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((wj AINED 1,115,700 LINES atJ Daring the first six months of this year The Inquirer has printed AINED 1,115,700 UNES During the first nix months of this year The Inquirer has printed 6,282,300 Lines of Paid Advertising A of 1,115,700 over last year and Nearly liie more than any othr news- paper Jn Philadelphia. Advertisements In The Inquirer pay hg I 6,282,300 Lines of Paid Advertising i A sain of 1,115,700 over last year and Nearly 2,000.000 lines more than any other newspaper in Philadelphia. Advertisements In Th Inquirer pay big- dividends. VOL. 175, NO.

17 TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1916" CnvvriaH. 19 IS, by The Philadelphia Inauirer Co. ONE CENT BRITISH AND GERMANS IN GREAT ARTILLERY Scene Within British Lines From the First Photograph Taken After the Allied Drive 'ST'," THE SOMME "1 Von Hindenburg May Head Eastern Armies JSbs-f f43infi Scf-v Kaiser's Reinforcements Replying to Cannon Hammering the Third Line Positions 3 ll jj The First German Prisoners to Be Brought Back to the English Lines After the First Successful Assault on Shows the Natural Barriers Protecting the English Trenches, Which Are Undoubtedly the Second Line. July 1, When the Great Allied Offensive Was Inaugurated. This Picture Is Well Worth Studying.

It Dugouts Protected by Sand Bags Can Be Seen on the Side of the Hill and a Road Which Probably Runs Along the Entire Second Line Communications Is Seen at the Base of the Hill. MILLIONAIRES AT BACK OF PROJECT TO SEARCH SEA FOR TREASURE SHIP K-. 1 MEN RESCUED AFTER" SHIP -BROUGHT TO PORT Sailors of Ramos Picked in Small Boats by Steamer Jose Captain and Eight of Crew Believed Drowned in Terrific Storm Off Coast Rescued during a terrific storm which had destroyed their ship and caused them to be tosed about for forty hours in two small boats, fourteen members of the crew of the freighter Ramos, which sank last Wednesday 310 miles northwest of Wathng Island, were brought here at midnight by the United Fruit Company's steamship Jose. The steward and one sailor were drowned while leaving the ship. It is believed, too, that Captain McGoldrick and eight of the crew may have been drowned.

They set off in another lifeboat and no word has yet been heard of them. The rescue of the shipwrecked fourteen was as thrilling as the previous battle the men had with one of the heaviest summer storms of the year. It took place on Friday night off the coast of North Carolina. When the men were picked up it was feared that several might die from exhaustion. The Ramos sailed from this port on Continued on 6th Page, 8th Col.

Months expert Divers to seek "Meriaa dunk in i vi Off Virginia Capes Silver Bars and Cargo Worth $1,000,000 on Board By KARL H. VON WIEGAND Bptcial Cable to The Inquirer. Copyright, 19 19, by PreiT Publishing Co. N.T. World) BERLIN, July 16.

According to private advices from Vienna, important changes have taken place in the army and others in high plates are impending. As a result of the Russian offensive something akin to a shake-up may take place." In Germany there is a strong movement to place Marshal von Hindenburg in command of the entire eastern front, including the Atistro-Hungarian armies. wiicie OFFICIAL IJ. S. fl SlffiOFFHISM Hears Through London Washington Would Not Protect Deutschland Berlin Awaiting Confirmation of Alleged Attitude Partial to Entente Allies BY KARL H.

VON WIEGAND i Specf! Cobl 1n The Inriuirrr. (if. 1916,1 bv Prext Pvbiithiito Co. 1. Worltt.

BERLIN, ir (via London, Confirmation of the news that Washinsrton ha decided that the Deutschland belong in the class of merchant ships, after a jefort made by three naval officers, and will ignore the protest? of France and Great Britain, was received here last night from a London Times dispatch from Washington which is reprinted in the entire German press tfMiay. In circles where" everv move made Washington is interpreted as a desire to favor and placate England, the delay in announcing the decision had already been seized upon as an effort bv Secret a rv Lansing to hnd some wav ot granting the protests made by the Brijisli and French Ambassadors. In governmental quarters. hower, there was from the first announcement of the arrival at Baltimore, absolute confidence expressed that Washington would find Germany's epoch-making under sea freighter what it purported to be, that is. a mercantile craft.

