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SOLDIERS IN TRAINING CAMPS
TAUGHT HOW TO USE AND
CARE FOR WEAPONS.
BRITISH COMMUNAL KITCHENS
They Prove Successful in Saving Food
L and Fuel ? State Councils of Deft
fense Wii! Advise War Risk ClaimB
ants.
<From Committee on Public Information.;
~ Washington.?The National army
and many organizations of the National
Guard having been equipped with
the United States rifle, model of 1917
(modified Enfield), it became necessary
to devise some plan whereby
troops could be efficiently trained in
the use of this weapon in short time.
A statement authorized by the ordnance
department tells how experts in
shooting, many of them members of
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national shooting matches, were commissioned
and sent to various camps
to instruct officers and men in shooting
and in the operation and care of
the rifle.
In one camp officers under instruction
from these men gave a demonstration
in dismounting and assembling
this rifle while blindfolded, the
record time being 7 minutes for dis
mounting ana tz minutes ior assembling.
There are 86 parts to the rifle,
chanics' classes, the mechanics being
hanics* classes, the mechanics being
trained to make repairs to rifles in the
field. Frequently they will have to do
their work at night, when they will
not be allowed to use lights, and therefore
they must be thoroughly trained
In taking down the rifle and putting
In new par's by sense of touch.
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communal Kiicnens are ueiug esuiulisheu
throughout Great Britain and
are proving successful In saving food
and fuel, according to reports to the
department of commerce. An article
from a recent issue of an English
newspaper Is quoted:
"The war has brought home to the
public that the communal or national
kitchen is a necessity and can be
n success. Within a compara
tively short period there will probably
be Installed many hundreds of these
establishments throughout the country.
The national kitchen was originally
intended to supply poor people
with nourishing and attractively pre
pared food at low prices, but there is
considerable prospect?certainty, in
fact?that the more prosperous will
form a fair proportion of the customers.
"As an example of the outfit of a
people's kitchen that at Hammersmith
(London) may be taken as a model.
This supplies about 6,000 customers a
week, which probably represents 12,000
to 15,000 consumers, as a customer
commonly purchases for his or
her family."
The council of national defense has
urged the state councils to provide
voluntary aid for dependents of men
in the service in collecting allotments
of pay and family allowances, arrears
of pay, travel pay, extra pay, or other
money due estates of deceased soldiers
and sailors.
Allotments and allowances under
the war-risk insurance law are paid
directly Dy tne treasury aeparnyem iu
the persons entitled thereto; claims
for insurance taken out under the law
should be addressed to bureau of warrisk
insurance, treasury department.
Washington, D. C.; claims for arrears
of pay, extra pay and travel pay or
deceased soldiers and sailors and all
other claims should be addressed to
auditor of the war department, Washington,
D. C.
Consul General Thacbara, at Paris,
cables: "A decree of April 5, published
April 6, gives notice that all merchandise
prohibited from importation by
law of May 6, 1916, will be seized and
sold for profit of the state unless a
regular Import authorization be presented
within five days after arrival.
For first 30 days after promulgatorof
this decree requests for derogation*
from its provision can be addressed to
the minister of finance, in case particular
circumstances justify an exception."
Two ner cent of the enlisted person
nel of the divisions and detached units
of the regular army, National Guard,
and National army, excepting the
coast artillery and various staff corps,
will be designated to attend the fourth
series of officers' training schools,
which will open May 15. Admission
has also been granted to some men
who have had at least one year's military
training under army officers at
educational institutions which t-ave
earned government recognition
| Optical glass equaling tne product
| of European manufacturers, from
whom only it formerly could be obtained,
is now being produced for military
use by the bureau of standards of
the United States department of commerce
and several privately owned
factories. One shipment from the glass
factory in Pittsburgh, for use by the
navy department, contained 7S0 pounds
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ui. uigii-fcxuut: upucai glass?eiiuu^u
to provide lenses for probably 750
binoculars.
Development In glass manufacturing
in the United States has been similar
to that of dye making. Before the
war manufacturers 01 optical goods in.
this country were content to import
all their glass from Europe, themselves
doing only the grinding, polishing,
and mounting. European glass
factories, one of the three largest be
ing located in England, one in France,
and one in Germany were closely
guarded to protect secrets of the trade
sometimes a century old. It was considered
impossible to produce efficient
glass without formulas and factory
processes developed by many years of
experimentation.
One of the problems facing the bureau
of standards when, with optical
companies in America, it started to replace
with locally made products the
supply of European optical glass which
had been cut off by the war, was to
provide suitable pots for melting. In
one process of its manufacture the
glass, must be kept at temperatures as
high as 2,000 degrees F., when it
would rapidly dissolve a container
made of iron, steel, or other metal.
Drtfc nATt? Ka? rr vr-Vi!/*Vi cnficfnP
i. vis uvn utnif, uot\i u iiivu kiunoiwv
torily withstand the heat and chemical
actions of molten glass are made of
clay found in the United States.
In addition to the factory operated
by the bureau of standards at Pittsburgh,
several privately owned companies
are now furnishing optical glass
for military use in telescopes, binoculars,
field glasses, periscopes, and other
technical and scientific instruments.
