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- of Germany, as far as we are
to see it at the present time,
deaa of which I have been tpeak
' ing will really grow in such fashion as
lo rai ate hopea that In our
v shall see that e.Uablished.
But I am sure that if it it no' eatab
. .i the ?ecurity of Europa vill not
: be establi'v
Michaelis Seeks
To Split Allies,
Washington View
M I ;re?u)
Washington, July 80.?Tag State De?
partment ?ookt u:)on the utterance? of
Dr. Georg Michaelis, the German Im?
perial Chancellar, and of Count Czer
nin, the Austro-Hur.garian Foreign
considerable suspicion
: ard as a game to split the Allies. The
alculated to revive the
peace ditcussiou and to force the En
uad America to state
???air irredueiblg peace terms.
.als who have analyzed the two
utter.. Ia| that they saw
not ii i n fr naw in them, no concessions,
?XCgpt nott the German Chancellor does
r.ot r ratall charge con
| who started the war, "showing
a certain amount of education," and
his neglect to throw the opprobrium of
rtaponaibility for the war upon the
Allies wart taken here as the first allgnt
? concession by Germany.
Pronouncement? Expected
The A dm I was not sur- '
prised by th.- statements of the Ger?
man and Austrian governments. It
was said to be a rule especially wtth
Germany to take advantage of any
treat advance or victory, such as Ger?
man armies are now prosecuting at
Russia's expense, to take the oppor?
tunity to renew pgace agi ta tiona More [
Significance wa* discerned In the pres?
ent Instance, k tdalg assert
.- was DO accident
that the statements followed so ?oon
after the Erzbi raer incident and the
' Reichstag resolution. They added that
the statements were in line, also, with
the declarations o: the Amos Pincbot*,
Hillquit propagaiula in A.- erica.
The tha Centr.il
Powers wt re gaid to constitute a new
drive to aifect popular opinion in the
Allied countries and in America; in
this country, it wag thoutrht. Chancel- i
lor Michaelis sought to take advantage
of the calling out of the draft armv,
and ::? I ! countries o: minor
peace agitations and labor differences, j
Point to Old Intrigue
The note of the German government
af December 12 was characterized as
the first peace drive by Germany, but
at that time Germany was convicted of ,
not acting in good fa:' h the |
T'nited St!.'."?. At that time, also, Ger?
many proposed a per.ee of understand- '
ing, but America discovered the Berlin
Foreign Office v.as acri'ig a double part.
Walla st eking to enlist America's sym- i
pathy and assistance in instituting '
peace negotiations, Germany was plan?
ning to embroil the 1'r.ited States in
war with M. gie i and Jnpan.
It was also learned to-day that, while
Germany was seeking to open a way
for peace exchances, she nor only re- ?
fujed to indiente her ti mis, but de?
liberately attempted to mislead the \
world by presenting two
different sets of terms, one in America, '
through the German Ambassador, j
Count von Barn S tor if, and the other in i
Europe, through diplomatic officers.
The ' ? - completely lost '
n the sincerity of the imperial
German government at that time, ;
learning that reinonsib'.e German ofR- ?
ria'.- Bad ?'? rod ?hat nether set of .
terms, as announced in either America
?r Europe, would really be acce:
to the Germnn government.
Proof of Rad Faith
Germany's bad faith was discovered
\>y this country when the government
tried t.. what was behind her
various peace efforts, sounding out
?very possible source of reliable infor?
mation in Europe.
The karma *s stated by fount von
Bernstorff, were ?aid to be "a balloon ;
: " It was j
bot doubt-d here that tha ambassador '
?vas lastrad : ta doflaa Germany's j
terms as he did. r.nd there wa? lik?
I intention of the |
German government to repudiate them. '
Neither is it doubted to-day that Ger- '
many wants peace, it was said, but j
Germany bas rot yet sought it in the
Only way in which it is obtainable.
At Allied embassies no surprise was
expressed at anvthlng in the Michaelis
and Cr.ernin uttersr\t
Neither ?t the State Department nor
at the embss?; r? wai ? to se?
cure ary I . of tha charges
made by M;.rv'f-' li cneeraing alleged
French d<>< herman territory
other that It was be?
lieved ti
reaaarl . dealt
1
Allies' Primary Demands
wss declared, however, 'ha' tve
?ed nfver to per:
Central Tow.--? to have peace u
nburg,
S and Serbia are restored and
Austria is dismembered upon national
unes. England, it was stated, is
?-. irrevocably committed to the re
Germany's African colonies
as to exclude the possibility of their
being restored, in part ?f net -in whole.
t* Gai ? is recognized, it wat
said in a dp'.omatic quarter, tha* Ger
hat an annual surplus of p?pala?
tha best practicable so
? iblem, having in view
n Europe, is tha
possetsicn of co
All the Entente powers are deter
i, however, that the General F.m
shall ps
wrought U] 'erri
s- . that peace is impost:! '
til t-oaraatees ?-?:: baaa been ob?
tained that France, belgium and
be ir..'<-rr:
?ssed that
< ? Stag appreci?
ates the necessity of such a peace as
- ? re f.xed in their resolve to
n Gerrosr.y ar.d Austria.
