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r ' f I . - "-!. j V . - J s X and Carolina TODAY'S HEWS 8 o tongiht uiM V I am Colde in west. TODAY FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE XXIV. NO. 48. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25191.8. OL. PRICE FIVE CENTS ATM LIST OF THE SCORE KB.LEB V . " " i WlLM'lNGI I MM JH1SM ON 1 : AT "VEATHER I ...rth Carolina u t n u. 4 - I NEW 1E0ID F LOEIZEL WRECK IS OW Only 44 of the 1 46 Persons on Board the Red Cross Ship Saved SHIP STRUCK ROCKS. NEAR CArfc KAUr. Florizel Struck During Rough Seas Sunday While En Route From St. John's to Kew York c, Johns, X- F., Feb. 25. Forty- three persons auoaru me ncu vuoo ner Florizel. wrecneu uei ays Race in a sionu ectnj jcoiwuoi, rescued today. Three rescue ships brought the first batch of survivors t0 port and others were on the way in tie afternoon. Among the survivors are nve saioun and seven steerage passengers. Most of those saved were memoers of the crew. Among tne survivurs re Major Michael Sullivan, oounu ior plifax; Ralph Burnham, of the toy- i Flving Corps; Alexander Leding laa. of St. Johns; Archibald Gardner and two women, miss Minnie uaniei and Miss Kittle Cantwell. The coastal steamer Prospero was ported just before noon as on her way here with the survivors. The names of the rescued, so far as known, and the identified dead at: Survivors Passenger John Kiel- y; crew: captain w. J. jiarun, si. ohns; Chief Officer James, Wireless Operator Cecil G. Carter, New York. Identified dead: Passengers, Mrs. Fred Butler, St. Johns, N. F.; Edward roude, St. Johns, N. F.; Corporal Fred Snow, Royal Flying Corps. The first batch of survivors was aken off in three life boats and four dories, but the sea was so rough they nere unable tff -approach the shbrUng near which the Florizel struck early Sunday morning while bn a voyage from this port to Halifax and New York. All had suffered terribly from :old and exposure. Steamers met the boats and took the rescued aboard. A wireless from the Prospero to ohn Crosbie, minister of shipping, early today was the first word of hope that any of the 77 passengers and trew of 69 had been saved. The Prospero reported that every effort as being made to transfer them fromr he battered hulk. The Prospero, a staunch coasting essel, had been dispatched at the 5rst report of the disaster from Plac ?ntia Bay, 75 miles around the coast from Broad Cave, but after her de parture government authorities felt that her task was hopeless. With the baling ships Terra Nova and Home. he stood outside the cove while re Ports were sent by observers on land that the sea had not sufflclent.lv suh- Jded to allow the launching of boats before daylight. when naval gunners had shot a line rom the ishore arnRS the. hrmr nf tho florizel and saw rm attpmnt rn the hip to make the line fast, it was be- ea an those on board were dead. About tiidnight, however, "watchers ported that lights hart heart noon the wireless room and the fore- ni ', Ehowing some persons were Kill alive Lata,. . r foe Prospero reporting she was --same tne Florizel and expected ,ufl to take nff the v!port adled that their names would n Be&t as SOnri as nncoiMa r , i'uuiuiu, forcing his ... th pi f y "Bamsi a Diizzara, e 'fiorizel's commander fanta m Martin v-,.-' . " r; to roi T'n y mornmS sought L,r te nace on nis voyage here to Halifax and New York. APParenrlv. hn-wr. t, .i4j Position, for the Florizel rushed the p! !agged rocks of Broad Cove on the can Elde of the island nortn of Although the sea today was not as as it was 'truck o u wnen tne steamer that rP!? e rocks' reports indicated lerous rl . extrem7 dan- nurizei s wireless wa3 fConti mued on Page Eight.) Mexican bandits ATTACK Yashin . w.; "j 14 e? 25.-One Ameri- d in an cu ana tnree were wound 5 an 1 V-tack by Mexican bandits esdav boat at Tampi co last Wed- Teiar ".use. a paymaster for Oil the ompany, was killed. The or eV. isbaS ?Fe J P S- Mennett, Dr. ilaT,H,Jln emPloye of the Island : ' and t. ut"u'e Ul tne lsia 'raai,T, Ult company, and a il if na.med Prather. Mennett's W.s.senous. 6aidalfi,aavices caching here JWo fr bandits'SOt as- much ter f,r01? th American pay and tliat the Americans de PLACED AT 10 M CUMBER SCORES TREACHERY OF THE Their Desertion of the "Bleed ing Allies" is Called Damn- able Treason WARNS THIS NATION TO BE ON GUARD Declares Bolshevikism is Para lyzing Hands of Govern ment Denounces Pro fiteering Here Washington, Feb. 25. Denouncing the Bolsheviki surrender to Germany, Senator McCumber, Republican, of North Dalta, told the Senate coday that a "Bolsheviki" sentiment in Am erica was of no less danger to the cause of democracy against autocracy. Profiteers, labor slackers, and govern ment officials who fail to stand against them were assailed by the Senator in vigorous terms. Unless conditions change, he declar edonly a collapse of the Central Pow ers can save the Allies from defeat. The Senator began with a denuncia tion of the Bolsheviki surrender. "Search the world's history," de clared