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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-02-28, Page 714.4. ,-• --e-- +4+4 41+++ + •++4 +4*. .4.'0-4 ++44 44+4 .++ +++++ ++ • '1+4 ++++ Disillusioned German Calls People to Revolt t 1 beginning of Ms reign, an oath. ef allp- ;I. • WO Ninimr0r, 1.00, took an oath at the ALL QN BOARD WEE LOSI' gience to the GerMan coustitution, t The confeaeratiett whieh ferule tee WHEN THE FLORIZEL STRUCK welfare of the klerMan PeOPle." r0 . .._ „__ pl._.._ 1 oUly, duty of the Gerinan Emperor, It filture establielted ac- cording to title conetittItion "To •prie- Wet the UnIted Provincee aud the le- gal rights taereof, and to premete the Wend it is the foreMOst, indeed the This article Was written by a Ger- man is tG be read by Germans. It wait circulated in Germany through tact efforts of Genteel republicanehi Switzerland, who aro working for the overthrow of Hoheneellerniem and the establishment of a German reptialice (By Stegfriee Balder.) Conitadee in war! Taree yeare have passed, Once the German. Emperor plunged the world and his People le title mot ground- leeet eeaas seless and rinpiof all ware, into a sea of blood and tear. Trained from childhood to be a sot. dier, brought up ainia the peeVerted view, of the juleker and officer cute, dreaming of the laurele of the con- queror as the higheet ideal, counselled by generals, befriended by war con. tractoret.and even with a financial" in- terest in their profiteering, he has since ,e1 1905 syetematically pelted the v: ay for a the war. Ile deeired this war, he per- mitted the systematic cult of e'er in GerMany by the Pan-Germaniets, and he lets encouraged it. He supported anti talented the almost daily -quar- rels of the other powere throngb the Pan -German: press by his inflammae tar' speechee. Last of all be affixed biselgclatura to the arious declara- tions of we; he le fully and entirely reeponsible for them. For nine treat's the diplomacy ot our nelghbOrea consisteatly anxious for peaeg, sweeded In averting this Cis. aster from the world, This was the Polley Which wee falsely presented to Your igeorance as the "isolation policy," in reality a peace policy in watch Germany woe always most heartily invited .to participate. Ger- many Was not isolated, but the Ger- Man Government, and in its wake the Austrian Government, deliberately and inalietetisly withdrew trout the circle of civilized nationS, ae criminals from human social circled. But not only the diplomatte circles of foreign Mato, bitt also German men of insight and lofty ideals halve placed themselves .firmly in oppecition to the Emperor's sensalesa and extravagant lust for war, in spite of his wrath, and have saerifieed their poitione rather than their convictions. This was true ih the case of the president of the Reichesbauk, Dr. Koch, and even of the Emperor's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, On July 31, 1914, he urged the Entperor to desist from the war. and When he failed 131 his attempt he flung at the Emperor's feet his com- mission as grand marshal and cone mauder-inathief ot. the German navy, FACTS- NW. GIVEN TO GERMAN PEOPLE: Up to the last moment (England even held out until noon of the 4th of August, 1914, when the German meaty had already swept like a torrent over tho• bouutlaries of tee neighboring toentriee on every side) the rulers, • atieletere.7and diplomats or "Ealglatiel, Russia; France and Serbia did all that lay:within human power, even to the utinost self-abnegation, in order to vreeerve peace for the world. This fact is clearly manifest; the docu- ments concereing it set it Rattle in 'Meek eat:wilt-Le to the gate) of the • vond, ,They are acknowledged as ,ftetliontic by the German government, bat they are naturally withheld from . the German people, No one wished to attack us, either then or at any later • tinie. 'All that Austria could ask oE • Serbie with • evert the .slightest • 5001 - •Malice of justice waS freely granted. • Thus fvoin the very beginning of the •war the eympatIty of the °afro vatted belonged properly to our neighbors • who had been so wantonly attacked. But it,did not.stop at sympathythe esclaundrels who govern' you and con - Aral. you, by the colossal atrocity of •• their methods • of warfare, by such ..brutality.tee at itself to be a menace to the whole hieetral world, by disregard f all:estma ablished treaties, naeeed sten etestop to enrage all ,eleineed ha. oath of alleglanc‘.• to ycur flag. But CWatery, eivil life and volitive; the pre- ails perpoSe canna ee tmeompllehed rack Re rl Cos Liner Piled on the Rocks MUM lies of the (tern= twee, Without war. then tlte Emile= may At Cape [lace Newfoundland whipped, into line by a militate,' Meta - tor; your implicit confideuce in Yottr "God-given" leaders. 2. Fear of your motors, especially .of tbe officers. But these hal/gram ler the Kaiser are cowardly and hide themselves in time ot danger b bind cover. Shoot them tlown like Mad doge if they get in your way. Rather that they die than the latudreas uf taousands of honest, induatrioes iath- ere of families Whom they have al- ready hunted into the jawe of death; A hunt which day by day goes On. 3. Veer of committing an unpatelole- able crime, und of being- unable to re- turn home even if you escape punish - latent. But the laws by which tbe murderers maintain their Power and Make yott truckling maves shall be blotted out before the war is at an end, and you will be joyfully weloamed home without disgrace and more than that, wtib, the highest honor, as true heroes and liberators of your count11. 