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8 WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1918 PRICE HVE CENTS THE INCINNA jenqu COOING Of Von Hertling fails To Bring Change in Prospect for Peace. Officials in Washington Regard-Utterances As Effort To Strengthen Hands of Militarists. Irony Noted in Teuton Chancellor's Speech, Though He Declares For Wilson's Principles. Attempt To Create Discord Among Allies' Is Seen President May Make Reply Soon. mcuL DiinrcB to mi exqciiii.

Washington, February 26. "No ciange" In the prospect for peace ha effected by Chancellor von Hert- llni'i acceptance of President Wilaon'a four abatract and general terms on which the war may be ended. The President's requirement for a responsible German Government aa a nec-(iiarr precedent to peace discussions tundi impregnably buttressed by the developments of German duplicity in Russia during the last few days and by Htrtllng'a references to Belgium. Ties are the only official intima- tsuof how the Administration ha re- ttt the German Chancellor's speech. It probable the himself till oifcusa them shortly.

Seeks To Strengthen Party. 1 Instead of marking an advance toward peacj, von HerUIni's speech Is regarded ruber as deliberately calculated to strengthen the hands of the German militaristic party by endeavoring to ccn-Tinea the German proletariat of the Impracticable nature of President Wilson's alms a disclosed In his last address to Canirets, February 11. While atatlng his readiness to accept th Preaident's four fundamental principles (or a basis of peace, the German Ambassador dismissed thera as Idealistic and unworkable by insisting that they ust depend for their application upon the realisation of conditions which can-ot be met. la the official view, his treatment of the wbject was Ironical and designed for ry different ends than the advancement peace. Formal Comment Withheld.

There will be no Immediate formal comment upon this latest' contribution te the debate on war aims and peace aspirations. Experience haa taught officials that important qualifications we to be found usually In the full (tit of the speeches of the spokesmen of the Central Powers. Attention was directed by officials to President Wilson's former characterl-Mtlon of the German Chancellor's utterances as "very vague and and it was said the President's tomment had a peculiarly apt application to the speech of yesterday. In IUch von Hertling signified his fundamental agreement with President Wll-OB'a four principles. PresidenWllson In his last address to Congress said of the Chancellor's Peech delivered a few days before: "Ilia discussion and acceptance of neral principles lead him to no practicable conclusions.

He refuses to PPl- them to the substantial Items, hlch must constitute the body of'any "I settlement" Emphasir.es Wilson's Point. who read the Chancellors "lores, closely thought It Served to em-Umize a point made by President Wll-on In one of his earlier addresses deal-ta lth the peace alms of the Powers, "it white the Central Powers appeared accept the general broad altruistic frincipies for which the Entente Allies "i America were contending, when It to the arrangement of details the Antral Powers appeared reluctant to ap-Wr these principle They noted jocularly von Hertllngs "'trences to Ireland, India ad Egypt. 4 regarded thera as circulated to create Ucord between the Entente Allies and lnue deception of the German peo-w ho apparently believe the military hry la willing to make peace without "xatlone or Indemnities. vn I'-eitllng suggestion of a confer- the belligerents apparently meets ltb, no greater favor than heretofore. olHclals see not the slightest hope "round-table discussion" In advance mplete acceptance of the broad CONIIHTJED ois" SECOND PAGE, Jersey's New Senator 7'.

-X x'- I Li iis'TJ Geaafo David tww 'The vacancy In the, United States Senate, caused by the death of Senator' Hughes, of New Jersey, has been filled by the appointment of Mr. Balrd, 79 years old, a lifelong Republican. The honor was given him by Ooverhor Edge. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Obtains Bargain In Purchase of John Wrenn Library. Chicago.

February John II. Wrenn library, a collection of original manuscripts and first editions dating from the pre-Bhakespearlan period, was sold to-night to the University of Texas, for 1230.000. The money for the purchase was a gift from Major George W. Llttlefleld, of Austin, The library was collected by the late John H. Wrenn, of Chicago.

President Robert E. Vinson, of the University of Texas, who came here to complete the sale, said an appraiser estimated the value of the library at PRIZE CREW Of Germans on Vessel Which Goes Ashore Near Skaw Off Denmark. Spanish Steamer Had Been Captured By Raider Wolf Two Amer-i leans Are Prisoners. Copenhagen, February it. The Span-la steamship Igots MendU with a German prise crew from the Pacific Ocean on board.

