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IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nation For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Euronean. The central powers have deciled to reinforce their armies by using Po 3ish troops against the triple entente and the United States. 'Ihe liolish troops which will be used by the central lowers will be coin nalnded by Austrian officers, and will probably be sent against the Itaniaun invasion, which is now within sight of Trieste, the groat Austrian military base at the head of the Adriatic sea. The German government has receiv ed warning from I he lower house of the German parliament that unless the executives heed the (lelancs of the reichstag for reforms the majority par ties will certainly take measures of re trenchment. German Sociallsts are (lemanding that political and military censorship be abolished in the German empire, and indications are that they will suc ceed in their endeavor. Adherents of a free press and free speech In Germany are hopeful of winning in a very short time, because, they point out, the German people are a liberty-loving people, and will not lag behind other civilized nations. Gennany, it is announced from Ber lin, is planning a land-sea drive against the Russians, in the hope that such a move will force Russia to sue for peace and enable the central powers to turn the full force of their batteries on the allies and the United States. A deputy of the Grecian chamber of deputies raised a tumult when he de clared that King Constantine never abdicated the throne of Greece, but only had be eu dismissed by the en tents. It is stated that the possibility and opportuneness of establishing a are clan republic may be considered a anl early (late. The disaffection in the Russian army which resulted in the forced evacua tion of the greater part of Galicia an< liukowina by still loyal troops, appar ently has not been eradicated, but stuffening in the Russian defense ii Galicia, Bukowina and Roumania ha Indicated that the Russians will mak no more voluntary retrograde mov ments. News has reached Petrograd the soldiers, disloyal to the colors, ii southern Moldavia, have quit thel trenches and are fleeing in disordel The enemy by reason of this lisaffec tion has materially bettered his post lion. Berlin reports that the Russian: have suffered greatly in loss of men munitions and supplies. Guns and ma chine guns in great quantities hav been capltured by the Germans. M. Kerensky, the Russian premier at the closing' session" d the confer ence in Moscow, reiterated tile deter muination of tihe provisional govern mnent to protect the results alread: achieved by the revolution, and de claredl that no counter revolution wil be tolerated. A London dispatch says that Ear Grey, former governor general of Carl ada, is dead at Howick House, Norti3 umberland. Washingxton. Tile training camp of the officers reserve corps to sulpply officers fc Porto Rico's brigade of 7,000 men t be drafted soon will be held in Caye: a small town up)on the mountains, fl ty miles from San Juan, P. R., and bl gan August 27. While the Germans may wage wI with added desperation because of th swveeping Indictment of their method; it is confidently believed in Washini ton that thle spirit of revolt will stean ily develop among thlem. President WVilson is ready and- wil lag to listen to peace .overtures froi the German people themselves, but 11 wvill not entertain overtures from mil tary d1espots and overlords. Diversion to gulf and south Atlant ports or virtually all movement foodstuffa dlestined for export to El rope is pilanned as a government we measure to relieve congestion of rai roads1 and1( ports ini thle east. A Toronto, Canada, dispatch brini new's to Washington that the solecti' conscription bill1 Is nowv a law, ha ing been signed by the governor ge elral, and will be made effective once. It is thought improbable in Was ington that the entenfe allies wvill r ply to tile popeO's peace proposals, President Wilson, accordilng to son of the foreign ambassadors, has utte ed the last word. Conservative Wla.shington authot ties says that Pre'ident Wilson's r ply to the pope's ipeace nloto is ins cative of the virtual selection of M~ Wilson by the allies as their spoke -man before the world. President~ Wilson has -rejected Poj Benedict's peace proposals, Argentina will not sever diplomai relations with Germ.any. A Buen Aires dispatch says that German: reply to the demands of the state part-ment of that republio is satisfi tory, because Germany has met eve cant ended for. A price of $2.20 a bushel was faxe for the 1917 crop of wheat by Presi dent Wilson. The basis of the maximum price of wheat, $2.20 a bushel, will be No. : northern spring wheat, delivered a Chicago. Prospects of an early and radica reduction 'in bread prices have appar ently vanished. The food administra tor announces that the best the publi< may expect is a 1t-ounce loaf for 1( ceits. An 8-cent loaf of 16 ounces is pos sible only if bakers, retailers and con. sumers unite to eliminate wasteful dis. tribution methods and co-operate to obtain a standardized loaf. The price of family flour, as a re sult of the fixing of a maximum price for wheat should be reduced between $2 and $3 a barrel. C. I. Corby, serving