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No. 26,691. WASHINGTON, D. G, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1917.TWENTY * PAGES. ONE CENT. ? SPECIALDRAFTLIST PRESIDENTSIGNSBILL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PATRIOTIC SERVICE. GERMANSGIVINGWAY FIRELAYSWASTE FORU1W0RKERS ENLARGING THE NAVY BEFORESTEADY BLOWS MUCHOFATLANTA Measure Empowers Transfer of Haig and Petain Apparently Have Separate Registrars to Be Ap¬ Geodetic Survey to Army or Ways and Means Committee Changed Flan, and Pressure Thousands Made Homeless by pointed for Men in Federal Navy for the War. Reaches a Compromise on Now Is Continuous. Flames That Destroy Prop¬
Employ Here. The President today signed the bill Second-Class Mail. The German armies in France are slow¬ erty Worth $3,500,000. increasing the personnel of the navy to ly yielding: ground before the relentless 150,000 men and of the Marine Corps to pressure exercised by Gens. Haig and ALL ALIENS ENROLL 30.000. ITEMS AMENDED IN HOUSE Petain, and the vital question is as to RELIEF WORK IS STARTED MUST The same bill authorizes the Presi¬ whether their morale can be maintained dent to transfer to the service of the under the terrific pounding: to which War or the they are subjected and Special registrars to handle the cases Department Navy Depart¬ A on the second- day night. Ap¬ By th* AftMwlatrit Preiw. ment vessels, equipment and personnel compromise proposed the allied commanders have of thousands ot clerks who of class mail tax so as to make it range parently ATLANTA, May .Estimate* today government the coast and geodetic survey, if in abandoned the of sudden are In the non-resident class will be his judgment a national emergency from one and one-half cents per pound policy thrusts were that from 10,000 to 15,000 persons at chosen and are on named to assist in the recording of all exists to warrant such action. in the first parcel post zone to eight points relying a were homeless as a result of the fire It is provided at the conclusion of the constant hammering over a wide persons in the District of Columbia national cents in the eighth zone, was agreed front, yesterday and last night that swept emergency.in this case the in the belief that sooner or later the subject to the conscription act. war with vessels, upon today by the House ways and through, approximately, scventy-flve Germany.the equip¬ iron German must either break or This plan was decided on today fol¬ ment, personnel and stations of the means committee. ring blocks of residence property, ranging coast and be re¬ crack. a Provost Marshal geodetic survey shall from educational entertain¬ from negro shacks to homes of tnfluen- lowing ruling by turned to the survey, and that nothing Receipts Last General and is to ments were excluded from the proposed night's actions on the French tial citizens, in the northeastern sec¬ Crowder. designed in the act shall be construed as trans¬ in the front confirmed French possession of facilitate of this class of the coast and survey 10 per cent amusement tax today tion of the city. R. S. Rust, assistant registration ferring geodetic House by a vote of 114 to 1, Represent¬ the commanding high ground won in the who are of as or any of its functions from the De¬ previous near in secretary of the Southeastern Under¬ person^ military age partment of time ative Moore of Pennsylvania opposing. night Moronvilliers, Commerce except in that it was unfair that the Champagne. writers' designated in the President's proclama¬ of national emergency. He insisted Association, roughly estimated tion. William Jennings Bryan should receive the property loss at $3,500,000, and loss from $200 to $750 a night for "educa¬ Hold of French Unshaken. Gen. Crowder's ruling was that "if, as Given Military Status. tional" entertainments, while the gov¬ to insurance companies $2,500,000. a matter of a man maintains his The Germans thoroughly bombarded fact, The measure provides that the per¬ ernment got nothing from them. Relief work, which was started hours permanent home in the District of Co¬ these, new French positions and then before the were sonnel of who delivered several flames subdued, weie lumbia and there are no facts to In¬ th^ survey, may be trans¬ 10 on Cash infantry attacks, but pushed rapidly today. The public safety ' dicate that he has a permanent home In Per Cent Heceipts. were unable to shake the French hold ferred to the army or navy, shall have and committee of the Atlanta Chamber of some other place to which he has a No other changes were made in the suffered considerable losses. The Commerce, at a at 9:30 bona fide intention of he proper military status and shall be sub¬ French have enumerated more than meeting o'clock, returning, ject to the laws and regulations of the amusement tax section. By it all amuse¬ laid plans for handling the sttuati>ii. should