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L ' Established in 1801. L3MHKK&; " WHITTOIEN" ! GOING AVER THERE EVERY SHIP THAT SAILS WILL TAKE FIGHTII^G MEN AND THEIR SUPPLIE8. { MORE THAN FIVE MILLION ? President Tells Great New York Gathering That Every Eenergy and Every Resource Must Be Concentrated to Crush the Horrible Hun. r> i.i 1- ?? ?-- ? ma ^ laaiueum syuevu iu lull iuilows: "Mr. chairman and fellow countrymen: I should bo very sorry to think that Mr. Davison In any degree curtailed his exceedlnly interesting j speech for fear that he was postponing mine, because I am sure you listened with the same Intent and intimate interest with which I listened to the extraordinarily vivid account he gave of the things which he had realized because he had come in contact with them on the other side of the waters. "There are two duties with which we are face to face. The hrst duty is to win the war. And the second duty, that goes hand in hand with it, is to win it greatly and worthily, showing the real quality of our power not oiUy, but the real quality of our purpose and of ourselves, v First Duty is to Win. "Of course, the first duty, the duty I that we must keep in the foreground I of our thought until it is accomplished, is to win the war. I have heard I gentlemen recently say that we must j get five million men ready. Why limit It to Ave million? "I have asked the Congress of the United States to T^ime no limit because the Congress intends, I am sure, as we all Intend, that every ship that can carry men or supplies shall go laden upon every voyage with every man and every supply she can carry. "And, we are not to be diverted from the grim purpose of winning the war by any insincere approaches upon ^ the subject of peace. I can say with a clear conscience that I have tested those intimations and have found them insincere. I now recognize them for what they are, an opportunity to have a free hand, particularly in the east, to carry out purposes of conquest and exploitation. To Stand by Russia. "Every proposal with regard to accommodation in the west involves a reservation with regard to the east. Now, as far as I am concerned. I intend to stand by Russia as well as France." A voice from the audience interrupted with: "God bless you." "The helpless and the friendless are the very ones that need friends and succor; and if any man in Germany thinks we are going to sacrifice anybody for our own sake, I tell them now they are mistaken. "For the glory of this war, my fellow citizens, in so far as wo are concerned ,1s that it is, perhaps for the first time in history, an unselfish war. i could not be proud to fight for a elfish purpose, but I can be proud to 1 fight for mankind. If they wish peace, let them come forward throu<*^ accredited representatives and lay vhelr terms on the table. We have laid ours, and they know what they are. Force <o the Utmost. "But behind all this grim purpose, my friends, lies the opportunity to demonstrate not only force which will be demonstrated to the utmost, but the opportunity to demonstrate char- | acter, and it is that opportunity that we have most conspicuously In the work of the Rod Cross. Not that our men In arms do not represent our character, for they do, and it Is a character which those who see and realize appreciate and admire; but their duty is the duty of force. The duty of tho Red Cross is the duty of mercy and succor and friendship "Have you formed a picture in your imagination of what this wur is doing for us and for the world? In my own mind I am convinced that not a hundred years of peace could have j knitted this nation together as this ingle year of war has knitted it together; and better even than that, if possible, it Is knitting the world together. "Look at the picture. In the center of the scene, four nations engaged I, against the world, and nt every point of vantage, showing that tt.ey are seeking selfish aggrandizement; and, against the 23 governments representing the greater part of the population | of the world drawn together in a new cnae of community of purpose, a new sense of unity of life. Great Day of Duty. "My friends, a great day of duty has come, and duty finds a man's soul as no kind of work can ever find it. "May I say this? The duty that faces us &U now is to serve one another. and no man can afford to make a fortune out of this war. There are men amongst us who have forgotten that, if thev over saw it s *? MVU1Q VI you are old enough?I am old enough ?to remember men who made fortunes out of the clTll war, and you know how they were regarded by their follow citizens. That was a war to save one country?this Is a war to / V- 1 The v . save the woria. "And your relation to ^e Red Cross is one of the relations wblfcb will relieve you of the stigma. You can't give anything to the government of the United States; it won't accept it. There is a lair of Congrats against accepting even services without pay. The only thing that the government will accept is a loan, and duties performed: but It is a great deal better to