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®he VOLUME NIX NEW RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT FACING CRISIS SENATE REFUSES TO CHECK FOOD SPECULATION POLITICAL SITUATION IN HUI IS CAUSING ALLILS MUCH WORRY New Government Shows Signs! of Breaking Up Under Har assing Course of Radical Elements in Petrograd NEW Y« RK. May 14. <By ’ oreign . Cable- From European Capitals.*—; While military interest continues to <tw;tr In ’ne great battle on the French r ont. where the British are continuing -iow' . b*' stt.-.dily to press the Ger many i--■< k. the polities! situation in • t .'«.j :« demanding increasing atten- tto • him fausmg added concern among at; the na.ions. i’a «er the « ontinaed harrassiug courze •»f the radical elements in Petrograd, the prov.atonal government which has ncid t.. «sra ogetner since the overthrow ot in*- o>d regime. now shows signs of i«re&at<ng up toe nrs gap .n lite government ranks| was reateu yesterday when M. Guch-■ koff. >he minister of war and marine, handed in his resignation. Goaded by interference with the army and navy to an extent which he declares threatens "the defense, the liberty and even the existence of Russia.” ne felt it nnpossi bie to share longer the responsibility "for the grave sin being committed against the country.” ENCOURAGING NEWS. Simultaneously there comes from Pe •rograd news of a more encouraging < nara ter in a denial of a report that ■he council of workmen's and soldiers' delegate- was favoring an armistice. On the contrary, it is declared, it has never raised such a question and. in fact, is about to appeal to the men at the front not to fraternize with the enemy and pointing out to them the inadvisability nt a separate peace. In the recent crisis iietwaen the provisional government and . tne council of workmen s and soldiers' delegates over the government's foreign policy the entire ministry threatened to resign. The council at that time gave •n. nominally at least, but continued to enforce its ciaim to direct affairs of state by sitting as a censor over the < sbinet "and virtually holding the reins over the nation's armed forces. By a recent close vote in the executive committee of the council the radical j -tody refused to co-operate in the formation of a coalition ministry. The entire significance of M Guchkoffs res-1 ignation has not yet developed but it may prove tha nis step was taken with the acquiescence of the provisional gov ernment in an effort to compel the radi-j • ais either to take their share of the • esponbibility for the <-onduct of the government, or cease interference with governmental functions. In the face of biasing oil. liquid fire, poison gas and every other horror known .o modern war the British are slowly and stubbornly fighting their way 1.0 ihe Drocourt-Queant line, the gate to L»ouai and Cambrai. and the principal link in the fetters welded on northern •Franc* by the Hermans. General Haig is hammering all along the line, but it ts around Queant. at the southern extremity, that his auccess has been nOst marked and the corresponding menace to the «S»mnans greatest. Queant is virtually To tiie east, weat and south the road is clear, to the British, as far as natural bar-. rters are concerned, except for part of. he village of Buliecourt. After some of th* grimmest fighting on the west-* J ent front the British have driven their ■ foes from one-half of BullecoUTt and unless the tide is promptly turned the villam* is lost to the Germans and the | rushing in of the southern end of the nroc »ur:-Queant line is inevitable. ZEEBRUGGE bAMAGBU A ray of sunshine has also fallen on British arms at sea. The great Ger man submarine base at Zeebrugge and the naval stronghold at Wilhelmshaven cave been assaulted from sea and air. I apparently with notable success Zee hrugge la an absolutely artificial har- I bor. called into existence on the flat sandy .--oast of Belgium by the exigen cies of submarine warfare and practical ly depending on its being on a great mole. This mole is said to have’been reached by the British guns and the ■Germans must quickly repair the gaps or the silting sands will complete the work of destruction commenced by the British gunners. The only incident of moment In the other war theaters is a fresh Austrian report nt a great artiilerv bombardment by the Italians on the Isonzo front-1 Thia may mean that the long inactivity of Genera! Cadorna is about to be broken. The Italian situation has been wrapped in considerable obscurity and there have been uncomfortable rumors that the chaos in Russia was inspiring the central powers to mass forces for ' a great drive against Italy. These ru- ■ mors have been somewhat offset by th* •<-, umuiating evidence that Austria is seeking