St. John's Daily Star, 1917-10-20

              The St. John's Daily Star Newfoundland VOLUME lIL '($3.00 per Annum)] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917. (Price: One Cent.) No. 241. LONDON AGAIN RAIDED LAST NIGHT. BULGARS DISTRUST HUNS WANT SEPARATE PEACE Agents Have Already Presented Her Case To The Entente Governments. GERMANY'S IDEALS AND IDEAS DON'T APPEAL TO THE BULGARS COPENHAGEN, Oct. 19.—While Em- peror William and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria have been exchanging assurances at Sofia of the unshakeable loyalty of Bulgaria and Germany to each other, and of the permanent nature of the alliance of the two countries, Bulgarian agents abroad have been endeavoring to get into touch with the Entente Powers on the subject of peace and subsequent relations. Their efforts are declared to be inspired by apprehension that Germany and Austria-Hungary, particularly the latter, may not be over-zealous in defending Bulgaria's interest at the peace conference, as well as by the desire on Bulgaria's part to escape from revolving in an exclusively German orbit after the war. The Associated Press correspondent is able to report that a Bulgarian representative recently sought and obtained an opportunity in a neutral European capital to lay before the Entente Governments the special desire of his country with regard to peace settlement, and in a one-sided conversation explained Bulgarian aspirations to regain independent political status as soon as the war was concluded and resume cordial relations with the Entente Powers. As the case was presented in short, the Central Europe idea of an economic league in which Bulgaria would play a comparatively minor roll, doesn't appeal to the Bulgarian mind. Attempts are being also made to get before the public in America and in Entente countries, a defence of Bulgarian pretensions to Macedonia and Dobrudja, the suggestion even being openly made from the Bulgarian side that Serbia should be compensated with Austrian territory from Bosina and Herzogovina, a suggestion which is pointed to as, illustrative of the attitude of many Bulgars toward their own allies. The correspondent has of late heard of considerable ill-feeling between Bulgars and their allies. Complaints" are made that Bulgarian divisions were, compelled to march long distances on foot, while the favored German troops rolled past them in trains. This favoritism aroused particular bitterness on the part of a Bulgarian division from the capital. The German attempt to maintain control of Bulgaria's single coal field has excited much unfriendly comment also in Bulgaria, and Field Marshal yon Mackensen is charged with favouring Roumanians at Bulgarian expense. Furthermore, the press controversy  tain German and Austrian newspapers, in which the Serbian claims to parts of Macedonia were defended, apparently has left an indelible pressure of distrust on the Bulgarian public opinion, an impression which the public declarations of the German Minister and interchange of cordial telegrams between German and Bulgarian statesmen seems to have been unable to efface. It remains to be seen whether Emperor William's trip, declared to have been undertaken with this purpose in view, will prove any more successful. ■ m* • Miss Belle Butt and Capt. Edgecombe, of the schooner June, will be united in matrimony at Gower Street Church, on Wednesday afternoon ;next, at 2.30. SOMETHING THEY WILL NEVER DO FOR THE FATHERLAND.— Vancouver Province. t TO PARTICIPATE U. S. Will Be Represented at the Next Allied Conference. DARIS, Oct. 10.—Commenting today on the announcement from Washington as to the possibility of the United States being represented in the next Allied conference, Jules Camdon, General Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said: We are not merely desirous of seeing the United States participate, but such participation is absolutely necessary to give essential importance to the roll the United States will play not only in the war but in the settlement that will follow. It seems to mc that there is some misapprehension, as the question of conference has not yet arisen, but only the question of a meeting of the great Powers to prepare the ground for an eventual conference. As yet, howeverthe date and details for the preliminary meeting have not been fixed. . The smaller nations will not be included, as their inclusion as yet, would make the number of conferees too great for real work. DESTROYED TWO TORPEDO BOATS Germans Hare Landed Troops on Dago Island—Russian Score Several Hits on Hun Dreadnoughts DETROGRAD, Oct. 20—The text of to-day's official report is as follows: In the Baltic Sea, during the battle of Wednesday, at the southern entrance to Moon Sound, several hits were observed by our battleships on enemy dreadnoughts. Two trawlers were sunk by our fire. Thursday, in Moon Sound, two enemy torpedo boats ran into our minefields where they were blown up .and sank. In the German naval units which participated in the operation, are reported as not being less than ten dreadnoughts of the newest type, ten cruisers and not less than, fifty destroyers of which about twenty were of the newest Novik type, and between eight and ten submarines. With these forces, there are operating a very large number of