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7 M : HfH J 1, . :- m Mm r THE WEATHER t Pair and continued, cold Monday and Xueiday; west winds. Complete Service of the - Associated Press 1 I 1867 VOL. CI-S-Q. 79. WILMIKGTON.N. C, MONDAY MiORXrSTGr, DECEMBER 10, 1917 WHOLE NUMBER 39,257 5 riff r COSSACKS READY TO WITH BOLSHEVIK! Long Expected Civil War in Rus sia Apparently at Hand With KaiedinesLeading. ITALIANS STAND FIRMLY little Infantry Action On Cambrai front But Germans Make Fu tile Attack at Verdun. tm ions expected civil warfare in Russia- aJ apparently uao wiuc ucumai r,iedine? the leader of the Don Cos- r-s supported by General -Korniioff, ,rmPr commander-in-chief of the Rus- I can forces, is declared in ah official nmunicatirm issued by the Bolshe tiki government to have raised the standard of revolt in the Don Cossack redon against the people and the rev elation. Bolsheviki Issues Order. B?tsbeviki government has ordered Its J troops and followers immediately to set j a work to pu tdown the uprising, for-j edding even any attempts at media ten. Xo details of the uprising are as yet to hand, but the proclamation of the Be'sieviki eovernment asserts that the constitutional democrats and the bour geois are urging the movement nainst the Leninite faction. The Cos Kcks, of whom Kaledines is the leader. are famous as dashing fighters, and in ) choosing Korniioff as his righthand man Kaiedines obtains a military man pf unquestioned ability. . Brilliant Stand of Italians. rf equal interest in the world war is the brilliant stand the Italians have made in keeping back the rush of the Aiistro-German forces from the Asiago plateau region to the plains of northern Italy Although the enemy has bent teck the line of the defenders to a point where it seemed that it must r.ve way under the press of over- wneimmsr rramoers 01 men.atja guns, the Pahans. reinforced by ' the '.full rrersth r.f the French and British tmops rushed to the front, have stem med the tidi or onslaugnts and for the moment at least bought the fighting to a pause. Allies Answer Shot for Shot. ... Tfceir infantry and shock troops talked, the Austrian and German guns ar? still heavily bombarding various prats elong the front between the P;a.e and Brenta rivers, but they are rang answered, almost shot for .shot, i 7 the cannon of the allies. From the : P-r. - C . 1. . .... i . , ne Passes tney- are noiaing . the Ira'ians: I-mv-o brought into play ere miied clown on the enemy on ; lany occasions as. they tried to make : fer wav srvil Toward ton-aril tine nlain. . . - r ... imormation, tne power is in me imuua LhMe "2!nt vy STty 'progress U the soldiers and the workmen and th western front in France and the Ukrainian authorities. Belgium, although on various sectors j 'Tn soldiers' and -workmen's circles." 5,,; Nr?Set0, thee5lon of continues fhe dispatch, "the opinion is rajn mutual bombardments are en-! , , , . Rir!g The Germans have not yet-de-i held that General Kaledines has pre cd aeain to nitpr hatti t oAmt i pared for an armed demonstration. The Bras'? fniv."i "thoir ,..i v,c ! s on The Cambrai s ector, although j :.ip :irri-i. i i z j ui.!1 "iti-tTiv tj s 1 1 ( i v,' ri I'nr Niiicrn mr i tvi,v. south' of Cambrai and in the tfrir.r,. nf ,T i. :e erdun sector the Germans have -another attempt to pierce the "r.c.r, line in the region of Bezonvaux, ;jiv.e;e r-r-iilsed after somewhat brisk -sntir.g and suffered considerable cas Hlties. HttDESBlRc; AND LIDEXDORFF BOTH OX CAMBRAI FB.ONT V.en";a- FrMav Dec- T- Both Field j '."shal Von Hindenburg and Gen. Von t "Wndorff are on the Cambrai front, wding to a dispatch from Strass- "5 lottay. Railway traffic through ( ftu-.ne towns has been congested several days, it is reported from source, owins to the flow of troops ;;! artiile rv bc'n? riisVierl tn fhis front. i-,dvi:ians are permitted to travel ,:;r'S the Rhine and theGerman fron- remains closed. ' ,,;nereas the Italian victory excited -.I f on-l : . '"'''sn m Germany, the suc- s--V amtra':' the semi-official Wolft u states, is causing the greatest TONINPA.TATVTAH " LED AMERICANS 03? Jle,t Story of (inn,,. r! brai Tells of a Battle Royal Against Huns. jj' the T'r:ilsh Army in France and ?;,Jm. Saturday. Dec. 8 (By The As m , rpss,. An eventful week -( in a f., . - w'un ooth sides consoi- tVtheir new positins- ne f tne ; stories to come to light in con-7e- Oerman sweep in :trs C0Urt 'nvolves American engi ' The central figure in the narra- 5 ciari ??allant British general who . u Pajamas wVion y& fno of. , tQ V,!iT HIV i. , ' Oreanizert a honfnl C mart J,,-r-''t!ack. All the British-! hfcri . ' Ulr "xcent the eeneral. who V I,nainR a few