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GERMANS HAVE FULL DETAILS
OF AMERICAN FRONT POSITIONS
Evidence of Treachery or Ef
ficient Espionage Found on
Body of Dead Officer
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(By Associated Press)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, March 3.—A plan of attack,
iscluding a map of the American posi
tions indicating every dug-out, was
removed from the body of the German
captain who led the assault against
the American positions northwest of
Toul, and shows how completely the
Germans prepare for their raids.
The map goes into such detail as to
show^ every machine gun emplacement
and trench, and every depression of
the ground within the American lines.
The Germans rehearsed the plan of
attack four times, according to the Ger
man prisoners captured, who said they
were glad to be prisoners, as they be
lieved the Americans would treat them
well.
American Captured
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY,
March 4.—The Americans whom the
Germans claimed to have captured on
the Chemin des Dames probably were
the larger part of a patrol of thirteen
men which went out when the raid
began and have been unheard of since.
The enemy obtained no prisoners
from the American trenches. Ameri
can volunteers searched No Man’s
Land in a raid under machine gun
fire, looking for their missing com
rades.
Combatting Gas Bombs
Between 500 and 1,500 gas shells are
thrown on the American positions
daily. There have been serious gas
casualties in consequence. The men
arc being trained thoroughly in the
- use of gas masks.
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INTRODUCED BY MOVIES
American manufacturers, eager to
take advantage of war-time conditions
in Peru to introduce their goods, are
utilizing the motion-picture theaters to
induce Peruvian women to buy “made
in America” goods.
Motion-picture theaters are numer
ous in Peru, and there are few towns
without at least one. A “vermouth,’’
or matinee performance, is given from
6 or 6:30 in afternoon to 7:45 or 8
• o’clock, with a later exhibition from
9 to 11:30 o'clock. The first is the
more popular in the capital because a
late dinner hour, which is the rule in
Peru, permits society to attend. An
additional matinee is given on Sun
days, starting at 3:30 o’clock. The
average seating capacity of Peruvian
picture theaters is 400. The custom
of taking afternoon tea is universal,
and one popular tea room in Lima en
tertains its patrons with motion pic
tures from 4 until 8 o’clock.
In the best theaters many of the
slides are distinctive and carefully pre
pared in natural colors, and the Amer
icans are taking advantage of it. In
the course of a month this advertise
ment will probably be seen by from
8,000 to 10,000 persons. The depart
ment of commerce says that care is
being taken to have all reading mat
ter translated into idiomatic Spantsh
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RED CROSS WORKERS ARE
REQUESTED TO MEET DAILY
Owing to'the surgical gauze supply
order not being received, due to short
age at divisional headquarters, the
ladies who are interesting themselves
in the cutting and making of garments,
are requested to meet at headquarters
eyjry afternoon of this week, or until
work is completed, to cut and make up
materials on hand. As soon as the
gauze shipment arrives due notice will
be given. You are also reminded that
there continues great need for old
sheets, pillow cases, or any white ma
terials suitable for gauze wrappers.
Men’s old white shirts are just as ac
ceptable.
L. R. BENNETT,
Chairman Military Relief.
THOUSANDS OF MFCHMIOS
MED III FLIC COOPS
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 4-The avia
tion section of the signal corps has
issued a call for ten thousand machin
ists, mechanics, chauffeurs and other
skilled workmen, who are needed im
mediately.
CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA
DEMORALIZE RANKING
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Keb. 3.—Recent develop
ments in Russia have brought ex
change dealings here practically to a
standstill and it has been impossible
for sellers of drafts on Petrograd and
other Russian centers to ascertain
whether instructions have been re
ceived by the Russian banks and if so
whether they are in a position to exe
cute the instructions in view of recent
government action prohibiting inter
bank operations.
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TIDE OF BATTLE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 4.—Secre
*ary of War Baker’s weekly review ol
war conditions notes the continued
preparatory movement by the Ger
mans, citing the three German at
' tempts to rush the American lines
Mr. Baker says the momentum <of th«
i battle is increasing.
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(By Associated Press)
SEATTI-E, March ' 4.—The loggers
j timber workers and allied crafts met it
i convention 1n this city today, ant
voted to oust members of the Indus
trial Workers of the World from theii
ranks.
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ENEMY IICTI
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(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, March 4.—German:
in Mexico, especially at the capital
| are supplying H. von Eekardt, the Ger
man minister here, with the sinews o
: war for the extensive propaganda cam
paign that is being carried on by thi
legation, both through newspapers am
private agents. There has been mucl
speculation as to what means th
Germans minister used" to secure fund
to maintain the large legation, hi
; sumptuous home and the Teutonic pro
paganda since he was cut off from tin
! fatherland, but it is now learned tha
German banks, business houses and it:
dividuals are buying his notes on the
imperial government.
