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WORLD HAPPENINGS of cni VEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other ...... i Things Worth Knowing. T.Jie Turkish minister ot finance has announced that Turkey has concluded a fresh loan from the German govern ment for 45,000,000 Turkish pounds, the Berlin Vosslsche Zeltung states. i Arrival In England of a special com mittee headed by Dr. W. 0. Thompson, president ot Ohio state university, to study food production there and in France and Italy, Is announced by the department of agriculture. Representative Padget, of Tennessee, chairman, and seven other members of, the house naval affairs committee, returned Wednesday from Europe, en thusiastic over the work of the Amer ican navy In the war zone. Another shot from the Teutonic peace propaganda artillery has been fired by Count Czernln, the former Austro-Hungarlan minister of foreign affairs. In an article In the Vienna Neue Frele Presse he favors the idea of a league of nations. For the army, navy and marine corps, the government, for the year ending June 30 next, will require 266, 000,000 pounds of scoured wool, all of which Is available, Brigadier-General Wood, acting quartermaster-general, said Wednesday. Production of motor cars by the Ford Motor company has been sub pended entirely, It was officially an nounced at the plant Tuesday. The move will enable the company to de vote its entire facilities to government work, the announcement said. Definite abandonment of President Wilson's plans for a transcontinental speaking tour for the Fourth liberty loan was announced Tuesday at the white house. The original programme was for a swing around the country that would Include the Pacific coast. Brigadier-General Honry A. Greene, commander of the department of the Philippines, United States army, has picked Paranaque, six miles from Ma nila, P. I as the site for the canton ment of 150,000 Philippine guardsmen, who will be Bubject to call November 1. "Die Wacht Am Rhcin," found In certain singing books used In the pub lic schoolB, was summarily suppressed Wednesday when Chicago school of ficials stopped the Bale to pupils of the songbook containing it, and or dered the elimination of the song from the books already in use. An amendment to the espionage act designed to reach draft slackers and to punish disloyal talk was passed by the senate Wednesday and sent to the house. It fixes a maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment or a fine of $10,000, or both, for making false re ports or BtatemcntB with intent to Interfere with the United States mili tary or naval success. Request of the National Council of Defense that Christmas giving this year be discouraged was rejected by the trustees of the Seattle Chamber ot Commerce and Commercial Club Friday. i American shipping waa Increased by 33 wooden vessels during August, it was announced at Philadelphia by Charles Pless, vice-president and gen eral manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. -3. Flying Cadet G. H. Mllliken. former Pittsburg National pitcher, died at Forth Worth, Texas, Thursday, from injuries received Wednesday when he dashed to earth in an airplane with Lieutenant Sidney Green. Formation of a war donations and speakers' bureau to prevent unauthor ised or unworthy war fund campaigns and collections and to stop personal profit in such movements waa an nounced by the State Council of De fense at San Francisco Friday. . (Two hundred were killed last Thurs day in a battle which lasted alt day ,at Pilar De Concho, southwest of Chl liuahua City, between the federal com mand of General Ernesto Garcia and fhe forces ot Francisco Villa. 1 A new food program, embracing (Plans for further war-time conserva tion ot staple products, was discussed 'Friday by Herbert C. Hoover, food ad ralnlstrator, and food administrators jfrom all the states, called at Washlng ington, D. C, for a two days' confer-'encs. TORPEDO HITS TRANSPORT Thirty-Five Killed by Explosion Ves sel Limps Into Port. Washington, D. C. Thirty-five mem bers of the crew of the American Army transport Mount Vernon, formerly the North German Lloyd liner Kronprlnz- essin Cecile, were killed by the explo sion of a torpedo which struck the vessel last Tuesday when she was 200 miles from the French coast, home ward bound. The passengers included Senator Lewis of Illinois, who was among those safely landed after the transport returned to a French port under her own steam. Vice Admiral Sims reported the tor pedo struck on the starboard side, flooding a fire room, but he did not state the extent of the damage. Navy officials assume, since the vessel was able to reach port under her own power, she was not badly damaged. The men killed were firemen, engine- men and water tenders. The names of the western men include: F. Hancock, Renton, Wash. H. C. Plew, Malage, Chelan county, Wash. M. Stally, address