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U-BOATS MftY APPEAR OFF AMERICAN COAST ' i i PREDICTIONS MADE BY' SPEAKER AT NAVAL ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS MEETING. BEUTCHLAND'S TRIP IS GITEO Speakers Believe That Submarine It self Will Be Best Defense A0aln?t German Undersea Boats? other Ex amples. Now York. Predictions that enerov ' ?ubruarines will ROoU muko tholr a,,' pearance off American ports, tha the Submarine will be found to be the tha" rd?te f?r th? 8Uhmarlne, and the great world powers in near future will have flotillas of "con ubmarines." e?P?cially built for nlT "* "a,,, wc" made by speakers who addressed the annual conventions of the Society of it: ",,d Mnri Simon Lake, the inventor, pointed he possible danger to American " tUe(1 thfi trans-Atlantic trips of merchant submarine Deutschland Znlh\,rlT?" "? oi ana board exnmpln, Commander E. s. Land of the u?h ?tl States navy, took issue with Mr ^.vo'Th. l"C,,a"cr ??'" "0 did rT f , Kubmarino could bo ef -11 """'! asa"'?1 "?? rlne a' il'n """ C"" rine a* weJl as a -battleship can MKht Though ?8 ' ? 8a,d ,hp commander MibmaHni? 8tt f0relgn tcn(,??cles in h i construction were toward displacements of 2.000 . 3.000 aij' even s.ooo Commander L? .1 Jinn ? h'" """ <-?? o, "ho 800-ton type are now being most Kenerajly built because of ThlTr adaptability for all-year use. Marely F. May predicted the de velopment of a "contra-submarine WM .8,,bmari"p-flgh(ing undersea boat which would do most of |,? ^rk while submerged. ?K>rk Estimates that Germany had in commission over 700 submarines laM May and that she would have n sen ??a total i of 1.200 under sea craft by by Mr Itoy.tb? year We'e dl?credited It does not seem possible that HneT^n *** T? Utan 200's,lhma said ?raml8,8,?? ?a?t May." ho Jn'ormatfon at hand would ban hA? t,1U actuaI recent output has been approximately ten ?Ubma rlnes a month " 7 , NEW CABINET ANNOUNCED BY M. CLEMENCAU Formation Is Completed Within 24 Hours. the *in!n7^' Clertienceau presented he ministry to President Poincare the ministry to President Poincare . The now ministry follows: Premier and minister of war (?eorgo Clemenceau. Pi^chdn16" ?' f?reiKn St^he" ' Minister of justice. Louis Nail. Minister of interior, Jules Pains M nister of finance. Louis Klotz. gU" r of luar*nfi* Oeor?? L?y Minister of commerce. Etlenne C lementel. m C:i^vellioer ?f PUl>,iC WOrk8' Aibcrl Minister o' munitions, Louis Louch ?ur. Minister of instruction, Louis Laf ferre. Minister of colonies. Henri Simon tiord ?' "Krif ul,,,n!* r>epnty Col Minister of labor. Victor Horet The rapidity of the formation of the ministry establishes a record in French politics. Premier Clemen h??an hl? ?t 4 o'clock in ??k, nf0U,rnoon completed it within 24 hours. A committee of radicals and radl BOdallsts. by a vote of r,9 to 2G approved of members of the party Participating i? lho minl?(ry H EN R YFORD JOIN8 THE SHIPPIN GBOARD STAFF Washington. ? Henry Ford joined , the staff of the shipping board to lend ' his talent for standardization of pro ! duction in speeding up the building of a merchant fleet. He was mode a , special assistant to Chnrles Pier., vice ! president of the board's emergency J floet corporation. His particular task will be to Introduce Into shipbuilding the mult ({de production of methods he has used with success in producing automobiles. MANY MEASLES AND PNEUMONIA CASES ' Washington. ?Detail reports of, health c.ondlUona In national guard 1 and national army camps for the j ending Novernbor 0 show n.eas!,:* nod pneumonia predominating among the aliments among the men. sick ! and injured rate In the national guard* camps was 33 9 per thounand and in the national array camps 25.2. Camp Panftton, Port Riley, Kansas, bad 24 new cases'of pneumonia and nine new cfceee of mentricttts <turln* the week. i , 1 ' ? - BRIG. GEN. F. J. KERNAN. \ bng. oen. Francis J. Kcrnan Is now assistant chief of staff. FIVE OF CREW WERE KILLED VESSEL WA8 SUNK IN BAY OF BISCAY BY EXPLOSION OF TORPEDO. T"wenty-four of Survivors Were Picked Up