hi* office, wnere ■ number o f tetegrapn
and telephone operators sit at keys
and switchboards. A cup of coffee 1»
steaming at his desk, a broad, tint la
Chairman o f W ar Council Met» Forth
ble. upon which Is spread a great de
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. v
tail map with Hugs marking the line
at len g th Vast Amount o f Work
of attack. He drinks the coffee, light»
That lias Been Performed.
his pipe aud turns to greet Ida brother
officers.
Washington, D. C.— Six months of
Men Qo Over the Top.
effort to moot tho most far reaching
The
hour
of
the
attack
la
marked
by
**w.
appeals for relief In history Is do-
a general glance nt watches and then
scribed In a report to tho American
the phone rings. The men are over the
top I Several phones ring. A uumber
people made public Tuesday ulght by
of objectives have been reached. An
Henry P. Davison, chairman o f tho
S. O. S. signal from “ A ” section. All
war council of the American Red
,sm
reports are marked upon the big map
Croaa. It Is the council's first semi
t vl
by flags, nud ns each objective Is
annual report, and It tells how more
reached a new ting Is added. As re
than >40.000.09« o f the >100,000,000
ports o f trouble come from different
war fund contributed by the people
points certain barrages are Instructed
■\a
■
to cut loose with everything they hav
Events o f Noted People, Governments has been allotted for expenditure at First Resolution Introduced Is Joint
A “ cut-lu" shows the men lying by
homo and abroad.
*rm t;
Measure to Include Turkish and
and I’ac'Ee N o rth s,st and Other
their guns, which are loaded and
¿ F $
Demands from Kuropo continue to
KStf r
Bulgarian Governmenla.
trained upon certain polutn. The 8.
Increase, and on the receut basis of
Things W orth Knowing.
O.
S.
sigual
comes
to
the
gunner
uear
expenses the council estimates that
, { M
est tho string, who reaches out nud
. -
the war fuud will not last much bey
gives
It
a
yank
while
the
other
gun
.vu ^.
ond spring. 80 far about >88,000,000
Washington, I). C.— Immediate dec
A
Long
Island,
N.
Y..
grocer
is
tiers Jump Into uctlon.
Before the
This massive dirigible balloon Is but one o f the great number o f similar first shell has reached Its destination offering as a premium, instead o f trad in cash has been paid into the fuud laration o f war against Austria-Hun
«ra ft guarding the coasts of Great Britain from attacks by Zeppelins and a second Is on Its wuy and the big ing stamps, a lump o f sugar with by the subscribers.
gary was recommended to congress
German airplanes. At .the left is Field Marshal Sir John French, at the head show Is on In full swing. We see the every 10-cent purchase.
Of >40,27*.4(7 appropriated by the Tvesday by President Wilson. Tha
• f the British home defense forces.
tueu bombing the Germans out of dug
Robert P. Perkins, o f New York, council, >7.6»,000 has been advanced I President did not, however, recommend
outs; fighting hand to hand In the has been appointed Red Cross commis to chapters for the purchase of ms
1 declaration o f war against Turkey and
open ground with vicious thrusting of sioner to Italy by the Red Croaa war terlsl and will be refunded. For work
1 Bulgaria at this time.
bayonets.
council. He w ill s e r v e without salary. abroad >27,8»,>16 has been apprnprla
Immediate war against Austria, the
Finally the picture reverts to head
tod. >20,401,240 o f the amount going President told congress, was necessary
Stabilizing
o
f
sugar
prices,
the
food
quarters, where we see the officer,
announced
Monday to •■'ranee, where suffering has been to meet the anomalous situation tho
tired eyed but smiling, reading the administration
; United States faces in its war with
congratulations from all along the line night, probably w ill be accomplished beyond description." For work oul
Germany, even though Austria was not
and transmitting them to the victori before the end of December. Prices side of France, exclusive of >7(0,000
now are widey different in many parts recently sent for emergency relief In h e r ow n m is t i c H S a n d o n ly a v a s s a l 1 k
ous
men
out
lu
the
shell
holes
and
«—
Germany.
o f the country.
trenches.