as a voluntary aide to Mr. Hoover, says that a 16 ounce loaf for 10 cents will represent a slight reduction in the present. prices, but hardly so you would notice it. It is announced that standardization will be difficult to bring about, since varying costs in ingredients that go int' bread have made it necessary to increase or reduce the size of the loaf. The next Liberty Loan campaign will open on October 1. Subscription books will close November 1 unless the pro gram is altered. The next Liberty Loan offering will be for three billion dollars, the secre tary of the treasury announces. It has not been decided yet whether the next Liberity Loan issue will be pre sented through the media of the news paper advertising columns, or will be presented in some other way. Senator Gores announces that he will introduce a resolution to require a referendum on a declaration of war except "in case of actual invasion or when the dqnger is so imminent as not to admit of delay." Contracts for construction of three government-owned ship yards for build ing fabricated steel merchant vessels have been awarded by then hipping board's emergency fleet corporation. The most startling sentence in the president's reply to the pope's peace proposal was that "the world can have no faith in the autocratic government of Germany." Domestic. Capt. Harvey Kennedy, a noted San Francisco automobile racer, was in stantly killed at the county fair al Lima, Ohio, when his car cast a tire "turned turtle" and crashed through a fence. - Ten women arrested in front of the I white house in Washington who were - making a demonstration in 'behalf of a the National Woman's Party were fin. 1 ed $25 each in police court. They gave s notice of an appeal and were released e on $100 bond each. Byron Nelson, son of Congressmai John M. Nelson, of Madison, Wis., wil t be arrested on the ground that he dU it register under the selective draft law r He claim exemption on the groun that he is not a citizen of the Unite< States, having gone to CanadA boforc - the conscription act became effective Practically every one of the approx imately three thousand officers who will train the selective service men - for the new national army division at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., have ar rived at (lie camp, and have been as ,signed to their several commands and - to their quar-ters. - Organization of the sixth reserve - district which will have charge of the rdistribution of the second Libert3 - Loan, to be issued within the nexi I month, hasq been perfected with the se lection of the directors of the feder-a 'I reserve bank in Atlanta, Ga., as thc -committee to have charge of the worl 1- in the four district states-Georgia Florida, Alabama and Tennessee. Atlanta, Ga., willl be the center foi all loan actitvities in the sixth dis 1' trict. .r Arguments have been made in thi o federal district coui-t at Greensboro r, N. C., in the first test case of the nov f- federal child .labor law. The consti -tutionality of the law wvas one of th, chief points argued by both sides t *r the case. Opponents to the law sa: e it violates state's rights, and hini ithat it is class legislation. ~- The federal child labor law becomne 1- operative September 1, and prohibit employment of children undler fout 1. teen in any factory, mill, workshiop o n cannery whose products are to b 10 shipped in initerstate commerce, anm 1. further provides thant no child 14 or I years of ago may work over- eigh lc hours in any twenty-four hours. >f George IH. Ha-tfor-d, pre'sidenlt fo a. many years of the gr-eat Atlantic an' ir Pacific Tea company qnd formiei' ma3 1- or of Orange, N. J., wvher-e his homi was, is dead, at the age of 84, at Sprini s Lake, N. J. e Only four thousand negroes wvil v- train at Camp Gordon, near Atlanti a- Ga., says Gen. Eben Swift, in charg it of that cantonment. These will b) draft men drawn from the Camp Gol h- don jurisdiction.. e- It is net knowvn yet whether segr( is gation will be put into effect at Cam ie Gordon, near Atlanta, Ga., in order t r. lrevent feeling between negro an white tr-oops. .i. Delegates in Chicago representin e. the ice industry of the United State ti. voted unanimously to turn over to th r, federal food commission all the eel s- storage facilities controlled by the it manufacturers and dealers "to be use pe in any manner the government mas see fit." Ic It is announced by those ownin os cold storage warehouses in the Uni es ed States that speculators will be ri le- fused the use.1o storage facilities, a tc- that every pouind of food may be d< ry voted to the tiecessities of th* war an ut the citizens. of the United States a a 'fair" nelha I... .......... . 1---Ofliclal plhotograph from the w haliloons ready for flight at the army bfidge somewhere in northern France. ing back the Germans, while Marshal NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Wilson Tells Pope Peace With German Autocracy Cannot - Be Considered. KAISER NOT TO BE TRUSTED President's Sweeping Embargo Procla mation a Severe Blow to the Teu tons - Russians in Council Agree to Continue War Italians Keep Up Drive on Trieste. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. There can he no peace with the em peror of Germany and the German au tocracy because no reliance can be placed on their pledges unless ex plicitly supported by the will of the Germap peoples themselves. Such is the gist of President Wil son's reply to the pope rtjecting, on behalf of the United iRtates, the peace I proposals made by his holiness. It I was delivered at the Vatican Tuesday . and was regarded as the reply of all I the nations leagued against the cen tral powers. Mr. Wilson's note is the climax of the series of magnificent state docu me1nts in which he has set forth the claims of world democracy and is an other stirring indictment of the auto cratic government of Germany. It as seits that pence on the terms pro posed by the pope' would only give Germany time to recuperate for a re newal of its "furious. and -brutal" pol icy by which it seeks to dominate the world ; would make necessary a per mapient hostile combination of nations against the German people, and would result "in abandoning the new-born Russia to the intrigue, the manifold subtle interference, and the certain counter-rev'olution which would be at tempted by all the malign influences to which the German government has of late accustomed the world." Again the president makes it clear that America is making war wvithout desire for gain or revenge, alnd does not seek the infietion of punitive dlamnages, the dismemb~erment of empires or the es tablishment of selfish and exclusive economic leagues; hut he says np man, no nation could depend on trea ties or agreements madle bly the pres ent German government and "we must await sonme newv evidence of the pur poses of the great peoples of the con tral powers." German People See the Light. It is thus made evident that a great change in Germany's form of govern meat, involving the fall of autocracy, is reqiulsite to peace negotiations. -and that thte German people themselves aire becoming convinced of this is shown by the developments of the week in their struggle for dlemocratization and Iparliamentarism. Not since the war behgan has there been such freedom of specech and of the press as now~ exists, andt correspond~ents report that there is now a solid political bloc0k in the reichstag in favor of effective guaran ties that the imperial government ne longer shall make vitai decisions with out the full knowledge, advice and1( con -sent of the replresentatives of the peo It is considered likely that Austria, 9 and perhap~s Bulgaria andl Turkey wvill soon declare wvar on the United States, 1because ef the loans our government has made to Italy and other nations E that are 'it war with the kaiser's al a lies. Diplomatic relations, of coummse, a were severeid long ngo, and Uncle Saw can contemplate with serenity a decla e ration of war because it wiill really serve to free him from some embar 7 rassments i19 the. combating of spy work andI other activities of those g who have been hits actual if not t' avowed enemies. Embargo la Biowi to Kaiser. 0 One of the most serious blows the 6 kaiser has yet received was delivered ci by President Wilson at the beginning * of the week whos he broclaimed an embargo that gives the United Statet L'st front showing a shelihole used as balloon school at Fort Omahn, Neb;. 4--Gen. Sir Douglas Haig telling Pre Joffre listens. absolute control over its exports. It prohibits the export of all articles of comiperce to enemy and neutral coun tries, but it is the intention to care for the needs of neutrals, by licensing shipments of such exportations as can be spared after the wants of the Unit ed States atnd its ailles have been sup plied. A large number of commodi ties are added to those named in the original embargo order, including fats of all kindls, other foods, construction materials and other articles necessary to the successful prosecution of the wanr by this government ; also gold, hullion,- currency and evidences of in dlebtedlness--this in order to conserve the immense store of gold that has been accumulatedl by the United States in the last three years. In a statement accompanying the ordler the presidlent saidl: "The purpose and effect of this proclamation is not export prohibition, but merely export control. It is not the intention to interfere unecessar 11y with our foreign trade, but our own domestic needs must he adequate 1y safegurirded and there Is the added duty of meeting the necessities of all the nations at war with the imperial German government. "After these needs are met it is our wish and intention to minister to the needs of the neutral nations as far as our own resources permit, This task will be discharged without other than the very proper qualiiention that the liberation of our surplus products shall not be made the occasion of bene fIt to the enemy, either directly or in directly." Kerensky Wins Support. tohe Russian national council in ses sion in Moscow promises at least to clarify the situation there and defi nitely line up the forces that are striv ing to gain control in the newv republic. Premier Kerensky admittedly is anx iots as to the future, but has stated flatly and fearlessly the position of the government of which he is the head and leading spirit. He warned those ho thought the time had come to overthrow the revolutionary power with arms that his patience had its limits and that those who went be yond them