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fAkm, TEXAS, f HURSbAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1918.
LAST EDI"
2:30 A. M.
VOL XI. No. 297
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First Uncensored Accounts ofPetrograd and Moscow Murders Received
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BIX GAMES PLAYED MOST SEN-
SATIONAL EVER 8TAGED IN
HISTORV OF BASEBALL.
FINAL SCORE IS I101
Gome Marked With Many Brilliant
Play* Throughout. Cub* Make a
Hard Fight, bat Too Many Passw
Issued by Tyler In His Two Gaines,
Prove Disastrous to Chicago Hopes.
BT CERMAN U-BOAT
3800 AMERICAN TROOPS ON
BOARD TRANSFERRED TO
CONVOYS SAFELY.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Boston. Sept 11.—Taps for profes-
sional baseball for the duration of the
war was sounded at Fenway park to-
day, when the Boston American lea-
gue pennant bearers won the first war
scarred baseball championship of the
■world, by defeating the Chicago Na-
tional league title holders In the sixth
game of the series by a score of 2 to
1. This gives the Red Sox ft record
of five \ lctories for the overlordshtp of
the baseball world in as many starts,
and as the Boston Nationals won the
championship In 1»1«, It brings to this
city six world titles without one
blot on the escutcheon.
Blonde Carl Mays, of the under-
hand delivery, was the winning pitch-
er, white Cleorge Tyler, one of the
Cubs' stellar left handers, and Flack,
Chicago's right fielder, who has been
playing such a brilliant game must
bear between them much of the bur
don of the defeat.
The momentary wavering of the
hard clawing Cubs in the third inning
gave the Red Sox their one big op-
portunity which they seized with
characteristic keenness. Tyler, after
the inherent right of south paws, in-
dulged in a brief fit of wildness. He
passed Mays, the first man up, on
four straight balls. Harry Hooper
then poked an Irritating slowly, mean-
dering roller towards Tyler, the ball
being so cleverly placed that the Cub
pitcher could not get it to second In
time to head off Mays. Hooper, how-
ever, was put out at first. Dave
Shean, one of the most patient wait-
ers for free transportation to first in
the series, was also passed. Two men
were on and only one was out when
Amos Strunk came to bat and sent a
very bad bounder to Pick at second
base. Pick had his troubles handling
the ball, finally getting Strunk at
first.
Mays and Shean In the meantime
reached third and second, respective-
ly. This brought up Whiteman, the
dark horse, and one of the big stars
of the series, and the crowd sensed
the break of the game coming.
Waiting for a ball to his liking.
Whiteman got one of Tyler's fast
shoots on the end of his bat, the ball
going on a line to short light field.
Flack sprinted In fast, thrusting out
both hands at full reach, The ball
(Continued on Paje Two.)
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MEN BETWEEN 18 AND 41 NOT
ALREADY REGISTERED RE-
QUIRED It) SIGN CP.
Dim im mis»rims mi ran
SIBERIAN FRONT IS
SItlpa Attacked on Sept. «. Informa-
tion Held Up by British Admiralty
Requesting Washington to Allow
Them to Slake Announcement. En-
gine Trouble Left Ship Behind.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Washington, Sept. 11.—News of the
torpedoing of the British Persic, with
2,800 American troops on boards in
the war zone Sept. 6. was given to the
American people today, first through
the British admiralty, and then later
through the navy department All
the soldiers were rescued by accom-
panying destroyers, the steamer Itself
was beached and the enemy submar-
ine Is believed to have been accounted
for.
Officials here viewed the result of
the attack more as an allied success
than * disaster. The fact that the
steamer was torpedoed when she was
endeavoring to overtaks the convoy
fleet of transports after overcoming
engine trouble, which had forced her
to lag, convinced officers that sub-
marine commanders still are fearful
of attacking troop ships In convoy.
And the immediate and completely
successful assistance rendered by the
destroyers was taken as additional
evidence that the convoying system
now In vogue is practically perfect.
First word of the attack on the
Persic, It was learned officially, roach-
ed the navy department on the night
of Sept. 6 in a brief despatch from
Vice Admiral Sims, although navy of-
ficials have emphatically denied in
the interim that any Important news
of submarine activities was being
withheld. It was understood that the
British admiralty expressed the re-
nounce the news of the attack.
quest that they be permitted to an-
Rumorg that a troop ship had been
sunk probably with heavy loss of life,
have been current In Washington
since the publication of what evident-
ly was an Inspired London dispatch
stating that allied naval circles had
reason to believe that German sub-
marines soon would concentrate their
efforts In an attempt to impede the
steady flow of American soldiers over-
seas. No explanation of the purpose
of this article could be obtained, how-
1 ever, from naval official* here.