give than to lend or to pay, and your great channel tor giving is to the American Red Cross. "Down in your hearts you can lake very much satisfaction, in the last analysis, in lending money to the government of the United States, because the interest which you diaw wil burn in your pockets; It is a commercial transaction, and some men have even dared to cavil at tho rufre of interest, not knowing the incidental commentary that constitutes upon their attitude. "iJut when you give, something of your heart, something of your soul, something of yourself goes with the gift, particularly when it is given in such form that it never can come back by way of direct benefit to yourself. You know ther* is the old cynical definition of grat'.tude, as 'The lively expectation of favors to come..' "Well, there is no expectation of favors to come in this kind of giving. These things are bestowe 1 in order that the world may be restored; that suffering may be relieved; that the face of the earth may have the blight of destruction taken away from it and that wherever force goes, thore shall go mercy and helpfulness. Give to the Limit. "And when you give, give absolutely all that you can spare, and don't consider yourself liberal in the giving. If you give with self-adulation, you are not giving at all, you are giving to your own vanity; but if you give until it hurts .then your heart blood goes into it. "And think what we have here. We call it the American Red Cross, but it is merely a branch of a great international organization, which is not only recognized by the statutes of each of the civilized governments of me worif. out it Is recognized by international agreement and treaty aa the recognized and accepted instrumentality of mercy and succor. And one of the deepest stains that rests upon the reputation of the German army Is that they have not respected the Red Cross. "That goes to the root of the matter. They have not respected the Instrumentality they themselves participated In setting up as the thing which no man was to touch, because it wus the expession of common humanity. "We are members, by being members of the American Hod Cross, of a great fraternity and comradeship which extends all over the world, and this cross which these lads bore today is an emblem of'Christianity itself. "It fills my imagination, ladies and gentlemen, to think of the women all over this country who are busy tonight and are busy every night and every day doing the work of the Red Cross, busy with a great eagerness to find out the most serviceable thing to do, busy with a foregetfulness of all the old frivolities of their social relationships ready to curtail the duties of the household in order t<eat?< they may contribute to this common work that all their haarts are engaged in, and in doing which their hearts become acquainted with each other. "And you have, then, thiB noble picture of justice and mercy as the two servants of liberty, or only where men are free do they think the thoughts of comradeship; only where they are free do they think the thoughts of sympathy; only where they are free are they mutually helpful; only where they are free do they realize their dependence upon one an other and their comradeship in a common interest and common necessity. "I heard a story told the other dav that was ridiculous, but It Is worth ; repeating, because It contains the germ of truth. An Indian was enlist ed In the army. He returned to the I reservation on a furlough. He was asked what he thought of it. "He said: 'No much good; too much salute; not much shoot.' Then he was asked: 'Are y6u going back?' j 'Yes.' 'Well, do you know what you are fighting for?' 'Yes, me know; tight to make whole damn world democratic party. "He had evidently misunderstood some inocent sense of my own. But after all, although there is no party purpose in it, he got it right as far as the word 'party'; to make the whole world democratic In the sense of community of interest and of purpose. ana ir vou ladies and gentlemen could read some of the touching dispatches which come through ofi.cial channels, for even through thest channels thers come voices of humanity that are infinitely pathetic; If you could catch seme of those voices that speak the ut;er longing of oppresssed and helpless peoples all over the world to hear something like the Rattle Hymn of the Republic, to hear the feet of the great hosts of liberty going to set them free to set their minds free, set their lives free, set their children free, you would know what comes into the heart of those who ar? trying to contribute all the hralns and power they have to this great enterprise of lib erty. I summon you to the comrade ship. I summon you in this next week to say how much and how sincerely and how unanimously you sustain the heart of the world." 