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1 i; THE WEATHER 12 PAGES MAIL EDITION Cloudy; Fair Thursday Asheville s Livest Newspaper VOL XXII. NO. 281. MREH8M KERENSKY ISSUING HIS ORDERS FROM MOSCO W S Reports From Finnish Telegram Bureau and From Swedish News Agency Say Kerensky Is in Control of Practically All Russia Newspapers Say Downfall of Bolsheviki Movement Is Imminent London, Nov. 14. -The Finnish Telegram bureau says the 'whole of Russia except a small part of Petrograd is notv in the Jtands of the provisional government. Premier Kerensky is now in Petrograd and has taken vir tually the entire city, the announcement of the Finnish Telegram bureau says. The Finnish Telegram bureau says Moscow is the head quarters of the provisional government and that Premier Ke rensky has issued, orders from Moscow which have appeared in the Petrozrad pavers. The anti-Bolsheviki papers HeMngfors newspapers have headlines announcing that the Bol sheviki movement is nearine its downfall. General Kaledines, the Cossack leader, is said to be dictator t,f southern Russia. The orders of the provisional government are signed by M. Kerensky, General Kaledines and General Kcrniloff. A Russian wireless dispatch says no official report from army headquarters has been issued today. May lie Delayed Dispatches. The provisional .Russian government referred, to in the foregoing is the .. ivriimont of Premier" Kerensky, which 'the Bolsheviki attempted to overthrow. , The Finnan Telegram bureau's nd- j -s ua clos-dy parallel the dispatches . ( iv. i on Sunday and Monday as WrtlnR. that Premier. Kerensky had , i rlhrown the Bolsheviki us to sug , , that .they in ay- be' a delayed ver .,;. of the same reports which wer contradicted by the announcement re ceived yesterday from Petrograd that tiie Kerensky forces had been defeat ed in a battle near Tsarskoe-Selo. Report IVom Stockholm. Stockholm." Nov. 14. Premier Ke rensky lias entered Petrograd, accord ing to a dispatch received from the correspondent of the Swedish news agency at llaparanda on the Russian border.- 1L 1 RECEIVED i PROPOSALS Austria Favors Just Peace Without Annexations or Indemnities Amsterdam, Nov. 14. Austrian newspapers print a statement from the Oflicial News nrency pointing otit that neither Vienna nor Berlin has reecived an actual peace or ormlstlce proposal from the Russian govorn ment and as long as the now rulers of Russia do not submit proposals the central powers dare do nothing In the matter, according to a dispatch from Vienna. Should the maximalists re tain the upper hand in Russia and come forward with a peace offer the Austro-IIungarian government would, the statement says, immediately es tablish accord with Its allies and fix a common attitude. , . "The workmen's and soldiers' pro cram," the statement continues, "Is capable of forming; a point of depart ure for serious peace discussions wltU Russia, A just peace without annex ations and without indemnities Is also tho goal of the Austro-Hungarlan gov ernment but what we understand by annexations and what every one has i understood about it up to the present , does not correspond with the Inter pretation of the present Russian gov ernment. On this point counter pro. posals would have to be made on our part." JAPANESE TROOPS CAN NOT BE SENT i Toklo, Nov. 14 Lleutonant-Oeners ) Ishlma, the Japanese minister of war, I informs Japanese nowspaporman that i the dispatch of troops to F.urope Is an absolute Impossibility owing to the I tremendous cost and the lack of ton- of Petrograd as well. .as the The majority, or maximalist troops, have joined the premier, the corre spondent, says Defeated Bolsheviki. London, .Nov. 14. According to these advices which were received in a cablegram filed at Stockholm at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Premier Kerensky defeated the Bolsheviki at Tsai'skoe-Selo. The Cossacks are re ported to have destroyed the red guard. The telegraph lines are now In M. Iverensky's hands, the telegram bureau reports. For the last three days reports have been coming in from Scandinavian sources of the defeat of the Bolsheviki but they have been contradicted by wireless dispatches from Petrograd. This is the third time that an account has been received of a battle at Tsar-skoe-Selo, a Kerensky victory having been reported twice and a Bolsheviki success oil the other occasion. nace. I'.aron Takahashl, former minister of finance, in a lengthy article in the newspapers, declares the Japanese army is deficient in ordnance and air plane equipment. ' ' V t vv,-i v.. .. v a fli1 r Milam;! .aVi - o5T7 "Vw . ? It m v i i) ill M m i LL. FM w "sS&H & J fit. l a .i . t.L a ... .. , :...... . .,. . 