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ALUES TfljflN SOON m ms ARE BATTERING GER MAN LINES IN AKIMS FOE NOW ON LAST RIDGE Pr—eh Gnna are Preparing tor Ae- aaolt WUch Oorreepondent Say* Will Qurl Teuton* to Tbelr Own Line*—Foch'* Genlu* ia Staff Upon Which Frenchmen Depend. An unnamed staff correspondent of-The New York Times, writes from Paris that fuller knowledge of^rhy It Is taking so long to drive the Ger mans out of France, clearer insight into why the recent general offensive resulted in such an apparently in significant advance, and at the same time better belief that the war will actually end some time, with a French victory has been furnished during a trip to the front in Artois, from which I have Just returned. This was my third visit to that particular "sector north of Arras," yard, bouse by house oat of its float a two hundred million dolu stronghold at thh north—Vienaelles 1 saw the preparations for th« French advance down the valleys on dither side of Carency and otbe< points, until theso places were sur rounded and the Germans were com pelled to surrender. Six months ago, when the meadows were high with grass and flowers, I saw the same methods employed several kilometers nearer. Finally I saw the same trench lines surrounding Ablaln. 1 saw from the. hillside the explosion of mines In Neuvllle, which was then connected with the German reserve lines by long tunnels. I saw the French heady mas finding these tun- nets by a continuous tap-tap-tapping on every foot of ground behind the town, perforating it like the contin uation of pin-holes In a sheet of paper, until finally the tunnels wore demolished and the entire country looked as UJhe.heavy hand of an avenging god has descended upen it. Two days ago. In the mud, fog, and rain of approaciilng winter, In addition to witnessing the pan orama of artillery explosions . on the crest of Vimy, I heard the same tap-tap-tapping of artillery over Givenchy, and beyond Arras I saw the same determined sap ping and mining preparations di rected against those positions that will go on ceaselessly, |>ossibly for inontlis, before the little -man in ORAfiW CHINA IN I'Mutst /UMHir/Uiwt*—muww rw cowoir; WILL BE SENT AUSTRIA MONEY FOR EDUCAl ALLIES WANT YELOW OIANT TO ENTER AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS ARE BEGUN as it has so often been named in the . WSH"; ~ <Iore official communications. ffifTTUle house many miles behind The first was last February, when the definite trench lines, formed af ter the battle of the Marne, were comparatively new, and the prepara tions for the first general offensive of last spring were just becoming evident. The second trip was at the end of May, a few days after Caren cy fell, when I was the only neutral observer permitted actually to see the battle of the Labyrith, Therefore, wlthv.the second gen eral offensive only six weeks passed, when the war office decided that cor respondents should be allowed to see the ne wlines, I was Included in the party for the purpose of making a comparison with the situation as It existed at the time of my other visits. i F . r °w I th1 * unbelievably fast that it actually ap- ■xlsts it is possible for iproached the Vimy Heights in a few 11.?" hours after the signal was given. It the lines, standing before a huge map, the unllghted stomp of a cigar In his month, tagging at his short mustache with one hand, makes an impatient gesture with the other that will signify to the silent staff surrounding him that the third and probably final gen eral offensive in Artois has begun. This same little man Foch, who commands that group of armies, is, like Joffre, a great believer in the value of human life. It may take longer to drive the Germans out of France with the Joffre-Foch meth ods, but there will be fewer French widows and orphans at the end of H. At one time In the last offensive one French division want forward so server to tog of the entire western battle front than even in the Champagne where the gains were greater, but not a bit more Important from the viewpoint of French strategists. The fact that that master strate gist. General Foch, whom I was per mitted to n, ^ t ?