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IMPORTANT NEWS TEWORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations for Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In the South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs. Domestic. Cook Clayton, clerk of the United States court for the southern district of Georgia, has been indicted by the federal grand jury at Macon for the emboz1enient of $15,000 of govern ment funds and for making false statements to the attorney gt'neral as to his accounts. Perhaps (ho most extraordinary trce ord set in all the record smashing of the Sixty-fifth congress was the vot Ing of more Ihan twenty-one billions of dollars for the first year of the war without a dissenting voice in oil her house. Notice to the public to make its tax returns to the government under the new war revenue tax law has been is sued. All individuals receiving in comes of $1,000 and over come under the operation of the new law. Per sons falling to make returns will be prosecuted as slackers. It is pointed out since congress has adjourned that the administration has had its way in every instance save one-that of censoring the newspa pers, and the newspapWets practically volunteered to preserve Itho interests of the country in the publication of war news. Mighty few people, if any, can pos sibly escape the new war revenue law. It Is Incumbent upon practically every man and woman to make returns to the United States authorities as soon as possible. Following a conference between rep resentatives of the freight clerks of the N., C. & St. 1,. and the W. & A., who walked out. in Atlanta, officials of the roads, at which no agreement was reached, a formal order for a general strike of all mettbers of the order of the itrotherhoodi of taIlway Clorks on tihes t wo roads was issued by J. J. lForrester, grtand president of the order. The Greator Savannah Commercial Club adopted resolutions asking for the expulsion from the I nited Stales senate of Senator 'Thomas W. Hard wick of Georgia, declaring that IIs published utterances and antagonistic attitude toward the novrantt ie manded that such he done. 'Twelve people were injured, the ma jority only slightly when one of the big trolley cars of thle Stone Mountain line turned turtle on a sharp curve Just behind Agnes Scott college, in Decatur, Ga., killing a negrvo an11d mak ing a mass of wrei-tage out of the In Newark. N. J., the oftices of th e New Jersey I'rel' Zeitutg were raid cit by federa I atuthoities and( thle pub t llsher, Benedict P'riethi, and two edi tors, WilIlim von K at'tpez' and IIlenry Wechter- were taken into cuzst ody. 'The men were arraignedl before thle Utitted States c'ommiiissioner chairgedl withI liub lishinag sed itious mat tezr. A price of 30 cents a pound to the farmer was agreed upon at a meeting in Newv Otrleans of mien interested In marketIng and growinig of cotton in 1ten Southern states as being justified by the present selling prilces of mnanu factutred cot ton products. Southern farmers in a meietitig at New Orleans went tn retcor-d as op tposedi to fi-der-al f iing of the pr2ice of cottont and urged inlstead (lie crt-on of an offieial marketing board through which to obtain a correct estimate of a fair and equitable p~rico. European. Naval alt-ctraft bombeud St. Dents Westtremi, the .Ze~ebrugge lock gates, lie iBruges docks and other tatrgets and Thtourout railway junction, and thus began Frenich antd I~tnglisht repr-is aul against thle Teuttons for- their- air raids ont lrtenchi antd Eingilih cities. Sotte t hin til t ithliis is thle bteginning of "the hattle of thle air-" about which th e wvorkl has talketd foz 2,000 years. Frankfott-on-the. Main was hombiled by aitrships and tivye people- arte report md to hazve beetn killed. Zele, in v-astv-itinh tladerIs, ha~s been ied 80.000 markl-s for- the givitig of food atnd ci gar-itts to itPassinzg Eingl ish pisoners, illmdon annlounce-ts t hat. lihe Autsttra Ian for-ce at the ft-oat ntumbhers 306.000 men. Tlhe GIertman miiin istr i--lo Argecntina hits bet-t forced to leave Argenitina. Things gott so htot fot- hitn, that his friends spiritecili him ottl ande placed him i aboar-d a Spaniiiishl steameri'u. The British In l.'ander-s, it Is r-eport ed, azre getting reuady rot- antdther- hack at the Germian lines, The best