..cersion of
wars ig Eur< pa it was de?
war-making
|iow?-r make Ger
r ? . f her
aggri*
? i h an Answer
t Secretary
; at Mad.ton Harrten?,
? advance of
itTL.n and
alia ttateme.itt, was taken as a
. ha areatfcst
action wes expressed li EMent?
tent and too tone
. i declarations.
Tht V..W wai also expressed in Ad
relas that, in addition
to aov. .r.g (i,B*ensiont in Allied i
? '?y in view,
the Ganas Iba Auttro
.<* for
.
Whtr
i
' han
{ .?ter
, vital 'i ?' ? ?r-um.
.?
, "'at the imperial
, .'.urn.
I
, Gar mar, tourcas that
LtitakOi planji tut pgflitioamg of Bel
gium between her two racial elements,
granting autonomy to each, and also
erecting conditions which would make
Belgium economically dependent upon
Germany
Everybody realizes, It was said, that
Germany wants a truce, but that the
Allies ara urw.Uing to allow, in the
knowledge that it would only afford
Germany a respite in which the would
be enabled to recover her breath and
replenish her stores for the resump?
tion of the war.
It was not known to-day whether any
answer to the statement? of tha Cen?
tral Empires would be made by a rep?
resentative of this government, bat li
was considered doubtful, inasmuch ss
nothing new was advanced by either
Chancellor Michaelis or by Foreign
Minister Czernin
Berlin Socialist Organ
Denounces Attitude of
British Labor Party
Rerun, July 2H (via London, July
80 i.?Commenting on the nddresses
made in the Hoise of Commons July
2*, by ex-Premier Asquith and A. Bonar
Law, ( hancellor of the Exchequer, in
wbieb they dealt with the peace r< so?
lution passed by the German Reichs?
tag, "Vorw?rts" says;
"Between the unqualified and sin- i
cere love of peace of James MacDon
aid. Socialist and labor member of the ,
House of Commons, and the uncon
ditional war will of the conser
Bonar Law, lies the somewhat qualified
war will of the former Liberal Premier,
th. The latter, it would seem, li
*or peace, provided Germany ra?
tha independence of Belgiurr.
*o probably would be rag? to
discu; - ti on of Belgian indem
n.'y With g government, hot
which is animated by the spirit of
Bonar I aw and Sir Edward Carson, the
only peace possible would be one of
abject surrender.
"George J. Wardle, chairman of the
British Labor party, refers to Asquith,
hu* talks Uko Ronar Law. He de?
mands of the German people that It
should for?a its government to ac?
cept a peace dictated by a foe who Is
animated by lust of conquest. Such
force, however, the German nation
must leave to the Entente armies, and
it will continuo to oppose it, ns has
been done before. If Chairman Wardle
Ig of the opinion that he is not notic?
ing among the German majority So?
cialists a spirit of repentance^ we
would reply that the German working
min would' only experience repentance
if he lef' his country in the lurch in
the face of a tenfold foe. The w.>rk
ingmen haven't done so and do not pro?
pose to do so."
The "Vosgigcha Zei'unrr" say?:
"The fact that Germany rlesired to
arrive at t.r\ understanding with Eng?
land regarding Belgian neutrality be?
fore the outbreak of the war, and that
England made such an understanding
impossible would geem to be unknown
to Chancellor Bonar Law ard Mr. As?
quith, who w-as a war Premier, and at
daggs seems to have forgotten this cir?
cumstance.
"The English government now dis?
putes the rower and authority of the
German Reichstag, and its ability to
give the nation's politics official direc?
tion. Only one answer it possible in
the face of such an attempt: The .-ep
reaaatatirei of tho German people
must demonstrate that they are ii.
session of this disputed authority, and
are able to exercise it. If the German
people succeed in convincing Conti?
nental Europe of this fact, then the
chief English war aim will have been
disposed of."
Socialists Approve
Austrian Peace Stand
Copenhagen, Julv 30.?The interview
given by Count (*zernin, the Austro
nonganan Foreign Minister, is char?
acterized by the Socialist newspaper,
"Vorwartg,1 as "a programme of
peace and understanding" The rev.- -
paper interprets it as emphasizing the
German peace resolution, and as mak?
ing Austria's official policy line up with
the political programme of the Social?
ists.
Count Ciernin, "Vorw?rts" de
leres, casts aside war for the settle?
ment of differences between states, and
leaves no doubt that he would never
countenance a war of conquest.
