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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-05-09, Page 7up now virteatly five ka,ys esizece the • . • . enemy waves last dasliky against the. _ ,roekribebd defence of le British, and ( 4-71, 114.4 G4RMAN PEACE EMISSARY IS ALREADY IN ENGLAND ••• ••4••••• • t Is a Prominent Dutch Financier, and Another is on the Way, is Report • But Britain Warns That the Allies" Are Fight- ing to a Finish etondon cable: An emissary or Germany $ new pea.ce otteaeiee at- ,eready Is iit •etnglend. Aecortling to the Central News he is a Dutch einaucier. Another agent, the agency says, is believed to be on the waY, BRITAIN FOR FINISH FIGHT. Lottotin cable: In dimming Ger- moue $ • peace oiteusive,' eiges te welch have begun, to appear receutly, tee newspapers retied the determine - Lion of the 13rItish nation and its allies to see the war througle They say it is Impossible that Cermeny Omuta succeed in duping the Allies into a peace which does uot the- prinetplee foe 'which they are fighting, The Plume says the general eepecta- tion that the Cermans, fulling to ob- tain a crashing victory in France and e Flanders, world inaugurate a peace eautpaigif In the Attlee countriet, seerns likely to be fulfilled. It con- tinues! "On the one hand, German epeanees and ageets show suspicious readiness to dilate upon the food shortage awl ' general discomfort in Germany, with the •obvious intention of lending a ring of stneerity to Oermany'e fession of auxiety for peace. At ibe ea me time, neutral emle series c, r lzurrn 'antecedents 'and teftdenceee; are understood to have arrived eecent- ly in England and other allied cope - tries for the purpose of suggesting thet If the Allies will only show a pacific disposition they will find Ger. many ready to meet them on moder- ate teems. In some instances these enlist:arise are believed to have put forward proposals as to the best pelley for the Allies to factee ••• • 9t7 need hardlyete said that Mende:. igin of these menoeuvres is quite as evell !understood:, as was the purpose of the militate; offensive in Mereih; and that the Allied Governments are likely to present as firm a fronletflet any. peace intrigue as the Allied arinies presented to the German mili- tary. attacks." The, Deily Mail says: "The irruption of amiable neutrals into England, with no visible betel-. ness, has ah•eade, begun, including the arrival eof a pro German friend of the German Foeeign Secretary, Dr. von 'Kuhlmann, who is not chargedewith any Oficial mission, as far 115 1115 . London legation is aware. These 11011- • tral emissaries should save them- . selves much trouble and soine per- ' ' • senal danger if they would recoge • nize clearly that Great Britain is not • " e tie be.duped like the Bolshevik:. aild • e• lelerartion dupes." The Daily Express says: "If the present feelers are being put out by von Kuhlmann, the ole vious auswer is that von Kuhlmann eas no power to Pledge his country to anything. Germany is to -day abso- lutely in, the hands of the milltarists, When the militarists bave given up hope of victory in the west, let the Kaiser einiself approach the Allies as a whole. Let him admit he cannot win the war, categorleally abandon his scheme of couquest, and withdraw his armies -within his owe frontiers, eeter that the Allies will talk, but the Germans and von Kuehlmann may make up their minds that hole and corner intrleues will be boycotted, and that we shall continue fighting until a elea.n, not a petched-up, peace is in sight." The Express adds that the first of the peace offensive agents in London laki his proposals semi -officially be- fore various otficials. The newspaper ears it uneerstands on high authority ethat this agent is a Dutchman With impertant financial associations, and tea he"ceeire as a fleeted of von Kuehl. mann, that is to eay, his inquiries were made on behalf of the civil, and not the military, party in Germany. "This ageet represented to the au- •thorIties here," tne newspaper con- tinues, "that by our refusal to con- sider Peace last. year we deprived the oivlj .party ell Germany of the chance of ousting the. Military party, and also that the most we could hope for now was peace by arrangement. He was toed there was no such thing in the ereglish eletionary as peace by arrangement. He was told also: 'Seem soon there will be no such phrase as raw material in the Ger- man 'dictionary," "There is no doubt that the present Perae-d'offensive is inspired largely by ektfeed