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GETTYS1URG COMPILKM, SATURDAY, JUI 13, lilt. LATEST NEWS IN ABRIDGED FORM Events That Concern the Two Hemispheres Recorded So as to Be Read at a Glance. BULLETINS ABOUT THE WAR. Progress of Hostilities in the Heavens Above, the Earth Beneath and the Waters of the Seven Seas. WAR BULLETINS General Perching in bis review of the fighting at Vnux says the American artillery fire was so destructive communication between the German headquarters and the front was maintained by a lone dog messenger.

Aus; re-Hungarian prisoners captured by the Italians in describing conditions on the battle front said, the soldiers were not starving, they were "always hungry." They declared conditions were desperate in the interior of the tr.ijil because Of mes-irer crops. General March, chief of In lilf weekly conference with newspaper men, believes Germany will launch another offensive shortly on the went front with great force. A new type of battleplane was tried out successfully at the Hempstoad Arl- ntlon Field. The machine has a speed of 150 miles an hour and cou climb 1,000 feet In a minute. July 4 launchings added 112 vessels to the American Meets, 95 units being for the merchant marine and 17 warships to the navy.

The total tonnage Statement issued at Washington shows that the Germans now have only a dozen boats at sea. Instead of 20, which they previously maintained. House committee makes favorable report on bill for the federal control of wire lines. James Gordon Bennett's will pro- rides for the founding of a home for Indigent newspaper men, for the continuance of the New York Herald and Evening Telegram, for an annuity of $50,000 a year to his widow and other annuities to relatives and employees, and a bequest of to a former fiancee. German-American War Specially constructed rifle grenades and balloons are used by the French and Americans to distribute in the German lines tracts and pamphlets telling the truth about the war.

General March stated America has 251,000 men on the buttle lines, which The Allied War Council in-Versailles is beilly constantly, id General Fot-h are agreed that mill- fllul 1 Sf1(1 iPr nnvinir hPPn end are ajueeu tmn. uiiu- flnd lha a ulillion SO kliers having been tary action in flussia is necessary, and emlmrked now are going Jlfter llie the Entente iroveruments now are second minion" awaiting a decision by President General Pershm son. ashingron hears Finland is about to declare war on the Allies. In The Geieino Valley the Italians penetrated the Austrian positions ori Forte di Sal tun. American mic! Australian troops cele- balloou the Woevre brated the Fourth of July by captur- tag Hamel, of the Somrae.

in the I I Berlin the wnerts, upholds the demand of the in a report on American operations in France, recounts the defeat of the German counter-attack at Vaux. the killing of 20 Huns by a raiding party of 25 Americans and the linding of a propaganda Vor- angle benveea that river and the Avrp. east of Amiens, further restricting the Germans in that couiined area. The Germans are preparing for a new drive on western front, either In July or August, according to state- i inents made by prisoners captured by Reichstag socialists for an early peace. It says "a sensible accommodation by the other side" would speedily end hostilities without regard to the war man.

Paris newspapers in commenting on President Wilson's Mount Tern on the British. WASHINGTON Deaf mute youths excel in official army aviation tests for war pilots. Abandonment of its recess program I speech refer to it as a remarkable i summary of everything the allies are fighting for, "an appeal, a vow, a program," says the Temps. General Pershiug in his report on the American victory at Vans says the village was taken and all objectives attained in an hour and a half. A German officer taken prisoner, tell SPORTING by Congress results in delay of war In of tlie counter attack, said the revenue bill.

The Ways and Means i American fire was so fierce his men Committee having decided to postpone refused to obey the order to advance, further consideration of the measure for a week. Ambassador Ishii declares the Kaiser sought to estrange America and Japan and that he evidence of the attempt two years ago. Colonel Roosevelt asks Congress to give him back the 840.000 Nobel peace fund, awarded him after the Russo- Japanese war, to be used by him for relief of the widows, children and mothers of American soldiers. A joint resolution complying with the request was unanimously adopted by the house. The house passed the bill for federal control of wire communications with a time limit fixed at the period of the war.