trawlers and other auxilaries including transports, hydroplanes and rafts. During the evening of yesterday we definitely established that at noon Wednesday, after preliminary bombardment, the enemy began to land troops on Dago Island north of the Village of Serre. Reports are current that about eleven enemy ships, probably torpedo boats, passed during the night of Wednesday off Kuiwast on the eastern coast of Moon Island. ~tmA^ • m> » — ' *-<-'*»- Meagre food Allowance. Washington, Oct. 20—The rations now allowed the German people and civ ilian population of the ocupied portions of France and Belgium, details of which have just reached the Food Administration, are now insufficient to maintain bodily health and vigor. The French and Belgians get considerably less than the amount apportioned to the Germanpopulation, and they get no meat except bacon. —•— P , Two Germans Sunk. Petrograd, Oct. 19.—Two German torpedo boats were sunk in the minefields in Moon Sound yesterday, the War Office announces. LARGE FLEET WASENGAGED Hun Flotilla Operating Against Russians Included Ten Dreadnoughts Besides Large Number of Other Craft ARTILLERY DUELS ON WESTERN FRONT THE American army transport Antilles has been attacked and s>:nk by a German submarine, with the loss of about 70 lives. This is the second American ship the Germans have torpedoed during the past week and on succeeding days. The other craft was a torpedo boat destroyer which suffered a loss of one life and five wounded. Both ships were attacktd within the war zone, the destroyer last Tuesday and the transport the following day. The destroyer made port, though severely damaged, but the transport sank within five minutes after the torpedo from the unseen submarine struck her abreast of the engine room bulkhead. The Antilles was homeward bound,! presumably from a French port, where probably she had debarked troops and stores. She had 227 persons aboard, among them navy and army officers and some 33 enlisted men of the army. All the officers were saved, but sixteen of the soldiers and three of the ship's officers perished. The remainder of the dead belonged to the crew of the transport. The torpedo of the submarine found its mark against the side of the transport, notwithstanding the fact that the transport was being convoyed by vessels of the American patrol, and that officers of the army and navy and enlisted men aboard were returning to the United States on special assignments, or possibly invalided or discharged from the service. Singularly reticent is the German War Office in its latest official statement, with regard to the operation of German naval forces against the Russian squadron, which is presumed to be bojtled up.in Moon Sound, merely dealing with the naval battle which resulted in the sinking of the Russian battleship Slava. The most recent communication from Petrograd gives a few further details of the situation. From this latter statement the fact is gleamed that the Germans at noon on Wednesday began landing troops on Dago Island, which lies directly north of Oesel Island, after heavy bombardment. The German naval units engaged in the conquest of the three Islands and in an attempt to destroy the Russian fleet, was comprised of at least ten of the newest dreadnoughts, ten cruisers, not less than fifty torpedo boat destroyers and between eight and ten submarines, in addition to the large number of trawlers and other auxiliaries .and hydro-airplanes and otheraircraft, which are working with the enemy. Two German torpedo boats, were destroyed while running through the mine field in Moon Sound, according to Petrograd. Two German trawlers have been sunk by fire of the Russian fleet. That the seriousness of the situation is fully recognized by Russia, is indicated by the fact that although such a contingency had been rekoned on previously, but not carried out. The Russian capital is to be moved from Petrograd to Moscow in the very near future. The civil population is already evacuating Reval, one of the principle Russian ports on the Gulf of Finland. Artillery duels continue to be the principal method of warfare in the major theatres of war. British and French artillery are still answering the fire vigorously at various poms along the Menin Road and at Bonnebeke. Little infantry activity is taking place except in the nature of raids. I OUTLINES GENERAL PEACE CONDITIONS Stockholm Conference Outimes General Program Under Which it Considers Peace Should Be Made STOCKHOLM, Oct. 19.—The organizing committee of the Stockholm Conference has drawn up a manifesto declaring from the experience of the three years' war, it is not rash to draw the conclusion that there will be a victory by neither side either in 1917 or 1918 or even later. It indicates as general conditions under which it considers peace should be made: Complete evacuation of all occupied territories in Europe and colonies, and restoration of devastated territory by means of an international fund. The special conditions demanded by the manifesto are complete political and economic re-establishment of Belgium with cultural autonomy for Flanders and the restoration of all contributions and requisitions raised contrary to international law. The amount of damages to be paid by Germany to be left to The Hague arbitration court; the