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v> vVf. ' % ' sf& Established in 1891. GREATEST CHANCE A MAN EVER HAD Can Help Himself, His Boy and His Country by Buying Liberty Bonds. 4TE MUST ALL DO OUR BEST Scores of Things We Can Do Without Which Seem Necessities and Yet Are Really Luxuries ? Get Into the Fight. By EDWARD BOK. Editor of the Ladles' Home Journal. Each time a new Liberty Inun Is announced we should hall It with pleas ure. For years we hnve used the phrase "ns good as a government bond" as Indicating the safest Investment possible, but before the war It was impossible for the average Investor to secure a government hond. Periodically an Issue was made, but It was so quickly subscribed for by the bankers that the small Investor had little chnnce. Now we all huve a chance, and a chance at all that we can afford to buy. It will, of course, be argued by some when the fourth Liberty loan Is announced that they have not as yet paid for the third loan bonds for which they subscribed. That may be true, but that Is no reason why we should fall to subscribe again. Before the fifth loan can be Issued we will have paid for the third loon bonds and hegun paying for the fourth loan bonds that we subscribed for. Thus If we go on we will have a distinct part In each loan, hnve ench month pat aside a sum for the best Investment on earth, have acquired the steady habit of saving, nnd when the last loan Is announced nnd we shall have taken part of that and puld for It. we shall find ourselves In possesion of n collection of bonds that will make us proud of the share we took In the war and have a comfortable "nest egg" In the burgaln. Must Do Our Best. Never, really, was there such n stimulant given us to do without the nonessential and save. Not only Is It saving for our boys and helping them to fight, hut It Is saving for them when they come home and saving for ourselves. Is there. In imagination, a prouder parent than thnt father or mother, who when his or her hoy comes home from serving his country, can open a drawer and pull out a neat little package of Liberty loan bonds? Thnt Is what we mean by "keeping the houie-flres burning;" by "hacking up our hoys," by "doing out hit." The only point Is thnt we should chunge the latter to "doing our best." We've done Our "bit" in the past loans; In this fourth loan we should do our "best." We want to be able to show our hoy n bond or two or three In ench loan; not have him ask: "Oh, didn't you get In on the fourth?" It Isn't as If we can't do It. We can. If we will only set our minds to the Job of real saving. There are scores of things we can do without which seem necessities hum yet nne renllv luxuries Our buys "over there" nre doing without them and offering their lives hesides. We ure not asked for the latter. All we are asked to do Is to do without here something and there something, and by doing this we nre put riots! And all the time while we are adjudged patriots we are Investing our money In the safest thlug on earth and getting a good interest on It In the bargutn. Frankly, euti you "heat It?" It Is something to ask a man to give money, without a return, and he a patriot. But In these Liberty loans all the government asks that a man shall loan is his money, snfely guarded and at a good Interest, and still he Is a patriot. Must Lend or Be Taxed. Another point we must remember, taking this whole matter simply on an economic hosts: That the more of these Liberty bonds we buy the less taxes we will have to pay. The government must have the money to keep up the war and feed and clothe our hoys. This year It needs about $"4,000,000,(MiO. Tills amount it must get from the people. And If the people won't loan In bonds. It must take in taxes. Hence, the more we loan the less we wilt have to give. It'u nil .. --- - .... .... .. .-moitig, saving, saving?inxl never was there a better time to begin tban now with the Liberty loan bonds as an attraction. The man who has no ready money with which to buy the bonds Is the very man that the government wants above all other classes of men to loan It bis money: bis money saved here with a dollar and there with a quarter. It Is the finest kind of money to give to our country: the money that we save by some act of self-denial. It Isn't tbe money that we have In the bank that we want to draw out and buy Liberty bonds with; It is the money that ne\t winter we can save, month by month. That Is really helping your hoy "over th? ?ehelping the government to ket p hint warm and fit. ami. Incidentally. helping yourself to lay by the most valuable pieces of paper that you can buy, put away, and all the tlm# getting a good Interest on them. Black Eye for the Hun. Seventeen million Individual subscribers weir part of the third Liberty loan. That means one In every six of tbe population of the United States. R.j\ there Is no reason why with the " f The comfng fourth loan this should not be changed to one in every thfee persona In the United States and finally that r>n,r iici nun 111 me i. uiiHd