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i ME-WlLMlNGTOW uPATHt nd South Car- Profcablv rain elina Jj,t and Saturday. f H I f TJ 5 ton' FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE TJ) DAY I A Y VOL XXIV. No. 100.. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY AFTERNOON. APRII IQ iqi PRICE FIVNTSg BELIEF IS GROWING Li -mm R. ... , t , . - T ' ft K ITALY DISPATCHES Hi M0RESECVM FOR erman Thrust Launched Last Week Now Facing a Failure ENEMY STILL SHORT Although the great German thrust launched last week against the Brit- h lines from Germany to Ypres has lent back the British front badly in mis enure area, uie oensive nere tands checked today antt in immi nent danger of utter failure so far as the larger results aimed at are con fined. Field Marshal Haigs Jxoops yester day had to meet one of the severest tens put upon them in withstanding German eort to broaden - out the alient created before the early impe- n? of the German drive in the Lys battlefield was spent- They came through th ordeal with colors , flying nd completely stopped the German onrush. : From Giveney to St. Venant, an 11 mile sector on the southerly side of he salient. German trooDs were hurl- soumv.est Demna Betnune and compel ie British to fall back from Givenchy ad along the front Southward toward Hrr?- ridse and Arras. The defAn- iv line held firm despite repeated iH.?perate a.psaults which cost the Ger- aia i enormous losses, and last night it tattle had died down to-an artil ery duel. Cprrespcndents at the ront declare the British front is now 'ore secure than it has been for Further eorts, probably of an equal, determined nature, may be emect 1 from the. Germans -who -jure .in. too- xpoaed a, fpesition fronf enfiladins lunfire in their narrow salient' to rest comfortably where they are. Indeed, hey resumed their attacks last night n the Mount Kammel region, on .the Northerly side of the battlefront, Southwest of r Ypres, where they are inding the rBitish firmly installed on the dominating heights. These as eaults, like the preceding ones, were failures. . On the Somme battlefront, the French have held to their-gains qf yesterday in the region of Castel, where they drove the Germans further jfrom the line of the Paris-Amie,us ranway in a spirited local attack. Ger man machine gun nests on the front this attack were wipe dout br the French during the night. The city of Rheims, which was set on fire several days afro bv a viefona German bombardment, is now noth- ng bu a heapof smoking ruins, ac- oaing to Paris pres saccounts of onditions there. The famous cathe- German bombardment, is now nothing: Senator Tillman, of South Carolina. a neap oi smOKing rums, accord-: ; Jfready badly battered, is declared to are still as firm as formerly." tove little left of it. but the. We.a 1W.000 shells have been sent into the wtt of the city, is tsill in progress. British troons are standiiisr firflm kfore strong enemy attacks on the front North of Arras, while South est of Amiens the French have taven the Germans back in the. Te- s'n of Moreuil The heaviest fiehtine on the North- front is on the Southern side of Je salient from St. Venant, West of erville. to Givencv On thl 11:mllo irnt the German a j!lns or about 137,000 men. . ' capture of most of .the Messines jnschaete ridge by the Germans did !-bring the defeat of the British Jjca nearer as FieM Marshal; Haig fitted the enemy by withdrawing unes Northeast and East of Pres. in tbS region the Germans e iolundering in mud while efforts 8 him l Tim.i . n . . . v ue flnusa ' une soutn oi I fall a -a.n.iiig Aemrnei niu nave lulled Sevpro Insoao TisiA.JThnralair "e florrvio. XI , . - B ' saint tViio i 'a. iu uut eam ume were "r0Wn hanlr i . i. T e fighting and artillery duels con t... a"Q- westwara towara It. nA. . T-r-v -m rlfnrt swituiiiBg meir strong L from the North to the South, icren T. n.Li .l i i Br-r rnans have not yet gaihed any I fro" lJlfl'r evident desire on, the (rf)." v; iuwest or Givenchy is. to Bi,. as9e canal and outflank Um , wiui u prooaniy . .uens t. AlTa?. Thp olimtnoHnn nt fha !ec,,r rr.as salient would make less Heav A"'et in Picardy. W stacks have been delivered but th Venant and near Givenchy H : pu nemy has Imd no advance, checked everywhere with large AL ESPIONAGE ACT UNDER MILITARY Washington, April 19. PaaagQ of the bill introduced by Senator Cham berlain, placing under control-of th 1 TVtlllfnvr' J.1. !1I " y . " (n I A HCXtXi DCCTTITC U iaiJ' aumunues -air cases invoiv Uf LAKVitK KtiULia ing violations of espionage acts, is , Imperative for the protection of all- . t n frr ens in tnis countryr Norman H. Whito, Waves or Uerman 1 roops are, of Brookline; Mass.," of