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THE
1917
GALVHSTON TRIBUNE
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NO. 6.
VOL. 38.
CONGRESS MEETS FOR
VAST SUM
BRITISH ARE
BATTLE ON
IS ASKED
HITTING BACK
RIO GRANDE
SECOND WAR SESSION
ITALIAN FRONT
35 BANDITS ARE
REMAINS QUIET
SLAIN IN CLASH
SLAV DELEGATES
Question of Declaring War on Austria, Turkey
ON THEIR GUARD
President Wilson
and Bulgaria Agitated
Delivers His Annual Address Tomorrow.
includes the $640,000,000 previously ap-
propriated for the great air fleet.
for pay
BANDITS TAKE TOWN.
11 ■
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ANGLO-FRENCH REPORTS.
in
BUILD CHEMICAL PLANT.
DRAFT RESISTERS.
THE WEATHER
Continued on Fifth Page.
FERGUSON CASE
WAR COUNCIL MEETS.
IS CONTINUED
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tonight,
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and Tuesday.
ARRIVE AT LAREDO.
THIBET OFFERS FORCE.
Men for the
3.—A fighting
WOMAN SUFFRAGE PROBLEM. ,
BULGARIA TO PARLEY.
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control
Shop Early.
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Shopping Days
Until Xmas.
northeast
southwest
cloudy
colder
Let us strain
to make unity
into
waste
Trotzky Refers to the Armis-
tice Negotiations at the
German Headquarters.
Treasury Submits Esti-
mates to Congress.
t i o ns. Tuesday,
generally fair.
For West Tex-
as: Fair tonight
Colder in the north
the
and
por-
Mighty Problems of America’s Part in World Con-
flict Face .Solons.
Gradually Recover Lost
Ground.
in-
air,
sum
American Troops Fight
Mexicans.
One Cavalryman Is Killed.
Conflict Occurs on the
Mexican Side.
MEASURES TO PUT FULL FORCE OF U. S.
BESIDE ITS ALLIES, PRINCIPAL BUSINESS
RUSS DEPUTATION
IN GERMAN CAMP
More Than 11 Billions Will Be
For Prosecution of the
War..
OVER 13 BILLIONS
SOUGHT FOR 1919
Berlin Announces Arrival of
Slavs to Arrange General
Armistice.
Galveston Harbor Scheduled
For $300,000 in Program
of Improvement.
Goes Over to Monday—No De-
cision in McKay Habeas
Corpus.
No Advices Concerning Russo-
German Parley Set For
Sunday.
SAYS HUNS
LISTEN ONLY
FROM FEAR
WILL MAIL
BLANKS OUT
ON DEC. 15TH
GENERAL CONDITION
ALONG ENTIRE ITALIAN
FRONT IS IMPROVING.
and
Only
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MOMENT IS SERIOUS,
SAYS LLOYD-GEORGE,
URGING GREAT EFFORT
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF GALVESTON
S. E. Cor. 22d and Strand.
Our customers can, at all times,
rely upon an intelligent and gener-
ous meeting of their requirements,
based upon their financial responsi-
bility and accounts. We invite your
patronage.
. billion dollars is asked
miscellaneous expenses
1 15 A NUT
FAIR /
Would Furnish 100,000
Allies.
By Associated Press.
San Francisco, Dec.
of the army;
WATERWAY COSTS
AT 29 MILLIONS
Rritish Repulse German Attacks
Cambrai Sector.
By Associated Press.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & GO.
Established Bankers Est alizhed
( U nincorporated)
For
Banks, Individuals, Corporations
American Bankers Association Trav-
elers’ Cheques for Sale
Decides to Open Negotiations With
Russian Government.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Dec. 3.—Bulgaria has de-
cided to open negotiations with Russia,
in accordance with her allies, and has
sent a reply to this effect to the Rus-
sian government, a Sofia dispatch says.
This announcement was made in the
Bulgarian parliament by Premier Rado-
slavoff.
ing for the right,
every nerve now
of direction and
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 3.—Faced by the mighty problems, of Amer-
ica’s part in the world fight for democracy, congress convened today
for its second war session.
Appropriations of billions of dollars and measures to put the
full force of the United States beside its allies, will be the principal
business of the session.
