LEI RUSSIA
!
REMAINED VS LONG AS THEY j
COULD RENDER AID. BUT
FURTHER EFFORTS FUTILE.
GERMANS SHUT OFF SUPPLIES.
Lady Padget, English Woman of No
ble Birth, Headed the Relief in Rus
sia. Succeeded by Lady Sybil Grey,
Daughter of Former Foreign Minis
ter, Who Was Wounded.
TOKIO, June 8.—Including the last
British war relief workers to leave
Russia, the Anglo-Russian field hospi
tal unit, with Lady Muriel Paget at
its head, a party of 45 British sub
jects, war workers, consular officials
and civilians, have arrived in Tokio
and Yokohama on their way home.
Lady Muriel Paget is the represent
ative of the London committee of the ,
Anglo-Russian hospital unit, which is
maintained by subscriptions from
{ British colonies. It is one of the or- ;
ganizations which answered the call:
of the Russian Red Cross in 1915, and ;
after two years of active work from |
Archangel south, into Galicia and Ru
mania, ended up at Odessa where the
party waited two months, hoping to
establish a hospital for some faction
which would fight the Germans.
, “We remained in Russia as long as j
our unit could render aid,” said Lady
Paget. “However, when peace was
declared with Germany, when the
fighting stopped and our supplies!
were cut off, there was nothing to do
but leave.” Lady Paget went to
Russia as the representative of the1
committee in 1915 to replace Lady!
Sybil Grey, daughter of Sir Edward
Grey, who had been wounded.
During the winter of 1916 the hos
pital workers went south jnto Galicia
and spent the winter months in the
Carpathians, near Kirlibaba. At the
time oi me nnai nussian orrensive mo
unit was told to take part, but the
drive ended too soon, and the unit
went to Kamenetz Podolsk, the capi
tal of the government of T’odolia, I
where it was the only Red Cross hos
pital in the city, and where under
great difficulty its work of relief was
carried out.
In ten days 10,000 wounded from
the retreat from Galicia were cared
for. The Red Cross contingent then
went into Rumania to Dorchoi. The
work to be done with the armies de
*7 y
creased and at the same time it be
came impossible to obtain men and ■
* supplies from England.
WILL FIGHT TILL
THE FIGHT IS DONE
BRITISH NEWSPAPERS PAY
GLOWING TRIBUTE TO FORTI
TUDE OF PARIS IN PERIL.
LONDON, June 7.—The British i
newspapers, almost withoue exception, j
pay glowing tributes to the heroic at-:
tiude of the citizens of Paris, in fac
ing the present ordeal, resulting from
the attacks of the German hordes, j
^ hile the newspapers believe that the
Huns will never reach the French me
tropolis, yet they admit that this is j
merely a belief and that it is within
the range of possibilities that the en
emy may enter the gates of Paris.
The newspapers say that Premier
Clemenceau spoke for the British peo
ple also, when he said, in a lecent I
^ speech, “France will never yield.”
HOSPITAL SHIP
STRIKES A WINE
THE HAGUE, June 7.—The hos
pital ship Koningin Regentes, having
on board the English delegates to the
Anglo-German war prisoners’ confer
" | ence at The Hague, hit a mine off the
coast of England last night and sunk
soon after. Four firemen perished as
a- result of the explosion. All of the
pasesngers and the remainder of the
crew were rescued by the hospital ship
Sindero. 1
ACTING CHAIRMAN SWANSON
OF SENATE NAVAL COMMIT
TEE SAYS 60 PER CENT LOST.
SHIPPING LOSSES REDUCED.
Senator Declares That Allied and Na
val Forces Have About Solved the
Submarine Warfare and That Dan
gers from This Direction Grows
Less Each Day.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8.—
United States Senator Swanson, of
Virginia, acting chairman of the sen
ate committee on naval affairs, an
nounced in the senate yesterday, in
response to an inquiry for informa
tion on the subject, that the allied and
American had destroyed 60 per cent
af all the German submarines that
nad been constructed by the enemy,
and that the danger from submarine
activities was daily becoming less
and less, because of the vigorous cam
paign against them. He stated that
the United States navy was entitled
to especial credit in this behalf, be
cause of the splendid record achieved
by the American patrol fleets in Eur
opean waters.
Senator Swanson, who is acting j
chairman during the illness of Sena-j
tor Tillman of South Carolina, de- i
dared also that the shipping losses!
of Great Britain, the United States,!
France and Italy had been reduced
one-half over that maintaining be- j
fore the American fleet joined in the
patrol work in Europe.
