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PREPARING MIGHTY EFFORT TO WIN WAR' GERMANY IS GATHERING TO THE COLORS EVERY AVAILABLE MAN.* SUPREME TEST THIS YEAR Field Marshall Von Hindenburg Con siders It By No Means Impossible to Attain Victory During 1917. Copenhagen.--Germany, according to nformation reaching here from Berlin, now is gathering to the colors every available man for a supreme military effort to bring the war to a victorious conclusion in this year's campaign, a goal which Field Marshal von Hindenburg and his advisers con sider by no means impossible of at tainment. Without altering formally the law of military service, the German an'h orities have in practice extended the period of service beyond the forty fifth year. The policy of the German War De partment, as stated in the Iteichstag this week by a military representative, is to withdraw those men over 45 from the front line after they have done six mont hs of duty there, but military exigencies compel the holding of these over-age men for service In tho so-called etape, or ragion behind the actual fighting front. For some time the German authyli ties, in a grand coming out of men earlier pronouced unfit for service, have been mustering men on the very verge of the age limit, but up to the present they have announced that the necessity has not yet arisen for let L: lation raising the age limit to 165 is has been dlone in Austria-llungary. The operations of the labor serv.'e law, now in full swing. are further resleasing for service at the front every available man behind the lines capable of carrying a rifle, so that the next two or three months should see the German armies at maximum size. Simultaneously witi the draining of the dregs of human reservoirs of soldier material, Germanys industrial mobilization also is approaching a climax. A scheme' for converting every available factory and employing every available machine on wia- work and manning them with labor obtain ed under the labor service law is coi templated. The work is to be done in three stages, and the construction of a third group of munition plants is to begin immediately. The output of cannon munitions therefore should soon reach its maximum. RIOT BREAKS UP PEACE MEETING IN BALTIMORE. Waving Flags, Crowd Breaks Into Hall During Meetinr.-Many Fights. Baltimore.--A mass-meeting helb here under the auspices of the Amer-i c-an League Against Militarism, enided in a riot. A counter-demonstration w~as' organized oii the pavementt of the Academy of Music, in which Dru. D~aviri Starr Jordan was speaking. Finally the crowd took the mastter into its own hands and, led by some militIa men. broke into the thea tei- and marched dlown the aisles, wa-lig a large Am er-ican flag. Th~ere was ani aiudience of about 2,000 inside, anid about that niumbor tried to enter. Several fights started. -'Thie police department had sounded a riot call anud police from ever-y sec tion of the city soon arrived. E'jec ions star-ted, the lighits were dimmed and the meeting broke 'hp' jutst as 1)o(1or Jordan was r-eachiiiig ani impas sioned climax in his address. Men socially pt-eminent led the throng of 4,000. College -pirofessoro, students, banker-s and lawyer-s wvere there. Carter G. Osburn, Jr., a bank er, was at the head waving a flng. A policeman clubbed him into uncon seiousness and a -crowd which saw the flag disappear- fi-om his hand, leaped forward, swept the police aside and got into the theater. Twenty meni were clubbed and four of them were taken to a hospital. A dozen others were alrresteld. EIGHT INJURED IN STORM AT MEMPHIS. Memphis, Tenn. - Eight persons were injured several buildings were wrecked and a score or more were un roofed or other-wise damaged in a~ windstorm that skirted this city and struck Binghamton, a suburb, with its full force, Three of the injured. who wvere caught under the falling tim bersa of the Christian Church at Binghatn ton, one of the the buildings dhemol ished, were seriously hurt. - All are ex pected to ~recover. MU)CH TONNOGE WAS -DESTROYED DURING MARCH. Berlin, via Sayville.-Tn addition to submarine successes already puablish ed in the month of Mar'ch, says an of. ( ficial statement publishell the .first of d April by the German Admiralty, 34 1: *steamers, two sailing vensell and 14 r :ifshing craft, aggregating 90;Q00 gross t te6s,; :were sunk by German sub- a ~aines. Of theatotal 24 were -British. h V'1q, o~e6f which was an auxiliary s gat les 8,000 tons a VILLA ATTEMPTS To TAKE CHIHUAHUA BANDIT LEAD CAVALRY IN BOLD ATTACK ON CAPITAL OF CHIHUAHUA. DRIVEN BACK WITH LOSSES In Vain Effort to Capture City Villa Lost 350 Killed and Wounded and 500 Taken Prisoners.-Also Horses and Saddles. Chihuahua City, Mexico.