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BRING IN YOUR WANT AD COPY BEFORE 6 P. M. Early Delivery of Sunday Want Ad Insures Correct Classification U8TH YEAR. VOl.I)MR ?ft M UIIKK Z6? -0i5|)atrl| ALL SORTS OF ADS FOR ALL SORTS Oh PEOPLE See Times-Dispatch Want Pages (or a Service of Uneqaaled Vaiir r"o?KK -FAIR PRICE, THREE CENTS REVENUE MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE AMID APPLAUSE (Greatest Financial Bill in History of Nation En acted in Congress. IS DESIGNED TO RAISE TOTAL OF $8,000,000,000 Not a Dissenting Vote Is Cast, While 350 Favored Its Adoption. ACT NOW CiOKS TO SF.NATi: War. Excess Profits. Luxuries ami AmuHemrnts Will Contribute Greatest Portion of Huge Sum. I Rt Ajisoeiat'd WASHINGTON. September 'JO.?The House late to-dny passed the war rev enue bill, designed to raise by taxa tion approximately $?. 1 S2.000.000 of t ???> J - 4.000,000.000 or more needed by the nation Tor the current >rar. The huce measure?the largest of its kind in the history of any nation?now go<s to the Senate Parage of the bill was unanimous \ formal roll rail. dcmandH by Ma orlty L-eader Kltchln. recorded 350 yeas." and no "nays.1 which, an nounced by Speaker Clark, was grceted by a roar of cheers and applause. All possible speed in the bill's course nrough the Senas? is aseured, accord ng to leaders, the Senate Finance Com mittee having concluded formal liear ncf. I >esir?- for th<> lull'* enactment before the November elections has been 'xpressed by leaders of both houses, but this m considered doubtful <"one ideration of the measure by the House to-day prior to the votei- was brief. An amendment by tlir House Way s and Means Committer which drafted the bill extending th> depic tion allowances to and oil wells <nd mints to include "timber and oilier natural deposits." was ado|>ted ftepresentati ve M oore. of Pennsyl vania. Kepublican. renewed his propo al for a committee to supervise u ir expr ndlt ures. but It was disposed of oil * point of order, as .was another amend ment oftered by Mr. Moore, for a House committee to investigate means of pre venting wasteful expenditures. I.eprcscntative tlood. of Iowa. Re. Publican, made a vigorous, but futile. ?? SfHt for >li? amendment to provide J3. .100 exemption for Income lines for persons serving- In military establish ments overseas, instead of limiting the exemption, an proposed in the bill, to government salaries. A substitute amendment by Representative Austin. Itepubllcan. to exempt all privates from income taxation, was also rejected. \ m;sr?>iKvr rki. \ norvr. wim: rnoiiiTKR" \ii amendment In the interest of ne producers was dented considera tion because of objections bv Hepresen tative StafTord. of Wisconsin. l'.epUbli <,,n. It provided that wine growers . onlrl extract alcohol from wine and ?ell nonalcoholic beverages ?lust before the final vote. Hepresen :<tlve I/ongworth. of ' 'hto. Republican, characterised the bill an "a mighty tood job." and "the best answer the American '""ongress can give to the whining peace proposal from Austria. As passed over to the Senate, the ->r:ncipal revenue-producing sources o* 'he measure ? incomes. war excess nroflls. liquors, tobacco "?nd luxuries - were approved by the flous" substan tially ay drafted unanimously by the Ways and Means Committee after three months' labor. Roughly. the total tax ?vv doubles present returns from in ternal revenue under existing laws. In the Senate, mounting war ci r.enses and revenue reduction by pro. hibition are factors entering into re ' ision. expected to be extensive. Much ^'riate sentiment exists for reduction of ?he bill's aggregate levy, while .-'or. 'rtary McAdoo alread-v has di*a pproved Any substantial increase lli:itK AIIK TR PI MAJOR FRATI. RES OF Til I*, nil.I. Major tax features of the bill, as transmitted to the Senate, and esti mated yields Include: Income tax: individuals' normal rale increased from .'i to 12 per cent with the ?irst $4,000 at 6 per cent, and exemp tions of $1,000 for single and $2,000 for married persons?>41 4.000.000. (ndlx'idual surtaxes on incomes over S.V000; present ranges of 1 to K5 per , ent increased from 2 to 63 per cent?j OSS.000,000. Corporations' incomes increased from * to 18 per cent, but with only 12 per .ent payable on dividends distributed, debts paid and new liberty bonds bought?$894,000,000. War and excess profits of rorpora t.ons?R0 per cent on war profits and \:rtually doubled rates on excess I profits, ranging from 3". to TO per cent - | 5 3.200.000.000. Beverages, present rates doubled - $1,137,204,000. Tobacco, present rale doubled?$341.- ] ?.?"4.000. l.uxuries and semiltixuries. 2* :uid I *> per cent?$27 3,.">.",."1.000. Other excise taxes, including auto mobile sales, jewelry. 2 cents a gal ion 011 gasoline, etc.?$27 4.730.000. L'sr of automobiles, f't to $."