register as a resident of the 1,000 unwounded prisoners taken in the and at 11 o'clock a army or navy. ment will a 10 cent of the mass meeting, called District of Columbia regardless of places pay per fighting past few hours in this by Asa G. Candler, was held. whether he some else to vote. The President is authorized to ap¬ region. Mayor goes place point the field officers of the tax on their cash receipts and each Preparations were made last night If such persons actually maintain a survey, According to an official statement, is¬ to feed 5,000 of the place outside the District which they who are now officially designated as¬ person admitted free must pay 5 cents. sued in London last night, British homeless, it being sistants and aids as follows: Officers believed that no nore than that would consider their permanent home to A tax of 1 cent on each ticket sold troops are now holding the entire Hin- be needed for which intend to return their now designated assistants and receiv¬ line from the east of Immediate relief. The re¬ they when to a child under twelve years old, un¬ denburg Bulle- lief forces were so employment in the District of Colum¬ ing a salary of $2,000 or more shall be to court to Arras, with the exception of quickly organized appointed less the maximum admission fee the that hundreds of the homeless were fed bia is finished, then they should register hydrographic and geodetic amusement place is 5 cents, would be trench elements on a front of about last and this in the Outside the District, and engineers; officers now designated afW 2,000 yards west of Bullecourt. The re¬ night, morning breakfast place sistants and charged. awaited them at the Auditorium they may register by mail after having receiving a salary of $1,200 Club members -should 10 per cent gains northwest of Bullecourt have their cards filled out by the persons or more- but less than $2,000 shall be pay been consolidated. armory. and cent of their club dues. Entertainments Real estate and insurance men work¬ designated to perform this service by appointed junior hydrographic geo- benefit of or charitable the board of Commissioners of the Dis¬ Idetic engineers; officers now designated for the religious ing in conjunction later estimated that aids organizations would be exempt from British and French Reports. 1.563 buildings had been trict of Columbia. shall be appointed aids. taxation. This destroyed. "No person shall be appointed aid or By the AKSoclated Press. was considerably under the earlier shall be from aid to The war stamp tax section, considered estimates. The citizens' relief com¬ Bureau Heads to Designate Hen. promoted junior next, was amended so as to exempt LONDON. May 22, 12:23 p.m.."We mittee of the hydrographic and geodetic engineer or made successful raids last night north¬ Red Cross requested that Daniel J. Donovan, executive officer from building and loan associations operated east churches be kept open tonight, to be junior hydrographic and geodetic for the sole benefit of their members. of Epehy, and during the night used as of the registration board of the Dis¬ engineer to hydrographic and geodetic east of Bullecourt, south of the Arras- dormitories if necessary. A special meeting of city council was trict, announced that he would engineer until after passing a satis¬ Auto Tax Clause Amended. Cambrai road and west of Lens," says called for late request factory mental and physical examina¬ today's war office report. this afternoon to take the he^ds of the various government tion conducted in OF whatever steps necessary for relief and accordance with RUSS 5 HEAR GERMAN WORKERS afternoon we the ARMY reg¬ U-BOAT "Yesterday OPPOSE a House amended ENGINEERS'CAMP The yesterday destroyed bureaus and to ulations the German rehabilitation. departments designate prescribed by Secretary of per cent automobile tax clause so that large ammunition dump on the persons whom he will deputize as Commerce, except that the President Arras-Cambrai road northeast of reg¬ is authorized to nominate for confirma¬ manufacturers making less than 8 per Queant. The shock of the explosion .Fire Started in Warehouse. istrars for the non-resident clerks. This tion the assistants and aids now in cent will not have to pay this was felt at great distances behind profit TOBEESTABLISHEDHERE IN NEWENGLANDWATERS our The Are started in a warehouse on will enable every government employe the service. tax on their gross sales. Rep¬ lines." who seeks in a in proposed Decatur and Fort streets and drove registration place other Nothing the act shall reduce the Gillett of Massachusetts PARIS. May 22, noon..Three sepa¬ than the District and who has there a total amount of pay and allowances resentative rate counter attacks by the Germans first due north and then northeast, at bona fide domicile to obtain to motor cycles from Ob¬ on the neces¬ they