in every direction a path to peace and is willing to make great con cessions toward that end In this connection the announced visit of chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg to Vienna assumes considerable impor tance. The fury of the German junkers against the Austrian attitude is ob viously increased by their conviction i-iat the chancellor has gone over to tha moderate party, with its program of peace without annexation or indem nity. There seems little doubt that the demand for peace is steadily growing in volume tn Germany and the hysteria of the Junkers, as displayed through theft newspapers and through the utterances of their leaders is significant in this respect FREE SAMPLE HEALS SORES The Ihstrlhnting <_’otnp«ny of I*2o Grand •venue. Knnna* City. M«.. wants every suffering from chronic leg mres tn write for ■ free sample of Antt-Flamma Poultice Plaster It ntnps the Itching •muiwt mre and heals while you work. Write tuday.—(Adrt.»j GEN. WOOD INTIMATES ATUNTA WILL BE BIG MONLIZITION CAMP lit Will Go to City of Atlanta's Size and Railroad Facilities, Commander of Southeast Declares (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) CHARLESTON, S. C-. May 14. —Atlan- ta will get the big southeastern concen tration camp, according to .Major Gen eral Wood, who arriven in Charleston Saturday to take chatge of the Southeastern depar>nient of the United tSates army. 'General Wood did not announce this but he state.! that the camp rryist go to a c4tj with Atlanta's size and Atlanta 1 *- railroad facilities, and with this statement, he leaves little room for doubt that Atlanta will win. ”1 have not made iny official deci- ■ sion yet. buy you can state that for what it’s worth.” he told a representa tive of The Journal, on his arrival Sat urday night. "Men. munitions ana food crops.” was General Wood’s answer to the question, "How can the United States win the Huge sums of money must be spent by the government, increased numbers of men must be trained, more food crops must be planted than the country nas ever known, he said. "I would say to the young men of this country that their country needs them now, not later, when the battle may be half lost; I would say- to the man behind the plow that in him lies the strength of the nation.’ General Wood outlined other plans of the government for the southeast, among them the establishment of vol unteer training camps and conscription camps, and of more training camps for officers to take care of the overflow from Fort McPherson and Fort Oglethorpe He considers the sand hills around Augusta and ideal site for training ■ camps for young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty I years and nine i months, who are exempt from conscrip tion. but who will volunteeer for short-, term enlistments. Augusta and Co- 1 luntbia. S. C.. he considered suited to, such camps because the sanitary con- ■ ditions are of the best. He mentioned Macon. Ga.. and Montgomery. Ala., as favorable sites for conscription camps. He also stated that he will recommend the establishment of an additional re serve officers’ training camp at Fort Moultrie. Sullivan's Island. S. C. “We need men. lots of men. and of ficers.” he declared. "Where we are to get them, is the question that is puzzling the army staff. We must make every effort to get as many men as we can into these training camps, as soon as we can. In three years the al lies and the United States can win 'he war. if the United States puts into the fight every ounce of strength she can muster.” . General Wood will open at once . twelve camps where nten under the .conscript age can obtain nine months of training to better fit them for service I when they reach the liability age. Since the department was opened' , here on May* 1 General Wood has been ' actually in command, although not ati headquarters in person, so that his ar-i rival did not alter the staff routine. One of hie first acts today wa« to I appoint Lieutenant Colonel W. B. Ladue, corps of engineers, and Captain J. C. H. Lee. corps of engineers, to the duty of making an inspection of possible camp sites in this territory, for thei i selection of twelve places, where that’ many divisions of abput 30.000 men each I selected under the conscription act, are' to ro iirto training. These two officers will leave in the next few days on their tour of inspec tion. and among places under considera tion are Columbia. S. C.. Greenville, g. C.. Macon. Ga.. and Augusta. Ga. It is likely that all of the nine states in, this department will be visited on t"he ♦our. The recommendations of these of- j fleers will be forwarded to the war de-j partment, and until action Is taken on I them, no announcement of selections will be forthcoming. | The sites will