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IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS OF [HE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs Washington. No shipments of supplies will be pernited to go from the United States to Russia until the sit tin Lion in that country clears according to reports issued by the government. It is stated that the cessation of shipments to Itussia is only temporary if a stable government is formed so the Iluited States can recognize it, oth erwise it will be permanent. The Provisional Itussian govern ment was given credits atlotinltitg in all to $3:.5,000,000 of which $191,000, 000 already has been advanced and spent for supplies. legulations to enable close govern men t watch over (. (rmans will be pro mulgated in a few days by Attorn.?y General Gregory to make effective Presidet'I Wilson's rest icti on impos ing I iroclanuttion issued recently. By means of new regulations the de partment of justice will be able to round up Germans who are believed to have direc-ted campaign of sabotape and propaganda against the United States. Under a lroclamllation unnatura.lized male Germans arc required to register with the police or other authority and to report Periodically. Under a proclamation (ermans may not travel in the Ulnited States with out a permit nior approach within 100 yards of any wharf, pier, dock, ware house or other establishment the at torney general may designate. Robert P. Skinner, the American consul general, has received a telegram from the American consul at Moscow saying that he and other Americans in Moscow are all safe. President Wilson in his own theater, passed the hat in interest of the Y. M. ('. A. campaign for a $35,00u,000 war fund. WIhii e the audience applatided. President Wilson telgriaphed Col. E. M. Ilouse, head of the American mis sion in London, that unity of plan and control between the United States and the allies is essential to a permanent peace. It is hoped by all that the meetin: of the spil'ene war council will takt place in Paris before the end of the month. Although n1o announcement was made, it was generally known when Col. Ilouse and his m ission left for England that the IT. S. favored the creation of a joint military staff. ('o-Qrdinat ion of endeavor, both eco iantmie and mniliai-y, was the object for witiclh the Atiericana mission ways sent to Ei-iope, alIso to atend tlie first joint wat council sine.- the Aust roGeran (liv e against5 lialy Ib-ganu. Plans for fuirther- gtard ing the Coutn try's war- activities wer-e formulated b~y the dlepartment oIf jutst ice and appr-ov ed by the Presidetnt an cabinet at Washington P'lans for- tightening rest rictions on e-nemy' aliens have beeni under consid ('rat ion for some time and has been hastened by recent firtes and exposions in New York andI other Atlantic cities. Deiatment of justice officials framn edi the re(gistration system so that the wher-abouts of enemy aliens and allies may be known and closer supi-vision over thenm maintainedl. England, Fr-an(e, Ger-many and oth er counties now at war- has already adopted the registr-ation~ system 01 keeping trace of enemy aliens. Trhe 1917 coal shortage is 1)ut at 50,0t00,000 tons In estimates completei by the futel admin t)ist rat ion. Althloutgh produiction of bittuminous andI anthra. cite together has jumped 50,000,00( tons, co'nsumpltion, it Is (declaried, has increasedl at least 100,000,000 tons. Domestic. Union labor- appraovedl the attitude o Samuinel (Gomp ers itn wor-king handl-i i hand with l'r-esidlent W'ilson in tplacint the nieeds or the nation above all (oth er considerations at the convention ii Buffalo, N. Y. Elmer Dwiggins, New Y'orkl bont broker-, arrestedI in Montgomiery, Ala. charged with using the mails to de fraud in the sale of Ilberty Bonds, wat held ini $50,000 bail in New York. The movement of Catnadian airmet from Tot-onto to P~ort Worth, Texas was practically completed with th. arrival of more than two thousant men on six special trains. Congnessman McCormnick of Illilnoli said in Chicago that the war has be come a stalemate because of the un readiness of the United States and be cause of the collapse of Russia. 