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TURKISH TROOPS
WILL NOT FOLLOW
GERMAN GENERAL
General Falkenhayn Returns
to Constantinople Com
pletely Disgusted
LOSES HALF OF ARMY
IN MARCH TO FRONT
Internal Conditions In Turkey
Are Pictured As Extreme
ly Dark
Washington, Jan. 22- -One hundred
and sixty thousand Turkish troops
more than 50 per cent of General Falk
onhayn's reorganized Turkish army
deserted during the . recent journey
from Constantinople to Palestine, offi
cial dispatches today stated.
General Falkenhayn, Appointed by
the kaiser to reorganijo the crumbling
Moslems after General Allenby'g vicJ
torious' holy land campaign, has re
turned to Constantinople and his en
tire plan for rehabilitation of the sul
tan's forces has been abandoned, the
reports declare. ; . , '
"More than 50 per cent of the
strength of twenty four Turkish di
visions was lost by desertions during
the journey from Constantinople to
Palestine," General Allenby's reports
declare, adding that "forty ono com
panies of storm troops which left the
Alcxandretta district, each 300 strong,
reached the front with only four offi
cers and 100 men per company."
Kven Turkish officers refuse to
' fall in " with Falkenhayn 's pro
jgram, reports! declare, and openly
(voiced their dissatisfaction, knowing
well the unreliability of the disheart
ened, war weary native troops; - .
In less than three days 'Falkenhayn
abandoned the Palestine sector and
returned in disgust to Constantinople.
The internal situation in Turkey is
acute. Typhus, which a few months
a-io was .claiming 140 victims per day
itt Constantinople, is on the increase.
At this time of the year its virulence
' is most pronounced.
At Smyrna, a city of 200,000, five
hundred died from this disease in a
single year, while 30 per cent of the
Turk army has died or become inca
jacitated for service through the rav
ages of this dread disease.
WAR BULLETINS
Berlin, via .London, .Tan 22 "North
of Tour De Paris the French attacked
at evening after artillerying through
out the day," said today's official
statement. "They were driven back in
fire and hand to hanj conflict."
London, 'Jan. 22. Thrlee boys, all
under 16, members of the crew of the
British Warspite, were arrested today
charged with setting that vessel afire.
Paris. .Tan. 22. Premier Orlando of
Italy arrived here today.
Presumably the Italian premier is
in Pairs for an inter-allied conference.
Berne, Jan. 22. Private reports re
ceived today do not confirm the Aus
trian official claims that all strikes
have ended throughout the dual mon
archy.
Abe Martin
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Who remembers when father used t'
tome home an' throw a round steak on
th' kitchen table, an' mother 'd say,
baices alive! .More meatf " A beauti-
ful knittin' bag eontainin' a box o'
cornstareh, nine turnips an'
a eyebrow
pencil awaits th' owner at th
Grotto the ater box office,
L .nv.rl.iH Inn W ari on nf - n-- .. . ' 1.: annn.j
. . , ' . i Luc uiviu.Ke lyv-.s, c7 iuutL7 uicii xcsujiuu in Killing one hut. t i 1 pxnocted statement or (iermanv trove
tempted euemy raid east of Ypres was ture preceded arrival of his snow-! Amerkau 8ailor and bad wolfndi fn rfsPOn" t 7 leUordm 'Iml
reported by Field Marshal Haig today. bloeked train. It conveyed his deter- two oth mad(j th gu fJ vZnt Wii 1,1, 2 .
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JllSON TO FIGHT
CONTROL OF
1 4
OGRESS NOW
Teddy the Terrible Comes to
Aid of Chamkrlain's "War
Cabinet" Bill
DEMOCRATS UNITED
BY G. 0. P. CAMPAIGN
Attacks On All Branches of
Government Have Been
Most Persistent
By C. A. Martin ,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 22. The dramatic
fight developing between President
Wilson and congress over the Chamber
lain "war cabinet" bill advanced rap
idly today.
Senator Chamberlain, charged by the
president last night with "distorting
the truth" about the war situation, de
clared today he will reply.
" The president has challenged the
accuracy or my words," said Cuamber
laiu, "and I owo it to the country and
myself to answer."
Meantime, Colonel Roosevelt plunged
into the melee immediately upon ar
riving m Washington. He asked a cou-
ference with Chamberlain and in a brief
interview assailed those ' ' who Uef euu
inefficiency and lukewarainess and de
lay." He is here, he said, to boom war
measures.
Chamberlain's speech answering the
president may come Thursday when the
senate reconvenes to hear Chamberlain's
plea for action on his measure.
