KH MERCHANDISE ADVER. ' TISED IN THE TRIBUNE IS GUARANTEED y^ LXXVTI Np. 26,020 Com right 1018. The Tribun«* Aaa'n] First to Lastj-- the Truth: News » Editorials . Advertisements frítame THE WEATHER Fair to-day and to-morrow; litt I« change in temperature; mod¬ erate west winds. Full Report en Pm*e II MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1Í, 1918 T\VOCKNT"S'n Greater >»>w York Mid «ivithln «DtTimutinic difttance THRKK cwsmrn Klaewlier* Enemies Within ^Var Is for plutocrats, Says Nearing pamphlet Declares Liberty Loan Was Floated to Help Profiteers Arrest on Charge Of Treason Urged Inaction of U. S. Attorney General Denounced by Henry A. Wise Wood The discovery was made yesterday kit 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 might mike huge profits, is being circulated - view York v ithout interference by the Department of Justice, <"*Thc pamphlet was characterized by iienrv ¿v. Wise Wood, who discovered it, "as the most seditious pro-German propaganda that the Kaiser's aids have bad the BUdacity to attempt in this çjuntry." 50.000 Copies Circulated Mr. 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 mining listricts. Mr. Wood was put on the mil of the pamphlet by a clipping from : Colorado country newspaper, which exposed 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 when limed States Marshal McCarthy de¬ nounced him at a People's Council *ictinpr. Mr. Wood found that all the time tearing was apparently "being good" lis pamphlets were merrily going the founds, under the noses of the Federal authorities- Mr. Wood said thai the most aston¬ ishing part of his discovery was the tact that the work of circulating this aamphlet lias been going- on here in New York for fully two i lonths. The broadcast circulation of the Searing pamphlet is another proof that the Depart iiient of Justice needs to use more drastic methods with tiie German I spies in this country, asserted Mr. Wood. He said he would demand that Attorney General Gregory put Nearing on trial fm- treason and go alter Ger- nnagents in general more rigorously, »lise resign iron« office. A salesman in the book shop of the íand School of Social -Science last nighl admitted that 50.000 copies had already been circulated. Excerpts From Pamphlet Here are paragraphs from Ncaring's camphlet "The large manufacturing plants, »hich had been erected for the pur- ". of supplying mui itions to the Hü« had d( livered most of their con¬ tracts and were waiting for additional lar orders. The banking interests, led V. the Morgan firm, had backed the ll ics financially. Allied failure, therefore, meant disaster to American ''"»anee. These vast profits rom war business) would cease if the submarine blockade succeeded. "The business interests had played or a great .-lake Th« y had played {ainsi the wellbeing of the American democracy. The prize they sought was »billion dollars a year in profits, «rapped in the folds of the flag and uttering 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 will was 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 did more to bulwark the position of the ^.ilocratic despots of the United :a!''M than it will ever do for libcrtv Europe." nu!'"*'- turtner writes: "">' did the American plutocracy ".sire to crush Germany? Was it to "»troy despotism there? The idea is r/*Posterous. The despotism in any .n«, factory or railroad of the United **teg is more complete than that of at t 8er' ^'lp American plutocracy fattened 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 stated ls*Ue in quite another form, but, no ter what lie may say, he cannot <"^- ;rP« the fact that the plutocracy of the Jte<i States was behind him in a , .. . A hundred millions of in» '¦" l*'° balance counted as not h i',; 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 Losing In Race for Chairmanship j Hays's Strength Increases as Republican Committeemen Gather 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 choice of a new Republican National Commit¬ tee chairman to succeed William R. Willcox, of New York. A successor! also «ill be chosen on Tuesday to Treasurer Cornelius X. Bliss, of New York. The friends of John T. Adams, of Dubuque, Iowa, vico-chnirman of the committee and national committeeman from 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 the Progressives and recognizing them in the distribution of emoluments are likely to back Will H. Hays, of Indiana, chairman of the Indiana state commit¬ tee, j Chairman Willcox, Senator Caldcr, with Herbert Parsons'* proxy; George W. Perkins, General T. Coleman du j Pont. Frank H. Hitchcock, Governor Livingston Beekman of Rhode Island, Fred Sterling, Illinois »state chairman, and Harold Ickcs, of Chicago, all reached St. Louis to-night. Chairman Willcox found James B. Reynolds, secretary