Senator McCumber, "and -noth- ia be-found even to approach this most dr unable treachery to the faithful and bleeding Allies this blackest treason to country and na tional honor. For this ignonimous surrender under Bolsheviki regime let every Russian patriot for a thousand years wear branded in his cheek the blush of shame. ' ' "With this spectacle of national im-potency- and disgrace before you, and enlightened by the appalling condi tions in our ship yards., is it not time we were turning our attention to the Bolsheviki doctrine of those in our own country who are paralyzing the arms of the government and imperil ing the lives of our soldiers in France ? "So, too, we have seen the effect of this Bolsheviki sentiment, more, still more, always more, regardless of jus tice, regardless of patriotic duty, in the shameful delay in ship construc tion on which the very life-of a great world principle depends and we are told that all munition plants, every line in industry which the life of the government depends will soon be re duced to the same condition of impo tence as the ship building program. The demand has arrived for the Amer ican people to accept the challenge. "While this Bolsheviki cancer which is sapping our strength and jeopard izing our safety is not confined to any one class, it nevertheless manifests itself in its most malignant form in supply profiteering and in labor prof iteering in our shipyards." In supply profiteering, Senator Mc Cumber said he would name only one shipyard Hog Island. The foundation of that yard, he de clared, is "laid on graft" and the cost of construction, he said, will be "three or four times the government's origin al estimate," adding "this single hold up of the government will probably cost not less than $30,000,000. Like conditions prevail," he continu ed, "throughout the country where over speeding up production has be come necessary. Contracts of the most atrocious character, always against the government, have been o. k'd by, government, officials. The government pays every dollar of ex pense for, raw materials and yet pays individuals enormous profits. Men OIL BOAT fended themselves vigorously, wound ing five of the Mexicans. The affray, these advices said, might result more seriously than supposed, possibly in the withdrawal of the Americans. The same advices said .that in other depredations on Americans last Friday $5,000 was taken from the cashier of an American company 'and that the American company's commis sary at San .Geronimo had been ri fled and something less than $500 taken. Both Carranzan and rebel troops are in the vicinity. Officials, however, regarded-the in cident as a case of robbery BOLSHEVKI HEADS CAPITAL AND LABOR A Trying to Fprmulate a Nation al Labor Program for ' the War Washington, Feb. 25. The first of a series of conferences between rep resentatives of capital and labor, sum moned here by Secretary Wilson, in the hope of formulating a labor pro gram for the war, was begun today. In attendance were five representa tives of labor and five of capital. The 10 men will chose two others to rep resent the general public at the con ferences. The purpose of the sessions is to lay down abasis of relations between capital and labor during the war, and to lay the foundation of a national la bor policy. Charles F. Brooker, president of the American Brass Company, who had been invited to serve as a mem ber, sent word that he would be un able to do so. B. L. Warden, vice president of the Submarine Boat Cor poration, was named in his place. J. A. Franklin, president of ithe Brotherhood of Boiler Makers j one of the men asked to represent labor, also sent word he could not serve. A sub stitute will be named later. All the men expected were not pres ent when the conference opened, but discussions began without them. TEN THOUSAND WERE LOST, IN EARTHQUAKE Antoy, China, Feljr. n. It'esrlynlO,-! 000 persons lost their lives as a resutf of the recent earthquake in the Amoy Hinterland, according to the latest reports from Swatow. Danish Crew Landed. An Atlantic Port, Feb. 25. An Am erican steamship arrived here today brought 17 members of the crew of the Danish steamship Tranquebar, who were picked up at sea. There has been no previous report of the loss ofx the Tranquebar, a vessel of 3,453 tons gross. who never saw a shipyard, men who had no capital, have been given con tracts to build ships and they in turn have contracted to sublet those con tracts to others, retaining big com missions. Banks have charged im mense bonuses for securing contracts for their customers and all this with in the knowledge of or easily obtain able by government officials. Despite the fact that the nation needs ships as never before in order to transport troops and supplies abroad, and "notwithstanding the pa triotic fervor of Mr. Gompers, union labor in our shipyards is lacking in a most shameful and disgraceful man ner," the Senator declared. Senator McCumber said the United States has "the human energy to win this war and win it quickly, but