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Show RED CROSS REPORTS ORGANIZATION ACCOUNTS FOR MONEY ENTRUSTED TO IT. TO MOVE SOLDIERS To Date $78,450,727.35 FROM NORTH SEA TO THE SWISS FRONTIER ARTILLERY DUELS ARE IN PROGRESS. DANIELS BACKS PREDICTION OF HALF MILLIAN AMERICANS IN FRANCE SOON. American Foil Teutonic Raid, Opening Cruahing Fire on Sector Where German Asaemble to Go Over the Top. Plan to Use Neutral Ships for Supplies to United States and American London. From tin Nnrlh sen to tin Swiss frontier tin nillltnry activity daily scents to lo growing in Intensity, and it limy la fair to assume tlmt In tin not distant fnturi some of tin; Me battles tlmt have been forecast will and break, Tim American, lmin taking Inn French urn vvhneks nt tlm Gcrnmn lines, cither ly fairly strong patrol nttneks or ty bombardments, while, In turn, tin Teutons have been giving consldernbb iittcii-- t Ion on various sectors to tlmlr Americana Foil Raid. From tlm American viewpoint allot Imr successful maneuver by tlm Americans on their sector of tlm front Is of tlm greatest Interim!. Ah on laxt Saturday, the Americium again have nipped In tlm bud an Impending surprise ntluck on tlmlr trcuebeH and taught the tierumna a salutary lesson with their artillery. In the German trenches the Teutons were awaiting the word to go over tlm top for an attack, when tlm Americium opened a heavy (Ire on the positions. Heavy cimualtlea ure believed to hnve been Inflicted on the Teiitoim and considerable damage was done by the 7.1s on the German trenched, due to the accuracy of aim of the American gun-ner- The Germans have not yet been able to reoccupy the trenches and dugouts bnttered by the American (Ire Saturday evening and have been forced to build another line of trenches at that particular point French Repulse Attacks. Next In Importance to the operations on the American front have been attacks by the Gerumns against the French In the Alsne region and north The of Verdun, near Iteuurnont. French war office asserts that the attacks north of the Alsne were repulsed, but the German war office suys tlmt linden storming south of troops pushed fur Into the French front. Inflicted heavy casualties and returned to their own lines with prisoners. British Raid Succeed. .The British have carried out successful rulds ugnlnst the Teutons southwest of Armentleres and In the vicinity of the Ypres rnllwuy station many of the enemy were killed and others cuptured. Intensive air lighting 1ms been going on between the French and Germans in France and between the Italian uml British airmen and the Germans In tlm Italian tbeuter. Sunday thirteen enemy planes were downed by the French fur Inside the German lines, while an equal number were shot dowu by lirltish and Italian airmen. TAKES UP SHIPPING PROBLEM. President Studying Plan to Procure Tonnage for Movement of Supplies. Washington. President Wilson took up imrsonully the Bhtpping problem Tuesday and at a conference with K. N. Hurley, chairman of the shipping bourd, went Into the greut problem of procuring tonnage for the movement of American troops and supplies overseas. Every phase of the question Including the progress of the government building program, plans for obtaining allies' ships for transporting soldiers, and negotiations with the European neutrals for tonnage to release American vessels for transatlantic service. The president was particularly Interested in the proposal to obtain additional ships by reducing Imports probably one half. IS DECISION REACHED AT CONFERENCE OF CHIEFS AT VERSAILLES. SUCH Vessels for Troops Movement Being Considered. Washington.--Secreta- on Daniels ry , February 4 authorized the statement that the navy Is assured of enough transport facilities to make Mire that there will be 7xmmh American troops France I n lu-r- ran-so- n KELP OF FARMERS DECLARES THIS YEAR'S ACHIEVE-MENTWILL DECIDE STRUGGLE IN PROGRESS IN EUROPE. c Points Out Part Farmers of United States Are to Play In the Bloody Drama by Growing as Large Crops as Possible. Steady Movement of Troops to France Planned, Second Draft to Begin Whenever Train. ng Quarters Are Vacated. Washington. In n message to the nation's farmers delivered on January .".I to an agricultural conference at Wilson said he III., President on both sides of the thought water realized that the culminating crisis of the war had come and this year's achievements would decide it. The message, vvldi-- the president Intend'd to present personally until attacked by a cold several days previous, was delivered by President James of the Pnlversity of Illinois. Recounting the aggressions of Germany, the president said: The first army will lie on February 1.1. Tin final quoins from those stales which have mu fariiished their fall strength will la- sent to camp on that date. Orders to