WORLD HAPPENINGS BOLSHEVIKI
OF CURRENT WEEK
GIVE UP
Lenine and Trotzky Make Abject Sur­
render to Kaiser Germany Gets
Lithuania, Poland and Riga.
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Things Worth Knowing.
Many persons have been injured and
more than 100 houses collapsed by
earthquake shocks at Amoy, China,
Wednesday.
The Prussian budget for 1918 calls
for 2,250,000 marks to be devoted to
German propaganda in Polish terri­
tory, according an official dispatch
Wednesday from Switzerland.
Women who can qualify will be em­
ployed as ship draftsmen in the Navy
department and in the navy-yard serv­
ice throughout the country, the Civil
Service commission announces.
The first woman and child in the
Eastern states to be interned as enemy
aliens were placed in a detention camp
at Gloucester, N. Y. They are Mrs.
Matilda Hansen and her 12-year-old
daughter.
Private J. W. Boucher, of the 257th
Canadian Railway Battalion, has been
sent home from France because he is
“too old to fight.”
He is 73 and
fought in the American Civil War
with the 23d Michigan Volunteers.
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The Russian Bolshevik! government
has capitulated and announced its read­
iness, although protestingly, to sign a
peace compact under the hard terms
imposed by Germany.
Notwithstanding this fact, Teutonic
troops are advancing eastward into
Russia over a front of 400 miles, from
Riga in the north to Lutsk, a scant 50
miles from the East Galician border,
on the south.
Apparently, thus far
the operation has met with no opposi­
tion.
The northern reaches of the Dvina
river have been crossed by the enemy;
the important railroad town of Dvinsk,
whence roads run northeastward to
Petrograd and eastward to Smolensk,
has been captured and Lutsk, one of
the famous fortresses of the Volhynian
traingle and forming the gateway
leading eastward to Kiev, has been
entered without the Russians attempt­
ing to stay the force.
The only indication that the enemy
will meet with hinderance comes in an
announcement by Ensign Krylenko, the
Bolshevik commander-in-chief. In his
order he instructs the Russians when
they encounter German troops to en­
deavor to persuade them to refrain
from hostilities. “If the Germans re-
fuse,” he adds, “then you must offer
them every possible resistance.”
As yet there is no indication from
German sources concerning the full in­
tentions of the invaders, but it has
been assumed that in the north the
capture of the provinces of Livonia
and Esthonia is contemplated, arid that
in the south, in Little Russia, aid is to
be sent the Ukrainians in stemming
the tide of the Bolshevik government
against them.
Apparently all is still chaos in Rus­
sia, with civil war in progress at var­
ious points, and the food situation
daily grows worse.
So serious has
become the latter factor that Trotzky
has been appointed food controller and
given unlimited powers. Already he
has ordered the arrest of speculators in
foodstuffs.
Twenty-five thousand Filipinos are
under arms and drilling in the hope
of being called into the United States
Army for service in France, according
to C. W. O’Brien, an attorney, who
Berlin, via London — The official
has just returned to San Francisco
communication issued by the German
from Manila.
War office Tuesday evening says that
President Willson’s intervention has from Riga to as far south as Lutsk,
terminateli the Eastern shipyard German armies are advancing east­
strikes. Reports Monday night to the ward into Russia.
Shipping Board from union heads in
all districts in which carpenters are
London — Rumors are current in
out said the strikers would be back at Stockholm, according to a dispatch
work by noon Tuessday.
from Copenhagen to the Exchange
Telegraph company, that the Germans
With the Yolande, Castle and intend to intervene at once in Finland.
Searles mines idle, strikes of coal min­
The belief prevails at the Swedish
ers in the Birmingham district of Ala­ capital that the German action will be
bama had spread to three new com­ directed against the unoccupied dis­
panies, with approximatey 15,000 min­ tricts of Courland and Esthonia in con­
ers idle. The miners claim the Gar­ junction with a great naval attack in
field proposals are not being lived the Finnish gulf.
up to.