Russians Admit Rout,
But Deny It Was
The Germans' Fault
Pe'rograd, July 30.?An official com?
munication #issued to-day strongly re?
pudiates recent claims made in Ger?
man wireless despatches that the rout
of the Russians on the southwest Russ?
ian front was due to a German thrust
which the British, French and Russ?
ian authontiee were powerless to pre?
vent.
"Who d'.e? not know," says the com?
munication, 'that the Russian :
. ba explained by the in?
stability of the Russian army, due to
a combination of recent events, and not
I Germans allege, to oparations
according to the pian made by the Gi l
oops?
"In tha persistent repetition ol
same allegation is clearly revealed the
German yearning to inculcate mistrust
among the Entente countries and
arouse the peoples against their re?
spective governments. Is it nee.
to repeat hundreds of times that the
true signifcar.ee of this German pro?
vocative activitv was long since found
out and that all efforts to violate the
integrity of Russia's entente with her
allies are absolutely hopeless?"
Legality of Draft
Law To Be Tested
By Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman announced yester?
day that the appeal of her case to the
United States Supreme Court will be
made the occasion of a legal battle to
tha constitutionality of the con?
scription law. She said that in addi?
tion to $-17,000, which is being ?
cals now in prison on
charg.-s similar to those upon which
she and Alexander Barkman were con
, a "national fand" .s be.r.g cre?
ated b; ?.nd other?
the D4
- iprataa rourt tes*."
..port is coming to us from sll
..e country," said Miss Goldman.
"Sums ranging from ti to large*
amounts are coming from many people
who are not anarchists, but who are
anxious that we ?hall express for them
their opposition to the draft law. The
cases of Berkman and myself, when
they come before the Supreme Court,
?rill involve a di-cis.on on the consti?
tutionality of the law, and we will call
Ulla to the attention of ali persons la?
? are confident that we will get
ata or
*s In
? itlon I
>* their opposition to ?t. Those
mothers ?ho are cognizant of the
?rag? die? roon to be i narted in their
hornet by tne ?rafting of their sons
will be with us heart and soul.
"While tba case is oi in Washington
mass meetings will be held in various
parts of U* country, at which reoorte
of the negreas of the casa will be
publicly tlscusssd." I
Pershing Pays
Surprise Visit
To U. S. Camp
News Is Withheld From
Troops, but French Pre?
pare to Receive General
Mail of Hospital
Units Goes Astray
Returned by Authorities;
Work Proceeding
Satisfactorily
IB? Te aU?ne1?t?d Pre??]
American Training I smp in France,
July 30.?News that Major General
Pershing, commander of the American
expedition, would visit the training
camp to-day, to morrow and Wednes?
day was withheld from t'io American
troops until this morning, in order |
that the general might see the actual
everyday working conditions?that he I
might find the men at their daily task I
without undue preparations being
made for his inspection.
General Pershing, amotoring from |
Paris, is expected to arrive at the field ;
headquarters late this afternoon, when
he will be received with honors befit?
ting hie rank as comm; nder in chief
of the expeditionary forres.
The inhabitants of the French vil?
lage where the American headquarters
are located quickly sensed to-day the
fact that something important was
about to happen, and there was much
enthusiasm when they heard who was
coming. The pimple peasant folK
brought out their French flags, and the
tiny village a ruined omte an air of
gsyety. There was much speculation
a> to how to pronounce General Persh
ing's name, the nearest approach to it
' i't ( r-shnn.'' with that distinct
French nasal sound on the last sylla?
bic.
The general will find the troops in
splendid condition physically and '.he
equipment m tue best of order. Some
scattered units of the American force
hiave been having great difficulty with
their mail, which seems to have gone ;
astray. This is particularly true of |
the Red Cross hospital units which re?
cently arrived and is causing much '
cor.cern among the doctors, nurses and j
? d men, who fear their folks at j
home will think romething untoward ;
has happened to them. It can be stated j
that all the members of the Roosevelt ;
and Jo'iiis Hopkins units are well and
and anxious for their real work
to begin.
One difficulty about the mail has
been that letters destined for Ameri?
can units in charge of British bas?
hospitals have come to the hospital
units here, and it is presumed that
?orne mails which should nave come
here have been misdirected there.
The members of the. Roosevelt unit?
were somewhat dismayed yesterday to
find that all the letters they had writ?
ten home since their arrival had been
returned by the Trench authorities,
o'.-ing to some misunderstanding as to
censorship. Mail facil.ties tor the
troops have been satisfactorily worked
out, however, with quick d.stribution \
after arrival and daily collections, im?
proved facilities for the isolated units
are being arranged
1
No Paris Show Complete
Without American Finale
Stage Artists Making Great Efforts to Please Soldiers from
Over the Seas?Troops Compose Large
Majority of Audiences ?
