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The Lancaster News I , -VOl,. 12. NO. 81. SKMI-WKKKLY. LANCASTKK. S. P.. TUESDAY. SKI'T. 4. 1!>1~ $2.00 A YKAR HOUSE REPUBLICANS If ARE BELIIGERANT FINANCIAL BILLS LARGEST 1 EVER INTRODUCED. Legislation Involving Many Bil- * lions to Come up This Week. Washington, Sept. 2.?Congress | works this week on three great v ar u measures, the $1 l,538,l>54,4tio war i ^ bond and certificate, the $3,0')0,000,000 revenue and the $176,000,- '' 000 sailors and soldiers' insurance ^ bills. The revenue bill may be sen'. ^ to conference by the senate before * Saturday night, by which time the j11 other measures will have been pass-,11 ed by the house. Republicans of the j house will opp'ose a few provisions of ; a the bond bill and seek to amend it ; v so as to provide for a war expendi-'11 tures committee and the optional j1 feature of the insurance bill will be|c subjected to attack, but both prob- j ably will pass about as they were ^ drawn. |l The war provision of the revenue bill, levying a total of $ 1,286,000,-|11 000 is generally expected to stand. c Much oratory will be produced by <> the trinity of hills, however. They ar? of the character which in peace times would be assailed on all sides ' as radical and socialistic beyond ^ measure. The two financial hills are the largest of their kind ever intro- ?' duced and the insurance bill con- ' templates revolutionizing the euti. 1 system of compensating a nation's l armed defenders and their depend^pnts for war services. h During the Labor Day holiday the ' .? senate will continue to work on the n war profits section of the revenue 1" bill seeking to dispose of it not later than Wednesday. The house ad- < Journed yesterday to reconvene ? Tuesday foP consideration of then bond bill. It will be passed Wed- v nesday. Both houses will adjourn v yearly Tuesday to march with F'resi- ! dent Wilson in the parade of District of Columbia men drafted for the h new army. I The climax in the senate fight over S war profits taxation approaches with o both high and low tsr\ factions! claiming victory. When the final! o vote on the section is taken, eonsid- v eration of the income tax provisions i will begin. e Other important contests are promised over the consumption taxes , a on sugar, coffee, tea and cocoa, ag-i i gregating $86,000,000, whic h many j ( senators believe will be eliminated: . f the proposed sugar "drawback" re-' r peal, the freight and parcel post tax it provisions and the McKellar substi- t tute providing increased postal rates I on second class publications. f After sending the tax bill to con- a RENCH DRIVE TEUTONS BACK ON THE AISNE WENCH OUST GERMANS FROM TRENCHES. ien. Von Mackensen's Drive Airainst !\1nld:ii:i Doesn't Seem to (iather Force. While the Italian offensive has the sped ot' larger importance, the Tench assault in the llurtebize reion on the Aisne front Friday evenlg was perhaps the most interesting evelopment of the twenty-four ours. In one sweep, after brief arlllery preparation, Gen. l'elaln'a roops drove the Germans out of heir trenches along a front of neary a mile on the Chemin Des Dames ind pushed the French lines forward more than 300 yards. The ewly won ground was held against hree counter attacks, Paris delares. In the Isonzo fighting 011 Friday ien. Cardorna's troops took more hail 7 00 additional prisoners, bringng the total for the offensive up to lore than 27,000. The Italians also apturcd additional trench elements l) the ("arso. Fastern Front. From (lie Uusso-Kuinanian front he German cainis of successes are rowing less comprehensive. Field larshul von Mackensen's drlvt gainst the Moldavian lines north ast of Fokshani does not seem to e gaining in force, and press distal dies have reported the Human ans hopeful of retaining Moldavia 11 spite of heavy Tuetonic pressure. Vtrngrad reports the repulse of an ttack on the Rumanian lines in the okshani region. There is more artillery activity han usual along tUe Russian northin front, but no pronounced movenent against Riga such as was sug;ested by Friday's petrograd adices has as yet developed. In Macedonia. In Macedonia the Entente troop:iave attacked at several points. Rerin reports repulses of the Italians lerhians and French in attempts up m Qerman-Rulgarian lines. With the closing of a week ol omparative inactivity along th< restern fronts numerous signs of ji evival of an offensive