GOVERNMENT AT JASSY ISSUES
STATEMENT OF INTENTION
TO ABANDON WAR.
FAIR TERMS ARE EXPECTED.
Negotiations, It Is Declared, Must Be
Conducted on Acceptable Basis and
Teutons Will Not Be Permitted to
Impose Any Sort of Conditions.
JASSY, Rumania, March 1.—Ru
mania has decided to abandon the
cause of the entente allies and to seek
a separate peace with the Teutonic
J powers.
This fact was announced in an of
ficial statement issued today by the
Rumanian government.
The official statement denies re
ports. current for some time, that the
government would accept peace on
I any terms that Germany and Austria
might impose.
The Rumanian officials declare that
they will enter into peace negotiations
only after receiving assurance from
the Teutonic representatives that the
negotiations will be conducted on a
basis acceptable in every respect to
, Rumania.
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LUMBERMEN GRANT
EIGHT-HOUR DAY
GOVERNMENT IS EXPECTED TO
S''AKE OVER CONTROL OF
TIMBER INDl’STRY NOW.
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PORTLAND, Oregon, March 1.—
Northwestern lumbermen, through
representatives at a meeting here to
day adopted the eight-hour day effect
ive at once.
Colonel Brice Disque, head of the
government’s spruce timber produc
tion campaign, explained that the de
cision for a basic eight-hour day was
voluntary on the part of the operators
and that it had not been demanded by
the government. He stated that he did
not think the government would take
over the spruce and fir timber indus
try, as the federal administration
could depend on the lumbermen for a
maximum production of aeroplane
timber.
Workers in the timber and lumber
' .dasti y struck for an eight-hour day,
and the strike continued until a com
paratively short time ago. Then the
strikers, who declared they were
acutated by a patriotic duty to get out
lumber for army and navy airplanes,
returned to work.
STATESMEN DISCUSS
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
IS EXPECTED TO BE MADE IN
REGARD TO VLADIVOSTOK.
WASH 1 NO TON, March 1. — The
proposed action of the Japanese to
invade Siberia is the main topic of
conversation in Washington today.
Some form of international agree
ment is expected to he made to pre
vent the Germans from obtaining the
stores of munitions and supplies at
Vladivostok and the control of the
trans-Siberian railroad.
President Wilson is giving earnest
9 study to the question.
AILING STATESMAN
IS HOLDING HIS OWN
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NO CHANGE REPORTED IN CON
DITION OF PREMIER BREWS
TER, OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.
CALGARY, Canada, March 2.—Pre
mier Brewster, of British Columbia,
who was taken off a train here while
en route from Victoria, B. C., to Ot
tawa, because of a serious attack of
]hv umonia, is reported today by his
attending physicians to be “holding
his own.”
r
WS BEST
TEUTONS TRY TO BREAK LINES
NEAR TOUL AND CHEMINE !
D E S D A MES.
| FIGHTING IS HAND TO HAND.
i Many Assailants Are Killed, While
Among American Casualties Is Cap
tain and in Addition Ten Privates
Are Captured.
I WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
I IN FRANCE, March 2.—American
troops outfought German troops .ves
! terday. The Germans failed in two
1 attempts to penetrate the American
positions northwest of Toul and aiong
Chemine Des Dames.
Northwest of Toul there was hand
to-hand figthing. Many German bodies
were scattered in front of the Ameri
can trenches after the light.
Three German prisoners were cap
tured.
One captain, a graduate of the Westj
Point military academy in the class of j
1017 was killed. Ten American soid- j
iers were captured by the Germans. j
GERMANY FAILS TO
SEPARATE BELGIANS
KAISER’S OFFICERS TRY IN VAIN
TO FORCE FLEMISH LAN
GUAGE ON EVERYBODY.
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AMSTERDAM, Holland, Mar. 2.—
After more than three years of effort
the German authorities in Belgium
have to admit the failure of their at- '
tempt to drive a wedge between the
two races and languages in Belgium.
The unity of Belgium still exists, and
there are signs that the Germans have
given up, at least for the time being,
their attempt to break it up.
The authority for this statement is
the German propagandist weekly in
Holland, the Toekomst, which states
that the present policy of the gover
nor-general in Brussels is “more mod
erate,’ ’and that “Berlin approves this
policy as a means of gaining peace.” j
The article concludes by advising the i
advocates of the former German pol- i
icy to “steer a middle course and give
i up their flourishes of rhotoric.”