not in Navy de partment recordB. I. E. Tracy, Canyon City, Oregon. Senator Lewis was returning home on the transport after a visit to Great Britain and France and the western front. All "Near" Plants to Close. Washington, D. C Manufacturers of "near" beers and other substitutes, it was officially explained Saturday, are affected by the decision to cut off brewing of beer. Millions of dollars have been invested in the business. One of the largest breweries in the country recently erected an additional million dollar plant for the brewing of this beverage only. The principal UBes breweries can be converted to are the manufacture of Ice, cold storage, making of yeast for baking, rolling of barley and grinding of grains for mill feed. All these pur poses would likely be considered es sential to the war or civil population. Delay in final paBsage of the emer gency agricultural bill with its rider providing for national prohibition af ter next July 1, was indicated when the house Bent the measure to the agricultural committee for a report. The senate resolution empowering the president to establish prohibition zones around coal mines, shipyards and other war Industries, was favor ably reported to the house by the Ju diciary committee. English Bomb Hun City. London. British air squadrons heav ily bombed the chemical works at Mannheim early Sunday, after fight ing a terrific engagement with large fleetB of German planes, which vainly attempted to block their progress, ac cording to an official communication issued by the air ministry. .The air battle was fought over the 70 miles separating the British from their objective and was continued on the trip back to the British base. The statement reads: "On the morning of September 8 our squadrons attacked the railways at Ehrang (four miles northeast of Treves, Prussia), and the chemical works at Mannheim. Good bursts wwe observed on and beside the railway lines at Ehrang. "Fierce opposition was met with In the raid at Mannheim, but despite thU the object was reached and success fully bombed. Eight direct hits and many other good bursts were observed on the chemical works. Our squad rons fought largely superior numbers of enemy airplanes both before and after reaching the objective. One squadron had a hard continuous fght for a distance of 70 miles before reach ing its objective and the fight con tinued for another 70 miles on the way back. Over two tons of bombs were dropped on Mannheim. "As a result of the fighting one enemy airplane was destroyed and two more were driven down out of control, Four of our machines are missing." Turk Thinks Peace Near. Amsterdam. Talaat Fasha, the Turkish grand vizier, in an interview published in the Vienna Neue Frete Presse, said he firmly believed that peace would come before winter. He said the war had exhausted itself and its achievements and that Its contln nance was manifestly useless. "Our enemies, not excluding America," saya Talaat Pasha, "shortly will recognize there Is no sense in continuing hostili ties." With the American Army in France, The American troops In Alsace Mon day penetrated deeply into the Ger man trenches and inflicted severe cas ualtles. The raid was made after heavy artillery preparation of 20 min utes. The Germans attempted a raid in force in the Woevre region, sending over a contingent of 100 men at Fllrey and Limey, but they were driven off after one had been killed and several wounded. 24 BILLION TAX MEASURE UP Largest .Bill of Kind Ever Proposed By Any Nation. Washington, D. C Without evi dence of political division, congress Saturday began work on the greatest revenue measure in all history, pro- iding for the raising of $24,000,000,- 000$8,000,000,000 in taxes and twice as much in bonds to pay America's share of the cost of the war next year and for loans to its co-belligerents. In the house, Democratic Leader Kitchin, chairman of the ways and means committee, explained the draft of the bill, while hearings on it were begun by the senate finance commit tee. Chairman Simmons, of the senate finance committee, after hearing Mr. Kitchln's statement, said he hoped the bill could be a law by the middle or last of October. This bill marks an epoch In rev enue legislation of the world," Mr. Kitchin told the house. "It levies twice as much as any nation since the beginning of time has tried to collect from its people." The taxes, the chairman admitted, would be hard to pay, but he asserted that they would be borne "without in jury to any industry or individual" and that not a protest against the bill had been made by American business. American business, he declared, is too patriotic, too loyal, too big, to think of shirking the financial burdens of the war. The war revenue measure, Mr. Kitchin declared, is designed to bring to the government the funds absolute ly necessary for the war on Germany, places the burden equally and equit ably and the