Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 240, Lebanon, Boone County, 9 July 1917 — Page 1

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IIALWIISES ' Key Position on Dneister River Strongly Attacked. ' OTHER GALICIAN VILLAGES STORMED French Repulse German Counter . Assaults on the Aine River. ( Ike InlerMlitmal :f Hertlrf.l PETHOGRAH, July . Russian troops have captured several villages in the neighborhood o( Stanlslau and have taken 7.M1 prisoners and 4H guns in the rf sumption of violent fighting Galiria, II was officially announced today. The Teutons are retreating an a front of considerable width. Gen. Knrmilulf rrportrd today. Rasaian cavalry, pressing an in pursuit, has reached the l.uvka river.' I l alrrsaMnani Xere SrH-e.) part of the French trenches lout to the Germans between Bovetlf Ridge and Chevregny on the Aisne river front were recaptured by the French is a aerie of brilliant operation Sunday night, the aar office announced today. The French drove forward on a mile wide front and swept irresistibly into the German' new positions. It wa in tni dtairri that lie crown prince had delivered a num her of attack an Sunday, advancing agihrat the French position in foar column. to t ttermUtm4t Xeiee Merviet.) PETROORAD, July Russiaa fruns are pounding the Austro-German defense of Halirx, a key position on the Dneister river about sixty mile outhaat of Lemberg. Fifteen milp south of Halici, in the Stunilsna sector, On. BrusilofTs men drove forward in a sudden attack on Sunday, mailing an important fain. Advice frcm the front today aaid that the Germans and Austre-Hungar-iana were bomljsrding the new Russian linea in the Stanis'au sector ami were evidently preparing for severe counter attacln. (Stanislau He upon the main railway that crosses Galicia, directly aouth of the eonflurno of the Lukwa an'l Dneister river. It baa extensive railroad ahop ami industrial plants and a population of about 35,000.. It is 75 mile south of Lemberg.) In the Pinsk district, where violent fighting wa reported on Saturday, artillery duels are under way. The enthusiasm throughout the country over the success of the offensive is growing. Sailors from the Baltic fleet are clamoring to be sent to the front to get in the fighting. German Repulsed. A brilliant success for the French at Verdun and the repulse of renewed German counter assaults on the Aisne river front were reported by the French today. Three strongly fortified German salients at Veriiun, two southwest of Hill No. 304 and one west of Dead Man Hill, were carried in storm attacks. The German attacks on the Aiane were delivered by four columns and were aimed at four French sectors. Between. Froidmont Farm and BovetUr, south of the Aisne, the Germans penetrated a first line French trench and were able to hold it but in the three other sectors they were repulsed with heavy loss of life. The attacks were preceded by strong nomoaroments. British troops on the Arras front carried out a successful trench raid in the Harglcourt sector last night, capturing thirty German," the war omee announced today. A violent artillery dual baa de. eloped in tn Monastir sector of the Macedonian front, according to official advice from Salonika today. British avteiors have bombarded tlx Bulks' n tn ,ry at B an Angina, fourteen m'e taut of

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1A FULL UNMARKED IDs Ik laUruiMO Xnri rrfr. CiiiCA0, J!y 9. -E. H. R. Green, on of Hetty Green, today admitted bo had received 9,011 proposals, but dodged the uucs. tion whether he was going tc snap up no. .uui today. "I'm not going to tret married Tuesday and I wont rive the bride's tame," he said. "But then, if I were, being a gentleman, my aiiswef ould be the same. I rpif U tt r..arried today, though." "Oris never can tell what the day will bring forth. Look at the Goulds." PARLIAMENT TO MEET. Greek (abin-l to Convoke Legislative Body to Meet July 23. (fly la piers ftosaf .Vevi SrrWr.) ATHKN'S, July 9. At i meeting of the cubinet today it was decided to onvoLe parliament on July 2f. king Alexander is annulling the decree of dissolution issued by his father in June, 1915. Premier Venixelos will go before parliament and make an extended taterncnt on the actual conditions in Greece, giving the reason-, fur the Salcn'ka movement against Constantine. King Alexander will retake oath before parliament FURTHER DELAY IN THE DRAFTING OF WORM Only Sixteen States Have Completed Plans For Drawing. DATE OF DRAWING sfJTILL UNKNOWN All New Army May Not De Able to Get Into Camp Until in Septe-nber. (fls fa inrsrititrioaal Jtewe Berritt.) WASHINGTON', July . Still fur ther delay in the drafting of the million odd men was evidenced today when it was announced that only six teen states and the District of Colum bia have completed their preparations for the drawing. The date and the manner of the drawing are still un known, although speculation 'has out lined the time and method many times. The states that have announced themselves as ready for the drawing are Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Inland, South