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HUNS TO ATTEMPT TO BREAK SOMME SECTOR LINE
MUSTARD GAS SHELLS HURLED AT AMERICANS BY THE GERMANS
THREE ATTACKS
ARE BEING PLANNED
The following is the Associated Press War Summary, is
sued this morning:
The feeling along the French front is that the Germans
may attack in the Ypres, Arras and Amiens sectors simultan
eously. These blows, which no doubt will he carried on in
dependently, will he really new phases of the attempt to cut
through the allied lint's in the Somme sector and eliminate
the Arras sector, after carrying the high ground to the south
west of Ypres.
Held in Check by Artillery Fire
Germany’s hordes are stall held in check by artillery fire
of the most intense kind both on the Flanders and Picardy
battle fronts.
The German attack cannot be delayed much longer if the
Teutons hope to take advantage of whatever damage was done
to the allied positions by Germany’s heavy bombardment sin*<
the allied vi<Jto:y north of Kernmel more than a week ago.
Heavy Artillery Action
PARIS, May 7. — Opposing artillery forces are heavily
engaged north and south of the Avre. There has been no in
fantry action, says the French official statements issued today
A Gennan raid against a small 'French outpost near Han
gard was repulsed. In a local attack in the same region the
Fiench captured several prisoners.
British Operations
LONDON, May 7. — The British made a successful raid
near Neuville Vitasse, southweast of Amiens, last night. Three
machine guns were captured. An enemy raid near Boy el Vs
also was repulsed, according to the British official statement
today.
Gas Attacks on Americans
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN FRANCE, May 7.
— On the French front during the night the Germans launch
ed a heavy gas attack against the Americans on the Picardy
front. The Germans fired fifteen thousand shells, mostly of
the mustard gas variety. These were fallowed by an intense
artillery fire at midnight.
SENATE TO INVESTIGATE
AIRCRAFT APPROPRIATION
WASHINGTON, May 7. — Senator Chamberlain, chair
man of the' senate military affairs committee, announced in the
senate today that his committee, with the support of the sen
ate, would investigate the aircraft situation with a view to
determining how and where the money appropriated for that
purpose has been spent.
Senator Chamberlain said he was ready to put hLs finger
on the men responsible for the failure of the aircraft produc
tion program.
Chamberlain asserted that not one airplane or battle
plane built here had been sent to Europe, although large
quantities had been shipped abroad for assembling there.
Attorney General Gregory, at President Wilson’s request,
is planning an investigation to learn if there has been misuse
of the $()40,000,000 appropriated for aircraft construction.
TO INCREASE POWERS
OE PRESIDENT WILSON
WASHINGTON, May 7. — The
Oveman bill, granting the broadest
powers to the President in reorganiz
ing the co-ordinate government de
partments, has been favorably re
ported by the house judiciary com
mittee. The vote stood 15 to 1.
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Make your home service reach the
firing line.
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■The only legitimate “con game" is
the con-servation game.
CONVICTED US TRAITORS
WOMEN ARE EXECUTED
NANTES, France, May 7. — Two
women spies, Josephine Alvarez and
Victorhie Faucher, condemned to
death by court-martial, were executed
here this morning.
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Every farmer who talks maximum
profits instead of maximum produc
tion is aiding Germany.
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We must conquer the whims of our
own appetites before we can hope to
conquer the German menace.
Ill THIRD SHOT
WASHINGTON, May 7. — The
•navy department today made public
reports of a fight which took place
between the American steamship
Tidewater and a German submarine,
in which the submarine was bester
and probably was sunk.
The encounter took place on March
17. The naval gun crew on hoard the
Tidewater fired three shots at the 17
boat, and the gunners are confident
the third shot hit the submarine, as
she failed to appear again.
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NICARAGUA IN WAR
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SAN JUAN SET, SUR, Nicaragua,
May 7. — The Nicaraguan congress
today declared war upon Germany.
PARIS. May 7. — It has been dis
covered that the Germans are inject
ing asphyxiating gas into letters sent
home by prisoners in their camps. A
woman in the village of Lasicotiere
was ill for several days after receiv
ing a letter from a German prison
camp, and another woman received a
letter containing poison gas from her
husband, who Is held captive in Ba
varia,
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ROUMANIANS NOW
UNDER GERMAN YOKE
AMSTERDAM, May 7. —The peace
treaty between Rumania and the Teu
tonic powers has been signed.
SUCCESS BRITISH
RAID IS ADMITTED
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LONDON, May 7. — That the recent British naval raid
on the German submarine base at Zeebnigge was successful
is admitted by the Frankfurter Zeitumg. That newspaper is
lend in its demands that the German navy take steps to deal
with the British craft used in such raids.