the military RrtM Rack bv the Firmlv inteIliSence section of the . army, to Kolled DacK Dy me rirmiy day . told the Senate MiUtary commit. Resisting Troops Situation te,. Looking bnghter. he said,; "you'll come to it later and tne non-passage of this bill only means ajtfew more" items in the news-, papers daily telling of the tar and feathering of aliens and riding of wo men on rails and hanging perhaps of innocent aliens." ADVOCATES KEEPING RAILROAD CONTROL Augusta, Ga., April 19. The Geor- ! gia Federation of Labor, assembled her in annual convention today, adopted resolutions endorsing . per manent government ownership" ot railroads and urging President Wil- son and Georgia's Representatives in Congress to use their influence to have action on the pendiqg legisla tion to restore railroads to the own ers be deferred until the close of the id i4 masses on the British positions war- An amendment was included in r -; . i ll a i . , a an eort to break through to theiine resolution endorsing government, ownership ' of all public utilities It is charged in the resolution that the Western Union Telegraph Com pany has instituted a lockout against employes who are members of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union, and it was due to this condition that the apeal is made for the government to take over the telegraph lines. SCHWAB TODAY . BEGINS HIS WORK Washington, April 19. Charles M. Schwab today began active work as director of shipbuilding for the Ship ping Board by conferring with Ber nard M. Boruch, chairman of the 'War Industries B5ard, and J. Leonard Rep logle, director of field supplies of the board, regarding transportation and supply problems. He a.sked the board to 3ed up delivery of plates and other steel to the ship yards. Bosch Plant Taken Over. Washington, April 17. The govern ment has taken over the big plants of the Bosch Magneto Company, . at Springfield, Mass., and Plainsfield, N. J., and directors will be named by Alien ' Property Custodian Palmer to conduct their operation. Investiga tion showed, it was announced today, that the company is entirely enemy owned. For "Jim Crow" in Capital. Washinetdn. Arril 19 A hill tm- ral, already badly battered, is de- i posing "Jim Crow" street cars in lared to. have been set on fire bv the Wnsh g to Paris press accounts of condi , center of fierce strucsles as it was ions there. - The famous cathedral, i m OCrn hut tVlb 'Pr'itiaVl thara I. T " ..--ww.j A J-tJ UU JAAAt' V't W WUiVtWU Vll ItO ttmt and the pillars, .and shells are . bearing on the defenses of Betnune j"u iamng around the edifice. The : and Lens. wmbardment during which-more than I Berlin for the first time since the Northern operations began announces in its' latest communication that the situation is unchanged. .The French success on the Picardy battlefield was gained on a three-mile front running from the North to, the Southwest of Moreuil. The aperx of a sharp pointed salient West of Castel was within three miles of the railway running South from Amiens and was the nearest the Germans had got to Amiens in the offensive which the Germans began more than four weeks ago. The Germans have been driven Jfrom Senecat wood and th,e French have reached the outskirts of Castel and progress was made South of Cas tel. v Five hundred "prisoners, includ ing 15 officers, were captured by the French. , Italian troops will be sent to the 'Western front to aid the embattled Allied troops agains the Germans. An nouncement to this effect has been made in the Italian chamber of-depu-tles by Premier Orlando. The various political parties In Ire land have patched up their differ ences and will resist conscription "by the most effective means" at their dis posal. The Irish bishops and a con ference of political parties presided over by the- Lord Mayor of Dublin both haye signified their purpose to resist. The .government man power bill, including the irish conscription clause, has received the assent of King George, but no home rule bill has. yet b;en - submitted to Parlia ment. Stoppage of all work in Austria on May 1 t& $ hold demonstrations fc? peace hwe been ordered by the Ger man Socialist .party .