/'?!: I vimy line .ml be able to rake the been changed from ^^and of the trt . ll , hek from to end was withdrawn because the strong positions at either end etlll resisted. There may never bo another front al attack hero be-ause It would’ be too coetly, but when the French take the Glveocl'v |»>ei.k>ns to the north they will tiieu command the entire northern group of armies Is suffi cient evidence to cause the belief that the break-up of Germany’s still resisting wall Is quite as likely to be gin there as where the moro sensa tions! part of the recent general of fensive was launched. ' DerLmal^ce^soV ^*caDtaln °of °thel Ul -* Jki,nuUi ot P^nera; for they will personal censor- a c&ptain of tnei*,,, lt nl t mm h»v« th« nth. with their tire. A'd If they take those Givenchy posl loos, as I have seen them plan and < xecute the same operat on b ain and Neuvllle and at a be t di sail other positions, they w II iake the etlll resisting fortifica tion with a minimum of loss and a -i mtmtr ....nmn.«ith*! cut it off as they have done the oth general staff who accompanlfd the | erB ^ |t w| „ Burreodor The tn -h.rh mfsht I latest necessity in modern wars Is lions with which 1 have commenced * „.T this story. I may not qgpte the words that have been spoken and the figures that have been shown that would positivsly Indicate my mean ing. And more Jealously than ever are guarded the name* of the points upon which the French are Itaminer- lug day and night in ceuaclee* pro- General Foch said to me that the conaumption of sheila In tho lost of fenstve was "considerable." Al though the last advance looks In finitesimal on paper. 1 know that General Foch did what he was sent out to do. An unlimited supply of high explo sive ■hells means months of labor _ _ , i,in *ico ■neii* iittmum uiuuiua ui isuur ETSTuS SSL™ iSS u“! Tho onp, 0( Art... famou* territory, every yard of which already haa been atalned with both French and German blood. On my first trip In Artois the Ger man llpea were too far advanced for an observer to get a real under standing of the country necessary to realize why it is considered so vitally Important. From n distant range of bills I then lookbd upon Dots de Don- vlgny and Mont Saint Elol. Caren cy. Ablsin, and Neuvllle Saint Voast wore only vague distances directed to my mind by the pointing finger of the officer conducting the party. On my second trip I walked through former German trenches in to Carcncy and repeatedly loat my self In the tortuous twistings of the trenches of La Targette and the Labyrinth. Still the necessary geo graphy of the country was not im pressed upon me. On my third trip all this was ^changed. This time I walked through ‘the runs of Ablaln Into tho trencheg leading to Souchez and rode oponly in an automobile over an entire countryside from Arras nearly to Gethune on roads where had a simi lar trtp been attempted last May pur car would have been blown to pieces before we could travel a hundred yards. On this trip I enjoyed the spec tacle of standing openly on a hillside and watching French sht-lls break ing in constant clouds over tho crest of Vimy, which Is the last range of hills shutting the plateau of Artois • from the great Plain of Doval. The crest of Vimy, flanked by strong positions in Givenchy and be hind Arras, is the last battle line of Germany In Artois. In quaint English an officer who accomphnled us said: "When wo take any of those positions the Ger mans must go away. They will have no place to go but Into the Plain of Doual. When they get into the Plain (f Doual they must keep on going away.” Except for this Crest of Vimy, which is a freakish formation of hills rising from the valley at. the ex treme eastern side, the plateau of Artois may be compared In shape to the fingers of a human hand with the knuckles slightly raised and the fln- gera .slightly, apart and sloping to the valley before, the Vimy Heights. It is a vast succession of hill tangos and valleys running horizon tally toward Vimy, cut In some places by transverse valleys, such as the one at'the foot of which the famous Notre Dame de Lorette and the Vole Blanche once existed. It la e bleak, barren country of chalk and sticky clay formation, in many waya resem bling the barren steppes of Cham pagne. It would have been an Ideal plac* for the frontier of a new Oer- nisny. had the German army been as invincible as Germany belidved It A year ace a Gerwiaa army owe- pled ell Chet 0a* piston. Nine months ago. when the^Beids were white with snow. I mw hew the Trtvelewa Freweh** had deg. tenne*- alaed. sad exploded It yard by now occupies posltioos from which the next,consumption will probably be fantastic when the final attack is sounded. A high officer, speaking on the subject, said to me: "We have shown what we can do. We can go through them any time wo desire to do eo." At this point I perhaps hare indi cated reasons for the