I - I 1
ODDS AND ENDS
OF DAY'S DOINGS
American Casualties.
Ottawa, Sept. 16. The Canadian
casualty list, published today, in
cludes names jf the following
Americans listed as wounded: W.
S. M. Phillips, Los Angeles; J. F.
McCullock. Plattsmouth, Neb.; R.
I. C. Nordborg, Cedar Rapids, la.;
W. Graham, Park City, Utah; G.
V. Bratt. Sugar Pine, Cal.; H. P.
Yalpy, Seattle, Wash.
Australian Loan Launched.
Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 16.
(Via Montreal.) The seventh Aus
tralian war loan campaign was in
augurated enthusiastically today.
The first bond sold went to the
lord mayor. It is hoped to raise
40,000,000 in a month's cam
paign. Seed Ruled Out.
Washington, Sept. 16. Importa
tion of hemp seed, canary seed and
alfalfa seed is prohibited under an
order today by the war industries
board. Subsjyiates for- these seeds
are grown at home.
Cardinal Farley Dying.
Mamaronec, N. Y Sept. 16. Car
dinal Farley, archbishop of New
York, who suffered a relapse on
Saturday after partial recovery from
an attack of pneumonia, may sink at
any moment into a dying condition,
it was announced from his bedside
today.
Lloyd George Better.
London, Sept 16 Premier
Lloyd George had a distinctly bet
ter night last night and had several
hours of continuous sleep, says the
official bulletin issued by the at
tending physician today.
Nebraskans Prisoners.
Washington, Sept. 16. The War
department announced today that
seven enlisted men are held prison
er at Camp Cassel. Among them
are: David Kennedy, Ashland, Neb.;
Conrad Walker, Hastings, Neb., and
John H. Perrin, Pisgah, la.
Movie Firm Enjoined. '
Washington, Sept 16. In a de
cision establishing a precedent in
motion picture business, the federal
trade commission today ordered the
Stanley Booking corporation to de
sist from practices designed to force
film producers and theaters to deal
with each other through the corpor
ation. - Odd Fellows in Session.
St. Louis, Sept. 16. The ninety
fourth annual session of the sov
ereign grand lodge of the Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, embrac-
countries of the world, opened here
today. Frank C. Goudy of Denver is
presiding.
VOCATIONAL SHOP
WILL BE BUILT
HERE BY PUPILS
-
Government to Pay Half of
Teaching Expense; Many
Students Want to
Take Courses.
Superintendent Beveridge report
ed last night at a meeting of the
Board of Education that foundation
work will be started today for a vo
cational educational shop building
in connection with the High School
of Commerce and to be maintained
under the provisions of the Smith
Hughes bill.
The government will pay half of
the teaching expense of this insti
tution if .the school district observes
certain provisions.
Of the students of the High
School of Commerce 102 have ex
pressed a desire to take, a course in
automobile mechanics, 102 in me
chanical drawing and 35 in carpen
try. The students will construct the
shop building of old materials, this
being one of the provisions required
by the government.
The attendance gain at the public
High schools over last school year
is 100. There are 200 18-year-old
boys in these high schools and the
superintendent is hoping that pros
pective student army training may
be adopted here.
Mary Foster was elected to suc
ceed Myrtle Fitz Roberts, supervisor
. of vocational work. Miss Fitz. Rob
erts resigned to take up other work.
Kate Field Emmett resigned on ac
:ount of marriage. Henry Cox was
ippointed leader of the Central High
school band.
A two-room addition to the Dun.
!ee school was authorized. - ,
Omaha Lawyer Given
i-ive Tears in rnson
Thomas Matters, Omaha attor
ney, found guilty recently on 14
omits of violating the federal bank-
'ing laws, was sentenced to five
.ears' imprisonment in the tederal
cnitcnlisry ?.t Leavenworth. Kan ,
llondav bv Judge Wade. He im
mediately filed an appeal. He is
JuK'ed to have embezzled funds
"ro-.it a Milton hank with which he
:,s connected.