4. Fear of Injuring their Fatherland lf you go over to the French Anti Eng- nah, And more than that it you fight on their side, which is a matter for your own 'Melee. Comrades, I. pledge you by all that we bold holy, I am a son of the Ger- man people, 1 love them with every fibre ot my being; more than ever a Hohenzollern loved them; and the honor and welfare of my fatherland stand above all else, and,are the only lodestars of My destiny. • I know the war, the events leading up to it, les eauaes and its progresse-more than Che Kaiser's government likes. I assure you that the welfare of the German people demands that you come over aye, that yen turn your cannon around., that you join the Entente ana march with them to the Rhine and over It, and wrest our land froin the claws ot its destroyer, for now and for all time., FREE MANKIND PROM AN INSANE CRIMINAL There are only two possible ways of endleg this war: Either humanity, without you, without the co-operation of the German people, will annihilate Pius:den junkerdom, and will starve out the German people that thus they may free mankind for now and for- ever. from a curse which rests upon them with the weight of Alpine snows; from any insane criminal on a throne who. by the stroke of the pen, may change millions of men into corpses and. cripple, and ruin the industry and welfare of a nation; either this or you Yourselves will assist in the task of fre'eing mankind. Peace will not some one hour before this goal is reached. but not one hour later. But If this aoal should be reached without you and in spite of you, you will be • ground down into ruin, and what is more, the people of our Germaa nth- ,evland will be given over to the will of the conquerors. Then your in and political leaders, the true leaders who are not the lackeys of the Emper- or. .vill have no right and no opporten ity to interpose a word concerning the tuture order of the world and of Ger- many. But If you co-operate, ane that with all your might, to carry out this Purpose, the honor of the German Deople, which, is to -day scoreed as merely an insensate tool in the hands of murderers, will be restored; and more than that, you will have a Voice in the establishment of the new order or the world and. or Germany. And take my word for it, we shall have peace. and we can have it on sueh terms that tae German people will be happier in the future than they ever were before the war. But leave as in the lurch. and we must recognize with sullen rage and morn that we are the fellow -countrymen of hopelessly delucl- Qd upon whom will rest, thci. blame for their own ruin and for the annihilation of Germany. EMPEROR WICKEDLY DECEIVED YOU. Comrades in war, you have taken an *minifyto war against us. • If a bloodthirsty maniac -should be let lease on the streets those whom lie attaclool would defend themselves, All pehee-loying trientwoted hasten to tbeir rescue;' only cowards would slink timidly away. This is to -day the at- titude of the world tovrard Germany. There will bo no peace, and justly so, until the murderer is hnprisoned and shorn of his power to harm. - THIS MURDERER 113 GERMAN EMPEROR. • Coritraaes in war, this murderer Is the German 'emperor ond. hia govern - melte; that tato sdy, the men whom he himself has chosen for his infamous ' plan, 'without consulting the people, and without regard for their wishes; and these. are aecomplices he has se- lected after men ot honor have refused their services. In the spring of 191.4, by art overwhelming vote of lack of confidence, the reichstag showed its • dietrust of the only man whom signa- ture the entperor needed for mobili- zation and declaration of war, • Beth- mann-Holweg, his imperial chancellor. In no modern civilized state would it be poseibIe for a minister to rentain in office after being openly branded by the repeesentathes of the people as unfit, but in Germany any criminal may beeeme and remain imperial .cbancellor at the will of the °enterer Alone, 'Pentair:tent has etready found Ilan Oat. Another lackey has been pranoterl to lackey -In -chief, without •Consultatien With tho German people aad their representatives. This murderer Is the Careen am- peret with hie accomplices; but not the German people, the • poor 'mete defrended and exploited by their gov- ernment; not the poor soldiers, who ore driven to slaughter by theee IthaVel under the iron stlaceles at military law, like tbe miserable whey • Contrades, how long is it your wisb to pat up With this? . When Will you rouse yourselves? When will you take ante on the eicie en which every Man a honor must lutsv flgbt; on the gide of bulielnity and vivilleation agelnat this gang of shwas? When will Von glitfree oar poor, down -trodden, faintili- ' ea people from Its tyrtuete, and egaln establieh ittetWe, liberty. morality, reason and eivilitation in Germany, 30111 FIGHT ON MDR OF JUSTICH. Why not come over to fight oft the We of justice, of trath, of freedom, all of yeti; the tilde on whirls all civilized talons as well as the noblest end ot far -Seeing ef yotu. Own peopt.e eve titken their stand? knew the teasel% vibieh bela 'Yoe 1. Your Igtiorstnce... the raleo does tritest with which you were inuelllaied yonr Selma daye in all inaltere of ...