By HEYWOOD BROUN
Accredited to the Pemhinrj Army in
Franc? for The .Vet; York
Tribune nvd Stf*?iC?tt
l<0*wt1$?t. :'':*. ty Ha M bm 4?at??iatt?n]
Pari?, July 8.?The mo?t popular
number in the favorite revue of Paris
i? entitled, "Oh! Le? Jambe?!" The
old verities of the French theatre re?
gain unshaken. Because of the war
there is a little more economy in cos?
tuming?that is to say, less exp
materials are uced?and there is a dis?
tinct effort to plefcse English and Amer?
ican auditors as well as French. Each
soubrette, learn? a little English, "I give
you kees," or something of that ?ort,
which the Tommie? and the Teddies can
understand. For the rest words are not
the only things v.hen one is devising a
musical ?how and the men from over?
sea.? seem to catch the gist of what is
going on. No interpreter is needed to
con\ince the Anglo-Saxon that Blanc:?
de Bilbao li rograi i morts,
"Moana, gentil li trei johe," and "Le
Bart "ii I'Aaroun" i? likely to he divert?
ing even a the spectator cannot hear
the lines.
Now and again the comedians have
hipees of language, and an American is
torced to let the jokes go zipping by
without response. Pre?er.tly, however,
the fat comedian will fall off the lad?
der and laughter will become general
and international. Most ef tha comic
act? are of that sort. Of course, all the
?hows are much more richly endow-d
with actresses than actors. If a young
man appears >n a rt-vue the manage?
ment ic talofa! to ?tate that he ha.= ful?
filled his military obligation?. Thus
under the picture of Maur.ce Chevalier,
the clever dancer and comedian of the
Theatre Femina. one reads that Mor.*
( ne\alier was wounded at the battle of
i'utry, when a bullet passed between
his lungs. It is added that he was cap?
tured by the Germans and held pris?
oner for twenty-six month? before he
escaped. It does not seem surprising
therefore that Chevalier should be
among the gayest of funny men. We
are of the opinion that twenty-six
months of imprisonment would work
wonders with ever so many American
comedians whom we rcc.il!.
Old Patter Missing
From French Stage
And yet one misses the old patter.
Af'er a week of shows which piled un
exploded jokes upon our ears we wan
dtred into a vaudeville theatre, and a
low comedian came out and said to his
partner in perfectly good English:
"Wall, didja like the show?" His part?
ner i-aid he didn't like the show.
"Well, didja notice the trained
seal?" queried the low comedian, and j
the lower comedian answered: "No, the
wind was against 'em."
Laugi.ter, long delayed, overcame us
'then, oat it ?as mingled with tears.
We felt that we were home again. The
French are a wonderful people and all
that, of course, but they're so darn
far away.
Later there was a man who imitated
Eddie Foy imperfectly and a bad
1 ?cycle act, in which the performers
called the orchestra leader "professor,"!
and shouted "Rendy!" to euer, other
Bg each tr:ck. This
buck?d us up so much that a lapse into
French with Suzanne Valroger "dan?
?on repertoire" failed to annoy ui
much. In feet, we did not care whether I
-
she came back with her repertoire or I
on it. Some Japanese scrobats and a :
Swedith contortionist completed the i
performance. I
There are two tuch international ?
music halla in Paris, at well as a mu- I
' neal comedy of a sort called "The Good ;
Luck Girl." The feature of this per- I
formar.es is an act in which a young I
ladv takes off her shoe and throws it to |
the aud.ence. The shoe is supposed to j
bring good luck, and soldiers about to
return to the trenches struggle hard to i
get :t. A roane French aviator tri- I
rmphed on tha n.ght we saw the show, j
and he explained that he felt fairly
safe BOW, no matter how many Boches
I came gggtaat him, as he carried no less
than twenty-five good lick charms of .
one kind or another into the air with
him.
No Show Complete
Without American Finale
Ko show is complete Just now with?
out an American final*. The most elab?
orate one is that, at th? Folies Berger?,
which send.-i its chorus out for the
final number under the leadership of '
an enormous six-foot woman carrying
an Immanea American Rag. The Ama-,
zon, it i? saul, tlmoal took tha baad off '
a Cal l lian ona n ght as he snoozed in |
a b n in.I failed to notice the violent .
mai-i.-r in which tha big Hag wa.> being
waved. Ho awoke in time to dooge, and ?
then he shook an accusing finger at the !
Amuzon. "Why arm't you in khaki ?" j
he said.
The enthusiasm for everything
America.i has begun to subside. The |
reception to General Pershmg was the'
high tratar t..irk The Fouith of July!
and the demonstraron on the 3d, when
the American troops vere first seen
in Paria. bad nothing lu.e the intensity j
of Now York's greeting to Joffre. The
American final? at the Ifarigav last
night did no' gain a rt| pie of gpplail,f\
and at the Fetnina, whan the comedian
gahad In what language he should sing
an encore, he was met with a hundred i
shouts of "Russe" to one of "Anglais."