;,.b, a3Ka Editors to Talk' on
Korsion Language Papers
f.i-.icoln. Neb.. Sept. lo. (Special
digram. V A special sessloi of
;.e Americanization committee v:is
i tied tonight to he held at the
i'L:e house WVineiday morning, for
V e presentation .of v.ews of Ne-rl-::nrs
on lie foreign lan-
Vua-e uroblcav A ; who caie to
tttend are invited to be. present.
The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL. 48 NO. 78.
Extend Mcsitd-eliu mttttr Miy 2, 190
at Omiha P. 0. undtr act of Kirch 3. 1879
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FIERCE BATTLE
IMPENDING UPON
AMERICAN FRONT
Artillery Activity of an Intensity to Suggest Fierce At
tack Occurs in Vosges, Where Yanks Face Huns;
French Troops Advancing on Chemin Des
Dames, Taking Many Prisoners.
' - By Associated Press.
With the American Army in the Vosges, Sept. 16. (9
p. m.) Artillery activity of an intensity to suggest a pos
sible attack or an expected attack, occurred in the Vosges
today. It was accompanied by an extraordinary amount of
signalling. Enemy airplanes were unusually active. Ten flew
over St. Die and 20 over Gerardmer.
Paris, Sept. 16. To the northeast and east of Sancy,
(northeast of Soissons) French troops today advanced about
a kilometer on a front of four kilometers, according to the
war office announcement tonight. Six hundred additional
prisoners were taken.
NOTE ANSWERED IN HALF HOU
By Associated Press.
In the various theaters of war the
fighting is going on steadily and
with added impetus in Macedonia,
where the reconstituted Serbian
army, co-operating witn rrencn
forces, have stormed three strongly
fortified positions and occupied Vet
renik, Dobropolje and Sokal con
sidered the most important part of
the Macedonian front.
Prelude to Victory.
Farther east on the Doiran-Var-
dar front the first and second line
Bulgarian positions have been cap
tured by the allies over a 10-mile
section. This successful operation,
according to Mr. Balfour, who an
nounced it at a reception of the
Greek delegation in London, "is the
prelude to an important offensive
bringing greater triumphs, jn which',
the British and Greek troops would
take an equal and glorious part."
French troops in their advance
toward the Chemin Des Dames have
gained two-thirds of a mile on a
two and a half mile front northeast
and east of Sancy, where they cap
tured an additional 600 prisoners.
American and German patrols are
doing the major part of the work on
the Lorraine front, but there are re
ports of a possible great attack by
one side or the other in the Vosges.
In that mountainous territory the
artillery fire has developed great
intensity and hostile airplanes have
been unusually active.
Airplanes Active.
All reports indicate a marked in
crease in the work of the airplanes
along all the fronts. The Germans,
who quite recently appeared to lack
an adequate air force, have now sent
augmented forces into the air and
there have been numerous engage
ments. As an ilustration of the se
verity of the fighting, the British air
men on Sunday accounted for 37
German planes, while they them
selves reported 16 missing.
While the Czecho-Slovaks have
been courageously and successfully
carrying on the war against the
bolsheviki, steps have been taken
looking to the organization of a
Polish division under Polish officers
to wage the fight in Siberia, west
ward to their fatherland as integ
ral units in the American army.
It is estimated that 100,000. trained
men can be available at once in the
region of Harbin and Vladivostok.
"Hinky DinK' Plans to
Sell Ice Cream Cones
When Nation Goes Dry
Chicago, Sept. 16. "Hinky
Dick" Kenna, for 40 years noted
as the dispenser of the "largest
and coolest" beers in Chicago to
the motley of the First ward and
widely known with "Bathhouse
John" Coughlin as political czar
of the First ward, will open an ice
cream parlor next year when the
country goes dry.
He hotly denied it at first, but
admitted it today. Pat O'Malley,
his principal rival in the saloon
business, will open a flower shop.