committee hopes it will meet with the approval of the admin istration and the treasury. COUNT VON HERRING, CHANCELLOR, QUITS London. Count George F. von Hert- ling, the Imperial German Chancellor, has resigned, giving bad health as the cause for retirement, according to the Geneva correspondent of the Daily Express, quoting a dispatch received in Geneva from Munich, Bavaria. Amsterdam. In urging the consti tutional committee of the Prussian upper house to fulfill the emperor's pledge for reform of the franchise, Chancellor von Hertling said that, in his honest conviction, "with this serious question the protection and preservation of the crown and dy nasty Is at stake." Count von Hertling's address was delivered at the opening of the Prus sian franchise reform question. "The government," said the Chan cellor, "considers that its task is to bring to fulfillment the royal pledge expressed In the July message. As all the sons of the fatherland are defending the fatherland, there now is no question of social discrim ination at the next election. "The object is one which I under took to achieve when I accepted office and upon which I intend to stand or fall. My honest conviction is that with this serious question the protection and the preservation of the crown and the dynasty are at stake. Therefore endeavor to find a road that leads to an understanding. The government sees no possibility of ap proving the bill in the form In which it came from the lower house. 'I fully appreciate the scruples re garding the introduction of general, equal suffrage, but at the present time these scruples must give way to great er tasks, namely, the protection of the moBt precious treasures of our politi cal life the dynasty and the crown. The government will exercise no pres sure on you." The RelchBanzelger of Berlin Sat urday announced that Emperor Wil liam had conferred the order of the Red Eagle of the first class on Dr. Richard von Kuehlman, the German ex-secretary of foreign affairs. Lenlne'a Condition Weaker. London. The condition of Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, against whose life an attempt was made last week, is weaker, according to a Rus sian wireless dispatch received here from Moscow. His temperature is higher as the result of effusion of blood in the pleura and shoulder. Amsterdam. Dora Kaplan, who last Friday attempted to assassinate Niko lai Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, is in a critical condition at a hospital in Moscow, as a result of rough handling by a mob after the attempt, says a dispatch from Moscow to the RJjenish wempimiiuu uuzeue, ut .sseu. Hun Plots Anger Chile. Santiago, Chile. The attempts of German crews to destroy their Intern ed ships in Chilean harbors Tuesday night have caused a wave of indigna tion to sweep through Chile. The plot to destroy the Bhlps apparently was carefully planned, as crews in three different ports acted simultan eously, using dynamite to destroy the machinery or their vessels. The German steamers interned in Chilean ports number 32, while the total number of sailing vessels is 57. The tonnage ot the steamers and sail ing vessels aggregates 230,000. U. S. to Get Hun Captives. Washington, D. C. Publication Monday of orders providing for a sub stantial Increase in the corps of in terpreters of the army revived reports of plans for bringing to America large numbers of Germans captured on the western front In this connection it is known that the shipment of civilian goods on re turning army transports and supply ships recently was sharply curtailed by the military authorities. OVER THE By An American Arthur Guy Empey oldieif Who Went Machine Gunner, WAR IS CRUMBLING THE STOOD SO LONG Synopsis. Fired by the sinking of the Lusitanla, with the loss of American lives, Arthur Guy Empey, an American living in Jersey City, goes to England and enlists as a private in the British army. After a short experience as a recruiting officer in London, he Is sent to train ing Quarters in France, where he first hears the sound of big guns and, makes the acquaintance of "cooties." After a brief period of training' Empey's company is sent into the front-line trenches, where he takes his first turn on the fire step while the bullets whiz overhead. Empey learns, as comrade falls, that death lurks always in the trenches. Chaplain distinguishes himself by rescuing wounded men under hot fire. With pick and shovel Empey has experience as a trench digger In No Man's Land. Exciting experience on listening post detail. Ex citing work on observation post duty. Back In rest billets Empey writes and stages a successful play. . CHAPTER XIX Continued. 