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f I -f. VOL. 12, NO. "i s LEADERS IN CONG WANTING^ VAl FOOI) BILL IS THE BIG MEASURE Senate Will Next Bepii on War Tax Measure i Billion Dollars. Washington, Aug. 5.?>? actnient of the administra control bill is the prim ahead of congress this wo this long contested measu of the way the senate will bate on the $2,006,000,00< bill with the leaders hop vacation recess in Septeni The entire war legist: gram is again congested ir ate, where debate on the < report on the food control be resumed tomorrow. Tu house will begin a series day recesses to continue f< weeks, until the war tax bi! for conference. Administration leaders ^ confidence tonight that the islntion will be sent to t dent before the week-eiu 'not until after another bi in the senate. Senator H has led the attack on the h plans tomorrow to seek r? the conference report. II aided * > other opponents. Senator Chamberlain, t) istratlon manager, expres dence tonight that the draft would be adopted pr Wednesday. Action on tl ence report on the nrst a< tion food bill, for a food si V stimulation of production low. Senator Simmons. ch; the finance committee, will present the war tax bi! bi-partisan committee repc senate. It is to be taken disposal of the food legisln leaders bone the hill enn passed early in September. Upon the passage of th< measure, and other mino tlon, a recess of six week? may be arranged. Among the less import: tires scheduled for early st sideration are the conferer on the bills increasing the commerce commission's and authorizing the Presid priority in railroad shipm The administration tra< the enemy bill, passed by t will be considered tomorrc senate commerce comm senate action may be post] til after September. The commerce commi seek confirmation this weel bridge Colby, of New Y< member of the shipping bo The bill proposed by McAdoo for 'government of American troops sent at may be presented this weel Further senate discu peace is promised. Senat chairman of the foreign committee said tonight he to deliver this week a spee peace situation, but probal not offer any concrete pre the form of a resolution, dress promises to lead to able discussion of peace ta eign capitals as well as of war aims. Woman suffrage is ano Ject scheduled for continu tlon. Senator Weeks and oth eating a congressional com ? supervise war expenditure to continue their fight. Weeks will offer his resolut amendment to the war Senator Chamberlain hope tain consideration of his to draft all aliens excep and enemies who reside country. The military < also is scheduled to soon ' war department bill to ?. board of aircraft productk ^ The senate audit comm meet tomorrow and probat Senator Sherman's resol congressional investigation Bast St. Louis race riots. In some form also is expec given by congress to the disturbances. V The L r3, SEMI-WEEKLY. RESS I TEUTONIC ARMIES ARE I CATION WINNING AND LOSING; WEEK'S ADVANCE ON ONE FRONT; I. RETREAT ON ANOTHER. \ Debate Berlin Claims That Germans] of Two - Have Driven Practically All Russians Out of Galicia. , Final en- The Teutonic armies, still advancition food' i 11 k although against increased reel pal task sistance, on the eastern front are! ?k. "When j slowly being forced back by the re is out pressure of entente masses in the begin do- west. 0 war tax Gains made by the British on the | ing for a Flanders front on Friday when the! ber. village of St. Julien was reentered.! ative pro- were followed by an advance by the i the sen- French on their front Friday night, onference Notwithstanding the continued inI bill will clement weather French forces esday the drove in beyond the Kortekeer car-1 of three- baret, moving their lines forward or several while their patrols pushed back GerII is ready man outposts and explored considerable area In advance of the French expressed positions. food leg- Forecasts Renewal of Drive, he I'resi- Berlin announces an increase in j I, though the artillery tire to great violence at i tter tight times on the Flanders front. Ap-1 iced, who patently the renewal of the great pgislation. i battle in all its fury is only awaiting Jection of ,'1" return of fairly good weather, e will be i The I.ondon war olhce makes it ! clear that no shifting of British le admin-I troops was found necessary to cope' sed conti-1 with the situation created by