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'Consolidated SECOND RAID IS MADE ON AMERICANS IN TRENCHES Two Sammies Killed, Four Wounded and One Missing in Sector Where Casualties Have Occurred Daily. . ENEMY LOSSES SAME WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Jan. 31. (By the Associated Press) An American position on a certain section of the French front , was raided during a heavy fog shortly after daylight yesterday morning. The attack was precedel by a violent artillery barrage. Two Americans were killed and four, wounded. One soldier is missing and Is bellered to have been captured by the enemy. Casualties have been occurring almost daily for several days on this sector. It Is now permitted to disclose that all the recent casualties given out from Washington occurred In this sector. The deaths were caused by shell fire, mostly shrapnel. One of the men wounded was hit by a sniper's bullet. He fell In a trench filled with water and almost drowned before be was rescued bv his captain. Several of the wounded had been listed as accidental wounding1?. These were mostly wounds on the hands. Enemy Loses, Too It Is certain that the enemy casualties from the American cannon and machine gun fire has been as great or greater than ours. The casualties given out In Washington recently occurred over a certain recent period. The dead were buried within the sound and range of the guns. One man was blown to pieces by a shell in a regimental headquarters town as he . was following his colonel into a dugout. Three men were killed by one shell which fell in a trench and another died of wounds in a hospital. Quite a few of the men sent to hospitals were wounded In the upper part of the body or on the head from shrapnel. For military reasons It has been inadvisable to send earlier or other details. In the first raid on Nov. 3 the American losses were 3 killed, 6 wounded, and 12 made prisoners by the enemy. FRANCIS IS THREATENED WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. Secretary Lansing has Instructed Ambassador Francis at Petrograd to report to the mate department any development in connection with the threats made against him by anarchists because of the conviction of Emma GoMman and Alexander Birkman, but it has been left to the ambassador to follow any course he may consider advisable. The department has assumed that ha has reported all incidents to the Bolshevtkl element and may have asked for protection. Officials of the department were not Inclined today to regard the ambassador's situation as serious, believing It probable that the government, authorities would take such measures as necessary to protect him. CONVICT SEVEN I, IV AV. MEMBERS TACOMA. Wash..- Jan. St. Seven members of tbe Industrial Workers of the World, on trial in the federal court here for violation of the espionage act, were found guilty by a jury last night of circulating false reorts detrimental to the United States government Sentences will be pronounced later. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weath. er Bureau Fair tonight and colder. Friday, fair continued cold. Today's Temperature. Noon 13 Yesterday. Maximum 38 Minimum 10 For Richmond and Wayne County by W. E. Moore Probably fair tonight followed by increasing cloudiness Friday; considerably zero tonight. Continued cold Friday and Friday and probably Saturday. No sign of break in cold weather for several days.. General Conditions The cold wave continues unbroken east of the Rocky mountains and temperatures range from zero in Oklahoma to below on 1 the Canadian border. The Rocky mountain storm is moving slowly eastward and probably will not reach here before Saturday or Sunday. Weather la tbe southeast 1b cold and wet with general rains on the south Atlantic coast

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Cut this out, paste It on cardboard, punch a hole in the top and hang it In your kitchen as a daily reminder. Bogus Smallpox Signs Scares Collectors Away MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 31. A colored family here for several days frightened collectors from several installment bouses away by displaying a "smallpox" sign In the front window. The collectors did not stop to investigate, but hurried on. Some one notified N. D. Berry, city health officer, and he made an Investigation today, but found no signs of tbe disease In the family. Members of the family admitted that the sign was a fake for the purpose of holding off the collectors. The health officer pulled down the sign and warned the family that any other attempt at this sort of camouflage would result in the members being arrested. Mrs. Chrisman Teaches 45 Women Knitting Art Mrs. George Chrisman, of Klnsey 6treet, has taught 45 West Side women to knit within the last few