wer« receiving at the time of endeavored exempt Grounds of American University Navy Department Officiah Investi¬ Series of Important Negotiations on positions captured yesterday by the some points a block wid» and at times sary card and certification without in¬ transfer. While actually employed in such a tax, but failed. Unsuccessful at¬ French were repulsed last night, ac¬ half a mile in width. It crossed Ponce convenience and loss of time. To re¬ active service under direct orders of tempts were made to change the bill's tained by War Department for gating: Eeport of Discovery Off Revision of Allies' Aims cording to an official statement issued de Leon at one point and swept down quire the clerks to make application in the War Department or of the Navy provisions for 5 per cent manufac¬ by the French war office this morning. Boulevard for a block. On the south his office for registration cards would, Department members of the coast and on musical instruments The number of prisoners taken of in turers' taxes New Organization. the Is by the side Ponce de Leon, a wide residence the. opinion of Mr. Donovan, subject geodetic survey shall receive the bene¬ selling for more than $10 each, jewelry, Seguin Light. Impending. French yesterday was 1,000. street, the burned area extended from them to unnecessary inconvenience and fit of all provisions of laws relating to yachts, sporting goods, perfumery, North Jackson street some seven blocks cause a considerable loss of time to disability incurred in line of duty or toilet articles, "patent medicines," etc. Plans for the expansion of the engi¬ German Lines Blotted Out. east of Peachtree, out almost to the their departments. loss of life. The House amended the bill under this in¬ By the Associated Press. baseball neer section of the regular army LONDON, May 22..The Petrograd From a Staff park. Government clerks affected by this section so as to levy a tax on all these clude the establishment of a camp on PORTLAND, Me., 22..Persistent Correspondent of the Associated Press. The fire was the^gxaatest In Atlanta'* regulation will to the Military Bank. since 6, Univer¬ May correspondent of the Daily Express BRITISH apply registrars articles purchased April 1917, the grounds of the American reports, current since war was declared, HEADQUARTERS IN history since civil /w ar days, when of their departments for cards, which When and In the hands of retailers when the on Nebraska avenue near Massa- says that a series of important ne¬ FRANCE. via Sherman, terming \ the backbone of must serving with the army or navy sity that a German submarine was in New May 21, "London, May 22. they fill in and certify and mall relative rank shall be as bill goes into effect. chuetts avenue, negotiations for the gotiations is impending between Rus¬ the Confederacy, decraed that it must to the county sheriff or |lieutenants in Mrs. Albert Covington Janin Do¬ skeleton organization referred to above he admitted having will be requested, and it is believed sides by the British. Outside Aid Not Needed. in room 509 of the District building. The tha.navy. Regiment to be organized at Wash¬ that the The engagement was wen Junior the command received earlier and similar reports and allies will call a conference really made up will be sworn In and thoroughly pre¬ hydrographic and geodetic en¬ and Bed Cross ington barracks, under to consider the whole of two attacks, one in the morn¬ At the meeting today Mayor Cand¬ pared for the work. gineers shall rank with and after first nates Property of Col. Mason M. Patrick, Corps of said that they were being acted ujjon. question of Rus¬ early ler and President Ivan E. Allen of the in 1st sia's future in the war. ing, when seventy prisoners were taken, lieutenants the army and lieutenants Is to Furnish It. Engineers, commanding the existing Political circles and the second late in the local chamber of commerce agreed that All (junior grade) in the navy. Where Submarine Was Sighted. in sympathy with afternoon, no outside aid would be needed. Both Aliens Knot Enroll. Regiment. , , the two some 160 Aids shall rank with and F of the old 1st foreign Minister Milukoff and Minis¬ netting prisoners for their of scores after second Companies E and The which ap¬ ter of War Guchkoff the day's work in this sector. The Ger¬ expressed appreciation All aliens are subject to no lieutenants in the army and will be sent to Fort Leaven¬ supposed submarine, view the negotia¬ of offers that were telegraphed last registration, ensigns in Regiment to be about 200 feet in tions with considerable alarm. man artillery's response was very class being exempt This waa the navy. Under the auspices of the District: worth. Kan., and form the nucleus of peared length, The and night. fact em¬ And in be Petrograd correspondent of the feeble the counter barrage during one is known to nothing the act