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ALLIES HOLD POINTS WON IN BELGIAN ! OFFENSIVE British and French Repulse Severe Counter-Attacks and Consolidate Positions in Driving Rain. PREPARATION IS LARGE (By Associated Press) With a wide stretch of territory and V more than 3,500 prisoners in their J'mnds as the result of the first day's lighting in their new offensive, the British and French troops in Flanders epent last night consolidating their gains and repulsing the inevitable German counter attack. The new line which, along the great- ; cr part of its stretch is two miles to ' two and one half miles in advance of the old, and includes ten captured ' towns within its limits, has been firm- , ly held along the entire front. The ,. consolidation process is being carried - out under a torrential rain which is I hampering further operations. Too Early to Judge. ' . The extent of the permanent advantage gained by the smashing of the German line in this important section of the front will have to be judged by further developments. Definite objectives were assigned the various allied units for attainment in the first days stroke and they appear to have gained almost in their entirety. The logical supposition, with the mastery of the Somme and Arras operations, particularly the former, la mind, the drive will be renewed as soon as the heavy guns are moved up into pursuit, of the plan of driving a wedge into the German line by successive strokes until a point is reached when a falling back of the enemy on a wide front will be forced. Theaten Wasp Bases. The Importance to be attached to a drive in German held territory in this sector must be guaged not only by the reclaiming of Belgian soil from the invaders which it makes possible, but the threat it offers to the German submarine bases along the Belgian coast. A push much further eastward ; along the present line of advance will J bound to shake the security of the ' German coast line. . Y,;'' V The desperation of "the GerrniSnT resistance now manifesting Itself in furious counter attacks, bears witness to the importance the German high command attaches to the retention-of the present front This front has been shown to be not the rigid one . the Teutonic claim have made it out. Badly bent by yesterday's attacks the immediate future is likely to show whether it can be strained to the breaking point. Advices from the allied capitals point to the expectation of the battle opened yesterday continuing for weeks, if not months. Long Effort Seen The French troops evidently were not brought up to the Belgium front away from their former Held of operation for any brief effort at arms, and the Paris comment on the offensive particularly points to the vast preparation made for it and the large results hoped for. On the French front the Germans went on this morning with an operation they had been preparing in the Verdun region, launching an assault between Avocourt and hill 304 northwest of the citadel, in an effort to regain the positions they lost on July 17. Only a few advanced elements of the French line, however, were reached by the crown prince's forces, the French ire stopping them short there. One of Last Four Exiled Members of Commune is Dead CHAUX DB FONDS, Switzerland, Aug. 1. Louis Pindy, the man who set fire to the Hotel de Ville in Paris in May 1871, and who was one of the last four members of the Paris Commune exiled in Switzerland, has just died at the age of 77. The remaining three are Proto. who was minister of justice in the government of the Commune, with Louclas and Gerardon, two inconspicuous members of the Commune. Pindy was in command at the Hotel t'e Ville. He declared that, if obliged to quit the building, he would leave it 'in flames, and kept his word. Condemned to death for that act of incendiarism, he hid ten months in the rue Saint Maur, manufacturing jewelry " Meanwhile. Denounced by his partleer, he escaped to Switzerland by way of Mulhausen and settled at Chaux de Fonds where he was employed for forty-four years by the same firm making watches.

Allied Powers Make Great Gains

BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. Aug. 1. (By The Associated Press) Welsh troops yesterday added a new star to their crown for it fell to one of their regiments to administer a crushing defeat in General Haig's great offensive, on the Third Battalion of infantry guards, OShich was Emperor William's crack tfytiy of troops. The terrain in this new battle zone presented tremendous difficulties for I the attacking troops. Between DixI oude and the point where th Ypres-

