Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1918)
OP EJSTFiHT Peace With Three Nations Has Been Completed in Past Five Days—Grip Is Strengthened. RUSSIA IS STILL HOSTILE Muscovite Troops Attack and Retake Jamburg, 68 Miles From Capital—Plan To Fight On. By Associated Press. In five days Germany has forced Peace terms on three different govern ments, Russia, Rumania and Finland. The Finnish government apparently submitted to the German terms in or der to gain military aid against the revolutionists who hold much of south ern Finland along t'no Finnish gulf. With Finland and Esthonia under Ger man suzerainty, the Gulf of Finland is taken from Russian control and great Russia has less than 150 miles of coast /' lino along the gulf. Although the Germans apparently will permit King Ferdinand to continue to rule Rumania, the victorious enemy has compelled his victim to agree to humiliating terms. Important wheat, oi! and salt concessions are to be given Germany, which is to control the Ru manian railroads for 15 years and is to Have a most favorable trade agreement with Rumania, which loses the Dobrud ,Ja and control of the Danube. sjr.-x* - London, March 9.—A Russian revo lutionary army captured .Tamburg, 68 miles from Petrograd, March 5, ac cording to an official announcement made in Petrograd Thursday and for warded by the correspendent of the Exchange Telegraph company. —A— STILL HOLDING KIEV. London, March 7.—Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, is still in the hands of Rus sian revolutionary troops and has not been occupied by the Germans, accord ing to a statement issued Wednesday by the Russian official news agency in Petrograd. The previous message say ing Kiev had been lost to the enemy the statement adds, was due to the re ceipts of a wireless message which must have originated from enemy sources. The German war office in its offi cial statement of March 3, said that Ukrainian and German troops had cap tured Kiev. Since then, however, there have been no claims of any advance be yond Kiev by the invaders. PLAN TO ARM POPULACE. Copyrighted 1918 by the United Press. •j Petrograd, March 9.— The war com f misirat today published a plan for arm ing the whole Russian people at once. Opportunity for all desiring to learn military science will be afforded and general preparations will be made for renewing the war in the future. After the withdrawal from Narva, the Russians retreated to Jamburg. which they fortified with the aid of rein forcements from Petrograd. Railroad men at Narva report the U (Germans halted operations according * to orders from General Hoffman. Wit nesses said the bombardment of Narva j which began Sunday and was renewed M :. lay caused numerous explosions. / - ♦ ' KRYLENKO HAS RESIGNED. London, Thursday, Match 7.—Ensign N. V. Krylenko, commander-in-chief of the Bolshevist army has resigned, ac cording to an exchange telegraph dis patch from Petrograd. The resignation was brought about owing to differences j of principle between Krylenko and (lie i Connell of People's commissaries as i well as a disagreement with the last i actions of the council. I TURKEY CHANGING, FRONT? Amsterdam. March 9. — Envoi- Pasha ! Vn a speech in the Turkish chamber, i cording to a Constantinople dispatch, said the bolshevists had proclaimed that self determination was the rigitt of all peoples, and that the Turkish government would not fail to recognize autonomous governments already es tabiished in the Caucasus and other governments in the neighborhood of Turkey and would support them If necessary. -*c SOCIALISTS DISSATISFIED. Amsterdam. March 7.- -Commenting or the outcome of the Brest-1,itovsk | ciinference at which peace with the ; Russian government was concluded, the socialist organ Yorwaerts says: "Peace was concluded, but the dele gates parted with feelings of deadly enmity. That such was the case Is a deeply regrettable event. The German work men do not stand behind Von Rosenberg (assistant to Foreign Sec- ; rotary Von Kuehlmann and chairman of the second Hrest-Litovsk conference) ; or the policy for which he stands. Let us. therefore, face the facts and frank ly declare that in this peace the success which was sought, was denied to social- j ism of all shtides of opinion.’ n«JG ISLAND YARD IS TIED UP BY STRIKE 3,000 Carpenteis Called Out: After Posting Demands For j Concessions. Washington, D. ('.. March s - Follow lng the posting of schedules at the Hog Island ship yards, allowing time and one-half for overtime, Saturday after noon and holidays ‘instead of double time, il.OOO members of the Philadelphia •Council of Carpenters and Joiners were called out. Officials of the plant re- ■ iiused to give any information but strik- j era declared work ?t the yards would , '/ be tied up by night. Alt information ' 1 on the subject came from labor bead-j I quarters, the company maintaining si lence. I FURLOUGHS FOR N. A. MEN TO WORK FARMS Washington, March V ■ -Furloughs Tor j men in the national army to work on I farms during the pit nting season and I other busy seasons were assured today [ when tlic House approved the action of the Senate in passing tlie bill author izing the secretary of war to grant the leave whenever the situation demands. President Wilson urged the passage the measure so his signature is cer- | |Nq More “Bomb Proof1 Jobs Open \ To Draft A.qe “Desk Grenadiers" “Swivel Cliair Warriors” Must Fight on the Line, Leaving Work in Quartermaster, Ordnance, Signal and Adju tant’s Departments to Older Men. Washington, D. C., March 9.—‘ Bomb proof jobs for men of draft age will no longer be granted by the war ac^ai t ment. All the staff corps have shut down on commissions for men of that class, except in the rarest cases, where the men are shown to be of unusual fit ness. This is a result of the issuance of a veritable flood of commissions to youths, many of whom would make ex (•client fighting material, but who ar* anxious .to E 'l've their country from a safe place behind a desk. “Swivel hair warriors” and "desk grenadiers" they are called by regulars. The ordnance and quartermaster corps were singled out by many men of draft age at the start of the war. Now no commissions will be available for such men in the ordnance, quarter master. signal, medical or adjutant gen eral’s departments. 1 _ ] Prince Oscar, Fifth Son of Ger man Emperor, Slated For Throne of New Baltic Province. London, March 9.—The Finnish gov ernment has asked the German em peror to appoint Prince Oscar, the fifth son of the emperor king of Finland. The Afton Tidningen, of Stockholm says it learns from diplomatic circles there, according to an Exchange Tele graph dispatch. Prince Oscar, of Hohenzollern, will be 30 years old next July 37. On July 31, 1914. Prince Oscar apparently against the washes of his father con tracted a morganatic marriage with Countess Ina Bassewitz, who had been lady in waiting to the express. Prince Oscar suffered from heart trouble during the early months of the war and was reported to have col lapsed after leading a victorious charge at Verdun on October 3, 1914. He re turned to duty and narrowly escaped capture in Poland in December of that year. There were few reports con cerning his activities during 1915, but early in 1916 he was slightly wounded in the head and thigh on the eastern front. __ Returned Soldier Tells of Ger mans Gouging Out Eyes <jf Twelve American Doughboys. New York. March !).—Stories of Ger man atrocities against American sol ' cliers were reported today by patients 1 in the army hospital here, according to i the New York World. The story of a night patrol in whicli 12 American doughboys were captured but returned the next night by the Ger mans was related by Albert It. Sykes, attached to the division sanitary corps, j He said: j “Twelve infantrymen went out on a ; night patrol and when they failed to r< i turn that night it was taken for granted j i they had been captured. "They came back to us the next night. : When dawn came they were lying out jin front of our trenches, livery man I had his eyes gouged out and in several leases the hands and legs were gone.” Washington, ii. C., March 8.-—The war department has no confirmation to day of atrocities on American soldiers as related by Albert Sykes in New York. AMERICAN GUNNERY DISCOURAGES FRITZ He Labors All Nigiit and Yanks Blow Up Works in Daytime, Says One. With the American Army In Fiance, | Wednesday, March (1. The enemy ap ' patently has something he is planning : against our troops in the sector north ! west of Toul. His •camouflage con structions at certain places have sud denly been doubled in height and much 1 work is going on with the enemy line. Hast night an American patrol who j understands German heard this con . versation in the Herman trench. "Come here Fritz, take this pick and | I try that stone loose and then throw' that dirt out. Those- —over there. We work all night to fix things here' ‘ and they blow them to hell in the day j time." • The men in the American patrol who i made a sudden dash for the American I lines from a shell hole near the Her- j ! man trenches where they had been | ; hiding have explained why they started j | out in broad day light on their back- I i ward sprint. They had lost Itieir way in the dark in No Man’s Hand and got ■ into the shell hole after wandering for I several hours. Finally the men got ! hungry and all of them decided they i would rather take a chance with Her i man bullets than go any longer with : out food and water. The sun came out today, drying out the ground and the trenches and the men’s damp clothing. WAR FINANCE BILL PASSED BY SENATE Washington. March S.