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THE FARMER: MARCH 8, 1918
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INVADERS PUSH TOWARD LUGA FROM PSKOV
AND UPON SEBEZH BRITISH AND FRENCH
EMBASSIES QUIT DANGER ZONE PRO
CLAMATION ORDERS FOOD RUSHED.
LATE WAR
Berlin, March 1, via London German troops, con
tinuing their advance in Russia, have reached the
Dnieper river, the war office announces, Austro-Hun-garian
troops have begun an advance into Ukraine,
The movement of . Austro-Hungarian troops, the
statement says, was begun in response to an appeal
from Ukraine.
The German advance to the Dnieper was made
through northern Ukraine. The Germans also have
reached the line Kiev-Shmerinka, near Fastoff and
Kasatin.
London, March 1 Dispatches received by the Exchange
Telograph Co., filed in Petrograd at 6 o'clock last night, indicate
thsa the German advance into Russia has been resumed.
A forward movement by the
hfivnnd Polotzk. midwav between
in these advices, the Germans
thft railroad had been blown up
their way destroyed.
German troops also are reported
to tie moving slowly toward Luga
from Pskov, at which place they are
said to' have concentrated a division
of Infantry supported by cavalry and
heavy and light artillery.
The-Germana likewise are declared
to be moving on Sebezh, 80 miles
northeast of Dvinsk.
The Russian council of people's
commissioners has decided to return
to Petrograd, says an official Russian
statement received here today. The
removal of elements of the population
valueless in the defense of the capi
tal is continued, however.
Russian wireless message gives the
test of another proclamation to all
Knaslana, appealing for the utmost
resistance to the Germans and order
ing the food producing provinces im
mediately to send as much food as
I possible to Petrograd and Moscow.
The appeal says:
"The capital of the revolution 'will
have to resist a long siege, but it will
not capitulate until the last moment.
To this end it needs the utmost as
sistance in regard to food. Tou must
not permit the starvation of revolu
tionary Petrograd."
The BritiBh and French embassies
nave Vsft Petrograd, says a telegram
from the Russian official news agency
Petrograd.
Te-v4ee came by cable from EO-
gar G. SisBon-thecommittee's repre
sentative 4n the Russian capital.
Representatives of theinformation
committee, it was said todny.wiIl re
main In Petrograd for the present to
carry on the educational and infor
mational work with which they are
charged. Last reports show the cir
culation of the president's address of
Jan. 8 virtually is completed through
out Russia. The total, it is said, is
more than 4,000,000 copies, including
separate printing and distribution at
Tiflis, Vladivostok, Odessa, Rostov,
Omsk and, Chita, but not including
1,500,000 newspaper articles and an
(Incalculable amount of part printing
nd editorial comment -which auto
troattcany followed.
In addition, it was said, 1,800,000
messages printed in German weni
through the northern lines of the
German army. About 200,000 were
leuccessfully worked through the
leouthern and central fronts.
The committee also said that Ger-
man and Austrian prisoners in Rus
sia were provided with copies of the
dress.
GIVE PRESIDENT
i POWER TO SEIZE
NEEDED LUMBER
f
Washington, March 1 President
hvllsbn would be empowered to com
pnndeer timber or lumber needed for
bthe army, navy or shipping board,
pwnder a bill ordered favorably report
ed today by the senate military com-
Hnltlee.
SUBMARINES DON'T
.. BOTHER U. S. SHIPS
ON WAY TO NORWAY
Christian! a. M'arcllf-?Vessels sail-
Ling between- America and . Norway
1 outside the danger zone and not
ntouctung British ports lately have not
I .been attacked by Germans probably
rmore In their own interests than for
jany special love of Norway. Germany
' for a long while has not been able to
end food to Norway and as far as
known has not promised to do so even
;lf Norway refused to accept Ameri-
can conditions for food export to this
tcountry.
, German vessels sailing to Norway
- .must now have provisions, oil, and
kerosene for the whole round- trip
And wiU only in exceptional cases be
Lailowed to get small quantities of
' Norwegian products.
Some great Norwegian factories
, (producing articles for export to Ger
Ltnany are run by German coal, oil
I and kerosene as are Ashing vessels
! obtaining- fish for- export to Germany.
