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VOL LIX NO. 183 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1918 10 PAGES 74 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS LULL IN HOSTILITIES 0 IDE SD1SS0NS-RHEIMS FRO Contending Armies Appear to Have Become Exhausted By Two Weeks of Incessant Fighting ONLY RECIPROCAL BOMBARDMENTS REPORTED Notwithstanding That Huge Reinforcements Have Been Sent to the German Front in the Soissons-Rheims Salient, the Teutons Have Not Had the Hardihood to Endeavor to Throw Back Their Antagonists At the Apex of the Battle Line Near Fere en Tardenois the Germans Are Showering the American Positions With Great Quantities of High Explosives and Gas Great Fires Behind the German Lines Indicate the Destruction of Further Vil- res Which It is Intended to Evacuate. Cabled Paragraphs Spanish Court to Mourn Czar. Madrid, June 31. The official journal announces that the Spanish court will go into mourning lor thirty days for Nicholas Romanoff, former emperor of Russia.

GERMAN AGENTS DICKERED FOR BOSTON JOURNAL Ex-Czar Collapsed at Execution Post WAS PROPPED UP AND SHOT BY BOLSHEVIKI Owners Became Suspicious and' Block, ed the Negotiations. lage Whether as a result of weariness two verks of incessant fighting, or because of the greatly increased strength in man power ar.d positions cf the er.emv forces before them, the aViied on the Soissons-Rheims front have noticeably decreased their efforts to clear the salient of Germans. If the pause in the offensive is attributable to weariness, the armies of the German crown prince also must be worn out by the pressure they have been under for the fortnieht, for. notwithstanding the fact that huge reinforcements were sent to them in their hour of peril, they have lacked the hard.ness to endeavor to throw hack their antagonists and recoup their losses. The fourteenth day of the great allied offensive which has resulted in d-iving back the Germans from the region northward across the ur-o river and in materially bending in the eastern and western side of he treat pocket with its mouth eross -country thirty-six miles from fmsn to Rheims.

saw little artiv.ty on the part of either of the contending foT-es except in the nature pf reciprocal bombardments. Tuesriiy rslit witnessed violent attempts by the Germans to expel the America; and French from the valu-ab! positions they hold north of the the resion of Fere en and along the western side of the near Oulchy la Chateau, where Scottish troops are holding with tne French the wedge that has been driven eastward into the enemy line. These efforts were entirely fruitless. A watchful eye is being- kept by the Germans on the Americans standing at the apex of the battle line near Fere en Tardenois. and the enemy guns are showering their positions with great, quantities of high explosives and gas shells.

The enemy also continues jealously to guard with huge effectives the extreme eastern and western flanks of the salient to ward off possible surprise attacks. The latest Berlin official communication asserts that more than 4,000 prisoners have been taken by the Germans in the past few days and that since July 15 in excess of 24,000 allied troops have been captured. Great fires behind the German lines indicate the destruction of further villages which it is intended to evacuate and press on. northward to a chosen battle line. With the approach of the commencement of the fifth year of the war the German emperor evidently realizes the seriousness of the situation.

In a proclamation to his army and navy he tells his men they are facing the hardest struggle of the war but that they will.be able to foil "the desperate efforts of the enemy." What may result in aggravating the already serious situation between the Germans and the Ukrainians is the assassination of Field Marshal Yon Eichhorn, the German chelator in the Ukraine, and his adjutant. They were killed by the explosion of a bomb thrown oy a native in Kiev. 13 ENDSTED MEN IN GERMEN PRISON CAMPS Ten of the Men Named Are From Connecticut. Washington. July 51.

Names of r. enlisti'd men of the American expeditionary forces, held in Germany as prisorers of war, were announced tonight by the war department. The men and camps where they are held are fellows: Camp llamrm-'lhurs: Corporal Warren Andrews, Meriden. and Privates Chester Warren. Mounds-wile.

W. Ya; Ernest A. French. New Haven. ani Warren E.

Thompson. Newark, N. J. Camp Darmstadt: Sergeants Henry Woods. 107 Plymouth street.

eNw Haven. Frank L. Smith, Revere. Joseph F. Nolsn.

Hartford. Frederick Miller. Evergreen court New Have.n. Edward A. Patenajide, West Haven, Camp Limberg: Corporals James Coleman.

371 Remington street. Fridreport. Roy Coryleton, of I Miles Dunning, rorest-'ille. Patrick Meehan. Springfield.

and Lee Whitehead. Jeffrey. Privates Leonard Colburn, 419 Orchard street. New Haven, F.dwaxd N. Poherty, Newton Center.

