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I,heviki Announce That It Was Aimed at
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HICKORY, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 21, 1917
RDECTS EXERCISES ARE NAVY I S
HELD AT CJTY
TERMS SCHOns
RPICE TWO CENTS
BOLSHEVIK
FORTY-EIGHT
KILLED
WRECK
ARE
N
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,.! Press.
. Iv. -1. American
I y they had no
V, .-called treaty be
:'.. Japan described
i dispatches, but
'a -re -I to describe it
rued demonstration
: arid Great Britain
" was not borne out
the treaty,
possibility that the
is the special con-
ed between Russia
By tho Associated Press.
Shepherdsville, Ky., Dec. 21.
The death toll taken last night when
the Louisville and Nashville pas
senger train crashed into the rear
end of the Louisville, Bardstown and
Springfield accommodation train a
few hundred feet south of the rail
road station here had reached 46 to
day. The number killed was at
first placed by W. F. Sheridan, su
perintendent of the Louisville di
vision of the Louisville and Nash
ville, at 38. .Revision of these fig
ures caused by additional deaths!
brought the total up to this number.'
By the Associated Press.
, London; Dec- 21.-Hlt is reported
unofficially that the Germans have
rejected the Russian peace terms,
the Petrograd correspondent of the
exchange Telecranh
wires under date of Thursday.
packingIIot
is
MUCH
INVOLVED
By the Associated Press.
"VMashington, Dec. 21. Testi
mony to show that J. Ogden Armour
is part owner of the Chicago Stock
lard Co. was given today in the in
quiry into the Chicago packing in
dustry and the next thing, it was
said, is to develop the extent . to
which other packers are interested.
Operation of the comnanv nn
been made as complex as its for
mation by means of dummy direc
tors, a new treasurer was put in
every two years or so, resulting in
only incomplete knowledge of the
company's activities on the part of
any oirrcer. i
began to get a little longer, and the
night's a little shorter, and it made
the people glad, and so they had a
big time, just as the Romans did in
i Italy. They called it the Yuletide,
which means wheel time, because
they said the sun turns his wheels
toward the earth again. They had
great times. Every home would
put the biggest log in the great open
, 1 VL VTilfirePIace' t0 remind them of the heat
same time as the! of the gun The men and the chn.
:.a;
ha:
s.rtbei M s
?.;v:a :
ar.l iftr.-nl
of the An-
:. ut-,11), iv nasi, j .11 j
..i.r.v... nere that me , tletop from the forests and decorat.
"ome secreA agrS!"! ed the walls of their houses with
i,ur r:z- . it. u:;!the bows
. X hung, them with fruits. All this re
J . j ' 1 1 . 1 ill W 1 C I CI I VOJV
to follow the lines
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-Japanese treaty.
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
AND PATRIOTISM
that
S". !
kr.".v ',v':v
dren ever noticed
By the Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 21. Swift and
Company of Chicago have refused
They set up trees and j to deliver to the federal trade com
mission records desired by the com-
minded them that spring was com
ing, and the sun was returning to
make the earth green and fruitful
again. They spread great feasts,
and on the table a boar's head was
placed .with an apple in his mouth.
The young folks gathered, and danced
and sang songs around the merry ta
hip. and before the roarintr fire, and
an- longer in summer i ., j
ri.-ht
winter? Do you
? Well, I will tell
summer the sun
r: of
Ir: th.
.T.v- f:(;
W.
a-vr
?r.r..'.
I'v as
rr, fi , . j r t 4
ani
tha
the crlow. It was a time for mer
riment, and sad to sav. of drunked-
1 summer tne sun , , , . u..
r m,r h.n.U nnH the ' ss and much debauchery.
and long because the1 WJ-'ll. after a while Jesus was
rircr time to turn our born in isetnienem. it wyn s
time for the people to nnd it out, dui
his followers grew to be many in
Italy and even in the north country.
