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SLAV SOLDIERS FOR PEACE
OFFICIAL ANXIETY FOR DRAFT
FEAR RIOTS SURE
IN MANY CITIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 30.—
Genuine fear is felt in administra
tion and other official circles that
anti-conseriptionist riots will break
out in many places similar to those
which marked the effort to enforce
the draft during the Civil War.
The authorities federal state and
local officials, throughout the entire
nation lare working feverishly to
overcome the opposition to the en
forcement of conscription which
roaches a. serious height in many
important centers. It is held that
the demonstrations against the
draft are liable to treason and will
.suffer prosecution under that
charge.
The situation is such that it is
recognized considerable care, tact
and skill in handling a difficult
proposition will be needed to pre
vent a flare up in several localities
and the propaganda which anti-con
scriptionists are carrying out are
all to be rigorously suppressed.
The stand which will be taken
by organizations which have always
manifested hostilitiy to forced mili
tary service proposals is matter
which is now receiving official at
tention and arrangements are been
made to meet all opposition of a
violent character in any event.
The negative action of non-resist
ants of which there will be many
is one of the most puzzling pro
blems which the government has
been called upon to meet.
Today there is no attempt made
to deny officially that strong oppo
sition will have to be overcome and
that the authorities are working
night and day to be prepared for all
eventualities.
MEMORIAL DAY HELD
IN LONDON CHURCHES
' LONDON, May 30.—At special
memorial services held today in St.
Pauls Cathedral here, immense
crowds attended to honor the Am
erican soldiers who are serving in
France. Many of the notables to
the United Kingdom were present
Including Lloyd George, Carsom,
Arthur Henderson and the private
Secretary of King George.
American flags were a marked
feature of the cathedral decorations
during the Memorial Day ceremo
nies.
LONDON, May 30.—General Haig
announces tlie repulse of severe
German attack in the Fresnoy re
gion, following a violent bombard
ment of the new British positions.
The Germans incurred losses which
were quite large.
PARIS, May, 30.—The French
made a successful raid of the Ger
man lines in Champagne and have
inflicted severe losses upon the
enemy.
Following the engagement a
severe bombardment of the enemy
positions is baing maintained.
The weather on the west front is
still very inclement and the season
rainy. The continued rains are re
garded as unfavorable to the earlier
crops but it is still too soon to fore
tell how they will turn out. Enorm
ous efforts are being made to in
crease the production of French
fields.
BERLIN, May 30.—Relative
quiet prevails now on all except the
Austrian Italian fronts.
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LEFT TURKEY AND NOW
EN ROUTE TO AMERICA
AMSTERDAM, May 3C.—Dis
patches from Constantinople today
Btate that Minister Elkus and twen
ty attaches to the American lega
tion in the capital of the Ottoman
empire have left Constantinople
and are now on their way to the
United States. The route which is
being taken is not indicated in the
‘Turkish dispatch.
It is believed that they will pro
ceed via Greece to the Mediterra
nean although Austria Hungary,
which has rot yet decared war upon
America, may afford them direct
safe conduct to Switzerland whence
they would enter France or Italy.
WASHINGTON. D. C., May 30.—
Beyond being- advised that Elkus
NOTICE.
Winter contracts expiring on
May 31st, notice is hereby given
to those who have not arranged
for steam heat for the summer
months that the steam will be shut
off on the 1st dgy of June.
WILD GOOSE MINING AND
TRADING CO.
and staff have left the Turkish capi
tal, the State Department has no
official intimation of the manner ot
their leaving or the route which
will be taken. It is presumed that
proper securities for their safe
conduct have been given.
AMSTERDAM, May 30.—German
dispatches show that peace reigns
still on the eastern front, although
both armies are still facing each
other under arms, Interrupted by
frequent fraternal greetings be
tween unarmed men on both sides.
Discipline among the Russians is
admitted to be still good and all
officers are punctiliously obeyed.
WILL SEIZE WORKS IF
STRIKE CONTINUES ON
WASHINGTON, D. C.. May 30.—
The continued general strike at the
Newport News Shipbuilding Co's
plant where four United States bat
tleships are now under construction
is greatly concerning the govern
ment.
The company has refused to pay
tho* men their demands and the
trouble shows no sign of an ending.
Today it was announced by the
Navy Department that if the trouble
was not settled immediately the
government would seize the yards
and put all men to work them
selves.