the conferees' Berman diversion of Thursday nfght . obably by "oar Monachy Re-Preux on the Aras1 te confer- battle front, through which inroads j tmintstra-' "'r;e made upon too British position! urvey and j on infantry hill. Attacks carried ont ' will fol- the following day and night by the j troops on the spot, the oflicinl state-, lirman of,n,pr>t announces, forced the Germans tomorrow out and completely restored the poll and the sition. >rt to the On Itussian Front, up after j The situation on the Russian front itiou. The j 'rom .North (.alicia to the Carpa-J be finally | thians continues favorable to the ar-| mies of the Central Powers, but the: e revenue 1 Russians although symptoms of con-l r legisln- tinulng new morale are still noted,1 \ or more appear on the whole to be offering j | a stiffer defense, particularly along int meas-jthe Eastern Calician border. At one i mate con- i point an energetic operation cleared! ice report ; the Austro-German forces from a Interstate sector of the east bank of the Zbr personnel ocz, the river forming the boundary ent to fix line. At another point on this line, lents. near Skala, the Teutonic troops were ling with driven ??t ot two villages, he house. Yielding Ground. >w by the The Russians continue to yield ittee. hut Pro?n<l in Rukowina and in the Car-j poned un- Pflthians. They are emerged in a stiff battle with the enemy north-! ttee will i ea8t R'nipolung, however. Below , c of Rain-1 Kimpolung the Russian forces are irk. as a tailing back on the Moldavia and ard. ! haye yielded the town of Watra, on Secretary ,>lat river. to the Austro-German adInsurance xan<*?iroad also Berlin sums up the campaign of It. the fourteen days in the east as hcviMsion of ing cleared all Galicia of the Kus- ^ or Stone, H,ana' with the exception of a small relations j atr,P territory extending east expected jfrom Bd?y? ch on the! ?n '^e Austro Italian front there t>lv would1 " ?,"??? mure acuviiy. mil >posals In!'ta"an a,rrnen are notably busy.! Ills ad-, hey raPi(lly followed up their raid consider- on I>ola- carrying out a second air 1 lk In for a,,ac,< in whlcfl great damage is reAmerica's port<M' to bave been done this Aus trian naval base. ther sub-1 ? led aglta-j HAS LIST OF AMKRCAN'S I era advo- Hliglbles for Draft Now in (irrnt mittee to Britain. ?s, expect London, Aug. 4.?Robert P. SkinSenator ner. 'be American consul general/ Ion as an i bas requested and received the fol-j tax bill.' lowing official list of all American to ob-' citizens within the United Kingdom | resolution! eligible for draft under the Ameri-j t Asiatics can selective conscription law. These in this persons are being circularized by the ommittee consulate and told they are expect-1 report a ed to appear and offer themselves for' create a registration. >n. ! The number of Americans as vet 1 ittee will unregistered is comparatively smell. ' < >ly report a? the eligible men have shown j utlon for themselves anxious to enroll. Thoii of the total number of eligibles Is relative-j Attention ly unimportant, as most of the men ' ted to he here are over age. Those not elig!- i antljdraft ble are disappointed at not be ng 1 permitted to register. misi i &NCAS". LANCASTER, S. C., TUESPA^ BRITISH HfliniNR ni!T HAS FAI - - - -w - m W W I V VV IV ,1 III AGAINST ONSLAUGHT TO OV WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE SAYS TH BETTER ON FRONT. PETU^ Canadians Made Advance With Head of But Slight Resistance From Petrogrs Enemy?French Advance. lief in British Headquarters in France A Pacific and Belgium, Aug. 5.?(By the As- the ability r sociated Press.)?The Germans at 5 j difficulties o'clock this morning launched a and free <1 heavy attack against Ilollebeke and today by I the British post just north of the j American i Ypres-Comines canal in an attempt {speech deli\ to regain these important positions,; in honor ol which they lost in the opening day. sion. The of the battle in Flanders. The la- landed hen test reports concerning the fighting today for W indicate that the British are hold- "I have a ing out strongly against the on- through trij slaugbt. ' work out, This attack with the advance of j great, free, Canadians along a thousand yard racy," Mr. , front before Lens, which took them Professin into the environs of the town, are for the kim the outstanding features of the most sian people, recent