Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 241, 21 August 1918 — Page 1

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U-BOAT PLAYS HAVOC WITH . FISHING FLEET IN ATLANTIC

Steam Trawler Captured by Huns Used to Raid Fishing Banks Off Nova Scotia Three Vessels Sunk. SIX SUBS OFF COAST (By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 Strong forces of swift naval patrol boats and destroyers sped today to the north Atlantic fishing banks where the trawler Triumph, captured yesterday by German submarine which armed and manned here, is reported raiding fishing fleets. Naval officers here think the capture of the trawler or her enforced destruction by the German crew Is a certaintity. i Hv Associated Prst A CANADIAN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 21 The stetini trawler Triumph, fitted with two guns and wireless and manned by 16 Germans from the Uboat which captured her yesterday. Is raiding the fishing banks off the Nova Scotia coast. Crews of the schooners sunk by the Triumph have arrived here. Vessels known to have been sunk by the converted raider are the Una T. Saunders of Lunenburg, the A. Piatt Andrew of Gloucester, Mass., and the Francis J. O'Hara of Boston. Captain Wallace Bruce, master of the A. Piatt Andrew, said on his arrival here that his vessel was held up by the Triumph yesterday afternoon and that he and his crew were given 10 minutes to leave the ship. The Germans then sank her with bombs. After Fishing Fleets." Th . raider then bore down upon the Una T.. Saunders and the Francis J. O'Hara and sunk them likewise. The dorrles carrying the crews of the three vessels reached here at 10 a. m. today. The fishermen say that while making for this port they heard firing and believe other fishing vessels were sunk by the raider. A Pnntaln Mvrrhf master nf iha Tri umph, who landed here with his men this morning, said he was told by the captain of the submarine, which captured his vessel that he was only one of six U-boats operating on this coast. "We intend to destroy the fishing fleets," the German commander said to Captain Myrrhe. Armed Guards Placed Aboard. AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 21 A German submarine late yesterday seized the big fishing trawler Triumph. The crew, who have reached shore safely, said they believed that Germans intend to use the trawler as a raider. The fishermen reported that the U-boat is "playing havoc" with the fleet of fishing vessels on thp Grand Banks. . The Triumph was halted on the fishing banks by the U-boat and the crew was permitted to take to the dories. The fishermen said that the trawler was still afloat when they last saw her. An nrmFd guard of Germans had befn placed aboard and no preparations were beltig made to sink the ship, the Triumph's men said. This led them to the conclusion that the Germans intended to use her an a raider. The Triumph is owned by the North Atlantic Fisheries company and is one of ihe crack boats of the fleet. Triumph Canadian Vessel. BOSTON. Aug. 21 Fishermen here said today that if the German submarine made use of the trawler Triumph seized yesterday, as a raider, ! they would have to recoal the craft at! least every ten days. The Triumph was manned by a Canadian crew and . I owned by a Canadian company. The! vessel is 125' feet in length and registers about 250 tons gross. Fishermen said the scene of the atiiflt iinHrmhtrllv vim rn the tt'pern ! brnks off the Nova Scotia coast In the open sea and outside the threemile zone of Canadian waters. New England vessels have not visited the western banks since German submarines were first reported in the bay of Fundy several weeks ago. More Damp Weather Is Predicted for Chautauqua i "Chautauqua campers will have pretty damp weather for a couple ol : days." Wea'herman Moore said Wed I nesday afternoon in giving the weath j rr report. , The weather will be quite unsettled! for the next forty-eight hours, he said. Showers will be frequent with lightring and thunder occasionally. However, clearer weather is promised for the latter part of the week. DEMONSTRATION AT MISSION On Thursday. Nina V. Short, home rtPiminsfrp.tirm agent will give a meat substitute demonstration at North End ( . n i Mission. All women norm oi me ran rofit are urged to come.

