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WILL KEEP FAITH WITH GERMANY SAY AUSTRIANS Emperor Charles Tells Kaiser That Complete Solidarity anJ Comradeship -of - Arms Exists. - (By Associated Press) VIENNA, via Amsterdam, April 12. Complete solidarity exists between Austria and Germany and "we. shall Jointly enforce an honorable peace," says Emperor Charles in a telegram to Emperor William denying the truth of the declaration made early in the week by Premier Clemenceau of France that the Austrian emperor recognized France s claim to AlsaceLorraine. It Js added the fact that Aust.roHungaian troops are fighting for Al-sace-Ixrralne on the western front, demonstrates the ' emperor's faithful ness to his ally. The message to Emueror William reads: "The French premier, driven into a corner is endeavoring to escape from the net in which he has entangled himself by piling up more and more untruths and he does not hesitate to make the completely false statement that I recognized that France had a Just claim to the reacquisition ot Alsace-Lorraine. I disavow this assertion with indignation.' "At the moment when Austro-IIun-garian cannons are thundering Jointly with German cannon on the western front, it hardly needs proof that I am fighting for these provinces and I am ready to continue fighting exactly an If it were a question of defending my own land. "Although in face of this eloquent proof and the full community of aims for which for almost four years we have been waging war I consider, it superfluous to waste even a word on Premier Clomenceau's false assertion. I desire nevertheless to take this opportunity of again assuring you of the complete, solidarity wbich exists between 'fu and me and your empire and mine."No intrigues, to attempts from whomsoever they may proceed will imperil our loyal comradeship of arms and we shall Jointly enforce an honorable peace." THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Generally fair to night and Saturday. No', much! cbangoi n temperature. Today's Temperature. Noon 44 Yesterday. Maximum ..43j Minimum .......34 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore j Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday.) General Conditions The Atlantic coast storm which nas Deen practically stationary for the last three days is central east of Cape Uatteras, N. C, and its influence has been felt as 'far west as the Mississippi river with cool cloudy weather. Unusually cold' weather has prevailed as far routh as the Gulf coast for the last forty-eight , hours. Snow has fallen in Nashville.! Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., and portions ofNorth Carolina, and Virginia. Two other storms have been almost sta-j tionary over the Rocky mountains, j High temperature continues over the; northwest where temperatures range j from 60 to 72 in the shade in the Da-1 kotas and Montana. .

s3 7 Shell Fired by German Long Range G an Kills Three and Wounds Eleven (By Associated Press! PARIS, April 12. A shell fired by the German long range gun yesterday struck a foundling asylum in the Rue De La Creeche in the Montrouge district, on the southern outskirts ,of Paris and three persons there were killed and eleven wounded. Within the hospital were thirty women with newborn babies. One maternity nurse, one patient aridorie'babynwere killed, while two probationers, six women patients and three infants were injured. The building is two stories high and the shell entered on the ground floor and burst in the middle of a ward. Had it come half an hour earlier it would have made many more victims for it was visitors' day and friends of the patients had Just left. Another shell struck an open air bowling alley and killed a man and a boy and wounded ten other persons. BOMBS DROPPED ON LUXEMBOURG (By Associatfd Press) .LONDON. April 11 British avia tors today dropped more than a ton of bombs on the railway station at Luxembourg. In reporting on aviation activities on the battle front Wednesday the official statement on aerial operations says that eight enemy airplanes were accounted for and that seven British machines are missing. The statement reads: "The weather Wednesday was very unfavorable for flying, but as soon as it was possible to leave the ground our airplanes went out to reeonnoiter the battlefront. Useful information was brought back as to the position of the enemy's troops which were attacked with bombs and machine gun fire. Enemy low flying machines also were active on this front. Three were shot down in our lines by infantry, four were brought down by our airplanes and one was driven out of control. Seven of ours are missing. "At midday today we raided 'the Luxembourg station and over a ton of bombs were dropped. Several bursts were seen on and around the station. All our machines returned."

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HOW UNCLE SAM CHECKS UP Uncle Sam checks up on those persons who can buy Liberty bonds, but who refuse to. Below is the fac-simile of a special Liberty Loan information card which has been supplied to all townships in W ayne county under orders of State headquarters: .

United States Government WAR SERVICE To the Federal Reserve Director of Sales: You are advised that the person named has declined to help our government's war activities, refusing the purchase of Third Liberty Loan Bonds. Name P. O.' Address . Township County ... Date :.

Submitted: . Chairman, Township Committee

Witness:

This means that while the Government does not expect nor desire any man or woman without surplus funds to make great sacrifice to buy Liberty Loan Bonds, yet it is expecting that those persons who have ample funds at their command to be numbered among the bond buyers. The list of delinquents when complete from each township in the county and the city of Richmond will make an interesting document.

