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IMPORTANT NEWS THMfdRLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIV F.N THE NEWS 0F f HE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic . Lieut. Harold F. Maxon of Los An geles and Cadet G. F. Gedepn of Ti tusville, Fla., were killed when their airplane crashed to the ground in a hay field near Comack, N. Y. It was caused, it Is thought, by an explosion in midair. The so-called billion-dollar budget for railroad improvements and equip ment has proven insufficient to meet war needs, and it has been increased to $156,000,000 more than the origi nal aggregate that is to say, to $1, 097.398,000. There is a growing need for more cars due to the great demand on the railroads for war service. The Tulsa (Okla.) Confederate reun ion committee, composed of many of the leading citizens of Tulsa, have been engaged for some weeks raising a fund of one hundred thousand dollars and perfecting an organization for the en tertainment of the twenty-eighth an nual reunion of the United Confeder ate Veterans' association, the Confed erate Southern Memorial association and the twenty-third reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, on Sep tember 24-27, inclusive. It is believed that one hundred thou sand delegates and visitors will attend the Confederate reunion to be held in Tulsa, Okla. - Arrangements have been made to care for, free of charge, from 5,000 to 10,000v Confederate veterans at the reunion September 24-27 to be held in Tulsa, Okla, nrcanizpd labor's emDhatiC ODDOsi- tion to any work or fight provision in the new man-power bill extending the draft ages is expressed in a letter from Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, to the members of the senate military com mittee. Generous support of the schools, colt leges and universities where it will not interfere with the operation of the draft law, is urged by President Wil4 son. He deprecates any falling off in the schools further than necessity re quires, i "My only regret is that I am unable to fight beside my sons." Thus runs the answer of Col. Theodore Roosevelt to the expressions of condolence from President Poincaire on the death of ' his son, Quentin. DisDatches from Cape May, N. J.. report that the American schooner Dorothy Barrett was, sunk by shell fire from a German submarine. The schooner was set on fire by the shells. Seaplanes and chasers dropped bombs without result over the spot where the U-boat was last seen. : Robert Fay, who has been at liberty two years, having escaped from the "federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., has beca apprehended in Spain, and will return to the United States without extradi tion. He had been convicted of placing bombs on ships carrying supplies nnd troops to Europe. General March is reported to have said to the senate commite on mili tary affairs that it is up to the United States to put enough men in France to win the war, and that when we get four million men "over there" under one American commander we will go through the German lines whenever and wherever we may elect. Washington. - American troops at home and over seas are setting world records for health and low death rates. Deaths from disee among soldiers during the week ending July ,26 were at the rate of 1.9 per thousand a year. In the past the best rate was 20 per thousand during the Russo-Japanese war. Official dispatches from American Consul General Poole in Moscow lifted the curtain for a moment on what has been going on in Moscow, Russia, and revealed an amazing train of events. Recruiting of labor in the neighbor ing British colony of the Bahama Isl ands, off the coast of Florida, for use in emergency war work in the United jStates, is going on actively at Nassaur jreports reaching Washington indicate. It is announced that the annual death irate among civilians of military age is !6.7 per thousand. French and British citizens have re cently been arrested in Moscow and the Bolsheviki announce they will be held ,as hostages because of the attack on .'the soviet government by British and ,French troops at Archangel. And now Mexico turns to smite the' hand that saved her. All the oil In Mexico is owned by American and Brit ish companies. Under the newest de cree Mexico attempts to make oil the property of the nation. Mexican j,e 'troleum'then would, become a national 'ly-owned ; contraband, and as such imight not be sold by a neutral coun try ta a belligerent under International law. Members of the French and British military mission stationed in Moscow have-been refused permission to leave the country in apita of a previous prom ise of safe