—Tile adminis tration’:! bill to establish a $4,1100,000 war finance corporation passed by the Senate yesterday, was translated to the House today, where consideration of ihe measure is expected to begin next | week. The House ways and means com mittee already has prepared a report on the bill and administration leaders will urge speedy action because of the legislation's importance in connection with general financing and particularly t"c flotation of the third Liberty 'cap. Ready to Co-Operate in Siberia —Claim Released German Prisoners Menace Chi nese Territory. London, March 9.—Japen, according to a dispatch from Tien Tsin to the Daily Mail, is reported to have Inti mated that she would welcome Chinese cooperation in the event that extreme measures were necessary in Siberia, thus desiring to demonstrate her un selfishness. The Chinese government, it is added, is said to have obtained documentary proof that the Germans have made def inite offers of assistance to Russian revolutionary leaders if they would cause trouble. The documents are re ported to mention Germany’s intention to use released German war prisoners in Siberia against China's northern frontiers. China hopes to secure Jap anese and American financial assist ance to meet the expenses of the northern expeditionary forces. -4~ OPPOSES JAP MOVE. Dome, March 9.—A Japanese expedi tion into Siberia with Anglo-American consent would be a false move, the Observator said today. Yankees Are Speed Artists in Love or War; Here's Proof With the American Army in France, March 9.—The first marriage between an American soldier and a French girl took place within 10 days after our troops landed in the war zone. Marie was one of 50 or more vil lage girls who were at the railroad station to watch the Americans un load. She carried a bunch of flowers. Many an American boy held out his hand for those flowers, but didn’t get j them. Finally Bob came along—middle western boy, standing full six feet, clean shaven, athletic and an honest merry twinkle in his eye. Marie went straight up to Bob and with a pretty little courtesy, placed the boqi^et in his hand. That was the beginning of a whirl wind courtship that ended a few days later at the altar. That was nearly eight months ago. Not long ago Bob wrote his dad back in America to send him half a dozen boxes of the best cigars he could find. "If it's a boy we’re going to name him Pershing Petain.” says Bob proudly. Bob speaks French now and Mrs. Bob is talking English. And what do you think Bob wants to do now? He's dissatisfied with his job of "top sergeant" and he has applied for an appointment us a ‘‘French interpre ter" with the American army. "The Huns ll never stop fellows who can work that way,” says Boll's colonel. RAILWAY PURCHASES TO BE CENTRALIZED Government to Supervise Zx penditure of More Than Billion Dollars, Washington, D. O.. March r Par tial centralization of the purci dug of between $1,060,000,QJ)0 and $2,0' i.OQO.OOO worth of railroad supplies at I equip ment this year undfr govern nent su pervision. is involved in' a plan for organizing the railroad administra tion’s division of finance and purchases announced today hr Director General McAdoo. John Skelton Williams, as head of tliis division, will be assisted by a central advisory committee of three ex pert, railway purchasing agents, and regional purchasing committees will be created for the eastern, western and southern operating divisions. Tlie central organization will buy locomotives cars and steel rails, the principal big quantity purchases of railways and an effort will be made not i only to economize by wholesale buy ing methods, hut to standardize equip ment and supplies. Coal and other fuel will he bought mainly by individual lines to supply their individual needs, but under the supervision of the regional committees. Cross ties and lumber are to be bought principally by the roads along their own lines, but may be ordered through the central organization. ’’All other supplies needed for cur rent operations will lie purchased for the time being,” says Director General McAdoo’s statement, “through the pur chasing departments of the respective roads, but all contracts for periods of six months or longer must he approved by the regional committee before com pletion.” BRYAN AND CHAPLIN WILL BOOST BONDS Washington, March 8,—William J. Bryan and Charlie Chaplin were hooked today for Liberty loan speaking tours. The former secretary of state will speak at the opening of the campaign April tl, at Little Rock. Ark, and spend two weeks in the west, William S. llart, another movie actor, will spend two w«eoks speaking in the west. I* WEST BLUFF Believed Germany Plans Only To Hold On While Consoli dating Loot on Other Fronts. MAY STRIKE IN BALKANS Anticipate Drive at Saloniki to Clean Up Eack Yard Before Seeking Final Decision In West. Washington, D. C., March 9.