be chosen strictly be cause of their the of the men being th* first consideration, and healtbfulness of environment will be a cardinal requisite At this time ♦here Is absolutely nothing definite to Bay about locations of the/se’big train ing camps. a« th* reeomrrtendntJona following th* tour of inspections must be awaited. Four Killed, Three Hurt In Battle as Result of Bandit Raid on Bank PITTSBURG. Pa. May 14. Four persons are dead and three others are wounded as th* result of the robbing today of the First National bank of Shannon Castle, a suburb, by three bandits. The dead are: Frank Erbe, as sistant cashier; Nick Yost, a street rail way dispatcher; Magistrate George Beltzhoover. and one of the bandits. Cashier D. L. McLean and two bandits were wounded. Erbe and Mcl<ean were shot In the bank and Yost and Beltzhoover were shot down a sth* bandits were running from th* hank to an automobile with loot from th* bank. The bandits .wore shot by a posse which pursued and took j them Full Associated Press Service iIHOLLWEG TRIUMPHS !| OVER HINDENBURG IN ROW OVER REFORMS Kaiser Sides With Chancellor and Refuses to End Reich stag Sitting and Block Re-: form Move as General Urged _i LONDON. May It. —Chancellor von Bethtnan-Hollwkg will probably make announcement of the central powers' | p>ace terms in a speech to the reich stag tomorrow, an Exchange Telegraph ’ dispatch from Amsterdam asserted to day. The German chancellor has just returned to Berlin from a series of con- ' ferences with officials in Vienna. Prior i to this ne went to German great head- J quarters for conference with the kaiser, i Other information from Germany, re- ; reived via Holland today, indicated that the chancellor on Tuesday would make a speech ir. the reichstag. outlining the • general military and political situation, but not covering Germany's peace aims. Such a statement will be withheld until July, when the reichstag is to be re convened, according to German news- j papers. That section of the German press which is hostile to von Bethmann-Holl weg declared today that the chancellor , j recently went to the front to present his . resignation to the kaiser. The most ! circumstantial of these stories insist ed that Field Marshal von Hindenburg raised a storm of objection to the re form recommended by the constitution ! committee which woulc grant the reich stag control over the army and that i he and his junker fi ends conceived j the plan of nullifying the committee's | recommendations by terminating t lie I reichstag sitting rather than recessing that body until later in the summer or fall. Such procedure would mean auto matic death of the constitution com mittee. necessity for reappointment and repetition of ita work--which would avert another issue between the reich stag and the army for several months. Holla eg flatly refused to take such a course, insisting German liberals could not be held in check if such a trick were played upon them. He was said to have announced an ultimatum to the kaiser that he would resign if such a scheme were attempted, and to i have won out over Hindenburg. The very fact that he did succeed in triumphing over Hindenburg was believ l ed by Holland observers to have made ; his position even more insecure, since Hindenburg's advocates are now defi nitely -aligned against him. Hollweg returned from German head quarters Saturday and left the same evening for Vienna. On Sunday night he started the return trip to Berlin CONFEBERIIf REUNION WILL BE BIGGEST EVER I. Southern Railway Is Planning ’’ to Haul Large Numbers of Veterans to Capital H That the annual reunion of the United Confederate veterans to he held at Washington. D. C.. on June 4 to 8, in clusive. will be the largest and most ,j successful event of its kind ever held, ! and that the war activities will not ■ tn any way interfere with the program (already arranged, is the view expressed I by H. F. Cary, general passenger agent ' of the Southern railway system and chairman of the finance committee ar ranging for the reunion, who is in At lanta Monday attending a conference of the operating and passenged traffic of- ■ tic la Is of the Southern for lines, both '' east and west. The Southern officials are here to ar- I range details for the handling of the thousand of visitors from the south ' who will attend the reunion. Plans were perfected for the operation of be tween forty and fifty special trains to Washington, in addition to extra equip ment and extra sections of the regu lar trains * For the reunion a special organiza tion will be formed by the Southern \at Washington to assist the veterans and their friends in making arrange -1 ments for return trips. A large num ber of expert passenger men will >e j assigned for this purpose while