conduct. Freedom of departure from this country-of aliens by means of which a number of dangerous enemy aliens has been able to escape from the au thorities since the United States en tered -the war will not be permitted after September 15 under a procla mation signed by President Wilson and an executive order. . , Fifty thousand women will be need ed by July 1, next year, to assist Ja the care of the sick and wounded in the American army. . Fully 15,000 women can be used as hospital assistants or student nurses in the United States, says Surgeon General Gorgas. The allies need this year 430,000,000 ban els of crude oil, for which they de pend entirely upon the United States. The United States can produce not over 315,000,000 gallons. The Mexi can fields can supply 130,000,000 barrels. European. Lord Robert Cecil, British under sec retary of state for foreign affairs, says he believes the international commis sion on revictualizing forms the nucle us of a league of nations. Available from French sources, it is pointed out that the German losses since the beginning of the war to the present has been not less than six million men. From the British Army headquarters in France, it is learned that German acknowledges her man power is dwin dling. Judging from the news emanating from Russia, the march of events is rapidly assuming proportions of a rout to the Bolsheviki. . Czecho-Slovaks have taken new heart in their heroic fight against the Germans and Austrians, due to the rapid movement of allied troops at Vladivostok and to the west of that city. Just four wees ago the residents of Paris were awakened by the sounds of such a cannonade as they never had yet heard. It was General Mangin's "counter preparation" against the Ger man attack, which the enemy believed was to take him into the gates of clas sic Paris. Allied troops, among whom the men from America have borne a creditable part, have captured 73,000 prisoners and more than seventeen hundred guns in the four weeks' drive against the central powers. The German supreme command on the western front, it is reported, has passed to specialist in retreats Gen eral von Boehn, who conducted such j a masterly retreat four years ago, when General Joffre turned and hit them so hard they never knew what had hap pened. ! The Germans are being beaten and outgeneraled at every point, and the soldiers from America have hardly yet started. "Another defeat for us; we shall lose the war. We have nothing to eat, no clothes, no shoes; we shall ! starve and be utterly ruined." As a cure for this state of mind the Volks Zeitung, says an Amsterdam dispatch, administers an antidote in the shape of a raging article about the enemy "wanting to murder, rob and enslave German men, women and children." "Foch and Haig probably will con tinue attacking on the Somme, but they will never achieve more than pyrrhich victories, which will assist in the attrition of their own forces," says Baron von der Osten, the military critic of the Rheinische Westfalische : Zeitung of Essen. ' i The Weser Zeitung ofBremen, with ill-concealed pessimism, regretfully ad mits that the once derided United ' States army is giving more trouble than was an&ipated. The Frankfort Gazette is pleading with the German military authorities to tell the whole trtuh "as far as pos sible." Allied and neutral shipping sunk by anemy submarines during July amount el t6 270,000 tons. This is about one half of the tonnage sunk in July, 1917. The entente nations constructed during July a tonnage in excess of 280,000 tons that were destroyed dur ing the month by enemy operations. Turmoil in Bohemia has" resulted in the execution, of seventy-four Czech soldiers and wholesale arrests in many raids. The Hungarian garrisons are being reinforced and arms are being confiscated. Public and private meet ings have been prohibited and sev eral newspapers suppressed while oth ers are censored. Munich newspapers say it is believ-. ed that even a slight incident will bring about a general uprising in Bo hemia. Four hundred and forty-two men are missing as a result of the torpedoing of the French steamer Djemnah in the Mediterranean the night of July 14-15, while bound from Bizerta to Alexan dria, with troops on board, according to a French official announcement. The British government has issued a declaration formally recognizing the Czecho-Slovaks as an allied nation and ; the three Czecho-Slovak armies as an ; allied force regularly waging warfare again the central powers. Three German generals recently commanding near Montdidier have been cashiered for neglect of duty. A large numher of soldiers were court martialed. It is announced that