of the committee, j awaiting him. They soon had a confer¬ ence, after which Mr. Willcox said: '.We shall not get down to business until to-morrow; al! i can say to-night« is that 1 am confident that patriotism and common sense will dominate the minds of the committeemen when they I consider the reorganization of the j committee 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 to him in answer to his solicitations are pledges of support. Mayor William Hale Thompson, of Chicago, and Al- t'red T. Rogers, of Wisconsin, have come out for Adams, but they are so pro-German in their natural leanings that their support, hurts rather than ¡ aids. I Adams seems ta have rounded up nearly 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 learn that 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 practically the unanimous choice. Mr. Kinsley had a conference to-day with Governor Goodrich of Indiana and Governor Beekman of Rhode Island, as a result of which it is reasonably certain that he will vote for Hays for chairman. The Hays men are steadily making progress. Joseph B. Kealing, the big chic-' of Indianapolis, is already on the ground working for Hays and he will be joined to-morrow by Governor Goodrich, Fred A. Pinis, former Sen¬ ator James A. Hemenway and others. Hays himself will not be' at the meet¬ ing. Governor Goodrich advised against; it. Tuscania Lifeh LONDON, 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 forty others. He said: "All at once we bumped into some¬ thing hard, and when I looked around there was a submarine lying awash to look at. his dirty work. What could we do? We simply carried on and got Lénine Guards Murder Finns By Wholesale Swedish Refugees Tell Har¬ rowing Stories of Reign of Terror !'.>¦ The Associated l'russj STOCKHOLM, Feb. 10.- Scandina¬ vian refugees brought to Stockholm by the first Swedish relief expedition tell harrowing stories of wholesale murder by the Red Guards in Helsingfors and Tammerfors. 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 gun fire while they wept and pleaded for mercy. Their bodies were then stripped and mutilated. Red Guards are reported hunting down students remorselessly, and the total murders in Holsingfors. it is esti¬ mated, will reach into the hundreds. Socialist Leaders Helpless The situation has got entirely out of the hands of Socialist, leaders of tho type of Senator Manner and former Premier Tokoi. »he accounts indicate. Persons familiar with Finland declare they have no doubt the majority of the country's Socialists are lighting on the government's sicTe. They point out that the district where the White Guards' strength was chiefly recruited is nor¬ mally a Socialist stronghold. The re¬ volt, they contend, could be quickly suppressed if it were not for the Rus¬ sian soldiers and sailors who are light¬ ing on the side of the Reds on orders from the Smolny Institute, in Petro¬ grad. That Lénine. Trotzky and their as¬ sociates in Russia regard the Finnish struggle as a first step in spreading the Bolshevik revolution westward is indicated by an interview with Lé¬ nine published in the local Bolshevik organ, the "Politiken." In this Lé¬ nine declared: "We shall soon dispose of the small state?." Upon the inter¬ view the "Politiken" comments this: "What is going on in Finland now is only a rehearsal for the European drama on which the curtain is slowly- going up." Covernment Asked for Arms Selma Lagerlof. a writer, and other prominent Swedish women have joined in a petition to the government to per¬ mit the shipment of arms for the forces of General Mannerheim, the White 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 at Helsingfors. Constantino Diamandy, Rumanian Minister to Russia, who was «lismissed by the Bolsheviki, reached »Stockholm on Saturday night. He was accom¬ panied by his staff and members of the Rumanian colony in Petrograd. oat Hit U-Boat picked u]t. The tin fish submerged im- mediately after." "The Sunday Times" to-day says it is finally established that the Tuscania sank while an attempt was being made to tow her toward the Irish coast. The fact that no submarine attack was made either on her or on the towing boats is regarded as confirming the belief that the submarino was destroyed by the convoying warships. Berlin Sends Ultimatum To Rumania Demands That Peace Nego¬ tiations Begin in Four Days LONDON, Feb. 10..Germany has sent an ultimatum to Rumania de¬ manding that peace negotiations be begun within four days. News of this reached London to-day from both Rus- sian and Swiss sources. Tlu« Swiss dispatch quotes German newspapers as saying that Field Mar¬ shal von Mackensen sent the ultimatum last Wednesday and that it expired to¬ day, while the Russian advices assert that it was presented Tuesday and