spe cial operating and mechanical forces will be detailed to assure the prornp'! movement of trains, and special police' protection will be provided. From Atlanta and contiguous terri tory, plans are being made for lite op-1 erat lon of seven special trains, as fol- 1 lows: June 3, an Atlanta special, to be op-| 'i erated ah second section of train 34; the Texas Confederate veterans' special | from Houston, with Dowling and Al bert Sidney Johnston camps, io be op-1 derated as second section of train 3’l. i ' carrying Governor Nat E. Harris and ' staff, sons of veterans, sponsors an ! the Old Guard; a special from Colum bus, leaving Atlanta at 8:15 p tn., ami carrying Camp Benning Confederate veterans, sons of veterans and sponsors; n special from Macon. Dublin and south 1 Georgia points, leaving Atlanta at 8:30 ■ p. m., and carrying General Thomas, commander of the south Georgia divi sion U. C. V., and party; a special from Selma and Alabama points, leaving At lanta about 8;30 p. in. ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1917 GET HIM. UNCLE ' " diiwyr / / ( # mW) V rMiir rk ' ‘ LW-' ’//, Ilif --4 Ti W 7 ’ • 7 / ' I II / / ' Details of Liberty Loan Bond Issue Local Federal Reserve Bank | Receives 2,200-Word Tele-j gram Giving Complete In formation Full details of the government’s plan for marketing the first $2,000,000,000 of the liberty loan of $7,000,000,000 were received Surida? by Joseph A. Mc- Cord and M. B. Wellborn, of the Fed eral Reserve bank of Atlanta, from William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury. The information came in the form of a telegram. 2.2.00 words in length, and contained minute • directions for the marketing of the bonds. A similar tele gram went to each of the other eleven reserve banks over the country. The Federal Reserve bank of Atlanta will transmit the information to the national and state hanks, trust com panies. savings hanks, bond dealers and private bankets in this district, and the other reserve batiks will do the same in their respective districts. • Subscriptions for the bond-; must be in by June Id. The bonds run for thirty years, with the privilege of betns taken up in fifteen years. They bear ‘nterest at 3 1-2 per cent, payable semi-annually on June IS and December 15. They are issued in denominations ranging from i SSO to SI,OOO in coupon form, and in de nominations ranging from SIOO to SIOO.- 000 in registered form Banks will act as distributing agents for the government in the marketing, of the bonds. Large employers will be I asked to co-operate with the govern ment in placing small bonds In the: hands of small Investors. The plan Ist for a large concern to organize a “liber-1 ty loan savings club” among its em ployes. The firm will buy small bonds] and list them tn its assets. It will I sei] these bonds to employes on weekly or monthly installments to suit thetrl convenience For the benefit of wage and salary! earners, whose concerns do not employ j a sufficient number of people to organ-! ize a club, the bank* will be asked to! form clubs In their savings depart ments. Any person can join one of] these dubs and buy a bond on the in stallment plan. Large investors can obtain full In-| formation from their banks. COM MITTEE NA M ED. M. B. Wellborn, chairman of the board of directors of the federal reserve I bank of Atlanta and federal reserve agent in this district, on Monday ap- ! pointed a central advisory committee to push the sale of the bonds. On this committee he appointed Mell R. Wilkinson, Frederic .1. Taxon. Ivan E. Allen, J. Epps Brown and W. 'C. Wardlaw. These will serve with the officers and directors of the bank as a central advisory committee in the At lanta district. Their first meeting will be held Monday afternoon. Discussing the bonds Monday. Chair man Wellborn said: "Secretary McAdoo is very anxious that the Sixth federal reserve district, comprising tlie states of Alabama, Geor gia, Florida and parta of Ixtulaiana, GENERAL WOOD TO PRESIDE AT FLAG ! RAISING SATURDAY Ceremonies Will Be Held at Five Points At Four o’Clock Saturday Afternoon Instead of Friday A I elegram was received Monday from Genera'. Leonard A. Wood, com mander of the department of the south east at Charleston, that he probably would not be able to reach Atlanta un til Saturday, and. accordingly, the pro : gram for the raising of the flag at Five Points, over which General Wood will preside, has been changed from Fri day .until Saturday. « A meeting of the program commit tee was held Monday morning in the office of Mayor Candler, and arrange ments were outlined for a great pa triotic demonstration in which all At lanta will unite to pay honor to Gen eral Wood, the senior major general of tne army, considered by many as the army’s