Former War Minister to Be Dutch Premier

(By Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 21 Jonkheer Colyn, former minister of war, will become Dutch premier, according to an announcement made by the Amsterdam Telegraaf and transmitted to the Exchange Telegraph Co. After Deputy Nolens and Deputy de Sovornin Lohman had refused to form a ministry, Queen Wilhelmina summoned Colyn to her summer residence at Hetloo. Early last May it was reported that Jonkheer Colyn was in England at the head of a mission with peace proposals from Germany. The former minister denied that he had gone to England on a peace mission. HUNDREDS ARE SHOT IN MOSCOW BY BOLSHEVIKI Reign of Terror With Public Executions beems Imminent Grand Duke Arrested. ,'By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 21 Several hundred of fifteen thousand officers arrested in Moscow have been shot, according to a letter written in Moscow on August 14 by Dr. Alfons Paquet and published in the Frankfort Zeitung. Some of the officers who renounced Russian citizenship and acquired German or Polish passes were released at the request of the German consul general. The remainder was sent to a concentration camp surrounded by artillery. The officers, it is added, were subjected to conditions "beggaring all descripticm." Those arrested included a number of former generals and colonels. Dr. Paquet says that several hundred British and French business men have been arrested in Moscow and adds that further arrests of representatives of the Moscow bourgeois are expected. If this proves inadequate to maintain order, he continues, "a reign of, terror with .public, executions Is unavoidable." The former Russian grand duke Paul Alexandrovitch, says a Moscow dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin, has been arrested by the Bolshevik!. He is an uncle of tae late former emperor and father of Grand Duke Dimtrl Pavlovitch. Grand Duke Dmitrie recently was appointed an honorary captain in the British army. Emerson Joins Czechs. HARBIN, Manchuria, Friday, Aug. 16 Colonel George H. Emerson and party for whom grave fears were felt because no tidings had been received from them for more than two months, now are co-operating with the Czechoslovak troops near Irkutsk, according to a telegram just received from Col. Emerson. The party is engaged in repairing bridges, destroyed by the Bolshevik forces. Czecho-Slovak forces are completely in control of the railway from Lake Baikal to the Ural mountains. It is reported that 10,000 Czechoslovaks are on their way to the Manchurian front and that the Japanese are ; f ri . i. 4n T T front where they are replacing Czechoslovak forces that have been fighting there. Col George H. Emerson, former general manager of the Great Northern railway, went to Siberia last November to superintend the work of double tracking and re-equipping the TransSiberian railway. Helfferich Will Not Return. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 21 Dr. Karl Helfferich, the German ambassador to Russia, who has returned to Germany from Pskov, to which city he went after a brief stay at Moscow, will not return to Russia because he does not agree with the Russian policy which is advocated by Admiral Paul von Hintze, the German secretary for foreign affairs, according to the Vorwaerts of Berlin, which quotes the semi-official Deutsche Zeitung.

Cant be More Than 250,000 in U. S. Army, German Press Decides

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 21. An antidote to the opinions of generals Von Blume and Von Liebert, who see a menace in a large American army on J the western front, already has appear-j ed in the Cologne Zeitung, the Thursday edition containing a long article attempting to prove by statistics, that America cannot possibly send 300,000 men to Europe in a month. The article declares that more than forty troopships have been sunk. It continues. "If the Americans at the front are fighting well, that does not need to cause surprise, for it was the flower of American manhood which Is now at the front, namely the old regular army, plu3 about 40,000 of the most sturdy and most adventuruous elements which all nations have, who volunteered at the outbreak of the war. There will be contingents recruited from the New England states who arp th best educated and keen-