The senate may not act until after the congressional recess. which leaders have agreed shall be taken until August 12. An idea of the extent of profiteering Is officially conveyed in a report to the eenate by the treasury department, instances the fact that one food dealer made 2.183 per cent, on his capital, that contractors made as high as 596 and millers 436 per cent. America's merchant fleet, grown to 10,040.659 gross tons by the construction of 1,622 new of 1,430,793 tops in the fiscal year ended June 30, Was augmented on the Fourth of July by the unprecedented launching of Dearly 100 ships. Alien property custodian takes the $1,500.000 International Textile, of Bridgeport.

the books having been burned, the claim being they showed German ownership of the concern. Conferees on army bill strike out that portion which provided for the training and equipping of foreign troop.s in this country. Perry Roberts of Stevens Institute clears bar at 6 feet in running high jump at tbe New York A. C. games.

Amateur reinsruen from Boston raid other cities are shipping their trotters to New Y.ork for the first intercity meeting held in Xew York since 1894. William T. Tilden, 2d, of Philadelphia, won the national clay court tennis championship at Chicago. The first official ruling on the status of professional baseball players under the "work or fight" order was made at Dallas. Sam Lewis, a pitcher of the Dallas club, was ordered by his local board to engage in a productive occupation or be placed in Class 1, Lewis, who is married and has one child to support, had been originally placed in Class 4.

Royalty saw the American navy baseball nine defeat the army in London by 2 to 1. Ralph de Palma In a Packard won the Liberty Handicap on the Cincinnati Speedway, driving 100 miles in 57m. and 2-10s. without a stop. Chevrolet, Resta and other well known drivers were forced out with either tire or engine trouble.

Twenty thousand men, boys and girls competed in the Independence day games in the New York playgrounds and swimming pools. FOREIGN ADMIRAL BENSON Ruled to Be Ranking Officer in United States Navy. GENERAL -r: -r I 5 Gen. Count von Jlirbach, Gonoan ambassador to Russia, has bt-en Moscow. Two were in SCTY- ri- 3 shots r--v.

Ti -i Jll5s bach i r.i., nil's art? iv n'or Sv. lo succeed iLe Jatc Kavy department asks American to departure and location of ships secret, to foil German submarines. The United States transport Cov- hounfl, was warDinj: In the war zone Monday Inter doirn after an effort had boon made to low hor jo a French port. Six men of the ovw are tnissJog. There no for Premier Tolhri I -Stern and inlHisry have 1 a plot in South Africa 3)y Gorman i ugems difrsnantled liners.

A counter ntlack east of Hanicl failei the British announce Hie i capture of more llian 1,500 prisoners in i tlae two days" cngagemenss. More 1 than have been taken by the lies durjjjg the 3ast week. Thinecn Anu-racan aviators engaged twenty-seven Germans in fierce combats Chateau Thierry and on the Toul front, bringing down three Dnoieis, secretary of the navy, approved an opinion of tlie judye h'ocatc gentral of (lie navy, (he order of precedence of American admirals follows: William S. F.ensi'ii. Henry T.

JIayo. William B. and Austin M. Knipht. LAUNCH NEARLY 100 SHIPS ON 4TH Officials Pay Hiqh Tribute to the Workers Who Broke Marine Records.

Troopship Covington Sunk by Boat Without Warning. Vessel Remains Afloat All Might, but Efforts to Save Her Fail. Washington. The United States transport Covington was sunk by a submarine July 1, according to a report received from Vice Admiral Sims. Sis members of the transport's crew are missing.

All Lhe others, officers and men, were landed at a French port. troops on board. The Covingtun formerly the Cincinnati, and was one of the Hamburg-American line ships taken over by this government when the United States entered the war. The following official statement was "The Navy Department has received dispatches from Vice Admiral Situs stating that the Covington was struck by a torpedo on the night of July 1 ar 9:17 o'clock. The torpedo struck just forward of the engine room buik- kead and the engine room and fireroem were rapidly flooded.

its motor power gone, rhe vessel was helpless. The submarine was not seen. Another vessel and two tugs took the Covington in tow, but she was too badly damaged to keep afioat and sank." The six men of the crew who. at last accounts, were still missing are: Ernest C. Anderson, fireman.

Lynn, Joseph P. Bowden. Mountain Lakes, X. Ambrose C. Ford, fireman, Somerville, William Henry Lynch.

flreman, Manchester, Albert S. Payne, seaman, West New Brighton. X. Lloyd EL Silvernail. seaman, second class, U.

S. Bainbriuge. N. Y. The Covington was one of the German ships taken over by this government and was formerly the Cincinnati.

