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: THE WEATHKa ''. Partly cloudy to night and Tun-" day; northwest erly winds. Hu. mBlty. 68. ' ; CLOCK VOL. XVI. NO. 7. PORTLAND, OREGON, -MONDAY EVENING,. MAY 21. 1917. FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. g&BV cSS i. l-.-r-- PI. 15 P. IS GIVEN TO CUT RftTES Public Service Commission Takes Stand That Com pany Must Meet Competi tive Prices. LIGHT, POWER SERVICE ARE BOTH AFFECTED Minimum; Rate for Resi dences Remains at $1 ; Rebate Will Stand. ' Salem, Or.. May 21. The Public Service commission today ordered a 1 eduction In the light and .power rates of the Portland Railway, Light & Pow er company. On the company's present volume "f business the reductions will amount to approximately $60,000 to S6R.000 a year, nccording to the estimates of Chairman Frank J, Miller o the commission, and if - the Northwestern Electric company meoig the new rates another $10,000 to 112,000 will be cut from the comum era' light and power bills. The com pany is .given 20 days in which to put the new rates in effect. This reduction of rates was ordered by the Public Service commission In tace of figures showing that the Port land Railway, Light & Power com pany In the last four and a half years has not received fair returns on its investment. Keen competition is the cause of the rapid falling off in the company's revenues, and the commis sion decided that the only way to in crease revenues is to meet competition In rates. Hence the order for a re duction. What Reports Show. On the total valuation of the utility property owned by 'the company, which the commission found to be 146,862,971, the company In the last 4H years re ceived an average annual return for all utility operations of 6.27 per cent. Out of this percentage, dividends. If any, and Interest on bonded Indebted ness must be paid. The average annual return for the 1 years ending December 31, 1916, was 4.16 per cent. "This return is below that generally expected and received by Investors in the Pacific northwest from the opera tion of publio utility properties," says ' the commission's order. ' - Here is an illustrations-showing how the new rates, based on an average case of 600-wstt connected load, will affect residence lighting: Kilowatt hours. Old rate. New rate. 11 $1.00 $1.00 12 1.04 1.00 13 1.11 1.00 15 1.25 1.14 ?0 1.60 1.49 25 1.80 1.G4 The tnlnimum -rate under both the old nd new cchedule is $1 a month for residences. Wew Besidenoe Bates. ' Following is the commission's order relating to residence lighting rates. . First 20 kilowatt hours per month for first 600 watts or less of installa tion, plus 1 kilowatt hour per month for each additional 30 watts of in stallation On excess of 600) will be at the primary rate. All consumption in excess of that at the primary rate will be at the sec ondary rate. Primary rate First 13 kilowatt hours or less, $1; excess over 13 kilo watt hours 7 cents per kilowatt. Secondary rate First 60 kilowatt Iiours 3 cents per kilowatt; excess over 60 kilowatt hours '1 cents per kilowatt. Discount of 5 per cent will be given for payment within 10 -days from the date of the bill. Minimum bill for lighting service $1 per month. Minimum bill for lighting service, in combination with heating, cooking. ' and small domestic power loads having a possible connected capacity in ex cess of 2 kilowatts, $2 per month, Lighting equipment in excess of one kilowatt per square foot of floor area in any room will not be considered in - determining the size of the installa tion: . No heating, cooking or power ap pliances will be considered in the de termination or installation in the tignting; rate. Commercial Power Bates. Rates for commercial power fixed as follows: are 'First 73 hours' use per month of the consumers' demand will be at the primary rate. All consumption in excess of that at (Continued on Pag To. Column Knur.) Mrs. Mooneyes Trial On in San Francisco San Francisco, May 21. (U. P.) The trial of Mrs. Rena Mooney on charge of murder in. connection with the preparedness parade dynamiting began In the superior court today, Judge Emmett Seawell of Santa Rosa presided in place of Superior Judge Dunne, who recently announced that he would not try any of the bomb plot cases. The prosecution announced that T. C. Oxman, Oregon cattleman, who was held Jo answer in the superior court to a charge of attempting to "frame testimony against Thomas J. Mooney, would testify. Americans on Casualty list. Ottawa, Ont-. May 21. (I. N. S.) Americans In the latest British casu alty list, as announced here, include: Died E. B. Emlrle, Denver, Colo. - Wounded J. E. Ramborg, Port An geles. Wash.; G. R. G. Husband, Se attle, wash. THE LIBERTY Local Plants Will Build 18 Ships for U.S. Contracts Have Been Awarded to Three Portland Firais to Con 's tract Wooden Carriers. Washington. May 21. (WASHING TON RtmiTAI! OV TMW inilRMi 1 . 