nuues snail own n bond. Fnncy the state of mind of the German wnr lord.s If. they were made to realize thHt every one of the one hundred millions of Americana were so determined to bent them that they had all Invested with the one Idea to heat them. Would the wur continue another year? Most unlikely. Most of us ask each other or ourselves, "When will this war end?" There l? no quicker way to end It than to make It possible for our government to throw into It every resource that we have The moment that the Prussian wai lords realize fhls fact, they will conn | to their senses. And the only way to bring this about Is for you and me to do our part and to do It fully. Tills means to loan every cent we can to the j government; hold nothing back, but give It our nil. It Isn't u question of when can we end the wnr; It Is a question of when you or I end the war. It Is what you and I do. It Is the drop of water, multiplied by millions, that ; makes the deluge. It Is what you and I do In our small way that, multiplied by the millions, makes for a united strength before which notnlng can stand. Win the war we will, but when WO win It llonontlc tin/vn lie /?on't 1 I?e too soon for me," we say. Then let's Ret busy, renl busy, and save and loan to our government wliut we save. U-BOATS USE OIL CAMOUFLAGE Submarine Commanders Try a New Trick, but 'Twaa Quickly Found Out. London. ? Tricky Herman T'-hoat commanders bnve conceived a new plan designated to deceive crews of the allied submarine destroyers in the game of bide and seek In Kuropean waters. When a depth bomb Is discharged and does not cripple or destroy the tierman undersea boat, as sometiipes happens, a quantity of oil is released by some device of the submersible and quickly rises to the water's surface. The hope of the Herman I* boat captain Is that the commander of the do stroyer will see the oil. believe that the submarine has heen wrecked and drop no more depth charges. Meantime, the Herman is endeavoring to escape. American ami British commanders of destroyers ami submarine chasers discovered the scheme of the (ioniums some time ago and since then have been dropping depth bombs In greater numbers than previously, using the oil as a guide to the general location of their target. "(Ml camouflage" the i -? ? miit-iiMiu nun nruiMi niivy men call | tills latest (ierman submarine trick. WOMEN HANDLE BIG SHELLS Young British Mother Settles Question of Their Physical Fitness to Do So. Liverpool. Eng.?When women first were put to work In shell factories here they handled only the light field-gun shells. Later It became necessary for them to turn out larger shells, and doubts were raised as to whether the women were strong enough to handle them. A young mother settled the question. "Let me heft the shell." she said, picking one up from the lloor. "Aye," she commented, "this shell Is n nilfe heavy, 'tis true, hut It's not so heavy as my baby." There Is a shell factory In this district operated almost exclusively by the daughters of business and professional men. Many are young girls who had never done any kind of work other than needle work and cooking. The heavy work of the establishment Is performed by the wives of sailors. This Is a nonprofit making factory and It Is the reply of the funnrd company to the <?ermnns for the sinking of the Lusltunln. FINDS SON AMONG WOUNDED New York Woman In Paris Voluntarily Aiding Nurses Discovers Own Boy. Purls.?A NVw York woman attached to the American Hod Cross happened to be in Paris and volunteered to help In earing for the wounded mining In from the battle Held. She was working busily when startled by a loud cry of "Mother!" Turning, she saw her own son. a young lieutenant In the American army. He had been wounded in the leg by shrapnel. The first news she had had that her son was engaged In the battle was when she heard bis cry. She obtained permission to accompany iter son to a hospital. After seeing that he was attended to, she went back in nit- >1111mil in rnt'iT, ns sn?> said, the hoys who hud no hope of finding it mother to welcome thorn. Th?' mother Is n prominent sochil worker In New York, nntl hits hoen doing lied Cross relief work among the refugees In France. Her work usually keeps her in the south of France. FAILS TO REMOVE HIS HAT Manager Knocks Down Employee and Then Hands Him "Blue Envelope." .Miami, Okln.?Because an employee of the lllversldc park here would not take off his hat when the hand plnyeil "The Star-Spangled Banner," Manager A. 11. I>e Yaux knocked the offending lid oft the man's heart, after he had asked him three times to remove It. As the man stooped over to pick up the hat. Mr. He Yaus gave him n right uppercut to the Jaw and he took the count, lie also received a "blue envelope." run FORT MILL, MISS MARION DAVJES 1( 4(1^' Miss Marion L. Davies, a graduate | *f ths University of Wisconsin, Is or# | of the first women to be appointed ex- ' aminer under the federal trade com- i mission. She Is doing research work In ths congressional library, Investlgating facte