SPAIN TO SEIZE HUN SHIPS FOR TONNAGE SUNK

Twenty Percent of Spanish Merchant Marine Sunk' by Subs 100 Sailors Killed. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 21. Spain has inform ed Germany that because of the serious inroads submarine sinkings have made into Spanish shipping, Spain hereafter will use German vessels now in Spanish ports in place of tonnage sunk. This announcement Is made in an official statement issued after a meeting of the Spanish cabinet at San Sebastian. The Spanish government declares that it will continue to maintain strict neutrality. The statement says that twenty percent of the Spanish merchant marine has been sunk. The cabinet statement which is transmitted from Madrid by the Havas Agency says: "In the course of the recent meetings held at Madrid the government considered the International situation. "As a consequence of the submarine campaign more than twenty percent of our merchant marine has been sunk, more than 100 Spanish sailors have perished, a considerable number of sailors have been wounded and numbers have been shipwrecked and abandoned. Ships needed exclusively for Spanish use have been torpedoed without the slightest pretext, serious difficulties resulting to navigation. Will Continue Neutral. "The government has believed that it is unable without failing in its essential obligations and without setting aside neutral Spanish maritime traffic and to protect Spanish crews and passengers. "Consequently the governmpnt has decided to address the imperial German government and declare that owing to reduction of tonnage to its extreme limit, it will be obliged in case of new sinkings to substitute therefor German vessels interned in Spanish ports. This measure does not imply the confiscation of the ships under definite title.' It would be only a temporary solution until the establishment of peace when Spanish claims also will be liquidated. "Our ambassador at -Berlin" has received Instructions to bring this decision to the notice of the German government. The Spanish government does not doubt that the German government will appreciate the circumstances determining this resolution and will recognize that Spain, in holding to the neutrality she has practiced since the beginning of the war, has sacrificed many of her rights and legitimate conveniences when it has been possible without affecting the dignity of Spain and her national life. "The decision of the government to assure for itself sufficient tonnage, which is indispensable to its existence, does not affect its firm resolve to maintain strict neutrality." . REPORT DRAFT BILL TO HOUSE fHy Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. A favorable report was voted by the house military committee on the administration man power bill, with an amenrimend providing that youths from 18 to y years of age shall be placed in a special classification to be called into military service after men from ; 20 to 45. j Another amendment by Chairman j Gent provides that the fact that a sol-1 dier has not reached 21 shall not bar j him from a commission. A section added at the request of the war department provides that men of draft age may be sent to college for technical training in uniform without changing their military status. LAFOLLETTE COMMISSIONED CHICAGO, Aug. 21. Philip LaFollette. son of U. S. Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, is among the 200 out of 2.300 students at the Fort Sheridan officers' training camp who have been recommended for a commission, it was announced today. pt fighters because their heart Is in the business. "So we get an aggregate of from 200,000 to 250,000 picked men, but when these are used up, the picture will be altered because they cannot be replaced." The Zeitung believes that compulsory military service is widely opposed and Is being evaded in the United States, and it builds hopes on the basis that American casualty lists will increase this alleged repugnance. The article concludes with these arguments: "The Americans are not supermen militarily and less so than in other respects. America may build standard ships but she cannot turn out standard soldiers. "America has done more than many expected, even in America, but despite all surprises American expert opinion that the full weight of her military power will not develop before 1919 or 1920 still ho!d good."

U. S. Boys Help the Old Folks When Air Raiders Appear

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The difference between Hun "kultur" and American culture is illustrated shows members of the field battalion signal corps, first division, carrying an old raid somewhere in France.

Order German Officers to Surpress Mention of After-War Revolt (By Associated Prs.O BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Aug. 21 An order issued by a German military commander and which is more illuminating than anything which has come out of Germany in many months says: "It has-come to- my knowledge through a letter addressed to the royal Prussian ministry of war that men on leaves have spoken publicly of a revolution which is to break out after the war. "I wish to impress all superior officers who happen to overhear such objectionable talk or who hear of it through others that they must deal with it at object and without hesitation. The home authorities and the director of railways have been requested to take corresponding measures. ALSATIANS USED ON WEST FRONT (By Associated Press. PARIS, Aug. 21. The German command is faced by a more or less serrious difficulty as a result of the presence on the western front of divisions containing tens of thousands of soldiers from Alsace and Lorraine, who up to this time never have been employed in active fighting against the French. A captured German order declares that the Germans were unable any longer to keep the Alsatians and Lorrainers away from the western documents, reiterating an order issued by the German Crown Prince, instruct the commanders of the various units to keep the men from Alsace-Lorraine under the closest surveillance and not to utilize them at critical points in the line as many desertions had been reported. Alsatians and Lorrainers must never be left alone in the fighting zone, but must always be accompanied by German soldiers in whom absolute confidence can be placed," one order iys. It is added that any soldier from Alsace-Lorraine that comes under suspicion must be treated with an iron hand. U. S. AVIATOR CITED PARIS. Aue. 21. The Official Jour- ! nal today prints the citation of Flight I

T&&ZL?eno Alteration Made

Escadrille, who was killed in an air battle east of Montdidier in April. The Weather For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Today's Temperature. Noon , 70 Yesterday. Maximum 85 Minimum 62 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Thursday, unsettled and occasional thundershowers. Continued warm and sultry. General Conditions The storm over the middle plain states is causing thunderstorms and showers in many places fest and south of the lakes and north cf the Ohio river. Temperatures continue above normal excepting over the far west where it is, quite cool..