Carolina, Tenn essee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. It is regarded as significant that none of the more populous states. such as New York, Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania, have completed their plans. The work of the state board. in such states as these will he much more complicated by the number of men involved. Because of delays in the states. work here will be held up and pre dictions now are that the war depart ment will not be able to get the new army into camp until after September 1, the tentative date announced. WILL BE DEFERRED. Big Government Armor Plate Plant Will Not be Built Now. (fly Ihs NfenMltMOl ewt ferric.) WASHINGTON, July 9. The build ing of an $11 .000,009 armor plate plant and a fliOO.OoO naval laboratory will be deferred probably until the end of the war, it was announced at the navy department today. Sec retary Daniels is convinced that the need for steel at plants already in op eration is so great that the diversion of any of it to these projects would badly hamper war preparations. The armor plant was to be located at Charleston, W. Va. The site for the laboratory ha not been selected Meantime the members of the naval consulting board, which wa to have used it are hard at work in their own laboratories. COTTON EXCHANGE OPENS. HAVRE, France, Julr 9 The cqttrm exftares was re-owned 'odyy un--r a decree I mm th minirtfr oC com.

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EXFLOOES :; 9 REPORTED KILLED Black Powder Magazine at Mare Island Navy Yard Lets Go. FOE FOLLOWS THE FIRST EXPLOSION Several Buildings Destroyed by the Flames Many Workers Hurt. (Ay tae ftlentattVmaf .Vrics AerHoa.) VALLFJO, Calif., July 9 The black powder magiuine at Mare Island navy yard exploded at 7:60 o'clock this morning and at least nine persons were killed and forty injured according to first reports from the rescue squads. Fire started immediatsly in the navy yard and a number of buildings were either destroyed by the blast or burned before the yard fire depart ment got the flames under control. Telephone communication was tem porarily disrupted but it was feared casualties were heavy. Nearly 200 men went on shift in the immediate vicinity at 7 a. m. From this side a steady stream of ambulances from the yard could be seen rushing to the scene. F:-ery physician and surgeon in Vallejo was soon en route to the yard. In South Vallejo, a mile and a half away, every window in the city was shattered and in North Vallejo there also was heavy damage to plate glass Window. The force of the explosion was felt nine miles away. Rigid Censorship. Almost immediately after the blast Commandant Harry George put a rig id censorship into eiiVci ud Cut nil pproach to the island. Known dead, however, delude Mrs. James L. McKenna, wife of Chief Gunner J. I.. McKenna, McKenna suf fered a broken leg but the 9-months-old boy escaped unhurt. Gunner A. S. McKenzie and two children are among the missing. Miss Roberta McKcnsie, a daughter, is in Cleveland, Ohio, having gone there two oeks ago to be married More than a dozen buildings, ad joining the magazine, were (demolished and fire setting in destroyed several more before the flames were brought under the control by' the yard firemen. More than 1,000 marines are guard ing the yard and together with civilian physicians and surgeons from Valrejo are assisting in the work of rescue. The Vallejo Times in an extra edi tion attributes ths explosion to spontaneous combustion. The force was felt at I'enecia, nine miles away, and J10.0O0 damage to plate glass windows was done in Vallejo. In South Vallejo, directly across the channel from the magazine, fronts of stores and buildings were blown in and chimneys shattered. Bay steamers miles from the scene ere also severely shaken. FOUR EXECUTED. Serbian Officers' Lives Takes For Complicity m Murder Plot, (fls l nlrMllfinl Ifw Btrvict.) PARIS, July 9 Four Serbian offi cers have been executed and three others eomiiemned to death for com plicity in a plot to murder the crown prince Alexander of Serbia at u at rove in August. If Hi. It was shown at the trial that the seven officers were mem bers of a society called the "Union of Death," whose purpose was to bring about a revolution. HELD CONFERENCE. The American Officera Meet With French Aviation League. (Us (Aff fHlra!iosl Metr AsrWrv.) PARIS, July 9. The chiefs of the staff of Gen. John 3. Pershing, the American commander, held a confer ence with the French aviation league today. They arrived last night and the (Ira -ang this morning thev plungea into their work at top speed There is much talk of the possibil ity of a huge combined air off en si against the Germans after the United States gets firmly in the fighting, RKCFJVE WAR CROPS. PARIS, J tly C H. Fuhr, of PWladdphia, an'l Pierre Fhh !:iT, of V: both attacted to t' t P ' "t hii'ance, have r ' . ir . nni have kw c 1 i fr I ave i it

