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Enemies Within

^Var Is forplutocrats,Says Nearing

pamphlet Declares LibertyLoan Was Floated to

Help Profiteers

Arrest on ChargeOf Treason Urged

Inaction of U. S. AttorneyGeneral Denounced byHenry A. Wise Wood

The discovery was made yesterdaykit a pamphlet by Scott Nearing, at¬

tacking the Liberty Loan, questioning:President Wilson's sincerity and charg¬

eât this country' entered the war

¡hat American business men mightmike huge profits, is being circulated- view York v ithout interference bythe Department of Justice,<"*Thc pamphlet was characterized byiienrv ¿v. Wise Wood, who discoveredit, "as the most seditious pro-Germanpropaganda that the Kaiser's aids havebad the BUdacity to attempt in thisçjuntry."

50.000 Copies CirculatedMr. Wood, who is chairman oJ the

Conference Committee on National Pre¬paredness, has évidence that 50,000»opies of this pamphlet, have beeiu cir-_ited, mostly in New York, but some

far West as the Colorado mininglistricts. Mr. Wood was put on themil of the pamphlet by a clipping from: Colorado country newspaper, whichexposed its distribution out of Denver;y automobile.N'earing is one of the leaders of

the People's Council of America. He.¡ad leer, aparently "laying off work"for the las«, few weeks. His last esca¬pade with Federal authorities was whenlimed States Marshal McCarthy de¬nounced him at a People's Council*ictinpr.Mr. Wood found that all the timetearing was apparently "being good"lis pamphlets were merrily going the

founds, under the noses of the Federalauthorities-

Mr. Wood said thai the most aston¬ishing part of his discovery was thetact that the work of circulating thisaamphlet lias been going- on here inNew York for fully two i lonths.The broadcast circulation of theSearing pamphlet is another proof thatthe Depart iiient of Justice needs to use

more drastic methods with tiie GermanI spies in this country, asserted Mr.Wood. He said he would demand thatAttorney General Gregory put Nearingon trial fm- treason and go alter Ger-nnagents in general more rigorously,»lise resign iron« office.A salesman in the book shop of theíand School of Social -Science lastnighl admitted that 50.000 copies hadalready been circulated.

Excerpts From PamphletHere are paragraphs from Ncaring'scamphlet"The large manufacturing plants,»hich had been erected for the pur-". of supplying mui itions to theHü« had d( livered most of their con¬tracts and were waiting for additionallar orders. The banking interests, ledV. the Morgan firm, had backed thell ics financially. Allied failure,therefore, meant disaster to American''"»anee. These vast profitsrom war business) would cease ifthe submarine blockade succeeded."The business interests had playedor a great .-lake Th« y had played{ainsi the wellbeing of the Americandemocracy. The prize they sought was»billion dollars a year in profits,«rapped in the folds of the flag anduttering resounding declarations of¡Patriotism, on April 0 the business in¬vests won a victory of terrible im¬port to the American democracy.'Turning their backs upon principle,«rowing mora!, and ideals to the*inds, they tumbled over one another!s wild scramble to be the first to'':n the chorus of plutocratic patriot¬ic.The President hurried to the rescue'-: his preposterous phrase 'armed"»rality.* The President,rHhout any authority from Congress,«rmed the merchant" ships and gave;"nstorff his papers. The business"«rests went wild with joy."

Attacks Liberty Loan¦r. Nearing devotes a whole chapter'-ne Liberty loan. This is some of it:¡-'Some «lav, when all the facts are".'.«tcd. the -tory .f the salo of the'"wtyloan will be told and it willwas hateful, as barbarous and as bru-as any event since- the war con¬tacts of the Spanish-American war.The Liberty Loan was a signal(Ctory for plutocracy and an equally"Wal defeat for democracy. It didmore to bulwark the position of the^.ilocratic despots of the United:a!''M than it will ever do for libcrtvEurope."

nu!'"*'- turtner writes:"">' did the American plutocracy".sire to crush Germany? Was it to"»troy despotism there? The idea isr/*Posterous. The despotism in any.n«, factory or railroad of the United**teg is more complete than that ofat t 8er' ^'lp American plutocracyfattened on despotism for genera-The American plutocracy was no""«.interested in establishing democ-Yin Germany than they were in es-,fishing democracy in' the United!.:^!s- -.. The President statedls*Ue in quite another form, but, noter what lie may say, he cannot <"^-;rP« the fact that the plutocracy of theJte<i States was behind him in a

