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! m 3, THE WEATHER Fair Mondap and Tuesday; moder ate north to northeast winds. ' VOL. CI-NO. 30. WILMINGTON, K. C MbNDAY MORMNG, OCTOBER 22, 1917 WHOLE NUMBER 39,208 R US SI A N FLEET HAS LEFT MOON SOUND IN A NORTHERLY COURSE Is Possible a Sheltered Position Is Being Sought to Give Battle To Germans. pAGO ISLAND IS OCCUPIED British Warships Have Bombard ed the German Naval Base of BIG GUNS ON LAND ACTIVE Intensive Fighting Is Renewed In East Africa (Associated Press War Summary) " The Russian Riga " fleet has started northward from Moon sound possibly with the intention of endeavoring to escape through the tortuous channels and maze of islands lying between! themfand the Gulf of Finland. Or it is pos sible the Russian armada, al though far inferior in grin power and tonnage, has sallied forth! from the sheltered waters where it took refuge last week, to give bat tle to" the dreadnought and other craft comprising the Germar fWt. ; r. ; Berlin Announces Sailing. , The announcement of the" sailing' of the flotilla is contained in the latest German official communication, which mj-s the Russians left behind the wreclc of the battleship Slavar whica-wag unk in last Wednesday's Battle, and four additional vessels that have run ?round- since the naval activities ,in the gulf of Riga began. If the Rus sians are endeavoring to make their escape,, instead of offering battle, doubtless their destination is Reval, the Russian fortress situated on the Gulf of Finland, in northern Esthania. Two Inlands Captured. : - t Meanwhile ine'Gerjhans have captur ed in its entirety the Island of Dago, lying at the southwestern entrance to the Gulf of Finland, and also the Island of Schildau. situated between Moon Is land and the Esthonlan coast in the Gulf of Finland. Several hundred pris oners were taken on Dago Island, to be added to the large number captured during the past week on Oesel Island. Warships Bombard Ostend. British naval craft have heavily bom barded the port of Ostend, Belgium, 1uch is being used by the uermans as a submarine base. The Berlin official communication says numerous houses in tae town were damaged by the shells from the naval guns. Heavy Artillery Active. On the fighting front in Belgium neavy artillery activity on the part of the British and French sontinues, with the Germans answering- rsnpstpHlv nn various sectors. No infantrv actions' 1 have tavpn ni-j i .u. i I of reconnaissances. In CharnDaenpnsar ni-nt ya in the Verdun sector at several' points 're also have been violent artillery livered somewhat heavy infantry . at- tack ainst the French west of Mont muet but were repulsed. Some Brisk Fighting. mere has been brisk fighting be jreen the Italians and Austrians in the irentino region nd along the Julian wmt m the Austro-Italian theatre and iween thp Frifcnto -r j t.. . . -. . . t,,. HIV IVi VCO ACU wmc allifls in Macedonia. Likewise in fast Afnca there has been a renewal a.ri"Jtens,Ve nhting between British a German troops, in which the Ger nanK were defeated near Nyansao toth' however the Germans returned liatti fra and l last accounts a new lnrt v Was in Proress. Heavy losses thf i sustained by both sides when st reports were sent to London. m. Korentikv Lnndlv AnnlnnHH. ne Preliminary parliament has open-. mart t- grad- premier Kerensky lv l , 15 openinS speech and was loud hile1 Uded wh1 ne announced that Trn,, t aesirea peace she never 04 bow her head to force. try etmust fiBht only to save the coun annin , premier added, amid renewed extr! ' nly th Bolsheviki faction of itioJ I radicals withholding a full - ui encouragement. Thp ""r exnrning to Berlin. ".ni emperor, having con s visit to Constantinople, on -uuea hi; We rflH,, -..lAuvic fcondavV Journey to Berlin, where on 'Nation i . . aKe Part 5n ttae-cele- fhe tne birthday of the empress German 8 exPectefl to visit the flisaffPrt!naVal bases' at some of which d,anrt ;, recently has been !report is exDT to BO to HelRoland. He also 'legmen tv, cue icomug Gently h t political situation which o urcn acute. v ' X nnM K fir iW 2i.-The Rev. Thomas pUtan r Pastor of the Metro- iIr- SpUrernacle- did here Saturday. 