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WORLD BURDEN ON GERMANY 41 BABIES DEAD IN RUSSIA MAKES PEACE Collnpse of Russia Hurtful to Kaiser Stnto of War Declared Ended In Olll clnl Announcement Made Huitdny nt Brest. Lltovsk Conference. OF CURRENT WEEK HAPPENINGS M L ON MORE MONTREAL FLAMES WA SOUGHT Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. General Pershing has recommended to the War department that the num ber of chaplains in the army he in creased for the war. Three more fatalities, due to two separate crashes, were added Wednes-, day to the ever-lengthening roll of i deaths at Hicks Flying Field, 15 miles ' from Fort Worth, Tex. j A hip raid was carried out Wednes day by the French southwest of Hutte Mesnil. The German positions were entered up to the third line nnd many defenses and shelters were destroyed. Lord Robert Cecil announcd in the I house of commons Saturday that the British government is giving great at tention to a "league of nations." He ' added that he himself had prepared a scheme for it. i Because wheat flour substitutes are as costly and hard to secure as wheat flour itself, Chicago bakers have again raised the price of bread, 9-cent loaves advancing to 10 cents and 13-cent loaves to 15 cents. An additional $30,000,000 was placed to the credit of Italy Thursday by Sec retary McAiioo. This brings the total of American loans to that country to $550,000,000, and the total of Ameri can credits to allied countries to $4, 734,400,000. Enthusiastic applause and cheers for America met the declaration of the Italian Premier Orlando, at the open ing of the parliament Wednesday, that the war situation was growing better, due to help from the United States re placing Russia. The Stockholm Aftonbladetsays that after a massacre which occurred at Kervo (Kerava) the Red Guards wired to Helsingfors for surgeons and am bulances. Five surgeons who left im mediately, adds the paper, were mur dered by the Red Guards on their ar rival. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, former Brit ish ambassador to the United States, died Thursday morning at 1 o'clock of heart failure at Government House, at Ottawa, Ont. Lady Spring-Rice and his son and daughter, Betty and An thony, aged 11 and 9, respectively, were with him. Sir William Goode, who, since the entry of the United States into the war has occupied the important post of liason officer between the British food ministry and the United States food administration, discussed the present food situation in an address Thursday to the London notary club. W. F. Loan, state counsel for the Lincoln Highway association and prom inent Clinton, la., banker, killed him self Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Coan discharged a pistol which had been lying under the teller's window, send ing a bullet into his brain. Whether the act was intentional or accidental has not been determined. War department advices indicate that very few American soldiers lost their lives in the destruction of the liner Tuscania, in addition to the 1C1 reported Thursday as buried on the Scottish coast. The latest reports place the American loss at not more than 170 of the 2179 who were on board the ship, although the list of rescued still is far from complete. General Pershing reports four Amer ican soldiers killed, or.e severely wound ed and three missing in the actions on February 7, 8 and 9. Lieutenant Egbert McLean was killed and Lieutenant Charles E. Cum mings received injuries Monday when an airplane which they were operating crashed to the ground near Jennings, La. That France and England arc in agreement concerning the establish ment of a national home for the Jew ish people in Palestine was affirmed Tuesday by Foreign Minister Pichon in Paris, according to an official dispatch. Tho railway strike in Buenos Aires apparently is failing through tho re fusal of Italians and Britons to quit work. These men have declined to leave their jobs, notwithstanding the threats of Spanish agitators to destroy property. ia View of Teuton Press -U. S. Sees Bright Side to Matter. Amsterdam The German press ap pears quite unnblo to regard Trotzky's announcement of n stnto of peace be tween Russia and the central jHiwcrs with any feelings of satisfaction. The Berlin Zcitung Am Mittag thinks that the old chaos will continue and that therefore it will be necessary for Ger many to continue to safeguard her frontier, both from n militnry and di lomatic standpoint. Washington, D. C. With tho open ing of the great campaign of 1918 on the western front apparently in sight, military men hero examined with pro found interest tho situation created by the signing of n peace pact between the central powers and tho now Uk raine republic and the decision of the Bolsheviki Russian government to de mobilize the army. Their conclusions were not discour aging. These events on their face would appear to set free enormous German forces for tho impending bat tle in the west and also to furnish new sources