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THE WEATHER Thunderohowers Monday and Tuesday, gentle winds. motly southerly. WEST FLORIDA MUST FEED ITSELF! Yesterday's temperature: Highest, degree; Hweet. 77 degrees. 91 VOL. XX. NO. 212. PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1917. PRICE 5 CENTS. Vi hi hoi mi RUSSIA WILL RALLY TROOPS Kerensky, Miinister, Goes to Front to Compel Re sistance to Enemy. SEVERE AERIAL BATTLES RAGING Germans Suffer Loss of Thirty Airplanes, British Losing But Thirteen. ASSOCIATED PRESS SUMMARY. Having retreated approximately one hundred miles from where Ke rensky, the iron man of Russia, car ried them under personal leadership early in the present month, the Rus sian army, on a center of line in Eastern Galicia, is again on Russian soil and is still being followed by Teutonic invaders; likewise armies to the north and south continue to faT! before the Teutons, showing only semblance of resistance. So fast has been the retirement of Russians that the enemy has now formed an arc like formation near Czernowitz, the Bukowinian capital. Evidently the "blood and iron" policy will be put in effect, as Minister of War Keren sky has pone to the front again to formulate plans to compel the troops to face the foe. Artillery duels continue in great violence between British and Germans in Flanders. Severe aerial battles are raging between Teutons and British, and in one fight thirty German machines were accounted for by the British, while thirteen British machines were lost, says a London report. GERMAN CHANCELLOR GIVES OUT INTERESTING NEWS Berlin, via Copenhagen, July 29. Doctor George Michaelis, the German imperial chancellor, yesterday, before a large number of newspaper repre sentatives declared the speech of Lloyd George and the recent debate in the British house of commons prov d, with undisputable clearness that Britain does not desire peace by agreement and understanding, but only a conclusion of the war, which means the enslavement of Germany to arbitrary violence of our enemies. A.dded proof of this may be seen in the fact that Sir Edward Carson, (member of the British war cabinet), recently declared in Dublin that nego tiations with Germany could begin when German troops retire beyond the Rhine. "We possess clear proofs that our enemies give consent to even jiore impudent declarations than Ger son's. It will be a great enlighten ment for the world regarding the true reasons for a continuation of the san guinary massacre of nations, for ii to be know that written proof of our enemies greed for conquest has fallen in our hands." BAYS AUSTRIA IS READY FOR HONORABLE PEACE Vienna, via Copenhagen, July 29. Reiterating that Austria-Hungary is rparfv to accent an Tirmnrnhlo noaro but that the dual monarchy will fight j to the last extremity if the entente declines to enter negrotiations on a .basis of the peace understanding as recently outlined by the German chancellor and TPiVhstAtr Prmnt f!or- ninlfthe Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, in an interview, said the! Lermaxt peace proposals are no jham, as Lloyd George said in a re cent speech that Germany is conduct ing a defensive warfare, and asked an honorable peace for the lasting reconciliation of nations, GERMANS REPULSED IN ATTACKS ON FRENCH Paris, July 29. Troops of the Ger man crown prince at dawn yesterday made a violent attack on French posi tions, near Hurtebise farm, on the Aisne front. The French official statement says the German attack was repulsed and the French, in re taliation, instituted an offensive, gaining ground on every sector. TAXICABS ARE ALLOWED LIMITED SUPPLY GASOLINE Stockholm, July 29. The weekly quantity of benzine allowed taxicabs is to be again reduced. All traffic between midnight and 6 a. m. also probably will be forbidden. There are now fewer than 125 taxicabs in service, against a normal 375, and this number will be still further re duced. The street car service was reduced by more than on-third six weeks ago- DFU. S. SI LORS ARE REVERED 8! POPULACE Irish Mother's Opinion of American Blue jacket. ARE GENUINELY WELCOME ALL OVER Vice Admiral Sims is Par ticularly Received and Honored by Villagers. BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. Base of American Flotillas in Brit ish Quarters, July 29. "And cure they're after coming back home," re marked a good-natured Irish mother as she beamed with prida on a procession of American bluejackets coming through the main street of this sea coast town. She expressed the feeling of the townspeople, who all take a justified pride in the "re turn of our boys," and, by vaj of proving it, they point to the high per centage of Irish ancestry and birth in the American navy. It would be hard to imagine a for eign port where American sailors could be made more genuinely wel come. It is true there has been noth ing in the way of a formal welcome for Americans, but that is not tho fault of the hospitable people It has been discouraged because this grim business of war gives men little time for celebrations ashore. Therefore the American jack tars set foot