AMERICA DAY BY DAY

Evening Star, Issue 16998, 21 March 1919, Page 8

AMERICA DAY BY DAY

[From Otie Own Correspondent.]

FAMOUS MARRYING ACTOR PASSES All the world has recognised the wonderful histrionic talent of one of America s foremost actors, Nat Goodwin, who has just passed away suddenly in his apartmeats at the Hotel Claridge in New \or,c, his unexpected demise coming as a severe shock to his many admirers throughout America and Canada. It was as a matrimonial candidate that Goodwin also gained tramendous fame, for he had journeyed to the altar on no less than five occasions, and the dav of his death was the eve of his arranged sixth marriage. sobomg beside his be<l as life passed out 01 tiy» famous comedian was Miss Georgia Gardner, aged 25, whom Goodwin, at the advanced age of 61. was to have wed in a few hours had his life been spared. She was taken to her room, bordering on a state of collapse. Miss Gardner wa.= a member of Goodwin's -theatrical company which was producing' Why Marry? ', now a road show. The final appearance of the couple was six days prior to the death of the comedian. Goodwin, whose aged parents still Te~ side at his birthplace in Roxbury, Masnachnssetts, was ono of the founders of the Lambs" Club and a prominent member of that exclusive gathering. Goodwin made his debut as an actor in Boston, plaving with Stuart Robson in ' The Law in New York *in 1873. He played comedy parts until 18(9, when he went into Shakespearean productions and took the part of the Gravedigger in ' Hamlet.' Goodwin's home was in Ocean Park, California, where he owned considerable property, but he spent a great deal of his time* in Now York. Goodwin's other wives were : Miss Eliza Weathersby, who died in 1887; Miss Nellie Baker Pease; Miss Maiine Elliott; and Miss Edna Goodrich. Goodwin's reputation as an actor was second to his fame as a matrimonial man. His five marriages often were commented upon by him, and on one occasion he wrote : " My first wife was an ancel; my second a silly woman: my third a Roman senator; ray fourth a pretty little thing; my fifth—ail woman." One of his wives—Miss Goodrich —was a wily lady and before he journeyed to the matrimonial altar with her her mother virtually compelled Goodwin to hand over some valuable property in San Francisco as some kind of a guarantee that Miss Goodrich would not bo divorced I y the whimsical actor. "When the actor actually did "shed" himself of the handsome actress the property—a magnificent sixstorey apartment building on Sacramento street in the Golden Gate city—was ■conservatively valued at over half a million dollars. This was probably the only time upon which Goodw'in was*" bitten.'' Ho made several fortunes as a gold miner in Nevada, but was a groat spender. MILLIONAIRE BECOMES PAUPER. The intolerable spectre of guilt kept secret for four years flayed Millard H. Cutter into a public ■confession in Chicago, when he admitted that he had forged "bonds of an aggregate value of half a million dollars. Until Christmas not even his wife had suspected that their life of ease had been paid for by her husband's honor and peace of conscience. But Cutter was unable further to keep his secret, and the knowledge of his undiscovered crime drove him to unburden his mind to the young woman with whom he had eloped nine years ago. It was determined that as soon a3 Mrs Cutter could arrange to open her music studio and to become self-sup-porting, Cutter would surender himself to the Chicago police. Accordingly, in faultless attire the broker told his story* to Clarence Darrow. the well-known American Labor attorney. Cutter's next act was to give himself up to the police. Formal complaint was made against him by the Chicago Title and Trust Company* which had loaned him IOO.OOOdoI on forged bonds. "I am nearer happines than I have been for four years," said Cutter, when seen in his*cell the next day by a newspaper man. ' " I have quit lying to myself. Yesterday I was a millionaire. To-day lam a happy pauper." Cutter told Darrow that he had invested much of the money he had obtained through the use of forged bonds in iron mines in Missouri, which had not been profitable. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS UNDERPAID.