of food supply for tho Teu tonic allies, but many factors detract from the advantages the central pow- J era may derive. One of the threats against the west-1 em front dwelt upon in public discus sion is the fact that presumbly 1,500, 000 prisoners of war held by Russia would be released to strengthen the German army. The fact is said to be, however, that the great majority of tho soldiers cap tured by the Russians are Austrians, not available for western front oerii tions by present indications. Most of the others are civilians or camp followers of one kind or another, and, so far as known, only a small number of German troops were cap tured on that front. Any men from tho prison camps aro regarded as of doubtful military value for some time to come, as the Russians, unable to feed their own soldiers, hardly have improved the health of the captives. There is doubt here, also, as to the extent to which the agricultural re sources of the Ukraine or of Russia can be brought to the aid of the Ger man people in their near future. Failure of the Russian transporta tion system worked in Germany's in terest in undermining the fighting power of the Russian armies. The same agency now, necessarily, works against the central powers in its desire to get out food supplies. PREACHER SENT TO PRISON Non-Partisan Secretary Gilbert Con- victcd for Seditious Talk. Minneapolis A. C. Townlcy, presi dent of the Non-Partisan League, for whose arrest a warrant was issued in Lakefield Monday, charging conspiracy to discourage enlistments, is reported to be in Thief River Falls. Authori ties there said he would be arrested. Joseph Gilbert, secretary and organ ization manager, tried on the Hame charge and with violating the Minne sota law covering disloyalty, was found guilty in the district court at Lakefield and sentenced to three months in the county jail. Gilbert was arrested here two weeks ago when he attempted to hold a league organization meeting after it had been foruidden by county officials. New charges against Townley and Gilbert were brought on the grounds that Gilbert is an agent of Townley and that while he committted the ac tual act which is declared to be dis loyal, Townley is his employer and, therefore, directs his movements and is guilty of conspiring with Gilbert to oppose the nation's military policy. Flour Rule is Modified. Washington, D. C Mixed flours containing less than CO per cent of wheat flour may be sold without ac companying substitutes, tho Food Ad ministration announced Wednesday. Where a retailer Bells mixed flours containing more than CO per cent of wheat flour, other substitutes must bo sold to bring the sale to a basis of one pound of substitute for each pound of wheat flour. A special exception may bo granted upon application showing necessity in the case of specially prepared infant and invalid food containing flour. Kaiser's Reply Cheerful. London Emperor William, occord ing to an Exchange telegram from Amsterdam, has sent the following telegram to Phillip Heinecken, mana ger of tho North German-Lloyd Steam ship company: "Many thanks for your congratula tions over our first peace. It is only a small beginning made by Germany's sword against tho closed door leading to a general peace. I am filled with gratitude. May God help us further." Ruins of Grey Nunnery Give Up Charred Bodies. LIST MAY BE LARGER Further Search Likely to Reveal More Bodies-Hundred of Sick Sold icrs nnd Others Rescued. Montreal Forty-ono children are known to hnvo Hrlshed In a lire that destroyed tho west wing of tho Grey Nunnery in this city Thursday night. Tho charred bodies of these victims have been recovered. As tho search of "tTio smoking ruins and tho checking up of survivors proceed, tho belief Is growing that the number of dead will be materially increased. Some esti mates of tho possible mortality nro as high as 100. All the inmates of the great build ing except the children are believed to have escaped. I hey included nuns, nursing Bisters, wounded or sick sol diers from overseas, aged, sick or crip pled men and women to the number of almost 1000. When tho flames were discovered In the west wing the alarm was quickly given anil nil those able to help them selves fled to places of safety. Tho heroic nuns and nursing sisters strove valiantly to save the sick ami wounded, as well as the infanta under their chnrge. The children were housed in tho sec tion of thu building where the tire started, and the flames spread so quickly It was imKssthlo to save them nil. None of the soldiers sufTered injury, however, although nearly 200 of them were quartered in the building. The ages of the inmates of the nun nery ranged from 2 or .1 days to almost I 1C0 years. Many of tho infants who (died in tho fire and smoke were only a few days or n few weeks old. The elderly inmates were housed in another section of tho nunnery and were not immediately menaced by tho flames. B0L0 PASHA FOUND GUILTY Convicted of High Trenson in France and Death Sentence Given. Paris