John McCartin, 50 Thompson street. New Haven and Patrick Wall. County Leltam. Ireland. Camp Iandshut: Sergeant Thomas Fuffnm.

Paris, France. GRADUATED EXCISE TAX ON USE OF AUTOMOBILES MARCEL KNECHT TALKS JO K. OF C. WAR SECRETARIES New York, July 21. Anthony Ar-noux, one-time military critic of the Boston Journal and author of a history of the European war which was said to have been popular with pro-Germans, was recommended as a "military expert" to Dr.

Edward Rumely, of the New York Evening Mail, by George Sylvester Vierick. declared Deputy Attorney General Pecker here tonight. Mr. Becker, in giving out ad ditional testimony obtained by the ex animation of Vierick, also quoted (Jhar.es c. Ware.

one ot the own ers of the. Journal in 191 n. Examined by Mr. Becker, Mr. Ware said that "all the Germans in Boston were crazy about Arnoux's articles in the Journal, although not approving the editorial policy of the paper.

Arnoux. he said, had been engaged to take charge, as a military expert soon after the war began. He had not been employed on any other paper, but had been practicing law in New York, where he was born. Mr. Ware, according to Mr.

Becker, also tola or negotiations which Dr. t-ernhard JJernburg and Dr. Hugo sichwettzor, who died in New York last year, opened with him looking to the purchase of the Boston Journal by German interests. Mr. Ware said that the pa pei was in financial difficulties, but $78,000 of a needed $100,000 had been raised.

The paper was experiencing difficulties in obtaining the ether $22,000, he said, when Dr. R. Hue) tz. representing the Bayer Chem ical Company in boston, and Dr. Ed mund Yon Mach, a former professor at Harvard and author of "What Germany Wants," undertook to help them.

Dr. Huertz. he said, called on Dr. Dernburg in New Tork. and later came to New York to see him.

On his turn. Ware told Mr. Becker, he said there was a good chance of getting the money, and Dr. Schweitzerfs name was mentioned. Warev said he asked whether Dr.

ScJiweitzer was putting up the money himself and Huertz re plied that he might be "representing others. This made Ware believe that they "had some axe to grind" and he did not accept the $22,000. The Journal later was sold to the Boston Herald. Arnoux. when examined by Mr.

Becker, said he was born in New York city. Mr. Becker said he had a let ter in Theodore Jofrann Ritter, a publisher and hnokselier of Boston, wrote to Arnoux on March 11, 1918, that his "History of the -European War" had "great possibilities" even at that time, and "we have at last suc ceeded in convincing the Vierick com pany of the great possibilities of your history and they are eager at present to start their propoganda." A number of otner letters from Rit ter were made puhlic by Mr. Becker in one of. which 'he expressed the-bHief that 'we can selV a good many since this is the only pro-German history of the war in the English language" and in another that "it should be in the library of every fair minded person and of every German sympathizer." Ritter has since been interned.

HAD 2 HOURS NOTICE Received Announcement of Sentence of Death With Calmness and Subsequently Wrote Several Letters. ore Foodstuffs Than a Year Ago LARGER STOCKS ARE IN DEAL-ERS' HANDS SURVEY MADE JULY 1 Exceptions Are White Flour, Buckwheat Flour, Sugar and Canned Corn Big Increase in Whole Wheat. Condensed Telegrams The harvest of wheat and oats is in full swing. An Allied Chamber of Commerce has been organized in. Buenos Aires.

The War Department announced the organization of a signal corps unit at Yale University. Major-General Baron Marschfall has become chief of the German Emperor's military cabinet. One man was killed when the American steamer Tippecanoe was torpedoed and sunk Thursday. Amsterdam. July 31 (bv A.

P.I Given two hours in which to prepare for the end. Nicholas Romanoff, for mer' Russian emperor, was taken out by his executioners in a state of such collapse that- it Was necessary to prop mm against a post, says the Lokal-Anzeiger, of Berlin, which claims to have received from a high Russian personage an account of the emper or's last hours. Awakened at 5 a. m. Nicholas was awakened at Ave o' clock on the morning of the day of his execution by a patrol of a non-commissioned officer and six men.

He was told to dress, and was then taken to a room where the decison of ths Soviet council was communicated to him. H-) was informed the execution would be carried out in two hours. The former emperor, it is added, received the announcement of the sentence of. death with great calmness. He returned to his bedroom and collapsed in a chair.