Attacks on troop ships by submar-
ines constantly are expected by offi-
cials and it may be that a new and
more determined campaign has been
determined upon by the Germans be-
cause of the reverses suffered by their
armies. The greatest possible protec-
tion Is afforded troop ships and this
increases as the American naval forces
in the war zone are added to by new
construction in American yards.
The record achieved by the Ameri-
can and allied nations by transporting
more than 1.600.000 American sol-
diers overseas with the loss of only
291 of them still Is considered mirac-
ulous. And it Is accepted by naval
officers as testifying as to the success
of the convoy system.
For Those Who Would Evade Their
Obligation to Tlielr Country Law
Provides a Year's Imprisonment
and Punishment Will Be Swift and
Certain. No Man Can Buy Escape.
ENGLAND LOOKING FORWARD
TO THE FITI RE WITH HOPE
AND CONFIEDNCF.
IS
f
BRITISH WD FRENCH ON ISO-
LAT1D SECTORS— RHIIIMS
TO I I. \NDERS—ADVANCE.
Britain Has Trlunipantly Issued I Yoin ' Focli Expects to Take l'p H«uy
That Dark Period and Ungrudging-
ly and Gratefully Attribute Tlirir
Success to the American Nation Not
Only In Buttle but tovl'.conomlcs.
MOVES FOUR THOUSAND MILES
WESTWARD WHEN CZECHS
OVERAWE BOLSHEVIK I.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
"Vladivostok, Wednesday, Sept. 4.—
The Siberian front has disappeared
over night. In the words of an Amer-
ican authority It has "moved 4,000
miles to the westward." Communi-
cation has been completely established
between Vladivostok and Irkutsk.
Czecho-Slovak forces have broken
through from Lake Baikal in the di-
rection of Chita under-Captain Gaida
while General Semenoff's Cossacks,
supported by Czecho-Slovaks, have ap-
proached the trans-Balkalian capital
from the Onon river. The bolshevik!
forces seemingly overawed by the
presence of entente allied troops, have
scattered.
Some of them have gone in the di-
rection of Kihta and others are sup-
posed to be fleeing northward by way
•f the Amur Railway.
Military officials said it would not
-e surprising to find that the bol-
sheviki had dissolved into non-com-
batant groups intent only on seeking
tmneaty from tlM entente
(Associated Prns Dtspstch.)
Washington, Sept. 11.—On the eve
of the great muster of the nation's
manhood for the war, Provost Mar-
shal General Crowder summed up the
situation in a brief sentence address-
ed to the 13,000,000 men between 18
and 46 year* who will register tomor-
row.
"The registrars are at their posts
awaiting you."
General Crowder ho* asked that
registration day be observed general-
ly as a holiday and that flags fly and
bandB play In tribute to the men who
will enroll for the reservoir from
which will come the man power for
the final drive against the German
armies. His last word to prospective
registrants was:
"Upon every man between the ages
of 18 and 45 years, both inclusive, not
heretofore registered, or not already
In active military and naval service
rests the obligation to register Thurs-
day.
"Through this registration It Is pro-
posed to enroll the names of approxi-
mately 13,000,000 not subject here-
tofore to the draft.
"This task completed America will
have taken a census of its available
man power. With this enrollment
and tlie regulations of June 5, 1917;
June 5, 1918, and Aug. 24, 1918, we
shall have placed In this reservoir the
names of approximately 23,400,000
men. From those we select, choslng
for the army those best suited physi-
cally and by circumstances for the
field of battle, and classifying those
remaining in accordance with the ex-
tent where their energies are needed
for the support of the nation at home
and the maintenance of the military
establishment.
"The obligation resting upon the in-
dividual this day Is clear cut and not
to be mistaken. The patriotism and
the honor of our manhood furnish
the main reliance of the nation at this
hour. Patriots will not fall to re-
spond. Slackers must respond. For
those who .would evade their obliga-
tion the law provides punishment
swift and certain. A year's Imprison-
ment faces the man who evades, and
no man can buy his escape from this
penalty through payment of a fine."
Word came to the provost marshal
general's office today from every state
and from every one of the local draft
boards and registration districts that
preparations for the registration have
been completed. Everywhere the
number of registrars have been
increased and so thorough have been
the preliminary arrangements that
General Crowder believes that the
total number of men enrolled can be
(Continued on Pttjf Two.)
