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■»/ k I'.;' .rat HITS IN BALTIC SECTOR Muscovite* Hurl rnceHHiuR Attack« on Front Hotwo^Jn ('oast and IMiiNk After Arcnniulattlifc Vasi Stores of Ammunition—•Volcanoes^ of SIicUh IliirliHl in Effort to Stop .... v‘, ‘ . \ Froj^resH in Southeast. In a titanic eleventh-hour^ effort to save her steadily crumbling south ern line and parry the threatening drive on Odessa, Russia is hurling volcanoes of shells into the north ernmost Teuton front and sending the pick of the Muscovite soldiery into unceasing attacks on a sector of one hundred and twenty miles, be- tween the Baltic epast.jmdDjfUi&k-.— —rc444a# -tip" of -tho eiitll'U TCTF 1 ton left is the aim. ‘East Prussia is the goal. The great Russian drive, which early in the war forced the German legions to sweep backward from the gates of Paris and led to the battle of the Marne, is to be re peated if the apparent plans of the Russian high command materialize; These plans, it seems, have been under way for months. Vast stores of ammunition have been accumulat ed behind the front between Riga and Dvinsk. The bulk of Russia's reserves is concentrated there. The Roumanian defeats failed to divert either. The psychological moment was patiently, waited for. It came when Kalkenlijiyn moved up agaluoL the Screth line. Unlike the Austrians, who on June 1 of last year, were completely taken by surprise when Brusiloff launched his powerful offensive in the Bukowina, the Germans fn the north, probably through aerial re connaissance work and constalit Stetomen Begin Session at Colum bia on Tuesday. Organization ? of the Senate was undertaken Tuesday after the ad dress of; And re w J. Bethea,-president of the body. ^eOrand 6. Walker of 3}eo^getown, who is beginning his twenty-fifth session as a member of the Senate, was elected president pro tem. Huger Sinkler of Charleston was made chairman of the judiciary committee; Niels Christensen < of Beaufort, finance; Alan Joluistone Sr., Ndwberry, agriculture, and George K. Laney, Chesterfle’ld, edu- cation. • • ’ ' M'arv in If ..Man n of St: Matthews, wlio vfias already been clerk Of the Scn&ief eight-years, was re-elected, without opposition. * Mr. Mann also served as assistant clerk of tne jin- ance committee three years jknd as chief clerk ^ne' year.. Gov. Manning was cfcMrman of the finance commit tee at that time. R. Beverley Sloan <jf Columbia was Immediately reap pointed assistant clerk. ^he Rev. W. S. Stokes of John ston, who has been reading clerk in the Senate ten years, was also re elected without opposition, J. Fred Schumperi of-Newberry, who' has filled the office of sergeant-at-arms acceptably twenty-one years, was i\bo without nn onnonenk. .The Rov> ,a. giMa ui oLniuiijitt wag chosen chaplain. This will be his fifth year in that capacity. The Sen ate adjourned at two w*clock tp meet again at eleven o^clock Wednesday morning. ; p WUMtN IKY TKIChii SEE WlbSON FOR SUFFRAGE THROUGH SUBTERFUGE TO PICKET WHITE HOUSE SHOT HUSBAND TWICE | GERARD S SPEECH AT BERLIN ISINDSIILTWATUM Tells Denver Police How She Ambassador's Utterance Causes Va- M ordered Her Mate. ried Comment in Europe. LILES Using' Name of, Dead Woman as u Clonk to Cover Tliclr False Pre tenses the Congressional Union Gets Fit He Satisfaction From Him —President Stands to His Former Declaration. Womyn suffrage, after another fu tile appeal to President Wilson Tues day for his support of the Susan B.^ Anthony amendment, announced plans for retaliation by picketing the White House grounds with r, silent sentinels." — ^ Their purpose is to make Im possible for the president to enter or leave the White House without en- Trevies pleading the suffrage cause. The move was acknowledged to be a step in the new policy oFmild mili tancy which began with the coup in the house gallery, on December 6 when a party of suffragists/unfurled a "votes for women” bantnor while HoW her husband heaped abuse Ambassador Gerard’s much dls» and indignities upon her in the five cussed speech on* his return to Ber- hours he was in her home before she Hn, in which he was quoted as say- shot him were told in a. confession ihjj^'that "never sfhee the beginning Jo the police by Mrs. Stella M..Smith, of the war have the relations be- who Saturday killed her husband, tween the United States and Ger- John