shall be con¬ of the Red Cross the men in the new 7th Regiment which will was located by two fishermen south of Daily attack was Only person have phasised by the registration board strued to or Chapter com¬ News writes in the same vein and be- the particularly weak. died as a result of the fire. Mrs. Bessie today. afreet alter their rates of organized at that post under the at 9:15 o'clock this morn¬ Aliens who are mere sojourners in this pay and allowances when not the officers' reserve camp at Fort of Lieut. Col. Meriwether L. Seguin light lieves that the coalition government Hodges died of shock after her home assigned to mand ing. She was a mile and a half distant, will stand or fall Berlin country and who have no domicile In the military duty as hereinbefore mentioned. Myer are to have a clubhouse in Wash¬ Walker, Corps of Engineers, now at¬ according to the po¬ Reports Enemy Bepulsed. was destroyed. Injuries from the Are The act that of but the fishermen were sure of the sition which the allies take in were remarkably few, police and flre- United States will provides the Secretaries of tached to the 2d Regiment Engi¬ character of the As ' the BERLIN, May 22. via 4:30 register In the precinct War, Navy and Commerce shall ington. at El Paso, Tex. stranger. they pending negotiations. He says that London, men agreed, considering the magnitude in which their hotel or stopping Is Jointly Mrs. Albert Covington Janin, presi¬ neers will were watching her the engine of their Minister of War p.m..The repulse of British attacks The fled be¬ located place prescribe regulations governing the duties Lieut. Col. James F. Mclndoe Kersensky is making near Bullecourt and of the area swept. people June 5. to be donated to now motor boat backed fire and instantly a great effort to restore Croisilles and of fore the flames as from an Invading If aliens are not mere performed by the survey during the dent of the Colonial Dames, command the new 2d Regiment the the submarine discipline in French attacks near is sojourners, but time of war. of the Red Cross in Texas. Col. Thomas H. Rees will re¬ following report the army and that his task will be Nauroy reported army and so intense was the heat that are actually domiciled In the United the District Chapter of the 3d submerged. The fishermen hurried lightened if a in today's official statement. the onward shooting tongues States, they must in the 930 16th street main in command Regiment ashore and what had clearly expressed agree- preceded register the places the use of building now the Col. Edward reported they ment is reached between Russia and of flames that few could remain In of their domicile. If they are to be ab¬ in Philippines. seen. the flames reached them. sent northwest, the old home of the Uni¬ Burr will command the new 4th Regi¬ the other members of the entente houses until from their domiciles on June 5 be at Vancouver They had no more than reached shore The executive committee Heat drove out hundreds who sought they must versity Club. ment to organized a of the coun¬ register in the same fashion barracks, Washington, and Lieut. Col. when third fisherman arrived, with cil of soldier s and workmen's delegates to stay and save a few more personal as absentees.by mail. This is to be fitted up with a writing the the report that he had seen the craft a has a CAPITAL Barden will command issued call for a effects. _ . TRACTIONHELD William J. general con¬ Seventeen of TO PROTECT hundred persons a reading room, where maga¬ little later to the'west Seguin light. GONSUMER Here there firebrands sailed are esti¬ room, new 5th to be organized at Fort gress on June 14 of representatives and mated to have applied in person at the zines and some books will be provided, Regiment The position of the craft seen by the all of ahead of the blaze, firing houses as far war Sam Houston, Tex. branches of the council throughout registration information bureau, in and a canteen in charge of a chef, fishermen would fit in with her prob¬ Russia and of the various as a block ahead of the wall of fire room 5, District building, yesterday for where soft drinks, coffee and sand¬ able position if she continued in her ganizations. The military or¬ that swept out North Jackson street information. Several hundred NOT wiches will be served. westerly course after being sighted off congress will dis¬ and Boulevard toward Ponce de Leon. others SUBJECTTO I. cuss national ap¬ C. C. defense, peace IS INFOOD conditions AIM for CONTROL T. LANDS last Later plied information by telephone. Miss Mabel Boardman, chairman COUNT TARNOWSKI Cross Island night. she land and labor the The scene on North Jackson. Itself a Questions as to the status of aliens of the Woman's Volunteer Aid, and was seen by two members of the coast problems, projected part of the better residence section, and government clerks who Gen. Carroll