Norway at present receives from
rGennany eteel and iron for construe
4!on and Is absolutely dependent on
SUfmnany for the import of potassium
compound kainite which Is used ex-
lflnrTi'lT ior leruuxing. ,
ftsBpooBlbinty for the rear-end coi
rhrion on the LouisviBe .& Naafcville
aat Bbephecdsvllle, W,
pba. employes.
was placed- on
DONG
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DISPATCH.
invaders of some 35 miles
Minsk and Vitebsk, is reported
pushing on despite the fact that
and the stores of provisions in
FRENGHPEASANTS
LOSE HEAVILY BY
RUSS COLLAPSE
Paris, March 1 The repudiation
by the Bolshevik government of Rus
sia's entire bonded debt caused some
anxiety among French people who
held at least half of the debt of the
empire outstanding at the beginning
of the war.
Eighteen billion of francs of Rus
sian bonds, at the price of issue, were
listed on the Paris Bourse. Twelve
billions according to the lowest estl
mates and 15 billions according to
other calculations, were bought by
the French public.
Servants in White aprons, bare
headed market women, domestics of
all categories and men in the blouses
of the peasant and the laborer made
up the long lines of investors in front
of the wickets whenever Russian
loans were offered for sale.
"I lhaven't a sou invested in Rus
sia," a millionaire Parisian said to
the Associated Press, "but every one
of my servants has one or more Rus
sian bonds. Another millionaire, said
the same was true of his household.
"Instead of hitting the counting
house and the salon, the Bolshevikl
are hitting the servants' hall and the
backstairs," was the way he put the
situation.
There is no little apprehension in
socialist circles as to the effect of this
heavy blow the extreme revolutionary
element in Russia has delivered at
the extreme liberal element in
France. A peasant or workingman
who may overlook or disbelieve news
of Bolshevik excesses or misconstrue
their effect will be unable to doubt
the evidence of his own despoilment.
Until now the holders of Russian
bonds have been reassured by the
payment of the January coupons
Which the French treasury assumed.
It doesn't appear yet, however,
whether the French government will
assume the burden indefinitely and if
the bankruptcy of the revolution Is
allowed to become effective, the
greater number of the smaller in
vestors who have been financing the
Russian empire since 1888 will be
ruined.
A contrast ts drawn here between
the action of .the Bolshesdki and that
of the French revolution. The Max
imalists pretend that the money loan
ed to Russia was used to buy arms
to keep the people in subjection. This
was tried to a far greater extent of the
money borrowed by the French mon
archy prior to 1789, yet the conven
tion made it a point of honor to take
those debts to the account of the re
public
The claims that money furnished
by France brdught no benefit to the
people of Russia is also contested. It
is" possible to trace the money through
the official list of the loans floated in
Paris and-it is found, that more than
three-fourths of the capital repre
sented was employed to buy rail
roads to build them, or to develop
Industry and agriculture.
Russia had improved only about
third of her land at the beginning of
the war and the question is asked
how the' peasants .to whom the unim
proved land is turned over will find
means of improving it if Russian
credit Is forever destroyed by the re
pudiation of her debts.
VETERANS TO HAVE
SPECIAL SERVICE
Washington, (Maxell 1. Director-
General McAdoo has decided that the
Confenlorate Veterans shall have spe
cial rates and no interference of
transportation to their, reunion this
summer in Tulsa, Okte, and that the
Grand Army of the Republic shall
-have the same for Its meeting in Port
land, Ore.
DEMURRAGE RATES
MAY BE DECREASED
Washington, March 1. The Inter
state Commerce Commission was
asked today for rate increases on au
tomobiles, boots and shoes, leather,
machinery, paper and miscellaneous
manufacturers from New England
points to Pacific ports for trans-Pacific
export. The commission also
ooVaA n atnn11a)i 1n(ifAJtHl tor--
min&l charges for demurrage on such
I trade at racinc coast porta. -
INCOME TAX
EXPLAINED
Washington. D. C. March 1 John
M. Goldbonds the name is fictional
but there are quite a few John Ms. in
the United States this year win pay
an income tax of $1,80J,180. John
M's income for 1917 was 4,uuu,-
000.:
John D. Smithkins fllso fictional
will Day $10. Smithkins income io.
1917 was S2.500. I.otn are mar
ried.
This is an illustration of the opera
tion of the income tax provisions of
the War Revenue Act of October 3,
1917, and the act of September s,
1916, which preceded it and which
remains in force.