first two as sertion which begin this story. The third albertl«>n, that I believe the war will end with a derisive French vitv tory, I baao also upon pay experience aa the only correspondent who can claim to be a veteran obso.'vor of the battle ground of Artois. ___ It was a German idea that Artels was an Impregnable wall. This pla teau also holds tho key to Calais, Boulogne, and the Channel ports. Has it ever been assumed that all the Germans wanted was to hold It? They have not even held it. They are now at the extreme edge, holding on with the last remnants of their power. Tholr methods of warfr.ro, which at all times havo shown wastage of giant efforts, where no military aim was achieved, such ns shelling un- fortlflen towns, have become more wild thr.n oyer. Arras Is an exam ple. Their campaign of frightful ness that has not frightened has con tinued against Arras for over a year, and was still In operation three days ago, when I was last there. The French trenches, which aro a mile outside the town, c.ro scarcely ever shollod, but civilians are killed dally lir Arms. ' Before tho war Arras had a popu lation of twenty-soven thousand. Now Its Inhabitants number twelve hun dred, but It Is still possible to pur chase anything from rubber boots to champagne. In one ruined store I saw Jewelry and In another kodaks on salo. Ono ruined building had a sign post In front Informing patrons that tho business h^d heou xamoved to another address—ruin that was not quite so great a ruita. * Then wo got Into our r.utomoblles and hurried out of town, along a Great Britain, France and Russia orb Working Together at Peking—At titude of Oriental Republic Is In - i.i i n; ilwiir i.r.r.-ir- = V. " Doubt—Japan’s Coarse of Action Problematical. Great Britain, France and Russia have united in an effort to add China to the Entente alliance In order to prevent possible friction in the fature between Japan and Cltina and to pre serve the peace of the Far East. If China agrees to the plan, military participation in the present war is not expected! ’ Negotiations thus far are in a con versational stage at Peking with no indications as to China’s attitude. Al though the United States is being kept Informed, but its diplomatic representatives at Peking and Euro pean capitals are rofralning from par ticipation. This sensational tarn in Far East ern affairs on the eve of the proposed change by China from a republic to a monarchy lias been the subject of confidential exchanges between the allied powers during the last ween. Japan, so far as is known, has not yet been consnlted, the conservations thus far having been confined to the European allies and the Peking gov ernment. Although Great Britain, France and Russia joined Japan in repre sentations to China to postpone the establishment of a monarchy because It w«s thought a change during the present disturbed condition of affairs might provoke revolution and inter national complications, this latest step by the Allies is understood in Washington not to have been initial ed because of the monarchist situa tion alone. It was considered essential by the Allies that such arrangements be made In the Fnr East as would per manently Safeguard their Interests. The Impending change in China's form of government has rendered the situation somewhat acute. Fear of revolution in China and the possi bility of Japanese Interference to pre serve peace hat been Impressed upon the Japanese people to an extent that has attracted wide attention among the European diplomats. By Joining the Entente alliance, none of China's operations could af fect the coarse of the war la Europe, but the move would effectively guar antee Japanese abetlaenCe from in terference In China. Japan’s attitude is not clear as yet but two possibilities are considered In Washington as plausible. First. That Japan will Join in the movement on the theory that her paramount interests in Chins will not suffer eny abridgement through the future actions of the Allies, or Second, that Japan will remain aloof from any agreement, view ing even the future entrance of China aa an ally as not altering Japan’s right to Independeut ac tion in the Far East wherever her interests are affected. None of the communications that have passed Indicate that the Allies have any hope that President Ruan Shi Kal will abandon his plan to es tablish a monarchy. lo fart, the In dications are that efforts to odd China to tho Allies resulted largely from Uie supposition that the change In government was inevitable and that