Coughlin years ago got out of the
saloon game, and likewise the
Turkish baths, which gave him his
sobriquet. '
Lloyd George on Sick
Bed Makes Appeal to
Prevent Great Strike
London, Sept. 16. Greatly con
cerned over the cotton strike, Pre
mier Lloyd George tonight from his
sick bed issued an appeal to strikers
to return to work and leave the de
cision in the matters under dispute
to the government after an inquiry
by special tribunal, to be imme
diately appointed.
The premier bases his appeal on
the fact that the strike will seriously
interfere with the production of war
materials.
The spinners in the Yorkshire and
Lancashire cotton mills quit work
Saturday on the question of the
abolition of the rota system. The
Amalgamated Association of Cot
ton Spinners has a membership of
20 000, but indirectly the strike will
affect 300000 operatives.
WIFE OF NEW YORK
EDITOR SHOT TO
DEATH IN HOTEL
Body Found After Receipt of
Letter From Husband,
Who Hints at
Suicide.
New York, Sept. 16. Mrs.
Charles E. Chapin, wife of the city
editor of the New York Exening
World, was found dead with a bul
let wound in her head in the bed
room of the Chapin apartment in the
Hotel Cumberland here' late today.
Discovery of Mrs. Chapin's body
followed receipt by Don Seitz, bus
iness manager of the Evening
World of a letter signed "Charles
E. Chapin," in which the writer
hinted at suicide and added:
"My wife has been such a good
pal, I cannot leave her alone in the
world."
The police immediately began a
search for Mr. Chapin, but up to a
late hour tonight he could not be
found.
Mr. Chapin has been city editor of
the Evening World for 20 years and
is one of the most widely known
newspaper men in the country. For
10 years before coming to New
York, he was connected with news
papers tinder the Pulitzer adminis
tration in various other cities.
' Burn German Flags.
Beatrice, Neb., Sept. 16. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Citizens of DeWitt
burned 12 German flags at a public
demonstration Saturday night. Pa
triotic addresses and music featured.
GREAT GUNS
WILL HURL
ALLIES' DEFI
TO GERMANY
Vigorous Drive Expected Mo
mentarily Against Enemy
Lines as Answer to Re
, quest for Parley.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 16. Another
blow against the German lines as an
answer! to the peace proposal of the
central powers is expected mo
mentarily by military officials here,
v The point of the expected attack
is a matter of widespread specula
tion by officers.
Several simultaneous attacks will
be delivered, it is thought with the
Flanders fron, the French opera
tions' about La Fere directed at
Laon and the new American front
across the mouth of the old St.
Mihiel salient as the logical posi
tions from which Marshal Foch
would strike.
May Attack Cambrai.
It has been significant to some of
ficers that the British have not
pressed very heavily on the front
between Ypres nd Douai. North of
Ypres there has been only one
minor operation by the Belgians
since the allied counter offensive be
gan. British attention has been con
centrated to a large extent on clear
ing up to the Douai-Cambrai-St.
Quentin front and many observers
here believe the lines have been
straightened sufficiently along this
sector now for a new movement to
the north.
It has been noted, however, that
British artillery has been pounding
the German lines west of Cambrai
with especial vigor recently, which
may be the prelude to a direct drive
for the capture of that city.
French Creeping Up.
Since the French are slowly mak
ing their way to a flanking position
which would force the Germans to
withdraw from the Chemin-Des-Dames
lines protecting Laon, some
officers believe a new movement
along the Aisne and probably ex
tending to the east of Rheims is to
be anticipated. It is pointed out
that should the Germans be forced
to withdraw from the Chemin Des
Dames a swift advance from the
Rheims front would tend to out
flank the whole enemy line from
there to Verdun.
There is no information of an of
ficial character as to General Per
shing's present operations. The
greatest reticence apparently is be
ing enforced on press correspond
ents in discussing the tactical dis
position of the American army" at
this time and to observers here this
suggests that preparations for a new
advance are under way.
After Iron Fields.