, .. . A hundred millions ofin» '¦" l*'° balance counted as not hi',; a"airjst the menace of commercial«osses.fr'{|l'1'w.cuu'"1 the plutocracy- the dis-i¿ '!;... v'lifted plutocracy get pub-P'liion'.' There was only one was;!;'-"' line up with some cause^ "Quid con,maud public confidence.Continued on Last Page

Adams LosingIn Race forChairmanship j

Hays's Strength Increases as

Republican CommitteemenGather in St. Louis

[Staff Correspondence]ST. LOUIS. Feb. 10..In spite of rose

colored hopes by the advocates of"harmony" there are pretty sure in¬dications of a good sized scrap and, in-cidental heart burnings over the choiceof a new Republican National Commit¬tee chairman to succeed William R.Willcox, of New York. A successor!also «ill be chosen on Tuesday toTreasurer Cornelius X. Bliss, of NewYork.The friends of John T. Adams, of

Dubuque, Iowa, vico-chnirman of thecommittee and national committeemanfrom that state, assert that he has¡»bout twenty-two votes pledged. Mr.Adams is the candidate of the "stand¬patters," or so-called reactionaries.The members of the committee who

believe in heartily welcoming back theProgressives and recognizing them inthe distribution of emoluments arelikely to back Will H. Hays, of Indiana,chairman of the Indiana state commit¬tee, jChairman Willcox, Senator Caldcr,with Herbert Parsons'* proxy; GeorgeW. Perkins, General T. Coleman du jPont. Frank H. Hitchcock, GovernorLivingston Beekman of Rhode Island,Fred Sterling, Illinois »state chairman,and Harold Ickcs, of Chicago, allreached St. Louis to-night.Chairman Willcox found James B.

Reynolds, secretary of the committee, jawaiting him. They soon had a confer¬ence, after which Mr. Willcox said:'.We shall not get down to businessuntil to-morrow; al! i can say to-night«is that 1 am confident that patriotismand common sense will dominate theminds of the committeemen when they Iconsider the reorganization of the jcommittee on Tuesday.The support of Adams gives indica- !tiens of falling to pieces. He seems ¡to have made the mistake of supposing '

that cordially worded letters sent tohim in answer to his solicitations arepledges of support. Mayor WilliamHale Thompson, of Chicago, and Al-t'red T. Rogers, of Wisconsin, havecome out for Adams, but they are sopro-German in their natural leaningsthat their support, hurts rather than ¡aids. IAdams seems ta have rounded upnearly all the members of the commit-tee from the »Southern states.The Adams men were surprised to¬night on the arrival of Earl S. Kinsley,committeeman from Vermont, to learnthat Mr. Kinsley is not for Adams un¬less Adams is able to show at the con¬ference of the executive committee to¬morrow forenoon that he is practicallythe unanimous choice. Mr. Kinsley hada conference to-day with GovernorGoodrich of Indiana and GovernorBeekman of Rhode Island, as a result ofwhich it is reasonably certain that hewill vote for Hays for chairman.The Hays men are steadily makingprogress. Joseph B. Kealing, the bigchic-' of Indianapolis, is already onthe ground working for Hays and hewill be joined to-morrow by GovernorGoodrich, Fred A. Pinis, former Sen¬ator James A. Hemenway and others.Hays himself will not be' at the meet¬ing. Governor Goodrich advisedagainst; it.

Tuscania LifehLONDON, Feb. 10..The Tuscania's

second officer had a remarkable experi¬ence, according to reports front Gl«s-'gow. He was in a boat with fortyothers. He said:

"All at once we bumped into some¬

thing hard, and when I looked aroundthere was a submarine lying awash tolook at. his dirty work. What could we

do? We simply carried on and got

Lénine GuardsMurder FinnsBy Wholesale

Swedish Refugees Tell Har¬rowing Stories of Reign

of Terror

!'.>¦ The Associated l'russjSTOCKHOLM, Feb. 10.- Scandina¬

vian refugees brought to Stockholm bythe first Swedish relief expedition tellharrowing stories of wholesale murderby the Red Guards in Helsingfors andTammerfors. In the latter city, ac¬

cording to reports some of t¿hem bring,seventy youths were stood against a

wall and mowed down with machin gunfire while they wept and pleaded formercy. Their bodies were then strippedand mutilated.Red Guards are reported hunting

down students remorselessly, and thetotal murders in Holsingfors. it is esti¬mated, will reach into the hundreds.