1S5. th . -J was born London in I !!0n- a famo "les !Ha?n Spur- who a llllsn baptist preach ernacle a s the first pastor at the Tab- st0fs'coil was the founder of a a0 orrvv. Pge Schools. almhnn mnA ZEPPELINS LOST THEIR BEARINGS Those Which Flew Over France , Were Returning Home From Raid Upon England AIRSHIPS 0F A NEW TYPE French Observers Point to Fa Hare of the Raid as Definite Proof of the Superiority of Airplanes Over Zeppelins. Paris, Oct. 21. Although at first it was believed that the visit of the Zep pelin fleet to France yesterday was an independent raid and the first step to wards carrying out the threat made in a German wireless message which said it had been decided to destroy Paris in reprisal for Frencn air raids on German towns, it now is generally believed that these eight Zeppelins, four of which were destroyed or captured, were re turning from England and had lost their bearing, owing to fog and prob ably had lost touch with their wireless communications. Log-book Reveals Mission. The logbook of the ZeDDelin which landed intact shows that she had been - uugiauu iiu prisoners rrom , tnree other airships confirm this. One of the men captured said It was the lack, of gasoline that forced his Zeppelin to de scend. The raid is widely proclaimed by French observers as being definite proof of the superiority of the air planes over tne Zeppelins. The day of Zeppelins for bombardment, one ex pert said, is over: The' sudden resump tion of the use' of the German dirigibles is explained by .the theory: that the raiding ; Zeppelins belonged to a new type which lately had been reported to be in the course of construction at Lake Constance. No reports have, yet been received that any damage was dorfe by the Zeppelins or that bombs were drop ped anywhere in France. Two Were Destroyed. Of the four Zeppelins lost two were destroyed and two were forced to de scend. The two disabled airships, un der attack by aviators and anti-air de fense posts, descended in the Saone Val ley and were forced to land in the neighborhood of Sisteron, in . Basses Alpes. The crews after setting fire to the airships attempted to flee, but were taken prisoner. The first Zeppelin brought down fell at Saint Clement, 7 1-2 miles south of Lunevllle, and not at Rapibervillers, as reported. The Zeppelin was first seen at 6:05 a. m., traveling with tw'ft other airships against a wind blowing ten fired a volleyand the Zeppelin rose with a bound. A second volley pierced the envelope and the airship, bursting into i flames, took a vertical position and crashed down at 6:43 a. m. Five mangled : corpses were found around the wreck. Bodies of other members of the crew remain buried in the smoking mass. No bombs were heard to explode. Twenty-nine Prisoners Taken. About 2:20 p. m. the Zeppelin L.-49 was forced bv chaser olanes to land (near Bourbonne-les-Bains intact. A na- ! val lieutenant and his second officer and a crew of 27 men were made Pris" oners. Somewhat later a third Zeppelin, the lLi-50, landed near Dammartin, not far from Montigny-le-Roi, and two officers and 14 men, including two slightly wounded, debarked. The crew detached one car and destroyed it. The airship thus lightened then departed with four men aboard. One of the prisoners said (Continued on Page Two.) RUSSIAN PEACE PROGRAM INVOLVES PANAMA CANAL Petrograd, Oct. 21. The. Russian peace program, as drawn up by the cen tral executive committee of the co'uncil of workmen and soldier, delegates in the form of instruction to M. SkobelefT, ex--ministeV of labor, its delegate to the Paris conference, consists of twelve articles covering the whole ground from Panama to Persia. Article XI demands "the neutralization" of the Panama canal and Article iX calls for the resti tution of all colonies to Germany. The program of the central executive com mittee follows: 'First,' evacuation by the" Germans of Russia and autonomy of .Poland, Lith uania and the Lettish provinces. "Second,, autonomy of Turkisb. Ar menia "Third, solution of the Alsace-Lor-1 ralne question by a plebiscite, the vote being arranged b ylocal" civil authori ties after the removal of all the troops of both belligerents. "Fourth, restoration to Belgium of her ancient frontiers ajid compensation for her losses from an 'international fund. . ' ' ' ' ' - ' , " v "Fifth, restoration of Serbia . and Montenegro .with- similar compensation. Serbia to 'have access to the Adriatic, Bosnia and Herzegovina' to be autonomous.'