying to spread . his rule over the entire universe. -' Mr. Shaw also said that he favored military training, now, as a means of bettering the physical condition of the young men of . today. "And if Germany should land troops in this country there would be plenty of gray-haired men who would rally to the standards," he continued. Mr. Shaw's grandfather was in charge of Indians near what is now Harveysburg, O., during the war of 1812, having been commissioned by General Harrison. It was his task to keep the Indians from joining the forces of the British. CHICAGO STILL IS SNOWBOUND CHICAGO, Jan. 9. After nearly three days during which thousands of men, women and children have shovelled from morning till night to clear the streets of snow, Chicago today still was.! struggling to free itself of the great drifts, left by Sunday's blizzard, ; which, tied up traffic , to . such en extent that the city practically was without , milk for two days and faced a serious fuel famine. Today, although many outlying streets still are impassable, the situaJ tion appeared brighter and by another day it is though the city will be in something like a normal condition. If the weather man's prediction of more snow proves wrong. Railroads are running passenger trains practically on time and freight trains, though light, are moving regularly. The downtown district was cleared yesterday after nearly every big business house had used its employes .to clear the streets in its section, thus releasing the city's laborers to other parts of the city. President Wilson again" has exerted his unique authority, both moral and political, as the spokesman, ' for the democratic future of a new world which is' struggling to be free. ' Two Speeches Compared Coming so closely on the heels of Premier Lloyd George's address at the ! labor council the words of the heads of the American and British government are compared' 'closely.'"' While some differences are found in the manner of discussing : the various ques tions, - this evening's . newspapers find no disagreement t in essential policy It is noted that the president deals more sympathetically with " the Bol6heviki than did the premier, hut it is pointed out that America has not suffered from the Russian collapse as the western allies have. However, the Westminster Gazette welcomes Mr. Wilson's "careful, sympathetic language," and says it hopes that all misunderstandings which may have arisen from other statements will be removed by the unequivocal language in which the president -adopts the Russian demands as his own. The speech appears in the newspa-j

PEOPLE CRY FOR PEACE IN FOES' CITIES

Crowds in Berlin, and Essen Parade mands. Leipsic in De GENEVA, Jan. 9 Crowds marched through the streets of Berlin, Leipsic and Essen, shouting "We must have peace," when news of the breaking of the Brest-Litovsk negotiations became known, according to reports received here today. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 9 A number of disabled German soldiers were invited on Monday to attend a meeting of the Fatherland party, founded recently In the interests of pan-Germans and other uncompromising elements. They grew restless under the flow of chauvinist talk from the annexationists, says the Socialist organ Vorwaerts of Berlin. They were not per mitted to speak and a stormy scene followed. One of the speakers referred to the disabled soldiers as deserters who had left Hindenburg's banner to betray their comrades. Some of the crip ples, Vorwaerts, says, "were belabored with sticks and abused by the .he roic 'home warriors' of the fatherland party." The police finally ordered the disabled soldiers to leave the hall. In concluding its account of the meeting the newspaper remarks: "'The home warriors of the fatherland party were left to themselves and now know what the field grays think of them." NAVY REBELS IN PORTUGAL MADRID. Tuesday, Jan. 8 Another outbreak has occurred in Portugal according to news reaching here from beyond the frontier. Crews of Portuguest warships mutinied and began bombarding the Lisbon forts. It is stated. The army, it appears, remained faithful to the government of Dr. Sidonio Paez and tranquility has been restored. REGISTRANTS GET i r NEW "CLASS" CARDS The Richmond selective army board is continuing to list "delinquents" registrants who have failed to return their questionnaires to the board within the allotted time, If they can not give good reasons for their failure, according to members of the board. New cards are being sent the registrants who have already returned their questionnaires to the board, telling the class in which they have been placed. The number of single men, registered for service, has been cut as many of the registrants enlisted before Dec. 15. Man With Counterfeit Conscience is Sought by Secret Service Now WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Secretary McAdoo yesterday received an anonymous letter containing $108 dollars in bills. . . "I am deeply repentant," wrote the censor." for having defrauded the government out of this sum and now return it." The money was sent to the treasurer cashier for deposit in the conscience, fund. Today it was discovered the bills were counterfeit Now Chief Moran of the secret service is looking for the man with a counterfeit conscience. IRISH WILL FLY LONDON. Jan. 9. Referring to the government's decision to erect an aircraft factory in Ireland, the Time? says that several airdomes are now; being built there. The establJshment of . a new and important Industry, it adds, is stimulating the national imagination, and there will be no lack of Irish recruits for the flying corps. pers under big headlines such as "America's Terms to Germany." "World Peace Program," and "Great Program of International Reforms.' The Evening News in its introduction describes the speech as one of worldwide importance in which the presidentlaid down America's peace terms in clear, direct and simple language. Lord ' Northcliffe's Evening News, while of the opinion that President Wilson's declarations regarding the removal of economic barriers and the freedom of speech need further cluci dation,. endorses enthusiastically hia attitude toward Russia. Summing up', the newspaper saVs: i "President Wilson is for a free world on lines endorsed by all the Entente allies but it means the surrender by Germany of all her ambitions and she will need be in a very chastened mood before she accepts." It continues: "With but trifling exceptions Mr. Wilson's views coincide with and en dcrse those expressed by Mr. Llovd George. Because of this fact Mr. Wil