Is shore near the Bkaw lighthouse. Two of the prisoners aboard are Americans, The Danish authorities have interned the German commander of the Totx Mend I. The German prise crew refused to leave the ship. There had been an epidemic of beriberi and scurvy on board the vessel. The prisoners on the Igots Mendl were taken from six shfpa which had been sunk.

Several of the plsoners had been aboard the, vessel for eight months while she cruised In the Pacific Ocean. Twenty-two persons. Including nine women, two children and two Americans, have been landed by lifeboat from the Skaw. The steamship Igots Meftdl, according to a report, was captured by the German auxiliary cruiser Wolf nine months ago In the Oulf ef India. German navigators who were placed aboard had been following the Wolf ever since.

All the persons who had been held prisoner on board the vessel, the correspondent have btez taken ashore. Xlne women and two children were among the" rescued passengers, who included one Pane, one Swede, one Norwegian, two Finns, two Hindus, one Chinese, one Turk, one Greek, one Chilean and two Americans. The" remainder of the prisoners were British. Many of them suffered from Inadequate nourishment in the last Ave weeks. The German auxiliary Wolf has reached port after a raiding expedition of 19 months In the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian.

Oceans, the German Admiralty announced yesterday. A British statement yesterday gave the names of 11 ships assumed to have been destroyed by the Wolf, one of. which was the IgoU Mendl. 4.M8 tons gross. In addition to this veesel another captured ship, the Turritella, was fitted out as a rsldcr, but was quickly sunk.

The Skaw, where the Igots Mendl has grounded, Is the northern extremity ef Jutland, Denmark. VACCINE To Cure Malta Fever Is Claimed By French Scientist Wno Con- quered Typhoid. i Paris. February M. A.

Vln. cent, of the Academy of Medicine, who became widely known through the dis- covery of a serum for the treatment of typhoid fever, almost eradicating the disease from, the French army, announces that he. has found a curative and preventive vaccine for Malta fever, a type of malaria prevalent In South America. South Africa and along tbe Mediterranean. DISASTER Has Struck Russia Because of Arbitrary Dry Law, Gbmpers Avers.

Labor Chief-and Bryan in New York Before. State Solons, on National Amendment. 'Tis Perilous To Force Men To Yield Rights And Liquor Ban Is Surely That, Union Head Says. Proposed Law Is illegal, Bar Association Holds Committee Gives No -Sign as To How It Will Act. srxcui, DisriTcs to thi ixai iaii.

Albany. February 21. William Jennings Bryan to-day led the dry forces In a verbal onslaught to carry the New York Legislature for the Federal prohibition amendment. His chief opponents were Samuel Gompers. President of the American Federation of Labor, and former United States Senator Bailey, of Texas.

For more tbanflve hours a crowded audience In the room and galleries of the Assembly Chamber of the State Capitol heard the arguments for. and against the proposed national dry law. There were many speakers. Put Up. To Committee.

The -herinc weshsid. jMfore-' Joint legislative committees to which the ratification resolution was referred upon Its Introduction early In January. At the close of tbe hearing ho Indication was given as to when the committeemen would decide whether to report the resolution favorably or unfavorably. Prohibition and its relation to the war was one of the principal arguments made by both sides. Mr.

Bryan declared that It was vital to the success of the United States and Its allies that this country send men clean In mind and body to the battle front' Mr. Gompers asserted that in the present crisis the people of the country had enough to do In the fighting line by opposing tbe Central. Powers, and that their attention from this most Important subject should not be dl-vered by any measure less vital Hold It Is Illegal. Opponents of the ratification asserted that the Federal amendment was unconstitutional In that It would give both the Federal. Government and states concurrent Jurisdiction In enforcing the pro hibitory 'clause.

The resolution sponsors were equally as emphatic In their declaration that the enforcement provisions contained In the amendment were legal and valid. In accordance with legislative custom those In opposition spoke first Austen G. Fox, as a representative of the Ohio State Bar Association, said the assocla-tlosrhad no Interest In the merits or de merits of prohibition. It had adopted a resolution holding the enforcement provision to be unconatltu tlonal and on that ground alone had re quested the Legislature- ndt to ratify. Mr.

