COSTS DETER
CONGRESSMEN FROM MINING
STATES CONFER ABOUT LEG
ISLATION FOR RELIEF.
WAR AFFECTING GOLD MINING.
Because of Fact That No Increase in
Price of Gold Is Possible, Under
Present Conditions, and Steadily
Increasing Costs of Production, In
dustry Is CriDDled.
SEATTLE, June 21).—A Post-Intel
ligencer special dispatch from Wash
ington says that congressmen from
the gold mining states held a confer
ence at the national capital yesterday,
to consider the needs of the gold min
ing industry of the nation.
An attempt will be made to frame
legislation for the relief of the mining
industry, which is threatened with a
reduction in the gold output, because
of the fact that no increase in the
price of gold is possible, under pres
ent conditions, while the cost of min
ing and production is mounting stead
ily.
Among the prominent mining men
present at the conference was Bert L.
Thane, general manager of the Alas
ka-Gastineau Mining company, of Ju
neau. Mr. Thane said that due to the
increased cost of mining, his concern
as well as others in Alaska, would
have to suspend operations, unless
congress gave some relief.
WASHINGTON, June 29.—Pacific
coast shipbuilding yards made a clean
sweep in shipbuilding honors awarded
by the United States shipping board
for ship construction during the
month of May, this year.
A blue flag, the highest honor, was
awarded to the Bethlehem Shipbuild
ing corporation, of San Francisco, foi
construction of steel ships.
A blue flag was awarded to thr
Grant-Smith-Porter company of St
Johns, Oregon, for building of wooden
ships.
Second and third honors were
awarded to the Skinner-Eddy corpora
tion, of Seattle, building steel ships
and the Moore Shipbuilding company,
of Oakland, building steel ships; and
to Grant-Smith-Porter company, oJ
Aberdeen, Washington, for building
wooden ships, and the Allen Ship
building company, of Seattle, foi
building wooden ships.
Every potato you eat is a bullei
fired at a “Made-in-Germany” peace
Job work at The Times office.
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BRITISH ARMY
BOYS ARE EHCOURAGED TO EN
GAGE IN COMPETITIVE
EVENTS BY OFFICERS.
MAKES BETTER MEN OF THEM.
Entrenching Race Is One of Most Pop
ular Sports — Introduces Holiday
Spirit Into Everyday Routine and
Men Enjoy It—Another Pastime Is
Alarm Race.
BEHIND THE BRITISH LINE IN
FRANCE, June 25. — Regimental
sports are fostered in the British ar
my in war times to introduce competi
tive spirit into the military routine
and inspire the men to do their very
best in times of severe stress.
“It sustains a soldier to know that
| he is serving his country, but it is
j more immediately exhilarating to
! know that he is doing as well or bet
; ter than his neighbor,” says one of
i the army manuals, “and it is still
: more inspiring for him to know that
his company can equal or perhaps beat
some rival company in the various
vital enterprises of the training
camp.”
“The more a man ietts that he is
working, not for himself, but for his
side, the better soldier he will be,”
said an officer in command of a reg
imental training camp. “He may
forget about his company when he
gets into the firing line, but he will
: remember, perhaps at the critical mo
! ment, that he belongs to the best reg
! iment, or the best division in the ar
! my, the regiment which never re
| treats.”
As the correspondent came out on
| the parade-ground, he found a num
| ber of soldiers in a comer of the
; square engaged in “tilting the buck
j et.” This is merely the light relief
of the afternoon. The mounted man
tries to aim the pole which he carries
j so that it goes through a certain hoie
of the spectators is that he will miss
it and receive the contents of a bucket
of water on his head.
In another section of the square
there was a bomb-throwing competi
tion, with the chief bombing officer as
judge. The men were throwing clay
bombs, which explode most realistical
ly when they fall. They have to
! throw the bombs over a canvas barri
j cade and land them in a particular
square marked out on the ground.
