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Show r Average Distribution of Ci , Deseret News (Dally and - I Exceeds 37,1 C 2, Weekly) Close to a Quarter of a Minic? . , Readers. SIXTY-EIGHT- Viscount Ishii Is v Reappointed to Post Of 0. S. Ambassador YEAR H SHIP Spy Huht Inside Lines Start - Serbians StillFighting, to Regain Countrjj, Hope r Ukrainian Suffer Stinging Irish Girl Sergeant Defeat in Another Big Says Odessa is ROBERTSONS RESIGNATION - Carpenters Engaged on Government Contracts ia Atlanta Shipyards Havf' Gone Back to Work Pend . ing Settlement . Bom- Battle (The following article, deacrlbln g The terrible position of tlc' Serbian Flora army, has been especially written for this paper by Rod Crosa nurse,, jSandea,' an Irish girl, who,- after sort ing in ficrlda as enlistcd in tbe Serldivn army as a rt vate. She has som continuous fightand received 24 wounds in one action. Promoted to tlie rauk of STREETS FILLED WITH-- D ing, Mb Ramies tins received the Serbian V. C. for lier bravery, ant-major, EADAND AVp U ND ED in the field, as well as three other high decorations) , barded by Ships ScrgC-MaJ- or - serge- (Special Correspondence.) Sergeant-MajFlora Van det.j Written Polish Government Council Issues Proclamation Ac-ciui- Social-Demokrat- ng The - en re- ports. Their first objective is the seizure of Esthon- ia and Livonia, it declares. Petrograd, Sunday, Feb. 9. (By The A. P.) Kiev, one of the principal cities of the Ukraine, was. captured by the , Friday after sanguinary Fighting. The' streets were Filed with dead and wound-,eWhile the fighting whs at its height on Thursday the city Bolsheviki on d. was bombarded aviators. t i Ensign. Krylenko, the Bolshehas deviki commander-in-chie- f, cided to come1 to Petrograd to raise an army of 100,000 Bolsheviki which he will command personally in operations against the Cossack army of . General ' AJexieff. The casualties at Kelv are estimated at 4,000 killed and 7,000 wounded. the Polish troops have defeated Bolsheviki at Bobruisk, tS miles southeast of Minsk. Other Poles are toward Smolensk. Rumanians district of control the Akkerman are threatening and Bessarabia In a battle at Odessa on Monday the Bolsheviki and the mod- - between erates, hundreds were killed. The city was bombarded by our ships. - Central Powers Accused Of Betraying Poland London. Feb. 1?. "Nothing less than a declaration'll war upon Germany and Austria," the nations which released Poland from the yoke of Czar-doraLokal Is the way the Berlin Anzeiger characterises a recently pubPolish govlished proclamation by-lernment council which like. the Pol- ish ministry, was recency reported to ," he hive resigned, acoordlng to an Exfrom dispatch change Telegraph - - . Copenhagen. Ttfie proclamation declared that the Central Powers, after having guaranteed the Independence of Poland and promised the Polish state their friendneverthelship, help and ess refused Poland representation at conference k the peace and bought peace with the Ukraine by banding over a province completely Polish without consuitlng Poland regarding It. The eounoll protest earnIt reestly against this partition. quests the people to maintain unity and to give the council support in of the its position. The summary proclamation thus given was from the Lokal Anzeiger, Brest-Litovs- ed ' , .,, Warsaw. , Bolsheviki Fight Cossack Soldiers Petrograd, Friday, Feb.' 9, A battle was begun yesterday between the Bolsheviki and a wing of the Cossack trmy of Gen. Alexleff. former Russian tommander-ln-chle- f, wilch Is advane-bi- g toward Kharkov, In the Ukraine, 9 miles southwest of Moscow. The newspapers report that a group troops is advancing against the Bolsheviki on the '.northwestern front and that another force is making an advance in the vicinity of , . (Continued on paga eighth) Kragu-Jewa- ta Being unable, owing t6 the Aus- trlan invasion, to rejoin the Serbian hospital where I had been - working, I asked for and obtained permission to join the ambulance of. the Second infantry regiment; but as soon as the retreat began we had to abandon our "Wounded,; and there being no more work tot me to do as a nurse, I enlisted In the regiment aa , a private, as I was told my staying with them , would encourage the men. With the Second regiment I retreated through Albania to Duraz-o,- 7 a retreat which lasted two months, during most of which time we were fighting, rearguard - actions with the Austrians and the Bulgars. The horrors of that terrible re-- , treat will never be fully told. As we passed through the village we " Tounded up all the boys, taking them with us to prevent their fall- -. Ing Into the hands of the Bulgars. The poor little things could not stand the rigors of the march, and thousands of them- - died by the roadside. For jniles thflr bodies lay marking the pathways we had followed. From Durazxo we were