Socialist Leaders HelplessThe situation has got entirely out of

the hands of Socialist, leaders of thotype of Senator Manner and formerPremier Tokoi. »he accounts indicate.Persons familiar with Finland declarethey have no doubt the majority of thecountry's Socialists are lighting on thegovernment's sicTe. They point out thatthe district where the White Guards'strength was chiefly recruited is nor¬mally a Socialist stronghold. The re¬volt, they contend, could be quicklysuppressed if it were not for the Rus¬sian soldiers and sailors who are light¬ing on the side of the Reds on ordersfrom the Smolny Institute, in Petro¬grad.

That Lénine. Trotzky and their as¬sociates in Russia regard the Finnishstruggle as a first step in spreadingthe Bolshevik revolution westward isindicated by an interview with Lé¬nine published in the local Bolshevikorgan, the "Politiken." In this Lé¬nine declared: "We shall soon disposeof the small state?." Upon the inter¬view the "Politiken" comments this:"What is going on in Finland now

is only a rehearsal for the Europeandrama on which the curtain is slowly-going up."

Covernment Asked for ArmsSelma Lagerlof. a writer, and other

prominent Swedish women have joinedin a petition to the government to per¬mit the shipment of arms for theforces of General Mannerheim, theWhite Guard leader.A Swedish relief boat will leave to¬

morrow for Mantyluoto, taking provis¬ions and money furnished by Minister.Morris for the American Consul atHelsingfors.Constantino Diamandy, Rumanian

Minister to Russia, who was «lismissedby the Bolsheviki, reached »Stockholmon Saturday night. He was accom¬panied by his staff and members of theRumanian colony in Petrograd.

oat Hit U-Boatpicked u]t. The tin fish submerged im-mediately after.""The Sunday Times" to-day says it is

finally established that the Tuscaniasank while an attempt was being madeto tow her toward the Irish coast. Thefact that no submarine attack was madeeither on her or on the towing boats isregarded as confirming the belief thatthe submarino was destroyed by theconvoying warships.

Berlin SendsUltimatumTo Rumania

Demands That Peace Nego¬tiations Begin in

Four Days

LONDON, Feb. 10..Germany hassent an ultimatum to Rumania de¬manding that peace negotiations bebegun within four days. News of thisreached London to-day from both Rus-sian and Swiss sources.

Tlu« Swiss dispatch quotes Germannewspapers as saying that Field Mar¬shal von Mackensen sent the ultimatumlast Wednesday and that it expired to¬day, while the Russian advices assertthat it was presented Tuesday and ex-

pired yesterday. Both agree that theRumanian Cabinet has resigned as aresult of the demands.From Zurich comes a dispatch to the

effect that the separate peace signedwith the Ukraine is the equivalent of adeclaration of war by the CentralPowers against the Bolsheviki. The,"Züricher Zeitung," expressing thisopinion, doubts also whether theUkraine is in a position to conclude aneffective peace.Joybells were rung in Berlin and

there were rejoicings at. Vienna overhe conclusion of a separate peace withthe Kiev Rada, while Leon Trotzky, the.Bolshevik Foreign Minister, was stilldisputing the right of that Rada to rep-resent Ukrain-e at the Brest-Litovsk ne¬

gotiations, and while Ukraine is stilltorn by civil war.The peace treaty with Ukraine, ac¬

cording to Berlin dispatches, includesmutual renunciation of reimbursementof war costs and indemnification of wardamages; permission for the respectivewar prisoners to return to their homesor remain in the country where theyare imprisoned or proceed to anothercountry: économie relations to be. re¬sumed forthwith.

It is also rumored that the CentralPowers have made an offer of militaryassistance to the Kiev Rada in over¬coming the Bolshevik invasion. HowFar the invasion has been successful,or whether the Kiev Rada, represent¬ing the moderate Socialists, will he'able firmly to establish its authorityagainst the Kharkov Rada, represent¬ing the Bolsheviki, is unknown.There i1- little news of the progress

of the fighting in Ukraine, and so farthe reported capture of the town ofMobile«- and of Ensign Krylenko, theBolshevik commander in chief, restsentirely on German reports. Xo con¬firmation is forthcoming from anyRussian or independent, source.