CONGRESSMAN ENLISTS AS PRIVATE

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Rep. Royall C. Johnson, of South Dakota, and Mrs. Johnson. Lawmakers are not nearly so essential as fighters these days, opined Representative Royall C. Johnson, of South Dakota. So he put away his portfolio and took up his grip and left the capital for Camp Meade, where he enlisted in the national army as a private. Mrs. Johnson will stay in Washington with her two sons, eleven and nine years old.

Army is Certainly "Man-Making ' Factory 9 Writes Wayne Soldier

"111 be nothing but a kid in age, when I get out of the army, but I will be an old man in experience," writes G. L. Kilgus, who is serving in Camp Jackson, S. C, in a letter to his mother, Mrs. A. E. Kutter, of Boston. "The army is the best school in the world and do you know, I have learned to love this army," he continues. "I'll certainly be a different man." "These rabbits down here have the nerve to run right under our very feet and as we only have rocks to 'get them' we don't get very many. I received a letter from Elmer Vintar, from France, and he says it has been snowing over there, but not enough to leave rabbit tracks. "The kaiser has had a bad day. When we turn loose on him he will think "hell is a poppin'. I wish you could see this camp. The world won't know what fighting is until the United States gets started and then it will be hard to stop them. "Now don't worry over us boys because we are not going to get hurt. Watch Out, Colin! ST. LOUIS, Jan. 9. Women letter carriers are not a success, according to Postmaster Colin M. Selph, who after giving them a 15 day trial on several city routes, announced today their services would be required no longer. Work was too heavy for them, he declared. Policeman's Cold Hands Saves Bank $80,000 CHICAGO. Jan. 9. Patrolman Martin Flynn had been plodding through snow drifts notifying householders to help dig the city out -and because of this the Southwest Trust and .Savings bank, with 80,000 handy in an open vault, was not robbed today Flynn. chilled to the bone, entered the bank to get warm. He had secretly seated himself when a youthful bandit with a pistol In each hand, entered with the command "Hands up." Flynn opened fire and was shot in the leg. The robbers fled and escaped with two companions who awaited him in a, limousine. Jp" son's tpeech will be read with Qoubla satisfaction In this country.' The News regards as .noteworthy passages of the speech those offering help to Russia and declaring that the peace negotiations must be absolutely open. . SOME CONGRESSMEN SEE WAY TO PEACE THROUGH MESSAGE WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Approval of President Wilson's address to congress setting forth America's program for war and peace, was heard on every side in Washington today and the opinion seemed universal that the president had chosen the psychological moment to counteract any evil effects of Germany's latest peace propaganda. Although some members professed to believe that the Germans might find the terms laid down acceptable as a basis of negotiations most officials taw in the definite proposals of the address only a great war document, clearing the atmosphere for the allies, heartening the Russians and furnishing a light for the German people if they choose to see it.

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you had no slackers In our family. "We are being well -taken care of and haven't a thing to worry about. Why we don't know what worry is here." Kilgus has two brothers In the service. One already is In Franca Russians Look to Germany to Bring Order in Country LONDON, Jan. 9. The situation In Petrograd is depicted in the most gloomy colors by the correspondent of the Times who in a telegram dated Monday, the Russian Christmas, says that no Christmas in three hundred years has been celebrated in such tragic circumstances. Petrograd, he adds, is full of dirt, disorder and crime. Burglary, robbery and murder in the most audacious forms prevail to an extent hitherto unknown and there is no police or other authority to which fo appeal. The food situation is very critical, he says, and starvation appears to be staring the people in the face. The only bread to be had is black, gritty and underdone and is composed of millers' refuse and mixed with straw. Potatoes are getting scarce and dear, ; while meat is a rare luxury. , The wretched conditions of exist ence have been aggravated, by blinding snowstorms drifted by violent winds for three days and nights with the temperature at 14 degrees fahrenheit. The correspondent of the Times thus sums up the general position of the country: . "Russian affairs have become so desperate that only the intervention of the allies or the Germans can prevent catastrophe. - As this can no lnne-pr h expected from the allies, the disheart-1 ened Russian looks to the Germans to put an end to the awful chaos in which the country now is involved." i Leeds Assigned to Post at Regimental Headquarters Rudolph G. Leeds left Tuesday night for Indianapolis, having been assigned to duty at Regimental Headquarters of the Second Indiana Field Artillery. It was authoritatively stated that the president decided to address congress at this time in an effort to prevent resumption of negotiations betweenthe Russians and Germans, at Brest-Litovsk and counteract the duplicity of the Germans shown in their dealing with the Russians. .The president, in making his speech, assumed that the Russc-German peace negotiations definitely had been broken off. Another reason for the president's message was found In the necessity of making some reply, to the request of the Bolshevik! that the United States and the entente join in the peace negotiations. Germany made it a condition of the negotiations that Russia should bring in the allies. Since the United States and the allies have not recognized the Bolshevikl government, it was deemed necessary that the United States set forth its aims in a public announcement, which , might be given circulation in Russia, following the example of Premier Lloyd-George. The president's address has been cabled and sent by wireless to the principal apitol3 for telegraphic distribution.