And they said: Let us make
Christian feasts of these Yuletide
feasts and these Saturnalia, and so
gradually the heathen feasts gave way
to Christmas. The Christians
said, Instead of celebrating the re
turn of the sun in the spring, let
us celebrate the cominp of God's
Son to earth, who is indeed the real
Sun of Righteousness and make the
world fruitful and beautiful in heart
and life by righteousness in the soul
and goodness to all in need. And
so they fixed December 25 as the
day to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
They did not know just what day
it was, and as all the world was
glad because of the turning of the
sun at thatl time, it s,eemed just
the time to be glad because of the
birth of Jesus. And so the Christ
mas Day was made a great day for
all the world who knew of Him. It
is sad that many heathen people still
used the day to get drunk and be
boisterous and noisy, but ,otnef
gave gifts on that day, and thought
about God's goodness in giving us
His Son. It was in the time of
the Reformation under Martin Lu
ther that the old heathen feasts of
Yule and Saturn began to give way
to a new idea of Christmas, and the
world commenced to feel grateful to
God for the gift of his Son, and to
worship and praise Him for his
birthdhy. The practice of giving
gifts was continued, and the world
still feels it is a time to be merry.
We are approaching another Christ
mas. And as God looks down on the
worH today, h es a sad spec
tacle People who call themselves
Christians are killing each other
Our own country looked on ior
awhile, and then came to the con
viction that it could not afford 1 to
sit still and see their fellowmen
butchered, and the happy homes of
little children ruthlessly destroyed,
while children and their mothera
were turned out to starve and freeze
One million Armenians in Asia
have already been killed, and 400,
000 children made orphans, while
thousands and thousands in Europe
Dumea aim v-. - - ,
irface away from the
winter time the sun
;t'.v:ty i , vn suth, and our part
the farth ;,on passes through
th- 'jnh;:.. and the days are short
&"i the r.ik'hts long. Because the
" vartn t t a good chance to
sh;r.i- ur. .h- earth the weather turns
e'-'i the p ants a!l die, leaves fall
the frost comes, the
an I the world seems
a white blanket to keep
''ii!d our fires in our
a- i put more covers on
V like cold weather for
i 'ben, we wish for the
V,' know, too, that un-
',v" the .spring and sum-
'v'' have no flour and
'r'-i'- t- '-at. So the grown folks
'': irvi i f ,r winter to pass be
ca h;tv to fill hungry mouths
f" -"' " - iy fr another winter
n"r' '' " '.! will go down south
'n ar, i : v.-e u.s in the cold. In
pe iar. i rf Italy, many years ago,
.r.: fii. .-,,'.. , I ..II ll
'ui-'u au inese ininga
io now, and they wove
a story a1,-, it. it. They said there
one- a who lived in Italy,
m- Ma-,- was Saturn, and the
t'i ?' '-"v was so pleased with him
ath" ;,.-ked njm t0 rue over hJg
"'m. Saturn agreed to do so,
j""l(he ma-!., himself very useful.
fc people about farm
l'"' "'; fr-iit raising, and because
J h!l'' ; prisoner once, and had
'rn, f'h":"-- humo(, he taught the
Pf'' tu take the chains off their
. ll,lTUt ill 111 J lilVUl-
0"V ("a . L c . i. mi
'hf Saturnalia.
'.''rvH thi.' f.-ast in the middle of
r,.'m!" r s'ven days, and had a
7. n-rry t.im They took the
;';';ns oq tr.e statute of Saturn for
I gave tho slaves their
"r a week. The slaves
i -.'hr ; . I : . ..i . ii . l ;
v. " '.'neuie tneir masters u
to. The people also
':iy images of Saturn
fr,.,fk,lV!', ''"'m t0 each other, and
.""'y au kir.rU of clay toys to chil
th,, V'i '',h"rs- They celebrated
e v. .... . vw... ...
v,.,., ." fT haturn. All tnis
"". i i) n irnh n n n av in.
to the mind the fact,
""'II:' tf,
il I t (1. . , ..t. it.