sent to - Corfu, where we were refitted, then sent to Salonika, and, after resting, once more went to the front, In August, 1914, and from then until the following January we were fighting day and night, without even being relieved. -- -- Admiration F or Kilties. , -- 11 first party of women 1 seven In all) to go to nurse the Serba We Madame were taken - out-b- y Grouitch, and for months we tended the wounded soldiers In the Serbian, hospital at working under Serbian surgeons and under the Serbian Red Crons. At that time there were no other British nurses Died in Thousands. Minsk. - hand-to-han- Uvea x 1 went out to Serbia aa a nurse In August, 1114, being one of 'the there, but some Russian nurses were assisting the Serba Towards the end of 1916 I returned to Britain to tell the people of the Intense sufferings of he Serbs, and went back to the Balkans in time totake part In the great retreat of the Serblana V f Polish patches - from - Kiev, in the Ukraine, say that the city Is under control of the bourgeois rad a, although the BOlahevikl were holding the suburbs yesterday. The Bolsheviki have established a aff at Odessa from which point they r conducting the Ukrainian and Rumanian campaignsAn Odessa dispatch says the Bolsheviki at Odessa hav arrested Rumanian 'officers, as as a Ukrainian committee sent to Urks' up peace negotiations.. Subse-inbntl- y the committee was released and, sent back- - with the warning that the Bolsheviki, would kill on. Ru- - j their . Bolshevik by soldier has is to fight side by side with Scottish troops. If only the Allies could send us mors of these soldieraln petticoats, we should soon be back In Serbia, I have " heard ft said hundreds of times. It was remarkable the way in which the Scotties and the Serba formed friendships. Although neither could at first understand a word of each other's language, this difficulty was not allowed to stand in ths way of . friendship. Today ths two races understand each other, and speak with each other in a new language, a language made out there. I was wounded two days before the taking of Monastlr. The hill we had been singled out to attack Isas one of the most vital im? portance, for without' It capture we could not have hoped to win Monastlr. It was the key to the ... position. We attacked at dawn, d and in the fighting which followed I got knocked out with 24 wounds by a hand bomb flung at me by a Bulgar, , rho, dodging, behind a rock, flung A ehower of bombs in quick succession. forcing back for the moment the men who were with me, "so that TWaS left lying Alone. almost In the hahds of the enemy. -- Germans resumed war measures against Russia today, the or London, Jan. 10 You 4Sk me to writ something about the Serbians, to tell you what led me to Join the Serbian army as a private soldier, and fight with them in the trenches against ths common foe. I come from Kerry, In Ireland, and have always been struck by the similarity and femperatment between the Serbian and the Irish peasant. After sharing the terrible hardships of the two years' campaign In ths Balkans, fighting all the time, I can find nothing but praise for the Serbian soldier, who Is to brave as a lion, I never and wavering. end the care not where you look, no nation now engaged In the war has had to suffer Ilka little Serbia, yet today the aplrit oi those few who remain is undaunted they Are determined to fight through at all costs, until ths end. And the end will only come when the last man and ths last woman have given up Central Powers of Betraying Poland. , Stockholm, Feb. 18. By - It was wheii the real fighting came I learned the true spirit of the Serbs.' In many respects they resemble the Scottish and Irish troops, for whom, they have Never the greatest admiration. shall I forget the amasement on the facee of the Serbs when they first saw d regiment of kilties " nvach past. Hundreds of times the men mei of my company asked who are those soldiers In petticoat 'But when they found themselves fighting wlth.thfm. T Seotwhen they saw the way the the wfHl enemy, dealt tish troftp admlra-tio- n. -t- hey were, wUd In their - r ' The one longing the SerUaa , Winning Monastir. One of the officers s f my comdid a pany, a plucky thing. AVounded himself, he crawled forward over the anow, to where I was lying (at the greatest risk to himself of being hit by another hand bomb) seised me by .both hands, and dragged me back over the rocks and boulders to where three more of my men were waiting. Though In Imminent danger of being taken prisoner, these men refused to leave me, declaring they would not go unless they could carry me with them. So bundling me up In a piece of tenting, they me further down the hill, and finally got me on to a'stretcher. Next da tbe position was finally won by the perbs, and the the Bulgarian trenches, from which they drove the enemy. . There they