The first day’s business was largely perfunctory, with official
notification to the president that congress is in session and waiting
to hear his opening address. The president will speak tomorrow
at 12 :30 p. ml. in the hall of the house, before a joint session.
President Wilson in his address, it is understood, will urge
congress to confine its work strictly to measures for the successful
and speedy prosecution of the war. There is a general disposition
among the leaders on both sides to depend upon him to take the
lead in proposing the war measures and to give him all the nonpar-
tisan support possible.
While the question of declaring war upon Austria, Turkey and
Bulgaria, Germany’s allies, is being agitated in'congress, there is a
general disposition to follow the wishes of the executive branch of
the government, which is understood to oppose any change in policy
at this time.
President Wilson’s address was in the hands of th? printers to-
day. . While it is practically complete it is being held open for any
changes until a short time before delivery.
force of 100,000 men, comprising priests
and peasants of the Thibetan plateau,
have been offered to the British gov-
ernment for service with the allies by
Dalai, the great llama of Lassa, ac-
cording to Edmund Heller, noted nat-
uralist, who after several months ex-
ploring the wilds of Thibet, has return-
ed to civilization.
It would be necessary to equip them
with modern guns, Heller said, as Thi-
bet has no army. Each peasant and
priest has his own rifle, but it is gen-
erally of an antique type manufactured
by themselves. He declared them to
be the best marksmen in the world.
By Associated Press.
“Petrograd, Dec. 3.—The German
■ militarists are not listening out of
humanitarian mot-ives or a feeling
of sympathy towards Russia to the
proposal for an armistice, Leon
Trotzky, bolsheviki foreign com-
missary, said in an address to the
soldiers’ and workmen’s delegates.
Only fear of the German proletariat
inspired by the examples of the
Russian revolutionists prompted
them to accept the overtures of En-
sign Krylenko, the bolsheviki com-
mander in chief, he asserted.
time and are resolved to win the
war we shall do so. We must
have the will, the patience, the
endurance and the tenacity. Then
we shall conquer.”
signed, and Representative Merritt, Re-
publican, of-the Fourth Connecticut,
succeeding Representative Ebenezer
Hill, deceased.
Important war legislation expected to
come before the present session, in-
cludes measures to give the president
further authority, especially over ene-
my aliens. Senator Chamberlain’s bill
for universal military training, and
measures to [meet labor conditions.
Chief among domestic concerns are
prohibition and woman suffrage. Sen-
ator Sheppard's proposed constitution-
al amendment, whose submission was
approved Aug. 1 by the senate, 65 to
20, will be pressed in the house, while
both bodies will be urged to approve
submission of the so-called Susan B.
Anthony amendment for equal suf-
frage, which has been favorably re-
ported to the senate calendar. Speaker
GREAT AIR FLEET.
For the signal service, which
eludes the great army for the
$1,138,240,315 is estimated. This
Former Ambassador Gerard Is Sched-
uled to Speak.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 3.—-Former Am-
bassador Gerard, Mrs. William G. Mc-
Adoo, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, and
Representative Jeanette Rankin are
among those on the program to address
members of the National American
Woman Suffrage association, which
will meet here Dec. 12-15.
Capture Agua Leguas, Fifty Miles Be-
low Zapata.
By Associated Press.
Laredo, Tex., Dec. 3.—Mexican ban-
dits, said to be followers of Luis de la
Rosa, numbering about 300, have cap-
tured the town of Agua Leguas, on the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande, fifty*
miles below Zapata, Tex., according to
reports reaching here this morning.
The small Carranza garrison guarding
the town is said to have surrendered to
the larger force of bandits.
portion Tuesday.
For Oklahoma: Generally cloudy
tonight. Tuesday, unsettled, colder
in the west portion.
Winds on the Texas Coast: Light
variable.
TEMPERATURES.
Minimum temperatures at leading
Texas points this morning were:
Galveston, 66; Houston, 64; Dallas,
62; San Antonio, 66; El Paso, 40.
Paris, Dec. 3.—Somewhat violent ar-
tillery activity on the Aisne front and
in the Verdun region is announced in
today’s war office report. Otherwise
there were only intermittent cannon-
ading and raiding operations.
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Clark soon will appoint a chairman
for the new, special house committee
on woman suffrage. •
GENERAL LEGISLATION.