Bailin, director of the Ham- bilegeeetlieticain Line, and other mag- nates of tee German. shipping world, wetottorettee that a determined Entente -can .easily cut them off for mane yeire from all markets of the outsicre ;world, as well as from Allied ports. "The failure of the first envoy to find a sympathetic hearing will not ehd the peace offensive. It is known that other neutrals have been per - vended -to undertake the task of lay- ing further suggestions before the British Government, without any ap- parent inspiration from Germany. But the buseness associations of these envoys are too well known for any loubt to. exist that they are deliber- ately inspired." , 46.7101MICASIO2=1:XS4 . • , • • • • _ • • el..s. - • • ALLIES MAKE M f.f.t Lest PON THNERT GAINS RH NI. Seize Tactical -Tositiorts_ Near Locre and .4 • fifietegnytle-Holti 'Them riot. Germa unfire,,. Bgt No Strong in-- _ 4 t " fantryt. tatli,Yet . • • • .•• .44 ....yr : • e •: .• 0,- London, 'aMy 5.—ielea.e.Geiiiiaii. er- e : . et,,,eetet, . feneive in Flanders hal- been held ,. .. t, French early last weeiceeeid the Ypees 0 line stated firm under ere attack. Gem etetet ereemet von Arnim evidently ha been forced, -•teinto this Inactivity by • e severity Of. his loses and the tinitenecessary to ' teener' teete marshal new forces fottem fresh blest'. Concededly, howener, the enemy has fresh-trops for s'eetrust of -even - greater power, if he leinks it advis- able to employ them here,and there have been indications ror•the laerday or two that he was preliaring to do tzo. One such hint detain' impending 4 theist developed Satneteay morning, 4' when the .gerifilin artillny begale'vio. fere .; Imlay to potind, theeedera,neo-British ;tee e line from Locre to the South of Ypres, where his main efforteettApril 29 was • made. Theebombardmenteepesteet fol. lowed• up by an attack,. thetweiv4r, • was the caselastMonday, although. Sunday Morning German troops. at- tacked the new positiene gained Ity the British Friday nighe'neartilliegese north-west of Bethune, They were re- - pulsed, tlie 13ritish•lineeremaining 111 - tact.• The British eSeettions *ere ewe' proved in local opera:dohs eetst of Alniens, near. Sally -le -Sec, and north of Albert, in the vicinity. of Iiebte terne,, • . Meanwhile there,s ening of the alliecleo defence at line ° portant points alongboth ,the north - et • ern and southern sheet of the Lys sal- . •,;%. , • t BRITISH TAKEO:STRONGER. The Preach thus itave operatedtsue. cessfully in the leoeireeregiont which teteeleteltneteetethe melee objettivee pietas!, t of the Germans • it' an ppreach to Mont Iteuge. I • I V: • 'Trench troops captured a nmnber eet peisotters in local fighting in the. neigii'borabod of Locre during last night With the exception of artillery activity .on both sides and local en- counter s at different points to -day there is nothing of special interest to •reitort." • Xitnellty afternoon.—"fly successful eninor enterprise:3 carried out last .eight anti the neighborhood of Sallie - ..e -See and east of Hebuterne, we et. Zected improvements in our line at these paints and ceptured several pre: - sorters. Early this morning the enemy at- tacked the new positions gained by us Friday night northeast of Hieges, and was repulsed. Our line is infect. We canted out a, successful raid in che Forrestede-Niepoe sector. . "The artillery has been attive me' bah sides ot the Lys battle -front." Saturday 'Night — "The enertiy's bombardineet this morning south and southwest of Ypres was vigorous- y.replied to by our own and the enrentele aetillery. No ,attacks devel- oped. • • "Tee infantry fighting during thci. -day was confined te local engage- ments at different • points,, in eue- eessful minor operations. carried out by us lastenight le the Hinges sector,' tve captured over folete prlsoners. "A loette• attack attempted by the enemy early 'this morning' south Of Lotion under cover of a heavy artil- lery barrage, was completely re- puleee. • "In their operations early this Morning in the Locre sector Veen& troope made progreee and captured oyer fifty prleoners. British ereeps, acting on the right Of our allies, also made progress in the neighborliond'ef eleteret. eebeette improved our poeitions slightly northeast of elingee (three mike notth of Bethune) in a local 'afteeele last night, &tittering two ma- chine guns." , THE FRENCH .0IeFICIAL. Faris, May 5. --The official state - Ment issued by the War Office night„ node: "There was intermittent ' activity by the Oepiesitig artilleries north and seuth. of ;the Avre Inver to -day, but there Were no infantry engagements." • Sunday eforning---eThe artillery t'oti beth .:sides, was active north and (teeth et the Avre and alettein, the eeetorkot Dotthemont (Venturi front), and (Lorralne),• near the American Teel wector, There was no Intentry het tirn. ."e0„ Lorrafte aeraieingt operation • wee (tarried out rzy the French` in Ito • ,.