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9 A * FIGHT INMANS BULGAKS FORCE ALLIES BACK UPON BOTH FRONTS ALLIED CENTER ADVANCES Wench War Office Admit* Major Operation Has Ilcgun In the Bal kan Zone on the Territory of Neu tral Greece—Humanla Expected . to Join Allies. On the Saloniki front the French official report states that the Allied offensive has begun over the entire front. In order that the relative Importance of the various moves In this new theatre may be realized as they are made, it is well to under stand thoroughly the objects which the Allies have in view in launching this attack. r-rimarily It is. of course, a blow at Austria. But long before this can make Itself felt in the quarter whore It Is intended to fall there are other objects to be gained which are of equal Importance. The flrst of these is the separa tion of Germany from her Turkish ally. This will be definitely gained when Nish has been retaken- Other fruits of victory will be the elimina tion of Bulgaria from She war and the possible enlistment of Rumania, atad even of Groece, on the side of the Allies. What event will bring about any of these latter objects no one of course can say. Only one thing is certain. Tbe Alllee must show a stronger hand than they have yet done la order to obtain the active sap port of the remaining Balkan (Mates. For theseAtwo states to enter the war, they must, from the stand point of qatlonal existence, choose rightly. To fight a losing fight means to them the sacrifice of all they have fought for In prior wars. "To win means aggsandlzement in territory at the expense of the losers, the acquisition of their respective <• lational aspirations. They cannot stford to take a chance. eRaliging this, the Allies cannot be hopeful at this stage of the Saloniki campaign of obtaining the support of Rumania, Serbia Is too recent, the example too thoroughly Impressive to be forgot- In regard to the general plan of campaign as it has been so far re vealed, It seems that the main thrust of the Allies is to be In the centre from the Dolran station northwest toward Strumitis and along the rail road line. The Teutonic allies arc resist ing this by an attack on both flanks. The suoretui In either rase Is a question of men. If the Teu tons have numerical superiority, which It Is not believed they hsve, they may succeed through envel oping tike Allies' flanks. No such strategy Is possible, however, with Inferior numbers. Small villages near the border of Greece and Serbia have passed into the hands of the Allies, but nothing has raally bean accomplished yet to ward a real advance. From all In dications the French are generally in control of the situation on the Allies' side, and hold tho line from the Potran station eastward. The British are on the French left, and then comes the reconstituted Serbian army. Just at this Juncture, the fight ing at Saloniki Is as kn|M>rtant as that In any of the other war thea tres. tl has generally been sup posed that the eGrmans and Aus trians have almost entirely been withdrawn from this front, and the defense left to the Bulgarians, . assisted possibly by the Turks. As / to the number of men on both aides, as near as can be estimated from Inch data as has come to hand, the Teutonic .Allies have about four hundred thousand for the defense, and the Kentente about seven hundred and fifty thousand for their offense. Of this force about one hundred thousand are Serbl ns and the rest British and French, although the proportions are not known. This bffense completes the ring with Which the Teutons are surrounded. The great offense so long herald ed is finally in complete operation, and will continue so until the end of the war. There may be a lapse on thin front or that caused by weather eondltlons, but the probabilities are that the pressure will codtinue until either one party or the other will acknowledge defeat. If the Saloniki offense Is successful, the Allies’ plan of eliminating Austria will have been successful. Success in no other field can be as Immediately felt as here. The Greek port of Kavala, which the Bulgars are reported to be ap proaching, is on the Aegean Sea, eighty miles northeast of Saloniki •nd twenty miles west of the Bul garian border. It is some distance to the northeast of the eastern ex tremity of the fighting force, which extends from the Gulf of Orfanl to the vicinity of Monastlr. The river referred to in the offi cial French report as having been oroesed by the Bulgarians probably b the Mesta, which flows from Bul- irla through the northeastern ex- IF of Greece and enters the er. the Gaeco-Bulgarian border. The Struma, on which are situated .the two Greek forts occu- by the Bulgarians, Is some dlt- west ef the Mesta with an out- 1 i Into the Aegean near Orfanl. te line a Is a no-uM would bring them over to the Greek frontier fort of Urgenez, which stands high up on the hillside and commands.the winding railway line from Saloniki Into Bulgaria, as it passes by means of tunnels through the gorge. It was on May 29 that a Bulgar force of twenty thousand in five sep arate columns descended the Struma and took over the Greek forts Rupel, fifty-two miles north-northeast of Saloniki; Dragotln, Janovo and Dova Tepe. At Rupel the Greek command er resisted until he received orders from Athens to withdraw. Later the Bulgars occupied the site of the De- mlr-Hlssar ^bridge, which was blown un^hysprders of General Sarrail on January. 