-Francisco Villa, at the head of a cavalry force of 3,500 men, made a determined attempt to capture Chihuhua City, but was driven back with the loss of 500 pris oners and 350 in killed and wounded. The battery on Santa Rosa Hill, the key to the city which Villa took by a rush in his succesful attack last No vember opened tire on the attackers, aided by a battery at the Central Rail way station. General Hernandez by a flank movement, broke up an end of the Villa line and took 200 prisoners. Colonel Mora, entrenched in the old: cemetery, repulsed three charges by the enemy troops. The Villa prison ers taken there raised the total to 500. More than 200 saddle horse.., three machine guns and a quantity of arms were aptured. From an order of the day found on a prisoner, Villa's expedition is shown to have numbered 3,500 men, all cax alry, which was only half the size of the defendlng Carranza forces whose losses in dead and wounded amounted to 120 men. The ('arranaza officers here do not assert that the victory was derisive. Villa was reported to be in per sonal command of the attacks. AERIAL COAST STATION IS GIVEN TO GOVERNMENT. Also Air Cruiser is Gift of Aero Club of America. New York.---The fully equipped aeiial coast patrol r-.1on at Port Washington, N. V.. together with an air cruiser tilted with two 200-horsn power motors and an air-plane gun, were offered to the Government Ihrough the Aero Club of America by iodman Vannamaker. Announcement of the gift was made at a dinner of the Aero Club of America, at which. James W. Gerard, was one of the speakers, and which was attended by many men of prominence. Alan It. Hawley, president of the club, announced that the Collier tro phy offered annually for the greatest achievement in aviation in America had been awarded to Elmer A. Sperry and Lawrence 13. Sperry for the de velopment of a drift indieator. He made public also the award of the Aero Club's medal of merit, which has been given to Miss Ruth Law for establishing the American dlistance rcdd acr-oss country; to Philip Ca i-oil for his patr-iotic work in train Ing militar-y aviators; to Floyd Smith for establishing American hydro-alti Lude recor-ds; to Corporal A. D. Smith, T. S. A., for the Amer-ican hydro iur-at ion r-ecrd; to Capt. C. C. Cul ver-. U. S. A., for whreless exper-imen ation, and to James V. Martin for he invention of the Aer-o Dynamic FORTY AMERICANS BEING HELD PRISONER IN GERMANY. Copenhage:n. via London. - More than 40 Americans were among the prisoniers taken to Germany by the [lerman commerce r-aidier Moewe, ac 'or-ding to Jack Benson, an American 4eaman, who has arrived here. Thle Americans, ho says, are held as prison sra of war in Germany. Benson, who for a time was a fellow prisoner of the men held in Germany, cays that nearly all of the 40 men were horsemen aboard the horse transport itaceraldas, which was sunk by the Moewe. The only exception whom Denson was able to mention was an American named Smith, who was aboard the British armed merchant man Brecknockshire. "TRADE TRIP" WILL BE PREPAREDNESS TOUR. Knoxville, Tenn-Press dispatches indicate President Wilson has accept-1 ed offer of Knoxville Board of Com merce to make of its "trade trip" to be run week of April 9 a tour of applied preparediness and patriotism. The of. fer was made the Government owing to the serious situation now confront ng the nation. The trip will be made1 ni strictly military style. A "colonel"1 will command the expedition, and will I )e in charge of "captains," ESCAPED GERMANS MAY BE IN CHIHUAHUA. El Paso, Texas-Two Germans ap ear-ed at the Chihuahua City Foreign Ilub as the guests of the German resi- p ents of hat city and were said by their y oats to have escaped from the Ger- i san raider Prinz Eite) Friedrich, in- e Brned at Philadelphia, according to e n American,. who arrived fi-om Chi- S uahua City. The American said he Rl iw the two Germons and gave a do- B 1r!DtionI of them, B ALL AVAILABLE SPI /! (Copyright.) OTHER GUARDSMEN RECALLED NEW ORDER AFFECTS REGIMENTS THAT HAVE JUST BEEN MUS TERED OUT. Navy Department Buying Ordinance Supplies.-Orders to Speed Building of Equipment and Big Fighting Ships. Washington.---The number of Na ti)Inal Guardsmen called into the Fed eral service for policing industrial and other strategi" points was brought up to 50,0'0 under orders issued. At the same time, the regular First Regiment of Engineers, scattered along the ,:exicai h rder, was ordered back to its barracks at the Capital, the Navy took additional measures to hasten construction and equipment of fight ing ships and both the War and Navy Departments announced further pro visions to facilitate recruiting. The National Guard regiments or dered out 'for police purposes of pro tection" are the First West Virginia Infantry; the Seventy-fourth New York Infantry; the Second Connecti cut Infantry and the Second New Jer sey Infantry. Be"ause of