are appar lit. In Flanders the Rritish guns ar? igain thundering the threat of re ie\ved infantry thrusts against th< Jerman lines. The French. \vhil? comparatively quiet in the Verdui egion, are giving another display ol iieii hmcessfu! dashine tactics ir he Aisne region. On the Austro talian front, (Jen. Cardorna ap tarently has aligned his forces foi nother drive in force on the Itainiz a plateau and is again edging for rard toward Trieste on the Carso. > Rumanians Repulse Teutons. Petrograd, Sept. 1.?Increased ar ilory fire in the Vilna and Smorgon vrevo sectors toward the northerr ml of the Russian front is reported n today's official report. The re uilse by the Rumanians of an attach n the Pokshani region on the Ru nanian front also is annonunced. French Make (iains. Paris. Sept. 1.?French troops or he Aisne front opened an offensive esterday in the Hurteblze region n one sweep, they carried all theli objectives on a front of more thar hree nuarters of a mile to a deprn if more than 300 yards. The captured ground, 'says the oTIcial statement making this an lOuncement. was held against three ounter attacks. . '<> \ NNO('\< F CO \l< l'R<KJR \M XK.XT WKKK Washington. Aug. $1.?The gov tnment's complete coal control olicy will be made public next reek. I?r. If. A. flarfield. the fuel dministrator, announced today. Dr, iarfleld left tonight for Willamsown, Mass., to spend several days nd will prepare a statement on the object while away. One of Dr. larfield's first moves may be to fix scnle of retail coal prices. Many fflcials believe there Is no chance of ^ringing down commercial costs tc he consumer until some step is taten toward controlling retailers. ference there probably will be short z but sharp discissions of peace on v resolutions of Senators La Follette j and Sherman suggesting promulgation of peace terms. Senate lead-' ers expect to have the resolutions 11 overwhelmingly beaten. j. With thes important measures and a new urgent deficiency appropria- j tion bill carrying between $4,500,- r 000,000 and $6,000,000,000 few leaders see any hope of adjournment t] before October. AOHKK TO CALL Bl? STRIKK l t Will Affect 12,000 Workmen in ^ Seattle Shipyards. j Seattle, Wash., Aug. 31.?A strike n of more than 12,000 workers in Se- t attle shipyards and plants engaged n in fabricating ship building materials to enforce demand for a gen- j eral increase in wages was set for r next Wednesday by officers of the r fifteen affiliated unions of the Seattle Metal Trades Council, In execu- ~ tive session today. ,.t < t, .. ,lo?A wfts served upon all companies and ,, firms that have not met the union ^ demands. The ultimatum is that v ( the demands made by the union sl;c n weeks aeo. when they gave notlee of ( iheir Intention to abridge the exist- f Ing blanket agreements op August 1. B must be met on or before next Tues- H day. c The wage Increases asked are said a to average 7 per cent in most of the n trades. A $6 a day minimum for h mechanics la the basis of the pro- t1 posed scale. y fai?Kfll jjlTdl fait nnZlglnrAr I (DISCIPLINE IS FIRST GEF SAYS GEN. O'RYAN A I MEN WILL UNDERGO THOR- AN( OUGH TRAINING. Pleased With Progress at Camp (ire; Wads worth Where He Will TI Be in Command. I 1 Spartanburg, Sept. 2.?Major Gen. I Tl O'Kyau, commander of the Twenty- tuall; | seventh division, United States the ] army, at his lirst formal meeting with! witli newspaper men here this after- ; Tli ' noon made it clear that the supreme ( Haiti purpose of the training the troops line i are to receive will be discipline. i thret An automatic response to orders in tl must be the basis of all training tor j soutl the soldiers and after that is estab- I soutl lished throughout* the personnel of | the I 1 any army the technical, the tricks of dista lighting may come along readily, is in the general's idea, lie said he did after not fancy the word severe, in this! Uskti connection, but he added the train-j seen* ! ing here is going to be rigid with the ters. utmost emphasis placed by all oltl-lTher cers on the, observance of all orders nortl 1 by the men. ward Gen. O'llyan spoke at some length (,. r; of the importance of discipline and them 'the reasons for it. lie said there I had been a 50 per cent improvement So 'in the discipline of the New York Riga [ division on the border, and that the troni ' | training here would add another 50 man i i???r cent, he believed, within the next Mere > few months. in w liis idea is that the little things yet 1 " count, and he said men could be sian 1 trained as readily in the matter of Hons discipline and obedience to orders <n ed in 1 the mess as on the parade ground, near ' For instance, lie said suppose order were is issued requiring every man to miles place the end of his tie in his shirt Pi pocket, every man must do that last thing, not that there is so much in wars ' volved, but because it is an order. Gulf I/ess Privileges the Penalties. of G Asked concerning the punishments subn to be intlicted for breach of orders, traw 1 the general said there would not be new " so much punishment as there would whet > be the withdrawal of privileges for out the infraction of rules. Of course, he beco added, where .Here is aggressive of' fense punishment will be adminis5 tered. be f 1 During the morning Gen. O'llyan ^ ^ " visited Camp Wadsworth, where lie ' made a superficial inspection. He ^ ^ said he was pleased with the camp, ^ ( " thought it very good, and that he 5 was not disappointed as to the pro? * milei e gress made by the constructing ^ 1 quartermaster, lie said there is still ' ^ much to be done, but it Js estimated . s<ans ' that the camp will be finished by ^. * September 10. He personally re. . evid' " garded that estimate as rather optir ...i it ion? I III "l It in possible that the drill ' grounds will be rather limited, according to the general, but he said ' ' he thought additional land could be ' , , , . .. . soutl sei ured it need be. Headquarters -1 building at Camp Wadsworth is not ' | ready for occupancy, but tomorrow > j the administration oMicers will esi tablish headquarters in the mess Or -]shack now being occupied by (Jen. O. tin's > i H. Phillips, who was in command gains - | upon the arrival of (Jen. O'Ryan. 'he < Period ??f Training. ,>ast I There is an impression here since tlitio 'the arrival of the New York officers.'v0 1 j that the period of training for the f,n,n troops here will extend over three ana ' months. Of course, no official state- ^us' ment is made concerning the time l'a''i ' the troops will he at Camp Wads- 'n 1 worth, hut It is estimated that that :'r'" ' period will certainly be necessary. * Col. Cornelius Vanderbilt, with - ' Tjio the last section of his regiment, arrived in Spartanburg early this ' 1 morning. They are at Camp Wads- 1 IP > worth and have spent the day establishing their camp. He and (Jen. '' "* 1 ' O'Ryan met while the general wa I"1*5'1 | at the camp ihis morning. y CAROLINIANS REACH CAMP At i son I Kiiftinpcr Coips Arrived at Camp l?enn Mills, N. V. Sontl Mineola, N. Y.. Aug. 31.?The can 1 .first separate hattlaion engineers' here ' I corps, of South Carolina, now thelAtlai ' 117th engineers, and the second,ngei. seperate troops of Louisiana cavalry Mr arrived at Camp Mills today to Join Crosi * the Forty-second division. The Caro ' South Carolina battalion numbers part 720 man and sixteen officers. meat . ; ? -r (MANS HAMMERING CHA I THE GATES OF RIGA: )T!IER SMASHING BLOW URG IN FEW DAYS. 1 it Port on Baltic Beset on Speni tree Sides with Slavs l*n- Kn nklo 1 <1 uuiv \\t v n^rvrv inxiiit'id? le Germans are knocking vir- ^ya y at the gates of Riga, and with ol- tjl( Russians apparntly unable to j ? ;in stand their advance. : upon le great port arsenal on the n c and the head of the railway (sjates running to Fetrograd is best on |t.(ter 5 sides by enemy on the west tarv le Lake Habit region, on thejdent , Invest near Mitau and on the: these least along the eastern bank of ^jme )vina river, a scant fifteen miles 8Uppc nt from the city. | the latter region the Germans jows: a heavy bombardment, won the: ..p, ill bridgehead, famed as the , appre e of many sanguinary encounand crossed the l)vina river, i |,.ser, e they shaped their course ()f tj)( tiward along the waterway to- ln Riga, with the Russians coun- \ ()f 1 ittacking, but unable to check in>, t < titer] llig Hat tie On. une twenty miles southwest of , iili?n gthe railway line running; . ( Mltau to the*seaport the Gor< have begun a new offensive. (j)p a big battle is in progress, but ^enan hose favor it is going has not ,, ( ,|(i liren made evident l>v the ltus- j( and German oflleial oomniuniea- j1Pjp i. Neither is anything contain- j i them concerning the operations I ,.,.jsjs Lake Habit, where the Germans ..j ( last reported, about twelve vounj t west of Riga. mane epa rat ions evidently was made t, week in raids by airplanes on hips and military works in the .