4'* 'f ' [ For FOET MI CAPTAIN KOENIQ Captain Koenig, late commander of an interned German merchantman and a reserve officer in the imperial German navy, has been put to work by Uncle Sam. He Is one of a gang of prisoners who are "making little ones out of big ones." Under heavy guard the men are busy breaking stones and building dams. tXPLAINb IHt blXlUb LtllEH NO FAIR AND HONORABLE PEACE HAS YET BEEN PR0PPO8ED, SAYS SECY BALFOUR. President Wilson May Soon Comment on Balfour's Statement In This Connection. London.?The British secretary for foreign affairs. Arthur J. Balfour, in giving explanations in the house of ] commons in connection with Emperor | Charles' letter to Prince Sixtus of ' Bourdon, recently made public by the ; President of the French republic, declared that no efTort at conversations has ever been made by the central powers in the interest of a fair and honorable peace, and he added: "If any representative of any belligerent country desires seriously to lay before us any proposals, we are ready to listen to them." The letter in question had been examined by a committee of the French i Chamber, said Mr. Balfour, and the i cuuL-iu.iiun reatnea was inai 11 aia not provide an adequate or satisfactory basis for an honorable peace. I.i*. Balfour in his explanations was | replying to questions submitted by 1 the Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, for! mor president of the board of trade, I who asked whether, when Emperor Charles' letter was communicated to I the French government, and by the i French government to the British prime minister, it was communicated to any other of the allies; had the American government any informuI tion as to what was passing? t)id the prime minister inform the foreign office at the time of the fact that the communication had been shown to him? Why were the negotiations dropped?was it on purely territorial kjuuihih, was 11 ui'cause a uemann | was made by France not only for Alsace-Lorraine but for the 1S14 line, or even the 1790 line? Mr. Balfour explained that he had no secrets from Piesident Wilson. Ho was in America at the time and had not gone very thorpughly into the matter. The letter, however, had been conveyed by Prince SIxtus to President Poincare and the French premier under seal of the strictest secrecy. Only the British sovereign and premier were to see it. Therefore. it was not communicated to the President of the United States and the American government was at the time no better informed of the facts regarding the letter than he was Washington.?Either through a public address or a diplomatic note President Wilson in the near future may take occasion to comment upon and j supplement the statement made by Foreign Minister Palfour in the Brit! ish house of commons in connection with the Austrian peace feelers through Prince Sixtus of Bourbon. "SUPER-WHEAT" HAS BEEN EVOLVED BY L. BURANK Santa Rosa, Cal.?A "super-wheat." : containing 14 per cent gluten, has I # I boen evolved by Luther Burbank, the California horticulturist, after experiments extending over 1 1 vnars If was announced here. The wheat may be grown from Hudson Bay to Patagonia. The new j wheat is said to be of the winter variety. hardy and producing a white flour. TO INCREASE PROGRAM OF CONCRETE SHIPBUILDING Washington.?The shipping board has decided to proceed immediately on a largo scale with the building 1 of concrete ships and will increaso tho program out of the appropriation out of two and one-quarter billion dollars which has ben asked for the next fiscal year. < iiKiiiorii tuuirfu! snips aggregating 117,600 tons have been contracted for 1 anad it was announced that 68 other reisols will bo ordered. T Ml XL, S. 0., THURSDAY, MAY 56 KNOWN DEAD 31 ARE MISSING AS A RESULT OF NINE EVPLOSION8 THAT WRECKED CHEMICAL PLANT. CHINA GROVE N.G. MAN KILLED Remnants of H\iman Bodies Brought Out From the Debris Throughout Day After Explosion. Pittsburg. ? Fifty-six men are known to be dead, 94 injured in hospitals and 31 employes of me Aetna Chemical Company, are missing as a result of the nine explosions that wrecked this company's explosive manufacturing plant at Oaxdale, 16 miles from this city. This report is the result of the day's Investigation by state, federal, county and city officials and of the work of scores of men un der the direction of Coroner Samuel C. Jamieson. Throughout the night and all day men were extinguishing small fires in the debris and were bringing out remnants of human bodies, legs and arms hands with finger rings on them and, In some instances, only the incinerated torsos fere found. In most cases there was nothing to indicate the identity of the victim. These gruesome recoveries were carried to the temporary morgue where opportunity to view them was given any one that might have lost friend or relative in the disaster. While earlier explosions wrecked the plant, the last one. about 6:20. scattered debris over more acreage than before and blackening every piece of metal or timber as well ?s anything human beyond recogniton. All day a blue-brown smoke continued to hang over the ruins considerably impeding the work of the searchers. Its deadly fumes are feared by the residents of the community and only when a slight breeze would lift the smoke would searchers be able to got close