ashore in the same quiet confident business-like manner as that of their destroyers in entering the port. Almost instantly they captivated the hearts of the townspeople, many of whom have been teen to doff their hatsto them when passing along the narrow, winding streets. ' Vice-Admiral Sims is particularly revered and finds himself a special object of display of good feelings at the hands of the villagers. One of the favorite ways of being hospitable to the Americans is to in vite them home for tea. Or, shoujd the American bluejacket be relieve for a few hours fior.. his arduou sshoo life, draw up. on the sidewalk to ad mire a chubby son of Old Erin, he will almost invariably be coaxed into the home for just one cup of tea by the proud mother. The sailor often finds it was only a pretext to talk to h?m about America. And thi3 eagerness for gossip about the United States is easily explained when it becomes known there is hardly one of the vil lagers who has not a close relatif in the western republic. Indeed, there are few homes here unadorned by some memento of tho United States Here is a typical instance of two sailors from Philadelphia, who were caught in a downpour of rain and took refuge under some trees In stantly a smiling old" Irish woman appeared in her doorway and offerer! the shelter of her home until the shower had passed. Then she brought out tea and with the inevitable fam ily album with pictures of her two sons who live in Jersey. Pressed for the place in Jersey, she looked thoughtful for a moment and then smilingly said, "Camden." Adorning a prominent place on the walls of her best room were colored lithographs of Washington and Lin coln on a background of "Old Glory.'' She said they came from a Fourth of July supplement of an American newspaper. SOLDIERS WILL SEE PICTURE THURSDAY Major Hughes, commanding officer of Forts Barrancas, Pickens and Mc Rae, has called a half holiday for Thursday morning August 2nd, for the purpose of permitting the troops of the different forts to attend -a special performance of the big pa triotic photoplay, "Womanhood, the Glory of a Nation." which Manager Johnny Jones, of the Isis, has agreed to give for them at 9:30 a- m., on the above date. According to information divulgej by the major, troops will come to Fensacola by boat, forming at Pala fox wharf, where, headed by the Fort Barrancas band, followed by Major Hughes and staff, the troops will march in a body up Palafox street, to the Isis theater, where arrange ments have been mad to begin the show promptly upon word from tbe commandant. r.FPMiV SrRMlRINP. ! oTvi.-c - niTcn vrccn a NEAR COAST OF HOLLAND Amsterdam, July 29. A Ger man submarine yesterday sank five Dutch fishing vessels, 18 miles from the Dutch coast AMERICANS II FRANCE BUILD RAILWAY LUES! Engineers Working Right Up to Fighting Front Laying the Rails. 'BRIDGES BEING CONSTRUCTED ALSO Laying Mile a Day is No Uncommon Feat With American Workmen. bt A??oc:ATi:r trkps Behind the British Lines in France, ; ' July 29. Americans and Canadians ! from the northwestern part of the j American continent men who have i played an important part in the rail- way building out around the Rockies I are to be found among the men in j khaki, laying rails right up to the fighting front along the British linos i in France. Here and there is a man ! who has worked on the New Have i or the Boston & Maine railroads, but : the vast majority came from the j great western part of the United j Slates and Canada. : There is one whole battalion from j the Canadian Pacific raihoad now ! at work on the British front. It ' was organized by Lord Shaughncssy. ; In charge of this and other hattal j ions is a brigadier general, a vu'e'v I known contractor from British Co j lumbia, whose molto is. "See every - thing, hear everything, but keep your mouth shut." It is the popular i:-.v.ve;sion that only light, narrow -gauk.e railways are run up close to the baitiefront But this is soon removed bv a visit to j the front where one is surprised to j see broad-gauge railway, miles and ! miles of it, nmning riht up to the f big guns. This broad-caure railway i is laid close on the heels of the Ger ! man retreat. BesLle it on be seen .' much of the German narrow i;aa e j railway which was picked up in se-j-; tions by the British engineers and ! thrown to one side to make room for : the broader gauge line. The engineers make their ar ear- ance within a few hours of a t British advance. The men hive wear steel helmets and keep their pas masks handy, so close are they to danger from bombardment by the German heavies or from bombs ciro;- (Continued on Page Four) IN ADDRESS BEFORE NEARLY; TWO THOUSAND MEMBERS OF OFFICERS RESERVE CORPS, I SPEAKS PLAINLY. ASSOCIATED PRKSS SUMMAHY AssoeiATKf- prtfr.ss summauv i Madison Barracks. New York, July' '20. In a speech before nearly two thousand members of the officers' reserve corp:. Serctary of State Lansing, emphasizing the peril ot German imperialism ty the LTnited States and the world, derlarcd the; German people will not cast off th.? i yoke of autocracy "until the physical ' might