Ia reply to the president 's charge
that he was not consulted on tha. bills
before their introduction, Chamberlain
said today that at least one of them
was laid before the president who read
it and wrote a letter saying he disap
proved it.
Chamberlain's determination to fight
to the last ditch for the director of mu
nitions and thB war cabinet was un
shaken today in the face of the White
House opposition. -
Half a dozen democratic senators call
ed to the White House last night were
busy today lining up other democrats
against the two bills.
Senator Wadsworth, republican mem
ber of the military affairs committee,
said senate republicans probably will
a Afint-a oto.,1 , hs.fl, a a a 11 rrtQ
" v" "--'"
at a meeting to be held soon.
House republicans caucus tomorrow
night and the two bills will be dis
cussed then. It is realized that though
the senate mient De won to ine uirec-
tor of munitions bill at least, the house
probably would not pass it without athe streets of Petrograd openly on De-
terrific struggle. . cember 18, when he left Petrograd,
There is little hope, even among its George Jones, vice president of the
strongest friends that the war cabinet standard Commercial Tobacco company
will pass euuer nouse in me xace i u declared when he reached Yokohama to-1 They warned that while the Internal !8enee "frorn petrocrad of Foreign Min
1. tfiir nnil iinnualif ied hostility of the Mmr n. ooi,i .,, f n, n i. . ! 1.1 ' . sente rrom i urograu oi rorLin itiiu
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w a.iu tin: iiiiuo wexe utii.g vi.c,...
the fieht today. Chamberlain arranged
for resumption of the military investi-
cntion Saturday when Surgeon uenerai
j;rgas will testify.
To add zest to the battle, oionei
Theodore Roosevelt arrived to
day to take ud the cudgels for the
'Chamberlain measure. An editorial
against the president,
j ,It insisted upon passage of
Chamberlain bill "so that we
never again be caught utterly
the
and
shamefully unprepared. '
All factors in the pending struggl
rs in tne peuu g s,s
have
gone Detore tne people lor sup-
nort. President Wilson in a
President Wilson in a statement
last night declared the legislative
measures proposed to wrest from him
and Secretary Baker direct administra
tion of the war work had not even
been brought to his attention in con
ference, that they would delay pro-
' . . , ... . .. i ,
gress,
not hasten it, and tnat uaiier d
nlan nf reortranization was based
on
experience and therefore better.
Senator unanmenain iu rciu
nA iAV that hA in willing to abide
bv the expressed will of the people.
'It's their war," he declared. ' -i
Roosevelt, through his wntings for
months, has been trying to swing pop-
ular opimoo agaiusi uu,..-
tion's eonduct of tne war. louay u.
i3 prepared to personally enter iu--lists
in an effort to bring about a
change.
I th wake of the bitter partisan
outbreak in the senate yesterday, dur
ing which Senator fctone snarpiy cru
iriypd the republicans for injecting
politics in the war worlc and was uw
in
mination to throw his miiuence
edlv answered by Lodge and Penrofe, , made, the trial of Mrs. Cora Colwell that it wiH not be possible for Ger
"tvintt to stop criticism of the pres- and her 14-year old son, Lawrence Col- ,,- ,i,i mi mnnth. nnrir
."'. .'? I V J totl
ident," party nne nere y, cimrge ui muruer Biarieu in
today- The appearanee of Roosevelt earnest today.
only served to accentuate the bitter-: The boy is accused of slaving James
4 tsa lef the democrats a vast ma-
jority of iiem at what they believe a
concerted plan to discredit the admin-
istration previous to -the opening of
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CONVENTION 111
RUSSIA DELAYS
MEETING TODAY
Many Delegates Have Not Yet
Arrived in Petrograd Is
Latest Report
TROTSKY WILL APPEAL
TO ALL ALLIED NATIONS
Murder of Former Ministers
Is Officially Explained As
Work of Fanatics
By Joseph Shaplen
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Petrograd, Jan. 22. The all Russian
convention of workmen and soldiers So
viets, which is presumably to form the
future government of Eussia, now that
the constituent assembly is dissolved,
was delaved in its mepti
all delegates have arrived and until the
complete membership is here the sit
uation will mark timo.
Foreign Minister Trotsky and other
members of the Eussian peace delega
tion weretexpected back this week from
Brest-Litovsk. It was asserted ' today
that Trotsky would address another ap
peal to the allies outlining the progress
made at Brest-Litovsk and urging them
again to join in general peace negotia
tions. The murder of Former Ministers Ko-
koshkin and Shingareff was officially
announced today as the work of Bolshc
viki fanatics who were stirred to a
frenzy by appeals of a number of mem
bers of the Baltic fleet, just arrived,
that they take the fate of those onnos-
ing them into their own hands.