The Russians, of course, had just
launched an offensive which captured'
1 men. The next big demonstra?
tion for the Americans may have to
wait until our troops are in action.
Theatroaudiences ara made up of from !
60 to 75 per cent of soldiers. The war
is not entirely avoided as a subject for
googa and jokes, but most of tha humor
is grou.-.'i oat 'f tho restrictions at
home rather than any happenings at
the front. Librettists find unceasing
material in meatless, eakclaaa and bath
less days. Occasionally there will be
a sgi " mental patriotic ballad, but
of this sort do not stem popular in the
music halls nor docs one ever hear tho
Marsellaise in theatres of this charac?
ter. Only rarely is there any reference
to |ha German! even for humorous pur?
poses. In fact. Mars trails pretty far
behind Mrs. Vulcan in the theatres of
Pans.
In the theatres such as the Folies Ber- j
gere and the Marigny the stage is not
tag only centre of activity. The Folies
Berg?res ni particular has a huge
promenade tenanted by hosts of unat?
tached and unmitigated hussies. These
ladies of the piomenades know much
more English than those of the theatre
proper. They know a little Russian,
too, a smattering of Spanish, and since i
the Portuguese army has come to take
its place at the front, there are a few
enterpruir.g spirits at Berg?re who can
at laaat exchange greetings to ?he>e
southern allies. In fact, the ladies of
the promenades may be said to know a
little about the language of five coun
trigg and all about tha coinage of
twenty.
First Detachment
Of Guard Ordered
To Camp This Week
More Than 10 Companies
to Leave for Spartanburg
Before Saturday
Will Prepare Camp
Vanguard Will Put Things in
Readiness to Receive Ali
State Troops
The flr?t de .chment of tht New York
National Guard will ac-ad for Camp
Wad?worth. ot Spartarburp, ?. C, late
this week.
Things began to bu? in division
headquarters in the Municipal B"
early yesterday morning, whcr Major
General John F. OT->an received orders
from the headquarter? of the D pert?
inent of the East on Governor's Island
ordering him to prepare detachments
of various regiments of the Twenty
seventh Division, as the New York
Guard is classified, to be sent South.
These detachment*, which, according
to officers at division headquarter?,
are expected to start off not later than
Saturday, will help with the final
preparation? to make Camp Warkworth
ready for the main body of state
troops.
Mobilize in Van Cortlandt Park
A number of the detachment? have
been ordered to mobilize in Van Cort?
landt Park preparatory to their depart?
ure for the South. The 1st and 2d In?
fantry will ?end one company each to
the park; and headquarter? will send
one lieutonsnt, two corporals and four?
teen privates from its engineer train,
and a field bakery unit.
The other detachments will proceed
direct from their respective ?rmories to
Spartanburg. They include one com?
pany each from the 7th, 12th and r?9th
regiments, one troop from the 1st Cav?
alry, one company from the 22d Engi?
neers, the first battalion of the Signal
Corps? and one battery each from the
1st and 2d Field Artillery.
Headquarters will send direct to
Camp Wadsworth cne plstoon of mili?
tary police ar.d one company of the
ammunition train. The 23d and 71st
Infantry, now scattered all over the
state, have been ordered to send one
company each to their armories ready
to proceed South.
To Go Fully Equipped
The detachment? moving to Spartan?
burg will take with thtm al! the tents
in the possession of their respective
corps not in use at present. They will
go fully equipped and uniformed. Cao
tain Edward Miller, of the Quartermas?
ter's Corps, has been designated de?
tachment quartermaster and will ac?
company the troopi.
The departure of the main body of
th* troops is still undecided, according
to Major elmstead, attached to division
headquarters. The sending of the
variou? detachment? does not change
the original plan for a farewell parade
o'" the new New York Guardsmen in this
city. The main body of the troops, ac?
cording to Major Olmstead, will parado
before thoy leave for the South.
Time for Action
Here, Says Scott
In Call to Nation
Every Resource. Industrial Chief
Declares, Must Be Placed at
Disposal of United States
Washington, July 30.--In a statement
to-night discussing the task before the |
new War Industries Board, Frank A.
Scott, its chairman, declared tie pre?
paratory state of the war hsd passed
for this country and that from now on
mu?t be real application by every
man and every materiil force.
The board, whose first meeting li
called for to-morrow, will have charge
of the government buying and super?
vision over the general industrial ac?
tivity during the war.
"Nations, not armie?, are the unit?
of modern war,'' ea:d Mr. Scott. "Every
resource, human and material, must be
? placed at the diiposal of our govern?
ment.
"If it can be ?aid that there has been
j a preliminary stage of our share in
the war, it is over now. Our troops
! are already in France, and we have
1 begun the actual raising of a huge
! army here at h im? to be sent abroad
1 when the time is ripe. We have r8?>? 1
the period of expectation?we are wag?
ing war.