1 The attempts of the Germans to1
, force the Flemish langauge on Brus
sels and Antwerp are declared to have
completely failed and the government
has had to confess itself beaten. The,
supporters of the German scheme
among the Belgium population are
known as “activities,” and are very
popular among the majority of their j
fellow workers. An activists “demon-1
stration” was arranged in Brussels re- j
cently and was much exploited in the;
German press at that time. But ac- j
cording to the Echo Beige, the demon
stration was a fiasco.
“Instead of 2,000 , the audience was;
only 1,000,” says the newspaper. |
“Moreover, one third of these were |
Dutch and another third Germans,!
partly in uniform. The procession to j
the market-place was attacked as soon j
as noticed by the crowd, notwithstand- j
ing the portection of the local police.'
Next time there may be a riot. Now j
the activists are beginning to divide 1
into maximalists and mimmalmsts j
and are becoming very difficult for
their German bosses to handlefl”
DYNAMITE FOUND IN
BARREL IN HOTEL
i HOSTELRY IN SAN DIEGO IS
PLACE WHERE MANY ARMY
OFFICERS ARE STAYING.
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SAN DIEGO Cal., March 2.—Two
sticks of dynamite were found in a
trash barrel in the Maryland hotel
here yesterday afternoon shortly be
fore its contents were to be sent to
the incinerator in the basement of the
building.
The hotel, which houses many army
officers, would have been seriously
damaged if an explosion had occurred.
MOSCOW LEADS IN MOVEMENT
TO RESIST SEPARATE PEACE
AND MOBILIZES LOYALISTS
WILL WAGE WAR TO FINISH.
Teutons, Who Have Cut Off Petrograd
by Sea, Are Now Isolating Her by
Land and Expect to Reduce Her
by Famine.
LONDON, March 2.—Practically all
parts of interior Russia are taking ac
tion to resist the German invasion.
Workmen and soldier delegates at
Miscow have taken the lead in declar
ing opposition to a separate peace
with the Teutons and have issued an
order for the mobilization of all loyal!
Russians.
The movement in Moscow has been
followed in most of the cities and
towns of the interior.
The proclamtions of the workmen
and soldier delegates declare that a
fight to a finish will be waged against
the Germans.
Dispatches from Petrograd are to
the effect that the Teuton forces are 1
moving on the Bologode, a city be
tween Petrograd and Moscow, which is
the transfer point on the Petrograd
Moscow railroad for food supplies des
tined from eastern Russia to the capi
tal city.
The Germans practically control
the Baltic sea and have cut off com
munication by water with Petrograd.
With the occupation of Bologode,
they no doubt expect to reduce the
capital city by famine and compel her
capitulation.
A report from Berlin says that Kiev
in Ukrania has been occupied by the
supporters of the newly formed re
public of Ukrania. Kiev is an im
portant military point on the Dnieper
river.
ALL! ES UK l AITEI) STATES BE
LIEVE SITUATION SHOULD
IS] LEFT TO MIKADO.
Many Factors Are Entering Into the
Problem and Officials al Washing
ton Are Faced by New Issues Al
most Every Day.
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 2.—
The indications are that the American
state department is being steadily in
fluenced to accept the view of the al
lies of the United States that Japan
alone can best deal with the menace
of German aggression in Siberia.
United States officials declare, how
ever, that any prediction now of Am
erica’s decision in the matter would
be unsafe, as there are many factors
entering into the problem. The Unit
ed States, in connection with the af
fair, is faced by new issues almost
daily, the say.
VETERANS CAN HOLD
THEIR RE-ONIONS
RAILWAY FACILITIES WILL BE
PROVIDED GRAND ARMY AND
CONFEDERATES.
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 2.—
Members of the Grand Army of the
Republic and of the Confederate Vet
erans’ association will be afforded all
necessary transportation facilities and
will be accorded the usual reduced
rates for their annual encampments
next summer, according to the an
nouncement today of Secretary of the
Treasury William G. McAdoo, who is
director-general of all railroads.
The grand army will hold its en
campment in Portland, Or., and the
confederate veterans will meet at
Tulsa, Okla.
CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME
COMMISSION SETS FORTH
MERITS OF FOWL.
DIET IS IDENTICAL WITH DUCKS
ilird Is Served in New Orleans in Cre
ole Style As “Poule d’Eau” and Has
Attained More Than Local Fame
As Delicious Edible.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 2.—'
The California state fish and game
commission has launched an extensive
publicity campaign in favor of the
much maligned “Mudhen” as a means
of food conservation.