The normal rate of tax under the
act of 1917 is 2 per cent, on the net
income of unmarried persons in ex
cess of $1,000 and on the net income
of married persons in excess of $2,000.
Under the 1916 act the normal rate is
2 per cent on the net income of un
married persons in excess of $3,000
and on the net income of married
persons in excess of $4,000. An ex
tra levy or surtax ranging from 1 per
cent, on incomes between $5,000 and
$7,500 to 50 per cent, on incomes in
excess of $1,000,000 is imposed by
the act of 1917. The act of 1916, in
addition to the normal tax, imposes
a surtax ranging from 1 per cent, on
Incomes between $20,000 and $40,0U0
to 13 per cent, on incomes in excess
of $2,000,000. John M. will pay
2 per cent, on his Income in excess
of $2,000, 2 per cent, on his income
in excess of $4,000, 5 per cent, on his
income in excess of $1,000,000 and 13
per cent, on his income in excess of
$2,000,000. Smithkins will pay 2
per cent, on his income in excess of
$2,000.
The income tax, as thus shown, ia
no longer a rich man's tax but a levy
so graduated that every person ia
assessed according to his income.
Last year 500,000 persons paid an in
come tax.
This year the number will be more
than 6,000,000.
The estimated revenue to be collect
ed under the War Revenue Act oi
1917 is $2,500,000,000, of which
$660,000,000 is in individual income
taxes. Every unmarried person who
made $20 a week or more and every
married person who made $4 0a week
or more is assessed. Returns are re
quired of unmarried persons whose
net income for the calender year 1917
was $1,000 or more and of married
persons whose net income was $2,000
or more.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, with the approval of the Sec
retatry of the Treasury, has extended
the time for filing returns from March
1 to April 1, 1918. This affords the
taxpayers ample opportunity, but to
delay until April 2 renders the delm
quent subject to a fine of not less
than $20 nor more than $1,000 and an
additional assessment of 50 per cent,
of the amount of tax due.
Blank forms may be obtained from
collectors of internal revenue or from
revenue officers who are visiting ev
ery county in the United States to as
sist officers in making out their re
turns. The services of these experts
are offered without cost. The loca
tion of their offices may be obtained
on inquiry from collectors, banks or
nostmasters. The return must be
filed with the collectdr of internal
revenue of tho district in which the
taxpayer lives or has his place of bus
iness.
Payment must be made on or be
fore June 15, 1918. The penalty for
failing to pay tax when due is an
assessment of 6 per cent, of the
amount unpaid, plus interest at the
rate of 1 per cent, a month during
which it remains unpaid. For making
a false or fraudulent return the pen
alty is a fine not exceeding $2,000 or
not exceeding one year's imprison
ment, or both in the discretion of the
court and, in addition, 100 per cent.
of the tax evaded.
The man who thinks to evade the
income tax is storing up for himself
trial and tribulation. The govern
ment has numerous ways of checking
up delinquents. One is through the
information at source" provision of
the act of 1917, which requires every
employer to file with the Commission
er of Internal Revenue a report of
payments of $800 or more paid to
each employe during the calender
year 1917. It is estimated that the
number of such reports filed will be
20,000,000.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue,
through various agencies, has endeav
ored to inform taxpayers everywhere
of the requirements of the income tax
laws. Ignorance of the law cannot
be accepted as an excuse. To the
"tax dodger" who deliberately seeks
to evade his just share of the war
burden no consideration will be giv
en. Fortunately for the self-respect
of the American Nation, the Bureau
is anticipating few such cases. The
Bureau has ample and conclusive
proof that these taxes for the support
of the war will be paid cheerfully and
willingly by the great majority of
the people. To do less is to confess
a lack of that spirit of patriotism
which has made this an enduring re
public.
Dollars mean victory. Whether you
are a Goldbonds or a bmithkms, re
member that in paying your income
tax you are helping to crush forever
the fear of German dominion and to
confer upon the world the boon of a
lasting peace.
WIFE OF HARTFORD
RECTOR SUCCUMBS
Harttord, March 1. Mrs. George T.
Iinsley, wife of the rector of the
Church of the Good Shepherd in this
city, died today after a long sickness.
She was of colonial ancestry, de
scended from the Rev. Charles Chaun-
cey, second president of Harvard col
lege, and from Commodore Isaac
Chauncey, famous In tho war of 1812.
