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Show "1 ? u?S I,1 DflSTOBT tYENINU- NEWS. -- msr EDpios i - T TKVTM 11 ZsrmK Avenged fControl- - lt. DRASTIC r L S!'."' B"the cruiser formerly Chatoaurenuu it had been fitted as a minelayer, f Amalgamated Society of Would HaVe Engineer Government Take Fourth - E Countrys Capital London. Nov! 19. ( Correspondence 0f the Associated' Press.) British towards war and labor's attitude peace will be the chief subject of discuieion at the seventeenth annual conference of thpLabor partyTbegin-nin- g Jan. 21. . ' Among the resolutions to be submitted is one bytbe British Socialist pjrty, n hioh says in effect that labor's participation in the government has not resulted in any tangible benefits The reso10 the mass of the. people. lution adds that neither has the Labor party with the government assured that the coming peace will be made hy the democracy rather than by capitalistic diplomacy .The document also refers to the to ' remove Mr. methods employed Henderson from the war cabinet when acting in perfect accord with the decisions of the Labor party prove that participation in the government and t? fidelity to the labor movement are It will therefore be urged by the Socialists that members of the Labor party now holding office be a nit drawn. Peace Resolution. Bearding peace tbs Independent Labor party wiii submit a resolution ' for discussion which in part says: That in the opinion of this conference the war marks the breakdown of the old method of diplomacy which settled the International relations of the peoples without consulting or even informing them, but with statesmen who have used victories to impose terms of peace, which left suspicion, hate and resentment behind which sere followed by military alliances snd armaments and which violated - the in principles of order to satisfy military demands and imperialist appetites; it therefore calls upon the government, if the sacrifices of the war have not been in vain, to provide for the direct representation of in the organized democracy every conference; which discusses the condition of peace, to reject war aims which give the war the character of an imperialist Venture, and to nsa its influence and authority fn every possible way to remove the causes of war; to this end the conference declares that no obstacle should be put in the way ot responsible representatives of labor conferring together with a view to arriving at such an understanding upon (ho problems of Europe as will receive the support of all the democracies, without which there can be no lasting peace. Kcrol u tin nary Resolutions. Perhaps the most revolutionary of all the resolutions is one by the Amal-- i rammed Society ot Engineers, which says in part: This conference, recognizing that the present system 6f financing the war has resulted in giving to the rich not only excessive profits during the war, but also a constantly increasing claim upon the national Income after tbs war In the form of interest, calls upon the government to Impose at once a levy of 2S per cent on the whole capital wealth of the country, to be levied on all persons In possession of mors than 1,000. to be followed by further levies for the purpose of extinguishing the national debt and compelling the rich classes to. repay the nation the wealth which they have acquired, not In return for service rendered, but at the result of an unjust and vicious economic system." . A second resolution by the same orthe complete ganization advocates nationalization of shipping and transport as well as the following: Stale purchase and control of all and foodessential raw . materials stuffs. Tbs fixing of maximum, hut not minimum prices Tor ail essential com- modules, both for the government and fcm the civilian consumer, ''The elimination of all unnecessary , s middlemens profits. full utilisation by tbs government of the resources of the movement for the purposes of distribution. The eflmplets abandonment of the of policy bounties and sudsidtee to capitalist producers and the, substitu-tio- n . system by which production is stimulated, not by bounties, but by Increased state control of agriculture AGAINST LONDON Casualties Were Ten Persons Killed and Seventy Injured Some Fires Occurred Damage Small 1 nt-.a- Not Damaged. London. Dec. 1 9. Ten persona were killed and 7 injured in Loudon during last nights air Outside of London five persons raid.,. were