this effect have gone out from Wash- stall-smel- In addition, the government expects soon to take over all American sailing ships and a large number of French sailing ships, nil of width will he put This In tlm trades. move will add some tonnage to tlmt available for bringing In Imports. If a cut in imports Is made the government will select for elimination a list of urtlelcH which It regards as not essential in the prosecution of the Washington. eoiapli-to- We are fighting, therefore, ns truly WRANGLING IN THE SENATE. Controversy Over Government's War Efficiency and Bill for War Cabinet Washington. Controversy over the government's war efficiency and the hills for a war cabinet and munitions director wits renewed Monday In the senate with n debate which occupied virtually the entire. day. Senator Hitchcock, Democratic member of the military committee, delivered u two hours speech in support of the two hills which the president opposes. He shandy criticised the war department and charged Secretary linker with unintentionally misleading the country by making absolutely preposterous ami exaggerated statements," regarding the country's ability to get soldiers abroad. Senators Williams of Mississippi and Reed of Missouri, Democrats, replied, opposing the war reorganization measures ns proposals to usurp President Wilsons authority. The former declared that the German game Is muckraking this administration," and, asserting that efforts to force through the bills are futile hecuuse executive veto Is certain, and urged cessation of Our national life and our whole fu- ture development will pass under the sinister Influence of foreign control If we do not win. We must win, therefore, anil we shall win. I need not ask you to pledge your lives and fortunes with those of the rest of the nation to the accomplishment of this great end. You will realize, as I tliiuk statesmen on both shies of the water realize, that the culminating crisis of the struggle Ims come and that the achievements of this year on one side or the other must determine the issue. "I will not appeal to you to continue and renew and increase our efforts. I do not believe that It Is necessary to do so; I believe that you will do It without any word or appeal from me. because you understand as well as I do the needs and opportunities of this great hour, when the fortunes of mankind everywhere seem about to he determined and when America lias the greatest opportunity she lias ever had to make good her own freedom nml In making it good to lend a helping hand to men struggling for their freedom everywhere. MEDILL MCORMICK agitation. OIL MEN MUST GET LICENSES wnsplls-cusse- Prescribes Terms - l of for the liberty and the Inlted States as If the war of our own revolution had to he fought over again, and every man In every business In the Fnltcd States must know by this time that his whole future fortune lies in the Imliiiu-e- . war. ington. It Is understood. Advance supplies of equipment fol the new contingents now are being assembled at the camps and cantonments In various sections of the country. Secretary of War linker has insisted on the of ample stocks of clothing and other necessary supplies before the additional men reach camp. The work Is being rushed. Advices that clothing and supplies would la ready in time were received before the provost marshal general decided on the order requiring the Induction of the final quotas into military service. An aggregate of about 7.1.000 men will he sent to camp under the new orders. Tin date of the second draft call is dependent on the removal of troops now la training. It was learned Sunday. There Is no jl-iunder consideration which calls for new cantonments or extensile enlargements of existing camps. Tlie second draft apparently will not apply to all states simultaneously. Transfer of the men of the first national army Is regulated by the availability of ships. As transports berorn available, contingents which have cm.i pleted their home training will be seni abroad. Registrants to be called under the second draft will he ordered into military' service ns camp space becomes available. This would provide a period of continuous training. Iresh troops would he ready for service In Europe nt nil times under this plan. Secretary of War linker Is understood to be favorable to this scheme. Secretary ltakei has stated that there Is legal authority to call as many ns l.tHW.ooo men under the second draft, lie thought It would he necessary to call that many, bow ever. Officials of the provost marshal gen eral's office are now working out a scheme for the registration and of the men who have rent-lieIhe age of 21 years since June .1. The hill placing these men under the selective service regulation Is expected to lie piislnd with but little delay. It In congress