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% WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK PEACE OFFER DISCLOSED Austria Srrka to Start With Exchange of Vira» of lirlliir*rrnta. WEES WIPE OUT ST. _ _ 4 DEMANDS INDUSTRIAL PEACE President |Wil»on Serves Notice on Striking Machinists. Washington, D. C.—President Wilson took the war labor situation In hand personally Saturday and applied to "lawless and faithless employes" force In keeping with drastic measures which he disclosed had been adopted with his approval In dealing with re calcitrant employers. Striking machinists and other war plant workmen at Bridgeport, Conn., were Informed In a letter addressed di rectly to them by the President that they must return to their work and abide by the decision of the War l.ulwr Board or be barred for a year from all employment over which the Govern ment exercises control and lose all claims for draft exemption on occupa tional grounds. At the same time the President an nounced that the plant and buslneas of the Smith A Wesson Company, of Springfield, Mass., the first employer to "flaunt" the rules of the War I<abor Board approved by Presidential proc lamation, baa been commandeered by the War Department to be operated for the period of the war. In effect, the President gave notice to both employes and employers that no labor controversies would be per mitted to stand in the way of produc tion of materials needed for winning the war. The great majority of both employers and workmen Is co-operating heartily with the Government. With the broad commandeering powers granted by Congress the large measure of control exercised over all planta doing war work, the operations of the Federal employment service and the far-reaching work or fight order of the Provost Marshal-General, the President is prepared to see that the few inclined to stand aloof do not In terfere with the output of the In dustrial army. Amsterdam.—lu extending au Invi tation to all the belligerents to enter Into non-btndiug discussions at some neutral meeting place, the Auatro-Huu- People Massacred In Streets of Brief Resume Most Important gariati government stated that the ob Thousands of Hun Prisoners ject of the conference would be to Russia’s Capital. Already Counted. Daily News Items. secure an exchange of views which will show whether those prerequisites exist which would make the speedy inauguration of peace negotiations ap pear promising. The Austrian proposal, which is an nounced in an official communication Twelve Fires Burning and Much Prop- Events of Noted People, Governments telegraphed here from Vienna, sug Victory Reduce* Front From 40 to 20 gests that there be no interruption of erty Being Destroyed Conditions Miles Tank» and Airplane» Work |and Pacific Northwest and Other the war, and that the ’‘discussions Chaotic at Moscow. Havoc With Fleeing Him*. Thing's Worth Knowing. wou’d go only so far as considered by the participants to offer prospects of success." Elimination of 550 styles of rubber T h« Proposal calls for all the bel- Washington, D. (’.--Thursday's ad Washington, D. C.—The number of footwear is called for under a war lif?*rents to send delegates for a con- prisoners taken by the Americans In vices indicate that a reign of terror time schedule of production announced fidential and unbinding discussion of flattening out the St. Mlblel sallout recalling the days of the French revo by the war i n d u s t r i e s board. | the Principles for the conclusion now numbers 13,300, General Pershing lution is In progress at Petrograd. of peace, in a place in a neutral coun- 1 he Siberian government at Omsk. ^ and a near date that would yet reported in his communique for Sat A dispatch from the American lega urday. No mention was made of the a fortified town of Asiatic Russia, has have t0 be agreed upon.” tion at Christiania said reliable Infor declared war on Germany, and has The proposal says the conference number of guns and other booty cap mation had reached there that Petro ordered the mobilization of the 191S wouid be one of “delegates who would tured. grad was burning in 12 different places The enemy. General Pershing said, and 1913 classes. be charged to make known to one and that there was Indiscriminate tnas- is retiring before the steady advance The purchase of $1.000.000 of fourth another the conception of their respec- of the Americans, and is destroying acre of people lu the streets. liberty loan bonds by the Modern tive governments regarding those prin- Secretary leasing. In announcing large quantities of materials as he Woodmen of America is authorized by ciples and to receive analogous com- goes. receipt of the message, said It did not the executive council of the order, in munications, as well as to request and indicate whether tbe massacre was The text of the statement follows: session at Rock Island, 111. give immediate, frank and candid ex organized or merely was a result of a "headquarters American expedition planations on those points which need general state of anarchy. Omaha, Kansas City and St. Louis i ary forces. to be precisely defined." There was nothing to show what were placed under a grain embargo | "Section A—In the 8t. Mihiel sector The government announces that a part the Bolshevik authorities were Tuesday by the United States railroad j we have achieved further success. The note embodying Its suggestions has playing in the situation. administration because the full stor- junction of our troops advancing from been addressed to the various bellig age capacity of those markets had i the south of the sector with those ad erent powers, and that the Holy See Stockholm.—July and August were vancing front the west has given us been reached.