•••••••••••••••. YOU can no complish more during the day if you have had a really enjoyable shave -an AutoStrop shave, Every time you use your Auto - Strop you realize what it meafts to own a razor that is always in pert feet condition for its blade is sharp and teen, The AutoStrop Is the only razor thal sharpens ite own blades auto- matically. Golnesteed i NW, 7Th COta.letit Outfit • $5.00 1 AT MI STORES Autogiro Safety gator Co, Limited $13.47:n*Ist St. Too, OM. 47I 10 declare war. but not until then. But Ike Emperor, wickedly, wantonly, by deceiving the German people, by Mis- representing facts and by foretng af- fielul documents, by brealtIng saerea treaties which he as the Wender of justice, should have observed, lute overterowle Belelum, declered war on Russia. ,FranCe and Serbia, and hee thereby violated the laws ot justice arta the constItutio.: has hurled the german Empire down to Mae ana has wrecked the welfare oS the German people, The oath which Yon have taken means alleglauce merely to an Emperor who is the proteetiOn ot the Germaa people, the gueralaa ot their constitution, tee true preserver at their welfare; it goes not mean alle- giance to burglars, murderers, raseelly drumers or greedy cannolt makers. But you took no oath against,the German people whom it was thfe lamperore duty to protect; whom YOU must uow Protect without him and against a miserable wretch who betrays his country in the hour ot greatest danger, who either from stupidity or from cowardice works againet „the good of his people. KNIFE AT eGULLET Oh' SOWN- • DRELS WHO RULE, Let every man who Wee the Ger- man people and the Gerblext Father - laud come over! The paseword which is to be given at '• the French posts is: REPUBLIC! , RTI13 4 0 ' EIe will meet not only French and Eng. ash and Aineriettuse but also German patriots, whose concern it Is that our Fatherland, the Fatherland so shame - telly and treacaerously said Jr its rulers by divine right, shotild not be annihilated; and he will Abe welcomed With honor bytthe Frenea if he gives title password, and will be well treated. Comrades in war, the knife is at the. gullet of the scoundrels whO rule you, and they would rather starveand bleed the German people to death to the last man than make peace, or even, make known the object of their war. For they know very well that the a -her of reckoning has struck fOr them when they can no longer suppress the truth beneath their martial law, and trample freedom in the dust. Before we make peace, therefore, and in order to make peace, we must first reckon with them. SEED CORN IS • VERY SCARCE *Shortage in United States is a Calamity. But They Will Share with Canada. Toronto Despatch-eDeminion Seed Commissioeer U. H. Clark, Ottawa, Yesterday conferred with the Toronto wholesale seedsmen regarding the working out of the order ct the Un- itea States War Trade Board as it applies to the export of seed torn to Canada. Only seed corn from Mis- souri, Tennessee, Kansas, Virginia and south of those. States will be per- mitted to be exported to Canada. A committee of the wholesale seed trade, organized by themselves; alas 'Undertaken to handle the seed -corn - ensilage situation, and will work on net profit basis of 5 per cent. for corn sold in carload lots and of one- ha1f. per cent. for wnolesale quanti- ties leas than carloads. • The order of • the United States War Trade Board allows of the export or not more than 500,000 bush- els or corn, but this will fill all needs in Canada. An order for 100,- 000 bushels hos elreedf been given. by the seed commissioner. The seed corn situation in the United States is little short of a cal- amity for the growers, there. As near- ly as can be determined, there will not be sufficient seed of the edrlier varieties to plant 72 per cent. of the normal acreage grown in, the pelted - pal corn beet. In this tinfertuilato sit- uatiou the Americans have, 'however, decided to share their supply w.th tbe Canadian ensilage growees. rjhe varieties of corn coming front tne Southern States will be late -mater - tag, but will be satisfaetory for pro - diming menage in all but the most northerly ensilage sections of Can- ada. For districts far north the use of other crops, such as peas and oats is recommended to growers who have not a supply of nOrthernegrown seed corn on 'and. • GR,EAT MEN PASS. Earl Brassy and Sir Henry Blake Dead. ibpe Far Any of the 146 in the Pass- eigers aid Crew. Bt. John's, Nfld., Feb, 24. -The fol- assistance could be rendered tram lowing message was received at 10 Pan snore - from Tasker Cook, head of the relief An could be, seen on the bridge sig - party sent to the scene of the wreck: lialing for help and some had lashed 'Nothing can be done until the sea moderates. Will have another try in the morning. Put rockete and line on board, but got no reeponee. Steamer get within, one-quarter mile of Fiore annle launched a boat, but could not gel. Some cargo washed ashore. Have placed men on bank to watch chance Much that I cannot hold out irech to get Florizel if any offers. Condi- tion of ship hopeless, and regret very --- St, John's Nfid„ Feb. 24. -The crack Red Cross liner Florizel, from St, John's for New York bY way of Hale fax,. with 140 persons abetted, including 78 pagsengers, piled up on the ledges near Cape Race during a blizzard to -day, and it is believed that all ,on board were lot. Naval. gunners sent on a special train from this clty shot a line across the bow ot the partly submerged ship to- night, but waited In vain for it to be hauled aboard. Just before darkness blotted the wreck trom view, five men, driven from the forecastle by the giant seas, were seen to climb the for- ward rigging, signalling feebly for help. But when they failed to make fast the line it was