-. .J':'r;.:'i':5 -"'f fS-s "Sixth, disputed rBalkanj districts to SYRIANS m By THp,;urtHDS T Failure of American Relief Ship Bitter Disappointment to Sufferers. GERMANS REFUSED PASSAGE Rev. William H. Hall of Syrian Protestant College Describes Calamity. New York, Oct -A thousand deaths a day from starvation out of a population of 350,000 in the Lebanon Mountains near Beirut. Syria, ia The toll of famine conditions there re sulting from the war, it was declared here today by the Rev. William H. Han, of the Syrian Protestant Col lege, who recently returned to this country from relief work in that dis trict. Continuing Mr. Hall described the tragic disappointment of the people there, whose spirits were kept up fo7" weeks by the promised arrival last Christmas time of the American relief ship Caesar, which would have meant life to thousands, but which never ar rived owing to the refusal of Germany and Austria-Hungary to grarlt her safe' passage to Beirut. The Caesar, a naval collia loaned to the Red Cross by the Navy Depart ment, left New . York months before v the entry of this country into the war, as a "Christmas Ship" for the needy in Syria, carrying more than a quar ter of a million dollars worth of food and clothing contributed jn this coun try. ' Prayed F"or American Ship. "Day after day the poor, starving people along the coast and through the mountains looked and prayed for the coming of the 'American ship,' Mr. Hall said. "The - country was- - can vassed - by, well organized committees,' the ? needy .were listed, . -the - work " fef distribution was thoroughly prepared, offices were opened and men chosen to direct the distribution. The people waited. Their hopes were raised high. "Week followed, week and month followed month in suspense the peo ple daily looked out to sea, for her but the ship which meant life and hope to thousands never appeared. She was held 'military necessity' while the people starved. "God Has Forgotten Ym." " 'God has forgotten us'.' was heard again and again as hopeless and hun gry, they stood face to face with death by starvation. "If the Caesar had arrived it would have meant that other ships would follow, but her failure to come' dash ed all hope for relief. Her-cargo was sold and the funds finally , found their way to Beirut for the purchase" and distribution of food there, but there was little food to be bought. "We know for a fact that thousands of our friends there will die this win ter, despite the great good that can be accomplished by sending funds from America to buy what food can be obtained on the ground for distri bution in an effort to save as. many as possible." "I Am Hungry Give Me Bread." The city of Beirut is as sorely af flicted as the mountain districts, Mr. Hall went on, and day ' or night one hears the cry along the streets, "I am hungry give me bread."- This is not from beggars but from laborers and tradesmen, people who have known the comforts of life. 4 . "In Jerusalem," he continued, "one cannot pass along a street without being beset for prayers for aid. There are mothers with babes pulling at their barren breasts and children whose parents have succumbed and left them to face starvation alone. "Syria and Palestine have no story of massacre or deportation, but these districts, once prosperous and self supporting, are now caught in the (Continued on Page Ten.)- receive , provisional autonomy followed by a plebiscite. i "Seventh, Rumania to be restored her old frontiers on condition that she grant Dorbrudja autonomy and grant equal rights to Jews. "Eighth, autonomy for the Italian provinces of Austria to be followed by a plebiscite. - "Ninth, restitution of all colonies to Germany. ' . ' ' "Tenth, re-establlshment of Greece and Persia. - "Eleventh, neutralization of all straits leading to inner' seas and also the Suez and Panama canals. Freedom of navigation for merchant ships. Abol ition of the right to torpedo merchant ships In war time. 'Twelfth, all belligerents to renounce war contributions or. indemnities in any form, but the money spent on the main tenance of prisoners and all contribu- tions levied during the war to be re- turned." RUSSIA WANTS PEACE . BUT WILL NOT BOW TO FORCE Petrograd, Saturday, Oct. 20. Pre mier Kereasky,. on opening'the Russian preliminary, parliament .today in- the Marinsky palace, made a ringing speech in which he said: . . .' v ' ' ' : " . "Russia wants , peace byrights,, but we will, never, bow our. heads to .forcel This df claration, - was Warmly. - ap plauded by the men'erB.aijoUtica,l IN RU COUNTRY I. AY . V. PLOT TO FORCE COAL. MINERS TO STRIKE IS LAID BABE BY ARREST Henrietta, OklaV Oct. 21. A plot to force the 3,500 coal miners ' in this district out on strike, directed from I. W. W. headquarters in Min neapolis, was bared here today; the police allege, by: the arrest of Earl Ebert, 26 years old.' alleged I. W. W. organizer