After a few minutes he asked for a uriestl with whom he was allowed' to remain, unattended. Subsequently he, wrote several letters. Unable to Rise. From Chair. When the escort arrived to take him to the place of execution, attempted to rise from his chair, but was not able.

The priest and- a FOldier were obliged to heln him get to his feet. The condemned man descended the stairs with difficulty and once he fell down. As he was unable to stand without support when the place of execution was reached, he was propped against a post. He raised his hands and seamed to be trying to sneak, but the rifles were fired and he fell 'dead. Washington, July 31.

Stocks of foodstuffs in dealers' hands are generally larger than they were a year ago. A survey made July 1 by the department of agriculture shows increase in the most important foodstuffs except ing white flour, which was 51.1 per cent, less than a year ago; buckwheat flour 37. 4 per cent, less; rice 41.1 per cent, less; sugar 22.8 per cent." less, and canned corn 12.1 per cent Percentages of Increase. Quantities of whole wheat and graham flour were 1 per cent, larger than a year ago; rye flour 244.8 per corn meal 116.5 per mixed flour JOO.S per corn 56.1 per barley 36 per rye 27.9 per. bean 73.1 per rolled oats 33.6 per canned salmon 17.5 per condensed milk 12.1 per cent, and evaporated milk 36 per cent.

George Sylvester Viereck was author of the German plan to buy a paper in each of thirty leading American cities. Thirty persons killed and 60 injured when a Japanese munition train blew up at Japan. WAR IS COSTING U. S. $50,000,000 A DAY America's Expenses Are Running About 50 Per Cent Higher Than Those of Great Britain OUR NATIONAL WAR DEBT IS $12,500,000,000 Yesterday's casualty list reveals that a soldier named Shannon, of 222 Vil-braharn road, Springfield, has died.

The sale of War Saving and Thrift Stamps announced by the Treasury-amounted to $85,055 015 for the week of July 22. CAPT. AUBREY W. VAUGHAN PLACED UNDER $10,000 BOND. Pleaded Not Guilty to Charges of Conspiracy to Rob the Government.

More Than 100 Who Are About to Sail For France. WIRE COMMUNICATION IS UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL. Dedication of the new headauarters building of the United Society of Christian Endeavor took place yesterday in Boston. Thomas Francis Anson, the third Earl of Lichfield, was found dead with a gunshot wound in the head at his estate in Stafford. The United States Has Superseded Great -Britain as the Financial Source From Which the Other Allied Nations Draw, But the Loans Made By Great Britain Still Exceed By One Quarter the Aggregate of Loans Made By This Country United States is Now Collecting About $4, 000,000 By Taxation Annually.

Bertha Hehter, 12 years old, of Ho- boken, was drowned while bathing in the Housatonic river at South Britain last night. WILSON SENDS GREETINGS TO CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR ERS New York, July 31. Comparins Knights of Columbus secretaries who have been accepted for overseas ser vice to French pioneers and missionaries, Marcel Knecht of the French high commission addressed here today more than 100' of. the war workers about to sail for France. "As you are our allies forever do not forget to get in close touch with our brave soldiers," said M.

Knecht. "Our French population, old men and women, boys and children, have lost everything, their houses, even their old churches bombarded and destroyed. Give them comfort and prove your magnificent Christian spirit and brotherhood. Remember that you are going there as Americans. "The Knights of Columbus have tried help and entertain American soldiers without distinction of creed.

In France you will follow the same inspiration and not only cheer the French Catholics, who represent a majority of our population, but also the Protestants, the Jews and every Frenchman with whom you are now brothers in the cause of humanity." of Has Been Agreed Uoon by the House Ways and Means Committee. Washington July 31. A federal irraduate excise tax on the use of tutomobfles running from $10 a year on cars originally retailed at not ex ceeding $5M to a $60 tax on $3,000 cars, and $20 additional for each $500 above was agreed to today Xy the honse ways and means committee which is framing the new $8 000.000 -onp re-venue bill. The tax applies di rectly to the owners, while the tax of ten per cent on gross sales of auto mottle ana nve per cent on grossj sales or auto trucKs. agreed to yesterday, applies to the manufacturers, producers and importers of cars.

The tax on use of cars Is based on the oriirtnal listed retail price of the car, resrardlesw of the year of manufacture. The committee also agreed to a tax of two cents per gallon on the production of gsrtrne and a federal excise tax of $5 a year on the use of motor cycles. WOULD UKE TO BE GOVERNOR OF BAY STA I b. CoL W. A.