America's Government officials seem to he suffering from salaries that are too small to meet the high cost of living, for a few weeks after Secretary M'Adoo sent in his official resignation, saying that he' could not longer stand the strain of office with such a small pecuniary reward, another similar resignation was received by the Government/ On this occasion Mr Thomas Watt Gregory, Attorney-General since 1914, sent in his withdrawal from office because of "pecuniary responsibilities," and announced that he intended returning to the practice of Law President Wilson has agreed to his retirement on March 4. Following »o closely upon the retirement of Secretary M'Adoo, who assigned "pecuniary responsibilities" as the cause, Mr Gregory's resignation caused considerable stir, especially in official Washington, and the possibility of further resignations was hinted at. Rumor had it that Secretary Redfield would leave the Commerce Department shortly. Twelve thousand dollars a year, with a Cabinet member's social responsibility, it was generally admitted, was too small a salary. TO FLY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. To the long and interesting discussion that is enthralling America should be added a statement made in New York by Sir Charles C. Allen, head of the Goshort Aircraft Company, a yachtsman who arrived in the great Yankee city from England. Sir Charles asserted that, had the British Government allowed the use of an aircraft engine that had been developed, ihe Atlantic would have been crossed by airship at least four times by this juncture. "It is logical that a flying boat mast be the craft to make the Transatlantic trip," said, Sir Charles. " We ars building the 'largest flying boat in the world, which can make the trip and return at an economical speed of 75 miles an hour if necessary. It would be a sportsman's game to cross by airplane at high speed, hut it is a flying boat that will be selected to make the voyage an undoubted success." INDIAN 134 YEARS OLD. Enjoying the distinction of having lived in three centuries, Indian Maria, believed to hare been the oldest woman in California, if not in the world, has just died at the supposed age of 134, her end being recorded at the ancient Californian town ot Martinez, about 40 miles up the coast from San Francisco. She h* been the of mecll-al and scientific interest for many years. She was born in 1785. When •12 yeara old she recalled having been taken by "her father to witness the founding of the historic Padre settlement of Mission San Jose, in Alameda County, California, which, according to the records of the old Eadres, occurred in 1797. Maria ia said to avs been the mother of 27 children, all of whom are believed to be dead. For 22 years she had been an inmate of the county .hospital. Of late years she had grown a third set of teeth. PITLABLE APPEALS RECEIVED. The United States, believed by starving nations to be overflowing with incredible stores of foodstuffs, is daily being deluged with pathetic appeals from impoverished European nations' for succor in the relief of their famished conditions consequent upon the war effects. ihe official bureau ot mtormation oi the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, from its American headquarters in Washington, has made known a typical appeal in the form of a despatch from Bel-g-acie, which gives a picture of the great miserv which prevails in liberated Serbia. The despatch said : " Belgrade to-day presents the aspect of a convalescent after a rerious illness. The population, which before tie war numbered 100,000, is now reduced to d half. Certain streets and even certain quarters are still deserted. A very great number of houses have been destroyed wholly or in part by the bombardment. There is a want of material to reconstruct them. Trade ia dealing only in goods of prime necessity. All other mercfcuvadke is available in very small quanti-