that fmererv needs mobilization." He de nied there was a labor shortage, say ing that what is lacking "is mobiliza tion of the labor we have and the abil ity to insist that a day's work by those pretending to labor shall be given for a just and liberal compensation on the part of the government." War was declared 10 months ago, asserted Senator McCumber, and the raising of an army begun while the press of the country began to discuss what terms of peace should be im posed on the enemy, but tlje ship question was not taken into consider ation. The Senator said that Secretary Baker declared last month before the Senate Military Committee that "ships is the crux of our problems now," and demanded "Why were those words not uttered by the War Department 10 month's ago?" Secretary Baker could have easily inauired regarding this matter, Seu- 'etr MoCumber continued. If the Rftprptnrv answers that this is no part of the duties of the Secretary of War, that a shipping board has been created for that purpose and he was only concerned with the creation of an army, it seems, the Senator said, that this is unanswerable argument in favor of a war board. "Now that we have awakened, now that we have ah .army of 1,500,000 ready, now that neither we nor the world have the shipping to take that army over and supply it, what are you eniner to do about it?" he asked. "You will either get right down to busi ness and construct ships on a greater scale than you have ever contemplat ed or you will allow this war to be over before you get into it and our President's 14 articles of peace con ditions will be a less-heeded scrap of paper than the Belgian treaty." HOLDING MEETING IN R. R. WfBECK Columbia, S. C, Feb. 25. Passenger train No. 42 on the Southern Railway f rpm Spartanburg and passenger train tyo. 18 from Greenville, both for Columbia, had rear end collision at Frosts, four miles from Columbia at 2:45 this afternoon, killing between 1 5 and 20 persons and injuring many more. A report received at the Southern Railway shops says that the casualty list is very heavy. It is reported that one engine ploughed through two coaches or the other tram. AMERICANS ENTER GERMAN TRENCHES Penetrated Lines Distance of Several Hundred Yards Bringing Back Two German Officers and 20 Men Amer icans Sustains no Casualties French Aided With the American Army in France, Sunday, Feb. 24. The American pa trol in the Chemiz Des Dames sector, in conjunction with a French patrol, early yesterday penetrated a few hun dred yards into the German lines and captured two German officers, 20 men and one machine gun. There was some sharp fighting and a number of the enemy were killedWas disclosed in an Associated Press and wounded. There were no Ameri can casualties. The Franco-American patrol was under command of a French officer. The French war office communica 157 ALIENS REMOVED CI Germans and Austrians in the Army Carried to Fort Mc , Pherson , Charlotte,. N. C, Feb. 25. One hundred and fifty-seven aliens were removed from Camp Greene yester day to Fort McPherson,- Ga. The men were mostly Germans and Aus trians and some of them had been in America for many years. All of them were volunteers in th army and came from most every State in the Union. Some Qf them were old men in the service, one mess sergeant having been in for 18 years. It is understood that not all of these men will be interned, but assigned to the service not "over seas." BOARD TO REVIEW EXCESS PROFITS Washington, Feb. 25. A board of excess profits ' reviewers, consist ing of about a dozen representatives of special industries or businesses, will be created soon by Internal Rev enue Commissioner Roper, to make rulings on specific questions involved in returns. This has been decided upon as a means of solving a multitude of problems. . Hundreds of business 'firms find the regulations too general to flfespecific cases. Each member of fthe board, which will sit in Washing ton and make recommendations to the commissioner, is to- be picked for his knowledge of a particular line of business. The terms invested capital, earn ings and profits and other factors in determining the amount of tax to be paid, may take on different shades of meaning for different businesses and on the board's decisions will depend many millions of dollars in taxes. Hog Island Probe Begins. Philadelphia, Feb. 25 Five mem bers of the Senate Commerce Com mittee arrived here from Washington today and began an inspection of the new government shipbuilding plant at Hog Island on the Delaware river. More witnesses were expected to tes tify here in addition to those sum moned before the committee during the investigation at the capital. DICTATOR OF RUSSIA. London, Feb. 25. General Bruej vitch has been appointed succes sor to Ensign Krylenko as, commander-in-chief of the Russian armies, acocrding to a Berlin dis patch forwarded from Amsterdam by the Central News Agency. Gen eral Brujevitch, according to the message, has been proclaimed dic tator and has ordered the Russian troops to fight to the