This information was vouchsafed
when a senator on the republican side
hinted that the United States navy
had fallen down, reciting the recent
German submarine raid on the Atlan
tic seaboard on this side of the ocean
in support of his claim. Whereupon,
Senator Swanson gave the senate re
assuring information on the subject,
and declare that the work of the
American navy was all that could be
Jesired.
ALASKA ROAD WORK
>100,000 TO CONTINUE CON
STRUCTION AND REPAIR
WORK IN TERRITORY.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—
J'he house of representatives has pas
sed the army appropriation bill, in
.vhich an item appropriating the sum
}f $100,000 for road and trail work
n Alaska, under the auspices of the
Alaska Road commission.
As the senate has always been j
friendly to the annual appropriation i
for this purpose, it may be taken for j
granted that it will pass without op-1
position in that body.
AMERICAN FLYER
MAKES A RECORD
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.— '
General Pershing, commander of the;
American expeditionary forces ini
France, last evening reported to the,
,var department that Lieutenant!
Douglas Campbell, of the American i
rerial corps, downed six enemy aero- i
olanes between April 14 and May 31,
:his year. Campbell is a California i
aoy and is the first American birdman i
to gain the designation of an “Ace,”
a distinction that comes to the air
men when they down their fifth Ger- >
man aeroplane.
FIRST BRITISH CONCRETE SHIP.
LONDON, June 8.—England’s first
big concrete ship is 150 feet long, with
a beam of 24 feet and'displaces 900
tons. Her carrying capacity is 400
tons. Compared to the Faith, the
5.000-ton concrete ship recently
launched on the Pacific coast of the
United States, the British vessel is
rather small, but Lloyd’s has classed
her as A-l.
ARE INDICTED
JEREMIAH O’LEARY AND SIX
OTHERS CHARGED WITH BEING
CONCERNED IN IRISH REVOLT.
LEADER HAS FLED THE SCENE.
New York Grand Jury Accuses Those
Agtinst Whom Indictments Have
Been Returned With Being Traitors
to the United States—Several Plead
Guilty to Charge.
NEW YORK, June 8.—Jerejjiiath
3’Leary, the Irish leader, and six
others have been indicted by the fed
eral grand jury sitting in New Y'ork,
changed with being traitors to the
United States by reason of their al
leged activity in connection with the
:hreatened revolt in Ireland.
Among those indicted are Mario K.
le Victorica, Albert Paul Fricke, said
to be a prominent Mt. Vernon manu
facturer; Willard J. Robinson, Karl
Rodiger, John T. Ryan, a prominent
politician of Buffalo, New York; and
Will Kipper, a naturalized German.
O’Leary and Ryan are fugitives
from justice, having fled the scene a
month ago. O’Leary, who is said to
lave been the leader of the Sinn Fein
crowd in this country, was the former
editor and publisher of the magazine
called “The Bull” and is the president
if the American Truth Society. Those
who did not flee have entered pleas of
not guilty.
ONE PROGRESS IN
BUILDING OF SHIPS
SKINNER & EDDY, OF SEATTLE,
LEADS ALL OTHERS IN SHIP
CONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—
such splendid progress in shipbuilding
Is being made in the Pacific North
vest, that the United States shipping
joard today decided to place new con
tracts with the successful firms. The
lew contracts will agregate an expen
liture of thirty million dollars. The
first of these contracts will be given
to the firm of Skinner & Eddy, of
Seattle, which is leading all other con
cerns in the nation in turning out
vessels.
BOYS “OVER THERE”
WANT HOME NEWS
WASHINGTON, I). C., June 7.—
rhe American soldier in France has
1 voracious appetite for news from
lome, declares Eliot Wadsworth, of
;he Red Cross War council, who has
just returned to the capital after
chree months spent in observing the
xctivities of the mercy organization
n England, Belgium, France and
Italy.
“How did Mayor Thompson make
nit in Chicago,” and “Who’s police
commissioner in New York,” are
questions, which Mr. Wadsworth says
jccasionaly suppllemented the con
stant queries about baseball.
“So long as you’ve come from
America within a month, you’re a
welcome object for attack by any
nember of Pershing’s forces,” says
Mr. Wadsworth. “A crowd of news
lungry boys in khaki will light on
rou and compel you to ransack your
mind for news items concerning every
oart of the country.
“And, if it happens that a dough
)oy from Terre Haute or Kankakee
liscovers in the course of the conver
sation that you know someone from
;hese towns—well his joy simply can’t
?e described.”
OH, JOY.
“I draymed of the kaiser,” the Irish
man said,
‘And I draymed I was fillin’ the baste
full of lead;
An’ so many big bullets in him I did
put,
It took seventeen strong men to car
ry wan fut.”