more "Tom -"-ciiprt ; . .. iffew h !leld sun with which they . v iir s . " ' .it . j VllVjlll V 1 1 1 1 V . M I I r. I I A' Engiv, cans with a small group tes and cooks suddenly ?5n?m '-'sves cut off and Joined the creasing the total of this force the general IR my and was beatiner them forw JDcay of the British force -.i juincu mem. APPEAR CONTEST "Documentary Evidence of Deeds That Make One Despair Of Future of Human Race" Washington, Dec. 9. "German War Practices" is the title of e book issued today by the commit tee on public Information for free distribution. "Some of the blackest pages in all history comprising a documen tary evidence of 'deeds that make one . despair . of the future of the human race' is the way the com mittee described the work. "The purpose is to show that the system of f rightfulness practiced by German soldiery is the definite policy of the German government itself and individual acts of cruel ty and destruction are cited to il lustrate the operation of the sys tem." One quotation given a promin ent place is from the speech of the kaiser to his soldiers about to de part for China -in 1900. Ijt follows:. "As soon as you come to blows with the enemy he will, be beaten. No mercy will be shown. No pris oners will be taken. As the Huns, under King Attila made a name for themselves which is still mighty in the traditions and le gions today, may the name of Ger many be so fixed In China by your deeds that no Chinese shall ever again dare to look at a German askance. . . . Open the way for kultur once for all." KALEDINES AND KORNILQFF READY Cossack Leader and Former Rus sian Commander Awaiting " Events at Novo Tcherkask. . ARE DECLARED ENEMIES Lenlne Government in Petrog-rnd Issue Proclamation Against Them and Orders Soldiers to Attack Them AVherever Found. London. Dec. 9. General Kaledines, the Cossack leader, is at Novo Tcher- ;ask. where he is apparently awaiting events, according 10 aispmes iiuiu iue Don region published by the Petrograd newsoaoer - Den. says a semi-official .Russian news agency despatch from Petrograd, dated Saturday. In all the other Don districts, according to this . .. , . s t. i j - government is taking the most vigorous measures to repel him... " Y esteraav. says a,iiu-ci of the - ' Petrograd news agency .also dated Saturday, "a crowd of sol- .Jdiers who were disobeying orders loot- I ed the wine cellars in the winter pal ace, became intoxicated and were dis persed by armd force. The government has; taken measures to destroy all stocks of alcohol." London, Dec. 9. A proclamation to the Kussian nation has been issued by the- Russian government announcing that "Kaledines and Korniioff assisted by the imperialists and constitutional democrats, have raised a revolt and de clared war in the Don region against the people and the revolution." The proclamation adds that "the con stitutional democrats and bourgeoisie are supplying the revolting generals with scores of millions." "The workmen's and soldiers' dele gates have ordered the necessary move ments of troops against th ecounter revolution and issued decrees authoriz ing the local revolutionary garrisons to attack the enemies of the people without awaiting orders from the su preme authorities and forbidding any attempts at mediation." PROPOSALS OP ARMISTICE RV GERMANY AJVD RUSSIA Petrograd, Saturday, Dec. '8. The T.,t,.;an ttiocatinn which took Dart in the armistice negotiations reported to the central executive committee and the soldier's and workman s council today. The terms for the armistice were outlined by one of the delegation as follows: ' tio PnsslTia nrottosed that the du.- ration of the , armistice be six months, with threi dys' notice of the resump tion of hostilities; the armistice to embrace all fronts in all countries; no troops to be transferred; Moon sound and Moon island to be evacuated by the Germans. The Germans made these counter proposals: The armistice to last 28 days; to embrace only the Russian front; the transfer of units less than a division to be permitted; Moon sound and island to remain in German occu pation; the Russian trpops to be re moved froni the Macedonia and French fronts; Russian and Turkish troops to evacuate Persia. Consideration of the report was postponed. . AFFIRM NEITHER ARMISTICE NOR PEACE CONTRARY TO RUSSIA London. Dec. 9. A Petrograd dis patch from the Russian semi-official news agency, dated Saturday, makes the , Continued 'On Page Two) DLL DF LIVES 15 NOT LESSENED BY ADMIRAL'S REPORT Number of Survivors of Destroyer Jacob J ones Remains at 44 Out of Total of 110 Aboard. BOAT SANK IN 17 MINUTES Crew Had No Time to Make Pro vision Against Sea and There's No Hope