Without tho slightest trem or, Bolo Pasha, convicted of high trea son, heard Colonel Voyer, president of the court martial, pronounce sentence of death upon him amid impressivo si lencc in the courtroom Thursday. Merely shaking his head and shrug ging his shoulders as n to say it was hopeless to fight against the odds, Bolo returned to his cell. Awed by the soldiers with fixed bay onets, those who had assembled in thu courtroom refrained from all demon stration, but tho crowds outside tho courthouse uttered a terrific ronr and cheers of approval as word of the sen tence reached thcrn, plainly showing the favor which tho sentence of death found among tho French people. Swiftly thu news of tho corning ex ecution of Bolo Pasha spread through out the city. Colonel Voyer had not yet completed reading tho sentence when the cheers of tho multitude from outside drowned his voice. The court martial was unnnlmous In condemning Bolo. It stood for a timu four to three against tho conviction of Porchcre, but finally compromised, 0 to 1, on conviction on tho charge of "commerce with tho enemy," carrying a lighter sentence. The judges deliberated only a few minutes, arid as they filed out it was easily discernible Bolo Pasha's fato was Healed. An appeal will bo entered on n tech nicality, but tho general trend of com ment heard in legal, journalistic and political circles is, "With BoIo'b death Boloism will die." The speedy return of tho court mar tial came almost as a grenter surprise to the crowds In tho courtroom await ing the verdict than thu actual sen tence of death itself, which had been predicted from tho outset. Work on School Stopped. San Diego, Cal. Becauso tho head of tho military aviation school at North Island has refused to allow civil ian workmen to remain on tho island oil night, construction on tho new bar racks and hangars has been stopped. The military authorities fear that an enemy alien, passing himself au a workman, might, if allowed to re main on the island at night, damago equipment or secure military informa tion. - I No formal treaty has been signed between the Russians: nnd the central powers, but thu Holidiuvlki government hits ordered n cessation of hostilities against Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey nnd Bulgaria nnd tho with drawal of Its troops from thu trenches ami fortified positions from thu Baltic Sea to the Roumanian frontier. It had been foreseen that such an outcome uventunlly would follow Ukiii thu revolutionary movement In Russia. Long ago tho unemy forced began tho withdrawal of troops from this front, leaving virtually only it handful to face tho Russians, IVneo having been olTcctcd both by tho Russians and Ukrainians with tho Teutonic allies, thu situation of Ron- mania becomes a most critical one. Cut olf now from her allies, the Roumanians apparently nro faced with lliu niisoiuio necessity or uueetlng n separate peace or being overrun by su perior enemy armies. Nothing has developed to show whether another Roumanian cabinet to take the placu of tho one which re signed last week has been formed or whether any reply hnH been iniulo to the ultimatum of thu central powers that H'iiee negotiations should Imme diately bo started. Amsterdam, Feb. II. Russia has declared thu statu of war to be at an end and has ordered thu demobilization of Russian forces on all fronts, accord ing to a dispatch received here today dated Brest- I.ltovsk, on Sunday. Thu dispatch follows: "The president of thu Russian dele gallon nt today's (Sunday's) sitting stated that while Russia was desisting from signing n formal peacu treaty, it declared thu statu of war to bu ended with Germnny, Austro-Hungary, Tur key and Bulgaria, simultaneously giv ing orders fur complete demobilization of Russian forces on nil fronts." DIVER MENACE SOLVED Transports Will Be IMIont Proof High Officer of Consulting Board Makes Statement of Facts. New York Means have been found to make transortJi unsinkablu by sub marines, according to a statement made Saturday night by William I Saunders, vice chairman of the Naval Consulting Board, In an address at i dinner of thu University of Pennsyl vanla alumni in this city. Mr. Saunders said that onu of the ships recently commandeered by the government "now lies at au Atlantic (ort, and in such shiiu that shu cannot be sunk by an exploding torpedo." "I can conceive of no reason why this Infomatiori should be withheld," ho added. "On thu contrary, I believu it Is well that the enemy may come to realize that the timu has been reached when American transports are ready for the transportation of our troops which that enemy cannot sink. "This ship may have it holu 30 or 40 feet in diameter blown in her side and she will remain afloat. Such a hole would waterlog but one-tenth of the honeycombed airtight cells." Mr. Saunders described in detail the plan to keep ships afloat after they had been torpedoed and thu manner in which it had been developed by Wil linrn Donnell, a New York marine en gineer, working