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BROWNING GUN FOR AIRCRAFTIS O. K. RATE OF FIRE SYNCHRONIZED WITH REVOLUTIONS OF THE TRACTOR PROPELLER. BASEBALL CAPTURES LONDON American Army and Navy Teams Draw Big Crowds-British Officers in U. S. Give Instruction in Gas Defense. The Browning machine gun has suc cessfully tndergone a test to leter mine its vaIe for use with aircraft. This is one of three types of ichitne guns with which the rate of fire can be so synchronized with the revolu tions of the propeller of a tractor air plane that the gun can be tired by the pilot of a combat plane through the revolving blades. Airplane propellers revolve at from 800 to 2,000 revolutions per minute. The machine gun is connected with the airplane engine by a mechanical or hydraulic device, and impulses from i the crank shaft are transmitted to the machine gun. The rate of tire of the machinte gun is constaint ail its ire is synchronlzed with the r'volving pro peller blaies by "wasting" ia tert alin percentage of the impulses It rece VeS from the airplane engine and by hav ing the remaining impuses trip or pull the trigger so Ilint the gun fires Just at thie fraction of the seicold when the propeller blaides are clear of the line of fire. '1'lTe pilot operates the gun by mheins of a lever whlch controls the circuit and allows the impulses to trip the trigger. "As the latest wonder of the world London has taken to baseball," says a committee on public information representative In London. "The Eng lish never before had mtilch use for our great gane. They called it an ex aggeratei form of rouiniers 1and( won dered what the noise was all about. but lit' American and Cantaian sol diers in England have been educatiig thea. "A regular league of right teais hasi startedl a suimier sc~hedtule, nand theu l'nglish public is learning what it has imissiedI. itig triwds witt1 "-: the gamni whith is pllayaed tve'ry Saturday, andii the spurt hihls lair to becoine widely popular. Ilere is the way 'l tniii ls t lItirke, the short-dtory writer, reports1t It Saine in the LondOon Si i; f (ii Mv nent, andt I ranl well tinderstandl its rip- r peal to :t tilnirn totuill 'raillent. lie lIeve at', its go'od goodus. Anl tie t crowd ! I i:ail heari and red much of r basteball fans and llilr laethlod of root- a lng, but ny concp'lllons were nouthdng r near the real thing. The gratndst and. t crowvdld ilh arltny3 atnda naviy fat, brIstlIng wIth mnegaphilones aind tossIng baits and dem'nonlac faces, woldI( havei mtadte a supierb subject for a lIt hographa by Sir iFrank Braagwyni. "'Thle gamie giot hold of ame before tihe first p1 (ched hall. The players inf the'Ir hybrlIdinstilne and' 11( huge gloves,[ the caitiher' In hIs gals mask, and the miovemlenats of the tennms as they praac- v tit'ed r'uans shook in~ae wIith exciteme(nt. Thleni the gai e began and1( t he r'ootin fl1 beigan I. ilIn last yearsi I have' littIendied various footbIall inatchets in mintinlg dlas tr'icit whre lhae' llaiyers ('iame ini for a1 itertaini lla~io of rigging, but they weir' ilm areh sm-rvi ces coinup1ared wvitha the fui'ius :tau' andia hazinag lihade - to anay unfortnatiae whlo fauiled to juh1y "'Tlheri' was, fior e'xampille, an exlo~ 1 Ivet leverb'aa jtiig A-h-hh-h-h whai'i ch'li ever'l sinac', but withouiit once catchiIn its true' iliualty. Youl sholdi hanve he'ard A.iala 8in'. as college ye'li lizader, whe'i n' Niavy miaide a hiome run lilt, t hi "k'Atta boy; oh, atia Wiay to pl:ay hailt,." a1114 whien they gut ani error' lit aure hiiaded Ithe Na vy thieirs. "'Yes ; I've got it. From ntow oin I'mi at fan. I'ma go ig to sete every baiseball mahitch phltyed anlywhvlere near Londotn. I shaall never hei ale to wtatch wtIthi ex CItet'lit a cricket or football maatch ft'er thIs; lt'd lbe like a tortoise race. Come aon(ig with me1 to the naext mailtch and1( jin mie In rooting and In killIng tihe umii 1re.'" In March and AprIl the secretary of agrIculture, on recommendation of the offce of public rotads and rural engi neering, appr-oved 212 state road1-buiIld ing projects Involving more thani 2,500 miles of highways under the federal aid road acet. The estimated cost of these imlprovemnents to the states Is tabout $15,O00.000. The federal aId ail lowed is more than $5,000,000. Bottlers