fightinug, atccomupaniedi with the nimost consistiett gains. (hhts far -' ~in the wvar, has beeni dotne by thle Ital inns. Not since they' entteredl the war have they beien on th li'iefiensive, andti their caumpaign hasn bieen onie lontg adi vance. rThey' ntw practieailly control the Adiatic sea, and it is onily a ques tion of a fewv weeks till they ill have taken the gr-eatest l)ort at the head of that sea, Trieste. An Austrian offleer- was kIlled in a naval battle In (lie Adt-iatic between an Austrian warship and an Italian do stroyer. The Warship got away, how eyer, . The 1English government has issued a proclamation prohibiting the expor tation to Sweden, Norway, Deniark and the Netherlands of all articles ex cept printed matter of all descriptions and personal e(fects accompanied by their owners. In their offensive in the Ypres sec tor the British gained all their ob jectives on a front of 16.000 yards and to a depth of 2,500 yards. Sixteen thou sand yards would means a bat tle front, of more than nine miles. A pelie ira tion of 2,500 yards would mean moro than a mile gain Into the German-held territory by the British forces. Eleven British merchant men of more than 1,600 tons each and two vessels under 1,600 tons were stink by mlint's or submarines last week. England's impending retaliation for the German air raids Is the main fea ture now occipying the space of the British newspapers. Tho British . ruiser Drake has beet toreldoed and stiunk. The Drake was I orpedoed oft' the north coast of Ire land. ..vgl L Wash ington. Two (erniaa commerCe raies, manned by the crew of the famous Seeadier, which, it now develops, stranded on Mopeha Island, In the south Placille, after roaminlig thlie seas tor sevenl months preying 11p000 Ainer inan and allied shipping, are oierat ing somewhere in the south seas, ac cording to a report received at the navy (epartiilent from the command r of the naval station at 'rtutuila, Samoan Islands. 'T went y I housand irplalines for the' United States' lIghtoing forces in France, atithorized in the $640,000,000 aviation bill passed by congress last July, actually are under construction. Their motors are being manufactur ed, and the whole aircraft prograIII has been co-ordinated so that whieni ilanes and motors are completedi, trained avi liters, as well as machine guns and all 1ther equipament, will be waiting for them. The soldiers' and sailors' civil rights bill has been tntanimously passed by the house. It probably will not be taken up in th e s'na tnotil the De renber session. It. is learned that the Peruvian gov 'rl'lnment has discovered that A. von l)er Heyde, the I'eruvian miiiistllIr to Jerilumny, diiso:wy(d the instructions :enl himl Sept em ber 1t 60 ipre5ent to hE Gernuin foreign office anl ultiina 11ml demanding, under the threat of >reaking diploiatic relations, thim at :;laction be given within eight <bys t the aiinking of the l'eruvian bark f Lorton. Testimoniiiy that ilolo Pasha, now till ier arrest in IParis, as a spy and pl'ace ropagandiuit on b-half of ei iu ny, atim to Amlierica early iln 1916 with epiresentations that Germany wn as Cady for a 5('a rato peace with 'ranice, was given before Merton E. ewis, attorney general of New York tiate, in the investigation in New York 'ity into the Levantine's iiancial ac ivities in this country. The War tax bill became a law with reide-nt Wilson's signature. No for nalities attended the signing of the eas sure, which levies for this year n(or0 than two and a half billion dl a1';ti ew talX(' to prov ide war 1-eye Ihie niew war taIsx law- touches ever'y y in the country, through tatxes oni necomies, eX(ee-:- protflIs, IlitIuoir and to iacc0, soft drinkhs and inany other hings. Whether "gar-abed" is the most niar o',lous scientiltic discovery of the age, Lestined to Iplay a great hart inl win aing the var for- the United States, is to be inivest igated by scientists ap pr-ovedl by the secretary or the inte rior-. "Gaahed" is somnethiung discoy i'red or Invented by Garabed 'T. K. Giriago-sma, anl ArmianlT invant;or O ilostonl, who believes he has the cret of taking from the air a miysto rius povei- which wvill drive aero planes or battleships. Interests of the nation's ten million niegroes a- to lie repiresentedl at the vair depiartmiient by Emnmett J. Scott, for I8 years confiidential