- has been apprised of the proposal in months of horror that never will be possession of the whole salient to The seventh Australian war loan a special note. The governments of forgotten by persona who watched campaign was inaugurated enthusias- j the neutral states also have been made points 12 miles northeast of St. Mihiel Russia's two great cities—Petrograd and has resulted In the capture of tically Wednesday. The first bond acqUainted with the proposal. and Moscow—pass through the mad many prisoners. sold went to the Lord Mayor of Mel-! ___ attempt of the Bolshevlkl to shoot or Forced back by our steady advance bourne. It is hoped to raise £40,000,-1 WasMngt0n, D. C.—Germany’s latest imprison all peraona who disagreed *n a monl*1 a campaign. peace feeler, advanced through Aus- the enemy is retiring and Is destroy with their wild efforts to control ing large quantities of material as he Greece now has 200,000 troops un tria, it was officially stated Sunday, crumbling European Russia. Septem goes. The number of prisoners count- i der arms and could raise an additional best finds its answer in President Wll- ed has risen to 13,300. Our line now Eugene V. Debs Found Guilty. ber will probably be worse, for the op 100,000 if it were not handicapped by son's Baltimore speech delivered last includes Herbeuvllle, Thillet, Hatton Cleveland.—Eugene V. Debs, the so position parties are gaining strength the lack of shipping facilities, accord April. vllle, S t Benot-Xammes-Jaulny-Thia- cialist leader, charged with violating through desperation. ing to a statement made by Michael "Force, foice to the utmost, force The Uvea of the non-Bolaheviki are court and Vlevllle." the espionage act, was found guilty AcopouloS, the Greek minister of ag- without stint or limit, the righteous unsafe and everywhere in Ruaaln self- by a federal Jury here Saturday. riculture. and triumphant force which shall defense is forcing unwilling belliger With the American Army in Lor Debs' defense consisted ot an ad Socialist members of the municipal ma*e rUflit Lhe law of the world and raine.— The St. Mihiel salient has ents to take up arma against the ruth dress by himself in which he explain council of Berlin raised th^food ques- cast every selfish dominion down in been wiped out and the enemy forces less persecution of the so-called com ed that he was working for the good mission for the suppression of a coun tion in the council meeting Thursday, th® dust, are now virtually with their back on of the whole world, but as to the ter revolution, which shoots down the according to the Telegraf. One speak That was the president’s answer the famous Wotan-Hlndenburg line charges he said: er exclaimed, “It is time the war came then, and, it was reiterated Sunday, with the Americans and French par "I deny nothing; I repudiate noth bourgeoisie by the hundreds Leon Trotzky, tbe Bolshevik minis to an end." The public gallery ap it is his answer now. alleling them closely from Verdun to ing; I retract nothing.” No one doubts that it is the answer ter of war, ia evidently determined plauded loudly. the Moselle. In Judge Westenhaver’s instructions of all the allies. that his dictatorship of the proletariat The German resistance is stubborn, to the jury, he pointed out that the British aviators again have bombed ! will not repeat the history of the for but prisoners continue streaming to crime charged could be committed the railways at Metz-Sabloqs and mer provisional government and (all the rear. Twelve thousand prisoners only in time of war. Mainz and docks and sidings at Karls through being too merciful. have been counted by the Americans. "One's political belief, no more than ruhe. Seventeen direct hits were ob Ex-Premier Kerensky fefused to im The railway from Verdun to Com- his religious belief, can be accepted tained on the Karlsruhe objectives, ac pose the death penalty, and his gov mercy, Toul and Nancy now is open ns an excuse," said the court. cording to the air ministry communi ernment fell almost without the loss to the entente allies. Debs was found guilty of attempting cation Wednesday. of a life; but observers of the Russian All the villages in the St. Mihiel to incite insubordination, disloyalty. Twenty-six ships, with a deadweight Washington. D. C. — The United salient were captured by the Amerl- etc., 11. the military and naval forces; political situation say that no such tonnage of 147.520, were delivered to states, as was fully expected, has un- cans and the front in this sector was ; attempting to obstruct recruiting and bloodless end can come to the soviet the shipping board by American yards conditionally rejected Germany's peace reduced from some 40 miles to a little uttering language tending to lncfte, republic. It has given no quarter and during the first 13 days of this month, | feeler. In doing so the government under 20 miles. It will receive none. provoke and encourage resistance to the board has just announced. Dur has spoken for all the co-belligerents. the United States and to promote the ing the same period 28 steel and wood Almost immediately after receiving With the American Army in France. cause of the enemy. Gasoline Shortage Near. ships of 150,370 deadweight tons were the Austrian government’s note from —Prisoners continue to arrive In the The count on which he was adjudged Washington, D. C.—Fuel Adminis launched. the minister from Sweden, Mr. Eken- back areas from the front. One corps not guilty charged that he opposed trator Garfield informed the senate Boy Scouts of America have sold gren, Secretary Lansing Tuesday is headquarters was choked with Ger the cause of the United States. Thursday, in response to the I^odge more than $17,000,000 worth of war sued this formal statement: mans Friday morning, the prisoners The maximum penalty is 20 years' resolution of Inquiry, that unless con “I am authorized by the president including a major of the 419th regi Imprisonment and a fine of $10,000. stamps, headquarters of the organiza servation steps are taken Immediately, tion in New York announced Thurs to state that the following will be the ment, who had been captured with his there would be a deficit of approxi reply of this government to the Aus day. Sales of individual scouts aver entire staff. His cheeks were still Peace Near, Saya Hertling. mately 1,000,000 barrels of gasoline at aged $11. while 2471 “ace” medals have tro-Hungarian note proposing an un wet with tears, shed over his capture. London.