found the bodies of several of their comrades, their throats cut from "ear to ear and their corpses terribly mutilated. That Is what happens to prisoners 'who are unfortunate enough to fall Into the handa of the Bulgars. half-dragge- d, half-car-ri- iUK J , EXPLANATION IS -- OVERDUE SAYS TIMES MADE INQUIRIES ABOUT FOOD Premier Lloyd George Ac Soldiers Are Satisfied With CUSed of Having Headed Menu Visited the Dug-ouA Cabal Against Both and Suggested NumRobertson and Haig. ber of Changes to Be ts - Executive Says No Deadlier Blow Can - ta Struck Than Hinderirj -- - Toklo. Shipbuilding Program This Time. - sX . Viscount Ishll was head of the tm perlal Japanese mission which earn to Washington last August to extend to rrpsident Wilson and tha American government the ih&nka of the Jap anese emperor for the entry of America Into war on the side of the Entente New York, Feb 18. Tha strike by the carpenters In tha London, Feb. 18. GenMade. Atlantic seaboard shipyards eneral SirWilliam Robertson gaged on government contracts who last week as resigned Allies. is over, John Rice national or.With The American Army chief of staff, has Vlacount Ishli's formal mission accepted In France, Feb, 18. (By ganizer of the United Brotherwhat is known as the east--er- a howsvar, soon" expended Into one of The A. P.) Places where hood of Carpenters and Jcincuu the most diplomatic Important command; that is the in r of achievements tha the history the . Germans have been said today. " Several thourxr, eastern parts of the British la! Ions between America and Japan. men who are still idle are expecttapping the American teleisles. Although it was stated that the Imlines phone - at the front perial mission came to America with ed to be at work tomorrow London, Feb. 18. The idea no intention of discussing any of the morning. ' have been discovered and between America and that the public is attemptingjfco open questions About three thousand of tho stfps have been taken to Japan unless It was tha desire of the dictate to state the was such warmth the strikers returned to woiis th!: department government what prevent these occurrences mistheir the of to the tendered, shall reception or .be military muralug. Mr.,Ric sutimatad. agala.'' Insulation h&sbeen - who shall be policy sion by the American officials and pub-tl- o men ars to , employed going baek carry found scraped off wires at and so sympathetic was tha attiit out, is deprecated by the Daily y confidence that President Wila certain number of places Chronicle in an editorial on the tude of the government towards ths son will adjuet this matter Ju-- their few Important lames that had for satisfaction, he said. , .... t where the enemy has been situation brought about by the yearsbutdragged along laden with danthe strike, it Tbe that probability of futurs complicagerous possibilities announcement that Gen. Robert- tions that listening in. Viscount - Ishll felt War- nearing lie end was confirmed today son had been retired as chief of ranted In broaching ' some of tbosa by A-- C. Wilkie, district officer here tor One enemy wire actually topics. the imperial staff. fleet corporation. A was found attached to an . measure of success' at- the' emergency ' ev-r- gratifying "Tha task ia one for ths ranpons-ibl- a tended the overtures. ministers. it says, "and uhils to parliament to change tha ministers, no circumstances have bean disclosed In the present instances which warrant such an upheaval. The Times remarking that the premier's recent speech In the house of E commons failed to owry complete Oil conviction says the result has been a storm of exaggeration and political Intrigue over what seems to have been KILL ELEVEN PERSONS a most natural and commonmnse arrangement . It declares that a full With The American Army In explanation 'of events obviously Is . France, Sunday, Feb. 17. (By overdue. London, Feb, It. Sixteen persons New of Gen. Robertson's removal, The A..P.) Gen. Pershing has the Morning Post says, will be re- Were killed and 9? injured in the ceived with consternation by the attack on London on Saturday, completed a two days inspec- lie and the army. It eulogizes Gen. lt ,, ,nnounCed officially. Robertson, not only as the greatest; tion of the American sector British official report on Saturday soldier pf his day, put as highest military genius the aar thus, night's casualties reads: northwest of Toul.Tn fbr has produced. The total casualties caused by the .it hat,' with a gas mask swung "Jt is impossible raid Saturday t night were; airplane "how much efficiency and sucover his chest at the alert posi- says, Rob- Kiiied,lhree men. five women and cess the British arms owe to Gen. " v three children. Injured, one man and ertson." tion, the American commander-in-chDeclaring that It Is evident that three children. walked through all Gen. Robertson has been dismissed, ief, Six