She was chaplain of ithe Connecticut
branch of the Daughters of 1812. Be
fore coming to Hartford in 1902 the
family lived in Watertown, this state,
where Mr. Linsley was rector of Trin
ity church.
REPORTER KIIXED IN SERVICE.
Baltimore, March 1 Edward Cary
Eichelberger, 27 years old, a former
member of the Baltimore Americon'
staff, recently commissioned a gunner
lieutenant in the naval aviation corps,
has been killed in a seaplane accident
in a foreign place. His mother, Mrs.
Julia Eichelberger, has "received this
'information from tho government
Representative Rainey
Praises Accomplish
ments of Garfield.
HIS CRITICS WILL
SEEK TO RETRACT
Future Will Show Far
sightedness of U. S.
Fuel Supervisor.
Washington, MarchM The
Fuel Administration's recent
closing order was defended in I
the House today by Represen
tative Rainey of Illinois, who
declared-that when the "entire
story is told there will be mem
bers of the House who would
be glad to expunge from the
record, if they could, speeches
they made immediately after
the coal order's promulgation."
The Illinois representative asserted
that too much already had been dis
closed regarding military movements.
Not only was coal shipment falling
off by the middle of January, he as
serted, but shipment of steel plate and
steel bars needed for the great new
fleet the United States is building had
fallen oft 50 per cent. More alarm
ing still, he added, was the falling off
in shipment of projectile steel, needed
for munition manufacture. This had
fallen off by the middle of January 45
per cent.
He said the relief brought about by
the heatless Monday order was im
mediately apparent and as a result 480
ships have been loaded and coaled
since Jan. 17. Forty of them, he said.
were loaded with food, 71 with coal,
oil and gasoline, and 369 with muni
tions, and nearly -every one of them
has safely reached its destination, and
the supplies are being distributed to
the armies in France. Steel move
ments now, he said, have become nor
mal. Despite unprecedented increase in
coal production there still is a short
age of 50,000,000 tons, the represent
ative said, which must be met by im
mediately building more coal care and
more engines and by conserving coal.
Mr. Rainey said Dr. Garfield is blaz
ing his own trail and that the fuel
administration haici perfected an or
ganization ' to save 12,000.000 tons of
coal annually in homes, 40,000,000 tons
locomotive and stationary steam
plant, and 6,000,000 more by an in
crease of 10',000,000 cords of wood used,
,500,000 tons by consolidating public
utility plants and using natural ice
instead of artificial, 500,000 by elim
inating unnecessary advertising signs
and out of door lighting, 1,000,000 by
the proposed daylight saving bill.
1,000,000 by natural reduction of build
ing material, 1,500,000 by trolley cars
stopping every other block, and 70,
000,000 by other plans now being de
veloped!. The speaker deprecated what he
said was "the impression created by
the speeches here and by partisan
newspapers throughout the country
that Dr. Gaff-field is a college presi
dent and nothing more." Mr. Rainey
said Dr. Garfield is a lawyer of
marked ?ibility, that he had organized
a mine railroad and one of the great
trust companies of the country, the
Cleveland) Trust Co., and that no man
in the United States better under
stood the business of operating coal
mines.
SHIP SHORTAGE
EQUALLING 1,500
VESSELS FOUND
Chicaso, March 1. Figures showing
an acute shortage of shipping have
been compiled by the executive board
of the National Patriotic societies as
part of a campaign to win public sup
port for an extensive program of ship
construction. .
According to these figures, made
public today, the present shortage i3
7,435,894 tons gross almost 1,500 ves
sels of 5,000 gross tons each. It is de
clared that the total tonnage usable by
the United States and its allies today
is 4,435,809 gross tons less than it wan
in the fall of 1914.
Estimates- were that 2,000,000 tons,
will be the maximum of building ta
be expected from Great Britain fc:
1918, and revised predictions are that
the United States may not exceed
3,000,000 tons this year.
. 0. ROBBERS
ARE SENTENCED
Boston, March 1 Four men, ar
rested recently in Middleboro after
they had robbed the post office in
Osterville, pleaded guilty before
Judge Alrich in the United States dis
trict court yesterday. Three of the
number, James Kelley, Patrick Mor
iarty and Thomas F. Connors were
sentenced to seven years each in the
federal penitentiarv in Atlanta, and
John F. Murphy was given 3 years
in the Greenfield jail.
