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J wt^y I Established in 1891. h AMERICAN TROOPS HURRIED 10 FRANCE AT ACCELERATED RATE CONTEMPLATED IN GOVERNMENT'S SPEED-UP PROGRAM. NO DEf.HS GIVEN OUT American Forces to Be Brigaded With British Troops to Hasten American Participation. wusmngion. ? Transportation of American troops to France already ia proceeding at the accelerated rate contemplated by the speeding up measures taken after the battle of Picardy began. Acting Secretary Crowell made this statement but would give no details. Following the conferences between Secretary Baker -and allied officials, orders were given under which a British official statement was issued saying that American forces were to be brigaded with British troops In order to hasten American participation in the war. Officials explained that the process to be followed was similar to that udopted In placing American troops in the front lines with the French for training. It has been estimated that .10 days* training of this character, with American battalion units assigned with the British organisations, will fit the newcomers for active duty at the front. All divisions now moved from this side are composed of men who have had several months of prelimi mn j uaiiiiiig uun who r.pea omv final instruction to take their full share in the fighting line. The training process will he quicker - . with the British than with the French. it is believed, because the larjRUA.v:" difficulty does not exist. American units will find every British veteran an instructor, and there will be no need for interpreters, k It was indicated that the new plans call for a more extensive training scheme with the British army than has been the case with General Pershing's original force. There probably will be no attempt to set up a purely American force within the British ranks, as has been done with the French. The Americans are to he withdrawn when trained and turned over to General Pershing as a part of his army. They will share fully with their British comrades the battles on their rroni ana tne belter here is that they will not be withdrawn as long as there is pressing need for their service with the British lines. % SAYS GERMAN OPINION UNDER ESTIMATED AMERICA Washington.?Word that American reinforcements are moving to the support of the allies in Picardy has revived argument In Germany over the efficacy of the submarine and drawn from Captain Perslus .military critic of The Berliner Tageblatt. the com ment that .after being persuaded to under-estimate America. German opinion Is undergoing a change. An official dispatch from Switzerland, reviewing the latest discussion, quotes Captain.Persius as follows: "We were at first a good deal persuaded to under-estimate the participation of America in the war. We begin now to note a change of opinion. It is beyond a doubt that it would be well to curb at the present time these more or less fantastic vagaries of persons discussing the submarine war. We c&nnot for the mo iiioui oniiuiair wut'ii lllti I'nunu maie* will have ready the millions of men which her population will permit her to raise, but it Ir certain that America will in the very near future succeed In amsHsing armies which will constitute a very valuable aid for our enemies." Captain Perslus expressed without great conviction the hopo that the present offensive will attain a result which will frustrate these plans. DECISION IN $57,000,000 DUPONT SUIT DELAYED Philadelphia, Pa.?A decision of the United States circuit court of appeals i in the $57,000,000 DuPont stock suit is delayed perhaps for a year as a result of the refusal of the court to order the cane 'argued during thU month. The litigation aro;te out of the acquisition by the DuPont Securities company, formed by Pierre DuPont and others, of the holdings of Coleman DuPont in DuPont Powder Co WHEAT FORECAST PLEASES U. 8. FOOD AUTHORITIES Washington.?Forecasts by Ihe department of agriculture of a winter wheat crop of 660.000.000 bushels this year brought optimism to thd food administration. and the prediction wan unofficially made that If the spring wheat crop maintained the same rat<o 0 the next harvest will furnish suffl cient wheat to take care of the needs of this country and the allies next year. Forecasts indicate an inrreas# Of 142.000 000 huahels. -t; -^' * ' * -"V" The