f ties. The prices, in consequence, are exi traordinarily high. A suit of clothes costs 200 dollars, a pair of shoes 50 dollars, hats 10 to 14 dollars, shirt* 20 dollars, and stockings six dollars. In the provinces the state of things is still worse. All the children are aneemie, and infant mortality is great. Some foreign relief missions have begun to work, and are doing good. All communication between Belgrade and Salonika is interrupted. It is also impossible to pass the Save River, the great bridge being destroyed. _ As a consequence, Serbia is practically isolated from the world. The population, whatever their sc-cial position, are completely without underclothing, and are forced to wear ill-fitting and worn clothes. Some are even in rags. The prevailing misery is terrible. It is impossible to apply the most elementary measures of hygiene, ;ts there is no means of taking baths or washing linen. A (Sib) of very inferior soap costs four dollars." 'FLU MASKS TERRIFY. Organised opposition has been prevalent in California against the compulsory wearing of masks ?s a preventive of the spread of" the dread Spanish influenza, and this has been especially noticeable in San Francisco arid Los Angeles. In San Francisco, where the daily record of new cases of the disease rose to over 550, the wearing of the masks reduced the outbreak to but 15 cases per day, and when there was a recrudescence of the malady at a Inter stage the masking again brought the disease almost to vanishing point. Advocates of the masks consequently assert that the forcible wearing of the facial " decoration " is a sure cure for the disease spreading further. The Californian papers have been overflowing with the ebullitions of critics, however, and the cartoonists have had a merry time depicting many fashions of masks suitable for young and old females, as well as styles for men and boys. One story is related in San Francisco, where a pedestrian walking along Market street unconsciously removed his mask, when lie was politely tapped on the shoulder by a lynx eyed policeman. His excuse was that he was about to ask the man in blue far tickets for the policeman's ball that was to occur a few days later. The "cop" immediately forgot to arrest the "criminal" for doffing the mask, and joyfully parted with two tickets. The pedestrian immediately hurried awav.Jess four dollars, making'the excuse ttiat ho could not speak to the policeman for the tickets unless he uncovered his mouth A different result happened from the wearing of the mask near the Southern Californian city of Los Angeles. Directly Miss Henrietta Lockwood, of Chicago", alighted from an overland train at Pasadena, near Los Angeles, and beheld the station crowds eiicased m 'flu masks, she was so shocked at the extraordinary sight that she went into a swoon, and when she was picked up and recovered consciousness she experienced another attack of temporary insanity when masked attendants came to her assistance. She was eventually removed to a hospital raving mad. Doctors said there was no doubt that sheer fright at the sight of the masked throngs caused insanity. When the crack Californian regiment—the Grizzlies—a few days ago returned from the war zone, everybody went almost crazy with delight, arid newspaper photographs show that quite half the people who lined the streets during the parade, as well as most of the soldier veterans, in their enthusiasm forgot their masks, and tore them off in order not _to restrict their unbridled, boisterous yelling of delight on the return and union of friends. A FAITHFUL COLLIE. Led and half dragged by his faithful collie dog for 17 miles through a snowcovered region on the desert and mountains of Southern California, Clint Crawford, _ a cattle puncher, known among hi* associates as " Doc," is alive in San Bejiiardim, California. When Crawford attempted to mount his horse at the Pipe 3, on the desert, the animal threw him and rolled on him. Crawford's right shoulder was shattered. He took the saddle from the horse and made a vain attempt to place it on another horse, and failing, started to walk for help. He was delirious and remembers only intervals of the struggle against death as he staggered along through the snow. At Burnt Spring Crawford broke the ice and then, exhausted, lay down in the snow and went to sleep. He would have frozen to death in a few hours, but was aroused by his dog, which leaped on him, tugged a"t his clothes, and eventually pinched him with his teeth to force him to move. Time after time Crawford sank down in his delirium and was giving up the fight. Each time the collie roused him with scratches from his paws and by biting him, and then led the way across the uumarked snow toward help. After 11 hours the dog took Crawford to the Rose mine, and aroused Al Watts, who picked up the unconscious form in the snow at his doorstep. Crawford was taken to Rarnona Hospital in San Bernardino. STEEL SHIPS FOR A "SONG." Ships are becoming so cheap that shipping man now expect to see tie big steel carriers thrown upon the bargain counter and offered for sale at "any old" price, from a "song" to something less t;.an the amount quoted before the war csmo along and pushed the price to the SKies. This became known a few davs ajro in San Francisco when one of the big operators of that city was offered the sale of two British steel freighters at the rate of SIOO a on. The sale was not made because the local firm, which operates to Australia and the Orient, expected the price to drop to the old pre-war level of S4O or SSO a ton within six months. This local shipping company announced that although foreign ships can now be purchased at prices that seem cheap by comparison with recent war conditions, no purchases wouid be made for operation out of Pacific Coast ports. In order to compete with ships operating out of New York ind Atlantic ports, Calif ornian concerns wili have to consider that all goods shipped, through San Francisco will have to stand the high railway freight, and when this is deducted from the Shipping Board rate now in effect the steamship concern will have the net sum of $3.88 left. The combined railway and steamship rate to the OTieut by way of San Francisco gives the Atlantic porta an advantage that threatens to cat shipments out of the Pacific ports to a minimum. As an indication of the effect upon the local port the figures of the Chief Wharfinger's office show that at present there is an average of 50 vessels berthing daily at San Francisco piers. Six months ago the average was more than 80. The only remedy, according to Californian shippers, was for the Government to return the railways to private operation, which would permit of arrangements whereby the railway and steamship lines might divide the gross rates from in£erior points through to the Orient or other offshore point. TWIN WAR NURSES DIE TOGETHER.