Another pastime is the alarm race.
| Four men are lying on the ground
| when a whistle blows. They jump
; up hastily, get on boots, puttees, pack
; and full equipment and then fall in
; at a certain mark. The first man on
the mark, if properly dressed, wins
j the prize.
Other events are rapid loading and
: bayonet charging. The men go in for
these by companies, four men to a
; company, and the company with the
; best collective time wins. The bayo
| net race takes place over the bayonet -
| fighting course, in full pack and
| equipment. There are Germans to be
run through at every obstacle.
The entrenching race is interest
ing. Each squad of four men has its
little allotment of earth. Armed only
j with an entrenching tool, they are al
lowed fifteen minutes to dig them
selves in. Events of this sort intro
duce a holiday atmosphere into the or
dinary workaday life of the soldier in
training. Interest is just as keen, in
the singing competition, when a nerv
ous squad of ten men marches into
| the ring and gives, after one or two
false starts, the results of a week’s
| labored practice. The first squad, rep
resenting company “A” is content
with “Love’s Old Sweet Song,” com
pany “B” comes in with linked arms,
and break into the latest vaudeville
tune. Company “C” has been prac
ticing the same song as “A” and is
not well received. Then comes com
pany “D” with a regular cantata.
The judges award the prize amid the
cheers from the assembled soldiers.
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LONDON, June 29.—That the Ger
man submarine is fast becoming less
and less a menace to allied shipping
is made manifest by a comparison of
the losses from this cause during the
month of May, this year, and the
month of May last year. The result
shows that the losses have been re
duced by 277,344 tons.
The merchant ship losses during
the month of May, 1918, due to Ger
man submarines and marine risks
generally, for British shipping, was
224,735 tons. The allied and neutral
shipping losses for the same period of
time was 139,000 tons.
During the month of May last year,
the aggregate loss in shipping was
633,038 tons.
LONG DROUGHT
IN WEST TEXAS
DALLAS, Tex., June 27.—The long
drought which has prevailed in West
Texas for two or more years, causing
little less than disaster to the cattle
raising industry of Texas, has been
partly if not wholly broken. Three
good, soaking rains fell in that district
within the first seventeen days of
May. Grass is now coming out, wat
er holes have been partly filled and a
general spirit of optimism prevails
with the cattlemen, many of whom
staked fortunes on the effort to hold
out.
Ranchmen, who had waited from
month to month for the rains shipped
thousands of heads of cattle out of
this district to other ranges. Many I
dollars were spent by the stockmen J
on feed to keep alive those few cattle j
remained on the ranges. They declare j
that had the rain been delayed anoth
er six weeks, the plains of Texas
Wf>r>n nriipfimll v flpsertpil
of cattle.
All of Texas west of a line drawn
north and south through San Antonio
constituted the drought district, prac
tically all of which is devoted to the
cattle-raising industry. Tart of the
district, however, contains some agri
cultural land, devoted mostly to truck
farming. Little cotton or corn is
grown.
The drought began in some sections
late in the summer of 1914, and al
most ever since the cattle men have j
had a fight on their hands to save;
the herds with which the ranches were
populated at that time. In 1915 the
situation grew more serious and the
rainfall was far below normal. Early
in 1916 a large part of the district had
fair rains, but there were many large
areas which had none and others
where the rain fell so rapidly that it
did little good. Throughout the sum
mer of 1916, all through 1917 and well
into 1918 conditions grew steadily
worse.
Pioneers of west Texas declare it
was the worst dry spell that has fal
len over that section in a century.
Dust storms which swept the section
a few weeks prior to the rains were
the worst and most severe experi
enced in a generation. In San Angelo
the dust storm was so severe that all
outside work had to be suspended and
the sky was so dark that it was neces
sary to use electric lights for indoor
work.
AMUNDSSTOFF
TO NORTH POLE
CHRISTIANIA, Norway, June 29.
