The Washington Post (Newspaper) - February 15, 1918, Washington, District Of Columbia THZ ASSOCIATED The is to the for of all dis- patches credited to it or not i m paper and also the local news published The Post is the only newspaper in that la a member of the the complete service of the world's greatest NO. cloudy probably light tomorrow fair and slightly Temperature 53; 29. WAS FEBRUARY 15, 1918.-FOURTEEN TWO Soldiers Find Room for Mirth n In French Recall Car Service to Mexico Gets Loan Of Occupy Old Artillery Camp Where for the French Guns Mutinous Russian Transfers From Original but Few Finds Grim 1DDH1H Members of French Court ly Find Fatal CROWDS CHEER AT SENTENCE LIFTS EMBARGO ON SILVER Agrees to Provide Needed Sisal at a Reduced Propagandist Hears Fate Merely Shrugging His TRADE TO THE U. S. M i ot 1 n o 1 I rider t tiled Fletcher NK to Ue at OIK e I ruler ind tit By G. MAC Special Correspondent of The Washington the American Army in Jan. will be a rambling account of an attempt to get in touch with our In the first place it was an all journey the Interior of a change of once at 3 o'clock in the morning and the other at 6 both of the j changes being made in the and to add to the thrill of the i Now in Also Con- to Die as Third Gets Three of Deals With Discovered by U. Trapped Bernstorff's the Associated Paris Feb 14 the slightest Attacks on Premier Reply to King Voted Unanimously the Feb. the adoption tonight by the house of commons of the ad- in reply to the speech from the which was without the attacks against the government for the time being have come to Today's was on ous including the food brewing and diplo- All hostile amendments against the premier's address were either withdrawn or re- VI fil III I 1 i f an 1 First Chief f IT n x or Mt xi i who for nearly two v I n vainK striving i n i tf t i and li IT ii i Ian on the i i L t agreement 1 i r i t terms i t- h b r i 11 v a n t i to both guv f inn n an I will bt t sign 1 h l i H in t ills t If if i in niv a de i t ni in 1 the De Ii i IT. in r 1 ve that K if i 1 v ih M special v r i t 1 is t s i I i t hti w ith 1 i a i r 1 nil vt the negotia n h rt in 1 1> the r 11 Aint is i 1 r to Mexico i f i with little i Ih v will put the finishing i m t ti d 1 w f re ll J ft lo I It n U i t r le i hv Miii pre i i 11 t n lit Trench Kept T. p. j training camp It is situated high up Naturally when given permission to I tne mountains about 2 500 feet above -in American training camp I I level very pretty set to go where I would find There is an old village and a new bov s from home 1 he American officer who the military pass was as lite and as obliging as any Frenchman thought of being He thought he was me the right instructions and was telling me where to go to find However the camp I v i I 1 I t 1 t I i i in- (I tin nt r I l 1 was nothing moie tlian a replace division the trip was not without it- m interesting developments The first which hits a visitor t I- i in e m tlie eve and brings h me to o le with a c i is row lamentably p 5 r is our much vaunted svs t m All know now that when the big ind th railroads were put to the in v till to pieces in four yc of war even the amount of inj troops the is al mo t p t h n T. cill was made at t is it this ice division 01 what vei it n railed in G O ot d 1 f many officers and friends th j 1) from home an 1 others I hid i t t it tli vinous camps in th With the exception of pel one or tw y in high ill w re glad to ee me bince leav ng he me i prc it number of transfers seems to hive been mule and especial 1} among the enlisted men aie n 1 st to the r 01 ig nil these m n deeply regretted be I ng forced to leave their home com 1 n were good soldiers and si d 111 about b ing switched about mu h on the job and one may a- well ad 1 all were in the first stiges of a of wheats ind letter ft in he me i o t or the lest weie too busy t i s the big thins out in t t to t h ck Visit 1 -in a f f 1.1 u i H il tsu ird in the bordei li v ir his hit pr v m ir i li h re tlie wete -ta ti I w i- form ilv i 1-rerich TWO AERO CADETS KILLED IN FALLS village both are quaint and typically French in way The newest house in the old village built in 1S43. Scattered around and in what we would call back home nons are a number of smaller villages Each has its old and on day afternoon and on Sundays oui diers take long hikes visiting these villages COM INT FD NINTH U. S. GUNS AID FRENCH being near the fighting zone