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I SINK 3 U. S. SHIPS SUBS DESTROY THREE AMERICAN VESSELS IN WAR ZONE WANTS PEOPLE’S CALL (•rand (hike KxporU Approval Huaalan People. of SOME OF CREW MISSING City ot Memphis Held Up and Tor- ** ^ pedoed as She Left" British Port— Another Vessel Reported Sunk Without Warning by an Unseen Submarine—Americans on All Ships. • The American steamer Vigilancia, City of Memphis and Illinois have . . 4 . , Be«fl gent To'tHe TOToBi ~B'y ~TJefftiaTr| iffi^bancea unpr ‘“ r ‘“ riP , ’ l "l r submarines. The Vigilancia was tor pedoed without warning and the City of Memphis was torpedoed after the crew had been given 15 minutes to leave the ship. The Illinois is re ported merely as having, been, “sunk." The crew of the Illinois was saved, but members of the-crews of both the Vigilancia and the City of Memphi*, most of them Americans, are miss ing. The City of Memphis, in ballad from Cardiff for New York, was sunk by gunfire. The second officer anJ 1 * men of the crew have been land ed. A patrol boat has gone in sesich of the other members of the errw. The Illinois, from London for Port Arthur, Texas, in ballast, wis «uak hi 8 o'clock Sunday morning. The Vigilancia was torpedo*! with out warning. The submarine did not appear. The captain, first and sec. ord mates, first, second and third en gineers and 23 men of the crew Lave been landed at the Srilly Islands The fourth engine** and *3 men arj mlaaing The City of Memphis, which left "surf Yofk. was sunk Saturday when sb* left an tSagltsk port The Clfy of Menpkl* bad «be stars and strife t - Grand Duke Michael has accepted the throne of Russia, conditioned on the consent of the Russian people, ac cording to a statement from the semi official Russian. News Agency. The 'statement follows: “Grand Duke Michael Alexandro- vitch, accepting the throne from his brother, declares that h'e does so only with the consent of the Russian peo ple, who should by a plebiscite estab lish a new fdrm-of government and new fundamental laws." The declaration made by the Grand Duke and his acceptance of the throne as given out by the news reads as follows: “This * heavy responsibility has come to me at the voluntary request of my brother, who has transferred the imperial throne to me during a period of warfare which is accom- disturbances. “Moved by the thought which is in the minds of the entire people, the good of the country is paramount. I have adopted the Arm resolution to accept the supreme power only If this be the will of our great people, who by a plebiscite organized by their representatives in a constituent assembly shall establish a form of government a.nd new fundamental laws for the Itussian state. ^“Consequently invoking the bene diction of our Lord, 1 urge all citi zens of Russia to submit to the pro visional government established up on the Initiative of the Duma and in vested with full plenary powers, un til such time which will follow with as little delay as possible, as the con stituent assembly on a basis of uni versal. direct, equal and secret suf frage shall by Its decision as to the new form of government express the wltl of the people.” DANCER OF CAPTURE EMPIRE FACES BISASTER Tlir Ilf I n I 1CT UirTI/ * d t0 U* Conner brilliance. As n I Hr IV AK I All nrrR Offset, the ^portance of this I1IL VI fill LflU I VI LLI1, surrender has always been exsgger i sted and was forgotten even In the • • East a few weeks gfter it happened. TITDI/ auuifc Ik! DCOCIA EACC Turkey and Turkish domina* IlRk ARMIES IN PERSIA FACE over the Moslem* Of other na tionality the fill of Bagdad Is most liable to have sinister consequences. Between the Arabian Moslems and the Turk there has always been, bad feeling, and a desire, which was stronger than the power *o execute tt on the part of the Aia.^V . Prcak loose and set up an aulohuiuous gov ernment of his own. In Syria there has been the same feeling with a desire even more in- tehse, if anything, than that which existed withrthe Aj^ab. The deter rent in both* cases was the strength Which Turkey held by virtue of the predominance of her influence throughout all Mesopotamia. They are all Mohammedans, it Is true, but the war has shown the fal lacy of the belief that all Mohamme dans are ever ready to join In a holy war against the Christians on any ~ Xu* L*y r Troops Opposing British and Rus sians in Asia Minor are Threaten ed With Complete Destruction— ' • ' •Z: 1 Continued Success in Northern FYance for Allies, Says New York Times Expert. The last week records another se ries of British successes in almost .field- of military e.ndaa.xftr„.