CAST SELFISH 1 "DOWN AIO PRESIDENT WILSON IN A ' OARING ADDRE88 BEFORE 1 BALTIMORE AUDIENCE. , < The President spoke as follows: , "Fellow citizens: This is the an- , niversary of our acceptance of Oer-1 f many's challenge to fight for our right ( to live and be free, and for the sacred { rights of free men everywhere. The j' nation is awake. There is no need | ' to call to it. Are know what the war , must cost, ourt utmost sacrifice, the : j lives of our fittest men and, of need s be, all that we possess. The loan wo ( are met to discuss Is one of the least i parts of what we are called upon to ; give and to do, though in itself It is ; t Imperative. The people of the whole a | country are alive to the necessity nf it 1 - * ? "It ; and are ready to lend to the utmost, v I even where it involves a sharp and c | daily sacrifice, to lend out of meager ' earnings. They will look with repro- ^ batlon and contempt upon those who a can and will not, upon those who do- g mand a higher rate of interest, upon tj ; those who think of It as a mere com' raercial transaction. I have not come, 0 therefore, to urge the loan. I have come only to give you. if I can. a more ~n vivid conception of what it is for. 1 "The reason for this great war. the n ; reason why it had to come, the need ; to fight it through, and the issues that i hang upon its outcome are more clenr- ^ | Iv disclosed now than ever before. It w is easy to see Just what this particular a, loan means because the cause we p1 are fighting for stands more sharply A revealed than at any previous crisis w j of the momentous struggle. The man n| who knows least can now see plainly j how the cause of justice stands and a j what the imperishable thing is he is j,, j asked to invest in. Men in Amerlea pi : may be more mire ?h?n ?k? ???- ' ( . ?, ti I were before that the cause le their ra i own, and that. If It should be lost, p( their own great nation's place and o( mission In .the world would be lost flt with It. ni "I call you to witness, my fallow w countrymen, that at no stage of this tl terrible business have I judged the b< purposes of Germany lntemperatcly. I o< ; should be ashamed in the presence p< , of affairs so grave, so fraught with the destinies of mankind throughout A all the world,, to speak with trucu- si lence, to use the weak languages of tl hatred or vindictive purpose. We tl j must Judge as wo would be Judged. I ri have sought to learn the objects Ger- v? many has in this war from the mouths f( of her own spokesmen and to deal as f< , frankly with them as I wished them I u to deal with me. I have laid bare our j b own Ideals, our own purposes, without tl , reserve or doubtful phrase, and have jt asked them to say as plainly what it | a Is that they seek. h "We have ourselves proposed no In- n justice, no aggressiop. We are ready, n whenever the final reckoning is made j to be Just to the German people, deal p fairly with the German power, as * with all others. There can be no dlf- | n ference between peoples in the final h judgment, if it is indeed to be a right- t] eous judgment. To propose anything t( but justice, even-handed and dispas- Ji i aiuiioiv jumit'c iu ueraimij ai any n 1 time, whatever the outcome of the tl ! war, would be to renounce and dls- g j honor our own cause. For we ask ' nothing that we are not willing to ac- ? | cord. n j "It has been with this thought that a 1 I have sought to learn from those who (i : apoke for Germany whether It was w lustlce or dominion and the execution fi of their own will upon the other na- n tlons of the world, that the German n leaders were seeking. They have an- e swered. answered In unmistakable a terms. They have avowed that It was not justice but dominion and the un y hindered execution of their own will k "The avowal has not come fron- p Germany's statesmen. It has come f, from her military leaders, wnc arp k her real rulers. Her statesmen have h said that they wished peace, and were fl ready to discuss its terms whenever |i their opponents were willing to sit t1 down at the conference table with a them. Her present chancellor has said, t' in indefinite and uncertain tormB, in- p deed, and in phrases that often seem t , to deny their own meaning, hut with f an much plainness an he thought pru i: dent?that he believed that peace f should be based upon the