and draft dodger. A letter carried by Ebert, and purporting to be from W. P. Neff, national secretary of the I. W. W., ordered Ebert to make every effort to keep the miners" from their work. Some of. them were out on strike last week fo ra day, before John P. White and Fuel Adminis trator Garfield ordered the. Western strike postponed until mediation had been tried again. v Ebert carried in his pockets scores of pictures of prominent cit izens of the country and also , pic tures of W. E. Little, the 1. W. W. organizer, lynched recently at Butte. I "Martyr" 'was inscribed on the back of Little's picture. xOther photographs of railroad wrecks were labeled "Our "revengo." According to W. W. Melten, chief of police, Ebert carried a ' fakect sailors license and a registration card No. 390, a number which has been called for service. Southern's New York-New Or leans Limited Sideswipes Lo- cal Train at Larmand, Va. PASSENGERS ARE BRUISED Lariuand Waw One of Most Trusted of Southern's En&ineers Fatally Scalded, He Cooly Directed Work of Rescuer. Charlottesville, Va.', Oct. 21. Frank Larmand, of Larmand, Va., one of the most trusted engineers of the Southern Railway, and ' i - flreman.;; James " L. Johnson, colored, of Alexandria, , died this afternoon at the Jniversity Hos pital from injuries sustained, early to day when a northbound passenger train, the New York-New Orleans limited, on the Southern railrr ad, sideswiped a northbound local just as it. was clearing a siding near. Larmand, two milesnorth of Orange, a town' named for the dead engineer. James O. Pollard, of Strasburg, bag gage master o fthe local, was also in jured. Nearly . all the occupants of the sleepers werethrown. from their berths and many were badly bruised. . , The accident occurred at the north end of the switch in Caves cut. The local, which had taken a siding to al low a northbound train to pass, at tempted to follow it'Into the northbound main line. Before It could clear the siding the limited dashed along, and its engine- demolished the local's baggage car. The two passenger cars- toppled over against the embankment while the engine and first two coaches'of the lim ited turned: over on the - southbound track. . . . Engineer Larmand was pinned under his engine cab for 40 minutes. Despite the fact that he was scaldea from head to foot , his left leg-crushed and his arm broken, he cooly directed the. work of the. rescuers. .He lived for three hours after reaching the hospital at Char lottesville. ( Time after time he repeat ed: "It was hot my fault; they, gave me a clear board." . " ' ; - Engineer Larmand had a record of 35 years as an engineer with the Southern and many times has been called upon to handle the President's special over his division. On many occasions he had hauled President Roosevelt from his hunting lodge, Pine Knot, in this coun ty. ' The Southern's . double track was blocked for more than twelve hours and all trains were detoured. IS ONE THING GERMANY FAILED TO PREPARE FOR She Didn't Prepare for What is About to" Happen America to Set Things Right, Says, Mr.' Davis. Norfolk, Va., Oct. 21. Recounting German atrocitiesj which he declared Jpale into, significance even Indian bor der ..history, -John W. Dayis, - United States Solicitor-General ami counselor of . the American Red Cros3, rtold his hearers at a mass .meeting held 'here today in the Interest of the Hed Cross that the. strong arm : of - America . has been bared to 'set' these 'things right and that American'arms shall . triumph, bringing peace to .the nations, of the earth. " ' ' '' ' V . . '' - Scores of high navy and .army. .officers joined in applauding the speaker when he declared that Germany had 'foreseen and prepared in;advance for everything save that which was how beginning, to happen and -would continue '.to. happen. Mr. Davis recounted the work! of the' Red Cross, "detailed '- plans for future activities during th' war and - urged generous -support on the part " of true country-loving loyal Americans. '. .'. . BE AN HONORED FAMILY. Yoii and every ;one in your family V ' ;- -.