It was the duty of the allied powers, in order to prevent possible compHcatlons between Japan and China, to act definitely at tlds time. The assurance from Peking that the moharchy will not be eotablishcd immediately Is being interpreted therefore, by various observers os a development growing out of the knowledge of the plans of the Euro pean allies to bring about a new un derstanding on Far Eastern quos tions. The Inner,details of the situation have not been revealed, bet the at tentlon of the British, French and Russian colonies In the Far East has been attracted by reports of the ex cellent treatment afforded German prisoners at Kiao Chow and the words of admiration for the German armies frequently spoken In Japanese newspapers of high standing. These have been observed by the Allies with much Interest as well as occa sional adverse reference In the Jap anese press to the Anglo-Japanese al liance. It is known that Germany recently enlisted her efforts In the same direc tion as Japan to pursuade China to abandon her change of government. Advices from the Far East declare that the German minister at Peking pointed Out to the Chinese foreign of fice that In the event that China changed her form, of government, she might not obtajn the recognitior of the powers and without this recognl tion she could not very welj be taken care of diplomatically in the peace Whole QueeUoa of Submarine’ Tac tics WIU be Discussed With Austria-Hnngnrjr. While the United States will wait for the Austrian reply to Ambassa J dor Penfleld’s inquiry concerning the circumstances under which the Ital ian liner Ancona was sunk before making representations to Vienna, It was stoted officially that the placing of American citizens in small boats on the high seas was not regarded as according tbbm "a place of safety’’ withlh DTe' ffi&hlhg "ef fnterha'tlaaal law. In Its correspondence with Ger many over the Frye case the Ameri can government expressed the view that open boats did not constitute a place of safety. This was broadened, In an interpretation by an official, to apply to American citizens whether they were sailing on belligerent or neutral ships. Officials qualified their assertions somewhat by stating that if a vessel was destroyed within a few miles of shore, lifeboats would be regarded as safe, but that weather conditions and the opportunity given for passengers to be transferred even then were pertinent circum stances. From these intimations it general ly was believed the American gov ernment would develop the entire question of submarine warfare fur ther in correspondence with Austria and that even though, as the Aus trian admiralty has declared, forty- five minutes was given for the pas sengers and crew of the Ancona to be transferred, this was not regarded aa affording American citizens a suf ficient opportunity to be saved. The fact that the ship actually ivas tor pedoed while a number of passengers were still aboard is regarded as the chief circumstance upon which rep resentations will be made. FATE OF MONASTIR IN DOUBT Loadoa Public Hopes Allied Force May Flank Bulgars. London reports Friday: The fate of Monastir Is not yet known definitely, but there is little hope in England that It will escape the Bulgarians. There Is a possibility, however, that the invaders will not dare to make such an extension of their line, with the French apparently established solldly oh their flank. Left In the dark ay to the actual progress of the Anglo-French cam paign In the Near East, the British public can only hope the Allies will soon have such strong forces there that will enable the harassed Ser bians to make a successful aUnd and preserve a small portion of their country, as the Belgians did along tho Vser. Some substances Is given this hope by .unofficial official aews that the Anglo-French force is assuming for midable proportions as well as by hints that Italy Is on the verge of ac tual participation in the Balkan cam paign. The retreat of the Serbians toward the Albanian border is causing li^- rreased uneasiness st Athens but de velopments there are Interpreted as being not unfavorable to the Allies. Geveruor Against Raising Salaries Common Schools Should Have Every Extra dent. - “The present financial condition of the people of South Carolina makes It of the utmost Importance that the cost of state government be decreas ed rather than increased,” said Gov. Manning Monday when asked for his views on the question of Increase in salaries for State officers. “While the salaries paid o\ir