a misunderstanding as to the number of troops affected by the order issued stopping demobilization of the guardsmen returning from bor der duty, the War Departmcnt also directed that all organizations which have been mustered out of the Feder al service, but have not left the state camps for home, be brought back un der arm.. The First Mississippi In fantry and Ambulance Company No. 1. Alabama, are affected by this pro vision. It is not improbable that similar Rupplemental orders may be nece.; gary in regard to other organizations partially demobilized. The New York Shipbuilding Com pany, the Secretary also said, has been requested to speed up construction of the~ superdreadnaught Idaho, build ing at its plant. The Idaho was to be ready for launching by October, but a postponement has been neces sary. Builders of the battleships Maryland, Colorado. West Virginia aind Washington. also have been re riuestedl to expedite construction work, ad to indluce more rapid work a special bonus has been suggested by he Department. RESERVE BANKS HAVE . SUBSCRIBED TO BIG LOAN. 3overnment Borrows $50,000,000 For Ninety Days at Two Per Cent. WVashington.-The 12 reserve banks >versubscribed on 24 hours' notice a 10-day loan to the Government of $50,. 100,000 at the rate of two per cent a r'ear. The money was borrowed on 90 lay treasury certificates of indebted less to help tide over the Government ill June. when the great stream of in ome and internal revenue taxes will low into the treasury. And $50,000. )00, it was announced, may be borrow d in the same manner before the close >f the fiscal year. 30VERNOR MANNING CONFERS WITH MANNING. Columbia, S. C.--The South Caro ina National Guard will hot be called nto the service of the United States his week in- the opinion of Governor hianning, who returned from Washing on, where he held a conference with secretary of War Baker, The Gov rnor thinka that the Guard will nol )e summoned until after Congress nleets. Governor Manning and Gov irnor Stuart. of Virginia, saw the secretary of War. 1URTHER GAINS ARE MADE BY THE BRITISH. Further gains by te British over he Germans northwest of St. Queni In and by the Germans over the rench in the Champagne region of rance are recorded in the latest1 riltsh and French official communi- I atjons. British cavalry have captur-< I the villages of Villers-Faucon and laulcourt, lying a few miles north of r oisel, and are virtually astride the a t. Quentin-Cambral road, says the I ritish war office.,t Et FUR ARDNS HOUSTON ISSUES AN APPEAL ASKS AMERICAN FARMERS TO JOIN IN AGRICULTURAL PREPAREDNESS. Both For Econmic and Patriotic Rea sons the American Farmer Should Strive For Efficiency In Production and Conservation. Washington.-The farmers of Am erica were appealed to by Secretary Houston to join in agricultural prep aredness measures so that the coun try may not be handicapped by food shortage in its efforts to meet the in ternational crisis. 1limination of waste, conservation of surplus and at tainment of maximum crop returns were outlined as imperative step for strengthening agricultural resources. "Both for economic and patriotic reasons " the Secretary said In a for mal statement, "the American farmer should strive this year for the highest standard of efficiency in the produe tion and conservation of food. "inder the conditions in which this country now finds itself, it is import ant that everything practicable be (lone to increase the efficiency of agri cultural activities during the coming season. It is desirable that through out the country farmers confer among themselves on matters affecting the production of needed crops and they consult freely with county agents, state agricultural colleges and the Department of Agriculture." The Secretary's appeal was part of the campaign undertaken by the De partment of agriculture to mobilize the country's agricultural resources. It urged particularly that proper at tention be given to the seelction and safeguarding of seed for planting the preparation of the land and the (are of the crop. "Uinder existing conditions," he said. "every precaution should be taken (1) to reduce production wastes by test ing seed sufficiently in advance to in sure against the planting of dead seed; (2) to treat disinfecting dips all seed subjected, such as the smuts of wheat, coats, barley and rye, the losses fr-om which are estimatedl conservatively at $50,000,000 to $63.000,000 in the aver age year; (3) to prepare especially thor-oughly for planting these vitally important cereal crops and to (-are for- thenm as may be necessar-y during the season." SUSPENDS ALL.ORDERS TO MUSTER OUT TROOPS Nearly Fifteen Thousand of National Guard Retained In Service. Washington.