.' ' ' vne sun was so iar
and tv,'1" weather was so cold,
y,t in" -!irih so bare and fruitless,
at'rowin' u" wa3 comin? back and
and tv, ' S(uson was coming again,
inif v.',' of Panting and grow.
harwV '"','"v- t0 five them another
Pr;es;, . lh'y a11 loved Saturn and
yj ni. Tr his goodness to men.
P'A 1",-' "! north of Europe the
"un I !; ;,:fi lhe me things. The
ami V ' 1 ,"!,ve them and go south,
Miit,. ' ;V'r1,1 would Set cold and
tW,. V Ul fr0Rt and
snow. Up
than 'in I" .;'u" m'nt farther away
in th.. 1 for on a winter's day
I'l'' ru.rt i. .... . "
you couia hardly see
mission in its investigation of the
packing industry, and drastic ef
forts will be taken in court to
force their production, Francis J.
Heney, special counsel, announced
today at the resumption of the
commission's inquiry.
It was said that when the com
mission's investigators went to Chi
cago they received only evasive re
plies from the officers of Swift and
Company and that a direct demand
for the records had been refused.
To obtan the papers which relate to
the Ownership of the Chicago
Stock Yards and other details of
the meat industry, the commission
will go into the courts for the rec
ords. It was not made public where this
action would be Jaken.
ANDERSON MILLS
ARE BURNED TODAY
By the Associated Press.
Anderson, S. C, Dec. 21. Fire
of unknown origin early today to
tally destroyed the warehouse of
the Chiquola Mills at Honea Path,
Anderson county, with an estimated
loss of $85,000. Part of the 185
bales of cotton in the structure was
saved.
BAKER TRIED TO
PROVIDE ALL
CL
OTING
By tn Associated Pres.
'Washington, Dec. 21. Without
waiting for congressional appropria
tions, the war department authoriz
ed orders for clothing equipment
for 1,000,000 troops before the Un
ited States went into war, it was
brought out today in the testimony
Quartermaster General Sharpe
before the senate military commit-j
tee. The committee investigatign
the supplies for troops went parti
cularly today into the shortage of
clothing.
Secretary Baker, General Sharpe
l ttle food and few clothes, and said authorized supplies for ciotn-
manv are wandering with no piace ing for the million oi men anu m
to w Our brave boys have of-!Jime approved orders for the sup
fered 'to fight for these little chil- piying 0f half a million more.
dren. Because oi tnis wai, t
Christmas exerc! . nnrl- Rihlo and
nag presentations bv rem-psentn
tives of the Junior Order were held
at all three of -the schools this
morning and a number of parents
were on hand to enjoy the, occasion
Those present enjoyed the exercis
es too. After the public exercis
es the younger children were visit
ed by Santa Claus, the old fellow
this time being- reDresented h-r the
teachers of the various grades. And
atter the close of the schools for
the holidays several teachers car
ried home packages from the chil
dren. Mr. A. A. Shuford donated
a crate of oranges for the primary
grade at the North school and Mr.
H. W(. Harris sent a bag of peanuts
to each child.
Rev. S. B. Stroup was the princi
pal speaker at the South school
He discussed the Christmas season
and explained what it. means, tell
ing the children; what God meant
by giving the world His only be
gotten son. Mr. Chas. W. Bagby
presented the flag- and Bible for the
Juniors.
With Miss Miller at the piano the
children sang several Christmas
songs and patriotic airs, including
O Little Town of Bethlehem and the
Star Spangled Banner. The singing
was good and the young voices : re
sponded with a will. It is due to the
mothers of the South school district
that this building has a good . pi
ano. They bought it and present
ed it to the school, and Superinten
dent Mcintosh, who presided over the
exercises here, gave them all the
credit for it. Not only did thev do
that, but they have evinced a gen
uine interest m the teachers and
their work, and during the snow sent
m hot lunches to the teachers.
In the absence of Mrs. N. W,
Clark, president of the association,
Mr. Mcintosh called on Mrs. J. J
Hefner to say a few words in re
gard to the piano. She assured
the teachers that the mothers were
interested and were glad to help the
schools.