or seven airplanes took part In and that those who dismissed him of Sunday .night. - The flret the frst line trenches, splashing find It Inconvenient to confess the the raid dropping bomba in The Pont says that parliament flew over London, All truth. the others were through the mud and; slipping will Insist on knowing why the dis- various districts. back. xm the -- ice. -- 'He dropped 'down tinguished soldier Is treated so scunr- - turned .The foi!owlng.officlal report was IsInto the dugouta and visited batteries il3James W. Lowther, the speaker of sued today: ."Last air' raid appears to ax ths' the house of ooromons, and Gen. Jan have beennight's busy burling "iron rations carried out by six or seyen mentioned by The rol,t c Bjnuu enemy, of which only one In all places the general asked in- as the type of men fitted to head the enemy airplanes penetrated Into London. The ftr.t numerable questions, especially of the government. raider passed the Isle of Thanet- at men with regard to food, how they about 9:43 p.m. and proceeded up the were and how they liked conditions. Robertson's Resignation Thame estuary into London, crossing All except one cook Agreed that they the capital from southeast to northBrings Matter to Head west. were perfectly satisfied with everyBombs were dropped In various To the cook Gen. Pershing thing districts between 10:40 and 10.55 anThe official 17, Feb. London. -eaid; o'clock. You are getting enough to eat? nouncement of the resignation of Gen. "The remaining raiders which atas of chief the Robertson William cook Sir "No, sir, thp replied. to reach London from the British imperial general staff brings tempted "What? said the general. northeast across Essex or from . the some for time thut storm the a head to cook and not do the "You, get line of the River world east along th sufficient food?, I never heard of a has been brewing In the political were al turned back. in regard to the relations between the Thames cook In such a condition before. command of "Reports of casualties and damage Well. sir. I didn't mean that ex- war cabinet and the high yet been received." which have been the subject have-no- t the army, not mean I enough variety." "A hostile raiding party was driven actly. In the press GenersfPershing asked what he had of embittered controvert off during the night by one of our post in the neighborhood of GavreHe, says today's war office report. "A .hS" brd. con. La the few prisoners were taken b the For- pudding. seems like a considerable vaand they tuguese In the neighborhood of Neuv newspaper government. That of having Chapelle. Fatrol encounters in which accune the premier openly the What general. riety. remarked assistance of a cer- thu npmv Ruff(r(l PiuntiltiM the with conducted, . want?" else do youtain newspaper group, a cabal against Well I would like to Jiave. some Gen. Robertson and Field Marshal Sir sir." green stuff, in Douglas Haig. The manifestation Gen Pershing then turned to the house of commons last week, and soldiers asked? of line long were almost of an unprecedentDo your men get enough to eat which ed character so early In a new session, . here? put were the. expressions of strong feeling "Yes, sir," was the reply this controversy has evoked, and It The general next appeared In certain that they will be revived headquarters In a dugout In seems more acute form during the still in been riddled has by which a town week. and trench other ail present for tailed shells The public afid .the army hitherto sat down orders and all papers. He their beevery on of them. have befn quite devoted inField and read through Gen. Mar- Pershing sug- lief in Gen. Robertson and In the dugout, here and shal Hiug. while to the general Public few change Memphis, Tenn., Feb. ,17. Although some gested he also di- Gen. Sir Ilehry Wilson, the new chief there and in the tncbes I 'almost .unknown. The tUng that th department ot Justice be of small staff, some change rected that cleavage In tha parliamentary yanks in could not make the details of its m rom'a point through this contest by no means follows party t many activities, Atty. Oen. - Gregory Not only Inspected Mont Hnes stated her that a half million citl- 'nr 'L"'1 glasses Gen. Pershing Mr,, the German observation Radicala warm In thetronsupport Koe and cns pt the 1 nlted Btatey are j the sentiments which question, the Asquith's from posts on top of It; under also a large number of Influential erating with the departments efforts anamv ha the American lines to suppress espionage. when the observation for 20 mile "I glvd this Information, th at, of the visibility IK good. wasBecause torney genernljfontlnud, "to set at see to unable haze the general rest the Germar r vtrla that fills Uie DAtion." , on page eight.) nectiun (OsaUMpd four, on tee) page (Continued ID mi; al a"tin - - e - Chief i. Viscount Washington. Feb., Ishll