the Czecho slovak forces have increased to 300, 000 and are being reinforced by Ser bians, Cossacks and counter revolu tionists to the Bolsheviki. The social revolutionists .have an nounced, through German sources that they will soon institute a reign of terror in Moscow. It is stated that conditions in Petrograd are equally as had. HERE IS A REAL FLYING FISH OF THE AIR - This Nleuport uirplane can rightly De called "the flying fish," judging from the manner in which it is decorated: Its American pilot is standing alongside of his machine, somewhere In France. PESSIMIST IN PARIS IS 'SIREN' Gloomy Ones Are Named for the Unwelcome Air Raid Signal. OPTIMIST IS A "BERLOQUE" People Have Joyous Time While Wait ing In Subway Stations Crap Game Holds Interest of the Crowd. Paris. Two more words have been added to that very growing dictionary of war words. In Paris these two words have achieved a new signifi cance. Pessimists are now known as "sirens" and optimists are "berloques." The significance Is self-explanatory to those who have experienced an air raid In Paris. Many dread the screech ing, weird, bansheelike wail of the alarm giving siren more than the act ual danger from the raiders, while the "berloque," that lively little bugle call telling that all danger is past and that one may rest safely In one's bed. is Indeed a friend welcome as any optimist. A Paris bookkeeper who suddenly left the city when the raids over the capital became too frequent and went to Nantes has been sued by his em ployer for $60 damage for leaving with out notice. The case, not the only one of its kind in the French courts today, is attracting attention. The bookkeeper's explanation was that his nerves were upset by the bombs and shells and that he thought himself Justified in getting out of dan ger. The court held that a bombard ment by airplanes and long-range guns could not be considered a suffi cient reason for the breach of con tract and gave judgment for the amount named. The darkened streets of Paris have caused many persons to roam around town after returning from the theater or a visit because of the difficulty in finding the streets and house numbers. An attempt to improve this condition is to be made soon by placing luminous numbers traced in little buttonlike mir rors which reflect and magnify the smallest glimmer of light on the houses of the city. DIES LIKE A COWARD Ex-Czar Wilts at Death; Propped to Post. Collapses When He Faces the Firing Squad German Paper Gives Ac count c Execution. Amsterdam. With two hours given in which to prepare for the end, Nicho las Romanoff, former Russian emperor, was taken out by his executioners In a state of such collapse that it was necessary to prop him against a post, says the Lokal Anzelger of Berlin, which claims to have received from a high Russian personage an account of the emperor's last hours. Nicholas was awakened at five o'clock on the morning of the day of his execution by a patrol of a non commissioned officer and six men. He was told to dress and was then taken to a, room where the decision of the soviet council was communicated to LAND FOR ITALIAN SOLDIERS Law Proposed In Rome to Award Re claimed Acreage to Fighting Men. Rome. It is proposed that a special law be passed by parliament to au Cttrize the state to expropriate all bar ren and uncultivated land, which shall be divided among the soldiers who hare been at the front and reclaimed. For this object It is proposed that $8,-' 000.000 be set part and that xcesa One would think upon descending to one ofJhe large and centrally located underground railway stations which are used as shelters that a soiree was !n progress instead of an air raid. This is what the correspondent saw one evening during a raid when he was obliged to seek cover in one of the subway stations: In one corner a violin, accompanied by two guitars, was doling out a tune to which a "squadron" of youthful avi ators were waltzing around, their part ners being a group of pretty danseuses who had hurriedly left a neighboring theater wearing their costumes, make up and all. In another corner a group of Poilus, loaded down with their trench equip ment, having been caught in the under ground while on their way to the rail road depot and to the front, were sing ing "Madelon," their "Tlpperary," in rather discordant tones. But it was singing Just the same. Crap Game Holds Crowd. An unusual feature of this particu lar "soiree" was a genuine all-America n crap game not for keeps. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that lialf of the crowd in the station had edged around the half dozen spare American doughboys three of whom were gentlemen of color to witness this contest in bone throwing. The colored gentlemen handled their 5 SERVED AS GERMAN : SPY, VINDICATES SELF Atlanta, Ga. Walter Wander wel, a world-wide traveler ar rested last yea- m a suspected German spy, having proven his Innocence after five months' im prisonment to the satisfaction of the courts, is now making good in the eyes of the public by serving the United States in the office of scoutmaster of troop 31, Boy Scouts of Ameri ca. At a recent street corner meeting of the boy scouts, Wan derwel finished a short talk and collected over $200 for the Thrift Stamp boy scout can vassers. hlim He was Informed tho would be carried out In two hours. The former emperor, It is added, re ceived the announcement of the sen tence of death with great calmness, but when he returned to his bedroom he collapsed in a chair. After a few min utes he asked for a priest, with whom he was allowed to remain un attended. Subsequently he wrote sev eral letters. When the escort arrived to take him to the place of execution Nicholas at tempted to rise from his chair, but was not able. The priest and a sol dier were obliged to help him get to his feet. The condemned man de scended the stairs with difficulty and once he fell down. As he was unable to stand without support when the place of execution was reached, he was propped against a post. He raised his hands and seemed to be trying to speak, but the rifles spoke and he fell dead. Has Given Good Service. A bridge over the River Dee in England that was built in 1280 still is in use. "-"v "lui'uscu on men ex empted from active military servio and the proceeds of enemv property confiscated and sold in Italy be utilized for the purpose. The sum so formed will' be used for the creation of a consolidated loan at 3y2 per cent, and will serve for the that yields less than 2 per cent. High Prices in South America App'eton. Wis. George Peotter re turned from a trip of several months :k Hoftnpss that was dellght- fully reminiscent of "somewhere In u J . thai rfrt- Harlem, to say nouung ui ficiency In the vocabulary of the game, which Parisians have since learned is a very essential adjunct to any skill Investigation of casualties following an air raid over the capital have proved to the authorities that the greatest number of casualties are not the result of Injuries received from the bombs of the raiders, but of care lessness on the part of the victims. Parisians have become too accustom ed to airraids. They stay mt of doors to see the bursting of the shells from the antiaircraft guns and others leave their shelters and go home before the signal. As a result recently 23 persons were injured, some because they did not keep under cover long enongh, and others because they stood at their win dows, watching the bursting shells as If it were an exhibition of fireworks. The police have again warned the pop ulation. "The better protectior of the city," says an order, "is no reason for neglecting the precautions dictated by common sense." VILLA'S STEPSON JOINS UNITED STATES CAVALRY Manchester, N. H. William Ceraco, aged nineteen, who says he is a stepson of Villa, the no torious Mexican bandit, has en listed in the United States cav alry here. Ceraco says that three years ago. during the border uprising. Villa shot his father and mar tied his mother. Ceraco came north with the New Hampshire troops when they returned from duty on the border. He says that he likes the United States so well that he has decided it Is worth fighting for anywhere and was very anx-, lous to know when he could get "over there." IN CHARGE OF Y. M. C. A. WORK Dr. E. M. Wylie, who has arrived In England from the United States to take complete charge of the religious work of the Y. M. C. A. In Great Brit ain. The work that the Y. M. C. A. has done for American soldiers in Eng land and France has received praise from all sides. It cannot be over stated that It is a stimulating and in valuable factor in the high morale of our troops. It is not a generally known fact that many women engineering experts are in business in this country. ANGELIC RUFFIAN A PROBLEM British Lad Is Only Four, but British Colonel Seeks a Trainer For Him. London. The following advertise ment from a l,ondon newspaper shows that a colonel had a greater' problem than commanding his men : "Colonel, young wife and small ruf fian of angelic exterior, age four, offer home, board and $150 a year to a young lady who will undertake to in still into said ruffian the 'elements of a Bayard, develop a naturally strong affection and help said wife in house and domestic duties. Family, less colonel, pleasantly situated. Good par entage anC upbringing and a cheery disposition main essentials. No pes simists." Nerve Tonic Was Corn Cure. St.. Louis, Mo. Mistaking a bottle of "corn cure" for a nerve remedy Miss Olga Pitt, nineteen, took a big dose. She was soon hurried to the Utyjiospital in a serious condItIoiu -i South America, brings with him con olation for victims nf the high cost oi 'ving. "Soft coal, which is most gen rally used, scils for $26 a ton, and gasoline brings GO cents a gallon " he said. 