The logical objective, it is held,
would be the occupation ofc the
Briey iron fields and an effort to en
circle Metz from the west. If Gen
eral Pershing is moving toward that
goal now, it is said, a joint attack
by his army and the French army
holding the Verdun front would be
a probable development. Such an
action would be over a very ex
tended front, however.
Siberian Government at
Omsk Declares War
on Huns and Calls Men
Olvannaya, Traiis-Baikalia, Thurs
day, Sept. 5. The Siberian govern
ment at Omsk, a fortified town of
Asiatic Russia, has declared war on
Germany and has ordered the mob
ilization of the 1918 and 1919 classes.
9-
AUSTRIA'S MOVE OF
N0AID,SA Y OFFICIALS
By Associated Press.
The United States has turned its back on the Austro
Hungarian peace proposal. Secretary Lansing, by au
thorization of President Wilson, announced that "the
United States can and will entertain no proposal for a
conference upon a matter concerning which it has made
its position and purpose so plain."
The British secretary of foreign affairs, Mr. Bal
four, has also stated, though unofficially, that he was
utterly unable to see that such a conference proposed by
Austria could have the desired end, adding:
"It is incredible that anything can come of this
proposal." ,
While the German newspapers comment on the pro
posal as if Germany had no part in it, the Vienna news
. papers declare emphatically that all of Austria's allies
had been informed of Austria's intention, though the
action itself was Austria-Hungary's own.
Meanwhile in the various theaters of the war the
fighting is going on.
AMERICA STANDS
ON TERMS ALREADY
MADE TO ENEMIES
Position and Purpose of This Country in World War' ,
So Plain No Need for Conference, is President's ' " ,
Message After Reading Official Tilt cf , . .
Aojtro-Hunsrarian Offer. '
BOOTLEG CHIEF
ARRESTED HERE
FOR AUTO THEFT
Earl Beavers and Earl Sum
mers Arested on Request
of St. Joseph Police
for Auto Theft!
In their search of the city for
Earl Beavers, who is wanted by
the authorities of St. Joseph, Mo.,
on a charge of stealing a Buick au
tomobile, police found the man on
the south side about noon yesterday.
When arrested, Beavers denied his
identity, and said that his name was
William Dykes. With him was a
companion, who gave the name of
Earl Summers. The latter was also
nlarfH under arrest. - t
Beavers denied having possession
of a stolen car, and thus far the ef
forts of the police to locate the ma
chine with its cargo of contraband
liquor has been unavailing.
He is wanted by police of St., Jo
seph, where he ostensibly makes his
home, and which is thought to be
the headquarters of his gang, on the
ch; ge of having stolen a Buick au
tomobile. Beavers first came into the lime
light in Omaha as admiral of the
fleet of highpowered "boats" used
last fall and winter in running the
blockade of Iowa and Nebraska in
smuggling contraband whisky into
the two states. His automobile
(Continued on Tag Two, Column Two.)
TROOPS NEEDED
TO SAVE RUSSIA
FROM HUN 0K
Czecho-Slovak General Says
Imperative That Allies Send
Men Immediately to
Eastern Front.