of soft drinks in the Unilted Staites maiy save apprnloxlmately 50,000 tons of SUgar anniually by usinag other sweeteinig mlaterils, accordIng to Iln Vestigatlons by Spechtlists of the hu reaul of chaemlistriy. United Slttes de partient of tat gr'I('uuIrc. The bureaullt of ('hiis'try' Is pb''relring to furnuish bottilers wIthI sweet'i'(lng formnulas that wvIll allowv thle iictualn sugar conitent In soft diInks to be cut to 50 per cent or less atnd alt the salane time will preserve the Customary taste of the beverages. Starch sugar, starch sirup, maltose sir MDa and honey are the sub~sttutes used. The army ordnance department has negotiated approximately 12,000 con tracts since this country entered the war, involving within $175,000,000 of the total funds directly available for the department for the present fiscal year--$3,83,280,045. Additional con tracts totaling $1,503.703.741 have been entered into on the authority of con gress pending appropriatkin of an amount aggregating $1.071,466,750. The tagiitude of the task of the ordnance department finn nclaIIy is evi denced by the disbursement recently in a single day of more than $25,000,000 on ordlinary contract vouchers. Dis hursetments for the month of April, 11118, ran to $ti3ti,s' 1.803, an interesting amnount as cotimred with the $5,0359, 204 dislursed by the ordnance depart ment in April, 1917. These dishurse tuetnts were iade at the ordnance of 10 in Vashington. Amounts dis bursed at government arsenals are not included. One check recently drawn by the ord nance disbursing officer for ordnance material was for $18,750.000. One re quisition made recently by this sane oticer on the treasury was for $109, 000,000. This is the largest single reti sition ever made by any L'nited States disbursing officer. Prior to two mot bs ago, before the Ordnance departmlent estahlIshed its 11 district oflices whiclh zoned the country to expedite paymients to contractors and relieve the strain upon the main oflile in Waslshingtoin, the disbursing ! 'Ilicer at Washington signed from 500 to :3,001 checks a day. Jli-cnumse of the lust ruction of gas of. (h-irs who have been at the various ramps for the last six months, the troops which are going forward to I ranee are well posted on methods of -omalbating gas attacks, says a state 9ent authorized by the war depart nent. A group of British gas oflicers rs been in this country since last aimnmer. One of these men has been it each of the training camps, advising inid assisting the division gas officer. All the men going overseas are sup died with gas helmets. - Under the di Ision gas oflicers and their assistants, he men are drilled in the use of nasks, taught how to detect the pres 'nce of gas, and given actual experi 'nce with different sorts of gases. ilmic gas shells raid cloud attacks, ised often at night in connection with sigh explosives, help to make the train ng realistic. The United States has been able to uildl on the experi-nee of I ie British 11 Ii-rench, to wha to gas attacks were nknown when they ente-red the war. o Atln-riciin troopi s have heel sent to he fr ont without utrmrtical experiene I i deten(ling themselves against gas. The training of intu'-to'irs in gas (it sie lincludeS a course of uthitt one tooth. Most of tie gas rIlii-i-rs are u'"ntissioted first lit itenants. 'ne of the interest Ing develoupmentS the war, according to a statement I ii ze by the w:,r department, is rapid expansion of the various bi ais of the war dEptirt-ent. At the uttbreak of the war there were less Itan 1,00)0 employees "n duty. The unilme' now is approxhuttely 25.00., n increase of 800 per cent. While this i-presents a tremendous expansion, he increase in the atny itself has been iore than 1,500 per cent. Only four out of e-very 100 o00icers ri the service were in the army at the lime the war began. Tihe gas defense service ls now manu actutring about 5000) horsec gas masks er day. These are being secnt to 'ranuce, and it is exper-ted that w:.: short time every horse er..::' eitht the Amerleen ex;-:- -'.-''r Or(E's willl be equ.~~'' 0;-' v. .. --e:w insks. Theo gte v ea - i-rv'r - :ane ~:. let ely equiippe-d fi. r - . y--<-- - - uid tih' fa-'tory wa s5 . :aao hei inttrodnt ir. 'f r -'-... -.. ..-.-.-..r h-vinasks o n ii' - r;I:.'