A. chairman ROTTERDAM One guard first saw her, and assembly, the Country's was In a score of other maintain Maj. Devol, SAFELY AT guard. constituentp y and conditions of milt- duplicated voting places outside the District were Complaint of Old Dominion Railway of the military relief, are in charge later he was joined by a second guard, Government Not to Hesitate to Take places. the ones most frequently asked the of committees which are fitting up thi» and the two men watched the vessel for tarynnfe bureau. Patrons clubhouse for those Austrian Party, With an hour. They had time to Flee With The Against Local Company attending the Diplomatic ample Over Supplies When Deemed Belongings. bureau records also show that a camp. It will be maintained by the Had study her closely under favorable con- majority of the questioners asked Is Set' Aside. District chapter. German* From China, ditions, and were convinced that she Gradually the flames advanced north¬ whether was a submarine. Necessary. ward along Jackson street. Before registration means conscrip¬ The comforts committee, under the Uneventful of tion. They have been informed that leadership of Mrs. Randall Hagner, in Voyage. ( WILL LAYA them came hundreds persons. The WREATH ON to a roar when within a registration means merely the prepa¬ uniform, visited the training camp at Previous Disbelieved. flames grew ration of a Complaint of C. Elton James Reports Although government food a block or more. Men who census for conscription pur¬ residents of and other Port Myer today and distributed com¬ experts distance of poses, and that the draft will communities in Virginia fort bags to the officers in ROTTERDAM, via London. May 22.- Repeatedly reports of a submarine off oppose fixing maximum prices on had comforted their families with state¬ be made served by the training. has ar¬ staple would not later. Washington and Old Do¬ Miss Boardman accompanied the com- Count Tarnowski von Taspow the northeast coast of Massachusetts food products except to force hold¬ ments that the fire reach minion railway that the withdrawal of were after an uneventful voyage, big them realized at the last moment that Precinct Lines. the transfer mittee. They taken to the camp rived here, outside the entrance to Portsmouth, ers to release their arrangement existing be¬ by the woman's motor service, also in from the United States. Count Tar¬ supplies, protection their homes were doomed. Automobile The line of tween that carrier and the Capital Trac¬ of which nowski. whose ambassadorship to N. H., harbor and on the Maine coast for the consumer will be one of the trucks, wagons and every con¬ demarcation between tion Company costume, Mrs. J. Borden Har- will first express precincts will be the center subjects them to unjust rlman is chairman. Washington ended before it began, have been brought in by coastwise ves¬ considerations of the new food ceivable vehicle from a wheelbarrow to of the and discriminatory fares was on a train to¬ control street or boundary. Persons of tbe the set aside leave for Vienna special sels and fishermen. In every instance Members of British Mission to administration. a baby carriage, were pressed into serv¬ designated ages in by interstate commerce commission morrow morning. At the same time official confirmation of such Pay ice. Gathering what belongings they Alaska. Porto Rico in a decision announced Admiral Paul von reports If mere is a and Hawaii will be registered on a The today. CHURCH UNION NEAR. his fellow passenger. was lacking, and usually naval officers Naval Tribute in shortage in any food could, the people fled. Down the side¬ not yet day commission held that the dismissed German minister to Company men whatever named, but soon to be announc¬ Traction is not Capital Hintze. have publicly scoffed at the possibility staple and it becomes essential to lower walks rushed carrying ed by the President. Company subject to the Peking, will entrain for Berlin. of an into the price, the government, it was they could hurriedly collect. jurisdiction of that body. The case were the enemy ship venturing Amer- With American Officers. said belongings Almost every department of the Dis¬ held was Presbyterians at Dallas Sessions No submarines sighted by ican waters, though privately several today, will not hesitate to take over In the streets vehicles were crowded, trict service has been ordered^ open for fifteen days to liner on which the German and Aus¬ admitted and distribute them sort of household fur¬ assist called upon to give the .complainants file Pave for and Count officials taking these reports supplies' itself. In bearing every in the preliminary a opportunity to Way Patriotic Program. trian diplomats traveled, more seriously than their formal utter¬ this way officials believe more can be niture. In the pell-mell dash many work. For the registration request for