Lawrence Smith, formerly a many been as cordial as now" was chauffeur in the employ of her step- reported substantially as made, it father. ; . was said at the state department. Mrs. Smith told police officials of The full text of his speech has a nightTof liorror; at the culmination been received at the department and of which, early Saturday morning officials declared that jjn first ex- she shot Smith with a small revbiver animation it appeared to be practi- as he attacfked her once more. She cally as transmitted, in news dis- told how she then stepped over his patches. The te'et will be examined prostrate form, called a servant and, carefully and it is possible some an- returning because she had feared nouncetiient will-be made lat6r,_, Smith was not dead, shot him again Ambassador Gerard’s speech has with his.own pistol, leaning over to caused'more comment abroad pern place the weapon close to his heard, haps than any utterance by an Amer- W. A. Moore, Mrs. Smith's former i<hn diplomat since the'war* began, husband, Went Vo the i^ouse at four The German newspaper s attached o’clock in the morning, summoned much significance to it, especially as by a servant at the behest of ‘ Mrs. it followed Ambassador ' Gerard’s Smith, who feared for Mildred’s visit to President Wilson in Wash- safety. Moore took his daughter ington. In general the German chan- and went Away without* going into ,cellor’8 supporters and those look- the house. ing to an early peace approved It, Mrs. Smith said that as Moore . while the chancellor’s enemies and drove away Smith tried to shoot him, those urging vigorous warfare re- threatening to kill both man and gaVd his suggestlon-lhaLjo-Mc Hiqi'thQI prffBflllF nfriftlitfir evented Mm from firing the tinue in pow.er no trouble was likely piatol he pointed at them; ' ** l as an undue interference in -Ger- Moore told of vain efforts to se- many’s internal affairs whiclt should cure a policeman t6 accompany him justify His recall,, to the house for Mrs. Smith’s pro- - Allied press comment is divided tection and said: "I suppose I ought somewhat similarly, xr him 48 HQURS^ GIVEN GREECE^ ALLIES TO COMPLY MADE DRASTIC DEMAI Speaker Hoyt We-cl J. Wilson Gibbes, clerk of the sev enty-first House, called the new body to order at noon Tuesday. D. D. Molse of Sumter nominated, J. T. Liles of Orangeburg .for temporary chairman and he was elected by ac clamation. Mr. Liles, who was chair man of the ways and means commit tee of the last House, thanked the members, anci- proceeded with the organization by calling the membera- elect forward by counties to take the oath of office and sign the roll. Jesse W, Boyd of Spartanburg fHAIBMAN The president wae-nraklug his open 7 VIIJllllITl/ill address. What the white Houso authorities will do about the pickets thiEL-suffragists intend to leave for development: tAfter thq women had their audi ence Tuesday they returned to head quarters of the Congressional Union, formed their new plans and held a to have killed him myself, had not t,h« jo The bitterly But I anti-German papers took offense at his statement that relations with tke lected and Escort- > * i ©d to I His Stand. ^ APPEALS TO TILLMAN Daniels Asks Him to Save OH tands for the Navy. were aware of the Russian aim and anticipated the offensive. On January 3, evidently Just be fore the czar’s forces were to usher in the "big push," the Teutons took the initiative. They crossed the ice of the Dvina with strong forces and captured an . island northwest of Dvinsk. This strategical forestall- ment diverted the Russian thrusts tempoVarily. Whether it had a fir- reaching effect upon them only the next few days’ development can show. The Russians, who originally had planned a concentrated simultaneous offensive on the whole one hundred * and twenty mile front, were forced to concentrate, their energy tempor arily upon the sector attacked by the Germans. They succeeded in recap turing the island and now the full v fury of theJtarefully prepared drive is in'full swing. - . Berlin admits the loss of the island north of Dvinsk, but asserts that everywhere else the Russian on slaught broke down under the bar rier fire of what the German military critics generally, call "Hindenburg’s machine guns front." It is the front whose fortification the field marshal personally directed while