Important general legislation pend-
ing because of its exclusion from the
• last special war session are the Webb
bill permitting exporters to combine
in foreign trade, which has twice pass-
ed the house and is the senate’s unfin-
ished business; the Shield’s waterpow-
er development bill; the Walsh-Pitt-
man oil and coal land leasing measure,
and the Colombian treaty, proposing
payment of $25,000,000 to Colombia.
The administration soldiers and sail-
ors civil rights bill, which passed the
house last session, but failed to get
through the senate, soon will be taken
up by the. senate judiciary committee.
It operates in the nature of morator-
ium, suspending court processes against
members of the American military
forces. Other unfinished war legis-
lation includes Senator Chamberlain’s
resolution to subject aliens to the
draft; Senator Calder’s bills for day-
light saving and expeditious naturali-
zation of aliens, and Senator Pome-
rene’s bills, to enforce government con-
trol of iron and steel products and for
reclamation of physically unfit men
for military servipe.
Revision of second-class postage
rates for publications also promises to
be agitated during the session.
Creation of a congressional commit-
tee to supervise war- expenditures,
which President Wilson prevented dur-
ing the last session, will .be urged by
Senator Weeks of Massachusetts and
other Republicans. The proposal of
Chairman Fitzgerald of the house ap-
propriations committee for a single
committee to control war appropria-
tions also is pending.
TO PREVENT WASTE.
Closer scrutiny of appropriations and
departmental estimates, during the
‘present session is generally predicted,
with efforts to prevent extravagance
while at the same time providing ade-
quate funds for war needs.
Spectacular features during the ses-
sion are regarded as possible develop-
ments from the agitation against Sen-
ator La Follette and others, because
of their opposition to some war legisla-
tion. He and Senator Hardwick of
Georgia have announced their inten-
tion to seek repeal of the draft law,
while Senators La Follette and Sher-
man of Illinois have peace resolutions
pending before the senate foreign re-
lations committee.
Within the next few days President
Wilson is expected to send to the sen-
ate nominations of many. military and
civil officers appointed during the re-
cess or who failed of confirmation at
the last session.
By Associated Press.
Ottawa, Dec. 3.—A statement
given a Petit Parisien represen-
tative in Paris by David Lloyd-
George, British prime minister,
who has been in France for the
interallied conference, has been
received by the agency here of
the Reuter’s Limited. It follows:
“The moment is very serious.
Everything must give way before
the importance of our object. We
have the men, the munitions, the
economic and financial resources
and the feeling that we are fight-
Mexican Officials Are On Their Way to
New York.
By Associated Press.
Laredo, Dec. 3.—Luis Cabrera, ex-
minister of 'hacienda, Carlos Bassevi,
president of the Mexican National
lines, and Adolfo de la Huerta, who
succeeds Juan T. Burns as Mexican
consul general in New York, arrived
here today en route to New York. They
refused to discuss the reason for their
trip.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1917. TEN PAGES
By Associated Press.
London, Dec. 3.—A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Petrograd says that
Leon Trotzky, the bolsheviki foreign
minister, addressing the Petrograd
workmen’s council Friday, announced
Austria-Hungary’s acceptance of the
bolsheviki's offer of an armistice. He
said Russian delegates would attend
Sunday’s conference at German head-
quarters, but that nevertheless they
would be on their guard against con-
tingencies, for bourgeoise diplomacy
always was dexterous in manipulating
policies so as to face about on what
appears to be an obvious truth.
“In no case,” Trotzky is quoted as
saying, “shall we allow a wrong inter-
pretation of our principles for a general
peace. We shall confront our enemies
with questions which will admit of no
ambiguous answers. Every word
spoken by us or by them will be writ-
ten down and sent by wireless to all
nations, who will be the judge of our
negotiations.”
M. Trotzky said relations between
the bolsheviki government and Eng-
land continued “in their former state
of indefiniteness.” Referring to Rus-
sians interned in England, he said he
had told the British consul that if they
were still detained “revolutionary Rus-
sia will find means for placing Eng-
lish counterrevolutionists in Russia in
the same position.
Vladimir Schneur, one of the repre-
sentatives of the ' bolsheviki in the
peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk
was arrested at Petrograd a fornight
before the revolution of last March,
as a German spy, according to in-
formation obtained by the Associated
Press from a well-informed source.