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Mayor Bobbins, Building Inspector Hodgins and Reporter Tom Snowballs in Richmond. Fact I By LUKE SCHNEIDER Mayor Robbins, Building Inspector Hod gin and a Palladium reporter held a snow-balling contest Tuesday morning. The mayor wished for an overcoat and a fur cap, the building inspector wanted a red hot stove and the reporter, longed to see Old Sol's smiling face gazing downon him! Street temperatures registered around the 94 mark but it was freezing weather where we spent most of the morning. It felt more like December or January than August. The mayor forgot his official dignity and conceived the idea it was a good place to throw snow balls, thus keeping warm. Gloves would have felt good though. It all happened at the Minck Brewing company, when the officials and the reporter started on a search for the nearest thing resembling the North pole, as a relief from the sizzling sun rays. Snow clings from the big pipes. All three members of the party wanted to be "refrigerated" and they certainly were, after spending twenty minutes in the cold storage rooms of the brewery, with the temperature hovering below the freezing mark of 32 degrees. Charles Kraatz brew-maBter, knew what he was going into and donned a heavy overcoat, but the poor officials and reporter nearly froze. And Kraatz accustomed to it! When the party bid a fond adieu to the frigid department they scurried over to the boiler room where the huge furnaces are fired, where the temperature registers about 125 degrees. GERMANS DIVIDE BELGIUM IN TWO THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Aug. 1. The Germans are steadily carrying out their scheme of dividing Belgium into two parts, comprising the Walloon or French-speaking and the Flemish provinces respectively. The past month has seen the splitting up of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leaving only two departments not yet affected, those of Finance and of Justice. The Walloon ministries are being transferred to Namur, the German-appointed capital of the French half of Belgium, the Flemish remaining at Brussels. Where the Belgiatroffltiials have refused to lend their co-operation and obey the German instructions, and this has occurred in the case - of a number . of leading ' administrators, buch dissenters have been replaced by men more pliable in German hands, often chosen from among those who have lent themselves to forwarding the separation idea or have otherwise commended themselves to the occupying power. According to the "Taegliche RundBChau," each of the projected parts of Belgium is to have its own budget DIVER BREAKS BOTH WRISTS Grayson Ramsey, 31 years old, broke both wrists Tuesday afternoon when he struck a .projecting ledge at the Morton lake spillway, in an attempt to dive from the top of Morton bridge. Ramsey, whose home is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is visiting at the home of 6. C. Byer, 22 South Eleventh street. According to persons who witnessed the accident, Ramsey, who had made the dive without a mishap before, did not jump out far enough to clear the ledge, and he struck the concrete with both hands extended. He also received minor bruises on the chest. I. W. W, LEADER HANGED BY MOB BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 1. Frank Little, member of the executive board of I. W. W., and a leader in labor trouble in Arizona, was taken from a lodging house early today by masked men and hanged to a railroad trestle on the outskirts of the city. The body was cut down at 8 a. m. by Chief of Police Jerry Murphy, who identified it Little, in a recent speech here, referred to United States troops as "Uncle Sam's scabs in uniform." Comines canal crosses he lines on the lower part of the Ypres salient two great forces had been imbedded for three years and this portion of the line bad come to be looked upon as an impregnable position for either side. Was "No Man's Land" The present battle ground between Dixmude and Lizerae was "No Man's Lr.nd" within whose borders lay marshes and morasses which in winter months are impassable. This formidable natural -barrier was -rendered

RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING,

"ABSOLUTE LIES" SAYS RIBOT TO FOE'S CHARGES French Premier Denies Conquest Scheme Alleged by Michaelis. PARIS, August 1. Premier Ribot replied in the chamber of deputies yesterday to the declaration made Saturday by Dr. Michaelis, the German chancellor, that there was a secret treaty between France and Russia, having in view plans of conquest Premier Ribot after saying he was convinced that Spain would apply the decree interning the German submarine which anchored in the harbor of Corunna, on Monday evening, said: "I wish to reply to the singular speech which' Dr. Michaelis thought fit to invite the Berlin journalists to hear. The German chancellor publicly commanded the French government to declare whether in a speech June 1. the French government had not made known to the chamber of deputies, the terms of a secret treaty made before the Russian revolution, whereby the emperor bound himself to support French pretensions to German territory on the left bank of the Rhine. Contains Absolute Lies. 'The chancellor's version contains gross inaccuracies and absolute lies, notably regarding the role he attributes to the president of the republic in giving an order to sign a treaty unknown to Premier Briand. The chambers know how things passed. "M. Doumergus (ex-premier and foreign minister) after a conversation with the emperor, demanded and obtained M. Briand's authorization to take note of the emperor's promise to support our claims to Alsace-Lo-raine and to leave us free to seek guarantees against fresh aggression, not by annexation of territories on the left bank of the Rhine, but making an autonomous state of these territories which would protect us and also Belgium against invasion. "We have never thought to do what Bismark did in 1871. We are therefore entitled to deny the allegation of the chancellor ,who evidently knows of the letters exchanged February, 1917 at Petrograd and falsified since as his most illustrious predecessor falsified - Continued On Page Eight Bridge Bonds Must be Resold Because ; of Technical Error Announcement -was made Wednesday by County Auditor Bowman, that it would be necessary to re-sell the $100,000 bond issue recently made by the county commissioners for the construction of the Main street bridge. When the bonds were - originally sold, only $5,000 worth of them were sold in the regular manner as prescribed by law, the others being purchased temporarily by Bowman and County Treasurer Weidner, as agents, until they could be placed with the banks of the county. According to law, the bonds must be sold through sealed bids, accompanied by a certified check for at least three per cent, of the amount of the bonds bid for. This was not done by Bowman and Weidner. The new bids will be made by the banks now holding claim on the bonds in the regular manner, and will be legal. 14 Wayne Doctors May be Drafted Fourteen physicians in Wayne county will be conscripted for military service, according to estimates made Wednesday. It is believed that two out of every nine physicians in the county will be eligible for service. Richmond physicians Wednesday received appeals from the medical committee of the state Council of Defense urging them to apply for commissions in the medical reserve corps. It is unknown as yet whether any members of the Wayne county medical society will apply but members believe that they will. A committee of six physicians is working out a plan, to be submitted to the society at its meeting next September, under which physicians who respond to the call to the color will receive a percentage of the receipts derived from their practice by the physicians who remain at home. The percentage will amount to about one-third of the total receipts derived according to Dr. Arthur J. Whelan, secretary of the county society. BUYING IN AMERICA WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 Venezuela is now relying mainly on American manufacturers for supplies of construction machinery and materials, according to a report today of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.

still stronger by the inundation of large areas by the release of waters from the Canals. The Germans and allies alike. Becking bits of dry land for a footing swung so far apart in some . places that the distance between the lines was nearly three miles. Below this section opposing lines followed either bank of the Yser Canal and then went on the Ypres salient face to face, but with the Germans holding the dominating high land abput the. eaiient - ' "

Lagging Cool Winds Will Bring Relief From Sizzling Rays Lagging cool winds from the north and northwest are expected to bring relief to Richmond people Wednesday night or Thursday from the recent heat wave, according to the prediction of Weather Forecaster Moore Wednesday. The temperature at the pumping station at noon was one degree lower than that registered Tuesday when the thermometer climbed to 96 degrees. The official temperature was 89 degrees, according to Weatherman Moore which was slightly lower than Tuesday's mark. The relief promised for Wednesday night or Thursday was expected to be only temporary however. Thundershowers were slated to strike Wednesday night , v ' ' AMERICAN SHIP SUNK BY U-BOAT