"Efficiency and economy in produc?
ing and distributing the government'?
requirement? are as nece?sary to ?uc
cets a? courage and intelligence in
battle. The ?lacker at home is as con?
temptible s figure- as the coward in
the presence of the enemy. The luxu
rioi of peace must give way to the
necessities '?f war.
"We must ??tsnaardize, economize,
and then produce, produce, produce.
te 1 i taroo |
?aries .or mailing modern war -men,
metal and machinery. We must make
them all available now. Until we can
Blain?, the victory, '."-?aid' must be our
watchword. Days saved now in the pro?
duction of war need? HU mean live?
?aved hereafter art :i <-?r troop? tak?
the field. Profit making mun now yield
to patriotism, extravagance to econ?
omy, selfishness to service."
Churchill Is Re-elected
New Cabinet Member Defeats
Laboritc by Large Vote
'iii ,'<<> -Winston Srcncer
Churchill ?ra reflected to-day a nism
b*r of the House of ' or-.motis for Mun?
de?, the bye-cleition being mad? nee??
| ??ry by h:t> recent appointment tu a
C abm?t position.
Mr. < Lurch*.1 polled 7,302 ?ot??. Hi?
opponent, Edmund Kcrymg?our, Pro?
hibitionist and Labont?, received 2,086
votas.
Germany Certain
Of Victory, but
Hopes for Peace
Believes Herself Stronger
Than Ever and the Allies
Far Weaker
Berlin, July 20 (vis London, July SO).
- -in the review of the tiurd year of the
world war the "Tageblatt" points out
that the arm.es of Germany and her
tliies have conquered more than 548,
000 square kilom?trer, (68,500 square
miles) of Entinte terri'ory, and as
itrength of the
? tral Powers instead of decreasing
1-.s increased, while that of France
hal riaibly diminished. The newspa?
per says the German p opie ha.-- plata
ly announced its resdiness for peace,
and exprestes the hope that common
sense and a nneere desire for tha ces?
sation of hostilities wiil assert them?
selves m the ranks of Germany's ad- i
versarles. The ' Tageb.att" says:
"The end of the thud year of the
war lind- the issue in the East and in
the West undecided. For the moment
interest in the military operations is
focussed upon Fun-ier.* and Galiata.
"The last year, however, has been i
fraitfal of many instructive results, j
Above all it may be asserted that the ,
Entente no longer has tne disposal of]
unlimited prodnetion u J sappiiaa of j
ammunition, as was the cace during
.?? i fnis cessation o; .
munition reinforcement, has had a no-,
?i 11 on tl.e \\ estern front.
And, whereas tne material resource?
ot our opponents havo not increased
and the strength of Prance has io ?
wg still are unitn
. red in our strength and mora strong?
ly fort.lleU '.lill: BVCI before.
"He who is willing to be guided sole- ?
ly by the facts and will not permit,
himself to be deceived by illusions
must admit that tr.e ambition of our
foes to crush us is 'o-day less jus' | i .i
than at any other period, and because
tall is so we may be permuted to ex?
press tin- hope that commoi
. re desire for peace may finally
.... in the ranks of our
I German people through its ac
repreaontatlvei hss plainly
?nnounced to the world at largo its
readineee for peace. Wg hope this ex-i
rression will be appreciated in its full
iraportsnee on the other tide.
"The following offert sn approximate
picture of the area of occupied terri?
tory which is now heid by the military!
forces of the Central powers, meas?
ured in squsre kilometres;
Belgium. M -
. 19,220
.?i
Ri.minia.li
. -
I . .
Albania .
li . | ;
"I h.s totsl is opposed by id.'* square
kilometres of lana held by the Kr. ich
and the Austro-Hunganun territory in
Rust?an possession, measuring .
tqui.re kuornttret. The latt<r figure
r.o longer holde good. It has bttn di?
minished by fully SO per cent and it
1 haly to fall avay ent.rely in th? near
future."
America to Ignore
Peace Union's Note
Will Not Transmit Communica?
tion to Germany
Washington, July 30.?It was con?
sidered decidedly improbable af the
State Department to-day that this gov
ernmsnl would transmit to the Ger?
man : the communication
?ont to the department by the Ameri?
can I'nion Against Militarism, which,
in many respects, parallel? the Reichs?
tag lebolution on peace terms
N'ii appr?hension was felt, either,
that any effort would be made by
private interests to spread anti
Antariesn propaganda, emanating
from the United States, in Germany, ;
or that any so-called peace organiza
tiona would attempt to communicate
erith the German gOTtrnmont or any
department or agent of it. To do so
i bring the persons psrticipating
ander ths lisbility of the Logan act,
which prescribes heavy penalties fr.r
Interfi renee between the United
States and other nations.