By Danish Ship and Brought to Port First News of Dlstruction ? Occurred October 27. An Atlantic Port- ? News of the de-J M ruction by a Gorman submarlnie of the American steamer D. N. Luckeh back on Oi tolx r 27 was brought here by 24 survivors of the* crew. Five of the crew were killed. The vessel was sunk in the Bay of Biscay, a hundred miles off the French coast by an unseen torpedo whoae ex plosion killed the five men, the surviv ors said. They were p',< keel up by a Danish ship two days after'the sink ing. The ship, owned by the Luckenbach Steamship company, was of 2,920 tons gross and was built in 1X83 at New castle, England She left New York October 13. Two other Luckenbach steamers have previously figured In submarine encounters. The Lews Luckenbach was torpedoed and sunk early in Octo ber with the loss of a naval gunner and nine of her crew. The J. L. Luck onbach escaped destruction with the aid of an American destroyer after en gaging a submarine in if four-hour fight in which seven of her crew and two naval gunners were wounded on O* ,.obor 19. The five men killed on the D. N. Luckenbach were members of the en gine room force. The survivors es caped In two small boats. They ex perienced rough weather and wind and snow and were in an exhausted condi tion when picked up by the Danish ship which brought them to ttyis port. PROMPT ANSWER GIVEN PRESIDENT BY LABOR Building Trades' Department Orders Discontinued All Strikes on Gov ernment Work. Buffalo. N. Y. ? President WllBon's plea to labor to maintain unhindered i all the processes of labor until Gov- | many has been beaten received its first answer when the building trade?" j department of the American Federu- I Hon of Labor ordered the dlacontlnu ance of all strikes on government work under its Jurisdiction This action was tak?'n after ar rangements had been made for u committer of (he general presidents of the building trades to moot at Washington and confer with President Wilson or other government officials for the adjustment of existing differ ences. While the Immediate result of the department's movements will affect only strikes on bnlldlngF that are be Ing erected for shipbuil 'ng oY the manufacture of war mnnitionR. It wan regarded as a pr?'ccdont for the adjustment of all differences that, might delay the prosecution of the government's war plans The reso lution calls for the meeting of the general presidents at Washington at the earliest possible time. THERE WILL BE NO SHORT AGE OF TOY8 i Washington ? There will bo no short age of toys to fill the stockings of the | American children this Christmas, den. j plto the almoat complotn absence of ? the familiar "made In Germany." An announcement by (he department <? f j commerc e said American monufae* j tores had developed an Industry which | not. only could supply liumo demands, but export a surplus somethng never before known in the American toy j t rade. I ft W E F P THROUGH PHTROGRAO LIKF BANDS OF ROBBERS Copenhagen A dispatch to tho t Berlln/cgukc Tldende savs that Wrlc njorth. a Slwndlsh director, who left ; I'olrograd Ka turd ay and arrived at i flaparanda, declared that l he situation | In the Russian capital Ik terrible. Vlr ! tunlly all administration had ceased. ' the fcuthorltlOH having given up all at- j tempt* to continue work. Bnlahovlkl ' Holdlera and ftAllor* wore sv.'floplng through the city like robber bauds, committing All sorts of crime. SEVERAL AMERICAN1 SOLDIERS KILLED REPORTED KILLED OR WOUNDED IN RECENT SHELLING OF TRENCHES. * WOUNDED ARRIVE AT HOSPITAL American Artillery's Fire Believed to Have Been Effective ? Tar Heel is Included in List of Those Wounded in Trenches. With tho American Array in Franco. ?A number of American soldiers have been killed or wounded in the recent shelling of the American trcnches by the Germans. One shell which drop- 1 ped in a trefyh caused several casual tit*. I The American artillery fire has been heavy recently and there is gooJ rea son to believe that it has accounted for a considei able number of the en"my. A number of Amcrlcsyi