1 General Goethals today announced that contracts for 10 wooden ships have! been awarded to the Standifer Con-1 Struction cornoration and four others ?rv,r,Xlllf; 'em is given contract for 12 wooden vessels. Awards will be announced I every Monday hereafter. It is reported today that a contract for four ships will be awarded to an other Portland firm, the Coast Ship building company, represented here by Arthur Sherwood. The shipping board. In a statement. says it "has never wanted to build woodeq ships but has been driven to it by necessity. The wooden vessel has an economic value not entirely negligible but, were it not for war, it is not conceivable that we would have built one of them." Chairman Denman declared that the board Is in full agreement with Goeth als concerning wooden ships but said we will build all wooden and all steel vessels that can be built which will be of substantial service in the war." He adds that the first curtail ment of production will be in wooden ships, "should the effectiveness of the suDmarine be happily curbed." Portland shipbuilders now hold con tracts to .build 18 wooden vessels for the government. v The Coast Shipbuilding company has four, the Peninsula Shipbuilding com pany four and the Standi fer-Clarkson 10 of the 3000-ton steamers to build. Work is starting at once on all of these craft. Ways are being cleared for the work and material gathered. The Peninsula Shipbuilding company has the keels for two of their craft, while the Coast Shipbuilding company will begin laying keels within a week. Steel yards in Portland also expect considerable work. J. R. Bowles, presi dent of the Northwest Steel company. expects to be on his way east within the next 48 hours to see what can be done at Washington. Portland shipbuilders received word through the Chamber of Commerce and Captain Blaine of Seattle that the shipping board would open a Portland office within the next few days to look after the letting of contracts and car rying out of the contracts on the river. Captain Blaine also stated over he long-distance telephone this morning that while he had not received plans from Washington, he was expecting mem momentarily. President OoDoses War Tax Features Washington, May 2L (I. N. S.) To the legions opposed to various fea tures or tne si,80Q,ooo,ooo war rev enue Mil now on its stormy way through the house there can be added today the name of President Wilson. It was learned in official circles that at least two features of the bill do not meet his approval but what teps he will take to make them con form to Ms Ideas were not divulged. It is understood he does not approve or tne proposed general 10 per cent in crease on imports already taxed and that he agrees with the publishers that tne import on second class matter would have a very bad effect if. in deed, it did not drive many publlca uons out or business altogether. Chinese Cabinet Members Resign Peking. May 21. (I. N. S.) All the members of the Chinese cabinet except the premier, Tuan Chi Jul, resigned to day. Tuan Chi Jul also holds the post of minister of war. There have been dissensions in th government for some time, owing to tae war situation. Famine Threatens China. Peking, May 21. (I. N. S.) The food scarcity in China has become so acute that actual famine' is threatened in some districts. Box of Dynamite Found at Linnton A box containing 20 to 25 sticks of dynamite and a box of caps was found on the side of a hill behind the govern ment moorings at Linnton today, by Officer E. B. Anderson of Linnton. Anderson took the explosives to the Portland police headquarters where Lieutenant Jenkins ordered that they be sunk In the river. No clue could be ascertained as to the Identity of the person who placed the explosives. Fisheries Compact Jravorably Reported Washington, May 21. (WASHING TON -BUREAU OF HK JOURNAL.) The Chamberlain bill to ratify the Oregon-Washington fisheries compact was favorably reported by the senate Ju diciary committee today. Senator Chamberlain, however, will not urge it at present, in the absence of Senator Lane, although Lane some time ago stated that if no referendum were filed on the new legislation this year he would not further oppose ratification. Federal Control of Coal Business Urged Washington, May 21. (TJ. P.) De claring that mine operators are charg ing exorbitant prices for coal, the feb eral trade commission today urged congress to establish control by gov ernmental agencies whleh may fix prices ' ' i. . . LOAN IS A MORTGAGE ON BITS OF SHELL KILL NURSES ON LINER MONGOLIA Mrs Edith AyreS and MjSS " - HPIPn BlimPtt WflftflS Bflth ntSICIl DUIllCU VVUUUd, DUlll of Chicago, Mruck, by FrafllTIPntQ flf fshPll . . ACCIDENT OCCURS. 