ex- pired yesterday. Both agree that the Rumanian Cabinet has resigned as a result of the demands. From Zurich comes a dispatch to the effect that the separate peace signed with the Ukraine is the equivalent of a declaration of war by the Central Powers against the Bolsheviki. The, "Züricher Zeitung," expressing this opinion, doubts also whether the Ukraine is in a position to conclude an effective peace. Joybells were rung in Berlin and there were rejoicings at. Vienna over he conclusion of a separate peace with the Kiev Rada, while Leon Trotzky, the. Bolshevik Foreign Minister, was still disputing the right of that Rada to rep- resent Ukrain-e at the Brest-Litovsk ne¬ gotiations, and while Ukraine is still torn by civil war. The peace treaty with Ukraine, ac¬ cording to Berlin dispatches, includes mutual renunciation of reimbursement of war costs and indemnification of war damages; permission for the respective war prisoners to return to their homes or remain in the country where they are imprisoned or proceed to another country: économie relations to be. re¬ sumed forthwith. It is also rumored that the Central Powers have made an offer of military assistance to the Kiev Rada in over¬ coming the Bolshevik invasion. How Far the invasion has been successful, or whether the Kiev Rada, represent¬ ing the moderate Socialists, will he 'able firmly to establish its authority against the Kharkov Rada, represent¬ ing the Bolsheviki, is unknown. There i1- little news of the progress of the fighting in Ukraine, and so far the reported capture of the town of Mobile«- and of Ensign Krylenko, the Bolshevik commander in chief, rests entirely on German reports. Xo con¬ firmation is forthcoming from any Russian or independent, source. Clearly German policy' is being de- voted to using peace with Ukraine as a lever to bring pressure to bear on Trotzky. Fuel Holiday To Save Little Coal To-day Exemptions to Closing Order Permit Many Factories to Open Whether New Yorkers should encirclo the date on to-day's calendar as Work- ¦ess Monday or Exemption Day is a weighty problem on which local fuel administrators were struggling until a ¡ate hour last night. If the former, the day is expected to be one of fuel sav¬ ing, whereas it will be but a day of annoyance to the city'? workers if it comes under the latter classification. Numerous exceptions to the original blanket workless Monday order are re¬ sponsible for the present, aoutJl as to the value of the day from the stand¬ point of fuel conservation. More than 200,000 garmen't workers will continue their duties under the exemptions granted by Dr. Harry A. Garticld to that trade, according to estimates made yesterday. But that is not the most serious aspect of the case. Various other trades, notably the millinery trade, as represented by the Millinery Chamber of Commerce, are convinced that they should 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 pay from their busy season, argue the mil¬ liners' representatives, any more than the garment workers. Moreover, they see no reason why a hat shouldn't be classified as a woman's garment and come under the Garfield exemption rul- ing without further discussion. fear Others May Open Because of this difference of opinion it is feared that numerous business houses may continue operations to- day on the theory that they come under the list of exempted trades, or could not be punished for violating the closing edict on the theory that "there was a reasonable doubt." Hundreds of loft building?« will be heated in order to permit the garment workers to continue business and, be- cause of their activities, other bu'si- nesses dependent upon this industry must continue in order to feed mate¬ rials into these houses. As a result of this complicated situa¬ tion it was a question whether much fuel would be conserved because of to¬ day's Monday closing. Ordinarily it has been estimated that half of the coal being consumed in the city under fam¬ ine conditions or 25,000 tons daily should be saved by the .Monday conser¬ vation day. But, with the numerous exemptions that have been issued for to-day, it is believed that less than one- f(¦¦V't-h, o¦£ that., total., possibly a scart 6,000 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 a general suspension of the weekly clos¬ ing plan. Alore Coal Reaches City For the first time since the com in v of the present mild weather the, city began to feel the effect of a freer de¬ livery of coal yesterday. Slightly over 2»j,000 tons of fuel were landed in Man¬ hattan during the day, and it is con¬ sidered likely that .';,">,000 tons may be received to-day, which is a larger quan¬ tity of anthracite than has been deliv- ered to the city on any one day since the present coal stringency set in. Reorganization of the city's delivery systems, the opening of all fuel and freight terminals and ..bunkers in city basements for the receiving of coal are expected to result in this maximum of actual coal here by the end of the workless day. The national fuel administration is¬ sued another statistical statement dur¬ ing the day. in which it is explained that this nation has the largest per capita annual consumption of coal in the world. The coal consumption here per adult is 5.62 tons, according to this statement, as against 3.83 for the United Kingdom and ;!.:»."