• The Somme freeze has been threhte • • ening to break thee into its former Anions activity Veedeitteletee)weehet nette lfront. the treeent thrust by the lerenein • ;eyeilch 4ined• them coin- :- Mending grdlind-oWthe Avre sector, el 'loath -vast of Anileets, tend similar op• . • orations by the elieetish around Vill. eteltBeetonoeatjne•eellet,:to,.the, northo • he tfighting has'keen left .ainiAst ou- t . tirelY to the artitery. 0.• .r • • The big gents.' eettir threateningly Inv,itto,me 114011 011(1 Alsewhere arountt,,tite,great ' Onttlifn • ir eallent, howevit'r. ,, THE (ileletiAltettlePMele.4., Itertitien, Mat. tit. eleld etaieslial elaig's Official tejeoiteenaeet to4 flight roads: t'l*Via3)4 -ar., 4*. - • : • •••••-, region of Letrieourt. Patrol opera, tions 111 the region of Auservillers re- sulted in the taking of prisoners. "Tbe night was quiet on the re- mainder of the front." Saturday night—"There was no In- fantry firing during the cottree of the day. There were reciprocal born- bardMeuts ItOrth azul. south of the Avre River and'also along the Allette River. "Eastern theatre, May 3. --There were artillery vedette west or the Var- dar and in the Monastir sector. The enemy attempted a number of raids on the Italian and Serbian fronts, but were everywhere repulsed. In their counter -,attacks troops took from the elungarlane several trench elements near Dobropotje and have bele them. British aviatorte bontareked with suc- cess, minty convoys south and east or Seres." GERMAN OFFICIAL, Of- And Not Permitted to Sit $01.ue, May 5.---To-day'a War flee report states that tee situation nu all fronts is unclianged. ,Again Until 'War Saturday—"The situation is uti- is Over, changed o11 the battle -fronts. The artillery activity was tsptrited on var- ious sectors throughout the night. In the Eemmei region and on both sides of the Avre it increased this morning to greater intensity. "A British partite, attack southeast of the Arras das repulsed, The ar- tillery activity revived before Verdun, "Atter unsuccessful reconnoitring thrusts by the enemy on the Lorraine front. the fighting activity durtng the reeet.een was slight. At Parrot, Wood and west of Blamont the firing revived during the afternoon, but died down again at nightfall. "Yesterday we shot down twenty- five enemy airplanes and two cap- tive balloons. Lieut. Buckler achievt ed, his eiird aerial victory, and Lieut. Putter his 22nd," ...-,,,wrer,-.••••••,••••••-•7 • • A FULL DOZEN CRISES ALARM AUSTRIA NO *Y.,* And All Concentrate 'Upon the Problem of Food Supply. HOUSE SHUT OFF •••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••11. -* • 0 - HUNS BECOME DEORGANIZED When Hindered by Heavy Rains On British Front. Allies Gain 500 Yards On 1,000-tard tine. (13y Herbert Ruesell, Staff Correspon- . t.dent. Reuter's.) British Headquarters in Terence, May. 5.--:Serme disargttRtsAion ia ipdi- cztted among the enemy troops ithe are hindered by Itecevi relies. e Franco -British ',forces in the course of a. successfulettperatipo between Locre and Drancourt, advancetheir positions on a theusand-yard front to an ,average deotte of 500 yards. We took 48' priscreeek and French about 32.- We drovC out the enemy from two or three ruined farms and took some high gremind near Koudekot. The Frenchozontieteing their operations on our flank, carried some stronglyeteld budded -es -Ire -fee neigliboring sector. All: _the „enemy counter -efforts were broken up wall considerable lose. These local sueoessee are of distinct tactical value, -strengthening our de - 'fence. of ,the approach to Scherpen- berg and Mont Reiege. 'There is little doubt but that the new Cerium tanks -are proving a disappointment, devel- oping various, defeats In actual ser- vice, tioneleious weight makes leanoeitheing over bad ground diffi- milt. et:Generally they are much infer - ler to Ones. ' • ' - • ' • ef ee't•.:" • .