<0 each J72.93O.O00. Amusement admissions $ I ivi.noo.oon Beside these leading revenue sources, the bill provides a general $10 annual tax for persons in business, trade or professions earning m<>re than $2,-">00, and taxes on transportation, insurance, club dues, inheritance, theaters, brok ers. mall-order sales, bowling, billiard and pool establishments, shooting gal leries. riding academies and documen tary stamp taxes. NINE ARMY CANTONMENTS HAVE INFLUENZA VICTIMS More Thfln Nine Thousand f anes Re ported Wltl? f'amp Devena l.rnd in? the Idnt. I Bv Associated Press. I WASTfTN'tjTON, September 20.?-The outbre.ak of Spanish influenza at live more army training carnps was an nounced to-night by Surgcon-Ceneral Corgas. making a total of nine camps in which the disease has been rlis ( covered. The total number of cases reported from all camps up to noon to-day was 9.313. with eleven deaths. The areatest number of cases, fi.figs, was re ported from Camp Hevens. Mass. while ramp T?fte had 1.211 and Camp Upton N. Y., 602. Camp Devens also reported' forty-three new cases of pneumonia, which medical officers believe resulted from* the influenza epidemic. The camps included in to-night's announcement with the number of cases at each were: Camp Hum phries, Va? r>6: Camp Cordon. Oa? 13s Camp Syracuse. N. Y.. H4; Camp Mer l rilt, ??> J<i 182, and Camp Lewis, Wash., How Allied Airmen Filch Secrets from Our Enemy Mr Ut fortunes hnic fluetu nlnl \rrj conwlderahl j ulni'c the e \ ent f oI diivn of August. IUI4. lint nl the prrnrnl moment the enemy in hualnif n bad lime of it. 'I'lie keen-ryed flyer* of the allien have ronl rlhu ted ni> llltle to the nueveaa of the recent victories. and the ablators are entitled to full eredit for a larisr share or nei-om pllnh - ments. In thin l*?ue nppenra a story by If, M. l''orhe?, In nlilch he tell* of the wonderful (hlnca accom plished by our airmen. It contains much that will he read with In. term!. HOPE HOLLAND WILL LIFT EMBARGO ON SHIPPING People of Netherlands Suffer for Want of Food, While Boats Are Idle. STATE DEPARTMENT EXPLAINS Gives Notice That Appeals for Amci Ican Foodstuffs Will lie in Yuin L ntil Nation Follows Example of Scandinavian Countries. I H> Associat ?'l rr?f>. I W A.SIII.vriTON", September !.'<>.?The acquiescence of the Netherlands cov ernment in German threats which keep ?<00.000 tons of Dutch shipping idle in pori. while the people of Holland suffer for want of the food these ves sels :ni;rht brmj:. it commented upon in a statement issued to-day by the .State Department to clear tip misap prehension as to the attitude of the United States toward exports, to Hol land. The deparment cxptesses the liopc that th?- Netherlands ernmcnt will Jift its embargo t?ti the movement of Its ships, which const it u te the only con siderable unit <<t idle neutral tonnage >ind. hi effeit. ci\f.? notice that appeals for American foodstuffs v. til be in vain until Holland follows the example ot the Scandinavian countries. Switzer land and ^pain. :tnd enters into e.jiut able agreements w.th thr I'nited .States and the. allies. The statement discloses that, after refusing to approve, a tentati\e gen eral i: nderst and in: for the export of enormous quantities ot food, petroleum. ideialp and other supplies, reached in l.oiedon last winter, i he Netherlands. bo? in;; to the German threat to toi - peilo even ships sailing between neutral countries failed to avail Itself of the offer of i he Cnited States and the al lies t o permit the export of 10.',000 tons of bread cercala as an emergency measure. In spite of the free licensing of bunker coal, for ships other tlp?ri tho>e originally stipulated, and which car ried :,t).(K>0 tony of cereals to Holland, an additional .">0.000 tons, largely in Argentina, has boen left untouched tor more than six months. Although t i i?- Netherlands govcin ment hah pecn reluctant to state its reasons lor keeping more than 50 per cent of its total tonnage idle in home ports, it ,s known here that this ac tion is based on Germany's refusal to recopnize Dutch ships no . touchinc al lied ports as still neutral. REFORMATORY^ OUTH CONFESSES MURDER He n Jn ni in Itnhln Tells Washington l*o llce lie Killed Man llot ill flurke Station. I 11 v Associated Press W ASIII NGTON. September -0. ? Hav ing confessed, according to the police, that he murdered fclva Koy. a liftcen year-old girl, near her home at iiurke Station. V'a.. August 0. benjamin Ku bin. aged twenty-one. is being held by Washington authorities for inves tigation before being returned to the Lorton reformatory, from which he is a fugitive. flubin was arrested here Thursday night and is said to have told the police to-day that he murdered the |Jo\ pit-l. According to the police. Itubin said he was loitering in the woods near Burke Station when he met the ^ir 1. who