-.Jn Austria, ac cording to Amsterdam report. BAYS KITCHENER'S BROTHER ARRIVES IN AMERICA : An Atlantic Port, April 19. Among the passengers on an American steam ship which arrived! here today from the West Indies was Lord Denton, a brother of the late Lord Kitchener, who was lost at sea in 1916, .when en route to Russia on a military mission. The present Lord Kitchener who of his famous brother,, also is .known Succeeded to the title upon the death as Lord Denton. fcHe "was born1 Octo ber 5, 1846. Years ago he command ed the Duke of Cornwall's light in fantry as a lieutenant colonel. He won the Croix de Guesrre during serv ice in Burma and Jn the fa anipur ex1 pedition in 1891. For some time past Lord Denton has been in command of the British West Indies regimen tal depot GERMANS EXHAUSTED nv DFIFIMT' ATTArif! ' X I IOE11 1 J 4 1 y IV With the British Army in France, April 19. Exhausted by the failure 1 or yesterday s neavy attacKs on tne GivencnyLiaBasse canal iront, tnejr - A Sharp Setback. eGrmans made no iurtner moves our-i ing tne nignt and on tne greater Parcta.m,rSday , April 18. The French ad of the Flanders battlefront quiet pre vailed this morning. The British re-established their line West of Robesq, on the southwesterly part of the Lys battlefront by re-capturing ground at Rieux Du Vinage farm yesterday afternoon. Kemmel Hill, on the Northerly side of the battle area, was still being heavily bombarded this morning .in preparation for .fresh . assaults by the Germans. Boston Won. Morning Game. Boston, Mass., April 19. Morning game j . New York .. .000. 0J0. 000 1 4 ,2 Boston . . . . "Oil 000 OOx 2 8 kBatteriesi.Rusgell jandUJUiel; -Bush, and Agnew.'V . ; BRITISH NEWSRAPERS SUPPORT CHANGES London, April 19. With few excep tions the . British press supports the changes in the cabinet announced yes terday. The Daily Mail, which is among the exceptions, says that in order not to embarrass the government, the North Cliffe Press has refrained from criticism of many a matter that need ed it,"' and it is protesting now against the political re-shuffle which gives office to feeble politicians like Mr. Chamberlain, who is publicly sad dled with responsibility for the Meso potamia failure. The North Cliffe Press, it adds, "with every relative of the boys whose names are published in the casualty lists had expected better things from Mr. Lloyd-George than indulgence in the old game of political Juggling in such a tremendous hour." Colored Woman Dead. Caroline Arthur, widow of Elvin Ar tis, a respectable colored woman, died yesterday morning at her residence, 801 North Seventh street, following an illness of several months. Funeral services will be held from the Chest nut Street Presbyterian church , of which the deceased was a member, and interment will be made in Pine Forest cemetery. The deceased was known to many white persons, and was highly respected by all. CAMPAIGN CONTINUING. Work Completed at Winter Park. Masonboro Comes Next. tr. Arnold Stovall, county physi cian, has completed vaccination of all residents of the Winter Park commu nity and expects to complete similar work at Masonboro by Monday. Mon day afternoon the employes of - the Bellwill Cotton Mill will be vaccinat ed. Between 300 and 400 county school children have been treated since the anti-typhoid campaign was gotten underway and Mr. Stovall ex pects to have all persons in the county immune from typhoid in a few more week3. R. C. Lawrence, Esq., of Lumb'erton, is spending the day in the city on business. ENEMY CRAFT FIRE ON ALLIED CAMPS Amsterdam, April 19. German tor pedo craft bombarded the coast be tween Dunkirk and Nieupprt, behind the Allied lines In Flanders, yester day morning, says - an official state ment from Berlin today. The text reads: "V ' , ; "Our torpedo boats on Thursday morning fired 600 shells on enemy camps and storage places between Dunkirk and Nieuport." ' tichmbnd Sanatorium as : Jju 4 5i Into Lake Last -r Night V ...... i ;ial to The. Dispatch.) " ;Richi Jv Va., April l9;,HBelidved to have 'been mentally -deranged as a result of . a nervous affection '- lor which she had been under treatment for several months,;: Miss Annie Stan cilL . school teacher, . 49 years ; old; from Selma,..N. C.,-a-patient at West brook . sanatorium,: committed .', suicide last evening by - jumping into the lake at Bryan Park, No-teport or the tragedy was made to the1 Authorities tll- today. To gether with i "her iiurse and several other patients, Miss :; Stancil was l out m 4t Btrpll ' In; the park after suppter arid . while .walking along a road: bor dering on the -lake she leaped head long into the.jrater ..and quickly dis appeared beneath' the surface. Two hours later fier body was recovered beiowthe dam; having washed over it. . ' ' Miss .Stanclll suffered a nervous breakdown: last fall jwhile teaching at Enfield, N. C, and was brought here for treatment soon after Christmas, according to-the sanatorium officials. She had given no' Intimation that she even contemplated suicide. A brother of hers arrived from North Carolina this morning to claim tne Doav, ana it was understood -tnat It woujd be shipped home this af ter- the body, and it was understood Ithat noon. The water m wnich Miss Stan- cn met her death was 10 feet in deDth. Witn thb CieUt;ii Army in France, ministered va sharpr set-back today to the German forces which since the great - push have . been hammering away relentlessly In an attempt to get astride the railroad connecting Amiens with Clermont! The attack was 'carried out brilliantly It began at dawn along- a front extending about five miles between Thejes and Mailly- Raineval . The result was in addition to the capture of several hundred Germans, the seizure of a number of important points - which the enemy had occupied, whence , he probably in tended to make another forward bound t . .