would have to settle with a "government that will make them re member the time of czardom." He continued : "We shall be implacable, because we are convinced that supreme power alone can assure the salvation of the country. That is why I shall oppose energetically all attempts to take'ad vantage of Russia's national misfor tunes, and whatever ultimatum is pre seltel, I shall subject it to the su preme power and to myself, Its head." Thean . came Commander in Chief Kornlioff with a (dramatic speech in which he declared that restoration of the death penalty, stern disciline and unlimited supplies were necessary to restore the morale anl fighting spirit in the armies. Gene'al Kaeleines, leadler of the Don Cossacks, followed with a resolution adopted by the Cos snieks dlemandling, for the salvation of lhe country, the continuation of the war In cloe union with the allies until iomrplete victory was attainedl. These and other speeches checked the plans of the discontented, and the lenders of all factions umitedl in dec lurations that Russin must continue the war and that everything possihle miust be (lone to strengthen the provi 5ianal government. Whatever the U~nited States can do to relieve tihe more pressing of Rims 'dia's needs wvill be (lone. This Presi (lent Wilson pledged anew in a mes sage to the national councli in which lie assured the government every ma terIl andl moral assistance that the people of thits country can give will be given. TIhe readilng of President Wilson's message by Premier Kerensky brought the entire assemblage to Its feet with wild and prolonged cheering. Great Work by the Italians. General Cadorp a's brave Italian troops continued thmeir successful drive against the Austrians throughout the week, gaining more ground and more glory each day. No one who do'es not know the cf untry or who has not at least Been the moving pictures show ing the warfal'e in the Alps has any conception of' the difmiulties that con front an ad~vanfcing army on this front. It iis a perfect region for d'efensive fighting, and now that the Italians canteen by British soldiers. 2-Free -All that is left of a once beautiful nier Lloyd George of progress in driv have shown ,the determinationi and1 ability to go forwardl, the alarmed Aus trian commanders are hurrying great numbers of troops to the ilghting lines and their resistance is increasing. Some of the heaviest ighting of the veek took place on the Bainsizza pan teau, where the Italians pushed stead ily eastward toward the Upper Car ion borderand Laibach. At the same time Cadorna's men have been making considerable progress in their advance on Trieste on the Carso front, though details of this movement were with held by the Italian war ofilee. On Wednesday it was reported that prac tically all evilians had evacuated Tri este. The German crown prince has been keeping up his continual counter at tacks on the French in the Verdun sector and on the Aisne front, but has been repulsed in every instance, losing great numbers in killed, wounded and especially prisoners. The scene of bloodiest fighting about Verdun shifted to the east bank of the Meuse, where the village of Beaumont was the ceh ter of desperate combats. At Dead Man ill, also, the Germans made re pented attempts to regain the posi tion; they had lost.e With bulldog tenacity the British hung on to parts of Lens they had cap tured, and consolidated them despite almost daily and nightly attacks by Crown Prince Rtupprecht's forces. Though heavy rains hampered opera tions, the English took some more positions east and southeast of Lange marck in the direction of Poelcapelle. On the Eastern Front. The advance of the Germans in Itou mania, Gallcla and in the region of Riga slowed up very considerably, and what little news came from those fronts indicated that both the Rouma nians and Russians were putting up a creditable fight, except in the region of Fokshani. Perhaps they cannot keep the foe out of southern Russia, but even so the possession of that fertile region wouldl help the Germans little because of the wretched transportation facilities westwvard. What Germany needs nowv and is going to need much more in the near future is food, and that cannot be carried long distances inlandl without railways. A modification of Germany's policy toward neutrals is indicated by her backdown in the negotiations with Ar gentina. She has promised indemnity for the destruction of the steamship Toro and virtually pledged the free dom of the seas to vessels flying the Argentine flag. America's Heavy War Bill. More than nineteen billion dollars wvill be required to run the government (luring the fiscal year 1917-1918, ac cording to the statement of the house ways aind means committee made last Monday. This is about fifteen times as much as for an ordlinary year. Chairman Kitchin said the loans to the allies would aggregate $7,000,000,000, the shipping board wvill require about $1,000,000,000, and the other 'expenses of the government will bring the total to about $19,300,000,000. The finance committees of the house and senate have tentatively accepted the recommendation of the treasury department that the proportion of this sum to be raised by taxation to d~int raised by bond issues shall be ablout 3 to 7. All but $2,000.000.000 of the money to be0 raised is provided for in bills already passed or no0w Pending before the senate or before the house committee. Presidlent Wilson has approved Sec retary Daniels' estimates for the con struction of a great flotilla of destroy ers, for which congress is asked to authorize the expenditure of $350,000,. 