((l of Riga and by the manoeuvers vj(p erman torpedo boat destroyers. (jieni! itar'nes and mine-sweeping u lers in adjacent waters for the offensive against Riga, but lier the attack is being carried ^ . simultaneously by sea has not p,.j(je me apparent. silent Petrograd Safe. home r hile the capture of Riga would >f great strategic value to the It nans in controlling the entrance ip Gulf of Finland, at tho head Orrici hich stands Petrograd, it would necessarily placo tlio capital in j>(>l iirdy for it lies overland 160 j,ave #. as the crow flies, from Riga anno, .160 miles by rail. tj, Southern Moldavia the Rus- K jVt<n fighting near Fogshani in |{|j,a unction with the Rumanians. t|)roa ently have ceased their deser- s;OI i and again are facing the ene- tnrilv Here. according to Berlin, office have delivered heavy counter wards ks against Field Marshal von tiv Jensen's forces. Near Braila, ?<o Iwost of Galatz. on the Danube, | ?vin : >rmnns were repelled in an at- troop on the Russian front. day r Italians KxtomI Gains, shot", 1 the Italian front Gen. Cardoforces have extended their norf ^ * on the Brestozizza plateau, on f'ours dopes of Monte Sangahriele am m of Goriza. and have taken annal prisoners and war stores. Italian airplanes* have flown the Italian front over Vienna dropped pamphlets telling the PHm't rian people of the victory of the r,WM ins from Tolmino to the sea. Belgium the British big guns jjJ ontinuing to bombard violently ' . lerman positions, evidently pre- 1 . store ig the wav for another smash i tacks infant-" act'vir here and n!s<> . , , view ip south in f- nc% ? 1 ^ m^iuiy ?TI create nature of rai ling ore 1 al io'H. , , der h >avv '! "t'! v nuels also are in , . ment -es-? a'o*ij. 'h" > si", in ' h.ilile and n 'lie Verdun sector. MM IWW.KIl KOH BHD 4 I toss < . sua lanta, Aug. 31.?William LawPeel. a hanker of this city, has j m appointed manager of the ^ leastren Division of the Ameri- ,nnou Bed < ross, it was announced nounr tonight. ('. D. Bid well, also of fh| ita, was named assistant man"H . l'eel will have charge of Tied (East 4 work in North and South night Una, Georgia, Florida and a minut of Tennessee, the announce- dropp > Mid. ed to NCE FOR BOYS 10 SERVE COUNIRY ES THE BOYS TO JOIN tVOKKINCi RESERVE. (I Spare Time in Productive iterprises Without Interrupting Their Studies. shington, Sept. 1.? Young men ? country between the ages of (I 21 not employed are tailed by President Wilson to serve ation by joining the United i boy's working reserve. In a made public today by Secreof Labor Wilson, the Presisays it is the patriotic duty of young men to use their spare in productive work and help >rt the nation in the present The President's letter fol?rmit me to express my great riation of the work undertaken e United States boy's working re of the employment service ? Department of Labor. To give * young men between the ages and 21 the privilege of spend io-ii r>|iiii ?- i 1111 ill ' IIIIKIUCIIVI l?rise without interrupting their s at srhool, while their older ims are battling in the trenches in the seas, must greatly in the menns of providing fot i ces at the front and tin- nvslnce of those whose services arc il here. It is a high privilege, ss t hit 11 a pa t riot i" duty, t< support the nation by devote! intelligent work in this greol t me express the hope that the ! men of the country not perntly employed may eagerly enie hov's working reserve to li< wives by training and study for citizenship and productive serin this way they can show wives worthy of patriotic fath ho have fought for democracy e past, sustain their patriotic ers who are fighting for It to and command the affectionate of the brave mothers who arc ly bearing the burdens at + rssiAXs .