INVESTIGATOR FINDS PERSHING
SOLDIERS STRICTLY GOVERN
ED AND WELL PLEASED.
TROOPS ARE NOT FRIVOLOUS.
“Our Fellows Are Just Crazy to Hear
Phonograph Records,” Says Man
Who Went Over to Make Investiga
tion Into Moral Conditions Among
Expeditionary Forces.
By the Rev. Charles Stelzle.
NEW YORK, June 8.—“These men
are the finest flower of America—the
pick of our universities, shops, and
business houses. If they have per
mitted themselves to sink to the mor
al level described by some writers,
then the Lord have mercy on oui’
country—it is scarcely worth saving,”
said my friend Dan Poling, who has
just returned from a three months’
study of conditions at the front in
France.
Poling is a red-blooded American;
he knows men—and likes them. He is
a man’s man, and they like him, too.
But he isn’t blind to their frailties.
He has been studying moral problems
in this country too long to be fooled
by surface signs. Poling is associate
president and good citizenship super
intendent of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor.
He went to the front with the
privilege of seeing everything that is
to be seen; he visited every hospital
—and comes back with the report that
there is less venereal disease among
our soldiers than one finds among ci
vilians in peace-time.
General Pershing has laid down
rigid rules on the subject of vice. Any
man associating with immoral women
is liable to court-martial. If he con
fesses to such action he is treated by
a physician, but he is still subject to
the severest discipline and if he be-■
comes diseased, he expects little mer
cy, all of which has tended to make
even the most reckless men mighty
careful of their conduct.
Charges that our men have become j
immoral since they went to France j
are bitterly resented by the soldiers— \
and rightfully so. It would be foolish
to say that the million men in the
new American army are all saints.
But for every man spoiled by army
life, ten men have been helped tc
higher ideals.
Our army does not have a rum ra
tion, as has been reported, although
the French and English soldiers do.
‘‘Wherever our officers are in
complete control, no booze is permit
ted,” says Poling.
One day General Pershing heard i
some American officers had been hold
ing high jinks in a wine shop. He
motored many miles across the coun
try to get the facts, and then closed
the four wine shops in question.
Poling camped with the boys in the
trenches and saw something of the
way they live.
“Our fellows are just crazy to hear
phonograph records played,” he told
men. “One of their greatest favor
ites is the hymn ‘Tell Mother I’ll Be
There,’ sung by Billy Sunday’s chor
us leader Koderhaver.
“I’ve seen many a chap sit before a
little $10 machine with a pile of rec
ords on his knees and play them by
the hour, and sometimes they have
been compelled to shut the door of the
dugout, the enemy was so near.”
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 8.—
Men of the draft age will not be al
lowed hereafter to travel on coastwise
or ocean-going steamers without a
permit from the draft board, accord
ing to a ruling of the customs author
ities in San Francisco. It is expected
that this ruling will not be applied to
all coastwise ports tm the Pacific.
Job Printing of Distinction at the
Times office.
\LASKAN AVIATOR TELLS HOW
HE SHOT DOWN ENEMY AERO
PLANE ON FIGHTING FRONT.
ATTACK A COMPLETE SURPRISE
Captain Peterson, a Pennsylvania
Man, Brings Down Two Enemy
Planes on Same Day—Roth Aviat
ors Are Operating in Toul Sector
on the French Front.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, June 8.—Captain Da
vid Peterson, of Honesdale, Pa., and
Captain Kenneth Marr, Alaska, the
heroes in the aerial battle Wednes-1
day in which Capt. Peterson brought
down two German monoplanes and
Captain Marr destroyed an enemy j
biplane in the Toul sector, related ;
their stories of the battle today.
“I was flying near Thiaucourt at I
an altitude of 5,000 meters,” said j
Capt. Peterson, “when I saw two Ger- j
man albatross scouts going away at j
right angles in the distance. One
was ahead of the other. I ascended
200 meters higher, circled and stop
ped my engine and darted after them.
I finally got close to the last plane, j
At a distance of 100 yards I opened ;
fire with incendiary bullets and the1
German machine almost immediatelyj
burst into flames and fell.
“I continued straight on my J
course,” he continued, “and within j
two minutes had the other enemy rna- j
chine before me. He started a quick j
dive, but I fired and some of the bul- ;
lets went home. One of the wings of
the machine crumbled up at the same j
moment. As I circled about I saw !
one machine burning on the ground 1
and the other smoking in its down
ward plunge, crash to the earth. That
is all there is to it. It was a cinch.”