Gompers said that while he also considered the amendment unconstltu tlonal, he would speak of the more hu man fide of the opposition as viewed by organised labor. That body of men, he said, considered the attempt to regulate their habits as a' violation of personal liberty. Organised laborers, he asserted, had done more than any agency to make men temperate, but they resented efforts to deprive them of their rights. Calls Dry Law Dangerous. "Prohibition by constitutional amendment not only Is Injurious, but dangerous the extreme," he declared.

"Constitutions are charters 'of guaranted rights. They are not documents of denied Cheers from the wets and laughs from drys greeted Mr. Compere's assertion of his belief that "the conditions In Kussia to-day are due primarily to enforced prohibition." "Aren't we asking about enough of German and Austrian fellow cUlsons," Mr. Gompers. asked, "to' be loyal and give their support to this Government against the countries of their own birth or the birth of their parents without Injecting at this time a question of regulating or prohibiting their normal habltsr.

Mr. Bryan was cheered loudly when QONTIfTUED 01T FIFTH PAOE. Three Americans Die, Nine in, German Attacks With the Asaerteaa Arsay ta rraaee. Febraary IS (By the Asse-dateel Press). Thre Americas sel-dlers were klliea and alne badly "gassed la twa faraaldable gas at-taeks marie the Geraaaa aa the Aaaerlraa aaaltlaaa la the Teal ace-tar early this aaaralag with prejee-tera.

The efeesay also heavily beas-barded tbe Aaaerlraa batteries with gas shells, hat wltheat reaalt. Oaly the excellent preparatory tralalag la ejalckaess by theAaserl-' eaa troops prevented the projector attacks, the Brat experience by these, caailaar aaere caaaalUen. The attacks were made with la 10 Mlaates ef each ether and were ai-' reeled at a eertala waed. Beveaty-ave right-inch sheila ef 80 per ecat gas and SO hlgh-explo slve shells were I red from Gersnaa BBtacBwcrfer. The flight af the projectiles was traced through the air, the gas shells banting la the air aad the' high explosives detonating when they came la cent act with the earth.

Large (fragmeats af shells flew front bath aa tallies. The fvs eaaght some ef the men before they were able ta adjast their Banska aad overcame ethers while they were asleep la dageats. YOUTH HAS GLAND REMOVED To Keep Him From Being Giant, Like Hit Parents. aracuL Diar.TCH to tss tXQCiasa. Kew York, February dollars to doughnuts that any" person afflicted with acromegaly would do as exactly a did Morgan T.

Craft, of London, whose case was reported to-day to the neurological department of Columbia University. Acromegaly causes the extremities and face bones to continue growing after a person, reaches maturity. Craft had an uncle. Captain Martin Van Buren Bates, known as the "Kentucky Giant," who was 7 feet 214 Inches in height. Csptaln Bates married Miss Anna Swann, of Nova Scotia, a cute little girl, standing 7 feet Stt Inches without the aid of high heels.

They had' a baby which weighed 23'i pounds at birth. Toung Craft learned that Dr. Harvey Cushing could cure l)lm by knifing outTa gland he didn't even know he had. So to Dr. Cushing he repaired and the surgeon proceeded to repair him.

The ae-count- gUew ty Colwrabla's neurologleat department records details of the successful operation. 1 Craft's cure has left him a mere ordinary man, rising from the ground toward heaven only a beggarly 5 feet 0 Inches. EXPELLED From Musicians Union Brcaise He Rffasrd Te Stand When Nation! Aithtm Is Played, Call-fornian Shoots Three. San Francisco, February 26. Three members of the -Musicians' Union werf shot to-day by a fellow member, who had been ordered expelled because he had refused to stand when the "Star-Spangled Banner" was played recently In the Civic Auditorium.

The expelled member fired six shots Into a crowd of union members, three taking effect. The wounded were A. F. Less, Ser-geant-et-Arms of the union; F. Sclller and Herbert Schultx.

Less and Sclller sustained leg wounds, and Schultg was shot in the hand. According to the story told police they were shot by Guldo Tusl, wh6 was arrested. The ExecutivejCommlttee of the union had finished hearing Tuxt's case end Less was delegated to Inform him of tho verdict that he should he expelled. Less found him In one of the rooms of the organisation's headquarters, told him of the verdict when Tuxl opened fire with a revolver, according to police. KENTUCKIAN IN LIST Of Wounded Reported By Pershing One Kan Dies In Action.

Washington, February 21. The death of one man In action, of two others from wounds received In action and a fourth from a gun explosion, were reported to the War Deparlrnent to-day by Pershing, The dispatch also gaye the names of four men slightly. wounded on the fighting line. Private James J. Regnery, of Osh-kosh.

was hRled In action February 1). and Privates Edward F. Her-non, tot East Fifteenth street, Brooklyn and David Hickory. 7S2 Garfield avenue, St. Louis, have died from wounds received In Corporal Anthony J.

Schrader, of 15 Moultrie street, Brooklyn, died from wounds received In the explosion of a The men wounded Vera Private Ad-elbert Morey, Lewlston, Private Bennte Tauchus, Brockton. Private Hugh F. Cllmore, Louisville, all on February 25, and John P. King, 8prlngdale, February 25. King's rank was not given.

SPAMSH RADICALS BEATEN. 'Madrid. February election returns still are Incomplete, earliest Indication, however, pointing to.tyie defeat of the Socialists and Radicals. PUTTING THRILLS INTO AMERICAN BOYS I I 'I 'I In this picture Is seen the mounted EMPLOYERS Pick William H. Taft To Serve Public in Momentous Conference With Labor.

Associate Justice Brandeis Tipped as Workers' Choice Parley Is Adjourned For Week. Wsahlngton, February 28. With the selection by employers' representatives of former President William II. Tart as one of the two men to serve for the general public the conference between spokesmen of capital and labor, which met today to frame the basis of a natlbnal labor policy, adjourned for a week to permit the workers to name the other member for the public. The conferees met st the call of the Government to arrive at an agreement governing their relations during the war.

Five men were named by the National Industrial Conference Board and live by the American Federation of Labor, and they, with the two representatives of the public, will compose a board of Theselectlonef Taft officials said, would give prestige to tho conference and impress on the public mind Its Impor tance. The labor representatives are expected to name a' prominent man also, and to-night It was said Associate Justice Brandeis, of the Supreme Court, might be asked to serre. When the conferees meet again a week from to-morrow each side, will have ready a program and an outline of the subjects it thinks should be taken up. Aside from the desire to formulate fa Government labor policy the chief aim of the conference Is to find a method of doing away with strikes which might hamper war production. It la believed both sides will agree to some plan of arbitration, probsbly by district boards, with the right of appeal to a general board or department to be established under the Department of Labor.

Representatives of the workers to-day named William Johnson, of Washington, President of the machinists' union, to take the place of J. A. Franklin, President of the Boilermakers, who was unable to serve on the committee. Boston, February 2. Magnus W.

Alox-snder, Managing Director of the National Industrial Conference Board, with headquarters here to-day, Issued a state, ment expressing the board's appreciation of the action of former' Prealdent Taft In accepting the nomination of the organisation as a representative of the public. The board Is made up of three representatives from each of 17 national manufacturing associations. OUTBREAK Of Lawlessness Spreads in Ireland-Additional Troops Sent To Aid Police. London, February 26. The outbreak of lawlessness In County Clare, Ireland, it is announced officially, rendered necessary Sunday the sending of additional troops to the county to as-slaMhe police.

County Clare'haa been declared a special area under the defense of the realm act Recent statements In London newspapers of all shades of political belief that lawlessness was spreading alarmingly In the weat and south of Ireland were supplemented to-day by the Tlmes's Dublin correspondent! who says the Government will have to take a prompt and firm step at repression. The law Is Ignored In Clare, Sllgo, Roscommon and Mayo, says the correspondent The police are In dally conflict with the lawbreakers, JREBIZOND ENTERED By Turkish Troops, Who Clear It of "Bands." Amsterdam. February 26. -J-A dispatch received here from Constantinople says that Turkish troops have entered Treblsond. on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor, and cleared' It of "bands." Wn hand of one of the American Held at one of the training camps.

U-Boat Chaser Rides Gale, Crossing Ocean in 39 Days; Sail Made of Bed Coverings SMCIAI. DISPATCH TO TBS SKQClBa. Washington, February 26. Left alone and helpless In mid-ocean when her engines became disabled In a terrible gale an Amerlcan-bullt submarine chaser has reached the other side of the At lantic after being at thb mercy of the seas for 30 days. Secretary Daniels made this announcement late to-day.

The chaser had been turned over to the French Government and was manned by a French crew. The safe nsvlgallon of the tiny craft Into port officially Is recognised as one of the most remarkabla naval arhUv. menta of the war. "The feat was accomplished by rigging up a sail from bed coverings. Running before the wind, a speed of two or three knots an hour was made under thle means of propulsion.

A compass was the only navlgatlne In strument on board the vessel. The com mander of the crew was forced to estimate his positions. A shortage of rations aggravated the hardships before port was reached. The chaser and other units of the con voy were overtaken by a storm Jannanr 13. The little boat became separated from her escort and being adrift, as the result of her engines breaklna- down, the mountainous waves tossed her about like a cork.

She was soon out "ftf sight of other ships. A report that" the chaser was missing was the only word of her until to-day, when Secretary Daniels received a cable TREATY With France and Italy Has Been Signed Similar To One With Britain Respecting Military Service of Nationals. Washington, February 26. France and Italy have accepted In subatance the proposed treaty with the United States respecting military service of nationals similar to that signed with Great Britain and Canada. Secretary Lansing sent word to Chairman Flood, of the House Foreign Affair Committee, to-day, that ha had received that word in cablegrams from tbe American Ambassadors at Paris and Rome.

The so-called alien slacker bill which would compel military service of subjects of co-belligerent countries In the United States seems certain to come lip for action In the House to morrows In spite of administration op position. the signature of the British and Canadian treaties, action on the, bill was deferred upon request of the State Department. Secretary Lansing wrote: "Referring to the negotiations which the Department of State Is carrying on with certain of our co-belligerents regarding military service conventions, I desire to state for your Information that on Tuesday last I signed with the British representative two conventions, one for Great Britain and one for A Canada, and that I am now In receipt of telegrams from the American ambassadors at Rome and Paris practically accepting, with a few minor changes, the proposal of the United States to enter Into similar conventions with Italy and France. "I am not expecting that any serious obstacle will be placed In the way of early signature to these conventions." RIOT IN MESS HALL Causes Internment of 20 Negro Sol diers at Camp Pike. Little Rock, Ark February S6.

Twenty-six negro soldiers of the Five Hundred and Twelfth Engineer Service Battalion are In the guardhouse at Camp Pike, awaiting Court-martial as a result of a riot In a mess hall at the camp today. A white non-commissioned officer suffered a painful, but not serious scalp if -34 1 i regiments in Franco. It was taken message telling of her safe arrival In a foreign port The boat virtually had been given up for lost, with her entire crew of about 20 men. Secretary Daniels s.ndhe officers at the Navy Department were highly gratified at this practical demonstration of the seaworthiness of the American-built submarine chasers. Full credit was given to the French crew, but the fact that a 110-foot craft helpless and adrift, could successfully ride out a terrific mid-Atlantic gale leaves nothing to be said In behalf of the American builders.

The storm which separated the chaser from her escort was one of the (worst on record. It was officially reported to the Navy Department According to one navy offlce'r this Is the second time that an American sub. marine chaser has shown that she can live In the worst of ocean storm. A few month ago, he said, a large number of merchantmen under convoy were overtaken by a gale at night The wind was of hurricanlo velocity. The merchantmen became separated and the oonvoylng vessels sought safety In running before the wind The tiny chaser, manned by Americana, tuck by the chip she was protecting from U-boat atUcks.

When the storm abated with the coming of day she was till on guard, the crew a little the worse for the terrible experience, but ready to take a shot at the first periscope that showed above the surface. AIRPLANES In a Crash at Memphis. Former Newspaper Man Killed, and New Yorker Dies Later Both Ready To Go Europe. Memphis. Tenn? February 3d.

Lleuten ant William J. Welsslnger was killed, and W. C. Story fatally Injured, when two military airplanes collided at Park Field late to-day. Story was so badly crushed that he died later in the field hospital.

Welsslnger land Story were making Individual solo flights. Only ttw more hour In the air and they would have finished their courses and soon have been on the way to France. When several hundred feet In the air spectators saw the two machines crash. Crumpled wreckage fell to earth. Both machines were almost completely demolished.

Welsslnger was a newspaper man at Washington beore enlisting. HI home was at Buelah, Miss. Btory was a Harvard football player. He lived at N. V.

FEET Of Slayer Touch Ground When He Is Executed and Spectators Help Hold Rope Taut. aracui. oisPATca to tss sxQciaia. Winnipeg. Man," February 26.

Because the executioner "miscalculated" the distance the condemned man had to drop, It required minute for Jamee Fletcher, twenty-threo-year-old murderer of Gordon Raamussen, a ten-year-old boy, to dlo on the scaffold In the jail yard here to-day. The execution was the moat horrible ever known In Canada. After the trap had been sprung and Fletcher's body had. shot' through Into space, it was discovered that the rorle was too Oung" and that the victim's feet were dragging on the ground. Hangman Elliott who remained standing on the platform above, calmly reached down to the rope and attempted to pull the writhing muffled figure Into tha but he was obliged to call fdr Help.

Two spectators volunteered, and the body of Fletcher waa held taut until be. Was pronounced aeao. BOCHE Casts His Shadow On Now Eight Hours' March Away. American Envoy Gets Ready To Depart As Invading Teuton Host Approaches Capital. Stubborn Resistance Is Met By Germans, Even Berlin Admitting Violent Engagement.

Pskov Changes Hands Several Times Bolsheviki Arm Workingmen To Meet Peril. Germans Refuse Truce Petregrad, Febraary 21 "Gerasaar formally haa refused Kraat aa ar- salstlee aad Gerasaa detaeasaeata eaa. tlaae te adiaaee, mmj mm emelal etateaseat lasaed te-day. Reolsiaara thas beeeaiea (be principal task ef the revelutloa," the statesseat adds. Washington, February it.

The State Department was advised by Ambassador Francis to-dy that yesterday the German army was. only eight hour' march from Petrograd, and that he was preparing to leave the Ruaslan capital. with his staff. The message, which was dated yes-' terday and sent by wsy of Peking, said Mr. Francis would Join the Chinese and Japanese also preparing to leave.

It did not refer to plan of the European diplomat. Arrangement have been made to move the American in Moscow to Samara, E00 miles to the east No immediate occupation of Moscow by German troops Is expected, but it was thought advisable to move the Americans. The Consul-General at Moscow, reporting these arrangements to the State Department to-day, added that all Amer icans there were well. Invaders Meet Resistance. London, February the Germans have met resistance at Pskov on their march on Petrograd.

One report ha the city recaptured by the Bolsheviki, and street fighting there Is men-tloned in dispatches from Petro-sTad. A general arming of Petrograd workingmen Is declared to be In progress, with detachments leaving for the line of the German advance on Petrograd to resist the Teutonlo progress. The Workmen's and Soldiers' Com mittee for Revolutionary Defense, according to Reuter dispatch, placed placard In Petrograd Sunday making this announcement: "The White Guard bands of Hoffman and William, advancing quickly by rail, have occupied Pskov, which Is eight fours' distant from the capital." A Petrograd dispatch to the. Ex change Telegraph Company, dated Monday, says: "That resistance to the German ad vance Is growing Is shown by the re ports of fighting which continue la the vicinity of Pskov. Teuton Army Re-Enforced.

"This town has changed hands sev eral times. The German detachments which- first entered Pskov were very small, but thef have since been re-enforced. "There is a general belief that the Germans are moving forward hastily becauxe supplies of ammunition worth rubles are concentrated in the neighbor- hood of Pskov. The Russians, however, are taking measure's te guard the rallwey and are sending more. Soviet troops to Pakov." Later advices say that the Soviet armies now are resisting the Invaders everywhere.

At Narva the garrison and workmen have formed jm army of 10,000 men and gone to Reval. There are similar reports from Bolsheviki Finally Awaken, Great sctlvlty Is manifested at the Bolshevik headquarters In Petrograd, and arms and ammunition are being distributed. General von Llnstngen's forces operet-ing In Volhynla have captured the town' of Kolenkowlts after a the German General Btaft announced to-day. The statement follows: "Army group of General von Elchhorn: -Yesterday morning, four days After crossing Moon Sound, tho troop Which had marched on Reval with cyclists, cavalry, maebln guns and sharpshooters at thou bead, under command of Lieu-.