of united democracies of the i world destroyed forever the evil ambi- tions of Germany's military rulers.." j "That," he said, "is the only way to j restore the world to peace, and were j ! LlSil 01 1 9am M m W a R I rsrv jcik mm - 1 il l Cl 6 iiii BmF ETC 6 i i S U L.I1 luiif i 13 LliiL every people able to express their i Carranza. by decree has established a will, there would be n wars of ag- monetary commission to take charge gression and the only way they can j Df tire Tiquidation of banks of emmis do it is through democratic institu- S;on which have not complied with; tions." ! the orders of the decree of last Be-j Asserting that the "future of the j cember which ordered them to bring : U nited States at stake, Secretary Lansing said, "if any of you have an idea we are fighting others battles 1Z' Who will be the next victim of the autocratic rulers who are seeking to be masters of the earth?" Answering; those, who he said, might thing it improbable that Germany would at- tack the United States if she won the war. the secretary cited things Ger- j manv had been guurA'Uf Violation of treaties, crimes of murder, extortiVi and vandalism in Belgium and France. He said there was much which could be added to the record of unbelTsi things the German government ha?f done, and hoped some day the whole tale will be told. He said physical might is necessary to crush out Ger man imperialism. and not our own, the sooner he gets, has been ordered to appoint a repre- from his shop on Last Wright street, bill reached an impasse after an all-; gebic iron range was caded today a3 away from that the better." He said, ; sentative to represent them before the some time ago, ran into and slightly day conference and decided to confer ! result of a vote taken at a mass meet "imazine Germanv a victor in Europe. ! rr-onetarv commission and should the wounded a little vhite girl, and who i tomorrow with President Wilson on ing. The strike is to begin at peven European Crops Are In Rome, July 2?. This month? bul letin issued by the International In stitute of Agriculture, of Rome, an nounces a careful and detailed studv principal agricultural states of tho world, and, in consequence of these studies, a generally favorable situa tion. In France, Great Britain and Italy, says the report, meteorological condi tions have been extremely favorable during the past month while in Northern Europe, notably in Luxem burg and Holland, the crops are re tarded. Even in Switzerland, continues the report, the outlook is for a crop of less than the average size, unless the excellent results in the spring bring up the total to normal. Russia, in EXCELLENT GYMNASIUM BE UTILIZED BY ENLISTED MEN. BY INVITATION OF THE LOCAL COUNCIL. All sailors and soldier? s-ta'ioncd at. Fensacola are invited by the local branch of the Knights of Columbus1 to attend athletic "vorcises and a peneral entertainment which will be given Wednesday evening in the hall on Wert Garden street Officers of th the plans for th onier. in discussing! entertainment with The Journal last night, stated that, i completely c qui pre: trvninasium w::.-h is anr.ost unused by tne mem bers of the organisation, will be- of- fe.el the eniisi eo it. en to u.-e wnen they please. It is emphasised that wni'o trio orgar.12.? .on is a religious one, the exercises v ill he entirely non sectarian and everyone, of whatever denomination, is cordially invited to attend. Part of the exercises We lnesday t veiiinrr will be ath'tic, contests hav ing been arranged. Other parts of the program are under discussion and complete announcement will bo made later. ONE RECRUIT AT THE LOCAL ARMY STATION Or.f- vf"r"!T w.l p-TTT:i at the ' arm;, rocrvitinrr. station, bnain; the! total for the week ail well above the J average, in . spite ot tne two oays on ' v.hith there were none. The number : of applicants has greatly increased i sine? the draft, though a larga num i ber of the men are thrown out be . cause of physical disability. ! Extra effort will be continued by j the 'o al station to secure men for the signal corps, aviation section. I This has already found much favor in ensacola probably because of the Droximitv to the naval school, and ince the lists have been opened. number of joung Pensato'.ians have ! entered that service The recruit ve;- ' teruay wa ! sacola. Alva F. Largue, of Pen- 'LIT D J? GIVEN ENLISTED MEN An entertainment for all enlisted men will he given by Oak Grove No. 4, Woodmen of the World, next Thurs day evening at the hall on West Ko mana street. Elaborate plans have been arranged for the pleasure of the soldiers and sailors now in Pensacola, and all are invited to attend. NAMED IN MEXICO Mexico City, Julv 29. President . their cash reserves up to the sum of i their paper issues, dollar for dollar. The board of directors .of each bank ; boards not make such appointments ; within 30 days, the appointments will be made for them by the govern- j ment ( j PEACE MEETING IS RAPIDLY CONVERTED INTO A ROUGH HOUSE Swansea, Wales, July 29. Cit izens prevented a peace meeting when they chased pacifists from a building and compelled