- should own - a ' A LIBERTY BOND Sacrifice sbine thing,, and buy one' V- today vthat we- inayhave i ;s LIBERTY-VICTORY and PEACE ENGINEER LARMAND AND FIREMAN DEAD ""1 1 i ri in i An a OF THE ANTILLES ARRIVE AT -A FRENCH PORT Landed Yesterday By Auxiliary Vessels and Are Being Cared For By, TJ. . Consulate ANTILLES' CREVV PRAISED Stuck to Their Posts Until The Waves Closed Over the Tor pedoed Transport. A French Port, Oct. 21. Survivors of the U. S. transport Antilles, which was sunk by a German submarine last week while being convoyed on her homeward trip by American warships, were land ed here today by auxiliary vessels and are being cared for by the American consulate. Some of the men have been lodged in local hotels and a few have left for Paris. The torpedo struck the ship at a quarter to seven o'clock Wednesday morning. Many of those on. board were killed in their berths and others while dressing. The explosion killed the en gineers, oilers and mechanics and those of the crew - who were in the bunks below. , , All the survivors praise the captain of the Antilles and Jhe members of the gun crew who stuck to their posts whil the officers searched with field glasses for the submarine until the waves closed over the ship. When the Antilles sunk, forty or fifty men were at the stern. Most of ithem a -leaped 50 feet or more into the Bea, as the stern rose to a perpen dicular position and some were drawn down by the suction of the sinking vessel. ' The submarine was not sighted either before or after the explosion. The sea' was running at the time, making-it difficult- to-"save the crew and passengerB. Some survivors, clinging to debris, - were, in the. water an, hour "before they were 'sighted by the life boats. ENLISTED MEN LOST C031E UNDER. NEW INSURANCE LAW Washington, Oct. 22. All hands in the military and naval service who per ished with the lost American trans port Antilles, torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine Oct. 17 came with in the scope of the new war insurance law, the Treasury Department an nounced tonight, and thereby auto matically carried insurance to the amount of $6,000 each. This sum will be paid the families of. the dead soldiers and sailors in monthly instalments of $25 each over a period of twenty years. It is in ad dition to compensations which will be paid to. widows, children and depend ent mothers of ..the men. A widow, for exemple,- Will be paid $25 insurance and $25 compensation, a total of $50. While the $25 insurance is a fixed maximum in cases where no application for in surance was made the additional com pensation varies from $20 for a moth erless dependent child to a maximum of $75 for all dependents. The ' insurance of $25 a month will be paid under the section of the law providing for automatic insurance of all. American sailors, soldiers and ma rines,' without application, for 120 days after the publication of regulations providing for the issuance of policies. These regulations were published early in October and the. time limit prescrib ed by law will not expire until Janu ary 12, next. . Not. only "will the families of the dead receive insurance and compensation un der the new law, but those who were Injured, if any, while in the military or naval service, also will share in its provisions for indemnities. Application of the new law to the Antilles, the first" case where any large number of casualties was involv ed, was pointed to tonight by Treas ury officials as one of 'the. many vital CContinued on Page Two.) SUKVIVUKii GERMANS PILLAGED FRENCH TOWNS BEYOND DESCRIPTION New York, Oct. 21. President Ly man Powell, of Hobart College, who has. just returned from a tour of Eng land and France where he was sent to investigate conditions as a repre sentative of the Presidents' Associa- 1 tton of Colleges and Universities of the United States, in an address here today i declared' French and ' villages and towns recently evacuated by Ger man troops have been sacked beyond description. .' "The need ot an, effective army to protect America from such atrocious conquest as I have just seen in North ern France and of such air raiding -as I have witnessed in and about London now is 'the mosti important thing in the history of this country," said he. - "The army: must go over there and strike before the army from 'over there', gets an ; opportunity to come over here, or we are lost. "If. you people here could see half of what I have seen in. two months! If you could see with your own eyes, the terrible- conditions- for only a day the question in your minds then would hot be how much money you. could spend for . Liberty .'bonds or contribute to;th Red Cross-,-but how littie you could -live on-se you could give alJL the rest you have . to these . causes." Dr. Powell described the fate that befell ' the ' town of Chauny, iri the Aisne department of France. T!he lit LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE WILL