Injured. Several fires occurred. Tha damage was hot serious. There was no damage to naval or military establishments. One of the Herman airplanes which took part in last nights raid oier England was brought down and another is believed to have been destroyed. the war office announces. From 14 to 29 raiders, divided Into six groups, endeavored to reach but only flte succeeded in dropping bombs on the city. The text of the statement issued today by Lord French, commander of the British home forces reads: "The latest reports Indicate that from 14 to 29 enemy airplanes took part in last nights air raid. Three groups of raiders crossed the Kent 15 and 4:15 p. m coast between Three other groups crossed the Essex coast between 4:10, and 4:45 p. ra. All six groups made towards London. Most of the raiders were turned back by gunfire si various places, only about 5 machines actually reaching and bombing the capital between 7 and t p. pi. After the main attack on London had terminated a single airplane made its way over the capital at about 9 ' p. m. One raider, hit hy gunfire, finally came down in the sea off the Kentish const, two of its crew of three men being captured alive by an armed trawler. There is reason to suppose that another enemy airplane- came down hi the channel, but this has not been confirmed up to tho present. One of our pilots attacked and fired two drums of ammunition Into a raider as tbs latter was in the act of a dropping bombs on London from our height of 12,909 feel. Another o over pilots also engaged Inthetheenemy vicinity of London and a third .the capital at 11,990 feet. All .our machines returned safely. Full reports of the casualties and damage In London hate not yet been reported. Bombs also were dropped at various places in Essex and Kent." ns London, 1 - This Due Largely to Fact it Can Use American Cartridges Which Are Better Manufacturers Claim. Not Weapon For Permanent , Effectiveness Aviation Good Making Strides Praises Ships Crews. . ' -- jfovffitnnTS recommended to Congress hy the public buildings commission In its first report. The buildings proposed are in addition to the permanent buildings already occupied. At present the government is paying about $1,619,909 a year in rents for private buildings In Washing' . ton. 4 . 1 ( ! - -- X4 - i f f ' Washington, Dec 3. Hecy. Daniels and Fa master General McGowan of the jiaiy were the first witnesses to appear today before the I house haval subcommittee-delegate- d vs an investigation Into tho (begin war activities. Cnalrman Oliver navys of the said that he expected I la number of leading naial authorities,! including those abroad, would 10101211 Information to the committee Darn- culariy regarding the navj'i work oversea. Becy. Daniels gave a general review I of what the navy haa been doing. avoiding, as he explained, any facts that would he of disclosing value the enemy. He told how the navy to is Building 424 capital and other im-V Oa s'. Discussing the use of submarine! chaaera aatd they wertf regarded as a necessity and there was not great enthusiasm" about- - them ns a weapon for permanent effect tvenesa. Naval aviation, he said, has made gratifying stride, but has been hkro-perby lack of manufacturing facilit- i 1 aum-.mon- ed Till, photograph of the German s on "oesel island, near tho mouth of the gulf of Finland, i the first to arrive In America and indicates, by the shelters the soldiers are building that they intend to stsy there through the winter nj least. At .the right of the illustration is a German soldier signalling to a transport in the harbor. Moiijiks'Make Up Vast Majority of Russians; Have Shown Ability in ; Local Self-Governm- BY COUNT ILYA TOLSTOY'. Evening Mail) (Copyright. 19IT. by The . iTbird Article of a Senes.) T HE Bolsneviki movement which has culminated in an armed struggle between the organized and the disruptive forest? in Ruxsia reresexits.some of the worst elements tn Russian society. Founded noon high ideals, the Bolsheviki movement in some of its practical applica-ton- s has fallen far short of those ideals. The Bolsheviki differ from the other socialists,, the by advocating the right of immedate seizure of property i and of authority. Men-shevi- ki, ATTrt CTS CRIMINALS. the machinery for a rapid solution of aortal and political questions. But it alzo baa attracted all the discontented, all the idle, all the criminal element of the country, including adherents of "'This principle furnishes OGDEN HU FIRES. : SHOTGUN ' IT HEART DIGINST1NTIT Under Bonds on Charge of Attempt to Murder Wife , . Di-vorc- Activity Resumes On Italian Front - : ! ! L- the Italian northern front the persist strong efforts to find a point in the Italian defense and through it to rush south to the enetian oleins. Checked east of the Brenta last week, the invaders, despite the heavy lenses inflicted upon ies. Becy. DsBileis praised the them by the Italians, have struck at two new points on the line between lion between the personnel of the navy and the personnel of the Allies. Aeiago and the Ptave. On of the great problems, he said, Monte Snlarolo,- - between the Brenta was to furnish gun crew to merchant and the Piave. baa become tho center of righUnr In this , sector. Benin ships. "W made these reserve ships." said claims the capture of some Italian Mr. Daniels, for gunners and ! positions there and the repulse of the efficiency a school with which these of- Italian counrallck. Vigorous at- fleers have taken tacks iixxlM region. Rom says, were "men and made theholJpf the young, men effi- -, repulsed by the defender. West of the dent is realty one ofyoung n Brenta. the have at- of the navy in this War. the big things tacked in the mountain region and WJien you come to writ the story J Berlin says more than 1 .ITor prlsori-er- a if the war." said he. "on of the most were captured. thrilling chapters will be regarding! German Air Raid. these young me.i. who went on the i The Germans In their latest air raid merchant ships and risked their Uvea. on London carried out last evening, I refer to those who went on our own merchant ships of course. We have harmed no naval or military put guns on every ship going into the . and did lntle other damage.property They .submarine war1 hone that requested caused the death, however, of 19 perit. sona and their bombs Injured T9 othare "We rather proud." the secre- ers. besides five persons injured outtary said, of the way the navy has . side of the capital. t1: met the adraoj test-o-f war. I am glad j One German machine came down in the sea after being Ipt and two of us for Congress and the public to know of our activities. A, taking cjrew of three were captured. The somewhat stock so to speak, cannot foil to British xffic(al report of tho raid tor anil further improve- - ' ways thero reason to suppose that e bring more ment for atill and efficient Germans came down in In future. We feel we have work, done t the English channel. , in welL but we still have problems, some la Macedonia. ot them very difficult, which we have r Reports from Athena state that been trying to solve in the beat way Gen. Bagrxtl. who .has commanded possible in the very brief time allottthe Entente forces on the Macedonian ed to solve them. f ;y front since the Allied base was estab"To the beat solution of these probllished at SalomkJ. haa been recalled ems. we hope to, have suggestion and to lie succeeded by Gen. Guillemet, help from this committee and from also, of the French army. Congress. We do not claim that we "I There has been no change on Yhe have dona everything in the best pos"I . front in France. we or sible that have made no way Infantry fighting mistakes I haa not increased. The believe, however, when Zfl conartillery tinues to be active in certain sector. you know all we have attempted, ws will receive your confirming Judgment Haig Mokes Changes. have done ax well as possible Field Marshal Haig, the London that we all circumstances.- - In some ? limes sayv, is making Important under bee a things creditable speed haji & 1 i changes In his headquarters staff. The achieved; in all things there has been British commander-in-chie- f In France team work in the department and In baa made virtual iy no changes since the entire service to have things well he took over the command from Vis- done and thoroughly done count French. anil told hew. in the exU Secy. Ramin a Puzzle. at the outset of the war. keels genciee V laid where there a as swamp been had Russian representative have been but a few months before, and ordered by Leon Trotzky, the Bolsbe-vt- lands, if how mechanical equipment had foreign minister, to demand of developed. ) tho Central Powers at the peace con f s. Bits and Bite, ferencs at whether they contractors, be said, have agree to make peace without annexaThere have been fair and patriotic. tions and indemnities gnd on the a few he