Gaston Enters Contest for the Democratic Nomination. Boston. July SI. CoL William A. Gaston, a banker of this city, today formally announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination for governor.

believe that as governor." he said, "I can the more contribute to the airpport of President Wilson In his great task of winning the war than I can In any other wayr" Cotonel Gaston ta.te chairman of the advisory wm-nitttee of the war industries board. There are two other announced candidates for the nomination R. H. lynxx. a ahoe manufacturer of Fram-lnrham.

and Frederick W. Mansfield of thif crty. who received the nominates iust yeajci LIBERTY LOAN CAMAPIGN IS TO OPEN SEPT. Will Run Three Weeks Inster.d Four as in Previous Campaigns. Washington, July 31.

The campaign for the fourth Liberty loan will open Saturday, September 2S, and continue three weeks, ending October 19, it was announced tonight by Secretary Mc-Adoo. In fixing three weeks as the length of the campaign for the fourth loan Instead of the four weeks as in previous loans, treasury officials plan for a more intensive campaign. A shorter campaign-it was said, also will enable more business men to enlist as workers. The date of the campaign was announced at this time in order to allow campaign organizations to prepare for the sale of bonds and to prevent the planning of other campaigns which might interfere with the flotation of the loan. Although official announcement has not been made, ahe amount of the loan probably will be $6,000,000,000 and the rate of interest which the bonds will bear 4 1-4 per cent.

Should the treasury decide soon to place on the market certificates of indebtedness redeemable next June when taxes are paid, the amount of the loan may be reduced. At Dedication of New Headquarters Building in Boston. Boston July 31. A message from President Wilson conveying friendly greetings and congratulations was read tonight at the ceremony incident to the dedication here of the new headquarters building of the United r-' iety of Christian Endeavor. Members of the society in this country and abroad contributed to the general building fund.

A service flag with 140 each representing 1,000 members from this country with the colors, was among the decorations. Rev. Francis C. Clark, founder and president of the organization, said: "Our brave Endeavor allies in England, Canada, Australia and France, Italy, Japan and China deserve a service flag decorated with as many more glorious stars, nearly, if not quite, 300.000 in all." Lines Were Taken Over by Postoffiee Department Last Night. Washington.

July ,31. Control of telephone and telegraph lines was taken over at midnight tonight by the postoffiee department and -their operation placed under the general' supervision of a special committee created for the purpose by Postmaster, General Burleson. Mr. Burleson announced that until further notice' the companies will continue orrration 4n-the ordinary course through the regular channels and that all officers and employes will continue in the performance of their present duties on the same terms of employment: The plan is, however, to coordinate, the facilities of the various companies to tme best interest of the public and the stockholders. Investigations into wire conditions being- conducted by the special comr mittee composed of First Assistant Postmaster General Koons.

David J. Lewis, former, member of the' tariff commission, and William H. Lamar, solicitor of the- Bostefnce department, will be continued so that all possible information can be secured before any changes are undertaken: New York, July 31. Capt. Aubrey W.

Vaughan of the quartermaster's reserve corps, Felix Gouled, a manufacturer, and David L. Podell. a law yer, pleaded not guilty to changes of conspirae yto defraud the government in connection with army raincoat contracts in the federal court today. Bail was fixed at $10,000 in the cases of Captain Vaughan and Gouled, and Podell was put under $5 000 bonds. Federal prosecutors charged that Gouled.

who has a small factory at Weehawken X. obtained seven or eight large contracts for the manu facture cf raincoats for the govern ment on consideration of the payment of a "commission" of 3 per cent part of which, they said, was divided with Captain Vaughan and other officers of the United States army. Millions of dollars, it is said, were involved in the contracts. Captain Vaughan. arraigned, protested his innocence, adding that he kne wonly two persons mentioned in the case.

Captain Vaughan. who is 39 years old, joined the officers' reserve corps in April: 1917. He has v. wife and four children in Newton. Mass.

Before joining the army he was an industrial engineer' for the laeKine, company Xowell, Mass. All men civilians attached to the army are prohibited in a Department order from taking gold with them to foreign ports. Flight Cadet George Ruple Wallace, of Washington. was killed in an airplane accident while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. Major-Gen.