now. elassl-(h-atio- n IRON FIST CRUSHES STRIKERS. German Workers Face Death Unless They Bow to Dictates of Kaiser London. Germany's workers arc still In a restless mood. Although the 'trike movement appears to be yicldlm to drastic measures by the authorities, there are threats of further demonstrations and n continuation ol sporadic disorders. .lierlln and Its environs are under Factories where military' control. strikes are in progress have been mill t.irlzed, sav (lispati lies, and the worl ers warned to report fot work or un military discipline, which is tak n to niiMM tnforccil army- service. The most set Ions di Mirliaie-. s a' iiar to have occurred In Berlin Thitrs lay. when crowds overturned sirce. ars. interfered with workers wh Medill McCormick, congressman al kept to their employment nml frecollided vvltn the police. In large from Illinois, has announced his quently one ease when a panic broke out after for the candidacy Republican nomination for the Umted States seoatorship. a shot had been tired the police are with drawn He recently returned from a visit te declared to have bri-s- , thirty sinkers and many mi the war front in Europe. lookers being wounded. Red Army to Back Revolution. General Wood Recovers. Pelrograd. An official statement Is1iirls. Virtually recovered from the sued Thursday by the Itolshevist govwound in Ids right arm, sustained ernment says that the new workmen's a shell Imrst while he was visit-Inwhen and pen snuls' red army will serve to the American front recently, MnJ. support- the coming social revolution Gen. Wood left the emergency In Europe." hospital Sunday. Fighting In Finland. Swiss Strengthen Border Patrol. Stockholm. All Is quiet In HelsingParis. A dispatch to the Havas fors, a dispatch from that city reports, from lierne says the reinforcebut fighting Is tinder way at othej agency ment of Swiss troops on the Swiss borpoints In Finland between the red der has been decided upon the fedguard, which Is supporting the revolu- eral roum-l- been use of the by Interior and tion and the loyal troops. exterior situation. coiii-lusio- 'i lula-rciila- j s- g l r sub-chie- N s .ttitsi.-(NHi.o- . iudii-iition- s - r- Mni--h.- Bomb York.- d Plotters Sentenced. Sen t s of eiphleeii llintilhx' ni.d lines ot Fgnon cm h wen- imposed Tuesday on von Kniti Ii n, one of the mosf Germ. in agents In (Ids country, und ten otln-- Germans eonvleled hy i Jury in the federal Tuesday of to destroy imrih.int ships ol the alliis wiili tin- - bombs. M-- - liiipn-oiiloi'li- ls - r Air Raids as Ainsteidam. - The air i'a, d on I in's was iiiolei taken purely ,n a repr s.d toi I'rcmli raids upon open CtT'iinn towns, the coiti spiuidclit lit I'trhii of tbe Nieiiwe l.ottciilamsi la let-g- if g FINAL QUOTAS WILL BE IN THE TRAINING CAMPS BY FEB-- ' RUARY 15. S tr-han.- i. shortage. Under Which Product May Be Distributed. President Wilson on Washington. February 4 Issued his proclamation putting under license manufacturers and distributors of fuel oil with an output of more than 100, (MiO barrels n year. Preference In shipments is to he given first for war purposes nt home and abroad, public utilities and private consumers In tin order of necessity. MAY SHIP MEN TO ENGLAND. The proda mat ion is essentially n no Would Relieve Congestion at French war distribution measure and exerts oil or over wells. the restriction control Receiving Port. Government officials say there Is no Washington, In view of the diffishortage of fuel oil or gasoline proculty In llmllng ships to put American duction. fighting power la France, General Traffic congestion preventing suffl Bliss, representing the tnited States at dent shipments to the allies and althe supreme war council, Is considerthe movement of fuel oil to in lowing ing with I.rltish officials tlm advisabilthat are secomlnry in Impordustrles batity of starting u (low of American to war needs, brought about tin tance talions through the British training order. system to front line trendies in Flunders. Indicted Mayor Freed. It was learned Tuesday that a pro111. tndietmeiit The Belleville, posal has heen made tlmt 1,10 ha HaMoitman East St Mayor against lloas he assigned for such training. HI., grow lug out of tin race riots lands, Congestion at tlm American ddmi bu- there last July, was dismissed In the tton ports in France lies buck of tlm circuit court here Monday. suggestion, Ity diverting units to Brit-Is- h ports and finally transferring them Belgium Granted New Credit. to General 1ershlng's army. It has heen P.elgluui was granted Washington. urged that many men could be put on credit of S.'