\hamm>\ i:i<;a <>i\en on Account of Threatening Situation. irograu. sept. i lie KUsstui abandoned Riga, the war ofliet tnces. e statement says an order wat f??i the abandonment of tht region on account of tht tening situation, ne Russian detachments volunleft their positions, the wai reports, and are retiring to < the north, e statement says: n the left bank of the rivei [. to the west of Riga, out s toward the morning of Sunetired to the line of RilderlingMetlem and Dahlen." i the direction of rxkull, on the bank of the Hvina, in th? e of Saturday and Sunday, tht ans conducted stubborn at. chiefly on the front in Shtahuger-Skrrithto-Lausin and tht lence of the river Oger. Toward ay evening they succeeded ir rating our positions on tht Jaegel. in the region of Melr and Skrihto ime of the detachments volunleft their positions and are reto the north. Kfforts to rethe positions by countre atgave no definite result. In of the threatening situation >d in the Riga region the oras been given for the abandon of this region." R \ 11> ON HRITISII OOXST illlos Ih'lirvrd to Ue ^mnll, Sn.v* lion<l??n. id on. Sept. 2. A German air on the roast of En eland was inc?d tonight In an official an ement. Rombs were dropped b airplane crossed East Kent. 1 text of the statement reads: ostile airplanes crossed the Kent coast at 11:15 o'clock toThey flew seawards a few :es later. A few bombs were ed. The casualties are bellevbe small." PERSHING SAYS U. S. MUSI HAVE PATIENCE MIST BlILI) ENTIRE NEW ORGANIZATION. Declares M Is Almost Impossible for People Hack Home to Understand. Paris, Sept. 1.?Ma jog. Gen. Pershing, who has remain * in Paris clearing up tlie work at his old I headquarters and who is not going to Held headquarters until Sunday or Monday, declared today 111 connection with the plans for the comj ing winter that the American people must learn the meaning and val, ue of patience and not expert that ' the expedition forces landed in France can be rushed immediately 'to front line trenches. To put an inadequate, insufficiently supplied force into actual combat, ' he said, would merely be making a mistake, which the Germans un; questionably have hoped and ex1 j pected the I'nited States would make. It is the intention, rather, that when America does take her place in the line, shoulder to shoulder with the other allies next ye. r. she will be fully prepared to ' go through the summer campaign " and make (he Germans feel the full weight of iter military power. Immense Task. "U'liili. Ihiimi r?I 11- ? !?.? Ii'im studied tlw situation :ind who know v. hat is lien ssnr\ to 1m done," said C!on. Pershing to the Associated Press. "are anxious that the people at home strive to realize the immensity of the task in which we are engaged and shall have patience and help us accomplish that aim in the shortest possible time. "We came into the war without an army. So now we must huild an (uti.e n w oigan zation and huild it so big and so strong that we can take our place along with our allies, who already have had three years time and experience. Hard to I inlet-stand. ^ "I realize how very difficult It Is for the people at home to understand the war. to understand the effort that lies behind the war. Our {problems are greater than any that France or Great Britain had to ' I solve, but we are solving them and will continue to do so. . 1 "It is impossible to create a vast : fighting machine merely by the wave of a wand. I wish that it were pos! sible to do so and that we might be ' fighting the German government this minute. We know that the only way to defeat the German army is to hammer it and keep on hammering it. That is what we expect to he doing with all our fresh strength and enthusiasm (luring next year's campaign." + IN I-'OIIM \??. 102. I steal lloanls Irged to Comply Without Delay. Columbia, Sept. 2. Adjutant General \V. \V. Moore who has charge of the mobilization of South ' Carolina's quota of the new national army, has received a communication from the office of the provost marshal general asking that certain 1 local boards which have not furnish' ed the provist marshal general's of ' ce with a copy of form 102 do so at once. Form 102 shows the names of persons whose registration cards are in possession of the local boards in the order of their liability for military service. This request was communicated today hv the Adjutant General's office to the following local boards which have not yet compiled with this section of th? \iki'ii. Muiprson. .no. nnmiterff, Reaufort. Berkeley, Calhoun. Charleston, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Colleton. Darlington, Fairfield. CcerI'e. No. 1 and 2. Hampton. Lauren*. Leo, Lexington. McCormlek, Orangeburg No. 1 and No. 2, Spartanhurg No. 1, 2 and 3. 4>? . OoritKKS IN FRRN< II FOR ENLISTED MEN Washington, Aug. 31.?Limited courses in the French language and in French geography will be given enlisted inen In all the national i army and National Guard training | posts, the commission on training i camp activities announced today.