It is very apparent at this end that President Lohmann fend the North German Lloyd took every possible precaution that the Deutsehlanc. could not lc classed as a war craft. Await Official Report The Washington correspondent of the London Times adds, however, that the Government announced that the character of the Deutschland is such that it would be impossible first to warn and to search the submersible freighter and that Washington would not protest if England were to assemble warships off Chesapeake Bay. There is a disposition in official circles here to maintain reserve and await official confirmation of that attitude. It is declared, however, that if that is correct, Washington has ruled that under-scas freighters are mercantile craft when in port the same as any other merchant ship, and entitled to the same privileges of protection, but they are in the class of war craft the moment-they leave port or territorial waters, and may be sunk on sight without warning.

See German Contention Upheld In this is seen practically an admission by Secretary Lansing of what Germany contended throughout the entire submarine controversy, namely, that international law must Be modified and adapted to the new craft and not submarines to the law. It is asserted that although Secretary Lansing stated during the controversy that no one country could during the war change the law to suit its pur-itoses, he had now established a precedent which would in effect change the law by giving an unarmed submarine freighter a double character, granting the immunity of international law while in port, but taking the last vestige from it when at although in the peaceful pursuit of trading, by saying it may be sunk on sight. It is realized that in the event the Deutschland were sunk without warning. as required for all other forms of mer cantile cratt, America could have only a theoretical interest or protest unless Americans were on board, but that in principle it would be the same as if other unarmed merchant ships were sunk without warning. The is asked here whether the decision by Secretary Lansing, that it is not necessary to warn mercantile craft of the type of the Dc'Utsehland, acts the same as a warning to Americans to keep off such vessels.

rr what Ins include wouid bo if Americans were lost by the sinking of such an un armed submersible by lie Allies without warning. Reserve Advised Some go so far as to say that if the reported ruling by Mr. Lansing is correct it has opened the May for Germany to resume submarine warfare and without America being in a position to protest. The Berliner Tageblatt today, however, advises reserve until the American Government's ruling is officially received; that tnis much is certain, America has refused to intern the Deutschland. Referirng to Washington's alleged decision that the Deutschland type may legally be sunk without warning the Tageblatt says: ia necessary wit an official Continued on 5th Page, 2d Col.

I Trenches of Teutons and English AreSoNearEach Other That Neither Side Dares Use Its Guns in Fighting LONDON. July 16. The thunder heavy guns is still shaking the battle front north of the Smme, where the British are hammering at the German third line, in an effort to break hrough. Positions gained from the enemy are be-ins consolidated and jveparations being made to launr-h a new attack. a blanket of f.g last night.

sar the French official statemf nt. issued thie afternoon, tn Geimans in the region south of the Snmiue hurled violent at-i tacks aaainst la Maisonette and the vil-j laze of Biache. recently captured by the French took tito'o position" by pur-i prise. The French, hi-vver, immediate ly launched a vigorous counter-attack and recaptured both places. Too Close-to Fire The operations after yesterday's a4--am-e were more in the nature of open lighting, tli Ge rmans using strong point on tax oi able around which were good machine gun position, to gai.ntime in rallying reinforcements which arrive and iig new trench, while the British dig in opposite them with each stage of the advance.

Frequently they are so near each other that neither side dares tie its guns. Every protection is seized and stoutly held by both sides. Possession of the stretches of woodland becomes as important as ttiat of villages. The German defenders of Trones wood had orders to stand to-the last man, and the orders virtually were obeved Cases have been numerous in. tl) woods fighting where Briton and J.ermans have Wen pierced by each others bayonets.

It is amazing that in tlte thick of the struggle1 at- all pomu stretcher bearers manage to bring out the wounded. Th Germans are keeping up a heavy vohime of artinervwfire in answer to the British, indicating the arrival of fresh artillery. British guns were able to reach the main road of Martinpuich, whidi was crowded with transports, aeroplanes reporting immense destruction and confusion. Everyone coming from the front remarks upon the pam-itv of terman aero-planet and arti-aircraft guns despite the reinforcements in other arms. British airmen in manv instances liave descended as low as oX or C0 feet, firing upon Geiman infantry with their machine guns and receiving the cheers of British infantry.