352 ARE LISTED IN CASUALTIES

Two army casualty lists issued Wednesday, show: Killed in action, 56; missing in action, 144; wounded severely, 95, wounded, degree undetermined, 20; died from accident or other causes, 2 ; -died of wounds, 14 ; died of disease,, Total, 337. " -: " ' The marine corps' list shows: Killed in action, 5; died of wounds, 1; wounded severely, 3; wounded, 6. Total, 15. Indiana men named Wednesday are: Omar D. Beck. Butlerville; R. D. Hilt, Lafayette; and George R. Norris, Indianapolis, killed in action; Robert Henry Wood, Reynolds; Pete Lucak, Diamond; and Delbert Stephenson, Bedford, missing in action; and Corporal Lloyd E. Brown, Lynn, died of disease. The list names the following Ohio men: Sergeant William Boyle, Steubenville, and Curtis J. Wilson, Galloway, killed in action; David Schwartz, Cincinnati; Lt. Fred W. Norton, Columbus, and John Pavel of Ottoville, missing in action; Lewies Payne, Charlestown, wounded severely; and John L. Carmean, Chillicothe and Everett L. Thomas, New Madison, wounded. LIBERTY BONDS GO AT 101.60 TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 21 Liberty 3 i per cent bond reached the new high j mark of 101.60 at noon on the stock ! exchange. 16 C. & 0. Employes at Boston Are in Service Sixteen employes of the C. & O. at Boston are in the service. Two of them, Jerome Merkle, and F. R. Sharp have been overseas over a year. Sharp having been over one year and three months in the Rainbow division and ; Merkle one year in an aviation com- ! pany. The other men in service are Rife W. Pyle. Elmer Farnsworth. Elmer C. Ford, B. J Aufdenkamp. Ches- ! A A Ti 1. : 1 1 . . 1. , 1 . it-i a. r-imiipg, vuanes irani ana Frank Piper, all of whom are "now in France. . ? i i . nis i Program" f By Associated Prss) AMSTERDAM. Aug. 21 Baron Burian, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, in an interview with a Vienna newspaper, declared himself completely satisfied with the results of the conferences last week at German main headquarters. Despite the brevity of the conferences all questions of interest to Austria-Hungary or Germany were discussed . Every important question was made "in our peace program." . , Regarding the Polish question he said it was impossible to enter into details but a plan had been drafted to enable further negotiations to proceed quickly. . Asked concerning the basis of these negotiations, Baron Burain said: "Our program remains unchanged. We maintain our principle that the wishes of the Polish people regarding their future, must, within limits es

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225,000,000 Pounds of Sugar Purchased for Army Since September WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. The magnitude of purchases in foodstuffs made by the government for use by the troops in cantonments in this country and in France is shown in statistics made public today. Since last September, the government has purchased through the food administration, for the army.atotal of 225,000,000 pounds of sugar. The government has purchased also 75,000,000 eansof tomatoes. The sugar purchased, according to a Avar department statistical expert, would fill 3,345 sixty-foot box cars, which it would take six men working eight hours each day for five years to unload. The cans containing the tomatoes, if placed end to end, the expert has figured would form a line from the army on the Marne to Linda Vista, Calif. GETTING READY FOR NEW DRAFT WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. In anticipation of the prompt passage by congress of the man power bill extending the draft ages to include all men between 18 and 45 years .estimated at nearly 13,000.000, the office of the provost marchal general has started preparations for the registering of the new( men. Distribution of the printed forms needed in the registration, which is has been indicated will be set for some day early in September, has been started, said a statement made public today by Provost Marshal General Crowder. The preparation and distribution of the various required forms and other needetl equipment is characterized by the statement as the largest single task of the kind ever undertaken by the government. Sixteen of the largest envelope manufacturers of the country are working night and day turning out the needed 35,000,000 envelopes. Practically all of the large filing case manufacturing plants in the country are busy turning out the cases to hold the various forms, 58,000 stepl filing cases being required to hold the qucstionaries of the registrants alone It is estimated that between 160,000 and 170,000 registrant registrars will be required to register the new men. ' , T in "feace Burian Announces sential to the interests of the central powers, be considered. It was decided, therefore, to invite the Poles to participate in the Austro-German negotiations." The foreign minister added that the Poles have the right to freely choose their own king and that the details will be settled at negotiations conducted in common. 'I still uphold the point of view that if w5 are compelled to continue a war of defense, we must still continue to make use of every means that could lead us to peace," Baron Burain declared in discussing the question of peace., "Our action must run parallel with the continuation of our military operations. As long as the enemy desires to destroy us militarily we must defend ourselves. This, however, does not prevent us from striving for an honorable peace by arrangement."

