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VOL. XLVII. NO. 48.
OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1917.
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FORT
OMAHA
BALLOON
SCHOOL ENLARGED
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GEN! GEORGE A. SQUIER HERE
ON INSPECTION TOUR SAYS
1,400 MORE MENTO BE HOUSED
More Than Three-quarters of Million Dollars Being Ex
pended for Improvements to Leading Baljoon '
School in'United States; Work Being .
Rushed On New Quarters.
Fort Omaha is to be enlarged and made the leading signal
corps and balloon schools of the United States.
The government has authorized the immediate expend!
ture of $800,000 for the construction of buildings to house the
young men who will be sent here
for balloon work in connection
General George A. Squier, chief of-0
ficer of the signal corps of the army
passed Sunday in the city, and left for
Washington Sunday night.
While here he inspected the present
quarters at the fort and went over
the work being done by the Wickham
Brothers who have the contract for
the erection of the cantonment build
ings, the construction of sewers and
the general work required.
The desire of General Squier is to
have the cantonment buildings ready
for occupancy at the earliest possible
date in order that the young men en
listing in the balloon end of the avia
tion corps of the army may take up
their studies.
DELIGHTED SAYS SQUIER
'Delighted! I'm more than pleased!"
exclaimed Gcnerol Squier, as he was
halted in the midst of an inspection
tour at iort Umaha.
With General Squier were Major H.
B. llersey, commander of Fort Oma
ha; Colonel F. A. Grant, quartermas
ter of the Omaha supply depot, and
Major Rainesford Hannay, member of
the British royal fighting corps, who
has been instructing students at the
fort for several weeks.
The party had just come from "the
new barracks, now being rushed to
completion by Wickham Bros, of
Council Bluffs. When they are fin
ished there will be room for 1,400 L
more student troops at fort umana
and these will be sent in immediately.
Later at the Fontenelle hotel, Gen
eral Squier continued his praise of the
progress at Fort Omaha. - .
No Aeroplanes at Fort.
"We will send in more men just as
soon as the new-barracks are fin
ished," he said. "The school is in
fine shape. But it will be kept a
balloon school pure and simple,' he
said. . "We will not add the aeroplane
work to it." . "
General Squier and other authori
ties think they can work more cffec
- tively if only balloon work is done
here. This is important work and
the students need careful detailed
training. Fort Omaha is the only
balloon school in the country and
will remain so'. All balloon students
in the United States must come here
for their training.
Inspects Supply Depot.
General Squier also spent a part of
His busy day ift Omaha at the quar
termaster's depot at Twenty-second
and Hickory. There is a branch sta
tion of the signal corps there, which
also has had a tremendous growth
lately. ' Formerly it was looked after
by the quartermaster, but now has
its own chief, Lieutenant Kerfoote,
who has just come from Seattle to
take charge of it.
General Squier left last night for
Chicago. He has a few more posts to
inspect before he leturns to Washing
ton. ,
Tornado Kills One; Injures
Twenty; Wrecks Property
Two Buttes, Colo.. Aug. 11 Frank
Pructt, a printer, was killed and
t.wentv persons were .hurt, one proba
bly fatallv, last night when a tornado
struck Two Buttes. Two store build
ings and three residences were
wrecked and many small buildings
were demolished. The storm traveled
from southwest to northeast, striking
this city at 6 o'clock. Telegraph com
munication was cut off until today.
Interstate Commission
Will Not Hear Rate Boosts
Washington, Aug. 11 In accord
ance with the new law increasing the
44 membership of the Interstate Com
irpifcinerce commission from seven to nine,
the commission today notihed all rail
roads that applications for increasing
rates or fares without prior, approval
of the commission must be discon
tinued until January 1. 1920.
The Weather
TemiwinliirM. at Omaha Yesterday.
TJ ' Hour. Deg
M 5 a. m.' 63
,-" ft a. ).... G3
O a. m 64
f Da. m 66
a. m 68
til o in B
WAS- T T .
MH y x 12 m., 71
ras5 rn, in .... 71
L z p. m. ........... 71
f 3 p. m 71
u 4 p. m 7!
w ...............
1 p. in 76
Comparative Loral Reeord;
1917. 1916. 1915. 1914.