about the manufacture of | various articles. CHANNEL PORTS NOW SAFE I FOCH'S NEW OFFENSIVE GIVES PROMISE OF SERIOUS MENACE TO GERMAN FRONT. Evident That Rupprecht Must Defer, Campaign to Cut Off the CrossChannel Service. The historic bnttle ground between) Amier.s nnd Montdidier again is the scene of n mighty contest. This time the British and French are the ag gressors and under their fierce onslaughts in the first day's battle they have penetrated deeply into the German positions over a lront of more than 20 miles, reaching from the re-j gion of Hraches to the neighborhood) of Morlancourt. Following short but intensive artil-; lory preparation and aided by misty; weather, the allied attack took the Germans completely by surprise and thev fled almost everywhere pell mell before the tanks, motor machine gun uanenes, cavairy and tnrnntry sent , againut them. A1 the objectives set for, ( the Australians, nnadians. English-! men nnd Frenchmen were attained in remarkably quick time, and at last ar-j counts the allied forces were still ntak-1 inn progress. Wherever the enemy turned to give battle he was decisive-j ly defeated. Thousands of Germans wore made1 I prisoner Imrge numbers of guns were captured, great quantities of war, materials were taken and a score or i more of villages and hamlets were re- 1 occupied. In addition, heavy casual- j ties were inflicted on the enemy. At its deepest point the penetration, of the German line was ahout seven and a half miles eastward from VIIlers Hretonneux to Framerville, while from two to five miles were gained all along the front from northwest of i Montdidier to the region around Morlaniourt The fighting extended north < of Morlancourt to the Albert sector, but no official details concerning It i have been received. Well out on the plains and press- , ing forward, seemingly with great rapidity. the present offensive of the French nnd Rrltsh gives promise of seriously menacing the entire German front from near the sea to Uheims. If the drive should proceed eastward to any great depth it cannot hut affect the armies of the German crown prince now fighting hot wen the Aisne and the Vesle and possibly make Impracticable a stand by them even north of the Alsne I'nder the pressure of the offensive the menace to the channel ports also seems for the moment at least. 1 to vanish. Already there have heen 1 signs to the northward front the posi tions where Crown Prince Kpprecht 1 had formed his men for a drive toward ! ih' channel that a retrograde movement by the Germans was not Improb- I able It is apparent that Rupprecht * will have to defer bis campaign to cut off the cross-chattel serivce. i 1 ICE FAMINE BLAMED ON * NORFOLK MANUFACTURERS Norfolk. Vn Roar Admiral Harris, chairman of fho war industries com- r ti.ilto of the fifth naval district, no- ^ tilled the Norfolk <C- Portsmouth Traction Companv that ho would take ovor and direct the distribution of all oloc- 1 trie current, in order to conserve and ' Utilize the sunnlv for the more im ' iiorfnnt Unes of Industrv and tnnipnr ' tation The step was decided upon ' in order to relieve the present acute ' traction situation. ' NO MORE ENLISTMENTS ' IN THE ARMY AND NAVY Wrshinetton. Voluntary enlistment In the army and navy were oonmletely i suspended today *o prevent diarup- ? Ron of industrv pendms. disposition of the bill nropesine te extend draft astes to include all men between IS and 4f? v years. Orders wore Issued by Secro- 1 tnrios Tinker and Daniels directing 1 that no \o'untnrv enlistment? be ae- r .opted until further orders. The orilers also exclude civilians from ap- c ooir.fment to officers' training camps, i 8 ft f T1 ll/l"x 1 it 11 S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 36,000 PRISONERS^ taken \irnm IN ESTIMATES OF CAPTURED ARE ' 1,000 OFFICERS FROM GENERAL TO CORPORAL. OVER 500 CANNON IN SPOIL. Enemy Resistance Is Stiffening Aniin.t A All;-.. PI? I n^uiMot nu ?nnvc Ul ninca, I/O* perate Stand Expected. The number of prisoners taken so far in the allied offensive in Picardy is now estimated at 36.000, inrluding more than 1,000 officers. More than 500 guns have been captured, accord- j ing to the latest advices. | . The pivot of the German resistance' at this stage of the battle, it now appear^ is the town of Noyon. about midway between Montdidler and Solssons. The enemy is throwing in reserves from this base in an effort to prevent, regardless of cost, the allies from gaining control of the Noyon- [ Ham road, which is choked with ma- i terlal. guns and troops. The Germans are expected to make a desperate stand on the Roye-Noyon to permit the columns which are retreating in the direction of Nesle and Ham to reach safety. The resistance of the Germans is stiffening against the fourth British urniy under General Rawlinson They ate reacting violently In the region of I.ihnns. which changed hands twice during the night but which was firmly held by the British. All the bridges across the Somnie between I'eronne and Ham, a stretch of about 15 miles, have been destroyed by allied aviators. The Hermans have been attempting to throw temporary bridges across the streum and i the allied airmen are now systematic- i ally bombing these improvised structures. I i All morning reports show extreme confusion among the enemy force* In their precipitate retreat. Among the prisoners taken are generals. colonels and officers of all other ' grades. Eleven divisions of Generals 1 von Huties and von Marwita have been identified by prisoners takon. i i I ( 3erman8 digging in along the vesle river With the American Army on the Vesle.