The reserves of several guard regi-
ment and machine gun detachments
comprise the forces sent against gen-
eral staff headquarters, which has re-
fused to recognize the authority of the
bolsheviki, according to a Reuter dis-
patch from Petrograd. The council of
commissaries has instructed the com-
missary of the state bank, it is added,
to hand over to their nominees sums
of money not exceeding a total of 25,-
000,000 rubles.
London, Dec. 3.—“Hostile attacks de-
livered yesterday evening against otr
positions in the neighborhood of
Moeuvres (Cambrai sector), were re-
pulsed after sharp fighting,” says to-
day’s official report.
“Successful minor encounters during
the night in the neighborhood of Bour-
lon resulted in the capture by London
troops of twelve German machine guns
and a number of prisoners.
“Beyond considerable artillery ac-
tivity by both sides on the southern
battle front, there is nothing further
to report.”
Federal Authorities At Fort Worth
Start Construction.
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth, Dec. 3.—The federal
government has begun the construc-
tion of a chemical plant' in which nat-
ural gas will be used there. Govern-
ment agents decline to say how much
will be spent or for what purpose the
chemicals manufactured will be used.
Because of co-operating with the gov-
ernment at this plant, extension plans
of the Lone Star Gas company to in-
crease the natural gas supply to North
Texas cities will be delayed, it was
announced this morning. However,
the present supply to consumers will
not be curtailed.
Petrograd, Dec. 3.—All the newspa-
pers which printed the manifesto of
the provisional government have been
suspended. Their printing facilities
have been placed at the disposal of the
maximalists and peasant members.
Ten Persons Charged With Conspiracy
Go On Trial.
By Associated Press.
Kansas City, Dec. 3.—Ten persons
charged with having conspired to op-
pose the operation of the army draft
law were placed on trial in the federal
court here today.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Dec. 3.—A Russian deputa-
tion, the official statement says, has
arrived at the command of Prince Leo-
pold of Bavaria with the object of ar-
ranging a general armistice.
Since Friday the Germans have cap-
tured six thousand British prisoners in
the Cambrai region, the German gen-
earl staff announced today. The guns
taken numbered 100.
realities. If we do not
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 3.—The cost and
maintenance of and improvement of
harbors and waterways utilized in the
handling of the country’s water-borne
commerce was estimated to congress
today at $29,515,697 for the fiscal year,
1919.
That is a reduction of more than
$5,000,000 from the amount appropriat-
ed for the current year. As usual, the
largest sum estimated was for the
Mississippi river, a total of $12,112,000.
For the Ohio river, $5,006,000 was pro-
posed, and for the harbor of New York,
where the largest portion of the coun-
try’s foreign commerce is handled, $3;-
010,000, which includes provision for
improvements on the Hudson and East
rivers, estimates for the latter water-
way amounting to $2,500,000. Estimates
for the Delaware and Schuylkill riv-
ers amount to $1,655,000, and for
Norfolk harbor and Thimble Shoal im-
provements, $1,540,000.
Details of the largest estimate for
rivers are: Mississippi river:
Passes, $1,400,000; flood control (in-
cluding improvements and maintenance
from Head of Passes to mouth of Ohio
and expenses of Mississippi river com-
mission), $10,000,000; mouth of Ohio to
mouth of Missouri, $100,000; mouth of
Missouri to Minneapolis, $500,000. Lock
and dam construction between St. Paul
and Minneapolis, $80,000; reservoirs and
headwaters, $32,000; Missouri river:
six-foot channel, Kansas City to mouth,
$500,000.
Ohio river: Locks and dams below
Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh harbor, $5,-
006,000.
Allegheny river: Locks and dams and
open channel work, $505,000. Narrows1
of Lake Champlain, $200,000.
Delaware river: Above Trenton, $55,-
000; Allegheny avenue, Philadelphia, to
sea, $1,300,000.
Harbor estimates include Galveston,
$300,000.
Other itms are:
Removing water hyacinth, Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, $20,-
000.
Louisiana bayous and rivers, $5,000.
more than two billion dollars for the
quartermaster corps; $157,000,000 for
hospitals and medicines; $135,000,000
for the equipment of engineer troops
and $892,000,000 for the expenses of
their operations in the field. Ammuni-
tion for the great guns to blast a way
through the German fronts is esti-
mated to cost $390,000,000. For ma-
: chine guns, the deadliest weapons of
I the war, more than .$237,000,000 is
1 asked. For armored motor cars more
than $75,000,000 is estimated.