Highest yesterday.... 75 S2 S3 3
I,oweet yesterday 63 63 61 64
Mean temperature.... 69 72 72 ' 1
"rectpltatlon 31 .00 .00 .25
Temperature and precipitation departure
rom the normal:
Vormal temperature 74
deficiency for the duy 7
'Total deficiency since March 1 187
Normal precipitation .13 Inchea
Kxceaa for the day 19 lnchea
Total rainfall etnee March 1 ... .18.49 Inches
Deficiency since March 1 1.14 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 1916.. 8.76 lnchea
Bxcesa lor cor. period, 1915 17 Inch
fc4
to study aviation and qualify
with army service.
GERMAN PLANES
AGAIN RAID THE
BRITISH COAST
Score of Hostile Flyers Swoop
Down on South End Neigh
borhood; No Casualties
or Damavj Reported.
(By Associated Press.)
London, Aug. 12 About twenty
German airplanes raided the southeast
cost of England this evening. An of
ficial statement says that some bombs
were dropped in the neighborhood of
South End, forty miles east of Lon
don, and on the seashore resort of
Fargate, eighty miles southeast of the
capital.
No reports of damage or casualties
have yet been received. British
aviators pursued the raiders out to
sea. i
The text of the official statement
says: ' .
" "Abput ?:15 o'clock this afternoon
a squadron of about twenty enemy
airplanes weres reported off Felixstowe
(in Suffolk. They skirted the coast
to Clacton (Esse) where they ap
parently divided, a part going south to
Margate s(in! Kent). The remainder
crossed the coast and went southwest
towards, Vickford, lear which place
they turned southeast and dropped
bombs in the neighborhood of South
End (in Essex). Some bombs also
were dropped on Margate.
"No reports of damage or casualties
have yet been received. Our own air
craft were very quickly in the air and
they pursued the enemy out to sea."
Land Under Italian Control
Wants Men in Greek Chamber
Washington, Aug. 12. Dispatches
from Athens to the Greek legation
say the deputies of upper Epirus have
sent to the chamber of deputies a
memorandum affirming the Hellenic
character of their country and its at-:
tachment to the mother country and
asking to be admitted to sit in the
chamber.
In his response Premier Venizelos
said he sympathized with the feeling
of the inhabitants but that as Greece
was at this time deprived cf an in
ternational title to upper Epirus, now
occupied by Italy, the government
could not admit the deputie without
creating international difficulties.
Governors of Six States
Meet to Talk on Home Guards
Portland-. Ore., Aug. 12. The gov
ernors of six western states met here
today with Colonel Charles E.-Dent-ler,
U. S. A., who commands all
troops in Oregon, Washington, Ida
ho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah and
discussed measures for meeting sit
uations which might arise from In
dustrial Workers of the World, to pro
pose steps by which the states might
get guards of home constabularies to
replace the organized militia which
are now in the federal service and to
talk over steps to be taken in the
event of trouble over the war draft.
Submarine Collides With
Excursion Steamer in Fog
Boston, Aug. 12. A LTnited States
submarine collided with the Nantasket
Beach excursion steamer Mayflower
in Boston harbor during a thick fog
late today. The navy yard officials
said the material damage to the sub
marine was slight, but that the May
flower had a hole stove in its port
side near the paddle box. One sea
man on the steamer suffered a broken
leg.
Fifteen hundred passengers on
board were transferred without ac
cident to the steamer Rose Standish
and brought up to this city.
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German
of His
Tragedy of
AMERICAN SHIP
SUNK BY U-BOAT;
CAPTAIN TAKEN
Navy Announces That Big
Standard Oil Tanker Is De
stroyed and Five Men
Captured.
Hy Associated Tress.)
Washington, Aug. 12. Sinking of
the American steamer Campana, a
Standard Oil tanker, with the prob
able capture of its captain and four
members of .the naval guard by the
attacking Qerman submarine, was an
nounced today by, the Navy depart
ment. The department issued this state
ment: "The Standard Oil tanket Campana,
.-unci itau steamer, 1 was sunt Dy a
submarine on the morning of August
6, 143 miles west ot He de Re. Fortv-
seven survivors reached land in safe
ty. It is believed that the captain
of the steamer and four of the armed
guards are prisoners on board the
German submarine."
English Built Ship.
New York, Aug. 12. The Campana
was formerly the steamship Dun
holme. She was built in 1901 at West
Hartlepool, England, and was regis
tered at s,6li tons gross, 2,133 tons
net. She was 335 feet long with a
beam of 47 feet.
