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Show '' . THE ATCH WAV VOL. XXIX. COUNTER FIERCELY ON FOE, HALTING TEUTONS AT HOMANS ISSUES PROCLAMA-IOIMPOSING RESTRICTIONS UPON GERMANS. points in mountains. all Field Marshal Haig Shifts Attacks to South and Begins Battle in SL Quentin Region; Believed Germans Seeking Verdun. All Male Subjects of the Kaiser Above the Age of 14 to Be Registered and Report Periodically to Some Official. London. In the face of tremendous Drastic regulations to Washington. pressure the Italians have held on the enable government agents to keep the mountain front between the Krenta thousands of Germans in the Cnited and Iiave rivers, where the Teutons States under constant surveillance and are trying to break through to take curl) the treasonable activities of u Diazs line in the rear. Four succes- few w ill be promulgated in a few days sive attacks by the army of General by Attorney General Gregory to make Krolmtin, which operates on this sec- effective the proclamation issued on tor. were beaten off by the Italians. November Iff by President Wilson imBerlin was unable to announce any posing restrictions on free movement new progress in its Tuesday bulletin. of alien enemies. By means of the The situation continues very critical. new regulations, the department of The Teutons now have massed the hulk justice expects to he able to round up a number of Germans who are believed of their heavy guns and a great number of reserves for the final onslaught. to have directed ttie organized camonly one great strategic mountain paigns of sabotage and propaganda to remains to be taken by them before embarrass the Cnited States iu the they can pour down into the plain. war. All Over Age of 14. This is Monte Grappa, to the east of Under the proclamation, unnaturalAsiago. A height of minor importance, Monte Fenera, and the summit and ized male Germans above the age of southern slopes of Monte Tomba are 14 are required to register with the still stubbornly defended by the Ital police or some other authority to he ians. designated by the attorney general. Shifting his offensive to the south. In addition, they must report periodField Marshal Haig has delivered a se- ically to some official, if the attorney ries of attacks against the Germans general so orders. in the region between St. Quentin and They may. not travel in the United the river Scarp in France, territory on States without a permit and may not which there has been little fighting approach within 100 yards of any since the spring offensive, when notawharf, pier, dock, warehouse, shed, eleble gains from Arras to Peronne were vator, storage house, railroad terminal made. or other establishment which the atDetails of the new offensive are not torney general may designate. They yet at hand, hut the British official are forbidden to travel on the ocean, the strike Great lakes or any river or waterway, communication says that had satisfactory results and that a either on public vessels or in their own number of prisoners and a consider- private boats. They may not enter or able quantity of materials have been reside in the District of Columbia or gained on the roads leading from the Panama canal zone and are not and Peronne toward the impor- permitted to make aerial flights in tant railroad junction of Oambrai. balloons or airplanes. Mysterious hints from Germany of The new order applies to Germans a larger scale thinning of the eastern living within the United States, the front, coincident with a sharp Teuton Philippines, Porto Rico, Alaska and blow at Verdun and terrific German other possessions or territories, but cannonading on that front, has revived does not affect subjects of Austria. the theory that the crown prince has Turkey and Bulgaria. It is effective not abandoned his ambition to redeem immediately, but the registration and himself by taking the big fortress. licensing for traveling will not be put Into full effect for a few days. FAMINE INVADES RUSSIA In administering the new regulaof justice will Food Problem Becomes More Pressing tions, the department established abide the governments by Than Question of Revolution. Gerof annoying policy in liOndon. The food problem mans as little as possible and the full Russia suddenly has become more pressure of the restrictions will be impressing than the question of revoluon Germans suspected of not only in posed only tion or evil designs against the United having Petrograd and Moscow, but also at the States. front, according to telegrams from Moscow and Odessa. LABOR BACK OF WILSON. The spectre of famine appears to have done more than the force of ar- Delegates Vote Their Approval of mies to bring about quiet. At many Placing Needs of Nation FirsL places the