According to the commission the
common coot or “Mudhen” already
has established itself as a valuable
bird in the south and parts of the
east, but in the presence of so great
a supply of more choice wildfowl, thus
far has failed to find general recog
nition in California.
Realizing that only through wide
publicity could the people be made
familiar with the many good foods
that annually go to waste, the state
board has been stimulating the use of
birds that most hunters throw away.
The worst thing about the “Mud
hen” is its name, and the prejudice
that this has built up against it, ac
cording to the board.
Leading hotels have served them as
’’water chicken” and as “tule-hen.”
Known south as “Poule d’Eau” and
served a la Creole, they attained a
more than local fame in New Or
leans.
Mudhens are perhaps better rel
ished by their French name which is
more truly descriptive of their habits,
as they are a water bird rather than
a mud frequenter. Their diet is iden
tical with that of ducks.
In general they are to be handled
like rabbits in preparation for the
table. Stews are the general method
of cooking; but those willing to pluck
fat ones can roast them and have a
bird little inferior to a duck except
milder in flavor. Soaking the birds
several days in cheap claret imparts
a most delicious flavor, and is a meth
od followed by some of the most cel
ebrated cooks, one of whom has been
serving mudhens in his cafe for near
ly twenty years in Los Angeles as
“Salmi of Duck,” delighting thousands
who never suspected that they were
eating the same mudhen that had
been left to lie before their guns as
supposedly worthless.
ATTORNEY ASPIRES
TO LEGISLATURE
A. G. THOMPSON FILES FOR
HOUSE ANI) FRANCIS CON
NALLY FOR CONGRESS.
In chronicling the announcements
of candidacies for pprty primaries
filed in this city, the Daily Times the
other day unintentionally omitted to
mention the announcement of Arthur
G. Thompson, who is an aspirant for
the republican nomination for the
lower house of representatives of the
territorial legislature.
Mr. Thompson has lived here about
two years. He is a practicing lawyer.
A telegram was receievd from Ju
neau today stating that Francis Con
nally, of Anchorage, had filed for dele
gate in congress on the socialist ticket.
The other congressional candidates are
James Wickersham, republican and
Charles A. Sulzer and William Ma
loney democrats.
DUTCH MILK FOR GERMANY.
AMSTERDAM, March 1.—Holland
is still sending 38,000 quarts of milk
daily to Germany for butter-making,
according to official figures published
here.
THEATRE RECEIPTS INCREASE.
PARIS', March 2.—The Comedie
Francaise, the most serious theatre in
the French capital, took in receipts of
£200,00 in 1916 and £388,000 in 1917.
DEAN THOMAS F. HUNT, OF
STATE UNIVERSITY, TALKS
TO AGRICULTURISTS.
CITES RESULTS IN CANADA.
Increase in Production Demanded by
War Can Re Met Without Introduc
ing Any Appreciable Amount of
Foreign Labor.
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., March
2.—“Farm or Fight,” one of Canada’s
slogans, was urged upon the farmers
of California by Dean Thomas F.
Hunt, of the University of Califor
nia’s college of agriculture, in an ad
dress to ranchers, assembled to hear
the country’s call for increased farm
production. Dean Hunt told his audi
ence how the farmers of Canada had
responded to calls of war without in
troducing any appreciable amount of
foreign labor, and this despite the
heavy drains on the man power of
Canada by three years of war.
A patriotic rally was arranged here
business and professional men of the
city laying aside their affairs, and
uniting with the farmers in welcom
ing Dean Hunt. The latter who has
recently returned from Canada, de
clared that the United States must
prepare to do all that its neighbor has
done. Canada, he says, has maintain
ed one-fourth of her men in the army
and in war work, has increased her
acreage 46 per cent, and also has
maintained an immense army on her
own soil and doubled her food pro
duction. This, said Dean Hunt, has
been done by sacrifices and the United
States must prepare to do the same.
A portion of the lecture was devot
ed to an explanation of the steps by
which Canada has managed to in
crease production with lessened re
serves of labor. The working day has
been lengthened, he said; men have
been shifted from non-essential work
to productive industry, boys from the
cities, soldiers furloughed from camps
and women from homes have all aided
in production, with the result that it
has increased, while at the same time
Canada has sent overseas an army
proportionate by population to one of
5,000,000 men from the United States.