Williams, chief of ordnance, announced that an airplane flare having a brilliancy of 400,000 candle power has been perfected. INDIAN TRIBE TO DECLARE WAR AGAINST GERMANY. The Onondagas of New York State Tribesmen Imprisoned in Germany. Syracuse. X.

July 31. Edward H. Gohl, adopted 'Onondaga Indian and adviser of the tribe, announced tonisht he had been delegated by the Onon dagas to dratt a declaration of war against Germany for the imprisonment of 17 members of the tribe at the outbreak of the war in 1914. rne Indians put in prison were a part of circuses. The Indians were insulted and beaten by the Germans and Austrians and finally imprisoned for their own protection, but later their release was obtained.

By the terms of a treaty with Gen eral George Washington and 23 chiefs of the Onondaga tribe in 1783 the Onondagas were declared a separate nation in the United States and both sides always have respected the treaty. BUOYING UP SPIRITS OF GERMAN PEOPLE ALLIED AVIATORS ACTIVE THE; WHOLE FRONT In Aerial Combats Jwly.28 and 29 Fourteen Enemy Airplanes Were Disabled. AERIAL ACTIVITY OF AMERICANS HAS INCREASED Coal movement by railroad in the eastern region this month increased from 153 543 to 192.658 cars over the corresponding time last year. Washington, July 31 Cby A. America's war expenses now are running about 30 per cent, highjer than those of Great Britain, it was shown today by comparison of treasury reports and a.

newly issued British financial statement. Owing to the shorter time the United States has been in the war, however, her national war deot is only one-third as large as that of Great Britain, and the individual burden of taxation in nhis country now is only about one-half as much as it is in England. Although the United States has largely superseded Great Britain as the financial reservoir on which the other allied nations draw, the aggregate of such loans by this country still is one-fourth less than Great Britain's. The monthly cost of the war to the United Slates now is about $1,500 000 -000, including loans to allies, while Great Britain's expenses are running in the neighborhood of $1,000,000,000 a month. The United States is spending about $30 000,000.000 a day, or more than an hour.

The nation's war debt is now a little less than $12. 500.0110,000, as compared with Great Britain's 538,675.000,000. Before the war, both nations lected about the same amount of taxes everv year, approximately Xow Great Britain collects $3,270,000,000 and the United States about $4 000 000 000, but the population in America is doublt that of Great Mritain. If this country's taxes were proportionately as heavy, the American people would be called on to furnish annually about $8,000,000,000 by taxation, pr the amount which the treasury proposes should be raised this year under the new revenue bill now being framed by the house ways and means committee. STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF BELL TELEPHONE CO.

Reports have reached the state department in a roundabout way that Ambassador Francis and all the allied diplomats left July 23. Secretary Houston reported to the Senate that practically all the phosphate rock produced in this country is being used for agricultural purposes. The biggest appropriation demanded since the begging of the war will be submitted to the House of Commons, tomorrow. It will represent oooooo. Paris, July 31, During the fighting on July 28 and 29 the allied aviators were active along the whole front of the battle between the Aisne and the Marne according to the Havas correspondent at the front.

On July 28 Frenih and British bombing planes dropped over twenty tons of projectiles upon cantonments and roads in the Ardre and Vesle valleys and upon railroad stations end military objectives in the same region. On July 29 and the following night 36 tons of bombs were dropped, fires and explosions being caused. There were many aerial combats during the course of which fourteen enemy machines were shot down or forced to land disabled. Owing to the Fact That the Weather Has Cleared. With the American Army in France, July 31.

(By The Associated Press.) Aerial activity was greatly increased today owing to the fact that the weather, after-several weeks of storms, has cleared. American aviators undertook reconnaissance missions, chiefly, bur the pursuit machines also were up. Two American fliers attacked two German scouts over Montsec, in the Woevre, and drove one enemy plane down. The Germans put over a heavy barrage in the Woevre sector this morning. It lasted more than half an hour and it is probable that they sent infantry across behind tlje barrage.

But their fire was entirely wasted, as the positions had been evacuated. The destruction of a German balloon on July 29 has been verified and another was brought down yesterday. NEWS DIRECT FROM THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. 0. H.

Cheer of McCann 4 Pittsburgh, joined the Food Administration as a volunteer export in the retail distribution of butter, eggs, cheese and poultry. KAISER ISSUES PROCLAMATION TO GERMAN ARMY AND NAVY. Striking shoe, cutters at a mass meeting at Brockton, refused to return. to work on recommendation of the state board of conciliation and arbitration. The American Flint Glass Workers' Union was granted another increase in' wages by the Xational Association of Manufacturers of Pressed and Blown Glassware.

