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ROB ARMY BANK AND KILL FOUR Daring Escapade Staged in Very Center of Cantonment at Camp Funston—Ban dit Escapes. ONE MAN IS BADLY HURT Only Living Victim Says Ban dit Wore Captain’s Uniform and That His Face Was Familiar. i'amp Funston, Kan., Jan. 14.—Kear ney Wornall, of Kansas City, the only survivor of five men who were in the army bank here last night when the in •titnUon was robbed, told the authori ties ihe robber was an army captain whom he recognized, it was announced this afternoon. It is understood he gave the officer's name. ''The murders were committed by a Captain,” Wornall is said to have told the authorities. "He wore no mask. He lame into the hank and said he was short of money and hated to do it. The man's face is familiar to me. Winters was well acquainted with him.” Efforts 'on the part of Wornall s questioners to obtain further informa tion were futile, as flic injured man soon lapsed into unconsciousness. When he made the statement that an army captain committed the murders, his mind seemed to be working clearly, it was said. Wornall Expected to Die. Wornall declared that one man robbed the bank at the national army ' cantonment! here lust night after killing \ with an axe four of the five men in the building and injuring the fifth so j badly that he probably will die. Wornall the cashier of the hank, re covered consciousness for a short time ! this forenoon, and while his story is . fragmentary and hazy, officials thought ! that it might go a long way toward; solving the mystery. Woman's injuries*, probably will prove fatal, physicians : believe. According to Wornall. at. insistent I knock at the door ol' the bank building , almut 8:30 last night caused them to: admit a man who immediately covered them with a revolver He then com manded Wornall i lie Die hands of the i others, Wornall says, alter which he tied Wornall's hands. Wornall says he rt.'cognized the officer as an army cap tain'and his cla-rviption of the robber’s' next action is ra:iv :• indefinite. H» said lie thought the rubber realized that he was recoghized by some of his victims and that he decide*! to kill their.. List of the Dead. C FULLER WINTERS, vice presi dent of the National lb verve bank, of Kansas City, M". JOHN W. JKWIiiJ.. or Springfield, Mo., editor of the Camp Funston Trench and Can:.', and associate owner with his father. H. S. Jewell, of the Springfield Leader. CARL OHLF.SoN, r>, son oi Andrew Ohleson, contractor v>i‘ Kansas City, Mo. «». M. HILL, clerk in Hie bank. Kearney Wornall, t ashler of tiie army bank, was seriously wounded. When the murder and rubbery wove discovered, he wav the only one of the five victims conscious. Wornall says he picked up a hand a\c from the Id or and began raining blows upon the lea : and faces of the helpless men. C. F. W'liu rs, vk;e pres ident of the National Reserve bank of Kansas City, and cashier of the army hank, was the first man attacked. He died early today. O. M. Hill and Carl (liielson, clerks, were struck down ncxi. after which the men attacked Wornall 1 and John Jewell, of Springfield. Beafsn to Death. Wornall was discovered by a sentry who discovered Wornall was covered with blood and gave the alarm. Worn all was taken to an infirmary and a detail sent to ihe bank building. The fnir bodies were found and the mili tary police notified. Wornall was re moved to the base hospital at Fort Riley. Winters received four or five bad cuts on head and forehead. Hill and Jewell were beaten about the head al most beyond recognition. ('Hudson was apparently killed instantly by a blow on the forehead with the blade of the ax. Wornall so far has been unable to give a clear description of the man he says committed the. murders. The authorities do not place much hope of obtaining a clew from the fact that the man may have worn an army uni form. as they said it would have been an easy matter for him to have ob tained one' in camp. Crime Puzzles Camp. Officials in charge of the case were, asking themselves how it was possible tin.* murders could have taken place in a small area where thousands of armed men are living without the cries being discovered. A report that the number of sentries at the on mo had been re duced because of the cold weather, was denied today by Lieut. R. <”. Kendall, in charge of the case. Officials ex pressed the opinion that had the men screamed when they were being killed, their outcries undoubtedly would have been heard despite the fact that a heavy wind was blowing. Another feature* of the ease which attracted particular attention today wu' that Carl Ohclson's lather, a Kan sas City contractor, went to the bank about the time the murders were com mitted. He found the door locked and < ailed out to Mr. Winters. The limr den r must have answered for Winters, i‘«T lie told Obvh un to return today. Just how much money the robber ob tained was not announced bv the au tlmrities. Account for Every Man. Within 20 minutes after the murders were discovered, damn Funston wont under a strict regime. The camp was isolated and today a heavily armed guard surmounts the entire area, with orders to shoot <■» kill any person who attempts to enter • r leave the camp by stealth. Immediately after the murders were discovered, every military unit in camp was ordered t<* make a “check roll,” which accounts for every man. not only by name, but by being recognized by bis superior of fivers. A police dog k>i'i-v, d trail to the I nion Pacific tracks and then to the (lolrien Hell high .va.