said we had to take by they tame i a i $ie nape ot the neck, principle of of to do their tilt, bat hi aylng they wanted btte ' wanted their really "Fed to have invited He did not like the cost plus 10 per Allied Participation on the threat system, be said, but it was the best , i that cent treaties will .be broken and a separthe navy could do to get quick aotwa ; l.f ate peace arranged. Clear indication and it bad been necessary A tiff between becy. Laatels and Rep r of the Internal situation In Russia still i r ' Britten eniivened .the settston. Bmii-- t are lacking. what complaints had beea made L asked I - f Cruiser Torpedoed. to the navy department by Vice Ad 4 P The old French cruieer Chateaarec-- " mirai Bm& fj j that Is not a proper quest suit was torpedoed and sunk in the tionI tothink Ask. Uaniels. said will Sery Mediterranean last Friday and the say, though, inasmuch as submarine which attacked her was has been asked in open suuun tbst also destroyed. The cruiser was be- Admiral Sims has btn given every i ing used as a transport and earned thing that the nary has to at iLcouid ' give.' military passengers, ail of whom were Dee ? t flelleve Meae Ce tp. ' reacued. Ten members of the craw Secy. Daniels said he did not believe of the cruiser, which displaced 7 29g "fties bandied shouui be gossip tons, were lost about." If Admiral Sima he added. "3a not getting everything that b needed. It ia a matter for operations to say whether Frertch Monument he should have it. .Operations has all that Admirai 'spent itselfthatgiving the department haa. I Mmi needs To American Soldiers tthink this is very petty and small beat i. ness." ' lm asking about facts. said Brit ten. ( i Pittsburg. Pa.f Dec, 19, Citizen If you have any facts give them, J yf Lorraine, France, will erect a shot bai.it the secretary Hritten sard the- d sire of tha monument to the memory of Corn. hsboped 4t- 'tY to show the tavor- James Jg, .Gresham af RvonevBle-In- d committee merely bTTReriavy u71 If a commanding otftrer hero or and Privates Merle D. Hay of abroad. said Britten. Yomplaina that , ? . Glidden, la, and Thoma F. Enhe is not getting what he vaolt it is J t f i 1 right of Pittsburg, who were the proper to ask about t Aa to whether every requirement of f first of the American expedition Admiral 8fYne oh thf Karo pea tt aitua iMft. ! to fall in Franc, according to turn has been complied with." replied the secretary, "or w'hether every mat a letter received yesterday by Mater of strategy haa been complied with. Jr '! yor Joseph O. Armstrong of this I wuld say those ought not to be asked t. about. Admiral Aims has made no corn- t city from the prefect of the village He asked for some particular plaint. near which the Americans are man to go0vur there who could not be sent because of other duties. There la i buried. a perfect understanding between 44- - j iff v mirai Sims and the department. ON ent I.' Auatro-Germa- I ed Special to The New). com Ogden. Dec. 19. Frank Berry mitted suicide at 9:15 thi morning, at This residence, 2572 Grand avenue, automatic shotgun. by means of, an He1 placed "the "bait of the gun against and tha musthe wall of the room cle over his heart, and then reached the trigger. The gun over and pulled Waa loaded with a charge ot shot which passed through the heart. Mra Cola Berry Hill, a married live in bin daughter of Mr.hadBerry, been preparing she house had stepped out to a breakfast, and get some eggx nearby grocerytostore to the house she found On returning on floor In tho lying her father She at once became pool of blood. the street great iy excited and ran into for help. A screaming and calling and of paaserxbv neighbors crowd ot them ouickly gathered, and some tin A mu. only iq ,nlfrri theMr. death had been Berrys denca that instantaneous. The police were notified and hurried to the scene, and It is reported that an Inquest will be Increased Postage Receipts. held. old. Frank E. Berry wa 29 years 2 5,99'hail, -- charged " Washington. "Dec. "1$ First receipts with an attempt to murder hta divorcfrom the Increase in first class post- ed wife. Mrs. Harriet Berry. On 8at age rates totalled $5.4t5.999 for orday- evening. Dec. 1, at the Royal Dancing academy, which she we assisting him to conduct, he fired shots at her from a revolver, one took effect In the women'.! Pershings Report pf which and caused her confinement shoulder, Dec. Washington. It Gen. Persh- In a hospital for