For Missing. Washington, Dec. 9, Further re ports from Vice-Admiral Sims today began to unfold the story of the tor pedoing of the destroyer Jacob Jones, but did not lessen the toll of lives lost with the ship. Only forty-four of 110 or more officers and men aboard are known to have survived, includ ing one unidentified man picked up and carried off by the submarine that struck the blow. Today's reports added to the list of dead Ensign Stanton F. Kalk a young officer whose name did not ap pear on, tne first roster of the ship's company. He died of exposure. The dispatches gave no further de tails of the escape of. Lieutenant Commander Bagley and the other sur vivors, but they contained the names of seventee of the rescued in addition to those announced last night. Daniel's Issues Statement. Secretary Daniels issued this state ment: "Additional information received from Admiral Sims today reveals the fact that the Jacob Jones was tor pedoed at 4:12 p. m. on December 6. She began to settle aft and finally sank at 4.29. "The submarine was not seen until some time after the ship sank. The submarine then picked up one sur vivor, whose Identity is not known. The destroyer was not so far from the European coast as was indicated try the first dispatches. Hood of Atlanta, Not Asheville. "Gunner Harry .R. Hood was killed by the' explosion "of the torpedo, next of kin, mother, Bell Hood,- resides at 57 Penn avenue, Atlanta, Ga. Ensign S. F. Kalk died later of exposure. En sign Kalk's name was hot in the ros ter of officers published yesterday. His next of kin is his mother, Mrs. Flora S. Kalk, of Omaha, Neb. "Twenty-seven additional names of survivors have been received, bring ing the total number saved up to 44, inclusive of the man taken prisoner by the submarine." Reports yesterday stated that Gun ner Hood's home address was Ashe ville, N. C, but this proved incorect. Names of Survivors Given. Following are names 6i survivors cabled by Admiral Sims today, in ad dition to the list previously publish ed: . "Quartermaster Howard U. Chase; boatswains mates, Charles Worth and Harry Louis Gibson; gunners . mates, Charles Chilton and Conrad Streets; chief yeoman, Joseph Arthur Cossairt; chief electrician, Clifford Vernon De Forest; electricians, Clifton " Cranford, Boyd Martell Hamp and Terrell Read Wood. Seaman Harold- William Aa gard, Phillip Jacob Turner, Gustave Eulitz, Jr., Albert Lewis Everroad, Ed ward Wallace Fenton, Henry Joseph Maletz and Donat Marchand; fireman David Roy Carter and Patrick Henry Judge; mess attendant, -Ernest H. Pennington, water terider, Edward Meier, apprentice seaman, Lawrence Hansen. Enlisted Men Surviving. The following survivors were not in the'' list of enlisted personnel giv en out yesterday: Seaman Chester B. Lenen, emergen cy address not given. FiTeman Howard A. Moyer, White Haven, Pa. Fireman Chas. A. Mason; father, 'Westlyn, Mass. Officials here entertain little hope that more survivors will be foumd alive. The bitter cold which proba bly was the cause of Ensign Kalk's death makes it improbable that others who may have escaped and floated about on rafts or wreckage through the night could have survived such exposure. Fate "Were AH Adverse. Every element worked against the men of the destroyer. The report in dicates that the craft stumbled into the path of the submarine by unlucky chance and that the torpedo went home in such a vital spot that the vessel was sinking even as the flare of the explosion died out. Night was at hand. There was no time to make provision against the cold and the sea as the crew leaped to the life rafts. Many probably had died with Gunner Hood in the explosion or the steam bursts that undoubtedly followed it. II-Boat Took No Chance. The U-boat commander made sure before he exposed his craft that the destroyer had gone down. He took no chances of a last shot from her guns which might send him and his vessel also to their reckoning. Prob ably the single man saved by the submarine was taken aboard because the submarine officer desired infor mation as to the identity of the ves sel he had sunk. Secretary Daniels was at the navy department today and personally re viewed the statements issued before they were . made , public. He showed plainly the relief, that had come with word that his brother-in-law, Lieut enant Commander Bagley, was among the saved, but he evidently was deep ly moved by this greatest loss the navy has sufferedj thus far in the war. Difficult to Know Survivors. The three additional names of en listed men of the Jones crew includ (Continued oa Page Sight). GONG RESS TURNS FOREIGN TO Action on Railroad Questions to be Taken As Soon As Wilson