a further hearing on the Tarnowski declared that his visit to Rear Admiral Sir stamping of the cards question of rates on DALLAS, Tex., May 22..When the ances betrayed: Dudley de Chair, on accomplished than by setting maximum people abandoned their belongings. and certificates alone a the Washington and the United States had been most en¬ behalf prices which sellers In street cars that force of eight Old Dominion line. The rates in 129th General Assembly of the Presby¬ of the British navy, this after¬ beyond may not Some placed them men is required which already has the terian Church in the joyable. None of the party had any The naval commander of the Maine charge. If there is an abundance of were stalled by falling wires. The own¬ three been present case on this line were not ques¬ United States of to make in to the noon will lay on the tomb of working days. Plaivs are being tioned. America met today it began rushing complaints regard district has forwarded reports of a Admiral food, however, they do not think it ers did not know that the cars would made for the circulation in every home through committee reports and other examination of the ship by the British German submarine in that vicinity, George Dewey a wreath bearing the ever will becdme necessary to exercise stand there until the flames burned in the District of maps of the routine business to clear authorities at Halifax. A prominent which, he said, were so far "without following the power of commandeer. and full various Complaint Filed August 12, 1916. the decks for Austrian from Chicago described the inscription: them. precincts Information as to the a patriotic program. confirmation." Investigation is con¬ "A tribute to the Soldiers Take steps necessary for registration. The complaint was filed with the com¬ Many expected to attitude of the British officials as most tinuing. undying memory of Only One at Times. Charge. Daniel J. Garges, mission 12, receive today a courteous. George Dewey, admiral of the Bemedy, chairman bf tbe August 1916, setting forth that resolution from the General Assembly United A short After the fire reached within a block or committee on dissemination of informa¬ the withdrawal of the transfer arrange¬ of the States Navy, with the respectful crop of any commodity, food Ponce de Leon street, which was sent a ment Presbyterian Church in the homage two of tion, today letter to every between the two companies sub¬ United States, now in and esteem of experts say, will send prices up an hour before dark fell, order man in the city clergy¬ jects residents of the session at Bir¬ BRITONS HUNTING RAIDER the British navy." through within requesting that on Sun. various Virginia mingham, Ala., favoring a reunion of MEXICO PROTESTS WAR Rear Admiral de competitive bidding, despite began to come out of the confusion. Com¬ day a notice be read of the President's communities along the line of the Wash¬ the two branches of Chair and Com¬ ordinary 5th Na¬ proclamation ington and Old the church, the mander both regulatory measures, and tfie panies of the Regiment. Georgia designating June 5 as Dominion railway to the North and the South. OF IS REPORT OFF COAST OF SCOTLAND Lawford, of whom knew in only tional Guard, and prospective I'nlted registration day. payment of fares which are unjust and The northern branch O-BOATS, Admiral remedy, they hold, this case is for officers from the Secretary Redfield. In unreasonable and of the church, Dewey personally, will go to the government to take over the States Army training a statement Is¬ unjustly discriminatory. in assembly here, yesterday sent over¬ for the prod¬ camp at Fort McPherson took charge of sued today, in which he announces By an amended complaint filed AMSTERDAM, May 22, via London,| NEW YORK, May 22..Information Arlington ceremony in company uct. paying the grower a good price direction of there are 389 that August tures to the Birmingham assembly fa¬ 10:33 a.m..A Berlin to trte with and the food the situation, under personal men on the rolls of the 16 last reparation was asked. a dispatch that the British naval authorities sus¬ Admiral Benson and other Ameri¬ distributing where it is R. commander at voring reunion. Telegraph a most needed. CoL Charles Noyes, department between the ages of twenty- In the decision the commission Exchange Company says pected that German sea raider es¬ can naval officers. Fort McPherson, to whom the police dele¬ one and thirty called attention that there is no con¬ that the Mexican minister to Germany caped from a German port and was at European demands for food this year years, declares that to have The placing of the wreath is will take all of gated authority to handle the guard duty. whether or not they will be called nection between the two lines, but is reported handed a note to! large was brought to America today by done un¬ America's surplus. The