OF
ERS
WEEK
JERUSALEM IS TAKEN
Turks Surrender Holy City to British
Moslem Stronghold for 1200 Year«
Again Possessed bv Christians.
LOIERS
FOR RIOT
ITALIANS
GET
HELP
Allies Arrive at Front With Men and
0. S. DESTROYER IS
Munitiona in Time to Save Any
Further Invasion by Teutons,
London— Andrew Bonar Law, Chan
Italian Headquarters in Northern
cellor o f the exchequer, announced in
Italy The battle o f Asiago has been
Brief Resume Most Important the house o f commons Monday that Troopers Pay Penalty at Fort virtually nus|>onded, with the enemy Jacob Jones Torpedoed in War
Jerusalem, after being surrounded on
cheeked, i f not defeated, in his main
Daily News Items.
Zone Last Thursday.
Sam Houston, Texas.
all sides by British troops, had sur
design o f breaking through to the
rendered.
Hrcnta valley and tho plain a few
The Chancellor said British, French
and Mohammedan representative were
miles below, although^lie succeeded in
on the way to Jerusalem to safeguard
advancing his lines a short distance
the holy places.
when tho Italians fell back to new | m >-
General Allenby reported that on
sitions, guarding the Freni a and Ga-
Saturday he attacked the enemy's | h >-
Eventa o f Noted People, Government« sitions south and west o f Jerusalem, Sixty-Three Men Tried by Court mar dena passes, have successfully resisted First American Warship Sunk by Diver
the Chancellor said. Welsh and home
all enemy efforts, and the Italians on
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Commanded by Hrother-in-l.aw
tial, 41 o f Whom Arc Sentenced
county troops advancing from the di
the steep heights on each side o f the
rection
o
f
Bethlehem,
drove
back
the
Things Worth Knowing.
o f Secretary Daniels.
for L ife Others Get Lesa.
passes rain down artillery and ritle
enemy and, passing Jerusalem on the
fire and release huge boulders every
east, established themselves on the
Jerusalem-Jericho road. A t the same
time the enemy forces try to get
Thomas’ B. Love, o f Dallas. Tex., time London infantry and dismounted
Washington, l>. ('. Three officers
SHn Antonio, Tex. — Thirteen ne through.
has been nominated to be assistant sec yoemanry attacked the strong enemy groes were hanged at Fort Sam Hous
This has continued until the Italians and 73 men were believed Saturday
retary o f the Treasury to fill one of positions west and northwest o f Jeru ton at 7:17 a. m. Tueaday for com seem reasonably assured o f holding
salem and placet! themselves astride plicity in the riot at Houston August the passes and compelling the enemy night to have gone down with the
the new offices created for the war.
| American destroyer Jacob Jones, tor
the Jerusalem-Shechem road.
The | 23. The announcement o f action on to look for another line o f approach.
Petrograd newspapers report that holy city, being thus isolated, surren
i the court martial's verdict was made
It w ill be cheering news to the nllicd pedoed and sunk in tho war zone by a
Chinese troops have arrived at Harbin, dered to General Allenby.
| at Southern department headquarters world that allied reinforcements have German submarine at H o ’clock Thurs
Manchuria, to protect Chinese inter
The chancellor said General Allenby at 9 o ’elock by the ehief o f staff, who taken their place on the Italian front day night.
ests, according to the
Berlingske entered Jerusalem officially Tuesday,
Vice Admiral Sims up to a lute hour
also gave out a formal statement in and are now occupying trenches in the
Tidende.
accompanied by the commanders o f the whieh the names o f the men sentenced battered fiositions held by the Italian ! had been able to supply only meager
Interruption o f interstate railway French and Italian contingents and the to death were given.
troo|>8, now relieved for a] needed details in reply to urgent messages
from Secretary Danels, whose brother-
service by labor disputes has been al heads o f the French political mission.
Only army officers and Sheriff John respite.
British
fxditical
officers,
together
with
most negligible since
the Federal
The British jaisition is around the in-law, Lieutenant-t oHimnnnder David
Tobin, o f Baxter county, were present
Board o f Mediation and Conciliation the British governor, were in the when the sentence was carried out by heights o f Montello, on the Upper W. Bag ley, commanded the lost vessel
was organized four years ago, says a party that had gone ahead on the safe- soKiier» from the |s>st. No newspaper- i'iave, where the batteries on the anti was reported among the missing.
mission,
the chancellor men or civilian spectators were al heights are all ready in action, and! Commander Bagley was a brother o f
report o f the board presented to the guarding
stated.
President.
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lowed, the time and place o f execution ritle fire answers the steady sniping Ensign Bagley, the first man killed in
The capture o f Jerusalem had been having been kept a secret.
from across the river.
The French the Spanish-American war.