the surrender of stick and umbrellas which had been used against attackers. K. OF C. HILL FOR SAILORS j a Fair Condition spite of late frosts and cold, faces a favorable situation on the whole and may hope for results equal at least to last year. The report then deals with the United States, and finds that pros pective losses due to bad weather have been overcome so that the crop total may be expected to be about two and one-half per cent better than last year, even though still eighteen per cent behind the average. Of Canada, the report says that the next crop may be counted upon as four per cent better than last year, and sixteen per cent better than the avrage for the last five years. In India, concludes the report, the situa tion is excellent, the production being 19 per cent better than last year and five per cent above the averaee BOOSE GASES 0, S. COURT TRIBUNAL WILL CONVENE THIS MORNING A ITER AN AD JOURNMENT OYER SEVERAL DAYS. j Federal court will convene this ; morning after a recess since last vveantsaay. ana tne jury nas oeen i ordered to report at ten o'clock. The court is holding an adjourned term j to try several cases against men ! charged with selling liquor to enlist- ed men of the militarv forces of the United State? while in unifcrm. Twelve cases were disposed of last week, with six convictions and six pleas of guilty Only one, it is stated, is on the docket for today, though it is probable that other matters will be considered by the court before the jury is dismissed. ACTIVE WORK MAY START TO DAY IN GETTING STRUCTURE READY FOR USE AS A m3il SCHOOL BUILDING. Active work remodellin;,- the taber nacle for the high school will prob ably be started this week, as the con tractor has been ousTTy engaged in assembling men ami material to be gin tne task. As the contract s"peci fies that the work must be complete in time for school to start in Sep tember work will be rushed so as to have it ready in time. Contract for the work on the build- jng was awarded last Thursday by ' the board of public instruction to H. K. Franklin. Plans involve bracing the building throughout, changing the auditorium to face east instead of south as at present, and installing i windows. READY TO START WORK ON AVIATION PIERS V. C. Gerald, chief engineer for; Proudfoot Brothers, general rontrac-! tors, of Tampa. Fia.. has arrived here' to assume charge of the construction i of the aviation piers and bulkheading ! for the government, at the navy yard. It is understood that this work will go along just as early as possible, and a great deal of material will be gin arriving within a short time. SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A BARBER Griel McCurcy, a negro barber who, while chasing another negro was later fined $2T and costs in the, recorder's court, will have to answer i to a more re serious oirense in tne court d, for a charge has been made him, charging the negro with serious offense in the court; i of record : against assault with intent to murder, and a warrant conveying such allegations has been sworn out. The negro is now in the city jail, and will probably be arrested as soon as he is released therefrom. It is claimed that when he chased a negro from his shop the little girl, whose name was Isanhour, was passing on 1 the sidewalk at the time, and was I slightly cut by an open razor the negro carried. TABERNACLE PflfBIOlI MIT T T PTIILT DAIIHTiil HEGH Such Step Being Taken on Advice of Congressman Frank Clark. STATEMENT FROM CATTS ON ISSUE Clark Tells Members Com pany Not to Be Afraid to Make Affidavit. SFKCIAL TO THE JOURNAL. Tallahassee, July 29. On advice of Congressman Frank Clark, boys of local military Company B, arej preparing to elect their own captain Monday night. Congressman Clark wired them to do this and certify to the names of officers elected to the governor and adjutant general. Mr. Clark wants all the information and affidavits sent to him at Washing ton, where he will place them before the war department, he says. "The boys need not be afraid to make affi davits," says the telegram from the ! fighting congressman,- ine governor nas given an inter-! view to the local press, declaring tifttj IIP hurl nntninrr i r fir -ith V- o t- I Jl::r . - 'I'ri " -r. pointment of his son, which was an act of the adjutant general, but "he would not be a true member of the Catt's family if he permitted them to kick him out or if he let anything come between him and his services to his country,." W. B. Crawford, son of the secre tary of state, has gone to Washing ton in the interest of his brother, Hen ry Clay Crawford, Jr., who, it is said, was forced to resign a3 second lieu- i tenant of the local company by threats of Col. Sam Harrison, to mats it hard for him because of his lead ership in recent mutiny while he was a commissioned officer. There is no objection to Sidney J. Catts, Jr . personally, but boys and parents still declare the local com pany shall not leave here to help fight a world war for democracy if denied the right ti choose their own line officers, a privilege granted members ! of every other volunteer