secretaryv of the late Booker T. Washingtonl. Sec retary lUnker anlf~nouCes his appoint ment as a special assistant. Withl thle $10,000 maiuxliimum Iisur anlce plani restor1ed, as ur-gedl by the administ rat ion, and with all addhit Ion alI tprovision raising Maj. Gen. j. J. I 'el ihIig anld Major General Ill iss, the c'hie' of statff, to thle ran1k of genera-l, the soldler's' anad sailor-s' i nsur-ance~ bill was passedl by the senat51e by a vote of 71 to 0. Thle Sulpeme court1 has beein asked t0 pas5 Oin the conlsttittionality of thle selective dlraft law at the earliest (Iate Ipossile in a imot in Presenit ed by So !!cltor General Davis. D~eterioi-ation dur-ing Sept ember- over ai lmost Ite ent1Ire c'ottIon belt caused a loss of 4562,000 bales in the~ prospec ilvt produlct ionl of cot ton. Th'le Ithirid cottingent of natinal army, is moving to the sIxteen cantonl ments where approximately one-halt oft the 687,000) selected men called out by the presidenlt already have been muobilizedl. A Copenhagein dispa tch says that a monster demionstra-tion in favor of a pce wit hout annexations was 1he1( In Germany recently at F'rankfort-on-thle Main. The crowd numbered fifty thou lievival of the grade of full general is planned by the wvar (departmlent to protvidle suItable rank for Major Gen er-al John J. Pershing, commandIng te Almean force ini France. Only foui' American officers have borne thle title of general-Washing. ton, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan; in fact, veiry few have been lieutenant generals. - r - 1 -)(lclal photogriph troi 11i1 feries. 2-Society w0om1en of New Y etrs h1,elliig the Italjan wolnin i tio iziS I A Ithrton. 3-V lscoult Ishil :1144 4 lii-t NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK, British Again Smash Germans East of Ypres and Capture Important Positions. ENEMY'S MORALE IS BREAKING Austria's Warning to the Allies-Re peated Air Raids on London Final ly Determine England on Re prisals - America's War Tax Bill Now Law. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Fiehl Mnrlshtl l b'gain his week y forward mouvePn4nn ;I., usuatl on Chursdlay , the ad i Va lin being again in he district east of Y'pres OI a Ilie hat serlioly I 1threa1tens Prince iup echt's comunIIttientlions with Ostend Lund Zeebrugge. 'This salient of the tritisih fronL has been giving the Ger unns mucl auxiety. and all the first trt of the week they directed at it urius thugh utihi'li attacks that ir44Ved very costly. By Sa turdlay the British offensive luuldd (1u 41.4144 into 'oe of the most pretentiouis yet umh-(1rtaken and pron Ned to result in a vitI Ory unequalled dticet' the I f t h i le ,Mlarue. On 1a tine-itlle front I Itiig's troops rushed 'oriard for about a tulle and a half, mntl gnind(4 possession of many Ger tant st ronghleds, including the ridge e4t wveen i'asschendluele and Zonne heke. (Great nmbers of Germains Thea. alites doubtless hope to cut in >at ween thle submarine bases and the nain Ge'rmain armyli, butt according to hebliefii' ofI wellh-in1forme1d armny men, Lt is not their intention to force the ernui~tts back over anty very widle ren, because the teritory they would he forted to abatndon wioutld first be de valstated4. Rather do the aillies plain to ilemoi,'tlze' the enemy with the contin tunuIs 14hobardmient by gunts of tall call hers to which they haive been sub leetting t hem oif laite, tand most of Hatig's advances are made for the pur lpise of gaining possessionI of comn min~i~tg positions, from which this terrille gunfire may lbe directed. That thle miorale of the German soldiers al read~y is beginning to break down is e'vienedie~ by their readhiness to surren dier andI the complaints of sonme divi sionis wheun ordered back to the front atftr a1 t rest. Germans Short of Shells. itelserts from the front (during the art tillery dhiel that preceded the Thu rs dlay adivanie were that the Blritish fired t went y ori more shells for every one I th a time froma the Germans. The ali le,$s' supply of muni tions in no0w unlimi itedI. itid thtere Is good reason to be Ilieve thatlie GIermians areN runin g short eof shells andii guns, owing part lv to r''IeduI productIvity caused by~ 144 joor food'I of thle wvorkmnen, and1( I'art y to4 a short age of (certalin mietals. The Ien Il of General Schutech, the kalseri's new iiister oif munitions, that thle're is any' such shortage, is not1 '.. 