Such low Mights have resulted in remarkably intimate scouting. Too Busy to Take Guns The scene of action has been carried for the first time bovond the second mam line ot German defenses since stationary warfare bosan on the western front. Officers returning from the front Hue speak of sceu abandoned German guns, but say they are too busy fighting to bother to bring them in. The most dramatic situation in the battle comes when the German gunners strive to draw off their guns with British infant rv within rirle range. In the i a aa.Ii.

gnuaing comiici -aiiicu if iinnoncvras forced to close quarters, neither the ground taken "nor the number of prisoners is expressive of the results or the stake for which both sides are British commanders merely say that they have advanced further than they expected, aud repeat the proceeding through various stages in the long and immense undei taking. Amona the dceum-'nts captured is the complaint of a diyison commander of the destruction of a German battalion by their own gunfire. One prisoner thm complained that the only arsons in Get-many who really had enough to eat were the 'British prisoners, thauks to parcels sent them from home and American in-terpst in their welfare. Generally they" complain more of the British artillery fire than of the food shortage. They think that Germany is in nt danger of.

starving and that the war will be bv fighting like that of the last two weeks, where every gun, nfle, man, trench or gully or tree which gives cover will count. It is difficult for any one not at th? front to realize the change in the new army wrought by these two weeks, thanks to the first continued offensive wluch is giving the troops practical lessons day by day. i i Germans Attack in Fog The French official statement reads: "South of the River Somme yesterday evening, the Germans, profiting by fog; made their way along the canal and hurled violent attacks against Ia Maisonette and the village of Biaches. which they took by surprise, but our troops delivered a vigorous counter attack and are again in possession Biaches and La Maisonette, as well as the small wood to the north, where some Germans continue to resist. "In the region of Chauines, after a violent bombardment, an enemy detachment succeeded in penetrating our first line trenches to the north of Chilly.

He Continued on 5th Page, 5th CoL THE WEATHER Forecast from Washington: Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland Partly cloudy Mondy, probably showers; Tuesday-fair. New Jersey and Delaware Partly cloudy Monday, probably showers afternoon and nicht; Tuesday' Western Pennsylvania Local showers Monday; Tuesday probably fair. For Detailed TV wither Report Se Second Paite, Kiahth Column Good Morning! 4 I BUTTLE CRUISERS' VALUE EftlED, SAYS U.S. ADMIRAL Prefers Them If Congress Recommends Only Four Capital Ships Efficiency Shown in Jutland Battle, Head of Naval War College Declares July 16. In response to a request by Secretary Daniels for an opinion on what lessons iyight be drawn for the naval expansion programme from the Jutland battle between the British and German fleets, Rear Knight of the Naval War College has replied that far from discrediting the battle cruiser, although vessels of that type bore the brunt of the losses in the engagement, the fight added a new area to the field of usefulness of the fast fighters.

The battle has not changed the admiral's opinion that dreadnoughts, are and will continue to be the backbone of any fighting fleet, but it has caused him to recommend that if Congress decides to add only four capital ships all should be battle cruisers. Did Dreadnoughts' Work "In my opinion," wrote the Admiral to the Secretary, "neither Admiral Jel-lieoe'6 report nor any other source of information at present available affords Continued on 4th Page, 1st Col. INDIGENT HOME INMATE AND SWIMMER DROWN Third Tragedy at Cit Institution in Three Weeks Two nersons were drowned yesterday in the Delaware River. One wa.s a man who was swimming with four friends. The other victim was an inmate of the Homo for the Indigent, at Holmesburg, and is said to be the third to lose his life in the river from that institution within six weeks.

Joseph Gorman, 27 years, of 202 Richmond street, was bathing in the river at the foot of Marlborough street. He was seized with cramps and drowned before his four companions could reach him. The cithers dived for the body and soon recovered it. Gorman was pronounced dead in St. Mary's Hospital and the body-taken to the Morgue.

John Smith. OS vears, was walking along the river bank iii front of the Home for the Indigent when he fell in the water. George of the city iceboats, which are-docked nearby, found the body iu about six feet of water. The man Svas pro-ntwnted dead by Dr. R.

C. Tierce, of the institution, but the body was taken down the river in the police launch Frank to the Columbia avenue wharf and from there to the Roosevelt Hospital in an ambulance, where the pulmotor was used without effect. Armour declared last night he will attend the Coroner's inquest and ask that a suitable guard be placed near the water front to keep the inmates from wandering in the water. He said he is kept busy, rescuing fteDle-minded men who wade into the river without realizing the danger. i I Fprriiil to Thr Itiquim: 1SQV1RER BtKEAV.