Clearly German policy' is being de-voted to using peace with Ukraine asa lever to bring pressure to bear onTrotzky.

Fuel HolidayTo Save Little

Coal To-dayExemptions to Closing Order

Permit Many Factoriesto Open

Whether New Yorkers should encirclothe date on to-day's calendar as Work-¦ess Monday or Exemption Day is a

weighty problem on which local fueladministrators were struggling until a¡ate hour last night. If the former, theday is expected to be one of fuel sav¬ing, whereas it will be but a day ofannoyance to the city'? workers if itcomes under the latter classification.Numerous exceptions to the original

blanket workless Monday order are re¬sponsible for the present, aoutJl as tothe value of the day from the stand¬point of fuel conservation. More than200,000 garmen't workers will continuetheir duties under the exemptionsgranted by Dr. Harry A. Garticld tothat trade, according to estimates madeyesterday.But that is not the most serious

aspect of the case. Various othertrades, notably the millinery trade, asrepresented by the Millinery Chamberof Commerce, are convinced that theyshould be exempted on the same hu-manitarian grounds that led to the ex¬emption of the garment workers. Mil¬liners cannot afford to lose a day's payfrom their busy season, argue the mil¬liners' representatives, any more thanthe garment workers. Moreover, theysee no reason why a hat shouldn't beclassified as a woman's garment andcome under the Garfield exemption rul-ing without further discussion.

fear Others May OpenBecause of this difference of opinionit is feared that numerous businesshouses may continue operations to-day on the theory that they comeunder the list of exempted trades, orcould not be punished for violating theclosing edict on the theory that "there

was a reasonable doubt."Hundreds of loft building?« will beheated in order to permit the garmentworkers to continue business and, be-

cause of their activities, other bu'si-nesses dependent upon this industrymust continue in order to feed mate¬rials into these houses.As a result of this complicated situa¬tion it was a question whether muchfuel would be conserved because of to¬day's Monday closing. Ordinarily it hasbeen estimated that half of the coalbeing consumed in the city under fam¬ine conditions or 25,000 tons dailyshould be saved by the .Monday conser¬

vation day. But, with the numerousexemptions that have been issued forto-day, it is believed that less than one-f(¦¦V't-h, o¦£ that., total., possibly a scart6,000 tons, might be .saved, tf this esti¬mate is correct, the heads of big indus¬tries that are losing small fortunes be¬cause of the enforced shut-down of*their plants, are expected to demand ageneral suspension of the weekly clos¬ing plan.

Alore Coal Reaches CityFor the first time since the com in vof the present mild weather the, citybegan to feel the effect of a freer de¬

livery of coal yesterday. Slightly over2»j,000 tons of fuel were landed in Man¬hattan during the day, and it is con¬sidered likely that .';,">,000 tons may bereceived to-day, which is a larger quan¬tity of anthracite than has been deliv-ered to the city on any one day sincethe present coal stringency set in.

Reorganization of the city's deliverysystems, the opening of all fuel andfreight terminals and ..bunkers in citybasements for the receiving of coal areexpected to result in this maximum ofactual coal here by the end of theworkless day.The national fuel administration is¬

sued another statistical statement dur¬ing the day. in which it is explainedthat this nation has the largest percapita annual consumption of coal inthe world. The coal consumption hereper adult is 5.62 tons, according to thisstatement, as against 3.83 for theUnited Kingdom and ;!.:»."> for Belgium.Although the United States has beenproducing twice as much coal as thenext largest producer.-the UnitedKingdom these figures are accepted asan indication of the opportunity forfuel saving in this country.It. is pointed out that both Englandand Germany had exported coal to theWest Indies and »South America pre¬vious to the war. but that the UnitedStates now was called upon to supplythat demand. That was just one ofthe reasons advanced in explanation ofthe. present shot tage.WASHINGTON". Feb. 10..The Easi

will observe to-morrow what fuel ad¬ministrai ion officials to-night predict¬ed would be its last heatless Monday.Already the closing order has been sus¬pended in so far as it applies to eightSouthern states, and officials believethe good weather of the last few dayswith its consequent improvement inrailroad traffic conditions will make en¬forcement unnecessary anywhere afterthis week.