Count Emerich Karolyi, according to
a dispatch from Budapest to the Am­ SENATOR GOES UNDER KNIFE
sterdam Frankfurter Zeitung, has sub-
mitted to the Hungarian military au­ Chamberlain Operated on For Append­
thorities a charge of alleged high trea­
icitis-Condition Satisfactory.
son against his cousin. Count Michael
Washington,
D. C.—Senator George
Karolyi, president of the Hungarian
E. Chamberlain, of Oregon, was oper­
Independence party.
ated on for appendicitis at Providence
At a private conference of leaders hospital, this city, at 2 o’clock Tues­
of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League day afternoon.
The operation was
in Sioux Falls, S. D., Tuesday, at­ performed by Drs. Thomas J. Kelly
tended by A. C. Townley, National and J. A. Gannon, both of Washing­
president of the organization, it was ton.
decided not to enter the South Dakota
The senator is reported to have stood
primary race next May, according to the shock of operation in a favorable
reliable information.
manner and his condition is pronounced
very favorable by the attending physi­
Arthur Soule, a wealthy rancher of cians. They look for his complete re­
Sanders county, Mont., who is await­ covery.
ing trial at Thompson Falls for the
Since Sunday Senator Chamberlain
murder of Ren Soule, his neighbor and
has been suffering more or less from a
nephew, last month, is charged with recurrence of appendicitis, with which
the murder of his own baby daughter
he was first afflicted last fall, but until
21 years ago.
The information was
Tuesday evening he refused to place
filed by the county attorney.
himself under a doctor’s care.
The senator finally consented to an
Discharge of E. Dana Durand, for­
mer director of the census, from his operation, was taken to Providence
position in the economics department hospital and was on the operating
of the University of Minnesota was table between 2 o’clock and 2:45.
The physicians found the appendix
demanded at a meeting of the regent«
of that institution Wednesday by a greatly inflamed, and had, the opera­
delegation of representatives of organ­ tion been much longer deferred, they
ised labor and the Nonpartisan League, believe there would have been fatal re­
sults.
a farmers’ political organization.
The necessity for increased wages
for railroad employes was concedeed
Wednesday by representatives of a
majority of the railroads of the Unit­
ed States, appearing for the first time
before the government's railroad wage
commission. They said they came, not
to oppose requests of the employes,
but merely to aid the commission by
giving information.
A big raid was carried out Wednes­
day by the French southwest of Butte
Mesnil. The German positions were
entered up to the third line and many
defenses and shelters were destroyed.
Sir William Goode, who, since the
entry of the United States into the
war has occupied the important poet 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 Rotary club.
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,
duo to help from the United States re­
placing Russia.
The Stockholm Aftonbladet says that
after a massacre which occurred at
Kervo (Kerava) the Red Guards wired
to Helsingfors for surgeons and am-
balances. Five surgeons who left im­
mediately. adds the paper, were mur­
dered by the Rod Guards on their ar-
U.S. BATTLETLANES, The DESTROYING ANGEL
ON WAY TO FRANCE
First Shipment Is Five Months
Ahead cf Schedule.
BAKER STATES FACTS
Problem of America’s Sky-Fighting
Campaign is Declared to Be Se­
curing of Skilled Mechanics.
Washington, D. C.—The first Amer­
ican-built battle planes are en route to
France, nearly five months ahead of
the original schedule.
In making this announcement Thurs­
day night, Secretary Baker said the
first shipment, although in itself not
large, “marks the final overcoming of
many difficulties met in building up
this new and intricate industry.”
"These planes,” Mr. Baker said,
"are equipped with the first Liberty
motors from machine production. One
of them in a recent test surpassed all
records for speed and climbing for
planes of that type.
“Engine production, which began a
month ago, is now on a quantity basis
and the peak of production will be
reached in a few weeks. Only the 12-
cylinder type is being turned out, as
developments abroad have made it
wise to conncentrate on the high-pow­
ered engine instead of the eight-cylin­
der.”