PROTEST FROM VLADIVOSTOK
By Ralph H. Turner .
(United Pross Stafr Correspondent)
; Tokio, Jan. 22.- The municipal coun
cil of Vladivostok has protested vigor
ously to the Japanese consul there
against the entrance of Japanese' war
ships into Vladivostok harbor without
the government's consent, according to
dispatches today. The council declared
that such action impaired the sovereign
ty of Eussia and injured the friendship
of Eussia and Japan. The protest is
not seriously regarded here.
Hundreds of Russian refugees and
travelers representing many other na
tions have been held up in Yokohama
bv the new American rulinc rpftiainir
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passports to aliens Dound tor America.
The ruling created a mild sensation and
caused consternation among the steam
ship companies here.
Tokio. Jan. 22. Brmon rtr,
nPrs ; fn ,,ifn too D,oiir!r, i.t
iu uiua iuc uciuian oiiiiiB,
.wv iu. mv6,uuiii ui uio Wat
ixiau reopenea
Chinese Killed Sailor
A I C fiTlpflAat
Vll U. O, UuuUUdl
Washington, Jan. 22. Firing by Chi-.
nese on the United btates guulioat Alo
MGtest to the Chinese government to-
day by American Minister Reinsch. 1
i Aiic ttitdCB. uii iiiu jimuricHii vessel
took I,laee according to of ficial advices j
(today on the Vantse river, fifty miles
above Yochow. It is believed rcvolu-
tjonary forces were responsible and the
lr1 . - , ,. .
,r"' ,f ""LT'" tZ ."VilL."
The navy also received a report on the
incident in the following message:
tn., l T u tt a n i !
uuiiij 11, uie a. uumrrai reaching this government througn 0111
Monocacy, while cruising about fifty ji M.npla. sketch a scene of ramerv
" '"f.T'.aiia want.
rivpr. waa firen nn hv ffntrpiiphpd ("In- . t. . . i : . 1 1. e i'
-j
uiToc " iiui-cu.
H. L. O'Brien, chief yeoman, was
tally injured, and W. JN. Donnelly, sea-
man, slightly wounded. The fire was :
returned by the Monocacy and settled.
xi is ueuuveu ine iimese were uan-
oils or revoiuiiunisis.
In some quarters it was thought, how
ever, that the Chanese may have believ
ed they were firing on a Japanese boat.
Mrs. Colwell and Son
On f If-J-'of
vn iitu iiiiuuvi
Pendleton, Or., Jan. 22. With a jury
empanelled ana tne opening statements
11 -J. ji i j
e. Short, an aged farmer in a dispute! (j Visited many towns and country'
over a horse deal between Short and 'districts-" he reported. "Everywhere
the boy 's father. The mother is charged tll
with inciting the murder. The defend-
ants plead self defense eaused the boy
to shoot.
THE
OFFICIALS DO NOT
BELIEVE COLLAPSE
OF AUSTRIA NEAR
Germany Slill Holds Complete
Domination Over Hunger
Torn Dual Monarchy
By Carl D. Groat
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. x2. Germany's
domiuation plus political re-organization
within Austria will stem for a time the
'growing politico-economic unrest there,
government authorities believed today.
iiruuiciii vl Kjerumny uitu Ausiria as re-
xiecteu vy T.ne oesi avaname oiriciai
report is grave, there is yet no reason 'agea have been ruled from above," lie a government of the exploited and op
to feel that collapse is at hand. For that 'declared. "Now they rulo themselves, j pressed.
reason they counselled against the build-, They will stand and fight against all "We can hope to succeed, not in
ing of false hopes within this country foes wherever found, with full pride 'proportion as we are recognized by
tliat slieer physical and economic ex-
haustion will halt the Teutonic forces
liiMt. linnr.
Government
officials, hnwpver. flro
lwaiting eagerly for the long delayed,
Z7:7, V T tZl " r -.7. i' " f J
thus far as te the Teuton internal prob-
lem.
"April and Mav will bo the worst
nmntlia fhn Tlpiitrfll Piiwpra have fappd."
said a o-nv.-rnnicnt official. "And. if
th. Toni,a nf th Pinrir aton.l for
, --r- - -
'at tney w" "Bve 10 .U 1 .
nut
Wnrd nictnres of the Central emrjires.