Italy, the following appropriations
The »sine logic, he ssid, would Irsl
mans began an attack— it was an act
“ I don’t believe there's a one of us
Automobiles
caused
the
death
o
f
HOI
have
been
made:
Belgium,
>720,001;
Nerve Centers of British and Ca o f providence.
to war against Turkey snd Bulgaria
that wouldn't have glveu a great deal persons in New York state during the Knglaud, >1,044.(20; Italy. >214.000;
but they ilo not yvt, lie »aid. stand Id
Lighted by Lam is and Candles.
nadian Armies Peaceful
to be right down there with our men,'' first 10 months o f 1917, an increase of
Russia. >1,3(9.440; Routnanla. >1,(18. its path o f the United Slates in Its '
It can be set down here without he said. “That's the worst o f having 197 over the corresponding period in
war against Prussian autorraey.
m
Even in Battle.
further parley that two newspaper a staff Job. One must take a distant 1916, according to a report of the 398: Serbia, >493,203; Armenians and
In ringing, definite terms, the P iw - W
men were never treated more royally view o f things and stay out of the National Highway Protective society, Syrians, >1.800,000; others. >113,012.
The report describes In detail bow Id w t dec lared that nothing shall turn
than we were by these men who at show, which Isu't a pleasant task, es
the United States aside until the war
Stories o f germ-laden balloons that
all this money has been spent, and
the moment we entered their quarters pecially for that young officer who Just
is won and Germany is beaten.
A ll ■
floated across the line from the Ger
were directing a barrage against a handed me this report. I'll venture to
man front were related by the mem- tells o f the vast organization set up talk o f |»eace, he |>runuunred out o f th e»
strong German attack.
say thnt he'd yell with Joy If he got
by
the
war
board
since
its
appoint
, , , . ,
.
^
, bers o f a party o f 18 American volun
question.
In the midst o f tea the door opened orders to go back to his regiment ter tw r>
lh„ J. mbuUm., M rvice who m ent It records the formation of the
Peace, the President declared, could
Function Calmly and Efficiently With
and for a few minutes we were under
" * “ *•
arrived in this country on Thanksgiv Union Red Cross. Naval Auxiliaries, rome only when the German people
out Turmoil or Slightest Disorder
the Impression that every general on
Along toward midnight our disabled
ing Day,
make it through
rulers the world can
tho
Service
Bureau,
tho
ijgnl
»M
V ('amp
v SIW
)> wvi
»
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------
-
-
-
"
— Young Staff Officers Com
the western front had been deluged in car came limping up to headquarters
plain Because They Must
L ively skirmishng between the Brit- tary Service Bureau and other dlv ¡trust; when they make reparation for
to our presence. It was a pprty of for us and our farewells were said
the destruction their present rulers
Stay Out of the Show.
officers who had dropped In for tea outside the door in the Inky blackness ish forces campaigning for Jreusaiem Isions. and describes the membership
have wrought and when Germany re
and
the
opposing
Turkish
troops,
in
campaign which brought the number
and n chat with the army command of a rainy night. We shook hands
cede» from all the territory acquired
London.— During the past three ers. Instead they had a rather amus there In the darkness with these men which the British raptured mors than of Red Cross members beyond the by armed conquest.
years o f warfare there have been daily ing talk with two American corre who had been our hosts. From the dis 450 prisoners, is reported in Sunday’ s 5,000,000 mark.
A joint resolution declaring th s t%
communications emanating from a spondents, who were found Interest tance came the deep-throated growl of official statement on the Palestine
The total expenses of raising and itate o f war exist* between the United
operations.
mysterious place called geueral head ing because they had been with the heavy guns.
collecting the war fund are proving States and Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria
“ We never let up on them,'’ said a
quarters, whose location or surround American army on the Mexican border
Leon Trotzky, the Holsheviki foreign to be less than 1 per cent. The war and Turkey, was introduced in the
ings have never been mentioned, in and in France and had some idea of voice from the steps. “ It has been minister, has issued an order that no
fund Is deposited locally by the chap senate by Senator Pittman, for Sena
fact are not known to the average sol what the United States troops could Just as you hear It now for months, British subject shall receive permits to
ters
and campaign committees. About tor King, o f Utah. It was referred to
do.