15 The game is honest and quite en joyable. Sometimes you have fourteen numbers on your card covered and you are waiting for the fifteenth to be called. In an imploring voice you call out, "Come on, Watklns, chum, I'm sweating on 'Kelly's Eye.' " Watklns generally replies, "Well, keep out of a draft, you'll catch cold." Another game is "Pontoon," played with cards; it is the same as our "Black Jack," or "Twenty-one." A card game called "Brag" is also popular. Using a casino deck, the dealer deals each player three cards. It is similar to our poker, except for the fact that you only use three cards and cannot draw. The deck is never shuffled until a man shows three of a kind or a "prlle" as It Is called. The value of the hands are, high card, a pair, a run, a flush or three of a kind or "prlle." The limit is generally a penny, so it is hard to win a fortune. The next in popularity is a card game called "Nap." It Is well named. Every time I played It I went to sleep. Whist and solo whist are played by the highbrows of the company. When the gamblers tire of all other games they try "Banker and Broker." I spent a week trying to teach some of the Tommies how to play poker, but because I won thirty-five francs they declared that they didn't "fawncy" the game. Tommy plays few card games; the general run never heard of poker, eu chre, seven up, or pinochle. They have a game similar to pinochle called "Royal Bezique," but few know how to play it. Generally there are two decks of cards in a section, and in a short time they are so dog-eared and greasy, you can hardly tell the ace of spades from the ace of hearts. The owners of these decks Sometimes condescend to lend them after much coaxing. So you see, Mr. Atkins has his fun mixed In with his hardships and, con trary to popular belief, the rank and file of the British army In the trenches is one big happy family. Now in Vir ginia, at school, I was fed on old Mc Guffy's primary reader, which gave me an opinion of an Englishman about equal to a '76 Minute Man's backed up by a Sinn Feiner's, But I found Tom my to be the best of mates and a gen tleman through and through. He never thinks of knocking his officers. If one makes a costly mistake and Tommy pays with his blood, there is no gen eral condemnation of the officer. He is Just pitied. It is exactly the same as It was with the Light Brigade at Balaclava, to say nothing of Galllpoll, Neuve Chapelle and Loos. Personally I remember a, tittle Incident where twenty of us were sent on a trench raid, only two of us returning, but I will tell this story later on. 'is vft l - Meetl a Qas ll' VT t5 Copyright 1917, by Arthur Guy Empey WALL OF CASTE THAT HAS IN BRITISH ARMY. I said it was a big happy family, and so It is, but as in all happy families, there are servants, so In the British army there are also servants, officers' servants, or "O. S." as they are termed. In the American army the common name for them is "dog robbers." From a controversy in the English papers, Winston Churchill made the state ment, as far as I can remember, that the officers' servunts In the British forces totaled neurly. two hundred thousand. He cluimed that this re moved two hundred thousand excep tionally good and well-trnined fighters from the actual firing line, claiming that the officers, when selecting a tunn for servant's duty, generally picked the man who had been out the longest and knew the ropes. But from my observation I find that a large percentage of the servants do go over the top, but behind the lines they very seldom engage in digging parties, fatigues, parades or drills. This work Is as necessary as actually engaging in an attack, therefore I think it would be safe to say that the all round work of the two hundred thou sand is about equal to fifty thousand men who are on straight military du ties, In numerous instances, officers' servants hold the rank of lance-corporals and they assume the same duties and authority of a butler, the one stripe giving him precedence over the other servants. There are lots of amusing stories told of "O. S." One day one of our majors went into the servants' billet and commenced "blinding" at them, snying that his horse had no straw and that he per sonally knew thu straw had been is sued for this purpose. He called the lance-corporal to account. The cor poral answered, "Blime me, sir, the straw was Issued, but there wasn't enough left over from the servants beds; in fact, we had to use some of the 'ay to 'elp out, sir." It is needless to say that the serv ants dispensed with their soft beds that particular night. Nevertheless it Is not the fuult of the individual officer, it is just the sur vival of a quaint old English custom, You know an Englishman cannot be changed in a day. But the average English officer is a good sport. He will sit on a fire step and listen respectfully to Private Jones' theory of the way the war should be conducted. , This war Is gradually crumbling the once insur mountable wall of caste. You would be convinced of this If you could see King George go among his men on an Inspecting tour under Are, or pause before a little wooden cross in some shell-tossed field with tears