infantry men. suTering from shell wounds, ar shell dropped on the position find ex casualties were caused by the same shell. A group of Americans were in a shack in the reserve when the Ger mans began shelling heavily. The of ficers ordered the men to a dugout but beforo they could get there a large shell dropped on the position nd ex- | ploded. The American artillerists con centrated their fire on the communi cating trenches of the enemy and It is believed that their shells caused oon siderable casualties and damage. The war department had received no report of the wounding or killing of American soldiers as tho result of Ger man shell tire.. The department did re ceive, however, a corrected casualty I i st of the trench raid of November 3, The new list does not change the num ber or names of the dead, but shows the wounded and missing to have been II each. The original list gave .three dead, five wounded and twelve miss ing. Tho report adds First Lieutenant William M. .McLaughlin to the list of wounded. Among the privates added to the wounded list is Lester C. Smith, of Concord, N. C. Private Wllliai^i P. Grigsby. of Louisville. Ky.. previously reported as captured by the Germans also is added to those wounded ITALIANS ARE NOW HOLDING INVADERS IN CHl^CK Italian Northern Line Hae Evidently Been Strengthened With the Russian situation still ob scure by reason of the fact that no direct advicos are being received from Petrograd or Moscow, tho Ital ian situation remains of transcendent interest in the news of the world w*ar. Everywhere along the battle front from Lake Garda eastward, and Ihonro southward along the Piave riv er to tho Adriatic sea, tho Italians are holding the enemy in check, ex cept In the hilly Region in the vicinity of the Aslago plateau, where addition al gains have been made by the invad ers. Tho new advances by the Tou totnic allies, as observed on tho war maps, do not indi<ate that points of extremely great strategic valu have been won, but ra'.her ?hat the Italians on various sectors have 'ven ground before superior numbf and at the snine lime have, straightened out and lessened the length of their front. In the hills north of the Venetian plain Genera) I > 1 a z . the new com mander-in-chief of the ['.aliens has withdrawn his advanced posts south of Monte Tomatleo. WILL MAKE FIGHT TO MAKE MARYLAND DRY Baltimore. ? George W. Grabbe, gen ernl superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league of Maryland, announced that the league will make an uncompromis ing fight In the Maryland legislature which convenes in January for slate wide prohibition. He said the ques tion of a referendum will not he con rldered. Mr, Grabbe said the "drya" have an indicated majority In tho leg islature. BANDITS GET AWAY WITH BIG PAYROLL Newcastle, Pa ? Poeses searching for four bandits who escaped with $lf?,000 payroll after killing Tony Par k an employee of the G. W. Johnson Limestone Company, and wounded A 0 Farrell. superintendent, found one man dead In a clump of bushes near here and shot another one The de;u| man jldentlfled as Met Giilic; had ?4,ft00 on hl? person, while from M iyok Zorko who was shot In the mouth and captured $r>,000 was recovered ASHGVILLE SELECTED FOR N HXT MEETING i \1? mphis. Tenn The Kouth'fn M-d i'ril Asfw.'niion con(lu*"d Us elev enth annual meeting here wilh elec tion of offlc.ors arid selection of Ashe ville, N. C as next convention < My. I)r lyewollyn P Marker of Johns Ilop littM university. MnlMmore, was e'ect- 1 t'd president. More than 1,000 physl- \ dans and aurgeons. Includ.ng officers j of medical corps of United States. British and French armies .attendee! tho convention. JAMES H. COLLINS Jarre* H. Collins, for 15 year? a widely known wrlter'on business sub jects, has charge of the rood adminis tration's publicity handled through jtrnde papers . ! HEAVY SHELLING IN PROGRESS I ! AU8TRO-GERMANS MIGHTY AD VANCE HAS NOW BEEN CHECKED. Italians Are Entrenched on West Bank I of River, Which Is From One-Half to On? Mile Wide ? Reports Favor | able. j Italian