CONTINGENTS OF JEWS ARRIVE IN PALESTINE Men Who Have Been Trained in Canada and England. York, July 31. Safe arrlval in Palestine of the first two contingents of the American Jewish legion was announced tonight by the Zionist or ganization of America. Recruited last spring, the men have been trained in Canada and and will join the Jewish regiment enrolled in London and already on the-firing line' with the British forces near Jaffa. LOANS BY FRANCE TO ALLIED AND FRIENDLY NATIONS Satisfactory Progress Made on the Aisne-Marne Front.

the With the American Army on Aisne-Marne i-ront, July 31 p. (By The Associated Press). General Degoutte, commanding the army on this front, expressed to the correspondents today his satisfaction at the pregress already made and the hope that the advance would continue until the Germans were forced beyond their new positions. It had been a keen satisfaction to him, he said, to have American cooperation in the battle, and he was frank in his praise of the manner in which the Americans were carrying out their part. Some of the officers now in the line be had met at the time of the Boxer rising in China, when he was a captain.

The American forces now occupy the hills beyond Seringes and Sergy. Dr. Von Kuehlmann, former German foreign secretary, will be a candidate for the reichstag at a coming by-election in Berlin, the Vossische Zeitung says. Eighteen persons, indicted for alleged thefts of beef from the army quartermaster's department, pleaded not guilty in the federal court in New ork yesterday. A freight steamer bound north through tjie Cap Cod canal ran into the Sagamore highway bridge during a heavy fog early Tuesday, demolishing the structure.

Calling Upon All Employes of the Line to Maintain Their Loyalty. New York. July 31. Theodire Va'le. president of the American Bell Telephone Company, today issued a statement to all employes of the Bell lines asking them to continue to show P'their fine sense of obligation and loyalty and fidelity to the public service" under arovernment control, which begins tonight at midnight that they have displayed in the past.

The state ment was issued after a meeting held by the company's officers to discuss cont'nuation of their duties under the federal regime. It was indicated that it was expected that the companv's affairs, would run along virtually as usua.l. JI Vail -said "at 'a" conference in Washington the postmaster-general asked co-operation and assistance; "He was equally emphatic in the statement of his desire to conserve the ser vice and properties of the companies a. view to returning them when called upon to do so to the owners in as good condition as received," Mr. Vail added.

"It was his desire that the owners should receive just compensation in the fu'l sense for their use. "The postmaster-general, until other instructions are issued, desires that the conduct of operations shall continue as heretofore and a'so states that no changes will be made until after consultation and full and careful consideration." ANOTHER PEACE LETTER BY MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE Warns Them That They Are Facing the Hardest Struggles of the War. Amsterdam. July 31. Emperor William has issued a proclamation, dated Aug.

1, addressed to the German army and navy, saying that they are facing the hardest struggles of the war and expressing his own and the country's confidence, that they will be able to foil "the desperate efforts of the enemy," sa-s a Berlin despatch received here. The proclamation reads: 'Serious years of war lie behind.you. The German people, convinced of its just cause, resting on its hard sword and trusting in God's gracious help. has. with its faithful allies, confronted a world of enemies.

Your victorious fighting spirit carried the. war in the. first year into -the enemy's country and. preservel the homeland from, the horrors and devastation of war. the second and third years of the war, by your destructive blows, broke the strength of the enemy in the east.

Meanwhile, your comrades in the west offered a brave and victorious front to enormously superior forces. "As the fruit of these victories, the fourth year of the war has brought us peace in the east. In the west the enemy was heavily hit by the force of. your assault. The battles won in recent months count among the highest deeds of fame in German history.

"You are in the midst of the hardest struggle. The desperate efforts of the enemy will, as hitherto, be foiled by your bravery. Of that I am certain, and, with me, the entire Fatherland." Read at a Conference of His Supporters in London Yesterday. 510 LOCOMOTIVES HAYE BEEN ORDERED FOR FRANCE About 10,000 Freight Cars Will Be Ordered Within a Few Days. A GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL WAS MURDEDED IN KIEV.