2,000 newv saddles are expected dails at Camp Bevier, S. C. Also, macki nlaws or similar garments are to be is sued to motor (drivers in lieu of the olive drab overcoats. -- The delegates to the thirty-seventi annual Convention of the Americar Federation of Labor at Buffalo, N. Y have issued a plea for a closer fan cooperation with other Industries. A bomb was picked up on the inair floor of the Auditorium theater ini Chi cago, where the opera "Dinorah"* wat 1 eU4 sung. Jt was found by fireman $1an 4. Ci vv - American troops in France geltin MacCormick, members of the Al lines on the French front. 3 British drive on Jerusalem. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Lloyd George Stirs Up Storm by Telling Frankly About Blun ders of Allies. UNIFIED CONTROL IS ISSUE Cemenceau Succeeds Painleve as French Premier-Italy Holding In vaders Along the Piave-Ker eneky Supporters Battle Bolshevikists In Rus. sla--America's La bor Troubles. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Centralized, unified control of the grand strategy of the allies was the burning question of last week, and Pt emier Lloyd-George became the storm center of discussion. Following the establishment of the inter-allied war council by the British, French and Italian governments and English par llnmentiary n(1 press criticism there of, Mr. Lloyd-.eorge, then in Paris, (eliverel what he himself called a " brutally frank" speech admitting that the illies had repeatedly made ''incred ible blunders" in Serbin, Itoumanin, Italy and elsewhere. These he at tributed in the main to lack of united action, and declared that while the war has beeun prolonged by particular ismi, it will he shortened by solidarity. This arousedl a storm of adlverse commuent and brought the premier face to face with the most serious political crisis that has confronted him. Even Mr. Asquith joined his critics, and Lioy'd-George hastened1 home to reply to them. The opposition assumed the wvar council plan meant the retirement of Haoig and Rlobertson and the con trol of military operations by civilians. Thle people as a whole seemed to sup port the premier, and there was a be lief that he would win the struggle. The war-council scheme is still in 'omuplete in that the United States is not yet Included. but it is hoped that P'residlent W'isoni and his administra tIon will recogniz~e its wisdom andl join with) the others in evolving and carry ing out a plian of grand strategy. Lord Northeliffe wvas offered the ad ministration of the iew air ministry by Lloyd George, but (declined. In his letter of dlecllnation he spoke of the fervor andl enthusiasm with which the Unitedl States and Canada proceed with t heir waor Jpreparations, compar ing this with the "wnbhly" methods In England. Hie warned the premier that unless t here was swift Improve tilent in (Irent Britain, the UnIted State's would rightly take Into its own hands the. entire management of a greait part of the waor, refusing to "sae r'iflee Its b)lood and treasure to the In competent handlIng of the affairs of Europe." Palieve's CabInet Fails. Ferance also was stirred by the uni fieation measure and partly as a re sult the tottering ministry hended by Premier Painleve toppled over. Jts fall, however, was more especially due1 to the controversy Over "Bioloigam," the German propagandla that has Infested Prnnee as well as the United States, Itussin and, it now appears, Italy as w'ell. No tears were wasted over the fate of the P'ainleve cabinet, but there he gan a great Scrambling to find the strong leader who, it was Admitted, must he discovered, Clemenceau, the "Tiger," a former premier, was enli ed on Thursday to form a new minis. try and accepted the mission. Hie is knowvn as an exponent of the big stIck, is one of the most forceful figures in IFrench pubiic life and was the mnn who started the enmpaign Against the German propaganda in France, HIs chief obstnele to succeRs will be the Opposition of the socialists, who hate him because of the drastic methods he employed in dealing with labor -tron. bs whn he was premier about- ten Hurling pepper into the eyes of the factory superintendent, three armed bandits esca' ed with the pay roll of $10,000 at the Van )orn Iron \Vorks company at Cleveland, Ohio. Army and navy medical officers are much concerned over the frequent de velopmient of infectious diseases in the training camps according to Dr. Charles I". Holduan of New York. According to health reports there Is meningitis at Caip Funston, malaria at Camps