- . ' - . u. w This 'round has been m -the scene of nearly a dozen; fierce encountera since April i nfecuiau :u3 thrown: at . least 15vdivisions Into the fray at different periods in an obsti nate effort to reach their objective. . Thomas pleased. Chicago, April 19. The charge of disorderly, conduct against Prof. Wil liam Isaaac Thomas, and Mrs. R, M. Granger was dismissed by Judge Gra ham, in the Morals Court today. ColenerHlhet Promoted. Washington April 19- Col. Frank T. Hlnes, of , the general staff, Na tional Army, was nominated today by President Wilson to be a brigadier general. '' Earthquakes at Martinique. Fort de France, .Martinique, Thurs day, April 18. Slight earth shocks have been felt here -for five days. The tremors began soon after noon Sun day and continued until 2 o'clock this afternoon. - to PROFESSOR WILLIAM I. THOMAS ARRESTED. This photo shows Pr6f. William Isaac Thomas being arrested in Chicago. He is being held . ac; cording' to reports of a formal charge of disorderly conduct growing out of his alleged relations with Mrs. R. M. tiranger'-. r?t v-t-? " Copyright, "Underwood & Underwood. v . . v THAT ADVANCE IS OVER Reports From Battle Front In dicate a Halt of the 7 Germans Ottawa, Ont., April 19. The British battle line is more secure than it has been for days, justifying the belief that the enemy may be held in their present positions, says a Reuter dis patch received from London today-. The change of front of the German attack to the region between Given chy and east of Robecq found no weak spot in the British resistance at the close of yesterday's fighting, the dis patch says. There was only one point i the new battle area where the en emy gained anything, this being op posite the Hill of Hinges where he succeeded In bridging LaBassee ca nal, but the only Germans who cross ed came as prisoners. . "This new German attack In the direction of Bethune," the dispatch continues, "Is obviously intended to protect his flanks if he wishes to drive farther northward. The en emy is tryin to secure LaBasse canal with the object of .safeguarding his troops around Bailleul and simultan eously imperilling the British in the French coal field near Bethune. "The arrival of the French support is regarded as most important. The sight of the long blue lines marching up the roads heartened the British, giving them a fresh sense of security and the news of the French aggres sive stroke south of Amiens still fur ther heartened the anxious watchers at home. The British withdrawal east of Ypres was due to the German advance from the south along the Lys valley thjeatening communications of the Ypres army. Thus the distance that this army would have to retreat if the enemy looked like breaking through the Cassel-Kemmel line and heights has been reduced. "The results of yesterday's fighting shows the enemy looks less like break ing through than it did and although the retirement in the Ypres sector is regrettable, yet they are no nearer to securing, possession of th impor tant heights between them and the coast.' They failed to get Givenchy and are still no nearer Hazebrouck, whose capture is necessary to the enemy plans. "Before Mount Kemmel, the rugged wood hill that has already cost the enemy so dearly, their masses are advancing openly and, are inowed down. Tne enemy nere is crying io break a way beyond Meteren and west" of Bailleul. Although we aban doned Meteren and Wytschaete, the enemy's position is most uncomfori able. "The German outposts were unable to advance beyond the north side of Meteren. It cannot be said that the general situation is less anxious, but ther is undoubtedly increasing con fidence in the unity of comand. There is still expectation of renewed thrusts at Amiens anthe French correspond ents speak of the enormous enemy concentrations between Arras and Amiens. "Meanwhile the enemy propagan dists are sending broadcast neutral reports speaking' of the depression and weariness of the United Kingdom and dominions, which are strongly in variance