principles ] ' which we had declared would be our own In the final settlement. "At Brest-Lltovsk her clvll'an dele i gates spoke In similar terms; professed their desire to conclude a fak peace and accord to the peop'es w'th j whose fortunes they were dealing the i right to choose their own allegiances Hut action accomnanled and followed the profession. Their military masters the men who act for Oermanv and exhibit her purpose in execution proclaimed ? very different conclu GROUND GLASS FOUND IN NINF ARTICLES OF FOOD Announced by Major Gaines?Government Has Found But One Case. Ssn Antonio. Texas.?Proof of the presence of ground glass in nine diffp-*nt artic'e* of food r.hipped to the 90tn divlsio t commissary at Camp T-itIs. wa? announced by Major Noel Gaines, in charge of the military police'of the 90th division.- Fifty members o? officers' families and enlisted men er? ill. he said - 'Jet .niSr" -"v'. . :.7 % For' foktin DOMINIONS (N THE DOST' 'Ctlf P? * t lion. We can not mistake what tney Save done?in Russia, in Finland, in the Ukraine, in Rumania. The real test of their justice and fair play has :ome. From this we may judge the rest. They are enjoying in Russia a :heap triumph in which no brave or rallant nation can lona take nride. A treat people, helpless by their own ict. lies tor the time at their mercy, rheir fair professions are forgotten, rhey nowhere set up Justice but ev trywhere impose their power and exdoit everything for their own use and Lggrandizement; and the peoples of conquered provinces are invited to >e free under their dominion. "Are we not Justified in believing hat they woudl do the same things ,t their western front if they were lot there face to fare with armies trhom even their countless divisions annot overcome? "If they have felt their check to be nal. they should propose favorable nd equitable terms with regard to ittigium ana trance, and Italy, could tiey blame us if we concluded that iey did so only to asRure themselves f a free hand I2 Russia and the East? "Their purpose is undoubtedly to lake all Slavic peoples, all the free nd ambitious nations of the Baltic peInsula. all the lands that Turkey has nminated and misruled, subject to lelr will and ambition and build upon tat dominion an empire of force upon hlch they fancy that they can erect 1 empire of Rain and commercial suremacy?an empire as hostile to the merlcas as to the Europe which It ill overawe?an empire which will Itlmately master Persia. India and 10 peoples of the Far East. In such program our ideals, the ideals of istice and humanity and liberty, the inclple of the free self-determlnaon of nations upon which all the odern world insists, can play no irt. They are rejected for the ideals f power, for the principle that the rong must rule the weak, that trade >ust follow the flag, whether those to horn it is taken welcome it or not, lat the peoples of the world are to b made subject to the natronare and rerlordship of those who have the Dwer to enforce it. "That program, once carried out. merica and all who care or dare to :and with her must arm and prepare lemselves to contest the mastery of le world, a mastery In which the ghts of common men. the rights of omen and of all who are weak, must >r the time being, be trod under set and be disregarded, the old ageing struggle for freedom and right egin again at its beginning. Every' ting that America has lived for and >ved and grown great to vindicate nd bring to a glorious realisation will ave fallen in utter ruin and gates of lercy once more pitilessly shut upon lan-klnd. "The thing Is preposterous and imossihle. and yet. is not that what the rhole course and action of the Qer inn armies has meant whenever they are moved? I do not wish, even In tils moment of utter disillusionment, a judge harshly or unrighteously, I ndge only what the German arras ave accomplished with unpltylng horoughness throughout every fair reion they have touched. "What then are we to do? For myelf. I em ready, ready still, ready ven now. to discuss a fair and just nd honest peace at any time that it i sincerely purposed?a peace In rhlch the strong and the weak shall ire alike. But the answer, when I roposed such a peace, came from the ierman commanders in Russia, and ( an not mistake the meaning of the nswer. "I accept the challenge. I know that ou will accept