months. Mrs. John Cully, one of Mrs. Chrisman's experts, has knitted 52 pairs of socks; Mrs. J. B. Unthank, 25 pairs; Mrs. Wolford, 25 pairs; Mrs. Gibbs, one helmet one pair wristlets, two sweaters snd four pairs of socks; and Mrs. Rlddell JO pairs of socks. Other knitters who are doing splendid work are Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Kercheval, Mrs. Darnell, Mrs. Bonnell, Mrs. Longman, Mrs. Christ Cain, Mrs. W. A. DeWe-ese, Mrs. Claude Addelman, Mrs. Goorge Hamilton, Mrs. V. A. Ellis and Mrs. Ralph Little. CenterviUe Man is On Jury Trying Joseph Bell Mark A. Stevens, retired farmer of CenterviUe. is a member of the federal Jury In Indianapolis which is hearing the trial of former Mayor Joseph E. Bell of Indianapolis, and thirty other defendants indicted on charges of registration and election interference and frauds. The jury is composed of mostly farmers and retired business men. There is one minister on the panel. ? 1 t GREENSFORK, Ind., Jan. 31. Residents wonder if this is the reason for the phenomenally oold winter: Mrs. Blizzard is spending the winter here with her son, William Blizzard, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Roller. NOTE This is one article in a series prepared from the memoranda of Dr. Harry E. Barnard. Federal Food Administrator for Indiana, who has just returned from a most important conference of food officials In Washington. It includes facts dealing particularly with submarines and ocean transport. "Notwithstanding the popular notion that the North Sea and Trans-Atlantic shipping lanes are "swarming with submarines," the fact is only ten or fifteen U-boats are in active operation at any one given time. "Submarines have been observed 480 miles from the coast of Ireland. This proves a development in the ability to cover a greater radius, which

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WILSON CALLS ON FARMERS TO HELP WIN President's Message Calls Attention to Part Agriculture Will Play. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. To the farmers of the United States President Wilson sent a message in which he called attention to the country's need of their assistance during the coming year in winning the war. The message was sent through the Farmer's Conference being held at the University of Illinois at Urbana. The message was delivered by President James of the University of Illinois in the absence of Secretary of Agriculture Houston, who was to have represented the president. The president had expected to attend but indisposition made it impossible. The president's message reads in part: "I need not tell you, for I am sure you realize as keenly as I do that we as a nation in the presence of a great task which demands supreme sacrifice and endeavor of every one of us. We can give every thing that Is needed with the greater willingness . and even satisfaction because the object of the war in which we are engaged is the greatest that free men ever have undertaken." This Year Must Tell. "It is to prevent the life of the world from being determined and the fortunes of men everywhere affected by small groups of military masters who seek their own interest and the selfish dominion throughout the world of the government they unhappily for the moment control. You will not need to be convinced that it was necessary for us as a free people to take part in this war. Our national life and our whole economic development Continued on Page Eight. HUNS KILL 20 IN RAID OVER PARIS (By Associated Press) ' German airmen carried out -a systematic raid on Paris last night, dropping 14 tons of bombs on the city according to Berlin's announcement. Tbe French official reports shows 20 persons killed and 50 wounded ae a result of the bombs dropped. The Germans lost one of their raiding crafts vhich was brought down and its occupy ;ts made prisoners. Berlin announces tu t the raid was in reprisal, presumably for recent French raids over German territory. GROUND WON BY ITALIANS (By Associated Press) Except on the northern Italian front where the Italians have enlarged their gains west of the Brenta, there has been no marked military activity. In the capture of Col Del Rosso, Col De Chelle and Monte Di Valbella. the Italians took more than 2,600 prisoners, six gur:s, 100 machine guns and other war material. The Austrians have sustained heavy losses in ineffectual attempts to dislodge the Italians from their new positions. Intensive air fighting continues on the western front and entente aviators are reported to have made a heavy attack on Zeebrugge, the German submarine base in Belgium. British merchant vessel losses for the past week show an increase over the two previous weeks. The current report of the British admiralty says that fifteen ships including nine of more than 1,600 