Their
Intense
Interest
in
prepara
and
we'll
keep
on
until
we
finish
the
dier fighting in France, writes Hal
the foreign relations committee With
leave Russia pending the settlement of
3500
banka now hold these deposits In
tions o f the United States for war was Job. We are going to win.”
O'Flaherty in the New York Sun.
out action.
the cases o f Russians alleged to be in
T o the citizen unacquainted with the I manifested In every question, and their
And that Is the spirit that pervades terned in England because o f their po (he name of William O McAdoo, treaa
affairs o f giant armies the mention of friendliness toward everything Ameri not only the headquarters staff but litical convictions.
urer.
every camp and every dugout on the
the term general headquarters brings can was more than evident.
Forty nine army base hospital units
In two minutes the formality o f In British front.
W ar crosses have been awarded to and five for the nsvy have been re
up a picture o f a building In the heart
Benjamn Burton, Jr., o f Colusa, Cal.,
o f the great army activities, with mud- troduction was over with and for fully
cruited, organized and equipped by Count Von Hertllng Telia Reichstag e f
and Herbert Hope, o f Oakland, Cal.,
splattered couriers dashing up on horse half an hour the Canadian general
His Hopes With Russia.
the Red Cross. More than 12 of the
PROUD
OF
HER
RECORD.
staff
dropped
their
heavy
responsibili
o
f
the
American
Field
Service
in
or cycle and with sentries pacing to
army
units
and
two
o
f
the
navy
units
ties
and
enjoyed
the
unique
experi
France. Mr. Burton and Mr. Hope
Berlin, via London— Count George
and fro armed to the teeth, while wor
drove a motor truck under heavy bom have now been mustered Into their F. von Hertling, the impelral German
ried ' generals sit about great tables ence o f entertaining two Americans.
bardment October 8, two men with respective medical corps and are see chancellor, told the reichstag Thursday
within tracing upon their maps the It was the first time that such a gath
ering had ever assembled in this par
them being killed.
Ing service. These units can care for that he was ready to enter into peace
various positions in the front line.
The fact of the matter Is that Brit ticular building and all made the most
a
(00 bed hospital each, and some of negotiations a* soon as the Russian
The final shipment o f the first 2000-
ish general headquarters is perhaps o f it.
them have been reinforced to enable government sends representatives hav-
ton
consignment
o
f
refined
sugar
has
The staff captain who hud Intro
the most peaceful and orderly place
arrived in Stockholm from Germany. them «0 take over larger hospitals.
'" i . f f i K ! ?
i
„
.
,
, .
' I hope and. #B n ,
he said, that
that one could Imagine. The roads ap duced us suggested that we get a little
A further 1000 tons now is being load
The Red ( roas ha» also organized l|w|1- e(TorU w j„
u k „ deflnU,
exercise,
explaining
that
the
staff
offi
proaching the main buildings are not
ed at Stettin and is expected to arrive 45 ambulance companies, with s total ihape Bn<1 brjng U1( p ,,« .« .”
lined with troops and paraphernalia of cers usually spent an hour in the eve
within a few days.
It is declared that personnel of 5580. all of which have
Respecting Poland, Lithuana and
war, nor is there any of the much- ning playing badminton or some other
the sugar has been received without
game Just to keep In condition. W e
been taken Into the army medical Courland, Count von H ertling said;
talked-of dramatics of fighting.
any
special
compensation
from
Swed
went out to a well constructed court
corps, some for service abroad, others
“ We respect the right o f setf-deter-
Guards Are Unarmed.
en’s resources.
for the
camps and cantonmenta. A mination o f their peoples.