'X., n Tills Important photograph shows hundreds of Russian troops, who government was denounced. It proves tho strengtb of the opposition to T o ay ' 8 iV e ASHEVILLE, N. C, President-General and Sec retary - General Review Work for Year Memor ial Service Held Chattanooga, Nov. 14. Chattanoo ga, where the blue and the gray has faded into the khaki, is an ideal meet ing place for the Daughters of the Confederacy. This was the keynote of one of the welcoming addresses delivered to the assembled throng of distinguished women here for the general conven tion of the U.D.C. and the welcome extended last night in a concrete form is being carried out generally by the entire citizenship today. The first business was opened at 9:30 o'clock this morning and this will be followed this afternoon with a general reception in honor of the officers, and a ball this evening. The program opened with usual devotion al services and a musical program, an nouncement of committees and re port of committee on credentials. : The president-general, Mrs. Corde lia ' Powell Odenheimer, of Maryland. read her report, reviewing work for the year. Reports hy Mrs. W. C. N. Mer chant, of Chatham, Va., recording sccretitrv-eenoral. Miss Lutie Harley Waloott, Arclmore, Okla., correspond ent secretary-general, were made. The Stewart chapter entertained at a noon lunch. The larger portion of tho afternoon session was devoted to an impressive memorial service in respect to the memory of those who have passed over the river during tho past year. Later in the afternoon the business session will be resumed with the pre sentation of financial reports and re port of the historian. Villa Makes Aack. Presidio. Tex., Nov. 14. Fighting between Villa forces and Mexican gov ernment troops began at Ojinaga at 5:30 o'clock this morning (central time). The attack started from the southwest and grew gradually with the approach of daylight inlj a con stant fire of rifle shots. RUSSIAN TROOPS WHO IT REPORTS u? s To d a y N WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, PAINLEVECftBINET, DEFEATED, RESIGNS By Direct Vote Chamber of Deputies Shows Opposi tionCauses of Downfall Given Paris, Nov. 13. The Palnleve min istry was defeated by a direct vote in the chamber of deputies today and later resigned. This is the first time such action has been taken by the chamber since the beginning of the war, as up to the present it has been a point of honor with many deputies not to vote against the government but to express criticism hy abstaining from recording their votes. Strong dissatisfaction with the gov ernment's handling of the Bolo Pasha affair is believed to be the motive which changed the passive discontent to active opposition. Two other things thought to have had a part in the downfall of the Painleve cabinet were the premier's statement exon erating M. Malvy, the former minister of the interior, and the fiasco attend ing the prosecution of IV Action Fran, caise, edited by Leon Daudet, the ac cuser of St. Malvy. The ministerial crisis comes on the eve of the inter-allied conference, hero and every effort will be made to settle it quickly. President Poincare will begin consultations with politi cal leader) tomorrow morning. DHTH GIVEN 14 MONTHS Columbia. S. C, Nov. 14. Accumu lated sentences amounting to fourteen months in the federal penitentiary at At . lunta, Ga. and fines aggregating $1,200 were given Albert Orth, pub lisher of a German language news paper at Charleston, S. C, in tho dis trict Federal court here late yesterday following conviction of two indict ments for assisting Lieutenant Robert Fay and William Knobloch to escape from the Atlanta federal prison on August 29, 1918, and harboring them in Charleston.' Orth gave notice of appeal and his bond was fixed at $6, 000. Three other indictments charging Orth with accessory alter the fact in a conspiracy to blow up ships, of accesory after the fact in the fraudu lent use of the mails, and in landing an alien in the t'nited States in viola tion of an act of congress, were con tinued. Conference On November 26. Washington, Nov. 14. Arrange ments have been made for the chiefs of the four railway brotherhoods to see President Wilson on Monday, No vember 28, in connection with the workers' proposals for wage Increases for conductors and brakemen on all the railroads of the country. OVERTHREW KERENSKY MARCHING IN DEFIANCE OF HIM overthrew Premier Kerensky, mar Ills government even three weeks o t To m o r r o w NOV. 14, 1917 INVADERS CROSS PI AVE AT ZENSON; BTTER FIGHTING Italians Successful in Counter Attacks Between Asiago and Mont Cimone Italian Defense Must Continue Strong to Hold Piave Po sition Four Enemy Fronts Italian troops by strong tillery have checked Asiago plateau and threaten the Zenson, on the river Piave about 20 miles northeast of Venice, the invaders have succeeded in crossing the river on boats but were repulsed in an attempt to debouch from the bridgehead they had constructed. The fighting in the region about Asiago and between there and Monte Cimone is very bitter. The Austro-Germans attacked in force and gained some defenses only to be thrown back by the force of Italian counter attacks. BERLIN CLAIMS SUCCESSES. Berlin says Mont Longara has been captured but Rome re ports officially that the position here has been held against Teu tc n efforts. At Canove, west of Asiago, an Italian counter thrust repelled the invaders and resulted in the liberation of Italian prisoners. - -'.'' Between Mont Cimone and the Piave, Berlin claims the capture of Fonzaso, which probably was given up by the Italians in a retirement to straighten out their line. The Italians have occupied their neiv positions in this region and the Austro-Germans are in contact with them. MAY BE SERIOUS MENACE. The crossing of the-Piave near Zenson may prove a more serious menace to the Piave line than the attempts in the Asiago region. The invaders tried to advance from the bridgehead they established but tvere. driven back to the river bank by the Italians. Further Teuton attempts to debouch may be expected and unless