START ON THE HOME-STRETCH TODAY LOYALTY PLEDGED BY Two Thousand Persons of Alien -Birth or Descent Group Around Schurz Monument NATIONAL ANTHEM IS SUNG Children Start It Voluntarily and Men and Women Join lu Speakers En thusiastically Cheered In Re affirming? Loyalty. New York, Oct. 21. Two thousand men, womej and children of German birth or descent grouped around the Carl Schurz monument in Central Park today reaffirmed their allegiance to the United States and pledged them selves to aid in waging war against "the enemies of liberty and freedom." The event which began as a Liberty loan rally, ended as an impressive pa triotic cedemonial when the throng I joined in singing "The Star Spangled Banner." The singing of the national anthem, a number not on' the program, jwas begun without prompting from their elders by children sassembled at the base of the statue of the American patriot of German birth. The child ish treble rose . to.-a triumphant chant as men and women took up the strain. "(Jive and .give to' the limit of your means," and "Let us carry on the war to victory" were some or the pleas of the German-American speakers which moved their auditors to cheers. Franz Sigel, son of General Sigel, of Civil War fame, who presided, moved his audience to a, high pitch of enthusiasm when he said: - c,j.t5t:nofc--Heeessar y f of -"Americans of German bloofto affirm their patri otism, for our sons are. lined up shoul der to shoulder in' defense of Justice and liberty the same nrincinles for GERMAN BORN which Carl Schurz fought." mated, as announced each night. It was - George Sylvester Viereck, editor of asserted; represent the sum of official Viereck's Weekly, formerly The Fath- . ',t , . . erland. said "Americans of German and estimated returns sent daily by birth or descent" have, never failed wire to the Treasury and are not al Uncle Sam; they .will not fail him tered, juggled or reduced, now." I "Ever since the latter part of the In another part of the park, 20,000 : first week of the drive," reaas the persons attended a'LlbeYty loan meet- . Treasury Department's statement to ing held near the captured German U- night, "almost three weeks ago, exag boat loaned the Liberty loan commit- j gerated reports of the total amount of tee by England" and which , has been t subscriptions have been published renamed the "U-Buy-A-Bond." Ap proximately , $l&0, 000 was -subscribed by 340 persons during . the meeting.. BUYS 604 LIBERTY BOXDS. Private Ripley Sells Seat on Stock Ex change For $30,200. San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 21. Private Louis A. Ripley, 121st aero' squadron at Kellyfield, purchased today from officers in. charge of the campaign, 604 Liberty bonds. The officers expressed surprise at the size of the order and also the unusual number. Ripley ex plained by. saying: - "I have just sold ray seat in the New York Stock-Exchange for $30,200 and the bonds are the best investment I know." - . large contingent reserve Officers are in France . : American Training Camp in France, Oct. 21. (By The Associated Press). A large contingent of reserve officers; which recently reached France has been split into ' several intensive schools at which the officers are supplementing the instructions received at Plattsburg, McPherson and other training comps in America. . The officers are being trained in every detail of war opera tions. When they are finished they will be distributed among the various divisions as they arrive. 1 tr ', , tle city, he said, was of 10,000 inhabi tants and almost from the time Of its founding,-"in 1664, had been the center of glass manufacture. It came into the hands of the Teutons in the course of their invasion, but last June or July they evacuated it. "The Germans were not content with the misery they already had caused," he said. - "First they dis mantled the glass factories, then they herded all the young women and young men into a parked space and se lected the young men for servi-ce of -one sort or another behind the lines. "Then they lined up the young women, according to rank" in beauty. The highest official chose the fairest as serianw. in ui " cers made their selection and final y uic At common soldiers took their pick. the time I arrived in Chauny only 300 ' of the original inhabitants were left and these were old men and wom en." ' SAYS RUSSIAN CONDITION IS GROWING STEADILY WOESJB " London, dct. 21. The parliamentary correspondent of the Sunday Times says that although the importance of the German naval