Makes Wishes Known. DEFEAT WOMAN SUFFRAGE? Proposed Amendments to Consti tution On . Prohibition and Woman's Vote Tuesday- Washington, Dec. 9. Congress, hav ing disposed of the war declaration against Austria-Hungary, turns this week to pressing domestic problems. On the new legislative calendar gradually assuming definite shape are the railroad questions on which con gressional leaders plan immediate ac tion when President Wilson's declar ation regarding measures to unify railroad operations is made known. A special address to congress on the subject is regarded as possible if the president decides legislation is neces sary. Rapid Developments Expected. Rapid developments are expected this week. Tomorrow President Wil son will confer with Senator New lands, chairman of the senate inter state commerce committee and head of the joint congressional committee conducting a general transportation investigation. Senator Newlands hopes to submit a statement on behalf of the railroad executive? as a result of their conference today at New York. Tuesday the Joint congressional committee is scheduled to resume its hearings with former Senator Bristow of Kansas City and other shippers representatives on the stand. Members of .congress are busy studying the railroad, pi;fclaaviin ex pectation of " early ' legislation-. There is a wide difference of views on the proposal ' for government control of the railroads and . unification of the transportation system and on govern ment financial aid. Much General Business. There is much general business on the calendar to be" disposed of be fore recessing for the holidays. The senate will reconvene tomorrow and the house Tuesday, with committees of both bodies planning to proceed with appropriation bills and other measures. Debate will continue in the senate on the Webb export bill. Passage this week by the house of $333,000,000 postofflce appropriation bill also is planned. Suffrage and Prohibition. Woman suffrage and prohibiton are promised attention. The house judi ciary committee expects to act Tues day on resolutions proposing consti tutional amendments and there is talk of, votes on both In the house next week. Polls on both are being taken and are said to indicate probable de feat for the suffrage and victory for the prohibition measures. Soldiers and sailors civil rights bill which passed the house last session but was held up in the senate proba bly will be considered tomorrow by the senate judiciary committee. Other Alien Enemies. Legislation supplementing the Aus trian war declaration in behalf of Bo hemians, Poles, Czechs and other Aus trian subjects whom may members think should not be classed as enemy aliens will be considered during the week by committees of both bodies of congress. The house military committee will continue its hearings tomorrow on the house appropriation bill. Some effort has been made to hurry up all of the appropriating committees but so far there is no supply measure in sight in the house except the postal budget. NAT WILLS, "THE TRAMP," ASPHYXIATED YESTERDAY Comedian Known the Country Over Met Death in His Garage From Gases. Union- Hill. N. J., Dec. 9. Nat Wills, widely-known comeijian, whose char acterization 'of "The Tramp" is famil iar to theatregoers throughout tne country, was esphyxiated in a garags at his home today while getting his car ready to take a friend for a drive. He was overcome by gas fumes as he reached the closed door in an effort to get to the open air. His body was found when a friend telephoned Mrs. "Wills inquiring what had delayed her husband and she went to the garage to investigate. She could not open the door, which ap peared to have jammed. A neighbor opened it and the comedian's body fell into the roadway. Mr. Wills was 44 years old and was born in Washington, D. C. His wife Is known on the stage as May Day. He also leaves a daughter three years old. CUDAHY PACKING HOUSE MADE 94,430,000 CLEAR Chicago, Dec. 9." Various details of the packing industry are discuss ed in the annual report of E. A."Cud ahy, president of the Cudahy Pack ing company, which was made public today, placing the earnings - of the company for the year ending . October 31, 1917, In round numbers at $4,430, 000 after redUcting interest - payments and war taxes. FROM HOM E PROBLEMS German Press Denounces President's Message As Very "Shameless" Indeed Amsterdam, Dec. 9. The German , press generally uses language; of . - i nunciation in commenting on President 1 Wilson's message to congress. Count Von iteventlow, in the Tages Zeitung, sees in the message proof that, quite j apart from the war on land, it is a question of the actual existence of