tons were destroyed. In each of the previous two weeks 21 ships were lost and in each of the first two reports made in January 21 merchantmen were sunk. The ruthless Uboat warfare entered upon its second year today without yet having accomplished its announced purpose, ending the war. ! German airmen have turned their attentions from London to Paris. Wednesday night the French capitol was raided by enemy airplanes for the first time in more than six months. Tbe loss of some lives and damage to property is reported but full details are lacking. t was one of the problems affecting their successful operation at the beginning of the war. "Increase in tonnage, guarding . of American ships by armed cruisers, more trained seanlen and expert gunners plus the use of sea-bombing planes are apparently the most effective weapons necessary for maintaining shipments of men, munitions, and food-stuffs to our associates in the war." ' "Camouflage on ships of an ingenuous character has proved effective in reducing the visability in some instances from twenty-five miles to five miles. However, the camouflaging takes time, requires that the ships-be laid up and taken out of commlssloa

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Peasants and Workmen s Army to Help New Revolution; Correspondent Says Bolsheviki Have Come to Stay

PETROGRAD. Jan. 31. An official statement issued today by the Bolsheviki government says that the new Workmen's- and " Peasants Red "Army will serve to support the coming social revolution. COLLEGIUM IS FORMED TO ORGANIZE "RED ARMY" t LONDON.' Jan. 31. A Bolsheviki decree - establishing "an all Russian collegium" for guidance in organizing the "workmen's . and peasants' Red Army of the Russian councils' republic" Is announced in a Russian official wireless statement received here. The committee will be composed of two representatives of the War Commissarait and two representatives of the general staff of the red guards. Another decree assigns twenty million rubles for the organization of the red guard army-from -the moneys in the war fund. The money is to be entrusted to the collegium and must be returned subsequently. The Pravda prints a rumor that Rumania lately has made a separate agreement with the Central Powers and suggests that this may include compensation for Rumania in Bessarabia. Still Claim Success. The Bolsheviki government, accord3ns to despfitctaes from Petrograd, continues to claim considerable military success in the Ukraine and else where. It ia announced that after the Bolsheviki troops captured Bacbmatsch station the officers of the nobility withdrew to Kiev, which is surrounded on all sides. The Ukrainian Rada is said to have lost confidence In the Ukrainian soldiers. Workmen are now organizing a White Guard in the Ukraine under Russian and Polish officers who had been reduced to the ranks in the Russian army. The capture of the towns of Kertcb, Theodosia and Yalta, in the Crimea, is claimed by the Bolsheviki. It Is said that the Cossack General Dntoff has been defeated and the capture of Orenburg is imminent. Special despatches from Petrograd concur in the belief that all the Cossacks will declare themselves on the side of the Bolsheviki. The reports give instances of growing adhesion and forecast the downfall of the government of General Kalcdines.. Have Come to Stay. Those opposed to the Bolsheviki, according to the Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Express, admit a growing conviction that the Bolsheviki have for months, which is at. th;3 time practically out of the question. " Eighty per cent of the Trans-Atlantic ships are armed. Convoys accompany practically all of them.. The strategy of the submarine is to patrol the convoy and to pick up "a lame duck," which has been unable to maintain the speed of the fleet. "The German torpedo is a very expensive, elaborate affair. It requires great accuracy for tys manufacture and it is of an intricate design. The allied observers have found that it has materially deteriorated, and in efficiency and accuracy, it is no longer what it was a year ago. A decreasing number of hits, hardships to which crews are forced, and the fact that the

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rUNXWAYCAR ror MarnRnth Siberian portion of the- Tenth dirt-1 aton - attetHBted to furht, their .vayl Morrison Marshall, the vice president's come , to stay "If not permanently, at least an Inconveniently long tide." He says the Bolsheviki have Won the confidence and . support " of thepeopte-' as the provisional government never did and have also struck a popular note on the Question of peace. He adds: "It is more or less generally acknowledged here with mingled joy and gloom that the power of the soldiers' and workmen's councils is no empty boast, as many know to their cost." The correspondent says that the Bourgeoise seem almost to have ceased to exist in Russia. A person may travel the length and breadth of Russia and see only swarms of peasants and workmen. Discretly Retires. "The aristocracy," he says, ' "discreetly has retired to the background. They are to be found in such pleasant places as the Crimea and the Caucasus, where they form select communities of the bores and the bored. Lalta would be tolerable but for its grand dukes. Kislovosk is crammed with retired generals and governors and penniless princes, who pass the