The claim has been advanced re
peatedly that von Eckardt, deprived of
the use of neutral diplomatic wires in
communicating with his government,
was keeping in touch with the Berlin
foreign office through letters carried
on Spanish ships to the gulf of Biscay,
whence they were sent by submarine
to Berlin. It was stated that he was
being supplied with funds via this
route, but the enormous sums being
spent by the legation seemed to make
this claim untenable. Despite denial
by the Spanish line involved, it is be
lieved here, that Von Eckardt’s letters
are being carried on its ships, thnc
j messages from the legation, sent in
| plain envelopes to reliable addresse
in Spain, ultimately find their way ;o
Berlin, by way of Switzerland or som«
; other route. ,
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OF THEIR ITS
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 4.—The su
. pi-eme court of the United States, in
a decree issued today, has sustained
the demurrers to the indictments it
the Cincinnati election fraud cases
and has decided that federal court;
have no jurisdiction over bribery a
i general elections for the election 01
federal officers.
*1 he result u* ihe doumluA wifi
that ninety-nine persons charged with
fraud in theTOHI general elections wili
not be compelled to stand trial.
TEDDY MS HEW STEP
IN PBOERESS TO HEALTH
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(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, March 4.—Ftvrmei
President Roosevelt has so far re
covered from the effects of his recent
! operation as to be able to leave tbf
hospital. He will take up his quarter!
in a local hotel today.
I Colonel Roosevelt said he fell
"bully,” but his physicians fear thai
his left ear will be permanently dsa!
as the result of the operation.
miDtPESTRESTtURtNTS
SEIM ns
(Special to the Times J
BERNE, March 4.—All restaurant:
and hotels in Budapest must now pro
vide a “war-dinner” at 80 cents, accord
ing to the latest food regulations Th<
menu must consist of soup, nin<
ounces of vegetables, two ounces ol
meat, and a dessert. Small restaurants
may not charge more than 60 cents foi
a meat course with vegetable*.
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ON FRENCH SOIL
“ (By Associated Press)
I WASHINGTON, March 4.—The wa>
i department announces that it has
' pigde arrangements to Guild a $25,000,
i 000 ordnance base in France, to in
s elude twenty large storehouses, twelve
shop buildings and a hundred smallei
' ffhops, magazines, together with too
r equipment costing about five millior
- dollars.
JURN OUT MACHINE GUNS
| IN WHOLESALE QUANTITIES
* LOS ANGELES, March 3.—Six fac
lories, with a capacity of several thou-;
sand Browning machine guns daily,1
will soon start operations, according to'
an interview with A. S. Browning pub
i lished today. Mr. Browning is part,
owner ot the Browning gun patents.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 4.—Ger
many’s occupation of the Aland islands
is only preliminary to a total occupa
tion of Finland, according to a dis
patch to the Swedish legation here,
which says that Germany has informed
the Stockholm government through
the foreign office that she intends to
I occupy Finland.
Sweden has protested against Ger
i many’s proposed action, but the lat
j ter says that it will be necessary for
I her to occupy Finland temporarily to
restore order.
Sweden has been given assurances
by Germany that she does not intend
to take permanent possession.
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A letter received by the Belgian In
formation bureau says;
“One does not dream of buying lin
en. Tlic prices are entirely unapproach
able. More extraordinarily still, to
mend or repair one's clothes has itself
become a luxury permitted to a few,
, since a spool of thread now costs 60
cents to $1.”
The following is from a letter writ
ten front Flanders:
''‘How do we live? You can not
I form any idea of it. In whatever di
! rection we turn we run against Ger
| man pride which, provocative and
I soornful, eyes us from head to foot,
jit is painful. We can not endure It.
I There are fines upon lines at a time
when money is so needed to buy in
dispensable things.
"For all that, what is indispensable
is still very difficult to obtain. We
have, too much to die, too little to live.
We are becoming skeletons, but hope
sustains us. For the rest, we let the
days go by as God gives them to us.
“Now we have an opportunity to
■ prove how admirable one people are.
Our hearts break in contemplating all
: the misery that we see about us; but
i we are proud, nevertheless, to prove
that we can endure it all without hesi
tating or wavering.
“Germany is becoming more and
J more covetous. She plucks us and
| strangles us in every way.”
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(By Associated Press)
BPENOS AIRES, March 3.—The Ar
gentine government has requested the
British ambassador to obtain safe con
duct for former German Ambassador
; Luxemburg, who will be sent home
aboard a Swedish steamship soon.
It is uliderstood that the American
embassy has entered no objection.
PASSENGERS FOR CORDOVA ,
ON SHIP ADMIRAL [VANS
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 4.—The steam
ship Admiral Evans of the Pacific
Steamship Company sailed for Alas- *
kan ports at 10 a. m. today. Her pass
engers for Cordova were as follows:
R. McCarthy, Herman Ketterer, |r
Charles Alberts, Mrs. A. Ketteran and 1
tV. N. Craigie. f
PACIFIC COAST Mill :
HEADS NEW DEPARTMENT:
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 3.—The food
administration has announced the ere-11
ation of a marine transportation de ' '
partment to supervise ocean ship
ments. C. P. Doe of San Francisco,
president of the Northern Pacific!
