St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 25, 1918

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"ATC The . Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service me NO. 155. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1918—20 PAGES. : ety a i ¥ . Oe ' s Pas » 3 KER WANTS i pie i CHAMBERLAIN ‘Teer womens bd: Wht ibd, Goce, ee © fomres ow Or a Se r€ Gorgas Testi- ke Dae tiliain’ be & Camps He Inspected YASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (By A. P.). erétary Baker today asked Sen- or Chamberlain to arrange an oc- nm at which all memBSers of Con- disposed to attend may do sO hear a statement in reply to the! tor’s charges of inefficiency in’ army. Secretary Baker sent the following er to the Senator: gl dear Senator gk sgt ; - pare Fam Es er EA Wie. se a, is: KE oS : bak Se end oh Stik * ie *. ie t°9 Esp Say ie } — - pe 3 S oa cf on tet a5 mae Ee hae ~ i — &e ay el 4 v. Wasbay SH Gle-ig | se +i 2 REAP aS LS x2 & “ et statement to’ the splendid ve ang - and men of the army, whd"have for- Cog themselves and labored with | questions which have arisen wit san explicit statement from me | the information of your commit- | Yesterday. High, 43 at 11 p. m.; low, 33 at i0 a. m. Official fore- cast of St. Louis and vicinity: Snow iate to- night and to- morrow, colder tonight, becom- ing much cold- er tomorrow aft- ernoon; the low- est temperaturc tonight will be about 24. Missouri— Snow and colder ‘tonight; tomor- row, snow and much colder; cold ve in north and cen- tral portion severe cold Sunday; in- creasing northerly winds. Ilinois—Increasing cloudiness, fol- lowed by snow late tonight or tw- morrow; colder; much colder by Sunday. Stage - river at 7 a. m., 5,4 feet, a rise of .2 foot. ‘DIMMED LIGHTS SENDING ST, LOUISANS HOME EARLY | Falling Off of Street Car Patronage After 10 p. m. Reported by U. R. Officials. St. Louisans in increasing num- bers, with no bright lights to lure them, are going to bed at 10 o'clock sif-eacrifice and, as I think, SUCCESS | since Fuel Administrator Crossley Bite building of a great army. “It is due also to the great num- ber of men of business and men of 3 who have acceptéd the invi- q ‘of the War Department to ) ‘eome to Washington and who brought their. business experience, their talents and. their judgment to the work in hand. And, I think, the E of the. country at large are = i to have a summary of what eS done seg America in the of t pour committee arrange an op- Pertunity for me to make such a at and that the time and lace be fixed so as to. enable all | aed Povene Senate, and House Or atives who ere 60 dis- ts shail be aaee to be advised g ay yur earliest convenience’ of the re * and place.” — «tiling Surgean-Genera! Gorgas to _% ‘health conditions at the army | amps, the Senate Military Committee F resumed its general war in- Senator Chamberlain asked him to _ give a general statement regarding 4 eonditions at camps he personally in- ; “They were in general the same,” ’ Gen. Gorgas replied. ‘The camp sites generally were well selected. I @ ‘ink the drainage and care of the -— amps generally was good, certainly ‘@ considering the character of un- | mained troops in them. As a general | fule I think the sanitary conditions | ef the camps were good.” 4 , Gen. Gorgas said that not more | aan five men should be housed in 7 | the 16x16 tents used in National | 3 camps, but that he had seen ' @shigh as nine living in one tent and | bea reports of 12. Such overcrowd- . | Mag for any length of time was dan- | Srous, he ‘said, and partly respon- ‘was brought ont through ques- . by Senator McKellar that the | pitals usually were the last build-| : finished at a new camp. Gen. | Morgas said he believed they should first. FE L. JOHNSTON, BANK PRESIDENT, PUT IN CLASS 4D Cain Made He Js Indispensabic to Work of Red Cross in This District. “John L. Johnston, president of the Savings Institution, was _ WAced in class 4-D by the District > & 7 — German Purposes Revealed--- **Prepare for the Next War’’ Lieut.-Gen. Baron von Freytag-Loringhofen, Deputy Chief of the Great German General Staff, bas just written a book called ** Deductions from the World War’’ for private cireula- the Military and Junker Classes in Germany. It was never | gutocracy bas dimmed the lights. At least they are staying at home. The falling off of street car patronage after .10 p. mr. shows that, according to Bruce Cameron, superintendent .of the United Railways Co. The first few nights after last Friday, when the 10 o'clock closing went into effect, the travel between 10 and 11, o'clock was heavy and more cars were needed to carry the people home. About the third night jthe homeward loads began to get lighter, and they have been getting lighter and lighter. Additional service was, provided on all ‘the lines from 10-to 11 when} the order went into effect, Cameron paps pe: ne process. of adjustment way, Willy five men out the rave ove P Right. nO AND STAYS IN STUDY TO work Drops All Engagements for After- noon, Including Gathering of Cabinet. .. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (By A. P.).