and the inability to speak a single word of Bolo Pasha convicted of high treason heard Col president of the pronounce of death upon him today amid an im- pressive silence in courtroom Merely his head and shrugging his as if to say it hope less to fight against the Bolo re turned to his cell Awed by the soldiers with fixed those had assembled in the courtroom refrained from all but the great crowds outside the courthouse uttered a terrific roar and cheers of approval as word of sentence reached them plainly the favor which the sentence of death found among the Fiench people Cheers Drown Out Swiftly the news of the cution of Bolo Pash spread throughout the city Col had not yet com- reading the sentence when the of the multitude from his voice The com t martial was unanimous in condemning Bolo It stood for a time four to three the conviction of Porchere but finally compromised six to one on conviction on the charge of commerce with the enemy carrying a lighter sentence The judges de- only a few minutes and j they filed into the it easily discernible that Bolo MAY CONSCRIPT LABOR Wilson Tires of Wage Disputes Delaying Shipping HURLEY STRIKERS Wires Leaders Men Are Dying Be- cause Vessels Are Held Administration Thoroughly Aroused by Considers Conscripting Workers Orders Gregory to Investigate Hog Island Contracts With View to tion if Reason Is American Artillerymen Support Great BEELIN CONCEDES A SETBACK Violent Engagements by Germans at Lens and un the Carry Out Successful Two chine Guns Without Capt. A. E. Who Bared Wool Is TOLD STORY to SENATORS Expert Brought Here by Gen. Smith Was a Dismissal Recalls What Senator Kellar Described as a Threat by Charles Eisenman War Council Reduces the Authority of Adjutant General in the Handling of C. N. Murray Dies at brook D. W. son Near Texas 1 t I V rnn n L L r n L ml r ill i I i i n v t r i i i i il e 13 i t rt h lex eb 1 -i Vv lator il t N of I iff In f U t I is leath at Benbrook ti d lu i tod iv was a member i i il squ i Tex t t b 14 le if Ot Un N v. xn lit i killed tod when the ul- I1 i u w h h he w is making a ci oss rv fi h l held a tul spin ind fell to earth n ir T is itv Three other m w h h ie o IIP in 1 11 the Urand Headquarters of the French in Feb 14 Amen can took a brilliant part in an important i ench raid yesterday be tyveen and the Butte du Mesnil in the t participating in the preparatory bombardment and the en barrage file the was being successfully executed The action was extremely interesting and the result most The assaulting brought back prisoners and themselves in positions to a depth of quarters of a a front of n e 11 I v a m 11 e 1 he task of the issa ulting forces w is to attack md take a salient dipping into the French position It was difficult operation owing to the of the ground which a depression into which the could pour the fire of their concentrated guns on the surrounding heights Six The preparation lasted faix houis and with the aid of aviators it was ascertained that the s defen sive positions which were remark strong had been up to a large extent in the afternoon the t oni I ai i NEW YORK WOMAN FOUND STRANGLED Forehead Wounds cate Arrest M L 1 I n I I r t tli MX ill i rii igires 1 i hn II 11 n n r t r i n r l i p w h l h I rade tinted States r if t enuring i f i I will tl w almost I iv t L i i st it a- the j i I e u t ri t na it the I n t i tal e i up an 1 t i. til t i ime con ilia i i h a- madt en f N I IM I ON MN I SI I I N peb 14 h ei mui der the public tod ly ien th bocK of Mis Helen Hammell v. is on a couch in a house in VV t 1 w stieet napkin with blood vv is Knotted the V said the woman had been ci i 1 about fourteen hours There were two deep wounds in the forehead and th loom boie evidence of a struggle There was nothing found to indicate a motive for murder V citizen told tlie pol ce be heard screams coming from the basement but did not investigate Hammell was 48 years old the wife of a employe and con- ducted a rooming house for several at the address where her body was found was given to the infantry units to go the top Every man had been instructed fully the tives to be attained Just before this a steady flue rain be- gan t i make earth like a skating riuk The ad with determination although they weie obliged occasionally to ar- rest their progress owing to machine gun positions having escaped the at- tention of the and gunners Americans Extend With ihe help of the courageous these