250 MILES OFFSHORE Miss Emma Matzen, Nurse, Wounded; Vessel Returns With Victims. Ammunition Found Defective. Washington, May 21. (I. N. S.) Defective ammunition was reported as the cause of the death of the two Red Cross nurses aboard the Mongolia. This was revealed In a telegram received by Surgeon General Go r gas from Commander C. C Collins, In charge of base hos pital No. 12, which the Mon golia was transporting to France. ' The reason for the Mongolia's return to port was not to bring back the bodies of the two nurses but to replace defective ammunition, Collins' telegram declared. .4 Washington. D. C. May 21. (U. P.) America's first women victims of the war were two nurses killed by ex plosion of a shell during target prac tice Sunday aboard a the armed mer chantman Mongolia. 'The ship reached her port of departure today, hiring put back with the bodies of the two nurses. One other nurse was wounded. All were members of a medical unit organised in Chicago. The two wom en killed were Mrs. Edith Ayres and Miss Helen Burnett Woods, both of Chicago. The wounded nurse la Miss Emma Matzen of Columbus, Ohio. In some Inexplicable manner I shell exploded and portions of the cas lng were flung into a crowd of nurses and doctors watching the American gun crew at work. The medical unit aboard the Hon golia was under command of Major Fred A. Besley. and Included 65 and 1S3 privates. , Kongolla Sailed tart Weak. The Mongolia had sailed from an American port late last week. The accident Sunday occurred about 250 miles off the coast. According to information available this afternoon it was around the stern gun that the explosion occurred. A United States revenue cutter met the Mongolia and bore the dead to port. Both Mrs. Ayres and Miss Wood were experienced Red Cross nurses, having seen service and been drilled In this work for three years. A month ago they Joined the corps and were en route to Europe when the ac cident occurred. Major Besley, a professor in North western university, Chicago, who was in command of the hospital unit, this afternoon gave the following account of the accident: Accident Declared "TTnaToldable, "An unavoidable accident during target practice on the steamer carry ing the Northwestern university base hospital No. 12, occurred Sunday after noon, resulting In the Instant death of two nurses, Mrs. E. F. Ayrs, aged 36, of Attica, Ohio, and Miss Helen B. Woods, 32. of Evanston, 111. Miss Emma Matzen, 84. of Columbus, Nebj was seriously but not dangerously In jured. "No other member of the unit was injured. The morale of the personnel was splendid. The nurses were sit ting on the upper deck aft on the port side, 200 feet from the stern gun, dur ing target practice. Only one shot was fired from the stern gun. At this time Judgment must be suspended, as there is ho accurate evidence to war rant making a positive statement as to the exact cause of the accident. The first officer of th. ship was standing within 10 feet of the nurses when they were Killed." Major Besley was standing within three feet of the nurses who died, and, relating his personal story of the acci dent, saiu: "In the target practice, which oc curred at 2 p. m. Sunday, when .we were 24 hours out. the two forward guns were fired first, then the stern gun. (Concluded on Pace Two, Colnmn Six) No Trace Found of Missing Petition No trace of the missing school elec tion petition had been found up- to 3 o'clock this afternoon, though more than 36hours had elapsed since the announcement by Superintendent I R. Alderman, confirmed by John H. Veatch, that the document containing between 7000 and 8000 names, had been stolen from the law office of Raffety & Veatch in the Fenton building Sat urday night. H. L. Raffety declared himself grossly misquoted by an afternoon pa per which made him say it was "hu manly impossible" for the petition to have been stolen, leaving the inference that the theft story was concocted to cover up a failure to secure the requi site number of