~~lt GERARD IS SURPRISED ImhaoMMlor Thought We Were Bet ter Jamew W Gerard r amt *kpdor to Germany, emphasised Id a painted on both sides She enroua- * public address at the city hall after a submarine about S oclo Saturday evening Tbs German com mander ordered the captain to tense die sdlp within !& minutes The entire crew entered dee bonf nnd tde submartd# then •helled the his arrival la New York Friday, tde Be«*»»ity for military and natal pre paration of the ratted Plate* When I came dock to this country, * do said ’"Tt was a positive sdhrk to am to And tdat in id# two years In wdlrd tde •kip add drod a torpedo, wdlch I nor Id has deed oa Are we have done strned tde veweel on tde aide, tear I nothing to prepare for even n ree lag n great hole thrnucb tt»* aoanbie meant of nattodal defense see poured Tde at earner settled down | There le only one thing.' Mr eulcdly and foundered within n few jGerard rontinnrd. * and that is ant mlnntes I tarsal military training That nation DertM the night Ido boats became ? separated * n< t •’ 1 or lock dundsy mors tat three boat crews were ptri- ed wp by a petrol *«-***I aed landed Thee* busts contained 3 ! wien most ly American# All the o^lrer* were Xmertraw* The of I leers belle «r that the other boats will be reached Third Engineer Thompson In an interview with (be Ceatml News •aid that tb« submarine fired a wara lag shot for the steamer to slow daw a and subsequently signalled for her to stop and for the crew to sbna Uon the ship Ten or 11 shells were fired at the tesael. which began to sink. Then followed a terrific explosion, which reused the tessel to tremble all over and within 2» minutes ah# sank. •tern first The crew suffered a great ’ deal from exposure during the night Thompson said the ship was on rbarter to discharge her cargo si that stand* opposite us to day ha* probably no^ than (•.wnu.ouu m*n under arms I hav* yoon the ««rnaans ink# prisoner la on# after noon mors men than there are In tbs United fttatsu army m . Mr Gerard, who haw jasf compIrV sd n •.331-mGe trip from Her it a paid trtbwis in the loyalty of Gar- maa Amofleans and ssesned that bn would be willing In lend n regiment of them Id tde etedt of war wNd Gormaay nnd “feel sore that I woetd am be shot In tde dark ** REFUSES TO AID I a. Ts«u r Hate No The United Staten neat to Gen Carmnan • Friday n formal aolidca- It can not pan Id pot# In t*aa-American concert Havre * From Havre she went to lion that t'ardtff and tde skipper, knowing de | bis proposed was la the danger ions, kept the to cut off munitions and food ship- flag. which was yards In length, fly- meats to tbs European belligerents lag at the masthead Nobody aboard with a view to forcing pence - seems to have expected an attack. | The reply la understood to point rapt. I toeum briefly consulted < out that such a move would have no wtth the officers after tde Germans I justification la International law. ~ It ordered^ him by megaphone to leave the ship because It was Intended to sink her. said Thompson. All agreed that there was no alternative. After describing the sinking of the steam er. Thompson continued: .“When the ship had been destroy ed the German commander approach ed our boat and asked for the cap tain but none of our lads answered him. He then went from boat to boat until he found ('apt. Borum. who briefly conversed with him. . 