Zeebnigge is one of the mosi important strongholds over
wliich the German flag floats, and the impairment of its use
fulness by the blocking of the tiaroW clianne! is a severe blow
to the German U-boat campaign.
RECEIVER FOR NOME DREDGE
CO. DENIED BY COURT
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 7. — The United* States circuit
court of appeals lias denied the application for a receiver for
the Nome Consolidated Dredging Company, a $10,000,000
concern. % '
The Ammcan Manganese Steel Company contended that
the dredging company went through insolvency and secured a
$20djRoo mortgage in order to escape a liability of $25,IKK),000
to the steel firm.
It was also contended that the Alaska Mines Corporation
bought in the dredging company for $23,000 as a further act
to establish an irregular insolvency.
The lower court held that the assets of the dredging com
pany exceeded its liabilities, so that no reciver was necessary.
The circuit court, in a decision rendered yesterday, upholds
the lower court.
STR. GOVERNORJN ACCIDENT
VICTORIA, B. C., May 7. — The Pacific Steamship Com
pany’s liner Governor, while bound from San Francisco with
freight and passengers, hit the outer breakwater of Victoria
harbor and ripped holes in her bow. i
INVINCIBLITY OF THE ALUES
PARIS, May 7. — Premier Clemenceau, after a two-day
visit to the front, said the American troops were continuing
their artillery work in force. The French premier says he has
a feeling of confidence in the invincibility of the entente
forces.
REMOVAL CONSULS
VLADIVOSTOK ASKED
WASHINGTON, May 7. — The demand on representa
tives of the entente governments and upon American Ambas
sador Francis at Vologda for the removal of consuls at Vladi
vostok has reached the state department here.
The determination to force recognition of the Bolsheviki
government is believed to be the underlying purpose of this
move. Officials realize that German influence is at work, and
that the incident of the landing of troops at Vladivostok is
being used as a pretext for causing trouble between the
Americans and their allies and the Bolsheviki.
Japanese Officials Arrested
LONDON, May 7. — A Reuter’s Tokio dispatch says that
the Russians at Irkutsk, Siberia, have arrested the Japanese
vice consul, and also the president of the Japan Association,
charging them with being military spies.
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF
PRISONERS BY GERMANS
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, May 7.—
Prisoners of war are shamefully treated in German prison
camps, if all have the experience of an American who was in
Crviewed by , a French soldier, who also was a prisoner, just
before he made his escape.
i he Frenchman said that th American was forced to work
in the salt mines at Harz, and that he lost thirty-three pounds
in weight in three months. The only nourishment he received
was from thin soup made of barley and cabbage, a few pota
toes and a little bread. It was impossible for the man to work
on this diet without becoming sick and weak. Many of the
prisoners who had a similar experience were so weak that they
were unable even to hold a cigarette.
MUCH GRAIN DESTROYED
IN EIRE AT ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS, May 7. — Fire this af
ternoon destroyed five warehouses
and grain elevators, with several hun
dred thousand bushels of wheat, four
four-story buildings and several stor
age sheds,
The loss is variously estimated at
from live hundred thousand to three
million dollars.
FAMILY IS BUTCHERED
BY MEXICAN BANDITS
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EAGLE PASS, Texas, May 7. —
Mexican bandits have murdered the
entire family of Frederick Hillcoat at
Lamariposa, two hundred and fifty
miles scJSlh of Eagle Pass, in Mexico.
The victims were British subjects.
CASUALTIES OF A WEEK
AMONG BRITISH FORCES
KANSAS CITY, May 7. —TSergennt
Earl Craddock last night won the Na
tional army world championship
wrestling trophy from Yussif Hus
sane. The American won the match
by taking two straight falls.
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The man who grows more food adds
to the wealth of the world; the man
who grows dollars may be adding only
to his own wealth’.
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TOWNS’ GERMAN NAMES
ARE TO BE CHANGED
WASHINGTON, May 7. — A bill
has been introduced in the house of
representatves to require cities or
towns bearing the name “Berlin” or
other German designations to change
thew to “Liberty”, “Victory,” or
other such names.
MAT GHAMPIONSTP
WON BY EARL CRADDOCK
LONDON, May 7. — British casual
ties during the week ended today to
taled 38,691. These include killed,
wounded and missing.
GERMAN PUBLIC KITCHENS
MANAGED BY WOMEN
AMSTERDAM, May 6. — All Ger
many's public kitchens are now man
aged and staffed entirely bv women.
They buy and regulate all supplies,
work of supervision, and accounting.
The only male atendants are men ap
pointed by the trade unions to keep
order. No woman is employed who is
not prepared to devote all her time to
the w’ork. Many are voluntary work
ers. but others are paid as much as
$30 to $35 a month
Most of the kitchens are self-sup
porting, but a few- require help from
the local government. The larger
kitchens have a staff of over 100
workers. ^