She was COS feet long, Go-foot beam; gross tonnage 10,330. She was used as a transport, but had no army personnel or passengers aboard when siie From the that the Covings-si HONOR FOR PACIFIC COAST. Sreat Lakes Get First New Vessel Just After Midnight--New York Con. tributes Five Cargo Ships and a Mine Sweeper. Celebrating the striking of its stride of about 500,000 tons of shipping a month, the Emergency Fleet Corporation of the United States Shipping Board made a grand Fourth of July splash all around the water frontiers of the republic by putting overboard approximately 100 ships from almost as many yards.

The first dasli of the splash was on the Great Lakes at 12:01 a. when a 3,400 ton steel cargo boat slid into the water. The next one was precisely at sunrise, when the Standard Shipbuilding Company launched a 7,500 ton ship at Shooters Island, New York harbor. Then for the next 12 hours steel and wooden ships of from 3,400 to 12,000 tons hit the water in ciouds of suioke and spray at the rate of one every seven minutes, while not less than a million joyous spectators shouted proval of the greatest and most substantial spectacle that ever graced a Fourth of July. In all the annals of shipbuilding there was never anything like it.

The shores of Puget Sound, San Francisco bay. Los Angeles, the Columbia river, the Gulf of Mexico, the Delaware. Chesapeake bay. New York bay and all the coasts of New England, Lake Superior. Lake Michigan, the Detroit river and Lake Erie were laved by the back wash of the great ships of the Liberty fleet rushing to their proper element.

Wood and steel vied with each other, there being about 50 ships of tach class. The total tonnage was about 470,000 tons dead weight. Not a ship was deiayed to add its launching to the ship day of days. June construction beat all previous- American records with more than 280,000 tons, the final week witnessing the delivery of 329,000 tons. The Independence day launchings therefore, are not a piece of deceptive staging, but represent a big gain in shipbuilding, men and management everywhere having driven to the limit of human skill and endurance to launch as many ships as possible on July 4 that were scheduled for later dates.

The ships pnf into the water are greater in tonnage than that of two average years prior to 1915 in the United States. They represent almost half as much as Great Britain was wont to build in a whole year. They are the product of a hundred ways. More than 800 ways will soon be holding building ships. While the merchant ships--colliers, refrigerators, tankers, cargo boats-were tumbling into the water, 14 dej stroyers were launched from four yards on the Atlantic and the Pacific.

They will help to make the seas safe for the freighters of the same natal day. Among the specially notable achievements of the day were those of the Submarine Boat Corporation on Newark bay. which launched three 5,500 ton steei cargo boats: the Union Iron Works at San Francisco, three of 11.800 tons each; the Moore Scott yards. Oakland. three refrigerators of 9.400 tons each; the Los Angeles Shipbuilding Company, two cargo boats of S.OOO tons: the Skinner Eddy yr.rcTs.

Seattle, two S.SOO ton cargoes. A number of other yards launched two each of smaller tonnage than the foregoing. It was a great fay for ships and by the saii.e token a great day for democracy. CXCCUTOft'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary on the estate of Rosa E.

White, late of the Township of Freedom, Adams county, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned and all persons indebted are required to make immediate payment and those having claims to present them in legal form to EDWARD A. SCOTT, Executor, Gettysburg, R. Pa. RBIS Wanted at this Office. SALESMEN to deocriptlou.

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--z :r.i c-i he rsvoll TV; 1 ty cf the has not been cs- AlHeci en vest front, brought about by the addition cf a i i hss put Gsiicra! Foch CR the offensive, and his powerful iocai bJovvs may at any time deveJop into a tirivs. The harassing tactics civc the enemy little rest and disarrange preparations for a new German attack. Concentration of American and aiiied fliers permit th; French command to sweep the sky ciear of enemy airmen at the points for at- Declaration of war against the alHes by Finiand expected. Fruit Trees for Sale i A Fine Lot of Them. Apple Peach Pear Cherry Plum Apricot Quince and Shade Trees The Adams County Nursery H.

G. Baugher, Pro'p. Aspers, Pa. The Sheely Brothers Barn Wind Storm Loss Ttiis barn, a new one, was one of the largest, the best built, the most up-to-date barn in Southern Pennsylvania, yet it did not withstand the wind storm, and the loss js thousands of dollars. The less is partly covered by cyclone icsurar.ce issued at Martin Winter's office.

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