signatures. .Opponents of the act reducing to three years the tenure of office for school directors have given up the ef fort to get the referendum upon the ballot, finding it impossible to make up the 7000 or 8000 names figuring' in the alleged tnert. , , PRESIDENT WILSON'S address to congress, telling why :the United States must enter the war to preserve liberty for the world, was translated into German and carried over the German lines by balloons, timed to drop and scatter -them among the .German troops. ftl 4 4 -.Ai jTW E RULE TO BE MADE UP OF ALL Even Sinn Fein Adherents to Be Represented, Tells Commons, Premier London, May 21. (U. P.) Premier Lloyd Georg3 revealed his scheme of settlement of the Irish question to the house of commons today. The proposed conference to decide the exact form of home rule to be applied to Ireland will be composed of all par ties and all f rations In the Island, he said, in opening the debate. Even Sinn Fein adherents will be represented, he declared. The chairman of the commit tee will be nominated by the king. The British premier explained that the suggested Irish convention would be expected to submit to parliament a complete draft of an Irish constitu tion. Sir John Lonsdale, ah Irish mem ber, said he would lay Lloyd George's proposal before the Ulster Unionist council, but he was not sanguine as to any result. "Ulster will never be forced into home 'rule," he asserted. John Redmond, Nationalist leader. declared this was the first time in Ireland's history that she had been asked to settle the problem of gov ernment herself. He felt sure all sec tions of the island and all factions would participate in the conference. San Francisco Has First Registrations Of 24 Who Sign Cards, but Htne So Hot Claim Exemption Oermaa-Born Bailor Is Among the Bins Men. San Francisco. Mar 21. (P. N. S.') Registration for the army draft began here today. sigmund v. Schloss, the first man to present himself, registered because, he said, he planned to go east on a business, trip and would not be here on registration day, June 5. He did not claim exemption, although his card stated his wife is dependent upon him for support. Registrar Zeemansky Is ready for general registration now. Others fol lowed Schloss action because they ex pect to be out of town June 5, and by this number, all but nine claimed ex emption. Seven of the nine were sin gle meiw The first man of German birth to register here was Carl Pohlman, a sail or. He did not claim exemption. Child Playing With I ratner ls uied .Roseburg, Or., May 21. Lethla Har ness, S-year-old daughter of Russell Harness, died last night as the result of being run over by an automobile driven by Charles Fields, clerk In the Roseburg postof f ice. , The accident occurred on the Brown bridge, across. the North Umpqua river, Sunday evening. The child was play ing on the bridge with her father, who was fishing for salmon from the bridge, when the Fields car drove slowly along, the child darting In front of the car. -J v.,u.. ..: i - MW II ilif "l mj S gxmmimmmmmmmmamui iisiissiisiimiliiwiiMsssBMssssaaissa CONFERENCE ON HON! IRISH PARIS THE UNITED STATES-YOUR 0 1 ILL STIMULATE THE LIBERTY BOND SALES Clearing House Committee to Meet Tuesday to Discuss Plans for City Campaign, Plans for the Portland campaign to stimulate interest In subscriptions to the Liberty Loan bonds will be laid at the meeting of the clearing house committee Tuesday. President A. L. Mills, of the First National Bank, as chairman of the committee, has called the meeting for 3 o'clock in the after noon. Details of the plan proposed by the San Francisco loan committee had not arrived this morning, but are expected before the meeting Is held here. Bewail Dwlght BUlis Coming. President Mills was also informed today that the American Institute of Banking is sending two' speakers of national note to this city in connec tion with the bond subscription move ment. These men are Rev. Newell Dwight Hlllis, Congregational clergyman and writer of New York, and Lawrence Chamberlain, banker ,and writer, Chamberlain is professor of finance at Dartmouth and In the commercial school of New Tork diversity. These men are making a coast to coast lecture tour in a Campaign to popularize the Liberty loan. They will be in Portland June 1 from 1:50 to 11:10 p. m. Two big public meet ings at some local theatre are planned for the day. Aggressive Campaign to Open. June 1, by the way. will probably be the start of an aggressive "Lib erty Loan" Week In Portland. All of I these plans, however, are