Waxahachie Daily Light (Waxahachie, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 17, 1917 Page: 1 of 6
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(TEMPT OF SOCIALISTS TO FO-
MEM' A strike: PKOVKD
a eailcre:.
ill a Few Eat'lories Were Foreetl
lo Sus|ieml and NO Munition
plants Were Affected.
By JOHN GRAND KNS.
BERLIN. April 17.— (Via l.on-
. —a German strike fomented
extreme socialists as u pro-
Bagainst a reduction in the bread
[loss in effect Sunday has fizzled
j. Only a few factories were
red to suspend by the strike. Not
tingle munitions plant was affect-
u was officially stated.
Business was apparently continu-
p today as usual.
Berlin subways and street cars
t Fanning with their usual num-
r of employes. At no time did
[Strikeassume enough importance
all out the military forces. In
few streets a few hundred agita-
»rs and demonstrators for a strike
tided undisturbed.
810 JANEIRO. April 17.—Wide
read anti-German riots were re-
tted from Porto Alegro today. De-
ls were not available.
AMERICAN NAVY BUILDING THE MOST POWERFUL BATTLESHIPS THE WORLD HAS KNOWN.
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Plans for the four new cruisers construction of which will soon begin make them the greatest battleships ever undertaken by a gove rnment. They may not be finished
in time to get into the war. but the mere fact that they are built will likely have an effect on the outcome. This photograph—an official. picture of the navy department—
shows the cruiser 871 feet long and 91 feet beam. According to infor inaticn published in the Seientifis American before the present trouble with Germany she will have a speed
of thirty-five knots which is five knots faster than anything of the same class in the German or British navy. They will carry ten 50-caliber 14-inch rifles twenty 5-inch rifles
and eight torpedo tubes. They will have oil burners which will give 180000 horse power. No fewer than 1274 officers and men will be required.
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United States Warship Patrolling Coast
Fired Upon By A German Submarine
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THE AXTI -GO TOR X M £ X 7 PARTY
HAH BEEN FORMED IX BER-
LIN IH THE REPORT.
Composed of Socialists and Others
Who Demand That Promised
Reforms Re I*ut Into
Effect.
AMSTERDAM April 17.—The
German officials’ promises of gov-
ernmental reform without any steps
toward fulfillment have resulted in
the formation of a new anti-govern-
ment party a Berlin dispatch an-
nounced today.
The new group an offshoot of the
regular German socialist party is to
be known as the Independent so-
cialistic democratic party. Its plat-
form is a democratized German gov-
ernment.
Hugo Hasse and George Lede-
bour active leaders of the new re-
form movement are bitterly opposed
to the manner in which their brother
socialists have received the mere
promisees of electoral reform with-
out any action toward this end.
Berlin dispatches today declared
that there were at least fifteen so-
cialists in the reichstag who would
formally subscribe to the principles
of the new party.
!
lit SOON
HJE SENT
GOVERNMENT 1‘l.AN-
'irt si \:» ( omm \ u \.
™>N To M.TTRAl.s.
m J
R) "G-hlAM SHI.rilKRI).
TRiUSin A N A \p.-j 17.—tier-.
#) is vlhirtlj issue to neutrals
.. "f «'>e terms or whirl
H1M tinsiiirr peace neuotia-
*' ^LtHliiiK to rumors in diplo-
J ^ 'tee olav.
rei"’rs raiiie from sources
" 0 l>" closely idem if led with
•*“ "flicials plans. Those v ho
i*"* with the new
J*? Jt'clartsl they Iatl not
"* IIm> < <cr
many propositi offering. They do j
not believe there will be any conces-
sions from tile unofficial but high- r
ly inspired outlines of Hermany s de-
mands as given by * mint von Hern- j
stotff at \\ asliington and in (Jermany
at tiie time of ("haneellor von Roth-
manu-Holw eg's famous peace ten-:
dcr last December.
Scandinavia is the center ot Her-
nia n> 's separate peace eftorts with
Russia. That the Teutonic officials j
are landing every cilo-t to a reali-
zation of t heir hopes of separate
peace with the new provision-
al government at i’etrograd is appal-;
ent in every quarter here.