soldiers evacua¬ the a Into that Increases the of I. C. C. the German government der instructions allies, it has been stated on After the took charge service is question to be settled the terminals of the two lines at Membership protesting an arriving Belgian relief steamship. from the British ad¬ good au¬ tion of homes in the threatened districts later, but that "It would save 36th and M streets are within a few feet The Senate today passed the bill in¬ against the submarine campaign. The The Belgian captain said his vessel was both as a thority, need one billion bushels of embarrass¬ a miralty, tribute to the friend¬ to was carried out consistently, and auto¬ ment to tlje government if It were of each other. creasing the membership of the inter¬ report followed prolonged conference fired upon by a British cruiser 13. grain carry them through the year. the hundreds stood that under¬ Prior to commerce between the Mexican minister and May ship between the navies of the two With normal this mobiles furnished by by Its regular force will continue August 9, 1016, transfers from state commission from seven For¬ off the north of Scotland. The relief crops country can those who had come in them as spec¬ for the present and until the Capital Traction Company were to nine members and them to eign Secretary Zimmermann Monday. ship halted and was examined the countries, and to express the British furnish 400,000,000 bushels of this and some special allowing by navy's at Canada tators carried people and their most val¬ demand shall arise, in the performance good on the Great Falls division of the divide for the expediting of business. MEXICO CITY, May 22..It was in¬ Briton. The latter explained, the Bel¬ gratitude the arrival of 200,000,000. This will fill only to other parts of the of their Washington and Old to An amendment by Senator dicated here that a under¬ American destroyers in British 60 per cent of the allies' needs, uable belongings regular work." Dominion Hoke Smith thorough gian captain reported, that the relief It waters but of¬ city. The soldiers went on guard duty Cherrydale, and on the Bluemont divi¬ providing that the commission must standing existed among government of¬ vessel, .which carries four was also has a special significance it ficials believe America by the masts, was because can increase this economizing and remained all night. sion to Thrifton. Effective August 9, give a hearing and confirm freight rate ficials that United States had not mistaken for a four-masted raider, explained, of the incident to 80 per cent, pro¬ Furniture, bedclothes and all me odds Three Earth Shocks at through commutation fares to Wash¬ increases before they can be into and would not exercise pressure to which was believed to left at Manila bay. when Admiral Dewey vided crops are normal. homes Ogdensbnrg. put to have Ger¬ tired across the bows and ends from thousands of lit¬ X. ington, 36th and M streets, were pub¬ effect was adopted. force Mexico take sides in the war. many under the guise of a merchant¬ of the German the streets, which were rendered In OGDEXSBURG, Y.. May 22.Three lished by the Gen. Alvaro who re¬ squadron, which entered the To Start tered distinct earth shocks were Washington and Old Obregon, recently man. blockaded Saving Campaign. many places impassable by fallen wires 4 felt in this Dominion from points on both its Blue¬ signed as minister of war, explained to¬ Another Belgian relief harbor, and Admiral Chichester of the vicinity at a.m. today. Persons were steamship ar¬ British navy indicated he The food administration as and splinters from dynamited house* roused from mont and Great Falls divisions. Two More Middies Get day the reasons which prompt Mexico riving reported sighting a Zeppelin, the would sup¬ soon as soldiers allowed nothing to be moved sleep by the shaking of Diplomas. to endeavor to maintain absolute neu¬ port Admiral Dewey's fleet. organized will start a campaign for The their houses, but no damage has been Commission's ANNAPOLIS. Md., May 22..Unable to L.-30. off the Dutch coast, April 23, President Wilson saving in the household and during the nlcht and blocked civilians Ruling*. final trality in the war. headed toward the British Isles. The spent nearly fortv- hopes to zone and a wide area around reported. take their examinations with their a five minutes with Mr. cut down ordinary to from the fire was held At farewell dinner before his de¬ following day the Belgian was Balfour at the consumption a one case of attempted looting Jt by the commission that classmates graduated March 2t>. two parture tomorrow for Sonora he said ship British mission yesterday afternoon in considerable extent. It. Only it has no power to require the restora¬ members of the 1917 class of the halted by a German submarine, which a was and that resulted in an the Naval Mexico's self-respect