The meeting here was one of the
first of a series at which Dean Hunt
will speak, and which will enable him
to carry word of what he observed in
Canada to almost every agricultural
community of California.
NEW MEXICAN WOLF
WARY ANIMAL HIDES HIMSELF
ON RANCH OF 87,000 ACRES
N E A R D A M V .
DAMY, N. M., March 2.—Roaming
over an 87,(000 acres ranch near here
is a wolf, so old, so wary and so wise
that government experts say he can
not be caught in a trap and that only
two ever have seen him. This old
wolf, who is called “Peg-Leg” because
he lost part of one foot in a trap
years ago, has caused ranchers of
this section such losses that their total
is unbelievable. These run, stockmen
say, well into the thousands of dollars
each yeai\
There is a good deal of stock run in
this section which is better than the
average “range cow” and it is “Peg
Leg’s” chief delight, the stockmen de
clare, to pick out some unusually good
yearling or two-year-old-steer, pull
him down and make a meal of him.
Peg-Leg’s work, the trappers and
stockmen say, is as easily identified
as if he had left calling card, for he
always eats from the same part of the
carcass of his prey, just above the
haunch.
At one time three government hunt
ers, men chosen by the biological sur
vey for their adeptness, spent several
weeks in a vain effort to locate the
wily old wolf. At present one of the
best shots in the biological survey’s
service is attempt to “draw a bead” on
I Peg-Leg.
GARMENTS ARE TOO LONG AS
! ISSUED BY WAR DEPARTMENT
AND THEY ARE CUT OFF.
KNIVES SOMETIMES USED.
Drivers of Motor Trucks Use Pieces
of Cloth to Make Extra Covering
For Their Hands Which Are Hard
to Keep WTarm.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, March 2.—American
army truck drivers have found a use
for the strips of heavy khaki cloth
cut from the bottoms of soldiers’ over
coats. One of the drivers discovered
that mittens of extraordinary warmth
could be made from the cloth and
now nearly every driver of a motor
truck or automobile is wearing a pair
or has determined to make himself
some the first time he has a spare ten
minutes.
Many units of the army in France
discovered that the regulation over
coats were too long when they donned
them. The bottoms, becoming soaked
with rain or caked with mud, flopped
about the legs of the men and made
the garment a burden. Some soldiers
discarded their overcoats whenever it
was possible and many colds or other
ailments resulted.
Coats Come to Knee.
Then one entire division—a newly
landed organization of former nation
al guardsmen—suddenly appeared
with coats that reached to the knee
or an inch above it. The old long
coats were exchanged by the owners
for the newr ones in response to an
order signed by the general command
ing. About the same time soldiers in
other divisions cut their coats off
themselves or had them trimmed
down. Some men who were among
the first division to enter the trenches
clipped the objectionable bottoms
with knives.
In a trench an overcoat that strikes
the ankles, drags in the mud and wat
er and is nearly as bad as no coat at
j all. The practice of cutting oft over
coats now has become general through
he zone of the American army and a
garment of the length usually seen in
the United States rapidly is coming
to be regarded as a sort of a curiosity
uvci nci tr.
Many Strips of Cloth.
All this shearing1, of course, left as
many strips of cloth as short coats.
There was nothing to do with the
pieces. Many a boot was polished
with khaki.
An army motor truck driver leads
a cold life. For many hours a day he
sits exposed on the front of his ma
chine, often spinning along at a rate
that would cause an epidemic of heart
disease in the traffic squad of any
American police department. The
drivers manage to keep fairly com
fortable, sometimes wearing three
suits of heavy woolen underclothes.
Their chief complaint has been that
they could not keep their hands warm
and many have been known to stop
their machines in the road and toast
their fingers at the exhaust pipe.
Then a driver with a pair of scissors,
needle, thread and a good imagination
cut four shapes from an overcoat bot
tom, sewed them together in pairs
and found that by wearing the mit
tens over the regulation knitted gloves
his hands remained warm even in the
coldest weather.
Overcoat bottoms are in demand
now.
CORN TO BE BOUGHT
FOR USE ABROAD
FEDERAL AGENTS WILL PUR
CHASE FROM 500.000 TO 700,
000 BUSHELS DAILY.
NEW Y"ORK, March 2.—Federal
agents will purchase from 500,000 to
700,000 bushels of corn daily during
the next three weeks at various mid
dle western grain exchanges for use
abroad.