haa been appointed am basmdor" for .Japan to the United States and will soon reach Waahlng-- , i ton. He succeeds Ambassador Sato. the unasalgned j Who takes a place on roll of diplomatic representatives. In . There is hardly a siigle man in the Serbian army today who has a'pair of socks, and it would be dlf-- , f leu It to find one who has two shirts. Tbe only shirts they have ' are made of cottpn. Aa for food, well, we never see such luxuries as sugar, milk, butter, much less margarine; which some people complain of here, or sweets. All the time we have Iron rations, and make the best of it. What are the Allies doing for the Serbs? Sometimes I am almost inclined to think they have forgotten the little nation, now almost exterminated, whose remaining men are fighting high up in the Macedonian mountains under the most terrible conditions. Am- -' munition and wheat rations they get have to be brought up the steep mountain sides by pack luxuries mules;- warm clothing, the fighter prises, never come. These men have unbounded confidence In Great Britain. They think Britain Is the 'only nation which counts In the war. France. , Italy. America are nothing beside Britain. When I tell them there are others, they reply, "Ah, yes,. but Britain Is ths one that will . help us and win back for us our country. There is hardly a man In ths army who knows where his wlfj and family are;' his home Is a thing of ths psst;lor six years continually fight.they have been ing enemies. ' Tet they fight on; their morale Unimpaired. ' their' Hers in Eng'spiritsweundaunted. do not even know ths real ' land horrors of war. - K HAVE CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDENT Ur' pub-!aerf- Britain Will Help Us. . On Ice - , American wire and running out across No Mans land. Just how this was accomplished it is not' permitted to disclose although among the men there Is talk of spy hunts. en--ler- ed - Tour London Morning Post Says - of the Ncws of Hi Removal Will be Received With American Sector Consternation by Army Slips Splashes in Mud Completer Two-day- s - Of Inspection - Th,Lrvn . - fegl-ment- al d' ; rJ r. "There are Indication the entire matter will be adjusted this afternoon, Mr, Wilkie said. Labor Leader Sharply RtbsLcd Feb, 1. Frealdeat Washington, Wilson took a hand last night in thu eastern shipyard labor strikes and issued a sharp rebuke ' to William L. Hutcheson, president of the Brother-hoo- d of Carpenter and Joiners, who, after refusing to send striking ship carpenters back to work pending notion by th shipbuilding labor adjustment board, had asked for a personal conference to lay the situation before th president- jn effect, the president declared that If Hutcheson did hot want to give aid and comfort to the enemy hu would send the men to work and leave a settlement of difference to the adjustment board, and declined to ee him until he had done s - Wilson to iAtcheeon. The president sent this telegram to th union chief? William L. Hutcheson, general of Carpresident United Brotherhood penters and Joiners of America, New Y6rk. " ' "I have received youq telegram of to nota yesterday and am very glad th expression of your desire as a In carrying patriotic citizen to assist on the- - wpc by- - which we are trying men and everywhere to have America ad- - , who work and are free. Taking 1 feel it to assurance, that of vantage be my duty to call your attention to th fact that th strike of the carpenters In the shipyard is In marked and painful' contrast to the action of labor in other trades and places. necessary for the Ships are absolutelywar. No one can winning of this strike a deadlier blow at the safety of the nation end of its forceCon th other side than by Interfering with or obstructing the shipbuilding pro- All the other union engaged In this Indispensable work have agreed to shipabide, by th decision of th adjustment board. That building wage ; b""rd J?,a nwaiiv Mtored l must say to you very frankly that It Is your duty to leave to it th solution of your present difficulties wtth men your employer and to advise the one whom you represent to return at With Who hftY to work pending the decision. N body of men have th moral right in the present circumstance of the nation to strike until every method of tried to th adjustment has been act upon this limitIf you do not principle you aretoundoubtedly giving tha enemy, whataid and comfort ever may be your own conscious - pur-pos- "' t). that anythin will M 1 do not gained by my seeing you personally until you have accepted sad acted upon that principle. It ia th duty of , the government to ee that the beet are mala- possible condition of lsbor tainfd, as It Is also Us duty tq mo to it that there is no lawise profiteering, and ti I duty the government has accepts and will perform. Will you or will you ohutrurt? "(Btcvod) wOodbow ' eo-e-a- te |