!,7x,txxt b.v the treasury the firing line who otherwise could not Monday, making her total from the be sent forward for months. I idled States $sfi,MNMKHi. War Cost Germany 1,300,000 Dead. Would Come to Aid of Farmers. Zurich. The war has cost Germany The house agriculture Washington. alone 1,.'km, into In dead, and ns nmuv on Monday began oonxidei-Inmore have heen wholly or partially Ina bill to appropriate $.10,iXHUkHi for capacitated, Socialist Member Sogitz relief of farmers, mostly in the northdeclared In the llavarlan diet, accordwest, tillable to finance tlds year's ing to illspateoes received here. wheat crop. Faulty Distribution Caused Shortage. Puts Ban on New Homes. Washington Faulty distribution has An appeal to the pubWashington. caused the American coal shortage. during the This Is the gist of an Informal ami lic not to build new homes war except when the need Is urgent, preliminary report which the seant! In order to xuve capital, material and subcommittee wnlch Investigated tlm war enterprises, for essential labor has before It. shortage li.is been Issued by Sicretary McAdoo. s I FIRST DRAFT ARMY one-fotirf- n President in 1 early trans-Atlanti- Washington. Wliat the American lied Cross has done with the vast sums of money entrusted to It by the pcopA Finds No Approximation to the Terms of the I'lilteil Staten Is staled In d,.. of the Entente in the Speeches of tall in it report Just Issued hy the Von Hertling and the Ausheadquarters. To date, Inis been appropriated for 4M,727..'t.1 trian Minister. relief work In this country mat Loudon The supreme war council. abroad. ! l.fLIT.TD. For foreign relief xv 1il li met lit Versailles, finds un apbeen appropriated us follows; I'r.im-clmm-cl-in German the proximation U.IKitMltl I.elglum, foreign X.'!0, lilt, LMIMW; lor'x uml the ministers speeches to the lerms of the liuxxln, F7.1I.fi 10. S7 ; Itouninnin. S2,itl7. entente allies and has decided to con-- :i!S.7G; Ilaly, ft. 11(1.01(1: Serbia. Ss7t'. ; other Fl.70'!.( lime the vigorous prosei lllloll of the ISO 7(1: Great Britain. . $2.(!",d.::t!l; Alinri-cawar until peace can he obtained foreign eotmtl-lissoldiers who may la talon prebased on the principles of "freedom, Fit Iff, (127. Justice and respect for Inlermiilomil mier, The foregoing npproprl.ilions mv law." 'Ibis official iinmuinccmeiit was from the time tin 1'nl'ed Slates entered the war until April ."0, Ifils. For iiiihIi Sunday night. I the lb d Cross (ms A summary of the official report of the 'll till tin- - Versailles war council says: appropriated S2,(il2..i::2.0; and the this sum Is not larger Is "The council was unable to find In the government provides nearly everyVon Horllmg'x and t'zcrnlns recent needs, and iitier.'inccx any real approximation to thing our army- and the modi-ralconditions laid down by la sides, there Is no civilian distress in prothe allies' governments. I'uder the cir- this country of any eonsnli-raldcumstances, the council decided that portions. The great variety of the military amt the only task before them to meet was the vigorous and effective prosecution civilian relief work being done hy Mof the war until the pressure of tlmt ailed Cross Is indicated briefly in list: Canteens that ii fiord effort produced ii change of temper in the enemy governments, Justifying the food, Imlhs and sleeping quarters for of a peace men at the front; rest stutlops and hope of the r In tranbased on the principles of freedom. Jus recreation centers for lii-and respect for international law. sit and at port of nrriv.il in Fraiae; "The council arrived at ii complete can of destitute children; furnishing unanimity of policy on measures for supplies to ItXIil liospfla's; tcticlillig mutilated soldiers new trades; reconthe prosecution of the war." struction of villages; hi iiq'iug together In Session Five Days. The supreme war council was eon faadlies of soldiers siiitlered by farms for eonwili-sis-ii- t veiled on Tuesday at Versailles, soldiers; Fraiu-e- , under the cluilnmiiisliip of s.initat Unix for and nilnr of patients; food, clothing, moduli. c, and Georges t'clmcnccnu, - premier France, mid ended Saturday. It bail shelter for the homeless anil distifute; been forecasted that the council ses- nail Other neliv it les list uilinci.ui.x to sion would he finHirtant and that at it nionl ion. It Is siat.-- hy the national war roan--momentous he decisions would tlmt all salaries and iidministrame reached, both as regarded the prosecution of the war and the possibilities of expenses are paid o,u of nicm'ier-hl- p dins, so that every penny givin to the peace. The Enited States was represented Ked Cross war fund has Inca sp, ut in the council by Gen. Tasker II. I'diss, for relief. This answcrx tin- - runiois chief of staff of the American army. that have heen nboii For Great Britain the representatives of operation. were ITcmier Lloyd George and MaJ Gilt of 2.1.1 utlvex in Ha- fourteen f Gen. Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, divisional offices of the Ked Cross in of the r.ritish general staff ; Italy. the I'niteil States. .7.1 ier eent are Premier Orlando. Foreign Minister Wotileii. 