—Opinio.. In entente circles gradually is shifting to tlie belief that Germany’s much ad vertised "big drive” is mostly camou flage to cover up her. real intentions. There is a growing belief- that in stead of attacking on the west front, Germany will attack in Macedonia and renew the drive against Italy, remain ng on the defensive in France. Conditions are thought to be more propitious for a German drive against Saloniki than at any other point. Thou sands of German. Austrian, Bulgarian and Turkish troops have been released from the eastern front and are now available for that purpose. To Consolidate Her Gains. The Teuton aim now, military men believe, is to clear up the situation in her back yard, annexing thousands of square miles in territory and vast pop ulations and resources and then hurl the combined forces of her own and her vassals against the western front. Germany, it is argued, has much to lose and little to gain by an offensive in the west this spring. Germany has acquired, in addition to vast industrial districts in western Rus sia, the cession of Baton, in Trane Caucasia. Near Batum are some of the- richest manganese ore deposits in the world. Already Germany controls the rich oil field;? of Russia, Rumania and Galicia and she is now welding :he links that will render the grain stores of Ukraine here for the future. Allies Not Deceived. The belief that Germany this year wo_dd light only a “holding" cam paign in the west, has been frequently expressed in military and diplomatic circles, but the governments of the as sociated nations have been noncommit tal. Nevertheless, there is reason to suspect they have not been deceived and are prepared for any contingency. The allies are saying nothing of possible aggressive action. It is a fact, just the same, that preparations for an offensive have gone forward on a great scale. Prepared for Great Blow. The allies, it has been reiterated, are superior in guns, men :.ml materials on the west front. It is conceivable, to those who understand, that the Ger man massing of troops and materials in the west is a defensive rather than •in offensive measure. Then, too, there have been well substantiated reports of Germany preparing new defensive lines extending clear hack to the Rhine from the Swiss border far into Bel gium. Statements that have come from the interallied, or supreme war council, have not indicated that the allies would he content this year to fight off a German offensive. Indeed, they have carried the inference all along that the allies are preparing to take the initia tive. Weather Delays Attack. 0 British troops have been pouring into France in ever increasing numbers. The Americans now have a considerable force there and every ounce of energy is being exerted to prepare a crushing blow, rather than ward off an attack. The fighting is not expected to be gin for some little time. The weather is not yet sufficiently settled to insure the success of a great attack! The real battle for supremacy in the west likely will not begin before April and may lie deferred until as late as May. BAD WEATHER INTERFERES. Rome, Thursday, March 7.- The Ital ian war office issued the following statement today: "Unfavorable weather has hindered all infantry action and greatly mini mized the activity of the artillery. Our batteries fired, with some persistency on enemy troops in movement in tho Val Brenta and the region of Della Bretta. Reciprocal bursts of fire oc curred in Val Gagarina and in the plain south of Ponta Di Piave." —f AUSTRIANS TO FRANCE. Rome, March !>.—Austrian troops have been sent to France, the Prussian minister of war announced in the reichstug, according to a dispatch re reived from Berne today. I-Ie refused to give the number. GUN DUELS RAGING. London. March 9.—“The enemy’s ar tillery was active last night in the neighborhood of Rlbeeourt and the Searpe valley,” the war office reports. •‘Considerable artillery activity de veloped also on both sides in the Ypres sector, between the Menin road and Houtholst forest." HUGE SUM IS VOTED TO CONTINUE FIGHT British War Credits Now Total More Than Thirty Billions. London. March 9 —The house of com mons late last night agreed unanimous to the vote of credit of £600,000.000 moved yesterday by the chancellor of Ihe exchequer. Andrew Bonar Law. rids brings the total of the votes of credit during the war to £6.842.000,000. BRITISH LOSSES LAST WEEK AT LOWEST MARK London. Thursday. March 7.—-For the first week of March British casualties .vere 3,343, the lowest of any Wfek for several months. The official report for the week ending today rollows: Killed or died of wounds: Officers, (13: men, 628. Wounded or missing: Officers, 179; tnen, 2,473. • The lowest previous week for several months was the last week In February ;n which there were 3,751 casualties. l'he total casualties for February, « .ow month, were 18.961. . . Upf . -is the great war-1 time sweetmeat. 