Killing of Von Eichhorn Has Created Consternation Among German Officials London, July 31. A despatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam says the murder in Kiev Tuesday Field Marshal Von Eichhorn, the German commander of the Ukraine, has created consternation in German official circles and that it is expected the German government will demand immediate and exemplary punishment of the assassin under the threat of occupying more land in the Ukraine. The German newspapers, the corre spondent adds, unanimously assert that Germany must interfere with her full strength Rssia if Germany does not desire to lose what prestige she Btill has in the east. President of Reichstag Has Dreams of a Victorious Kaiser. Amsterdam.

June 31. The president of the German reichstag, Herr Fehren-back. in response to-a congratulatory address made to him by the people of Freiburg, said: "I joyfully look forward to the time when I can offer the victorious kaiser the thJfhks of the German nation. True, we are far from that yet. but we must not lose courage, even if some more hundreds of thousands of Americans come over.

There is no doubt of final German victory." Minister of Finance Introduces a For 3,015,000,000 Francs. Bill CELEBRATED SUCCESS OF THE ENTENTE OFFENSIVE Inhabitants of Liege, Belgium, Incur Displeasure of German Governors. London, July 31. The Maastricht newspaper Les Nouvelles says the inhabitants of Liege, Belgium, held an enthusiastic public demonstration over the success of the entente offensive on the Marne salient, during which the Marseillaise was snng. Because of this, the newspaper adds, the German governor has ordered the curfew rung at seven o'clock in the evening for.

several weeks and the city also has been fined. i Paris, July 31. M. Klotz. minister of finance, today introduced a-bill In the chamber of deputies authorizing the government to advance 3,015 000.000 francs to allied and ifriendly nations in addition to the 7.166.000.000 already advanced.

The new amount Includes a sum necessary to pay the Russian coupons for six OBITUARY. Washington, July 31. The war de partment has ordered 310 locomotives for military railroads in France from the Baldwin Locomotive Works at a total cost of about $23,000,000, it was announced today. About 10,000 freight cars for service in France, costing One hundred and twenty eranemen at the Fore River and Squantum plants of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation, who struck Tuesday, returned to work yesterday. Forty-five Cambridge men who arrived at Camp Devens yesterday protested when they learned they had been classified as conscientious objectors by their draft board.

The Department of Agriculture announced that, though lack of shipping 40,000 tons of nitrates from Chile, contracted for delivery in February, cannot be shipped this year. Commandeering of the yellow pine industry of the south may be resorted to by Chairman Baruch of the war industries board unless the government's needs are fully supplied. WOULD CUT PRODUCTION OF PNEUMATIC TIRES Two coffee cencerns were ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to discontinue the distribution of premium coupons redeemable for articles of unequal value based on chance. The price of milk to the consumer in Greater Boston during August and September has been fixed at 15 cents a quart and 8 1-2 cents a pint by the Xew England regional milk commission. London, July 31.

Another letter on peace prospects, written by the Mar quis of Lansdowne, was read at a conference of his supporters today. This latest utterance proposes no new policy; it consists largely of criticism of the allies for their failure to state their wat aims more specifically and urges them to take advantage of any opportunity for a discussion of terms. The chief importance of Lord Lans-downe's letter is that he is the only British (statesman of first rank who is listed in his own country and abroad, whether correctly or otherwise, as a pacifist, and his words will be given the greatest publicity in the countries of the central powers, where it is insisted they represent a powerful portion of British thought. Earl Ceauchamp presided over the conference, and Baron Buckmaster. former lord chancellor, and a few pacifist inembtrs of the lords and commons attended.

A sympathetic letter from Arthur Henderson, the labor leader in the house of commons, was read. The new Lansdowne letter has been apathetically received in political circles. The creneral parliamentary opinion is said to be well summarized in the comment of "one member of the house of commons: "The letter is simply an elongation of Lansdowne's previous pronouncement, but it is an elongation leading nowhere." Decisions by the war labor board on about $1 000,000, will be ordered1 with: i ZfZtZZl.J, 1 ZT in a few days. Henry Shaler Williams. Havana, July 31.

Henry Shaler Williams of Ithaca.i X. died here today of pleurisy. He was 71 years old. Professor Williams was well known as a geologist. His research work in CCuba resulted in the development of oil fields in the Island.

Henry Shaler Williams was bom In Tthaca "in 1847. He graduated from Yale fn 1868. held the professorship of mutual science in the University of Kentucky from 1871 to 1872 and. was professor of geology in the same university from 5880 to also held professorships, at 1 Cornell and Yale and has been emeritus professor of geology at Cornell since 1912. Professor Williams was' the author of numerous worksicn geology OVER 300,000 POUNDS OF SMOKELESS POWDER BURNED I ous cities, inciuc'ing Boston and Provi-! dence, will be handed down today.