was tending her father's cows. He said, according to the police, that he killed the girl, fearing that she would inform the authorities and have him returned to the reformatory. Police officials accepted the alleprd confession made by rtuhin with re serve. CAN EMPLOV CRIPPLES AnIicyIIIc. N, I'., Firm Derlnrea Men ho Have I.om I.ecu fan Operate Mnvinc-IMcture Machine*. I llv Associated rrcw.1 WASHINGTON, September 20.? From fifty |o ion soldiers who have lost a leg in the fighting abroad can be used tr advantage as motion-picture ma chine operators, the S. A. Lynch F.nter prise Company, of Asheville, N. to day wrote Senator Fletcher, of Florida. Instruction in the operation of ma chines would be provided by the com pany free, the letter stated. LOAN WORKERS MAY RIDE Fuel Administrator Garfield Says (?'asolinelena Sondny* Are .Not for Them. WASHINGTON. September "JO. ?Fuel Director Garfield to-da\ announced that the restrictions of gasolineless Sun days would be lifted so far as ma chines operating for Liberty loan com mittees were concerned. I?iberty ma chines may carry their lrtcssagcs of patriotism on Sundays as on other days. STORM HALTS SHIPPING i Severe N'orthenster Drives Two Seow* of DredKliiR Force Axhore at Ocean \ levr. I Hv Associated i""ess. 1 j NORFOLK. YA.. September 'JO.? A | severe northeastern storm, acconipanicd hv a driving rain partially paralyzed ; shipping this afternoon and to-night. Coast wires report high winds and a dangerous sea running. Two scows of a dredging forcc at work in the Chesa peake Hay u ere blown ashore at Ocean View to-night 266 NEW VICTIMS Spanish Infltienr.a llampanf In .New 1 nrk and \ iclnlty. NVIth One Fatality lleported. i NBW TOTJK. September 20,?Spanish 'influenza claimed 'Jfifi new victims hero to-dav. hut only one death was re j ported In the vicinity, that of George IS. Abbott, of Vonkcrs, who died at St. j John's It I verside Hospital. All save ? eighteen of the new cases were aboard j ships. Knrljr Delia cry of Vonr Sunday Want Ad Copy Insures correct classification. Vlrlng or photic It early. Phone Randolph 1. Documents Disclosc Germany Prepared to Start World Conquest. ORIGINAL CIRCULAR IS FOUND Industrial Concerns Notified to Open Secret Instruction to Mobilize. I Hv Associated l'r-?v 1 WASHINGTON. Supieniher ?-An other convlni'ins link in the proof that Germany w hs preparing 10 start a v?.ir of world conquest .it least six wet Us before the excuse for it was offered b> the assassination of the Austrian heir-apparent at Sa raja vo, concludes the amazing series of disclosures which the American government has given to tlie public through secret documents brought out of Russia. Two authenticated documents are in- , eluded in the final chapter of the story, ( which began a week ago with evidence removing an\ doubt that may have ex isted that the Kussian Bolshevik gov ernment. headed b> (.'?nine and Trotukv, is a tool of tlie imperial German gov ern m e o ?. One of ? these is an original ciriular from the German general staff dated June 9. IT'14. directing that all indus trial concerns be notified to open their secret instructions for industrial mobilization. Another, dated November ? 'JO. 1914. is from the German naval .general siafi. and reveals that w.thin tour months after hostilities began in Btirope. "destruction agents" were ordered to Canada and the United : States to hire anarchists and escaped ! criminals for ih^ bomb plots and work of terror which finally played a part in drawing the United Stales into tit? wa r. In addition to this authenticated evi dence. Kdgar Sisson, who obtained the papers tor the Committee on PnbPc In formation. off'-rs a remarkable group ot circulars put out in Russian text at I'etrograd last winter purporting to be copies of documents taken from t'e archives of t.h<' counterespionage bureau of the Ketensky Government, supplemented by some from the files of i he srime bureau before the fall <>f the I'ur. Some of this matter has. I been published previously in France and in this country. The *ci rc uln rs tell .of German arrangements six months before (he outbreak of wa>- for the establishment of the financial agenciee ? n bordering neutral countries, which inter furnisher) )V>e rnone\ for the ope-ation? of the Rolsheviki: of orders to German banks to establish clo.se and s-M-rc- relations with Arneri.-an and !? in n i sli banks: of the launching or revolutionary propaganda against I he . r'?r_s srovernrneiu in Russia as earlc as November, 1911. and of instructions : to German diplomats in all neutral countries to co-operate with agencies c*t up in those countries for stirring up social tin rest, strikes- and sentiment against war, within the enemy states. name of srnKini:MA\\ *IGXKI? TO O.M-: IX)I I MKNT The name of Scheidemann. the Ger man Socialist leader. already mentioneil a? involved in the dealings of the Ger man trovernment ?vith Rolsheviki. ap peals attached to one of the un authenticate?l -locuments. It is a n??ie announcing that 1*0 kronTs have been pl?