activity along the British rights and irom. j with a IiInM In the operations at Dens last and a nob night the Canadians pushed forward ways in a I to a depth of about 200 yards to a things,' he line between the Dens-Grenay Rail- thy for the way and the Cite Du Moutin, direct-, tling with lv south. and since have consolidnt- have been ed their positions among the build- erd have n< ings. S| Rain Censes. Declaring The deluge of rain which had last- muster its i ed since Tuesday evening ceased dur- against the ing the night and the dense, low- said, "there ?1 p,o for rlnvn linv homes. sa * " * blanketed the country began to lift, doubt, alnu Rv noon the sun was shining bright- will rise a I ly and (the roads and marshy battle | made in tl ground began to dry out rapidly.! competent making observation work and the mission an< movement of troops much easier. . tice througl The coupe which resulted in the "Do not further tightening of the lines about in the war, the mining center and industrial has come town of Dens, was carried out with American ji only slight opposition from the pendence ai enemy. The Canadians advanced in for which w parties toward their objectives Tin among the houses on the outskirts Rasil Sol of the town. voy of the Slight Resistance. | companying Some resistance was encountered tdie gratitu from machine guns concealed in for the help buildings, but the Canadians ad- to p by An vanced steadily until they had ac- the two ne< quired the entire line. Here they were time i set up machine guns in buildings Charles and cellars. No counter attacks fol-'and socioloi lowed from the Germans and this i mission, sai morning the Canadians had linked "pe of g< up the whole line with barbed wire Russia. If and were prepared to meet any en-.the world t emy advance. rule." The German artillery was active of the 1 along most of the front last night, said: The ^British continued to make progress on the left flank and push- "jf a niar ed their posts forward to the east- fore my coi side of the Steenbeek river along sheet befon a front of approximately a mile, be- i class or ere ginning in the neighborhood of niy country. Saint Julien and running north-, America is west. t worthy of French Make Progress. settle the < North of Bixschoote the French.\ niocracy s too, made further progress under hangs by i tire from the enemy guns, which depends up( hnve been pounding the French po- 1 determinate sit inns steadily since the first day of America, of the push. James D' The lifting of the clouds brought the Federnt out large numbers of German air- jng a high planes, which were very active lastI of the Rui night at low altitude over the Hrit- past month Ish lines. "This is I Special religious services on the incidentals, occasion of the beginning of the America an fourth year of the war were held and the gov today throughout the British army is between camps. Wherever possible large racy." bodies of troops and officers gath- Major Gc ered to give thanks and reconse- nf stafT of crate themselves to the task they responded t have undertaken. that the Ar ? to France v HAS SEVEN SONS SERVING. pices, bettei .cared for tl New Bedford, Mass., Auk. 4.? can army ] Seven sons of the Rev. OeorKe E. into battle. Dunbar, a retired clergyman of this For ! rlty. are aerving their country in the' From the war with Germany. The cavalry and be.evolved artillery branchea of the army have cording to ? their repreaentativea of the family.' ident of the while othera are aerving on warships Labor. Ita. or at naval ahort stations. The old- ed, he decl est is thirty-flve years of age. and called refor the youngest twenty-two. , Contin ? $ FER NE Yy AUG. 7, 1917. ITH IN RUSSIA FIVE MINISTERS 0 ERCOME TROUBLE THE BERLIN AT SHE WILL PER- ZIMMERMAN OUT < VTE DEMOCRACY. AT LAST. I American Mission to Sweeping Changes Tal id Declares His He- According to Statemer Her Ability to Win. Herman Capitol Port, Auk. 4.?Faith in Merlin. Aug. f>. Via 1 if Russia to overcome her Official announcement was and perpetuate a great day that five ministers of einocracy was expressed| eluding Foreign Secretary Ililiu Hoot, head of the niann and four secretariei nission to Russia, in a including Finance Minist ^ered at a luncheon here, and Interior Minister voi I the return of the mis- had resigned their portfo members of the party Dr. Richard von Kuehli s last