Peaceful Revolution
Coming in Germany,
"Vorwaerts" Declares
Socialist Organ Says Reichstag
Must Recognize There Is No
Turning Back
London, July SO,?Germany is on the
way to a peaceful i-volution, according
to the Bellin "Vorwoorts," ar.d there is !
no going back for her. The paper,
which is the mouthpiece of the Scheide
nu-nn Socialists, |
"Any one who miring the last few
dnys has not shut his eyes to the facts
can no longer doubt that the empire i?
on the road to a peaceful revolution.
The movement csn no longer be ar?
rested. What has become necessary
may be accomplished in days, weeks, or
months at one stroke, or piece hy piece.
Prompt und thorough measures are now ;
?ary. Wbooror, in view of the j
' - .'?? of public feeling, ar
hopes in order to disappoint them '
.-.rd, BCtl like a man who is un- ]
? tim?te the consequences of
his action?. If the present crisis does
not len I to decisiva and positive r?
?ults, then it will very soon be repeated
in a more intensified form ano with
mor? unpleasant concomitant occur?
rence?.
"What i? necessary it a chang? of
?ystem regarding internal and external
policy. A system must be introduced
anora there wa? non? befor?. Thte
system can b? no other than th? demo
cistic and parliamentary treatment of
internal affair?, united with a policy
of constant and comprehensive readi?
ness for peace externall/. Thi? de?
velopment leaj? toward the formation
af ' ? i ovarnaiant and of
rfenee, I' will bring us th.r
: to live as s flu?
people among fr*? people?
??fin? aim, anea ! a? a right,
must bo pursued w.th all our strength,
?rithont wavering and without ?enti
mental consideration?. The Reichitag
mutt racogr.ii? that there muit b? no
going back. It mur recognize that it
i? ?stier to accomplish great things
than ?mall."
Teuton Peace Talk
Aimed to Delay U.S.,
London Thinks
London, July 30 ?Statements by Dr.
Michaelis, German Imperial Chancellor,
find Count Czernm, the Au.-tro-Hun
garia Foreign Minister, which are re?
garded here as obviously made In col?
lusion, dominate the news columns of
the morning papers. They arg gen?
erally treated editorially as signs of
weakness, while the absence of refer- i
ence to the future of Belgium and Ser?
bia is considered to exclude all cre?
dence in the desire for peace by under?
standing. Austro-German peace talk,
unless accompanied by an undertaking
to evacuate and restore conquered ter?
ritories, is declared merelv to be aimed
st delaying America's preparations for
war.
Herr Michael's gceUMtiOM against
France are dismissed by som?' com
men-ators as best left for refutation by
French Allies, but ducusred by others,
one of which says the story is too thin {
even for the Germans to believe. "The
Daily News," however, maintains that,
although the Chsncellor's statements
are valueless as evidence, they csnnot
bo left unanswered, and insists that a
statement of war aims to be formulated
at the coming conference of the Allies
must constitute an explicit disavowal
of all thought of conquest for con?
quest's sake. The paper denounces tha
"ignorance or the folly of Sir Edward
Carson's threat to drive Germany be?
hind the Rhine," which, it says, gave
Herr Michaelis a weapon which he was
swift to use.
"It is in the power of the Allies to
render the weapon innocuous, even
turning it against himself, but the re?
pudiation of his charge must come
quickly and in a form leaving no loop?
hole for misinterpretation," the paper
says.
"The Chronicle" proclaims its belief
that it would be unwise for the Allies
to deprive Germany of genuine German j
soil. It points out that while the Chan- i
cellor talks of vast territorial modifica- '
t ons he mentions or.'.y the Saar Valley,
and it suggests that France may be
aiming to restore the old German fron- >
I Lorraine, wh.ch would involve
"a little i-tnp on the German tide of
from five to fifteen miles "
If Franca de-ired tn s for strategic
reasons "Tne Chronicle" would nor say
she necesscrily had the right but "it
weald, be an exci?cd.ngiy small affair, ,
not comparable for an inttant to Ger- |
many'* seizure of two large provinces .
in 1871. It must be remembered, too,
the paper pointa out, that after losing .
seme millions in killed and wounded in
a war forced upon her and wherein she
hat borne the brunt of battle for lib?
erty throughout Europe, France ha.? the
right to make exceptional claims for
her future security such as Germany
ha not in 1871, and no other state un?
less Belgium would have to-day.
Dr. Thomas J. Thornbury
Dr. Thomas J. Thornbury, 78 years
old, died at his home, 13* Euclid Street.
For.'st Hills, Sunday night. Dr. Thorn?
bury practised madicina for fifty years.