• •• ";• . •• • . • London, May 5,—"There are at least a dozen different crises in Austria to -day," wrote one ef the best -informed English correspond- ents yesterday. All these crises pear to concentrate on Gee problem of food. Even the racial martinet - ties of the comet:lone Empire, yvhiett, have always been the weak Withers or ite structure, have been inflamed into unusual bitterness by sectional jealousies over food dietribution. These crises appear to hese remitt- ed aculmination to -day in the Gov- ernineut's deeision to prorogue Par- Ilement during the present phase of the war for the reason that it could not help, but only hinder, in the :solving of economic problems on which everything depends, in the words of a 'semi-official explanation. CONFESS WEAKNES.S . Amsterdam, May 5, —'Emixtror Charles of Austria has empoweeed• the Austriau Premier to adjourn Parliament and forthwith . inuugur- ate measures to render impossible the resumption or its aetivities, Vienna despatch eayet A statement published in Vlenna indicates, that the closure of Perna- ment is due to tee serioueness •of -the food situation. The statement .stfed: "The Govetnment will devote its entire strength to the ecoilonete problem and will try to create con- ditionrequired to enable thepopu- lation to hold out." • A Vienna despatch says that the Austrian Premier, Dr. von Seydler, speaking at a conference of party leaders, declared that the serious economic and food cenditions made It imperative for the present Gov- ernment to be spared Parliamentary criticism. He therefore ' demanded that the proposed sittings of Parlia- ment be pastponed, aading that un- less the party leadertook this. step the Government would prevent the oasSions forcibly, (Apparently this conferenee. the date of whieh Is not gacivteeda,.) was held before the Emperor MANY DIFFICULTIES., Austria has been ,aeep in . oliffi- culties, both political and ecenomih, for more than a year, and it has been an open secret that Emperor Charles nes desirous ot brenging' about peace, his efforts in this direc- elan having occasionally aroused criticism in Berlin. In the last few months there have been insistent, reports that the , food eituation in Austria was geowiug lesperate. It hae been 'represented that, except for the favored classes, the people 't were receiving ilafely more than • enough food to avert actual starvation. Owing to the • - ^ etre et . dlrret eommunteation WW1 Allstrid MI 4 the -difficulty of olo tantbig euthentie InfermatiOn, lotwa ever,, It has been impossible to form 1 any estimate as to the gravity of the food crisis. no pollt.cut extuation also has grown disturbing in the last few months. There have been riots In various parts of the country,- and among the southern Serbs a tem- lutionary movement has been in Progrees recently. Tee President et the Lower House ot Parliament said that the condj.. tions prevailing in the country and tee demand from the larger politieel parties tor rcautuntlea ut the s!t• Lligs td Perliatuent made a further , pestpeimment impossible. The lead- ets cr the Cernau party feeorel pettnimement, but Dr. Vetter. Adler, the 'elocielizt leader, and the other Parte representatives, ineludiug the Itoeeh group, were apposed, Not- , alit:rt.:I:ate:1:217 their Protests, tile tpee ptnement of Parliament was 1 Premier von Seydier admitted OA , existence of many prOblems whieh inwt receive consideration, especi- ally the agitation for the creation of a southern Slav State. , DwAsTiat IMPleNDS, I Before ties announcement was macio eremier von Seydier met part' hewers, impressed town thena the , pace:wades of tee situation, offered kueue promises of reroutes for the discoatentee recce' demands, and Is - L011 warning that any agitation would Le dealt with by all lawful •1111.etaaarsliamentary gpferament, or rather Parliementere (legatee, are to Le suppressed indefinitely, and an autocratic Government will try to • hole the helra. What straits Austria has reached were partially revealed by the Pre- mier's speech and alee by the (lo- ll= officiel etatement that all food reapplies trom (Amine this month will be given to Austria on aecount of her greater need. The Hague correspondent of the Times, discuss - mg the German food shortage ye - tet day, remarked: "Even the ordinary German pule - tie realizes that something worse tban food scantly threatens Auettial For two months past the exasper- ation between the Slavic seetione of the Austrian population mid the other races has been at the highest point of tension. The Germans have been bullying Premier von Seydler with insolence which reached 11,4 climax in the request ,that the Aus- trian frontier populations of Ger- man race should, for food supply purposes,, be aaaexed. to Germane. NEVER TAKEN SERIOUSLY, Paris, May 5.