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By W. R. POUNDSTONE WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. When the appropriation bill for the Agriculture department was up for consideration in the House of Representatives this week, Representative Elliott joined with Representative Walsh of Massachusetts in an unsuccessful effort to adopt un amendment striking from the bill an appropriation of a quarter o? a million dollars for the distribution of garden seed by members of Congress. In his speech urging the adoption of the amendment, introduced by Representative Walsh, Representative Elliott branded these annual congressional "seed showers' as "political propaganda." He declared the money to be appropriated for the distribution of these seed could be much better used in the prosecution of the war. Mr. Elliott docs not oppose direct distribution of garden see! by the Agriculture department to such people who intend to raise gardens and who make application for seed. Each One Had 20,000. Last year 20,000 packages of garden seed were allotted to each member of fate of scores of men has never been disclosed to Germany, have served to break the morale of the submarine crews to an extent that Germany has been forced to' police one U-boat with another sent out for the purpose, "Further requirement has been Imposed that to prove the sinking of a ship, the U-boat crew must bring In a prisoner. The 2,000 ton submarine has- been found unwieldy. 'It cannot submerge quickly enough; its men are easily destroyed by under-water bombs. It Is therefore, considered impractical. "The submarine can best be detected by the sea-plane. , A submarine can be seen by a sea-plane at a depth of 200 feet The development of the

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-sKAHNf UMirmm villibii av aMMv BUG BLOW FRENCI baby. time playing poker in the casino and the hotels." , The constitutional democratic party, the correspondent, adds. Is the only serious menace to the power of the workmen's and soldiers' councils, but though Russia is a land of miracles, It would be a miracle indeed If the constitutional democrats turn the scale against the strenuous Bolsheviki." Demobilization of four more classes of the army has been ordered by the government. All men thirty-one years of age also are to be relieved of army duty. British Casualties in January Show Decrease LONDON, Jan. 31. British casualties reported during the month of January total 73,017. They are divided as follows: . Killed or died of wounds, officers, 858; men, 13,698; wounded or missing, officers, 1,205; men, 57,756. Congress. As Mr. Elliott must dispose of his share' of this seed he is arranging to get it into the hands of those people who intend to raise home gardens this year. Through the newspapers in the sixth district he is asking constituents who want seed to make application to him. He is also sending seed to manufacturing concerns in the town? and cities of tlie district to bp. distributed among factory workers i who are nlflnninc tn hava p-arricne I County food administrators and school teachers are also co-operating with him in his seed distribution. LesB than fifty members of the House supported Representative Walsh and Representative Elliott in their efforts to do away with conrressional seed distribution. In fact the House voted to increase each mem ber's allotment next year from 20.000 to 30,000 packages. Praises His District. T come from one of the finest agricultural districts in the United States," Mr.' Elliott said in addressing the Continued On Page Sevan. ' sea-plane is a matter of vital importance for England and America, even more than army planes. They carry from four to six men. The work does not call for great speed and an altitude requirement of only 4,000 feet neither, of which compares with the requirements of the high power machines In use over the French battle line. - "From the most reliable finire3 obained, we are apparently now just aooui noiaing our own. in the , destruction of U-boats. The most efficient sea-plane matches In efficiency the German plane and has proved most dangerous, because of tbe superior marksmanship and ammunition of the allied fights."