I. .. iHt OH M'"--- :' wi wrtw.l NEW YO: . --Ar - -ments for s sevvxe of iwv- from, all over Kuroj Im will daily compete with anything that has been seen in the Limed States International Niws service nd the Agence Radio of 1'aria. Beginning today tfie International News SeivVe will receive from Paris by siwiai cable the news of the great war and of the whole continent of F.urope which Is gathered by the Agence Radio. This rrench organization, has behind it some of the most influential men in Fiance, has been In successful competition with the Havas Agency of France. Nearly every one of the great Paris newspapers rely to a large extent upon the Agence Radio for news and the radio ha scored many notable bears since the beginning of the war. Readers of newspapers which have featured t International News Service dispatches will hereafter be given faster and more complete service than ever. The notable bea.s of the International News Service in the early period of the war, such as the sinking of the battleship Audacious and a hundred others of like importance will be duplicated from day to day, through the con-., nection with the radio agency. In addition to this news from F.urope will come from the regular International News Service staff in Paris, headed by Charles F. Ber.telli, from the International News Service correspondent in Rome, Camillo Cianfarra and from Daniel Dillon, of the International News Service Washington staff, who accompanied General . Pershing's army abroad and who is now located at the base of the American troops in France. TO INCREASE HER ARMY Germany Apparently Alarmed Over Emm VS sf L". d. Into the War. (ffy las laiernatVinml ATeirt Aerefrr.) LONDON, July 9. Apparently alarmed over the entrance of the United States into the war, Germany is making desiierate efforts to increase her army. A Stockholm dispatch in the Morn ing Post today says that one million more German men and boys have been called to the colors during the past month and two million additional mobilized. The general staff is even with drawing workers from ammunition plants and mines, giving their places to women. PEKIN SURROUNDED BY Rl Fate of Youthful Emperor in Unknown Aviators Attack Palace. Jfs the InttrnmlUmal A'ev-t grrrfct.) TIEN TSIN, July 9. Pekin was reported today to be surrounded by republican troops. The fate of Hsuan Tung, the youthful emperor, is unknown, He is believed to have abdicated. Republican aviators bombarded the royal palace and the headquarters of General Chang Hsun, commander of the imperialist army. Many imperialist troops have deserted to the republicans, following the defeat of Gen. Chang H sun's men at Lang Fang. SPANISH SITUATION. Government Making Strong F.forta to ' Clear ap Is.meslic DitDcaliies. (tit IH rsrrraaltossl Vtmt Kfrtt.) MADRID, July 9. The Spanish government is making strong efforts to clear up the domestic difficulties an.1 establifh tranquility. A conciliatory statement was issued today, following a meeting of the cabinet It promised favorable consideration of the people's economic demands, but denied the convocation of the Cortes. The senator and deputies at Bar celona who pnuiowd a setting in that city on J'.iiv i7i to consider tne ques t-on tit , wnv for Cutalotia are t J i n con lurt and an i t-v'r p:trifjt'sm not

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f V,T7I"T,""0 iilllfl h 4 V Wlit'tll I ILk I X I4W Must Find $100,000,000 to Meet War Revenue Deficit. REDRAFTING OF THE BILL IS NECESSARY Three Plans to Raise Funds Are Being Considered by the Committee. BY ROBERT SMITH. Ifltf tht ihimHs(il Xe Serrlc.) WASHINGTON, July 9. The senate finance committee today begun wrestling with the perplexing problem of finding $O,0Wi,O()O to meet the war revenue deficit caused when the sennte voted Saturday to commandeer all the w hiskey in bond. Complete redrafting of the 1. 870,000,000 war revenue bill may he'nocessary. The committee has before it these three plans for raising the money to meet tiie deficit: 1 Authorize a bond issue of $420,0O0.00O. 2 Boost the income and excess profits taxes still higher. S Place levies upon heretofore untaxed artirls and commodities. It is likely that a combination of the last two plans will be adopted. ' In sddition to the .t20.0O0.(HH) current revenue deficit, the treasury department must find $200,000.01X1 some whtre to pay for the two hundred odd million gallons of whiskey now in hond in the I'nited States. The department has already figured that the Jl.fi7fl.000.000 estimated revenue of the bill will be J'iOO.000.000 to $700,000,000 short of nex year's needs ami it U prebsMe that It will be towd o a, Id to tlvs U-a liflO.OOOfl'-C booze hill and ask congress to authorize another big bond issue of nt leas another billion dollars before it adjourns. The "wets" have little hope of a trustification of the senate prohibition provisions when the hilt is taken up n conference wth the house. The senate provisions are the irreducible minimum of congressional action on the liquor question. Nothing except possibly direct intervention by the president himself can change the sit uation. The house bus voted lor "hone dry" prohibition. The senate will