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1 1 iff; i' I. It. wohld HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Gorcramtnla aad Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. M. Duval, director of tho Gormano phlle newspaper. Bonnet Rouge, In Paris, was executed Friday for treas onable actions against tho government King Qeorgo has awarded tho Knight's Grand Cross of tho Distin guished British Order of St. Michael and St. George to General Peyton M. March, chief of staff of tho American army. American labor has proposed to tho Shipping board that Labor day this year .shall bo made a second Fourth of July In the launching of a" record number of ships to help defeat Ger many. The abolition of meatless days In Franco after July 20 is ordered In a decree Issued Friday. The restrictions on consumption In restaurants of milk and cheese are consequently to bo abandoned. Thomas J. Mooney left San Fran cisco Friday for tho "death row" in San Quentin penitentiary, under sent ence to be hanged August 23 for mur der in connection with tho prepared ness day bomb explosion. Some 500 persons die of cholera dally In Petrograd, according to tho London Exchange Telegraph company. At Saratov thousands of persona are suffering from the disease. The mal ady has spread to Finland. General John J. Pershing has been awarded tho Grand Cross of tho Order of The Bath. General Tasker H. Bliss, American representative at tho su preme war council, has been given the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St George. A Rnnnlsh fiteamshlD on which Mln- tetnr Tj-inor An Vpua was returning to Spain has been torpedoed by a German submarine. Tne snip new me mimu tAi-'a fimr The rilnlomat and his fam ily were rescued. The German gov ernment was notified of the minister's departure a week In advance. Of the 637,929 American troops brought to Europe in tho months of April, May and June, 350,958 were car ried In British snips, according 10 a statement made in the house of com mons by Sir Leo Money, parliamen tary secretary to the ministry or snip ping. The foundation for industrial peace created to administer mo in o Dei peacu prize of 140,000 donated by Colonel Roosevelt wnen no was president, was formally dissolved Friday at a meet ing of the board of trustees. Congress already had passed a resolution to dis solve the foundation at the suggestion of Mr. Roosevelt Drouth, early frosts and labor short age in England threaten to reduce somehat previous estimates of food production, according .to cable advices received by tho Food administration from the British food ministry. The food situation Is described as better than last year, the message said, but the season of anxiety is not yet over. Germania, one of the most widely circulated German language newspa pers In America, printed In Milwau kee, Saturday in an editorial con demned the German government in connection with the origin and conduct of the war. It retracts previous utter ances and admits Jhat, parrot-like, It bad repeated the utterances of tho German government's newspaper or gans. Hugh Cameron, a Scotch painter of figure subjects and portraits, died In Edinburgh Monday. He was born in 1835. Ten thousand persons In San Juan, Porto Rico, havo been 111 of a three day fever within two weeks, according to tho sanitary service. Tho bombardment of Paris with Ger man long-range guns began again Mon day afternoon, according to a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch, A generally favorable national situa tion in Italy with unusually good har vest prospects was reported to tho State department Tuesday In dis patches from Rome. Tho Austro-Hungarlan war minister, says a Vienna dispatch to tho Vos slscho Zeltung, announces that inoro than 500,000 Austrian war prisoners already havo roturncd from Russia. Major K. A. Rich, orthopedic Inspec tor, Is at Cump Lewis Inspecting tho camp for foot trouble. Ho reports 37 pgr ceiit of man In tho ontlro draft for tlio national ur;ny reported affected with foot trouble are now avallablo for tliu oririy, STEEL SHORTAGE IS FEARED Private Consumers of Metal May Be Required to Submit Inventories. Washincton. D. C. Government de mand for steel has reached such pro- nortlons. it was learned Wednesday, becauso of tho growth of tho war pro gramme, that tho War Industries board fears present sources of supply soon will provo inadequate. At tho meeting of tho noaru manu facturers wore warned that thoao who havo obtained stool on priority ordora for war work and later woro found to bo reselling it to non-war manufacture era would havo their supply cut off. This practice has boon In vogue, tho board loarned. All nrlvato consumors of stool and steel products may bo required to sub mit Bwora Inventories of tholr stocks on hand. It was found that many manufacturers had obtalnod largo quantities of steel beforo tho govern ment took control of tho ontlro output Bv means of tho Inventories, J. Leonard Roploglo, director of steel ButiDlv of tho War Industries board, will bo ablo to keop a closo check on all steel In tho country. Chairman Hurloy. of tho Shipping board, conferred with officials of tho War Industries board regarding tho requirements for tho shipbuilding pro gramme. Production of ships Is show ing such n