LONDON. Aug. 1. -The American steamship Motano of 2,730 tons gross, was sunk by a Teuton submarine on July 31. Twenty-two survivors have been landed. ' ' ' c NEW YORK, Aug. 1. The Motano sailed from New York July 2, for Queenstown, Ireland. The vessel was in command of Captain L. S. Stratton and carried a crew of 34 men, of whom 15 claimed "American citizenship when signed on "here before the United States commissioner of shipping. The Motano was built in 1890 at Newcastle, England. . . S.O.S. Call Is Sent From Ft Ben. For 1500 Pairs Of Socks Turn in socks at once! A call has been' sent out from Fort Benjamin Harrison for 1,500 pairs of socks. Every eock shop in the state has been asked to send in all its socks at once.' Mrs. W. W. Gaar, Wayne county chairman, has asked that all women in this district send in the socks at once. The committee here hopes to be able to ship 150 pairs from this district Socks must be send in by Monday noon. : Army Bars Draftees AfterheRetewe Notices To Appear Eighteen men were accepted for the regular army from the Richmond re cruiting station between July 20, the day of the draft, and July 31. All of them were high up in the draft'lists. Twenty-four men went during the month. Strict orders were received from the Indianapolis central station Wednesday not to take any man who had received notice to appear before the exemption board, and such men will be sent back if they should be accepted here. -, Wireless operators are badly needed, according to a bulletin received at the station Wednesday morning. Personal Guard of "Jeff" Davis Dies RICHMOND, Va.. Aug. 1. Lieutenant James R. Dickinson, of the personal guard of Jefferson Davis, -died here yesterday, aged eighty. He aecomponled President Davis, when he left Richmond at the time of the evacuation of the confederate troops. WOMAN IS RESCUED FROM WET GRAVE Mrs. David Morrison, 19 years old, who tried to commit suicide Tuesday night by jumping into Morton lake, was improving at Reid Memorial hospital Wednesday morning and will recover according to attending physicians. Mrs. Morrison, it is said, tried to end her life because of domestic trouble. Roy Harding, a life guard at Hawkins' bathing pool, and Sol Frankel, a Richmond merchant rescued her from drowning. She plunged into the water from the boat landing in the rear of Frankel's summer cottage. U-BOAT IS INTERNED MADRID, Aug. 1. The German submarine U-38, which entered the roadstead of Corunna Monday in a seriously damaged condition has reached Ferrol, twelve miles northeast of Corunna, escorted by the Spanish torpedo boat Audaz. It will be interned there.

In Drive Across "iVo Man's Land" In Flanders

The Dixmude-Lizerne section of the front is a wilderness of partly inundated and deserted farms dotted with pools of brackish water and cut into strange shapes by drainage ditches. Few Civilians Left There are but few remaining civilian habitations in this "No Man's Land." Crumbling cottage walls and an occasional roofless church arose above the flats. Neither side feared a surprise attack or a trench raid. Since DUke Albrechfe WurttenHmxx troops were

AUGUST 1, 1917.

EXEMPTIONS IN NEW YORK HIGH NEW YORK, Aug. 1. The first men to be called under the provisions of the selective draft law to appear for physical examination today came before the board in two local exemption districts in answer to notification sent out last Friday night Today is the fifth day since these cards were mailed calling the applicants before the board according to the war department order. The reports of the past few days, while- being discouraging cannot be taken as a criterion, it was said, as many of those who voluntarily presented themselves for examination ahead of time knew they either could not pass the examination or were anxious to put in their claims for exemption. Results of the last two days show that the number of men physically disqualified for serving was very high, possibly 50 percent in some districts. Taking figures of the last few days as an example, the number of those who will claim exemption will also run high. None of the local boards, it was said today, expect to finish their work in the time prescribed by the regulations. The average time for examinations is twenty-five minutes to each applicant. Extra precautions were being taken today by those in charge of the draft, following rumors that attempts would be made to falsely evade the draft. In this connection, it was said, the federal authorities had learned of a physician who had offered to treat men about to be examined with a drug which would stimulate heart action. . Of 48 men examined bu the doctors at one board yesterday, just one man said he was ready to fight for his country. Twenty-three were disqualified for various reasons, while of the number who passed the physical examination twenty-four said they would claim exemption. At board 168, of the seventeen examined only five persons passed the physical tests and all said they would claim exemption. FOE USES NEW DEFENSE PLAN LONDON, August 1. According to reports from special correspondents, the great majority of British troops engaged in the latest assault are English, although there are some Scotch and Welsh and Australians. It is said the Germans are employing a new scheme of defense, which apparently depend principally upon bnganizationi of cdWer attack. - They How diminish their garrisons and by the' same amount increase tha ttrength of their supports and reserves who hold rear lines in force and who are organized for Immediate attack. As an instance of the terrible pounding by the British artillery, it is said to-be known that the crew of one German battery had to be replaced nine times 'and the guns thereof five times. TO KEEP 'EM OFF BOATS NEW YORK, Aug. L The police department working in connection with the office of United States Marshal McCarty today took steps to keep all Germans and alien enemies off all boats and piers in the southern district of New York which extends from the Battery, in this city to Albany.