<?d to the cr^d't of a Russian news pap?-- and aakinc that Mhe name ,.f S /heidemann's organ at P.erlini be ad vised nf what appeared in the sub sidised iotirnal. This appendix is of circulars of which ? except in two noted cases) I have neither originals nor authenticated copies. A number of sets of them were p.it out in Russian text in I'etrograd and in other parts of Russia in the winter (l'MSt hy the opponent** of the Rolsheviki. The circulars were de clared to be copies of documents taken from the i 'ounterespionage Rureau of the Kerensky government, supplement ed by some earlier material from the *ime bureau when it was tinder the imperial government. The opportunity for securing them cou!d easily have been afforded to the agents and em ployees f the bureau, for most of them walked out when the Rolsheviki grasp ed the government and could have taken freelv of Me contents of their dena rt men t s. Some of she documents were includ ed in the publication made in Paris, hi'certo referred to. The mple test that 1 hare a ppl ed t.i the circulars is that of internal analvM? To that they respond with out contradiction. 1 have not relied on them as proof, but they fit to other fabr r? of proof, and in the light <>f | >t are more valuable for themselves than they were when they stood alone. A Hl.K. TO PRO VK PI,A \ OF* I N Dl STKIAI, MOniM/.ATION Finally. I am now able to prove that two of the documents amontr these cir culars?the circular of industrial mo bilization of .Tunc 9. 1 1?. and the agents' destruction circular of Novem ber *2S. 1914? are authentic. T have [ thern in the original German printed version of their official distribution.! and I have the doubly attested Rus sian and German record that they in precedinc- time, reposed in the riles of the secret service of the Russian srov ernment. i'rom which they were taken | by German order and turned over to | German iepresentatires of the Ger man government in Petrograd with the intent of eliminating them as in- I ternatlonal evidence against ?!',rmany, I fSee Document T5 of my Report.') This croup of circulars came into mv ; hands the first week in February. 101$. and a few days later two duplicate sets ; reached me. I prepared a digest of ' i the set and A.mbassadnr Francis cabled ; the mesnare in code to the State De- ' i partrricnt February 9. It was nearly four weeks later before I secured the origisals and all the j photographs listed in my Report. Two of these originals were of circulars 1 had seen in copy form four weeks earlier. That summarizes the case of the circulars of the appendix consider ed as evidence. KDGAR SISSON. Analysis of German -conspiracy matter, with notes as prepared by me and | cabled State Department in Ambassa dor Francis's code February 0. 191S, and with some added notes, as indi cated. OOCl,MK\T NO. .VI. Circular IS. February, 1914. -From1 ' the ministry to all groups of German hunks and by agreement with the , A lis t ro-Hun ga ria n Government. the.1 "Cesterreichische-Kredita nstalt." The managements of all German hankn which arc transacting business abroad and. by agreement with the i A us tro-J fu nga r ia n Government. the ; "Cftsterreichische-Krcditanstalt" hank i are. hereby advised that the Imperial! ; Government has deemed it to be ofi extreme necessity lo n.sk the manage i ment of all institutions of credit m | establish with all possible dispatch I agencies In I.uleo. Ilnpnrandn and ? Varde. on the frontier of Finland, and ! in Kergcn and Amsterdam. The estab I llBhment of such agencies for a more effective observation of the financial interests of shareholders of Russian. French and F.nglish concerns may be come a necessity undep certain circum stances. which would alter Hie sltuu (Continued on Fifth Page") TO COMB SLACKERS FROM INDUSTRIES Men Granted Deferred Classifica tions Will Not Be Per mitted to "Soldier." MANY HIDE AT HOG ISLAND Having Obtained Employment, They Are Deliberately Shirk ing Their Work. WASHINGTON', September Th? "'work or tight" decree is to b< a su preme law of the land through the promulgation of regulations by the pro vost-marshal-generars oNice from this time on to the end of the war. Men who have obtained deferred clas sification as essential to an essential industry, and who do not work stead ily and honestly at their tasks, will lie combed out of the ranks of the real workers, and will lose their clas*iti I cation. This means that they will huve to account tor themselves to their local draft boards, and probably will have to .serve at useful tasks in uniforms be ccauae they failed to voluntarily ki their country their best efforts in time of need. The