It. All the world shall now that you accept it. It shall apear in the utter sacrifices end self srgetfulness with which we shaif Ive all that we love and all that wa ave to redeem the world and make It t for free men like ourselves to live a. This now is the meaning of all hat we do. Let everything that w? ay. my fellow countrymen, everything hat we henceforth plan and accom illsh, ring true to this response till he majesty and might of our concert id pow?r shall fill the thought and itte: ly defeat the force of thoae who lout and misprize what we honor and mid dean. Germany has once more laid that force, and force alone, shall leolde whether Justice and peace shall elgn in the affairs of men. whethei leht as America conceives it. or dominion as she conceives it. shall de lermlne the destinies of mankind There Is. therefore, but ore response nossihle from us: force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit the righteous and triumphant fores which shall make right the law of the " orld and cast every selfish dominior down in the dust." Washington.?Investigation hy th? government of thousands of stories ol ground glass In food has disclosed but one case in which glass actually was found, according to the committee ot nublic information. This Instance wai ' V. n ?w/\plr r\t o diuarvnn t lad amnletrA a' no TV vfi n. wt a uaift1 uunou riu|;iu/D ui a Fort Smith. Ark., bakery who dror* his employer out of business by put ting Rimes in a loaf of bread sent t< an orphanaRe^.-dome of the orphan had their Hps cut but no more serlot Injuries resulted. The baker, accuse of helnR a Gorman aRent, bad to cle# his shoo r Mi, i 1I?, S. C., THURSDAY, APRI1 KAISER LEAVES WEST COMMAND HIS DRZAM8 OF AN OVERWHELMING AND COMPLETE VICTORY ARE SHATTERED TO BITS. FOGH BIDDING HIS TIKE li . I ? Meeting Aseaulte with Powerful Resistance and Here and There "Conforming" Lines. The second phase of the great battle along the Somtne has died down. It lasted less than three days, and j the fighting has resolved itself into i more or less isolated engagements in j which the French and British allies have more than held their own. The attention gf the Germans for the present is mainly directed at the lower end of the battle zone, which apparently they are attempting to enlarge for the purpose of getting elbow room in which to move their vast masses of troops. Meanwhile, General"Foch, the corn-) mant^er-in-chief of the allies, is biding his time, meeting the German assaults with powerful resistance, and here and there conforming his lineH to the necessities of the battle. It is | confidently stated at Paris that Foch will not be drawn into ?nv false move?where each move Is rf such vital importance?but will strike with his reserves at the moment chosen : by him. There may be some significance In the report that the German emperor, after a conference on the western front on Saturday with his chiefs. Von Hindcnburg and LudendorfT, intends to proceed to Rumania. At the out; set of the great German offensive. : when it was sweeping the allied forces ; before it. notwithstanding their tenacious resistance. Emperor William, it ] was announced officially from Berlin. was in supreme command. That an; nouncement was regarded at the time as evidence that the emperor expect! od a complete and decisive victory, i Since then, however, British and | French and American reinforcements have come up. West of Noyan a German detachment which had gained a foothold in I the French lines was forced out by : a counter-attack. Another attack at | Grlvesnes was repulsed, but the Ger| man efforts along the Oise to enlarge ! their previous gains were continued j in the sector between Chauny and ' Barisis. Here the French commander , deemed it advisable to withdraw to \ positions previously prepared, and ] they are being held strongly. GENERAL PERSHING SENDS A STIMULATING MESSAGE Washington.?From headquarters of the American expeditionary force in France came a Liberty loan message from General rershing. "Every dollar subscribed to the Liberty loan is a dollar invested in American manhood," cabled the general. "Every dollar subscribed as the result of self-denial means partnership in the hardships and risks of our l men in the trenches. Every dollar | subscribed will confirm the determinai tion of our people at home to stand by its army