company in I America. CHILD SLIGHTLY ! INJURED BY AUTO Kelly Harbison, of DeFuniak, while passing the intersection of Garden and Palafnv streets vesterdav. was j unfortunate in having his car strike ! a little child, who was accompanied by his mother, Mrs. S. E. McClure. The child was only slightly hurt, it was later reported, but at the time of the accident some considerable ap prehension was felt for the little one. Later m the afternoon, when it was ! ascertained that the child's injuries were of little consequence, Mrs. Mc- Clure made a statement that Mr. Harbison was not at fault. He was arrested however, on a charge of op erating his machine in a reckless manner. LIGHTNING KILLS A LADY AT BAGDAD PFECIAI, TO THE JOURNAL. ; Bagdad, July 29. During the elec-! Stockholm, July 29. While Bel trical storm this afternon lightning I gium goes hungry, the Germans are struck and killed a Mrs. Finlay, a I exporting Belgian vegetables and widow, residing here. She was seen j fruit. Large quantities of BeTgr-"n to fall to the floor as the bolt tore ! asparagus and hothouse ppaches have its way to the point where she sat at j been on sale in Stockholm's leading the time of the storm, and when shops for weeks, ft is also worthv'of friends reached her she was lifeless It was thought her death was in stantaneous. CONFEREES ON FOOD CONTROL BILL AGREE Washington. July 29. Conferees j on the administration's food control tw: remaining point3 in dispute: The senate proposals to establish a con- j gressiontl committ j expenditures, and 1 i three food admini gressiontl committee to supervise war, to create a bo?.rd of nistrators instead of one. AUSTRIA GETS SIAM'S DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST DUAL GOVT. Vienna, July 29. The Siamese minister has presented the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister with Siams declaration of war against the dual monarchy. 1 AFTER 0 TIF Black Man. Accosted When Coming From House He Robbed, Shoots, FIRES FIVE TIMES AT PROMINENT MAN Posse Forms Qufckjy anct$ Last Accounts Had Negro Surrounded, KFECTAX. TO TH Milton, July 20 An unknown ?;. r'uuuutawiTawenoms tiiuiiws junfa. a orominent nti. zen of this place, and stole therefrom a watch and a pistol. While emerging from the house ho waa detected by Chip Bray, a well known citizen, who, attempting to etop tho negro, was fired on five tiroes. None of the anots took effect, however. Immediately a largo posse was on the trial of the negro, who soon lost himself to the pursuera in the thick swamp between the depot and the shipyard. The posse steadily increas- . Id in numbers and at on t. , believed that fully 100 men were alter the black man. Sheriff Harvell was nersonnllv nn the scene, directing the search, and bloodhounds were soon on the trial of the negro- The dog3, however, were not put to use for 6ome reason, it being reported that a man to "n;:i" them could not be located. News of the trouble was telephon ed to Fensacola, and the impresv.ou prevails that the negro is none othec than Robert Jackson, a convict w u made his escape from guards wi.j were taking him to serve a long sen tence on a plea of killing a woman. The temper of the crowd is not peace ful, it is said at this hour, the fact that the negro boldly entered a prom inent man's home, and then tried to shoot down another, not creating a favorable impression. Tonight the search still continues, the swamp be ing generally surrounded, and unless the negro swims the river, it is thought he will be apprehended. RUSSIAN MINISTER OF MARINE YOUNG MAN Petrograd, July 20. Lieutenant Lebedeff, who has been appointed temporary head of the ministry of marine, is only S3 years old. He served with distinction in the Japa nese war, and in iyU7 identified him- self .w.itn the social revolutionists and participated in the mutiny of tho Brest regiment at Sevastopol. From there he escaped abroad, and at the outbreak of the presnt war enlisted in the French army as a private Subsequently he was given a com mission and placed in command of a I detachment ot Kussian republican J volunteers. Later he served a year and a half at Saloniki and was award ed the French military cross. He re turned here in the early days of the revolution and was a collaborator of the social revolutionary organ, "The Will of the reople." M. Kerensky recently appointed 711111 president of a commission to formu late new regulations for the naval i' ervire. GERMANS EXPORT 1 BELGIAN VEGETABLES not that certain .-hops are advertising women's costumes imported direct Vienna. STRIKE DECLARED IN MICHIGAN MINES Bessomor, Mich.. July 29. A gen eral stnk'i of all miners on the Go- ; o'clork tomorrow morning. Operators ; have declared, however, that most of tne men are satisfied with conditions and would not strike. FIFTY MEN VICTIMS OF DISASTROUS FIRE Nelson, British Columbia, July 29. Fifty men are reported to have been trapped in a disastrous forest fire, which swept over the Elk Lum ber Company's plant at Spruce Creek, near here. Last reports said four bodies had been recovered and the fire was still burning fiercely laal night.