The mystery concerning the disappearance of the Cromwell sisters, Dorothea and Gladys, from the French liner Lorraine, has been cleared up beyond all doubt by the arrival of the steamer in New York bringing notes written by the young society women to their relatives in New York, in which they declared their intention of " ending it all." There was a/so the testimony oi a soldiar sentry who was the only person who saw them jump overboard on the night of January 19, and that of persona standing on the lower deck when they struck the water. The twins had been nurses almost throughout the war, and were thoroughly broken down physically and mentally through, tragic experiences at the war front. The night of the tragedy was pitch dark, according to the ship's officers, and the Lorraine was steaming 18 knots, with a three-knot tide running, and by the-time word had reached the captain of the tragedy tlw ship was five miles from the spot, and the narrowness of the channel made it impossible to stop or turn round without jeopardising the lives of the 1,400 persons aboard. Besides Ihe risk .>f losing the ship, there wad no possible chance that the two voung women would have been afloat, as the Gironde is full of small whirlpools, and expert awimmcrs -who have lallen into it hava rarely como out alive. Sir C. L. Uwrnell,of the American Red Cross, who vraa a passenger on the Lorraine, said that while the ship was at Bordeaux en the Saturday afternoon she wen*, to the cabin, of the Cromwell sisters

lat their request. She found ' them tirfd, nervous, ami hysterical, and they wanted a powder or something that would al'ay th>> patns in their heads and send them to I sleep. "When I saw them." l)r Purnell ' oOTtimiod, " I notioed that the. young women wore excited, and one especially (whom I judged was Dorothea, because her sister was called Gladys) was tearing up bits of paper on which she liad been writing, and seemed to be suffering from pain. I gave them something that I considered would have a soothing effect, and on Sunday morning ait my request Dr Oalia Moshor, also of the Red Cross, visited them, and reported they were calmer and sitting in their cabin. Dorothea was writing letters, the steward said, and was tearing them up directly afterwards. After dinner in tho evening I went to their cabin, and saw the three notes lying on tho lower berth. Then I realised what had happened. This was shortly after the alarm had reached the commander that tho two young women had jumped overboard. NO LOVE TRAGEDY. Dr Purnell disbelieved that there was anv love affair in tho tragedy, but attributed it to sudden relaxation from the great strain thev had been under during their service with tho Red Cross near Verdun. Both sisters had done remarkably fine work in the war. They had been i bombed at night by enemy planes, and heard the continuous firing day and nignt 'of the big guns, while they served in the hospitals and saw fine young American soldiers die. "Thev told mc," added Di Purnell, "on that Saturday afternoon that they bad had no sleep" for two nights, and th© journey to Bordeaux was the moat trying experience they had gone through in France." Of the three- notes found by Dr Pur,nel'.. one was addressed to Major James ; Sherman, of Chicago, the senior Red Cross officer on board. It stated the intention I of the sisters to end their lives, and asked i him to deliver the remaining two notes to i their brother in New York. The brother, ! after perusing the notes said there was 'no doubt of their deaths. " The contents showed that both physically and mentally I thev had broken down," he i-aid. A sentrv spoke of seeing the two nurses ' approach the rail, and one sprang up and iumped overboard, immediately followed by the other young lady. They did not say a word as they went over the_rail. He reported the occurrence, but nothing eounl be done to save them owing to the whirlpools and the time that elapsed before the vessel could have been stopped. Mrs Gertrude Atherton, the noted American novelist, of San Francisco, was 'also aboard, and said her room mate ! noticed tho Cromwell sisters tearing up ' notes thev had written. Mrs Athorton : added : "It is my belief that all American , women should come home as soon as pus- ! sible. Conditions are such that they can bo released, and all, especially young j women, should be brought back. Their work is finished. Th-y aie tired ana nervous." HEARST'S LATEST TREACHERY :THE FRIEND OF THE BOLSHEVIK. That Hearst's new American Labor party, composed chiefly of Bolsheviks, I.W.W.s, and allied malcontents, is not getting very/far with trade unions in tho United States is seen from a despatch from