Mr. Mcintosh referred to the ab
sence of an auditorium at this
buildircg, the children standing in
the front ahll as they sang. He
told them to call on Mr. Cilley, a
true friend, and knew he would do
all in his power, as the board has
done since he had been in charge
of the schools. An auditorium
could be erected at the rear of the
building.
At the new West building Mayor
Yount presented the flag and Bible
and Rev. R. M. Courtney made a
Christmas talk. Here also the pro
gram included the -endering of pa
triotic airs. Flarenfts present en
joyed the occasion and the young
folks remembered each other.
Mr. P. A. Setzer presented the
flag and Bible at the North school,
but Mr. Garth was unable to be
present.
Christmas parties were the order
at the North school following the
exercises in the chapel. The sev
enth grade girls gave a party in
honor of the boys and Christmas
trees were enjoyed in several of the
rooms.
At all the schools the individual
rooms were decorated for the day
and visitors were delighted with the
art displayed. One must visit the
schools occasionally, really to learn
what they are doing.
The schools will be closed until
January 7 and most of the out of
town teachers left on the noon trains
for their homes.
GIVES OYSTER SUPPER
FOR HIS BARACA CLASS
Mr. P. A. Setzer. teacher of the
Young Men's Baraca class at the
Methodist Sunday school, was host
to the members and a few invited
friends at an oyster supper last
night at Hotel Huffry. The guests
included Rev. K. M. Courtney and
Messrs. A. M. West, W. H. Barkley,
O. G. Wolff, R. M. Perry and J. T.
Setzer. The class members on
hand were: Ivey Starnes, W. B.
Hight, W. M. Younce, O. T. Sher
rill, Gordon Starnes,, C. R. Gantt,
AT. C. Teeter. W. M. Reese. H. C.
Cline, E. W. Reese, F. F. Murphy,
F. G. Johnston, Adrian Witherspoon,
J. H. Peeler, Carroll Bolick, Stewart
Whitener, Elwood Mitchell, L. Set-
ztjr, W,. Earnest Starnes, uuy A.
Kennedy, Moses Kenedy, Clifford
Abernethy.
AfiseM Sadie Menzies and Miriam
Wjhitener returned last night from
Red Springs to spend the holidays
with their parents.
USING
SHIPBUILDING
PLANTS
OPPOSITION CONTINUES
TO GROW IN ALL RUSSIA
NEW
YORK
COTTON
fcou,u ... hmo for just a few
Way it n i;y and away up in Nor
away ,i, ,Wou.!'' eome up and (hang
thr..,. L,'Wn ln the south for two or
20 hour "Jr" v ml then down for
Very f.,,1,.' ., Yu can imagine it was
ticed thL T0, But the PePle no"
thit about Dec. 21 the days
uien. , ,.. other I
IBS? are scarce and we must di- homes and fields of so many millions,
things .are scarce, anu Mow f fellowmen? Shall we not rath-'
vide with tne people - - go on er think to ourselves, all of us who
the question comes can we er t gnd haye
Tuth UL?W was the matter? thoughts instead of selfish ones,
though nothing was tne m oig niov nod's blessiners
?hnll we eiV9 presents, eau mat - . , .r
cfo now- if w no not snare tnem witn uie
nre a feasts, when needv ones of earth? Yes, instead.
.ai nave dm' iiica ci ' " .
"r. . mj v,0rtriTif for
fire rockets
the little children are pegging
o that vou would throw away i
Shall we be merry when w many
By the Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 21. .The cotton
market was. rather njerovus and
irregular at the start, first prices
being six points lower to 13 points
higher.
The close was steady.