—President Wilson canceled al) his engagement for this afternoon, including the cabinet meeting, and remained in the White House study at work. There were no outward indications of whether the international situa- tion or the attacks on the war de- partment in Congress were engac- ing the President's attention. MORE PORTUGUESE TROOPS HAVE ARRIVED IN FRANCE} / morning. Contingent Has Just Been Landed to Aid the Allies. PARIS, Jan. 26 (By A. P.).—-A new contingent of Portuguese troops has just been ianded in France. HEALTH AMONG PERSHING’S MEN * WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (By A. P.).—Health conditions among the American troops in France for the week ending Jan. 18 show only a slight change. The total of all men off duty for illness or injury whether their @ases were serious enough for hospital treatment or not, was 65.1 per thowsand, as against 54.1 the New GROSSLEY AGAN URGES CLUBS TC CLOSE AT 10. Adds He Has Authority to Exer- cise Compulsion, and.“‘No One Is Bigger Than Government.” MODIFYING ORDER ISSUED Provision Permitting Candy and Cigar Stores to Remain Open Till 10 Effective Tomorrow. A warning to clubs which have disregarded requests to close their social functions not later than 10 p. m., as a fuel-saving measure, was issued today by State Fuel Admin- istrator Crossley. rule that the clubs must close at) that hour, law gave him the authority to exer- cise compulsion, and that ganization in St. Louis is bigger than the Government, and everybody, through co-operation or tompulsion. will obey these rulings.”’ “While no strict order has been issued,”’ Crossley said, “because many clubs are homes and places of habitation, we feel that a better feeling would obtain if every social organization in the city. would close its grill rooms in accordance with the rules laid down for hotels and res- taurants (10 p. m. closing). Entertainment Hour C “I notice that the Century Boat Club has revised its plans for to- morrow night’s entertainment, which club’s when the rules of the Fuel Admin- istration apparently were defied. “No club or.other social organiza- tion can afford to put itself in the attitude of ignoring a public policy which tends to relfeve a situation so acute as is the present eoal crisis. The attempted conservation is in the interest, of. our fighting forces, and pound of coal we save will help to win the war. coal is not a matter of deliers-and nts. This prime essential to tndus- and warfare can be expressed i. in. terms of American blood.” Saturday Lasted to 2 a. m. nounced that tts masked bal) tomor- id. Last Saturday lasted until Aa. quests of policemen for compliance night’s dance disregarded by the ment. A modified fuel-saving order, per- mitting candy, fruit and cigar stores to remain open until 10 o’clock every night, permitting all stores and office buildings to remain open until 10 on Saturday nights, and removing the requirement for Monday and Tues day closing of moving picture shows and other amusement places, was is- sued today by Crossley. The new order goes into effect tomorrow club manage- Movies Open Next Monday. * The moving picture shows, which were closed last Monday and Tues- day, will hereafter be permitted to run every night untfl 10 o’clock, the same as theaters which play travel- ing companies. Billiard halis, bow!l- ing alleys and dance halis have the same privilege. The 10 o’clock clos- ing time for drug stores, restaurants and saloons is to continue, as well as the rule against electric signs and all other superfluous illumination. Theaters and hotels are permitted to have one 150-watt light at the main entrance. : During 19817 the Post-Dispatch printed 69,930 Female Help Wanted preceeding week. It was 47.6 for all | ps in the United States. Ads—8733 more than the FOUR other St. Louis newspapers combined. tion ed to reach the Germany and the Post- into possession of it. blic, but AE AMIN OL NY TTT LT TEEN Re A NS a RIRUTN and the New York World have come a copy bas been smuggled out of Even more than Bernhardi’s A nes pd and the Next War’’ does without this end may have to be made now, yet many’s ruling caste is fully determined to ‘set about plans for the next war that cannot miiscarry in Lieut. seein Bi von y ioe Germany who denburg and Ludendorff. way that will about Germany's aims. in a rewie ig by 40 snail of blood letting—that its eon of @anenace as ever to world civilization democracy. peace, ee Sirti pt © Senet ott ectnetey Tap _ in four installments, i — a a vt dtl ie ile: ile! ving iv i ie te eyes e Count Vein Horlline Regarded ob WASHINGTON SEES NO PEAGE HOPE IN |" TEUTON SPEECHES More Militaristic Than When He Took Office. ' ; NO SACRIFICE BY AUSTRIA | Creation of Buffer State Out of | Ukraine Makes Her Renun- ciation Unimportant. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (By A. P.). —Based on the short cabled outlines of the speeches of the German and Austrian Premiers to their respective While not laying down any definite advance Crossley strongly urged | them to do so, and added that the | “no or- | io in striking contrast to the same) action last Saturday night, | The value of The Century Boat Club has an-| row will begin at 4 p. m. and end at'! m. Sunday, and re- | with the fuel-saving program were) } Parliaments, the opinion is expressed 'by officials here that no substantial toward the final peace | sought by all belligerents has result- ed from these declarations. It is 'true that expressions of Count Czer- | nin, the Austrian Premier, appear to' be more conciliatory in tone than | previous utterances from that ws ter, but beyond vague statements that the possibilities of peace nego- tiations are contained in the ad- dresses of President Wilson and Pre- mier Lloyd George, there is no sug- gestion of a surrender of any of the extreme contentions of the military elements in the Central states. The German Chancellor's address, indeed, is couched in the language of a victorious General and it is noted ,that nowhere does he specifically | abandon the claim for indemnity and |territory. In fact, from the cabled 'abstract, it appears that he has be- come even more uncompromising and militaristic in his position than he was when he assumed office and first addressed the Reichstag. Making No Sacrifice. The renunciation by Count Crer- nin, the Austrian Premier, of any claim against Russie for indemnity or annexation, it is noted, does not extend to other nations. Consider- ing that Germany has undertaken to |dominate the Russian-Balkan proy- inces and that the Central Powers al- ready have récognized the indepen- dence of Ukraine, thus constituting a buffer state between Russia and Austria, in large part it is easily per- | ceived that Austria is making no spe- cial sacrifice in this renunciation. As ‘for Poland, the declaration that the population would decide its own fate is read here in the light of the action already taken by the Central Powers to set up a sham kingdom of Poland, ‘which in reality is nothing more than a dependency of Aystria and Ger-} many. Attention has been directed to the fact that there is a singular resem- blance between Von Hertling’s state- ment that the terms outlined by Preisdent Wilson and Premier Lloyd George “contain certain principles which could be accepted by Ger- many; but the concrete proposals were unsatisfactory,” and President | Wilson’s characterization of the terms proposed by the Central Pow- ers, as “an outline of settlement which, if much less definite, seemed susceptible of liberal interpretation until their specific program of prac- tical terms was added. That pro- gram presented no concessions at all, either to sovereignty of Rus- sia or to the preferences of the pop- ulation with whose fortunes it dealt but meant, in a word, that the em- pires were to keep every foot of territory their armed forces had oc- cupied.” P In making this comment, Presi- |; dent Wilson suggested that the lib- | eral statesmen of Germany who had | conceived the first general principles | os the peace offer had been over- | come by the military leaders, when it came to a precise statement of aims. Differences Over Alsace-Lorraine. That the sharp differences be- tween the belligerents over Alsace- Lorraine continues, is evident from Chancellor von Hertling’s speech, for his declaration that “there could be no talk of the cession of Alsace- Lorraine” is the answer to Lioyd George’s demand that these prov- inces must be permitted to decide their own fate and to President Wil- son’s expressed statement in the eighth point of his 14 peace aims statement that “the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine * * *® should be righted.” While Count von Hertling appears to commend President Wilson's dec- laration in favor of freedom of the seas, he passes without comment over the very important condition in Mr. Wilson's statement which de- nies such freedom to nations which may break treaties and require pun- | ishment by other nations. This con- J | dition was expressly framed to meet the case of a country like Germany. which brings on an unjust war and therefore denies Yon Hertling’s <<a | mand for free navigation, AUSTRIA AND U.S. VIRTUALLY» IN AGREEMENT UN PRINCIPLES Premier Tells Reichsrat Basis Might Be Found for Con- ciliatory Discussion by All of the States at War Not Yet Reached. - Still Favors No-Annexation, No-Indemnity Policy and Further Dealing With Russia. LONDON, Jan. 25 (By A. P.). —Austria has decided to con- tinue peace negotiations with Russia on the basis of no annex-' ations and no indemnities, ac- eording to a Vienna dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co., quoting from Count Czernin’s address before the Reichsrat. ‘*T demand from Russia not 2 meter of territory, not a centime of indemnity,’’ the Foreign Min- VON TERTLING QUTLINES & ister is quoted as having said, | ‘fand peace can be obtained if | Russia maintains the same stand. | point, o she evidently intends to do.’ Commends Wilson’s Recent Address. Referring to President Wilson’s re- sent address Oonnt Ozernin said: ‘‘I asknowledge that his tore is now dif- ferent from what it was when he at- tempted, by his reply to Pope Bene- dict, to sow dissension between the German Government and the German geople and this has been of good e?- fect. ‘*There is no longer talk about the autocratic suppression of the Gérman people by the Government and his former attacks on the House of Hob- enzoliern are not repeated.’’ **It is obvious to me,’’ said Oount Czernin, ‘‘that an exchange of views between America. and. Austria-Hun- | gary might form the starting point ‘for a conciliatory discussion among all states which have not yet entered into peace negotiations.’’ Agrees With U. 8. on Many Points. Commenting on the 14 points in President Wilson’s war aims speeech, Count Czernin said, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen, that Austria-Hungary and America were virtually in agree- ment regarding the great principles for new arrangements after the war. Austria-Hungary and America, Count Czernin said, were two bel- ligerents whose interests were less in- compatible than they seemed. He characterized the. speech of Presi- dent Wilson regarding war aims as an important advance toward the Austro-Hungarian viewpoint, which contained some proposals in which Austria Hungary would gladly join. The Foreign Minister said the pop- ulation of Poland would decide its own fate. The Polish question must not delay peace one day. If Poland, after the war, wished to advance to- ward Austria-Hungary, such an. ad- vance would be welcomed. Interpretations of the right of free WILSON’S CONDITIONS. 1—Open covenants of peace without private international understandings. 2—Freedom of the seas in peace or war except as they may be closed by interna- tional action. 3—Remova!l of all economic bar- riers and establishment of equality of trade conditions consenting to peace and as- sociating themselves for its maintenance. 4—Guarantees for the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. 5—Impartial adjustment of all colonial claims upon the principles that the peoples concerned have equal weight — with the interest of the gov- ernment, 6—Evacuation of all Russian territory and opportunity for Russia’s political develop- ment. 7—-Evacuation of Belgium with- out any attempt to limit ner sovereignty. 8—All French territory to be freed and restored and the wrong to France by the taking of Alsace-Lorraine to be re- paired. 9 —R ent of Italy’s fron along clearly recog- nizable lines of nationality. 10—Freest opportunity for the development of the peopie of Austria-Hungary. 11—Eivacuation of Servia, Ru- mania, Montenegro, with guarantees of political and economic independence and integrity of territory. 12—-Secure sovereignty for Turkey's portion of the Otto- man Emptre, but with other nationalities under Turkish rule assured security of life and opportunity for autono- mous development, with the Dardanelles permanently open to all nations. 13—Establishment of an inde- pendent Polish state, includ- ing territories inhabited by indisbutably Polish popula- tions with free access to the sea and political and eco- nomic independence and ter- ritorial integrity guaranteed by international covenant. ’ 14—-General association of na- tions under specific cove- nants for mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial te large and small states alike. President Wilson’s 14 Conditions Precedent to World Peace and Von Hertling’s Replies to Them’ “This is a point for the deter- mination of Austria-Hungary HERTLING’S REPLIES. “An agreement can be obtained without dififculty on the first four points! “Regarding the fifth point men- tioned by President Willson, some difficulty would be met with.” : “The evacuation of Russian ter- ritory is a question which concerns only Russia and the Central Powers.” “Germany has never demanded the incorporation of Beigian territory by violence.” : “Germany does not wish annexa- alone, except insofar as Ger- man interests are at stake.” “The evacuation of Serbia and Montenegro is a question for Austria-Hungary alone to determine , subject of course, to German interests.” “We shall not forestall Turkey's attitude towards point 12 in Mr. Wilson's address, but the integrity of Turkey and the safety of her capital are closely connected with the question of the Strait which is of important vital interest to Germanys.” ‘The fate of Poland will be de- cided by Germany and Au- stria-Hungary.” “Germany will be ready to take up the question of a league of nations to enforce peace after the other issues of the war shall have been settled to her satisfaction.” nin said that the publication of the; eral peace cannot long be prevented, daily proceeding of the conference; despite the efforts of the entente caused nervousness among the peo-/ statesmen.” ple behind the front. Count Czernin declared that he Disagrees on Some Points. Count Czernin declared that he considered President Wilson's last | must politely but categorically refuse propositions regarding peace showing a perceptible approach to the Austro-Hungarian point of view. Cites Preliminaries to Peace. There were, he said, several points to which Austria-Hungary joyfully coulé subscribe, but that the follow- ing principle first must be laid down: “That where these propositions concerned Austria-Hungary’s allies, as in the case of Germany in Bel- or Turkey, Austria-Hungary was faithful to her alliances qnd would fight to the end for the de- President Wileon’s advice on Aus- tria-Hungary’s internal administra- tion. There was no parliament ore)’ democratic than Austria’s, he said The Foreign Minister said y? did not. object to the suppression of diplomacy, especially f that % : ‘ ~~ fi ? ’ (sO , : 4 RP Ss . om ee Coe 7 * a Fak. nd Cav X nae: 4 Twat a Ne , oy Pi» , - 5, ee 4 Fagg.