> for Belgium. Although the United States has been producing twice as much coal as the next largest producer.-the United Kingdom these figures are accepted as an indication of the opportunity for fuel saving in this country. It. is pointed out that both England and Germany had exported coal to the West Indies and »South America pre¬ vious to the war. but that the United States now was called upon to supply that demand. That was just one of the reasons advanced in explanation of the. 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 eight Southern states, and officials believe the good weather of the last few days with its consequent improvement in railroad traffic conditions will make en¬ forcement unnecessary anywhere after this week. Time Extended Again for Filing Income Returns WASHINGTON". Feb. 10. Extension of the time for tiling income and excess profits returns from March 1 to April 1 was announced to-day by Internal Revenue Commissioner Rqper. This ruling applies also to reports on pay¬ ments of more than §ts0«' during the year to be made Dy t-mployers and business enterprises, and covers in¬ comes both above and below $3,000 and corporation incomes. Delay in the preparation of blank forms and regulations was the prin¬ cipal cause for the postponement. Forms have not yet been issued for excess profits returns of three classes individual, partnership and corpora¬ tion; .for income returns by trustees oi« fiduciaries and for partnership in¬ come returns. These are now promised for next week. All other forms have" been distributed, including those for individual incomes of th classes above and below $3,000, corporation incomes and reports on payments of more than S800. or the so-called "information at the source." The extension of the time to April 1 applies to returns by corporations doing business on a fiscal year basis. Originally they were required to re¬ port within sixty days after the end of their fiscal year. This was extended to February 1 and later to March. 1. American Patrol Trapped; Five Killed; Four Captured New Tuscañia Lists on Page 2 One Wounded Man Crawls Back From Ambush in "No Germans Shout "Kamerad!" as an> 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 13 enemy patrol cried "Kamerad!" as they opened lire and continued to fight. f^"!! j C*» \%T i j Yells from the enemy as the American barrage fell verified the *V*l*©Cl, TlVe WOUn<t©Q accuracy of the aim of the Americans._ _ by Enemy's Shellfire Paker Orders General Staff Reorganized All Military Activities Di¬ vided Into Five Main Departments 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 Staff which is organized, according to the terms of the statement, but quite ap¬ parently the whole method of doing business by the department is radically- revised, with a view to meeting some of the criticisms which have been heaped on the department in the Senate and in the press. The chief ot staff is directed to di¬ vide the -General Staff into five divi¬ sions, each oi which will have definite functions. Most revolutionary is the proposal that civilians shall be attached to these divisions. Perhaps the most direct bending to criticism.especially that which has voiced a desire for a Ministry of Mu¬ nitions to be entirely distinct from either the War or Navy departments, but which shall as a separate execu¬ tive department concentrate on ob¬ taining the supplies which the war making department, wishes.is shown in one of these subdivisions of the General Staff. This is the "purchase and supply division." This creates the office of "director of purchases and supplies," who will have charge of all purchases. Under him will be the sur¬ veyor general of supplies. Falls Short of Senate Plan One of the essentiiil differences be¬ tween the plan announced to-night by Mr. Baker and that proposed by the Senate Military Committee in the Min¬ istry of Munitions bill is that under I lie Senate committee plan the director of munitions would be a Cabinet officer, ranking equal to the Secretary of War, while under Mr. Baker's plan the rank would be us follows: First, the Secretary of War; second, the chief of staff; third, the director of purchases «who is an assistant chief' of staff), and fourth, the surveyor general of supplies. The