We expect
It Is a business house, conducted on similar to a tennis court and taped
hospital, for the use of the they w ill g iv e themselves a constitu-
the most advanced systems of efficien off In the same manner. For an hour
Pottery and glass manufacturers in general
cy. The traffic coming np to the heart we watched four officers bat the feath
Eastern Ohio, Northern West V irginia navy, has been established at I’hlla tional form o f government correapond-
Convalescent homes have ing to their conditions."
o f the gigantic chain of fighting units ered shuttlecock across the net with
and Western Pennsylvania were Mon ■lelphia.
—— — —— — ——
is regulated by military policemen who a display o f skill and strategy that was
day notified that their products had been built at Fort Oglethorpe anil
ort McPherson, Ga., and mobile lab .
U / fiO Itt DC U/ll I y r r T
know their business and keep motors worthy o f men who used strategy In
been listed as non-essentials by the
oratory
cars arc to be provided for j L U A N W U n R C n o
W IL L d t t I
and pedestrians going In the right di a greater and more deadly manner. We
govenment, and many manufacturers use in case of emergencies at the
took a hand In the game for a time
took this to mean their plants would camps.
rection.
Secretary McAdoo Calls Conference et
be closed fo r lack of transportation
Fourteen thousand Red Cross nurses
The soldiers on duty In front o f the and then watched four others play off j
Washington.
fa cilities and fuel.
nave been enrolled for duty, and ap
building visited by the correspondent the staff championship.
Meet Famous Strategist.
oxlmately 3000 have already been
were unarmed and directed the arriv
Washington,
D. C .— To perfect lib
Princa Ong Chow A rtitt, nephew of failed Into nctlve nursing service, of
When the game broke up and we re
ing officers in a manner us courteous
erty loan organizations throughout tha
the king o f Siam, arrived in San Fran
hom 2000 are working abroad.
entered
the
headquarters
building
we
as that displayed by the commission
country for the |ieriod o f the war,
cisco Saturday from the Orient on his
aire at the war office In London. W ith were presented to a man whose name
retary McAdoo Friday called a confer^
way
to
Washington,
D.
C.,
where
he
in there was nothing to indicate the is famous the length and breadth of
ence o f representatives o f liberty loan
expects to arrange for his naval edu
the
British
front.
His
keen
stratagems
presence o f the greatest army chief
I committees in each o f the 12 Federal^
cation in this country. The prince,
tains. The furnishings were modest, and forceful work have won for him I
who is 14 years old, is accompanied by President Authorizes 35 Cents Per reserve districts and o f the women’s
the
praise
and
admiration
o
f
every
!
almost homely, and the atmosphere of
liberty loan organization to be held in
a private secretary and a member of
Ton Increase.
the whole place was that o f a peaceful Canadian fighting In France and his
Washington December 10.
the Siamese legation at Tokio.
record
as
a
fighter
would
fill
several
and well conducted business establish
Washington. D. C.— A general In
“ W hile the sccrtary has announced
books.
W
e
were
fortunate
In
hnvlng
Six
men
Thursday
attacked
the
i'-e of 35 rents n ton was added to that there will be no further liberty
ment.
an
opportunity
o
f
talking
with
him,
•Huebner brewery company paymaster
I ri 4 of anthracite coal at the loan issue, at least until after Febru
«3 l im n 4 (site
To secure an Interview with one of
1 Monday by President WIlBon,
at Toledo, Ohio, and got away w ith ,
the men who conduct the affairs o f the for he, like the late General Funston. i
ary 1,” said a Treasury department
neet a proposed wage Increase for
British armies was simplicity itself. A Is keenly Interested In newspaper work ; Members o f the National party, re $35,000.