Bolshevik! and Bourgeosie, Buffalo, N. Y. Union labor on Monthe pacifists and the military cadets day put its stamp of approval on tin and the Kerenskyites and the Leninattitude of Samuel Gompers, president ites have joined forces against the of the American Federation of Labor, common enemy hunger in a concenin working hand in hand with Presitrated effort to stave off disaster, dent Wilson and placing the needs of which seems almost inevitable in view the nation above all other consideraof the disorganized state of transporttions in questions involving the workation and widespread destruction of ingmans part in a vigorous prosecustores und supplies. tion of the war against Germany. The vote of confidence came after SOLDIERS FIGHT FIRE more than three hours of debate, in which the pacifist element at the Blaze at Camp Kearny Threatens annual convention of the Powder House. federation was given ample opportuGamp Kearny, Cal. Ten thousand nity to express itself. Out of a total soldiers were called from their drill of 4.r0 delegates only fifteen were reMonday afternoon to figlit a sweeping corded in opposition. brush fire which for more than an hour threatened the entire cantonment JOHN GORDON g counter-revolutio- Iet-rogra- d, thirty-sev- enth disaster. with The blaze, which was of unknown origin, swept along at lightning speed throwing a wall of solid fire a hundred feet into the air. For a time it threat eneii a powder house nortli of the famp. which contained hundreds of pounds of dynamite, used for blasting purposes. Italian Missing. London. Gabriele dAnnunzio, the Italian poet and military flyer, is missing. There is a slight chance that he still lives. He may have been taken prisoner. He did not return from a recent (light over the Austro-GermaPoet-Aviat- n lines in northern Venetia. Publisher Accused of Spying. Max Eastman, publisher f the Masses, a magazine recently denied second-clas- s mail privileges, was indicted here Monday, with six others connected with the publication, on charge of conspiracy in violation the espionage act. New York. Indictments Are Withdrawn. The governmc S:"i Francisco. has withdrawn all nien indicted for charges against fi conspiring to ovi Britisli rule In India. 'iifo-.- Idaho Man Honored. Louis. Oliver Wilson of Peoria "Lwus president of the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Among other officers chosen I'1- "Cc f'a. - : Assistant steward, John MorE. Golden, Colo.; chaplain, W. kcal, Nampa, Idaho. Says Russia Has Quit Stockholm. The Afton Tidningen claims to have learned through diplomatic channels that Russia will shortly t'itlidrnw from official participation in the war. i-i SAFETY 111 FLIGHT I Once Popular Leader of Russia Now Colonel House and the Members of His Mission Prepared to Prove How Alin Hiding, Criticised and Censured lied Cause Has Suffered Through Well as Friends by Former Lack of as Enemies. The demand of the Washington. United for unity of action States in patches report Premier Kerensky the allies, as a result of the flight, his whereabouts unknown in Pe- among laris conference, will lie more than trograd, after having been defeated by in its terms. It was lenrned general Bolshevlki, and deserted by the greatSulurday from authoritative er part of his own officers and men. here sources. Colonel House and the mem He is now being hunted by his enemies, hers of his mission have gone "loaded deOne report attributed the premier's for hear. They have In their possesfeat to tlie intervention of Lettish sion facts and figures which will go to of side on the .10,000 forces, strong, prove how tlie allied cause lias sufare Bolshevlki the Bolshevik!. The in fered through lack of also apparently in control of Moscow, every phase of the war. where the provisional government They will represent the need of : forces are reported to he penned with1. Military and naval bomin tlie Kremin under artillery 2. Pooling of financial, economic bardment. Unconfirmed reports say and munitions resources. tlie bombardment was followed by the 3. The joint direction for the comarrangement of a truce between the mon good of the course and cargo of hostile factions. every ship that sails the seas. Another dispatch says peace has The first step is already In a fair been declared in Moscow with victory way toward accomplishment, through The white guard the formation of the for tlie Ilolsheviki. has been disarmed and likewise the dorna committee and the close of the allied navies. military cadets. Two trainloads of the red guards en route from PetroThe second step has long been a more or less accomplished fact, grad to Moscow to support the soldiers there have been through the financial commission stopped and at the same time railway which has been