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LOUIS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1918. 14 PAGES. ONE CENT EV. MIIKKK TWO fK.NT STA fin IK is. siu -'M fi it PAIJirTO It 1 IffiE If MoulUUt THE WEATHER DECISION IN WAR HEADS OF 5 BIG Type of Trenches American Soldiers TO ACCEPT shut Trnniip li'n'lF.

Now Occupy on the Chemin des Dames IS IMPOSSIBLE IN COMING SPRING STORES DEBATE UNION DEMANDS i Forecast: Rain and much colder tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and colder; the lowest temperatine- toil i will be about 34. rn deb HAN lEIUflj ft Committee Agrees, 126 RAIDERS GET TWO OFFICERS Machine Gun Also Is Captured in Combined Foray Against Foe's Trenches on the Chemin des Dames. Twnprlnrf Reading. Midnight 55 7 a.

m.T. Washington Officials Are Spurred Conference Adjourned After Two to Acquiesce in Surren- a. m. ijnounced by Lenine and to Increased War Preparations Hours and Decision Not An-by Final Surrender of Russia nounced Ultimatum of Em- au a. m.

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RITORY GIVEN UP iitK BERLIN'S PERFIDY LIKELY TO AID ALLIES MORALLY AMPLIFIED DEMANDS 800 CLERKS SIGN DEMAND, CLAIM 4,000 MEMBERSHIP l.antnrc nr Jit. German People Will See Kaiser Is Fighting War of Aggression-Friction Between Russia and Teutons Certain in Future. DUGOUTS BEHIND LINES ENTERED Pern.au and Dorpat Made Prisoners and jreds of Autos Seized. 102 Dead in Wreck of Liner Saved When Ship Goes on Rocks. Organization Votes Strike Unless Union Is Recognized by 5 Tonight 95 Per Cent of Employes Reported 'Loyal' by One Store.

ii Gives, Up mi 1 1 TT ICtlVj department stores, who' met today: barter of Her Area in Europe DON. Feb. 2 5. The "jnes points out that the 1 Allies Advance From Shelter of Shell Holes Behind Creeping Barrage and Cross Stream on Pontoons. BY H.

G. WALES International News Service Staff Correspondent. WITH TIIK AMERICAS IN FIvAXL'K, Feb. 2- Anioricnn soldiers co-opera til the French in a successful raitl apainst (icrman pusilions i on the ties Damos front I just before dawn on Saturday, it n' DAV1I IjAYVKKXCK, A Special Correspondent of The Star. Feb.

25. Prolongation of the war is the inevitable consequence of the surrender by the Bolsheviki to Germany's advancing army. No one of prominence in Washington has been any too optimistic about an early peace since former Premier Kerensky failed to keep the Russian army intact. Whatever hope had been entertained that there might be a military decision in the coming spring can be said to have vanished. There is no particular resentment gainst the Bolsheviki.

and nd feeling of indignation, but a deep sympathy for the plight and virtual helplessness of the Russian masses. -Many persons were today saying that the government of Ienine and Trotzky was mistaken in treating at all with Germany, but there were as many who believed the Brest-Litovsk parleys had driven a wedge -between Austria and Germany and between the conservatives and liberals in Germany, and that the difference will not end with the enforced surrender of the Russians. To date the German people have been led to believe people in the Baltic Provinces were calling for the aid of their armies to crush anarchy. But as time elapses they are bound a in accepting the Ger-ace terms abandon nearly irter of the total area of a Russia. jtrea includes about one-sf'the total Russian popu-t iiV surrender cuts, jritory 381,000 square'miles ,590,000 inhabitants and 1 byS back from the Baltic, hf feeir helpless and Important ja Germany's power, econ-.

and physically. I jraiornlng press today had to comprehend the to discuss what attitude they would take toward the demands of their newly unionized clerks, adjourned after two hours' discussion and declined make a statement to the press. At part of the Ftores, it was said the ultimatum, decided on yesterday by the clerks, had not. been presented. This ultimatunv is that unless the stores agree by p.

m. today to recognize the union, clerks would not report for duty tomorrow. About SiiO clerks from the stores a.dopted this plan, and claimed to represent 4,000 -clerks. The five stores and other retail establishments employ about 9,500 clerks. The clerks yesterday voted to give the stores one week to arbitrate their wage and hour demands, ii' they agreed prior to 5 p.

m. to recognize the union, which is Local No. 8ft of the Retail Clerks' International Protective Association. The officials of the stores met at the office's of the Associated Retailers, in the Equitable Building. K.