-Nearly fifteen thous and men were added to the National Guard force available for Feder-al po lice duty by a war department order suspending the muster out of all guard organizations still in the Feuderal ser vice. With the men called out (luring the past few days, this gives the gog. ernment upwards of 50,000 guar'dsmen for employment in their home states to protect industries and Other prop erty. Most of the men affected by the orders are at their home mobilization camps preparing to return to civilian life after long stays on the Mexican border. They now will be held at their camps or armories for assignment as conditons require. In~all, about 1,000 men are retained by the order, but sev eral of the units already had been des ignated for Federal service. As originally given (tut at the war dlepartment, the list of troops retain ed in Pederal ser-vice coitained a num ber- of units which already had been mustered out ELEVEN tIIVES LOST IN ALABAMA STORM. Montgomery, Ala-Four counties in 'entral Alabama were swept by a mtorm after 1 o'clock Tuesday morn- ( ng and 11 lives are known to have 1 >een lost, while Property damage is I toavy. In sections of Crenshaw I ounty where the heaviest damage 0 vas done, people are destitute and a much suffering is reported. The storm u wept portions of Crenshaw, Pike, a [ale and Chilton counties. Five of 19 ie dead are white. f, BETHMAN HO EG DECLARES POLICI IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR DECLAR ED BEFORE REICHSTAG POL ICY TOWARD U. 8 "WARFARE FOR ITS DEFENSE" Offers No Excuse For Waging Sub marine Warfare.-"Germany Feels Neither Hatred Nor Hostility For America," He Says. Berlin, via Sayville.-Dr. von Beth mann-Hollweg, the German Imperial Chancellor, in a speech in the Reich stag declared that Germany had un dertaken submarine warfare for its de fense, and added: "If the American Nation considers this a cause for which to declare war against the German Nation with which it has lived in peace for more than 100 years, if this warrants an Increase of bloodshed, we shall not have to bear the burden of responsib ility for it." The Chancellor made important dec larations concerning Germany's pol icy toward the United States and Russia. "How did these things develop?" ho asked, in speaking of the relations with the United States, and then pro ceeded to answer the question by re viewing the causes which led up to the German use of submarines in un restricted warfare. "Germany never had the slightest intention of attacking the United States of America and does not have such intention now. It never desired war against the United States of Am. erica, and does not desire it today," was his declaration. The Chancellor, whose speech is re ported by the Overseas News Agency (the German Official News Bureau), said further: War or Peace. "Within the next few days the di rectors of the American Nation will be convened by President Wilson for an extraordinary session of Congress in order to decide the question of war or peace between the American and German nations. "German. never had the slightest intention of attacking the United State of America and does not have such intention now. It never desired war against the United States of Am erica and does not desire it today." PRESIDENT HAS AUTHORITY TO RAISE ARMY OF 700,000. Senator Chamberlin Says This Power is Already the President's. Washington.-Plans to forward fur ther preparedness measures for the army began to assume definite form. how .an increased army force may be promptly secured for the present emergency as well as universal train ing as a national policy, were discuss ed1 by Pr-esident Wilson with Senator Chamberalin, of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Military Committee. At (lhe same time, Secretary Baker and Administraiton leader in Congress considered legislation needed immed lately for- (lie military establishment. Senator- Chamberlain told the Presi dent that lie believed (lie Executive now has authority, without further action by Congress, to raise at ont e an army of more than 700,000 men by i-easing the regular army to war strength and calling out all of the National Guard at war strength with co-Operation from state executives. There was no intimation that the President wvas considering such a step immediately, hut the whole field of measures necessary to secure a larger force was discussed. AMERICAN NEGROES WERE IN CREW. New Orleans.--The Portuguese sail Ing ship Argo, torpedoed and sunk while en route with merchandise from New Orleans to London, according to a cable received from London by the ship's agents here, carried nine Am arican negroes in her crew of twenty six. All the rest of the crew were Portuguese. LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED THIRTY-THREE PER CENT. WVashiington.-$5,00,000 borrowed by the Government for 90 (lays is dis tributed among the 12 Federal Reserve banks as follows: New York, $20,000,000; Boston, $3,. 