- f '. :--: le tuinsks are'~' so ennrues(-d 'L;a n atn iha fe thle hoirs'. In Bavrla t he- nanthly rnoot ration tamt been cit I.20 p'' r m e t-fnrmr ] .00, o 5-0 gramus-accordinag to erm-tana miwsptapers. Thme inmtIhily minat rat ior n Sa xiony has been r-edutced from 8%* o 700) gr-ams. P'ubilc oflicials are r-e >orted in the Prussian press as discus lng the possibility of a further reua ion of the bread rat Son In Prtussia. A Munieh paper i -ports that from he beinaning of the wtr to Miirch 1, 1018, Bavarian hog stocks haive de -roused from 2,1061,312 to 766,391 head, i'he Danish hog census shows a de erease from 1,651,000 hogs ,July 12, 1017, to 789,000 December 5, 1917, or a decrease of one-third the numbler at the beginning of tile war. Tihe restriction on the importation of crudie rubber has been followecd bty re strictions on importation of four coin modities possessing some of the char acteristics of rubber, and capable uin (dcr some circumttstanlces of being used as sublstituites for natural rubber. Actitng on a suiggetslon of General Pershing an ordecr hats been issued in creasing each regitment's handi from 28 to 50 tmembers. Ba~nd leaiders hav'ing had( umre than ny~e yeairs' mdiltary ex p('rlence as hatnd ileaders wvill be ade ih-st lieutenants; those wilth less than live yetars' experienlce wvill be madu~e sec Besidec enlat-ging the banids a hu1gle and drum corps5 will bte addel&d to each regiment, Each corps wvill include tile comtptany buglers of its regiment, And not more thanw 18 drummers. t f.: II 2 L1 1-Aierican infantrymen in Fra the schooner Edward H. Cole, one of photograph of a French hospital on the ground. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK German Submarine Raid in Our Waters Fails to Terrorize American Nation. WAR SPIRIT IS STIMULATED Splendid Work of Yankee Troops in Halting Hun Drive at the Marne Enemy's Losses are Appalling -Renewal of Offensive is Expected. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Germany's utter inability to under >tand the spirit of the nations that )ppose her was never better shnwn han in the raids made on American ;hipping in American 'waters by sub narines. Their purpose could only be o terrorize the Uiited states and thus 'heck the tIIw of mlen and mn unit ions o France. Their result, if Germany ut knew it, could only be to inspire lie nation to continue the sending of ts urinies across with uninterrupted speed and in every other way to do what is necessary to win the war. The net loss to Aterica is tlie sinking of a: dozen stiling vessels and two or three teanmships; the net gain is a reneVei let cnnInti n to whip the 11un, and n arge incre:se in the number of enlist nents for the navy. Germany attempted to terrorize E-,g andi by Zeppelin raids on London, and he Englisituaen iii 'rely turned out ' heir lights and rushed by thoulsands u the recruiting ofhices. She tried to errorize i-'rance by bornhardi ng Paris vith the "miracle gun,' and the Frenchrunen gritted thiei r teethI and11( nvore to light to the finish. Now she rias tried to intlImidate the Arnerieans, ad again '-he has fiiled miserably. lIt truth. the (Perrnan poliey of frightful Bes has be':n a failure everyw~'here 'and frorr the begininrg. Even mutl a :ed and ravishedI Belgium still standls :2.fra'd and sie~idfaist to the cause Tr.- ;.; M,:'nc of the slubmar ine orI :7::'::., her nuibeiifr is notl c:G.4 the N':w JIersey coast nat '.d the tal1k of the existeunce . aes 0on the M4?elean coast. - '~iily dii.-cred(itedl by our -partruent, thbough there is little' .h o naranhza a1nd his crew - . assist. Gersnany if they T i'ir boavi or anid knw pt~llre * n ar not4 14, such as to dle lIo I'-v. 