a week or ten days was ing reports today the following: Tha preliminary examination Private Scott P. Merrill, Infantry, set for this forenoon, but the defendDoc. was 14, pneumonia, dfed own ant forestalled it by taking hi Be J , from Anson, Ms. Ufa ns tclIvffiesTn with an- - out line of- - a Washington -" general bonding" plan harbett TBs I Naval Subcommittee CIS ; IVY Other Important Ships, He Tells House n. j OF IDE NO GREAT ENTHUSIASM OVER CHASERS private manufacturers anticipated government seed a and spent millions io preparation without orders or with only informal verbal arrangements at most, was told by Vice President Louis E. Stoddard of the Marlin corporation. In February. Stoddard said, on Verbal orders from Rear Admiral work on I.0W machine guns wasEarle, He went to CoL Rice at the army ordnance' bureau, he raid, and offered to begin work ou guns for the army in anticipation of war. We're not interested, urns Col Rice s reply, Mr. Stoddard raid, addingIt was utterly Impocsible to make the ordnance department realize the British Drop Bombs of war and we limply possibilities our tents and went home Airdrome folded On Refora tha war began. Stoddard said 19. The successful London, Dec. (Continued on page eleven.) by British naval aircraft of bombing tin Engel airdromes-- - behind the German in to announced lines in Flanders is statement. day's admiralty TO TIKE MEN'S The test reads: dropped bombs onwhich sheds and the to the close burst ammunition dump snd railway sidings One at tbs Engel airdrome os Tuesday.down - . PUCES ON brought enemy aircraft was ablaze snd an out of control. All of our machines returned safely." Chicago, Dec. It. Hundreds of girls Will bo trained to "replace men on Plant For Hooting farms-nex- t summer hy the Woman's Government Basinets National Farm and Garden asnocie-;tioIt was announced today. Two experimental farms have been donated Washington, Dec. 19. Expenditure of more than $51,909,009 for for teaching the young women. land and building for housing all Naval-aircra- JRi Jnd iseen." X How Engd V LlH; MODIFIED RIFLE SUPERIOR TO BRITISH contract with the war department to produce modified Enfields was not completed until last July. President Harry R. Kimball of the Remington company testified. It was October, he said, before changes could he completedmachinery te begin output. Delay in congressional appropriation!, Kimball also stated, further delayed the output. His firm hesitated to take a contract in the absence of definite appropriations. -- The new modified rifle and also the American ammunition. Vice President Tyler of the aatne concern testified, are regarded as superior to British types. After war was declared in April, he stated, the war department immediately began negotiations with them to devote their factories, engaged oa a British contract for 400.-69- 0 Enfield to make the modified American type , The committee cannot understand with wap imminent In March, no why contract was made until July, said 'Senator Hitchcock. Mr Kimball dscisimed-aa- y implications that appropriations delayed production and said by tha war department negotiations were promptly begun. If the department had not decided to modify the British Enfield type, he said, his firm coaid have turned out the British type virtually without any delay, but both be and Mr. Tyler said the new American rifle is superior, largely due to its to use much better American ability cartridges. ' A Very Wise More. Both manufacturers declared it a very wise move to adopt the new type, notwithstanding the delay in production. It would have been too bad and a great mistake to have retained the old rifle, compelling continued use of much inferior ammunition," said Mr. Kanban. Senators Hitchcock and Wadsworth asked if It would not have been better to in wire that American, British Sad French ammunition should be in. terchangeable. If your policy of preparedness had been started early enough it would have been possible." Mr. Kimball answered, adding that rifle machinery in the Remington plants was bought from England by the war department. The change in the rifle was absolutely Justified by the facility .to use the much superior American ammunition." he said. to machine guns the manufacturers said they were making the new Browning gun, .the finest ever , DANIELS It is Building 424 Capital A There Were From Sixteen to Twenty Naval and Military Establishment Were rJ u War Departments Decision Modify the - Enfield Was Cause, Private Makers Told Committee May. ONE RAIDING MACHINE WAS BROUGHT DOWN baa, Hire YEAR I 1V Dec. Washington, 19. Several months delay in supplying rifles, pri-- 1 vate ordnance manufacturers told the senate militaryjcammlttee today, was due to the war departments decision to modify the Enfield 'type. Factory machinery changes. the committee was told, reduced the output of En fields for England snd will not return to maximum production antil next thejas-soctation.