1 do not know what was said. “The weather was not too had but there were heavy swells. \Ve kept the boats together and during the evening we rowed together tow-ard the coast. The night closed with a biting Vrind and sotne of our young chaps were very sick. Qnr flare- lights were seen between II and 4 o’clock in the morning by the patrol vessels, which resent'd two boats’ crews. The other two had become separated. \Ve lost everything we possessed." -The Texas company’s tanker Illi nois in command of (’apt. H. Iverson left Port Arthur, Texas, February 1 7 for London with a cargo of*oil after being held* nearly three w eeks before decision to send her through the “barred zone was’ reached. She was under cargo, and about ready to clear, when the German declaration of unrestricted subma rine warfare was made. A fe v hours before the Illinois left port it was re ported she was to he discharged and reloaded for an American port but orders were finally received’ to pro ceed with the original cargo, ('apt. Iverson and 15.others of the officers and crew of the lllirois are Ameri can citizens. The,crew of the Vigilancia com prised 45 men of whom 21 were Americans, including ('.tut. P. A. Mid dleton. Two of the 21 sere natural ized and^ one had first papet*. There were also fixe Puerto Ricans and one •Filipino In the fire.room force. The Vigilancia was built in 1890 for the New- York and Cuba Mail )6eam*hip company. b« Her kneurn a* the Ward line Until shortly after •be outbreak of tde urar she *d* en gaged Id passenger aid freigdt »ra ic detueeu Port Arthur, *"uha add B**!' ftrm. *- • Id March, ^vik, dhe ex# •old ha tt the raft ms earryuag trade Mm the VmmmhI ttahae to Germma rta la M*f*h !Vt# u|f|e «• hs# f da Mri mam she ea* Maned ha a Ml mkm ttdh will-not be made public until It das been delivered. GRAYSON IS* CONFIRMED l(e|iyhlic-iin Senator* Full to l*rr%cut IIIn Appointment. * Dr, Cary T. Grayson was confirm ed by the Senate Thursday as medi cal director and rear admiral in the navy. The vote on confirmation-was 37 to 2C. Republicans lining up solidly against Dr. Grayson but no Demo crats supporting them wall. Since then the Vigilancia is said to have changed owners twice, her last owner being the Barber line but wjaeiufi-iink she was under char ier 4 o 41^ Ui4ob0 tee. She sailed from New York Febru ary 28 for the Azores and Havre alter being detained for three days alter clearing and leaving her dock by a strike among her crew. The crew demanded a 75 per cent, bonus on their regular wages as a war risk. The demand was compromised and the crew- sailed.- of New York on both sides in letters five feet high. Details as to her cargo are wifh- held by customs officials but it is understood that it waS valued at nearly $750,000, the ship at morq than $ 1,060,OOty* The cargo con sisted ‘in part of provisions. Prior to ^ailing it was reported that a large consignment of coffins also was on board. - * The TTjfflaHMa registered 4,115 tons gross. She was 320 feet long. 4 5 feet of beam and built at Chester. Pa. lias been a long time since the Brit ish have* had occasion to be satisfied with the progress of events; but, since tli£ breaking up of the winter, matters have all gone their way. _ Particularly Ls this true in Asia Minor, where they are still thrusting hack the Turks and creating a situa tion which |H>rtends positive disaster to the Sultan's forceo. With this in creasing success not only of the Brit ish arms but of the Russian as well, comes even an added increase in the importance of these operations, As present condtlions indicate the coming of events in this . theatre which will exert an influeoaunooner or later on every other battlefield. It may be w'ell now to get a clear con-, ception of the more important mili tary element* entering into the fight ing in this far-off and. to us West erners. little-known country. As matters look now, the whole thing binges on the question of the supplies reaching the British and Russian armies We must, therefore, examine the situation from this standpoint, locate the principal bases la each t as* and tde means by which reach the froaj -that la. the lines ef Ksypt is. of «ourse. the base far alMireat Britain s Astatic operations dome stork of food suppllse may. of course, come from India, and even from AWMdalta Indeed. It miy be that, la foodstuffs alone. General Maude s Bagdad army Is entirely In* dependent of any of the more west ern sources of supply Mttd rsspsit to strictly military • uppltea shall and guns - reliance most be placed open western re serves England I* nf course, the primary sources This nt once brings np the question of the degree of mifety of a very long maritime sup pfy Ime end of the efficiency of this line as medasred hy Its nhlllty in maintain n steady flow of ammon- lion The danger Is, of rooms, the aoh* marine .