last Bruje vitch was formerly chief of staff to Ensign Krylenko. FROM tion Saturday reported that north of the Ailette river, which parallels the Chemin Des Dames, French troops had penetrated the German lines as far as the neighborhood of Chevrigny. They were reported; to have returned with . material and 25 prisoners, in cluding two officers. The presence of American units along the famous Chemin Des Dames dispatch ' last Friday. In a patrol fight the previous day American sol diers killed one German and captured another. One American was wound ed slightly. Tea Merchant Kills Furniture Salesman and Then Shoots Himself Charlotte, N. C, Feb. 2&T W.' I Bush, a tea merchant, shot and killed Mack Wilkinson, a furniture sales man, here this morning, and then turned the revolver to his own head and blew out his brains. The men were alone in the rear of the. tea store and the direct cause of the trag edy is unknown. Wilkinson was shot in the back of the head and was dead when men near the store, hearing the shooting, went in to investigate. Bush lived for an hour. Bush was married. CABINET MEMBERS TO BE WITNESSES San Francisco, Feb. 25. Two mem bers of President Wilson's cabinet, a former Secretary of State and Rabin dranath Tagore, Indian poet, will be subpoenaed to testify for the defense of 31 persons charged with conspir ing to foment revolution against Brit ish rule in India, it was announced to day by Ram Chandra, principal Hindu defendant. The cabinet members are Secre tary Lansing and Postmaster General Burleson. The former secretary Is William J. Bryan. There is some question as to whether cabinet mem bers can be called as witnesses, but eTery effort will be made to obtain their depositions, Chandra said. GERMAN TROOPS OCCUPY PERNAU German troops have occupied Pernau, a Russian seaport in Livonia, 99 miles northeast of Riga and Dorpat, 157 miles northeast of Riga, the Ger man war office announced today. In the German advance to Dorpat 3,000 Russians were taken prisoners. This flying detachment traveled 130 miles in five and one-half days. The advance guard of General volutins gen's troops in the south have de Zhitomir, 85 miles west of Krylenko Wounded. London, Feb. 25. Ensign Kryle tne itussian comanaer-in-cnir i, wa: shot and slightly wounded Saturday m Petrograd by a Socialist, according to in Exchange Telegraph from Am sterdam. Krylenko's wound was in the neck. His assailant was arrested. Young Aviator Killed. Dallas, Texas,' Feb. 25. R. E. Stall, of Detroit, a cadet in the aviation branch signal corps, fell 200 feet at Lovo-' Field today and was killed. Stall was a graduate of the Univer sity of Ohio. Davies for the Senate. Chicago, Feb. 25. Joseph E. Da vies, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, 'announced today that he will resign to enter the Senatorial race in Wisconsin. MURDER AND SUICIDE . IN CHARLOTTE TODAY f i IN ADVANCE ; BY GERMANS THE REVOLUTION Revolt Broke out Last Friday Under Leadership pf Newspaper Man GERMANS BELIEVED BEHIND THE AFFAIR Much Looting Before Govern- ment Troops put an End to the Effort Will not Change Washington - . San Jose, Costa Rica, Feb. 25. IN COSTA RIGA COMES TO END The revolution in fnsta p,',3 hae hoaJUTe m ine UKrame. At Zhitomir VI VtH UCfckV KJ U. put down and order has been com pletely restored. The troubles had their inception last Friday when a band commanded iceived- by Rogelio Fernandez Guell, editor of In the n?rth ie Germans have takt; Tjij . tm.i.i v. ien Possession of Pernau, the Russian El Imparcial, a pro-German news-port on the Gulf of Riga, 99 mile; paper, which had been suppressed by! northeast of the city of Riga, and the Costa Rican government, attack-jbave occupied Dorpat. more than .150 ed a passenger train from Punta Are-!miles from Ri&a toWards the north nas, capturing some" of the passen-! east- A flying column penetrated to gers. This band continued looting iDorPat covering more than 134 ;iniW' alotng the railway line until govern-!in five and-a half days and gathering meat forces arrived and routed the in 3.00 prisoners on the way. ; rebels. Some-of the insurrectionists ncjw wviiuw 4uiu uue vuiers ilea in disorder, being followed, by the roops. J Yesterday there was another small movement In the outskirts of Cartago and a similar one In Turrialba, but the rebels were dispersed almost without resistance. s - Supported by Germans. Washington, Feb. 25,-r-Advices to the State Department that the revolu tionary party in Costa Rica is sup ported by authorized German agents have not changed this government's attitude toward President Tinoco and itpjras reiterated at the State Depart ment today .that the recogntiion of the present government was hot un der 'consideration. : Advices to the State Department tell of the revolutionary outbreak, but they do not indicate that the de posed president, Alfredo Gonzales, is implicated. . The American charge d'affaires has recently reported increasing unrest. Agents of Tinoco, both here and in New York, have insisted that a rev olutionary effort