DEVENS SLACKER
GOES TO PRISON
Ayer, Mass., March 1 John San
jean of Cambridge, a prirate in Co. E,
SOlst Infantry, charged with feigning
sickness and making disrespectful re
marks to officers when ordered to per
form military duty was given a five
year prison sentence by a court mar
tial which reported yesterday.
111 TUBES IN
BIG CITIES ARE
URGED UPON U. S.
Washington, March. 1 Government
ownership and operation of pneu
matic postal tubes in New York,
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Chi
cago and St. Louis as a means of re
taining high speed transportation of
first class mail was recommended by
the joint congressional investigating
commission in a report submitted to
day to congress.
Despite recommendations of Post
master General Burleson that the
tubes be abandoned except in the
most congested district of New Tork
the commission by a vote of five to
one, favors their purchase at a cost
in all six cities, of not more than
$4,432,622.
Of the committee, Senators Bank-
head of Alabama, chairman of the
joint committee and the senate post
office committee, Hardwick of Geor
gia and Weeks of Massachusetts join- !
ed with Representatives Bell of Geor
gia and Steenerson of Minnesota in
recommending federal acquisition of
the tubes, now leased at about $976,
000 a year. Representative Rouse of
Kentucky, dissented from the report.
The repose-was made so that con
gress may decide the question, often
the subject of sharp controversy, re
garding the tubes, when present leases
expire on July 1. Specifically, the ma
jority of the commission recommend
ed:
"1. That pneumatic tubes as now
installed for carrying letter mail are
necessary for proper postal service
and should be continued in the cities
of Kew Tork, Brooklyn, Philadelphia.
Boston, Chicago and St. Louis, but
that extensions are necessary in St.
Louis to obtain adequate tube service.
'2. That being an exclusive postal
facility, the systems should be owned
and operated by the government.
'3. T4ata cermbinatton of tube and
automobile service tends to promote
efficient postal service in large cities.
'4. That the post ofBoe department
should "operate tu.be service with Its
own eMployes.j thereby insuring great
er co-operation and higher efficiency.
"9. That the purchase of the tube
systems extend over a period of years
in such manner that part payments,
together with 4 per cent, interest on
unpaid balances, including costs of
operation as reported by the commis
sion's engineers, shall not exceed the
present annual expenditure of $976,000
for tube service.
'6. That the purchase price for the
systems now in use in the postal ser
vice be determined by a reference to
the interstate commerce commission
which fix a physical valuation for
each of the systems in the" cities of
New Tork, Brooklyn, Philadelphia,
Boston, Chicago and St. Louis, at a
sum not to exceed $4,432,622 for the
entire systems. In determining this
value said commission shall determine
the nature and titles to the proper
ties in each of the cities named."
Postmaster General Burleson, the
report says, believes the pneumatic
tube system to expensive to warrant
its retention .except in the lower Man
hattan district of New Tork.
In this the majority of the joint
commission said that from three to
five . million letters daily are . trans
mitted by the tubes at a cost of only
$312 a. day and that the first consider
ation is to prevent delay in trans
porting important first class mail.
"Letter mail pays for and warrants
the highest grade of postal service,"
the report said. "Tliere should be no
deterioration. The mail truck is a
menace to life of persons along the
streets and tends to obstruct traffic.
To substitute the tubes with automo
biles would doubtless effect an econ
omy estimated at $114,522 per annum.
However, delays in delivery of large
quantities of mail would result."
OLISH BAN ON
NEWS AT FRONT,
URGES GENERAL
An Atlantic Port, March 1. Major
Gen. Peyton March, now chief of staff
of the United States army, arrived to
day after nine months abroad as chief
of artillery of the American expedi
tionary force. He win immediately go
to Washington.
Bescribing the American troops in
France as so well trained in modern
warfare as to be able to handle them
selves "with entire credit to the Unit
ed States,"' Gen. March said the cen
sorship was "lamentable" and inti
mated that he would advocate that the
regulations in this respect be made
less stringent, so that people in Amer
ica might learn as much as possible
about the activities of the expedition
ary forces.
American officers in France cannot
understand! the present censorship
methods. Gen. March said, adding:
'I know of no gentle method of
conducting a war of this magnitude
and no army can expect not to have
somebody hurt."
The American forces ore remarkable
for their morale and health, he de
clared. "They are .keen about the
game. Those on the battle line now,
and the reserves, too, are so well
trained in modern warfare that they
can handle themselves with entire
credit to the Unibedl States. I in
spected the troops on the line Just be
fore I left France, and they are ex
traordinarily cheerful and contented,
notwithstanding the mud and the
Gorman shells.