- Allied aviators have reported that the Germans are digging in oppo- < site the Franco-American line along < the Vesle. The observer* also have re- I ported that the enemy is stringing barbed wire along the hills northwest < nf Fismes. Allied officers express the | >ellef that the Germans will not give 1 ground here unless they are deliberately pushed off the plateaus. I The Americans learned from Ger ] man prisoners that the enemy wa* using ad old rock quarry cave in the region of Longuval. large enough to roncal two regiments. He employed t as a tefuce for troops to rest The Franco-American heavy artillery shellsd the cave all day and the Germans , wcie hnally compelled to abandon It , as a hiding place. The guns of the Franco-Americans got the range of the entrance to the ' cave and kept up a continuous fire all May. Observers reported that the rave bad been considerably damaged and was rendered very untenable 1 The Germans are digging trenches along the line west and east of I.ongu- J .. I a I'm n-su in hip Yftiiey or tne Perles. COAL SHORTAGE IS SOURCE OF DANGER f Washington ?Coal minors ami oper ators wore called upon in n proelama- ' ion hv President WPson to civ 'he'*" T maximum effort to the production of t foal to the e>l 'hat the threatened ? shortage next winter may he averted. < The president asked miners partiru- ' larlv to work full time and urged those < vho are essen'ial to 'h? industry t<? ? u-eept deferred classification In the I draft. I JEVERAL VILLAGES TAKEN I BY THE FRENCH TROOPS r Tnris. Notwithstanding rv1 t.ince r >f Germans. French troops gained ' urther ground between the \vre and j he Oise rivers, taking several villages | roni the west and south of Hove to y be Olse. Further south on Mto line, t e French have penetrated the wood . 1 area between the Rivers Matt and a i? reaching in this region the envi- e is of LaBerllere and Oury. Mortui' v aiMotte has beon captured. s >IR RAIDS HAVE BEEN C MADE ON KARLSRUHE London.?An official communication ssuod by the air miritsary an- r lounces that air raids have heen > nade on Karlsruhe and that there ( ras an explosion In the Karlsruhe sta- , t ion. A dispatch irom Stockholm says j " I.at as result of efforts of Sweden's II epresentatives in Moscow, the Brit- G sh and French consuls who were re- o ently arrested by ord?r of the bol j h heviki council were release'* i s I i LL T 15, 1918 ?????? ALONZO E. TAYLOR A new photograph of Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, a member of the war trade . board and also of the House mission to Europe. He was In charge ; of the feeding of French and English In Germany before the United States entered the war. In private life he : ranks as one of the leading food chem- | lets and bioloolsts in the world. upraised byiloyd-george; ALL POSITIONS PREVIOUSLY GAINED STEADILY HELD BY STIFF FIGHTING. ? I British Premier Praises Part Taken in Present Offensive by the American Troops. The allied armies have obtained further successes over the Germane in fighting in the Soissons ltheims sector and to the north in the Monlilidier region afld still further north in Flanders between the La we ami Clarence rivers. East of the town of Bra I sue on the Vesle River, niidwnv between Soissons and Rheims. American and French troops afier the slifl'est kind af fighting have crossed the river and held all the positions gained In addition all the positions previously gained by the allied troops throughout the entire Rheims Soissons salient have been solidly held, notwithstanding counter-atacks and the heavy ar tillery fire the enemy has poured down from the heights north of the j Vesle upon their antagonists. Near where the Vesle enters the Aisne fas', of Soissons the French have overrome the resistance of the enemy and laken the village of dry Salsogne. In the Montdidier sector the French jouth and southeast of the town have further advanced their line on this important sector which represents the (unction point of the armies of the Herman crown prince and of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. It remained for the Britsh, how ever to deliver the hardest blow .(gainst the Germans. Following up ? previous advance in the famous I.vs sector northwest of La Basse, Field Marshal liaig's men pushed forward heir line over a front of nearly tlve idles to a depth of a thousand yards David Dloyd-George. the Britsih ;?rime minister, addressing the house! if commons, spoke optimistically of he stutus of the war from the allied I standpoint. He characterized thoj iresent offensive on the Aisne Marne j front as the most brilliant In the an- | lain of the war and praised the part I aken in it by the American troops, i ro HURL ENTIRE STRENGTH AMERICAN ARMY ON GERMANS YVashingon Rackd by a reservoir if 5,000,000 American troops. Field t darshal Foch. supreme comander of he American and alied armies, is pre- 1 >aring to harl the entire united mili arv strength of France, Great Britlin and the I'nited States against the Sernians on the western front in time o bring the war to a victorious contusion in the shortest possible time, '.'ext spring will see the terrific conflict, already in progress on the \isne Marne line. in full swing with "ocli'a armies striking with all their j lower. This was the impression gained by j nembers of the senate military coin 1 nittee who heard General March, chief j >f staff, explain in executive session he war department's reasons for ask ng extension of draft age limits to nclude all men bet wen 18 and 451 ears of age They learned also that j he definite decision to enlarge the j American military program to an rmv of five million men was reachd about July 30 and is in acordnnce vith an agrement reched in Paris hortly before tha' time 1ERMAN SUBMARINE IS AGAIN AT WORK Washington Destruction by a sub- j narine off Diamond Shoals lightship Co. 71. a helpless craft anchored off ape H'-i^ura* '4? Aarn shipping from, he treacherous shoals forming the graveyard of the Atlantic coast," con- t trms the belief of naval officials that i ierman sea wolves aent to this side t f the Atlantic are under orders to I landlcap commerce in all ways pos- < lble without exposing themsolvea. 1 'TH/I" 171C1 liYlEjp GERMAN ARMIES STILL SWEPT BACK ; TANKS. CARS, CAVALRY AND INFANTRY ALL COMBINE TO OVERWHELM FOE. PDITIT miRinrn nr nmnnurnn uncHi numocn ur rniouncna Allies Capture 17,000 Prisoners. Mors Than Two Hundred Cannon and Other War Munitions. Over a curving front of more than 20 miles the British and French troops are continuing to sweep back the Germans eastward across the north of the Somine east of Morlancourt to the eastern bank of the Avre northwest of Montdidier. As on the first day of the offensive, material progress w*ns made over the entire battle front. Many additional villages were captured; the hag of prisoners was largely Increased; numerous guns and great quantities of war stores were taken, and heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy by tanks, armored motor cars, the cavalrymen and the infantry. The losses sustained hv the Anglo-French forces are declared to he relatively small. To the allied forces there have fallen 17.001 German prisoners and between 200 and 200 guns, many of them of heavy caliber and innumerable machine guns, trench mortars end kindred smal weapons. Already having penetrated the Plcardy salient to a depth of nearly 12 miles in the center toward the vicinity of the important railroad Junction of Ghaulees. and at othor points along the arc. pushed forward bet won five and seven miles. the northern ami southern tank.* of the baitle front whore th? Germans had l eon resisting dospo*v>,e,y. pave way before the pressure rospeetively of the liritish and French. A CORRESPONDENT SAYS GERMANY IS SCARED WHITE London. England. Germany is scared white She's scared, first of all. over the turn of things on the west front; over the thousands of Americans regularly i outfighting her; over the hundreds of thousands of Americans waiting to get into line: over the millions of o'her Americans "on the way." This Information comes from an al- 1 lied source whose business it is to know conditions in the enemy countries She's frightened about Austrfa. She doesn't know what moment Austria may blow up. She knows what is known and conceded in official allied sources?that the Austrian economic situation is worse now than it has been since the opening of the war and the people are holder. She's frightened about Russia Allied warships and American troops up north have puffed out her hope of getting her hands on the hundreds of thousands of tons of military stores at Archangel, there since the revolution; she can't take a step toward Petrogrnd or the northern rallway lest these allies forces swoop south; and for all she knows they mav he going to swoop south without waiting for that menace; she can't span* men from the west front. GOVERNMENT. NOT DRAFTEE. WILL DO THE SELECTING Washington?New draft regulations under which the government would do the selecting rather than leaving it to the reeistrant. nre under considoration t>v the war department. The war secretary made it plain that he is not Ratified with the present system under which the registrant must claim deferred classification. as many men with dependents hesitate for patriotic reasons to make such a claim In this connection. Mr. Haker said, he was inclined to the opinion that the marriage relation will in Itself constitute deferred classification. VILLAGE AND PRISONERS CAPTURED BY