^pdfrtna submarines hate been active In the Med list ranee a for many months, with the pnrtirolnr ahjsot of destroying supply ships dust In sd for Mftooihi At the some time they have also wtth Irregularity interfered more er lean wtth traffic beund for the Med Men or to the Egyptian posts a It does not appear* boo ever, from such reports ns have reached on. that this Interference has been In am say serious As a matter of fart, the probabilities are that the period of inarthlty on the part of the Brit ish. preceding the present offensive. «aa utilised for the assembling, either In Egypt or In Mesopotamia, of groat reserves of ammunition In aatlrtpatlo* of the hloo which Is now being delivered Once the supplies reach the IVr- • ua Gulf. Basra, near the mouth of Jpttttd hsmimos the pcimasi and may bo regarded as the point from which the supplies start Fgpm Hasra two water routes are open. • he Tigris and the Euphrates The latter, however, is so far to the M>uth of the line along which the op erations are being pressed that It may be disregarded almost complete ly. • The Tigris, then, is the main route over which the British supplies must come. Now that Bagdad has been taken. . this city becomes the field jase from which the British will con- tine their western march. From Bagdad the problem is much simplified. The railroad toward Con- stantlnople is in operating order for the first hundred miles of the Jour ney and is in addition paralleled by aY excellent dirt road. If the sup- fdies that have been accumulated in h.gypt and at Basra during the last year are sufficient the British will suffer no* inconvenience from this cause. • ' * The Russian problem is much more difficult. The northern sec tion of the Russian army is well taken care of. The Black Sea ports are ail open and* with Russia con trolling the Black Sea situation, as far as water transportation is con ing acutely from lack of roads and transport. Undoubtedly this wing has accumulated behind it. some where between Teheran and Hama- dun, large stores of supplies which •have come via the Caspian Sea and from'Tiflis. But the diffi&llty '!i»*s 'fh > ’bf : ing* able to push these supplier forward a4 a pace sufficiently fast to keep up w r i4h the army as it moves forward. The difficulty will, in^arge measure, be solved if the Russians can link up with the British, but not until then. The mililari operation* of the many, endeavored to instigate such a war and stir up a revolt in India against Great Britain^ but .was un successful. It would he in the nature of tilings, then, to see internal strife overturn the Turkish govet-mnent and eliminate Turkey from the - war. The passing of Bagdad has not only shaken Turkish prestige, it has broken it. The result« which may flow front it can well be fa tal. The strategy followed by the Brit ish In this Important action was a continuation of that of tmat week, and consisted in continual raids by the British cavalry operating on the western bank of the Tigris against the Turkish line of communications As fast as the Turks would take up a position the British cavalry would push behind It and. by threat eniag to. cut off the retreat, force them to fail back to n Hew phslfloll That greater resistance was not en countered in the city Itself Indicates The thorough disorganisation of the lias entirely from the Lys River to the beginning of the grunt bend south of Roys, no that the French are concentrated against the re mainder of H. The French are most certainly not going to stand still and wait to see what happens. The Ger mane made -a sporadic effort in the Champagne sector, seized a little ground, and were checked.' . . The French reacted and retook the ground and a little more, too, and since then have been hammering the Bne heavily with artillery fire. There ha*-, however, been but little infan try fighting for -some days. The ar il lery action is Htill severe, showing ;hat a move of some kind is in con templation. The French thrust is at present directed against the railroad which runs from Challerange* to Bazan- conrt, which tor some distance runs directly in the rear and parallel to he German lines. This