9 — the benefit, the pleasure, the economy of a 5c package of 2 WRiCLEV’S 2 —has made it the fa- 3 vorite “sweet ration** 3 of the Allied armies. 3 —send it to your friend 3 at the front: 3 —it's the handiest. 3 longest-lasting re- 9 freshment he can 3 carry. ■ CHEW IT AFTER 3 EUERV MEAL The Flavor LastsHl ■* A . IS We Are Big Eaters. Studies of tlio monthly per capita consumption of wheat, meat, fat and sugar in the United States and in Eu ropean countries show that, in general, people in the United States eat the most a person. The German sugar ra tion for 1916-1917 was hardly more than one-tenth of our consumption and in meats we consumed almost six times as much as the Germans were allowed. France is on a slightly more liberal diet than Germany, yet the French su gar ration is only 1.1 pounds a month a person as compared with 7.-1 pounds in the United States. England, though commonly considered a country of hearty eaters, uses even loss fat than France and is about midway between France and the United States in meat and sugar consumption. ——-: End of the Lesson. “My hoy, you can take a lesson from the dog that Is trotting by your side, and to whom I point as an example. He doesn’t drink, lie doesn’t smofce, he doesn't swear—” “lint if youse don’t stop vor poointin’ at him, mister, lie'll do some chewing presently.” Canada has handled $1,000,000,000 In bullion for the ltank of England since the war began. Minnesota last year shipped out 15, 520,090 barrels of Hour. Always use Red Gross Ball Blue. Delights the laundress. “At all good grocers. Adv. We always know Just what not to say after we have said it. He Couldn’t Stand It. She—“At least a mirror doesn’t flat ter one.” He—“No; that is why 1 never loook in one." WAS DISCOURAGED Lost 65 Pounds in Weight and Had to Give Up Work. Has Been Well Since Using Doan’s. "Being exposed to extreme heat when working as un engineer, and then going outdoors to cool off, caused my kidney trouble,” sn^s Karl Goering, 8513 N. Orkney St., Philadelphia, Pa. “In cold weath er and when it was damp, my joints and muscles would swell and ache and often my limbs were so badly af fected It was only with great misery I was able to get around. For a week I was laid up In bed, hardly able to - ■ move hand or foot. — “Another trouble was from Irreg ular and scanty passages of tine krdnQy secretions. I became dull and wenk and had to give up my work. Headaches and dizzy spells nearly blinded me and I went from 205 to 200 in weight. Nothing helped me und I felt I was doomed to suffer. “At lust I hnd the good fortune to hear of Doan’s Kidney Pills and be gan taking them. I soon got back my strength and weight and all the rheumatic pains and other kidney troubles left. I have remained cured.” Sworn to before me, \VM. H. M’MUNN, Notary Public., GetDou'tat Any Store, 60c n Box DOAN’S VXLV FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. Win the War by Preparing the Lana Sowing the Seed and Producing Bigger Crops Work in Joint Effort the Soil of the United States and Canada CO-OPERATIVE FARMING IN MAN POWER NECESSARY TO WIN THE BATTLE FOB LIBERTY The Food Controllers of the United States and Canada are asking for greater food-production. Scarcely 100,000,000 bushels of wheat are avail able to be sent to the allies overseas before the crop harvest. Upon the efforts of the United States and Canada rests the burden of supply. Every Available Tillable Acre Must Contribute; Every Available Farmer and Farm Hand Must Assist Western Canada has an enormous acreage to be seeded, but man power rs short, and an appeal to the United States allies is for more men for seed ing operation. Canada’s Wheat Production Last Year was 225,000,000 Bushels; the Demand From Canada Alone for 1918 Is 400,000,000 Bushels To secure this she must have assistance. She has the land but needs the men. The Government of the United States wants every man who can effectively help, to do farm work this year. It wants the land in the United States developed first of course} but it also wants to help Canada. When ever we find a man we can spare to Canada’s fields after ours are supplied, we want to direct him there. Apply to our Employment Service, and we will tell you where you can best serve the combined interests. Western Canada’s help will be required not later than April 5th. Wages :o competent help, J?50.00 a month and up, board and lodging. Those who respond to this appeal wii get a warm welcome, good wages, ^ood board and find comfortable homes. They will get a rate of one cent t mile from Canadian boundary points to destination and return. For particulars as to routes and places where employment may be had pplv to. U, S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR