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27TH YEAR-DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAI IOWA CITY, IOWA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1917 Washington. Dee. started a powerful osensive in Macedonia probably to anticipate the allies campaign about ready to Along the Cerna river three Tlolent attacks against positions held by the allies have been te- pulsed with heavy jesses, official dispatches stated today. The fighting continues. Military officials interpret the brief reports as presaging, the long PRICE THREE CENTS-- NUMBER 272 41 Over the Top BAKER SAYS PEACE TALK SHOULD NOT SLACKEN WAR PREPARATIONS Washington, Dec.

insidious Christmas peace program "should not for a moment slacken our preparations for war." Secretary of War Baker's weekly review voiced this thought today. Ho pointed out clearly that Germany Is now trying to knock Italy out ofTtHe fight ttnd at the same time is testing out the west front preparatory to what has been heralded as a big offensive. He warned all that America's portion of the struggle is vast and that "our armies constitute the reserve of victory." On the subject of Teuton peace parleys America's task, the 1 secretary said: "It would appear asj a fore-runner of the German of-1 fensive heralded to be launched in, the 1 west that an intensive peace 1 propaganda is under way. Officials here see In the Russian-German gathering at Brest Litovsk an effort by Germany to effect peace' with Russia during the holidays' Amsterdam, Dec. the for "the "psychological effect on oth- enenj does not want peace then er nations.

we mu st bring peace to the world Careful examination of the sit- by the batt ering of our iron fist and nation reveal? that the enemy is our shlnin sword," declared Kaiser again' preparing to sue for peace WIIhelm in a speech to the second before victory, Baker declared. army. "Despite three years of and suffering," the kaiser continued, "our old offensive spirit is still effective. This is shown by our recent victories at Cambrai where the arrogant Briton felt the expected activity In the Balkans. Moreover 100,000 Greek troops mobilized near Salonika are ready to! be thrown against the Bulgars.

The French army at the Greek ports has been greatly reinforced, it was said. A blow Bulgaria now would greatly encourage the Roumanian forces and would lessen the pressure of the Bulgarians. The Roumanian army nearly half a million strong is virtually cut off. GERMANS TRY TO THWART EXPANSION OF SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS Washington, Dec. difficulties" between the imperial German government and the majority socialists have resulted from the conclusion of an armistice with the Russian Maximillilsts, the committee on public information learned today in a message from France.

German military authorities, the message said, are strongly opposed to socialist assemblies and are doing all within their power to thwart, the expansion of socialist move- Jr- ments. Rome, Dec. 2 Teuton I tration of the Italian ty tf attacks launched in the wesit sec Portion of the enemy, the war of-, tor of the Asiago plateau especial- fice announced today. The Italian 0 counter attacks continue aatlsfae- ly at resulted in the pene-J torlly. ITALIAN TROOPS MAKE NEW GAINS London.

Deo. Italian forces between 'ho and Pinve rivers In northern luuy continued their counter drive in the Monte Asolone region and wrested from the enemy further ground, Rome announced. Picked troops from General Diaz's army corps TRAINING FRANCE PROCEEDING WELL. Washington, Dec. TFLLS THAT TEUTON OFFENSIVE IS 8TIIT.

Lady Arthur Paget a Good War Worker I crushing power of our blow." offensive 05 MEN AND SIX OFFICERS ABOARD STEPHEN LOST London, British armed steamer Stephen Furneas has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Irish channel, it was officially announced. Six officers and 95 men were lost. The Stephen Furness was a merchant man of 1,712 tons gross, built In 1910 at West Hartlepool and owned by the Tyne Tee Shipping company of New Castle. She was one of the many merchantmen that have been refitted by the admiralty for naval uses. GUILLAUMATT NAMED COMMANDER OF SALONIKA FORCES Paris, Dec.

Guillau- matt was formally named today to replace General Sarrall as commander in chief of the expeditionary forces out of Salonika. MRS. S. F. HOFFMAN DIES AT HOME Mrs.

S. F. Hoffman died at her home, 330 south Dodge street at 3:30 Sunday morning after an illness of several months. Complication of diseases was the cause of her death. She was 58 years of age and is survived by four children, two sons and two daughters, Rry H.

Hoffman of Rock Island, Arthur S. Hoffman of this city, Mrs. A. B. Kinard of Chicago, and Miss Alice Hoffman at home.

Mrs. Hoffman was well known and liked and respected by all who knew her. She was a devoted member of the Christian church, a loving mother and a kind neighbor. 'The funeral took place this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home. Services took place from the Christian church at 2:30.

Interment was in Oakland cemetery. Their Hunting Hours. Birds of prey generally seek their prey in the daytime, beasts tl prey generally seek theirs night HAVE A RED CROSS SERVICE flAG IN YOUR WINDOW CHRISTMAS tVE And have a RED CROSS on this flan for each one of your family who Is a member You can get it of the local committee by joining as a new member or by paying your annual dues during the Christmas Campaign, Pec. 16 to 25 If all the members of your family are members, there will be a designation. It is hoped that there will be many families in this community.

No work is more important than Red Cross work. It backs up the soldier boys to the care of the sick and wounded, furnishes comforts they would not otherwise get. Our boys will fight well. We can help them by joining the Red Cross. Be pure to display your Red Cross Service Flag Christmas eve.

PRICES OF MEAT, CANNED GOODS, DAIRY PRODUCTS SET IN CHICAGO Washington, Dec. J. Heney, special trust investigator for the federal trade commission, stuttot thnt the packing are in reality a mammoth food trust which hus the entire country in its grasp. This combination, he asserted, ex. te'ads- not only over the "etifllFe' meat market but also pouftry.

eggs, lard products, leather, animal feeds, grain, canned vegetables and fruits. Heney said that completeness of the meat njonopoly is shown by the fact that every stockyard in the United controlled by the big packing triumvirate, Armour Swift and Morris Co. Wilson company, which absorbed the Sulzberger and the Cudahy companies, he said, also is "in on the combination" to a lesser degree. Heney asserted that the disclosures so far -made in this investigation are but an infinitely small part of those to come, and, he continued: "This trust, we Intend to show, absolutely sets the prices te the American consumer of meats, poultry, meat by-products, leather, grain and canned goods, Including meats, vegetables and fruits." Railways Owned by Packers. Evidence established before the corn- Among the most assiduous or Britain's women war workers is Lady Arthur Paget, who was Mary Stevens of New York.

Her husband is commander in chief of the home defense troops in England. WILL CLASSIFY were sent against the positions recently won by the invaders and achieved remarkable success in the face of adverse atmospheric conditions. The newly Won ground was held against a strong Austrc-German counter stroke, I re wbe TM hate and hopr the Italian statement says. lc of tne Ra1nb The Berlin war office, while acknowl- dlvls this Christmas are anxious edging that the Teuton forces are still. rn tle confined to the defensive, asserts that! A a sma11 Portion of the the Italian assaults broke down before American forces have been tested heavy battery fire, by flre but reports to the war partment this afternoon snowed that tralnin is Proceeding so well GENERAL CROZIER that wb the call to battle comes, Dl AUCn DV I CUIIC the Railllbow showing colors of DLAmLU LLW13 twenty-six states among them 'Iowa's colors.

Along with the other EXEMPTION BOARfe Ti START WORK ON ALL REGISTRANTS WHO HAVE RETURNED QUESTIONNAIRES Classification of registrants who havej returned tfceir quesM6fr- Washlngtbn, Dec. Isaac organizations will give a good inventor of the machine gun count of themselves as which bears his name, in testimony before the senate military affairs committee, blames General Crozier for the failure to supply guns to the American forces $ow in France and declared the war department "cursed with Preceding Colonel Lewis, E. E. Borie, president of the Savage com nany, which manufactures the Lewis gun, told the committee that evett after the United States had entered f.he war the army ordnance bureau had refused his offer of thousands of these guns, hich eagerly (mapped up by the my offers had been tmu ucTTii naires witt. commence- -Wednesday said Borie, would have had according to Ed Sulek of the local more, machine guns at the out- exemption board.

ac set of the war." Already 400 questionnaries have! Borie said his firm had been "flab- been received by the local board bergasted" by an order Jast summer and each draftee must be placed in from the war department to stop mak- his proper class. This class wiirbe 1n Lewis and start on the according to his liability ifor Browning "a weapon we know eral service. The loeaf ''-board is com- absolutely nothing about," he. added. posed of Sheriff fivan Rowland, Dr.