to a victorious end. An overwhelming subscription to the third Liberty loan will be a patriotic expression of ennflrtAiiM In -w""? ?m uui OUIIilJ as a nation to maintain all that we hold dear in civilization." Nearly 50 communitlen reported they had exceeded their quotas in the first day's work, and thereby had won the right, along with 150 announced, to fly the Liberty loan honor flag. In a statement on behalf of the loan. Secretary Lane said: "The year of war has crystalized the spirit of our peoples. We know why we are fighting and to what eno. From a standing start, we have in ! one year made progress at which we j should not be discouraged. The purI chase of Liberty bonds is the one efI fectlve way in which most of us can fight." I ___ COUNTER-ATTACKS BY BRITISH SUCCESSFUL London.?Successful British counI ter-attacks were launched against the ! Germans in Aveluv wood, on the west side of the Ancrc river north of Al; bert. The war office statement issued says the British recaptured all their former positions. A German attack on the railroad lines opposite Albert was repulsed and nnothor Teuton assault south of Hehuterne was comnletelv hrnkon v- - 41? " . - -?? ?.up uj mo ure or rne I British artillery. BOLO PASHA APPEALS TO PRESIDENT POINCARE Paris.?President Pohicare has re! reived Albert Sales, counsel for Bolo Pasha, who was convicted on a charge of treason and sentenced to death. The attorney presented a plea for clemency for his client. This is Bolo Pasha's last hope. It Is contrary to c"ustom to publish the decision reached by 'tis chief executive. Bolo might Vtemp" to prolong his life In the event of an adverse decision by askInr to be heard as.a state's witness. LL Tl L 11,1918 RESULTS OF GERM/ ^^THISTaap"-^. / I ,/wiiiwpiredhjf > T? , ] tfco Miu7lHbriW?( / V staro/th.USA^y- | v. from C V GonPrnhimft ^ C s ^ J *\ 1% ^ AMAS o) V S i/// (jr jjifls \)f M*.rV Mli / tw?viiU ^ 4'& ffZfU. V-S/ Gri_ SVo AMIENS ?<\X. t *b8~/ i//f ^SJj?A Mor+M |jjr ^ Cm*fn?i .Ry' V MOWTWOEPt* \V - ^ mis map. prepored by the war de| German drive In France from March was stopped by the allies. BRING UP HEAVIER BUNS! BRITISH AND FRENCH ADMIT I YIELDING SOME GAINS TO INVADING GERMANS. Armenians Have Organized An Army and Recaptured Erzerwin From the Turks, Says Report. ' After several days of comparative inactivity along the battle front In Picard^ bitter fighting has been resumed along the western sector of the ( salient in the lines of the entente al- ? lies. Attacks by the Germans against I the British and French are admitted >t to have yielded some gains to the in- i vaders in the critical sectors just to t the east of the ctiy of Amiens. t The fighting, according to latest re! ports, has been heaviest in the neigh- * j borhood of Hamel, where the British ' i were forced back slightly, and in the ( triangle formed by the Rivers Luce I anad Arre, farther to the South, where 1 the French were forced to give ground ' Nothing is known as to the details 1 I of the battles in these sectors, but the ' fact that the Germans have been in a 1 j degree successful would seem to indi- ' j cate that they have succeeded in brnig- ' ing up some of their heaviest cannon ' and new divisions with which to con- * tinue their attempts to capture. 1 Reports from the French and Brit- 1 Ish fronts have mentinoed heavy rains which would mean that the Germans have been working under a severe handicap in bringing up guns, ammunition and supplies to the front. The battlefield over which the allies have retreated was left in a devastated condition, the roads and bridges being mined in by the retreating forces. The lull in the battle for the last few days probably was caused by the inability of the Teutons to more their heavy supply trains over these roads, together with the necessity of reorganizing the shattered divisions which bore the brunt of the fighting after they had passed the first field of fire of their heavier guns. The British, since retaining Ayette. south of Arras, have not resumed their offensive operations, so far as reported by London, but the German official statement says that four attacks by the entente forces against the heights southwest of Moreuill were repulsed with heavy losses. There are no reports of fighting except out pvot v^nv-uumci o aiuug IUO r rClltU I1Q6S ? on the Olae river. i VON KUEHLMANN