successes, in the Gulf of Riga have been - greatly - exaggerated, the Russian position -grows steadily worse and .that there is a growing, fear that "there is 'need ot revision of our financial and other coVnmitroents to our eastern ally, Slightly Less Than Forty Per Cent Of The Hoped-For Maximum teas Been Raised. PUBLIC GIVEN THE FACTS; Treasury Officials Want It Under stood Pessimistic Reports Are Not "Framed Up" GIVEN JUST AS THEY COME) Vigorous Efforts Will Mark Remaining- Days of Campaign Washington, Oct. 21. The Lib erty loan campaign swings into the homestretch tomorrow with subscriptions of only $1,973,000, 000, or slightly under forty per cent of the hoped-for maximum. In the final spurt of the finish next Saturday officials said tonight it carries a handicap, regarded as unnecessary, in the form of wide spread reports that the totals an nounced by the Treasury Depart- , ment are actually far below the totals really subscribed. . No Facts Withheld." This handicap, it is said, is imposed unwittingly by the loan's best,, friend who have come to believe, in many in stances, that the Treasury Department has deliberately made the total sub scriptions appear les3'by several hundred- mlil1 oft dollars"' than the ..actual returrtsr No such practice, it was em phatically asserted tonight,- has pre- i vailed. The totals official and esti- i daily in connection with " stories that Treasury Department figures were bearish to the extent of several hun dred million dollars "The policy of the department throughout the campaign has been to publish the latest-official figures. at hand exactly as returned by the differ ent Federal Reserve banks and to make public without change estimates for- warded to Washington by heads of the various committees. "Committee chairmen throughout the country have been asked to base their estimates on what,-they .know to be the' facts and Insofar as .is. known at the department they have done so. Three BiljMon Short. - $ "The situation tonight, therefore, ac cording to the best information that ; the Department possesses, is that the- 1 sales to date are about $1,000,OOOIO( short of the minimum and ' $3.000.000, . 000 short of the maximum quotas set: for the country bj; Secretary McAdoo at the outset of the campaign. "Vigorous efforts will be made in every district between tomorrow morn ing and next Saturday noon to raise the $5,000,000,000 total. The $3,000, 000,000 mark i? being lost sight of in the' fight for the higher figure. "One of the strongest arguipertfs to be used in the closing days of the cam paign will be the figures for, the sev enth German1 war loan, just rilade pub lic. ' ' . , "After more, than three years of war, , and with a. casualty list estimated at 8,500,000 persons, the German people. f exclusive of soldiers have subscribed $3,107,500',O00 to a loan. Nothings would give the Kaiser and all" other enemies of -this country more pleasure, it will be pointed out, than for the people of the United States to fail to subscribe a greater amount than this to the sec ond Liberty loan, when they' have had -only one previous loan aid virtually no casualties. General Outlook Good. "The general outlook for the sale Is good. Onlytwo disturbing elements appear; the apathy of certain rural communities of tfieMIddle West and South and over-confidence, bred by uh. foundad optmiistl.c reports of sales. - "Liberty Day, next Wednesday, , doubtless will see a flood of subscrip tions. The country will celebrate that occasion, made a national holiday by President Wilson, .as it has not cele-' : brated a .holiday in many years. Nor i will all -its enthusiasm go into applause and speeches. It will be a sales day as well as a day of oratofy and display.' ! Communities in all the twelve districts f hft country predict that the sales for that d win outgtrip any single d , h history of eitner tnc flr8t or the second loan. "Liberty Day speakers include form- er Taft, former Vice-President Fair j banks and Secretary Redfleld and Wil-' j Ham J. Bryan and practically all cab ! inef members. ' . " - Scouts Make Good, Progress, - "The Boy -Scout campaign, which bftgan last Saturday with 309,000 work ers in the field, .will continue unabated -until Thursday night. The scouts re- , port good progress. . ' . - ' I "Recapitulation .- of - sales . made ; through different organisations of per- sons of " foreign : birth or - extraction - -show thatvgreat' numbersof so-called , ' r: (Continued on Page Two.) . - -. . ..... . c h t .1 3 -V' B c 1 5