marked, improvement that it may bo possible to turn out flvo ships a year from each way in somo yards, four ships in othor yards, and lossor numbers olsowhero. If efforts to bolstor up the efficiency of tho weaker now yards aro success ful, it is ovident to officials that tho size of stool plato mills must bo in creased or tho shipping programme will bo delayed by lack of material. A shortage of steel already is oeing felt in somo shipyards. Othors havo moro steel than they need, which, officials boliove, Is tho result of "cost plus" system of contracts, under which tho builders felt frco to expend largo sums on materials not needed for many weeks. FINNS MAY BALK AT WAR IN SIBERIA London. Finland intends to remain neutral If a serious conflict occurs In the Murman country, whero entento allied forces havo assumed control, savs a Helslnsfors dispatch by way of Copenhagen to tho Exchango Tele graph company. Tho Nord Deutsche Allgemeino Zelt ung of Berlin declares that Germany has sufficient forces in Finland to deal with tho entento troops and the Red Guards. A bill providing for tho establish ment of a monarchy in Finland has passed its second reading in tho Fin nish parliament by tho narrow margin of four votes. Republicans have started an encr getic agitation against tho bill and it is not Improbable, the dispatch adds, that the Finnish government will havo to resign, as the majority in favor of the bill is insufficient General Horvath, recently proclaim ed ruler of Siberia, says a Pckin dls patch to tho Times, has expressed will ingness to facilitate tho movement or Czechoslovak troops toward tho Transbalkal region over tho Chlneso Eastern railway. Tho Czechs purpose to reach Irkutsk and resume communication with their compatriots in western Siberia and will formally ask tho Chlneso govern ment for permission to traverse Man churia. There are indications, the disDatch adds, that feome Austrian prisoners aro anxious to Join tho Czechs. Five Hundred Seamen Perish. Toklo. Tho Japanese battleship Kawachi of 21,420 tons displacement, blew up and sank in Tokoyama bay, 150 miles northeast of Nagasaki, on July 12. Five hundred members of the crew lost their lives. Tho battleship Kawnchi was built In 1912 and carried a complement of 9C0 officers and men. Sho was 500 feet long, of 84 feet beam and drow 28-feet of water. Her armament con sisted of 12 12-lnch guns, 10 six-inch guns, eight four-Inch guns and 12 12 pounders. Sho also was equipped with five 18-Inch torpedo tubes. An Atlantic Port Tho sinking at sea July 11 of tho American steamship Oosterdijk after a collision with tho American steamship San Jacinto was reported by a Swedish steamship ar riving hero Wednesday, Tho Oosterdljk"s crow was taken aboard tho San Jacinto, which, al though badly damaged, managed to reach an Atlantic port. Both Vessels, manned and officered by naval crews, carried army supplies. Tho collision occurred In North Atlan tic waters. Tho Oosterdijk, 8252 gross tons, was ono of tho Dutch ships requisitioned while In an American port Cripples to Be Cared For, Washington, D. C Tho movement among privato citizens for finding Jobs far crippled soldiers Is emphatically disapproved by tho war donartmont. Surgeon-General Gorgas declared Wed nesday that tho rehabilitation of tho crippled man will bo dono thoroughly by tho governinnnt. Recently Captain Archibald Roosevelt asked his father, Colonel Roosevelt, to find a Job for ono of sergeants who roturnod from FrariQ'i, ufter buying lost u hand, ALLIED FORCES Great Offensive Between Sois-tg sons and Chateau-Thierry Meets With Victory. ET Germans Forced to Recross Marne in Disorder Brasles Falls While Americans Threaten Soissons Big Rout Imminent. With tho American Army on tho Alsno-Marno Front Tho armies of tho crown prince wero retreating Sun day night whlto tho allied forces of General Foch harassed their roar and continued tholr smashing drive along tho Gorman right flank. It Is expected that If tho Gormans succeed In extricating thomsolvcs it will only bo at tho cost of largo num bers of men and of material and sup plies. London. Tho French havo taken tho town of Brasles, ono mtlo cast of Chateau Thierry on tho north bank of tho Mnrno. according to advices re ceived hore. Tho Fronch lino Includes tho heights north of Brasles, which gives thorn a good bridgehead on tho north sldo i of tho Mnrno. , West of Rhoims, whore tho British wero engaged Sunday, tho present lino leaves tho enemy a atrip of about four i mites deep at the greatest depth on u. rront or about 13 mucs in mo .Mnrno vnlloy. That Is all ho has to show for tho big offensivo'ot July 15. Paris. Tho Franco-American offen sive between tho Alsno nnd tho Mama has yielded thus far 17,000 prisoners and moro than 360 guns captured by tho allies, according to tho war offlco announcement Tho French havo held their posi tions on tho plateau southwest of Sols sons and havo mado Important ad vances at various points. With tho American Army on tho Alsno. Tho French and Americana squeezed tho sack In which tho Ger mans appear to bo caught somowbat tighter Sunday. At midnight they had mado an average gain of more than a mllo along tho lino Chauteau Thierry Soissons, whllo another gain of a sim ilar distance has been mado south of tho Marno and east