Philadelphia, in which it is shown that prominent Labor leaders are strongly opposed to the new political organisation which was recently formed in Chicago, and which is strongly supported by the newspaper syndicate run by William Randolph Hearst,* the recognised king of enemies of Great Britain, a man who persistently vilified the cause of Britain during the war, and his publications were banned by London and Canada for lying about war despatches. The terror shrieks which the tanatic Bolsheviks are trying to " put across throughout the United States are being met with a smiling defiance by the hardheaded Labor leaders of America. A sample of the feeling among the American Federation of Labor followers is herewith offered: " All their loud and terroristic manifestoes mean nothing. Let all the I.W.W. Bolsheviks make good their Chicago threat of coming to the next convention of the American Federation of Labor, in Atlantic City, next June, to eat us up. We'll push them into the ocean." Mr Frank Feney, inernational president of the Elevator Constructors' Union, and for many years one of the strong characters of the American Federation of Labor in Philadelphia and the nation, in this manner summarised his contempt for the threats made by the radical Socialists, 1.W.W., and Bolshevik agitators: NO PLACE FOR BOLSHEVISM. ," America is no place for Bolshevism," Feeney said, in answer to a series of questions made by an interviewer. " Thi3 is God's country, and no one knows that better than the rank and file of the American Labor movement, as represented by the American Federation of Labor. We have better wages, better hours, better opportunities for work, better working conditions, greater participation in our government than Labor in any other country in the world. Politically, there certainly can be no excuse for Bolshevism in America. American Labor has done its share in creating and developing those free American institutions, and is as proud of them as any other American. Those who imaeine they can lead American Labor to tearing down these now, destroy the home of Liberty, in which Labor has been happv and prosperous as in no other land, are simply crazy, and know nothing whatever either about America or American Labor. They will find that they cannot run away with the American Federation of Labor as easily as they think. Our federation has been on the job now ior 38 years. Its principles of collective bargaining have become generally accepted throughout the land, and with the spread of its principles the federation have had a steady, genuine, reliable growth. '1 he Radical* Socialists started their I.W.W. movement as anew plan for breaking up the American Labor movement. It never even halted the normal, steady growth of the American Federation of Labor. Now the I.W.W". have aligned themselves with all the radical movements of any kind, and become the Bolsheviks of America, and they are going to capture the American Labor movement at our next convention, thev say, and call a national strike. Let them try it. We will push them into the ocean bo easily that it will make them ridiculous. SOLID AMERICAN MOVEMENT. "Against Tsarism or Kaiserism a Bolshevik movement may be all right. But when they start a Bolshevist movement against Americanism we will just have to show them as plainly and as forcibly as we can that the American Federation enLabor is American all the way—no doubt, about it. How can the Socialists, with their I.W.W. and Bolshevist friends and associates, posibly imagine that they represent American Labor more truly than the American Federation of Labor: 1 In all the years the Socialists have fought us they have elected exactly two members of Congress. In the same time the votes represented by the American Federation of Labor have built-up a group of 35 members of Congress." Mr Hearst has been "boosting" the_ alleged split in the American Federation, but it appears that the Federation refused to participate in the Chicago Bolshevistic labor convention, or, to be exact._ only four Labor unions sent a representative to _ the radical gatherings, whilst 784 American Federation of Labor unions declined to have anything to do with the " Bolshies." The officials of the Federation declare tho threat of a national strike by the Bolshoviki element is, " pure nonsense." There could be no national strike without the presidents of all the 144 national and international unions issuing the call. This is the point that Hearst and his troublemaking sheets cannot surmount, and their ■ stories intended to wreck the Labor organisations are doomed to defeat, as so many of Hearst's schemes have resulted. "HOW WE DID IT."