"Their health is splendid. There
is no sickness and there is better
morale than there was at the Mexl
can border where I was stationed be
fore going abroad. The spirit of the
Americans is splendid and every man
is happy. A great many of the men
take it as a lark, the majority never
before having been outside the United
States and some even hot outside
their own states.
"It is a great advantage to the men
that everything is new and interest
ing to them; this serves to keep up
their spirits."
Gen. March was accompanied bj
Maj. Gen. S. B. Sturgls and Maj. Gen.
F. H. French.
Hartford, March 1 At the hearing
today on the petljjjon of the Shore
Line Electric Railway Co. to sell
electricity to the Groton Iron Works,
John O. Geary appeared for the bor
ough of Groton in opposition to the-j
petition. '.
STUDYK
President Pondering- Si
berian Muddle New
Message Expected.
EXECUTIVE DROPS
ALL OTHER PLANS
Coming of Ishii Awaited
in Washington to
Clarify Situation.
t
Washington, Mar. 1 Japanls
proposal for action in Siberia
has crowded German Chancel
lor von Hertling's speech into
second place in the considera
tion of officials here, and there
were indications todav that de
cisions were being formed
which soon would show them
selves in some arrangement of
an international character to
prevent the vast stores in
Vladivostok and control of the
Trans-Siberian railroad from
falling into the hands of the ad
vancing Germans.
The expectation that President Wil
son was planning to address congress
very soon in reply to Von Hertling's
speech was dissipated today by evi
dence that the president is making no
such plans at t.iis time and probably
does not consider it as necessary zo
reply to the German chancellor for
the present at least. Before the
president speaks there doubtless will
be an interchange, of views with Lon
don and Paris so that if -Mr. Wilson
speaks he will express the view of all
the co-belligerents as on previous oc
casions. Outward indications today were that
the president was studying the ques
tion of American participation with
the Japanese in Siberia to the exclu
sion of other subjects;
Japan has informed the United
States that Americans going to Japan
must have their passports vised by a
Japanese diplomatic or consular offi
cer in this country before leaving. It
is a wartime measure which has been
adopted by practically all the co-bel
ligerents.
AMERICAN U
HOLD NO FEAR
GOLD WEATHER
Base of American Flotilla In Eng
lish Waters, March 1. (CorresponnJ-
ence of The Associated Press.) Ad
miral Henry T. Mayo, commander of
the Atlantic Fleet, has -cabled to Vice
Admiral Sims, in charge of American
naval operations in the war zone, a
request for information regarding tho
suitability of the special winter out
fits of clothing furnished to the naval
men by the Navy Department at
Washington. Admiral Mayo also
wants to know of any recommenda
tions for changes in these garments.
The Associated Press correspondent
has yet to hear a word of complaint
against the present outfits worn by
the men. Thanks to the busy women
who knit. Most of the men, early in
their arrival here, received excellent
sweaters, jerseys and socks which
were sent toy wives, relatives and
friends back home. When the cold-
weather came on these were aug
mented by an entirely new issue of
extra heavy winter clothing. Many
of these garments were designed by
the British from their long experience
m torpedo boats in the hard winters
off this coast
Here are some of the things, which
when donned, make some of the men
look more liko Arctic explorers th:i
bluejackets:
Helmets of wool which cover all
but the eyes, nose and houth; light it
knitted coat sweaters, jerseys and
cardigan jackets; knitted mittens and
gloves; extra heavy coarsa under
clothing; heavy woolen socks and
knee-length stockings; leather sea
boots; wind! proof khaki-colored trous
ers; great coats lined with lamb's
wool. The last named are worn over
the life jackets and help to make up
the most serviceable combination
worn by Americans over here. They
keep the men warm on the damp,
cold days with the biting winds when
the sleet 6qualls are hourly affairs
and "you can't see an inch."
Relatives of a large majority of the
men ever here continue to send them
knitted things All sorts of . knitted
garments arrive and are deaply ap
preciated. Oftlmes the men receive
knitted garments from wifo or sweet
heart that aire not very serviceable
but accompanying letters from home
are so enthusiastic that the men hes
itate to utter a word of criticism.