facts about the now regulations that arc being drawn Were brought out before the Senate Committee on Com merce to-day during an inquiry into the ^tnte of affairs hi the great ship building plant at 1 log Island, where slackers among the workers threaten seriously to hold down production of ships far below the normal capacity of the yard. Charles Pi ex. vice-president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, told 'h< rommilte" about the liuut for slackers ! in the llog Island yards-. The slackers 1 ate of two kinds, lie indicated, and are not confined 'o shipbuilding plants, but are present in most of the essential in dustries One class consists of those who have obtained employment for the sole purpose of escaping the draft, ami are useless in such employment, and a second diss. who. having obtained em ployment. are deliberately shirking the work they are able to do and impair ing the efficiency of the organization. It ts planned to reach the military slackers through an. examination ?<( their claims to deferred classification other than theii employment in essen tial work. The industrial slackers will : be reached by a regulation proving that any man employed in war work, and having obtained deferred classification on that ground. ^hall lose such class!- ' fleation if he absents himself from his I \? ork more than three days a month without eood reason, such as personal i illness or oth"r cause affecting the in dividual and his work. m.ac ki-:r> wii.i. hi-: skvt TO \lon II' t.'Al'BIIT "The TCm ->raoney Fleet Corporation." said Mr. Pies. "in co-operation with) the draft authorities, will sift all. charges of slacking, and if they are well founded, will at once dismiss the! slackers, who will then bo put into the army. I feel certain we will lake care of that situation without any trouble." Hog Island, with its 60,000 em ployees. appears to have attracted more than it?- share of shirkers ami slackers. according to information' given the committee. Haseball play ers. pucilists. barbers, actors and men of like callings, together with men who! had never engaged in regular work of any kind, have (locked^ to this plant on account of the great demand for labor of all kinds After having es tablished their status in the draft as in essential employment, these men have deliberately laid down on their jobs and are now v .irse than useless to the industry. It i- this class which influences the record of absenteeism from work, which runs, particularly high at the lies Island yards. Senator Fletcher said it was the duty of the government to protect men i honestly engaged in essential work against such slacking, and the mem bers of the committee seemed pleased to hear that the provost-marshal-geii eral has interested himself in combing out the useless from the useful in essential industry. Mr. I'iez repeated to the committee the statement lliat he has made public before about the prospect for produc tion of ships at the Hog Island yards. ? mi account of the inefliciciicv of manv of the employees, and slacking, the of ficials of the yard are far behind their prop ra m. "Tney will never accomplish what they hope at the present rate of prog ress." said Mr. Pie/.. "They hope for forty-eight ships this year, but with their labor problem and basing my estimate oti experience with other yards. 1 will be satisfied if the yards product twenty ships this year." PRESIDENT WILSON TO FIX RULING PRICE OF COTTON tilvc* Notice Thae (iroMrrn "Will Hc rrl? r Kair llrturn For Their lOfTorls. 1 Mv Assoelated I'rejis I WASHINGTON. September 20. ? Pres-, ident Wilson will fix the price of cot ton, placing the i;ist of the principal commodities necessary in rhe prosecu tion of tnc war under governmental regulation. despite strong pressure from the Southern States. In addition to determining the price, the govern- ' nient will take over control of the. distribution of this year's crop. The decision of the President, defi nitely announced nt a conference this week with Senators and Representa tives from the cotton States, became known to-day. Pl.-.ns to carry out the decision arc said to be under way. Agitation for fixing cotton prices has been prevalent for a number of months, owing to the rapidly mounting cost of cotton productions and the belief in many quarters that the staple should ; be placed on the same basis as wheat aud other essentials, the price of which has been fixed. The principal factor in the President's action is understood to have been the shortage in the pres-I ent crop estimated at between -1,000,000 and 5.000.000 bales. The price to be named or flic means j of controlling distribution have not been decided upon. The President is ; understood to have emphasised his recent conference that a "fair price"i would be fixed, but did not indicate in any way what this would be. Before price-filing was first men-j tioned, cotton sold at "S cents a pound.! Secretary Houston, II is said. Jnd rec ommended thai C.