in his eyes as he rends the In scription. And a little later perhaps bend over a wounded man on a stretch er, patting him on the head. tJ ISM ; 1 ---Basg-:-: and Infantry Attaok. i W 1! TOP Serving in France More than once in a hospital I have seen a titled Bed Cross nurse fetching and carrying for a wounded soldier, perhaps the one who in civil life de livered the coal at her back door. To day she does not shrink from lighting his fug or even washing his grimy body. Tommy admires Albert of Belgium be cause he is not a pusher of men; he leads them. With him It's not a case of "take that trench," it is "come on and we will take it." It is amusing to notice the different characteristics of the Irish, Scotch and English soldiers. The Irish and Scotch are very Impetuous, especially when It comes to bayonet fighting, while the Englishman, though a trifle slower, thoroughly does his bit; he is more methodical and has the grip of a bull dog on a captured position. He is slower to think ; that is the reason why he never knows when he Is licked. Twenty minutes before going over the top the English Tommy will sit on the fire step and thoroughly examine the mechanism of his rifle to see that it is in working order and. will fire prop erly. After tills examination he is sat isfied and ready to meet the Boches. But the Irishman or Scotchman sits on the fire step, Ids rifle with bayonet fixed between his knees, the butt of which perhaps is sinking into the mud the bolt couldn't be opened with a team of horses it is so rusty but he spits on his sleeve and slowly polishes his bayonet ; when this Is done he also is ready to argue with Fritz. It is not necessary to mention the colonials (the Canadians, Australians and New Zenlunders), the whole world knows what they have done for Eng land. The Austrullnn and New Zealander is termed the "Anzac," taking the name from the first letters of their of ficial designation, Australian and New Zealand army corps. Tommy divides the German army into three classes according to their fighting abilities. They rank as fol lows: Prussluns, Bavarians and Sax ons. When up against a Prussian regi ment it is a case of keep your napper below the parapet and duck. A bang bang all the time and a war Is on. The Bavarians are little better, but the Saxons are fairly good sports and are willing occasionally to behave as gen tlemen and take It easy, but you can not trust any of them overlong. At one point of the line the trenches were about thirty-two yards apart. This sounds horrible, but in fact It was easy, because neither side could shell the enemy's front-line trench for fear shells would drop Into their own. This eliminated artillery fire. In these trenches when up against the Prussians and Bavarians, Tommy had a hot time of it, but when the Sax ons "took over" it was a picnic; they would yell across that they were Sax ons and would not fire. Both sides would sit on the parapet and carry on a conversation. This generally consist ed of Tommy telling them how much he loved the kniser, while the Saxons Informed Tommy that King George was a particular friend of theirs and hoped that he was doing nicely. When the Saxons were to be relieved by Prussians or Bavarians, they would yell this information across No Man's Land and Tommy would Immediately tumble Into his trench and keep bis head down. If an English regiment was to be re lieved by the wild Irish, Tommy would tell the Saxons, and Immediately a vol ley of "Donner und Blitzens" could be heard and It was Fritz's turn to get a crick in his back from stooping, and the people In Berlin would close their windows. Usually when an Irishman takes over a trench, Just before "stand down" In the morning, he sticks his rifle over the top, aimed in the direction of Ber lin, and engages in what Is known as the "mad minute." This consists of firing fifteen shots In a minute. He is not aiming at anything In particular Just sends over each shot with a prayer, hoping that one of his strays will get some poor unsuspecting Frit In the napper hundreds of yards be hind the lines. It generally does ; that's the reason the Boches hate the man from Erin's isle. The Saxons, though better than the Prussians and Bavarians, have a nasty trait of treachery in- their makeup. Empey, questioning a German prisoner, finds he's from New York. The interesting Interview la related In the next Install ment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Theory May Yet Be Proved. According to one theory, primitive man came to America by a land bridge from the tablelands of Asia, In search of new hunting grounds. "It is not to be Inferred," says Professor Wlssler, "that the new world native is a direct descendant of the present Asiatic Mon golian, for the differentiation Is evi dently remote." Is It not possible we shall find that it waa the American type that diverged Into strains that J passed to Asia f Chicago Kumlnsr.