GERMANS SCAMPERED SO FAST FROM
ST. MIHIEL NO TIME FOR DESTRUCTION
By Associated Press,
With the French Army in France,; At St. Mihiel the Germans blew I mans appear to have been on their
Sept. If.. The operations bv which ! "P tlle bridge over the .Meusc and 'best war behavior here. They are
the St. -Mihiel salient was emptied:?, , y ,ttlmum U0,nS tur-1 credited witn committing no atro-
was ac-1 cities and tney tooK tew nosiages
St -Mihiel salient was emptied 1 L , -Wd) wiiuour doing tur-1 credited with committing no atro
! . uici udiiidge man
in ie, man to noun were a., e.i ( complied four years ago when1 and treated them with far less bru
I executed as they were planned, said; they tried to advance over thejtality than elsewhere,
a French officer today. The Ger-! heights of the Meusc and take Sar-' They contented themselves with
rails army in the rear durinir the i nillaeintr houses and purses. Haifa
million trancs was demanded imme
diately after the occupation as ran-
nians
, . . . , c ., oame ui tnc .tarne. un that occa-
they were required to get out of it;sion they gQt n0 furthfr
much more qquickly than they had i Mihiel. In the subsequent tinning
figured on. , ' ' there, after the battle of the Marne,
In the eMimation of a staff officer ; the town was half destroyed. It re
of the French forces co-ope'rating j mains in' that condition today,
under Genera! Pershing's orders,! Nearly all buildings were found
the enemy was just about a week j on examination to have been hit
behind his plan for the evacuation somewhere and the wonder is
of the salient where were the 2,500 inhabitants
He left it so hurriedly that there j that remained out of a total of 9,000
... L .1 , .l e
hi inc town inrougn tne lour years
was no time to carry out destr.uc
tion to such a marked degree as in
j other evacuated regions
under German yoke.
So far as can be learned the'Ger-
som for the safety of the town. It
was paid after great effort by col
lecting all the money and securities
that could be found. Another half
million francs was demanded later
and was raised on bonds of the
commune. All the gold the Ger
mans found after that was seized
in exchange for other bonds of the
commune, making the pillaging a
collective, rather than an individual,
affair.
Stefansson, Explorer,
Back After Five Years
In Far Northern Land
Vancouver, B. C. Sept. 16. Back
from the far north, Vilhjalmur Ste
fansson, Canadian Arctic explorer,
reached here late today.
Stefansson said his party did
everything it set out to do. "We
did not discover a continent north
west of Prince Patrick land, as re
ported," he asserted. "We did find
several new islands; we mapped and
explored this new land. We made
scientific explorations of the country
around Coronnation gulf, we
studied the Eskimos, the plants, the
animals and mapped the ocean cur
rents and channels."
The sxplorer expects to start Oc
tober 1, at New York, on a tour of
the country giving lectures for the
benefit of the Red Cross.
Stefansson did not say much about
the "blond Eskimos" which he had
been reported as having discovered
on an earlier expedition into the
country east of Coronation gulf.
"They were not really 'blond Eski
mos,' " he declared. "We found a
colony of about 1,000 natives, about
1 per cent of whom had light eyes
and light hair."
Demonstrates Speedy
Car by Racing With
Omaha's Police Auto
L. Prey, automobile salesman.
250 Farnam street, was demon
strating the merits of a car Monday
night to prospective buyers, but
Prey was a trifle too swift as a dem
onstrator. As a result he was ar
rested and charged with exceeding
the speed limit.
On North Eighteenth street,
where the asphalt is as smooth as a
billiard table, the police car on an
emergency call was slipping along at
the rate of 50 miles an hour,
"Watch me pass that ice wagon,"
Prey told his prospective buyers,
whereupon he stepped on his car's
throtttle and shot past the police
car like a flash of "greased light
ning." The police, however, over
took Prey at Nineteenth and Ohio
streets only after the-officers had
threatened to shoot off a tire. Prey
was rather dazed t first, as he
thought It was a holdup, but when
he found it was only a case of being
"pinched" his pulse beat normal
again, j
By Associated Press.
Oloyimnaiya, Trans-Baikalia, Sept.
16. If the allies intend to combat
the German forces in Russia and to
save the Russians from falling under
the German yoke, it is absolutely es
sential that troops be sent imme
diately to the present eastern front
along the Volga. This is the
opinion of General Gaida, the com
mander of the Czecho-Slovaks fight
ine on the Voiea. who has arrived
Tiere from the west. ,
Along the Volga the Czecho
slovaks, aided by newly organized
Russian units, the general said, are
attempting to press westward
against greatly superior enemy
forces which increase daily owing
to the mobilization of released Aus-tro-German
prisoners. The bol
shevik red guards, he added, would
have stopped fighting but for these
prisoners, who were ordered to en
ter the bolshevik ranks by Berlin
when it became known there of the
situation in Siberia. Berlin aiso
fears untoward happenings in the i
Ukraine.