Some of the American newspapers are bubbling over'with unrestrained enthusiasm on the ever-verdant subject of " How we did it," referring to the sudden termination of hostilities in the war zone in France. Here is a fair sample of howone paper dishes up the nauseously-worded war finish, which soberer American prints have repeatedly conceded was actually won

through the hammer blows of General Haig's forces :

German officers have informed the world that the Yanks won the war because they knew nothing about military tactics. The Yanks didn't know that it was impossible for infantry to charge machine-gun nests. Yet they did it, and captured or killed the enemy. They didn't know that a soldier was not supEosed to aim at the enemy. He should ave shot only in the general direction. They never heard that a company was supposed to retreat after having suffered a certain percentage of casualties, etc. Gee ! Our soldiers were certainly war ignorant, but, according to German officers, this ignorance was terrible for the morale of. their men. The Huns knew if they stuck at their posts long enough some big Yank would either capture or kill them in his ignorance of the rules of the war. But why worry? It's too lute to learn now. Besides, the war is over, and we did pretty good work, considering what we knew. AT ODDS WITH WILSON.

President Wilson has a host of critics in Congress, and in the political life of America there is no more fearless critic of the head of the nation than...SeuaLar..Jki£aJ) 4 . who has now declined President 'Wilson's invitation to at 'White House and discuss the League of Nations themeMr Borah/when he .refused to accept: the offer to dine'with the President, based his

"declination" —as the United States papers term it—on two points: First, that lie and the President are fundamentally at odds regarding the League of Nations plan ; and, second, that he could not allow himself to be bound to a confidential discussion, no. part of which 'he could use later in argument or .public discussion. Mr Borah, in a' letter to Mr Tumulty, the President's secretary, made plain his reasons for declining the-, invitation. "Meetings at the. White House, according to a longstanding' custom/' wrote. Mr Borah, "are always regarded as... strictly confidential on the part-of the guests. This meeting, I take it, would bo regarded as.-, especially confidential, otherwise the. President would have spoken, according to his custom, to the open Senate." SIDELIGHT ON .SIBERIA.,

Out of the w,eltor- of doubtful information that" is •filtering through from ' Siberia .to the' American Press .there_ occasionally comes a paragraph' which is worthy of reading. ■ Peggy. Hull sends a cablegram showing a .sidelight on the nebulous state of affairs in that big section of the., world. The message follows:—" Japan's suspicion that the Americans are trying to grab the Trans-Siberian Railway may have more to do with the inactivity of the- United States forces in Yladivoctoek tlvui the. more commonly given' reason—the dispute l as to which is the real Government, in Siberia, and whether it is friendly or hostile. The allied soldiers are not suffering, except from boredom. They were were never better clothed, better housed, or better feci. This is . just like a vacation in a winter resort, while 3..0C0 miles from here (Viadivostoek) the pitiful remnants of thai illustrious O'zedio-S.lovak armv which fought its way through Russia hold's the line against Bolshevik invasion. The Americans have their own military trains aetd other railway equipment. The Amerrans have their own military trains and other railway equipment. Tliis gives both Japanese and newspapers an opportunity to aecuse'-thc United State-; of having de'signs on the railway itself. They seize the s'ightcst excuse to publish the' belief. Recently a Vladivostock paper issued a bulletin as follows :—• ft is reported that the United States will send 600.000 Iroons which have been fighting in France through European Russia

to Siberia. This, it is "Believed, is just another one of their schemes to get control of the railways.' RAILWAY DISORDER. " Up to the time that Admiral Kokhak and his friends assembled in Omsk and arrested the directorate there were some evidences of an attempt at orderliness, iaupplv trains moved—slowly, to be sure—but without the present difficulty. 'The, trip to Omsk, 3,000 miles from Vladivostock, takes 17 days on a fast-moving military train. The Red Cross trains are 21 and sometimes 30 days em the road, and since tho new Government took charge but one train of British troops has gone through. People ail along the line are dying because there is no way to get relief to them. The disoxganJaatioiLpiJlie railway service was bad enough beiffri- Kokhak took charge, but it is practically completo now. He antagonised the-:Cossack leader Hemenoff bv ordering.lam to give up his command; and while . Semeu-off has', been threatening to lead his troops a,gain.st Kolchak he lias been holding up all trains between Vladivostock and Omsk. All the other factions which had been "subdued for a while have 'sprung into life over, night, : .;uid lawlessness prevails throughout the interior." QUITTING.' SIBERIA. Coincident with the .statement of_ Mr Winston Churchill that. no more] troops will-ha'Sent-into Siberia -came a cablegram from ". Vladivostock that the Canadian troops --there on' the -expedition were shortlv to be. sent home. T.he -iutelii geneo was 'thankfully received n> Canada, where much anxiety,has been felt for the safetv of the Canadian troops in'that vast territory among the ever-changing scenes and schemes of the Bdlsheviki. Ottawa officially confirmed the, news that .the Canadians would be coming home this spring. The movement this .way'.will probably start toward the end of March or early, in April. Intimation as to ' the possibility . of this course -was given.some weeks ago, but ithas now been definitely, decided upon. The Canadian contingent lias not been in anv action with' the Bolsiieviki, though a Canadian, artillery section with'the Imperial troops has fired some shells in, the vicinity of Archangel. It'went there from France It was announced, when the contingent., left, that they would he free lo return in a year after the armistice Now it has been determined to bring them home sooner. The cost will be- heavy, hut it is t<> be borne by the Imperial Government, rt is believed that the American fm-ees will follow shortly, as U;ere have be.'ii loud protests against (ho I'aukecs staying there longer, and ciib'egiams- sent to 'the Chicago newspapers by sp.'< i,:l correspondents p.'-eonipynyiiig tlie Ended States contingent 'ha\ e 'p-.sscd liiicensorcd. and have opened the eyes of the Washington Administration as to real conditions- in the fastnesses of Siberia. The troops have been daily appealing to go home, as tli'cy say they do not know why they are there, says one message.