000,000; Philadelphia, $3,500,000, Richmond, $2,000,000; Atlanta, $1,600, )00; Chicago, $5,000,000; St. Louis, p2,500,000; Minneapolis, $2,000,000 Kansas City, $2,500,000; D~allas, $2,. )00,000; San Francisco, $2,500,000. 10MPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING IS URGED, New York.-Universah compulsory ailitary training, with the National ituard as a part of the Federal force, ras recommended, by the unanimous ote of the delegates to the National 'efenso Convention of the National uard Association of the United States tits closing session. Members of the niversal service conmittee of veter is of the National Guard and Naval 'ilitia, meeting later, went on record voring univeral traini.... A QUEERNESS IN- HER HEAD Caused This Lady Much Suffer ing Which She Says Cardul Finally Relieved. Chadhourn, N. C.-Mrs. M. D. Me Pherson, of R. F. D. No. 1, this place, says: "My first trouble was monthly misery, ever since I was a girl. I had headache, backache, and would stag ger . . . with a queerness in my head. I would faint, and could not stand, on my feet. Would suffer so, I would just get down on my knees by a chair at . . . time. We wvould have the Dr. and take things to relieve me, but without result. "I rend of Cardul-took 6 bottles and was cured of this painful trouble. Since that I have taken it a bottle at a time as a tonic and find it all or more than recommended. Have taken it before child birth which strength ened me, but my suffering before I heard of Cardul, at . . . was equal to . . . pains. I would have to go to bed for 2 or 3 c ays each month. "I am strong and well today. I be lieve Cardui saved my life, for it is wonderful medicine. "3My sister used Cardui. She too knows the great good derived from it. . . . I praise it every day." Cardui may be the very medicine you have long been needing. Get a bottle from your druggist today. Composed of purely vegetable in gredie',ts. it cannot harm you, but should surely do for you. what it has done for others-help you.-Adv. A Contrast. " lit heranli' a t11,1, has at urealt deal o'f tunoney is no sign that lie is haippzjy." sazil tilt hlilosophic jersonu. '(tf ('liters,' rnot," riepliedi tie insuaal observer.' "hutJ you will n1otic'e that in nine css out of t'en he is niore en vied than it' mia wh goes lhourt. % itI a giai suile 0n his face and a patc i 'on the seat of his trousers." GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER Few persons can he sick who use Green's August Flower. It has been used for all ailments that are caused bv It disordered stonielh and inactive liver such as SkIc heathache, constipa tion, sour stomach. nervous indiges tion, fermentation of food, palpitation of the heart from gases created in the stomach, pains in the stomach, and many other organic disturbances. August Flower is a gentle laxative. regtilates digestion, both in the storn ach and intestines, cleans nnd sweet ens the stomach and whole alimentary canal, and stimulates the liver to se crete the bile and impurities from the blood. Try it. Two doses will relieve you. Used for fifty years in every town snld hamlet in the United States and in all civilized countries.-Adv. All Dry. The leader il'Of one14 of thle "d ry"' sdee gat ions from ontI ini thle state which camne to the state (enp11to0 the day be fore the passage of thle pr1ohibitionl mieasure was e'xlhaini ng what a rep resentative crowdl of ipeople he wvas di "Yes, sir," he (declatredl, "we have 'dry' lawyers with us, and 'dry' dloctors, andl 'dry' grocery keepers, andI a 'dry' jeweler. Everything, in fact, except a 'driy' saloonkeeper." "You b~et," iimed in a not her hoosi er, "we've even got a dIry cleaner along."--Indianapolis Newvs. "CA SCARES" FOR LIER, BOELS For sick headache, bad breath, Sour Stomach and constipation. Get a 10-cent box now. No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable and uncomfort able you are from constipation, indiges tion, biliousness and sluggish bowels *-you always get the desired results with Cascarets. Don't let your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets to-night; put an end to the headache, bilioulsness, dizziness, nerv ousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; cleanse your inside organs of all the bile, gases and constipated matter which is producing the' misery. A 10-cent box means health, happi ness and a clear head for months. No more days of gloom and distress. if you will take a Cascaret now and then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't j" forget the children-their little in sides need a cleansing, too. Ady. In normal times the annual German consumption of fruit amounts to about 100 pounds per capita. Thb Ouinine That Do.. Not A ffect The Head Every policeman in Berkeley, Cal,, now has an automobile,