still ln- definite. Governor Archibald Kalns of the federal reserve branch at San Fran cisco, notified 'Portland bankers today that the temporary treasury certifi cates, subscribed a month ago to advance the government money for emergency purposes, may be turned in by the banks as part or whole payment for Liberty loan bonds, should the bankers care to do so. Business Men Asked to Aid. Nine Portland business men were asked today to become members of a Liberty loan publicity committee for the Pacific coast. The request came from John A.' Brltton of San Fran cisco, general chairman of the pub licity committee. Telegrams explain ing the work came to C S. Jackson, William M. Ladd, Edgar B. Piper, C. A. Morden. Simon Benson, D. C. CBeilly, John B. Teon. A. D. Charlton and E. E. Faville. A meeting of this committee was requested as soon as possible. Plans pertaining to the ex ploitation work are now in the mail, the dispatches said. "We depend upon your committee for immediate action as time is short." Mr. Britton. wired. Portugal Capital Has Food- Riots Lisbon, May 21. (X. N. 8.) Food riots occurred here today. Mobs at tacked stores. PORTLAND BANKERS CAMPAIGN FOR 'LIBERTY LOAM' IN FULL SWING Energies of Nation Are. Con centrated in All Sections in Tremendous Effort to Make Issue a Winner. "BUY A BOND FOR BABY," ONE SLOGAN ADOPTED Idea Loan Is Oversubscribed, Though Wrong, Delays Sale of Bonds. Tea Billions Tlrat Tear's Bead. Des Moines, Iowa, May 21. (U. P.) ' Ten billion dollars will be required to finance the first year of war," Secretary of the If Treasury McAdoo said here this afternoon, addressing bankers t and business men on the "Lib- erty bond" issue. ft "We don'J intend to be dragged at the wheels, of any military autocracy as Belgium has been," McAdoo said. t New Tork. May 21. (U. P.) Amer ica's first offensive of the war the $2,000,000,000 loan drive is in full swing today. Reports gathered by the United Presa from every part of the country showed the nation's energies concentrated in a tremendous effort to make the issue a winner. Millions of people are engaged in the mighty campaign. In ecores of cities and towns the walls are pi tered with slogans "Buy a bond for baby," "Ring the liberty bell again. Finance your boy on the finng line." and "Put a bond in every home." Some cities report slow sales, due to an Idea that the loan is over-sub scribed. Headquarters here declare it is not half subscribed. Billy Sunday Joins More. Pittsburg's pledge Is 330.000.000, the allotment $50,000,000. Boy Scouts dls trlbuted cards, 200 bond salesmen and 100 orators are leading the fight. New Tork took two powerful short arm punches at the Liberty loan -today. "Liberty booths" in red, white and blue were opened In the Fifth avenue and down-town ahoppiagr center stores. with young women In charge taking subscriptions. "Dig down, you folks," Billy Sunday told Gothamltes today, "and get behind the government in this new loan. Everybody with $50 buy a bond. I'm going to buy a few." In St. Louis the 'Tond in every home" slogan originated. The total subscrip tions in the Cleveland federal reserve district are estimated at $100,000,000. Private subscriptions are going slowly there. Detroit city subscribed $100, 000,000 as an example to otner munici palities. "Buy a bond for baby," is going big In Madison, Wis. Five hundred thou- (Oootlnaed on Page Four. Column Four) F T IS CLIMAX OF INTENSITY Numerous Divisions of Aus- tnans Fresh From Russian Line, Join Struggle, By John H. Hearley. Rome, May 21. (U. P) Climbing seemingly inaccessible heights, amid clouds of enemy shells, and singing patriotic songs all the while, Italian troops today were still pushing for ward north of Gorizla. The fighting Is now reaching a climax of intensity, with numerous fresh Austrian divis ions, transferred airect from the Rus sian front, thrown into action. Men fight from behind rocks and bar riers of stones hastily thrown together, or from caves and dug-outs'cut in the granite ridges. With the ground so ridged and broken, "waves", of the Italian advance generally break up intb knots of fighters, where small groups must match their individual resources and strength against the enemy. Along the Mount Cucco sector, today General Cadorna's singing soldiers cap tured a wnoie row or underground bar rack spaces. The dug-outs had evident ly been furnished for Teuton officers. They were luxiously fitted up and stocked with a huge supply of wines and other comforts. Mexican Snipers Fire on U. S. Guard Washington, May 