with the real feeling here. Germany itself 1s- preaehing the ne cessity of huge Indemnities from the Western powers in addition to annex ations." To Resist Conscription London, April 18. The . conference of Irish Nationalist Sinn Feiners, O'Brienltes and Laborites, held in Dublin under the chairmanship- of the Lord Mayor yestrday, unanimously passsed resolution- declaring their determination to resist conscription Thefilbiutlon -as similar to the one adopted' by the Irish bishops at May nooth earlier in the day. The confer ence then ajourned until Friday. Na Price Fixing. Washington, April 19. Senator Smith, of South Carolina, issuing a statement today denying that the War Industries Board contemplated any ac tion looking to the fixing of prices for cotton. The. cotton market is being abso lutely demoralized by those who take advantage of certain rumors as to the price-fixing by the Board of War Industries and by the introduction in Congress of certain, bills as to price fixing, said Senator Smith's state ment. The War Industries Board has no. power under law to fix the price of cotton and I am inofrmed by a member, of that board that the fixing of the price of cotton has not been discussed and no effort in that direc tion is contemplated. NEW DIRIGIBLE BEATS ZEPPELIN Washington, April 19. Demonstra tions of a 16-foot TOodel dirigible of the Zeppelin type swung on wires a machine said to be much superior to the German craft in that it s more moble and can alght on water were given today to the Senate Military Committee by Alfred Herbert, a Mont clair, N. J., inventor. He said his dirigible could be built 600 feet in length, carrying 50 persons, machine guns and bombs, and attain a speed of 75 miles an hour. Development of the dirigibles by the government was -urged by the inven--' tor,r who said Germany in time wouM send JZeppellns to America. SOUTHERN FARMERS TO RAISE THEIR FO WS Despite the Labor Shortage, Acreage in Foodstuffs is Increased Washington, April " 19. Southern farmers are planting sufficient food stuffs to make them independent of all outside purchases and will devot& the remainder of their soil to raising as much cotton as can be made with the labor available, according to re ports todays to the Southern Cotton Association. Despite the shortage of help, caus ed by the migration of negroes to Northern States, the report said the farmers . were increasing their acre age of foodstugs, especially grains, and were growing more meat ani mals. Colonel Harvie Jordan, presi dent of the association, said Georgia's? purchase of pork fro mthe West in 1914 was $40,000,000. In 1917 it had decreased to $14,0d0,000, and Colonel Jordan predicted that this year it would raise all the .pork it consum ed, perhaps contributing a surplus to the supplies needed for the army and the Allies. Purchases of other meats also declined as the home production increased. Pledges to grow everything their families and tenants need In the way of foodstuffs haev been made by hun dreds of farmers in the South. They have been encouraged for patriotic reasons by town and city merchants, regardless of the loss of trade which the merchants might suffer. GERMANS REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES i London, April l-T-Jhe u Jjeraians were icOmSIetelvfbulsed Hn- the -at tack "they launched yesterday aroundS Givenchy on the Southern side of the Lys battlefront, the war office an nounced today. When the assaults . ceased after heavy losses, the enemy had only been able to secure a limited footing at one or two points of the more ad vanced British defenses. Six different German divisions, it has been determined, were engaged in the unsuccessful attack in the Giv-enchy-St. Venant sector. The enemy launched further at tacks last evening south of Kemmel These?were broken up by the British artillery and machine gun fire. LIBERTY SUBSCRIPTIONS i EXCEED ONE BILLION Washington, April 19. Subscript tions to the Liberty Loan were raise-1 to $1,161,510,050 by additional reports received today at the Treasury. TO Famous French City Has Been Completely Wiped the Map MORE THAN 100,000 SHELLS HIT THE CITY Germans Poured Destructive Fire Into the Town Causing Fires Which Destroyed Prac tically Every Building. Paris, April 18. Rheims, which has! been on firfle for a week, is now nothing but a great pile of smoking ruins During the past week the Ger mans have fired more than , 100,000 Bhells into the heart of the city, ac cording to the correspondent of Le Matin, and flames from the burning buildings can be seen by aviators 60 and 70 miles away. There are no -traces of. streets and thoroughfares, which have disappear ed from view under the accumulate