would be made in behalf of the deposed government. They have submitted what they re gard as proof that the former presi dent was .being financed by Germans and a record of developments prior to his overthrow to show his pro-German attitude while president. GERMANS CONTINUE TO MAKE ADtfcES Petrograd, Sunday, Feb. 24. The Germans late Saturday were still ad vancing into the provinces they had decided to occupy. In this connection it is reported they are executing Red Guards, treating them as out laws, but releasing and disarming soldiers of the regular army. The Pravda, the Bolshevik organ, declares that the Germans are restor ing shoulderstraps to Russian officers and forcing the Russian soldiers to salute them. The resolution to agree to the Ger man peace terms was adopted by the central executive committee of the All-Russian council of workmen's and soldiers' delegates by a vote of 126 to 85. Twenty-six members of the committee were not present. ALLIED DIPLOMATS REMAIN Petrograd, Feb. 24. The Allied ambassadors, at a conference today at the American embassy, determined K remain in Petrograd pending de- velopments. The general belief in embassy circles is that the German terms which the Bolsheviki have agreed to accept are couched in such ambiguous terms that they must be cleared up thoroughly before the ac tual status of Russia can be ascer tained. Some members of the embassy staff already have left, while others will leave by way of Siberia on a special train tonight, together with many allied nationals. The Armies Invading Russia , are Making Most Notable Progress . J GERMAN CHANCELLOR f TO DISCUSS PEACE Hertling Scheduled to Appear5-. Before Reichstag Todayr-f Much Activity Along Amf erican Sector r - The Bolshevik acceptance of then German peace terms has not yet hgltR ed the German armies engaged in the new invasion of Rliaain nnfl orMlHsnSt wide areas have been occupied Jsy tKeb Teutonic troops. bytSXSSS tod's Berlin announcement wa , j forces in Volhynia which have push4 ed more than 100 miles eastward froujl the triangle of fortresses recently oo? jcupjed and have reached Zhitomir !"ithin 85 miles of Kiev, their objCr contact with, the Ukrainian forces was established. . The Bolsheviki had possession of Kiev at the time .the latest reports from that city were re- Couar vosrHertling, the Imperial German Reichstag today on foretgii affairs, probably with most attention' to the Russian, situation and ! t&4 peace terms now offered by Germany, The Chancellor has not yet repljed'ie the recent war aims statement ol President Wilson and Premier Xdoyd George, and if he speaks he may take this opportunity to state Gennan7s case once more. ' ' Russia, as represented by 'the Bol. shevik government, has agreed t,o the German peace terms for tf second, time within a week. After the first agreement the Bolsheviki decided to Jlght, but the .military' activity on their part apparently did not halt by one step the German invasion. Ger many as a result Of the Bolshevik -attempt to wage war increased ' her terms in the last peace ultimatum. which virtually cuts off from Russian domination all Western territory add ed to Great Russia since the time of Peter the Great. Except in Livonia and Esthonfc, where small detachments made slight resistance, the Germans are progress ing unhampered along the entire like from the Gulf of Finland to the Uk raine. In the North they are ..ap proaching Reval, the naval base, and in the South, Minsk is 45 miles be hind the invading troops. c There has been no increasein ths fighting activity on. the Western and Italian fronts. British troops have re pulsed German raiding parties in . the Ypres sector, while the artillery has been active north of Arras. On the French front there have been intense artillery duels at several points along the line from Verdun to Switzerland. Large troop movements behind the' German lines at . night are reported from the American sector northwest of Toul. The artillery bombardment there has been intense. Little dam age was done by the Germans' gun fire. Attempts by German patrola ;t reach the American trenches were futile. American troops aided their French brothers in arms in the raid last Saturday morning north of the Ailette river in the Chemin Deji Dames sector. The German ; lines were penetrated and two German offi cers, 20 men and one machine gmv were brought back by the raiders. Al though there was some sharp fighting there were no American casualties. ' - IN R USSIA The ambassadors, however, har not reached a decision. .'; Ambassador Francis, J. Bullet Wright, the counselor, Norman Ar mour, second secretary, and - Private Secretary Johnson and a sufficient staff of clerks will remain, to Petro grad. A special embassy train- la' charge of James G. Balnley, first see-' retary, and William C. HunUngtbn, commercial attache, and some mem- rbers of the staffs of the Japanese and Chinese embassies, leave tonight' for Vologda. Colonel James A. Ruggles. the American military attache, will stay in Petrograd forrthe time beint.