By unanimous consent the house delayed to some degree, added the |
O f the 63 men tried, by the same position cannot as yet be indicated, ! Three officers and 34 men were
agreed to consider on Monday the con chancellor, in consequence o f the great
courtmartial,
41 were sentenced to but it is in an equally important : picktsl up by other vessels from life
stitutional amendment for nation-wide care that had been taken to avoid dam -1
{ rafts to which they clung, hut the
dishonorable
discharge
from the army, sector.
prohibition, which already has been age to the sacred places in and around
! names o f only 10 o f these had been
The
formalities
o
f
transfer
have
forfeiture
o
f
all
pay
and
allowances
passed by the senate. The judiciary the city.
been in progress for the past week, transmitted to Washington.
and
to
be
confined
at
hard
labor
for
2
committee favorably
reported the
The capture o f Jerusalem by the years. Three were sentenced to be and now are definitely accomplished, I The Jacob Jones, one o f the largest
amendment.
Briti8h_fomes marks the end, with two dfshJnonffify discharged
from the when the Italians saluted the British and neweat American submarine chas
The marriage in Berlin Monday of brief interludes, o f more than 1200 army, fo rfeit all pay and allowances flag and the Tommies cheered the men ers of the type operating in the A t
Count Christian Gunther von bern- years’ possession o f the seat o f the and be confined at hard labor for two in gray as they went for their well- lantic, was the first American warship
to fall a victim to a German subma
storff, son o f the former ambassador to Christian religion by the Mohammed years. Five were acquitted.
earned rest.
the United States, and Mrs. Margante ans. For 673 years the Holy City has
This transfer is significant. First, rine, but was the second American de
Following the hanging o f the 13 men
Vivian Burton Thomason, o f Burl been in undisputed ownership o f the the chief o f staff o f the Southern de- it is visible evidence o f alllied unity, stroyer to be lost in foreign waters.
The Chauncey sunk with her com
ington, N. J., is reported by the Ber Turks, the last ( hristian ruler of Jeru- partment gave out a written state- not alone in conferences, but on the
salem being the German Emperor, ment, at the same time refusing to fighting lines. Second, it is the in mander, Lieutenant Walter E. Reno,
lin newspapers.
Frederick 11, whose short-lived domi answer any question.
fusion o f new blood, new life, new two other officers and 1H enlisted men,
Regulations regulating display ad nation lasted from 1229 to 1244.
after being cut in two by the trans-
The rioting in Houston occurred spirit at a timely moment.
vertising have failed to conserve the
Apart from its connection with the while the third battalion o f the '24th
jn port Rose early on the morning o f Ns-
The
Italians
have
done
wonders
amount o f fuel hoped for by the fuel campaign being waged against Turkey
i vember 20.
adnimistration and a plan is under con by the British in Mesopotamia, the infantry was guarding new buildings resistance in the* last month, but
The name o f Boyd Mnrtell Hamp, of
there
is
a
lim
it
to
human
endurance,
being
erected
at
Camp
Logan.
Dur
sideration to stop all outdoor lighting, fall o f Jerusalem was the definite col
Cashmere,
Wash., appears in the list
and
the
arrival
o
f
new
men,
materials,
save street lights, at least three lapse o f long-protracted efforts o f the ing the afternoon o f August 23 a re
of enlisted men on the destroyer.
suppiles
and
guns
brings
reassurance,
port
was
circulated
in
the
negro
camp
nights a week.
Turks to capture the Suez canal and that Corporal Baltimore, fo f the bat as well as needed relief.
ilHrnp enlisted as an electrician.
The Rev. Dr. E. P. Ryland, a dis invade Egypt. Almost the first move talion, had been shot and killed by a
Sims’ terse message re|Kirting the
trict superintendent o f the Methodist made by Turkey after entrance into Houston police officer. This was said
loss o f the Jacob Jones did not state
EpiscopaPchurch at Los Angeles, w ill the war was a campaign against Egypt to have been directly resjionsible for R E B E L AGAI NST B 0 L S H E V I K I how the attack was made.
It is
be removed from his post next Monday across the great desert o f the Sinai the trouble.
i known, however, that tho Jones was
.
and assigned to some other duty be- peninsula.
