tumos WORLD OF CURRENT WEEK SUBMARINE WHIPPED MAY U-Boat» Bring Sunk by Allies Faster Country Faces Prospect Than Enemy Builds Them Less COMPILED .. , FOR YOU Germany and Austria-Hungary have been laid down, says an official state- i YANKEES TAN HUNS' HIDE ment issued in Berlin in regard to the | v is it o f Emperor Charles to German American Shell Fire Keeps Teutons in great headquarters. Hellish Torment. Orchestras composed entirely o f wo­ W ith the American Arm y in France men w ill be seen in the near future throughout the country, according to — A gigantic enemy ammunition dump Mrs. Enos P. James, o f San Diego, at Cantigny was fired by the American A t the Cal., the only woman delegate attend­ artillery Monday morning. ing the 23d annual convention o f the same time two fires were started in American Federation o f Musicians in Montdidier, followed by numerous ex- | plosions. Chicago Tuesday. The weather continues misty and Women o f the Methodist Episcopal rainy. There was no infantry action Church South, won their 40 years' and only intermittent machine gun and fight for full lay membership in the rifle fire. The position o f the Ger­ church when the general conference in mans is becoming more and more in­ session at Atlanta, Ga.. struck from tolerable, while the Americans are en­ the church law the prohibition against trenching their positions more firmly. their election as church stewards and Any hopes the enemy might have had as delegates to the general conference.' o f breaking through in this sector are British mounted troops, after cap- diminishing, turing Kirkut, in Mesopotamia, pur- The Americans take nothing for sued the Turks for a distance o f 20 ; granted, but return fire two to one, miles to the northward, says an official which is believed to set a new pace in statement issued by the British war this sector. What appears to trouble office. On May 11 the Turks were the Germans most is that the Am eri- driven across the Lesser Zab river at cans never turn back when the enemy A ltyn Kupri. The latter place is 60 , uses gas. They give him a double dose miles southeast o f Mosul. o f the same, with everything else the The R ight Honorable W illiam Mor- enemy tries, ris Hughes, premier o f Australia, ar- • Improved weather conditions led to rived at a Pacific port in the United increased air activity in the Toul sec- States Wednesday with a party o f *°r Tuesday. Many American planes Australian officials en route to a war , were working over the enemy lines conference in London. Passengers on an^ observation balloons were sent up the vessel said a German raider had ^or the t*fne *n many days, attacked and damaged a British trans- The American artillery Monday port on which the premier had sailed ni(?ht and Tuesday morning directed a heavy and harassing fire on German previously. rear areas, where it is known troops Nothing further has reached Ottawa are billeted and it is suspected that officially as to the disposition o f the United States troops in France. The others are moving. statement contained in the cable from To Increase Freight Kates. the British war cabinet and issued at Washington, D. C.- Estimates made Ottawa by the director o f public in­ formation that the Americans were Tuesday by railroad administration not to be utilized in the fighting line i officials indicate that an increase o f at until they had a complete self-support­ least 25 per cent in freight and passen- necessary this year to ing army has not been changed or * er I meet the higher costs o f fuel, wages, modified in any way. equipment and other operating ex­ An anti-loafing bill, modeled in some penses now set at between $600,000,- respects after statutes in effect in 000 and $750,000,000 more than last Maryland and N ew Jersey, was signed year. by Governor Whitman, o f N ew York, Recommendation that rates be Wednesday. It requires all able-bodied raised by approximately this percent­ men from 18 to 50 years o f age, after age has been made to Director General proclamation by the governor, to be McAdoo by his advisers. He is ex- “ habitually and regularly engaged in pgpted to act within the next six some lawful, useful and recognized weeks, and to put increases into effect business, profession, occupation, trade immediately. or employment until the termination o f the w ar.’ ’ 20,000 Refugees Aided. Sergeant L. Baylies, o f New Bed­ Cairo, Egypt— The British govern­ ford, Mass., an American flyer in ment is transporting 1500 Armenian France, has brought down seven Ger­ refugees from Jerusalem to Port Said. man airplanes within the last two Others are coming from the south­ months, says an official dispatch from east. France. Rev. Stephen Trowbridge, represent­ Seven young men o f Brussels, born ative o f the American committee for in Belgium o f German parentage, but Armenian and Syrian relief, said that B elgian citizens by adoption, have 20,000 refugees had been given assist­ been taken to Germany to be enrolled ance in Jerusalem by the committee. in the army, according to an official A hospital has been established at Mejdel, near Gaza. dispatch from France. HURE U. S. RUSSIA WHEAT CROP IS HUGE o f Becoming A d ven e Colony o f German War L o r d - Shipping Lost Per Month. Crop W ill be Near Record. London -Russia has lieen suddenly faced with events that may a£ain change the political outlook, the Pet- prograd correspondent o f the Daily Express telegraphs. Germany, he says, has apparently found that eco­ nomic dominion over Russian terrtiory is insufficient and is now seeking m ili­ tary occupation. £^An extra^session o f the^ Bolshevik government council has t>een held in Petrograd to discuss the situation cre­ ated by the ultimatum recently deliv­ ered by the German ambassador. Count von Mirl>acb, which embodied demands o f a character apt>arently calculated to turn Russia virtually into a German colony. Prem ier Lenine's speech at this meeting was etxremely |>essimistic, the corresopndent reports. According to the nwe»pa|>er Podnia, the question o f transferring the capi­ tal to Nfjni-Novgorod was broached, as was the subject o f immediate m ili­ tary measures for the defense o f Mos­ cow against possible aerial attacks. The situation in Ukrainia has tie- come so disturbing that the Germans have dis|>atchod large detachments o f Bavarian cavalry from Flanders on the way to Ukrainia, the correspondent o f Amsterdam o f the Exchange Telegraph company reports. Word that fighting is to be renewed in Ukrania has been received from Liege, Belgium, according to the dis- patch. The Bavarian cavalry detach­ ments are said to have arrived at that city. The likelihood o f a split in the Cen­ trist party, one o f the most |>owerful in the reichstag o f which Chancellor von H ertling is a member, is discussed in Berlin newspajiers, an Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company reports. Dissention has arisen over the chancellor’s Eastern policy. The newspapers say the anti- H ertling faction, headed by Mathias Erzberger, may be able to cause the chancellor’s fall. M. von Engel is quoted by the cor­ respondent as reporting the situation in Petrograd still precarious owing to the scarcity and dearness o f food. The Lenine government, however, is gain­ ing in stability and power, he says, subduing the unruly elements and mak­ ing an effort to reorganize the army. The number o f unemployed is great and industry is completely at a stand­ still. The peasantry, who are the principal supporters o f the Bolshevik govern ment, the minister added, are still looking to that government for a free distribution o f Land, most o f which in the meantime has been left unculti­ vated. KAISER RULE GRIPS HOLLAND Dutch Threatened W ith Fate o f Rou- mania -Allied Nations Uneasy. Weather and Labor Condi­ tions Curtail Planted Area, but Teuton Centrists May Split. 3 Paris The effectiveness o f the Ger- . man submarine campaign is declining. uri6T Resume Most Importent The German government is aware o f this fact, dectkred George l.eygeus, minister o f marine, before the naval Daily News Items. committee o f the chamber o f deputies Monday, but has made the greatest efforts to conceal it. He said the sit­ uation was most favorable and that the sinkings o f submarines in the lirst , three months o f 1918 through allied ! measures was greater than the number I built by the enemy. Events o f Noted People, Governments Minister LeygUU* referred to the I statement made in the reichstag on and Paeific Northwest and Other April 17 by Vice Admiral von Gaf>elle, Things Worth Knowing. German minister o f marine, in which ' he said 600,000 tons o f allies’ shipping were sunk monthly. This figure, the ; minister said, was incorrect. Pastor Charles W. Wagner, author of It was reached and passed in April, the widely known book, “ The Simple May and June o f 1917. In July it de- L i f e , ” is dead at his home in Paris. I dined and in November it fell below He was 67 years old. 400,000 and since has diminished con- Lieutenant Benjamin V. Maurice, 1 tinuously. M. Leygeus said that in February, o f New York, died at Ellington Field, Houston, Tuesday, o f injuries received March and A pril 3723 French steamers ! and 788 French sailing vessels passed when his airplane fell on A pril 16. through the danger zone where a few Bread tickets as a war-time measure months ago losses by torpedo had been in Chicago may be necessary, accord­ very heavy. Not a single ship was in g to sentiment among 12,000 master sunk. bakers o f that city in session there On the other hand, he said, the num­ Wednesday. ber o f submarines destroyed had in- John Verburg, o f Chicago,' was sh ot! creased progressively since January in and killed by his crippled son, John, such proportion that the effectiveness Jr., because he had struck the youth’s j o f enemy squadrons cannot be main­ mother when she objected to his de­ tained at the minimum required by the mands that a 15-year-old daughter get regulations. The number o f enemy employment. U-boats destroyed in January,. Febru­ ary and "March was far greater in each Major Ralph Royce, o f Hancock, j month than the number constructed in M