he was in chief command in the east. Tuesday night's German war office bulletin reiterated the claim that the Russian attacks "remained unsuccessful." On the traditional Prussian mili tary theory that "the offensive is the best defensive,” the Bavarian Prince Leopold, who succeeded Hindenburg when the latter became chief of the great general staff, is launching vio lent counter thrusts at the most vul nerable point of his line, arounu the village of Kalnzes. This point, some twenty miles sauthifekt of Riga, is the nearest to the East Prussian frontier, the dis tance being about one hundred and twelve miles. It lies on the railway from Mitau to , the Baltic coast. Petrograd asserts that here the Teu tons were thrown back. In the recapture of the Dvina island the Russians took seventeen prisoners, seven machine guns and four trench mortars. Here, too, the Germans tried desperately to "come back,” but according Co Petrpgrad, failed. Berlin, on the other hand, asserts that the Russians were un able to advance further against the west bank of the river. A struggle of immense propor tions continues on the whole front with maximum stubbornness on both sides, for the stakes are high. The Russian high • command aims at averting disaster to a five hundred mile front from Volhynia to- the Black seacoast, menaced by the un checked onrush of -Mackensen’s armies. Hindenburg, on the other hand, knows that a Russian "break through" in the north would rob him of reserves • from the Roumanian paign and might shake the-whole German front In the east. Thus far it does not appear that the Russian offensive has affected the Teuton lines. German critics aver that it has failed to force the thinning of other fronts. Dispatch of reserves from the Roumnaian front, it seems clear, would be re sorted to only in the event of serious plight in thr north. Meanwhile, Mackensen i« swoop ing forward on the whole line against the S'ereth. The last thirty- six hours brought the capture of the Roumanian town of Galreaska, and the "baggin?" of more than fifty- four hundred prisoners. The* invasion of Roumania by the troops of the Central powers con tinues to pregress, despite the ef forts of the Russians and Roumani ans to hold them back. Berlin re ports that the invaders moving east ward into Moldavia from the Tran sylvanian Alps region are gaining ground step by step, and the force Of Field Marshal von Mackensen, driving northward in Moldavia, has won additional ground, reaching the Patna river sector. In this lighting the Teutonle* Alllee, according to Berlin, have taken fifty-four hundred speaker of the last House and nomi nated him for the same position in the present House. Mr. Hoyt was unanimously elected. 'The chair ap pointed Representative Boyd and W. C. Martin of Orangeburg as a com mittee to escort <Mr. Hoyt to the speaker’s stand, where he took the oath of office at twelve-forty o’clock yesterday afternoon* Mr. Hoyt, in a very brief talk, thanked the mem bers for. the honor they had bestow ed utfon him, which he termed "the second highest in the State." He asked the same manifestation of co operation and forbearance as. ha said, was shown him by the former House. MAKE MORE GAINS I * X ♦ Teutons Continue to Advance Lines Along the Ssreth.' Further successes by the Teutonic allies bn the lower line of the Sereth river near its junction with the Dan ube, officially reported Saturday, are partly offset by a Roumanian ad vance ^andjlhe capture of trenches of the Austro-Germans along the Mol davian frontier, in the region o£ the Kaslno river. At another point on the Moldavian frontier, north- of the Slanic valley, the Invading army delivered a strong attack and drove the Russians from a height, capturing som emcahNot guns, mine throwers and one hun dred and sevpnty-four men. Fierce fighting along the lower Sereth line resulted In the capture by Turkish troops of the Roumanian town of Mihalea, northwest of Brai- la, and four hundred men of Its gar rison. Others of the defending force, attempting to escape, were drowned in the Sereth. The Bulgarians have taken a monastery near the conflu ence of the Buzeu and Sereth rivers. meeting, pledging three, thousand dollars for the “silent sentinel" cam paign. Headed by Miss.Maude Young er and Mrs. Sara Bardfield,- three hundred suffragists from the Con gressional