Uls Parthian shot before ledving the Rohner of the" 8tand wai "Let's a dir have always done. The Rainbow- boys are well and happy as a set of men can ibe whose steps stray from home in the holiday season. They are well supplied. Christmas gifts from home have arrived and been distributed. COMMERCIAL CLUB WANTING NAMES Commercial club headquarters tt still receiving names from; relatives and friends of Johnson county soldier boys and the list is growing until now it is almost 300.

A. card index system is being kept of these men and all information carefully filed. However it ia known that a number of men have left the county to join various departments of the service that have not been accounted for and various ones have been transferred which, has net been reported toUite Com- medial fclub. Mr. Huebner r.

Rohner of the" University hospital 8tand and Ed Sulek, county auditor. munitions a big, broad-minded man. After the local 'Board has 8 gc a he-man, a pussy-foot." of keeping this record that this highly profitable corporation were made to the government for the purpose of income and surtaxes, both cor- oc MUC nuu mission that Armour Co. and other orate and individual. TVTM the stock So far as thc evidencc I pany to show that the government a a received the just taxes due from the ing interests control the stockyards enormous profits.

I Commissioner Colver a especiallv The Chicago Junction Railways nnd interested in this phase, and the corn- Stockyards company Is the operating. i ss on intends to rail the matter to company. It is owned by the New Jer- the attention of Internal Revenue Comsey corporation, which, in turn, is uiissioner Roper and to give him ac- owned by the Maine corporation. Dice ss to the commission's records rectors of the operating company were shown to be Harry Veeder, attorney for Swift Co. Arthur Meeker, vire president of Armour J.

A. Spoor, trustee of the estate of Morris Silas H. Strawn, attorney for the packers; R. Fitzgerald, a relative its classification" it will ntrttfy Colonel Lewis was even more graph- registrants as to and lc hi de8 official inepti- the party will have 'five days with- tude ln he war nrtmen and more in which he can file an appeal from bitter ta Ms of it. the decision.

The responsibility for these shameful, conditions rests on the ordnance bureau," he said, "and General Crozier Is more responsible than any man liv- Ing for the present obsolete and in- I adequate equipment of the American f- Among other statements made by iMoimriuB lo answer critics Colonel Lewis were these: the "The American forces in Europe BAKER TO ANSWER WAR DEPT. CRITICS 'fiends co-operate in the work up to data at all times by sending in all information relative to. the whereabouts of the Johnson county Baker of the war department before senate military probe. His testimony will show, the administration officials declare, remarkable progress in war despite unusual conditions. THE DAILY CITIZEN AVILL NOT BE ISSl'KD TOMORROW OX ACCOUNT OP CHRISTMAS DAY HOSTILE RAIDS ALONG BRITISH FRONT REPULSED London, Dec.

of hostile raids from several sections of the British line was reported by Field Marshal Haig today south of of the Swifts: H. A. Perento. mana- ger of the Central Manufacturing rtis- trlct; E. 7 R.

Trayer and F. H. Prince, president of the New Jersey corporation. It was the first time the names of Armour, Swift and Morris were definitely linked with the affairs of the Chicago Stockyards company. It was hinted also that the big packers, through Interlocking directorates, had some hand In the Libby, Cudahy, Schwarzschild Snlzherger, Anglo- American, Hammond, Lipton nnd International companies.

Sought to Sidetrack Agents. Testimony was introduced to show that when the packing Interests learned of the federal trade commission's investigation they redoubled their efforts Ephey. Yesterday afternoon enemy attempted a raid but driven off with heavy loss. the was to throw the investigators off the track of the real ownership of the Chicago Stockyards" company by a hasty distribution of (he warrant shares held under a trusteeship for unnamed owners. The same day Hint Investigators visited the office of Frederick K.