sitting in Paris and telegraph reports indicate that the passing upon the needs of the various Cossacks are making progress north- allies and the ability of the United ward and that the Bolshevlki are in States and other countries to fill them. It Is from the third step, the copanic in consequence of their near apordination of the worlds shipping, that proach. Nowhere throughout a Journey from the most revolutionary results are exthe Caucasus to Petrograd did a cor- pected. U. S. Will Assert Rights. respondent of the London Daily TeleFrom other sources it Is learned graph hear a word of sympathy for Premier Kerensky. The educated pas- that the House mission is to take sengers he met, he says in a dispatch every means within its large powers sent from Petrograd on Monday, were to bring about unified control of shipinfuriated at Kerensky's laxity in per- ping. It will present a comprehensive out plan whereby all mitting the Ilolsheviki agitation and and soldiers were indignant that the pre- the ships afloat can he controlled for mier was unable to maintain author- the benelit of the allied cause. It Is States will ity and order. Railway men. the cor- indicated that the United to the greater milirespondent adds, said that Kerensky submit willingly and Lenine and Trotsky, the Bolshe- tary and naval experience of England vik! leaders, all ought to be thrown France and Italy in the formation of the military ami navy control. But In into the Neva. of For the provisional government no- the control of the economic phnses control of shipping where was there a spark of enthusi- the war and in the United States will say, This is asm, he adds, as it was felt to have the we come In. where howLondon. From Russia the latest dis- j a' well-worke- d deserved its fate. Everywhere, ever, the correspondent found a longing for real order and real authority and for somebody who would save Russia from trouble. NOT U HALE MAJ. GEN. HARRY BOAT PERIL. Lloyd George Announces Five Sunk in One Day laindon. By the shrewdest political coup of his career, Premier Lloyd George on November Iff sent a thrill of juhilation through a partly hostile parliament before which he was on trial for Ms brutally frank" Paris speech. In the midst of an eloquent war council, defense of the inter-allhe suddenly switched to the submarine question and announced triumphantly: were destroyed last Five Saturday alone. There Is no longer any ground for fear of the submarine peril. Tumultuous cheering swallowed tlie second sentence. The house of com. mons resounded for several minutes with an ovation such as has not been beard ttiere since the fall of Bagdad. It was the gladdest news Britain lias heard about the campaign since The real of that menace. birth 'lie Y N. of Jorn Gordon Brooklyn, was the of debate forgotten, subject boilermaker on board the United ml rejoicing of the whole house cenStates destroyer Cassin, who was tralized itself automatically in one cool be for Sims Admiral cited by iination of tlie announcer of accl .real was torpedoed havior when the vessel the tidings. glad by a German submarine. Strikes Are Called Off. American Killed at Front. Strikes which have imped-- j Boston. been another lias Paris. There on important govern-- ! construction ed German and elasli between American war ment deplants in this vicinity for1 patrols ill No Mans land. Full be- the few weeks were culled off past this at known hour, not are tails Nosolby the building trades council on yond the fact that one American ni-to work. the returning vember Id, dier was killed. w u; X ' ' v"r$ Permitted. Maj. Gen. Harry Hale, U. S. A., now commander cf Camp Zachary Taylor, near Louisville, Ky., and which com prises selected men from Illinois, Indi This division is ana, and Kentucky. of the National the Eighty-fourtarmy. General Hale journeyed from China to Kentucky to take over his new command. h Draft Age Limits to Stand yushington. Propaganda In favor hanging the army draft age limits has not changed the opinion of the war department that the ages, 21 to 31 rears, should stand for the present at j Quake Recorded at Capital. Washington. A pronounced earthquake, estimated to have been ecu tered about 3000 miles from Washing-- ; ton, occurred Friday night, beginning at 10:3ff p. in. and continuing until' about 12:32 a. m. least. j I of which $191,000,000 al- ready has been advanced. Much of lids money has been spent for now awaiting shipment, and the Russians have been given vessels for Its transportation. Shipments will be held up by denial of bunker coal to the ships. Thomas D. Jones, vice chairman of the war trade hoard, culled at the Wldte House Tuesday and conferred with President Wilson. No statement wus forthcoming, but it was believed the Russian