Capt. Marr was flying at an alti
tude of 2,000 meters when he saw
an enemy machine over the American j
lines.
“As I sailed out 1 saw him tar
away, circling out from our line amid
a cloud of puff balls from our ‘Arch
ies,’ ” he said. “I circled out wider
and finally passed the German \md
turned again down or line, between
the enemy and the sun. Both of us
had the sun at our backs.
“As I opened up my motor and ap
proached nearer,” he said, “I saw
that I had a two-seater to deal with.
I thought that the German might see
me or hear my motor, so I went a
hundred meters lower until right un
der the tail of his machine. Then I
pointed the nose of my airplane up
ward and went on a level with the
enemy and opened fire at him at
point-blank range. The German nev
er knew I was there until incendiary
bullets, alternating with ordinary mis
siles, began pattering through his ma
chine. After twenty shots his ma
chine toppled. I must have got a
lucky shot home on the pilot, for the
machine went down, wavering through
the air like a leaf falling from a tree.
I saw the observer standing up in
the machine trying to get his machine
gun to bear on me, first from one
side and then from the other. I cer
tainly felt sorry for the helpless beg
gar. There he was dashing to a cer
tain death, but to the last gamely
trying to give me a fight.”
Capt. Teterson and Capt. Marr were
standing on their flying field at day
break this morning as they spoke. It
was a perfect day for flying, and they
were abut to leave for patrol over the
enemy lines. As they stepped into
their machines, Capt. Marr said:
“Well, we’re off again. Maybe we
will get some more. Maybe they will
get us. Anyway, it’s a fine day for
it. So long.”
GAS MASK INSTRUCTION.
LONDON, June 8.—All the officers
and men of the London fire depart
ment are undergoing a course of in
struction in the use of gas-masks.
Masks of the regulation army pattern
have already been issued to about
1,500 firemen. They are intended for
emergency use in air raids.
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF
CHRISTIAN RESIDENTS OF CAU
CASIAN REGION REPORTED.
FIERCE CONFLICT IS RAGING.
Turkish Troops and Soldiers of New
Caucasian Government Engaged in
Death Struggle for Supremacy—Al
lied Aid Sought by Representatives
of New Government.
LONDON, June 8.—Ten thousand
Armenian residents cf the Caucasian
country have been wantonly massa
cred by Turkish troops, according to
reliable information received in Lon
don today. Aged men, women and
children are being killed without mer
cy. The massacre has been going on
for the past two weeks. In many
cases, women are outraged by Turk
ish soldiers, before being put to
death. The situation is appalling.
Troops of the new Caucasian gov
ernment and the Turks are engaged
ih a terrific struggle for supremacy.
Due to superior forces and war equip
ment, the Turks are gaining the up
per hand, and the aid of the allies
is sought by representatives of the
new government.
LONDON, June 8.—“Is it realized
by the people of this country that
America has already saved us from
capitulating to the enemy?” asks a
special writer for one of London’s big
dailies.
“Either,” the writer continues, “we
should have been forced into this sur
render with our armies unbroken and
our munitions of war unexhausted, or
we should at this moment be strug
gling to live and work and fight on
one-third of our present rations.”
The food supplies being sent by the
United States to its allies represent,
it is pointed out, “the kindly, difficult
and entirely willing self-sacrifice of
a whole nation, the vast majority,
the working people.”
America, the article concludes, has
answered England's appeal, “in a
manner which marks her out as one
of the gi’eatest moral forces in the ®
world. It should be known out there,
in the farmhouses and cottages of the
American continent, that the people
of this country, tightening their belts
and confronting the future, with an
indestructible confidence, are mindful
of America’s self-sacrifice—self-sac
rifice which will save the world.”
MAN WHO MADE SERIOUS AC
CUSATIONS AGAINST AIRCRAFT
HOARD IS TELLING ALL.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, who
made serious accusation against the
government aircraft production board,
is being examined today by Attorney
General Gregory, Hon. Charles E.
Hughes, special prosecutor by ap
pointment of President Wilson, and
Assistant Attorney-General Frierson.
Borglum was closeted with the prose
cutors all day yesterday and is giving
more evidence today. The testimony
was not made public. f
ARRIVES IN PORT,
ALL COLORS FLYING
PHILADELPHIA, June 7.—With
the Stars and Stripes proudly waving
in the breeze, the American oil tanker
Herbei-t L. Pratt arrived at Philadel
phia last night. The tanker was dam
aged by hitting a German mine off the
Delaware capes Monday morning. She
is now unloading her oil cargo which
was saved.