Open Clse
December 30.50 30.50
January 29.60 29.51
March 29.20 28.99
May 28.84 28.63
July 28-51 28-30
HICKORY MARKETS
Cotton
Wheat $2-40
of spending a large sum on presents, j
because we want otners to give us
nresen ts in return, let us remember
!. ore sad? Shall we tninK uttne poor "u,m . "r irZ
f vi""
our
t"! nrosnects for the coming money for those who are so destitute
happy prospects iort . . . anA Asia because of this
s-orinlg and summer, uu V
again shall cover our lana, wuW.
black ruins and shell holes mark the
J. G. GARTH.
WEATHER FORECAST
. For North Carolina: Fair tonight
and Saturday, not much change in
temperature, gentle southwest to
west winds.
By the Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 21. The navy's
utilization of much of the coun
try's ship building facilities was
cited today by Chairman Hurley of
the shipping board as the principal
reason for the slowness in building
ships.
AMERICANS
L
KEEP ALL BUSINESS
By the Associated Press.
Wlashinigjton, Dec. 21. In licens
ing American manufacturers to use
enemy-owned patents the federal
trade commission is using every pre
caution to make sure that after
the war German producers will not
reap the benefit of the trade which
has been built up here. Such was
the position today in provision of
the recently issued licenses which
requires that the drugs to 'be pro
duced should be given a new or Am
erican name by which they will be
known in this country.
FRENCH DESTROYERS SINK
TWK ENEMY SUBMARINES
Athens, Dec. 21. (French destroy
ers have sunk two enemy subma
rines in the Gulf of Taranto.
Mrs. S. M. Peede will leave this
afternoon for Ahoskie to spend
Christmas with Mr. Peede's parents.
She will be joined in Greensboro
by Mr. Peede, who has been granted
a furlough of a few days from Camp
Sevier.
Rev. W. R. Bradshaw and Mr. J.
D. Elliott returned last night from
Raleigh, where they attended the
Baptist state board of missions, of
which they are members.
.Mrs. Heald will leave Friday night
for New York and Washington on
a visit of some weeks. Rev. deF.
Heald will remain here during her
absence.
Misses Renn and Jordan of Dur
ham, Miss Martini of Mocksfville,
Miss Dorrity of Goldsboro and Miss
Jones of Marryville, Tenn., Miss
Miller of Lenoir, Miss Coleman of
Aiken, S. C, and Max Neely of
Hendersonville, teachers m the
Hickory schools, left today for their
homes.
QUEBEC IS READY
TO DEBAIESECESSION
By the Associated Presa.
i Quebec, Dec. 21. 'A proposal
that the province of Quebec secede
from the provinces of Canada was
expressed in a motion introduced in
the provincial legislative assembly
by John N Francoeur, deputy for
Lotbiniere. Quebec is the only pro
vince which voted against conscrip
tion in th recenlt election. The
motion will be debated in January. It
reads :
"That this house is of the opm
iqn thatj the pronvince would be
disposed to accept the 'rupture of
the federation peact of 1867 if in
the opinion of the other provinces
it is believed that the said province
is an obstacle to the union and prog
ress and development of Canada.
TO KEEP LIQUOR
Bolsheviki Cause Revolution Support by Lining
up With Germans Italians Attack Austro
Germans in Italy Lloyd George An
swers Derlin Peace Feelers.
ANO
THER EXPOSE
OE GERMAN
METHODS
AWAY FROM
SOLDERS
fry 1k Associate Press.
Wiith the American At-fn m
Prsnm. Dec. 21. All alcoholic be-!
verages except light wines and beerj
are denied the members of the expe
ditionary forces by General Per
shing in general orders issued today.
Extraordinary precautions are oemg
taken to insure sobriety and a high!
standard of moralitv in the army, '
and the officers will be held to a strict
accountability.
WILSON WILL URGE
HELPFUL LEGISLATION
By the Associated Press.
nrfnshvne'-ton. Dec. 21. President
Wilson will send a message to con
gress recommending enactment oi
legislation to meet the transporta-
tion situation immediately after.
Until it has1
been received, the president today re-,
quested that the senate interstate'
commerce commission withhold mak
ir,rr anv in vesfci nation as provided
under the Cummins resolution. I
Washington, Dec. 21. Through a
long series of telegramse exchang
ed between the notorious Count Lux
burg, former German charge in Ar
gentina, and the Berlin foreign of
fice, the state department last night
disclosed further facts about Ger
man diplomatic trickery and at the
same time shed light upon some
hitherto unexplained activities of
certain Latin-American statesmen.