—Notwithstanding the dec been issued to boys who disposed of official conference of belligerents. Enemy ammunition dumps are lination of Germany’s peace offer, the end of the year. At the rate of “The government of the United known to have been blown up by the Count von Hertling, Imperial Chan consumption In August he estimated $250 of these "baby bonds.” that thero was only about one month's States feels that there is only one artillery of one corps alone. cellor, announced that peace Is nearer- "Hinkey Dink” Kenna, for 40 years reply which it can make to the sug The fine work done by the tanks in than Is generally supposed, according* supply ahead. noted as the dispenser of the "largest A shortage of gasollno In California gestion of the imperial Austro-Hun the beginning of the offensive Is Illus to an address made by the Chancellor and coolest” beers in Chicago to the garian government. It ha3 repeatedly trated by the execution of one machine before the trades unionist leaders In is tliown In the report which states motley First Ward and widely known and with entire candor stated the In command of Sergeant Graham. This Germany, says a disaptch to the Ex that stocks on hand in that state Jan with Bathhouse John” Coughlin as uary 1, last, were 1,502,000 barrels and terms upon which the United States tank ran far ahead of the Infantry and change Telegraph from Copenhagen. political czar of the First Ward, will that on Aug. 1 the supply dropped to would consider peace and can and will captured a battery of German 77’s, 17 The Chancellor declared that both open an ice cream parlor next year, entertain no proposal for a conference heavy machine guns, five light ma the German government and army 848,000 barrels. when the country goes dry. upon a matter concerning which it has chine guns and 75 prisoners. leaders desired an understanding and Greatly concerned over the ootton made its position and purpose so Radio Station Powerful. When the tank went Into action the peace. strike, Premier Lloyd George Tues plain." sergeant crawled to the top of the Washington, D. C.—The new naval Count von Hertling said the govern day night from his sick bed issued an Mr. Lansing's statement was given turret and directed the operations ment and the army leaders were radio station at Annapolis, Md„ the appeal to the strikers to return to out within half an hour after he had from there. against all conquests. most powerful In America, is now In work and leave the decision in the received the Austrian proposal. Another tank unaided took 30 pris As soon as he was convinced of the operation. First messages sent were matters under dispute to the govern oners. Impossibility of an agreement with the from Secretary Daniels to the First ment after an inquiry by a special Spanish Influenza in East. The losses to the tanks have been upper house on the suffrage question, Lord of the British admiralty, the tribunal, to be immediately appointed. Washington, D. C.—Surgeon Gen very small. Only two of the machines the Chancellor said he would alssolve French minister of marine and the Italian minister of marine. Representative Albert Johnson, of eral Blue, of the public health service, have been destroyed entirely, and In the lower house. The station, which has an operating Washington, has been commissioned has made a telegraphic survey to de the tank corps the Americans have Prince of Hesse Willing. radius of 4000 miler was completed as Captain in the army chemical war termine the extent of Spanish influ suffered only four casualties. Not a enza In the United States. He has man has been killed in connection London.—Prince Frederick Charles In ten months and cost $1,500,000. fare service. found there was a sharp outbreak at with the operations of the tanks. of Hesse has declared his willingness Presentation of the government’s Fort Morgan, near Mobile, Ala., in American aviators have been taking to receive the crown of Finland, says Full Honor Given Women. evidence against Eugene V. Debs, the August and at about the same time a the most active* part possible In the a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Atlantic City, N. J.—Women who socialist leader, charged with violating tramp steamer arrived at Newport present fighting, and notwithstanding company from Copenhagen. serve as ambulance drivers and nurses the espionage act, was completed News with almost the entire crew the bad weather, have been flying over The prince Is visiting Finland, ac on the war fronts will be admitted to Thursday. prostrated. Philadelphia reported a German territory without opposition. companied by a strong guard. the full honors of the army and navy Handbills calling for a general strike few cases some four weeks ago and a There seemingly can be no more The Finnish landtag is summoned union, according to plans mapped out of workers, hinting at internal revolu few have been reported from New talk of German mastery In the air. It to meet September 26 for the election by the national executive committee tion and brazenly exploiting proGer- York. The Boston outbreak was re is asserted that German balloons have of a king. of the organization In session here man propaganda, have been distribu ported- September 11, since when the been shot down near (name deleted). Thursday. ted profusely about Salt Lake City, it epidemic has appeared at New Lon One daring flyer swooped low to at Prince Frederick Charles Is a broth The union has 52,000 members, com was announced Thursday by United don, while New Orleans has not wholly tack a retreating battery and shot one er In-law of Emperor William, having prising men honorably discharged States Attorney W. W. Ray. escaped. of the officers dead from his horse. married the emperor’s youngest sister. from the army, navy or marine corps. COMPILED FOR ADVANCE IS STEADY YOU AUSTRIA'S SCHEME FOR PEACE FAILS , \ REIGN OF TERROR ON