114-ini. ('openthagen dispatches vn thle lenders oif Glerman -labor "4e1phs were (tilled to matin army head (flinter1s ta few datys ago, not to cele brat e yoiu Il indenbiurg's blir thtiy, as 'waI iltituted,.4 but to discuss pltins for 'sp(eim:ti up tile produtiton of mtutni U iett. I 't.hatbiy it wvas nicessary, also, to4 tak.e steps to appeane the workmen "4f Essen andl their wives, who held a ri44tous4 meteting recently, demanding Petne4.t atul better foodl. InI F'ranukfort, too4, au n mmense peaice "'eigwas held on Xunday, but that :tnd, therefore .may not have been no ohnveof the( senthp~ent of the pea Czernin Warns the Allies. In the way of peace miovemnents, the nliostitlhuportant evenit of tihe wveek w~as the Speech nf Count Czerniin, Austro Hungarlan, minster of foreign affalrs, in whieh he threatened that unless the allies speedIly conson',d to a Deace ~. 1 r' yvr4 anei seg~ n:.w w es eeT ,'"t fronit showing eye rinanr sbells burstin -I; udIvertising the 1 ihertHy lian in thse 10, b1ree so ns at the front. Thte wvomen are nrerhers, of the Ja p)anese mission revi, wviltou annexations or ind(emnities. Austrhtl-ilungar~y would revise its pro - grain1 and1 demlaml1 cimlInnrsailon for furtther" costs of wa"r. lie said his country had proved that it was per foctly soinni anrd could nut heO over thrown by force of arms, and1( conse <luently was In position simrultatneously wvith its allies to hay aside armls and regulate conficts by aritration. Aus tria-1lungary certarinly seems1 just now to be more imited aginst the idea of a separallto peatce, de4spite the feeling of the the roots and other of its peoples, andi foreign correspon1dents warn the Uni Stat es that neither Bulgaria nor, 'Turkey is likely to septarate itself fro Gt erm1any ; they must be whipped together or not atit .al. Count Czernin's hold word s are searcely supported by the ldevelop mlents on the Austro-Italian front, for though ite Austrins have been ang ing on desperately to the edge of the Iainsizzi pliteau an(1 making repeated attacks to recover lost ground, the Italiams have not yielded anl inch. There retinditcations that Cadorun, Was about ready for a renewal of his aftensive, an( lhit the enemy expect fios was shown by the rushing we etwar of large numbers of Austrin rad German to frslrom fUkowino and Roumania. Kerensky, Plan Voted Down. If only Russia were in codition to take advantage of this troop move ment, It might -accomplish much. But Russia is still struggling with Its in ternal affairs, and only in the ltiga sector are Its soldiers showing any disposition to fight. Up there they pushed the Germans back in several places. Meanwhile, Premier Kerensky Is having desperate trouble In estab gusin wi t fill irshna its it in I tanaoair, pproigd olItn cabe inet otheor etremIts galIned cotro ofth disstin and figted Upw the ptan. pTsheddt the erplexistiaes In theveral pais.a Moenmllen, arn seriousrevoly brok haig(ut ea ru in Turkestbn Tiheang arei'a gollenget t he ld o Aerle inor cuteeinoffa supplirom Swaee, wNorway, Denmarku it d e Ifet i and ote aproiong determidon cbint Bret Bretainayxtendedlheinciple11( oheretremifollowed roltin the gi icensg111 oed ratowto tose plan. Tor141( o te artclexiceto pnte pro teiads eronal ernmetasro rvl Airkeou Rid Trtorng erias i leaes re followngan the letofn AIlcaferi fuluik oft sgreate arl fewen, oray denpped ahi~ hlo-o lan.o the cindederminsie on n Lrndun, frii teni-errath gurnsl pu heratoforae folloed bya rigedn they Thiieaseo raidsrttoie tohpope con tress of Eglaicle eetprwed mad ir raist rn eprisals,? gvrmn ltei'ls to e reaa last ktoe yeldto ai ilt aiodd f Loor people the wl ti "uthwestrdystric of Loendon11( whoe blnare tfer rlocvengea"W wilange f lw acktothm anidopd teil give1 of & hemh killn. few civaliahm Germany14) lawi nempotmdl ntoeropt."Ty. Nor linal o theselesare ilepelln ra Tsnafi the ataureaoft cities ta tilre blri'rved firhe thingredc the. Thlise ra'rds rousedstheueamish(thanith fit ihlhaves aen rind le reprsalraidsn S a nonber of'td twn last woyelk, tn tludil:' ata ad for, IB'aaen, Lloydnkorte and ch-wz Thi asa lin return for theli hobing lstal ofDukr aondl war-le Due. ~hilforg rnge ofte plcea :open 1211 to, the. immediae objectgivesi Th on-.is inc hal vesselersullk byt i suaaprie