Compared with these estimates in
; billionsand hundreds of millions some
I of the comparatively minor items
I stated in simple millions are: For ex-
l tension of military academy, $4,000,000;
" horses for cavalry, etc., $28,000,000;
. barracks and quarters, $26,000,000; con-
struction and repairs of hospitals, $25,-
000,000; manufacture of arms, $50,000,-
000; small arms target practice, $75,-
000,000; civilian military training
camps, $6,000,000; rifle ranges for the
instruction of civilians, $1,700,000;
equipment of home guard organiza-
tions, $4,500,000; supplies for reserve
। officers') training camps and ordnance
stores for the same, $.5,000,000; ord-
■ nance equipment for military schools
and colleges, $1,138,000; for gathering
information the general staff asks
$2,000,000.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Dec. 3.—The cases against
ex-Gov. Ferguson, Former Secretary I
of State Churchill Bartlett, Former
Secretary of State John G. McKay, For-
mer Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds C. L. Stowe, Former Labor
Commissioner C. W. Woodman and
Commissioner of Insurance and Bank-
ing C. O. Austin were continued this
morning until next Monday by Judge
James R. Hamilton of the criminal
district court. No decision has been
reached by the court of criminal ap-
peals in the McKay habeas corpus
case.
Absence of Five Members Prevent De-
cision on Important Question.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 3.—The first meet-
ing of the new war council today was
without decision on important ques-
tions, because of the absence of five
members, including three cabinet offi-
cers, Food Administrator Hoover and
Chairman Hurley of the shipping board.
FORECAST.
For Galveston
and vicinity:
Generally cloudy
tonight. Tues-
d a y, generally
fair.
For East Tex-
as: G e ne r a l ly
Italian Army Headquarters in
Northern Italy, Dec. 3.—(By the
Associated Press).—Heavy firing
has occurred on the northern
line in the last twety-four
hours, in different sectors, around
Monte Pertica, between the Bren-
ta and Piave rivers and on Me-
letta range, running west of
the Brenta. Each of the oppos-
ing forces holds part of these
positions.
The general condition along
the entire Italian front has im-
proved distinctly in the last
week. Northeastern Italy is now
enclosed with a powerful bar-
riei’ on the north and east which
is considered sufficient to hold
the enemy.
In the mountains to the. north
the Italians are along the south-
erly slopes and the enemy on
the northern slopes with the di-
viding summits held alternately
by one side or the other as the
action develops.
: By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 3.— Estimates of
: more than $13,500,000,000—the greatest
I in the nation’s history—for the conduct
i of the government and prosecution of
the war during the fiscal year 1919
wire submitted to congress today by
the [treasury department.
In round figures, more than $11,000,-
000,000 of that vast sum is for the war
alone. Only part of it 'will be realized
from taxation; the remainder will come
from issues of liberty bonds.
Deducting an item of $153,000,000,
intended as an annual appropriation
toward a sinking fund for the dis-
charge of the old public debt, and some
$330,000,000 which will be turned back
to the treasury froth special revenues,
the estimated sum for which congress
actually is expected to appropriate is
$13,018,725,595. No previous estimate
ever has exceeded two billions.
Here follows a general statement of
the estimates by general headings:
Legislative, $8,026,325.
Executive, $65,325,369.
Judicial, $1,396,190.
Agriculture, $26,458,551.
Foreign intercourse, $6,535,072.
Military (army), $6,615,936,554.
Navy, $1,014,077,503.
Indian, $12,255,210.
Pensions, $157,000,000.
Panama canal, $23,171,624.
Public works (practically all fortifi-
cations), $3,504,918,055.
Postal service, $331,818,345.
Miscellaneous, $1,026,208,317.
Permanent annual appropriations,
$711,166,825.
Total (cents omitted here and abpve),
$13,504,357,940.
Deduct sinking fund and postal re-
turns, $485,632,345.
Total, $13,018,725,595.
The greastest sums, of course, are
estimated for the army and navy. Es-
timates previously submitted in terms
of thousands and occasionally millions
are now stated in terms of millions and
billion.
mom
By Associated Press.