situation was discussed. ROUNDUP Twelve Die in Forest Fire. Allendale, N. J. Twelve mountaineers were burned to death Friday while fighting the forest fire which has been raging for four days in tlie moun tains near here. They were members f a bund of special wardens. OF ALJENS JEGUN Of Half Million Unnaturalized Ger mans, but Few Will Be Interned. Washington. A roundup of suspected Germans, mainly In seaconst and ltike port cities, is In progress under authority of President Wilsons new proclamation forbidding alien enemies within 100 yards of docks, requiring their registration and imposing other restrictions on tlioir movements. Tlie intelligence bureaus of the army and navy have charge of making most arrests of Gormans not evacuating the barred zones. The department of jus tice will receive prompt reports und after allowing for full bearing will determine those to be Interned permanently. Only a small percentage of tlie half million unnaturalized German men affected by tlie presidents proclamation will be arrested, officials explained In discrediting rumors of tlie arrest and imprisonment of many thousands. A few Germans have left Washington In compliance with tlie presidents order making a barred zone of tlie District of Columbia, but the exodus RELA-TIVE- S E Men of draft age with Washington. dependent relatives are placed in a more secure position under the new regulations to govern future Alterations of the selective draft law, made public on November 17 by Provost While deMarshal General Crowder. ferred classification under the new plan, which replaces all discharge or exemption certificates, may lie revoked when granted for any other cause, there is no way In which men with dependents can be called up for service out of tliair turn. Added protection for dependents is secured by tlie requirement In cases where tlie registrant seeks to wuive his deferred classification status that waiver must be obtained from those dependent upon him before he cuu be taken Into the military service. Local Boards to Judge. The effect of the regulations is to ciose the ranks of the army, navy or marine corps absolutely to men between 21 and 31 years old, where they have dependents upon them who would suffer If they went to the front. Loeul boards are constituted Judges of all such eases. For the first time also a way is provided In which niqji physically unfitted for front line duty In tlie army and yet able to do some part of the work of a soldier may b called for limited military service behind the lines. Partial physical exemptions nmy be grouted by local hourds to create this new classification. Where registrants are away from home districts or In other circumstances, application to the local bourd for a questionnaire Is required. The most noteworthy changes In the regulations outside of the creutlon of au emergency fleet to permit to remain at tlielr jobs, are ship-worke- as follows: Local boards are grunted virtually judicial powers to summon witnesses poand obtaining Information. lice will see that any witness responds. A definite program of correspondence between the boards, state officials and the provost innrshnl generals office Is provided to keep the aspect of tlie business decentralized and moving smoothly. C. B. Stewart of Salt Lake has been) elected president of the state livestock' hoard, succeeding James H. Moyle. Nearly a barrel of beer, two cases of1 whiskey and a brace of firearms werol the fruits of a raid conducted on two! pool hulls at Burk City. Kesldents of Utahn have volunteered! to furnish fuel for the Utahn school! in the event that the sohoolhouse 1 purchased by the district Sixty convicts have been moved from Nine Mile station In Curboix post county to the Thompson-Blandinroad project In that county. The state board of pardons last week denied an application of I. M. Dye foS commutation of sentence. Dye Is serving a life term in the state prison-fomurder. Indications that arson and sabotage are being practiced In the state, and that grain and hay of farmers is being destroyed Is Indicated by reports from different sections of the state. With a schedule of thirteen meetings arranged for and the programs alK fixed In advance, the Brigham Clty Kindergarten dub Is now fully organized and ready for the seasons work. The Ogden Packing company has been awarded a contract by the federali government to supply 500,000 pounds of beef for the soldiers In training at Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash. More than a quarter of a million dollars changed hands last week whew beet growers of Spanish Fork, Lake Shore, Benjamin, Leland, Palmyra and Salem were paid by the Utah-Ida- b Sugar company. Salt Lake la one of but twenty-fou- r reserve bank cities in the Unltea