ich.; First Lieutenant Herbert R. the same month. In February and Garside, o f New York, and Lieutenant, . . , , - Paul - Meyers, s, o f Milwaukee, W ia , have April the number o f submarines de- been decorated with the war cross by a stroyed was three less than the total destroyed in the previous three‘months* French general. These results, the ministry declared, Count James Minotto, son-in-law o f were due to the methodical character Louis F. S w ift, the packer, was taken o f the war against submarines; to the into custody in Chicago W’ednesday by close co-ordination o f the allied navies; deputy United States marshals, two to the intrepidity and spirit animating weeks a fter his arrest was ordered on the officers and crews o f naval and a Presidential warrant. aerial squadrons and to the intensifica­ The ch ief features o f an agreement tion o f the use o f old methods and the to strengthen the alliance between employment o f new ones. _ SEIZE Washington, D. C.- Hope for the billion-bushel wheat crop, for which the government is striving this year, was strengthened Thursday by the de­ partment o f Agriculture’s May crop report forecasting a production of 572,539,000 bushesl o f winter wheat. Secretary Houston, in a statement Thursday, said there was every rqfsun to anticipate increased farm yields this year over the record production o f last year. He added, however, that the promise did not warrant relaxed efforts for greater production and for greater con­ servation, and he called U|>on the peo- ple o f towns and cities to realise that the farmer cannot work miracles and to lend him the assistance needed at harvest time. Realization o f a winter wheat crop as large as that forecast would place this year’s harvest o f that grain as the third largest ever gathered. The esti­ mate is 12,500,000 bushels more than forecast in April from conditions then •xlsting. Mini 1 T> I. joo.ooo bushel more than the crop harvested last summer. On conditions from now until harvest time w ill depend whether the crop w ill l>e larger or smaller than the present forecast, based on conditions May 1. In the week since then generally fa­ vorable weather for wheat develop­ ment continued and the crop has made excellent progress in all principlal pro­ ducing areas. Efforts have been made to stimulate production o f spring wheat and prelim­ inary reports indicate an increase in the acreage o f that crop which may be sufficient under good growing condi­ tions to bring the total wheat produc­ tion this year well toward the billion bushel mark. N o official report has yet been made on the acreage o f spring wheat; the first announcement w ill be made in June. Reports indicate the seed al­ ready planted has germinated well generally. HALF MILLION TROOPS OVER Baker Declares His F’ romlse to Con­ gress More Than Fulfilled. Washington, D. C.- More than 500,- 000 American soldiers have been sent to France. Secretary Raker Thursday authorized the statement that his fore­ cast to congress in January that 500,- 000 troops would be dispatched to France early in the present year now had been surpassed. Mr. Baker dictated the following statement: “ In January I told the senate com­ mittee that there was strong likelihood that early in the present year 500,000 American troops would be dispatched to France. I cannot either now or perhaps later discuss the number o f American troops in France, but I am glad to be able to say that the fore­ cast I made in January has been sur­ passed. ’ ’ The secretary chose his words about the troops in France with the utmost care. He would not amplify the state­ ment in any way. and specially asked that the press refrain from speculation as to what precise figures his guarded remarks covered or as to what fiossi- bilities o f early further increase in the force on the other side there might be. There have been repeated official an­ nouncements, however, that the gov­ ernment is bending every energy to rush men across to back up the allied lines in France, and officers directly in charge o f the transportation have ex­ pressed satisfaction with the progress being made. London— Germany has made claims on Holland which are described in a Central News dispatch from The Hague as very serious stipulations that would bring Holland to a great extent under the economic influence o f the Germans. These claims are in addition to the one respecting the Dutch tonnage which is demanded fo r use after the war, as an offset to the tonnage which the allies are now using. “ Germany is actually endeavoring to make a second Roumania o f Holland,’ ’ says the dispatch. A t a conference a few days ago be­ tween Foreign Minister Loudon and the ministers o f the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy, it was pointed out that the entente is viewing with great apprehension the situation between Holland and Ger­ many. Holland was told o f the dangers which might befall from agreement with the German claims in connection with grain shipments from America. The entente representatives prom­ ised not to put difficulties in the way o f Holland, but made it plain that their governments had not departed from their original viewpoint. Germany now makes an agreement on the 'economic questions dependent upon acceptance by Holland o f its claims regarding the shipping question. This might again give rise to serious difficulties. Misfit Shell Kills Nine. Fort Worth, T ex.