feared that they had succumbed to the cold and ex- posure. Those five were the only ones visible on board several hopes after the ship struck. Somewhere beyond the white mael- strom at breakers two staunch rescue steemers, the Terra Nova and the Home, manned by Newtoundland sail- ors, lay in waiting for a favorable moment to send e boat through the surf. but though the storm appeared Lo be subsiding. it was feared that it would be daybreak before the sea moderated enough to make it possible to approaeb the *wreck. LAST HOPE ABANDONED. The fleeting hope that a few of those aboard might stall be alive virtually was abandoned to -night. Naval gun- ners who went to the rescue on a relief train sent from St. John's, pet rockets and a line on board shortly before 9 o'clock, but there was no response. The message which killed the hope that the disaster might not have been as complete as earlier reports indi- cated was sent at 10 o'clock to -night by Tasker Cook, marine agent, who headed the' relief party. He charac- terized the poaition of the ship as aopeless. Included among the passengers were twelve women and four chil- dren. Among the first 'Cabin passen- gers were John Shannon elenn, a man- aging directpr of the firm of Bowing Brothers, Limited, owners of the liner, .ind his three-year-old daughter, Betty, They were going to New York to meet Mrs. Nunn and Sir Edgar Bowring, one of the owners of the lino, for a stay of two months in Florida. Six sadets of the RoYal Flying. Corps, on their way from Newfoundland to join the command in Toronto, were aboard, The body of one membee of the ds• taehment, Fred Snow, wes included among the six washed ashore to -night. knother Newfoundland officer wine it Is feared, was lost, was Major Michael Sullivan, commanding the Newfound- land forestry battalion, returning to his battalion, Which is now cutting timber in Scotland. Captain Joseph Kean, one of the hest -known commanders of the New- foundland seating fleet, also sailed on the Florin' foe Halifax, *where he was to take over his ship, the Sable, in readiness for the seal fisheries next month. Thomas 'McNeil, head of the Me- eierdo Drug Company, one of Inc loading pharmacal concerns in the nolony, and Fred Smythe, manager of the Newfoundland Woolen Mills, were others, in the passenger list. All but three of the passengers were natives of Nowfottudland. Three com- mercial travellers, a Mr. Stevens, of New York; W. W. Dauphinee, of Montreal, and 0. P. 13elleveau, of To - 'onto, were on their way home. • STRUCIe AT DAYLIGHT. • London, Feb. 24. -The death of Earl 13rassey is announced. Earl Itraseey was a well-known' authority on naval subjects and was a tamer civil lord of the 13ritish Ad- miralty and president of the Instittite of Naval Architects. He was born Fob. llth, 1836, • Sir Remy -Blake died tosdtty at his residence, Myrtle Grove, Youghal County Cork, Ireland. He was Gloster - tor of Newfoundland 187748, haying been Governor of the Bahamas for the preceding four years. Ile was eaptitin- general and governor -in -chief of Ja- maica from 1839 to 1897, hie term hav- ing been twive exhausted at request of the Legislature and 'subtle bodies of the island. Deceased was governor of Hongkong in 1897-1903, and governoi of Ceylon 1903-7. He was born in Limerick, Ireland, 78 years 'ago, OVER00M$ BY GAS, • sees:seem wpm t......The timely ontraiwe Into 11,s shoe shop this artetnorni or a 'moulder ismisaisly saved the life ef J. Ilmiieweel, who was overcome, by na- tut et OP. Although etandlitg, aer. Un - dc rwool coult! not epee:, Mid It watt some time after being eatelot oteside before 1 e lc cutieet ne was removed to his home. "How ean he afford to give his ser- vices to the governMent for a dollar a Sear?"s "That lea what's worrying me." "What hi?" "I'd like to kno how elle Government can 'pay him a dolier a yeer for hie services without getting the work. of the bargain." -. Ihsl milt Fret Prete'. tnemselvee in the rigging. FRANTIC BUT HORDSLESS SIGNALS Gradually, under the buffetiag of the weVee, the hull disappeared Irons view. and after a few hours the vessel was almost oubmergede while tee men in the rigging still signalled framticale ly but hopelessly for aid. While the watchers looked on the bodies ot five men and a wolate came ashore. Foam were identkifiee as those et Edgar Freed°, Captain Joeeph Kean and Robert Snow, pas - Iter gers, and James Long, a tailor. Tite other bodies had not been identified to -night. Meanwhile arrangements had been made here to send the Terra Nova, a sealing vessel, to the aid of the Flora zel, and a special train tarrying physi- cians, nurses and =pines. was made up and despatched to the point nearest the scene of the wreck. At message received • here from Broad Cove early to -night said that just as darkness see in, four or five men ,were seen to rusk from the forecastle at intervals. when the wash of the. seas permitted. and weve for help. At that time it Was impossible to do anything for them, but there was a faint hope that *with the arrival of life-saving apparatus; some ser•vi- vors might beArescued. The relief train from this city reached Broad Cove, two miles teem the wreea. soon after five o'clook. It was under the direction of Hon. Tasker Cook. marine agent, and car- ried, besides paYsielans and nurses, a party of naval -gunners with rocket - firing apparatus, by means of which It was proposed to get a. line over the ship. The coastal steamer Prospero, equipped with life-saving apparatus from Placentia Bay, and four steam- ers