'Tea, a light lunch, is served at i a. m. and again at 10 a. m. At 1 p. m. breakfast is eaten, then tea again at 4:30 and dinner at 7 p. m. Beef sells at 16 cents a pound and pork at 20 cents." Mr. Peotter covered Ven zuela and the Gulahas. A kiss returned ! ks earned. I ' i ft J. A )a WetUrn Ntwipaper Union I i GREAT S1RATE GAINS ARE Ml ENEMY RETREAT OVER O CT CIY mi 1 1 r- . miwco;, W! SLR VI! i c Is NOW IN BRITISH hANDS. NOTABLE ADVANCE By f French Penetrate L,r, to D Mile or Mors a,,, Cant P 0f Towns and 2,20: Men. The Germans on sectors of the wp have been compelled lmPorar tions of-grefat strut,. ,; VaiUP ?" the onslaughts of HnlishUrider French troops. ar! In the Lys sector. nf . tieres, the enemy ha- treated a front of nearly six v.y. 0-r the town of Merville U ; . h Between the Matz and o river French have fought . r Way T western outskirts of dnmi nrvolfi An Af T . "i- uaoaiguy arm larthf ier south in th:s hill and woo ji r(1?ion have and also captured the town nf d, 4 prez, situated in th U; vallev 0" the Noyon-Comiepgne r:a.-i. ' " Around the curve in 'he battleline northwest of Soissons the French from near Carlepont to Fotwenoy on the Aisne, a distance of approximately nine milesy j have driven bark the enemy to an average depth of 'more than a mile and captured sevefll vi'. lages and 2,200 prisoners. ENEMY DEFENSE IS GROWING WEAKER Unofficial reports record the cap Sture by the British of the railway sta tion on the western outskirts of the Important town of Rove, one of the pivotal points on the battlefront be tween the Somme and the Oise. but there is no official confirmation of this. Viewed on the war maps the gain? , in the new operations are most im ! portant ones for the allies, for, aside from wide areas over which the en emy has been compelled to acknow!- ; edge defeat the weakening in the j German defense is becoming daily more noticeable. GERMANS ARE NOW IN BAD PREDICAMENT Under the new gains of the British around Roye and particularly those made by the French from Lassigny to the Oise valley and northwest of Sois sons, the Germans now are in a bad predicament. Here their positions are dominated by the allied puns from the west, southwest and south for many miles and apparently a retreat eastward across the plains of Picardy and over the Somme and even from the western Aisne will be necessi tated. The latest German official coramu nlcatlon asserts that French attacks between the Oise and Aisne. deliver ed oyer a wide front, failed, but the French war office statement is spe cific in announcing the penetration of the environs of Lassigny. the cutting: of a passageway through the Thies- VvsfcA , nUUU ClilVA Lilt- v ujm prez. ALLIED AIRPLANES NOW IN CONTROL" IN THE AIR Italian Army Headquarters Two Austrian documents captured on the Austro-Italian battlefront show the ex traordinary mastery of the entente al lies have obtained over the enemy in aerial warfare. The fust -enjoins greater protection for the ammunition dumps and emplacements against aerial observation by more efficient camouflaging and less military order. The second document, which is from a colonel commanding an unit, seeks to explain the impossibility of systematic effective destruction of the entente allied artillery. This in dicates that the allied guns, as weil as aerial observation, are superior. ABANDONED LIFEBOATS ARE SWEPT ASHORE Norfolk, Va Two abandoned dife-b-oats of the Norwegian bark N0". sunk by a German submarine - . - were miles off the Virginia capes. swept ashore on the Atlantic cpa near this port. One was Ale! in the breakers by the lif-1 siU crew of the Virginia Beach stati -and an hour later the surfmen of Little Island life saving station. miles further south, reported the covery of the second. ALL GROUND TAKEN BY FOE IN FIVE MONTHS REGAIN6 New York. It is possible view with a, certain measure of ness the facts and figures of operations and to measure the j but sure turn of the tide hlfn a brought up at the present rooi situation where all the , ground lost in the first four mon the campaign has been retaken fifth and the invaluable advantaR the initiative has passed to tn commnder-in-chief.
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