The comapny contends that this
would mean just what the men do
not want, that is industrial con
scription, while the men insist that
the company would have to sever
their connection with the yard it
the Navy Department takes control
and they prefer to work for the
United States government than the
system which' now is used in the
company’s plant.
Another effort is to be made to
settle the strike, failing which
there is no doubt that the govern
WHO WANTS PEACE
MUST PREPARE WAR
PETKOGRAD, May 30.—A prac
tical agreement has been reached in
the form of a rapprochement be
tween the soldiers and the provi
sional government.
In a session oi the Congress and
soldiers delegates a resolution was
passed declaring that “the army in
the trenches was disposed to con
sider every measure to end the war
quickly”. The congress adopted
the watchword which declares “who
ever wishes for peace must prepare
for war”.
There is comidence that this will
afford the government a workable
foundation for carrying on an ag
gressive war ai'd that there is not
any hostility to the Minister of War
in the watchword adopted, but that
it falls within his own plans.
LONDON, May 30.—Comment
upon the soldier s congress is some
what mixed founded upon the dis
patches arriving from Petrograd
It indicates that the soldiers are
satisfied that they now hold the
supreme power in the government
of Kussia and their watchword
may be either accepted as a threat
against the piovisional government
or an agreement as is accepted in
more optimistic quarters, with it.
AMSTERDAM^ May 30.—Berlin
dispatches concerning the attitude
of the Congress of soldiers’ dele*
gates in Russia indicates no such
confidence in an early separate
peace with Russia as formerly was
a marked and optimistic feature of
German newspapers.
Now is the time to Hubscrlhe.
YOUNG PEOPLES SOCIALIST
LEAGUE REFUSES REGISTER
MINNEAPOLIS, May 30.—The
Young People’s Socialist League,
all of whose male members through
out the country are of military age,
/announced today that they would
not register for conscription and
declare that they will take any con
sequences in the form of prosecu
tion that may follow from their
i acts.
The Young People’s Socialist
League has many branches through
out the country but is especially
numerous and powerful in this city.
The action of the members is be
ing denounced and some of the
more pronounced of the war advo
cates insist that all of the leaders
be prosecuted.
! So far the attitude of the labor
councils throughout the country is
also not very favorable to the con
scription, although none have gone
on record as refusing register.
The effort to incite opposition to
conscription or the registration of
available men is to be prosecuted by
the government, and all taking part
in rioting will be subject to trial for
treason.
The arrangements for registra
tion of those of military age is be
ing left in a greater part in the
bands of the state officials, with
federal officials and in towns, mu
nicipal officials co-operating.
As practically the entire militia
force in the nation Is now under
arms they may have to be used to
preserve order in case of any oppo
sition to the enforcement ot the
act.
Dispatches from Washington indi
cate that some anxiety is felt about
the whole matter.
GERMAN SOCIALISTS ON
WAY STOCKHOLM CONGRESS
COPENHAGEN, May 30.—Ger
man socialists attending the Stock
holm conference have arrived here
on their way to the Swedish capi
tal. They were outspokenly opti
mistic regardless of the refusal of
the British to attend.
The German delegates said that
inasmuch as the French socialists,
in spite of the efforts of the gov
ernment to prevent them attending,
had finally made up their minds to
be present, would necessarily com
pel the British socialists also to at
tend.
Danish socialists are entertaining
the German comrades, hut are
astonished at the strong national
istic spirit which the Teutons mani
fest.
PARIS, ?ilay 30.—Practically all
the French socialist leaders of pro
minence deny with considerable
ment will take ever the yards and
docks.
Several strikes are now causing
some concern by reason of the fact
that they are taking place in fac
tories or plants which are under
government contract. The work
ers point to the higher costs of liv
ing as making higher wages neces
sary for them.
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| emphasis t liat ihe French socialists
| have any intention of attending tho
Kaiser's club meeting of comrades
in Stockholm as Gustav Herve de
signated ' the now much disputed
congress.
There is a very bitter feeling
which has been lately intensified,
'among the French for the complete
subordination of socialist aims in
Germany to the will of the rulers.
They contend that the German
junkers have from the first to last
framed up the conference and that
it has been pushed through regard
less of the wishes of all other so
cialists. The failure of the Ger
mans to attend the Zurich confer
ence when it was objectionable to
the Kaiser and the German Ghan
.ccllor shows the national as against
the international spirit of the social
democrats.
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