from this city, were also sent to Broad Cove, and two of them had reached there at nightfall. Should the weather moderate there was thought • to be ,a chance that the steamers* might be of assistance. While the stern of the Florizel was submerged, her bow, resting on the ledge, was partly out of the enter. Marinexs hoped that in . addition to the five seen near the forecastle ()tam survivors were huddled in the forward Part of the ship and might still be [Saved. The message received from Marine Agent Cook, however, indi- cated that all was over. The crew of the Florizel included one woman, Miss E. alcHardy. The vessel was commanded by Captain W. J. eihrtin, a master of long experi- ence, and who was credited with the full confidence of the owners. The purser, F. 11. Jones, was chief purser of the Red Cross line, and was stew- ing on the Stephano when the lat- ter was sunk by the German subma- rine off the ela.ssachneetts coast. Sickness developed on the steamer while she lay here a few day e ago, and all those seeking passage upon her were told that it would be neces- sary for them to be vaccinated, It is believed that ut least twenty were de- terred by this requirement from tak- ing passage and proceeded to Halifax or New York by rail.. , • Tho Florizel wee owned by the New York, Newteumiland & Hali- fax Steamship 'Conepanye aknown as the Red Cross Line, ot witioh se, T. Bowling 'Company; Limiteds.of Liver- pool and New York, are the agents. In recent weeks she had.departed from her schedule, as she Was freaueetly used by the British Government as a despatch oottt• between this port and New York, the usual stop being made at Halifax. Her passengers bave in- cluded notable personages. She was due at Halifax to -morrow, morning, • And in New York next Thursday. The ship was built at Glasgow in 1900 and registered 1,980 top net. The ship was in commend of Capt. W. J. Martin, one of the rdremost ship- pere In the Newfoundland tra.de, The Florizel tees one of the best knewn ships plying the North Atlantle sea- board. • She was a sister ship to the Sephano of the same line, one of the vietlme in the famoue raid of the Gernlan U-53 off Nantucket in Goteber, 1916. The Florizel was buIlVer rough work in the northern icefialds as a sealer. as well as for passenger and freight service on: the New York route. With her hull sheathed Itke a battleship, and with her sloping .how reinforced with concrete She at- tracted the attention of the Russian Governmeitt at the outbreak of the war. and a large priee was offered for her as an ice -breaker to keep open the northern port of Archangel. The offer was refused, however. The Florizel, as -Queen of the New. foundland fleet, was given the honor of bearing the first Newfoundland regimeet woes the Atlaetie ia Oc- tober; 1914. When the darkness shut In to night the, PloriZel wee a, battered hulk. She was submerged from her funnel aft. Heavy embers eentin- Ually swept her decks. where her bow was held up by * jagged rock. Sonie oe those abeerd had taken refuge lrithe rorecastle, but-thie Was battered in during We efternoort. Joey - fug the' rigging tete'eedy place . where a human being could Cling for his lite. So far as ebuld be .eteen from shore only five Men were able to climb the rigging. SHVISN HOMES WASIIntr ;MOREL Floriesil follows! FIret-elases tor New York -Alec Isedingitane Thomas. eleNeil, Fred T. 11. ',Maga, Wm. Butler, Fred Butler and wife, Patrick Isar; aey, Rawer°, *mule, James MeCole brat!) Robert Wright, Jantee James Daly (ell imeiness men et St. John's), lallesee Kitty Cantwell, An - ale Dalton, M. Barrett!' Smokeless for New Yorle-Joa. Maloney, wife and child; Wm. Dodd, P. 3. Fitzpatrick, A. Power, j. G. Sp arra w, leeward Greeniag, John Cos. tell°, Peter Guilfoyle, Thomas Whelan, Wm. Gusswell„ Davie Griffith, Miases Minnie Deniel, Elizabeth Pettey. Firet-clase for Halifax - Frank Chown. lend Snow, Edward Ber- team Jack C. Parsons, Newman 801 - 'are, Ralph Remain (cadets ot the Royal Flying Corps), Merge Mas- sie. wife and child, Wm. 34, Bieop, Charles IL :Miller, 0, W. Paupuinee, 0. R. Bellevue, George A. Moultoe, and no, George Permiter, General St, John, Wm, Moore, John Maley, Michael Connolly, John Connolly, William Earle, Michael 0. Driscoll, Misses Beaumont, Munn, Trenchard. Second-class passengers for Hali- fax - George Long, A -0, Fagan, R. J, Fowler, George Puddester, Greg- ory Mahoney, John Lynch, W. Rich- ard, Leonard Nicholl, John Cleary. ;fames Crockwell, H. Pearcey, JAMOP Bartlett, Charles Howell, J. Forrest, Joseph Stockey, all of St, John's. 'and, Oofy NceRwmavto.rIc. The following is the llet of the crew et the lelorizet: Ny. 3, Martin, Master; J. E. Wok- er, first officer; J, R. King, second Officer; IP. .1. Jackson, third officer' 1. Itower, boatswain; .1. Finzent, carpenter; ail of St, Johns, With the "exception of King, who comes from Nova Scotia. J. Burry, G. Crocker, R. Beat, 3, "Vieeount, C. 