Union went to see the president^ ostensibly to , present memorials on the death of Mrs. Inez Milhollend Boissovain. Because of the affair in the House gallery in Deqemher, there was some i^|arf4JIfTcufcy Fn arranging the audience but the president, consented to re ceive the women. When they made it the occasion to renew their pleas that.he support Jhe suffrage amend ment the president expressed his sur prise, retainded the spokesmen of the party that he had'' not been apprised of their full purpose and was not prepared to say more than he*had on previous occasions. . He repeated Jh&t he believed per sonally in their cause but as the leader of his party could not commit it to action it had not Indorsed. The president added he could not under stand why women failed to realize that the Democratic party had done mors for suffrage than the Republi cans. . United States were more cordial now than at any time .during the war,_ while some of the • more, liberal papers interpreted his hint about the continuance of Bethmann-Hollweg as a threat by this country that the | overthrow of that government a •‘more radical admihistration would Secretary Daniels has appealed*'to strain relations with J.his country to Chairman Tillman, of the , Senate th<» breaking point, naval committee,.to defeat the coitt'iV Just what the-administration-will promise legislation to give claimants do in the circumstances if it is shown leases on the navy petroleum fuel that thO ambassador was correctly reserve In California and Wyoming, reported is unknown though it is in- He ajso sent a statement to the 6b- timated some sort of statement will jectlons Ujr Senator Pittman, chair- be made, man of a # sub-committee which framed the compromise. The de partment of justice holds many of :iha. cnmmitteg^-^rdore4--arc franitirrH— lent, and the navy maintains the Army and Navy .Join ia Conairiictfiig safety of the nation will be imperiled TO BUILD ZEPPELIN by the Toss of the fuel. "Every capital ship and every de stroyer Js now designed to burn oil, FOR SHAFT TO GEN. MARION Tillman and iByi^nea Introduce Joint " Resolution. Senator Tillman has Introduced in the Senate and Representative Byrnes in the House a joint resolu tion appropriating fifteen thousand dollars for the erection of a monu ment to Gen. Francis Marion, the great South Carolina Revolutionary general, on plot owned by the gov ernment on Pennsylvania avenue be tween the capitol and the treasury, and providing that hereafter no statue shall be erected bn Pennsyl-: yania avenue between these points unless it be one of some distinguish ed leader of t Revolutionary fame. ARMS SENT INTO MEXICO, "I had not been apprised that you were coming here to make any peti tions or would issue an appeal to me," said the president. "I had been told that you were coming to present memorial resolutions with gard to the very remarkable woman whom your cause ^as . lost. I, therefore, am notprepered to say anything fur ther than I have said on previous occasions of this sort. "I dp not need to tell yo 4 where mgr own convictions and my own per sonal purpose lie, and I need not tell you by what circumscriptions I am bound as the leader of a party. As the leader of a party my commands come from the party and not from private personal convictions. "My personal action as a citizen, of course, comes from no source but my own convictions and therefore my position has been so frequently defined - and it is so impossible for me, until the orders of my party are changed, to do anything other than I am doing as & party leader that 1 think nothing more is necessary to be said. » "I do want to say this: I do not see how anybody.can fall to observe from the utterances of the last cam paign that the Democratic party is more inclined than the oppositljn party to assist in this great cause, and It has been a matter of surprise to me, and a matter of very deep re gret that so many of those who were heart and soul for this cause seemed so greatly to misunderstand and mis interpret the attitude of parties. • "Because in this country^ as In every other self-governing country, it Is only through the instrumental ity of the parties that things can be accomplished. They are not accom plished by the individual voice but by* concerted action and that action must come only so fast: as you can eoficert It. I have done my best and. shaircontinue to do my best to con cert it in the interest of a cause'In which I personally believe." —V ' Aerial Machine. , • ■». ~~ ' > a _ .