12. There) Is a German line opposite the French positions at Smol, on the east bank of the Vardar, southwest of Lake Dolran. So far as has been reported no Austrian troops have yet appeared bn this front. It Is said that they form the army of occupation in Serbia, Montenegro, and the reserves behind the Bulgars and Germans in Macedonia. The Rupel Pass, which is In the posseseion of the Bulgars, is the key to the Heres-Demir-Hissar plain. It constitutes the neck of the bottle as regards the Struma Valley to the north. The Struma ascends to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, eighty miles north of the frontier. The entrance to conquered Serbia Is via the Var dar Valley, which crosses the old Gaeco-Serblan ^frontier, * forty-five miles west of the Struma. There are those students of Bal kan affairs who believe that Ru mania will not let Bruslloff’s suc cessful campaign and the advance of the Allies from Saloniki pass with out Intervening on the side of the Allies. A year ago she would have been paid for such interventlbn, it is believed, by Bukowina and Transyl- vanis, which have large Rumanian populations. Now the lure might be the same, but naturally the flrst move of her army would be against Bulgaria in order to weaken the ob struction to the Allies advaii7Tlig~up the Vardar and Struma. t Rumania could put in the field nine hundred thousand men, con sisting of the standing army of two hundred thousand, the first line reserves of one hundred and fifty thousand, and all other re serves amounting to five hundred and fifty thousand. Bulgaria Is •aid to have eight hundred thou sand men In Macedonia and one hundred thousand guarding the approaches from Rumania, besides the balance of a maximum total of •even hundred and twenty thou sand, or three hundred and twenty thousand, who could he called at a moment's notice to either front. There remains to be considered the Italian army of two hundred and six ty thousand, or three hundred thou sand men at Avlona, who, like their Kranco-Britlsh allies at Saloniki, have for months been bulldlng+oads and emplacements for heavy artil lery. This army has been mobilized under the command of Gen. Placen- tini, one of the ablest Italian mili tary chiefs, but on July 10 It was unofficially announced In Rome that the projected field operations would be under Gen. Armegllo. who had been recalled from Tripoli for that purpose. As a common war board since the Paris conference has conducted the fortunes of the Allies In the field. It Is not thought possible that an ad vance would be made by the Franco- Brltlsh-Serb force at Saloniki with out a co-ordinated movement being made by the Italian troops at Av lona. LOUISIANA CONGRESSMAN UMBASTS CHARLEY HUGHES GREEKS FIGHT BULGARS Resist Efforts of Invaders to Take Several Frontier Forts. While the operations on the fron tier, where the Bulgarians are strengthening their t*lp on the Stumna defenses and the Serbians on the left wing have captured a sec tion of trenches, have caused consid erable excitement throughout Greece, the heroic struggle of the Greek troops against the Bulgar Invaders at Phea Petra has stirred the national Imagtnption as nothing else since the victories of the Balkan wars. Col. Chrlstodoulos, commanding Seres region, reports that the Greek garrison at Phea Petra put up a splendid resistance and though not numerous fought with unexpected valor, disputing every inch of the ground. The fate of the garrison At the end of the gallant struggle is not yet fully known, but Chrlstodoulos be lieves the fight was kept uii till the last man fell dead. He also reports the valiant resistance of the Star- chlsta garrison, where oqjy two wounded soldiers were left at the conclusion of the combat. The colonel made this statement, declaring that there still remain Greek soldiers worthy to be classed as companions of Leonidas’ soldiers, men who know how to die in order to save the honor of Greece. Phea Petra, he says, will perhaps one day figure In histery with the Thermo pylae. ♦ ♦ ♦ l Says Bis Speeches are Regrettable—■ Asks Explanation of Candidate's Acta While Governor. An attack on Charles E.