Time ExtendedAgain for Filing

Income Returns

WASHINGTON". Feb. 10. Extensionof the time for tiling income and excess

profits returns from March 1 to April1 was announced to-day by InternalRevenue Commissioner Rqper. Thisruling applies also to reports on pay¬ments of more than §ts0«' during theyear to be made Dy t-mployers andbusiness enterprises, and covers in¬comes both above and below $3,000 andcorporation incomes.

Delay in the preparation of blankforms and regulations was the prin¬cipal cause for the postponement.Forms have not yet been issued for

excess profits returns of three classesindividual, partnership and corpora¬

tion; .for income returns by trusteesoi« fiduciaries and for partnership in¬come returns. These are now promisedfor next week. All other forms have"been distributed, including those forindividual incomes of th classes aboveand below $3,000, corporation incomesand reports on payments of more thanS800. or the so-called "information atthe source."The extension of the time to April 1

applies to returns by corporationsdoing business on a fiscal year basis.Originally they were required to re¬port within sixty days after the endof their fiscal year. This was extendedto February 1 and later to March. 1.

AmericanPatrolTrapped;Five Killed;FourCapturedNew Tuscañia Lists on Page 2

One Wounded ManCrawls Back FromAmbush in "No

Germans Shout "Kamerad!" asan>

They Open Fire on Americans Men Attacked- Fight to Finish

[By Tlio Associated Tress]W ITU THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Feb. 10..The early -

reports of the encounter between the Americans and Germans Friday night _ A .___

in front of'the American wire entanglements have been confirmed. The UnC Artilleryman 13enemy patrol cried "Kamerad!" as they opened lire and continued to fight. f^"!! j C*» \%T i jYells from the enemy as the American barrage fell verified the *V*l*©Cl, TlVe WOUn<t©Qaccuracy of the aim of the Americans._ _ by Enemy's Shellfire

Paker OrdersGeneral Staff

ReorganizedAll Military Activities Di¬

vided Into Five MainDepartments

I Staff Correspondence]WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. -Another

"reorganization" of the War Depart¬ment was outlined in a statement is¬sued by Secretary of War Baker to¬night. This time it is the General Staffwhich is organized, according to theterms of the statement, but quite ap¬parently the whole method of doingbusiness by the department is radically-revised, with a view to meeting some

of the criticisms which have beenheaped on the department in the Senateand in the press.The chief ot staff is directed to di¬

vide the -General Staff into five divi¬sions, each oi which will have definitefunctions. Most revolutionary is theproposal that civilians shall be attachedto these divisions.Perhaps the most direct bending to

criticism.especially that which hasvoiced a desire for a Ministry of Mu¬nitions to be entirely distinct fromeither the War or Navy departments,but which shall as a separate execu¬tive department concentrate on ob¬taining the supplies which the warmaking department, wishes.is shownin one of these subdivisions of theGeneral Staff. This is the "purchaseand supply division." This creates theoffice of "director of purchases andsupplies," who will have charge of allpurchases. Under him will be the sur¬veyor general of supplies.

Falls Short of Senate PlanOne of the essentiiil differences be¬

tween the plan announced to-night byMr. Baker and that proposed by theSenate Military Committee in the Min¬istry of Munitions bill is that underI lie Senate committee plan the directorof munitions would be a Cabinet officer,ranking equal to the Secretary of War,while under Mr. Baker's plan the rankwould be us follows:

First, the Secretary of War; second,the chief of staff; third, the directorof purchases «who is an assistantchief' of staff), and fourth, the surveyorgeneral of supplies.

The War Plans Division is anotherwhich touches on a phase of the WarDepartment's activities which has beenmuch criticised."This or that broke down because ,no

one planned to prevent it," was theconstantly repeated cry of the Senatorswhose recent speeches dwelt on the ne¬

cessity of a war cabinet.Chief of Staff's Power

The chief of staff, under Mr. Baker'snew plan, is made to exercise "super¬vising and coordinating powers."