In November, 1914, a
According to the testimony o f one o f Kaledines and Korniloff Revolt Gains on patrol duty bet ween 400 and 500
cause o f his unwillingness to support Turkish army variously estimated at the participants the negroes obtained
miles off shore. What vessels accom
Power in Russia.
the church’s patriotic attitude.
from 75,000 to 250,000 men marched their rifles and a quantity "o f ammuni
panied her was not revealed, but Ad
r>
. ,
—
,
c
on the Suez canal and succeeded in tion after retreat the same evening,
miral Sims’ re|M>rt showed that one
Ixmdon—
A
proclamation
to
the
Rus
Rome dispatches Tuesday, confirm
reaching within striking distance of and after dark started toward Hous sian nation has been issued by the Rus vessel rescued 30 men and another
ing earlier reports o f a lull after the
the great artificial waterway at sev ton. There were about 125 o f these sian government announcing that Kal 1 seven. They sent this information by
fierce fighting in whieh the Teutons
eral points. For several months bitter negroes, according to the statement, edines and Korniloff, assisted by the radio ami it was immediately Iruns-
failed to break through the Italian
fighting took place, the canal being and they opened fire on an automobile Imiterialists and constitutional demo- j mitted to Washington,
lines, says the Austro-German com
defended by an Anglo-Egyptian army, in which an American was riding. He crats, have raised a revolt and de- l
mander sacrificed hundreds o f thou-
aided by Australians and New Zealand was said to have been the first one dared war in the Don region against R E L I E F O F 20.000 U N D E R WAY
sanJs o f his best men without improv
ers and French and British forces.
the people and the revolution.
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killed.
ing his position.
The proclamation adds that “ the
With below zero weather prevailing,
constitutional
democrats and bour- Halifax Survivors Set to Work Aiding
TO ASK F OR U N I F I E D ROADS
Destitute Inhabitants.
the coal shortage was so acute in Ohio
•OPEN S H O P ' ’ IS H E L D L E G A L geoise are supplying the revolting
Tuesday that Governor James M. Cox
generals with Hcores o f millions.
Halifax, N. S.— H alifax has ceased
telegraphed Dr. Harry Garfield, fed Wilson to Appear Before Congress for
“ The workmen’s and soldiers’ dele to number its dead and is directing its
United States Supreme Court Issues
Better Railroad Service.
eral fuel administrator, at W ashing-,
gates have ordered the neceBsary energies to the aid o f the living.
Important Labor Ruling.
ton, that unless Ohio people get imme
movements o f troops against the coun
Washington, D. C.— President W il
The total lives hmt as a consequence
diate relief, they w ill “ lose confidence
Washington, I). C.— Decisions defin ter-revolution and issued decrees au of the explosion on the French ammu
son w ill go to congress for special leg
in the government.”
islation to bring about unification of ing in general terms the rights o f thorizing the local revolutionary garri nition ship Mont Blanc Thursday may
both organized labor and the employer sons to attack the enemies o f the peo- never be known, but for the moment
A general inquiry into the opera the railroads during the war.
tions o f the war department in arming
The fact that the President has de were rendered Tuesday by the Su- pie without awaiting orders from the the number is o f secondary inqiortanre.
and equipping the American forces cided definitely on such a move be preme court. W hile the right o f work- j supreme authorities, and forbidding
Four thousand persons were killed
was decided upon Tuesday by the sen came known Tuesday night after he men to organize for lawful purposes any attempts at mediation.”
: according to estimates by officials.
General
Kaledines,
the Cossack
ate m ilitary affairs committee. Sec had gone over the whole transporta was re-affirmed, the court held that
This estimate, higFicr than any here-
retary Baker and other department tion system with Senator Newlands, employers legally may operate their leader, is at Novo Tcherkask, where, i tofore, was made after a survey o f the
heads w ill be called to explain various chairman o f the senate interstate com- plants as open shops” and prevent apparently, he is awaiting events, ac devasted district o f Richmond, where
conspiracies to bring their non-union cording to dispatches published by the acres of debris probably will not be
features o f war activities.
merce committee.
Petrograd newspapers Denuj, says a , cleared for a month.
employes into labor organizations.
He
probably
will
ask
for
the
legisla
J. A. McHugh a rancher o f Auburn,
tion in an address to be delivered b e -! The opinions were rendered in the semi-official Russian news agency dis
But the outstanding fact that has
Wash., and his son, John E. McHugh,
fore the Christmas holidays.
I cases o f the Hitchman Coal & Coke patch from Petrograd, dated Saturday. been faced by the local authorities,
convicted in the federal court o f con
Indications are that the President1 company and the Eagle Glass Manufac- In all the other Don districts, aecord- with a courage that challenges the ad
spiracy to violate the selective draft
had confided to none o f his associates turing company o f West Virginia, the >nK to this information, the power is miration o f their kinsmen from tho
law by making false affidavits sup
court deciding that both were entitled >n the hands o f the soldiers and work- south o f the border, is that 20,000 per
porting the son’ s claim for exemption, his full intention, and officials were
doubtful as to just what he may ask. to operate their plants as “ open mcn and the Ukraniari authorities,
sons are destitute and o f the number
were sentenced late Tuesday.