Iwere ewer Thn ian weeutnc th~enevae exnigcof nresre U-bo i~ atu warearembuvamng thies vif tim o the rtbmeresiles ofciis tht it'ish aerularak, le wha~ilel hwan thr pedoedsh i off theIrns a st and i'sunk r1in shlo water. Onea oficrk antd 18am-en twcee bildy the rexploasiorsr meath ai t---' i'sat-wr ail .'X g nea1r ont of the Ilritish for-wird bat ver part of the c ity, one of their listen. lyts. .lms F. Curtis and Mrs". \Vi1ll wnlg the Vest Point cadets, fore comes from Ranon in the ex pits of the crew of the (ermall com me(rce raider Seradler, ater their1 vssel st randed on a South Pacifc I isia nd. The laster and six others put I to seuI in it Ilotor sloop tImed and E provisioned, and the others seized a i "rench schooner, equipped it with guns and bombs and started out again. I Since Ihat time they have been prey- r ing on merchant vessels. Curbing the German Press. The tradling with the enemy act went into effect Tuesday and almost immediately Postmaster Burleson barred from the malls the Milwaukee Leader, former Congressman Berger's paper, for seditious and treasonable utterances. Many other publications have been cited by the post ollce de partment. to show cause why they should not be suppressed, among these being the Illinois Stants-Zeitung. On Thursday federal agents raided the office of the New Jersey Freie Zeitung in Newark and arrested Its two proprietors and three editors on charges of publishing seditious and f treasonable articles. In connection with the trial in 'aris of Bolo Pasha, alleged spy, it Is re- d veldI(I that Ipolo, who was in the United States for a few weeks early t last year, arranged the transfer of at least $1 ,000.000o of Gierman money through New York hanking houses to 'aris to futi er th peace propaganda a in France. It is oilicially stated that there is no doubt of Count von Uern storff's complicity in the intrigue. t More than one-half' of the 100 I. W. W. leaders who were indicted have been arrested a1ndi the govt'rln'11et Is ready to'lput them on trial. : War Tax Bill Signed. t President Wilsoni signled tihe wvar tax b)Ill WettnesdayIzl, and)1 mlost of its see tions bcame11l operative att on1Ce auto mlatically. It levies for tis year more thian $2.500O,000,000 new' taxes for wanr purposes and14 in 0ne way Or 'atnother calls for mon~tey fromi everyb~ody In tile COunltry. 'lTe tw~o largest sources of revenule wvill b0 e'xcess prof1is, $1, 000,000,000. and Ind1(ividulal and corpor alte in1comes", $851 ,000O,000. TIhie Piolders' a1111 sailors' Insuranc e bill, wich was passed b~y tile senate, ca rries 31anmnthnent promoting Ma Jor (Genleral l'ershing and1( Maijor Gen (rl Blss9 to tile ranki of general and mhakin~g all commtlandlers of armiy corps litemmlIt genleralls. The bill to re- 1 patrlite all Americans wvho have I joinedi tile alled mtillitary forces aliso I waIs setnt to) tile president for his sig nature; -. The shipinig board gave out a state-. mnent la1St weekc shlowing that a large < numllber ?f vessels tare beling bilt aind . withlin a few weeks tile conlCrete re 4luits of the b)oard's energetic wvork . will begin to slide dowvn thle ways In man~ly shipyards. Tile aircraft b)uld Sing programl also is wveli tinder way,. secretary Baker stating thtat 20,000 ailanhl es andt their motors tare no0w Liberty Loan Going Well. UnEr theI 14 coinpletent leaudership Ef Secre'4tary of thle Treasury McAdoo, te iami)lgnl for tile sale of tile 5ec ('1w1 ibIe-rty 1loan, of $3,000,000,600, st aritd ('I wlit th a rush, tand tile en thiasto181 In d1tti(etermtlintatlotn of tihe p)e0 pile made10 lhe success of the loan unt dloublted'. There waIs just one0 black Spot9 in ll th le country-the actIon of Mrs. IH. 0. iiavemieyer' of New York am114 other ofilcials~ of tile National VWoman's party in adivising womllen not to1 assist the lotan because they have not been given nattionlal suffrage. '[le Mbary'landit suifragists came back at them1I with aii scathintg dienulatin, die h-llaring Itat t hey lhd descended to pohifical bribery, had14 disgraced the name tll of woman and wuere "mand sisters of i,a 1"ollette." pe-t itions frotm all ptarts of tile latnd; a~sking that Henator La Follette be ex plelledi for his disloyalty an11( mtany of the petitioners suggest mfuchl severer pu~nishmentnt thlan miere expulsion. At first till senate comlmittee on prlv I leges