Warehouse of Dupont Powder Co. Carney's Point Destroyed Wilmington, August 1. Fire of unknown origin early today destroyed a warehouse of the Dupont Powder Company at Carney's Point, on the Delaware River opposite this city. More than 300,000 pounds of smokeless powder was burned, causing a loss of about $200,000. Xo one was hurt.

George Ehret. the New York brewer, a( who psoperty recently was taken over 1 by the government because of his residence in Germany since the United States entered the war, is now reported to be in Denmark. A delegation of labor leaders under Bourke Cpckran. of Xew York, called at the White House to ask the President to transfer i the case of Thomas Mooney from the California state court to the Federal courts. In August and September 50 Per Cent Less Than Last Year.

Xew York. July 31. Fifty per cent cut in production of pneumatic tires in August and September, as compared with the same months last year, was asked of the rubber industry in a letter from George X. Peek, commissioner of finished products of the war industries board, which was read before 400 members of the trade at a meeting here today. This reduction would be exclusive of government business.

Mr. Peck in bis letter also asked for festriction in the manufacture of all other rubber articles, pointing out that the amount of crude rubber being con sumed is far in excess of the import tonnage licensed. After assertion by small manufac turers that th.2 request would work a hardship on them, the war service committee of the rubber industry adopted a resolution asking that the restrictions be altered to allow an outt put of automobile casings and tubes during August and September equal in volume to the average monthly production for the first six months. of the year. This resolution was sent to Mrl Peek.

COMMUNITY GARDEN HAS BEEN OPENED IN BOSTON To Prevent Waste from the 30,000 Home Gardens There. Boston. July 31. To prevent waste from 30 000 home gardens in metro politan Boston a community market was opened today in Horticultural hall by the Suffolk county food administration for the sale of fresh vegetables. Investigation disclosed that the war gardens were producing food faster than owners could dispose of it and the community market was inaugurat ed to meet the need.

A small charge was made upon every gardener offer mg products. Prices generally were below market Promotions in the Marine Corps. Washington, July 31. These promotions in the marine corps were approved today by President Wilson: Brigadier General John A. Lejeune to be a permanent major Brigadier General L.

W. T. Waller to be a temporary major general, and Colonels' James E. Mahoney, Charles G. Long, Benjamin H.

Fuller, Wendell Cyrus John T. Meyers and Albertus W. Catlin to be temporary brigadier 'generals. The Cudahy Packing company of Chicago was ordered by the federal trade commission to discontinue its practice compelling jobbers to maintain the company's fixed re-sale price. of "Old Dutch Cleanser." i Members of the Cuban mission, which is authorized to negotiate a sale of the 1919 sugar crop to the -United States, conferred in Xew York with the International Sugar Committee.

The price-filing was for the government. MACHINISTS PLEDGE LOYALTY TO WILSON 1,500 in the Fore River Yards Tele graphed Resolutions. TO CO-ORDINATE FOOD SUPPLY AND EXPORT; Commission is to Be Composed of Two Men from Each of the Allied Countries. London, July 31. Announcement was made tonight that the committee of representatives appointed by the food controllers of Great Britain.

France and Italy and the United States to study various programs of food supply and transport and co-ordinate programs among the various com modifies with shipping, and supervise their execution will be composed of two men from each country. The British members will he Sir John Beale chairman, and F. L. Turner, secretary. The names of the other representatives will be announced later.

DUCHESS DE CHOISEUL WINS FRENCH GOLD MEDAL" Quincy, July 31. Fifteen hun dred machinists- in the' Fore River i yards of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation today telegraphed resolutions of loyalty to President Wilson. shop meetings adopted the resolutiors. which included pledges'to foresro gladly personal advantages and comforts, that- the government might pursue its course to bring about a successful termination of the war. They also declared asainst any word or act by themselves or others that would obstruct the maximum output of the plant.

Formerly Claire Coudert, Daughter of Frederick R. Coudert of New York. "Paris. July 31. The Duchess de Choiseul has been awarded the French gold medal for activity in hospital work, according to an announcement made by the Official Journal today.

The duchess formerly was Claire Cou-i. dert daughter of Frederic R. Coudert, a Xew York lawyer. The Duchess de Choiseul has been active in relief work since the war b-gan, devoting her attention particularly to the care of tuberculosis French soldiers. Last' year she was awarded the silver medal for hospital-work..