21. (U. P.) A clash between American border troops and Mexicans was reported officially to the state department today. The message said that a group of filibusterers crossed to the American side near Nogales and were captured by American army men and customs officers. Included in those captured were George Holmes, designated as an American, and Manuel Gonzales, form erly secretary to Hipillto Villa, An other message told of firing from n house en the Mexican side near Nogales upon an American soiaier. tie re turned the fire and the trouble ceased. FIGHTING ITALIAN RON REACHING PATRIOTIC DUTY-BUY A U. S. Plans to Build Fleet of Mine Sweeps Secretary Daniels Confers AMth Shipbuilders Hegarding Construc tion of 24 Vessels. Washington. May 21. (U. P.) Contracts for 38 merchant vessels navo been executed to date by the emerg- nirv fleet corooratlon. United States shipping board, it was announced to dav. To speed up construction of S com bination mine-sweepers and sea-going tugs. Secretary Daniels today conferred with a delegation of 12 shipbuilders representing all of the principal shit building yards in the country. Daniels explained the necessity of quick work on the boats and called upon the ship builders for aid. He assured the builders that the gov ernment would cooperate with them In procuring labor and material. Already the government has arranged to fur nish certain plates vand other steel needed by expediting shipment. The new mine-sweepers will be of 1000 tons. They are to be sturdy, powerful boats. Although officials re fused to comment, it was said the. new boats might be used to cooperate with the British fleet of mine-sweepers. After their conference with Daniels, the shipbuilders met Admiral Griffin. with whom they, went over In greater detail the plans for construction or the shljjs. At a later conference with Daniels the method of payment for the new fleet was talked over. The gov ernment favors payment on a profit percentage basis. Daniels said the biggest problem is procuring skilled labor sufficient to meet the demands of the navy pro gram. H1NDENBURG PLANS T Shattered and Exhausted Di visions Sent From West to East Front to Reform. Armistice Officially Admitted. London. May 21. (I. N. S.) Considerable comment was aroused here today by the of ficial admission of Prince Lvoff, the Russian premier that an armistice exists on Xhe eastern -front. The declaration, which was -made in Petrograd yesterday, was the first official admission that fighting has stopped between Russian and German troops. "The existing armistice at the front, which gave the Ger man chancellor a pretext to formulate his idea of a separ ate peace, dishonorable to Rus sia, must cease," the premier said. By William 1'hillp Slmms With the British Armies In the Field. Mar 21. (U.. P,) Field Mar shal von Hindenburg is shunting h! shattered and exhausted divlslonr from the west front to the northern and eastern battle lines, where they are being re-formed preparatory to a drive on Petrograd. In the meanwhile, fresh divisions from the Russian front .are being sent to France. German prisoners revealed the pur pose behind such a plan: as two-fold. "We expect Hlndenborg to try to take' Petrograd? said one today, "or at- least additional Russian territory. His purpose would be, first, to scare Russia into a separate peace, and, sec ond, to use his gains There as a lever against the allies. Zast Trout Unas How Thin. "Just now, however, the east front lines are thin. Exhausted divisions end those whose losses have brought them far below the regular strength, are being transferred from France to Russia. In retuj-n. fresn divisions on the Russian front are being switched here. Some from Russia are being hurled against the British and French without waiting for replacement on th. Russian front." From prisoners and ' the results of raids. British headquarters estimated (CoDdaded on Pe Foot, Column Three) Senator Lane at St. Francis Hospital Kan Francisco. Cal, May 21. (U. p.) United States Senator Lane of Ore gon, who is seriously m at tne ti. Francis hospital, is better, it was de clared at the hospital "this afternoon. He is not out of danger, however, It was stated. ' Senator Lane- went to the hospital last Thursday, suffering rrom heart trouble and a genera'l breakdown, re sulting from the strain of his work during the present special session of congress. t Registration Hours To Be 7 A. M. to 9 P. M.ffAnnounced Washington, May 21. (V. 4 p.) A mistake In some of the mimeographed copies of the -gt president s