a1ndl elections was dliscincllned to take anly action at tis session), but the uniiversall dienmand evIdently had Its effect for en WVednesday the com mittee began consi'.h'eration of the peti tions. ADOURNS BIG WAR 8E88031 LAST DAY OCCUPIED IN DEFEP,' AND CRITICISM OF LA FOLLETTE. SESSION BEGAN APRIL 2ND senerally Regarded as Most Momon tious in American History-Gai lerles Were Packed to Capocity During Last Hours. Washington -In the midst of a. lay's thrilling debate on alleged dia. oyalty of Senator LaF'olletto, of Wis onsin, the extraordinary session ox )ongress, which began April 2, and (enerally regarded as the must. mo nentous in American history, wVIs ad. ourned sine die at 3 p. m. Vehement criticism of the Wiesoean in senator and his own defense ocen tying virtually the entire day, mark id the close of the war session, with,' >ther customary adjournment and egislative procedure, including Pros dent Wilson's attendance at the apitol. The usual eleventh hour hrst. f legislation was put through, fol owing six months of important war tction, and most of the members ' o Lad remained for the final (lays were; n route home to await the call o; he next session, December 3. With galleries crowded to thei t~a ,acity, the senate chamber was the cene of five hours stirring discust'len it Senator LaFollette's attitude, but n the house there was little to mal k he occasion except submission of a 'ommittee report mildly censuring tepresentative Heflin of Alabama' for riticising fellow members in connee ion with Count von Bernstorif's rr uest for Berlin to furnish funds to nfiuence Congress. Speaks Three Hours. The day began with a three hoord peech by Senator LaFollette in de ense of his criticisms of war ques ions. Without mentioning his recent. ddress before the Non-Partisari rague at St. Paul, for investigathfui t f which arrangements were cow, leted by a senate sub-committee, or aming any of his critics. Mr. .i 'olleff.e read a carefully preps)--md efense of his course and decla re. Is intention to follow it in the i' tire. He was interrupted only o:mi' nd was applauded by the gallrrir-es .hen he closed. NOTHER NATION TAKES UP' ARMS AGAINST GERMANY )ruguay Follows Peru in Seveor .ce of Relations. Germany has still another -.-.t }cn rrayed against her in the world w.ar. ollowing closely the action of Ptr. he republic of Uruguay has sevet eri iplomatic relations with the impierialI overnment and the German mbi' as been handed his passports. hough Germany had (-ommitteL.n irect act of hostility against V' w -uay the president of the r-epubi in is message to parliament said ii 'nu ecessary for Uruguay "to espoamE he cause of the defenders of ju'4ee, Iemocrac'y and small nationalities." Montevideo, Uruguay. - Urugnay Las severed diplomatic relations w'ith lermany. A presidential decree nn ounced the rupture in a vote in ft-. or of it by the -hamber of depudn. '4 to 23. The German ministet htas teen sent his passports. The vote a the chamber was taken at 2 o'cj'lc his morning. President Viera in his nmessage to he parliament declared that the Truguayan government had not re :eived any direct offense from %.er nany, but that it was necessary io 'spouse the cause of the defenderM 4'f ustice, dlemocracy and small nor i-n lities. 1.000 RUSSIAN TROOPS REFUSE TO'GO TO FRONT Petrograd.-Eight thousand solgiers it Gomel in the province of Molitlev. ifter a meeting. refused to go tc 'ront. says a telegram from (idhe, REICHSTAG TO DISCUSS . WAR AIMS THle WEEK ~ Amsterdami.---The Cologne Gazetc, 1 copy of which has been receive.d hiere, in its reptort of the addres'; of Dr. Karl Hleiffe-rh. German ministr ')f the interilor, in the reichstag Rn tur-~ lay, represents him as saying: "The* intion of wvar aims will be dis('ass. 'd in the course of a big (debate nest veek." The Rheinische Westftalis(') ~eitutng in its versiem says "the hic: 'lebate will take place Monday." AMERICAN DESTROYER IN CLASH WITH A SUBMAR-J' Washington-Making ptublic an~ no enunt of an action between an Ar~ei. ean destroyer in E'uropean waler.' and a German submarine, the gy department avoided any ('laimtfl tha the U-boat had boon destroyed. 1 though all indications pointed to result. The report on which the partment's statement was todt~ was made by Vice Admiral Simd^. n command of Ameriean destroyers in' the war zone.