do well to save beer and wines. The Food Control Bill. With the prohibition isue out of the way temporarily al least, senate leaders today were prepared to use every parliamentary expedient to force the food control bill, of "which the "dry" provisions are a part, to a vote before the end of the week. The administration is growing impatient with the delay in passing the bill. The president wanted the measure passed by July 1. It has already been under consideration three weeks and indica tions are that the administration will he lucky to get it passed by August 1. Senator Chamberlain, in charge of the measure, still had the cloture club in his hands today. Whether he makes use of it will depend upon the temper of the senate when he asks unanimous consent to vote on the bill lutcr in the week. If his request is denied, he will then submit the "gag" motion to restrict senators to one hour speeches. The motion cannot be voted upon. under the rules, until Wednesday and as the situation stands now, it is doubtful whether the administrati could muster the two-thirds vote for its adoption. Hard fighting is promised ovelthe section forbidding voluntary agents of the government, such as members of the advisory committees of the nation al defense council from purcha: supplies frcm concerns in which they are financially Interested. President Wilson, expressing the fear that the section will disorganize the newly created purchasing system and put the government under serious handicap in obtaining supplies, hss'siked for modification of the section but there is a strong sentiment for its retenM in in the senate. AMERICAN SHIP SUNK. Member of the Crew Saved Ship vVaa Armed Vet. LOVDON. July 9 The 3.193 ton American steamsmp Masiuipeoua ibeen sunk l;y a Gorman SMhroarme. h

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MI ST KIKE DRIVERS IF THEY DESIRE TO DO SPOONING IN AUTOS (Us t fnlanMftoMl Jfora 0rfe.t - CHICAGO, July 9 If you mast spoon in an automobile, hire a driver. That's the order passed out by police to Chicago's young men, fourteen of whom were arrested last night when the moon was bright because only one hand w on the steering wheel. INSTANTLY KILLED. Aged Brazil Woman Run flown by Interurban Car. ilia the lntrnationit tinrt Ssrrtr.) BRAZIL, lnd., July 9. Mrs. William Niroson, aged wife of Ucv. William Nicoson, was instantly killed und her husband was fatally injured when an interurban car smashed their automobile on a crossing four miles west of Brazil today. The view was obstructed by a schoolhouse. Three persons were killed on the same dangerous crossing several months ago. ALL EXPORTS ARE TO BE HANDLED BY LICENSE SOON President's Proclamation on Food and War Materials. TIIE NEW ORDER GOES INTO EFFECT JULY 15 To Prevent Necessities From Reaching Germany Through Ne'itral Countries.' (By tie falcraaMnsal Sen SffMH.) WASHINGTON, July 9. Strong predictions of an absolute embargo or. exports to hold for sixty days, are made today following the president's proclamation of food and war materials. Beginning July 15, all exports will be handled by license to prevent cesitieB reaching the central emp! via neutral countries. More, even the supplies needed by Great Britain France and the other allies also will be handled by license. U is this pro vision that foreshadows the absolute embargo, it was said today. Chaotic conditions in the markets chaotic conditions in the ehippm; world and more or less chaos in Vi ashington because the administration and congress are having difficulty in actins: together on food and supplies, all point to the absolute embargo. To marshal! all resources and w obtain time to concentrate ill American ship ping on American shores, proftanly sixty days wll be needed, it was es timated. This will give congress time to decide finally what it wishes to do with the president's food tontrol pro gram and give Mr. Hoover and the food administration time to organize fully. American shipping, now more or less scattered, can be brought back to American ports and put in read ness for use in the gigantic task of transporting troops and supplies to Europe. Secretary Redfield's warn ing to shippers has paved the way for this concentration of vessels. Effect of Embargo. It is believed that, after the president's proclamation takes effect on July 15, only such supplies as the al lies can call for and deliver to their own shores, will be licensed for ex port President Wilson has taken few if any, of his advise- into his confi dence on this point, or on the question of an absolute embargo for sixty days. Coal, coke, fnel oils, kerosene, gasoline, including bunkers, fcod grains, flour, meal, fodder, meat, fats, pig Iron, steel, ship plates, structural shapes, scrap iron, ferro manganese, fertilizers, arms, ammunition and explosives. None of these may pass an American port without license, even if ordered and contracted for prior to ths issuance of the proclamation. The white house and state depart ment ie prepared for n mud storm of 0"-e" fmm su-h. nentra's as Sweirn, renmaitr, tnrw&y aiw Holland.