NEW ATTACK IS LAUNCHED OVER 10-MILE ENEMY FRONT

British Advance Carries Battle Line Near Important German Base in Northern Salient of Picardy. ACTIVE AT FLANDERS BULLETIN. (By Associated Press. LONDON, Aug. 21 French troops advanced three miles today along the Oise and reached Sempigny, a mile from the outskirts of Noyon, according to reports from the battle front. No further details of the fighting north of the Ancre have reached London since noon. Reports were received telling of the capture of Achiet-le-Grande, but they have not been absolutely confirmed. tl3y Associated Press.l British forces struck the Germans over a front of approximately 10 miles on the line southwest of Arras at dawn this morning. According to meagre details received from the scene of the new assault, the British have advanced from 2 to 3 miles and have captured the towns of Moyenneville, Courcelles, Achiet-Le-Pedit and Beaucourt-sur-Ancre and have reached the town of Achiet-Le-Grand. Unofficial dispatches appear to Indicate that the Bri-ish advance has carried the battle line up to a point three miles from Bapaume, an important highway center and a place reputed to be an important German base in the northern Picardy sector. . .. - Enemy Position Endangered. If the British drive continues to press the Germans back along , the northern side of the Picardy salient, the enemy forces further south would appear to be in a serious position. The new advance seems to have placed the northrrn section of the enemy's front in great danger. In the Flanders battle area, the Germans also are under heavy pressure. The British official report states that during last night an attack was made from Festuberg to the Lawe river, a distance of more than 4 miles. Attack Old Line. ' While the width of the attacking front Is not clearly defined a "wide front" probably would include a line from the Ancre to the Scarpe, about fifteen miles. There has not been any havy fighting recently on the line north of the Ancre, although the Germans some days ago retired 6lightly on the front between Beaumont Hamel and Bucquoy. There has been more or less raiding activity, however. The battle front from north of the Ancre to north of Lens has not seen as great a change as other sectors between Vprea and Rheims since the beginning of the German offensive, March 21. , In making an attack hre It would appear that Marshal Foch is striving to break the old German line in the Arras area. Any considerable forward movement here would menace the German positions north and south for many miles. Strategically, a blow here would seem to be a companion one to the French offensive south of the Oise and a strong attempt to force the Germans to retire all along the line. A village at about the middle of this jline has been captured, taaking an ad vance or nearly a mile at this point. On the northern side of the Lys salient the British made a local attack over a mile front near Locre this morning. Important Dranoutre ridge has been rested from the enemy. Between the Aisne and the Oise French troops continued their advance this morning. According to the latest advices, the French now are on the high ridges to the northwest of Soissons and have a position which overlooks and virtually dominates the German position along the Oise to the east of Noyon. Defensive System Breaking. French progress on the vital sector between the Oise and Soissons bids fair to bring about a cracking of the German defensive system from Ypres to Rheims. Marshal Foch has connected up his Marne and Picardy i successes with a new triumph which appears to be a greater threat than either of the others. In the new major operation, between the Aisne and the Oise, the French have gained the heights and are advancing rapidly toward the Oise and the supply lines connecting Laon and other bases with the Noyon pocket. In two days of local operations an done given to a concrete attack. General Mangin has advanced forme than two and one-half miles on a front of more than 15 miles. The Oise and the railway line, paralelling it, are but three miles away and the French appaently holds all the important high ground which had barred the way to Noyon and the line of the Oise. If Marshal Foch can push the advance to north of the Oise, It would appear to be inevitable that the Ger(Continud on1 Pair E'ch)