■ rs. The new prices announcement, “ he believes it essen
and
it
gave
us
a
good
start
on
the
|
telephone call sufficed to tell him of
senting the suggestion that their White
beginning Monday and tial that educational work in prepara
The death o f ten soldiers at Camp
our coming and we were ushered into right plane. W e explained to him our House pickets are not ns patriotic as
! :r I m re than >30.000,000 to the tion for future loans be conducted con
Beauregard,
near Alexandria, Va.,
reasons
fo
r
coming
to
headquarters
his office Immediately upon our arrival.
tinuously so that the people may be
i al hill.
some o f their less militant sisters, are during Thursday, was announced, mak
An officer of the United States army, and how the car that was to meet us pointing out the record o f (lias Eleanor
Irirreaae was agreed on come fully acquainted with the worth
ing 22 deaths in the last ten days.
had
broken
down.
known as a “ liaison officer,” had quar
1'1 is and miners' representa o f government securities, the advant
"W ell, I'm glad you’re here, boys,” Hill Weed, granddaughter o f the late Some o f the deaths were due to pneu
h re two weeks ago, contingent age o f th rift and economy and the
ters nearby. He has been working as
Representative Ebenezer J. Hill of monia and measles.
he
said.
“
I
’ll
Just
arrnnge
to
have
a
r coal prices to absorb the financial needs o f the government to
bard as any man o f affairs at home
Connecticut. Miss Weed, who assisted
\\ h o their negotiations were wage war against Germany.”
could work and his surroundings couple o f places set for you at dinner. In picketing last spring, was one of
The
Brazilian
government
has
I 'be i
Mors and miners turned
showed he wasn't In the habit of en-
are thln« 9 over ln the
& A .r
reached an agreement with France for
fuel administration their 1. Governors
,_. ___. o f the
, federal reserve
W e had been talking with him only the 12 Vassar college girls who spent
tertalning visitors.
the
use
under
the
Brazilian
flag
for
d
. - 1 mates of what It I b» n* * have been asked to attend the
a few minutes when an officer brought last summer on a farm, accomplishing one year o f 30 form er German ships,
“Take that rocking chair over In the
id add to tho cost of production. conference and also to designate and
to him word that an S. O. S. signal had a sum total o f products sufilclent to held in Brazilian ports, fo r provision
corner,” he said as we entered, and one
«■■' I that prices he raised at send at least three o f the principal lib
feed
1,800
persons
all
winter
and
20
been received from a certain point In
ing the allied countries.
45 cents a ton.
erty loan executives o f their districts.
of the party went over as directed and
dicating that the Germans were pre head o f live stock nntll next year’s
sat on the wooden box that had held
paring to attack. There was no blus crops are ripe. Miss Weed Is a sopho
Food Administrator H oover’s plan to
Diseases Raging at Camp.
his typewriter. A wooden table, two
Bryan Augurs Dry Nation.
ter. The information was given In a more at Vassar this year.
take a large quantity o f sugar held in
chairs and a rack fo r books made up
Washington,
D. C .- Surgeon Gen
this country for foreign account and
low, steady voice and the orders for
Washington, D. C.— Ratification by
the furnishings o f his office.
certain counter-measures were given In DESCENDS IN BURNING PLANE pay fo r it with government funds was the states of a prohibition amendment eral W illiam C. Gorgas, reporting on
On his table was a stack o f corre an equally unruffled manner. An hour
approved as legal by the controller.
to the federal constitution within two the epidemic o f measles and pneumonia
spondence a foot high, which If It could later It was learned that the Germans
at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga., de
British
Airman
Recovers
From
In-
The appointment o f Leonidas R. years was predicted by W illiam Jen
be read by the German high command
had given up their attempt after being
clared that the number o f cases o f
Juries Received A fter 1,000-
Whipple as professor o f journalsim at nings Bryan, speaking before the
would probably give them heart fa il
unmercifully flayed by the gruelling
measles was decreasing, but expressed
Feet Drop.
the University o f V irgin ia was re opening session of the annual conven
ure. There was something significant
fire which our host had turned loose.
the fear “ that we may be beginning
scinded Friday by the board o f vis tion o f the Woman's Christian Tem
In that stack of letters. It was prob
From time to time an officer would
here an epidemic o f septic pneumonia. ’ ’
London.— A fter one o f the most itors, a fter an investigation o f alleged perance Union.