night. They left German ambassador to Ti raShington. been appointed secretary i ibiding faith that Russia, 'affairs in succession to Dill and tribulation, will, tvann. create and perpetuate a Landrat von Craevinitz self-governing demoe- pointed to succeed Arnol Etoot said in his address. | ehaffe as chief of the impe g a sincere admiration cellory. The minister of ily character of the Ktis-! will finally he separated , "considerate of the | ministry of the interior feelings of others, and; WadrafT, mayor of Cologn capacity for self-control i appointed minister of th< le idealism, heading ul and llerr Schwapder, 1 letter way toward higher Strassburg of economics pleaded for deep sympa- title of excellency, nation, "which is .strug- In addition to the uppoi the problems that we Dr. von Knehlmann as see studying for 1irt years foreign affairs. Ilerr Itu at yet solved." made director of railways l>lendid Vision. ister of posts, and Privy that "America must von Krause was named se nanhood with democracy justice. Over President vo power of autocracy." he was appointed chief of tl will he death, widowed ment of the army nourisl orifices and suffering. The vacant Prussian i >st despair. In the end posts were filled as follow: great free country, re-! Minister of justice, i le spirit of our fathers, Spahn. leader of the cath to accomplish its divine in the Reichstag. 1 carry liberty and jus- Minister of the interio lout the world. Secretary Drews, argue about why we are Minister of instruction, but realize that the time rial Director Schmidt, when American liberty, Minister of agriculture ustice, American inde- sen-Hartruthe. ad freedom is the stake Minister of finance, Dr. re nihst fight." ? no and Sympathy. ' Nl- I'lThl) FOR Shit datven Koff. snooial on.1 Russian government, ac- Negroes MultilHte Bodies the mission, exppressed Army Draft, do of the new republic' Cloyd, Pla., Aug. 4 > and sympathy extended M?se'>" and Willie Green, n lerica. He asserted that 'hands who were among the ids of the new Russia 'n '-eon county for serv ind friendly sympathy. I se,e?tive draft. have Edward Russell, writer themselves Ro that they w ?ist, a member of the "hie to serve. Borrowing d: from their employer, pres< iod cheer in regard to)*0 rnt>bit hunting, the pai democracy survives in "1G woods and shortly he people of Russia will Green with four fingers of hand shot on and Mosely lask before America he! 1'^ht arm shot off below t i neriea in Peril. TEUTONS OX RUSSIA? 1 now says 'my wages be untry,' or 'my balance! General Bochm-Ei-inolli's 2 my country,' or 'my! Cross the Border ed or association before i Berlin, Aug. 4.? (Via L he is not an American. Austro-German troops, ur in peril. No question is niand of Gen. von Boehi consideration until we yesterday crossed the Rus question of whether de-jtier to the nprtheast of C hall live. Democracy the Hukowina capital, say i thread. Its existence,oial statement issued todf >n the union and utmost j German war office. All < L?n 111 iiu- rnueu ?iates ? ??? "'"i"'"" Ul 11 stretch of ground from unean, vice president of ^bnraz. northeast of Tan ion of Labor, after pay- totwnent adds, has tribute to the behavior!'roni *'ie Russians. tsian people during the , declared earnestly: CJKRMAN I'LAXK LANDS no time to squabble over In \KT11KRLAXI)! The workingmen of e back of the President Amsterdam, Aug. 5.?t ernment. The fight now airplane landed today on autocracy and democ- of Ameland on account trouble, 'ihe occupants o n. Hugh L. Scott, chief chine were interned, the United States army, Ameland lies in the Nor o calls by a declaration the coast of Frlesland. i nerican army to be sent 1 t ? the Netherlands. rill go under better aus officered and better m\V IXCRKASK FUND lan any previous Ameri- FOR CATHOLIC S has ever been in going; Chicago, Aug. 5.?The 1 ttable (iovcrnment. ' fund being raised by the 1 Russian revolution will Columbus for the relief ai a stable government, nc- Con of Roman Catholic so lames Duncan, vice pros- sailors has been greatly American Federation of scribed according to Jas. j establishment is retard- ty, supreme Knight and th ared, by the radical so- council will consider inert mers. who have return- amount to $5,000,000 \ med on page eight. meet here Tuesday. ??? " ? "' ! ???WW?mmmm ws $2.00 A YKAR HUT IIMPIC CAM DDCDADCO lull UI1ULL OHITI rmrHI\L0 ABINET TO MAKE