THREE REASONS WHY WE SHOULD BUY LIBERTY BONDS First That it is the Best Investment in the world todaywithout any exception. Second-That the least we who stay at home can do, is to loan our money to the government to feed, clothe and protect our men who are risking their lives and sacrificing to protect our interests. , Third We should have enough home pride to see that we over-subscribe the quota assigned to Wayne County. Boy Your Liberty Bonds Saturday Don't Wait See Your Bank or Some Member of the Committee at Liberty Loan Headquarters Do It Saturday.

Abington. Boston and Perry town ships have each gone "oer the top in Wayne ' county's Liberty Loan drive; Abington township with an excess of approximately 1,000 and still going: Boston with an excess ot i(,000 and still at It; Perry with an, excess of $3,000 which probably will grow to $6,000 beyond the quota. Jackson, Washington, jerierson ana several other townships are certain that their quotas will be obtained within another day or so. Wayne township including the city of Richmond with a combined quota NEW FACTORY COMING HERE Will EMPLOY 300 WORKERS Commercial Club Committee Makes Favorable Report on the Proposal of the Kilo Electric Meter Company. WILL MAKE METERS The Kll Electric Meter company, formerly of Indianapolis, is expected to locate in Richmond, following the action of the board of directors of the Commercial Club, in approving its proposal. W. F. Bockhoff was chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the company. The Kilo company was located in Indianapolis, and after the building in which it was located , was destroyed by fire, made an offer to locate it3 plant here. The company manufactures an electric meter which is internationally known, and has supplied Jobbers in South America, Italy, Siberia, Persia, and Japan. There are only six similar companies in the United States, and the members of the Commercial Club believe the Kilo company will be another means of advertising the City of Richmond over the worja. i tie meter has been examined by experts who have given a very favorable report as to its practicability. The investigating committee recommended that the company be considered on condition that it be reorganized, and officered by Richmond men. It will probably be capitalized for between $125,000 and $150,000, and a small amount of the stock will be sold in $100 shares, in order to' give the entire community an opportunity to have a share in the concern. W. H. Marshall, sales manager of the company, will accompany the plant to Richmond. The inventor of the meter will also come with the company. It 5s expected that when the company is fully established it will employ between 30 Oand 400 men. The proposal of the company will be submitted to the entire membership of the Commercial club at a special meeting Monday evening.

of more than $700,000 is a long way from reaching the coveted goal and it will require the hardest kind of work to get even within shouting distance by Saturday night. Sales Below Expectations. The committee has expected that Richmond and Wayne township, as well as the entire county should be ready to announce to the state committee by Monday night that the full quota of the county had been raised. The work still continues with this end in view and if full realization comes to the citizens of the need on

Judge is Cheered for Sending Man Who Beat Wife to County Jail When Judge Fox In circuit court Friday sentenced , Everett Thompson, a farmer, to serve 50 days In the county Jail for assault and battery on his wife, a crowd of his neighbors who were in court to testify against him cheered and applauded the decision. Thompson was arrested on the complaint of several neighbors who declared that he "beat up" his wife. Several of the neighbors were in court Friday morning and testified. Thompson was aiso ordered to pay a fine of $10 and coEts. LIBERTY LOAN BONDS WILL BE SOLD ON SUNDAY Liberty Loan Bond workers will sell government securities next Sunday. - " ' ' ' ' " The slow progress of bond sales'-in this city prompted the . city committee to decide on this step. Its members feel that if the boys "over there" are forced to fight on Sundays, it behooves men and women who are helping finance the war to waste no time putting across the Wayne county allotment. Solicitors will be active next Sunday obtaining subscriptions for the bonds. Wayne county must raise $1,100,000 to "do its bit." The Wayne county executive committee announced that the government is forwarding window cards to be displayed in the home of the persons who buy third Liberty Loan bonds. War Gardeners Warned Against Early, Planting Agricultural experts have issued a warning to war gardeners not to plant their garden truck too early, at least not before April 20 and from then on until May L It Is better, they say, to be a little late than too soon. Up until mid-April one may expect frost almost any night, and there are frosts quite often the latter part of the month. After, April 20, however, one is reasonably safe in planting garden truck. Experts do not believe that the reCent cold weather has injured anything, but the more tender garden truck, and declare that wheat and other similar grains have not been hurt. I. T. Beck, Wayne township vocational agricultural Instructor, advises farmers not to plant thejr corn this year before May 1. Mr. Beck said there is such a shortage of seed corn that if the crop should be planted too early and be destroyed by a frost, the farmers would not possibly be able to secure enough seed corn for a replanting of the crop. Newfoundland Forbids Men of Draft Age to Leave I (By Associated Press) ST. JOHNS, N. F., April 12. Unmarried men between 20 and 35 years of age today were forbidden to leave the island by an order in council oassed bv the Newfoundland govern-1 ment. The order was preliminary to the military service law which it is expected the colonial legislature will enact at a special session called for April 23. Need of raising men to fill the Newfoundland naval and military forces was given by the cabinet as the reason for calling the legislative session and conscription has been proposed as necessary for the conservation of man power in vital industries. Ohio Ambulance Driver Killed by Hun Shell (By Associated Press) PARIS. April 12 Carey Richard Evans, of Columbus, O.. an ambulance driver, Was killed last week while In the service of the French army. Evans who was a new man, received his training at Allentown, Pa. He was assisting stretcher bearers in I loading wounded into his cars ; when I a shell exploded near by killing him 'instantly,