States which have not had a national bank failure in a period of thlrty-sl- s years, according to a statement Issued from Washington. Suspected of being both a slacker and a white slave trafficker, J. A. Bunks was arrested at Salt Lake on the technical charge of evading payment of railroad fare, that he may be further Investigated. Thus far this year 120,000 cattle have been Inoculated for the prevention of blackleg. There are still thousands of cattle to be vaccinated, but these have not yet reached the grazing grounds in the valleys. Organization of a Utah home guard will be culled for soon through an executive order from Governor Bamberger. This organization will be ua der the direction of Colonel II. M. H. Lund, adjutant generaL Salt Lake Is all fixed for Its wlntea Fifty snowplows have been plowing. distributed throughout the city, and when the snow comes It will only be necessary to notify the citys official plowhands, and they will begin their work. Rabies hus again become more prevalent in Millard county. Stringent measures are being taken for Its suppression, In the line of dog muzzling, and the Increasing of the forces at work for the trapping and hunting of : Vv 1 - g "The entire office machinery is drafted to aid local boards In tracing registrants and right of way for mall SERIOUS RIOTING IN BERLIN connected with draft proceedings Is required. Police Use Fire Arms to Quell SocialLocal boards are authorized to grant istic Demonstration. partial exemption for partial physical I London. Serious rioting took place durability, for reserving the men In this coyotes. In Berlin last Sunday, according to status for special nud limited miliGraduates of the Utah Agricultural dispatches received from Amsterdam, college now in the military service, tary service. The message says that the fighting either enlisted or drafted, may submit Classes. Special trainbetween the mob and the police was Au tiorlty Is granted to form special applications to attend the third very fierce and that there was a heavy clussej of men highly skilled In par- ing camp, according to Captain Stecasualty list, as the police used their ticular trades or professions and sum- phen Abbot, commandant of the cadet firearms. mon them uuder tills speclul heading battalion. Home-mad- e The military and police were called regardless of their grouping In the bread and Jelly sent by; upon to oppose tlie progress of the general classification plan. The secreUtah women and girls to Camp KearIndependent Socialist demonstrators. tary of war may revoke original classiny, Cal., not only was welcomed by In the riotous scenes which followed fication. except that no man granted all the recipients, but as the most the police were forced to fire with their deferred classification because of de- tempting portions were distributed rifles and revolvers and the organizers pendents may he advanced In any way among the hospital patients. It was ft of the meeting responded with fire- or called for service out of his regu- most welcome gift. arms and clubs. lar order. When deferred classificaFifteen thousand dollars will cover tion has been granted for Industrial the erpense of the hrst draft in Utah, Perry Veteran Visit Japan. or agricultural reasona a specially it is estimated by F. V. Fitz Gerald, Toklo. A visit to Japan by an aged qualified registrant may be summoned secretary to Governor Simon Bambersailor named Hardy, who was a mem- out of his turn. ger and U. S. disbursing officer, who ber of Commodore Perry's expedition New System to Apply. also says that the cost per man will In this conntry in 18T3, is being made Is made plain that men already be between $6 and $7. It manifestations occasion of the many held liy local boards for service will Mr. and Mrs. James Egan and chilof friendship toward tlie United be sent forward as needed dren are homeless at Duchesne as the to continue States. until sucli time as the new class 1 in result of a fire of unknown origin each district is sufficiently organized which destroyed their home recently. Roosevelt at Suffrage Jubilee. New York. Responsibilities the wo- to care for drafts from tlie district. There hud not been a fire in the house All pending appeals will then he wiped for hours, and Mr. Egan Is at a loss men of New York state have Inherited off tlie slate and the new system will to account for the blaze. were their enfranchisement through In order that tlie state's meat prooutlined by Colonel Theodore Roose- apply In full. Another change permits enlistment duction may be Increased, special velt at a mass meeting Tuesday night in the Metropolitan opera house In of registered men In the navy and classes for livestock owners on better celebration of the recent woman suf- marine corps where