POST BCILDISG. WASHINGTON, D. C. July A scientific treasure trove expedition, backed by Wall Street millionaires, under the command of a United States naval exnert and advised bv irovernment sub-! marine authorities, i off the Virginia capes tonight and will reach its operating base tomorrow morning, according to information received here today. The first objective point of the expedition is the deep-Sv-a grave of the Ward Liner which was rammed four years ago by the United Fruit Company steamer Admiral Farragut.

and went down 5o miles off the Cape Charles Light, carrying to the bottom a cargo of silver bars and other treasure valued at more than a million dollars. Famous Diver Goes The expedition includes the steam vessels Titania, Fearless and F. II. Beck-wit a wrecking vessel, a yacht and a tug, and is under the command of George D. Stillson, for many years in charge of the government diving work, and the man who raised the submarine F-4 in Honolulu harbor last year.

It has been sent out from New York by the Interocean Submarine Engineering Company, of which Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S. retired, is the president. The company has been financed by Percy Rockefeller, Charles II.

Sabin and other internationally famous New York millionaires and Wall Street banking representatives. The fleet sail- ed from New York on Friday afternoon and will touch at Norfolk tomorrow. George D. ttiMsnn. the comroanilrr of the expedition, is regarded by Navy Department experts here as the greatest authority on deep-sea apparatus in the United States.

He left the government service last winter to superintend submarine operationa of a private film project to photograph under the sea a reproduction of Jules Verne's story, "Twenty- Thousand leagues Under the Sea." He has with him on the treasure hunt the government divers and submarine experts who aided him in the Jules Verne him project and in the raising of the r-4 at Honolulu. hese divers are equipped with the new deep-sea apparatus that does not require lifelines or air hose connections and which make possible long hours of work at great depths in the ocean. Bullion Worth $600,000 The first work of the treasure seekers will be to recover the silver bullion from the Merida. This part of the cargo alone is said to be valued at $000,000. The purser's safe containing money and valuables intrusted to him by the passengers, will be hailed to the surtace as soon as practicable.

If thjs first undertaking is carried out as rapidly as its promoters believe possible, the treasure-seeking expedition will turn its attention to other vessels wrecked on the A-Vtlantic Coast and which are known to contain treasure. The scope of the scheme will soon be extended to the salvage of boat sunk by submarines dur-inar the present European war. Government experts here estimate that more than 00 per cent, of the ships sunk at sea are in water o00 feet or less Continued on 6th Page, 7th. Col. Six 1G-K0UR HiS -AFTER SPECTACULAR mm More Than 400 Men and Women Fined or Held for Court Campaign Against.

Disorderly Houses and Criminals to Be Continued Fur mote than sixteen hours following the sensational rairls in the Tenderloin late Saturday night, two magistrates sat p.sterday in tlte Eleventh and Winter streets and Tenth and Button-wood streets police stations heating the cases of the 420 prisoners. Nearly 400 of the women and men arrested in disorderly houses in afl parts of the redliht district were either lined, held for court or sent to the House of Correction. Regarded as the biggest clean-up ever made in this city, the police net thrown out captured a number of notorious criminals who have been sought in all the Eastern cities. Director of Public Safety William If. personally directed the police action, declared last night that there would be no let-up in the movement to wipe out all flaunted vice in Philadelphia.

He said the raid was made with the knowledge and help of Mayor Thomas- I. Smith, and that the police plans' for the futuie conduct of this phase of metropolitan life had the direct approval of Mr. Smith. "Flaunted vice must go from said Director Wilson. "It has been steadily getting worse.

For more than two months Ave have been collecting evidence against disorderly houses, and last nk'hfs raid was our first shot. We're not. uuoiigh. jn addition, every ease where a magistrate lnlds a prisoner for court Avill be pressed to the limit. We will rush these 134 Warrants Sworn Out 1).

'larerx-e Oibboney. president of the Law and Order Society, likewise pre- O'ctea a clean sweep ot the citv. It was the Jaw and Order S-o-iety1 which col lected the evidence lor the Department of Public Safety and swore out 134 warrants before Magistrate Pennock. These were placed in the hands of Director Wilson, the entire plan having been worked out by the two organizations. from Mayor Smith, the Law and Order Society officials and Assistant Director Davis, very few iu police circles knew of the contemplated raid until shortly before o'clock, the hour Continued on 6th Page, 7th Col.

