WEA3HER REPORT
Yesterday: Max. 20. Min. 12..
Today: Colder, north wind.
No. 5 TWENTY FIRST YEAR
SKAtfWAY,
POLISH ARMY CAPTURES BOLSHEVIK! OFFICERS
II. a MUST SEND
FOUR MILLION
10 FRANCE
Miller Says That
Number Needed
To Win The
War
Wiishin^tuu, Keb. (i.—I'ntil the
I'iUimI States has three million men
in France .the war will not
said Representative Milter, of
Minnesota, who luis jus>t return**!
from the l-Yench battle frobt, in
the House <>f Representatives yes
tenia}-..
We must have tour million, and
we should have five million n»en,
he (Killed.
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AND STATE
Petrograd, Feb. 6.—The Russian
Soviet has issued a decree signed by
Premier Lenine and other members
of tha defacto government which ab
solutely separates the church find
state, eliminating all church. in- '
come from the state, and conflsc&t- |
injc all church realty, furnishings, |
and paraphernalia..
Declare Holy War Agaiast
liolsbeviki
Petrograd, Feb. 6. —The church- j
es of til Russia today; declared a
holy wat against the Bolshevik!.
as the lesult of the decree separat-;
ing church from state. The church
threatens to excommunicate the
state, ar.d has appealed to all par
ishes to fight and suffer for the >
sanctify of their religion..
ill FLEEI
Will EE 1
OFFENSIVE
Amsterdam, Fob. <>. — Berlin
newspapers are replete with what
Germany Is goijig to do in the com.
offensive 011 the western front.
The Berlin Tageblatt .says the
(.■eni-an fleet Ls going to participate,
ami that the next six months will
l>e the deciding period of the war.
The Frankfuter Z<titung says
that during that eminently im>
portant period the Central Fow|ers
will be abfolutley eeitain to have
strategic superiority. '1 he hopes* of
tlie Entente allies for help from
America cannot possibly be fulfill
within that time it says.
ANACONDA STANDARD Bl'RNS
Anaconda, Feb. 5.—The buildins I
and Dlaut of the Auaoonda Stand
ard w»re completely destroyed by
fire here this morning.
COL C. H. M'KINSTRY
Col. C. H. McKinstry. who commands
the New York engineers in France, j
many of whom participated in the |
Cambral battle, fighting side by side j
with the advancing British.
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FOOD FAMINE IS
PREDICTED N
Si
Washington, Feb. 6.. — A world
j wide food famine is predicted to
' day by Representative Baer unless
■drastic steps are taken to increase
food production. Mr. Baer was
testifyiug before the House agri
cultural committee and stated that
Germany is in possession of all the
Russian winter wheat fields.
Sli WIL 14,120
6! !
m. I
!U
'LORE
Louauti, Feb.. G. — German U
lx>ais have done to death 14,120
non-combatant British men, wo
men .snd children accurdng to a
reply given by Bonar Law yester
day to government leaders in Mio
British House of Commons.
WORKMEN FORM
I'etrograd, Feb. 6.—At the clos
ing session of the congress of Sol
di- rs' aiul Workmen's delegates, a
law was passed declaring that
body to be a permanent govrenment
and not temporary as originally an
nounced. The congress declared
tbc constituent assembly has been
eliminated.
SAILORS BILL
PASSES SENAIE
Washington, Feb.. 6. — The sol
diers nod sailors civil rights hill
providing moratorium for mem in
military establishments, was un
animously passed today by the Sea
ate.. i*H
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j M ran MIS
| With the American Army in
j France, Feb. 6.—Throughout Tues
day afternoon German airmen tried
*o fight their way through a stiff ■
barrage from American high angle
suns to find, out what movements
were gcing on behind American j
lines. I III <• jl|
Enemy aviators were driven back
every time by our shrapnel which
• peppered the very clouds.
Americans Expect Attack
!
Washington, F>.b. 6.—Under the
almost ceaseless fire of German
j guns, American troops are holding i
a section of the battle front in
Lorraine, and making preparations
for a German assault of great magni
tudo. i !
TEN SPIES !
FOUND 10 j
BE GUILTYj
New York, Feb. 6.—Franz Von 1
Rintclen, German naval officer re
puted »o be a member of the Ger
man war staff, was found guilty, to
gether with ten other defendants,
■n the federal court this morning of
a conspiracy to destroy food and
munition ships of the Entente al
lies by placing fire bombs in their
cargoes. ,
Judze Howe imposed the maxi
mum penalty of 18 months.
(Editor's note — The penalty of
IS months was what the message
stated. We are more inclined to
believe that it was 18 years, al
though we are unable to verify
either conclusion.)
NEGOTIATIONS IT
LITOVSK ARE
I BROKEN
London, Feb. 6. — Negotiations
| at the Brest Litovsk conference be
lt ween Germany and Russia have
j been broken off, aocording to infor
j mation received by; an English, oor
j respondent at Petrograd.
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P. H. GANTY
Allies Receive Reinforcements
Br't'sh Headquarters in France,
Fob. 6.—Raids and patrol encount
ers are the only present operations
on the ■Western front..
Last night one party of our raid
ers set into enemy positions near
Poelcappelle and, after killing 29
of the enemy, captured and brought
back three prisoners.
Enemy reinforcements continue
to arrive from the East, but the Al
lied forces in the West also contin
ue to increase in an ever following
current.
The inevitable clash, when it
does come, will b3 the most stupen
dous in the point of numbers ever
known in the history of the world.
ROOSEVELT UNDERGOES
OPERATION
New York, Feb. 6.—Theodore
Roosevelt today underwent an opera
tion for an abcess which had; caused
him to cancel his wistern speaking
engagements, I
GEN. SIR STANLEY MAUDE
Cer:. Sir Stanley Iviaude, the com
mander of the British forces in Meso
potamia, who Is hailed by the British j
public as a military genius for his re- I
cent successes against the Turco-Ger
man forces.
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Bolsheviki Regime
Said To Be
Falling
Amsterdam, Feb. C. — Wireless
dispatches received at Berlin from
Kiev say Polisli armies have occu
pied Mohilev, and have arrested
Sniga Krylenko, commander in
chief of the Bolsheviki armies, and
have captured the entire Bolsheviki
staff. I ,
POLAND DECLARES AVAR
London, Feb. 6. — The Polish
legation has declared war against
the Bolsheviki forces of Russia, and
fighting of ail intermittent nature
has taken place since the first of
the month. Rumania has a popula
tion of 8,000,000, and Polaud a
population of 13,000,000.
BOLSHEVIKI DOOMED
London, Feb. 6. — With tha
Poles of middle Russia having cap
tured the Bolsheviki's headquarters
at Mohilev, making Ensign Krylen.
Ico and his entire staff prisoners,
witli the Tartars now: marching on
the Sebastopol headquarters, with
a revolution of the Black Sea fleet,
with the disarming of the ninth
revolutionary regiment at Galatz by
Rumanians, with the expulsion of
thu Bolshevikis from Crimes by Cri
mean Tartars, and with, the demor
alizing defeat of the Red Guard in
Finland, the Bolshevik! power i9
wan'ne. according to all dispatches
received here.
CARDINAL GIBBON'S
DENOUNCES PROHIBITION'
Baltimore, Feb. 6.—Cardinal Gib
bons today denounced national pro
hibition in a statemet issued by him.
He declared the legislators of the
individual states should not "Bowi
to the fanacticism that seems to be
ruling us. in this respect."
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