most progressive officer, and I frequently called the father of pre ! parednese tn America. As outlined by the program com mittee tiie flag-raising exercises will ! be held at 4 o'clock Saturday after ! noon, the flag to be raised by General j Wood. Preceding this ceremony, there will be a mammoth parade of military or ganizations. students and upper grade ■ school children, including the Seven -1 teenth Infantr. front Fort McPherson, the Fifth regiment. Georgia national i guard the Governor's Horse Guard; the ' Atlanta artillery; field hospital, coin- ■ party No 1 the Old Guard; Georgia Mil itary academy and Marlst college ca dets; the boy scouts, the students of i Boys' High school. Tech High school i and Georgia School of Technology, the | upper grades of the public schools. I Mississippi and Tennessee, make a good I showing in the subscription to the Lib i erty Loan war bonds.” “It should be the duty of every citi zen, especially those who cannot go to the front and do their part, to purchase and encourage the sale of these bonds. It should be the aim of the south to lead the nation in the Individual sub scriptions to bonds. The sale of these bonds is not strictly a banking matter, but a matter of public welfare and one that the citizen should enter Into cheer fully. “I stated to Secretary McAdoo in our conference that he could rely on our dis trict to subscribe more than its share. To make the Liberty Loan a patriotic success every citizen should own one or mor* of chase bonds. BRITISH EXPECTING GREAT FIGHT WITH GERMAN NAVY SOON Naval Officials Believe Kaiser Is Planning to Send His Fleet Out to Give Them ‘ Battle LONDON. May 11.—Whether Germa ny may be making ready to pit her bat tle Heel against England in the naval engagement which all England and tht world have looked for since the start of the war, is a question recent destroy er raids brought forward today. The belief is strong among naval au thorities that these frequent and ap parently aimless destroyer raids on the British coast may be “feelers out” for such a great sea battle. There have been a dozen or more destroyer and cruiser raids of late on the British coast. Tiie way the British naval experts look at it, Germany is certainly up to some game in rushing her light cruiser squadron out of Kiel and engaging in apparently futile attacks against de fenseless towms—maneuvers which have invariably cost her more heavily than the British. The theory on which tiiis hypothesis of Germany's plan for a great sea bat ' tie is based is evolved rrom the idea i that Germany may be trying to draw the j British watchdogs in the North sea off J their guard and distract attention from | a major operation which they intend to spring as a surprise. Also the raids may be merely a “testing out” of the watchfulness of Britain’s patrols, seek ing a weak spot in the naval armor. One other view of the constant har rassing of British coast towns is that it is a new form of ' Teuton propaganda, emphasizing fright fulness by bombarding defenseless wom en and children and thus keeping con stantly before England the fear of an invasion from Germany. Whatever their meaning, these raids I are welcomed by the British fleet. ; which, powerless against submarines and mines, has been chafing at its leash since the Jutland fight Frequent engagements of the past two months have satisfied England that in a naval battle, ship against ship, she is easily Germany’* superior i What the whole country is looking : forward to now is a major naval en i gageinent. with the first line ships nt the kaiser’s long idle navy pitted against the pride of the British empire. In the coming battle, which naval au •! thorities feel certain will take place be fore Germany finally gives in, England I is completely confident that her fleet : will achieve a tremendous victory. British War Mission Back in Washington WASHINGTON. May 14. —Arthur James Balfour. British foreign secre tary and most of the members of the British mission, arrived in Washington early toaay following their three-days’ welcome by New York City. They plan to remrin here for several days longer before leaving probably for Canada an i England. NUMBER 64 SENATE REJECTS IN AMENDMENT CLOSING \ ILL GRAIN EXCHANGES '‘Pirates" and “Robbers" Are Terms Applied to Food Spec ! ulators During Exciting De bate by Senators WASHINGTON. May 14.