'Ballet, T. Green, 3, rower, W, Hol- ley, A. Jones, A. Cover, It. Freeman, W. Dooley, A. T. Pritchard and O. 11. Curtis, all seamen from St. Johns. • Nfld. Cecil 0, Carter and Bernhard .1!, Murphy, wireleet operators, bath of New York, hut British subjects. .1 V, Reader, chief engineer; H. Tay- lor, fourth engineer; J „Davis, II. alitamons and T. Henneburry, all from St. Tohns, Nfld. a Fornes, J, Seca,ne, J. Fernandez, M. Yanes, M. Rodriquez, F. Remiira, F. Garvia, S. Mendez, all firemen of Spanish na- tionality, Rodriquez, Jose 'Vila and Guireiro, trimmers, Spanish. IL Rey, 1C years old, mess boy. .0:Danish. Charles Snow, chief stew- ard; 3. Jciansonr paatry man, and .1. Dwyer, C. Reel's, Harry Snow, A, Fleet, H, Dodd, F. Lynch, and D. Chester, all waiters, of St. Johns, Nfld. Miss Ethel McHardy, stewardess for more than ten years; her home is Brooklyn, N. Y.. He Berge, Chief cook; G. Guthrie, second cook; B. Hardery, third cook; J: McKinnon, baker and A. Moody, butcher, all of et. Johns, Nfld. The stemner rounded Cape Race in s. heavy sea, and struck catty this morning, while "fighting her way otrough a blinding blizzard. In a cow hours she had pounded to pieces m the rooks and at dusk her hull had nettled under the battering waves until elle was almost submerged. Tbe Florizel sailed from here at 8 .'clock last night, witl. a large num- cer of passengers ahd a cargo which minded 10,500 barrels of dry codfish end herring for New York end 1,200 oarrels for Halifax, her only port ot all between St. John's and New YOrk The cargo was Valued at $800,000 and 'he ship at $1,000.000. A blizzard Was brewing When elle left and it grew avec toward midnight, but abated le the catty niorning heel's, when the lelorlzel would have to proceed soutb- ward along the coast toward Cape eace, about sixty miles distant. Mar - iters here think she prooably put her aead seaward to ride out the storm • And that when the wind moderated :somewhat toward morning, her cote- eander, thinking he had passed eolith 'it Cape Race, turned. weetward. The ship atritck bIt lima Cove about five a.m. She scut oue wireless mess lap Of distrees, whiell reCOIVPil • it Inc Cape Race radio station, say - ng that she Wag ashore and in Mimi - lent daeger of •destraction. Iler wire ess apparatus workell Smilingly and •nort Wan silent. Nothing furthen was !eara *outlier and as the cove is 10 retnote and epersely settled disttlet, t was not .untlI late in. die forenopn ''at reScue party reechel the scene. They dieetwered the elorlzel lying ehl itiglote, nt1subiteted to A. inerel- :!Sg ponwlingbg the Ittevy Sinai! ota- hiaat 001114. 1101 .1i%o- ftu- the, Surf and Wore; to eacare! .,from tilt ship were hopelees, while in The eh - settee of lift eaving equipment, no " • Protect the child from the ravages of worms by using Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator, It is a stambird remedy, and years of use have en- hanced its reputation. Up to midnight watchers at, Broad' Cove reported seven bodies Washed ashore.. 'lame. identified were; Mrs. Fred Butler,- first-class pas- senger, for N,ew !Ant. . Edward Froude, tirst-class I/anew ger, fer New York. A •Cerporel.Vri41 Suow, RoSell Corm •• 4 *Joseph Itean, master mariatr. • Loregeseistittn. • -Ileacue parties; saki it would be possible to geksheare Om ship before d" break PAMont.11,- lAsT. The pariertigerelitt •ef the steam . .41 ROUMANIA GETS FEW DAYS' ERACE In Which to Consider Ger- man Peace Terms. May Lose Lan° a to Bulgaria -Trade to Huns. -London, Feb. 24. -Informal peace negotiations with Roumania, were be- gun yesterday at Castle Bufftea, near Bucharest, according to advices reach- ing diplomattc circles at The Hague, as . transmitted in an Exchange Telegraph despatch from that point. The terms of the Central Pewees are said to include territorial acquisitions tor Bulgaria and economic preferences for Germany and Austria. Premier Avereseu of Roumania Will consult King Ferdinand at Jassy, for -which purpose a few days of grace were gigen by the representatives of the Central Powers. Germany is represented in the ne- gotiations by Foreign Secretary von Keehlmann, Austria, by Foreign- Min- ister Czernin and Bulgaria by Premier Radoslasoff. COSTLY MISHAP. •••,••••••4••••••.•• Runaway Train Burn b With Loss of $250,000. REITRES HN L,EPRESSIOei Of STRiltiK ITTER CHAOS NOW THE RULE OVER RUSSIA German Trade hand Tel), ATAustrial Prpduction Al - 'How Military Put Down.. most Nil-Vynchings the Trouble, • Occur Daily, Wilt111 NOT GONFih tiOUNTRY VIREP(E.) ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••1 But Set Up .Courts-Martia and Punished Scores of Men. Amsterdam corespondent ,(by mail) Details of the German military auth- orities' ruthless repression of an at- tempt at a general torilte In all the munition factories of Germany las. August, no particulars of which •wert, allowed out of the country at the tiro, are published in the journal of the German Metal Workers. In Brunowlck, which is the only dis- trict ,particularized in the guardee story published by the Journal. martia. law was immediately' put into force, and both male and female ' strikert were senteneed to imprisonment, "It will be a long time before tablet in. Brunswick reeovers from the wounds received," says the officially- inepired writer of the article. His ae- count of the Witte in part le as fol. lows: "The great international strike has come to an end in Brunswick, and the labor moyement is richer by a very grievous experience. e'he strike wee brought about by a few agitators, anct had been in preparation for a long time. It broke out, in spite of. offic- ial warning, in the Brunswick meta. factories, as in other factories through- out Germany. "The authorities in Brunswick, in- deed, knew mord about the threateneu strike than the leaders of the loca. trade uni AS, who, faced. with the ac- oompleshed fact. were uuable to take counter measures to protect the work-. Itnhgpeaoeptlionerrom the worst effect o eirl "The most unscrupulous methodt. were used to persuade the workers te take part in the strike. Rumors were put out to the effect that the • strike was for the