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the Committee From the Reichstag. 1 : , .- .-. t? CATHOLIC LEADER MAKES A DEMAND Insists on Resignation of the En tire German Govern (Rp fn fafmaaNiHial News gtrefoO . KOTTF.RDAM, July 9H was reported foam Berlin today that F.mperor William has Invited ii the neutral ambaasadoni aad Ministers in the German capital to a conference on Salorday. - (By tht ImterwuUmal Berk. GKNKVA, July U. Ir. Von Beth. mnnn-Hollweg, theGt niuin chanee'lnr, told a Reichstag committee on Sat urday that he would not current to peace without annexMt,ma And indemnities, said a diinU h Twived htre today quoting the newspajicr Tageblutt of Berlin. ' Dr. Erzberger, one of the lejnlof the Catholic party, demanded that the government consent to peace on 4 the basis of the status quo. Tiia Catholic leader revealed the fact li -.t the poiie hud informed him he w :i not attempt to expedite peace as Ins as the Germans continued their submarine war. - - . Dr. Erzberger declared t'it, in 1 opinion, the whole tjonuan b;ovmi ment should res.gn. . 't Germany's Plan. ' i Getmany's chief t"rr ",H tkms he in the.wwt. 1 e i awns, who rmvo led in t' fight far anueiutiup' a.i s " have kept up a vigorous c. i . .- behalf of the annexution nt emu r u ! or most of Belgium and purt at France. That Would give trtT i' a rich industrial and coal fieid vn . r would be of immense benefit in tin economic struggle which will surely follow the war. Cm the eastern aide, Germany wiuit. the kingdom of Poland undr be: pro tection as a buffer state. However, in order to enforce her terms, Germany must win the war. a possibility that has become tveecdingly remote -ince the bnited Suilra. joined the conflict. Revelations cf the highest importance are contained in the A genre Radio's Geneva telegram. This is tne first time that the real war aima of Germany have been made known, although it was the general opinion th.t the kaiser's government would Insist on retaining some of the territory its armies have overrun and would ueThe growing boldnes of the political foes of Chancellor Von Brtbmann Hollwcg is shown too by tl demand of Dr. Erzberger that the entire government resign. Pr. F.rzbergers reference to the pope and hra statement that the pop would not intervene in bebajf of part until Germany ceases her rotSilews submarine warfare comes as somewhat of a surprise. , ( - But as far as known, the Vatican has made no efforts toward peace for a long while. The whole picture, painted by the dispatch, indicates that poitt-cal events of the first magnitude are imminent in Germany. CRISIS ARISES. German Officials Face Serious Cotu dition Throughout Empire. (n Ik rstorMrfewM Xr ItmetA IB tke slermtttowil JTa Berrtoa.) THE HAGUE. July 9-Wtib th opening of rjeneral debate in th reichstag today Germany came face to face with the gravest government crisis sine the beginning of the war. All of the turbulent elements that have been increasing from time to time are now welded into one h'i problem that requires the most delicate handling to prevent a polit,cat upheaval of the first magnitudeIt was reported from Berlin that the chancellor. Dr. Von BeOimannHoIIweg. p-vbably would deJTer H long expected peace speb either today or tomorrow. These are tie chirf & stjw in t!menacing situation: First General as-itiitita Ut i " tie political reforms. S ond (ow c b ttern- ' t

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