The quartermaster corps, charged
with the responsibility of feeding and
clothing the soldiers, is rigidly inspecting
the food purchased for the troops
to see that only pure articles are supplied.
As an indication of the amount
of food that must be obtained, says a
statement authorized by the quartermaster
general 1,500,000 men consume
daily 1,500,000 pounds of beef,
225,000 pounds of bacon, ziu.wu
pevnds of ham, 135,000 cans of tomatoes,
and 225,000 cans of jam?with
other articles aggregating 6,750,000
pounds.
These quantities of foodstuffs are
subjected to thorough inspection,
which begin at the source and continue
until the food is actually consumed.
Each depot of the quartermaster
corps is a central subsistence
business of its own, supplying the
camps, cantonments, aviation fields,
and other posts in its territory. The
subsistence officers are held responsi
hie for the quality of the goods they
receive.
Before the supplies reach the depots,
however, they are passed upon by Inspectors
in the packing houses, canneries,
and other sources of origin.
The records at Washington show the
capabilities, character, and standard
of every establishment furnishing food
for the army. The specifications
wnicn tneir prouucis must uueta aic
clear and exact.
The inspection branch maintains a
current file of unreliable dealers and
unreliable products, Insuring the elimination
of dealers who, having been
denied the right to supply some of the
many depots of the army, make subsequent
attempts to obtain contracts
at other points.
Relatives and friends of several soldiers
in army camps have been victimized
by swindlers who wired or
wrote for funds under soldiers' names.
In each instance it was requested that
money be sent by wire waiving Identi
fication. or by mail to general delivery,
the customary explanation being that
the soldier had been discharged and
would have no way of securing identification,
nor of getting mail addressed
to his company.
The following is a typical telegram,
sent to the father of a soldier in a
southern camp:
"Have been discharged. Coming
home. Going to Atlanta through country
tonight. Please wire me $60 at
Atlanta so I may pay for uniform and
romp home direct. Wave identifica
tion as I am not known in Atlanta.
Wire cash quick so I can get it tomorrow
morning."
Before being complied with, any request
for money to be sent under such
conditions should be verified by a letter
or telegram to the commanding officer
of the camp in which the man
whose name is signed to the request is
stationed.
The United States government is
{ looking for men who can take charge
j of branch offices of the bureau of for|!
eign and domestic commerce, department
of commerce, and men to act as
assistants in these offices. Branches
are located in the principal commercial
cities. The salaries range from
$1,800 to $3,000 for managers and
from $1,200 to $-1,800 for assistants
in is raa "
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FROM TOKIO SAYS EDITOR.
FEELING HIGH.
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: Shanghai Paper Says Country Has |
Been Turned Over to the
Japanese.
Shanghai.?The'statement is made;
in the first issue of The Shanghai j
Gazette, which has made its appear- !
! ance under the editorship of Eugene j
Chen, that the Chinese government !
has agreed to new demands made by j
; Japan which are of such a nature J
I that the country has virtually been |
! turned over to the Japanese. The j
i Gazette asserts it has been informed |
by a higli official at Peking that the >
Japanese demands are far more serious
than those in Group V, of the
famous 21 demands made by Japan in
1915.
"Notwithstanding the fact that the
utmost secrecy is being observed,"
says The Gazette, "it may be stated
I safely that the following is not far
i from the true terms of the agreement:
"Chinese expeditionary forces sent
to Siberia shall be commanded by a
Japanese.
"Chinese police shall be organized
by Japanese officers.
"Japan shall control all of China's
arsenals and dockyards.
Japan shall have the privilege of
working mines in all parts of China.
"Special privileges shall be granted
to Japan in outer and inner Mongolia
I and the whole of Manchuria.
A dispatch filed in Peking April 4
said it was reported there that Japan
hada submitted a new series of demands
to China, including complete
control of China's finances, the purchase
of 50 per cent of Chinas ammunition
in Japan, operation of Chinese
iron mines and dockyards under |
Japanese control and recognition of
special Japanese interests in Mongolia,
as in Manchuria.
RAILROAD HEAD ARRESTED
UNDER ESPIONAGE ACT
New Orleans.?William Edenborn,
president of the Louisiana Railway &
Navigation Co, and rep.uted many
times a millionaire, was arrested by
derailment of justice officials at
Shrewsbury, La., near here, on an official
affidvait charging violation of
Section 3 of the espionage act. Edenbom
was taken into custody as he
stepped from an L. R. & N. train, and
taken to place the location of which
the authorities refused to divulge.
Assistant District Attorney Nicholas
Callan anounced that Edenborn's
arrest was independent of action taken
at a meeting of the Louisiana division
of the National Security League when
a resolution was adopted, caling for
federal prosecution of the capitalist
nUoron<->?>o wprp dp.clf5.rfid
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I seditious. Beyond this statement the
federal authorities declined to comment
on the arrest. Newspaper men
were warned against making efforts
to discover where Edenborn was being
kept.