Austin, Dec. 3.—Maj John C.
Townes, Jr., supervisor of the se-
lective draft in Texas, announced
today that the questionaires to reg-
istrants in Texas will be mailed on
Dec. 15. He said hundreds of in-
quiries have been made during the
past several days from registrants
over the state desiring to know
when the questionaires would be
mailed out. He also announced
today that a medical advisory
board along the same lines as the
legal advisory boards, is to be
mobilized in the state.
READY FOR WORK.
Organization of both senate and
house under Democratic control having
been effected at the special session,
both bodies, are ready to plunge into
the mass of waiting business. Legis-
lation, however, is not expected to get
into full swing until next month, after
the Christmas recess, although there
is some agitation to forego the holi-
day.
Tomorrow will come the initial flood
of bills, resolutions and petitions.
Among the latter are many petitions
accumulated during the recess, de-
manding the expulsion of Senator La-
Follette of Wisconsin for alleged dis-
loyalty. His speech last September at
St. Paul, Minn,, was considered today
by the senate privileges and elections
committee in connection with a sub-
committee’s investigation.
General miscellaneous legislation is
to come immediately before congress,
possibly including some measures af-
fecting this country’s Course in the
war in view of widespread sentiment
among returning members for declara-
tions of war against German’s allies,
Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria.
Congress is expected, however, to fol-
low the views of the president in this
respect.
Appropriation measures will require
much time. Fourteen general and
probably several special supply bills
for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1918, as well as estimates of additional
money for present war needs, are" to be
considered, probably immediately after
New Year’s. Two bills, the legislative,
executive and judicial and District of
Columbia measures, already are under
preparation.
With $21,390,000,000 already appro-
priated for the present fiscal year’s
needs, many members believe that, with
forthcoming appropriations, the fifth-
billion-dollar mark may be reached for
two years of war.
New war revenue legislation is not
scheduled for active consideration for
a month or more. A deficit of $3,906,-
000,000 in this year’s expenditures re-
mains to be provided for.
POLITICAL AFFAIRS.
Political affairs will come in for much
consideration during the session, with
considerable speechmaking, in view of
general congressional election next fall
at which thirty-two senators, nineteen
Democrats and thirteen Republicans,
and the entire house membership are
to be chosen. Many members believe
political campaign necessities may
shorten the session.
The Democrats start the session in
control of both senate and house, with
52 Democratic senators against 43 Re-
publicans, with one seat—Senator
Husting’s—vacant. In the house the
Democrats have 216 members, the Re-
publicans 213, with five independents
and one seat vacant.
Several new members joined the
house today, Representative Lufkin,
Republican, of the Sixth Massachu-
setts district, succeeding Augustus P.
Gardner, Republican, who resigned;
Representative Deshlin, Democrat, of
the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania dis-
trict, succeeding Former Representa-
tive Bleakley, Republican. who re-
By Associated Press.
Indio, Tex., Dec. 3.—One American
cavalryman, a Mexican foreman of an
American cattle ranch, and thirty-five
Mexicans were killed in a battle which
occurred early Saturday morning at
Buena Vista, a small hamlet on the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande, a few
miles from here. The dead:
Private Riggs, Eighth cavalry, sani-
tary detachment.
Justo Gonzales, foreman of the Tig-
ner cattle ranch.
Private Noriel, Troop K, was slight-
ly wounded.
The bandits, 200 in number, under
command of Chico Cano, on Friday
raided the cattle ranch of J. F. Tig-
ner, driving off a number of cattle and
shooting down others in the pasture.
Tigner appealed by telegraph to Col.
George T. Langhorne, district com-
mander at Marfa, who ordered Lieut.
Leonard T. Matlack, with twenty men
in pursuit. Tigner, owner of the cat-
tle, accompanied the troops.
Lieut. Matlack followed a hot trail
into Mexico and at Buena Vista the
bandits attempted to ambush him. The
lieutenant rode through the ambush
into the midst of the bandits, his men
killing 35 and wounding many more.
The Mexicans retreated in disorder into
the town.
In the meantime Col. Langhorne had
dispatched the machine gun troop and
Troops L and I, under Capt. Barnes, to
the scene. These engaged the bandits,’
who fought desperately.