called for this her to discussion of the negotiations be¬ The government's food experts think reported, Denmark Has Lost 150 tion of transfer arrangement pre¬ Academy were given a special examina¬ Even if Mexico permitted proceed. tween the two governments. the plan for a voluntary arrest. Ships. viously existing between the two com¬ and will be awarded their policy. joined the war. organisation IXJNDON, May 22.A tion diplo¬ he said, she could give no effective aid. Members of the British mission to handle the food situation will win Families Are Separated. Copenhagen panies, as it has no jurisdiction over ma*. They are Lawrence of their today of the dispatch to the Exchange the Traction and A. Harvey She could furnish neither men, ships, expressed disappointment at not the co-operation country. If it actual relief work says that since Telegraph Capital Company. Pennsylvania Gale Polndexter of nor Under GERMANY USING being able to go on a trip to fails a bureaucratic system, Besides .lodajr. Company the beginning Attorneys E. Hilton James state. supplies money. such condi¬ UP HUGE Chicago they be¬ was a tremendous task ahead of of the war Denmark has lost 150 Jackson, Washington They bring the tions Mexico could not with self-respect and other points in the middle west lieve, will have to be instituted. there ships T. Sherier and R. H. Turner repre¬ total of the class to 181. The were Atlanta In getting its scattered citizens through submarines or mines. The de¬ sented the complainants; G. enter the war unless forced to do so. FORCES ON WEST engagements canceled be¬ Members of many families struction of the ships has been Thomas and certainly not merely for the sake FRONT cause the State Department desired ad¬ together. the deaths accom¬ Dunlop appeared for the Capital Trac¬ of Gen. ditional conferences. Entente Shell became separated during the afternoon panied by of 210 Danish tion Company, and Wilton J. Lambert Comstock Buried. gain. Obregon indicated that Warships Kavala. and night. Today a man advertised for seamen. for the and Old Representative benefits which might accrue to Mexico PARIS, May 22..Some Idea of the ex¬ SOFIA. May 22, via London, 2:55 An¬ Washington Dominion Ind., declaration for one p.m. his ninety-year-old grandmother. \ . railway. RICHMOND. May 22..Funeral froqi a side or the tent of the German losses in the recent Today's Bulgarian war office state¬ other sought his wife and baby through services for Representative Daniel W. other were appreciate'd cleArly, but said Anglo-French offensive In France may be Cincinnati Election Case Fails. after reporting section of the Comstock. who died in it not seem to to ment. artillery actions the want ad morning German Airplane Baids Kishinev. Washington, did him be compatible obtained, according to a semi-official note, CINCINNATI", Ohio, May. 22..United In various sections of the Macedonian There were scores of similar were held here yesterday. A commit¬ with the dignity of the nation to ac¬ from the fact that, while on District paper. PETROGRAD. via London, May 12.. J. W. Allison Dead. of twenty members of the Verdun States Judge Hollister today front, announces that thirteen enemy cases, and It was expected that a clear¬ A German airplane has tee Congress, in¬ cept such benefits when all that Mexico front from February, 1918, to February. sustained the demurrers to the Indict¬ warships bombarded Kavala, while ing house to carry out this work would dropped bombs DAUjAS, Tex.. May 22..J. W. Alii, cluding all the Indiana delegation, at¬ could give in return was, as he ex¬ 1917.one year.Germany put Into action ments which twelve otf the railroad station at Kishinev, ¦on. former president of th* tended. The services were charged ninety-nine men airplanes- dropped bombs on the have to be established. of the interstate extremely pressed it, "our regards." fifty-six and one-half divisions, while she with having violated the election law* town. Several- houses in Kavala were area capital province of Bessarabia. Cottonseed Crushers" Association, and a and were conducted by the Rev. After his home in Sonora action The burned is roughly defined as Alsoldler and two children were cotton man well staple visiting put into eighty-four divisions on her® at the election last November destroyed, says the statement, but no Including all that territory between killed known throughout the J. J. Rae, pastor of the First Presby¬ Gen. Obregon will go to the front this from This action serves to throw was --M five .workmen Injured. N south, has died here from heart disease. terian Church. and New York. Washington Anglo-French year the cases military damage done. One hostile Fort street on the west and the Boule¬ April 9 to May 11. out of court without trial. airplane was shot down. I vard on the east between Decatur
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