‘"Hughes was made In the Hou£e Tuesday by Representative Aswell of Louisiana, Democrat, whef charged the ftcpubll can presidential nominee with ego tism and inconsistency, and with be ing the candidate of the monopolis tic interests. "It is regrettable," said Mr. As well, "to see a man retire from W*e highest court in the land and destroy himself by his own blundering hand." "But Mr. Hughes,” he added, "Is not wholly to blame for the low order of bis campaign speeches, for he has been many years removed from the activities of men and must necessarily take dictation from those who are daily seeking the return of a discredited Republican control of the government. He shouts for more preparedness and in the next breath denounces appropriations for pre paredness.” Mr. Aswell denounced Mr. Hughes as the "present noisy would-be cham pion of woman,” who when governor of New York vetoed a bill to give women teachers of New York the same pay as the men. -“If the Republican candidafe,” Mr. Aswell continued, “is not the candidate of the monopolistic Inter ests let him Explain why, while gov ernor of New York, he vetoed the full crew bW, why be protested against the federal Income tax amendment, and why he vetoed the two-cent railroad fare bill. . "It Is a pitiable aspect in this twentieth century," Mr. Aswell said, "to see men In high positions en couraging the Republican candidate for tjie presidency under baneful In fluences to seek to rekindle the flames of sectiosal strife.” BLUE FLEET READY ELABORATE WAR GAME STAGED OFF ATLANTIC COAST PUTS WILSON ABOVE PARTY Republican Newspaper* Will Support President and His Poiiciee. The Yellowstone Dally Journal, published at Miles City. Mont., re cently made a decl..ration of politi cal allegiance to the "best men and measures"; it declared Its intention to support vigorously "Woodrow Wilson and the fruits of his adminis tration." The Journal for many years was Issued under the management of Col. Sam Gordon, long one of the wheel- horses of the Republican party in Montana. The colonel four years ago became a Progressive, but since ha* retired from newspaper manage ment. The control of the paper evi dently has been In the hands of par ties who have inherited the antipa thies which drove Colonel Gordon some time ago to renounce his Inter cut In the party organisation with which he was so long affiliated. ”In the coming presidential cam paign." said the Journal, editorially, "the Journal will urge the re-elec tion of Woodrow Wilson. Tet, let this not be taken as a declrration for Democracy. Regardless of party affiliations, we believe the beet men now before the country for election to the presidential chair Is Wilson. And further, we believe that his ad vocacy of world peace, his foreign policy, his program of preparedness, his red-blooded Americanism, and his administration of Internal affairs are the wisest policies the nation can pursue. These are the leading issues and upon them hinges the election, as did the nomination. Time, we believe, will vindicate the greater part of what the President has done. He has been building for the future, and many of his acts do not commend themselves to his contemporaries. But their permanent results will some day be apparent, a temporary loss now veil ing a greater good to come.” SECURITIES YrE MOBILIZED ALLIES GAIN IN WEST British and French Move Forward in Combined Attack. 1 Striking simultaneously, the, Brit ish and French have made suhstaa*^ tlal gains on the Somme front, ac cording to Paris and London. Mau- repas has fallen to the French, who have pushed forward more than two hundred yards beyond the town on a front of a mil# and a quarter. Thq British report a three hundred yard advance south of Tlepval and tha captura of many prisoners. The sapture of Maurepas leaves Clary almost surrounded and brings the French directly In front of the Important railroad town ef Coeabtea. ThWpvul is In ah set the —tt peal Mon us Clary and the A Pled treat. 1 that Mr. Osin tenth of a gnat eax British Public Already Has Turned In More Than $300,000,000. The response which British holders of certain specified foreign securi ties, other than those of American issue, are making to the chancellor of the exchequer’s appeal last week is understood to be highly satisfac tory, and considerably more than the amount of three hundred million dollars required as collateral to cov er the recent American loan has al ready been deposited with the treas ury. It Is calculated - that the total of foreign securities of the descriptions specified In the treasury list which British holders can place at the dis posal of the government exceeds three billion dollars, so that Chan cellor McKenna will have ample col lateral wherewith to negotiate fur ther American loans as may be nec essary. REDS TO ATTACK : Twenty-seven Battleships leaking Part—Blue Squadron Defending Coast From Reds Who Have Until September 1 to Effect Landing In Force on Our Seacoast. JUST A CAMPAIGN ilE Another Republican Story Sent AgMmmeriag by Daniels. - Secretary Daniels issued a state ment Wednesday night denouncing as false a published statement credit ed to Ralph D. Cole, chief of the Re publican campaign epekkera’ bureau, that President Wilson was responsi ble for the nineteen American lives lost in the occupation