Gunners of British
Freighter Sink U-Boat
, Off Coast of France
An Atlantic Port, Aug. 12. Anoth
er German submarine has, been sunk
by the guns of a merchantman, if the
gunners of a British freighter which
arrived here today are correct in their
assumption that three shots which
struck an undersea boat off Brest,
France, sent her to the bottom. The
Britisher encountered the submarine
on her last outward trip from this
port.
One shot destroyed the periscope.
The second and third were, followed
by an explosion -and the submarine
disappeared. The gunners were con
fident that the submarine went down
involuntarily. .
Soldiers Not Prosecuted
For Wrecking I. W. W. Place
Oakland, Cat, Aug. 12. There will
be no prosecution of the 200 or more
soldiers and sailois who wrecked the
Industrial Workers of the World
headquarters last night, unless the
military authorities at the Presidio of
San Trancisco take some action, ac
cording to a statement today by Act-
ting Chief of Po:ice Frank Lynch.
Lynch said that the police ha,ye no
official knowledge of the affair, as
no complaints have been made. He
declared that the Industrial Workers
of the World leaders said they would
not make any complaint.
The raid, according to information
in the possession of the police, was
inaugurated by men from the Presidio
to avenge the recent rough handling
of a soldier by a person alleged to be
a member of the Industrial Workers
of the World.
Socialist Paper Loses
Second-Class Mail Right
Chicago, Aug. 12. The American
Socialist, official weekly publication of
the national socialist party, today re
ceived word from Washington that its
second class mailing privilege had
been revoked by theuPostoffice de
partment. This order is said to have grown
out of the fact that the last three is
sues of the publication in June were
held unmailable under the espionage
law.
Supposed Omaha Man .
Suicide in Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug- 12. (Special
Telegram.) Frank O. Pnmslow,
whose home is believed to have been
in Omaha, was found dead in a hotel
here today. He is believed to have
committed suicide. -
Pardon for Swedish Woman
Secured by King Alfonso
. Paris, Aug. 12. The Spanish min
ister to Belgium, says a Havas dis
patch from Madrid, telegraphs that,
thanks to the intervention of King
Alfonso, a Swedish woman who was
condemned to death" by the Germans,
has been pardoned.
mmander
weetheart
Awful Undersea' Warfare
Forgiving Father Relates How
Friend of Family Was Agent
, of Death for Daughter
., and Son.
An Atlantic. Port, Aug. 12. Lars
Larsen, an elderly man, but still vig
orous and erect, who arrived here
aboard a small cargo steamship, told
a story of U-boat romance which, for
dramatic interest, is perhaps unparal
leled by anything ever narrated con
cerning, the submarine warfare of at
rocity. Larsen was an officer aboard the
Swedish , steamship Ada, which was
sunk June 12 while she was on her
way from Gothenburg, Sweden, to
Hull, England. This is his story:
"Before the war began a handsome
young German became acquainted
with my son Swen, and, before long,
was a frequent caller at our home in
Stockholm. He fell in love with my
daughter, Minna, who was 16 years
old and considered beautiful.
"The German, Hans von Tuebinger,
was an art student, and had come to
Sweden to study some phase of his
calling which Jie said he could not
find in any other country. I never
understood exactly what that phase
was; but, at any rate, it was the means
of .bringing, unhappiness to me and
mine. '
"Minna soon grew to return the
love of the good looking youngster,
and when the war broke out and he
received notice to present himself at
once to the jiaval unit to which he
belonged in Germany, the poor girl
was ready to die of grief. Evidently
it cost Hans a terrible struggle, too;
but he said he did not believe the
war could last a week and that he
would return at the latest in two
weeks. And it was arranged that
when he did return he and Minna
were to be married.
. "Two months elapsed before we got
a letter from Hans. It told us of
having been detailed to submarine
work and of the unhappy time he
was having counting the hours when
the war was to end and he could come
to claim hia bride. After that we
never heard from him again., . V
"For a while Minna bore up brave
ly ibut she began1 to- fade perceptibly.
My wife died three months after Hans
had gone and, as my son Swen was
a'. eady a sturdy help, to me aboard
my schooner, the J3aldar, I decided
to take Minna along on our voyages
too.
"Toward the end of April, as we
were nearing the coast of England,
on a return voyage from the west
coast of Africa, shell struck the
Baldar amidships. A splinter of the
smashed woodwork struck Minna and
killed her. The rest of us had barely
time to get into, a pmatl boat and get
away before the schooner sank, car
rying down the body of my daughter.