is the key to the entire Champagne district, as t is the connecting link between the German army about Verdun and that on the western side of the Argonne Feupst Additional smaller roads for dis tribution purposes have, of course, teen constructed, but* because of the rolling nature of the ground, it Is hardly possible that ahy expensive relocation has been made. The pinch ing effect of a successful offensive launched from this quarter coinci dental with the British attack on the Somme front is at once apaprent from this quarter coincidental with the British attack on the Somme front is at once apparent from the very contour of the general battle line. Inasmuch as there Is no other railroad nearer than ten miles, the value to the German* of the railroad mentioned can be readily seen The most important town In this part of the Champagne district Is the village of Horn me-Py. a town of about 900 Inhabitants, on the Py River. Its lmpo(tance lies la the fart that it is. first, on the railroad and. second, that It Is the Junction point of alUThe roads coming ftown from the north The town Is situated, as I have said, on*the river, but close to Its source The French. Judatn STRIKE IS 1VERTEI # RAILROADS DUKE CONCESSM* AND MEN REMAIN EMPLOYEES GAIN DENARI Managers Advise President Mediators That They Will Not mil Possibility of Difficulty to Impede In National Crisis—Leave Adjust ment to Peace Makers. Shortly after two o’clock M^d y morning Sec’-ctary Lane announJod i.ittt- Wirua-i^od ^rrtkfr ui luii- way employees had been averted, confirming an announcement by an official of the conference com mittee of railway managers that thu strike had been declared off. The conference committee of rail road managers early Monday morn ing authorized President Wilao*** mediators to make whatever arrangn- ments were necessary with the rail road brotherhoods to call off the threatened strike. Te formal letter In which thin au thorization waa made, signed hy KU- sha Lee, chairman of the managunT committee, was as follows: “In the national crista precipitated by events of which we heard thta afternoon the national confarauea committee of railroads Join with you In the conviction that neither at home nor abroad should there ha fear or hope that the efficient opera Hon of the railroads of the country will be hampered or Impaired. “Therefore you/aru authorised to assure the nation there will be mm strike and as a basis for sack naear- aare we btreby autbortae the com mittee of the council of _ fiMferiHt* Ify of ffIII lift, are striking to the euet of she town so as to avoid the stream The ri%ets her* are rlvers la aaaM» oalv. nothing la reality but small stream* Their level la about 100 meters above sea level, so that the hills aboul rise but little abo«# the stream level The country Is very gently rolling, fairly open, wtth er- raaiosal wood patches la fart. Its general character is not unlike that of Plrardf where the battle of the •amme Is betas fought The emle art km of the week, how ever. has been la the Homme region, where the tienasa retreat Is sttll la progress Apaprentty the reports of tha* retreat were at first rather ea- . . aggerated Efforts were made ta have it appear a met. hut the offi cial reports have not 4l** ussed say thing ef this nature ily M has hen . wtth Belle t tlon. the Turks went, or aHghi been, well supplied sad able to with stand the shot k of «n army as Urge again as that which G*a Maude r««a froa’ed them with , Hot they were la a root, and tlw report that the greater port *4 the* At ao point yet hate tkoy shown say ability to lush* say or a waited resistance Utth the *n«r mows advantage of their main heat at thr,r backs, supplied by c«M*d rail r«md commuatratioas they fatted sad retreated 1% hat then. Will be tselr position s* they are thrown ba* k aloac tbl* rood with no hs*r a sorer than Mo sal few miles sway* durely the ta >!»