The
shops” and upholdng injunctions issued j ‘ ‘ I " soldiers’ and workmen’s cir perhaps one out o f seven is suffering
father was given six months in the Some were o f the opinion that he
might request action in line with the 1 Fjy Judge A. G. Dayton, restraining cles,” continues the dispatch, “ the from injuries which in many eases are
county ja il and fined $500.
The son,
suggestion o f the Interstate commerce j union officials from attempting to or- opinion is held that General Kaledines bound to prove fatal.
now at Camp Lewis cantonment, wa3
j commission that anti-trust laws might j ganize their employes. Lower court has prepared for an armed demonstra The work o f organizing the various
fined $50.
be suspended during the war.
Others decrees holding that the United Mine tion. The government is taking the relief units into a workable whole,
“ East A frica has been comL’,etely 1 pointed out that the Interstate corn- Workers of America, and the Am eri most vigorous measures to repel him.”
with a [general direction that would
cleared o f the enemy. This announce- merce commission’s report also carried can Flint Glass W orkers’ Union, were
avoid duplication o f effort and tend to
ment was made by England Wednes the suggestion that additional legisla illegal organizations and that under
Reforms Arc Demanded.
greatest efficiency was well underway.
day.
tion might be needed, were the gov the Sherman law they were secret con
Amsterdam— In a debate on the
Federal, provincial and Red Cross
To prevent bootleggers from operat ernment to decide to take over opera spiracies in restraint o f trade were ig franchise last Thursday in the Prus aid, supplemented by volunteer units
nored by the Supreme court opinion.
ing among the soldiers stationed at tion o f the roads.
sian lower house, Herr Lohmann, na from other cities and the United
In the Hitchman case the majority tional liberal, acknowledged the neces States, were being utilized to the best
Houston, Texas, the city council has
The President’s advisers are divided
passed an ordinance putting out of in their views as to what is necessary o f the court held that the officails of sity o f a reform, especially in the na advantage.
business about 225 beer saloons and to be done. Most o f them, however, the miners’ union “ deliberately and ture o f a direct, secret franchise.
The
Massachusetts relief train,
between 50 and 60 saloons where whis have come out for government opera advisedly selected that method o f en Herr Stroebel, independent Socialist, whieh had been stalled in snow drifts
key and other liquors were sold.
The tion, and some o f the strongest sup larging the union membership, which demanded an equal franchise for wo near the Nova Scotian border, arrived
new ordinance becomes effective Janu porters o f this proposal declare that would inflflict injury” upon the com men, Vice President Friedhurgh said: Sunday, bringing the first contingent
ary 1 and applies to all places where the executive under the army appro pany and its loyal employes, and de
“ It is a question o f the K in g’s o f physicians, nurses and supplies. It
intoxicating liquors are sold, except in priation act has power to take over clared that the “ conduct in so doing pledge which must be redeemed and was the first o f several trains en route
the business district.
the roads for operation under an ad Was unlawful and malicious.”
not trifled with. ”
from the American side.
ministrator.
Nearly 9,500,000 acres of winter
Phone Workers Get Lift.
.
Cuba May Declare War.
Parking Plant Men <{uit.
wheat was sown in Kansas this fall ac
Ten Women Are Carriers.
N ew York- General salary increases
Havana—
The
belief
was
expressed
Tacoma,
Wash.— A ll union employes
cording to an estimate made public
New York— Ten women letter car to meet the increased cost o f living by several congressmen Sunday that except the engineers walked out at tho
Wednesday by the State Board of A g
ries were Monday added to the list of will be granted to its employes by the President Menocal would send a mes Carstens Packing company plant Sat
riculture.
women who entered various lines of New York Telephone company, instead sage to congress Hsking that a declara urday in sympathy with the striking
Vladim ir Schneur, one of the repre public service in New York City.
bf the yearly bonus which the company tion be made that a state o f war exists meat-cutters.
sentatives o f the Bolsheviki in the
It is understood here that i f the ex has heretofore given, it was announced between Cuba and Austria-Hungary.
The engineers remained on duty as
peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, periment proves a success Washington Tuesday.
The increase in the aggre Cuba was the first o f the Latin-Ameri- a patriotic service, so that freshly
was arrested at Petrograd a fortnight authorities w ill authorize the regular gate will amount virtually to double can countries to follow the United killed meat in the cooling rooms would
before the revolution o f last March, as employment of women in many divis the bonus granted last year, it was States in declaring war against Ger not spoil. They will also walk out
a German spy, according to informa ions o f the postal service so as to re stated, and will in no way affect ad many and the expectation is that she when the meat supply on hand is ex
tion obtained by the Associated Press lease men for war service or other vances awarded “ from time^to time in will duplicate this action in the case hausted or i f nonunion meat-cutters
from a well-informed source.
recognition o f efficiency.”
lines o f employment.
are employed, it is said.
o f Austria-Hungary.
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