positions weie storm ed and and their occupants weie either killed 01 captured By lo o clock rockets announced that all the objectives had been gained The American with their French comrades extended their range putting up an effective barrage I to prevent attacks which I did not come the Germans been completely French Tell of Paris Feb batteries took part in the artillery bombardment in connection with the large French raid in the Champagne it is announced officially Effective ance was given by the American ners is the first mention of American batteries on the Champagne front i The statement follows German attempt against a small French post north of was repulsed There were lively lery actions in the region east of Rheims in the Champagne In the large raid yesterday American batteries gave very effective support French troops organized the positions captured fate w is sealed An appeal will be on a but the general trend of com- ment heard in journalistic and political circles is Bolo s death w ill die Barius an who was a sentenced to tin ee j Filippo another dant who ib under in Italy wab sentenced to death although he is not within the court b jurisdiction Vv hen the Bolo Pasha ti cason ti lal opened today Albeit the attor ney foi the financier the floor to make a final plea for his clients life The in the loom listened with spellbound tion and obviously Creator pathy than had been shown on the earlier days of the trial to the vei s impressive Press I a brief of the generally felt at the charge of treason Salies declared trial of 13olo Pasha had raised dis- tinct doubts as to his guilt and that it was his task to change them to a of his clients in- en Co The attorney then charged an abominable pi t ss campaign against with being largely responsible for the almost general belief in France prior to the ti lal that his client was and added that hardly ten men convinced of his innocence could be found in the country COM IN I ED ON THIRD LETTER OF OFFICER CONFIRMS ATROCITY Americans to Repay Huns for Cutting CONTINUED ON FOURTH to J lie Post Fort Ca Feb German news of which published several week ago when German raiders cut the thi oat of an American and shot him twelve has received cui lous tion at Camp leP 111 ing camp One of tlie officers at the camp stated that heretofore lie had doubted the German atrocities men he said get together on some mode of fighting to which adhere In this instance the German i aiders did commit Apache atrocities on the body of an American Then he exhibited A letter fi om an officer in the company to which the butchered belonged One part of the letter reads of these bright davs we shall find ourselves in the trenches is as ready and believe me we are going to get even for the twenty men we lost especially for the poor whose throat vv is cut from ear to ear and shot twelve times in the back God the Huns our men lay their hands on GEORGE The reorganization of the War De- that is in progress has reached the point where radical changes affecting the adjutant eral s proposed by the council are about to be put into and the army is watching with anxiety to see what additional may be contemplated All the signs indicate an increasing and more rather than con- and confusion in the military ice In the quartermaster department a reorganization has been effected in the conservation and i of which one result has been the charge from the against his of Capt A E a re- sei v e officer was brought nere in November to assist in its organization it will be recalled in this came into notice in when before the benate tary committee he testified in the in- then being made into the base sorting plant which he had gated in his official capacity Sorting C apt brought out in his testimony that the government s con- ti act with the company much too high and that it had been made upon the recommendation of Charles Lisenman vice chairman of the supplies committee of the Council of National Defense The circumstances in connection with the Senates disclosures with re- spect to this contract are matters of recent history that their repeti tion is unnecessary Orders just dating back to 30 give Capt an honorable discharge from the army Inspection of the printed hearings of military part 2 page 10o7, discloses that on December 29 in the course of his in reply to a searching tion by Senator Capt Pere less testified that Mr Eisenman was j anxious not to have the base sorting plant contract and that he had informed the witness that he would show him he got his a remark which Senator McKellar described as a threA Department Confirms The War Department yesterday con- firmed the discharge of Capt which was not announced to that er until It seems that Mr is not now taking f i om anybody He is I his own boss free to go back to New and resume the private business that he abandoned when he came to Washington on December 10 at the in- of Brig Gen A L then in the quartermaster department is an with an office at 77 Broad New York He came here to help organise the conservation division for tue reclamation of waste materials He briefed the files in the case of the Sorting Plant S. About On December 29 he was summoned a witness before the military committee and described at length the investigation into the sorting the cancellation of which saved the ment about 000 The following is the verbatim report of a portion of the testimony taken from the official committee report McKellar In vour with Mr Eisenman was he much in- in this retaining this i control through the Base j I Government and operation of all the facilities of the in much the same manner as government control of the railroads up last night as the alternative unless there is an end to the serious labor disputes the inefficiency and suspicion of graft such as now are building of a gigantic merchant fleet so essential to the ning of the war President Wilson is thoroughly aroused to the crisis that is at hand in the shipbuilding program He will not hesitate to act Chairman Hurley's Shipbuilding must go forward he is even though it is necessary for the government to take ary steps in private yards and perhaps the conscription of labor N Hurley chairman of the shipping yesterday sent a stinging telegram to William general president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America the members of which now are on strike in Baltimore and New York city There was a tone of warning in the which contained the ly advice to go back to work at once Order for Contract At the same time President Wilson directed Attorney General Gregory to investigate the contracts relating to the at Hog Pa conducted by the American tional Corporation The President said an inquiry should be made into charges of graft with a view to instituting criminal process in case the facts Justify The apparently reliable reports state that the administration la thoroughly disgusted with the continued labor dis- putes that are holding up the building program As to this the telegram of Mr Hurley to the president of the organization of carpenters and joiners is striking evidence Mr Hurley did not mince He arraigned the striking workers for threatening the lives of men at the front in so critical a period in the tion s history His saj s Strike as Men While the people of this country are mourning the Joss of brave oung in the horror while thousands of American homes are anx lously watching the lists of survivors slowly coming make certain that ON CONTINUED FOURTH PAGE Tn The Sunday Post's Big Illustrated Magazine of Fiction By Edwin Le Fevre Love of Marguerite By Charles Belmont Davis Pat By Frank H Spearman Little By Anthony Hope Live the By Mary Roberts Rinehart Dog By Joseph C. Lincoln Man and a By Dale Drummond Three Full Pages of Washington Views In Next Sunday's ROTOGRAVURE PICTORIAL SUPLEMENT Index to Issue Makes Terms Death Sentence for Bolo U S May Conscript Labor Captain Loses Commission Aqueduct Floes Dynamited U S Guns Aid French Sunday Lauds Clerks Mrs Wilson at Meeting Plan New Uses for Camps Aid Says James Vote on Rent February 25 Mourns Germans Fear Russia Italy's Aims Restated U-Boat Figures Faulty Sioux on Firing Line George Is Assailed Ukraine Pact Angers Comment Soldier Is Killed News of Alexandria Ten Babies in Exhibit Feared Local Financial Magazine Features Campaign for City News in Brief ICE FLOES Engineers Close Structure td FLOOD IS STILL Many Narrowly Escape Nine Rescued on LOSSES PUT AT 39 CHILDREN KNOWN TO BE DEAD IN FIRE List May Reach 100 in Ruins of Nunnery at leather ami Rain Threatening Greater Than Three Below Record of ami Other Structures All AV e Jam 1 rom Highway to Chain Parts of Montreal Keb 14 chaired bodies of 39 children had been ered late from the ruins of the Grey Nunnery which desti fire It is feared many more d and searchers believed the toll of death might reach 100 Vll the inmates of the great except