the; German empire and that only the strength and tenacity of German will can prevail against the Anglo-Saxon attack. The Tageblatt says that the message has raised new difficulties for the friends of peace by understanding. The Zeitung am Mittag says: "If President. Wilson so . puts the problem tnat there can be no peace with the present Germany, then Wilson, together with Lloyd-George and Cle menceau, must disappear The Rheinische Wastfaiische Zeitung says: "Vnexamnled ShamlsaiiiM. '"Wilson has surpassed himself in un J cAauipiBu Hnameiessiess. . . . ; It interprets the war declaration against Austria as intended to revive the low spirits of the Entente coun tries at a moment when their pros pects were hopelessly gjoomy. The Demokatrische Volkseitung calls President Wilson "the protector of tho endangered British empire." President Set a Record. The Neuste Naehrichetn says: "No former president worked so repulsively toward foreign, questions as President Wilson. America is now trampling the ITALY'S FRONT NOW Came Up Unaided Under Barrage of Their Own Artillery and Hold Sector After Sector. THE ITALIANS ARE ELATED Effect of the Arrival of Veterans from France is Indescribably Stirring Anions the Gallant Italian Armies. With the French Army in Italy, Sat urday, Dec. 8. (By The Associated Press). Protected by their, own ar tillery fire and whenever possible un der cover of night the French forces have gradually taken over their allot ted positions. on the Italian front and today face the Austro-Germans in fulj strength, Came Up Unaided. The French began the task of tak ing over their sector with the deter mination to do this as far as possible unaided and they brought up their own batteries and placed them in po sition before a single infantry com pany advanced. Consequently it was under the shelter of the French and not the Italian barrage fire that the troops finally began slipping into the lines they now occupy. Troops Among France's Best. These French troops are thoroughly familiar with all kinds of fighting both in the mountains and in the plains as they are among France's best and they have taken up their po sitions in full confidence that they cannot be dislodged. This has been tremendously heartening and inspir ing to the Italians retiring for rest and re-organization. Take Important Positions. The French positions are among the most .important along 'the entire Italian front. Down to the last troop er, the newcomers appreciate this fact and while they anticipate fre quent and flrce battles, they expect to be able to hold off any forces that oppose them or attempt to break through. Italian Greatly Heartened. The arrival of the French troops at the actual front and their gradual as sumption of one section of the line after another has had an indescrib ably stirring effect on the Italian troops who for two days have been fraternizing with both French and British. Notwithstanding the difficul ties of language they have been busy exchanging experiences and the Ital ians are most anxious to profit by the help their brotehrs-in-arms can give them, especially in the technical de tails of modern warfare of which the French and British are masters, af ter their longer experience. Thus the French have not only un dertaken the defense of their section but have strengthened it in ways they learned in France and which the Ital ians could not have employed hereto fore. ASIAGO BATTLE IS OVER ' , WITH ITALIANS UNDISMAYED Italian Army Headquarters In Northern Italy, Saturday, Dec. 8, 6 p. m. (By The Associated Press.) The battle of Asiago is virtually sus pended with the enemy checked if not defeated, in his main design of break ing through to the Brenta valley and th eplain a few miles below, although he succeeded in advancing his lines a short distance when the Italians fell back to new positions. Italians Holding Passes. These positions, guarding the Fren zela and Gadena Passes have success fully resisted all enemy efforts and the Italians on the steep heights on each side of the passes rain down ar- (Continued On Page Two) FRENCH TROOPS ON Monroe Doctrine in pursuance of a crazy idea." The Kolnische Zeitung says: "Only when our victory in Europe is com plete will America come to realize that a strong monarchy in the heart of Eu rope means , no danger for American democracy. Lut wait until then we will be advised to consider the United States as an absolute enemy." RUSSIAN JOURNAL ATTACKS AMERICA AND ENGLAND Petrograd, Saturday, Dec. 8. Com menting on President Wilson's message to congress, the Army and Fleet Jour nal pictures America and Great Britain as determined to carry on the war in order that they may