Prince In Boston, where the share wnr- ifWUs were held, 34,480 shares were divided Into 17 portions. After thnt the nhare warrants were transferred a number of times. Profits Tax Involved, N. Manning, bookkeeper for A Co, and "dummy" secretary of the. Cbifimo Siockypfd THREE GERMAN DIVISIONS CUT TO have no guns except those they got from Prance.

"The Browning gun, which was adopted by- the war department, exists only on paper and is a figment of the Imagination. bureau has always been hostile to Lewis guns; it has regarded them with suspicion, notwithstanding thousands are in use ia Europe." Colonel Lewis said that although his gun had been offered to the United THE POPE SENDS MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OP AMERICA THROUGH UNITED PRESS Copyrighted 1917, United Press Rome, Dec. Benedict today sent to the people of America in a statement through the United Press the following Christmas message: "The Holy Father sends to the people of America his cordial greet- J. ,3, THE WEATHER Generally fair and colder tonight with cold wave. Tuesday fair and colder in south and extreme portion.

LOCAL AVEATHER REPORT 24 Hours Preceding 7 a. m. Today. Temperature: Maximum, 49. Minimum, 29.

Precipitation, inches, none. State of weather, cloudy. Direction of wind, S. E. Questionnaires been mailed today to registrants having order numbers be- tween 901 and 1144 inclu- sive.

4 PIECES BY ITALIANS Washington, Dec. Teuton divisions, approximately 60,000 men were lllterally cut to pieces by the Italians in the German offensive against Mt. Asolone and nearby positions according to Rome dispatches today. Commanders of the seventh and eighth Austrian brigades and General Pfeffer, commander of the fourth Austrian division have been seriously injured, captured prisoners declare. With the recapture of States free of royalty and other ings and prays they may take to Influence of General Cro- heart in this time of strhe and the department had been suf- suffering, the true lessons of the 910 A A X.

A Christmas tide, the lesson of God's unceasing love for mankind and the lessons of unfaltering courage and sacrifice of self. "More especially he calls upon the little children to whom this day of days belongs, to pray with all their, hearts to the babe of Bethlehem that he may protect their loved ones and give back to the world the peace he came to bring upon earth." nclent cause the offer to be rejected. He said he Is ready now to end the controversy and will make further efforts to have this country adopt the use of his. gun. Colonel Lewis.said he took his Invention to the chief of staff, then Mai, Wood.

He said General Wood favored his The inventor explained. "1 wanted to present It to the government "As late as last June I went to the secretary of war nnd offered him all my Interests without pay. The only condition was that the official test should not be made at the Springfield arsenal." Deny Plan te Repeat Offer of Peace. lcuop iu, 0 Ul Amsterdam, Pec. Categorical positions on Mt.

Asolone the Italians denifl "reports in the foreign press have reestablished their position on tnat German 'U repeat her peace of the menacing portions of the line fer WBS re 8ter ed by the semiofficial EIGHTEEN GERMAN MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN IN DECEMBER Paris, Dec. December 1 to December 23, French air fighters have brought down eighteen German air craft in hundreds of aerial encounters behind the German lines. The statement to4ay mentioned many newspaper Cologne Gazette, according to dispatches received here. Austria Expels 49 Chinamen. Berne, Dec.

China- men, expelled from Austria on account of China's declaration of war against that country, arrived here on their war to Paris, Paths to Happiness. It Is the most beautiful truth In morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or Interest from our race. In their welfare Is ours, and by the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our Kulwer bytton. Trlwte'a Chief Industry. Trieste, in Austria, is a center of meerschaum pipe Industry.

Monday, Dec. 31, Hudachek, public sale, 31-2 miles goulih at Solon, 9 miles north of Iowa 'City, 6 head of horses; head of cattle; 80 head of hogs; buzz Raw outfit; grain and farm machinery. EWSPAPERl EWSPAPERI.