the Italian defense continues strong the Piave po sition may become so iveakened it will have to be given up. Piave i.inc Holding. Italian Headquarters' in Italy, Nov. 13. ('Delayed) (-By Tho Associated Press.) The Piave line still holds in the main against heavy and continu ous artillery fire from the eastern bank and the efforts of the Austro Gei'inans to cross the stream. These efforts have not taken the proportions of a general movement but several battalions crossed the river on pon toons near Zenson. The Italian artillery concentrated its fire on the raiding parties, either destroying them in midstream or push ing them back on the river bank. chliut through i he streets of Petrograd to a meeting at which tho provisional ago, and shows the soldiers did not caro (or the orders of the premier. E very D ay i counter attacks aided by the or Austro-German efforts to capture the line of the river Piave. Near Chief attention is now directed to wards the eastern sector of the Tren tino front: where it runs across the Asiago plateau to the upper Piave river. The enemy is making demonstra tions there which are- either a diver sion or a prelude to a heavy attack with the evident purpose of getting down into the valley toward liassano and the plains below, thus separating the Italian army on the Trentino front from that on the Piave. Reports indicate the enemy is oper- (Continued on Page 2) n t h e Y e a r PRICE FIVE CENTS Bishop Atkins Called Con ference To Order On Sec ond Led Devotional VERBAL REPORTS FROM PREACHERS Bishop Goes Back To Old Ways Report on Ben nett Confession "I believe that this conference leads the entire church in the proportion of, Sunday school members over church' membership", said Bishop Atkins this morning during the report of the pas tors, in the church, the Sunday school membership is 75 per cent and your reports will show at least 90 ocr cent. This means that you will have a larg er cnurcn in the future. Hack to the olden ways, is the idea of Bishop Atkins. He believes in get ting down to the -heart of the work and the consequence was that pastoral reports followed the reports of the presiding elders. From every section of the territory covered by the confer- i ence the work prospers. Conventions are reported and the financial affairs are in good shape. : The opening service of the 28th an nual convention of the Western North Carolina conference at the Central Methodist church this morning was featured with those one-minute talks and deep interest in the affairs of the church was manifested. The an nouncement of the names of the min isters who have died during the year brought the fact that three of thi five, Dr. J. II. Weaver, Rev. J. C. Trov and Rev. : K. M. Hoyle, had held pas torates in' Asheville. Dr. Weaver was pastor of Central church from 1899 to 1901; Rev. J. C. Troy was pastor of the old Riverside church, and Rev. E. .M. Hoyle, was at one time the pas tor of Haywood Street church. Two other ministers died during the year, Rev. W. L. Ilex-ford, Whose last pas torate was at Marshall, and Rev. E. G. Pusey, whose last appointment was at Fan-view, both in the Asheville dis trict. Devotional Services, With a quiet devotionul service lead by Rishop Atkins, during which the first 1 verses of the 14th chapter of the Gospel by John, were read and briefly commented upon, tho 28th ses sion of the Western North Carolina annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, began its work in the main auditorium of the Central Methodist church this morn ing. Promptly on the second Bishop At kins called the conference to order after having remarked, "I have not missed a minute in twelve years." De votional hymns, dear to the hearts of assembled Methodists, were sung with out any organ accompaniment. This is the second time that Bishop Atkins has presided over the confer ence in its sessions at Asheville In the year 190 8 Asheville was host to the representatives of Methodism in western North Carolina. Again in 1909 Rishop Atkins was the presiding officer of the conference which met at Hickory. The western North Carolina confer ence was established by the General conference in 1890 and Includes the territory west of the eastern boundary of Rockingham, Guilford. Randolph, Stanley and Anson counties, except Savannah church in Allecheney coun ty and that portion of the state which lies north of New river, and Includes that part of the state of Vir ginia lying south of New river In the loop In GrayBon county. The conference was formed of parts of Holston and North Carolina con ferences and the first session was held at Concord in 1890, with Bishop J, C Keener presiding. Immediately after the devotional ex recises the conference re-elected Rev W. L. Sherrill, of Charlotte, as its sec retary, and the following assistant secretaries were chosen: W. F Hand or A. W. Plyler. O, C. Brinkman, fContlnued on Page Sy Turn To rage 7. The story of TlA TIMES' circu lation campaign In today's paper should he read by every contestant who really experts to make a fight for the prizes, A warning; is given to contestants against believing any of the runiors that are afloat these days Home plain, but absolutely true, statements sre made. It is time to work and not tha tlm to gossip. Turn to Page 7. OPENING SESSIOM OF M. E. CONFERENCE HELD THIS MORNING ' '. -;-c --'?- .' h,
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