A MOVE [)F JOH TWO HUNDRED TO SUFFER IN OKLAHOMA. ke Place Government Renins to Act it From " Without Waiting For End I. of Anti-Draft Riots. London.? Oklahoma City, Okla., Auk. 6.? made to- Without waiting tor a conclusion of state, in- the state's campaign against organ /jimuivr- i/.e<i resistance to the selective draft s of state I in Central Oklahoma, the United er Lentze States government today moved to 1 Loebell,1 punish the 2??0 men under arfest in lios. ! connection with armed opposition to nann, the i military service. Warrants charging irkey. has treason were served on the prisoners of foreign who were taken to the penitentiary . Zimmer- at McAlester or the jail at Muskogee to await "trial at which United was ap- > States District Attorney McGinnts d Wahns- will ask that the death penalty ho rial chan- imposed. economics Announcement that extreme punfrom the ishment won Id be asked was exand Ilerr pected to aid materially in bringing e. will he fo terms the few resistors still shel ? interior.! tered in the hills. Posses in three nayor of counties Seminole. Hughes and with tli" Pottawatomie?reported tonight that isolated groups refused to sur* ntmont of render, hut that they apparently rotary for were discouraged and seeking to cdlin was avoid an encounter, and min- | Determination of the possenien to Councillor run down all of the leaders was erotary of strengthened today by confiscation n Waldow nf half a freight car of dynamite ie depart- \ which had been run on a siding iment. ! southeast of Sasakwa in Seminole ninisterial county. An investigation is being U i ttlnilo tn ootnKHoh - vw x .<?uwiinu un uciOUI|i. I IIW )r. Peter*oar was unaccompanied, olic party Clashes between the resisters and posses have cost three lives and nur. Under! merous injuries. Two objectors to I the draft have been killed and a , Ministe- j traveler was shot when he failed to | heed a posse's warning to halt. , Dr. Es-j Development of the causes of tho outbreak and of the forces behind it, Hertz. is expected in premliminary hear inns when the men in custody are VICE. | arraigned before a United States ! commissioner at McAlester. to Escape, <;erm.yns capture towns .?Nathan ; euro farm Kaiser's Troops Continue Advance first call- 1,1 Bukowinn. ice in the Berlin, Aug. f?.?(Via London.) ? multilated British Admiralty per Wireless ill be un-'*>reR8: Austro-German armies a shotgun on ,he eastern front are continuing numbly to "teir advance between the Dniester ,. went to! and the Pruth, and in Rukowina, returned <>ast an(' sm,th Czernowitz. takhis right ' *nK several additional towns, acwith his COI'(Bng to today's army headquarthe elbow. ;ers rpport' < soiij SPECIAL TERM OF COURT CALLED OFF r roopM ondon.)? Attorneys and Clerk of Court Uler com- Occupied With Affairs of m-hrmoiii.j Draft Boards, sian fron- i _____ zernowitz. Because of the fact that the Clerk s the offl- of Court and several attorneys inly by the ; terested in cases scheduled for trial >f Galiria at special term of court, an' ' j nounced for next week, will be occui nai:o\\ 1 piod with details of the draft under Brody to I the conscription measure, for the lopol, the next two weeks, the Lancaster Bar n wrested Association decided this morning !that no special term of court will be I held. It had been announced that civil court would convene here next Monday morning with Judge Krnest. , , . .?|'ps Moore presiding and a number of s ' ' ' j civil actions were on the roster. It was ascertained however that Cleric V German of Court Paul Moore would be occuthe island n'(>d with the draft, as will be R. S. erf iiiotor ^,ewart and '* ^ McDonald and it was therefore decided that no special f the ma-, term would te held. i | t h sea otf. (t belongs | + 4k + HOl'H IS CHANOKI). + t * * + It was announced in Lancas- + * fer today that Chief l^ouis lOliDIKRSj* Behrens of the Charleston fire * department will speak in this 51 000 noft h ri,v Fr,dav afternoon at 5* tl.uou.uuu * oVioc'- instead of Friday night (nights of + at 8:30 o'clock as had been ad reerea-1* nrev'ously announced. The Idlers and '** '''e?ton chief says that he + will have to leave Lancaster at ( over-sub-. A 7;?f; ^veninsr an<t this is * Flaher- * responsible for the change. The e supreme * meet'"* will be held in the court waning the * house and the public is cordially . ' . invited. vhen they ^ ^ 1