—Premier • Clemen- ceau and foreter Premier Deland appeared yesterday before the For- eign Affairs Committee of the Miami= of Deputes and gave that body information on the subject ot tile peace soundings niade by Atte- tria last year, as developed re tently In the publieation of lettere written by EmperionSixtus. rChsartluesto his brother- iu-law, Prce Premier elemenceati, Says the Echo de Paris, declared in the clear- est possible fashion. that "at no: time was there any real possiblitty of peace, nor could at any time the tentative proposals made by Austria, under whatever form, be taken eeri- ously." * • t. "The Joneses are very forgiviag. When their son wrote theni he had eloped with the cook, they wrote him to bring hie bride home at once." "But you don't understand how hard it is to keep a cook in this place."— Baltlinore American, ;%••••-, A"4 44 • Le Ex' HE necessity of using medi- cine to regulate the actibn of the liver, kidneys and bowels is largely due to the changed conditions of life dur- ing recent years. , Our fathers lived a life of. acti- vity in the open air. If they ate ,heartily they had sufficient exer- cise to keep the liver rad towels active and to thereby remove the poisonous waste from th,e body. To -day we get tee little. exercise and too little fresh air, The food we at is more concentrated and artifi- cial. The reiult is mueli diseomfort and the development of serious dis- ease from constipation of the:bowels and torpid condition of the liver. Kidney disease, rheumatism, lurn- bago, backache—all have their begin- =Ise ning in the inactivity of the liver and bowels. The great secret of keeping in health is to look to the regularity of • these filtering and eliminating ',organs, and Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver ,Pills is the most satisfactory medi- • cine obtainable for this purpose. • you reeei the reports appearing in this paper, from time to time, from .persons Who have used this treat- ment with, god results, you will find that Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills are effective where ordinary medi- cines fail. This suetess is due to their combined action on the liver, 'kidneys and bowels. One pill a dose at bedtime' as often as is necessary to keep the bowels hi healthful action, will also ensure.the regularity of the , • Jiver and kidneys and thereby keep ,the blood pure and the system free . from the aecumulating poisons which ..cause disease and' suffering. ' Dr. Chase's Kidneptiver Pills One Pill a doao, 2 conte a box, aft 4•Oa1Oit OiAdinallson pates & Cog. Ltd„ irorort,to. Do not bo talked 'into. adcepttng ettbetituto. Tnaltationa only dleappoInt. , RASTIC USAGE FOR MAIN Central Powers Take riles. perate Steps to (4et Food. *••••••444.4.1.44•••••••••••••••• Give Arms to Their Parti- zans for Help, Washingtott, 'May 5. ---An official despatch to -day f:ont Switzerland says the ventral Vowera are Preearrag to take drastic steps in Ultrainia tot the tetnet of tile ditficatties in obtaining euppeee Loin that country und tne reeeet apelike Teetteee rule. •"rile, 'MAN leacaing ewLzerland from I.:townie uy way of Berita and Vienna," says the despatch, "cloee no. penult of a doubt mit that we are face, to face with a eoup d'etat of the Central Empiree. .The later, drivee by famine, are ready to employ ever:; means to seize irom tikrainia the re. soureee which she still cOntains. It is reported that blood lute already been shed In Kiev in combats between the, partisan e of the new Government and those of the folmer, and the Keel. uleche Zeitung, following the German practice of attempting to clear itself before beinraecused, hastens to an pounce that the troops of Von Eichorn are not actively participating in these combats, but the truth is quite other- wise. • in well-informed circlee in Switzer. land it is uot ignored that quite reeently agents of Barge von Mumm and Marshal von Eichorn distributed Arnie and munttimis to their partisans. Considerable funds were distributed secretly by the German staff for the success of the coup d'etat, "The Frankfurter Zeitung recog- nizes that the revolution now being dealt with in Ukrainia is solely the consequence of tee demands oe the Central Empires, which want food. centre and cereals at all costs, and which will not hesitate to do any- thing to obtain them. According to accurate information received in Zurich, combats Mee took Mae° at Ekatertnaslav, at Kharkov, at Kliersoa and at 0.dessa between the, Germans and the Ukrainiane in revolt, "Departations into Germany con- tinue. The commanders of the Ukrain- ian militia have been relieved ot their office% and many thrown into priaon. In spite of all theeemeasures certain German papers said it Is to be feared that the Government et Kiev eannot fulfil the promises it made to the Central Enralres in the question of food supplies," FOUGHT ODDS FULLY 3 TO 1 Says General Gough of Fifth Army, •••••••••••••••••••••••• • •••••••• Which Retreated From St. Quentin. Belfast, Ireland, May 5.