LOST- AND FOUND Itethe word or lr TWO USES). 30c. Bach additional line. lOHT Goll watch fob. with colld gold chnrm.

wrti initial A. 5th betwppn fjitard ap. ut Return Rfter T. M. to 112 W.

nanllujflon liberal re-wa rri. Julv IH. collie dotr. answers to nm of "IJuke;" txnlv elliwd all but neck and tin of tail. reward If returned to 245 East Indiana LOBT One wire wheel and two tires, between Coateaville und Incaiuer: liberal reward if returned to The Goodyear Tire and Rubber 2i7 N.

Hroad at. VILI, PARTY who found pocketbook on car leuTlojc NorrlHtown, 3.10 I'. July 16, ileae return name to address contained In If(-ketbook 1WT-Title to lota section division 1. New. 117 and 118.

In name of Milton H. Snyder. In K. of V. Greenwood Cemetery.

Application has been made for new titles. Other Lest and Found On Page -14 is OFFICIALS OF LORD'S DAY ALLIANCE VISIT STEELE REST Find Majority of Visitors Seated in Swings and Hammocks Committee in Time for Afternoon Service, But Does Not Stay Six members of the Lord's Day -Alliance of Delaware County made a sudden descent in fact, two sudden descentsyesterday afternoon upon the Rest Farms conducted by the Protestant Epis opal Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, at Springfield road, near Media. The alliance members dashed up to the farm in a swift automobile. The first time they discovered the Sabbath Day recreations of the hundred or more persons gathered there to consist chiefly in sitting about in swings and hammocks, quietly conversing in the shade of the trees about the place.

The second 'time, they arrived just in time lor trie alternoon service, which at tracted an extra crowd of two hundred more pers-ons from Philadelphia. "They left the farm just as a children's choir filed out of the barn, clad in sober black-and-white vestments, singing the processional hymn of the service "My Country, Ti9 of Thee." They reached the turning ofvthe first cross roads shortly before the opening words of the service, "The Lord Is in His Holy Temple; Let All the Earth Keep Sihnce Before Him!" were pronounced in the orchard grove by the vicar of Epiph'any Chapel, Rev. W. Arthur Warner. who conducted it in the absence, at New York, of the rector.

Rev. Dr. David M. Steele. The alliance delegation was headed by O.

M. Wait, its president. The other five members refused to give their names, but admitted that most of them were Continued on 2d Page, 7th CoL m-- KILLED BY SHIFTING TRAIN IN READING JERWIINAL SHED Scream of Inspector, Wedged Between Cars, First Warning to Crew Caught betweeri two cars which were being shifted, James Collins, 21 years old, an it spector employed by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Compaay, was crushed to death in the Reading Terminal at oon yesterday. He wa removed to the Hahnemann Hospital, where physicians said death had been instantaneous. His chest was crushed by the cars, which, had to be moved apart before the body conld released.

Collins' home was at 1133 Ey street. The inspector had been going about his duty while a train of cars was being placed in the station. A car left standing on the track had just been inspected by Collins. He failed to see the aj? proaching train' in time to avoid being struck. The min's scream when his body was crushed attracted the attention of the train ere shifting the cars and also of fellow -workmen, who ran to his assistance, only to find him wedged btwen the cars, dead.

FARM PHILADELPHIA LEADS New York Is Now in Second Place The figures below show how advertising is done in the newspapers of the two largest cities in the East. THE INQUIRER LEADS THEM ALL! The following figures, which in most instances have been furnished by the respective newspapers themselves, give the exact number of lines of paid advertising inserted in each one, during the first six months 6f this year. Jan. -June. 191ft 6,282,300 Lines PHILA.

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Sun Sunday Edition. Evening No The Inquirer has led all of its Philadelphia contemporaries for so long that its local supremacy has become an accepted fact everywhere. Its steady and consistent growth has now brought The Inquirer well out in the lead of the entire eastern field of newspapers. The Philadelphia Inquirer Now Stands First INQUIRER ADVERTISEMENTS PAY BIG DIVIDENDS Perry's Reduction Sale is ready for you! That's all about it here! Particulars page three! Perry 4N. B.

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