War Plans Division is another which touches on a phase of the War Department's activities which has been much criticised. "This or that broke down because ,no one planned to prevent it," was the constantly repeated cry of the Senators whose recent speeches dwelt on the ne¬ cessity of a war cabinet. Chief of Staff's Power The chief of staff, under Mr. Baker's new plan, is made to exercise "super¬ vising and coordinating powers." "I recall an article inserted in 'The Congressional Record' the other day by Senator Hitchcock," said one Senator to-night after hearing of Mr. Baker's latest 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 has diverted and baffled his pursuers ever since 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 general order outlining the new organization of the War Department, and giving full powers in their respective fields to the assistants to the Chief of Staff at the head of the live divisions into which the staff has been formed, was made public to-night by Secretary Baker. Chiefs of all bureaus, corps and other agencies of the military establishment are instruct¬ ed to communicate directly with the heads of the staff divisions upon mat¬ ters as to whrch the latter have control, and the division heads are authorized to act for the Secretary of War and Chief of Staff in such matters. The order emphasizes the authority of the Chief of Staff, who, with the War Council, is the immediate adviser of 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 in its larger aspects and the relation of this programme to the General Staff and the entire army will be the duty of the Chief of Staff and the War Coun¬ cil." The duties of the chief of staff will be taken over soon by Major General ley ton C. March, ordered home from Fiance to succeed Major General Bid- die, assistant chief of staff, who has been acting chief in the absence of General Bliss. For the present Gen¬ eral Bliss will continue to hold the title of chief of sta'~ while represent¬ ing the United States in the Supreme War Council abroad, and General March will be designated acting chief. {Text of Mr. Baker's statement on page .!>.) Pershing's First Gas Masks Bad Col. Church Volunteered to Test Them and Came Out of It in Distress By Heywood Broun . iJtu:t back from, France THE first contingent of the Ameri- j can army which landed in France was saved from probable disaster by an American medical offi- ter. Colonel James R. Church, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Spanish-American War, risked hi* life in France to rectify a mistake I made at some point along the winding trail which leads from Washington j to the American expeditionary army. Colonel Church served upon a board which examined various types of gas masks. The board recommended that the American army should order a type of mask modelled on that .used by the English, with a few slight variation?. Some little time later a large shipment of the masks arrived in France. There were more than enough to equip the first unit, and the masks were needed, as the troops were soon to go into the trenches in order to complete their training in actual contact with the Germans. There seemed 'o be no reason to believe that, the masks had not been carefully tested in America before being shipped in such quanti- ties, but Colonel Church, with inspired caution, requested General Pershing's chief of staff not to issue the mar'is immediately. That officer replied that orders had already been drawn up for tiie distribution of the masks, but that he 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 the wearer of the mask and found that the chemicals used were not exactly those which find been required when the musk was adopted. One or two other features seemed to him imperfect, but he decided that no test would answer so well as to put the mask in use. He took this job upon himself and, after adjusting one of the suspected masks. he experimented with tear gas, one of the lesser vapors of the front, which causes temporary blindness. In a few minutes his eyes were smarting and inflamed. This was only one mdict- ment against the mask. It still re- mained to learn whether the box of. chemicals was adequate to filter the air and protect the mouth and lungs. For this test a potent gas was chosen, and this vapor, more slow in its effects than tear gas, made the Colonel very ill before he realized that the 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 immediate report to the commander in chief. Red-eyed, coughing, and with swollen lips, he went to Pershing and reported. "The mask shipped for issue to the American troops is faulty." "Colonel," said Gen ral Pershing, ob- =erving all the visible effects of gas upon the investigator, "you don't need to nrove that to me now." The