F. Niemoeller, secretary of the Associated Retailers, told The Star earlier in the day that the stores would take uniform action and he believed would not recognize the union, lie would make no statement after By X'nited Tren. ST. JOHN'S, J. Feb.

25. Early today forty-four survivors had been taken off the wrecked steamship Flor-izel, which went on the rocks at Broad Cove, near Cape Race, Sunday. They include Capt. Martin and the first officer, and are believed to have been the last who were alive on board. The survivors were' placed aboard a train for St.

Johns and are expected here late this afternoon. Seven bodies have been washed ashore from the vessel. Of these, some have been identified. Capt. Joe Keen, son of Capt.

Abram Keen, noted seal hunter, is among hem. Fred Froud, prominent local" business man, is another. Ar. unidentified woman's body was one of the first to reach shore. Treachery aboard ship is believed to have sent the steamer smashing on the rocks.

That Capt. Martin, one of the best skippers in the business, should take his ship fifteen miles out of its course is regarded as astounding. Tampering the compass ia believed to have been responsible. Persons here are inclined international Film Service, Mas learned today. Pershing's troops are now jo-opcratlng with the French in raid on, German trenches.

L.t Saturday ffi the Simmiics and ioiliis carried out successful raid, in nhicli tw (iirnwn oflltvrs nd twenty men were LUtiemian Oinecrs, iweiliy capturi'd. men a tid a machine gun were ii The picture shows the type or trendies in wlucli tlie Americans are quanerea. 11 ai-o gne an luea en the barren Man's Ijiml" these trenches. leaning or the situation, headlines contained such ibs "tragic, dismembered, itingr, Impotent." Post Bays there is "no other iMis but treachery." "She irmed and helpless," says jonicle. I captured, M-ithout any losses for attackers.

The French and American raiders issued from advanced to discover the truth, and the slogan of Germany- that she Is fighting a de- BANDIT, 19, GIVEN A TEN-YEAR TERM FOR 2 ROBBERIES BUSINESS MEN SIGN Tears Row When PLEDGER TO orett FIGHT ARBITRARY'Forgets Transfers to Jblame the "tragedy on German tensive, war. nstead of a war of con- It" ifh. irvt' Pff shell holes, where they had concentrated. They quickly passed 1 "Tmriry first--1 in nnd reached the dugout where the prisoners were taken. .7 One hundred and two persons have i There Is every reason WbeHeve i indianapol-fcC president and organiser Br tlaHwi Presa, j-? JltDAM, XrylenkoV commander n-t Uio Bolshevist forces, as the neck and slightly Saturday by an' unnamed si, according to reports I German sources received yodaj.

The Socialist was ar- While the men were waiting Jn the 1 perished from among the passengers and crew, according to word reaching here. This places the death list higher than statements made by the owners, who stated 138 were aboard. Scenes of indescribable heroism that the minority Socialists in Ger-'iof the union, telegraphed Samuel many will not 'iniss the opportunity Gompers. president of the American to characterize tin the reichstag the Federation of Labor and Secretary attack on the Bolsheviki as an at- of Labor Wilson. The message to tack on a defenseless people.

A cer- Wilson read: tah'moral effect is bound to ensue, i "Retail clerks organizing. De- shell craters, the German lines were bombarded and, when it came time for the actual attack the raiders Accomplice Confessed Thirty Holdups in One of Which Victim Was Shot. took place as hardy New Fou pecially'if the Germans continue mands will be presented today. Sus- pressed forward behind a creeping jbarage. A tmall stream whs crossed ion miniature pontoons.

seamen donned life beltsfnTed in to ignore the pleas of Russia forjpVnsion of work probable. Will you C. of C. Campaign, Which The Star First Kept Alive, Being Broadened. BY CHAKLF.S II, Hl'FF.