of Chateau Thier ry. Tho advance along tho Soissons Chateau Thierry road has brought tho allies within nrtlllery dlstanco of tho Junction of tho railroad sorvlng the Germans as a lino of communication. Tho Junction already Is under flro and unless tho desporato attempt which tho Germans aro making to hold Is successful, thousands of tho crown prince's men may bo cut off and forced' to retreat Tho fighting Is com paratively light east of Chateau Thier ry, except at tho river, whero tho most stubborn reslstanco of tho Germans was unable to chock tho allies, who, at ono point, moved forward half a mllo. Victories for the allied arms nre multiplying. Over tho entire C0-mllo front running from Soissons to Rhclms tho allied troops aro fighting with a determination that brooks no denial. Tho Germans are giving ground, though stubborn reslstanco Is bolng. offered on somo sectors. Further indentations havo been mado In the German lino between Soissons and Chateau Thierry by tho Americans and French. Practically all tho gains of tho German drive south of tho Marno havo been blotted out Chateau Thierry, which represents APT AD WHERE THE AMERICAN ARE ADVANCING AGAINST IIOCHE HORDES, BEAT HI BACK est to Paris, has boon recaptured by tho Frutich troops and almost simul taneously tho vlllago of Braslon, two mlloa eastward nnd tho heights to tho north of tho vlllago foil Into tholr hands, Acting In harmony with tho move ment on Chateau Thlorry, American and Fronch troops northwoBt of tho city broko through tho aortnnu lines and at somo points advanced moro than throo miles. Largo numbers of prisoners wero taken. Tho allies' ma chine guns literally mowed down tho Gormans. To tho north along tho Ourcq valloy Uio Fronch aro making progress to ward tho Important junction town of Nantoult-Notra Damo, whllo tho oper ations south and southeast of Soissons aro kooplng tlmo wltli thoao along tho other parta of Uio front 4 Tho ontlro aouthorn batik of tho Marno having boon cloarod of onomy forces, Fronch, British and Italian troops nro now harassing, those bouHi - TRAP IN WHICH TIIK ALLIES mm 6M KEY PAOftAM I 1 TAlAVS 6 $L iossors . .t5 '. i jr. I . m - I. f mm n Kb Thu accompanying diagram shows tho possibilities of n great allied victory which lie in tho present battle between Soissons aud Rheims. Tho Germans on May 27 started a drive for Paris between thu points named, but were not only slopped dui lumcu duck. west of Rhclms nnd tho lattor havo been forced to fall back In tho Courton wood, tho Ardro valloy nnd near St. Euphralse. ri... .,.), f tipIii.ii nnnpniim? wUh .thuali forces jn 1W yard, of tho beach In Nausot on, wBJ.!S"nfi0w.Z,ii! Most of those on board the vessels HH.ri?J Z., fi fi tSov '111'' nihorinon on shoro S$2t fllot$lhM 1,10 8ub""Q m b,t toTS,0bratt,n.neb(0' gg. tories niready won and enlarge them With tho capturo of Chateau Thlur ry ami tho fast progress of the 1 roncln ami Aniorlnihs eastward from tho northern Boctora tho plight of lh Uitv umiiH In tho stinthwoHtern portion or tho Bolsson-RholniR Bailout becomes IncroaBltiRly hninrdoiiB. It Ih not Improboblo when stock la tnkon, lorBo numbora t prlsoiwrs and quantities of kuhb and war stores will ho found to havo boun taken by tho allied troops. , . Aviators continue to loud ns.Utanco, scouting tho back nrens mid harassing tint retreating Gcrmana with tholr ma china Kims. In none of tho other thoatorri, ex cept tho HolBsonn-RhclinB salient, Is thoro any fighting of .great momont in progress. Tho BrltlBh in northern Franco and Handera aro continuing tholr dally pa trol encounters and taking prlsonem, and tho guua of both tho Germans anil tho British nro kooplng up tholr re ciprocal bombardmoutfl, U-BOAT SHELL HITS NEAR MASSACIIUSETS SHORE M10ti tTom nor- Orleans, Mas.--A Bholl from a nor , man Biibmarlno landed Sunday within ; 100 yards of tho shore hero. ? Ms took place in tho courso of a onesided fight 1 hetwoon a giant U-boat and a tug and HAVE CAUGHT THE GERMANS. its tow of four barges. Sovoral residents reported shells falling on shoro, but noun of thoao storlos could ho verified. Tho near- lest shell struck, ho far as known, with- miles off this town on tho southeast ern elbow of Capo Cod. Tho ono-stded battlo lasted an hour and a half, Tho tug was burned to thu water's odgo by shell flro. Tho burges wero sunk by gun flro, Tho lmrgoH wero bound from Glou cester for Now York and ono was loaded with stono, ) EX-CZAR NICHOLAS' EXE CUTION IS ANNOUNCED London, Former Emporor Nlcholan of RtiHsia has boon uhot, a Russian wlrclesH statomont announces Satur day. Tho formor omporor's correspond ence, Including letters from tho monk Rasputin, who was killed shortly ho foro tho rovolutlon, written to tho then emporor nnd his family, will bo pub lished In thu nonr future, tho wireless messago declurcu, Tho former empress and tho young Alexis Romanoff, tho formor holr ap parent, havo boon sont to a placo of security, Tho mossago nnjioiincofl that n counter revolutionary conspiracy was discovered, with thn object of wrest ing tho iix ofiiponir from tho authority of tho Kovlol council, In vluw of this fuel, thu president of llio Ural regional counnll decided I" uxoeiilo (ho former rulur nnd Uio IooImIoii was tin rr hid out on July 10, CrT a mm8 nnn t FKEMCM A M H rF I I