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UNREST STILL IS GROWING IN GERMANY; CRISIS HEAR 700,000 Workmen Reported To Be Idle in Berlin , Strikes Spread to All Parts:, of Empire. LEADERS ARE ARRESTED LONDON, Jan. 31. The German strike ia stm growing fa magnitude the Exchange Telegraph correspondent at Copenhagen reports. In Berlin 700,000 persona are on strike, the re ports, 58,000 of these being women. A large number of Socialist leaders have been arrested in various German towns, according to this . authority. The Socialist party leaden in Germany, according to a statement in the Berliner Tageblatt. forwarded by the Amsterdam correspondent of the Central News, have asked President K&empf, of the Reichstag, to samxnon the Reichstag- immediately In view of the alarming events of the past fevr days. At a meeting of the Berlin striken on Wednesday, the Tageblatt adds, a resolution was passed declaring that the strikers would oppose to the utmost of their power any reprisals against their leaders or representatives. Swiss Frontier Closed. No one has been permitted to cross the Swiss frontier from Germany since Tuesday morning, according to the Daily News correspondent at Geneva. Private reports received in Switzerland represent the strike situation as having taken a serious turn, late Tuesday night The refusal of Herr Walroff, the minister of the interior, to confer with the strike lead ers is said to have infuriated tha strikers. The Central Strike Committee In. Berlin now has been in session eontinuouEly stnoa noon Monday. As rn ranees of solidarity are said to have reached the committee Tuesday from Leipzig, Dnsseldorf and Barmen, notwithstanding the rigid military control throughout Germany. Opinion in Geneva, the correspondent says," Is that the strike movement will reach a crisis soon. It is felt that the movement either will collapse or take a torn which may force tbe German government to Its knees. The cessation of work in Hamburg is new virtually complete, according to Daily Telegraph dispatch from Rotterdam. The strike has extended from the Vulcan shipbuilding works in Hamburg to tbe works of Blohm and Vosa, another large shipbuilding concern. The strikers demand an immediate peace on the basis of no annexations and no indemnities. SOLDIERS REFUSE TO FIRE ON STRIKERS IN CAPITAL fBy Associated Press) Throughout Germany and especially In the industrial sections of the north, the strike movement Is spreading. Strikers and soldiers are reported to have collided In a suburb of Berlin, and lives were lost. In several instances the troops are said to have re fused to fire on the strikers. Three important Berlin newspapers, including the socialist Vorwaerts, have been suppressed. The head of the great Krupp works, and Field Marshal Von Hindenburg have appealed tu the workers to stay at their tasks, the field marshal declaring that the strikes must cease. Before its suppression Vorwaerts printed an ultimatum to the government in which the workers demanded a general peace without annexations, amelioration of the food situation, the lessening of military law and tha democratization of state institutions. British newspaper correspondents in Holland are uncertain whether tie strike movement is real or manufactured. One says that the government is behind it in the hope that it will ef' feet the entente allied countries and bring about peace, while another believes that the government desires tq use the movement to break off the negotiations with Russia. The Swiss frontier has been-closed and It Is expected there that the strike situation in Germany soon will reach a crisis. STATE OF SIEGE REPORTED IN THREE FOE CITIES COPENHAGEN, Jan. 31. A state of siege has been declared at Hamburg, Altona and. Wandsbeck, according tq the Hamburg Echo, a socialist xtwm paper. Altona and Wansbeek are In tbm Hamburg district. Altona adjoining Hamburg. It's population In 1900 was 161,000. It is the seat of important Industries. Wansbeek is three miles northeast of Hamburg. In 1900 it population was 2S.000. It has large brewing and distilling establishments. MINISTER OF INTERIOR STILL REFUSES TO MEET STRIKER! LONDON. Jan. 81. Only a fear telegrams have arrived ' in ' Copenhagen from Germany, an ICrchange Tale. graph despatch from the Danish oapfc tal says, and news is scarce owing to the fact that most of the important Berlin newspapers have not been published. - , The military authorities in the Berlin district, according to the Berlin, correspondent of the Copenhagen Polk tlken, have prohibited all meetings, eaBTB&ad to dlsonas publishing a a Oombiusd n Page Wgtq,