—Gen. Sir P:obert Gough's first public statement regarding the conduct of the Fifth British Army, which he commanded in the retreat from St. Quentin, comes in the letter to the Lord Mayor or Belfast, "The fighting of the Ulster division as, indeed, ,of all the divieions in the •Fifth. Army, against the greatest odds hurled on any body of troops through- out this great war, was magnificent. The main feature of the situation to which the whole Fifth Army was ex- posed are known to everyone, and gives some idea of what those odds were—fourteen • infantry divisions against forty German divisions on March 21, reinforced by ‚some eight to ten more German eivisious during the subsequent two days. (Estimating a division at 14,000, 'which is the present German strength, Gen. Cough • had only 196,000 men against 560,000 of the enemy when the attack began and these troops were reinforced by 112,000 to 140,000 inen.) "I cannot speak too highly of the splendid calmness and uoggeelness with whIch my fellow -countrymen met and fought this storm, and though many laid down their !eves their splgodid tenacity saved the Brit- leh rEmpire and France by permitting the arrival of reserves." ••••....4.44-.••••••••••• TURK BEATEN UPON JORDON 4.1.* • Force Which Crossed to At- tack Es -Salt Lost. Lift Several Hundred Pri- soners With British. London, May L.—..rho War Office issued the following • etateinent 111 regard to operations in Paleetine: "Througheatt May ,, 2 the fighting eontIntied ease of the Jordan and to the south of Es -Salt, Enemy . forces which had 'crossed 'thee IV& and • had advanced to attack our troops etolding the ,etillage of Es -Salt were driven back, •' -"Our air gervice attacked troops and rolling etoek -on the liedjaz Railway in the vieleity of Allah, and on the Wndi Sir, south of Es -Salt, Twe „of, our machines failed to me- turn,band machine-gun fire. .bombs •:Turing' the niglet of May 2 and the meriting of Silty 3 the enemy renewed -his attacks on Es -Salt from the northeast and north with tonsiderahle reinforcements. In each ease the attacks were repulsed, with heavy losses and 314' . prisoners re- mained In our handeet eeeteetei,eettteteetee. ouseN we-Aos tHE-'111VAAGS." Letiden, datee.--Queeit“etavy leis be - tome Mee of the Wonteves. Army Atte- witty Corps. Tito Queen has ir some time being greatly Interestod In t rot:: a the "1-V.A.Ame .11.s" at 'toand abroad, and en heroine: of the good the eovisa •accomplished during the recent ?IOWA' ln Prance, mtpressed a wee% te become thief of the corps. - ALL GERMANY CR ES FOR FOOD Conditions Now Declared Desperate by Neutral, People E4auste1 and in Despair. •••••••••••••••••••••• • London, May Jubilant German official message was sent out last eight that lame quantitiea of g anti provisions are on tee way errallolut the leiralne to feed tee people of tin Central Eurairea as a result of von Lichories ruthless methods in dealing With fartnere In the Item( republic, ttlilietyeagtelvaelaugp tallusrpliewsi.t4 Taite:tlieelisattnieSi: probably found in information reach- ing SevitzerIand of conditions in Ger- many; a Polish fugitive arriving at Bez•ne from Berlin said that the toed situation la in its most desperate stages. The Government, he says, is peaty alarmed end is taking every POssible meaaure to prevent evidence of the true state of affairs leaking out. Hungary rich who wish to come to Sivitzettand to recuperate are no lon- ger permitted, German passports are only given to people who can be trousintiy tied etvoe;hyobloa,thiestreryitnozgrot igues,. toot ui and peace as the way to get food, The morale of the people is rapidly grow- ing worse. Contidertce in the weat- ern offensive, which for a while soar- ed up like a entree, name, is dying, des- pite efforts of the press. The peo- ple are becoming cynically sceptical of the promised success. Doctors have been directed bY the Government to warn people through tho press that if they give way to alarmist pessimist rumors the nutritive effect