There is unbounded enthusiasm j
throughout Siberia, owing to the de-!
liverance from bolshevik rule !
through the activities of the Czechs. 1
Fast of the Ural mountains volun-.
teers are flocking to the Siberian j
railway to join the new Siberian
army. Twenty thousand men al-1
ready are under arms. The 1918 and
1919 classes have been ordered i
mobilized and are making a splendid ;
response. y i
General Gaida said he believed it
would be fatai if the present en
thusiasm in Siberia was permitted to
die out. In a few months Russia
would possess an army capable of
driving the Germans to the frontier
if the allies would send troops to
aid the Czechs in their work of re
organization. Modify Order Eliminating
Drafted From Commissions
Washington, Sept. 16. Restric
tions preventing men of draft age
being commissioned in the army
from civil life have been modified
in so far as they apply to the staff
corps. The War department an
nounced today that men qualified
for general service and given defer
red classification on grounds ot'ffer
than those of occupation and also
men physically disqualified for gen
eral service will be given commis
sion. .
Bird Leaves Million.
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 16. The
will of J. T. Bird, president of a
local department store, who died in
Colorado 10 days ago, was filed for
probable today.
! By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 16. The United States, as was fully
expected, has unconditionally rejected Germany's peace:
feeler. In doing so the government has spoken for all the co-
t belligerents. , '
i Almost immediately after receiving the Austrian gov-
ii . i . i it. . . i i n i m re , Tfll- .'
, eminent, o uulciiuiii me iiumsici iiuni oweueii, iui. iivcu-
gren, Secretary Lansing tonight issued this formal statement:
I "I am authorizefl by the president to state thattbe fol: -
1 l 1 1 l. . 1 1. . i . e 1 1. j i a -i.
: lowing win ue me repiy oi mis government 10 uie Auai.ru- ;
! Hnugarian note proposing an unofficial conference of bellig
j erents :
"The government of the United States feels that there" ,
is only one reply which it can make to the suggestion of the
imperial Austro-Hungarian government. It has repeatedly
iand with entire candor stated the terms upon which the V
; United States would consider peace and can and will enter
tain no proposal for a conference upon a matter concerning
which it has made its position and purpose so plain. '
ANSWER READY IN 30 MINUTES. ' '.
Mr. Lansing's statement was given out within half an
hour after he had received the Austrian proposal. It would
haveeen forthcoming almost immediately upon the delivery,
of the" Austrian note had it not been found necessary in order
to avoid the possibility of grave error to make a careful com--parison
between the official text and that which was received
in news dispatches last night fromvAmsterdam." ' " . 4
inus, emphasis was added to the declination, if any
were needed, the quickness of the reply indicating thf III
ence of no shadow of doubt in the jnind of the a tTiZZl Xu a'
as to what it should be. As soon as Mr. Lay sftxs reply caa
be put in form it will be handed to the Swedish minister fcr
transmission to Austria.'. ,
1 LEAVES NO DOUBT. ' ; j"
The Swedish legation notjfied1 the State .department
early in the afternoon that it had received the note and that
it would be presented as soon as it could be decoded :and-
translated from the French. This consumed 'several hdurs
and it was not until 6:20 o'clock that Mr. Ekengren ap-l
peared. He remained with the secretary only two mCjtes.
.T1 HP! .V..
v lucre is some reasnn in w im
tnat the secretary , acted with
Spanish "Flu" Gaining
Grip on Eastern Cities
Boston, Sept. 16. Medical
officials of the first naval district
reported 257 new cases of in
flluenza today. There were ten
deaths at the naval hospital. A
spread of , the disease in mild
form was reported among the
school children of this city and
outlaying districts.-
New York, Sept. 16 There are
184 cases of Spanish influenza in
this city, according to Health
Commissioner Copeland, who said
there was no cause for alarm over
the presence of the disease
Thirteen sufferers were reported
today aboard an incoming vessel,
and were removed to a hospital.