For thirty-five years he had his otfictt
on Sacona Avenue, between Thirty-fifth
and Thirty-sixth Streets, and for ftf
teen years he was located at 691 Third
Avenue, Manhattan. Funeral services
will ba held from his late Kima at 10
o'clock to-morrow morning. I
\? 56? 566 563 ?fifth JiVtnue.tl?. 4T4fiV?\T?VC
?immer
L^learutice wales
Summer
CDAri/C A doling out of diver?e line?, ?t 1 O */?,?>
rKULKO Formerly to $75.* I O & $2:)
P\OCCCI7C Street, afternoon ?nd dance ?lyle?. ?,j; *??
DKLjoLO Formerly to $125.?...M3 & b)
\Y/D ADC Of ?ilk and ??tin, ?unable for wear now. <'") " t?f\
WKArO Formerly to $125.*?3 & ^(j
f~*f~\ A T"C Cdd? ?c ends, including ttreet & ?ports coat?.? 1 B e^f?
LUA IO Formerly to $55.* I .) & '25
CT ITTC Street, sport and lemi-dren ?lyle?, il? *?%
OUllO Formerly to $125. *I0 ?C ^JD
blouses F^;r?ycr$2r;^:r:,::. $5 ?7,*io
f~lA 1 S ?Clearance of Summer Styles? $j ^ $|Q
Recruiting Here
Keeps Up Despite
Conscription Call
Army Ban on Married Men
Lifted Because of Scarcity
of Cook?
The draft has as yet worked no ap?
preciable decrease in the enlistments
in the New York recruiting district.
Although many of the local exemp?
tion boards already have sent out the
draft notices which automatically make
a voluntary answer to the call to the
colors impossible, there was no drop
yesterday in the number of enlistments
at the various recruiting stations
throughout Manhattan.
One hundred and eighteen men en?
listed at the Regular Army Head?
quarters, 2^0 Broadway. The Navy
Headquarters reported twenty-six en
liatmeatg, and the Marine Corpa saul
twenty recruits to the training station
at Paris Island, South Carolina.
Major Hachea, attached to the Regu?
lar Army Headquarters in this city,
declared, however, that a drop is ex?
pected in recruiting once all the draft
notices are out.
"We look for a little drop, of course,"
said Major Hughes. "Although the
draft will reduce considerably our
available supply o' possibi' ties, we
propose to keep up our drive .1?re. We
call special attention to the fact that,
draft or no draft, men between the
ages of l8 and 21 and 31 and 41 can
still get into the army.
"We will take married men who are
bakers and cooks provided their fami- i
lies are not dependent on them. The '
rule against married men was waive)
?' because of the great shortage of cooks
I and bakers.''
It has cost the United States gov-1
ernment just $18 98 for every man1
i who has joined the Marine Corps In
I the Eastern Recruiting Division, which
includes New York. A statement la?I
! sued at Marine headquarters in this
city yesterday shows that the cost in
the Central Divi.-ion has been $27.39
per man; the Southern Division $27.91,
and the Western Division $25.41.
Search Neutral Ships Here
After Finding Contraband
A careful search for contraband or
munitions of war is being made on the
twoscore neutral vessels in this port bv
Collector Dudiey Field Malone and
twenty-five deputies of the neutrality
squad.
This search is tha result of several
interesting items of contraband dis?
covered last week by Deputy Collector
George Lamb, in charge of the neu?
trality squad Collector Malone wishes
personally to ascertain that none of
these vessels are carrying contraband
? the much so.i^ht after embargo
licerses are issued Licenses must be
obtained before th?v can get clearance
papers.
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(when loofj
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27c per pound
(Delivery free on ?rder? of ?>?
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The Postman Brings It."
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Draft Opponent Sentenced
Socialist Orator Who Refused
to Register Gets a Year
Mayer D. Graubard, coi - .r*:oui ob?
jector and Socialist Street .rator, ?rsl
sentenced to a yra '-> vrnionm??.!
yesterday by JuaVe .Vi ton in ???
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twent>-tVMi years old and <: i not ?fil?
ter.
? ! 'hat he had * rcj r?*?
becsuH' he deam d ** conti
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soapnox ipeeehes, le ?aid I it hai net
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worked aa a 'lon?f? Bl pay w?
expenses of an naaning ?our?? it ?a
Fordham Lbw School.
Want More Officer Pupil?
A course for candidat?? for renrri
corps commissions in the ordn?nce ei
quartermaster'? corp* will ba opens*
to-day at Columbi? I'riversity AS
plicationa will ba received ???? a?
monow noon, a? thurc an faei '?"?????
instructing ninety men and toe tim
numbers only sixty Arno? I non
and C. C. Ruahes, of the frlsn*?
Busine?? Sehoo", ?re the r streeters
There will be lectures by ?rmy otiean
and busines? exp'
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individual requirements of persons of widely different mod?!
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The diversity of our present exhibit provides for the
smallest apartment no less than the costliest mansion in
suburb or town, while the latitude in price is equally wide
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