masks were shipped back to America, and when our troops went tj the trenches they had the British mask, which served them well during Ger- man gas attacks. It was well that there were »no faulty masks then, for in ad- dition to the consequent casualties, the morale of the Americans would have been shaken by the discovery of so gross a fault in equipment. Colonel Church is now in America. He returned recently after a long stuy in Europe, during which lie studied various problems in sanitation and hospital work among the Allie«! armies. He has recovered completely from the ill effects of his voluntary ordeal with gas. Aliens'Being Dropped From 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 War Department. More than 500 members of the state troops, none of whom had progressed further than procuring their first naturalization papers, have been discharged and many more are to fol¬ low, it was said. The aliens weeded out were for the most part men of German and Austrian parentage, who have lived in this coun¬ try since early childhood, but had failed to complete their naturalization as American citizens. In rare in¬ stances it was found that sonre of the unnaturalized guardsmen had expressed sentiments of disloyalty to the United States. These men. it was asserted, are to be interned for the period of the war. | Saturday Night Ey Th» Aisocltt»<l Pr*m WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Feb. 10.. One American artilleryman was killed and five artillerymen were wounded Saturday night by shell tire. The Americans sprinkled the enemy trenches with shrapnel all during to-day. There was con¬ siderable patrol activity, but no further clashes were reported. <by t;-,o Assort*.:«i rrtj»3 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Feb 10..Five American sol¬ diers were killed, four captured and one was wounded w'ne/i an American patrol was ambushed in No Man's Lend last 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 lines with a bullet in his chest, is unable to talk. One of the American patrols, con¬ sisting of fourteen men, went oat to inspect the wire. The men were mov¬ ing cautiously along when the leader heard suspicious noises ahead. The fermât ion of the patrol was changed, when suddenly, according to the sur¬ vivors, the men found themselves al¬ most surrounded by large numbers of the enemy. Cries "Kamerad," Hurls Bomb A German cried "Kamerad" and then hurled a hand grenade. The American infantrymen opened fire with their rifles and pistols and hurled their gre¬ nades. The Germans followed suit, and also brought into action their auto¬ matic-'. The light lasted only about a minute and a half, the Germans all the while yelling "Kamerad!" They then retreat¬ ed, taking with them four American» ami leaving behind four dead and two wounded. One of the unwounded men crawled to where a wounded comrade lay groar.ing and gave him water, while the other wounded soldier dragged him .->elf through the wire. Quickly a hail of machine gun and riñe bullets was directed against the retreating 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 when the shells from the American guns and Vos began nitting in a barrage. Crie* and yells in Gorman were mingled with '.he explosion?. Then the barrage widened 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 and found their five dead comrades and one uninjured survivor of the lirst patrol, who had remained beside the. bodies and was ready to give battle if the enemy returned. The greatest courage was exhibited by the entire patrol, every man of which fought hard until killed or the enemy had withdrawn. Our artillery immediately laid a bar¬ rage around the ambushing Germans and romo are believed to have been ac¬ counted for. The infantry accounte«i for others, as it is certain the attack- nig patrol fought to a finish, according to Information trickling in from the front line. Enemy Patrol Opened Fire 0;:r patrolling soldiers were walking in iront of our wire entanglements, when a big enemy patrol that had been divided into parties which took up con¬ cealed position;; opened fire at clos» range. The night was clear and the forms of the Americans made the best possible targets for the hidden Ger¬ mans. There is no doubt that the Americans battled gallantly until com¬ pletely overpowered. The artillery duel in cur sector con¬ tinued to-day. Scores of airplanes were out observing and making photographs. The men in the line were thrilled by a number of duels high in the aky over their heads. An American general now commands the sector of the front recently taker over 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 th American general, on February 6, the French commander issued a general ot der, in which he expressed complete satisfaction with our troops, and «ta1