Count Rernstorff at one time the
apostle of peace propaganda
work has lieen selected it" Herman
ambassador to Sweden purely in line
with this Russian effort.
American diplomatic officials have
been formally advised that the Her-
man government is liehind the pseu-
do-socialist movement for |»eaee. 11
was the Herman government that
apparently started the socialist prop-
aganda work and it was tlx tot man
government that pushed it by active
support.
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Hut fj !K' '|!l il 17.—The |
l"' uo-«l ^ in the j
' n!“; The ureal- j
m«k i ’ 1114 "laiiilaineil as •
^ lieiliir i-.i
1 n v ' <" protect (lie :
« '“lk- hut with a (ier-
"T' i;<1 1 lie navy !
*U1( ""msliau „e
U U menactil. ;
'I sai| | l""" l|‘ “•‘si naval
tV " Mll">iuiiin- might lie |
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>•™ K .*
•Mm 1 s tM < is known
:*-h> "! ''‘1‘"s‘s that are lie-
'li in 'T' i! s «■«*!. The navj
T i.ii <’"'lva ar'' i'iose.1 this
s't|iP J‘ lmmiHes
N*. h">''uhl a iui<k
"iforinni ion given
'll ""VIII„.-S
latest M!W "11S
zur:>-. i-«- ‘ha.
n '11 In HI U ' 1*u‘hlieKS III
*. ZZ'“' ..*
StivirhinK from New 'oik to
At ittlit ir Cit> are scores of sen*"*
towns unprotected ami winch mifih.
he bomb aided h hostile submarines.
They are all open towns and immiim
under the international law. but
tiernmny has bombarded man sueh
towns on the \tlantie coast. the
hotels ol Atlantic city all on 11
hoard walk offer a tempt in* target
They are exposed to an me that
mlKl.t he directed against tlien. "
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4 >|M II S4*it. * *|rM
miarded l>> patrol boat'.
With hostile subs now otto .1.
epnite«l an ordo. from the nay *-
|mrtim*nl that all tua'i h-
i .|| hflirv•*»! ’
put out at ulsiht
a foregone conelm -m t one island
with its blaze ot i uh.s would he a
uoide tor any hos.il • ship a.-a. h-
l«»K New York.
Ml resorts a.. he coast ha *
he. brilliantly Uithl*! for ■»«»•»•*
and would attract attention from
hostile ships.
WASHINGTON April IT.—tier-
many tired the first shot of the war
against America today—and it
missed.
Official information reached the!
m.vy department shortly after noon |
today that the I'nited States des- j
troyer Smith was fired upon by .11
German submarine at a. nt. ;
t< day.
The torpedo launched by the l -
boat missed the Smith. The des- j
troyer gave chase to tin* submarine
Inn the enemy strip submerged and j
cs< aped.
In announcing me him engage- .
mont of the war the navy depart-j
inent issued the following bulletin: i
“lle|K>rts from Fire island liglit j
ship (o the navy stations at Boston
and at New Vork stated that about •
;{:;{(> a. m. the 17th an enemy !
submarine was sighted by the I'nit- j
od states steamship Smith running
apparently submerged. The sulmia- ;
line firetl a tor|K'do at tiie Smith
which missed by thirty yards. The
wake of the torpedo was plainly
seen across the bow. The submarine
disappeared."
The navy department had not
heard about tiie elasli until press
reports brought the word of it. Bu-
rnt diately Lieutenant Commander
Belknap the navy censor got into
communication with the New Vork
v y yard over long distance tele-
phone' and asked for details. New
York was ignorant of the incident
hut immediately communicated to
the Fire Island light ship the report
which the navy yard at Charleston
had made.
\ few minutes later the light
ship twenty-live miles off Sandy
Hook. Hashed back the story to the
New York navy yard which at once
informed Lieutenant Belknap.
The submarines effort to sink
the destroyer was the find definite
evidence of repeated rumors that
German l'-«H*ats were off our coast.
