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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|*.<ration* on the west front.
“ The position now is,’ ’ said the
summary, “ that the Germans, deter
mined to concentrate every available
unit on one enormous offensive, are
draining their country dry to force a
decision before it is too late, while the
entente are so confident that, having
been given the choice o f a small imme
diate American army for defense or
waiting till they are reinforced by a
complete, powerful, self-supporting
American army, they have chosen the
latter.
“ The German commander, seeing
how nearly he is delivering him self to
the allied reserve, has lieyn compelled
to accept temporary failure and call a
halt. His position is tactically ex
posed in two dangerous salients on
waterlogged ground. His countrymen
are dangerously dissatisfied at the im
mense price |>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.”
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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.