of what- ever food they get will be dangerous- ly diminished. The people in gen- eral, added the refugee, are in such a physically exhauted nervous state that psychological moment has arrived rived for profuse bombing of their towns. Everybody is crying out for food, Every well-to-do people ceme wringing their hands and begging to such neutrals as are thought to have special food parcels, • Von Eichorn's trestle measures ot extracting fowl from the Ukrainians Is denounced by the Socialists, who insist that such methods will only add to Germany's enemies. The wireless official message from Berlin says that organization for the collection and transportation of pro- visions under the agreement with. 'Uk- raine is now ie operation. Two mil- lion eentners of corn and provisions have been secured, and twelve hun- dred carloads have passed the bor- der in the past few days. "The greater part of the first de- liveries," says the message, "will be left to Austria-Hungary on account of the food difficulties prevailing." Austria-Hungary continues the message, will be able to provio.e them- selyes within •a few weeks from the early Hungarian crops. ,Hence most of the Ukrainian imports 1 June and July wtfl go to Germany. -MEANS END OF AUSTRIA. London, May 5.—The straits to which. Austria has been driVen by the food situation is Indicated in a des- patch from Vienna Via, Zurich which 1 says that Dr, von Seedier, the Aus- trian Premier, .has been compelled to admit that Austria is unable to feed the populattous. of Northern Tyrol and Northern Bohemia, and that he has, therefore, consented that the former be attached for provisioning purposes to Bavaria and the latter to Saxony, This concession, the despatch adds, was wrested from him by leaders of the German parties after a conference lasting six hours. The Austrian Gov- ernment yielded with the greatest re- luctance, for the political consequences of this concession may be fare reach- ing. It is pointed out that it will ac- centuate the feud between the Ger- man and non -German races in Aus- tria-Hungary, since both the prov- inces affected are German-speaking, and will strengthen the agitation for the incorporation of Aus.trla in a Ger- man federation. -e • e FRENCH LAD MET • A HERO'S DEATH Boy Scout Refused Infama- tion to Huns And 'Faced Firing Squad • Unflinchingly. London, May 5.—Lieut-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, addiessing . a Central meeting if Boy Scouts at Guildhall, told of work done by French boy scouts in the neighbor- hood of the fighting Hee, se. heroic deed by one Prelimt boy scout was described in a letter found on the body of a dead Gerinan, General Bad- en-Powell read the totter, which fol- lows: "A traitor has just been shot—a little French lad belonging to one of' those gymnastic societies which Wears the tricolor button. The poor little fellow in his infatuation wished to be a hero. A German cominn was passing along a wooded detile and the boy was caught and asked whether the French were about, He refased to give inthrreation. Fifty yards further on ,fire was opened from the cover of the wood. The prisoner was asked ht French if ha bad known that the enemy was in the forest, and be did not deny it. fie wont with firm step to a telegraph post and stood Up against it, with a green vineyard be- hind him, and received the volley of the firing party with a proud smile on his face. Infatuated by . • It was a pity to 500 511011 wasted cour. age." HUNS BUILD LONG-RANGE GUNS, London, May 3 A despatch to the raellange 'Telegraph from Amsterdam says it frontier correspondent asserts that the Germane are eonsteuctIng long-ralMe guns, of the type mud in the bombard - Ment of Paris, at Seialug, flve miles south.west of Liege, izt Itelettlin, and that they have requisitioned the Coc1,er- 111 for. the )(moose. The despatch Says that all the work- men In the, factOr„y have refused to wore and will be do:yortett 11113 Mont14, Wigg—Wotitelf think too nitwit of clothes. Wsgg---Oh, that's hereditary, gven Mather Eve couldn't trathfully say she, didn't cart a flg tor what she 41 on. . .01.1 • IRRANO QUIET, STILtI.JNEASY Believes •Conscription Will Follow Rome Rule. 11•••••••••••••••••••••••••oroo•nme Ituntor Causes Dislocation of Business. •••••• •••.