Edenborn, founder of the American
Steel & Wire Co., no a part of the
United States Steel Corporation, has
been referred to as "father of the
wire industry in America," having
erected mills and produced wire in
1870, three years after he came to
the United States from his birthplace,
Westphalia, Prussia. He came to
Louisiana In 1903, where he has been
known as a railroad builder and oper*
ator. He is 70 years old.
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B. P. Waggener Dead.
Atchison, Kan.?Bailie P. Waggen|
er, general solicitor of the Missouri
Pacific Railway company, and for 44
yeart connected with its legal department,
died here aftei a long illness
aged 70 years. His son, William P.
j Waggener, of Atchison, is general atj
torney for Kansas for the road.
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| EXPRESS ZITA'S MOTHER
ORDERED OUT OF AUSTRIA
! Paris.?The Princnss Marie Antoin1
ette, mother of Empress Zita, has
I been ordered to leave Austria within
| 24 hours and not re-enter that country
until the termination of the war. according
to a dispatch from Geneva.
Empress Zita has been blamed by |
the pro-German party in her husband's !
empire as being responsible for Emperor
Charles' now f?-.:ous letter to
Prince Sixtus of Bourbon, his brotherin-law.
HIE HILL IKS !
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IMPORTANT POINT CONSIDERED
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KEY TO SOUTHERN SIDE OF I
YPRES SALIENT.
ATiACK TO FEME IT
Germans Have Made Important Gains
at Other Points Along the Battle
Line.
Ts'pmmpll hill n hpierht which has I
been looked upon as the key to the
southern side of the Ypres salient and
one of the most important strategic
positions on the northern battle front
w r* lolmrj Kif tlm flDT*.
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mauL, after a defense which will be- i
come of the heroic chapters of the
war. The hill was surrounded and
the French forces entrenched on its
slopes were overcome.
The loss of the hill, which is ad/
mitted in an official statement by General
Delma Radcliffe. chief director of
military operations at the British war
office brings to the allies a realiza- j
tion that the whole Ypres position is j
In peril from the German drive north-1
ward from the lowlands lying to the
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west ui Aimeuucico.
The Teutons launched terrific at- j
tacks along the whole Wytschaete-!
Bailleul-Meteren line, apparently for
the purpose of finding a point which
might yield. They evidently found
that spot in the section of front held
jointly by the Eritish and French
troops; and against it they hurled
fresh divisions which fought their way
?11 nnf{1 of ?i flrlif fO 11 fhflir '
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had surrounded Kemmell hill and isolated
the French troops holding the
position.
The loss of Kemmel hill is serious
for it overlooks much of the lowlands
!ying back of the allied lines in the
Ypres salient. The hill is 464 feet
in "hPiVM rising- from lowlands on
the south and east. 'It s six miles
southwest of -Ypres and throe miles
west of Wytschaete.' This German
luccess cuts a deep notch in the allied
line to the southwest of Ypres and
completely outflanks the British on
the northern slopes of Messines ridge,
lo which they were forced two weeks
ago. The line to the southwest, toward
Bailleul, apparently is in no particular
danger at present, although j
lhe village of Dranoutre has been lost
to the enemy.
GERMANY'S LOSSES IN
WAR 2,000,000 MEN |
Amsterdam.?Germany's losses thus !
far in the war have been 2,000,000 men,
according to a statement credited by ;
The Frankfurter Zeitung as having
been made by General Schulze before
the main committee of the German
heichstag.
Sick and wounded men to the num-1
ber of 750,000 had been abl<" to return
to the front, according to General
Schulze, while 629.000 had been !
discnargea as unnt iur sei vao, including
70,000 cripples. Up to date,
the general added, Germany had to
reckon with about 98,000 cripples.
APPOINTMENT DECLINED
BY SPEAKER CLARK
Jefferson City. ? Judge Walter
Graves, member of the Missouri supreme
court, has been tendered the j
appointment of United States senator, j
succeeding the late Senator Stone.
Governor Gardiner made public his
proffer after the declination of Senator
Clark to accept the appointment.
FRENCH RETAKE GROUND
IN COUNTER-ATTACKS
Paris.?Counter-att;?.cks against the
German lines from Vlllers-Bretonneux
to south of the Luce ere launched by
our troops, who succedeed. despite the
fierce resistance of the enemy, who
had brought up important forces, in
retaking a large pari of the ground
which had been lost in that region,
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says tfte omciai statumeni lssueu uy
the war office.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS
APPEAL TO SHIPPING BOARD
Washington.?A delegation of news-1
paper publishers appealed to the shipping
board for aid in bringing H3.000
cords of wood pulp t^om Canada to
rhis country, to relieve th.2 rapid deletion
of print paper shocks. The oub?:rhers
were told that 1JV) ships which
will be transferred this summer from
'he Great Lakes to the Atlantic o?ean
will be allowed to brins? out wood pulp
'f it does not interfere vith the proposed
movement of coal.
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L. W. FLOYD
Newberry,
I ARE YOU ONE OF1
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mine the destinies of mankind," declarec
back America's defiant response to Germ
that expressed the fighting spirit that d
"There is, therefore, but one response po
the* utmost force without stint or limit!'
The President's stirring utterance Is a
and children of America. The opportun:
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despicable and ruthless program of the <
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shall, in the end, overcome the
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