"It was only then that we noticed
the U-boat from which the shell had
been fired. .It came close to us and,
judge of my horror and that of Swen
when wf discovered that 'the captain
o" the murderous craft was the man
who was to have become the husband
of Minna.
"He appeared to be greatly affected
when he saw my boy and me; and
his first question was, 'How is my
Minna; and does she still think of
me?' '
"I pointed to the place where the
Baldar had sunk, 'What,' almost
shrieked Hans von Tuebinger, 'Minna
is dead?'
"His grief was terrible. We told
him what had happened. He soon
braced up, however, and, after saying,
'War is hell,' he ordered his men to
stock our boat with provisions and
bade us goodby. A moment later
his boat was speeding toward an
other sailing vessel which had just
hove into sight. After many vicissi
tudes we reached England
"Last June my son and I were of
ficers aboard the Swedish steamship
Ada, under Captain Ternston. Again
we were nearing the British coast
when a submarine fired a shell. There
was no delay in getting into life
boats this time either; but somehow
the gun fire did not seem to do the
destructive work quickly enough to
suit the submarine captain, and so a
(Continued on Pats Two, Column Two.)
Secretary Baker Tries to
Settle Lumber Disputes
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 12. Secretary
of War Baker, acting for the National
Council of Defense, urged in tele
grams yesterday acceptance of the
eight-hour day as a absis for an
agreement between Pacific coast lum
bermen and their striking employes.
An appeal to the patriotism of the
lumbermen was made by Secretary
Baker. He said that every foot of
lumber that can be produced now is
necessary for the prosecution of the
war and he strongly urged both em
ployers and employes to settle their
difficulties.
the Slayer
in Romantic
OMAHA MEN DRAW
COMMISSIONS AT
FORTOTDAN
Adjutant General Announces
Names of. Thirty-One Iowa
and Nebraska Men Ac
cepted for Service.
(11 j- .Morlated l'rodi.)
Washington, Aug. 12. Commis
sions awarded to the students in the
Eleventh, provisional training regi
ment at Fort Sheridan, announced
today by the adjutant general, in
clude: Maurice C. Johnson, Omaha, cap
tain; William B. Weston, Ames, la.,
first lieutenant; Gien M. Crosby,, D
, battery, Iowa field artillery, second
lieutenant: John B. Simmons, Ottum
wa. la.: Webb B. White, Humboldt,
second lieutenants; Harry F. Stream,
Creston, second lieutenant; John B.
Penniston, Coon Rapids, second lieu
tenant; .Lyman II. Thompson, Des
Moines, second lieutenant; Loyal M,
Hayncs, Lcmars, second lieutenant.
Commissions awarded to students
at the coast artillery training camp
at Fort Monroe, Ya., include the fol
lowing: Captain coast artillery, officers' re
serve corps, Alva 1?. 'Davis, Bethany,
Neb.; Wayne O. tiilmore, Waterloo,
Iowa. i
First lieutenants coast artillery,
officers' reserve corps, Erwin P. Sny
der, Council Bluffs, la.; Walter Hall,
Elk Creek, Neb.; Albert F. Hull,
Marshalltown, la.; Ernest V. Evans,
Williamsburg, la.
Second lieutenant coast artillery of
ficers reserve corps: Ernest Boyce,
Ames, Iowa; Isaac W. Carpenter, jr.,
Omaha, Neb.; Kleamo O. Longley,
Dows, la.; George E. Kline, Lincoln,
Neb.; Ralph O. Lahr, Lincoln, Neb.;
John' J. Hahighen, Omaha,' Neb.; Ira
D. Beynon, Lincoln,, Neb. r
Second lieutenant quartermaster de
partment officers reserve corps: Will-
T". Til ..... f !i tl 1 jT . T .
iam u. i lamer, council niuiis, ia.;
Lawrence A. Palmer, Lincoln, Neb..
Provisional second lieutenant coast
artillery corps: Harold M. Jobes,
Atlantic, la.; William W. Wcrtz,
Trenton, Neb.; Guy W. Thomas. Win
field, la.; Frank If. Haupert, Perry,
la.; Hiram If. Maynard, Waterloo,
la.