000. 'The dlestroyer seems to be the best wenpon yet devisedl to combat the submam'ine. Apparently in no way related to the mnurdlerous outbreak of colored troops at Houston is the warning issued by the Patriotic Education society, that the Germans'are conducting a propa ganda in this country to start a gen eral uprising of negroes against the whites; promising German aid and money to finance the insurrection and .telling the ignorant negroes that when Germany rules America the blacks will have equal rights with the wvhites. 'She story- is not so fantastic as it may. ap pear and the society is said to have authentic information supporting its statemants. CHICAGO OPPIm ALS CLASH OVER ORDERS GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS AN> CHICAGO MAYOR CRITICISE EACH OTHER. PEACE SOCIETY IS FORMED Pacifists Organize in Chicago Under Police Protection While Soldiers Speed to Break Up the Gathering and Disperse the Organizers. Chicago.-Aftor being driven from three states, the People's Council of America for Democracy and the Term of Peace perfecttA a formal or ganization at a public meeting in Chicago. The session was held under protec tion of the police, acting on orders from Mayor William Hale Thompson, which were in defiance of Governor Lowden. Four companies of national guardsmen rushed from the state capital on a special train to prevent the meeting arrived after it had ad journed, its purpose accomplished. The clash in authority between Mayor Thompson and Governor Low den came as the result of the action of the police in breaking up the paci fists' meeting on orders from the gov ernor. When the mayor, who ws at his summer home at Lake Forest. heard of it he declared that the gov ernor had exceeded his authority and immediately instructed Chief of Po lice Schuettler to permit the meeting and to give the delegates every pro tection. When the pacifists heard of the mayor action immediate prepara tions were made to hold the meeting which had been prevented in Minne sota, North Dakota and Wisconsin and had been forbidden as unpatriotic and disloyal by the government of Illinois. Organization Formed. The delegates gathered shortly af ter noon at the West Side aditorium in the heart of a cosmopolitain quar ter. Patrolmen were on guard iziside and outside the building to suppress any disorder. Nearby streets were utterly deserted as the delegates took their places and were called to order by Seymour Stedman, former Social 1st candidate for governor of Illinois. as temporary chairman. In the meantime Governor Lowden; had been notified of the defiance of his orders and immediately called Ad jutant General Dickson of Illinoir into conference. It was found that a most of the Illinois national guards men had been federalized the governor had no troops at his disposal in th' Chicago district. An effort was mad.' to reach Major General Carter, con mander of the central department, t obtain his permission to use feder. troops, but he could not be found I time. SIXTY-FIVE BALES SET ,A S MINIMUM CAR LOA . War Board Will Take Steps to Ea,. Tremendous Pressure Upon Rail. ways During Fall Months. .New York.-An order prohibiting the' snipping of cotton in quantities ls than sixty-five bales a ear and reqi:. Ing as many more to be loaded as l'.c' size of the car will permit, has beca issued by the railroads war board, i was announcewd here. Notice ha~ been sent to buyers of cotton wit) request that they place orders o: basis of not less than sixty-five bae +. or multiples thereof. The movement of the cotton cO Which is scheduled to begin this .2 at a time when "a combination of;. ernent and commercial business e n be bringig tremendous pressur*. bear upon the railroads.' was given .; the reason for the order in a stater .m issued by Fairfax Harrison, chairn '2 of the board. "In the southwest and Missise delta districts the average car : load 65 bales," the statement "conseqiuently buyers are asked tU der in multiples of 65 from the s'. . west and in multiples of '75 froul. O southeast districts. WANT 22,000,000 CHILDREN FOR JUNIORRED CIa 2' Washington.-Launching of a Jn 1r Red Cross membership in which be open to all school children of a United States, was announced b: , : American Red Cross. It is hoped 'semble 22,000,000 children into a ha: that materially will assist in the w *ak of the main organization. . The j'.ove mont was planned by Dr. H. N Mel Cracken, president of Vassar, wit&' u co-operation of many educadonral authorities. ELEVEN OF EVERY 1000 '7 SOLDIERS AT FRONT i; Washington-About eleven sc as are killed in action or die of wo.. ' in each 1,000 of mobilized strengin2 on the western European front acecading to figures compiled by the com)..ttee on public information, based on. the report that during the Marn< and' Charlerol battles casualties wer' r.41 estimates of riiitary erpert in thin per cent of the mobilized strength and country that fatalities have neveri ex* eeded twenty per cent of caale'