- - SIXTY-EIGIITI- Y The French cruiser Chateaurenault was laid down in 1894., She was 442 feet long with a 55.7foot beam and displaced t.898 ions. Her complement resolutions are CITY UTAH It Ik Conference ot' rarty begins Jan. 23 Indications Are That Radical Will Be in 3017 SALT t LAKE j ten SECY.-Russian; Peasantry Menace to Bolsh'eviki Says Count Tolstoy DM FURNi The old French cruiser Chateaurenauit. employed as a transport, was torpedoed and sunk in the Med on the mornlngof Dec. 14 suba&rine which attacked her was destroyed, according to nouncement made tonight by tbe French ininwter- - of marine. The paa- senders on the Chateaurenault, all of whom were either soldiers or officers, were saved. Ten members of the crew were ARIS, Tuesday, Dee. Of 19 WEDNESDAY DECEMBER PAGES EXCEEDINGLY 4S1) LEBERTY. ' It the advertiser that keeps t orj: Hard mmue tnat n. eev-er- - T the former regime and the provocatore m ihe employ of that regime. The presence of this discontented, idle and criminal element in the party has furnished fruitful ground for the German propaganda. German agents masquerading aa Bolsheviki in different parts of Russia, and especially in the! capital and In tha army, have expended enormous amounts of money to promote the disorder which we see in Russia today. The traces of this German propaganda are to be seen ail over- Rusma. In Vladivostok, Just , before I left Run-l- a, 1 met a naval officer a member of the touncil of Workmen s and Soldiers' Delegates of Petrograd whose special business had been to investigate the working of German propaganda in Jtnssia. TROT7.KY htbPKCTED. He assured me that in every center w hich be had visited in the course of his official duties he had plainly seen the strands of tlie spiders web which German poUliral enterprise had' span about the entire Bolsheviki organisation, and, in fact, the red of Russia. There sen plenty of circumstantial rqmoTX current in Russia that Trotsky, and even Lenine tumaelf ths two heads of the present Russian government had succumbed to tiW" lure of German gold. The truth of these persirtent accusations i cannot nqxelf vouch for. But the fact that Jhe Lvoff government, whlrti wan so unwilling to violate the principles of liberty of speech and press, found itself compelled to issue an order for Lenines arrsvt, give color to tjie general impression in Russia that Lenine. like Trotzky, had committed an offense other than that of honest speech and agitation. ORDERS "FROM BERLIN But there can be no doubt that many other Bolsheviki leaders were bribed by Germany and received orders for tlieir political activities from Berlin. The '.nterpris.ng German government, which had taken comprehensive measures to corrupt Miaasoie-- . aotkhomUncff and doff. . Sturn-.cr-. otner statesmen of the old regime, took early steps after the fall of the autocracy to establish the sane Influence over the prospective leaders of the new order of things. who was tr The fact Jhat Switzrrtand at the outbreak of tlie revolution, was pmnluecd to pan through Germany oa his way to Ritmi i and received the friendly cooperation of the German authorities, mokes It difficult to believe that the present bead of the Russian govrrn-- t not in one way or sootier attacticd to tho German government. l. The ire recruiteA- - exclusively from the Russian proletariat. Th.ii proletariat, aa a whole "numbers "not more than 12.909.v99 Out of Russia's whole" population ef TJie'' T 'proletariat' ' ii therefore, only a Ittle more than 4 per ccn of the entire population ef Russia. REPRESENT 4 PER CENT. Out of the 12.909.999, however, we must exclude a large proportion of Russian proletarians who are not Bolsheviki. Therefore. It will be seen that the men who "are now governing Russia represent only about from i BoLn-cvIk- . (Continued '""1 on page twelve) ? ed ! Austro-Gerran- i ' u;i aii-th- , lit f kl , tf t; ' k Brvst-Litov- lna-lio- 7 ' - j 1 '? - tM |