"I recall an article inserted in 'TheCongressional Record' the other day bySenator Hitchcock," said one Senatorto-night after hearing of Mr. Baker'slatest reorganization plan. "One sen¬

tence of it went as follows:" 'I turn and look back in despair at

all the other organizations and reor¬ganizations with which Mr. Baker hasdiverted and baffled his pursuers eversince the war began.'"The quotation is taken from William

Hard's article on "Pursuing Mr. Baker,"in "The New Republic."

i:y The Associated I'rcsf

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10..A generalorder outlining the new organization ofthe War Department, and giving fullpowers in their respective fields to theassistants to the Chief of Staff at thehead of the live divisions into which thestaff has been formed, was made publicto-night by Secretary Baker. Chiefs ofall bureaus, corps and other agencies ofthe military establishment are instruct¬ed to communicate directly with theheads of the staff divisions upon mat¬ters as to whrch the latter have control,and the division heads are authorizedto act for the Secretary of War andChief of Staff in such matters.The order emphasizes the authority

of the Chief of Staff, who, with theWar Council, is the immediate adviserof the Secretary in all questions relat¬ing to the military establishment."The planning of the army pro¬

gramme in its entirety," says the order,"the constant development thereof inits larger aspects and the relation ofthis programme to the General Staffand the entire army will be the duty ofthe Chief of Staff and the War Coun¬cil."The duties of the chief of staff will

be taken over soon by Major Generalley ton C. March, ordered home fromFiance to succeed Major General Bid-die, assistant chief of staff, who hasbeen acting chief in the absence ofGeneral Bliss. For the present Gen¬eral Bliss will continue to hold thetitle of chief of sta'~ while represent¬ing the United States in the SupremeWar Council abroad, and GeneralMarch will be designated acting chief.

{Text of Mr. Baker's statement on

page .!>.)

Pershing'sFirst GasMasks Bad

Col. Church Volunteered toTest Them and Came Out

of It in Distress

By Heywood Broun .

iJtu:t back from, France

THE first contingent of the Ameri- jcan army which landed inFrance was saved from probable

disaster by an American medical offi-ter. Colonel James R. Church, who wonthe Congressional Medal of Honor inthe Spanish-American War, risked hi*life in France to rectify a mistake

I made at some point along the windingtrail which leads from Washington

j to the American expeditionary army.Colonel Church served upon a board

which examined various types of gasmasks. The board recommended thatthe American army should order a typeof mask modelled on that .used by theEnglish, with a few slight variation?.Some little time later a large shipmentof the masks arrived in France. Therewere more than enough to equip thefirst unit, and the masks were needed,as the troops were soon to go into thetrenches in order to complete theirtraining in actual contact with theGermans. There seemed 'o be no

reason to believe that, the masks hadnot been carefully tested in Americabefore being shipped in such quanti-ties, but Colonel Church, with inspiredcaution, requested General Pershing'schief of staff not to issue the mar'isimmediately. That officer replied thatorders had already been drawn up fortiie distribution of the masks, but thathe would withhold the order at the re-quest of Church.With the help of British experts.Colonel Church examined the contents

of the box which filters'the .'r for thewearer of the mask and found that thechemicals used were not exactly thosewhich find been required when themusk was adopted. One or two otherfeatures seemed to him imperfect, buthe decided that no test would answerso well as to put the mask in use. Hetook this job upon himself and, afteradjusting one of the suspected masks.he experimented with tear gas, one ofthe lesser vapors of the front, whichcauses temporary blindness. In a fewminutes his eyes were smarting andinflamed. This was only one mdict-ment against the mask. It still re-mained to learn whether the box of.chemicals was adequate to filter theair and protect the mouth and lungs.For this test a potent gas was

chosen, and this vapor, more slow inits effects than tear gas, made theColonel very ill before he realized thatthe box respirator was just as inef-fective as the front of the mask. Al¬though ill. he was not willing to neg-lect the good effect of an immediatereport to the commander in chief.Red-eyed, coughing, and with swollenlips, he went to Pershing and reported."The mask shipped for issue to theAmerican troops is faulty."

"Colonel," said Gen ral Pershing, ob-=erving all the visible effects of gasupon the investigator, "you don't needto nrove that to me now."The masks were shipped back to

America, and when our troops went tjthe trenches they had the British mask,which served them well during Ger-man gas attacks. It was well that therewere »no faulty masks then, for in ad-dition to the consequent casualties, themorale of the Americans would havebeen shaken by the discovery of sogross a fault in equipment.

Colonel Church is now in America.He returned recently after a long stuyin Europe, during which lie studiedvarious problems in sanitation andhospital work among the Allie«! armies.He has recovered completely from theill effects of his voluntary ordeal withgas.