« where it lost the seent ADMIRAL PASHA DIES. Amsterdam. Jan. 12.—The death of Vice Admiral Halil ‘Pasha, former Tur kish minister of marine, is reported In a '“tar* stunt) (topic dispatch to the Kreuz Z*ilwng;. of VS?« ifa. BELGIUM NOT NEEDED, VON TIRPITZ STATES Thinks Political Situation Crit i ical, But That War Party WiU Win. London. .Tan. 14.— A dispatch to the Central News from Amsterdam says j that Admiral Von Tirpitz. former Ger- I man minister of marine and the fore most advocate of Germany’s submarine warfare, declared that while the Ger mans must keep the Flanders coast, the annexation of Belgium to Germany was not necessary and that a solution of this problem could be found. Regarding the political situation Ad- j miral Von Tirpitz Is reparted as hav ing said that all sorts of things might be possible, but that he did not think they would go so far as an agreement on an armistice by which the opera tions of submarines could bo paralyzed. TELLS OF HOSE Tageblatt Says U-Boats Have Sunk 10,000,000 Tons of Shipping Worth $5, 000,000,000. London. Jan. 14.—Reviewing the first year of Germany’s ruthless submarin ing which ends February 1, the Tage blatt asserts that the central powers have succeeded in completely upsetting the economic life of the entente and adds that the submarine campaign which has now become the principal factor in naval warfare is being ex panded and developed still further. Summarizing the results of the un derwater campaign since February 1. the Tageblatt claims that the U-boats have sunk on an average S21.000 tons of shipping monthly from February to December and for the whole year the toll may bo expected to show nearly 10,000,OOt) tons and that the building of new ships by the entente and neutrals during the year will replace only be tween 2.500,000 and 4,000,000 tons of these losses. The newspaper says the monetary loss to Germany’s enemies as the result of the year’s work by the U-boats will reach $5,000,000,000 figur ing the value of the ships at $250 pel' ton and their cargoes at the same rate. Notwithstanding the showing thus made the Tageblatt does not take an optimistic view of Germany’s future. The paper adds: "The entire entente hopes,” says this newspaper, "are now based on expected help front the United States. Whether the Americans will be able to provide a fighting army in numbers sufficient to bring about a decision, whether they will be able to furnish sufficient ships for the transport of the army, and whether they will then he able to pro vide the necessary supplies of food and war materials are questions upon which opinion is divided. But there is no doubt that the efforts the Americans arc making must be taken seriously. The hopes of an early peace depends almost entirely upon the efficacy of our submarine weapons.” . I More Than 100 Persons Injured by Cyclones in Alabama and Georgia — South Shivers. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 14.—With the en tire south iu the grip of its worst snow and sleet storm of the winter yester dav, early reports showed that torna does which swept through eastern Ala ; lama and central Georgia had taken | a toll of 16 lives and injured more than 100 persons. Wire communication over a great area was paralyzed, scores of small towns in the interior being iso lated. while Savannah, Charleston, Jacksonville and other cities along the south Atlantic coast were cut off from outside communication- The jleaths and injuries reported early today were as follows: Cowans, Ala., seve n killed and 25 in jured. Dothan. Ala., six children killed and 1 -lo injured in collapse of school house in country near Dotliam. Webb, Ala., one killed and estimated 70 injured in destruction of store and ; other buildings. Troy, Ala., one killed and several in | Jureri. Macon, Ga., one killed at Camp Wheeler and several injured. The cold wave that extended as far south as Florida was preceded by an unusually low barometric pressure. 1 28.98 being recorded at Knoxville, while thunder storms and lightning accompa nied a heavy snowfall at Asheville, I N. < | it was thought today that sleet and high winds were the chief cause of the ! isolation of most of the towns and that little or no damage had resulted in tin larger cities. The tornado at Camp Wheeler blew down some 16 hospital tents containing about 150 patients and heavy rains i flooded other tents. ] One private was reported killed in | the collapse of the corral of the One Hundred Twenty-second infantry, w hile i the baseball and race track grandstand ; at the fair grounds were badly dam aged and the winter quarters of a eir i cus demolished, many animals lining j killed. GERMANS DENY U-B0A1 SUNK HOSPITAL SHIP I Amsterdam. Jan. 12.—The Wolf bu ! rean. the semi-official German agency, I in a communication regarding the ' sinking of the British hospital ship l Hewn, says the German authorities I cannot yet give tt final statement as . to tlie submarine which might have been concerned Is still at sea. The wim munlcntion adds: ! "Nevertheless, competent ciuutters ! regard it as impossible, that the ship ! should have been torpedoed by a sub ' marine. Accordingly the only possibil ity is that she was sunk by » mine" PERSHING INSPECTING SHELLS. ---♦ General Per^hinq (at left) inspects French munition plant. General Pershing is here shown on i trip of Inspection of a huge muni tions plant in France. The rows anrl rows of shells are waiting to be sent screaming into the German trenches. The work of manufacture of these big shells goes steadily on though thou sands are in storage waiting for the depots at the front to run low. Some of the shells shown will undoubtedly be used by our own boys at the front, as the Americans have been equipped in part with French guns. Entire Area From Canada To Gulf of Mexico Swept By Worst Storm in Years Washington, Jan. 14.—The se verest cold wave of many years gripped the country today from the Rocky mountains eastward to the Alleghenies, and will move on to the Atlantic coast tonight and Sunday: Twenty degrees below zero was the rule in Indiana and surround ing territory, while the cold ex tended southward as far as the Gulf of Mexico, witli temperatures there ranging around 18 degrees above zero. Traffic throughout the middle west is greatly impeded and coal shortage causes much suffer ing. Heavy gales and torrential rains swept up from the south yester day and last night, causing some loss of life, damage to property and destroying wire communica tions. This storm centered today over Ontario and was accompanied by higher temperatures. Follow ing in its wake, however, is the cold wave. To the extreme southern limits of the Florida mainland tempera tures tonight will fall below freez ing, and the cold will be more in tense all the way northward to the Canadian border. The cold will continue through Sunday. Chicago, Jan. 14.—A blizzard extend ing from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Rocky mountains to the Alleghenies and accompanied by low temperatures ranging from 37 below at O'Neill. Neb., to 12 above zero at San Antonio, Tex., paralyzed steam railroad and street car traffic at many points today. The storm which began early yes terday continued all night and a high wind tailed huge drifts of snow on top of the heavy fall early in the week over Illinois, Wisconsin, p -rthern In diana and southern Michig n and parts af Iowa and Missouri. Ov< practically the entire territory covere by the bliz zard today train schedu a have been upset and at the large t rminals, like Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City, many trains have been mulled. Nebraska, it is said. 1 xperlenced the coldest day in half a < utury, no point reporting to the we: idler bureau at Omaha showing a temperature as high ■is zero, while O’Neill turned in 37 be ow. In Kansas and Missouri temperatures of 20 below zero were common and in St. Louis the thermometer reached 17 below. in Chicago it was 10 below early this morning, but central Illinois points reported much colder weather. Spring field showing 16 below. The Iron range In Minnesota reported 30 below and predictions were for cold >r weather today. The heavy snow fall in the winter wheat states was said to have greatly benefitted the crop outlook. SOUTHWEST IS SUFFERING. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 14.-—After the lowest plunge of tne mercury In nearly 20 years the southwest was hop ufor a reaction to warmer weather ,0'lay based on weather bureau pre dictions of slowly rising temperature. In the wake of the blizzard and the record cold weather that followed at ! many points came disorganization of wire and train communication and frantic calls for coal, owing to the failure of gas service in the Okla homa-Kansas fields and much suf fering everywhere, but especially in the oil districts where many buildings were incapable of resisting such low temperatu res. The entire plains states area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky ./•ountains and from the Dakotas to the Rio Urunde is experiencing the most severe weather of the winter, after piling up huge drifts of snow. Record low temperatures were re ported in Texas and season's records at many other points in the section. Four deaths have been reported from numerous cities, and towns are suffering from a fuel shortage. The heavy snow, badly drifted, was interfering with rail and wagon traffic. A Missouri Pacific passenger train stalled in a drift eight miles west of Anthony. Kan., Thursday night was not released today, but the IS passengers are being provided for and are not suffering. Anthony lias had no mail for two days, drifts of snow HO feet deep are reported there. The fuel situation is acute in many Kansas towns. The coal supply is en tirely exhausted at Ottawa and the people are dependent upon wood. At Parsons, on the edge of the natural gas field, homes having wood or coal heaters were reported to be extending shelter to neighbors who have been depending upon gas for fuel. A short age of coal there also served to in crease apprehension. Although the wheat growers of the state welcomed the snow, which broke the drought, many fields were said to have been blown bare, while in west ern sections of the state live stock is suffering severely from the cold. The storm was the worst Oklahoma: city has experienced in 15 years and the city was facing increased priva tions and hardship because of the practical exhaustion of tlie retail coal supply and gas service inadequate for cooking and heating. FIRST SNOW IN 15 YEARS. Kansas City, Jan. 14.—Know fell in Louisiana and Mississippi yesterday ranging from flurries along the gulf coast to storms of almost blizzard in tensity in the northern sections of the two states. The snowfall was the first in nearly 15 years in most sections. Light flurries in New Orleans were the first since February 17, 1905. 19 BELOW AT GT. LOU'r St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 14.—A blizzard that broke till records in m. i. n..o 1873 raged throughout the night, setting a low temperature murk in St. Louis of 19 degrees below zero. Temperatures ranked from 19 to 23 degrees below zero In various parts of the country. Railroad and street car traffic re mained demoralized during the night. Two persons are known to be dead as the result of the storm, and scores of persons have been injured, due to ex posure or accidents, caused by slippery pavements. A TEMPERATURES RISING. Denver, Colo.. Jan. 14.—Higher tem peratures at all points in the Rocky mountain region early today, with pros pects for further increase of tempera ture were reported by the weather bu reau. Tiie outlook also was for local snows in Utah and Colorado. The lowest reading reported was front Cheyenne, Wyo. where the mercury stood at 1f> degrees below zero. At Denver It was 4 degrees below. Roswell, N. M., had a temperature of 2 degrees above zero. In Arizona, Flagstaff reported 32 de grees above zero, a rise of 32 degrees In 24 hours. — ♦— SPRING DAY IN NEW YORK. New York, Jan. 12.—A tropical rain storm, accompanied by high winds, thunder and lightning and a rapid rise in temperature descended in New York and vicinity shortly after midnight. The thermometer stood at, freezing last night, with snow for a time falling on iee covered streets. This situation was changed within a few hours to one of springlike quiet. The wind and rain did considerable damage. Cellars and basements were flooded and in some cases subway travel was tnterferred with by water sweeping into the tubes. A rise in tem perature of 20 degrees in seven hours was noted by Hie weather bureau * - BUZZARD AT MEMPHIS. Memphis. TennS Jan. 12.—This city was swept by a blizzard yesten.ay (rut sent the thermometer down to fur t,e low tiie freezing point. < a used Hie sus pension of street car service or many lines and the closing of public schools. Street traffic virtually was at a stand still throughout tiie afternoon. CONTRACTS SIGNED. New York, Jan. 12.—Tiie signed con tracts of Rube Marquard and John A. [Russell, pitchers, for tiie 1918 season, [were received today by Hie Brooklj n I National league baseball club k WILSON OPPOSED TO I MUNITIONS MINISTER Has Confidence in Baker and Doesn’t Want Cabinet Job Created. _ I Washington, D. O., Jan. 12.—Congres- j slonal plans for creating a separate ile- j partment of munitions with a new | cabinet officer at its head meet with j no favor at the White House. Members of the House who called on President Wilson to ask his opinion of the movement returned to the eapitol with word that the president believed that no good and much harm might be done by setting up a new department and disrupting the existing machinery of the war and navy departments. Hal was said to have expressed the utmost] confidence in Secretary Baker and to have declared that wnlle the war and navy secretaries have tremendous tasks he was satisfied that the work of sup plying munitions would he adequately handled by the organizations now be ing\porfected, assisted by the war in dustries hoard. GUN CREW REFUSED TO SURRENDER TO U-BOAT Washington, D. C., Jan. 12.