Luxburg in one of his messages,
dated August 1 last, reported that
President Irigoyen of Argentina at
last had made up his mind to con
clude a secret agreement with Chile
and Bolivia for protection against
North America "before the confer
ence idea is taken up again." The
"'conference ijea" is assumed to
have been the plan for a Latin-American
neutrality, conference, strong
ly supported by President Carranza
of Mexico and much discussed in some
of the South American countries,
while the proposed secret agreement
may explain reports that came from
Buenos Aires recently of President
Irigoyen's proposals for a league of
South American nations.
In Latin-American diplomatic quar
ters here it is regarded as certain
that the disclosures will result very
quickly in an Argentine declaration
of war against Germany. Congress
and a majority of the people fa
vored this step when the American
government made public the "spurlos
versenkt" (sink without a trace)
message of Luxburg, and it is believ
ed, that the president's opposition
now will be swept away if it is not
withdrawn.
The messages were made public
by the state department in agree
ment with the Argentine govern
ment, which in an accompanying
statement by its foreign ministers
says the "inaccuracies" of the Ger
man diplomat's reports are so sur
prising that no epithet will fit them.
The messages were' sent to Argen
tina soon after the state department
gave out the first series of inter
cepted telegrams, but heretofore de
mands for their publication have
been in vain.
The first of Luxburg's intercept
ed telegrams were transmitted to
Berlin by the Swedish legation at
Buenos Aires in its diplomatic code
and publication of that fact by Sec
retary Lansing not only threw Ar
gentina into a turmoil, resulting in
the dismissal of the charge.- but
precipitated a crisis in Sweden.
No explanation is given of the
means by which the latter messages
were sent, though one or two of the
telegrams in today's batch were am
ong those given out previously.
Dated Last Summer
All of the correspondence was ex
changed during July, August and
early September, and most of it
deals directly with the negotiations
then in progress over the sinking of
Argentine ships by German subma
rines. Before the messages reach
ed the American government Ger
many virtually had settled the mat
ter by agreeing to pay indemnity
and to treat Argentine ships accord
ing to international law. The se
cret reports now reveal that Argen
tina on its side was to keep its ships
out of danger by not allowing them
to sail for the war zone, an easy
task in view of the fact that she
had almost no shipping left.
Throughout the messages Lux
burg dwells upon his difficulties
with the foreign minister and upon
his influence (with the president.
Finally he was conducting negotia
tions directly with the president.
How Far Project Went
H-ow far President Irigoyen's
project for an anti-North American
alliane went th correspondence
does not disclose. It merely says
that he made up his mind to conclude
the agreement with Blolivia and
Chile, "a mutual rapproachment for
protection vis a vis North America"
being the purpose as described, in
the concluding telegram of the se
ries, however, Luxburg,, addressing
an unnamed person in Santiago,
Chile, probably the German minis
ter there, says that as long as Chile
is neutral Germany after the war
will be able to carry out her South
American policy just as well if not
more easily in opposition to an "in
fatuated and misguided Argentine as
with Argentine on her side." This
apparently was written when the
likelihood of the president holdin.g
Argenina out of the war appeared to
be fading.
Minister Naon of Argentina declin
ed to make any comment upon the
nature, further than to say that the
statement of the foreign, minister
covered the situation. He was ad
vised of the purpose of the Unit
ed States and his government to
make the message public here and
at Buenosi Airfcs simultaneously.
'Count Luxburg still is in Argen
nina, although safe conduct was se
cured for him long ago, and there
have been frequent announcements
By the Associated Press.
Opposition to the bolsheviki ap
parently is increasing as appearances
of German supjporti of the Maxi
malists grow more pronounced and
as conditions of the revolution in
the interior extend to other parts
of the country in an effort to pre
vent a separate peace.