'r, there wasii evidente t hat tihe r aid ig suhbrarines hadr colme direct from. Gerirnainy, andl as t hey hav e been rout sojrne tirnfe, 1they probalbly will soon r'*furn. New York city indulllgedl Itself in a Fliali scare over the chance that It rnight be bomlnbed by an airplane car ried by the U-boats. T1here was little* dlunger of this, for a plane would take up too much spaice on the submlarine, and moreover after a raid would be cornilelled to return to the vessel, thus r'eveallng its locatIon to the naval craft that have been swarming the Atlantic coast waters looking for it. The sub marine is driven hby DIlesel engines that give it a wide radius, and carries guns with which It might shell coast cities. Probably there will be more of these raids in the near future, but they must be accepted as Incidents of the great war in which we are engaged-really small incidents that can have no in fluence on the outcome of the struggle. Somfe of them are likely to be directed against our troop transports, but this needh cause little alarm because of the perfection of the convoy system. To guardl the coast against attacks Secre. tary Baker has atskedl congress for $I,000,000 for estabishing balloon and seaplane staltionis, thirteen ont the At hnile andl three on the guilf. Over In France the kaiser's third pretentIous dlrive of the year enmelI to a halt, lit least for the t ime being, lit the1 Marne, the Ourcq valley and( the Olse. IEarly in the week several at tempts to cross the Marne were re Pulsd wvith severe losses. In these ac tionis AmerIcan machIne gunners sup nortea by reancn antry. too .a pro Y3. nee entraining to take their places tat l the victims of the submatarine that raide the Aisne near Soissons, showing its R inent part and won the warm praise of the French and British by their gal In ntry and valor as well as by their ex cell ent inarksmanship. The AaiteriaLs were alited on to hold a bridge head near Chataeat Thiearry Iimelttiately on their arrival after thirty hours oni the road in amotortracks. They took up their positions quickly and slaughtered the Ittins who tried to cross. Under cover of this tire Yankee engineers successfully dynamitel the bridges, and the machtne g-inners have since held the south bank and reimused all attemplts of the Germans to build new bridges. It is reported the Americans killed about 1,000 Germans at the irldge head, having themselves only one man killed and a few wounded. In the Neuilly wood, northwest of Chateau Thierry, the Ameriean infan try had their chance, and three times they drove back desperate attacks of the Iluns, their rifle fire being deadly. On the third assault they met the Ger rans ia the open and put them to rout with the bayonet. In what may he ealled their own sector, in the Iuneville region, the Amneri ('a1s carried out sotme highly succ"essful oplerations. 'Tlhe allies frankly anitit that they are counting on the United States troops to stave tie day. and the "sts to Which the Yankees have been sub miittei Sho1W the trust of tie Britisht I atat -'arench is not miisplai'ed. 'atiling to maile further Progress sitlthward, the (Gertmaans turnted the main force of tlir attacks on the westertn front of their salient, Ihet weeni the Aisne and thme Alarne. hlere they foitund any advana'e still amiore difhicttlt, 1and( itdheed at utaty littts they were dirivena lach somie1' distan'ce by the ima petuois attacks of General FIolt's troops. In that region the dense for ests of Villiers-('otterets attil Neuilly offer the best of defensive p'ositions for the allies. enabling thei to iove and Conientrate their forces unseen by the eneatny a vIat tors. IThe alli1ed art illecry, to, hats becen birouaght til wvithI ra'titrk table speed tandi is pouaring a da'vatstaat ang fire i ntot the Ge'rantas fraomi well selectetd pnsitlions day and ia tght. A long lie line from thle Marine notrt httast waird to Itel ms the tallied line wats htoldinrg st ronigly. and the anichen t eathledral Ic(it y wits still, rallier tuwxttectedily. in thte possession (if thle Btritishi. T~hie Geramanns mtarle nit chtimras to deft ni te aidvances duirinrg the week, anad I teir losses were grotwing so tappatliing t hat tgovernme'nt oflia-laIs in IBerlini felt it nece'i'ssarty to spiettk of thIemt apo~lo ge(lteally,' ttskhing thte plt(elit to i'onsidetr of' thei statke. 'tToward the 'end of thle wveek thae wvere' sinus I hiat V'ona Illnadeanburag wars prep'~atring for n renwaail oft the' drive (an tanitheir satrit' the( lin. fiossitly ina the Ataihens se'tra, but the atllhied mailit arya a ulahrith's ixpre'isse'd sa i sfati 1tion withi the sittiton matndi 'onithii'uce fan thetir atbility to mee'(t aniy netw ait ta klx . 'The (Geran a tre'ss ats almnost a unit Iast week in ifs ('alls for' a aetac( Offensive.'