Optimistic as the following state­
ment appear, the secretary said they
should be considered in the light of
these faces:
“That after three years of warfacre
the total number of planes able to take
the air at any time on either side of
the western front has not been more
than 2500.
“That 46 men are required on the
ground for every plane in the air,
making a total of 115,000 men needed
for the present maximum of 2500
planes.
“That for every plane in the air
there must be two replacement planes
on the ground and one training plane
for every pilot, who eventually reaches
the front, with a spare engine for each
plane.
“Now that American battle planes
are going overseas, a great increase in
the volunteering of skilled mechanics
is both essential and expected.”
Druing the last few months, Mr.
Baker said, a responsive channel of
communication with the allies has
been opened, the latest types of for­
eign machines have been adapted to
American manufacture, the industry
increased at least twenty-fold, the
training plane problem solved and the
production of battle planes begun.
American battle planes were not due
in France under the original schedule
until Juy.
SENATORS RALLY TO REFORM
Opposition Said to Decrease—Proposed
Amendments Suit Mr. Wilson.
Washington, D. C.—Early compro­
mise in the senate legislation for fur­
ther co-ordination and reorganiation of
the government’s war-making agencies
appeared in sight Thursday night as
a result of negotiations between
Democratic and Republican leaders for
the revision of the Overman bill which
would give President Wilson greater
freedom of action.
Amendments virtually agreed on
promise largely to harmonize differ­
ences, allay Republican opposition and
secure support in the senate from all
sides except the group of senators un-
alterably insisting upon the military
committee’s bill for war cabinet and
munitions director.
President Wilson was said to have
no objection to the changes proposed
and it is expected that the senate judi­
ciary sub-committee headed by Senator
Overman will redraft the bill.
The amendments, however, would
retain the principal provisions author­
ising the President to transfer depart-
menta, bureaus, commissions and other
agencies and their personnel as he
might deem necessary to effect great­
er co-ordination and efficiency in prose­
cuting the war.
Chinese Take Over Land.
Chicago — Two big Chinese farming
colonies have been established in Wis­
consin, it became known Thursday,
with the announcement of the signing
of leasee on 1480 acres of land in Ju­
neau and Rusk counties by Chicago
Chinese. One hundred Chinese will be
sent to the farms from Chicago early
in March. It is planned to have many
more follow, some from Chicago, and
Colleges Get Millions.
some from Stockton, Cal. Options on
New
York
— Large bequests to edu­
6400 acres of land have been taken and
backers of the plan say 900 Chinese cational institutions were provided in
will be on the farms by next fall.
the will, filed here Thursday, of Gen-
real Horace W. Carpentier, one of the
Strike Situation Clears.
original “Forty-niners’’ and a former
Washington, D. C.—With striking mayor of Oakland, CaL. who died Jan­
carpenters in all affected districts re­ uary SI at the age of 92. His estate
turning to work Thursday and William is valued at 13,500,000. To Barnard
L. Hutcheson, president of the Broth­ College was left outright 1200,000 “for
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners, due scholarships or assistance from time to
here to take up the situation with gov­ time to deserving girls, not excluding
ernment officials, complete settlement Chinese seeking education there," Co­
of the recent trouble in eastern ship­ lumbia University and Barnard to
“share and share alike” in the fortune.
yards seemed assured.
In effect. President Wilson’s inter­
vention has terminated the shipbuild-
Mow Aiased at Wealth.
ere’ strike.
Helena. Mont—The Montana house
adopted, SI to 27, a joint resolution to
congress asking that the nation con­
London— The Amalgamated Society script all fortunes above $1,000,000
of Engineers, according to a statement for war expenses and a resolution ask­
issued Wednesday by the secretary of ing that congress give the President
the society, has rejected the govern­ power to fix prices on grain sacks,
ment’s man-power proposals by 93,547 binding twine and farm machinery.
Adjournment of the legislature, which
The figures were: For the govern­ was to have come Thursday, has been
ment proposal, 27,470; against, 121,- put off by the impeachment proceed-
017.