Aliens'Being DroppedFrom National Guard

[Staff Correspondence]WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-.Aliens in

the National Guard are being-dis¬charged "for the good of the service,"it became known to-day at the WarDepartment. More than 500 membersof the state troops, none of whom hadprogressed further than procuring theirfirst naturalization papers, have beendischarged and many more are to fol¬low, it was said.The aliens weeded out were for the

most part men of German and Austrianparentage, who have lived in this coun¬try since early childhood, but hadfailed to complete their naturalizationas American citizens. In rare in¬stances it was found that sonre of theunnaturalized guardsmen had expressedsentiments of disloyalty to the UnitedStates. These men. it was asserted, areto be interned for the period of thewar. |

Saturday NightEy Th» Aisocltt»<l Pr*m

WITH THE AMERICANARMY IN FRANCE, Feb. 10..One American artilleryman waskilled and five artillerymen werewounded Saturday night by shelltire.The Americans sprinkled the

enemy trenches with shrapnel allduring to-day. There was con¬siderable patrol activity, but nofurther clashes were reported.

<by t;-,o Assort*.:«i rrtj»3WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN

FRANCE. Feb 10..Five American sol¬diers were killed, four captured andone was wounded w'ne/i an Americanpatrol was ambushed in No Man's Lendlast night by a superior force of Ger¬mans.The trap of the German» was laid

in front of our wire?. One survivor,who crawled back to the American lineswith a bullet in his chest, is unable totalk.One of the American patrols, con¬

sisting of fourteen men, went oat toinspect the wire. The men were mov¬

ing cautiously along when the leaderheard suspicious noises ahead. Thefermât ion of the patrol was changed,when suddenly, according to the sur¬vivors, the men found themselves al¬most surrounded by large numbers ofthe enemy.

Cries "Kamerad," Hurls BombA German cried "Kamerad" and then

hurled a hand grenade. The Americaninfantrymen opened fire with theirrifles and pistols and hurled their gre¬nades. The Germans followed suit, andalso brought into action their auto¬matic-'.The light lasted only about a minute

and a half, the Germans all the whileyelling "Kamerad!" They then retreat¬ed, taking with them four American»ami leaving behind four dead and twowounded. One of the unwounded men

crawled to where a wounded comradelay groar.ing and gave him water, whilethe other wounded soldier dragged him.->elf through the wire.

Quickly a hail of machine gun andriñe bullets was directed against theretreating Germans. Meanwhile Un¬wounded man, who was a sergeant,died in the arms of a private who wa.»

endeavoring to give him aid.The men in the trenches and the sui

vivors had a gleam of satisfaction whenthe shells from the American guns andVos began nitting in a barrage. Crie*and yells in Gorman were mingled with'.he explosion?. Then the barragewidened and there were further crie?.proving that the enemy had scattered

Another Patrol Goes «Over Top.Another patrol quickly went over

the top out into No Man*» Land andfound their five dead comrades and one

uninjured survivor of the lirst patrol,who had remained beside the. bodiesand was ready to give battle if theenemy returned.The greatest courage was exhibited

by the entire patrol, every man ofwhich fought hard until killed or theenemy had withdrawn.Our artillery immediately laid a bar¬

rage around the ambushing Germansand romo are believed to have been ac¬

counted for. The infantry accounte«ifor others, as it is certain the attack-nig patrol fought to a finish, accordingto Information trickling in from thefront line.

Enemy Patrol Opened Fire0;:r patrolling soldiers were walking

in iront of our wire entanglements,when a big enemy patrol that had beendivided into parties which took up con¬cealed position;; opened fire at clos»range. The night was clear and theforms of the Americans made the bestpossible targets for the hidden Ger¬mans. There is no doubt that theAmericans battled gallantly until com¬

pletely overpowered.The artillery duel in cur sector con¬

tinued to-day. Scores of airplanes wereout observing and making photographs.The men in the line were thrilled bya number of duels high in the aky overtheir heads.An American general now commands

the sector of the front recently takerover by our troops. When the Ameri¬cans first entered the sector it was un¬der the command of a French genera'commanding a certain larga unit of th»French army. Now we have control.

In turning the sector over to thAmerican general, on February 6, theFrench commander issued a general otder, in which he expressed completesatisfaction with our troops, and «ta1