Headquarters in Northern !Ituly. ? The Italians are holding the ', Austro-German advance on the Plave | II tie. Reports from the front were fa | vorable. Heavy shelling la In progress all along the new front. Tfi e Italians are entrenchou back of the west bank of the Piave river and jthe Austro-German force now in tak ing the place of the advanced guard i on the east bank. The strip of water between the opposing lines is about halt' a mile, widening at some points I to a mile. j An observer just back from a tour along the line told the correspondent that the cannonade had become con It inuous. The Austrlans are using 5 j inch guns, no' yet having brought up ! many of their heaviest pieces. The 'enemy is turning his flre against the high campanllle hell towers of small villages fringing the western bank ?o prevent the Italian artillery from us .lng them as observation posts. The 'Italian artillery reply is spirited from a considerable number of guns that they succeeded In bringing back from the old front. The battle front has two main sec tors The lower extends from Feltre | to the sea and the upper from Feltre westward, . ? * I LLOYD GEORGE'8 FAITH IN FINAL OUTCOME IS FIRM "Single Front, Single Army, Single Nation, Is Program Requisite for Victory." Paris. ? "A single front, a singh army, a single nation -that is the pro gram requisite for future victory." vaH Premier Pa'nleve at a lunclfoon In honor of David Lloyd George, the Uritish prime 'minister, who has Just returned from the Italian war zone, find Slgnor Uaronlnl. Italian minister of education. "If after 40 months of war. after all the lessons the war was taught us. the n 11 i o s; wero not capable, of that sacred international union, then in spite of their sacrifices they would not he worthy of victory." In discussing the manner of at coin pllshment of this fusion, to whu'h the allies have long aspired, M Painlevn said : "The enemieo' alliance realized unity of effort by brutal discipline one of the peoples among them hav ling mastered the others and rendered |them serviceable. Put we are free peoples. We do not admit of subjec tion to other peoples In time of war ; That Independence Is at the same lime a source of strength and weak noss, of strength because of their ca pacity for resistance which is un known to subject peoples, and weak ness because It renders more difficult ' coordination of military operations To reconcile this Independence with Ihe need for unity of direction which I- required f ?? achieve nil efficacious war polity will he the work of the Inter allied war commit tee or of the superior war council just ? rented by i the nliiep " llakf.rics Under License System, i Washington. All bakeries in the I 'tilted States, includin': those of ho ti'I ;, rtmtauranf.a and club-, ami e.vent lug only the smaller maker of bread who uses* less than ten barrels of (lour per month, aro required to cone* under federal license after December 10 hv a proclamation Issued by Pflfpi ! dent Wilson. All "persons, firms. ?>r ;>orntionn and associations who mnnu I facture for sale bread In any form, eako. erackerrt, biscuits, p&atry or oth er bakery product*" afo directed to take out llconnefl. GERMANY'S U-BOAT CAMPAIGN ON WANE RESULT OF ACTIVE MEASURES TAKEN BY THE BRITISH AND ? AMERICAN NAVIES. SMALLEST WEEKLY TOTAL YET Only Six British Merchantmen Sunk During Week and Only One of Those Above 1600 Tons ? Italians Hold on to New Line Along Piavr. Germany's submarine ? amp.iign is waning as the result of the .-t t measures that have boon taken to combat It by the Hrith*-. and American naval forces. Last week only six j British merchantmen wore sunk and gorily one of these w?.