Judges and state officials are low,” Mid the governor, “we are just now recovering from the financial hard ships of the recent panie'eaused by the low price of Our products as the result of the European war, and..it behooves us to watch closely eVery item of expense in order to .hold down the tax levy to a minimum. “Th* last session of our legisla ture created the South Carolina tax commission for the purpose of re forming the tax laws of the state and equalizing the burdens of taxation so that all our people would be placed on the same basis. Until this com mission shall have completed its xyork I feel that we should dismiss froip our jninds the subject of Increased expenses. '“The awakening of our people on the subject of common school educa tion makes It of the utmost impor tance that we provide facilities for increasing the efficiency of our rural and common schools. These facili ties cost money and until means for the education of every white child In South Carolina are provided I shall oppose Increase in other departments. "If w'e have any extra money to spend,” said the governor, “let’s put it In the common schools’of our state, where It win be the means of fur nishing to the boys and girls, the fu ture men and women of South Caro lina. the education to which th$y are entitled and w^ilch will make df them better and more efficient citizens. Tblr Is, in my Judgment, a most Im portant matter, and one In which the people are vitally Interested. - “I shall continue to urge such economy as is consistent with the absolute needs of the state and the financial condition of our citizens.- 11 BELLIGERENT AIRMEN TEOUS TO EACH 01 FACE COMMON DANGERS Kcs ** m * tual- BRITISH CENSOR STRICT HILLSTROM MEETS DEATH road in plain sight of tho German' conference that will end the Euro guns. I thought of whnt that high officer had said: "We can go through them *:ny time wo dostro to do •6 M ; and I believed him. I got out my military map and looked at that present objective, the crost of Vimy, from which the French lino was now only a few hundred yards distant "They will command that as sure as fato," I thought. "Just sa they have dono before they will do again —and then comes the . plain of Doual.” - :> I thought of the quaint English of the officer who gaId:'”Whon the Ger mans get into the plain of Doual they must keep on folng away.” I looked at the plain of Doual on my, map—the plain that contains Laos. Doual. and Lille and aweopa away acroaa tho frontier of Brtftnm. it said to tha officer: "When tfca Mg French runs that carry so far wre sweeping that plain from Vimy erase U means the and of pean war. --r- —■—- It Is thought tn some quarters at Washington that the idea of joining China to the Entente alliance may have appealed to Great Britain and Russia particularly because of the presence of German' propaganda be ing carried on from China to disturb India and Persia. the Gormans in northern France.” He smiled and nodded while I of fered a silent prayer that on that day I might permitted by the military authoritloe to make my fourth visit to Artois, to stand on Vimy crost the decisive victory of this war to a close. ' Anna Pavlowa advises those who would bacdsaa graceful dancer* tq watch tha swan. Ever *#> a swaa daaee* asks tha Toledo Blaus Utah Governor Kef usee Wilson* I to que* t for Reconsideration. Joseph Hillstrom w&a put to death by a firing squad In the state prison at Salt Lake City, Utah, at seven forty-two a. m. Friday morning. His death was Instantaneous. Hillstrom spent Thursday night in kts cell at the state prison under the eye of ths'fteath watch which was placed over him Thursday whan Gov ernor Syry declined to grant Presi dent Wilson’s request for reconsid eration of the case. Hillstrom declined to see u minis ter, saying that he had worked out his own religion and was satisfied with it and would not be helped by seeing a minister. He retired about ten oclock and went to sleep at once. Hillstrom was convicted of the murder of John G. Morrison, a gro cer, and his son, Arling. Under Utah law he was allowed to choose be tween shooting and hanging. „ President Wilson twice appealed for .further respite for Hillstrom The president's second request, made Thursday, was denied by Governor Spry as not based on any new facts. THOUSANDS^ OF SHELLS Turks Admit Loss of Ground Near a Center Regiment. Constantlneple reports via London: An official statement issued at the Turkish war office says: “On Novem her 14 the enemy fled thousands of shells against our left wing near Anafarta and Seddul Bahr without important damage. On the fifteenth the enemy similarly bombarded bur right wing and advanced positions in the center with land and naval guns for five hours. Meantime the enemy delivered an attack. The left wing of one of 7 ouf center regimenta was driven back some distance. When the enemy attempted to attack the front of another regiment he reach ed Its advanced trenches but by cross fire and counter attacks was repuls ed from these trenches to hie former positions, suffering heavy losses.’ Berlin (’orree pun dent Soys Many fitoriN are ’’Killed.’ The New York World correspond ent In Berlin reports by wireless: The American newspaper corresponded* In Berlin and Vienna are beginning to feel what appears to be a new pol icy—tbe tightening up by the Engligh censorship on press dlspatcbee on toe war from the central powers. For several weeks American cor respondents have been Impressed by the fact that a much smaller per centage of their dispatches la getting ►theeegh-to New York. * The New York Son correspondent declares that interviews which he had with the German ’Colonial Minister, Dr. W. S. Solf, and with the Bul garian minister at Berlin, cabled via London, were killed by the English censor. Of four dispatches sent to The World by me from the western front during the recent offensive, telling exactly how far the French and English got and that the offen stve was a failure, only one appears to have been allowed to pass by the censor In London, and that was bad ly mutilated. Among the dispatches apparently stopped by the English censor was a description of my visit to the front with Gen. von Falkenhyn and my Impressions of the chief of the Ger man general staff. Bennett of the Chicago Tribune as serts that half of his dispatches from the west front were killed by the cen sor. The representative of one of the American news agencies has stated that eighteen thousand words of dis patches from the agency’s correspon dent In Bulgaria and Serbia were killed in London by the English cen sor tn a few days. SERBS FACE DISASTER London Says Fow Hours May Settle Fate of Their Army. London reports Wednesday: fate of the Serbian army may be only' a matter of hours. Monastir, In southwest Serbia Is reported to be In such a perilous position that the con sular officials have departed. From the various conflicting reports the following apparently may ne deduct ed as facts: . • ■ ' The Bulgarians have taken Kru- sevo, an area six miles west of Per? leppe. Thys the southern Serbian army and Its Franco-Britlsh allies are conffonted with the imminent peril of 'an outflanking movement. Tetovo Is In the hands of the Bul garians. The fate of the Serbians holding Bubana Pass is more ob scure. One report states that the pass has been forced. It seems cer tal nthat the defenders are at least threatened so seriously that their po sitions soon may be untenable With Krusevo and Bhbuna In the hands of the Invaders the fate of Per- leppe would be Sealed and the road to. Monastic opened. •> Military Camp at Camden. The United States government an nounced Tuesday that a military camp similar to the one at Platts- burg, N. Y., last summer, would be established at Camden In February for a month. The Editor of the London Aeroplane Cites Many Instances of Chivalry* Exhibited When an Enemy Aero* plane Comes to Grief—Personal Papers Often Returned. C. Q. Grey, editor of the English magazine, Aeroplane, writes that the belligerent aviators were mutually chivalrous: \ Some little time ago, says Mr. Grey, some one somewhere comment ed in print on the curiously chival rous way In which the aviators of the different beHtgerent flying corps behave toward one another and re- marlied that there Is always a certain amount of fellow feeling between them because, although they are at enmity with one another, they all have a common enemy In the air it^ self and have, previous to the warT all been engaged In the conquest of the air. It certainly Is true that the op posed aviators do behave decently to one another. They may do their duty scrupulously In the matter of endeavoring to shqot one another down If they meet In the air, but over and over again it has happened that when a British or Fffench avia tor has'been brought down a German aeroplane has come over the aero drome and after perhaps dropping & few bombs on troops or villages the way has merely dropped Int aerodrome a parcel containipj ters from the captured aviators note saying that they have been ed or wounded. In some cases a