NAB GERMAN

IN PLANT MAKING WAR SUPPLIES Hellmut Metzdorff, Who Makes No Secret of Approval of Kaiser, Probably Will Be Interned. EMPLOYED AT STARR Hellmut Metzdorff, 23 years old. subject of Germany, who has been employed by the Starr Piano company of, Richmond, probably will be interned for the remainder of the war as a result of his sympathy with Germany and his utterances against the United States. Metzdorff was employed at the Starr Piano company's plant for more than six months. The Starr Piano company has been working on government orders for some time, manufacturing parts for airplanes. He roomed at 423 South Fourth street. "I haven't been put to that te6t yet," he told Sheriff Carr. when asked if he would go so far as to blow up some institution which is working on war contracts, if he was called upon to do so by a German agent "Should Be Interned." "There is no question i to where Metzdorff stands and he should be interned at once," Sheriff Carr said Wednesday. Metzdorff is the second man, who was employed at the Starr Piano factory, who has been arrested for proGerman utterances. The other man. Arthur Hueller, was Interned a3 an alien enemy last May. Federal authorities ar expected to come to Richmond immediately to investigate the case and take him into custody. Metzdorff, who is being held in th county Jail, was interviewed by a Palladium reporter Wednesday. Smoking a cigarette his face was expressionless as he talked. On the little finger of his left hand be wears the German ring with an iron cross in the center. . Reticent About Part." He was reticent concerning his past but reiterated his signed statement made to police Tuesday night that, "I will use my influence for Germany and will always say that Germany is right." He was evidently laboring under a nervous strain for his hand shook slightly and once he said "of course I am for America " But he "begged pardon" for saying it when asked if he meant to refute his signed . statement to police that he wa3 in sympathy with the German cause and against America. "You are in sympathy then with a government that mutilates women and kills little babies?" he was askfd. Slowly, Metzdorff puffed the cigarette which was nearly smoked away, and gazed at the wall. Then he answered : "That is too foolish to answer. Any one with any sense at all knows that that is not true." "Why Did You Leave?" "Why did you leave Germany if it is such a fine country?" he was asked. "That's none of the paper's business," he responded. "It's Uncle Sam's business, though." "They will probably find out," wa the answer. Metzdorff said he first came to th United States in 1914. He would not say what he did in this country during that time.- According to his story to Assistant Chief of Police McNaljr he said that he landed in this country when the war started and was unable to return to Germany. He told police that he was learning to be a naval officer and was working on a coal ship, which was hauling coal from Germany to Mexico. From Mexico he went to Montana, where he worked on a farm about seven montha. Worked in Boiler Shop From Montana he Is said to have gone to Seattle, Wash., where he was employed in a boiler shop. From Seattle he came to Richmond and has Continued on Page Eight. FOUR DIE WHEN WALLS COLLAPSE CHICAGO. Jan. 9. Four firemen were killed and four Injured, probably fatally, early today when the walls of a moving picture theatre at Chicago avenue and Leavitt street co'lopsed, while they were fighting the blaze. Several hundred spectators who gathered In the street to witness the fire, narrowly escaped injury when the walls fell. The deaths were laid Indirectly to the recent blizzard, by officials today. Great drifts of 6now, which stUl block the streets, prevented fire apparatus from reaching the scene of the fire until some time after the alarm was turned in. The blaze then had gained such headway that It was practically beyond . control. Firemen said that It was impossible to get more than one stream of water into play for sometime because of frozen and snow-burled hydrants. Two of the dead firemen were buried ten feet In drifts of snow and their bodies were not recovered until a number of rescue crews had worked for several hours. ' -

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