#r -V !(, ' It" Ordnance and aircraft innovations ... _| „ q . ... designed from lines developed by" ' European belligerent* hare been . ; , a ? f, e ^I authorized by both "army and navy tures of the design are such.that it is departments ' * impossible to return to the use ofr, Th lnc { ude Zeppelln type air . la rge caliber mobile rifles and fnr ni.T nl t * 8upply howitzers, to be mounted on railroad national «nr^ truck9 toT U*® co* 8 * defense, or baul- nat onal Importance The.speed of ed by tractor engines over country the destroyers and .battle cruisers roa dg ww U H ld .n b ®Ji“r 8 K Sl ? le if* V at , tal “ m , e ^ t - Secretary Daniels announced that with any thing but oil, but if this the "Ze'ppelin” would be construct** f upp ! y ^ ere 9e J/° U8 > ni threat u De ?J ed at once - - Determination to build it is in the pending bill, we should be the craft was reached after an ex- brought face to face with the consid-_ baustive study of the question of eration oL the abandonment * gether pfjjil aijfiier" ~ STUDY* OMISSIONS Large Quantities for Carranza and Diaz Factions. FIND NO LEAK House Committee Says Lawson Has Nothing to Disclose. * . -Arms and ammunition in large quantities are going into Mexico from the United States by way of Central American ports, according to information brought by passengers arriving at Texas City from Vera Cruz. They say that both Carranta and Felix Diaz adherents are obtain ing arms and ammunition in this manner. The passengers -also said that attacks upon trains by bands of rebels are of almost dally wectfrrence. and ninety-nine prisoners and cap tured three guns and ten machine guns. ' Pe&Ograd admits that the Rus sians along the line of the Putna and Sereth have fallen back, but says the manoeuvre, was carried out without hindrance. A slight retreat on the Kaasina river by tbe Russians also Is recorded by Petrograd. but It is as-' sorted that south of the Oltus river and near Rekota, on the Suchitxa river, attacks by the troops of the Central powers were revised. . .Although Thos. W. Lawson prom- ised to disclose "names and amounts" involving men high in offi cial life if Congress ordered an in quiry rdnto the alleged leak in ad-, vance of President Wilson’s peace note, there were indications that the House rules committee was about to drop its hearings on the Wood reso lution for such an investigation and return the resolution to the House with an adverse report. Democratic. ;members of the com mittee. freely expressed their weari ness ov.er the. proceedings of the past few ’dftys, and 1 their conviction not only that nothing to warrant further inquiry had been brought out so faf, but that Mr. Lawson knew nothing to support his sweeping chargee? alt0 rigid airships by^ a J.qint xonyatttee* of officers representing* the aeronau tical branches of both services, the general staff of the army* and the general board of the navy which recommended that ^construction be British Public See No Mention of undertaken at once. ——r —-j—The recommendations have been Reward for England. I approved by Secretaries Daniels and • VT j»< v w Baker and the cost will be equally N°w that the British people have divided between the army ahd navy, had a chance to study and digest the . Entente’s reply to President Wilson, „, „ almost ms much comment Is heard In i SA\ ED MILLION DOLLARS London.on omissions from the docu- . ' - ments as upon its concrete terms; I 4 * No mention was made of -any—L®wis Tells What “Cattl© Tick. recompense for England, although it Fi _ ht Hnja I>nnA in * r is felt'that this country ought to be Fight Has Done in S. C. , indemnified for the losses and hard- The eradication of the cattle tick ships imposed by the war. Neither has added $1,5*9,885 to the wealth is any mention, made of Japan, al- of. twenty South Carolina counties though it is the known aim ,pf that w'hich have "dipped out^ the pest country to hold the German proteC- since 1914, according to Dr. W. *K. torate of Kiaochu, in China.. Lewis, federal inspector in charge The fact that the note failed to i n gouth Carolina, who addressed the refer to the German colonies, indi- conference of federal and