Kleinknecht and Attorney Jessup Almost Come To Blows At Hearing Before The State Utilities Board

Superintendent Kleinknecht of the Municipal light plant and Attorney Wilfred Jessup, reprsenting Robert S. Ashe, nearly came to blows at a hearing before the 6tate " public service commission at Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon. The argument came up when the petition of Superintendent Kleinknecht for the modification of rules and regulations of the Richmond municipally owned plant was considered. The hearing was to clear up old ambiguities in the ruleB and regulations and meant no increase or decrease in Would Save $600. Ashe, through Attorney Jessup, claimed that electricity furnished the Liberty Light Heat & Power company should be measured after it leaves the local company's transformer, which would mean a saving of $600 for Ashe and the Liberty Light & Power company. COtLEGE HEAD QUITS RICHMOND. Va., Aug. 1. Rev. Hufucker Graham, resigned as president of Hampden Sydney college today, to take the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church at Florence, S. C. swallowed up in the flood let loose by opening up the sluice gates in October, 1914, the enemy had not tried to cross the marshes nor had they tried to get over the Yser since the Bel. gfans in the spring of 1916 after sanguinary fighting flung them back across the bridgehead at Ldzerne. The Ypres salient Itself, furnished as nasty a problem as could be presented to an attacking army. The country here is saucer-shaped and the Germans had held the lip of this sauAll the lower lyin land, within

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City Has to Pay $1,550 Water BUI For Fire Plugs and There Havent Been Any Fires. The Richmond City Water Works Wednesday sent the city controller a bill for water rent for city fire plugs, for the month of July. The monthly rate amounts to about $1,550, and not a drop of water has been used out of the plugs for the last two and one-half months, amounting to $3,875. The city hasn't had a fire since May 15 when a shed was partly destroyed, and only a small amount of water was used. The water works is paid approximately $20,000 annually for water plugs. City officials present the above figures as an added reason why the- people of Richmond should make an effort to secure a municipally owned water works. FRESH RUSSIAN TROOPS BRAVE COPENHAGEN, Aug. 1. A dispatch to the Berlin Vossische Zeitung says the Russian resistance for the defense of Cernovlts is increasing. Fresh troops are fighting with great energy and without faltering in strenuously opposing the Austro-German advance on Kirlibaba. ' Fighting is most sanguinary but the defenders are unable to prevent the Austro-Germans occupying positions favorable for further operations, including Klmpolung. The writer predicts the Russians soon will be forced to abandon Cernovitz. Mexican Of ficer is Under Fire For an Attack on Germany MEXICO CITY, Aug. I. Charges of breach of dicipline of the army and of conduct tending to embarrass the foreign policy of Mexico have been made against General Juan Merigo in connection with a statement said to have been made by him which was published in a local paper and in which he was alleged to have advocated that Mexico break with Germany and join the allies. General Merigo asserts in reply to the charges that at the time the statement was made he had resigned from the army and his resignation had been accepted, and that he considered his utterances patriotic rather than Ukeiy to involve Mexico to fcer detriment' DALBEY ON HIS ' WAY TO FRANCE Herbert Dalbey, son of Walter Dalbey, of Richmond, who enlisted in the United States Field Artillery two months ago, here, was aboard a transport at Hoboken, New Jersey, where his battery was ready to sail for France, says a letter received by his father. Dalbey has been in training at Douglas, Arizona, since he enlisted. He is a member of the East Main Street Friends church and would be exempted from the draft. Nlmrod H. Johnson, general manager of the Richmond Light Heat & Power company, also was present at the meeting having gone to Indianapolis with Jessup and Ashe. Superintendent Kleinknecht told the commission that the contract with Ashe, which was inherited by the municipal plant from Johnson's company, had never been construed in such a way, and Ashe's claim was false. "It will never be done that way as long as I am superintendent of the Richmond plant," Superintendent Kleinknecht told the state commission "Got That All Fixed." "Well you won't be in that Job very much longer," Attorney Jessup is said to have said. "We've got that all fixed," he added. "Whether you have that fixed or not 111 continue to earn an honest living and won't have to ask you are Ashe for anything," Kleinknecht responded, he claims. The state commission decided in favor of the Kleinknecht and the light plant after City Attorney Bond raised the question that the matter was for the courts to decide and not the state commission. this dish bad been dominated by the enemy who could send a stream of shell and machine gun fire into the troops and supply columns advancing across the salient Bridges 8wept by Fire The situation was rendered still more difficult by the presence within the saucer of a large number of waterways that must be crossed by means of bridges which might at any moment be destroyed by gunflre. This difficulty, however, was overcome bx brilliant fent-of.tae British