triumph commer cially over all others, including their allies. It says: "Peace by means of war! This is the mask under which the American im perialists with their inflamed appetites are posing. America declares herself the implacable enemy of Austria-Hungary without any evident reason; with out any justifying motives save covet ousness and greed. At the moment in which Russia is putting forth efforts to end the war, American capitalists, talking with hypocrisy of the horrors of the war are striving to lengthen the bloody terror. America and Great Britain desire to have all countries so weakened that the two will remain the sole victors and over the bodies of the millions that have been sacrificed, di vide the world. Their bourgeoise are dancing cannibal dances over the bodies of ten million victims." Tfce Isvestia, the semi-official organ (Continued on Page Eight). DESCRIBE DISASTER Knew Instantly That Fire After Collision Would Cause Awful Destruction and Fled. SURVIVING CREW ARRESTED Collision at Halifax Due to Mistake in Signals and French-Ship Is Blamed ByiMarltime Men Admiralty Hearing Today. Halifax, Nv S Dec. 9. Exciting mo ments aboard the Mont Blanc before I ill a. i snip ueuitme a. lernujo ciigiuo ui destruction, were described by several of her officers today. Captain Lame doc persistently has refused to make a detailed statement. The inquiry of the Admiralty court will be opened tomorrow. All those on board the Mont Blanc escaped froni the ship, but three men were subsequently wounded by projec tiles. One, a gunner, died today. A wireless operator, struck . by a bit of steel, was dangerously injured and may die. The injuries . of the third man were not serious. Knew What 580 Tons TNT' Meant. The men seemed still dazed by their experience, but one thought held fast in their minds. That was that they had realized that the explosion of 580 tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT) would spell disaster and jfi the moments that preceded it they had mental pictures of frightful slaughter., Nothing In War Like It. "I have been In the rar. f have been in front of German guns, but never be-, fore was there an explosion like this," said one of the crew.- "It was worse than 100 shells. One was safe no where. We were a mile away when the ship blew tip and it got three of us." Captain Lamedoc. though adhering to his purpose not to talk of the affair in detail, admitted that in his mind there was no question of the cause. Collision Caused Exploion. "The collision caused the explosion," 'he added. "There was no sign of fire previous to the moment the ship was hit." The ship had lain outside the harbor Wednesday night and the next day was ordered to proceed to an anchorage in the basin. As she was passing through the Narrows the relief ship Imo was moving out. Captain Lamedoc said that in the narrow channel there was a mistake, somehow, in the exchange of signals between the two vessels. In maritime circles the opinion seemed to be tonight that the Frenchman was at fault. The Mont Blanc wasfstruck on the starboard side and veered toward shore. Captain Lamedoc said an instant after the crash "a gush of smoke" was seen issuing from the vessel. He immedi ately gave orders for all hands to take the boats. Taking up the story at this point, an officer said: Benzol, Picric Acid and TNT. "There were tanks of benzol and pic ric acid aboard and .we knew that the . jar of the collision, causing a spark, ! had ignited these chemicals among which the names could burn only a few moments before they spread to the TNT. Our small boats were nearly I swamped. in our efforts to escape. We J feared that the e xplosion would come j before we could make the short boat i trip to the shore and we pulled like des perate men. Crew Got a Mile Away. "On, the beach we found a multitude lining the waters edge and watching the dense mass of black and yellow smoke arising from the deck of the abandoned ship. A. few took warning i from our mad flight and followed us. j We made for' the woods and were a I (Continued oa Page Six). ! BLA G'S IN RELIEF WORK AT HALIFAX IS SLOW AND DISPIRITING Weather Has Made Great Task Seem Almost Hopeless But Clear Skies Brought Cheer NUMBER DEAD EXCESSIVE Morgue Officials Adhere to State ment Of 4,000 But Others Say It Is Too Large By Half. Halifax, N. S., Dec. 9. No official at tempt was made here today to check up or revise the long list of dead and in jured resulting from Thursday's disas ter when a munitions ship's cargo ex ploded in the harbor. The morgue officials held" to their es timate of 4,000 dead, but other ob servers said that estimate was too great by half. The admiralty court to