•••••••••••••••••••••••,•••• Dublin, Ireland, May 0. --Although troland is quieter than before the ate- nouncement of cOnserlptlea there is teen great tension of 9nOlio reeling and mum discussion ot Imam pros- pects. ..the appointment as Chief Secretari ler Ireland Of ledwillet tiller% Radical and Home toiler, wee was meted to rarlialnent by the Irish vote oe New. castle, And who voted against tile ap- plication Of conserration to Ireland, tollowed by the appointment of 'WM. Archer Redmond, member Of Parlia- ment for Best Tyrone, who Is a cap- tain in the British Array, as intent- ,gence officer on Lord French's staff, created for a few days the itapressiOle eht the Government had abateloneet • its intention et • enforcing aonscrine I tion, that the pelicy of the Government Is It is, however, generally realized twofold, and that it$ declarations re- garding Home Rule and conscription stated equally firm. In the beet -in- formed circles it is, believed that If 1 Home Rule is passed conscription will be enforced at once, and that the same result would follow tlae retectiolt of the Home Rule bill by the Nation- alists, A. rumor related to the arrival of a regiment to suppress the Irish. The whole story was pure invention. Another rumor tad it that treasury notes here had been iasued as a war e expedient, and would be useless after the war, The story was believed, es- pecially in Munster, where the people changed their notes for silver, which they hoarded. The result was ehat there was serious dislocation of busi- ness, tee employers finding difficulty in getting money to pay their work- men, while the tores had to giVe credit for goods. • The silver shortage affected. the Dublin traders' banks to -day. Even the post -offices were unable to supply change for notes. Thirty chests of silver have arrived to relieve the stress. 4, • * POPE TO MAKE NO PEACE MOVE 4 No .Favorable Occasion for It Seems Near. German Bid for Such a Flat Failure. Rome, May 5.—No favorable oc- casion for a further peace move by Pope Benedict has presented itself, nor does one seem near, it was stat- ed at the Vatiean yeeterday wnen enquiry was made there regarding the repert that His Holiness would make a new ',peace offer on Whit- sunday. "It is no secret," replied the Va- tican authorities of whom the cor- respondent enquired regarding the report., "that the Pope, einc•e (he beginning oe his pontiticate, has In- terested himself regarding three great Issues concerning the war: ")'irst—To maintain absolutely impartiality,' "Second—To limit as muck as possible the extent of the conflict and its horrors, "Third—To work in every way, on every propitious occasion, to re- store concord and brotherhood ranong the peoples. - "Given this programme, it is only natural that should a propitious 00-• casion arise the Pope would do his beet, to carry it out. "It is an . easy task to prophesy from time to time, within a few weeks or months, some new action on the part of the Pope which may occur at any moment, if a favorable occasion, arise, which, however, has not yet occurred, uor does it seem near." ••••••.•••••••••••• The original repo:t of the imntin- ence ot a liew Papal peace move came from a German source, In the shape of an article in the Neueste Nachriehten of Munich, late in April, This newspaper was Quoted In Aeastereem despatches as stating that the :novo would be made "as (loon as the western offensive as- sumecl a new phase," and that it would take the form ot "'a word Of warning addressed to the uni- versal conseience." Cologne nevvspe,pers have later been quoted as declaring the Pope intended to make a new Deane offer on Whitsueday (May 19111), the docutnent to lontein eonerete offers of mediation by the Pope, it was naid „with the possible coop- eration of neutral sovereigns. Ber- lin was reported to have teceived eympathetically similar Informattole us to the Pope's supposed intentions. LONG WAR '2`4T. • Sir Win, Robertson Warns of Possibility. London, ,Cable. -1 ---'the ever Is likely to last a long Unite yet," said 'General El.? MI illiani Ite liebertiton, exechief ot geteerai statf, speaking here to -day, "How long it Will last no Sato Ulan would dare ttr tzeti- mate. One of the reasons why ethe year was not fineshed Tong ago is that we were unprepared for it when It began, while the enemy had been preparing for years. We are now P0.37111g the penalty for that unpre- paredness, which in the past has mused countries to beeomtk bankrupt or ruined, 13ut we have no intention of buena!' hailkterat Or reined." "I knc,wf Sir William concluded, "that ev y right minded person in the Empire hasIthadl up his mind to See things thr gh." You ean't always fool a soldier, but the girl who knits hint a hairnet pulls the woot over his eyes.