to the various piles of debris. For a time the work was impeded further by the thousands of sightseers that (locked to the scene from tha cnrroim<Hn cv AAtml ev A n? vuv ouiswuiiuuig cuuiiii j . rv tuui^nj Of the state constabulary was rushed in automobiles from Greenaburg to establish a greater cordoA about the scene of the disaster. The crowds and automobiles were turned back when they had eached within five milea of Oakdale. Only those having business or the officials were admitted past thh guards. Thousands of persons streamed into the temporary morgue all day to view the gruesome finds from the ruins and it tok a special detail of police to keep this morbid element in check. ouuiD lucuiiiiiaiiuiis were maae. flllful, sad scenes were on every hand. POSTMASTER GENERAL SAYS TEDDY WAS MISLEADING. Washington. ? Postmaster General Burleson Issued a statement asserting that Colonel Roosevelt evaded the Issue and was misleading in his "preliminary" reply to the demand that he prove his charge that the administration was punishing publications which upheld the war but told the truth about administration failures, while it failed to proceed against those who opposed the war or attacked the allies but defended inefficiency. "Mr. Roosevelt's reply of May 11 which he then termed 'preliminary'," said Mr. Burleson, "in the main evades the issue presented and is throughly misleading. He names The New York Tribune, Collier's and The Metropolitan Magazine In a way which creates the impression that these publications have been the objects of improper discrimination by the postoffice department. "This department has taken no action against Collier's. "This department has taken no action against The Tribune. "The department has taken no ac-1 tlon against The Metrpolitan Mag a-' zine. NAMES 13 MORE NEW TORPEDOBOAT DESTROYER8. Wash.ngton.?Secretary Daniels announced that he had named 13 more new torpedoboat destroyers in memory of men of the navy who won distinction through heroic conduct. Among them the Anthony Is named in memory of Sergeant Major William Anthony, of the marine corps, who distinguished himself when the Maine was blown up in Havan harbor and the Edwards for Midshipman W. F. Ed .vards. of Petersburg, Va. ? I SILENT TRIBUTE PAID CAPTAIN JAMES N. HALL. The airplane driven by Capt. James N. Hall, which fell while flying within the German lines a few days ago, bore the number "17." Now a new "No. 17" has appeared on the American front northwest of Toul. Immediately under the pilot's seat, : on ach side, has been placed the inscription "Old Jimmy." It is a silent , tribute to Captain Hall. The American flyer* have adopted for a miscot a jackasi. i I LL T ,23, 1918 I LIEUT. GEORGES FLACMAIRF I 4 I HIIWllllMlb 1 e8SBEBmK7 /wiSi b> r^ J? V v. wl I HH :< >. 1L : BU^HngOn| M?2nn^9Vfl^^ '1RSk^? H VL MjM ll^^BRi Lieut. Georges Fiachaire (left), a ' French "ace" with aeven German I olanes to hla credit, and MaJ. Gen. ( George O. Squier in Potomac park, i Washington. Lieutenant Fiachaire, who has had an experience of two and > a half years at the front, has been ' showing the capital tho paces of a one- i passenger battleplane, whose normal ( speed is 150 miles an hour. I I GEN. FOGH STILL SUPREME: 1 1 attlied troops, as process of ! brigading on we8t front l proceeds. i When Americans Predominate In Brigaded Divisions, Pershing Will Command Them. t ( Washington. ? General Pershing t ] probably soon will be commanding ' j French and British troops as the pro- j cess of brigading American units with f the allies on the western front goes ] forward. 1 As if exemplifying the unity of command and action into which the Unl- t I ted States and its co-belligerents have t ontered, it became known here that ? [ whenever American troops predomi- j , nate in the brigaded divisions as the f t.ocess goes on. these divisions, un- l j der present plans, will be turned t eve- to Gonoral Pershing's command, i ^ This plan.would accomplish several f things which the military authorities 1 j consulting upon It regard as very de- 1 sirablc. It would rapidly Increase the j 1 size of the American fighting com- J 1 mand on the hattleline, it would con- i s tribute tremendously to the spirit of i ( unity and concerted effort, and at the | same tlmo instead of holding large , 1 numbers of Amreican troops behind ; 1 the line while training, would sur- , 1 round them with seasoned veterans | 2 and under actual battle conditions | 1 school them to be re-brigaded later j < with fresh American troops coming to i f France. In this way, the efficiency of ! i the British and French forces Is ex- J f ! peeled to be increased and the work j ? 1 of building up a great, fully trained 1 I and completely equipped fighting force { t In fnn \ ? i ?u i i aiu c itaslCUCU. In addition to this, as illustrtaive of the unity of command under- which Generalissimo Foch directs all the al-1 * , lied armies, it was stated officially < j here that Foch commands the Italian < j troops in Italy as fully as he does the f American, British and French troops ( I in France and Belgium. There has 8 , been no question that Foch command- i d ' ed the Italian troopR in France and it I had been supposed that, considering d the Italian front as part of the west- ' fl ern battlcfront under a decision reach- 1 ed at the Versailles conference, the ' generalissimo's authority oxtended ( I there. I d I d For the first time, however, it was t stated unreservedly that General j Foch's supreme command exteuded r to Italy. I 3.X. NEGRO SOLDIER CHARGED WITH MURDER New York.?Private James I.ayton, , * a negro soldier who was drafted from (1 c Rion, S. C., in training at Camp Up- ^ ton. was locked up in the Tombs ^ cnargea with the murder of Private j, Michael Maloney and Mrs. J Ilarrity t of Brooklyn at the cantonment on 0 May 5. The police say Layton has ^ confessed he killed Maloney when he came to the rescue of Mrs. Ilarrity. wlum the negro had attacked. ' . EMPERORS DISCUSS THE "MITTEL EUROPA PLAN" ^ Washington.?According to a dis- ^ patch from Switzerland, the Berlin j, newspapers indicate that the basis of r a new treaty of alliance agreed upon , t at the recent conference between the : ^ German and Austrian emperors contemplates fixing 25 years as the period p for the duration of the alliance, the Imposition of stricter military obllga- n tions upon each Ration and the regu- u lation of economic relations so as to realize the Mittel Europa plan 1 TMITft STARS AND STRIPES' TOW IN FLANDERS AMERICAN TROOPS ARE BRIGADED WITH BRITISH ON THI8 MOST IMPORTANT SECTOR. IETWEEN HUN AND THE PORTS .ess Than Two Months Required to Get Them Across and Into Position. American troops are awaiting the ime when they will be thrown into jattle on an entirely new part of thte ; mttlrtfinlri In TTranno Thn .? ? I ...ra u..v;C- I nen that the Stars and Stripes are waving with the British Union Jack ind the French Trl-Color on this bat- j lefield and that the Americans were 'completing their training in the area >ccupied by the troops which are : docking the path of the Germans to he channel ports," which may indicate ;hat somewfiere along the line from VIerville to Ypres is the point where general Pershing's men will once nore strike the Germans. This is the fifth section of the front where Americans have been located. The others are east of Luneville. lorthwest of Toul. north of St. Miliiel ind on the heights of the Meuse. and n the Montdldier secto- of the Picirdy battle area. How many Americans are behind he British front, when they arrived ind the part of the United States !rom which they came, are as yet uncnown. It is probable chat they are lot to be used as a separate unit but will be brigaded with the British in neeting the next stroke of the Germans In the northern battlefield. THIRD LIBBERTY LOAN TOTAL IS $4,170,019,650 Washington.?The total of the hlrd Liberty loan is $4,170,019,650. an iver-8ub8crlption of 39 per cent above ho $3,000,000,000 minimum sought. The number of subscriptions was ibout 17.000.000. Every federal relerve district over-subscribed, the 'Jew York district to 124 per cent, beng the lowest. "This is the most successful loan he United States has offered, both in lumber of subscribers and in the imount realized," said Secretary McVdoo in a statement. "Every subicription was made with the full tnowlcdge that allotment in full was o be expected, unlike the first loan, vhon allotments were limited to $2,*00,000,000 and the second loan, when illotments were limited to one-half ho over-subscriptions. I congratulate he country on this wonderful result r.'liich is irrefutable evidence of the itrengtli, patriotism and determination >f the American people." Total subscriptions to the second oan were $4,016,000,000 and the imount accepted was $.'5,808,000,000. 'ledges to the first loan ran above 5.000,000 000 but the loan was limited o $2,000,000. Subscribers *o the sec- 1 >nd loan numbered about 9.500,000 ind to the first loan about 4.500.000. The feat of the Atlantic district, itanding fourth int he final percentigo list, was the topic of favorable lomment about the treasury. VT NEW YORK T6~6PEN~~ BIG RED CROSS DRIVE New York.?President Wilson came o Npw York to rAvlow ihn (rroat 3ros8 parade and to open the Red 3roas drive for a $100,000,000 war und. He was met at the station by Colonel and Mra. Edward M. House it whose home he and Mrs. Wilson lined before going to a theater. Although the time of the I'resllent'a arrival was unannounced, thoulands of persons at the station and on he street leading to the hotel at vhlch he stopped recognized htm and ' heered as he passed. Later In the ! lay crowds homeward bound from the lowntown district gave him an ovaIon when with Colonel House and lira. Wilson he went to ra 15-minute ide through the city. 5R. JOHNSON IS ON TRIAL IN RICHMOND ! 