SOOON TO J MAKE "IMPORTANT" 8PEECH < Amsterdam.?At an important con; ference held at German headquarters between the emperor, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, General von Duden- j dorfT and Or. Richard F. von Kuehl- i mann, the German foreign minister, ( Count Ozernln's speech was discussed j among other matters. It la understood , that von Kuehlmann will deliver an ] Important speech at his earliest oppor- , tunlty. Count Czernln Is expected at , eBrlln and at headquarters. , JAPAN COMMANDEERING ( SHIPS FOR AMERICA Seattle. Wash.?The Seattle office of the Nippon Yusen Kalsha, a Japanese steamship company, announced It 1 has rece'ved a cablegram from Toklo i saying the Japanese government has 1 commandeered nine of the company's ] steamers, to be turned over to the Unl- ] ted States government. The company ] announced tho commandeered boats ] would total approx'mately .1? 000 dead- i weight tons. According to Lloyd's reg < later, the boats total 38.S20 gross tons j , [MES IN DRIVE TO APRIL 1 \ Lrv-rvn TorKwK tmncmes - ON*-MAft. ? I ? ? Wrt _ . - . . M IMH? . ? CWmmmb ?T ? - ? - a*!**"* * ??? MAR IS ??m CE ADvJkHCl p "" a ** MA* C9 * APR*. L. m . , . ,*?'} ?* . , 1 +CAMBBAI e$\> ?1 ?!* |\ <?STQUENT1M ? IV ?. **9 \ i,Q * V V {* a v V\\l ' V ** <[ J s'noyom4 ~~ e ^ : ;>arimeiit. shows the progress of ths ^ II, wheu tt began. to April 1. whan U STARTS PEACE OFFENSIVE JAYS NEGOTIATIONS WITH ALLIES RECENTLY WERE NEAR POINT OF PEACE. *eace Move, Evidently Conceived In Germany, Made Following Failure of Big Offensive. Washington.?American government >fficials and the entente embassies taw another Teutonic peace offensive n the reported speech of Count Czer ..... ?.ue Ausiro-Hungarian foreign | ninister, declaring that recently negoiations were near between the Aus- 1 :rlan and the allied governments. The move, evidently conceived In ' Germany, they said, was made just as t became certain that the German lrive In the west had failed of its 1 lurpose ar.d was intended to bring j liscord among the allied powers. The foreign minister's statement hat Premier Clemenceau, of France, ( lad advanced a suggestion of peace liscussions and his reference to Altace-Lorralne as a stumbling block. | t was declared here, were designed o create the belief that the allies' de?ire to recover Alsace-Lorraine for France Is the only thing that stands 1 n the way of peace. Amsterdam.?Count Csernin. the \ustro-Hungarlan foreign minister, adIresing a delegation from the Vienna rlty council which waited on him in . connection with the burgomaster term- . id "the aggravated distress of the j jopulation." which is closely connect- j id with the general political situation, tald: "With the conclusion of peace with rtumania the war in the east ended. , Before, however, turning to individual | ' peace treaties and discussing them in ^ letail, I would like to revert to the leclaratlon of the President of the , united States, in which he. replied to he speech delivered by me on Januiry S4. "In many parts of the world Presi- ! lent Wilson's speech was interpreted * is an attempt to drive a wedge be:ween Vienna and Berlin. I do not jelieve that, because I have too high in opinion of the President of the [Jnited States and his outlook as a itatesman to believe him capable of ' ?uch a way of thinking. President , 1 Wilson is no more able to ascribe dis- 1 lonorable action to us than we to ilm " ' jERMANS ARRESTED FOR SELLING "GLASSED" CANDY New York.?After candy believed to lave contained particles of glass had )een sold to a sailor in Brooklyn tolay, the police and the federal auhoritles arrested Rdward Waller, proprietor of the stor<\ and his clerk. Henry Willeins. bo-h Germans. They *ere held as onemy aliens, the federal mthorities announced, pending a *hemieal analysis of the candy. LENROOT IS ELECTED TO UNITED STATES SEISJATP I Milwaukee, Wis.?Congressman !r- ^ rlne L. Lenroot, republican. of Supe- | ' lor, has beon elected United States i senator to aucceed the late Paul O. ' 1 [lusting. having defeated Joseph E ; t Davles, democrat, according to Incom- j t [>lete returns by a majority estimated f it more than 10,000. Victor L. Berger, i socialist, ran third, approximately 35.