~' cents would he fair, i Southern Senator: deny this would he a fair price. GOING TO ANNAPOLIS ! .Sonnlor Mrirtin \ppoint* (trnnilann of! i I.ate Senator Daniel to \nvnl Academy, I Special to The Times-Dispatch.] i WASHINGTON. September 'JO. John W. Daniel. 111., grandson of the. late i j Senator from Virginia by that name,! 'was to-day named by Senator Thomas! j S. Martin to lie a cadet nt the Naval | I A cm d rimy. Young Ifaniel is sixteen i years old and lives In l.ynchburg. Sen ator Martin nnined him as a token of respect to the metnorj of his dis tinguished grandfather, who represent ed Virginia In Uu: Senate ao long. TURKS IN PALESTINE R OUTED B YALLENB Y The Advance North of Jerusalem N a bins. toward nliicli the allied forces of General Allenhy are drawing near, ami Tul Kcrani, which ha.s been \captu red, arc shown on the map under Hie figure 1 in the eirele. Arrangement* Completed to lla\c Them Tour South, and Then .North to Chicago. CAPITAL KXTKNDS WKLCOMK Original Hattle Flag Floati Aheud of I'nit as Members Hobble and Limp Through Streets of Washington After Serving at Sidi-Bcl-Abbe*. W AS111N*GTON". September 20. The liberty loan campaign for the fourth issue "will begin September '.'S. as au nounced. Reports that the date was to be postponed with various reasona credited. chiett.v the fact that the cam paign d..te and the draft drawing wore .?u cIuki' together that the draft might weaken the interest in the loan, were denied b> Secretary of the. Treasury McAdoo to-day. Arraiu'i-ni'-nis for makin; the cam paign the greatest war loan dii\o kii I.O s II u pushed. With the. arrival in Washington to-night of a detachment of the Kreneh Koreign Region, direct from the west front, enthusiasm here came to the boiling point. There were twelve Kronen otlicerj: anil lit' soldiers, of whom about eighty are legionaries. Tite members of the legion expect to lie s,-nt in a body "li a l.ibe in ? ? trip as far south as New Orleans, north to I'hicago and then east to New % oris. Other members of the party will be divided into detachments and sent about ihe country, wherever their ser viees will stimulate purchases of the bond?. While these Frenchmen are working to the success of the fourth* American l.iberty loan, their own country is floating its fourth liberation loan, and they expect to hear from its success daily by wireless. Thev were in New York yesterday and earn-- here to-day, fresh from the ovation accorded I hem there. Members of the Kreneh high commis sion and representatives of the United States government. welcomed the Kreneh veterans and women wept as Captain I'hastenet de 'iery. in com mand of the legionaires, hobbled to the head of the detachment. One of his legs was amputated as the result of a war wound. Ahead of the unit floated the original flac of the first regiment of the foreitrn lesiion. for merly stationed at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, iirnn. Algeria. The flag has been repeatedly decor ated with the Paints of the War Cross. It was the first fl r?? of the Kreneh army to receive the military medal, and later was awarded the. > ross of the I.egion d'Uonneur. As a result of Its glorious history in the great war. its soldiers are permitted to wear on the. jeft shoulder the colors of the Kreneh national emblem. OFFER LETTER IN EVIDENCE IN JITNEY MURDER CASE Police llineloae t npnnteil Note In Wblrh llrotvn I* *nld to lime t prnlded M I?n t'ro writer. Illv Associated Prey*. I PKTKn.SBlT.fi, VA., September 20.? Thomas Drown, who was with Miss Mary lone Crowder when she was shot and killed in a public automobile in this city Monday night, was given a preliminary hearing in Police Court this morning and held for the grand jury. He was not represented by coun sel and appeared entirely calm and self-possessed. No new evidence other titan an unposted letter to the dead girl, written by Brown and found on his person when he was arrested. The letter upbraided the girl for her ap parent indifference to him and de clared hls love for her In passionate terms. U. S. MINISTER ARRESTED Amsterdam IMnpaloli Oeeliirc? Spreinl Order of So* let i? DireCed Af?ninnt Thcnt. AMSTERDAM. September "0.?United States Minister Vopicka and all entente ministers who were at Jassy (capital of Ronmaitia). have been arrested by order of the Soviet, It. was learned here, late to-d?v. Presumably the diplomat ists were- seined by the Rolshoviki while returning through Russia. A Stockholm message also tells of Wholesale ar.e-ts of Americans are being made b^ order of, the Bolshevik government. ae? oriiing to Moscow ad | vices late to-day. Send Your Meminjte Into fiftv thousand of Virginia s best homes through the Want Ads in The