Experience has shown that the wo
men folks -back home ought to con
centrate on socks as they are in the
greatest demand! and most appreciat
ed of all thingii they send to the
sailor 'boys over there.
COUNTERFEITER
GIVEN 15 YEARS
New York, March 1. Art do Pug
lisi, notorious Black Hand leader and
head of the Ixmd of the counterfeiters
that planned to print and circulate
$1,000,090 of the spurious $10 federal
reserv bank notes, was sentenced to
day in the Federal Court to 15 years'
imprisonment in the penitentiary in
Atlanta. -ua.
IRS
FOR
AlERI
CANS
1GED
ON MIS
Shells of U. S. Soldiers De
stroy Germans' Gas
Throwing Apparatus.
With the American Army in
France, Thursday, Feb. 28. (By
the Associated Press) Swift re
tribution has fallen on the Ger
mans batteries which this week
bombarded the American trenches
northwest of Toul with gas shells.
American heavy artillery con
centrated its fire on the German
Minenwerfer batteries for half an
hour today and obliterated the po
sition. So far six men have died frma
the effects of the German gas
shells. More than 80 are in bos- -pitals
suffering from gas poison
in;;. Most of these cases, how
ever, are slight and only one man
is reported to be in a grave con
dition. Aeroplane photographs
aided the American gunners hi
their destructive fire against the
German batteries.
Iiate today the Germans at
tempted to retaliate for the de
struction of the Minenwerfer bat
teries. They bombarded the
American heavy artillery with
their biggest guns, but with Utile
effect.
American patrols wflre all over
No Man's I-rand last night but did
not encounter any Germans.
Tlie American sector now is an
ocean of mud and constant work
is necessary to keep the trenches,
gun pits and dugouts free from
water.
UNKER GOAL
SHIPS UNDER
REIGN FLAGS
No ship built in this country for
other nation and made ready for,
launching since February 1, unless
she flies the American flag, will be
able to get her bunkers filled, accord
ing to information received by Col
lector of Port James L. McGovern
this morning. This ruling will apply
to ships built in this country for neu
tral countries and other nations who
have contracted with American ship
building concerns for vessels.
In accordance to the order it has
been interpreted that all ships built
here since February 1 unless they fly
the American flag will remain where
they are.
Orders were . also received this
morning by McGovern regarding the
buying and selling of vessels. When
application is made to buy or sell a
vessel such information as to the
name of the ship, official number,
number, dead weighty -names of the
purchaser, citizenship, and number of
years of experience of the purchaser
in operating vessels will l ave to to
furnished the shipping board or the
Inter-Allied chartering executive
board.
In the case 'of a corporation buying
a ship the president and managing
directors must be United States citi
zens and the ship must be chartered
under the laws of the United States.
The office of the Collector of Port
is in a position to aid persons in buy
ing ships. Information will, how
ever, have to be submitted to the
United States Shipping Board.
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LAWYERS WHO
PROSECUTE I. W.W.
(Chicago, March 1 Discovery of a .
bomb in the federal building has fur
nished a mystery on which a number
of government agents are working to
day. The bomb was found yesterday
partly hidden under a pile of rubbish
in one of the rooms occupied by law
yers in charge of the I. -W.' W. prose
cution; The bomb was a heavy steel cylin
der 12 inches long and about' two
inches in diameter. A long fuse in
one end had not been ignited. ' Ex
perts of a powder company found the
cylinder contained a number of metal
slugs and an explosive powder. ' They
gave it as their opinion that the ex
plosion of the bomb would have
wrecked' tie entire wing of the fed
eral building.
0 TWO VESSELS
AGH DAY TO U. S.
IE SERVICE
Washington, March 1 The growing
American merchant marine was in
creased by 399 seagoing vessels in
the last six months of 1917, govern
ment official said today, or an average
of more than two a day.
STEAMER TIBERIA
IS "SUB" VICTIM
New Tork, March 1 The British
merchant steamer Tiberia, of 4,880
tons gross, owned by the Anchor line,
was sunk by a German submarine
about Feb; 27 while bound for this
port, according to information receiv
ed in shipping circles today. The
crew was rescued.
The Tiberia waj built in Glasgow In
1913.
. SMITH TO LEAVE SEXATE.
Washington, March 1 Senator -William
Alden Smith of Michigan, a
F.epublican leader in the senate, an
nounced today that he would not be a
candidate for re-e!oction, but would
:eave the senate when his term ex-
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