Logan and Pike, typhoid at Camp Dix, measles at Camps Wheeler, Shelby, Sevier and Bowie and pneu. monia at Camp Wheeler. European. A Copenhagen report says that a Berlin correspondent learns that the German government has received in. formation that the Russian maximalist government has declared Russia out of the war. According to a London report, Field Marshal Ilaig has shifted iis offense and delivered a series of attacks against, the Germans in the region be. :ween St. Quentin and River Scartit. A French prisoner at Copenhagen adrnitted firing the coiinissary at Augsburg, Bavaria, containing hay, st raw, and flour from last year's crop to the value of nearly 1,000,000 marks, iRussia's army will soon be defeated by starvation unless there is an im- ! Ieliafte iitprovemieu in transporta tion anid food suplying, according to warning Voiced by soldiers' comiuttee. The rum ble of guns is heard in Ven ice by night and by day as the fleet and the Venice ((oast batteries shell the enei~y at the mioutIi of the Piave. (enna ny has refused to treat for Peace with the new soldiers' and work. men's government in response to a r(eCti proposal, according to the news The Volis Norroda says of Russia, the worktmen's government, in the event of failure to receive suipilies by November 23 reserves the right to make peace on its own account, after which Russia will be neutral. The Brlitish commander, General Maude is dead in Mesopotamia after a brief illness. lie was rated as one of the most brilliant commander of the war, and has won many successes. After having been defeated by the Bolsheviki, Premier Kerensky is re ported as having fled Petrograd and his whereabouts are unknown. One report attributes Kerenskv's de feat to the interven:ion of Lettish forces, 30,000 strong, on tlie side of the liolsheviki, while another attributes it to the desertion of part of his officers and men. Rusian dispatches say the head of Russia's provisional government was about to surrender to the Maximal ista under coercion when Premier Ker ensky disappeared. V General Pershing, on a trip to the front, visited the graves of the three American victims of a recent -trench raid in the vicinity of a small village The city of Jaffa, on the Mlediter ranean coast has been taken by BIritish forces in l'a lest inc. eliports say it was occupied by Australian and New Zea land forces without opposition. A dispatch from Zurich, Swit zerland, says disorders broke out there again. 2,000 persons, singing tlie 'Internation ale' marched to the prison anti broke btlind. and,..s w id .... The flood gates of Piave and Sile 01' old Piave rivers near Rome, Italy have beemi opened by Italian military engineers and the eniemy is facedl by another' Yser linund~ation. 'Water was loosedi where the Ger tmans succeedIed in crossing the Piavo near' Grisolera, andh the region where he gainied entrance is flow uinder water'. Inundated tenrritory near' Rome, Italy forms a triangle where the enemy hiad been driven back. but still held on uin til the dlykes wvere r'eleased over the low-lying plain. The chief menace near Grisolera was that the enemy might reach Ven ice through the lagoon or bombard the City fron betweeni thme i'ivers, but this wasi pmreventedi by opening the dhykes. VenIce is almost empty, the piopula tion having been redlucedi from 160,000 to 20,000, but dlespmite the proximity (if the enemy at the mouth of the river the remnanit of I)opulation is calm. Thue chamber of dleptels In ir'azil has adlopt ed the bill tot' reprisals against Germians, as amendedh by the senate. TIhe gover'nment is authorIzed to proiclaimn a state of seige wherever necessaty, to catncel contracts for hub lic works wvithi Germiany, to antnul any othier contracts prejudicial to the de tense, to proihbit inlternlationmal coni Imer'ce withI Germnans, to int ertn enemty subjects and to revise land conlcessionq The American artIllery Oehsbe heavy recently, andl there is good rca son to believe that it has accountted1 tot' a considlerable nlumnber of the enemy. The junction of the D~amascus-Beer sheba railway with the line to Jer salem Is nowv ini the possession of the British army in Palestine, it was of flcially announced. The Turks lost 1,500 men in prisoners and more than 400 in (lead on Tuesday, besides four guns and a score of machine guns. 'Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, and