<? a . raft i xceediiig j 1.600 tons I This is the small' si total of vessels sent to tho bottom during any week | since the submarine warfare began, th?' lowest previous figures hr.ving been twelve merchantmen, ei?ju ot them in the category of l.GOOton* and ovor. and four of less than 1.C0O torn. While the Italians continue t > hold [tenaciously to most of the new line [along the Plave river ?rom the Adri j atlc s?a to the region of Felt re and through the northern hills westward from Felt re to Lake Gorda they again have bet n compelled to give ground In both sectors to the Teutonic allied armies l.'pon' the shoulders or the Italians alone for several days must rest the security of the Piavo line and of his | torlc Venice, for the information has been vouchsafed by Major Genera) Maurice, chief director of military | operations at the British war office, ' [that it will be "some days vet" before British and French lighting forces can be placed in the field to reinforce the Italians. Meanwhile, the enemy is sti.ving energetically to force passages of the Plave at various points and again has ! been succv?8fnl on southern reaches j in crossing the stream at Griaola. four miles distant from its mouth and some, i twenty miles northeast of V" nice. Here, however, in the swamp regions the Teutons are being ?jeld by the do- j fending forces from further gains. Fighting In the North. The north around Zrnson, where the stream was negotiated by th? Aust ro-Cermans Tuesday, fighting tin ! still in progress with the Italians hold ing the upper hand, but not yet hav lng been able to drive back the invnd- I ers to the eastern bank of the stream. I Still farther north attempts to gain n 1 foothold on tho western bank of the Piavo between Quero and Fen ore were repulsed with heavy casualties. AMERICAN SOLDIERS EXACT REVENGE FOR TRENCH RAID Ambush Large German Patrol In "No Man's Land. With the American Army in France ? American infantrymen exacted a part revenge for a trench raid during a rocent night by ambushing a large German patrol in "No-Man's Land," killing or wounding a number of the j enemy. | The American patrol, in which there j were some Frenchmen, arranged the ; ambuscade near the German lines on a shell-ruined farm. j After lying in th>- mud nearly ;ill | night the patience of tin watchora j was rewarded by tho sight of a. large German patrol, its number more than 'double thai of the Franco-Americans. The Germans worn permitted to when the Americans and French on I their flank openod a hot fire from shell craters and other shelters where they ; were secreted ! The Germans were taken completely I by surprise and bolted carryirg with {them their men who had been hit Tho number of dead and wounded Germans is uncertain but none of tho men In ambu.-h was hit by the bullets tho Gormnns lator sent in from a dis tance. There were congratulations all around when the Americans and the French re-entered their trenches. OFFICIAL CLASSIFICATION AS TO MILITARY DUTY Washington.- The five classes into which 9 000,000 men registered for mil- | Ifcary duty ? ado divided and the order In which they will be called for j srvlen was officially announced in the provost marshal general's question naire which every registered man must j (111 out and file The order alio its .some change from the tentative draft j published some time ago < ontiary to jriome published reports, H do> n ri<?t f<y <\mpt married men ;?k a clas" COAL SHORTAGE IS PUT M F'FTY MILLION*, OF TONS i \V i Illusion -The I a 1 7 ? oai short ! ace Is put a' f?0 (>00. ''00 ions In est I J mates completed bv the fuel adminis- ' tratlon Although production of bilu 'ruinous and anthracite together has I Jumped no.ooo.ooo tons, consumption. I It Is declared, has inernaaod at least I 100,000 000 torm. Immediate mearuren to meet the situation planned by Fuel Adlmlutstrator Oarfleld Include curtail ment of shipment* io non-essential WILSON APPEALS FOR CO-OPERATION i ? PRESIDENT IS OPPOSED TO PEACE UNTIL GERMANY IS , BEATEN. WE MOST STAND TOGEiHER Appeals to Workingmen for Co-opera tion In Conduct of War ? Victory Cannot be Won Unless All Factions Are United. Buffalo. N. Y. ? Preside tit Wilson, In a forceful address here before the American Federation of La bur, ap pealed to the worklngmen of the Un> ted Stat'" for co-operat ion in the coo duct of the war. made it ernpha'i- -illy clear that he opposes peae>> unil this war against Germany is won. The