(Associated Press Dispatch.I
London, Sept. 11.—Field Marshal
Haig's historic order Issued yesterday
Fighting When the Weather Cleat'*
l'p, and Continue for Two Months
Before Winter Sets In; Iluns Are
Being Pushed Toward the Rhine.
The Typewriter Army.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Washington, Sept. 11.—A call for
2,000 men qualified for limited serv-
ice and capable of working as sten-
ographers and typists was issued to-
day by the provost marshal general.
They will entrain Sept. 23 and will
come from all states and the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
Most Powerful Radio.
( Associated Press Dispatch.)
Washington, Sept 11.—The new
naval radio station at Annapolis,
Md., the most powerful In Amer-
ica Is now In operation. The navy
department announced that the
first messages sent were from Sec
retary Daniels to the first lord of
the British admiralty, the French
minister of marine and the Italian
minister of marine.
The station which has an oper-
ating radius of four thousand
miles waa completed in ten
months and coat $1,500,060.
set beside his famous
wail" order of six months ago point-
edly marks the end of one of the most
critical period* In British history.
That the country has triumphantly is-
sued from that dark period Is un-
grudgingly and gratefully attributed
to the timely assistance given by the
American nation not only in the field I
of arms, but also In the economic
field.
It Is universally felt that Field Mar-
shal Haig's order marks the beginning
of a new period in the world struggle
to which the British are able to look
forward with hope and confidence.
There is growing evlderics that the
enemy will now withdraw to the Hin-
denburg line and try to make his stand
there and begin a new phase of de-
fensive warfare.
For the moment there Is compara-
tive lull In the fighting operations,
partly due to adverse weather condi-
tions.
The British public Is now speculat-
ing with confidence on where and
when the field marshal will strike his
next blow and it Is firmly believed
that it will not be long before the
great American forces will be found
taking a more prominent part In the
operations. In the meantime all d s-
patches from Germany and Austria
bring evidence of a new and rapid
growth of the peace offensivo move-
ment and the tottering of the enemy's
home front.
(Associated J'tesa LHspaUli )
Eight weeks to the day and for the
first time, the great allied offensive
back to the ; of Marshal Foeh is at a virtual pause.
True, both the British and French
on isolated sectors of the front ex-
tending from Flanders to the east of
Soissons, again have recorded ad-
vances, but Wednesday witnessed no
such progress by the allies toward
strategic objectives had brought thetu
• before the torrential rains turned the
lowlands into impassable marshes and
the badly worsted enemy rushed
large reinforcements forward to stop
the gaps through which the British
French and American armies ate
threatening to filter and wreck his
entire military situation.
During the eight weeks that have
passed the allied troops have cleared
almost In Its entirety the enemy held
Alsne In the great triangle which had
Chateau Thierry at its apex and Sois-
sons and Rheims respectively its
western and eastern anchor points;
from Soissons to Arras the old bulge
westward *o Montdidier and toward
the doorstep of Amiens has ail but
l ecn obliterated and the allies now are
standing across a large portion of the j
old Hindenbuig defense line and vir-
tually are upon the remainder of it,!
while to the north in Flanders the
c ep salient which threatened the Eng-
channel ports have been bent
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Stockholm, Tuesday, Sept. 10.—July and August were
months of horror which never will be forgotten by pernors
who watched Russia's two great cities—Fetrograd and Mos-
cow, pass through the mad attempt of the bolsheviki to shoot
or imprison all persons who disagreed with their wild efforts
to control crumbling European Russia. September probably
will be worse, for the opposition parties are gaining strength
through desperation.
The lives of the non-bolshevlki are unsafe nnd everywhere
in Russia self defense is forcing unwilling belligerents to tako
up arms against the ruthless persecution of the so-called com-
missions for the suppression of counter revolution which
shoot down the bourgeoisie by the hundreds.
Leon Trotzky, the bolsheviki minister of war, evidently is
determined that his dictatorship of the proletariat shall not
repeat the history of the former provisional government and
fail through being too merciful.
Ex-Premier Kerensky refused to impose the death penalty
and his government fell almost without the loss of life, but
observers of the Russian political situation say that no such
bloodless end can come to the soviet republic. It has given
no quarter and it will receive none.
Premier Lenine, War Minister Trotzky, Sverdloff, president
of the central executive committee and other bolsheviki lead-
ers realize this and they doubtless will fight as long as a sin-
gle soldier remains loyal to them.