ef Vera Crux becajiee of an order from Washing ton that the American marines and Mmtnaketa warn not to fire before they were fired upon. Mr. Daniels a public Two mighty fleets are grappling for each other in the dark some- t where off the Atlantic Coast, In the opening phase of the most realistic and elaborate war game ever undertaken by the American navy. The navy department, on a war footing, was invoking every agency to aid Roar Admiral Helm, command ing the “Blue” defending fleet, which was sweeping seaward behind a. line of scouts nearly sixty miles long to meet and repulse Admiral Mayo’s “Red” battle fleet and its convoy of transports. The game began at six o'clock Tuesday morning when Admiral Helm on his flagship, the Rhode Island, received word that an agent of the state department aboard a ship bound from New York to Gibral tar had reported that the fifteen bat tleships of the "Red" fleet had been signed six hundred miles due east of Cape Hatteras. The report said thirty transports were following the enemy fleet, bringing ad army of in vasion to be landed at some point between Cape Hatteras and Eastport, Me. An hour after fhe'H^poiTnrainw thw twelve battleships »f Admiral Helm’s main fighting fleet, manned in part by civilian volunteers and naval miL ftiamen, were headed seawart^from Narragansett. Ahead of them near ly a score of swift destroyera were speeding eastward to get in touch with the enemy, followed and sup ported by a cruiser squadron headed by the aeroplane ship North Caro lina. Roar Admiral (Heaves com mands the scouting force, which le converging on the point wbere the enemy was known to be at daylight Tuesday morning. Admiral Mayo's problem Is to force a way through the "Blue" fleet for his transports. The game board within which operationr' must be confined is virtually s!x hundred miles square and with the fifteen active battleships of the Atlantic fleet as his main fighting unit Ad miral Mayo controls a force thrt Ad miral Helm must employ strategy to defeat. Rear Adml . 1 Krlght, head of the navy war college. Is umpiring the game from the battleship Penn sylvanla. The radio signals of tho enemy fleet mean nothing td the operators on Admiral Cleaves' scoutfHg ships The messages are In a cipher code known only to the officers and men of the “Red” fleet. Even the navy department does not know it. Intercepted messages of all sorts were being picked up Tueeday night by “Blue” scouts and sent back to the navy department, where rode ex perte struggled over them. Officers on duty In every bureau wuro pre pared to meet any demand Admiral Helm ml"ht make upon them > for ammunition, men. repairs, addition al ships or other support. By the terms of the problem, pre pared at the nrval war college, the “Red” commander has until Septem ber l to effect a landing. There is no limit as to his movements, except that he must reach the coast be tween the points named either in suf ficient force to beat off any fleet Ad miral Helm can bring against or without having been sighted by the "Blue” scouts. ’ Three battleships, the Ohio, Wis consin and Missouri, carrying mid shipmen from Annapolis, led a line of war vessels to Black Jslnnd, R. I., Monday, Increasing the number of vessels from nine to thirty-one. This force that will defend the coast against th > attacking "Red" ships will be known as the "Blue" fleet and consists of nine reserve battleships upon which the civilian volunteers are quartered, three bat- tleshipe manned by the milshipmen, eighteen destroyers, three mine lay ers, the North Carolina, carrylnj several hydroaeroplanes and repair and supply shipj. Tho superdreadnaught PenncyD vania arrived about noon Monday, but departed soon with Admiral Aus tin M. Knight, president of the navy war college, who will be umpire of the war game. The arrival of the three devlsions of the destroyers was an impressive sight. The low lying speedy craft were led by the scout cruiser Bir mingham. They steamed along In three lines with a hydroplane from the South Carolina brazing above them in the lead like an angry hor net. The boats encircled the fleet of battleships and anchorod between them and the shore. ' The collier Grant, carrying twelve thousand tons of coal, moved up to a place with the fleet looking more like a structure in a railroad yard with her big cranes than a craft built to travel on blue water. Every seaman in the fleet thrilled with pride as the superdreed- naught Pennsylvania passed by and oat to sea. Her size dwarfed the rest of the battle craft. After seeing the destroyers safely to their aachoragethehydroplanethat led them In flaw In and out among the other war veesete, ban Meg la graceful curves over quarterdecks and forecastles, seeming to brash tha fighting tope at some and climbing high la th* sky of tha rivtUka valaa- a ae.e serlou. twelve-inch and six-inch guns. There were perhaps a dozen men in the'for- ward turret of the Maine who dodg ed in fear of Injury from the