Sen. ator Hendrick, of Wyoming, arrived at headquarter's on their tour of the mii Stary zone. They took dinner with General Pershing and his staff, and in sp~ected some of the troops, Only one British merchant vessel of more than 1,000 tons was sunk by mine or submarine last week, accord. ing to a statement of shipping losses Issued, In observation work the Americans have been acting both as observers and pilots. This work has been done at m niy points, but none over ,the sectoi g structioan in the use of lIqd f(11(ire app w-rienna Ited Cross, checking up arriva -i'a rt of thie A ust raiain camel corps thn of' the Plavi e river, the Italian airmlies' I her'e put uip so dleteriiIned a fight ssgnist t he Invading Austro-Germians thaiit the ad viance of thle enemy was for lie timei at least eff'ectually chiecked(. At severil points1 On the lowver Planve the TIeutons broke neross the river, bunt in such smal11 force that the result was not serious. Th'le reorgantizat ion of the Itaiasns wvent on raipidly, and supplies a ndn re-eunforcemnen ts were huiirried sothI by thie British anid F~renchi. Sev eral British hatteries were first to ar rive and these went inito ntion at once on1 the river bank, heartening up) the Latis imminesely. Of course it will be sonie time before British and Frenici troops in large numbers can get to the Italian front, can meanwhile General Diaiz must endeavor to hold the river line with his own men. This line, joining that of the Trentino front in the mountains, is the shortest the Italians canr establish, and1( its greatest dAtnger seems to be in the region of Lake Garda. If it is broken or out flanked, prohnh ly the defenders lwill have to fall hack to the Adige or even the Po, and Venice will he captured. All the movable art treasures of Venlee, Vicensa and Tereviso have been taken to places of safety in an ticipation of that event. The Italian situation continues grave, but at the opening of the Ital ian parliament on Wednesday there was not a single note of 'espair nor a word of anything but resistance so long i athan mo ined stnding. The son ators and desulties reported lhat the people oft thlir (list ricts wer'e firm in their susort of the government. If this attide Is mintai ned, the Teu tonic invasion l a failure. No More Peace Talk Now. One effect of the thrust against Italy is the almost ttter cessation of peace talk in Germany. The belief hans been revived that Germany can, by iri, force her will upon the rest of The world, and ned not make nly con aessions to her enemies. Of course while the Germans think thus, there is no use of any one even thinking of peace, for (ite leaders of the allies have not the slightest doubt that they nn eventually defeat Ger many. The Americn congressional party that has been visiting the war zone has been impressed with the prey alence of this belief, andl imbued wvith confidence that Prussian militarism can Nod will be heaten by pure force, re gardless of the exhnustion of the cen trai powers. They realize fully the tremendlous task ahead of us, hut face it without fear of the outcome. Confusion Worse Confounded. If anyone outside of Russin knows .just what hass been going on within the borders of that dlistrneted country inlt(ly, lie has kept it to himiseif. Cer lalinly civil wasr, lias beCen raging in I "*irograd, Moscowv and ot her pilneres, the rebellious Bolheviki a nd the Kerenisky supporters fighting fiercely for control, and other factions taking a hand in the general ruction. The ('ossneks, a5 wats exipected, Supported K~erensky and other divisions of the army cha nged thlir all egiance several times. The Bnlie fleet apparently stood by tihe r'ebels. The latter set uip a gove'rnmient with Lenine as pre lidi(r, but signlifledl their wvillingness to retire both Lenhie and Trotzky if a ('ompiromiise could be arranigedl, insist ing, however, on compliance with their main program, whieh has to do chiefly with ligrarinn reforms. Among the latest cablegrams from P'etrograd~ was one stating positively that thle Cosacks and Kerensky had been signaily defented near the cap itual, that Gatchina and Tsarskcoe-Selo had been recaptured by -the soviet troiops and that a coalition govern menlt wotuld he the prohblhe outcome. flussinn ofieers in Finland ave out the story that Siberin had declared its independence