of debris. Ancient buildings in I 3 Place oRyale and the - -music places and the musician houses which dates from the sixteenth century, have been reduced to. dust and ashes. The vaulting" of the famous Rheims cathedral, the correspondent says, is falling, stone by stone, and soon there will be nothing, left of. the edifrftce but the West front and the pillars. Shells are still bursting all around the building. . . Notwithstanding the terrible bom bardment, 40 Pars firemen are still in the city (working to save the fur niture and-portable effects of tlie in RHEIM, REDUCED PILE IN FRANCE Premier Orlando Makes triid Announcement to Italian v r Deputies ARE ALREADY ON THE FIGHTING LINE On the Heels of the Announce ment by Premier Orlando) Comes Statement v That Ital ians Are rtaw at the Front Rome, Thursday, April 18. Premier Orlando announced in the Chamber pot Deputies . today that Italian troops; would be dispatched to the battle front in France. The announcement, which waa received with a storm of applause, was as follows: "Italy, which follows with admira; tion the heroic efforts of the Anglo French troops on the Western front, could not remain absent from the bat tlefields of France. She wishes .to) bring to her Allies tangible proof yff solidarity and verity of Italian rai ments and the Italian flag will fly; over the fields of Picardy' beside those of the French, British. Ameri can, Belgian and Portuguese thus sealing the union which exists be tween the Allied peoples and govern ments." . Form the Right Wing. W Washington, April-19. Italian regi ments already are in France and foftnt the right wing of the Allied armies S the Italian embassy announced today. MARINE CORPS . TO BE INCREASED Paris, April 19. The French l$sK night reduced German machine gftir nests on the front of yesterday's at tack southeast of Amiens, the war office ; announces. There was heavy artillery fighting in this region. . The. 'statement -'follows: -vr" There was a rather vloleat bom - bardment by both of the opposing armies "along the front from Casfel to Mailly-Raineval. During tfiil night the French reduced certain mg chine gun nests on the front of tlta attack yesterday. The number ef. prisoners taken by us. has reached 650, of whom 20 are officers. "North of Besonvaux ( Verdunv front), we carried out a- succession, raid and brought back prisoners. Else where on the front there was intex mittent cannonading." : t Rai?e Cotton In Bulgaria. -tt Washington, April 19. Germad , and her allies are undertaking -JO overcome their shortage of cotton by develonine: Droduction in Bulgaria.. Ot- ficial dispatches today said the Bub- I trarion rftvarnmonr hnn iinrtprta irpn fa is e" T- place large blocks of suitable land at the disposal of the planters. The principal cultivation will be don 3 n the low lands and river border of the,' Dobrudja, - &s well as in the vicinity of Adrianople.' habitants. Some of them have lost their lives. With the Paris .firemen are some local firemen, one of whom,' Sergeant Eloi, has been on duty in Rheims since, the outbreak of the war and has been wounded 14 times. Rheims, before" the war a city - ot more than 100,000, has slowly been falling- a. victim to German hate and spitef ulness in their advance' in 1914 the Germans held Rheims Hot several days, but the battle of Marne stopped their advance and they, fell back tc a line a few miles oNrth and North east, of the city. Since then the bis German guns have .been,-bombarded the city and ..famous cathedral. The population of trie city until . a few months ago was less than 18,00)f but these persons lived in dugouts of iu cellars and the . city was virtually dead. C Up "to November 1, 1916, the Ge mans had fired thousands of . shells f into the city. 1.000 of which h?jf struck the cathedral. Since " thett, whenever thet3erman troops met with ' reverses the enemy guns took up tbje bombardment anew. ; . '-v- j,.. In January, 1917 Emperor - WilliahV in response to a request from Pofe Benedict, said he would permitr.repai'a. to be made to the cathedral In hjs endeavor "to- preserve from the teR ; rors of war venerable places ' of r Iigious worship and monuments of at which I consider as the common projfc' erty of humanity." 5T- The - German tnilitary authoritiS? have attempted to f excuse the V bona bardxient of the cathedral 3 on tbjf ground that 'ti . was being" used fox military ; purposes by the Frenchu This . ; claim ha3 been denied - repeatedly bf " Archbishop Ducon, who,' until, a fe weeks ago, made , his home, in. ills re??' idence beside the, ithedraL" uniuini ful of the German hatred, tr OF RUINS . .1 a si 'J :3! I m ;t ... u .1! " v ii - .-. . i ! 4. 'i. -v . f .