Steamship Company, has been named j
as its head.
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(By Associated Press)
NORFOLK. VaT March 3—Seven
teen-thousand-ton ferry Oastleton, the
coal barge Edith and the government
lightship were destroyed by fire here
last night. Two of the Oastleton's fire
men were burned to death.
The cause of the fire was the ex
plosion of a lamp on board the Castle
ton.
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m TEXAS gamp!
(By Associated Press)
FORT WORTH. Texas, March 3 —
General Moare, commander of the en
tire British Ro/nl flying corps in Can
ada and the United States, was seri
ously injured in an airplp-ne accident
at ('amp Taliaferro yesterday.
CONTRASTED TREATMENT
OF CAPTURED PEOPLF
LONDON, March 4.—Contrasted
with the German proclamation threat
ening punishment upon the jvomen
and children of Udine, Italy, if thev !
failed to work In the fields for sixteen j
hours every day, under German dom-!
ination, the order issued bv the British |
commander to the people of Jerusalem I
after the capture of {hat city, snows
the different manner in which the
entente and the central powers wage
war. The British order reads:
“It ht-Huy desire that every person|
should pursue his lawful business with-'
out fear of interruption. Furthermore, I
since your city is regarded with aft'ec-j
tion by three of the great religions of
mankind, and iVs soil lfSis been conse
crated by the prayers and pilgrimages
of the devout for many centuries,
therefore be it it known that every
sacred building, monument, holy spot,
shrine, pious bequest, or customary
place of prayer, will be maintained and
protected according to the existing
customs and beliefs of those to whose
faiths they are sacred."
RUSSIANS SIGN PEACE TREATY
IN FEAR OF WORSE CONDITIONS
Jach Day of Delay Brought
More Drastic Terms from
German Invaders
(By Associated Press)
DATELESS (March 4).—The Rus
lan delegates at Brest Litovsk have
alted the German invasion of Great
tussia by agreeing to the peace terms
ffered. The delegates were induced
3 make peace because of the fact that
very day’s delay meant more Ger
ian demands.
The added provisions imposed by
iermany require that the Russians re
ire from Turkey's Asiatic provinces,
nd also from the territory near Kars,
latum and Karabagh. taken by the
tussians from the Turks in other
.•ars.
The Germans have captured much
var material and more than sixty
housand prisoners during the Russian
ampaign.
To be Ratified by Council
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 4—The Russian of
’icial announcement, signed by Prem
er Lenine and Foreign Minister Trot
;ky, says the Bolsheviki peace delega
ion at Brest-Litovsk, after signing the
Herman peace compact, are now en
route to Petrograd, where the text of.
the agreement will be published . ^
The Council of Workmen's. Peas
ants' and Cossacks' Deputies will meet
at Moscow pn March i2 to consider
the ratification of the treaty. * '
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Why They Sijjfled ' i
l'ETROGRAO, March 3.—Pear that
further argument would resi It tn the
imposition at more rigorous t'wms, the
Russian delegates at the Bret Lilovsk
peace conference have accepted all the1
German conditions and are about, to*
sign an agreement, according to a feife
gram from the delegates received at
Bolshevik! headquarters. They report
ed that already the demands of the
Germans have been increased.
Invasion Has Been Stopped
BERLIN, March 3.—An official bul
letin says that by reason of the sign
ing of the peace treaty with Russia the
military movements against that coun
try have ceased.
Russians Destroying Railroad
WASHINGTON, March 4.—Chair
Stevens of the American railroad com
mission in Russia, reports to the state
department that the Russians are de
stroying bridges and trains on the
Siberian railroad between Lake Bai
kal and the Chinese frontier. This
may prevent Ambassador Francis from
reaching Vladivostok.
While details are lacking, officials
here believe that the Russians are de
stroying the bridges in order to pre
rent the expected Russian advance.
British Embassy Plundered
LONDON, March 3.—It is reported
here that Russian troops in charge
3f a Russian colonel plundered the
British embassy at Petrograd after
he staff had left. Another report says
hat the embassy was looted while the
staff was there, some documents b«
Ing burned and other confiscated
Aerial Attacks on Capital
PETROGRAD, March 3—German
lirmen bombarded various parts of the
city today, killing three persons and
Injuring five. The material damage
was unimportant.
Prepared to Stay in New Capital
VOLOGDA, March 3—American Am
bassador David T. Francis has re
ceived word that the British and
French ambassadors have left Petro
?rad. Ambassador Francis is- prepar
ng to stay in Vologda for a consider
i ble period.
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FISH PRICES
At Seattle
SEATTLE, March 4.—Prices for
ish at noon today were as follows:
Halibut, 15 l-3c; red cod, 5c: ling cod,
I l-2c: pickled sable fish, $12 per hbi.:
(tickled herring, $11 per bbl.