Steps were taken today to line up ntOGRAD, Feb. 24. (De- ounv dories, and batHl the moun peace, and to, occupy reiroHrau Kinaiy lena your gooa oniees tainous waves. The telegram to Gompers was the other parts of Russia. The Kxecutive Committee i Pan-Soviets agreed to accept CI fflman peace terms by a vote of 15, with twenty-six not voV ea the world prolettariat to our aid wre will renew tht Premier Lenine said today the executive committee Pan-Soviets to accept Ger-Ji Mac eterms.

St. Louis business men solidly in thei fight against the arbitrary. The! fight, which had on intermit- tently and with varying enthusiasm for a quarter of a century, had waned until The Star a few months I ago undertook and carried on a per- sistent campaign urging renewal of! There was increasing artillery fire Judge Calhoun todav 'ntenced along the Tout sector of the Arnei i-Martin Brundirks, 19 vears old. to can front on Sunday, although the 10 vears in the state penitentiary lMlH'ln not hv' i rlday. for robbery in the first degree.

The trench mortars were' Inartlv. Brundir ks pleaded tsuilty to two only one "flying pig" being sent over robberies and Assistant CJr-'uit At-hy 'he Germans. torney Reeder recommended that he weather set in this morn-, dng on the American front. Thi te given five years for each. proml of more One was the case of Francis M-'tlllery activity.

Fisher, 53C2 Maple avenue, who was) The night patrolling in "No Man i robbed of $59.50 in the 5700 block jjind" has become more frequent, in. of Kingsbury place on January 1 4-1 voicing much entanglement cutting The other was the robbery of Is-iani repairing, lie M. Groner. 17. a Soldan high One Bocbe patrol that wan driven school student.

living at Maple i ofr wt grenades, gloves and a Berlin avenue, who was robbed of $31.50 at newspaper alongside an American Goodfellow and Maple avenues on listening post. January IS. German ammunition ia nrovlnc in. 0 some, excepting that the "good offices" were not asked for. The five scores to whom committees of union clerks will present wage and hour demands today, and a plea for recognition of the union, are: Famous and Earr, Scruggs-Van-dervoort-Barney.

Stix, Baer Fuller, B. Nugent Bro. and the Lin-dell Store. The clerks met yesterday at Asch-enbroedel Hall, 3533 Pine street, and drew up their demands. A committee of two men and one woman from each stcre then volunteered to present the demands.

Frederick Z. Salomon, a director of the May Department Stores Company and manager of the Famous and Barr Company, said today that Francis Going to Moscow. The Department of State had nothing to say today on the Russian situation beyond announcement that word had been received of the plans of Ambassador Francis and the diplomats of the Entente powers to leave Petrograd yesterday for the east. Presumably they were going to Moscow, whether the Bolsheviki government goes there or not. If the Germans, push their armies inland, the diplomats will try to make their way to Vladivostok.

Their departure from Petrograd will mean the last of uncensored communications between the Rusisan capital and the outside world. The Germans may soon be in possession of oWn on.1 telecraoh wires. The position Is hopeless, Lenine Their knees are on our 1911 ifartoff, leader of the Menshe- The conductorette on "a Delmar car during the rush- hour this morning was just a "bundle of nerves." The day had started off in the worst possible manner. She forgot to get a pad of transfers when t-he left the DeBaliviere sheds. Then r.

horrid man got on and said, in such a gruff manner: "Transfer to Grand." And then this man dropped his n' kel in the box. She looked for transfers and realized she'd orgotten them. And she couldn't his nickel back, and Oh, gracious, it was altogether too dreadful. So she wept. The man.

took a seat and kept grumbling, and other people got on and wanted transfers, and she got so nervous. Shed forget to give the "go ahead" signal, and couldn't shut the door, because her wet little hankie was in her hand, and she was so upset she couldn't pull the lever. So she'd dab her eyes and nose, and say. "All gulp aboard." and would sob audibly. All the passengers at the bat of the car were subdued, and looked at her so sympathetically, and all the men walked rather than ask for transfers.