'I a policy is to sells i I InSiinnine anil General Cudorna, and for most competent person rogaulliss of France, Foreign Minister lielion. Gen. politics, sex or religion. Ferdinand Foch, chief of staff of of war, and Gen. Maxo m DAILY COST OF WAR. Weygand. Nearly $24,OG3,COO Every Day Being JOHN L. SULLIVAN DEAD. Spent by United States. months of the war Wusidngli Worlds Most Renowned Fighter Suc- have cost the Initeil Stalls about cumbs to Grim Reaper. KKI.4ltMt.tNNI nt the rate of 7i?l,(MHI- Hi a Ahington, Mass. John L. Sullivan, month, nearly F2 l.ttxi.otxi a dnv. former worlds elmmpion of the prize Of this sum, F t.12l.(iiHi.(Hi!l Ims hem ring, died at Jils farm in West Abing-ton- , paid as loans to the allies, und UFebruary , of heart trouble. lie nbalance, about S.'l.tNXMKKI, represen-was 5fi years old. John Ijiurence Sul- Auit-rns oudny for its own war livan was one of the most picturesque exclusive of more than characters in the history of prize lightfor oriiiuary govcrnim ntul e- For more than ten years, from peihi s. ing. the time lie defeated Paddy Ryan in The wars II in money is Increasing INS'J. in ii Imre knuckle fight under the at the rate of more than J KkI.oiio.ixi i London prize ring rules, until he was a iiionih, nml now- are that defeated by James J. Corbett, in ISP, (lie two remaining months of tli lir- -i his personality and methods of lightyear will run its war lull to nearly ing completely dominated sporting cirof vv hii s.l.mHUKXMMti wii! cles in the I'ldfed States. He had ofli. la- - for allied loans and about ihc snu-- i said that he had made !?2,KH,xxi In the amount for the tmvv. shipping army. ring und spent a million of It In dunkhoard and other war agencies, ing. Of late years he laid heen a total abstainer and had vvtinnly advoi-ati-HUNS WITHOUT FOOD BY MAY. prohibition. But by That Time Teuton Army Wdl Be in Paris, Says Hindenburg. MARK L. REQUA The Hague, -- Travelers from Gi i my of a recent eon-- bung an at nt which Fu Id von Himlcuhurg received the editors ol thirty German nt uspnpers and dixcixxeil the find situation with Mum. Il.e editors ton! Vmi llilidcnbmg that a. i next May Mien- would be no food in Germany. "My reply is," said the field inarslml, "th..t by nixt April I shall le in Iai-KAnxtro-lluiigiirli- this ,vear, ns was 'stated by Secretary linker recently befnre the senate nitlltarj committee. A .Ml per cent reduction In tin volume of Imports Is one of the measures under consideration by the administration to make available ships for transporting troops to France. Estimates of the amount of tonnage necessary to keep an army supplied vary all the way from four to seven tons in continuous service for each man engaged. Tlm Fnlteil Slates now 1ms In all service about 4,(KKI,(Hxi tons of shipping, of which probably Is engaged In Importing materials heretofore regarded as essential to the national Industrial life. Will Use Neutral Shipping. If negotiations now under way with neutral countries are concluded successfully a large amount of neutral tonnage will lie used to supplant American ships engaged In the trades. It s regarded as entirely likely that the entire 1,000, immi tons of American ships engaged will be put Into the service, and that the neutral s'1' s will supply Ml per cent ot dm resulting I bout in Haa Been Ap. propriated for Relief Work Criticisms Answered. Iolll-i- Mark L. Requa of San Francirco, a prominent mining engineer, has been appointed oil administrator, under the direction of Dr H. A. Garfield, fuel administrator. He has recently been lo charge of the corrmerc al relations division cf the food admimct.ation. nt Ii Germans and Austrians Clash. The hostility between on ami Hungarian tinaxiom trout Iris spieail t the Hall, ii licut, according to information iVot'i M i.ui on Wednesday. Gi m va tier-loa- n Au-dr- Colonei Roosevelt Under Knife. Two New Powder Plants. L. I. Theodore Itoosi'-vei- l Oyster xv f The ii lishlagtoii, dopa I'tment was opei uteil on a few days uii has aunouiii-e(lie award or contracts for two smokeless powder plants to for the removal or an abscess, It wie Is ex cost tf.iO.tKHi.OOtl each. The plants will earned Tuesday. Ills lb is expected to be about lie located at Charleston, W. Vu and (client, iiguln In u fortnlgb. Nashville, Tenn. M SL Louis Carmen on Strike. St. Iztttls. Street rnllwuy (raffle in St. Izmls was almost at a standstill Sunday as u result of the strike of inotortnen and conductors who went out Saturday. About sixty ears were operated. Exemption Bsdgo Bill Parsed. Washington. The tnlinltilHl ration hill authorizing the secretary of "u1, to provide dlstlm-tlvbadges to men of draft age who have heen exempted r rejected, was passed Tuesday hy th scuate. I |