their part to make purchases of Liberty Bonds, the success anticipated should be realized. The Women's committees thus far have sold $146,900 in the county. The total sales in all of Wayne county as recorded by the banks up to the closinE hour of business Thurs

day night amounted to $456,500. Of this total. $147,600 represents sales recorded on Thursday alone, the day being by long odds the largest since the campaign opened. The sales within the city of Richcontinued On Page Eight. HONS DRIVE DEEP WEDGE IN LINES OF HAIG'S n Germans Gain Some Ground Along Messines Ridge, but British Drive Them Out by Counter Attack. FOE LOSSES IMMENSE Y ' ' ' " ' (Br Associated PreM) . OTTAWA, Ont., April 12. "It la In deed obvious that the enemy, backed by unlimited artillery is doing what up till this time has been unprecedent ed in this war. namely, conducting two first class offensives simultaneously or at the very least launching a second before we had time to draw away from the first." says a Reuter's dispatch from London today. "The prospect is grim for the British, but accounts of the nihting continue to breathe confidence that the British, however prolonged the struggle, won't yield to the enemy in what is becoming more clearly a test of endurance. The key points of the battle are the bridge ridges of Messines and Passchendaele, which the Germans are both endeavoring to outflank and carry by direct assault. There is no evidence as yet that the enemy has gained control of a single bit of rising ground. (By Associated Press) LONDON, April 12. German trooos made a determined attack along the Messines ridge and succeeded in gaining some ground, says a Reuter dispatch from British army headquarters in France and Belgium, but the British once again drove them out by a counter attack early this momirar. Tbp Germans are developing great artillery activity in th southern aa the dispatch says. The Bray-Corbie road is being fiercely shelled, heralding it is believed, further infantry attacks. Three attacks which the enemy launched yesterdav In great waves near vine cnapeiie, were repuisea, with immense losses to the Germans, (Continued on Page Eight)

Germans Fell in Heaps, Only to be Replaced by Others, Says Gunner

(By Associated Press) LONDON. April 12. "You could have shot them down with your eyes shut," said a wounded machine gunner in describing how the Germans attacked on the western front, according to the correspondent mere oi ine j Dally Mail. "We fired straight into J them and they went down In heaps, j yet we could not stop them. It was one down and another come on. The correspondent qnotes other remarks from wounded 6oldlers which are indicative of the unconquerable spirit of the British defenders and which bear further testimony tp the terrible toll the Germans are paying for every foot they advance. The correspondent says wounded soldiers agreed that the Germans outnumbered the defenders at least two to one. - "Aye,- we're never far away a wounded Highlander replied to the remark of the correspondent that the Highlanders seemed to get into all the battles. He proceeded to tell how his regiment was on a canal bank when the Germans tried to cross: Hundreds Mowed Down. "They advanced on both flanks, coming up on either sfde in the attempt to get across. We were to hold