— Nine American gunners were killed and seven injured more or less seriously near Renbrook. a few miles west o f Fort Worth, when a three-inch shell exploded Wednesday afternoon. One gun crew, comprised o f mem­ bers o f the headquarters company o f the 141st infantry, was entirely wiped out and a second crew from headquar­ ters company o f the 142d infantry suf­ fered heavy casualties. An attempt on the part o f a gunner to force the shell, which apparently did not fit, down a trench mortar, is believed to have lieen responsible for the accident. German Industrial Conditions Bad. Amsterdam Herr Kraetzig, a So­ cialist member o f the Reichstag, as­ serted in Wednesday’s debate on the appropriations to meet the imperial economic demand that four-fifths o f the textile industries o f Germany were completely paralyzed, and that the po­ sition o f the idle textile workers was rapidly growing desperate. He de­ manded that provision be made to keep skilled workers in readiness for re­ sumption o f industries after the war. Minimum Wage Now $9.60. San Francisco— The Industrial W el­ fare commission o f California issued an order Thursday establishing a mini­ mum wage o f $9.60 for a 48-hour week, or 20 cents an hour, for all wo­ men in the state engaged in unskilled and unclassified occupations. Under the term “ unclassified occupations’ ’ the commission includes all occupations which have not been cla rified as the mechanical, factory, laundry or can­ ning industries, office or professional. Allies Sure Line Will Hold Until Uncle Sam Can Strike. DO NOT FEAR BOCHE Foch's Method o f Fighting and Retir­ ing Only A fter Knemy llaa I'aid Awful Toll U Vindicated. Ottawa So confident is the entente o f its ability to withstand any drive the Germans cun launch that it has been decided not to use the American army until it become* a complete | m > w - er and force, according to cublu sum­ mary o f o|*.aid for his failure to terminate their sufferings. His allies are on the verge o f quarreling and daily exhibit their growing dislike and dis­ trust o f the taskmaster who robs them o f their lives and food. “ His reserves have nearly reached complete exhaustion. Those o f the Franco-British are still in being, while the American preparations develop. The time draws closer when defeat is inevitable. Therefore, he must renew the offensive. “ The allies may have complete con­ fidence in the results. For the enemy the issue is a desperate endeavor to avoid defeat; for the allies the issue is only that o f victory deferred. “ The coming battle may be a repeti­ tion o f Verdun on a large scale, and i f both sides should be exhausted the al­ lies have vast powers o f recufieration, while Germany has drafted her resour­ ces already. “ To the sledge hammer uses o f mas­ ses o f men by the enemy the allies are opposing the strategy o f meeting the blow with the smallest force capable o f standing up to the shock, while keeping the strongest reserve |>o*sible. Troops on the wings are permitted to give ground within limits wherever the enemy has been made to pay a greater price than the ground is worth, the whole aim being to reduce the enemy to such a state o f exhaus­ tion that our reserve at the right moment can restore the situation.’ ’ HUNS FED ON ABSURD LIES Gullible People Told American Troops in Training Gamps Mutiny. Washington, D. C. - A German w ire­ less message saying that grave in­ subordination is a daily occurrence in American army training camps was made public Monday by the State de­ partment as an illustration o f the lengths to which the German govern­ ment is going in an effort to keep up the spirits o f the civil population. The message, which was sent out May 9, and was given out by the State department without comment, said: “ According to information from Christiania, Norwegians recently ar­ rived from America say that grave cases o f insubordination occur daily in American training camps. A t first breaches o f discipline were punished by death, but this was stopped owing to the number o f cases. In a particu­ larly flagrant instance all the soldiers in a camp acted collectively anil ob­ tained not only immunity for the m u-. tineers hut punishment for all officers. Furthermore, much damage to work and material is being done.” * Substitute* Should Be Cheaper. Washington, D. C. — Wheat flour substitutes should sell from 10 to 20 per cent less than wheat flour, Food Administrator Hoover notified state food administrators Saturday. The administrators were instructed to di­ rect wholesalers to stop dealing with retailers who cannot ju stify their prices on the basis o f cost Cornmea! and oatmeal should sell 20 per cent be­ low the price o f wheat flour and corn and barley flour 10 per cent below.