—The Arctic ship Maude, on which
Explorer Roald Amundsen hopes to
reach the North Pole, sailed from
Christiania, en route to Tromso today.
At Tromso, Amundsen will joih the
vessel and set off on his long explora
tion trip. Amundsen gained fame as
the discoverer of the South Pole and
for making the Northeast passage in
the Arctic ocean, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific oceans.
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EVICES FOB
\RREST OF GERMAN LEADS TO
IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES BY
GOVERNMENT AGENTS.
[NVENTOR IS GERMAN OFFICER.
\ High-Power Air Gun and An Arson
Device Designed to Destroy Build
ings Without Leaving Trace of
Cause of Destruction Found Among
Effects of Alien Enemy in Pittsburg
PITTSBURG, June 29.—A high
aower air gun and a mechanical arson
levice designed to destroy buildings
without leaving a trace of the cause
jf destruction, was the importaut dis
covery made among the effects o
Roberto Eduardo Ludleicke, a Germai
subject ,\vho was taken into custody
yesterday by officials of the depart
ment of justice.
The immediate cause of Ludleicke’s
arrest was that he had failed to regis
ter as an alien enemy. A search of
the premises occupied by him brought
to light the important devices of de
struction.
Ludleicke speaks five languages flu
ently. He told the arresting officers
that he was born in Germany and was
a former officer in the German army.
JAP PREMIER
ISSUES WARNING
TOKIO, June 28.—Warning that ad
verse economic conditions may devel
op in Japan as a result of the war was
given by the Japanese premier, Count
Tterauchi, in an address delivered re
cently before the annual meeting of
the clearing house banks. Responsi
bility of averting a disaster, he said.
vocforl nnnn tVio hunlfprs rvf .lannn
The premier remarked that the ne
cessity of industrial independence had
been vividly brought home to Japan
in consequence of the war and it was
cause of this that the government had
the diet projects tending towards the
introduced into the last session of
achievement of this independence.
Mr. Shoda, finance minister, who
followed Count Terauchi, said that
the government in compiling the esti
mates for the current fiscal year paid
the utmost attention to the perfection
of the national defense. A project
was mapped out for the building of
two battle cruisers, three cruisers,
and seventy-five other warships of al!
sorts at a total cost equivalent to
$150,250,000, the disbursement of
which was to be spread over six years.
This together with the expenditure of
$141,500,000 which had already been
fixed, would bring the total naval ex
penditure to be defrayed during the
next six years to about $292,000,000.
MOB LYNCHES
COLORED MAN
MADILL, Okla., June 29.—Louis
McGill, a nego convict, who was iden
tified as the man who attempted to at
tack a farmer’s wife and later fatally
stabbed her, was lynched by a mob
composed of five hundred people here
last night.
ANOTHER SOLDIER
FROM ANCHORAGE
George R. Ti-emblay leaves tonight
on the steamer Alaska for the outside
where he goes to join the army. Mr.
Tremblay has been stopping at the
Crescent hotel for the past week ar
ranging his business and private af
fairs preparatory for a long stay in
the service. He has been connected
with the Alaskan Engineering com
mission as line auditor for the past
two years and is very popular, espe
cially with the government employes.
Mr. Tremblay received his notice of
acceptance from Maj. H. P .Warren
and will join the 55th engineers, now
stationed at Camp Humphrey, West
Virginia.
FRENCH AND BRITISH FORCES ANTICIPATE ANOTHER BIO
GERMAN OFFENSIVE BY STRIKING THE FIRST BLOW
ON FLANDERS AND FRENCH FRONTS—GERMAN PRIS
ONERS SAY ATTACK WAS COMPLETE SURPRISE—WERE
EMPLOYED IN FIGHTING AN EPIDEMIC OF LA GRIPPE.