The department's chief difficulty,
said the. commissioner, is the
handling of cases brought
here by railroad from other ports.
Soldier Pardoned By
President Dies Hero
Upon the Battlefield
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 16. Forest
D. Sebastian, 21 years old, of East
St. Louis, one of the soldiers
who was pardoned by President
Wilson, May 4, after having been
sentenced to death by court-martial,
for sleeping on duty in France, was
killed in action July 20, according to
an official telegram received by his
father.
Wattles Asks Butter Men
Explain 5-Cent Price Boost
A general increase of S cents per
pound on butter to retailers yester
day by manufacturers and whole
salers resulted in an investigation
into the justification of this increase
by the Federal Food Administration
for Nebraska.
Representatives of the creamery
companies in Omaha were called
into conferncc by Federal Food Ad
ministrator Wattles yesterday after
n increase of 5 cents in the price
to retailers was announced.
They justified the increase by say
lBng that it was a reflection of the
general increase throughout the
country, occasioned principally by
the fact that the government had
requistioned 60 per cent of all the
creamery butter in the hands of the
creameries, and further that the pro
ducers, and not they, were getting
the benefit of the increase.
ine conteience resulted in a re
quest that creamery companies of
Omaha give a statement to the food
administration, showing the average
cost of producing butter for the
month of July, the average selling
price and the average price paid
producers for butter fat. A search
ing investigation will follow.
After the raise in the wholesale
price the Fair Price Fixing Com
mittee of tJouglas county authorized
a 5 cent per pound increase in the
retail price, which now makes the
fair price of creamery No. 1, 60
cents and of No. 2, 55 cents.
Eggs also reflected the increase.
all classes rising 2 cents per dozen.:
this
uiiprcixucnieu promptness m jv
matter of such great import with the
design not only to indicate clearly
the position of the ' United States
government but perhaps ' to 'antici
pate and prevent as -far as possible
newspaper discussions of the AOs
trian proposal which might convey
to the enemy a misleadingimpresn
sion that there was, any consider
able element in the. United States
willing to consider a negotiated
peace, such as the "nonbinding" dis
cussions, . proposed ' by .' Austria
might develop. . "
Also, it is understood, there was a
purpose to sound the note which
the entente powers rhust repeat' Jn
their own answers. "All the nn,.
jers hat! gone on record formally as
j accepting the conditions of peace
j laid down by President Wilson as
mcir own. . h -
While no reference to it was made '
in the reply which the U. S. gov.
ernment is making to Austria, it is"
known that one of the most object-"
tionable features of -Baron Bttrian's
proposition was the'' -secrecy sug
gested for the "noivbnding"confer
ences. It was reajized by officials,
here that the purpose was to barter
away the rights of various national
ities in the star-cbambef proceedings
so that the victims would have no
knowledge of teir fate until it was
ucyona recall.)'
Bartrr Denounced.
This systn of barter was parti-'
cula.ly denounced by President '
Wilson in one of his speeches.
That th Carman .
... .jJtvuiG taem-
selves weTe to be kept Jn the dark
by the Aiilitary masters and: pre- .
vented rom having . any voice in'
the peace which was to be imposed i
upon them, was regarded as an
assure tact, mere ha been some '
apprehension in admistratinn
of a combination of great financial "
interests that know no nationality "
and fear the destruction nf ii ,.tu . .
and business by the spread of bol
shevik ideas, might in some, way be '
behind this movement . to brin
about a peace and terminate the war
before it had been fought to Y clear
decision. M'
There is no such apprehension on
the part of the admistration of i
cataclysm which will bring down all
civilized institution, an instead the
general staff ha given every assur
ance that the war i, proceVdifg to" -a
reasonably early and coSE
victory which will involve the ar
ceptance by the central power of "
the only possible terms :f peace-,
namely those laid down by
tent Wilson. . v
America'i Terms.
These terms referred to in t-.
reply dialed today to the AnstrS -note
were clearly t out m IW