German has actual- . dropped the private papers of a dead aviator Isto one of the Allies’ aerodromes; and one story from Paris—which, however*, it jkot ohso-.. tntwty enrhenTTcateT—said that when poor little Pegoud was killed a Ger man aviator dropped a wreath near the place where he fell, as a tribute to bis bravery. Tfiese courtesies have of course al ways been returned by the French and British aviators, though on one occasion there was a somewhat don- ble-edged intention when a British pilot flew over a German aerodrome and dropped a note thanking tho Ger man flying corps for sending Infor mation about a couple of captured avlatora, and added that the sender of the note would be pleased to do the same for the Germans on many eeeneiefca*^-—-——— |This dktvalrous method of making war may certainly be partly due to n cerUin amount of fetlow'reelitfg for any nvtator who Is in danger either from weather or from gun fire; ia fact, one or two expert flyen have definitely eaid as much; but the reel ing probably arisea origin JIy from tbe fact that the man a ho took to flying before the war te primarily a sportsman, and even If4hc same man had to do his fighting on his feel he would still in all probability act In n properly sportsmanlike way So far from the air now being con sidered « enemy to be conquered the more experienced flyefs in these days regard It as their friend. One of our aviators tho other day put it that but for the air ho would prob ably now be digging holco In tbe ground and sitting In them to i>« shelled, whereas, although he gets shelled fairly heavily when he hap pens to pass over c. bunch of the enemy's guns, he Is at any rate fair-, ly free from interference when once he parses certain definite jpots. Also if the wind happens to be blowing at all hard lt,4a frequently a very present help In time of trouble when passing over the enemy's gun* 1- for a fast aeroplane assisted by^L strong wind moves across the sky at such a terrific pace that It Is almost impossible to hit it, and so the avia tor actually stands a bettor chance than even a cavalry “gelhyper” or g motorcycle dispatch rider who has to cross a fire-swept zone with messages. To the artilleryman, of course, the air Is a very good friend Indeed, be cause, thanks to artillery observation Ry^elther aeroplane or kite balloon, he Ifc-toble 1° make far better prac- » tlce thatNqjrag ever possible in pre vious wars/^The infantryman also can thank the air for. lightening his work, at any rate to some degree, as, for example, when the air scouts give him, or rather his commanding offi cers, exact information as to.tlto, enemy's movements so that he can take steps to frustrate them. Also by destroying bridges, railway Junc tions and ammunition trains tho aer oplane bomb-droppers help him very materially by holding up the enemy's reinforcements and supplies. Perhaps the only fighting man in the army who can not find something for which tp thank aircraft is tho cavalryman whose Job as a scout has practically been usurped by the avia tors. So, taklngjt all round, It seem* tfi a Lthe air nPvery far from being an enemy in these days, and although It ip not absolutely conquered it Is be coming at any rate a very useful If somewhat undisciplined servant. 9 KEEPS THEM HOME Order In Council to Keep. British Sub jects From Leaving. An order In rotincll will short]? be British Cabinet In Paris. Paris announces Wednesday that Premier Asquftb, accompanied bv Sir Edward Grey, Mlnlsfsr of Munitions Lloyd-George and First Lord of the Admiralty Balfour, have arrived in Faria. tho Frcnehjtfua.LkaLsrUl hai» tola* lauBB gSfwrtfie con tin nance of the war all Brltlah aub- Jecta of military age deetrihg to leave the United Kingdom, evea on a trip- must obtain special permission. This permtestoo will not be gtyen wlthost Gae Explosion in Coll Miaa. Seven men were Injured, four probably fatally. In an gyploelon of gas at tho coal mine of tho United xnw'ev »*ntpaay at Buckner. lit. Italy Sends Protest. Secretary Lansing personally haa received from Machhi di Cellere, tho Italian ambassador, a communlca-- tlon addressed by Italy to all neutral nations denouncing as "an unparal leled atrocity” thd sinking of the Italian liner Ancona with scores of neutrals and other non-combatants aboard. 50,000 View liberty Bed. Fifty thonsand persona, according to nolle# estimate*, viewed tbe liberty beir at Loulsrille, Ky.. Monday. School children from nearbv eitlto and dslegatloas from civic sag patri otic organisations partldpcUd in wei- * > t „