they are so far methods of feeding, breeding, Judging down on the cull list as to make cerand marketing cattle, sheep, hogs and frage victory. tain that tlielr action will not delay the poultry have been launched at the Street Car Fares to Be Advanced. task of army building. No credit Is Utah Agricultural college. Th.ee-een- t car given for such enlistment on army Cleveland. street More people than ever assembled In tickets In Cleveland will he boosted quotas, however, and local boards are Logan at any one previous time atof a cent per fare, effective judges of each case. tended the funeral of Sergeants Guy Precision for voluntary enlistment B. Alexander and Clayton P. Preston January 1. The new fare will be three tickets for ia dime, ns against In tlie army and navy is made by of tlie Forty-secon- d Infantry regithe present fare of five tickets for 1.3 means of a voluntary waiver classifimental band, tlie first sons of Utah to cation and tlie automatic advancement he returned for burial. They were cents. of the registrant to class 1 and his killed In a train wreck In Colorado. Submarine Sent to Bottom. induction at once into the military Tubercular cattle formed the subPnris.A German submarine was service. Where tlie registrant lias de- ject of a special report by Dr. R. 3V. di strayed at the time the French pendents, his waiver must he accom-laniestate Inspector of livestock, however, by wa'vers from those Iloggun, steamship Medie, with a cargo of muto the hoard recently. From June to or not if on him minors, by November there have been examined nitions. wtts torpedoed In the western Mediterranean on September 23, with iffidavits showing that minor dcpeml-nt- s 1472 head, forty-si- x found with enough will he adequately provided foi, a loss of 2.30 lives, says a dispatch traces of the disease to be A minor are if there dependents. from Algiers to the Journal. waiver by a minor cannot he accepted. Finds New Chemical. Appeal has been made by Utah stock Call foe Army Chauffeurs. raisers to the state livestock board for Philadelphia. Dr. Simon Flexner, New York. A call for 500 chauffeurs protection from vamlal acts, said to head of the Rockefeller Institute, told the National Academy of Science In for tninsjiort service in tlie quartei-naster- s' he traceable to German agents. Suscorps was issued November convention here that the Rockefeller picious movements of supposed Gerinstitute had discovered an Improved 17. The men will lie used for service man agents re)Kirted In livestock ceneither in this country at cantonments ters of Utah indicate that they have substitute for snlvarsan. or with forces atiroad. extended their activity from the east Bomb Found in Postoffice. westward. Bank Robbers Identified. Chicago. A bomb was discovered on utilities commission The state William Minneapolis. Ryan and has asked public die floor of tlie parcel posj room in the carrier lines to connecting In held here connection ederal building Tuesday, starting George King, of empty cars deliveries make prompt 'ederal agents on a search for its with the recent robbery of the Calto the Denver & Rio Grande railway, identified been have bank, State houn anker and tin explanation of how it and thus insure car service Into ths ns the men who robbed tlie Euclid came to he in the postoffice. coal fields. Des Iowa. Moines, Street State bunk, attracted little attention. one-thlr- VH: WITH DEPENDENT PLACED IN MORE POSITION. Registrants Physically Unfit for Serv. ice at the Front May,Be Used in Some Other Capacity, According to New Ruling. sui-plie- s, BY HIS UNITED STATES WILL DEMAND DESERTED KERENSKY, UNITED WAR OF ALLIES TO OWN OFFICERS AND MEN, INSURE VICTORY. HAS DISAPPEARED. PUBLIC Should Party in Power Pursue Program for Peace, No More Shipments From This Country Will pursue their program calling for a peace with Germany, the embargo will lie permanent. Tlie provisional Russian government was given credits amounting in all to TO IDE THOSE $32.3.000.000, FEARS Bank Robbers Captured. Cnffeyville, Kan. Two men who robbed the Liberty State bank at Liberty Monday morning of $.".000 were Ancaptured Monday afternoon near men the which All but gola. threw into a creek, was recovered. S Washington. No shipments of supplies will he permitted to go from the United States to Russia until the situation in that country clears. The American government, before allowing the export of goods already on the docks, wants to know Into whose hands they will fall on their arrival. If the Bolshevlki gain control and UNIT! OF ACTION ' i NO MORE SUPPLIES FROM U. S. UNTIL STABLE GOVERNMENT IS ESTABLISHED. Be 5. I NO. 39. 10 PRESIDENT . i V HEBER CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1917. 61 ALLIED FORCES I r' !. P: I U" h:v |