Commissions awarded at the Platts
burg' camp: William J. Gallagher,
Ottumwa, Ja.; second lieutenant;
Chester C. Woodburn, Boone, la.;
second lieutenant '
Britain Thinks Stockholm
Conference German, Scheme
Copenhagen, Aug. 12. Peter
Wright, director of the' British sea
men's and firemen's, nniott, who has
leen devoting sometime in Scandin
avian countries to the Study of condi
tions underlying the Stockholm con
ference told the Associated Press that
he was firmly convinced the confer
ence is wholly a Geramrt scheme. He
added that all the arrangements and
the sympathy with the idea are the
result of wire-pulling by Germans or
pro-Germans in neutral countries.
He approved the stand taken by
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor,' and
spoke bitterly of the conference ad
vocates in his own country, saying
that they merely were fielping the
Germans jout of difficulties and that
peace now would resuk in a renewal
of the war within a few years.
Former President Taft's
Condition Is Favorable
Clay Center, Kan., Aug. 12. Will
iam Howard Ta's condition tonight
was reported as "very favorable" by
Dr. B. F. Morgan, attendant upon the
former president. The ex-president
was taken ill here Tuesday with acute
intestinal indigestion.
Here's Omaha Boy Who Is Serving
With Sammies' Somewhere in France
GEORGE WURMBACH.
LABOR HEAD QUITS
WAR R0ARD AFTER
ROW WITH PREMIER
Lloyd George Accepts Resignation Following Decision of
Labor Party to Send Delegates to Stockholm Con
ference; Premier's Letter Puts Henderson on
Defensive; Public Is Mystified. "
' (By Awuiriiitrd l'rein.)
London, Aug. 12. -The course of Arthur Henderson in
advising Saturday's conference of the labor party to send a
representation to the Stockholm conference has Wen followed ,
by the tender of his resignation as a member'of the war cabinet, '
which constitutes the inner council of the government, and the
prompt acceptance of the resignation by the premier.
SPY STATION
IS FOUND OFF
MEXICO COAST
Strange Wireless Prnt Discov
ered by Carranza Inspector
'Believed to Have Been
Used by Germans.
Ily ANu'lntd I'rcrnM
Mexico City, Aug. 12. What is be
lieved to have been a German informa
tion forwarding station has been dis
covered by Mexican officers on Lobos
island, a lighthouse station off the
Mexican coast northeatt of Tuspa nl
The Mexican authorities believe the
station might have been converged
iu to. a submarine or naval base had it
not been located by them.
The government recently decided
to place a wireless station on Lobos
island and when .Manuel Rodriguez
GuitJrfez. stibscertftiry of communi
cations, went to Tampico on a trip of
inspection, lie sent Alberto Mande.
chief of the wireless department of
communication, to the island. On. Ins
arrival at the island, Mendez found a
complete wireless plant in operation.
It had been built by the lighthouse
keeper,, who formerly was a mechanic,
He was unable to give a satisfactory
account of how he obtained the wire
less appartus and was placed under
arrest.
Mendez also learned that a launch
which had made the island its head
quarter had been carrying supplies,
arms and ammunition to rebels on the
main land, who had been interrupting
traffic around Tuxpam and interfering
with the oU business. The launch
was confiscated.
Mendez has made a full report and
the government is conducting a rigid
investigation. Its agents are scouring
the coast in search of other wireless
plants.
Aeroplane Used in Tests
Is Found in Dry Lake
(By AwoclBtad PrfM.)
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 12. R.
L. Bailey and George Moore, Los
Angeles aviators, reported to the
sheriff s office here today that they
uiir ih nuinrri rtf the airnlane
riound yesterday at Pry Lake, in
the northern end ot Lot Angeles
county, and had come to Los An
geles for material with which to
make repairs.
They stated they took the air
plane from here to make test
flights and selected an isolated sec
tion in order to avoid publicity.
The machine was damaged in these
flights, they said.
The discovery of the abandoned
machine gave rise to reports here
that its ownership might have
been of enemy origin and a guard
was placed in charge of it to await
the possible return of the aviators.
"Don't w orry about me, I'll be
home some day," writes George
Wurmbach, who is with our other
"Sammic" somewhere in France, to
his lister. Miss Catherine Wurm
bach, 3816 R street, Omaha.
"I arrived safe in France." he
writes. "We had a pleasant trip over
here and are all feeling fine.
"How are all the folks at home?
Remember me to all of my friends.
Say, have any of the boys I know
joined the army since I left?"