—How the naval gun crew of the American steamer .1. L. Luckcnbach successfully fought off for four hours the attacks of a German submarine until a de stroyer racing to the steamer’s rescue forced the U-boat to submerge was told here today in an official state ment by the navy department. The engagement described took place on October lit, while tiie vessel was en route to a French port. The U-boat subjected the merchant craft to a heavy shell fire that injured seven men, started a small blaze aboard and temporarily put the engines out of commission. "Don’t surrender flashed the com mander of the American destroyer that caught the Luckenbach's distress call. “Never," was the. laconic reply. All members of the armed guard have been commended by the navy de partment for gallantry in action, and the commander has been given the temporary warrant of boatswain in recognition of his services. ARGENTINA GIVEN NEW CAUSE FOR HOSTILITY Buenos Aires, Jan. 12. A number of Argentina newspapers consider that the extension of the German barred zone to include the trade routes between South America and Europe is an un friendly act toward this country. The papers renew their demands that the government sever relations with Ger many. Extensian of the submarine barred zone to include Uv <*ape Verde Islands, the Island of Mad* Ira and part of French Senegal around Dakar was announced in a German wireless statement received in Jjondon January S. It was declared that the new regulations would become ef fective January 11. Late In November the barred zone was extended around the Azores, which with *he rape Verde Islands and Madeira are on the principal steamships' paths between South America and Europe. WILL BUILD PLANT TO PACK MEET OF RABBITS Oklahoma. Okla., Jan. 12.— A new’ war time industry lias been projected here, and its promoters hope it will re sult In adding materially to the meat supply of the country. A rabbit pack ing plant is about to be erected in Oklahoma c’ity by the Commercial Rab bit Breeders’ association. The concern, with a capital stock <»f $10,000, has been incorporated under tin law’s of Oklahoma. There is a rabbit farm in Michigan and another In (California, but not until December 15. 1017, was a rabbit, packing organization Incorpor ated in any state, according to infor lnation available here. The fact that statistics show the rab bit to be 88 per cent nutriment, and the national movement for food conserva tion, are responsible for the new com pany. _ _ CONGRESSMEN BLAMED FOR LOSING VESSELS Washington, Jan. 12. —Two members of congress shared the responsibility for loss of more than a dozen steel ships to registry under the American flag, according to charges of William Denman, former shipping board head, .made public today. lu sending Chairman Fletcher, of the congressional ship probe committee, an outline of his testimony Denman said lie would disprove printed claims that 1 r. ships were lost to the flag through the negotiations arising from the < ioethals-Denman differences. | FRENCH TOBACCO SHOPS SELL AT STATED HOURS I _ Paris, Jan. 12.—French tobacco and cigarets are now obtainable in Paris only once each week and even then dur ing the space of but about JO minutes. During that half hour the tobacconists shops present about the same appear ance as did the coal and wood yards during the fuel famine last winter, it takes from three to a half dozen police men for each shop to keep waiting smokers orderly while the weekly sup ply is being dealt out. and to pacify those that are still in line when the “no more tobacco” sign is hung out. ‘ WOMAN CLERK KILLS WOULD BE HIGHWAYMAN ! Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 12 A rob ber who attempted to hold up the l*. McCoy Fuel company’s offices here Inst night was shot and instantly killed by Miss Mabel Drumater. 28 years old, a clerk, who seized a revolver hidden un der the counter and fired at the in truder. Miss Drumater was alone in the office at the time. The man was later identified as F. F. j Orr. a local switchman. Orr was mar- | ri< i and had a family. “1 felt it my duty to protect the money.” Miss Drumater told the police. JAPANESE VESSEL IS* REPORTED CAPTURED i Tokio, .Ia.n. 12.—Tho officers of u I Dutch merchant ship arriving at Na j gasuki today reported the steamer Hit J achi Mam. missing three months, 1ms ' been captured by the enemy and con verted into u cruiser. The passengers, v; was asserted, were taken prisoner. The Japanese admiralty does not be lieve the report, although the loss of the ship ha* beep ttuowu. GERMANS SCORE ANOTHER POINT Separate Peace Negotiations With Russia to Be Contin ued at Brest-Litvosk Headquarters. -— ♦ TEUTON WILL PREVAILS Bolshevist Press Attacks Wil» son’s Views—New Army Organizing—Trotzky Talks Idealism. Amsterdam, Jan. 14.