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j rem a wiiramiui jum uk num u-
many the government has this state
fa-'ment:
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Tho Germany which-1 saw was
perfect picture of misery, which could
Brouse feeUng of compassion."
To tnis ,8 appended semi-i
appended
official
comment thus:
"Nearly all the concrete statements
made in the (Dutchman's) article are
amply supported by German evidence
and undoubtedly present conditions and
future prospects are extremely gloomy
and thorn Tirpvn il in Germany a mood
depression whieh even the recent;
militar
iitary successes in Italy are not able
to dispel."
Government quarters do not entirely,
arpB with the Dutchman's statement
. Bi
without the majority of the civil popu-
jlation being completely broken down
n,raiiT well as physically." .
lation impressed me as famish-
ed apathetic as a result of deprivation
(Continued oa peg two)
PILOT OF POTSDAM (A SEQUEL
NOT SEEKING RECOGNITION
OF GOVERNMENTS BUT Of
DEMOCRACIES Of WORLD
By Joseph Suaplen
(United Press staff correspondent)
(Copyright, 1918, by the United Press)
Petrograd, Jan. 22. New Russia
(-wants recognition from the peoples of
the world more than the governments
of the world. She looks forward hopo
fully to a world proletariat which will
combine to stop year's slaughter and
eradicate all causes for future war.
The Bolsheviki ministry of foreign
affairs thus outlined Russia's view-
point in a special statement for thelsian government will be welcome, prin
Dinted 1 ress today, signed by Under
Foreign Minister Salkind in the ab-
iatpr 1 rnrskv.
The Russian neonle hitherto in all
in the consequences of having contrib-jthe
uted an immortal page to the history
of mankind.
ThA wivprnmpnt nf ihf soviet
of
the people's commissaries, which i a
rnment of workers, the peasants
the soldiers, "is not concerned
Wl obtaining ornciai recognu.un
from foreign powers," the foreign of-
fico statement to the United Press as-
Washington Soldier
KiSed In Battle;
Pershing's Death List
Washington, Jan. 22. Corporal Wal
ter Roberts was killed in infantry ac
tion on the French front Sunday, Gen
eral Pershing cabled the war depart
ment today.
The cabled report did not state where
the action occurred or how extensive
til was, is Hssuveu 10 nave uvvn one
of the patrol eonflictR American for-
eps tratinng in the front line trenches
are having freuently with the Germans,
- Roberts' mother is Mrs. Kate Roberts,
( Hartline, Wash.
Eight deaths from natural causes were
'also reported by Pershing.
Corporal Frank L. Coffman. Freeport
Pa., was killed in r railroad accident.
.The other deaths follow:
Private David M. Wooiridgo, Corning,
Cal
Corporal Eps Jones, Indianola, Miss.
Private John Weomer, LeMars, Iowa.
Private Russell R. Owens, of Ray-
,
mono, wasn.
' Private Floyd
iWash.
DcBoIt, of Adrian,
Private Archie A. Randall, Carrolls,
Wash.
v-orporai .crnest, u. ncjuum, mrenv
Point, Miss.
Private Howard L. Botkin, Kampa.
Idaho.
sorted. "The republic of the United
Soviets appeals primarily not fo gov
ernments, but to. the peoples of the
world whom it seeks to unite with the
purpose of ending the world slaughter
and eradicating the causes of war.,
namely, imperialism and ambition
which in one form or another animate
all governments as at present constituted.
"Any recognition which foreign gov
crnments bestow upon the present nus
jcipally as testimony or tne power, me
frankness, the undisguised purposes oi
the Kussian revolution. We are not con
cerned in old diplomatic usages. Ours
is a first-time-in-history government
foreign offices of other countries,
ibut in proportion as we reeeive the
active support of the proletariat of the
democracies of the world.
"If any governments willingly rec
ognize the historical importance and
the grandeur of a republic being born
in the midst of the ruins of an ex
ternal and civil war, the peoples of
Russia will be glad to receive that
recognition."
'Annual Conference of
English Labor Party
Nottingham, Eng., Jan. 21 Labor's
annual conference, beginning tomorrow
assumed more and more the character
of sn international gathering of work- j
men in preliminary meetings today and '
bullied even larger in importance thru
certainty that the whole peace question
will be debated.
Not only is the conference to con
sider the situation of the British labor
naity, but M. Limviioff of Russia, Mm.
Renaudel and Longuet of France and
Vm. Huysmnns, Vandervelde and Broc-
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t iutrri ojl xi igiuiii imvw wctju uu
art; cjtBi;it;u tu auuivoD u, Rvtiiu weev
inl tonight. '
The action of munitions workers of
Glasgow and Woolwich in seeking to
fcrco immediate action by the govern
ment to open peace negotiations, under
threat of strikes, seemed today most
likely to make this subject- the most im
portant of any of those to be considered
by the convention.