B By _ Louit
_ _ Joseph
oseph Vance
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CAN YOU SOLVE LOVE’S PUZZLE?
What is love, anyhow! Is It, In the case of husband and wife,
reepect and admiration of certain spiritual qualities! Or, In your Sx
perience. Is It pure physical attraction between a certain man and a
certain woman—with respect and admiration as side lights!
Do you believe that an Intelligent woman would love enough to
live with him. the man who years prsvlously had married her Just
to save her good name as a girl and then had disappeared! That Is
the problem confronting Sara Law, the great actress, In “The Destroy-
"9 Hugh Whitaker, you remember, was given Just six months to
live, by eminent surgeons. Hs discovered a decent young woman In
trouble—her honor at stake. “One good deed before I go, he said;
“I'll marry this frightened child, and give her my respectable name.
Then I’ll go off somewhere and wait for the end.” This he did—and
five years later turned up In New York from Australia, prosperous
and healthy, and started a hunt for the girl-wife of other days.
Ho discovers her In Sara Law, and mutual recognition across
ths footlights stops a play. Martin Ember, former detective, comes
to Whitaker and tells amazing facts. A big mystery looms in this in-
stallment.
CHAPTER VII—Continued.
“And you found her and told Drum­
mond—!”
Whitaker leaned over the table,
studying the man’s face with Intense
interest.
“No—and yes. I found Mrs. Whit­
aker. I didn’t report to Drummond.”
“But why—in heaven’s name!”
Ember smiled somberly at the droop
Ing ash of his cigar. “There were sev­
eral reasons. In the first place 1 didn’t
have to : I had asked no retainer from
Drummend, and I rendered no bill:
what I had found out was mine, to
keep or to sell, as I chose. I chose not
to sell because—well, because Mrs.
Whitaker begged me not to.”
“Ah!” Whitaker breathed, sitting
back. “Why!”
“This was all of a year, I think,
after your marriage. Mrs. Whitaker
had tasted the sweets of Independence
and—got the habit She had adopted
a profession looked upon with abhor»
rence by her family. She was already
successful in a small way, had little
need of the money she would get as
claimant of your estate. She enlisted
my sympathy, and—I held my tongue."
“That was decent of you.”
The man bowed a quiet acknowledg­
ment “I thought you'd think so.
. . . There was a third reason.”
He paused, until Whitaker encour­
aged him with a “Yes—?"
“Mr. Whitaker”—the query came
point-blank—“do you love your wife!"
Whitaker caught Ms breath. “What
right—!” he began, and checked ab­
ruptly. The blood darkened his lean
cheeks.
“Mrs. Whitaker gave me to under­
stand that you didn’t It wasn’t hard
to perceive, everything considered, that
your motive was pure chivalry—quix­
otism. I should like to go to my grave
with anything half as honorable and
unselfish to my credit”
“I beg your pardon,” Whitaker mut­
tered thickly.
“You don't, then!"
“Love her! No.”
There was a slight pause. Then, ‘I
do,” said this extraordinary man, meet­
ing Whitaker’s gaze openly. *T do,”
he repeated, flushing in his turn, “but
. . hopelessly
However,
that was the third reason,” he pursued
In a more level voice—“I thought you
ought to know about it—that induced
me to keep Sara Law’s secret . . .
I loved her from the day I found her.
She has never looked twice at me.
. . . But that’a why I never lost In­
terest.”
“You mean,” Whitaker took him up
diffidently—“you continued to—ah—!”
“Court her—as we say! No.” Em­
ber's shoulders, lifting, emphasized the
disclaimer. “I’m no foot I have had
the sense not to invite the thunderbolt
She doesn’t know It unless Max told
her against my wish ; but it was I who
induced him to bring her before the
public, four years ago, as Joan Thurs­
day. Since then her destiny has been
rather too big a thing for me to tam­
per with; but I’ve watched and won­
dered, sensing forces at work about
her of which even she was unsus-
picious.”