- < 100 behind Davles, from the figures j < it hand I < V o ... " 4 AK VaaAA rw 'ITAL CHANGES M DRAFTjS URGED 'ROPOSAL WOULD PUT POOLROOM LOAFERS AND GAMBLERS TO WORK. IY A NEW CLASSIFICATION Man Submitted by Provost General Crowder's Office nad the Department of Labor. U.ru.K(n??<.M n?.t mn<ll?lna?lAlia ?t aauiugiuu. ui amluuuiuvauvua ( the draft classification lists which rould afTect in one way or another the tatuh of everyone of the millions of egistered men is proposed in a plan ubmitted to President Wilson by oflals of the provost marshal general's flTlce and the department of labor. Vhlle the primary purpose of the new rogram Is the "purification" of the econd, third and fourth classes of eglstrants who are not engagod in ny productive Industry, attention also rould be giv^i to lower sections of Mass 1 and the effect, its framers beievc would be to solve the nation's abor problem and largely increase the 'Utput of the necessities of life. The proposal would utilize the draft tiachinery for putting industrial lackers to work. Kvery registered nan who has been grantod deferred lassiflcation would be given to under* tand that such deferrent is not a ogal right, but a privilege and that it tnfair udvantago is taken of that privilege, it will be summarily re'oked. It is proposed to make a moat careul survey of the lower sections of ''lasB 1 and of other classes to idenify those men who are idlers or who ire gaining their living through unlesirable or "harmful" pursuits. Unler the latter head, officials suggest night be listed gamblers, bookmakers or races, poolroom touts and others, formal not ideation would be served tpon these men that, unless within a ipocidod time they obtain employnent in some useful industry, they vould have their classified status :hanged so as to send them into miliary service Immediately. The plan is not designed to interere in the slightest with the so-callni non-essential indusrties. These nay be afTected to some slight degree, >ut officials say such injury would be )ffset manv times over h? lational good to bo obtained from the mgmented labor supply and the greaty Increased production of essentials. Administration officials who ha /e >articipated in the preparation of .he jlan declare that the next step wjuld io to obtain authority for the .ndusrlal classification of the mar. powor > fthe country up to the age of 50 rears. GERMANS HURL MAS8ED DIVISION AQAIN8T ALLIES In a battle of utmost fury, the Qornans have been hurling massed dlviilons against the British and French lines from far north of Albert to a >hort distance north of Montdidler. Probably there has not been a more sanguinary battle fought since the beginning of the Teutonic offensive March 21 than this, which has for ts objective the driving of a wedge jetween the British and French ar mes. me cutting or the Parls-Amtens -all road south of Amiens and the capture of that city. But. in spite of the power of the mark and the despnrateness of the Ightlng. the entente allied legions lave stood firm over the most of their Iront. At only two points have they been forced to give ground, and these teem, on tho m p. to be only minor mccoases when compared with the tacriflce of lives which they have cost, lust to the southwest of Albert, the Flritish have withdrawn a short dlsance, and the French have given up he village of Pastel, west of Moreull. which has been the storm center of he German assauls for the last few lays. At this point the Teutons are within three miles of the Paris\miens road. 3ERMANS TAKE BIT OF TERRITORY FROM BRITISH Hard fighting was proceeding north ind south of Albert as the result of a leavy attack by the Germans on the Ftrltlsh lines along a front of 9.000 rards between Aveluy and Dernan otirt. According to the latest reports, the Germans had succeeded in retting a foothold on a small ?rtun<?ii nr bit of territory. Just southwest of \lhert. which brought the attacking roops close to the Albert-Amiens railway. *1 RE IN GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN WASHINGTON Washington.?fire of unknown origin destroyed the upper floor of a -tuilding near the great state, war and navy building, occupied by the navy nireau of construction and repair and he camouflage section. Some supplies ind papers were burned but the damige is said to be instgniflant. No one was in the buildng when the Are startid, except a watchman. So far as *ould be learned there is no suspicion >f incendiarism. HBHh; . v.