AMERICANS Taris (Havas Agency) American troops have captured the village of Kit "net. on the north hank of the Vesle river, a short distance north v est o* Fismes The official communication savs the British and French troops continued t -eir advance and won new victories ' rench troops took 4.000 prisoners. ' -sides a large quantity of war materials PARIS-AMIENS RAILWAY AVAILABLE TO THE ALLIES Bondon Another mportant result I of the British and French advance is that it has freed the main Paris- 1 Amiens railway for use by the allies again. This line heretofore has been within easy ranee of the German guns and the restriction thus placed on Its use has been a considerable handicap to allied communications. A similar freeing of the Paris-Verdun line was r>no of the flrat important results of Lhe recent advance on the Marne ?m %*n ,;1 '. fl 4? $1.25 Per Year. * . FURTHER GAINS OF" HIGH IMPORTANCE * STEADY GAINS OF GREAT STRATEGIC VALUE ARE MADE BY ALLIED FORCES. < GERMAN COUNTFR ATTACKS Violent Counter Attacks by Foe Ar? as Uusal Repulsed With Heavy Losses. Although the Germans are employing fresh forces of reserves in efforts to hold back the allied troops who are pressing them from the region of the Sonnne to the Oise. the American, British and French armies continue to make progress. Monday witnessed gains of ground at various points along the battle front of high importance for the further prosecution of the endeavors of the allies to drive out the Germans from the old Amiens Montdidier sector. After an extremely bitter contest the Americans and British have gained a foothold in the important little \ town of Bray Sur Somme. on the northern bank of the Somme. A short distance across the river to the south the Urtlitsh have taken Proyart and midway of the line have pressed on to the east of Fonqueseourt in a further outflanking of Uhauines from the south and of Hove from the north. On their part, the French in the rolling country itnediately north of the Oise river have captured (Jury, a position of great strategic value, lying southwest of I-asslgnv. and at several other points southward to the region of the Oise. have advanced their line further toward Noyon. In Monday's fighting hundreds of additional Germans were made pris oner and the enemy also lost heavily l.i men killed or wounded. Unofficial reports give the number of Germans raptured during the present offensive as in the neighborhood of 40,000. The Germans at last aerounts were still throwing reinfroeements to the east of the road running through Chaulnes, Koye and Noyon, the passage of which by the allies would se t lously menace all the German f 'ires inside the pocket formed by the nllid airplanes continue to bom' Ger Disc on the south. Not alone nte the allies endeavoring to press their advantage bv frontal attacks, but they have drawn up to their bars lines guns of medium and heavy calibers and with these they are heavily shell ing the areas held by the Germans, even as far hack as Rethencourl. which lies on the Somme. seven and a half miles east of Chaulnes Meantime allid airplanes continue to bonth German positions. GAS ATTACK BY SUBMARINE OVERCOMES COAST GUARDS Washington Gas from oil dis charged on the water by the German submarine operating off the middle Atlantic coast, overcame six men in the coast guard station and lighthouse on Smith's island. North Carolina, the navy department was advised by the commandant of the sixth naval district. If tho gas attack was deliberate ? and most officials believed that it was It const it uH's a new ami ingenuous form of "frightfulness" ami, so far as has boon reported, was the first direct effort of the (oTtnan raiders to hnr persons or property on American shores ant of the const gtird sttion to hva TWELVE MORE RAINCOAT INDICTMENTS RETURNED N'ew York Twelve Indictments, charging 1 f? Individuals and two tirms operating factories here with furnishing defective army raincoats for the government, were returned in tho federal court Several of the persons accuser* are under previous indictments alleging payments of commissions to federal officials who are said to have aided them In obtaining contracts. PRISONERS CAPTURED VS. ALLIED CASUALTIES With the British Army in Prance.? The contract between the number of , pr soners taken nml the allied casualties is regarded as remarkable. For inslancr' the casualties of the entire allied forces were considerably less than the total prisoners taken When if is understood tipu this battle has not boon waged for the purpose of taking prisoners, the casualties inflicted on the (Jertuans must have reached a large figure. THREE STUDENT AVIATORS ARE INSTANTLY KILLED Penaacola, Fin Three student aviators of the United States training school were Instantly killed here when a large seaplane in which they were making a practice plane, which was equipped with double Ia.>??rty motors, was making a flight from the lo cal aviation station when it suddenly plunged into the bay with great force. No cause was assigned for the accl' % t . *i "S