Tl„. fact that the Fire island light
ship ga\<‘ out the original informa-
i()„ strengthens the belief that the
( w> titan submariue i' not far distant
New York City inasmuch as
ihe light ship is only twenty-five
miles beyond Sandy lb>ok the out
er portal of New York's harbor.
While for military reasons tha
navy department would not sat
wliat was Iteing done alxnit hunting
down (lie submarine it was assunt- i
ed that a retloubled watch is being
put into effect.
Reports to the Boston naval sta-
tion indicate that the submarine
was hovering off the New Jersey!
roast between Atlantic Pity anti
Asbtiry I'ark anti only a short tils-!
tance below New York <'it> itself.
The navy department has no way
of knowing whether the submarine;
has made the journey from Bremer-
haven intentling to make a quick
strike and return or whether it has j
been lying off the American coast
for some time receiving supplier i
from a bidden base on tlie Mexican j
roast or elsewhere along the At-j
luntic coast.
One of the numerous reports ol
n submarine off our roast lias been
that a group of them were harbor-
ed in Mexican waters ready to make
a spectacular raid on one of Amer-
ica's great ports.
The immediate effects of the
Smith affair as the navy depart-
ment sees it will lie to stir the
country to a realization that war
is at our very shores and stimulate
recruiting in both tile navy and
at my.
When the l -*:t arrived at New-
port Captain Itose especially called
attention to the fact that he did not j
come in for fuel nor did he take ;
any aboard.
The appearance of a fighting
submarine on this side lias naturally
aroused great speculation as to the
possibility of a secret base having
been established at some jioiut with-
in comparatively easy reach from
Xmerican waters. No information
us to this however is available.
At 11:45 a. m. shortly after the
news of the submarine engagement
Ik came know n the Charleston navy
yard flatly refused to give out
further information or discuss the
quest ion. It was reported that the
commandant had been in communi-
cation with the navy department at
XX ashington by long listance tele-
phone and that lie had received
(.filers which prevented further news j
coming from the navy yards for the j
time being.
The destroyer Smith is of the >1
class built in 1909 has a length
cl 288 feet and displaces 700 tons
tier speed is 29 32 knots an hour i
and site is armed with live 14- j
flounder guns and three 18-ineh i
torpedo tulies. She carries 87 men. j
The scout cruiser Chester in |
charge of the patrol of the New |
l iiglaml district displaces 3750 i
tons and 1ms a s|>eed of 20 li knots. ]
She is likely armored. Her conipli- I
ment includes 350 men.
j
WARSHIP MISSKI) BY
TORPKDO BY FKW YARDS j
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BOSTON' April 17.—Official re-
ports of an engagement between the
I'nited States submarine chaser
Smith and an enemy submarine
were received at the Charleston
navy yard today from the I'nited
States scout cruiser Chester. The
message said:
“At 12 o’clock today api>arently
sighted enemy submarine. She
fired a torpedo. It missed I'nited
States steamship Smith by thirty
yards. Wake plainly seen crossing
bun. Submarine disappeared."
OF.RMAX VKSSF.L WAS
A PPARF.XTl.Y SURPRISED.
XFW YORK April 17.—Reports
of a Herman I'-bonf in the vicinity
o| the Fire Island light ship have
teen in circulation for several days
it wu-s said here today.
The re|M»rt of an engagement l*e-
tyyeen a submarine chaser and tier-
man l'-hoat reached here today.
The rumor asserts that the Her-
man submarine had fired on the
patrolling craft off the Xevv Fug-
land coast.
The Herman vessel had been sur-
prised by the presence of the Ameri-
ca u submarine chaser reported to
lutye been the Smith in Boston ad-
v.:vs and opened fire yyith a tor-
pedo according to yvoitl received
here.
KSII ID ELECT
OSTHKIT Mill
I’l'TTROOHAD Ap:. . v oon"
rts.s of the council of workers and
soldiei' delegates today adopted a re-
port providing for the election of a
eonatttuent assembly of Russia us
soon as possible.
The election acording to the
icommendations is to be held under
|.. of the duma council
1 aud all above twenty years old will
I have the privilege of voting lnclud-
jmg wouicu.