determine re sponsibility for the collision of .the ves sels that caused the explosion will open its hearing tomorrow. Today the sur vivors of the Norwegian steamer Imo. which rammed the Mont Blanc, laden with munitions, were arrested and -Captain Lamedoc and Pilot Mackay of the munitions ship also were ordered detained as witnesses. Millions Needed for Relief. A joint appeal by the mayors of Hal ifax and Dartmouth was made to th Canadian public today for money for the relief of the homeless and the re construction of that part of the city which is in ruins. It was said that between $20,000,00 nd $25,000,000 would be required. Mayor Martin of Halifax also issued a proclamation calling upon all non residents not engaged In relief work or here on business of extreme emergency, to leave the city. In a second mess&e-a the mayor urged outsiders not engaged with relief missions to stay away from Halifax during the next two weeks. - xne rener committee asked that no more workers come untilcalled upon and the reconstruction committee re quested that no further Supplies be sent until their character had been mad known and approved by the commit tee. A heavy rainstorm interrupted the systematic search for bodies, but by night 95 additional bodies had. been placed in the. morgue. Several deaths occurred among the inured. The task confrontine: the relief com mittees seemed almost hopeless, but la ter in the day the skies cleared and cheering word came from the physi cians in charge of the tents in which 600 of the homeless had found shelter. The tents had withstood the storm and the occupants were as comfortable as could be expected. Crowds visited the relief stations where food was served and hundreds of heart-broken searchers dug among the ruins of their homes. People's Nerves On Edge. The nerves of the populace are on edge. A wild report toda yof a burn ing munitions ship heading into the harbor and flying a red flag filled the streets with frightened persons who shouted to others to seek the open. A coaler actually was on fire, but the flames were soon under control. Shock, fire, wind, snow and deluge have' followed in succession like Dlaerues and to these have heem artHeri .the threatened invasion of former res idents, friends of the Injured and miss ing and the merely curious. They have arrived in hundreds and are coming in thousands if reports are true. Shelter insufficient for the homeless and food needed for the destitute can not be spared for visitors. Even phy sicians and nurses are here in ample number for the present. Others who have freely offered their services have been notified to await a possible later call. For the present medical supplies and clothing are not required, so gen erous have been the early responses. There is still need of much building material, including glass and putty.. WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE AS BAD AS COULD BE Halifax, .N. S., Dec. 9. Weather con ditions tcrday forced a virtual abandon ment of the search for the dead In this ruined city. Rain fell In torrents at daylight and continued throughout the day. The three snow drifts were trans formed into slush knee deep. The esti mate of the number of persons who perished in the disaster remained at approximately 4,000. ARRESTS NOT DUE TO ' SUSPICION OF ANY PLOT Halifax. N. S., Dec. 9. It was official ly stated tonight that the arrest and detention on a British cruiser of the survivor of the steamer Imo was not due to the discovery of evidence of an enemy plot. Inquiry by government experts has established, it was said, that the collision was accidental. There washowever, fault on the part of tho navigators and there were unofficial reports that the Mont Blanc was tak ing the wrong side of the channel. Jus tice Drysdale, an expert in admiralty law, was tonight designated by the government to conduct the inquiry. This will be public and far-reaching. t 3TO AMERICANS WERE KILLED - IN HALIFAX EXPLOSION Halifax, N. S., Dec. 9. No Americans were killed in the explosion, according to reports received by Ethelbert Watts, American consul-general. Theodore Fisher, vice-consul, was badly cuj about the head by flying glass, but oth erwise was unhurt.. Except for the fact that he was two minutes later than usual in reaching the consulate In Granville street the consul-general would -have been killed or seriously injured, for the plate glass window behind his desk was shattered. The consul' 8 chair and desk, were piled high with debris. Mm i 111 It tl i r. i lifts WR 3 ! ; H i. .:, , mmm vm "5 :,1 mm Oil 'it 1 r 41 ! : mmm " Si H Uv!i J;--M !'.' H-M-J i ft mm mil
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