the children ai e believed to e escaped included nuns sisters wounded or k s overseas k or crippled men and to the number of almost 1 000 When the flames were in the west the alarm was and all those able to help them selves fled to places of The heroic nuns and sisters strove valiantly to save the sick and as as the infants under their charge The children were housed in the tlon of the building where the fire stai ted and the flames spread g it as impossible to save them ill j None of the soldiers 1 however although nearly 200 if them were 1n the The of the inm it of the nun I nery ranged from tw o or Hire t almost 100 years Miny of th infinis who died in the fire and smokt w 1.1 e only a few days or a f w old The elderly s 1 d in another section of tlie an 1 were not men t d bj tie flames i ROBERTSON STAYS ON Exchange ith Gen ilson Saj s Paper London I eb 14 Gen R Robertson the d Clares on its own 111 f i rmat i on will re main chit f of the staff the full approval and o i f the war cabinet Maj Gen ilson th. subchief will continue to be the prin cipal British representative at sailles The that if is bib been reported an exchange of i between liens n and Vv ilson contemplated at any time it has now been abandoned CZERNIN PROMISES ANSWER TO WILSON Will Speak to Reply pn February 21. the Associated Amsterdam Teb 11 the foreign m according to a lenna dispatch an his intention of H long statement to the delegations of the two kingdoms on Saturday con the Hi est negotiations and President latest speech 1 eb 14 important peace debate will begin in the German reich stag on February 21 according to a wireless dispatch from Amsterdam Chancellor von Kertling will discuss the treaty with the and will reply to President Wilson Premier Lloyd George and Premier Orlando An Amsterdam dispatch received in London Tuesday reported that Count von Hertling intended to answer dent Wilson s message in the next Tuesday Head Brand Narrative of Under the Iron Heel be- ginning In next Sundays on the Washington s water are hourly growing more menacing Aqueduct bridge been to all traffic and put under military and this morning enormous ire jams in an effort to save it from There were many narrow escapes from death Nine men on a dredge off land five hours before they cued The river last night at Georgetown was sixteen feet above its normal the highest since when it exceeded nineteen Menare in the weather and pre- for todav increase the seriousness of the situation e is ill jammed from the way bridge at Potomac Park clear to High Island above Cham and in some places is fifteen feet high Debris Water rushing d vv n the river at approximately 20 n 1I( s an hour Ing- with it ik s f i e tiers aid w hieh crashed and pi un 1 in n tlie weakening piers of Ihe rauPe 1 Ii F McCon trl I i en ft an lr ie n n 13 it I ill 1 i rf l' Tlr 1 r uas off at 4 k I1 i i u i s Idlers fi m thi Fif t i t h l f ii t rv tt I arl lit i K it 1 n in n will h at tils lj Mr Mr n 1 ind i rivid th in j r i tt bridge be I f i d l 1 IS ru i it u i ll mi n d Damage Alaj t r v er cr ift jnj water fr nt pr is bt I it a i fil ills of the poll e de thit if tie river con t i it 11 fl M ipe for another (i iv t will j i b ibl a h the tOO n irk 1 cr s loath UT tl ton in t lib and V res boathouse II vf th t bridge have h en Ihi viM f ind rushing waler i v rv 1 i d h al 1 ink fir at bf n ki Ills or The it on i po i t proj r ing fir ut into the ci rusl 1 ae w. ts flooded and at w is t 3 1 taken from in ind tlr the Tracks Covered Tie laM lad risen until thf truks ilong ab Iridge r o v ered 1 n the ha i t be m veri to prevent them fiom le nK i inoes and stored for ih winter along the water front boat b i ear the bridge were removed and placed in safe spots above the bridge and the canal fajnie of the can in the however were in the six feet of water in the street Gorge at Highway Bridge T lie Ire formed a. Korge thr north side of the Highway bridge and water rose the sea wall at 1 Park and in spots flooded the speedway So fai no has been reported in the at the foot of street The water there however is five normal A channel of about a hundred feet n width was open on both of Highway bridge late last night but the ice still gorged the main channel A channel of about one fourth of a mile in width was still open at Aque duct bridge at midnight but another jam such as the one that begAn on morning at 2 o clock unavoidable ON SECOND Meatless Wheatless Meal