CITIES BURNED.
Trotzky has said In his speeches that Moscow will be reduced
to ashes before it is surrendered, Yaroslav, a town on the
Volga, 160 miles northeast of Moscow, was burned for resist-
ing bolshevik domination and Vologda, 110 miles north of
Yaroslav, is reported to have suffered the same fate.
Night lias been hideous in Moscow for months because of
the volleys by firing squads from military enclosures wheie
prisoners are kept. Foreigners and Russians alike weic
searched without warrants and the red guards marched
crowds of men and women prisoners through the streets with
such regularity thnt pedestrians hardly noticed them.
Mnrle Splrldonova, a social revolu-
lists
eastward and the enemy Is expelled i
rout,the vantage points from which ha
had expected ultimately to make his
<irlv.e in an endeavor to gain the sea-
Prominent among those dispatches
today are renewed reports of a com- *'oard and thua caU8e a <1iv,*ral°n of the
1
III H PHUT
SOI.DIERS REFUSE TO BOARD A
TRAIN STARTING FOR THE
WESTERN FRONT.
(Associated Press Dtspatrh.)
Amsterdam, Sept. 11.—A German
regiment, 26th, mutinied at Cologne
Aug. 31, according to the Telegraaf.
An eye witness of the incident said
that ths soldiers on being ordered to
leave Cologne for the western front
refused to board a train. Another
regiment waa then ordered to force
the refractory troops to enter the cars
but they refused to fire on their com-
rades.
A detachment of the home defense
guard, composed of youtha, waa or-
dered to undertake the task and a
fight followed in which eleven boys
of the defense guard were killed and
many©' - • "-ere t
Ing political crisis in both Germany
and Austria.
There is nothing definite or official
in these reports but should they ma-
terialize they will bring to the front
new men able to inaugurate new lines
of diplomacy, especially In the direc-
tion of support to the idea of a league
of nations. Rumors are persistent
that Dr. W. S, Solf, secretary of state
for the colonies, Is about to succeed
Imper.al Chancellor von Hertling and
that Count Czernin will return to the
helm of foreign politics either as
premier or foreign secretary. It is
stated, but denied by the Berlin Vor-
waerts, that Philip Scheidemann and
Matthias Exzberger, the former a
socialist and the latter of the Catholic
center party, would be members of the
Solf government and that the mem-
bers of the majority parties in the
German relchstag are holding confer-
ences to draft a program of war and
peace aims which they will endeavor
to get the new government to adopt.
According to an Amsterdam dis-
patch to the Exchange Telegraph com-
pany, Admiral von Hlntze, the German
foreign secretary, was summoned to
the great headquarters last night to
meet General Ludendorff and Field
(Continued on P»»e Two.)
USING HUN LABOR.
(Associated Press Dispatch )
With the American Army In
France, Aug. 27.—(Correspon-
dence of the Associated Press.) —
Vegetables planted by the French,
cultivated by the Germana and
gathered by the Americans we.-e
served at many American soldiers
messes during the first two weeks
of August after the district south
of Flsmes and the Vesle had been
cleared of Germans.
t THE WEATHER. *
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Forecast.
East and west Texas: Thursday
and Friday generally fair; not much
change In tsmperature.
transport service from England
to southern France.
Until the rains began failing there
had been no let up In the allied offen-
sive, notwithstanding the fact that the
German high command has stiffened
Us resistance everywhere, discarding
infantry units as such and training
them into machine gun companies
and bringing up large numbers of
guns of all calibers to hold the aggres-
sors back. Therefore, It is not im
probable that Foeh, when the skies
have cleared and the marshes disap-
peared again, will take up with full
Impetus his task of putting the enemy
on his mettle, and continue for the
two months of good fighting weather
remaining if not beyond that period,
his efforts with his own now greit
forces to drive the Germans farther
back toward the Rhine.
The British and French troops ap-
parently are in a hard race for the
frize of St. Quentin, forces of both
armies now being at equal distant
points west of the city—The British
In the vicinity of Vermand and the
French at Etrillers and Coupy. To
the north the British in local opera-
tions have made further progress
north of fiphey In the operation which
has for its purpose the driving of n
v.edge midway between Cambral nnd
St Quentin and also have successful-
ly sustained heavy counter attacks
by the Germans near Gouzeaucourt,
where the Germans are trying hard
to hold back the British push toward
Cambral.