State ex- cates that there* Is a chance for the ports on tick eradication at Atlanta Kaiser to regain some of his over- Thursday. seas territory. i) r> Lewis said there had been an Belief was expressed in many annual loss In these counties of quarters that both President Wilson $546,665 due to the tick before the and Germany would take some fresh • ^ork of eradication be^an and a coh- action in the direction of peace, al- gervative estimate since the tick had though there may be considerable been - eliminated had placed the in delay before this is done. . • creased value of the cattle at seven and one-half dollars per head. This, he asserted, has been accomplished by ninety thousand dollars expended by the $tate and. a like amount fur- Up to January 1 is 10,630,778 Bales, nished through the federal bureau of ~ S animarindustry. 8. C.’s ToUl 922,080. . - r Gotten ginned prior to January 1 amounted to x 11,045,22*5 running bales, including 188,052 round >bales ♦— and 113,359 bales t)f sea island, the Preparations Under Way at Colum- census bureau Tuesday announced. I . ...i ' Last year prior to January 1 gin-1 bus for Pershing's Return. or^rpe^'cent 0 o^the'crop'"^ ' The ^ase at Columbus, N. nlnrn^'J f " M**' i8 bein K P ut in readlnCSB tO TO- Cluding 105,i85 round bales and 88,- ’ * J' n p hl , states' 1 follows*" iM ^ Glanibsi by pnoUlv^ e^edltlon. fn ^he oven?” Alabama. 540.820; 'Arkansas, 1.- j‘ s belug recalled from Mexican soli. 060-,7n8; California/. 28,237; Flori- torr 1 al3 ha ^ e be ® n Prepared for the da. 50,555; Georgia. 1.811,260; cavalr >’ and P ack animals, quarter- I.ouisiana, 436.337; Mississippi, mast l ? r 3 0re9 have been erected and 777.213; Missouri, 55,727; North niuch other preparatory work done Carolina. R48.'824; Oklahoma, 708,- in anticipation of order* from the 963; South Carolina,. 922,080; Ten- war department withdrawing the ex- nessee. 357.114; Texas, 3.526.106; . I> edltlon - ^ Virginia, 2C,192 r alT otlffir -states.. Some military men believe imle H i —f X difficulty will be had in obtaining pc* mission to move the troops and their equipment over the Mexican Northwestern railroad from Colonia Dublan, Mexico.> Others believe that Gen.'Pershing will make ther march Witji his troops rather .than ,avail himself of the railway facilities. COTTON GINNINGS ACTIVITY AT ARMY BASE London Observers Think Constantino s is Playing for Time and Connect . His Indecision With Delay in Ger- , man Plans—Mackensen Not> Able, ’ to Help Yet and is to Be Busy for Two Months. Ministers’of the Entente powers Tuesday handed to-*the Greek gov ernment an ultimatum giving .Greece forty-eight hours to comply with the demands contained in? the - note drawn up by France. Great Britain and Russia on December 31. Included in the ultimatum was a request by the. Entente powers that r-'G+eieir-gO'VWTiUltJlU lUlllILAl-lmST earliest possible moment the agree- ment of December 14 regarding the transler. of Greek troops- from Thas- saiy. • , . . 1 . The note demanded, among other things, that all Greek forces outside of Peloponnesus be 'reduced to a number strictly'necessary to the pres- w ervation of order; that all meetings of reservists in Greece north of the . Isthmus of Corinth be prohibited; that all persons detained for high treason or for other political rea sons be released forthwith; that the * commandant of the first army corps . be dismissed; and .‘that the Gre« government make apologies tOj Allies’ ministers and flags at, public spot in Athens. l*omlon reports: Much ai\ is given to the situation In Gi where 11 a sensational denouemT seems at last to be .impending. King Constantine’s partial rejec-’ ~ tion of the latest Allied ultimatum is regarded as another move to gain time, and it is urgecPln. ^mna-Quar- tors that bomljawh»ent should be employed as a method of bringing about a more speedy acceptance of the jionditions imposed than the slower processes of blockade could . achieve. “ . ' The v&ed question of Saloniki has not been much discussed in the pub lic press of Fate, for it has been point- . ed out that for Germany it is most desirable to .