purpose of putting an end to the control of food bxercised by the authorities; also that it was to exert pressure on the employers to grant de- inahcls which had been put forward by the Metal Workers' Union. It was also declared that not only in Ger- mahy but throughout the world, in London Paris an clPetrogeetd, work was to come to a standstill in order tc bring about peace. "The number of persons out on strike in Brunswick the first day was 5,000, which was increased the next two days by female workers from the jam and spinning factories. "On the breaking out of the strike 'the Minister of the Interior summon- ed the heads of the workmen's com- mittee in rocler to bring about a set- tlement. They presented a series of demands, including fair distribution of food, introduction of the eight-hour day, suspension of niartial law, grant of free assembly; introduction of equal direct voting, peace without an- nexations* or indemnities, Cermission to establish a labor journal, and non - punishment of participantsin the striktshtleTl ikdeniands. He stated that work e Minister would not discuss must be resumed the next morning, Friday, or the matter would be refer- red to the military command. He add- ed that the working people would suffer heavily if, against wiser coun- cils, they persisted in the strike. "When the delegates reporrthe result of their interview tothe strik- ers, it was hardly to be expected, in veiw or the existing excitement, that a vote to resume -work' would be pass- ed. All entreattee wore• vain, the strike was to Ire- continued. A few. hours after thietteateful decision had been taken the orders of the military authorities were posted -up in the streets. In the course of the day the strikers gathered before various factories, where exciting scenes took place. "Meanwhile a special military court -had been set up, working day and night. The arrests and trials number- ed over a hundred and the terms of Imprisenenent up to ten MODUIS were imposed. Workers between the ages ef 17 and 48 who were subject to military service were brought under military control, and were ordered to perform certain work. for which they etould receive only military pay. Largo numbers of Working peciple gave up their membership in the lo- cal trade organizations. "It is 'lamentable to learn. that In many families the father or mother - in some, indeed, both parents -had been condemned to long terms of im- prisonment. We saw children ID in common the fate that had suddenly overtaken thent." _ ..4 • charge of greondper_onts leo mourned Mlnard's L1niment cures Distempter. IRISH REPUBLIC'S U.S. ENVOY. Washington Deaptutch.--"The Irish rse- pubtie," will open an embassy in Wash. ington, with alt ambassador, andwin fly the flag of the republic that was mit 'own after a. few days' battle In Dublin by the British, two years mire, The P.olthevild, Club of New York, gave $10 of the $2,000 subscribed there .for the purpose. The Irish ambassador will be Dr. Pat- ileft 11cOartan, Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb. 21 -Foodstuffs end railroad properw valued' at inore than e250,00e were de-itroyed last night tvhen a. freight train on the Central Railroad oZ 1\rewA•ersey. got beyond con- trol of the engineer on the Wilkesbarre inonntain, and aftee running four miles at terrific speed, washed oito two en- gines at 41,sliley, near here. .an engineer was killed and slat other railraml Men were seriously injured. The runitsvey train, consisting of forty- two cars loaded with meats and other foodstuffs, caught firs •fter the crash, andl virtually all tha cars *with their con:mats -Were either destrcyel or badly damaged. • o • REVOLUTION IN GERMANY •.••••••••••••• ILA,..,••••••• Predicted by Deputy in the • Parliament. Signs of Campaign for New General Strike, s. AMeterdant, Feb. 24. -There tire numerens Mattel -ions in Germany of a very syetomatic campaign to pro. mote ea new -generel strIke, vays Berlin despateh to the Weser Zee Mug* of Bremen. • A revolution in Germany. was pre. dieted by tsr. Clohn, Independent Soo - !allot deputy, in fans address to the Iteichstag en leridey*, the Volks Zee tatigt of Cologee neat, "It is not cora root to say that the aeeple of einiel t'S provineestare Waging' tor Ger- marlefule," he deelared. "The treaty. will) Ukraine *.s alit3the firetstel) ie- warti"general peace:1 see she daY, viral:es when revolatiou wIIresrh GermestY, and the PeoPle tett4. the fete of their subsea Ivo their OWil The . den I. Socialists • ettid;tHhelf;tisispoeackaltere:, ily;broilint;,:ola t1,1,:txr.r.putor14.4„ le • t, disorganization So. Com- plete Recovery Will Take Years. • Amsterdam, Feb. 24. -The state of chaos in Russia is described by an eye -witness in the Tages Zeitune. easeengersej on trains bave been, frozen to death owing to the lima oe glass in the cer windows. When the German and Austrlart delega- tions left Petrograd, tney nad uot eaten bread for days. There are only two locomotives in Petrograd, one of which Is eapable of only ten miles an hour. Repairs formerly costing 30,000 roubles now cost 500,000 roubles. ehe rivetMg of a boiler casts 70,000' roubles, which, says the correspone .tent, is not surprising, as the :iverter gets t 40 roubles for a day's vork of three or four hours. There are hilt a, iniltion unera- 'toyed in Petrograd, and the induss' .rial production, of the eountry bee JUIlk to five per cent, of the normal. In some of -the districts most of the !last furnaces have been extinguish -A Id. Sugar production has been reduc- ed from