ably the first nucleus of a correspond
With 26 states al When General Gorgas made his In
appear at the door and report the prog miraculous esenpes of the war, Major
disloyal
sentiments
expressed
by ready dry and prohibition territory
ence between the directing officials of
spection this week there had been ap-
ress o f various movements under way, Bannatyne, D. 8. O., Is today recover Whipple in an address last week at
spreading over others, Mr. Bryan said
the American army and the British
and throughout the evening there was ing from his Injuries In the Clrcen- Sweet Briar College, Virginia.
a federal amendment before 1920 proximatley 3000 caaes o f measles
upon whom they are depending for ad
no letup In the handling o f business. cester hospital. While flying alone nt
seemed certain.
N early 1000 dele among the 22,000 men at the camp,
vice and Information. Some day that
The whole procedure o f this work of a height of more than 1,000 feet his en
A ll communication has been broken gates are here for the convention, and 300 cases o f pneumonia, with 1
Uttle pile w ill have grown Into an en
directing armies seemed to operate as gine caught fire. He headed the ma between North and South Russia. The which w ill continue until next Friday. about 60 deaths from the latter.
tire library o f documents that will fill
smoothly as the service at the dinner chine toward the gronnd. Soon the
foreign embassies at Petrogrd are un
long ranks o f filing cases. It Is pio table to which we were shown.
Pin Money >12,000 a Year.
flames reached his feet. H e climbed able to establish any touch with
Monroe Man Is Handled.
neer correspondence under the new
When the meal was finished and we out o f the seat and crawled along
Philadelphia—
Tw elve thousand dol
Odessa or other points in Southern
order o f things between Britain and
Everett, Wash.—George W. Croff,
were comfortably seated In the main the body o f the plane toward the tall
Russia.
Official messages, however, merchant o f Monroe, a town near lars a year “ pin money” for the w ife
tba United States.
room we heard from the lips of one of while the blazing plane plunged to
are reaching Odessa by way o f Persia. here, was seized on his way home o f the President o f the United States
The follow ing afternoon brought us the officers a story of the thoughts and
“ or the first lady o f the land,” is pro
ward the earth. The flames reached
by a lucky chance to Canadian bead- feelings of a man directing an offen
United States Deputy Marshals F ri Sunday night by five masked men, vided in a fund fr o r : the estate o f
him again. He swung himself off the
tied
and
taken
by
automobile
three
quarters. where we had the privilege sive.
Henry G. Freeman, J r „ who died here
frame nnd hung by his hands under day arrested 14 alleged members of
o f spending several hours with other
For the moment we saw a series of (he machine— now a mass o f flames. the I. W. W. who are believed to be miles from town and released. I-ater recently. “ The reason I make this
V
a
can
o
f
tar
was
found
there.
C
roff
men who are conducting operations. pictures thrown on the screen o f our
He fell Into a plowed Held and was responsible for the wrecking near Hen had a large sum of money In his pos fund, the will explains, “ is because
It was more than a lucky chance that Imagination. The officer asleep In his picked np suffering from a broken arm, rietta, Okla., Thursday, o f a fast S t
session. but It was not taken. His I feel the President o f the United
brought us to Canadian headquarters room. A servant calls him In the small scores o f cuts and with all bis hair Louis A San Francisco
passenger daughter, who was with him at the States receives such a miserable pit
train, in which three persona were time of the assault, aacrlbed It tq her
almost at the same hour that the Ger- hours. H e dresses and walks slowly to scorched to a crisp.
tance for a man holding the greatest
killed.
father’s alleged anti war attltuda.
position on earth. ”
DEFENDING ENGLAND AGAINST RAIDERS
RED CROSS REPORTS
OF C U T WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
President Makes Recommenda
tion to Congress.
COMPILED
TURKEY MAY BE NEX'
FOR YOU
P
■ívi
& m ag
NEWSPAPER MAN DESCRIBES
VISIT TO HEADQUARTERS
IS LIKE BUSINESS HOUSE
1
GERMANY READY FOR PEACE
COAL GOES UP WITH WAGES
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