The worst of it all was that it was her very first day all alone on the car by herself. If there had just been a manly young conductor there to help out! opposed Lenine, arguing that 'Pting the terms Russia would Germany's vassal. the effort to rid St. Louis of the yoke of railroad rate discrimination, imposed by the Terminal Association. As a result of The Star's campaign, the Chamber c' Commerce took up the fight against the arbitrary and employed Joseph W.

Folk, formerly chief counsel for the Interstate Commerce Commission, to wage the nec meeting becran at 3 a. m. and )wd four hours. The worn. Brundirks was arrested after Wil- an1 an number Pam Gercke.

16 year old. had "noTcnly-nevfiiii" are falllnit to m- 1 1 1 i -1 during the last eighteen years he faces of the members were Trtth disappointment and de- At dawn lmay they began their work of rescue. Off the rocky coast the gray hulk of what was once the pride of tiie Red Cross line ibonied in pitiful memory of its former splendor. Flitting forms rose and fell on the deck as huge Waves broke over the craft. Boat after boat was launched in the gray light by men who had left the rescue ships to add another tale of heroism to the records of sea rescues in this vicinity, the graveyard of ships.

Several fruitless efforts to get through the waves did not deter the rescuers. Undaunted, they returned to their work and got a footing on a portion of the ship above water. Ropes which had been carried along were fastened to the ship and then run to vessels standing by. life belts were hauled aboard the wreck and placed on the survivors, most of whom were unable at this time to stand alone. Some were virtually unconscious.

The relics of what had been a shipload of humanity were transferred to the small boats and taken to safety. The work of rescue occupied five hours. At the end of that time it was stated that probably most of the saloon passengers were lost. A man named "CaPt. James and the manager of the line, John Kielly Xickell have been identified among the survivors, in addition to the captain and first officer.

0tHo Ml dav Sunday the beach near the pounding steamer was rodd'' lookers on. helpless to send aid. Huge lines through Iberia an I ers.a are members of Local No. poor and messages ha been fle doj laved on them as long as weeks iriareu mat ne ana urunnirKU naa held up about thirty men In two weekF. Gercke said he and Brundirks had plode.

Among a batch of seventy (German shells of this caliber thrown against American positions, thlrly-. four were "duds." or dead projectile. I American patrols now report that the Hermans are maintaining wat-h One of the main amicuicirs essary legal battles to give St. Louis I equality with the east side of the; river in railroad rates and service. Now the Chamber of Commerce is I held up and shot Julius Creissen.

demands of the union and would present them td the Board of Directors of his company, which would i 3404 Henrietta street, a hardware liaVino nr-tivo Ktens to have all St. I merchant and chariman.of the Six- takfl unv action about rcooenizing 0 does at every listening post, utilizing teenth Ward Board, on Louisiana th)? caRlne rArH to glTe arnlns Feb. 25. (By V. ia concert with her allies.

to conclude negotiations of Mrtta Russia." Foreign Minis-Vnln wirelessed today to For-ster Trotzky, in reply to the query of February 1 8 as to jw Austria would conclude a fita Russia, according to railages todav from Basle, avenue, near St. incent avenue. the union it saw fit. He said he Louis business men. wnetner or noi could not pass on the matter, nor they are members of the organiza-j determine the policy of the com- tion.

pledge themselves definitely to; support the fignt ann stana urmiy pany. Gercke was tried in Juienile Court i nnd was sent to the Missouri lie-! formatory to remain until he becomes of age. i. -Wilkinson, resident of the. opposed to any measure of com pro-, of approaching soldiers.

The newly reported casualties are one Infantryman slightly wounded by a bursting Shell, and three soldiers wounded In a support battalion. These men were struck by shrapnel when advancing in a reinforcement maneuver to guard arainM attack. Cloudy weather has Impeded air activity. Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney Com- mise with the Terminal Association. pany, said it had been the with respect to eradication of the, aim to have a happy and contented river-crossing tolls.

work in it force, that there were no! Business men throughout the city the allied governments in irinR determine what their own polio-should be towards Russia has been lack of information due to poor facilities of communication. The United States and the Allies have been virtually in the dark for many weeks And thev have, therefore, deemed It wise to keep hands off entirely. Friction Sure to Follow. Yet while there is a good deat of disappointment at the turn events have taken in Russia, it would be wrong to say that faith in the people has departed. Free Rus-; a can no more live under the rule of Germany than could free Amer-fca Friction between Germany and rnnsia is expected to be constant, SS probability that the Berlin government never will feel it safe to via London, Feb.