under authorization of the Naval Consulting Board. "Of course it will take some timu to equip similarly thu largu number of transports wo have," continued Mr. Saunders. "It is my belief, however, that noth' ing will bu left undone by thu admlnlH trillion to safeguard thu lives of largu troop contingents to bo moved across tho Atlantic." Mr. Saunders, in n statement cred ited to him last May, asserted that a solution of thu submarine problem had probably been found by tho board and in the opinion of the board members thu scheme as approved would put an end to the submarine menace. Hu did not enter into details. Other members of tho board, includ ing Robins, its secretary, and Frank J. Sprugue, a member df tho commit tee on submarines, took issuu with Mr. Saunders that thu solution of tho U boat menace had been reached. Jordan Assails Prussia. Sun Francisco Dr. Duvid Starr Jor dan, chancellor of Lelanil Stanford University, Sunday arrulgned tho Prus sian autocratic dynasty in an address entitled "Tho Taproot of War," de livered before tho Commonwealth Club. Dr. Jordan, before thu United States declared wur on Germany, was ono of tho foremost peace advocntcu in tho country. Tho address was his first since this country entered thu war. Estimate Made of Increase on Railroads Will Be in Year. MEN PRESENT CLAIM Imx Wages on Railroads Rlnmcd by Witness for Exodus of Workers to Better Paid Industrie. Washington, I). O. Tho first official Indication of what promised railroad wnge Increases would cost wan given nt Wednesday' hearing before tho railroad wagu commission, when J. A. Franklin presented thu claims of thu railway employes' department of thu American Federation of Lnlxir. "Figuring an nverngu of II 3 1-3 per cent Increase, on thu flat Increases asked, thu additional cost would bo $82,000,000 annually." Secretnry Lane, chairman of tho commission, computed. Mr. Franklin said thu estimate seemed correct, bnsed Uon Increases for 2&0.000 organized men. Hu nlso had suggested that tiny In creases should apply to uiiorgnnlzed workers of tho samu trades, numbering nbout ill! 0,0 00, who were nut llgured in thu rough calculation. Thu wagu basis usked was $0 n day for skilled men, such as carmen, machinists and black smiths; $4. CO n day for holwrs, and timu mid a half overtime, Sunday nnd holiday work. Nonu of thu witnesses has submitted estimates of whnt the incrensu re quested would cost, all apparently tak ing thu M)sltlon of A. B. GnrruUon, of the conductors, who said that it did not matter whnt the cost would ho, since thu Increases were essential to maintain thu utaudard of living nnd that if an Industry did not maintain the men serving it, thu Industry did not deserve to survive. Iw wages have been blamed by thu witnesses for thu exodus of railroad workers to other industries. Mr. Franklin said thu various shop unions hu represented had lost Hi per cunt of their membership to shipyards and still others to munitions factories. Warren S. Stone, of tho engineers, told the commission that never before this winter have the railroads entered thu bad weather season with equip ment In such "rotten condition" and said that lack of skilled men In shops was rcsonsiblo for curtailment of output thuru to 00 pur cent of normal. G. 0. P. CHAIRMAN IS NAMED Will II. Hays, of Indiana. Chosen by Acclamation. St. I-ouls Will II. Hays, thu orig inal "Llvo Wire" of Indiana, whose activities put thu 1 loonier statu in thu Hughes column In 1910, was elected by acclamation Wednesday an National chairman of thu Republican parly. All thu storms bluw over and all wan peaceful as u Red Cross knitting circle. John T. Adams, of Iowa, whoso pro-German utterances before America entered the war stirred up trouble, withdrew from tho race anil nominated Mr. Hays. No other candidate was named which madu it unanimous for Hays. Hu is Republican stale chairman in Indiana and also chairman of the In diana state council of defense. Members of tho executive commit tee, among them Mr. Adams, arose onu by ono and resigned to give tho new chairman it free hand, lhonoxl executive committee will bo named at Ihe next meeting of tho National com mittee. Roosevelt Is Improving. New York A marked Improvement in tho condition of Colonel Theodore Roosevct was announced at Roosuvolt Hospital Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Roosevelt spent Homo tlmo early in tho day at the bedside. A bulletin Issued early in the day said: "Doctors Martin and Duel report very satisfactory progress of Colonel Roosoyelt. Ho is, of cnurso, weak, but on thu whole his condition is most satisfactory." Poison Kills 300 Lambs. San Francisco Baslllo Saffores, In custody on a federal indictment charg ing complicity In nn alleged I. W. W. conspiracy to obstruct tho govern ment's wur program and to commit sabotago, will bo questioned by gov ernment agents to ascertain whether he has knowledge of tho poisoning of 300 lambs In Butchortown, it was an nounced Thursday by United States Marshal James B. Hollahan.