During the fighting a number of the
cavalrymen’s horses were shot from
under them as was also that of Tigner,
who, mounted behind a soldier, joined
in the pursuit of the bandits after the
attempted ambush. In crossing a deep
ditch the cattleman was jolted from
the horse and was not found for several
hours after the fight.
- Carcasses of the stolen cattle were
found in the streets of Buena Vista,
when the last of the bandits retreated
farther into Mexico.
Col. Langhorne arrived, here last
night from Marfa and assumed com-
mand of the situation.
All the troops have returned to the
American side of the Rio Grande.
By Associated Press.
Gen. Byng is regaining bit by bit
the ground won by the Germans at so
heavy a cost last Friday in the Cam-
brai battle, now characterized as the
heaviest attack ever delivered on the
British by the German armies, except
in the case of the first battle of Ypres.
The front on the northerly side of
the Cambrai salient having remained
virtually intact under the German im-
pact, it is in the region to the south-
west of Cambrai that the British have
been centering their efforts in the rec-
tification process. Last night they
pressed their way eastward to the edge
of Villers-Guislain, wiping out much
of the German gain in the sector most
deeply penetrated by the drive. They
also made good their hold on the vil-
lage of La Vacquerie on this front,
having repelled a series of attacks.
To the north a portion of a position
on the high ground southwest of Bour-
lon village which had been temporar-
ily relinquished by the British has
been reoccupied by them as the result
of another of last night’s attacks.
Berlin claims the capture of 6,000
British within the last few days, to-
gether with 100 guns.
Violent German efforts to wipe out
the salient before Cambrai have
brought little tactical success as Gen.
Byng has withstood successfully for
three days all attempts to break
through. About Gonnelieu the Ger-
mans have gained slight terrain at
heavy cost and the British have evac-
uated Masnieres, south of Cambrai. The
Germans have suffered very heavy
losses in dead and wounded and the
British have taken many hundreds of
prisoners.
In the important sector west of Cam-
brai, embracing Bourlon wood, the
dominating position in this region, the
Germans have made no impression on
the British defenses, nor have Gen.
Byng’s men given ground between
Bou'rlon wood and Moeuvres, the nor-
thern side of the salient. Ten heavy
attacks against the region of Mas-
nieres were driven off by the British
with costly losses for the attackers, but
a sharp salient involving the village
made its abadonment necessary. South-
west of Masnieres toward Gonnelieu
the Germans still hold La Vacqueie,
where it is said the dead in twelve
hours have numbered more than in
any similar period since the beginning
of the war. The British have reached
Gonneliu and fighting was in progress
Sunday in and around the village. In
this region the Germans used four or
five divisions Friday and attacked in
massed formation Saturday and Sun-
day. At least six or seven divisions
were used by the attackers in their
fruitless efforts to break the north-
ern leg of 'the salient.
AMERICANS CAUGHT.
American engineers operating and
building railroads within the British
lines near Gouzeacourt, west-southwest
of Gonnelieu, were caught in the first
rush of the German attack. Many
sought shelter in shellholes, from which
they were rescued by British counter-
attacks. The engineers aided the
British in withstanding the enemy
attacks and went on patrol duty at
night. Several were captured by the
Germans, but later managed to es-
cape.
Northeast of Ypres, in Flanders, the ,
British have captured fortified build-
ings and German strong points on the
main ridge north of Passchendaele. On
the remainder of the western front the
artillery continues active. The Ger-
man crown prince has not repeated his
attacks in the Verdun region.
On most of the Italian front the in-
fantry remains virtually inactive, while
the artillery is engaged in violent
bombardments, especially along the
Piave river. On the Asiago plateau the
Italians have withstood a local Aus-
tro-German attack against Monte Me-
letta, while near Monte Pertica, along
the Brenta, the Italians made a slight
advance. Austro-German infantry
movements in the inundated district
near the mouth of the Piave have been
under Italian artillery fire.
While the bolsheviki representatives
planned to enter the German lines Sun-
day and begin negotiations with the
Germans, nothing has yet been reported
of their mission.
The demobilization of the Russian
army by the bolsheviki is reported to
have begun. The Russian provisional
government has reappeared and issued
a manifesto asserting it is the only le-
gal authority. It urges the people to
disobey the decree of the bolsheviki.
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