and proclaimed Nicholas fIt~manoff, the deposed ezar, as' em. peror. ,More Americans Wounded In Prance. The trenches orceuipied by the Amer. lean soldiers In Prnnee weore subjected to heavy shelling last week and n'num. b~er of United States soldiers were severely wvoundedi. The Amerinn artillery replied continuounty and ef fecilvely, and the Amerienn sharp. ahoorn, close to the enemy lines, did especlnhly good work. One nighlt, with th kep ofsn 'qehioh0~ iratus 2-D 'I octor Duriiand and~ Miss of woundI~ed at ai village behind the 1.s takcing an important part in the Land" andh ambilushied a large German pautrol, killing and woundling a numbher O; mienl, to even up for the trench raid In wvhichi their comaradles suffered. There was little change in lpositions on thle wvest front. TIhe Germatns made repented and1( deCsperate efforts to re' take Pnassc-hendniele rIdge, but wiere hen-teni oif with severe losses every time. InterestIng news Continued to come from Genieral Allenby in PalestIne. is forces, after takIng Gaza, kept pash 8ig on toward Jerusalem, driving the Turks and taking large booty fron them. On Wednesday the British were threatening Hebron and had advanced along the coast to within a few miles of Jatan. Submarine Campaign Falling. If the British admiralty figures are a fair basis for calculation, the Ger man submarine campaign is declining rapioly toward utter failure. The week's report showed only one large British vessel sunk by U-bonts, and the statements from France and Italy weare almost as good. One German military expert admits in print that the U-boat warfare has fiuled. The importance of this development cannot be overestimated, for if the kaiser could1( hyve Iprevented wholly or in large meansure the transportation of supples and troops from Anierei to Europe, he could hardly hve been defeated. If lie ennot (d that, as sems true, the utte' collapse of his war on clvi lization is almost in sight. Notwithstading the tindreds of in ventions t a cobat the submarine, the well equiped a id swift destroyer re mains the best weapon against the sub mersible. Of this type of bont the al lies, and especially Amdrica, have a vast number, and Japan has a fleet of cfpabhe destroyers operating in the Medi terra nen n. Mr. Wilson and Organized Labor. President Wilson ient to Buffalo to address the annual convention of the Amerincn Federation of Labor and he told the dielegates forceftlly yet tact fully what he consadered the duty, re sponsibility and privilege of labor e pecally durg the continunne of the war. He earnestly pleded for the unhindlered maintenance of all proc esses of labor until Germany has been, dlefeated, and the first response to that plea eane Tuesday, when the buildinag trades dlepartment of the federation or dered the discontinunnee of all strikes on government work under lts jurls diction. This wtas excellent 'so far as it went, but another bIg labor troublo sprang tip immediately when the rail-' roand brotherhoods took action that threatened to tie tip tratic unless higher w-uges and improvedi conditions were gr-anted. Mr. Wilson again Jiumped into the breach andi arranged3 to meet representatives of the brother hood(s on November 22, first intimating strongly that rathei' than endur-ea paralysis of trafice In wartime, the gov er-nment would take over the operation of the railroads. The lnbor situation is really very serious, tnt only because of strikes, actual and threatened, but also 'he cause of the great shortage of labor ing men. In order to got out the mill tary equaipme(nt needed by the United States forces in the next 12 months, the councIl of nuationial dlefense Is ar ranging for the mobilisation of 100,000 skIlled and unskilled wvorkmen uinder N federal director of labor. Bakers to Be Licensed. On Monday the president issued the formal ordher directing the licenising of1 bakers and of hotels, restaurants and other plnces that serve bread and other bakcery products of their own baiking. The order goes into effect on December 12, and officinls of the food administration (declare that they will he able to bring down the price of breadl until a 18-ounce lonf will cost hut 7 cents. Provost Marshal General Crowder nnnouinced the five classes into which fl,000,000 men registered for military duty are dlividedl and sent out a ques tIonnaire .which each man had to fil out and file to determine in which class he belongs. The order does not exempt married men as a class, but plaen those witp dependent wives and children far down on the list of liableu, Only the men of the first class:.arO )(el toll calle ouit ept fp the BOLSHEIK NO SEEKS ARMISTICE ON BASIS OF NO ANNEXATION -Of INDEMNITIES FOR EITHER GOVERNMENT. NOTE HAS REACHED EMOASSIES Proposal For Immerlate Opening of Peace Negotiations Is Made By Leon Trotzky to all The Belligerent Nations. * Petrograd, Thursday.