“What In blazes do you mean!"
Whitaker demanded, mystified.
“Did it strike you to wonder at the
extraordinary mob her farewell per-
formance attracted tonight?”
“Why—yes. It struck me as rather
unusual. But then. Max had done
nothing but tell me of her tremendous
popularity.”
“That alone, great as it la, wouldn’t
have brought so many people together
to stare at the outside of a theater.
The magnet was something stronger—
the morbid curiosity of New York.
Those people were waiting, thrilled
with expectancy, on tiptoe for the sen­
sation that presently came to them:
the report of Drummond's death."
“What the devil—!"
“Patience ! This Is the third time It
has happened—the same thing, prac­
tically: Sara Law on the verge of
leaving the stage to marry, a fatal ac­
cident intervening. Did Max by any
chance mention the nickname New
York has bestowed on Sara Law?”
“Nickname! No!”
"They call her The Destroying
Angel.' "
"What rot !"
"Yes; but what coincidence. Three
men loved her—and one by one they
died. And now the fourth. Do you
wonder . . .?
"Oh, but—The Destroying Anger— r
Whitaker cried indignantly. “How can
“It Isn’t blame—it’s superstition.
Listen . . .”
Ember bent forward, holding Whit­
aker’s gaze with intent, grave eyes.
“The first time,” he said in a rapid un­
dertone, “was a year or so after her
triumph as Joan Thursday. There
were then two men openly infatuated
with her, a boy named Custer, and a
man I believe you knew—William
Hamilton.”
“I knew them both.”
"Custer was making the pace; the
announcement of his engagement to
Sara Law was confidently anticipated.
He died suddenly; the coroner’s jury
decided that he had misjudged the in­
tentions of a loaded revolver. People
whispered a suicide, but It didn’t look
quite like that to me. However
. . . Hamilton stepped Into his
place. Presently we heard that Sara
Law was to marry him and leave the
stage. Hamilton had to go abroad on
business ; on the return trip—the wed­
ding was set for the day after he land­
ed here—he disappeared, no one knew
how. Presumably he fell overboard
by accident one night; sane men with
everything In the world to live for do
such things, you know—according to
the newspapers.”
“I understand you. Please go on.”
"Approximately eighteen months
later a man named Thurston—Mitchell
Thurston—was considered a dangerous
aspirant for the hand of Sara Law. He
was exceedingly well fixed in a money
way—a sort of dilettantish architect,
with offices in the Metropolitan tower.
One day at high noon he left his desk
to go to lunch at Martin’s; crossing
Madison square, he suddenly fell dead,
with a bullet In his brain. It was a
rifle bullet, but though the square was
crowded, no one had heard the report
of the shot, and no one was seen car­
rying a rifle. The conclusion was that
he had been shot by somebody using a
gun with a Maxim silencer, from a
window on the south side of the
square. There were no clues.”
“And now Drummond 1” Whitaker
exclaimed in horror. “Poor fellow!
Poor woman !"
A slightly sardonic expression modi­
fied the lines of Ember’s mouth. “So
far as Mrs. Whitaker is concerned,”
he said with the somewhat pedantic
mode of speech which Whitaker was to
learn to associate with his moments of
most serious concentration—“I echo
the sentiment. But let us suspend
judgment on Drummond's case until
we know more. It is not as yet an es­
tablished fact that he is dead.”
“You mean there’s hope—”
“There’s doubt,” Ember corrected
acidly—“doubt, at least, in my mind.
You see, I saw Drummond in the flesh,
alive and vigorous, a good half hour
after he is reported to have leaped to
his death."
“Where?”
“Coming up the stairs from the
downtown subway station in front of
the Park Avenue hotel. He wore a
hat pulled down over his eyes and an
old overcoat buttoned tight up to his
chin. He was carrying a satchel bear­
ing the initials C. 8. D., but was other­
wise pretty thoroughly disguised, and,
I fancied, anxious enough to escape
recognition.”