* £now what are the Allied intentions 'in that theatre of war. If a Saloniki offensive— though always, of course, subsidiary to the main operation on the west ern front—should be qondiicted on a , serious scale, German assistance would be -required for Bulgaria. If the role of the Saloniki army is to be defensive, Bulgaria’s own resources will be adequate. f King^Conatantine is characterized by The Manchester, Guardian as a ' kind of barometer for Southeastern Europe. • Germany can infer from the Allied policy |oward him the na- *' ture of the military intentiems of the Allies in Macedonia. "If the Allies are moderate and conciliatory, Ger- \* many will deduce that the Allies don’t mean to do anything Jn par ticular from Saloniki; if, ©n the 5 other hand, w r e punish him for his. attacks on us, Germany: will think - we have not abandoned our pros- - pects at Saloniki.? Similarly, it is argued, that from the respome the Allies get when they lap this royal barometer they can determine what chance he thinks he has of getting German assistance. * A dispatch to The_.Time» from Pi raeus* dated December 31, says that the real key to the situation in Greece is the military position in Macedonia.' According to this story. King Constantine has received dis couraging news from beyond Monas- tir to the effect that Field Marshal yon Mackensen considered it impos sible to move on Monastir before other two months at the eat The, Greek government re^ therefore, says the dispatch, tlTAt it broke -with the Entente it would have to support the struggle alone. The Greek Council of Ministers has approved a, restriction of the daily rations and the appointment of b, food dictator, soys an Exchange Telegraph Company dispatch from Athens, Arrests of persons accused of sedition, which had ceased for several days, have been begun again, the dispatch adds. PAYS FOR OBSTINACY SEARCH FOR HIGHWAYMEN BIG HAUL OF LIQUOR Five Hundred Gallons Stolen From an Alabama Warehouse. Five hundred gallons of whiskey, part of the loot seized in the liquor raids-recently conducted at Girard; Ala., by state authorities, has been stolen from a warehouse since December 21, when the building was put under guard, according to an an nouncement *by Sheriff Lindsay of Russell county. Five hundred cases of whiskey were stolen about a month ago and the sheriff appealed tirTJov. Henderson for a guard. The watchman recently employed * has been removed since discovery of' the second theft,' the sheriff said. The whiskey was siphoned from nine barrels by the use of a rubber tube, which was carried outside the build ing through a hole bored in the wall. CALLS IT WAR NOTE Another Russian Crisis. The Russian premier, Alexander Trepoff, has resigned, Accordirig to the Reuter correspondent at Petro- grad, both Premier Trepoff and Count Ignatleff. minister of publie iBstroctloA, h^ve resigned. Refusal to Dip Cattle Costs Georgia Farmer Conviction. G. A. Hartlin, a farmer, the first of twenty-two men to be tried for re fusal to dip their cattle, as required by State law, was convicted in the Officers and Soldiers Seek Robbers Dntch Peace-Paper Displeased With city_£OU!l of Quitman, Ga., Tuesday, > - ’ > • and sentenced to-pay a fine of one : Who Secured $10,000* hundred dollars or serve six months _ . , .. „ . on th« chain gang. During the trial Two companies 0 t the PennsrJ the court room, wa* packed with tama State con* abulary and a num- farmers and businee* men. ' , b « r <? f ponaea Saturday night March- . .j ed through the hills of Butler and / ? * v', __ • Westmoreland counties for a trace British Battleship Suna. of*, the .three-masked highwaymen Entente Stand.'' The British admiralty has lost two who held up an express misspnger warcraft in the Mediterranean from at and robbed^him of the -attacks of hostile subnmrind—Nearly ten thousand dollars, the pay- H. M. S. Cornwallis, which It is roll of th# Flacius Glass Company, thought was the fourteen thousand The automobile, in which the bandlta ton battleship of that name, and the eecaped. waa reported to have been seaplane tarrler Menmy-Chrea. seen near Butler.^ The Nieuwe Van ben Dag, of j lahd, which is a strong peace a< cate, is displeased with the Enl note. It says: "The Allies c< hardly have made it known more clearly that they do not wish to hear ! of peace. The Entente’s war alma nt^planrof conquest, not as regards restoration of Belgium, Serbia, etc., but in the talk about th* principle of nationalities and the removal of Alsace-Lorraine, Austria's Slavis and Roumanian territories .and Turkey.**