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HABEAS WRIT IS ASKED BY FRIENDS OF 6E0RGE BAYER Youth is Held in House on North Sixth Street Illegally, Petition , Filed by. Friends Says. I Hi IN CHARGE OF NURSE Another chapter in the history of George Bayer was written in circuit court Wednesday. Its theme was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by two friends of Bayer's, Drs. E. R. Churchell and J. M. Bulla, in behalf of a fraternal order. The petition was granted. The petition charges that Bayer Is being held prisoner in a house at 106 North Sixth street Mind Held Unsound. Bayer recently was adjudged to be of an unsound mind and Dr. J. M. Wampler was appointed guardian over, him. At that time Wampler said he would place his ward in a sanitarium. It is alleged now that he plans to have him confined at Eaathaven. v The petition charges that the sanity inquest for Bayer was illegal. ' It was conducted by Justice of the Peace Rob ert Davis and the chief testimony "was given by Dr. Wampler and Dr. T. Henry Davis. The petition alleges that since Bayer's confinement in the residence at 106 North Sixth street his friends have been denied admission. Mother Died Recently. Bayer is a son of the: late John C. Bayer, widely known baker and restaurant man. His mother died recently. He has been known aa a man about town for several years in Richmond. His activities along this line are alleged to cause his present condition. The writ was Issued by Judge Fox Wednesday morning, ordering that Bayer be brought in court Thursday morning at 9 o'clock for a new hearing on his sanity, and it is understood that an attempt will be made at that time to establish proof of his soundness of mind. In Charge of Nurse. Bayer is confined in the home of Stuart Pratt a teacher of stringed instruments, including the ukalqle, banJq aad the like, and is chance of a no yioiiea oy a miaaium reporter this afternoon and his mental condition was apparently sound. He declared he was "neither sick nor crazy" and said that he would soon be a free man. Indiana Summer Too Hot, Says Minister Native Of Florida Indiana summers are too hot to be comfortable, says Rev. P. A. Roberts of the First Baptist church, a native of Florida. Florida can get pretty hot during- the day, but cools off at night Roberta hasn't been able to sleep since the beginning of the present hot spell began, he says. BIG CREDIT APPROVED MADRID, Aug. 1, The caMnetnas approved credits of twenty-eight million pesetas fox the war department and for the improvement in-army corps services. . ; Do Yonrr-J""Ujoiii tht Bit NowLRedCrots WEATHER FORECAST jj For Indiana, by United 8tateveatn. er Bureau Probably showers and not quite so warm tonight Temperature Today Noon , 93 Yesterday Maximum . ............ 94 Minimum 69 For Richmond and Wayne County, By E. 8. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Probably thunderstorms. Not so hot Thursday. General Conditions The hot wave remains unbroken from the Mississippi river east to the Atlantic ocean and south of Lake Superior. A storm centers over Wisconsin and has caused somewhat cooler weather over middle west and much cooler weather over Western Canada where the temperatures have averaged 100 degrees. The extreme heat over this section will probably break tonight or Thnrsday, caused by shifting winds from the north and northwest engineers . who threw seventeen bridges across the waterways In the face of terrific gun fire. Similar and equally remarkable work was done by the French engineers, who were forced to bridge the Yser for their attack. i ne uermans ume learea apparently that the battle would turn in the direction of their right wing. It was early in June that rumors of the impending attack began to find their Continued On Page 4x