Bakersfield Californian (Newspaper) - March 1, 1918, Bakersfield, California 12 PAGES the Local and Telegraph Reports ASSOCIATED PRESS MARCH EMBASSIES FLEE FROM PETROGRAD VICTOR IN ARTILLERY DUEL Two Americans Rout 9 Germans Who Toast Kaiser March men were arrested by the police last night as enemy making a total of nine men gathered in by the authorities as the result of a fight which started In a restaurant last Saturday night when the men to have toasted the Ger man Two Americans who heard the toast engaged in a fist fight with the men and rout ed Wipe 0 si Batter ies of Germans HEAVY CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON HUNS Other Damage Inflicted by Batteries on the German Lines WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN March Swift retri bution has fallen upon the Ger man batteries which this week bom barded the American trendies north west of Toul with gas Ameri can heavy artillery concentrated fire on the German bat teries for half an hour today and ob the Many direct with high ive shells were made bythe Ameri can Timbers were thrown high in tho air and prob ably of enemy ammunition and pas The ground about the Ger man batteries was churned upside down and there were any German they certainly Thus tar six men have died from the effects of the German gas More than eighty are In hospitals suf fering froth Kaa Most ol these are slight and only one man is reported to be in a grave Airplanes Airplane photographs aided the American gunners in destructive fire against the German The taken the exact location of th with the result that it did not take the gunners long to even up the score with the While the number of enemy shells falling within the American lines has decreased slightly in the past 24 nevertheless the artillery fight ing has been while an empty American tion train was halted nt a place called Dead Mans a stray enemy shell dropped nearby and killed twi two who had run away and wounded four In a certain town behind the a German shell exploded near the door leading to a telephone dugout blocking the The oper ators in the in con continued to wort the important at the same time calling for Soldiers were sen to the dugout and the passageway re Trench Blown I The American artillery has kept up n constant harassing and destructive fire on enemy vital such as cross roads and German working parties were dispersed effect ively and once the 75s fired vigorous vy on a number of Germans i a first Continued on page Land Deal Made At Buttonwillow A real estate deal of more than ordinary magnitude has been closed by well known local man in a deal involving the south half of section located about i mile and a half northwest of But The purchasers were David Lin ton and Andrew dairymen of The pur chase price was The new own era of the land have 600 Holstein cattle which they are planning to bring here and a dairy Is to be es and the shipped to Los The firm has been In business in JOB Angeles for the past seven but as it is necessary to pay per crc for irrigation and per acre H was found too expensive and they sought cheaper land in Kern In addition to the purchase of the half the other hail has been eased on a five vear lease for fee A large portion of the section is In LAYS DOWN LIFE LIBERIA M FUND CITIZEN RAISES SUM TO DESIRED AMOUNT BY GEN EROUS CONTRIBUTION acknowledged Shelter Fund through tlie donation of s lifetime friend and of the Childrens to secure for the sup of that was realized morning when he contributed to make up the desired st evenings in chronicling gift of the Standard Oil Company 250 to stated that it the intent Of the movement to D for that and that total was within the e being whereupon get visited The Californian this nine and made up the required G to raise the grand total THE v Ban Francisco and Vicinity To aight and Saturday fair light Northerly Southern California Tonight and Saturday fair light frost in morning light northerly Scolly a Taft Killed in Ac tion Word Received Another Kern county boy has lost his life in the trenches of He is Scotty a former drill r tor the Standard Oil Company on ts McNee lease on section 31 who enlid two years ago with i Canadian regiment and was sent o He is the twelfth son of Kern to lay down his life in the ight the Hearing the killed in a letter which Superintendent Little of the Standard Oil Com lany had written early in November o Somewhere in was returned to him yester Desiring to change from the field artillery where he had served for two years without receiving to the engineering wrote Superintendent Little for recom from those who knew his as a The letter that contained the recommendations from Little was received too late and it was this letter that was returned to him Calquohoun was well and favorably known in the oil field district of Cali Peyton New Chief of Ad It RETURNS AFTER 9 MONTHS IN FRANCE Says Boys Are Fine and Like Their Better Each 0ay AN ATLANTIC Major General now chief of staff of the United Stales arrived hero today alter nine months abroad as chief of artillery of the American Describing the in France as so well in warfare as to be able to selves with to March said the lamentable and hn would advocate thai in this respect be loss sir In gent MO that the people in America as much as possible the activi ties of the expeditionary American in Franco cannot understand the present censorship General March adding I know of no gentle method of conducting