« attaas are ikw they have thnrowghly sad ««*mpletr|y I Itwl • *ew With tilts to fate therr is s girotet dsagrr threotralag Th« ftrtttsh tine of advance is tab lac two directions apparently oar up the Tigris along the railroad, and mtrn or wor material Much v the ether from Jadlda toward th* * amSeewM Iwm hero drursi rd. tt huidgf. The advance j true, hut, due to the eereaetty of r . ’ * r aistit luoed route aaiiettthe hew ground as fust as the Bret bring* the Hrttlali to ths Neosiaa i irer and ith it la i been able I dike V «e and emphasises the danger * rtwsety te the Melt mb have wet res* (he Germans tee ta efficient la as an li the by the ageru at their i manna that the uwa aa important victory does net bring thorn all sal By the for overtime oa (he hour day which tk It to tii the S «» da romslaad in t mediators the hand ebb with the headed hy VCIIaha Lae, the raafereuce room at t.10 rotary tmae seat for the ef torn the k tee the of the Turks ubo are opposing the advance of tke Rusoiaa left wing Its effort is continually to narrow the gap throogh ohkb this Turkish force umy retreat and ceasequeaily Isos>a the chance ef this army’s es cape I oae the word surape ad vised- ty. since, as mailers are developing I here la danger that It will he cap tured In tote The advance toward the frontier, that la. toward Kermaashah. la ac companied hy even greater danger This Is the fond along which the m m -idT«iNii~ar~i~ rale limited only, it seems, hy the ability of the Russians to march With the They have, therefore, net taken Hther many men or meeh amtortal There to also the quest tea ef the British keeping their oepply roads directly op to the front Thin has neroesitaied the roast rod lea of miles of new narrow gauge roods From this cause also their advance has been delayed This qoeotloa la still uppermost — Why have the Germans retired? At least oae good axcese can he found from scaling the amp The British have gradually drawn a Ihree-quar- rrrriP about the remainder of the German salient A line fcM _ ends of the arc to about tea miles tlu««»Ua» marching westward and the across That drawn from the centre RrHIsh eastward along (Im-| same noMl. the chaser* of the Turk* being pinned down between them are exceedingly good. There Kecma no apparent escape for the Turks in Persia. They are caught in a trap which only some great error on the pari of (he British or Russian com mander can fail to spring. -rThe great stumbling block to Kus- Miort success on the southern part of their line last year was the town of Khanikan, which controls the outlet through the mountain passes of Per sia into the Mesopotamian Valley. The Russians were before this town It Is: therefore, apparent that, without the aid of infantry, the Brit ish guns can so reach the German lines from all angles as to make liv ing in this salient practically Impos slide. There is no road entering it. no line of supply which is not under the fire of the larger artillery. It is ob viously Impossible for the German trenches to face four ways at once and to protect their ^irupants equal ly from all directlonl. ^ There is no direction frorfi which a year ago, but the advent of hot large British guns can not throw v ♦‘albemnade a retreat to the muun- s hell into them If .Xhe. Germans this chord to the German lines In the heart of the salient is but seven miles. * tains advisable. The wisdom of that action is now apparent. But the British fo-day are not a great way from Khanikan- less than fifty miles and the Russians conir ing east, from Kerma.nshah are but little further atfay. It Js as if the Turks were in Philadelphia with one army coming against them from New York and a second from Baltimore; the distances involved are about, the same. The gates ate slowly being drawn line* to Depth of 10 MIIok. shut and may they can be* reached, close before would, therefore, save themselves unnecessary loss without inflicting any compensating toss oi\ their op- French Who Program Into ponents, there is but one thing to do,, and that is to get out as soon and as safely as possible. This action i^now in progress. . S It is apparent that the political ef fect of a retirement will not now af fect the military situation hr in fluence a military decision. The en tire salient must be given up, what- the effect may be elsehere The. very latest that lias !k*cii accomplished is that the Turkish military pcmfcr in Asia, as surely :*s their power in Lurope, is threatened. Jt is not too much to say that- the end of the empire ns it is now constituted is almost visible on the horizon. • J Homh kill* Two. . \ bomb exploded In the Suffolk pretkma Urttluli N«rramo». Early in county court house at Bo-ton Iflle j ft-,. «r*«.