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.”
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