solution of the Alsace-Lorraine question to be arrived at by plebiscite; the restoration of Serbia, which in common with Bulgaria and Greece, would have free access to the district and port of Salonika. Bulgaria to be given Eastern Macedonia as far as Vardar; an independent Poland; the Polish districts of Austria and Germany to enjoy as wide autonomy as possible, and the different nationalities of Russians to enjoy territorial autonomy within a federative republic; the independence of Finland united to Russia; .the solution of the problem of Bohemia by means of a reunion of Czechs in a single federative state with Austria; the Italian districts of Austria not ceded to Italy to enjoy cultural autonomy. The political independence of Ireland within the Dominion of Great Britain; the independence of Turkish Armenia; the international solution of the Jewish problem and personal indedependence for Jews in districts of Russia, Austria, Roumania and Poland, where they are massed together, with protection for a Jewish colony in Palestine.The manifesto declares in favor of compulsory arbitration, general disarmament, suppression of any kind of economic warfare, and extension of parliamentary control over foreign policy. AVIATORS BOMB HOSTILE WORKS Six Hostile Machines, Downed in Air Fighting—Enemy Airdrome and Billets Bombed. Oct. 20.—The British official statement dealing with aviation, issued this evening, says: Early on the morning of Thursday the weather was brilliantly fine, but by 9 o'clock low thick clouds lifted up from the west. Artillery work and photography were carried out by our airplanes, and in the course of the day two and a half tons of bombs were dropped on large gun positions in the region.of railway siding near Ghent, and various hostile billets and hutments.At riight another ton of bombs were dropped on Courtrai Station and the German airdrome in that vicinity. In air fighting six hostile machines were downed and four driven down out of control, while another was shot down by anti-aircraft gun fire. Seven of our machines are missing. ■ ■  Sunk Intentionally Petrograd, Oct. 20—The Slava was unable to follow the other Russian ships retiring northward, and was sunk by her own crew in order to bar the way to the enemy's vessels, said Marine Minister Verdevski just before starting today to join the Baltic Fleet. LONDON RAIDED. London, Oct. 19. (Midnight) * * i—Six or seven airships raided * * the eastern counties of England. * * dropped bombs at various * * points, including a few in Lon- * don area, according to an * * official statement just issued. • * At this hour the raid is still * * proceeding. • THREE U. S. SHIPS ARE TORPEDOED Bark Paolina, Schooners Crocket and Henry Lippitt Victims of U-Boats— Crew In Each Case Saved fiN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 19.—(8y Associated Press.)—Attacks on three American sailing ships by German submarines were reported by their crews who reached here today on a French liner. Capt. Mortinsen, of the three masted American bark Paolina, of 1198 tons, said that on September 25 when his vessel was 140 miles from Brest she was fired on by a U-boat but not»hit. The Germans then came alongside, looted her and sank her with bombs. The captain and his crew escaped in small boats and were picked up by a French destroyer. The Paolina had a cargo of oil and steel. Another crew, from the American schooner Crocket, of Philadelphia, reported that three months ago their ship was torpedoed by a submarine near Brest but did not sink. The Germans looted her and then abandoned her. Later their ship was towed into Brest and sold. She had a cargo of oil. Also on the same liner was the crew of the four masted schooner Henry Lippitt, 895 tons, of Philadelphia, whose sinking had previously been reported. RUSS. GOVERNMENT TO MOVE TO MOSCOW Petrograd Is Now Considered To Be In The Direct War Zone—Quarters Arranged For Diplomats pETROGRAD, Oct. 19—Though a definite date hasn't been set, it will be in the very ne.ar future, said M. Kishkon, in announcing the Government's intention to move, in an interview with The Bourse Gazette. No one is now permitted to go to Moscow except on Government business he continued. The proposed evacuation has been under way by the Government departments for a long time. The Government is to occupy one of the buildings in the Kremlin at the ancient capital. The preliminary Parliament will convene in Petrograd on Saturday and move to Moscow later. The determination to move the Government is said to be in keeping with the belief of the Chief of Staff that Petrograd is now in the direct war zone. The Government takes the position that it is merely following the precedent set by the French Government when it moved to Bordeaux in the first year of the war. The announcement of the decision is to be made to the preliminary parliament at its first meeting. Quarters are to be found in Moscow for Parliament and also for the diplomatic corps. The correspondent was informed last night by diplomatic representatives here that they held not been officially notified of the decision. They understood, however, that the Government had sought quarters for them in Moscow in the event of an emergency. » ««»» ■  Pugilistic Encounter. 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