|| Bagdad, fhe great prize for Friday, kilim* two men and injuring which the Lritish Have -n sirug- One of fhe dead uas Louis ‘ g»ing. fell into -tbetr hands after a A 'ZMMhgei .* s' jaaiios. rmplnped tt 1 shurt- sharp fight. taat*ag hut tu<« week in Hije Iheatre have in every Somme and Am re fronts, and bv the way resulted In all that was prmnu. French In the (‘bantpain* sector rd by the unexpected rapldltv of the|They will probably not be .simultane ously begun The French vrtH in'all probability; wait until the British have . begun ever Tlii.+; will great-)y shorten the Ger- ohhv tee-ami increase reiatlvely the number of ’men,’ hut it will also sharpen the Noyon salient, increas ing its danger. Should the German retiretnent ultimately reach very far behind Rapaume, this latter salient position will bq a source of much embarrassment. ADAMSON LAW LPHELIf Tin the ~ western, battlefield fn France matters have aTsi been dl) the way of the" British.* Present indica tions are that the spring fighting will follow the lines mentioned In these columns several weeks agd an offensive b> the British from the*,*. The \damson eight hour railroad Supreme Court Make* Eight Hour Day low Supreme. . ufun la %ftr Bead iHee • mg retd mm (Be «•#•>>—ts^n mni'dks nf I0n£tnnd tsudl pttns^Ftt* iv • «kt mad **di tans to * *#Xf Bk*** f« • w. ft * «qq>ffd AS Kstot tl»«*rr mote before op*-ir.ti£ tip Il.rpi- selves, so that the Geftoan* uitl have i’ »|ga«- fent* in dfwe os man* trf pqare to this, vtewed from • bates er fafde* a» puuulklr ffftoai tie Chato | aarto we cBumw | man* in ordsrr to rdsnfnfvw The edsdrt to tto* pnfMtcnl and I Homme Bm ihai there u ill h. M ; 'r» '<r*«%in* If Brttton ppsueme won 1 ether pftimk hsuidsw that un tke . shaken I# the auswunik* pi Bnt toni ItowMse* sogpewhatw But sen j^npn law was held constitutional’and val id in all respects Monday hy the Su preme Court. The decision * makes eight hours thV standard V>f a day v work amt nages for men la operation of train* and hgahirti the' nage . inrreaae- uhich neat into tentative effect on In deciding the Adamsnn eight tae • Hour luw Inet rase Monday the Hu nere a#* s w ihs T an a i prttoau t eurt s ruling oa* hi "Chief insure White The enwri *s »ae *ia tt ibrae, unk Jke- Htney and \*m “The details are oe hy a kave Its neon. * Mr ! The men wltl get (heir hours pay for eight hour slona on the pert of the vtrleatly what (he •e* d*d they would gal \datosoa law if It were stltutlonal. . Immediately after had made hto hknemH ftkme !%st*tad lonmadaMMa emnenH w• •!% •• w i I#CyfPsf • * • Q F§ W MfiFD k to all the general chaii Wg tfidto tlAflle sfrlle c la red off. — The announrenent ef the eve that they had yielded came a* a surprise to the hood chiefs for they were In when summoned again to the eai ears room Earlier in the evening there bqen a distinctly pessimistic as to the prospect for averting strike. I r p to that hour the had refun d to make the coi granted and the brotherhoods strike unless they won their d< stood fast to their determination fm either by* the supreme court declar ing the Adamson law valid or hy their emplovers granting them the eight hour day. BRITISH ADVANCE The important towns of Peranna^ Chauines and Nesie, and more than 60 villages have been taken by the British troops on a front of some 45 miles, and King George’s men are continuing their pursuit of the re- treating Germans; At some points Sunday’s incur sions into German ‘noaitiona were to a depth of ten miles. The operations , were carried out on a front running from Arras to Chauines.. Taking up the operations south of ' Chauines, the French recaptured yon road and including the important town of Noyon. In tlfis region, north east of Lae*igny 3r the French bare nenetmed rnQre!> than 12 mlleh ^hrdkidfi '' tffl GVMiEa positions to ward the town of Ham. To the southeast the entire first line of the Germans, including the villages of Carlehont, Morsara and Nouvhon Vongre were captured by the French while northeast of Sola- son. Crouy has been taken.— GIVE VP MANY TOWNS Berlin 1 leporta *y »UwuMlc meat Id the Wtaf. ion troops Ota* wa the Frwarh saaeed hy Arran