Wurmbach has been in the service
only sfx mouths. He was in Fort
Logan for a few months, then his
regiment was down on the MexicanJ
Doraer ur xoriy uays Deiore jt saueu
for France. He is a membc. i f Com
pany B of the Sixteenth regiment.
Seward Board Sends
Out More Draft Notices
I
Seward. Neb., Aug. 11. -(Special.)
Three hundred more notices were
sent yesterday to drafted men in this
county, making a total of 573 men
notified here for the first draft.
, Premier Lloyd George wrote Mr.
Henderaon a scathing letter of ac
ceptance, in which he practically ac
cuses Mr. Henderson of bad faith and
duplicity in his dealings, both with
his cabinet colleagues and with the
laborites, and promptly gave the let
ter to the newspapers.
The premier thereby created a situ
ation which puts Mr. Henderson on
the defensive and which may cause
the laborites to retract their decision ,
to send delegates to confer with
Germans, Russians and neutrals at the
Swedish capital.
Mr, Henderson stated in a note to
the press that his position will be ex
plained to the House of Commons.
CABINET OPPOSES MEETING.
- The letter of the premier makes it '
plain that the cabinet is opposed to '
the Stockholm meeting and also that
the present Russian provisional gov
ernment is lukewarm, if not opposed
altogether. The gtot of Premier Lloyd
George's letter is that Mr. Henderson
gave the cabinet the impression that '
he agreed with them.
They expected him to advise the
labor party against the conference and
were greatly surprised by his change
of front. They also expected him to
read Premier Keren9ky s message re
garding Stockholm, but he suppressed
it and by so doing misled the labor
ites into taking a, course which they
thought the russians de.ired. v
Important labor societies already
arc arrayed against 'the verdict of the '
party yesterday and it may be re
versed by a referendum or by general
consent or failing such action, it is
wholly possible that the government
may act with France in refusing pass
ports to Stockholm.
Public, Is Mystified. N
The whole incident is "mystifying,
Mr. Henderson's reputation has been
that of a most straightforward man,
one of the last of whom thfr public
would expect shifty diplomacy or
double-dealing, and an honest mis
understanding on his Dart mav be th
real explanation. ...
Mr. Henderson recentlv returned
from Russia with the conviction that
the .Russians were stronar. for the
Stockholm conference and the British
should meet their wishes. He has
taken no part m war cabinet delibera
tions since his return, being absorbed
in the labor partys' business, but he
has been generally regarded as a sort
of government ambassador to labor
and as the government's spokesman
on labor matters.
The Saturday Review says'the gov
ernment sent Mr. Henderson to Petro
grad with the intention of making him
ambassador to Russia if it appeared
that a laborite would be more ac
ceptable to the revolutionary govern
ment than Ambassador Buchanan,
whose previous position as ambas
sador to the imperial court might have
prejudiced the revolutionary partr
against him.
Arthur Henderson entered the Brit
ish war council without portfolio to
represent labor in December, 1916,
when Premier Lloyd George formed
a ministry in succession to that headed
by Herbert Asquith.
Was Center of Storm. .
Mr. Henderson has been the center
of a political storm that has been
brewing in England for several weeks.
In June last, as a member of a British
mission to Russia, he went to Petro
grad and after conferring with the
Russian council of workmen's and
soldiers' delegates, returned to Lon
don and advised the British labor con
ference to send delegates to the inter
national socialist conference at Stock
holm. The labor conference by more thau
3 to 1, voted in accordance with
Henderson's, advice.
Considerable feeling was aroused in
England last month when Mr. Hen
derson went to Paris with the pacifist,
James R. MacDonald, and George J.
Wardle, acting chairman of the labor
party in the House of Commons, and
several Russian delegates, to confer
with the French socialists reeardinsr
i the proposed conference of entente
allied socialists m London and the
subsequent international conference ae
Stockholm. Irritation was increased
when Andrew Bonar Law, speaking
for the government, admitted that the,
trip to Paris had been made without
the knowledge of the British govern
ment. , ,
After hearing Mr. Henderson's ex-
(Continued on Pr Two, Column Oil.)
Street Car Men Striking
' In Illinois Are Returning
Springfield, 111., Aug. 12. Willi
concessions by both sides to the street;
car strike controversy which has con
tinued for three weeks with. disorders
and rioting in which one policeman
lost his life, a settlement was reached
late this afternoon and all car oper
atives who have been out will rcturv
to work tomorrow morning,
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