move ments of the guns that seemed sen tient things. The turret room was crowded, and the volunteers had to flatten themselves against the wall and floor as the big guns moved in response to the will of the slghtera. Rear Admiral -J. M. Helm In an interview on the flagship Rhode Is land expressed satisfaction with the progress the* volunteers were mak ing. " “The other officers and" I are much pleased, because, the men have been taking hold earnestly," he said. "They are making progress and caus ing no trouble. We are gratified that the men themselves are so well pleased. There have been no com plaints, so we feel that the men are satisfied with the treatment given them, “The chief object of the cruise is to let the people of the country know just what their navy is like. The two thousand men on board come from all parts of the country and I feel sure that when they return to their homes they will be able from their experience to acquaint their friends with the ways of the. navy, and what it means. “Another purpose we had in mind in trying out this experiment was to give the volunteers-a knowledge of tho navy's requirements so that civ ilians engaged for example in trans portation will become familiar dur ing the cruise with our methods of moving stores, ammunition, and armaments. This should be of In valuable service in time of need. The radio operators, engineers, and mechanics will get a thorough grounding in navy apparatus, and this, too, will serve to help us In an emergency. 4 “I think when the volunteers have completed their mpnth's training they will be pretty certain to take issue with the man who imagines a navy can be bom -over night.” DRIFT TOJLSOI INDEPENDENT VOTERS FLOCK TO DEMOCRATIC LEADER WILSON CAMPAIGN CLODS WATCHING RUMANIANS Hunger)’ Expects Russia to Use Ter ritory of Neighbor. The Hungarian newspapers are be ing flooded with' the most pessimis tic Information con ernlng Rumania and that country's possible action la absorbing the press and public, ac cording to a Budapest dispatch to The LonddlT^Horalng Post. The Hun garian public bellevea, says the dis patch. that the liberty they enjoy at the hands of the censor is designed to prepare the people for the worst. The military expert of the Pestl- Naplo says; "The entry of Rumania into the war will not at flrst affect the military situation In the Balkans for the Rumanians will have to ad here to the united strategic plan of the Allies and will not be pemitted to go straight for Trqnsylvanla. Dob- rudja and Bulgaria will be their im mediate aim. Five hundred thousand men of the Rumanian army are not the chief factors for the considera tion of the Central Powers, but rath er the problems presented by the new territory which - the Russians will be allowed to use freely lu the invasion of Hungary.” JAPS DENY RUMOR AU Embassy Vigorously Disclaims Efforts to Huy Lands. "Vie The Japanese embassy has Issued a vigorous denial of the report, of aileged Japanese aggression on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Pan ama. Jt was said the report that Japan was seeking land on the Isth mus for a coaling station was part of a propaganda to alarm the United States and was ridiculous'. Secretary of State Lansing. In re ply to questions, reiterated his state ment that a searching investigation will be made of the report that Pres ident-elect Valdez of Panama waa Instrumental in* securing a conces sion of sixty thousand acres of land for one Fernandez, a Spaniard, act ing as agent for some other Interest. Mr. Lansing said he did not know where the investigation would end. He was asked whether It would be broadened to Include the election methods employed by President Por- ras and Valdes to Insure the latter’s election, and intimated this might be the case. RUMANIA PLANS WAR Rumor Is That Balkan State Will Aid Entente Allies. The opening of the Allied offen sive at Saloniki has been' the signal for renewed reports that Rumania is at last about’ to throw In her lot with the Entente. These reports are more circumstantial than before and German press comments indicate that they are far from being devoid of foundation. One Berlin . news paper declares that Rumania already has joined the Allies and that plans are being laid for the march of a Russian army through Rumanian territory. , „ Tho entry of Rumania into the war on the side of the Entente would mean the forging of another link in the chain of foes surrounding the central powers. The material aid which Rumania could give would be of an Important character. She has had between five hundred and six hundred thousand troops mobilized for nearly a year and her army is reputed to be one of the best equip ped and trained In Europe. ' Prominent^ Republicans in Boston. Organize to Support Him—Moos© Leader in Brooklyn Changes— Nation's Vote is Steadily Turning to the President. ^ With prominent Boston Republi cans organizing a Woodrow Wilson Campaign Club to work for the pres ident’s