GERMAN PEACE ENVOYS ARE NOW IN ROUMANIA Feb. Zo. (By I. N. A dispatch from Petrograd "bosses," but that all worked to- have been requested to sign cards, get her and on a basis.

He which have been distributed by the I said he td given no thought to the arbitrary committee of the Members" GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS UNDER TREASON CHARGE stating the Bolshevik government union matter, as tic Knew per i or.rercnre oi Wales cablegram wan the first in -i i ZURICH. Feb. 25. (By V. I'M" accept v.erman 1hut Americans had taken Grand IMike Nicholas.

uncle of latest peace terms was followed by a rart Jn th. Frnch raid on th Nicholas Romancft and former com- report from Brest-LitoA sk that front Saturday mornlnir. Thn Waves swept, me Some of them Frenrh'War Office In ita ofTra re Men could be seen merce. ne earns nrar i pledge: undersigned shippers and business men of t. do hereby heartily endorse the effort of the Chamber of Commerce to abolisli the bridge arbitrary tax upon traffic brought intc Louis through Fast mander-in-chief of the Russian 1'iaiij an vi wic memi.er oi ine nrw armies, will be tiled before a revol j- German peace delegation will be trihunal for hiah treason.

army officers. I cent of the 500 employes were not interested. i Fifty department heads met at Scruggs Vandervoort Barney Dry I Goods Company today to confer on I the union question. J. P.

Iaurie pre- sided. Jle told how six -years ago the clerks had to to at a. m. and remain until p. m.

Vandervoort' they row report at 9 German forces have 3 Jitomir (Zhitomar. the city of Volhynia, 100 miles ifRovno and the same distance ''Kleff), the Berlin War Office weed (fltoraar, the statement said, the staff of the Rusian special fas captured, with the commander-in-chief, who (a seaport in Livonia, on na of the Gulf of Riga), has eupied. Storm troops of the tt Hussars took Dorpat (in i 157 miles northeast of capturing s.000 prisoners and of automobiles. a ppeared lashed to the masts or the ail. The stern of the vessel was on Page 2, Column 4.

ra Cont port Saturday afternoon 1iad said: 'i "North of the Ailette River. Frenc troopa penetrated Geiman line aa far as the neighborhood of Chevrig-ny. They returned with twenty-flv submerged. according to a Russian dispatch published in the Bheslau TagebJatt, received here today. The German government officials who headed the first delegation from the central powers are now reported to be in i.i.

carrying on a St. Iouis. The arbitrary imposes an nni.tir priinn, ineluding two officers and T) Saturday and unjust burden upon the com and quit at and havi1 parley with representatives of the machine guns." Iloumanian government. chief of. thre envov are Dr.

von Kuehl- merce of St. Louis and is a tax or a afternoons oft' in summer time. They The Grand Duke Nicholas was reported to have bc-n arrested by liol-shvist sympatblseis in Tifies Jane 1', following the nationalist riots. have a clinic, physician, nurse, lunch-; nature not imposed upon corn-rooms, free picnics, and a week's va- merce of any other city." cation at the company's expense, Folk, accompanied by Jackson it also wis 'he r.ractice Johnson, president of the Chamber mann, the German Foreign Minister; Count Czernin. tte Austrian Foreign Minister, and I'rejiier Radoslavoff of Bulgaria.

Petrograd reports that the Bolshe- Colorado Itnl WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. By to- to tho hisr 1nl r'nmniPrcf. IS New "i ork Miheviki Occupy RostofL fOGRAD.

Feb. 2 5. (By U.I llshevik fnrrps luv hrenoied I iOlSft They expect to confer with and he told of two such recent pro- day. The secretary of ti interior to Mr i. day announced public drawings at vik envoys will reach Brest-Litovsk The Star Led the Field in Advertising Last Week Last week The Star published more columns of Paid Advertising than any other St.