North of St. Gobain the French
have made additional slight advances,
notwithstanding the condition of the
terrain and the strong force of the
enemy aligned against them in on ef-
fort to prevent the turning of this im
portant position from the west. Heavy
t tlllery activity la in progress all along
tills front and likewise on the sectors
northeast of Soissons and between the
Alsne and Vesle rivers, the operations,
which have a direct bearing on those
north of the St. Gobain forest.
Berlin Report.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Berlin, via London, Sept 11.—"The
day was quiet on the battle front."
This la the announcement made by
headquarter* this evening.
Boche Women Aviators.
(Ai-.-'0.'iatP(1 lYei's tll-jpytrii I
With the American Army li
France, Sept. II,—That the Gei-
mans are using women as mili-
tary aviators la indicated In a re-
port that In a machine recently
brought down by the Americans
the pilot, who was killed, was a
woman.
UFl S! KillS
VAST AMOl'NT OF WAR MATER-
IAIj BEING TAKEN OCT
OF THE TOWN.
( An :<ictntid I-ri n« Dt*pat< h )
Washington, Sept. 11.—Systematic
evacuation of the town of Dousti, one
of the important forward bases of the
present German line in France, Is de-
scribed In official advices reaching
Washington today. A vast amount of
war material Is being taken out of the
town, the report says. Including the
equipment of the arsenal there, the
largest establishment of the kind i
maintained by the enemy In the north-
ern region of his advanced lines.
The advices state that the removal
of this equipment has been in progress
more than ten days and that the
equipment .it the Brayelle airdrome
near Bouai, also being taken further
to the rear. Hie same precautions
are being taken with equipment at an
enemy aviation field at Lecelles. near
St. Arnmd. That field, the report
states was specially established In con.
rectlon with the lalds by German air-
craft along the English channel coast.
It is between Douai and Cambral
that the British have broken through
the first defenses of the Hlfldenburg
Ur,e and this detailed statement of tha
German withdrawal of material from
Poual appears to bear out previous
reports that the enemy is preparing
for ths abandonment of this section
of hli great fortified line which has
been Impelled by the British ad-
vance.
Withdrawal of material from tho
I,ecelle* field may be very significant,
it la thought here. The town of St.
Amand Ilea east and a little north of
Doual close to ths Belgian border
and about fifteen miles behind the!
present line, the Getjvns are hol.1
ing. The Hamlet oMlP' 'lea Is within
« mile or so of
tlonary lender, charged In her mem-
orable speech made before the atl-
llusslan soviet congress at Moscow on
July 4, that bolshevik rule was more
tyrannical than thnt of the late em-
peror, and the reign of terror hid
scarcely begun at that time.
Ilclfferiili Attacked
I'r. Karl Helt'ferich, the German
ambassador at Moscow, rushed ba?k
to Berlin and reported to his govern-
ment that Moscow was In such a
state of anarchy that the embassy
could not stay there and he Is alleged
to have advised a discontinuance of
diplomatic relations with the soviet
powers.
There Is little wonder that Ambass-
ador Ilelfferlch had such an Impres-
sion. Two attempts were made on
his life white he wits In Moscow.
(This is the first news to come out
of Russia of an attempt being made
against the life of the new German
ambassador at Moscow. His prede-
cessor, Count von Mii-liacli, was as-
sassinated.)
Shots were heard everywhere day
and night and motor lorries filled
with armed soldiers dashed madly
through the streets with utter disre-
gard for the life of civilians. The
actual lighting which took place in
the streets of Moscow on July 7 when
the city was under artillery fire (or
several hours was far less terrifying
to the public than were the endless
days of sheer brutality when the sol-
diers Imposed on the helpless publia
by virtue of their arms.
Men who have refused to fight the
Ozecho-Slovaks on the Volga have
been arrested. Even the helpless and
paralytic and one old woman more
than 80 years old, have been taken
Into custody.
Such is the wild campaign carried
on by the bolshevik under the gu'ao
of suppressing a counter revolution.
Moses Urltzky, who mercilessly di-
rected activity of this sort in I'etni-
prad, paid for It with his life, but
Dzerzhinsky still continues his frantio
persecution of civilians in Moscow
Former army officers are the great-
est sufferers at the hands of this wild
search for counter revolutionaries but
(Continued on l*nge Two.)
FLY A FLAG
Washington, D. C,, Sept. 10.—
Provost Marshal Genera 1 Crowder
said today:
"I want every flag flying an!
every band playing on registration
day."
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