—The am-Old ment to the administration espionage bill proposed by Senator Thomaa to sus pend stock exchanges and boards of trade dealing In futures In foodstuffs during the war, was rejected today by the senate, 49 to 24. WASHINGTON, May 14. Suspension ' during the war of all stock exchanges, boards of trade and chambers of com merce which permit speculation in fu tures on foodstuffs was proi»osed to day by Senator Thomas. Democrat, of Colorado, as an amendment to the ad ministration espionage bill. Senator Thomas said he had received scores of demands that gambling in ne cessities ol life be stopped by congress. He cited the recent soaring of May and July wheat futures in the Chicago mar ket to show the need of immediate ac tion to stop "food gambling.” Opposing the amendment. Senator Overman, of* North Carolina, in charge of the bill, pleaded against ’’loading down” the espionage measure with “Ir relevant” amendments. Although, he said, the Thomas amendment appealed to him in many respects, it should be considered later with the food control bill. A similar plea was made by Senator Lewis, of Illinois, who said, however, “some provision like this must be made eventually.” A violent debate immediately follow ed, during which strong opposition de veloped to considering the amendment in connection with the espionage bill. “Pirates” and “robbers” were terms ap plied by senators to food speculators during the debate. Lamp post hangings, again were deferred to as a remedy. NATURE OF OPPOSITION. Senators who opposed the amendment did so on the ground that the object should be accomplished In another way,, and some thought it would stifle com merce. The great majority of opinion favored some drastic action to stop food gambling and speculation which makes for artificial prices and threatens the nation with the pinch of hunger. Senator Lewis, Democrat, said he thought legislation such as proposed by Senator Thomas would work Injury to mafty and should not be passed with out deliberation. •‘What is needed at this hour.” said he. “is a provision of law authorizing the president on the evidence satisfac tory to him that food is being un necessarily held, to seize such food and order its distribution under the proper branch of the government with compen sation to the owner and a just market price assured the people.” “I think.” said Senator Reed. Demo crat, of Missouri, “that means ought to be taken to stop speculation in food stuffs within the limits of the powers of congress. There never has heen in the history of the world- an agitation that i parallels the present one. We are prac tically told that the United States is on the verge of starvation and that the world without is starving. When that information is put forward men are astonished that the prices for foodstuffs ' mount. If a plan had been conceived ito make them mount the one adopted j could not have been improved upon by the ingenuity of man or the devil him self. “The thing to teach the American peo ple now is that America will not be starved, that she can’t be starved and the consequence will be to lessen the condition that confronts us.” Food speculators were denounced as “robbers” by Senator Kenyon, of lowa, who recommended, however, that the food speculation measures be held over to b* considered with the food bill. “If congress can't stop this robbery— and that is a mild term for it—the peo ple will' find some way. if they have to make use of the lamp post.” Senator Kirby, of Arkansas, support ing the Thomas amendment, denounced food speculators as “parasites.” Senator Smith, of South Carolina, urged that action be withheld until the food bill was taken up. He said the Thomas amendment would paralyze fixed commercial channels and might do more harm than good. REGULATT THE PIRATES. “We should regulate these pirates.” he said, “but not destroy the usual mar ket places, which have a legitimate use. Let us go after these men who are spec ulating in food, but not destroy estab lished means of disti’.bution." Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, offered an amendment to the Thomas amend ment providing that actual and legiti mate future trading should not be pro hibited when physical delivery of products traded in was accomplished in settlements. Immedi?t“ action to check specula tion was urged by Senator Vardaman, of Mississippi. “I never understood.” he said, “how the people stand for being despoiled by a lot of gamblers, in whose interests the exchanges are run.” He said he favored, but would not propose, extend ing the Thomas amendment to suspdt-C cotton as well as foodstuff exenanges. Senator Smith, of Georgia, thought the senate would take nP food control legislation after it disposes of the espionage bill and believed it better to wait until then and have full consider ation. Senator Thomas replied he did not doubt there was plenty of food in the country, but that the pressing ques tion was legislation to enable the or dinary man to get his share. Senator Overman, in charge of the ad ministration espionage hill, announced today an effort would be made to re store the press censorship to the meas ure before passage.