—Leon Trotzky, ‘he bolshevist foreign minister to th» (inference at Brest-Litovsk, yesterday said that In order not to leave any possibility in the fight for peace uh ltlllzed the Russian delegation accept *d the demand that the negotiations so continued at Brest-Litovsk. Tile chairmnn of the Russian delega :ion said that in full accord with their former resolution the Russians desired ■o continue the peace negotiations inite apart from the fact whether or dot tile entente powers participated. Trotzky said he had noted the state ment of the central powers that the '-'asis of a general peace as formulated \ n their declaration of December 25 was lull and void, added: "We adhere to the principles of dem icratie peace as proclaimed by us.” Further dispatches today quoted. Trotzky as insisting that there was no) lustificatlon for the contention of th« Hermans that there would lie allied Interference with any negotiations con ducted on neutral soil. A delegate from Ukrainia was de clared to have notified the general con ference that he would adopt an inde pendent attitude toward the negotia tions until the formation of a "Russian ’(•deration of states" determined exact ly what relations the Ukrainians should bear toward Russia. Moreover. M. Trotzky continued, the Russian delegation could not pass over ither points which had been mentioned tty the German chancellor. Count Von Uertling. “I refer,” he said, "to the portion of "dunt Von Hertling’s statement (be *ore the reichstag main committee), In which he referred in addition to Ger many's Just intentions, to Germany’s jowerful position (machstellung). The Russian delegation cannot deny, and! floes not intend to deny, that its coun try. owing to the policy of the classes' Jntil recently in power, has been weak ?ned. But the world position of a country is not determined by its techni cal apparatus alone, but also by its in nerent possibilities—as Gorinany’s eco nomic strength should not be judged by her present conditions and means of lupply.” AT. Trotzky considered that the great er forces of the Russian people had been awakened and developed by the revolution just as the reformation of the Sixteenth century and the revolu tion of the Eighteenth century had vitalized the creative forces of the Ger man and French peoples. He added: “The Russian government, however, wrote the word peace at the head of its program. The great sympathies of the Russian people for the peoples of the allies strengthen the desire to attain the speediest peace based on an under standing among the peoples.” —w~ KRYLENKO ISSUES CALL FOR SOCIALISTIC ARMY London. Jan. 14.—The call of Ensign Kryrenko, the bolshevist commander in chief for volunteers for a Russian army, according to the bolshevist tele graph agency at Petrograd was is sued in the form of an appeal to tho soldiers and workmen and as a reply to the German peace proposals. The appeal refers to Germany’s rejection ;jf the proposals framed previously and their ojjen talk of annexations, in the event of a sepurate peace the call de clares that the Russian republic and its counsels will be surrounded on all sides by enemies. "Americans and French financiers,’ he continues, “are lending money b provide war material foiMKaledines. The German bourgeoise are quitp pre pared to use them as allies for stifling Russian revolution. These a^e condi tions which raise before the Russian peasants and workmen the whole ques tion of the defense of the conquest achieved by the revolution and of the holy war against the bourgeoise. not only of Russia, but of Germany. France and Great Britain.” Krylenko explains that the old arm> is exhausted and that a new one must be created with the red guard as a nucleus and it must be subject to regorons revolutionary discipline. "Comrades!” he says, "the people of 11 alian - Spain, and Switzerland watch you with hope and await the call to battle against their bourgeoise. 1 Their soldiers will not march against revolutionary Russia. Enroll your selves in the ranks of the people-« guard and safeguard the revolution and socialisms." FRANCE NOT INVOLVED. Paris, Jan. 14.—That France does not propose to have anything to do with the peace negotiations at Litovsk between the bolshevists and the Teu tonic allies and that she will have no peace dealings with the enemy until they shall make them direct. was stated in the chamber of deputies this evening by Stephen Pichon, minister of foreign affairs. The statement was made in reply to a demand that the government, issue passports to social ists desiring to proceed to Petrograd and that the entente powers make a joint declaration of their war aims. ♦— FLAY WILSON'S SPEECH. • Petrograd, Jan. 14.—“The heal of American imperialism and the greatest hypocrite history has ever known." is tile violently denunciatory characteriza tion or President Wilson, printed today by the bolshevist organ, Pravada, in its commment on the American peace terms. ARMISTICE IS EXTENDED. Petrograd, Jan. 12.—Acceptance by the central powers of Foreign Minister Trotsky's approval for a continuation of the Russo-German armistice on all fronts for an additional month was for mally announced today. The aimislice heretofore agreed to. expired today.' SOCIALISTS IN LEAD. Petrograd, (Friday), Jan. 11.— Re turns have been received showing th election of 510 delegates to the con stituent assembly. Those known t»i have been elected Include 2«1 social rev. alutlucsires amt 15S htrlsh'fiats.