proclamation re- gardlng registration for the s new army was corrected today by the war department. The m . hours of registration are from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m., not 7 to 7, on June 5. m DRIVE ON PETROGRAD SAY GERMANS AKEN ANOTHER JOINT BLOW IS STRUCK: ON WEST FRONT British and French Forces Capture Positions, Former ; in Bullecourt Section and ;- Latter at Mont Cornillet. .V ACTION COMES AFTER LULL OF NEARLY WEEK French Troops Had Been Kept Busy Repelling 6er: man Counter Attacks. London. May 21. O. P.) British- and French forces struck another Joint offensive blow today. FleU' Marshal Hair's Tommies took additional sec- Ions of General Hlndenburg's tine po. sit'.ons, and General NivelVe i pollus , . achieved a brilliant success in cap- tare cf "several lines" of German . trenches on the north alop-a of Monf ' ; Cornillet. The British advance was registered . In the sector embracing Bullerosrt and ' ' Fontaines-les-Crolsilies.-the foundation . -. " for the Oppy-Queant part of tee Min- denburg line. It was made despite massing of formidable fresh German divisions from the Russian front. ' The French gains were all in tha . ; Champagne district, in that section rrom Kheims east to Aunertve,, where six weeks ago General Nivella started 'm' the general offensive timed with the" British drive on Doual. ; Resumption of the offenslvo by the : Franco-British forces comes after.' j nearly a week's lull. There had been considerable fighting at Bull. court on v i the British front, and that village was ' finally gained by the British, but there was no general "drive" apparent lit . ' the action. On the French front. Gen-. j eral Nivellc's troops had teen, kept ' ', busy repelling unceasing waves of Ger- ; ' man counter attacks, launched for the " most part in the Solssons-Rhelms sec' v tor. and designed patently to relieve pressure on Laon. X Field Marshal Halg Reports. London. May 21. U. P.) Further . successes along the Hindenburg Mb were achieved by British trees, in spirited fighting last night. Field Mar shal Haig reported today, "At Bullecourt and Fontaines les Cvetlllles alng the Hindenburg line , our success was continued at night and -counter attacks repelled," the state- : mem said. "A Hindenburg line trench was cap tured and ISO taken prisoner." Haig continued. "A large number ef dead were found there. Two German di visions haye been engaged there sine yesterday morning. "At Loos we conducted a successful raid. Southwest of Messlnes enemy, raiders were driven off." French Capture Prisoners. Paris. May 21. (U. P.) General Ntvelle's troops started another of-' fensive today. Capture of several lines of German - (Continued on Pare Four, Ooiama Tare) DYNAMITE IS USED TO CHECK BIG FIRES THAT SWEP ATLANTA, GA. Flames Breaks Out in Three I -Sections of City at Oncej j ; Damage Heavy, '! Atlanta. Ga., May 11. (I. N. S.) Three fires in widely separated aee- tions of Atlanta started almost slmul-i laneousiy ims anernoon ana in I lie tea j . . . . . - heavy property loss. Twenty-five reel- , lences in one Section war reV duced to ashes and the blase; is threatening a larsa warehouse, t inirty cottages were destroyed lnr. another part of the city, - and the; fire there was not under control at I-' o'clock. Three of the most pretentious i homes In Gordon street were com- pletely destroyed In the third fire. .:i At S o'clock the Edge wood avenue -fire had spread three blocks northward; ': pain iwu Diwai wiui wa.a ruw across AUDurn avenue 10 ,uia w neat street.. traveling rapiaiy to tne more substan- tial residences beglnnlag at Irwin streett -s At 3:15 p. m. the fire department r has ordered many houe dynamited - which lie in the Dath of the onisaetM. g flames, hoping to check the fir. ' All residents are moving out Of their . nouses as far north as Pine street. . A pro.perty loss approaching fZ,t09.- uuu was mi ihyw wrougni dp W . o ciock mis anernoon. in luunes started In a small cottage-in Edge- fire has Just passed East avenue and is within a few blocks of Ponce De ieon Daseoaii para. vv-:. -.-' Red Cross chapters and other char--t table organizations are already at worn relieving mc unirnani ana name , , . . . i . j less and trying to provide for shelter for them tonight. The great auditor- - lum is being filled with tots to be us4 , . Several surrounding towns including Griffin. Athens and Rome, rushed. fir apparatus to Atlanta to help fight the ' names, the first arriving from Griffin 'i shortly after 4 o'clock. . : LIBERTY BOND 4 . t j ; 1 n V i- v 1