TEXANS NOMINATED
BY THE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON. April 17. Presi
il. nt Wilson today made the follow-
ing nominations for appointment:
.). I.. Camp of San Antonio to be
United Stall's district attorney for
| tlie western district of Texas.
William J McDonald of Dallas to
be 1 nited States marshal for the
; northern district of Texas.
1 John H. Rogers of Austin to be
! United States marshal for the wes-
itern district of Texas.
mil trail!) ntAUT
TO CO ON WORSHIPS
CHICAGO. April 17. Fourteen
hundred sailors from the Great
Lukes training station h it today for
the Atlantic coast to be assigned to
\va-ships of the Atlantic fleet.
Today's contingent brings the to-
tal that have gone out from Chicago
since the break in diplomatic rela-
tions with Germany up to 5.000.
There are 8.000 men in training at
the station here now and accommo-
dations for 6.000 more are being
rushed.
ITALY PLANS
AN OFFENSIVE
BELIEVED THE ITALIANS ARE
READY TO LAUNCH NEW MOVE-
MENT AGAINST TEUTONS.
ACTIVE ALBNGTHE HO
Fighting Has Been Renewed Along
tile Isonzo Front—Many Aus-
trian Ci-isoners Have
Been Taken.
ROME April IT.—Italy may be
starting an offensive timed to catch
the Teutons when they are direly in
need of men to withstand the great j
Franco-Britisli drive on the western !
front.
Advices received here front Switz- j
erland reported that the Italians are j
extremely active on the Isonzo front.
One dispatch significantly mentioned!
a large number of Austrians being
taken prisoners by the Italian forces.
Heavy losses are said to have been
sustained among the Austrians by !
the concentrated Italian gun fire. |
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MYSTERIOUS flIRGRAFT
SIGHTED NEAR BOSTON
BOSTON April IT.— A mysterious
aeroplane was sighted over the Bos-
ton w Maine railroad bridge cross-
:ng the Tiseapaqua river by the
Massachusetts National Guardsmen
shortly before midnight last night.
I Gapi W. L. Howard commandant
of the Portsmouth navy yards sent
i a telephone message ta Gant. \V.
it. Kush commandant of the Charle-
jton navy yards today.
Read the Light for the news.
HAVE ORGANIZED POSITIONS
TAKE IX THE FIRST SMASH
OF SPRING OFFENSIVE
THE TEUTmT HEPHESl
Several Counter Attacks Were Re*
pulsed by the French Last
Night—Class of 1917
Called to Colors
PARIS. April 17.—Still driving
ahead the French forces have organ-
ized their positions they conquered
in the first smash of their offensive
the official statement asserted to-
day.
Strong counter attacks in the re-
gion between Soissons and Rheir.ts
were repulsed. These were par-
ticularly intense in the neighbor-
hood south of Oourcy. The German
cttackers sustained heavy losses.
1 nris had the great offensive
brought forcibly home to her today
when thousands of IS-year-oM boys
of the city assembled at the railway
stations to deave fo- active service.
They were the class of 1117.
DllllS Mi OFFERS
HID TOjmEIT
i DALLAS Texas April 17.—The
! unrestricted use of five thousand
acres of cleared and tillable land in
the best part of the Slaughter ranch
in Hartley aud Cottrell counties was
offered today to the Cnited States
1 government in a telegram to Presi-
dent Wilson.
If its news—the Light has it.
FIVE PIVOTAL POINTS IN
; GERMAN LINE THREATENED
i I i\ I STtH K MKX TIMMIU
SITMHUt’l TO OOVKKNMKNT
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Sun Antonio April 17. The en- j
' tire resources of the National lave-!
stock Association the greatest or-!
; ganiaed producers of the world have
| been placed at the disposal of the
I government for the full length of
|the war.
..LONDON April 17.—Five key
points to the much vaunted ttiudeu-
larrg Hue which were struck so sav-
agely 1>) tin' great Fra two-British
drive can not continue in the enetnv’«
hands much longer according to be-
lief. Of the five St. Quentin Lens
and 1 at fere may fall to the allied
onslaught any hour. Oambrai and
Lone also are r lonely euveloped by
a drive none the laaa i to tent.
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