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British War Prisoners Enslaved and Starved by Their German Captors (By Associated Press) LONDON, April 12. How British prisoners of war in Germany are enslaved, starved and subjected to un told cruelties is related in an olficial; report of a government committee, made public today. The detention and employment of non-commission ed officers and men captured on the western. front, says the 'report, "have brought on these prisoners an amount of unjustifable suffering for which it would be hard tq find; a parallel in history." i j The report is based ?OBjjan accunt-mulatlon-ofc evidence and shows that prisoners have beeu employed constantly under shell-tire-nd that many have-been" killed by British guns; that they have - been kicked and beaten, denied clothing and adequate shelter; have often been shot and that deaths from starvation and overwork have been constant. , . French prisoners have been subjected to the same treatment. Some of ' the prisoners received neither let ters nor parcels for eight or nine months after their capture. Last No vember there was in the Limburg sta tion between 18,000 and 20,000 unde livered parcels for British prisoners. ATTACK MADE ON CHILD LABOR LAW (AsKnriated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 12. Constitutionality of the child labor law is attacked in a brie; filed today in the supreme court in connection with proceedings appealed by the government from North Carolina where the act was recently held to be invalid. The status" which prohibits interstate shipment of articles produced in factories employing children under 14 years of age is declared to-be a "perversion of tbe powers of contress" discriminatory and an Inter ference with the police powers of a state. Arguments in the case will be heard next week. , RUSSIAN SHIPS SEIZED (py Associated .Press) . A PACIFIC PORT, April 12. Three Russian ships, the Nijni Novgorod. Tula and Kishinev, were taken over here today by the United States Shipping tsoaru. mcj uac -v,. with supplies intended for Russian Pacific ports. our fire and waited until they were well in view. Then, when there were hundreds before us, we let fly. Man, it was murderous.' A' Yorkshireman, who was standing near by, broke In: "That may be, but that was no better than when we saw them along the side of a hedge. They didn't expect us to be so near. - We pumped bullets into them with Lewis guns until our bodies ached." ' . As an illustration of the coolness and confidence of the British troops, the Daily Mail correspondent says some Highlanders told him how they found a quantity of food in trenches which some other troops had been forced to evacuate before heavy German attacks. . The Highlanders said the first thing they did was to sit down and eat the food. "We fried their eggs and frizzled their bacon-.' 'Nevecmiss a chance' is our motto. We had a fine feed." In the garden of an improvised hospital . where the daffodils toss their golden heads in a light breeze, several men sat on a bench. They did not see the daffodils; they saw nothing. They eat hunched up as they slowly recovered - power to breathe freeiy. Continued On Page Eight.

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r.nt RICHMOND MAN FOUGHT THREE DAYS IN RAIN Thomas Love Aids in Captur ing. Germans in Fighting in Belgium. - . -. ' " Mr. ' and Mrs. - M. Bishop have received a" "le&er from their nephew, Thomas R. Love, of D company, 62d Canadians, In which he describes his experiences at the front. The letter was dated March 14. and Lore stated that the Germans seemed to he preparing for action, and that the. English troop3 were preparing to go Into the line for an extended battle. "We go into the line tonight for quite a long time," he writes, "and probably will be In action before long, as the Hun has shown marked activity along the line. But that isn't worrying us any. I think we have been up against tougher propositions than anything he might spring here." "The hardest trip I have ever experienced was in Belgium last fall at Passchenda6h, where we scrapped for three days through raid and mud with hardly any shelter. We were success--ful in gaining our objectives and quite a number of Fritzies. Isn't a Picnic "War is not a picnic, that's sure, but we really do manage to have a good time out of it. Of course we are not in the line all the time, and there is lots of work to be done when we are in the support and reserve lines, but we make our own pleasure. Life is what a fellow makes it here. We have cinemas, ball games, boxing, etc. After a fellow is here a short time he soon learns how to take care of himself and make himself at home under the most trying conditions. "I don't telieve the war is really as bad as the papers make it. and yet again I have seen some terrible sights that the papers do not describe. But when in line and also when out, we never think about the awful things that happen. If we thought of nothing else but the horrors of war and had no fun and amusement to keep our minds off It, we would soon be nervous wrecks. When practicing an attack (which we always-do), almost everyone is very enthusiastic about it. "If all rs young fellows had the same patriotic spirit with which you write we v.ould soon go through the Germans. We have given him Some good jolts, and I took part in an aotion last June when we captured a portion of tbe Hun line. The German official report of the loss was that the British had used . "specially trained fctorming -troops." If we left that Impression I wonder what he will think when he runs into a bunch of real rough Yanks. Fritz has-got. some good fighters, but they have to -at. tack in close formation to be effective." British Hero of Picardy is African War Veteran (By Associated Press) .- . LONDON, April 12. General Sardo. man Carey, who In the words of Premler Lloyd-George, accomplished one of the most brilliant feats in the history of the British army by holding the gap between the. third and fifth army in the first days of the German I blow in Picardy with A hastily organ ized non-descript forces, la 51 yer of age. He is a member ot one of the best known families in Guernsey and is a son of the Rev. Tupper Carey. General Carey was educated in the Winchester public school and commanded a batter' of field artillery In the South African war. He was appointed a commander of the Bath dur. ing the present war. An elder brother followed in the father's footsteps and is a canon of York cathedral.