Nearly a score of different resolutions
urging ome sort of peace steps have
bae.t s-ibmitted for adoption by the gen
eral party conference and are to ba
debated by the convention.
The P. R- L. P. probably has a
lot of cents all right, bo long as you
spell it that way.
EASTERN STATES
FACE REAL CRISIS
INFIERCST0RI1
Effects of Garfielfs Fuel
Order Afeost MMd by
Severe Weather
SOriE GOOD RESULTS
BUT NO GENERAL EFFECT
Another Period of Suspension
May Be Necessary Later
In Week
By Robert J. Bender
(United Press staff correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 22 Swept by a
driving snow and bitter cold, the east
ern seaboard and far inland today fac
ed the greatest crisis of . the winter.
The weather bureau announced that
while snows would cease generally tO'
night, further drop in temperature i
would follow to hamper the staggering
tusk of the national railroad. Ho re
lief is in sight. -
The unprecedented Garfield indus
trial suspension order ends at midnight
tonight, its effect virtually nullified
by ths terrific weather of the last few
U!lya. .
While isolated points report Bonis
relief as a result of the order, others
state that conditions are worse. Where
coal has been moving to some ports it
has hit almost uusuniiountablo obsta
cles iu loading. Some -ships however,
have been supplied.
Continued conferences of fuel anil '
railroad officials today failed to de-,
velop further constructive measures ,
to meet the crisis, it was officially,
declared that there will be no general
embargo a.t least t'c the present on.
the freight shipments , now clogging-:
the lines.
At Director General McAdoo's of
fice today it was stated ho is "study
ing the need for poamble curtailment .
of passenger service along with num
erous other plans. There is little like- '
lihooil, it was stated, that this step
will be taken immediately, however,
though the demand for it is increasing.
In considering the next move Alt'
Adoo is confronted, it was said, offi
cially, by conflicting situations in dif
ferent states and different lines, mak-'
ing the task particularly trying.
Warmer weather would solve tha '
difficulty as nothing else, it is stat
ed. Officials ttittor widely on what
should bo done, some insisting an em
bargo end passenger curtailment ab
solutely vital to movement of coal.
Me Adoo alone holds the power to
stop passenger traffic and he hesitates
to tako the step until the last altorn-.
ativo has been exhausted.
Throughout the cast and southeast
today, all traffic was blocked by snow
and cold. Cars, yards and terminals
were packed with snow, ice and sleet.
Trains were hours late,
Tho southeastern seaboard experiene
ed its heaviest snow in years. Six inch
es fell here and the city fuel depart
ment was closed with a sign: "So
coal," on the door. Suffering through
out this section is increasingly severe
with tho prospect of no relief because
of the freight jam.
As far south as Atlanta, flu-, the
snow and sleet and bitter cold swept
over the cities.
Wires were paralyzed everywhere
through the section, coal shortage was
leading to critical suffering and fear
was felt in the south fcr some of the
winter crops.
Some hope was seen in Smith's re
port that movement of fuel eastward
from Chicago had improved and that
empties were being speeded back to
the mines in large numbers.
Time during which coal can be held
at tidewater terminals without demur
rage was ordered reduced from ten to
six days under the average agreement
plan by the interstate commerce com
missiotn. This reduction of free time ia
designed to relieve congestion along
tho seaboard by speeding unloading
and return of coal cars to the mines.
The interstate commerce commis
sion ruling applied to tidewater ter
minals at -New xorK narDor, rnnauei
phia, Wilmington, Del., and Baltimore
Detroit, Mich., Jan.' 22. Edgar R.
WhitcUmb, loea fuel ' administrator,
said today that a relative improvement
is apparent in the fuel situation here
as a result of the Garrield order.
'Viewed from the standpoint of what
might have been without the order, re
sults iaro gratifying, -but Detroit ia
still far from being 'out of the
woods'," Whiteomb said,
Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 22. Homer If.
T,v.nn atatn fuel administrator, to
day declared it was too early to com
ment on the full Clicet or tne uariietu.
coal conservation order towa-rds reliev
ing suffering in Ohio.
However, 1 oeneve tne siiuai-uri
is showing improvement," he said.
Chicago,' Jan. 22. "Tho Garfield
order has cut coal consumption and in
creased the surfply for Illinois," John
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(Coatioued on pajn two)
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