“You’re positive about this!”
“The man was Carter S. Drummond.
I don’t think I can be mistaken.”
“Which way did he go!”
“Toward the Pennsylvania station. I
fancy ; that is, he turned west through
Thirty-third street I didn’t follow—I
was getting into taxi when I caught
sight of him.”
“But what did you think to i see him
disguised! Didn’t it strike you as
curious!"
“Very," said Ember dryly. At the
same time. It was none of my affair—
then. Nor did it present itself to me
as a matter worth meddling with until,
later, my suspicions were aroused by
the scene in the theater—obviously the
result of your appearance there—and
still later, when I heard the suicide re­
port"
Ing possible explanations. There's a
third . . ."
“Well?”
“He may have received a strong hint
that he was nominated for the fate
that overtook young Custer, Hamilton
and Thurston; and so planned to give
his disappearance the color of a sim.
lar end.”
“You don’t mean to say you think
there was any method in that train of
tragedies!”
“I’m not In the least superstitious,
my dear man. I don’t for an instant
believe, as some people claim to, that
Sara Law is a destroying angel, hound-
ed by a tragic fate: that her love la
equivalent to the death warrant of
the man who wins it”
“But what do you think, then!"
“I think,” said Ember slowly, hi
gaze on the table, “that someone with
a very strong interest in keeping the
young woman single—and on the
stage—”
"Max ! Impossible I”
Ember shrugged. “In human nature
no madness is impossible. There’s not
a shred of evidence against Jules Max
And yet—he’s a gambler. All theatri­
cal managers are, of course; but Max
is a card-fiend. The tale of his plung­
ing runs like wildfire up and down
Broadway, day by day. A dozen times
he’s been on the verge of ruin, yet
always he has had Sara Law to rely
upon; always he's been able to fall
back upon that asset, sure that her
popularity would stave off bankruptcy.
And he's superstitious : he believes she
is his mascot. I don’t accuse him—I
suspect him, knowing him to be ca­
pable of many weird extravagance*
. . . Furthermore, it’s a fact that
Max was a fellow-passenger with Billy
Hamilton when the latter disappeared
In midocean.”
Ember paused and sat up, prepara­
tory to rising. “All of which,” he con­
cluded, "explains why I have tre»
passed upon your patience and your
as
“They Call Her The Destroying An
gel.'"
privacy. It seemed only right that you
should get the straight, undistorted
story from an unprejudiced onlooker.
May I venture to add a word of ad
vice?"
"By all means.”
“Have you told Max of your rela­
tions with Sara Law!”
“No.”
“Or anybody else?”
“No.”
“Then keep the truth to yourself—at
least until this coll Is straightened
out”
Ember got up. “Good night,” he
said pleasantly.
Whitaker took his hand, staring.
“Good night” he echoed blankly. “But
—I say—why keep it quiet!"
Ember, turning to go, paused, his
glance quietly quizzical. “You don’t
mean to claim your wife!”
“On the contrary, I expect to offer
no defense to her action for divorce."
"Grounds of desertion !”
“I presume so.”
“Just the same, keep it as quiet as
possible until the divorce is granted.
If you live till then . . . you may
possibly continue to live thereafter.’
What Is your opinion of this
Drummond suicide report! De
you believe the man Is dead—If
he isn't, why the effort to create
the suicide impression! Is Drum­
mond a thief or a madman!
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Friendship.
“But—" Whitaker passed a hand
Doctor—Did you sleep well!
across his dazed eyes. “What can It
Patient—Not a wink.
»
mean! Why should he do this thing!”
Doctor—That is too bad. Sleep is
“There are several possible explana­ our best friend and especially to the
tions. ... How long has Drum­
mond known that you are alive!"
Patient—It is a friend like all the
"Since noon today."
others who abandon yon at the mo-
your property In his trust ?”
“A couple of hundred thousands.’
—Medical Pickwick.
unable to find your widow . . ."
“Oh, I don’t think that!” Whitaker great sorrow more calmly than
we de