re-election and with Arthur Sleeipp-or. another Progressive leader of Brooklyn, announcing that he will take the stump for Wilson, tho tide of Independent vptea is rolling steadily upon Dem' - racy s shores. Every day brings further proof that the drift toward Wilson is go-' log to be compiete. Many of tho Independents who had waited hope fully upon the sounding of Mr. Hughes' keynote are at last making acknowledgment of their keen dis appointment. Some of them arc cpn- tent to plodgo their support to Presi dent Wilson. Others go one point further and bitterly assail the policy of the Republican party. In coming out for the Democratic ticket Mr. Slesinger, of Brooklyn, characterized the campaign utter ances of Charles E. Hughes as "what could be heard from any old wo man over any back fence." Continu ing he said: "I am an ex-Republlom. b :t was , always a radical Progressive wlthiu that party. When the Bull Moose party was formed I joined it. not be cause at Colonel Roosevelt’s revolt, but because of ~WKirorm. -f~~awr-»-pA»neiwB.''"l8ill' . Moose, not & T. R. Bull Moose, and I refute to be delivered by that gen tleman just to help put back the. Re publican party in power. "I fail to see how the Hemenwavs, the Barneees, the Pen roses and tie pusay-foot Cranes have In any' way purged themselves of the charges Colonel Roosevelt made against them, and I refuse to be.delivered over to Mr. Hughes Just to reha bilitate that corrupt plundorbund. "Mr. Hughes In all bis speeches has not advanced any propositions for the general betteiment of the country, and what he has said so far I could hear any day In any week from any old woman over any back fence I happened to be near. "While I am not t. sympathizer with the Democratic party generally, I believe that Mr. Wilson has dona more during his tenure of office to promote advanced political measures for the benefit of the people gener ally than any president since Abra ham Lincoln, and I shall thereto'* support him to the utmost of my en deavors and as soon as convenient I will take the stump In his behalf.” A dispatch from Boston says that so Ivor Woodrow Wilson for presi dent tor another term that they havo formed an organisation to take an active part In the campaign. They met at the Boston City Club and took steps to form a Woolrow Wil son campaign club. Among those present from the metiopolltan dis trict wero Charlo*; H. Jones, presi dent of the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather company, ono of the fore most business men of Boston, who seems to be thq head and (rent of the movements Georg* R. Xu! ter, John F. Moors, v:’o has tain for years one of the leading independent forces In political movements In Bos ton; Major Robert E. Green, former ly on the staff of Gov. Walsh; Regi nald M. Hall, Edmund J. Burke, Robert H. Schacht, F. G. Goodalo, Alexander Banwart and Ellery Sedg wick, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Thin was a preliminary meeting for’the purpose of organization and tho consideration of a list of names of Republicans and Progressives who have so numerously expressed their desire to support Wilson t’.ojt it bras thought that they ought to be organ ized as an Independent organization for the campaign. Another meeting will be held In the near future In order to perfect tho organization for work for Wilson. A dispatch from San Francisco to Democratic national headquirters In New York says; "Prominent Republicans and Pro gressives of Alameda county Rave Just met in Oakland, and -organized a local Woodrow Wilson Independ ent League. Delegates from all parts- of the county attended. All the delegates reported the Wilson sentiment growing daily. Among’ the organizers were I. J. Truman; a San Francisco attorney residing in Oakland; Walter S. Gannon, manu facturers’ agent; J. J. Brennan, for mer Republican county committee man, and Edward Elliott, of the law faculty of the University of Cali fornia. Weekly meetings of the or ganization will be held.” Thirty-eight Woodrow Wilsoa State Leagues of Oregon have held a general conference at Portland to organize for effective campaign work. They had a banquet and awakened much cnthutlasm. About thirty countiei^irere represented. FRANCE EXECUTES WOMAN Parte Dispatch Conveys News of Shooting of a Female Spy. The execution of a woman - a spy Is reported Taeeday In a Havas dis patch from Marseilles. According to this information FeUee Pfaat pat to death at tha Shooting Range, having rictad of eaptoaage hy the eoaadl ef mar of thq ‘ BRITISH MUNITIONS EXPLODE Serioos Loss of Life Feared in Great Britain From Explosion. Serious loss of life is feared as the result Of OB StftIuSl0fr-4*-a nmn+Hmif plant In Yorkshire Monday after noon, says an official statement Is sued Monday evening. No figures on the casualties are given. “An explosion took place this af ternoon at a munitions factory In “J* statement Full details are not as yet at hand, hit tho Toss of life appears to be riona..