a war of this magnitude and no army can to have no one Morale The American forces are remark able for their morale and ho They are keen about the Those on the battle line now aird the are so well ed the troop left on the line just before 1 and they are cheerful and standing the mud and tho German Their health is There is no sickness and there is better mor ale than there was at the Mexican where I was stationed before going The spirit of the Ameri cans splendid and every man is hap A great many of the men take it as a the majority never before having been outside the United and some never even outside own It iy a great advantage to the men everything is new and interesting to them thia serves to keep up General March was accompanied IX and C British Sunk by a UBoat NEW March British merchant of tons owned by the Anchor line was sunk by a German about February 27 while hound for this according to information re in shipping circles The crew was Casualties Show Marked Decrease During February March cas reported during the month of February a remarkable decrease as with the preceding They totalled only divided as follows Killed or died of wounds Of 183 468 The casualties for January reached a total of for they were while in Novem In which month there was se vere fighting on the Cambrai they totaled Lower Draft Age Up To Congress March ad ministration amendment to the draft law to bring in men as they roach the age of 21 was brought up in the Sen today as emergency legislation for immediate passage but finally was put over until Without discussion the Senate pass ed another resolution authorizing the President to call into immediate mili tary service skilled experts in industry or Draft Boards Recruiting Off ices Now Orders designating them as official United States recruiting stations were received today by the two local draft boards and hereafter men who have been classed as draft selectives and who wish to be inducted into the army will have this done by their local trained in modern hut board instead of combining the func can handle themselves with entire credit to the United I Inspect cli it from JAPANS PLANS FOR SIBERIA March proposal for action in Serbia has crowded Herman Chancellor von Hert lings speech into second place in the consideration of officials here and there were indications today that de cisions were being formed which soon would show themselves In some ar rangements of an international char acter to prevent the vast stores at Vladivostok and control of the trans Siberian railway from falling into tiie hands of the advancing The expectation that President Wil son was planning to address Congress very soon in reply to Von speerli was dissipated today by evi dences that the President is making no such plans at this time and prob ably does not consider it necessary to reply to the German chancellor for the present at Outward indications today were that the President was studying the ques tion of American participation witli Ihe Japanese in Siberia to Ihe 4Jon of other March pro with regard to Siberia and their reception in Washington lias brought the question of Japans in military operations to the the developments domi the news columns of the A Renter cablegram quoting an Asso Press dispatch from Washing ton is given great prominence in type and position the morning pers and is commented on Some papers display articles setting forth the Japanese view of the situa The bulk of tho opinion favors Ja pans proposed action without quali fication and the plea is In some quartern that she ought implicitly to be trusted given a free Some of newspapers back up their arguments for Japanese action by emphasizing the danger to British interests in Asia from the threatened of The dan they is if greater than that menacing Japan and the powers recall the of the glo alliance by which Japan 1111 to safeguard pence and Iran in the Far tions of a local draft board and a regular recruiting A boards efficiency will be rated according to the manner in secures recruits for the army among Its registrants and already the clerks of the two local boards are lav ing plans to place their boards at the It is understood here that the draft boards will be rated the same as In In the Nothing short of a first lieutenancy will suit either of the local Each of the local boards employs three young women who are to be sworn in as to the H is not Improbable that the girls will bo given uniforms by the It the girls of Board 1 will provide their said Under the new each ment forwarded hereafter by the draft means one less man to be sent o the draft Until further notice men will be ac by the boards for enlistment in the coast department and spruce wood produc tion The clerks in Hoard 1 are Hattie Schaffnit and Miss Mamie In Hoard 2 they are Miss Lucille chief Mary Powers and Miss Helen HUN INVADERS RESUME DRIVE ON RUSS CAPITA ALLIED REPRESENTATIV FLEE AS ARM Y N EA RS received by the Exchange Telegraph Company filed in Petrograd at 6 Thursday indicate that the Cter man advance into Russia has been March British French embassies have left according to a telegram from the Russian official news agency in and which no March Russian wireless message gives the text of another all appealing for the utmost resistance to the Germans and ordering the rood wje ducing provinces to immediately send as much food as possible to Petrograd and TIW appeal says You must not permit the starvation of