one haltered million peach; (a peed is about 36lee pounds) to forty million pods, and next- year, rill not reach ten million. The ehief of• the Finan.ce Miniatry 's a college student. The Fifth. army ihlef ie a former aetor. The chief of telegraphs is a clerk. The Govern- nent's tepresentatitee of the financial, lommission at Brest -Litovsk • was a eerie who, says the writer, "hadn't 'be faintest notion of the simplest ex - lump problems." The commander of • 'he noted Pavloff regiment is a wo- man. A Dutch resident of Petrograd, in long letter published in The 'league Nieuwe Courant, says that es/etching occurs data'. After detail - 'ng seizures at the capital and -Tutny extravagances, he concludes; "Russia is so completely disorgant 'zee that it will be years before she -ecovers." ?ETROGRAD UNDER MARTIAL LAW. Petrograd, Feb. 24. - Petrograd was placed under martial law yes- terday. The following proclamatioa was issued by the general staff of the Petrograd military district: "1 -The city of Petrograd is de- clared to be under martial law. "2-Al1 persons caught in the act of stealing, pillaging, attempting ex- propriation or otherwise committing reprehensible deeds will be •shot without pity by detachments of the revoluntionary array. "3 -Every individual, organization, or institution not Isaving special per- mission must band over to the Comt- e!' of Soldiers' and Workmen's Dele- gates of the district all bombs, gren- ades, projectiles, and other exploa styes, whieh the Wdiers' and Work- • men's Delegates will send to army de- pots. Every person who does not cen- Lorin within forty-eight hours with this paragraph will be declared an • outIctw. "4 -All journals and, other or- gans of the press are obliged strictly to verify all news given regarding' the activities of the Government, pp well as information coming from the theatre of. war. Tho extraordinary' general stiff • gives • notice that re-, fusel to submit in all.reapeets to this order w111,-itivolve suppression of the offending elaufthal and the se:teet ot the editoeimet his collaborators. "5-Docutheitts dealing with pro- duce arrivihe or which has arrived or is retained in Petrograd or its: environs muet be presented be the extraordinary general Staff -.All pro- duce• will be paid for at rates fixed by the food controller: Any ,person who refuses to submit, to this order or is convicted de concealing provi- sloes will. be Shotas at saetulator. "6 -Counter revolutionary agita- tors, German spies and other• per- sons who rise against the Govern- ment or Revolutionary Russia. will be shot. ' '7 -All orders issued by the - Aex- traordinary general staff enter into force on the day of publication in the press organs of the Govern. ment. "8 -All newspapers ere compelled to publish the orders of the • extra- ordinary general staff In heavY type on the first page." In eonsequence of the deelaration of a state of siege six ot the most important Petrograd newspapers which opposed the. authority of the Soldiers and. Workmen's Delegates, have been suppressed. If atteriapte are made to reissue them the entire staffs will be arrested. The pro., prietors are ordered to pay full wages to the 'Workmen during the period of suppressions, TRAGEDY IN TORONTO HOMB. Toron to Des. -Eleven -year-old Grant Clifford Weston, son of eit..A.M.. George Weston, 4d0 ralmetrston V.oulevard, was fatally burned yesterday morning when, his elethes eaught flee from a grate In it room at Ids home. In attempting to save her saes life Mrs. Weston Was VetY Musty burned, mid the father, hearing the cries of mother and son, rttehed to their araltanee and was himself burned ebout the arms, hale Ctild face while ox- tingelsbing the flames. . . FLOOD DANDER P4ket. Brantford Deep:de:I.-Cut off by the rise Mg water of the Grand /liver, a party of weelonen in the screening linage otthe the ALAND ISLANDS. Sifiredish. TreaPs to Control Till War Ends, London,- Feb. 25. -The Swedish forces which seized the Aland Isla.nds consist ot 5.00, followers, exehange tete-, graph despatch from Copenhagen TO. ports. These troops will forrn a guard until the end of the *at. Six hurt- dred Finnish White. Guards left the Aland, Islands. on Swedisl; steamships, Which brought them be etweleti. They were then taken to Tornea, in rhalaud, on the Swedish border. The RtisSlatt soldiers an the islands also Will be ro- ,City.W.tterweeke plant were forced to irrevectilly' toTihoehlylaprirtabliY1 wilt rbetostetteldt 'elisdli•into tho rafters of the telling of eat Melding yettericilaY, .tual to ration thq illiedre;i White 9"erde" Whet their food elsatnst,the event s)t a, ahoet.. toots refuge on the Pelona Wands. berms: kverilag, whtn or ..,:tto bad large slumber of them. mostly Finielsh thouglI. kilo, river was.still unttsually..higlt, I The GoVernment .lisfeede to carte i out only -temporary, measeres until "Whitthbe are We behind?" shrieked March lst. 1919, for fbie proteetlort of the eiriamitY leettirer.411 tiny, twin -,the population oretheelelatiall, and that whither,. 0 'whither. ere we boundV• *there le any political Phase for the tie - "Say, you," celled a Mari in the rears Got is denied. -you've been trying all night 10 find s '-es--easesse-le-- • ()et %flare you'reeseo'silS' Ifyoudon't 'Variety iney be 'the spice of life. know yaur etatiebvit r.leerttoi. Inst man a, women hang- hit mind Mond .Timee-leieseststele, without bettering it. age. `". They mere WW1 to descetel gorily have been defeated by Red Guards, a Verg.:SZT grIZA,ZS eedl .estler7 studente. being killed.