One report from Petrograd today,
however says this effort has result
ed in failure for the present at any
rate, as the Germans have rejected
the Russian terms. The report was
unofficial and was not confirmed.
The Ukradine in its hostility to
the bolsheviki government has been
southwestern! fronfy and General
joined by the Russian staff on the
southwestern front, and General
Stceherbatchejffi the commander in
Rumania, has been put at the head
of the Ukranian forces, reported to
be marching against the forces of
the bolsheviki. Another report says
that the Rumanians have- joined the
Ukranians, while another report says
Grand Duke Nicholas is raising an
royalist army in the Caucasus.
iGerman and Austrian officers re
leased from Russian prisons are
reported to have let the bolsheiki
in oerpowermig their opponents in,
ihe capital of Russian Turkistan,
whilve other relelased enemy pris
oners, said to be two army corps,
are said to be near Petrograd.
Officers of the central powers are
said to be active in Petrograd, al
though this is denied by the bol
sheviki, who claim that the con
stitutional democrats are tryiny to
turn the country over to Germany.
Meanwhile diplomats of the cen
tral powers are hurrying to begin
peace negotiations with the bol
sheviki. On leaing Berlin, tihe
emissaries were urged by the popu
lace to- "make a strong peace."
Apparently undaunted by the heavy
forces of the enemy has been using
to break the Brenta-Piave line, the
Italians are making counter- at
tacks in attempts to regain Monte
Asolone. So far, Berlin says, they
have been unsuccessful.
On other sectors of this front the
Italians have repulsed with loss
strong Austro-German attacks.
Raiding engagements occupy the
opposing forces on the northern
end of the western front, while
the artillery continues active in the
Ypres and "Oambrai sectors. In
Lorraine the French have repulsed
a heavy German attack, about eight
miles south of the Rhyne-Marne ca
nal, where the Germans laided an
America nltrenjch last month.
In the midst of the peace pourpar
lers that are in progress between
the representatives of the Teutonic
allies and the Bolsheviki govern
ment in Russia, the war aims of
Great Britain and doubtless of all
her allies have been concretely set
forth in the house of commons by
David Lloyd George , the British
prime minister.
Great Britain did not seek terri
torial aggrandizement for herself,
or for any of her allies when she
entered the war, Mr. Lloyd George
said, but entered into the hostilities
merely for the sake of her honor.
As to Germany's colonies, all of of
which are now in the hands of the
entente, Mr. Lloyd George Sfaid,
their disposition must be determin
ed at the peace congress, Jerusalem,
however, the premier declared,
would never be restored to the
Turks.
of his plans for his sailing for a
north European neutral country.
The last report received here con
cerning him said he was undergoing
treatment in a sanatarium for a
nervous disorder. For a time he was
in a detention camp, probably chief
ly because the Argentine public was
so incensed against him that it was
not safe to have him at large.
Story of Intrigue Completed
Theste disclosures complete the
story of Luxenburg's intrigues which
began when the state department
gave out the famous "spurlos ver
senkt" (sink without a trace) mas
sag. They are of no importance
chiefly because of their bearing up
on various heretofore unexplained
activities in South America and are
particularly interesting as this time
when Louis Cabrera, envoy of Presi
dent Carranza of Mexico is on his
way to Argentina to attend a so
called neutrality,, conference.
Following is the statement of the
Argentine minister of foreign af
fairs given out with the Luxburg
telegrams:
"The telegrams which appear be
low are all that the Argentine min
istry for foreign affairs received from
the embassy in Washington of which
the translations were made by the
department of state in the United
States. There are three telegrams
not published, and they allude solely
to the republics of Chile and Uru
guay. The government has decided
that it should not publish these tel
egrams and has delivered them to
the respective chancellors.
Inaccuracies Charged
"The telegrams show a number of
inaccuracies so surprising that no
epithet will fit them, as they are at
complete variance, both in sub
stance and form, with the terms in
which the negotiations were entered
into, carried on and brought to a
conclusion."