1 Richmond, Va.?Following thi tesImony of Miss Mildred Taylor, chum < if Mrs. Alice Johnson, the girl bride if I)r. Lemuel Johnson, Middlesex. ' J. C.? dontlst now on trial for the 1 nilP/lol* Af V, t n,l#A * A ?? i ..v...,*., <>1 uio n nc IIC1G IUSI lIBCCm* er, Dr. J. M. Whitfield, city coroner, estifled that he had made an analysts ' if the dead girl's stomach and found ' t to contain two-tenths of a grain of '' loison. AMERICAN SECTOR IS HEAVILY BOMBARDED ' "he whole American sector on the ! Mcardy front was subjected to a eavy bombardment early this morn- 1 ng. The ennnonade continued for 45 uinutes. There was much aerial ac- ' ivity yesterday and today, with a I >rlght sun and little wind, but. there * rore no further indications that the nemy was preparing to renew tho 1 ffenslve. On this front troop movements behind tho German lines are < ormal. i \ V*4 . " ' t '' . . i* - ? $1.25 Per Year. WILSON BEGINS READJUSTMENT PRESIDENT COMPLETES REOR< ZATION OF Th|E AIR SERVICE OF ARMY. UNDER THE OVERMAN ACT Executive Order Directs# That Air Service Be Wholly Divorced From Signal Corpa. Washington.?Reorganization of th? ' army air service has been completed by President Wrtson as his Uvat act under the new law permitting him to readjust government departments for the war. In an executive order, he directed that the air service be wholly divorced from the signal corps and also that the functions of producing and operating aircraft of all kinds in the military service bo separated. The order formally creates a bureau of aircraft production, described as an executive agency which thai! exercise full, complete and exclusive jurisdiction and control over the production of airplanes, airplane engines and aircraft equipment for the use of the army." undfer a director of aircraft production who shall a'so be chairman of the aircraft board. This gives full legal status and power to John D. Ryan, recently appointed director of aircraft production who shall also bo chairman of ;he aircraft board, and the order transfers to him all funds, lands, buildings and personnel of the signal corps having to do with aircraft production. Similarly, the position of director of military aeronautics now held by Major General William L. Kenly is formally established and all funds, duties, equipment and personnel of the signal corps connected with the operation of aircraft and balloons and with the training of aviators placed undei his direction. The signal corps roverts to Its old functions liavftig to do only with army signalling and the transmission of military information. In connection with the reorgan'zation, made at a time when the department of justice Is undertaking at the direction of the President an investigation of charges brought against the honesty and loyalty of me.t heretofore In full control of the a'r program, Secretary Raker directol that Cols. R. L. Montgomery, E. A. Deeds and S. D. Waldon, of, the signal corps be detached from all other duties and assigned to assist/the attorney general in his Inquiry. As the men are dlroctly In charge of production, the three officers have personal knowledge of every phase of the subject. GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED PRESS ALSO PESSIMISTIC "Washington. ? Announcement that the bread ration is to be reduced on June 15 has caused grave apprehension throughout Germany. An official dispatch from Switzerland says that even the governmental press has adopted a tone no less pessimistic than that of the socialist papers, which foresee a great diminishing of the physical and general force which helps in supporting the hardships of the fourth year of the war. Kven more critical than the German food situation is that in Austria. An official dispatch from France quotes Austro-German newspapers as saying that at a recent conference in Vienna on tlia situation it developed that food supplies to be requisitioned were sufficient only to feed Hungary anrd the army and that Austria could export nothing but its own harvest. Germany's purpose in anonuncing to the world through its official wireless the reduction of tho bread ration for its population was widely discussed here. Some ofTcials conclude that the German government, knowing that eventually tho news would reach its enemieH. decided to anticipate it with the purpose of showing the willingness of the German people to make any sacrifices to win the war. SINN FEIN DELEGATE ASSAILS AMERICANS Dublin.?A Sinn Fein dolegate called on the American mission, representing tho Amoricnn labor delegation now In England. endeav<*-ed to create a jcene in the hotel lobby by declaring loudly that Americans were not treating the Sinn Foln fairly. The members of the American mission replied hat they would be glad to listen to ill sides and that they proposed to riew the Irish quostlon without projulice. 2ITY OF WILMINGTON DESTROYED BY ACCIDENT Norfolk. Va.?The explosfon and fire which destroyed the oil tank City of Wilmington at sea on April 8 was eni rn 1 ir a r*n Irlani ul rt rt *? - uoiiaicu n. V/. nn:Ilvaine, first assls'ant engineer, who irived In Norfolk with his brother, O. Mrllvalne. third engineer, both of whom were survivors of the disaster, rhey declared they were present when he oil explosion that was folowed by :re occurred. They told an interestug story of hardships. endured.