revolutionary March committee on public information today advices from its representatives in Petrograd that Ambassador Francis and his the ican the military mission and the Red Cross representatives ail teft Vologda by railroad on the night of j March the Associated American and Japanese mm have arrived here on a special Their trip wag an i came by cable From the com representative in the Russian Representatives of Hit infor it was said will remain in for the present to carry on the educational and informa tional work with which they ire Last reports show that the circulation of the Pi LS idents address on January 8 is practically completed through out The it is is over four million in separate printing and distribution at Omsk and but not including flOO newspaper articles and an incalculable amount of partial printing and editorial comment which automatically In it was 1 went the northern lines of the Ger man About wore mir worked through the irn anil cent ml Tho committee alno fair that tier prisoners in HIIN of the man and Austrian ia were provided with March William Jennings Bryan was refused H hearing when he appeared at Massey Hall here last night to address a prohibition meeting under the auspices of the Dominion Returned soldiers caused the dis by shouting various What about the they demanded in chorus Taft Thrift Stamp Sales Total With the sale of more than in thrift stamps and war savings in Taft this city sold half ol the required for the On Taft disposed of and this months report of the postmaster there a total of including yes approximate quota net for Taft according to population is chairman of the war savings and stamp campaign iti is very over of the drive there ami thai Tali Kivo Ihe en Hi a run and thai die will reached her quota t couple ot Situation Worse Keb 2S The American consul has left Petro where lie remained after the em according to infor reaching the American legation The consulate has been taken over by the Norwegian This bare report appears to indicate that the situation in Petrograd has taken an unexpected turn for the in view of the fact that the previous from the HUH lian capital said that tlie American consul would remain there after the departure of the ambassador and his staff in order to keep in touch with the American legation here and with the state News the press and diplo mats here are without any but the meager dispatches from 5rad in the last 24 London March forward movement by the invaders of some miles beyond midway be tween Dvinsk and is report id in advices received here the Germans pushing on the act that the railway has been blown up and the stores of provisions in their way German troops are also reported to moving slowly toward Luga frori at which place they are said to have a division of in supported by cavalry and heavy and light The Germans likewise are declared to be moving on 80 north east of Eggs Drop to 35 Cents Per Here which a short time ago were considered H selling for 7fl cents a have decreased in price to cents a when today they took a drop ol from cents local remain the LATEST MORE CHEROKEE VICTIMS March Three five more bodies on the lost navy picked up and tended identified as follows James Readings T Rudolph Prank quartering naval Frank BELGIANS CONDEMNED March A German court martial at Antwerp has condemned to death for espionage the Bel gian Socialist Senators Colleaux and according the Het Bieter the Dutch Socialist has telegraphed to Philip Ihe socialist appealing to him to his ence to prevent execution of the STANFORD SHIP March The navy base hospital posed principally of nurses and enlisted sonnet enrolled in the naval reserve force from Leland Stanford has reached the war Secretary Daniels today NEW TRANSPORTATION March Japan has informed the United States that Americans to Japan must have their passports vised by a Japanese diplomat or consular officer in this country before It is a wartime measure which has been adopted by practically all the co IS IN FEDERAL EXPLOSIVE CAPABLE OF WRECK ING STRUCTURE UNEARTHED IN RUBBISH PILE of bomb in tit furnished a mystery on which a num ber of government agents are working The bomb was found yester day under ii pile of rubbish in one of the rooms occupied y lawyers in charge of the The bomb was a cylinder twelve inches long ami two in in gave it as their opinion that the bomb was prob ably made in and said its ex plosion would have the en tire wing of the Federal MADOO SAYS CONFEDERATE VETERANS SHALL HAVE RATES March Director Genera has that the Confederate veterans shall have clal rates and no interference of to their re union this mer and that the Grand of Ihe shall have the Tor its at 1ort rOLSOM NAMED OIL March of San was made federal oil director today for the Pa He will under Mark chief of the oil division of the MM QUARTERS EXPLORER IS SAID TO BE IN BAD CONDITION ON HERSCHEL March mur ing at was delirious from a according to advices reaching Captain Tapper of tho Royal Northwest Mounted Police Arc tic who arrived here from tho northern of the conti Captain who met the ex said Stefansson reached Her sehel island over the ice after his the Polar grounded u Bartor island When Captain Tup per aaw him was gutter ins with a cold and Advices that the explorer had suffered a re lapse readied Captain Tapper at Kort he PAN March must hanK ae a pf conviction out of the explosion which killed ten ui 191C unless clemency the court hpr to in for a now