Times-Dispatch to-morrow, Call Ran dolph 1. SENATOR JUNES H, LEWIS RETURNS FROM MM Say? American Connfcroftcitsive l.ed Way to lfrivinp Germans Back Fifty Miles. WORK FltOVRS ASTONISHING Prussian Forces Cannot Understand j Marvelous Adaptability of These New Troops From the West, ami Tlieir Spirit Is Shattered. AN ATLANTIC; I'ORT. September ?Senator .Fames Hamilton l.pwia, of 111 i nrt is. arrived to-day from :i trip to Krance and Kii gland. "It was the 1 *11 it o*l States whose eounierofTensive led -The way to driv ing- the licrmanx llfty miles to the rtrir." said the Senator. "This humiliation tit" the 'iceman military l>\ the fresh troops of America ?has rilled Germany with a sensation oi wonder and terror. "The spirit of iicrmau monarch** and the German miliiar.i captains lias heen sha t tered by the k no w ledge that the ! people of Germany have awakened realize that Prussia has brought upon Germany the weight and power of America, which means the end of Ger man domination and the destruction of what wns the hope of the German people?a great commercial and scien tific people in what was a peaceful t iermany." Iii these words. Senator Lewis, per sona! envoy of the President to Great ltrltain. France and the battle front. | summed up the changes in Germany's morale wrought h\ "America's answer" through the crusaders under Persh ing. Senator Lew is. who escaped de.it h and whose return was delayed when the transport Mount Vernon whs tor pedoed '.'00 miles off the |? rench coast while he was aboard, was enthusiast c over the manner in which American troops are acquitting themselves in the i face of the enemy. The President's spokesman ill the j Senate saw Ihe rulers of some of our allies and the commanding generals o"' ihe armies at t hr front. Facts of transcendent importance were revealed to him. one o: the things he learned, he declared, was that the nerve and i confidence of the German people are 'crumbling through the fear inspired 'by the indoinitability of the American j light ing men. Continuing. Senator Lewis said in part: "Three important things are now es tablished?the submarines have failed in their purpose of starving Kngland. of destroying the commerce of France. I and of preventing America from land 1 ing her soldiers and supplies at the battle front. The German generals' , boast that :?00.o<>0 would be the limit of men *vc could ever land has been answered by the landing of 300.000 American soldiers a month and. as I saw in one port. SO.000 in one day. "I was struck with the unity of har monious feeling toward America ex pressed by the leading officials of the allied countries. "Premier t'lemenccau expressed to me. his wonder at what wc had done and spoke of our soldiers and our officials having shown a quality of achievement that surpassed any prophecy and frank ly admitted that our coining and our performances proved the salvation of { the hour." GERMANY TELLS SPAIN TO LEAVE SHIPS ALONE llerlin "Fnrliid*" Selr.are of <;prniitn Shipping to tlrplnre Spanish VeMfl*. SAN SERA ST 1 AN. September L'0.? The situation between Germany am' i Spain has again taken a serious "turn. The final word of the Berlin govern ment regarding the I'-boat controversy, according to authoritative Information, is thnt Germany "forbids" Spain to > sfiro German tonnage for Spanish ves sels sunk, :>.s Spain has threatened to 1 '|e. The German ambassador to Spain is quoted a? having said in private con ! versat ion: "One country, more or less, against us makes little difference." v ! BERLIN LAUDS* PEACE OFFER Declare* t?ernuiny l? Itenrfr to PartU elpnte In Prunnwert lC\change of Ideaa. AMSTKRIiA.M, September '.'0. -A Ger man government note delivered at Vi enna. according to dispatches from tha! ; city late to-night, lauds the Austro II ti n gar lit ii pf ace proposition, and adds: | "Germany l.s ready to participate in the proposed exchange of ideus." A ALLIES CAPTURE Hcdjas Tribesmen Cut Off Retreat of Ottomans East of Jordan. _______ f . } FOCH'S FORCES MAKE PROGRESS IN FRANCE British Close In Further on St. Quentin and Le Catelet. MOKVRES NOW FIRMLY HEM Germans Fight Desperately to ChecJc Adranrc of French Toward Chemin-dcs-Damcs. | Il'.v Assm-latcrl Pr-{?. I The Holy Laltd is aflame under, thQ. im pet us of a mighty jirokr by. tho I'tritish. Knench and friendly i Arab forees. and *Turk." from the Jordan ltivcr eastward to the .Mediterranean seemingly are in rout. Added to their already heavy Io"?ea in ki'uuiuI. men killed, wounded or maiTu prisoner and stores captured in BeJT gium. Krancc, Italy and the Balkan*, the Teutonic allies. Judging from ijfs't reports of the hostilities begun again.-sl tin- Uttumau in Palestine. arc in for lui-ther extremely hard usage. In less than a day lieneral Allenby's I ritisli forces, aided by French troop3 and natives under the lias of the Kins: of the U.