SUMMARY: (By the Associated Press)—There is no outward in
dications as to the time or the place of the next German offensive against
the allied lines. Violent German artillerying south of Arras and south
of the Aisne river suggests that the next Hun drive will be made in
these sectors, although this is merely a matter of conjecture. British
forces in Flanders and French forces further south on the allied front
apparently anticipated a proposed German drive toward the channel
ports, as well as toward Paris, and yesterday struck the first blow. Al
lied forces took the enemy unawares at important points and captured
ground of considerable value as starting points of an enemy drive.
Over a thousand German prisoners were taken in the allied drive.
FRENCH LAUNCH AN ATTACK.
Paris, June 29.—Official: The French forces yesterday, in an at
tack on the German lines four and a half miles south of Amblemy and
to the east of Moetgober, southwest of Soissons, advanced their lines,
at some some points, a distance of a mile and a quarter. A thousand
and sixty German prisoners have thus far been counted. The French
forces have bettered their positions, in the event of a German offensive.
BRITISH MAKE AN ADVANCE.
London, June 29.—Reuter’s correspondent with the British forces
says the British made a successful advance of nearly a mile between
Belleau and Labasse. and also captured ground which lies at the most
debatable point on the British front, just west of Bois Daval at the east
angle of Nieppe forest.
DIDN’T EXPECT ALLIED ATTACK.
With the British Army, June 29.—German prisoners captured
during the allied offensive yesterday say the Huns had no idea that
the allies would take the initiative. The Germans felt so secure that
they were devoting most of'their time to a campaign against an epi
demoe known as the “Flanders Grippe.” The British troops were
over the top and at the enemy before the latter could realize the danger.
BRITISH TAKE 400 PRISONERS.
London, June 29.—British forces attacked the German lines on the
Flanders front yesterday and took 400 prisoners, and many guns and
trench mortars.
GERMANS ON DEFENSIVE.
Berlin, June 29.—Official: The German forces are busily engaged
in attempts to repulse vigorous allied attacks north of the Lys river
and south of the Aisne river.
MUCH AERIAL ACTIVITY.
London, June 29.—Official: The British aviators destroyed twen
ty-one German aeroplanes and forced nine to descend behind the Hun
lines in Thursday’s air engagements. The British lost fourteen ma
chines.
HUNS LAY DOWN HEAVY BARRAGE.
With the British Army, June 29.—Last night, the Germans* placed
a heavy barrage fire along the sector to the north of Merville, but no
infantry action is reported.
GREAT AERIAL ACTIVITY.
With the British Army, June 29.—Great fleets of allied aeroplanes
are constantly wheeling over hostile territory, bitterly fighting the
German planes.
HUN PLANES ATTACK PARIS.
Paris, June 29.—A fleet of enemy aeroplanes flew over Paris last
night and dropped a few bombs, but there were no casualties.
U. S. AMBULANCES REACH ITALY.
Rome, June 29.—Thirty ambulance units of the American army
arrived on the Italian front yesterday. The appearance of the ambu
lance units caused great enthusiasm among the Italian troops.
JOINTLY CELEBRATE FOURTH
AND FOURTEENTH OF JULY
ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE IN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
THAT FRENCH GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO MAKE
AMERICAN NATIONAL HOLIDAY A LEGAL HOLIDAY IN
FRANCE—CHEERS AND SHOUTS OF REJOICING FROM
ALL PARTIES GREET THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
Paris, June 29.—Cheers and shouts of enthusiasm greeted the an
nouncement in the French chamber of deputies today that the Fourth
of July will be regarded by France as a legal holiday. All party lines
were obliterated and the plaudits were unanimous. It was one of the
most impressive demonstrations seen in the French chamber of deputies
since the beginning of the war.
WILL JOINTLY CELEBRATE.
With the American Army in France, June 29.—July 14, the
French national holiday, and July 4, the American national holiday,
will be celebrated jointly by the Americans and French in Paris. Troops
of both armies will march sijje by side in processions on both holidays,
It is understood that the suggestion originated with the French.