president declared that his heart was with the "feeling of the pacifists, but that my mind has a con tempt fcr them." "I want peace, but I know h >w to got It and the} do not." lie declared Col. K. M. House, liead of the Americnn delegation to the allied war conference the president said, had been sent to take part in a conference as to how the war was to tie won, and , ho knows, as I know, that that i the way to get peace if you want it for more than a few minutes. The -1 :>0 delej-'at 's to the conve.D | tion and the several 'housnnd jwrsonr admitted to the hull to hear the presi dent speak. arose and applauded (lite declaration with a tremendous burst of cheers, Amither demonstration of ap proval came when he said: "We must stand together, night and day. until this Job is finished." For Foreign Consumption. The president, while devoting hJe rtddress to problems for the people ot the United States, laid emphasis upon I t?ie broaded phases of the world con flict in a way that seemed to indi <*ote that his speech was possibly in tended as a mossage to the people of Germany, of Austria and of Russia, u* well as of the United States. He de dared his belief Mint, were It not foi the Pan-Germans, the spirit of freedom would And "as fine a welcome in the hearts of Germans us it can find in any other heart. "Power," he said, "cannot be usi d with concentrated forces against free peoples, if It is to bo u-kI by Crtse people." Speaking, probably of Austria, Mr Wilson referred to the intimations ol anxiety for jieaco that had come, "from ono of the cent nil powers' 'and declared that H meant "that he peo ple of that central power knew thai if the war ends as it stands, they will in effoct, themselves be vassals of Ger many, notwithstanding "? * * that they do not. wish In their pride and proi>er spirit of nationality to be absorbed and dominated." Of Russia, he said that ho waa amazed that some groups in thai country could suppose that "any ro form plans in the interest of the p?>? plo can live in t.h? presence of a (Jot many powerful enojigh to undermine or overthrow Hum by intrigue or force." 'Fatuous as the driaoi'rs of Rut* sia." were those persons in this ooun try, he declared emphatically, who sup pose that "1 ho fre-i in.iu -try and en terprise of the world can continue #1 the pun-German plan is aehieved nntf the German power fastened upon <h< "world. Germany Started War. The President directly asserted tb*?.i Gonna ii y had started the war ani? said he would leave confirmation r?i this statement lo the verdict of hi* tory He referred in Germany r growth to a "pla' e In the xun" an^ asked why she w:n not ?:? f i - r- <??) -vhnr she gained that position le nri:-iwei he described the German govern mint's method1- of cent rolling tb* competition of lt-t industries and a* serf f-d that "all the while thero w?t lying behind Its thought in its d>earru for the future. a political control which wojild enable it in the w>nr run to dominate the labor and Um Industry of the world Mr. W Upon cited in this connectioi the Rerlin-to IJagdad railway which said, "was constructed to run 1 >?* th rent of force down the flank of lb? industrial undertakings of half a do? en other countries, ho that wle i i (Jet man competition came In i? would not be resisted too far * * ? berane? there was always the posfdh.lf'y o1 getting German armies into t : i , Ziearf of that country 'iui?l'.' r M-ati ar.v ott> er nrnii'"; <-r>ti )?i f h< i Slimming up. ),<? ? t ?> ,? ( :< r i< determined H?a' Mi - of Ul i wor'd shall l.? I . i r > ??< - METHODISTS TO MAT! fi R E /C'r C A M I ' ( \ f U K I Philadelphia 'flu V r t. .?? ? t ".pin copal boards of home and f i" :i" mo siolis at a joi ,t i oi. fi ?: ? - ;> ? . i, iprovnr'c a reeoriinieiulMt ii>o that a iat cn b< Inatip.ura' e-l to rni" ?'? " I'f.n , i .. tj-,, next live yearn. !?''??!?/ millhtnr ;vr? to be rained hv eacl. bon-d to spread Methodism to all cnri.crs of tho enrtb About 200 clergymen from all parts of the country including the entire bctftrcl of 80 bishons attended tin conference