-djas, struck the Turkish line j over .< iront of sixteen miles and pene trated to a depth of twelve miles, tak ing more than :i,OOU Turks prisoner and overrunning the entire hostile defence syxiem. Hallway and highway junc tion points were captured and stropg forces of cavalry at last account# weyo ! well in advance of the attacking t$OQtt**? threatening to carry out a turning i movement against the fleeing Turks which might prove disastrous to them. Meanwhile, along the shores of tlio .Mediterranean naval units were clear ing the coastal roads of the enemy by their gunlire. I In addition to the large number of [prisoners taken, threat quantities of i war materials had fallen into the hands i I tiie allied troops, and the presauro !:igain*t the enemy was going oii l)n* a hat ed. The predicament of the Turks- i* ' heightened by the operations of tho ll'-djas tribesmen on the eastern side, , of the lordan. whieh w ill nre.ent tbein from taking refuge across th?* stream! in the .lordaii Valley, and eompel thetrf to right their way out of their trouble west of the river as b<*st they may. M \ M <;KI?M \ Vs KII.I.K.n i.n i>i:i*i:\m-: ot* >idki iiks ! Although there has been somewtli^T of a let-up in the. intensity ol the light ing from the region of St. ljuontiri to I (.'amhrai, in (lie Krench theater, both ; th. Mritish and Krench armies huvft ! been able materially to better their post ! tions in front of both Camhrai !iud St. t.Mientin. Moevres. lying to the. west j of t'ainbrai. over which there has-been, such intensive lighting for more ?}hi?rt : a week, in which the town several ! times chanced hands, now is definitely ! British. The large nutnber of German dead strewing the ground around It'at-% test the value they placed at Moevre.5 .is a point of strategic value, in the do fei.*-e of ?"a mbra i. To the south on boih sides of .~t.. ?.>uentin the British and Krench hav-3 moved in more closely the jaws of tli'o nipper whieh '? being poised ultimately to pinch St ynentin out of the battle line. Most of the tierinan strong point j which have been the means of holdh'g , back the nllie.l troops in this rojrlou have been overcome, and apparcYitfv it i- only ,-i matter of time when Ocuvri! Koch will give the order for th.* pres sure of :ho pincers and the capture*e* . St. ( JtienI in. In the region northeast of s'oia-io >s the iSermans are still using machine guns in large numbers to hold back the | Krench from further encroachments on jth>* Cliemiii-des-Oamcs positions, and ?also are launching heavy counte? j attacks in efforts to expel the Kr?hMt from positions they have attained. Notwithstanding these strenuous ef : forts, however, the Krench have rained further ground northeast oJ Vallly. AMKRICA V I.OXO.RA \OK nu.vs fumn.\itm\i. >ihtjs l.ittle additional lighting has devel oped on the front held bv the Ame.ri | cans north of St. Mihlel". but Arnnr Ican long-range guns are heavily shell ing the big Herman fortress of Met*. In Macedonia the British. Serbians. Krench and Greeks continue hard after the liulgarians. driving the enemy be fore them and taking large numbers of prisoners. In Northern Russia the allied troops hitve gained additional successes over* the enemy forces tiHRMA.Ns AM> TIIKIIt A I, I. IKS ? ? MKKT WITH IIKFF.tr LONDON. September 20.?Oil five dif ferent fronts the Hermans and their allies suffered serious reverse in tho ] last twenty-four bitirs In the two far-distant theaters of I war. Macedonia and Palestine, the Rui i gars and Turks, with their German auxiliaries went down to hcavv defeat, j and the allied horsemen are'dashing hard on the heels of the routed foe. A battle rages on a 100-mile front , in Macedonia. Along seventy miles of it the Hulgars are fleeing in disorder before the Serbs and Krench. who have taken another .'.,000 prisoners and ' eighty guns, bring rhe total of cap tives near the l'O.OOO mark. r?n tho right the British have joined tho Greeks, and have taken TOO prisoner? In Palestine Sir Kdmund Allenhv. tbn twentieth-century Crusader who lib?-" rated Jerusalem In a sudden smash on a. | fifty-mile front between the River Jnr dan and the sea. has ripped a hole info i the Turkish Nablus front, and through it his cavalry is pouring Into the Ot toman rear, advancing nearly twenty miles and still "on the go." 'Threa thousand Turkish prisoners have Keen counted: more are coming In, .? A Turkish force of nearly ' in danger of being trapped. Vr?;n tnr<*^ Hide* Allcnhy'.n troops art m#n-* aeing it. nnd there are on1y'"lh'' difficult hills of Kphraim to escape to AM.FAnV* ATTAC K ONF, OK most nnii,i,tt>r of u .m The British drive against the Turk ish Nablus foreeR, though only tn lt?. Initial stage, already stand* nyt u? one. of the most brilliantly conceived ?xr#. teglc coups of the war.. ' Its ultima^? ;iv.< . {' iiA tu