--The n' . Leon Trotsky, the~ Bolsheviki -nM ter, to the allied embassies con.. vi,, the announcement of the proposa4 I dr an armistice has reached the emi: sies. The text follows: "1 herewith have the honor to ihi form you, Mr. Ambassador, that the all-Russian congress of soldier' and workmen's delegates organized 0m Oc tober 26 a new governnent in Ihe form of a council of national comisti, sioners. The head of this govem ate" m ' Is Vladimir Ilich Lenine. The d a. - Lion of the foreign policy has be u trusted to me ,in the capacity ~r na ional commissioner for foreign a;aiu "Drawing attention to the text ni the offer of an armistice and a. demne cratic peace on the basis of a" i aexations or indemnities and tI1' - letormination of nations, appro.'. hv the all-Russian congress of s ..',ievr end workmen's delegates, I -ha'. teI' 1onor to beg you to regard the :bove locument as a formal offer of an ii mediate armistice on all fronts an. the immediate opening of peace n'o tiations-an offer with which th. authoritative government of the lta sian republic has addressed its. utaneously to all the belligeren. pies and their governments. "Accept my assurance, Mr. A. h sador of the profound respect soldiers' and workmen's gover" ,. for the people of France, whih not help aiming at peace as all the rest of the nations exh iat and made bloodless by this n x:t s pled slaughter. "L. TR -rZKT "National Commissioner for Affairs." AMERICAN TROOPS ARE ARRIVING IN F..... , Movement Keeps Race With F.' ' tions of War Department. Washington.-Arrival of At' troops in France has kept pa. the expectation of the war "'": ment, Secretary Baker said in th Statement he has ever authori,:' connection with the progress i ; made in increasing General lng's forces. Mr. Baker declined, howc'. state the number of troops fo wa. 'I or to indicate wvhether he an h 'aien delay from this time. Movemitnt thee eforce, he said, dependeu .e elements, the training and eqnom. of he men and the availability of sh "As fast as they are ready, s and men wvill be combined," the anti tary said. "As many American troic are now over seas as we exprt . the beginning to have over seam: n. ~ime." Mr. Baker indicated that an offir. statement of the number of A\meriv roops in France was not to - ected at any time during the weva. Ii ~aused an inquiry .to be mail: of thi nilitary censor, Major Gen- r:. Me ntyre, however, which may rennit i nore liberal regulations as to 'u bl.' ion of the designations of reethnen )rigades or companies whlich miree raged in action on the front frot, tInI' o time. If there is no sound militars r n or suppressing that informa. .V Mr iakor said, he (desired to give it om The secretary's attention um :. I d to the fact that the British off ii tatements have recently narnd :u east by geograp~hical designstion t h roops usedl in various offensiv'. .i p >arently a new policy in this ro.. tas been adopted in Londion andI 1 var department may (10 likewiM'. 3APPS RELIEVED FROM DUTY WITH SHIPPING B~oApr Washington.--Rear' Admiral W\e . ngton L. Capps, general mana r he shipping board's emergency fl.t torporation, was relieved from 'lit' n that position by President. Wilson' tt his own request because of ill boa.t uld .with expressions of deepest reg-. sa8 )y the chief executive. His succeno: mas not been named, but Chtlemanm Elurley, of the board, was known to ~avor appointment of a man traie i t)e same service. LOOKS UPON MOVEMENT - . AS AN UNFRIENDLY ACT Washington.-Officials of this gov irnment regard the Bolsheviki move-* nent for an armistice between Russia and her enemies and the opening of peace negotiatrions as an act that would place Russia almost in the list of unfriendly nations. Press dispatches telling of the peatce inovement were confirmed by a cable gram from Ambassador Fratteis re. naived at the state denartment'