Loui daily newspaper morning or evening. as announced today. f. Ji fishtlng P. Goodrich, engineer who has Pcen engaged in preparation of an industrial survey of St.

Iuis. ThNur-vey is to be based on a study made continues. Grand Junction. on March Z9. aome time carr ing crp-, and at Montrose.

on April i. empowering tt.em to make dispose cf 12. n00 acre of newly irri-! peace on the terms announced by. gated public lands in the Grand Germany. ley and Fn-'onipahrre irrigation pro-! TO: T-ouis ast summer, i in Americans Probably Aided French Attack Near PARIS.

Feb. 25. (V.y I. X. The French carried out a sieaf.j' surprise attack gint the tJerntan rear north of the Aliiet River, during the night, capturm.

sixteen prisoner, the War of flee reported this afternoon. A German machine gun was taken. fin the Champagne front the artillery duel continued very heavy. e-peejally in the region of Tahure. Souh of Dollar.

In Alace, the big guns were buny on s'des. which have been ol- with reports pi is an important city in tne f1 of the Don Cossacks. lor! futile Don River, a short fm the northeasternmost arm Sea of a so v. iects Of Western ccicraoo to nome- 'IT'S A PYRRHIC VICTORY sfeaders. i ents for the Week Follow: The Afternoon Measurem .412 Cols.

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The Star The Post-Dispatch The Times VIENNA EDITOR WRITES AMSTERDAM. Feb. Z. CBy F. p.l "A separate peace with Iluvia is a vjftory'," the Vienna Arieiter Zeitung declared, "bee-auae Great Britain.

Frame and America will re.ake war to the hitter end." 404 269 lrmany has declared martial motions. He the nasked the department heads who had risen from C-o ranks to stand. but fcur of the r.fty stood. A resolution on loyalty passed around the store Saturday contained the names of 95 per cent of the store's employes, he saiu. Vy N.

Murray, general manager of the LindeH Store, said today he had no idea what the policy would be. He said the company had made it a rule to pay the best possible wages to all clerks. The firm is not opposed to union lnior, he said, and employs union drivers and other skilled workers. H. p.

Wikox. general manager of Stix. Baer Culler, refused to make a statement on the unionizing of the clerks. He said the company em-plovs union drivers, engineers, electricians, carpenters and other skilled labor. j- Cramer, general manager Continued on I'ase 2.

Column S. 'Several districts in Poland, it pJTied from Berlin advices to- tanned. The report is to deal with the Terminal Association in St. Louis, both a to available facilities and as to rates. The purp'-rc of the survey is 'to provide a basis tor seeking great- cr industrial growth in St.

Iouis. After the New York conference, and Johnson will ro to Washington to consult with Director Gcn- icrat Vxdoo on the St. Louis arbitral There will be confer-enc i with several eastern rnil- road Vutives. his return to St. the latfr part of the week.

Folk await the result of a meeting on March of li.e executives of the various rai'roads enteritis St. i Louis The meeting is to be held in i Loui. Turn to Tag London Times Cubic Dr 3 Uncle Wijrrriiy 0 The Kewpir-s 10 Bringifirr Up 10 Holland Letter Everv where Are Ohserver Writes A-ain last week The Star printed far more columns of News and Features than either of its afternoon competitors. Don't Say "STAR" I The French surprise atta- north the Aillefte River, which proi-aldy naa nothing more than a raid or a -ig scale, took within a mile of the point where a Frano-Am erica raiding party penetrated German TrfHition on Saturday morning. It ia considered likely that 7 phrase, 'pyrrhif Yctory." is 'erived from the vietory of Pyr-rhus oir the Romans.

27 Ti. at Asculum. anl typifie a triumph-nt victory with very heavy cost. Pyrrhus remarked after the battle: 7" Ullps.S itlc cor vice has boon iss'ued by the "One more such victory 1 are lout." and we: Americans also fgured in the attack I ifc.t night. commissaries to justify their submit to Germany's peace jaucd on l'aSC 2, Column 1.

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