(' bitt the tiaipet's atnd thet fatc tionts thet(y represenrt were ats fatr atprt ats ever on thle cluest Ion of wh'lat t eir aany should sttate its her Jieatce almas. The ritdleai press still insists oin the no afnnextiIon atnd no indenni ty pro gramn, while the orgatns of thie pnan Germain partty bla11 taitly insist thtat the central powaers tire now In a position to make demanids antd to ('nfore' them, and that thouigh G'earany enter'ed the war in 1014 with rio predattory put' poses, it is nowv entitled1 to take what it dlesires to make uap for its losses and to inisure its future safety. There Is no lotiger any pretensions on Germnany's pairt of treating the Russian provihnces as any other than conquaeredi territory, the tre'aty of Brest-ILitovsk beig now ignored. Nei ther is there any evidence that Gecr many is gettinig any benefit from those lands, for the fotd (question lia still dlintg thle eilian Itopualat Iion to dis t ratttiota anad In Autst rin - I ungatry t he s'ituiationi is fatr worse. (Greatter Ruttsia Is at(tualatly starving, for the soviett gove''~rnet cain pro ('tre nto moi re food fromt thle Uk rainre, andalta inthe Kuaintt anad 1 )on reghitns t hat IkeepiI ttgs ini a turmtaoll. Th'le ('ntler-revolton . lt, the govetrn menclt satys, sprettds thirouaghouit the 'tutrtay tanad in contsequen(fce Moscow has been declared in a state of siege. It is reporte1 the Aimaricnn govern ic fighting front. 2--Survivor s of I American w aters. 3--Airplano ed Crqsses clearly on the roof' and. ment is contemplal lng the extending of assistance to llussia in the way of assemiblinag food supp11lies in Sib~eria. and( (list ribhuting them in European Itussla. In equanlly larlous state Is Turkey, where fainie is widlesplreadl andi many of t he ipoorest peolle are subsisting on chest nuts and lpumpiikin seeds. In somle dlistricts the troops have deC St royed thea cropis though t hey them selves are on mighty short rations. Only the offiCers are well fed. WVith these food conditions, the steady ad vance of the British in Pl'nestine and Mesopotania and the growing strength of the Arab forces, there are evidences of the approaching bireak up of the Turkish empire. It has got no thing yet for all its efforts except certain oil districts cedIed by Russia under com pulsion, 01nd the possesesion of these is threatened by the northward move mnents of the British expeditions. The Italians kept on hitting hard at the Austro-Ilungarian forces along the ii ave lie, and( they heard undlist urbed of the mass'ng of thirty (eemy dIi visions at three points on thant front for a resu iiap1ti of lhe drive towa rd lie lilainls. Thle It alian arm ny is now ini lbetter ('onit ion t hana ever before? anid, with thle hielp of thle Amaere~anas, IBritish anld F-rench, can h e rel led on to stopi the exp~ected offensive. Thle suprem warl11 ' con'(411ference of the allies ait Vi rsa1illes e'xpressed IIts ('orn illeteI coIiniee in t he ultiina to dlefeat Of thle cntIral powers and1( ldlared''( thle al11ied 11eop l e are "Presol ut e not to sac ri fl(e' ai5 igle 01ne oif thle free naio ns of the worl to the dlespot ismi of 11er hini." The tireiers of ( reait iit ain, I'ranlce and Italy agreedl Onl te tren tIon of' a united inadepiendentI l'o li state w*~ithi free access to thle sea as one oif thle condi tions of ai Julst ipea ce. anid ad~hiered to 1li theelaration01 of Secr'e tary Lansing exprlessinig symipathly wIth the niationial aispirations of tin' ( 'zechis andl Juigo-Slavs. This mean~s, if it means anythIng, that IEmpei-or Charles has Inst his last chance to retain his emilre entiiire by bireaiking away from (etlliany. It foretelils the dismember m~enlt o'f Austia-Ilungary wh-ien peace is made, if not at an earlier daite. In the United Slates the U-boot raid servedI to Iimp.,ess thle people wIthI lie pressing need of the conservation of wherat and1( sugar, especially. Tho fornner must Ihe sent across thle ocean in inacreasi ng quanfit eIs as our- forces thieire grow rapidly grete r ; and1( suigar cannohit ihe lbouight from 111ubiia liweau lse weO miust u1se all aviiilabhle shlippling foir thle ti- ranspot a t in of t roop s anad mu11 1 nitlons to Iuropie. en rAies last wveek to uirginig thle peoiple to order thieir next wvinter's supplies of ('oat at C.nei(e. Thiere has been wuide 51pread~ comiplauint that the retailers cano ht fill Ioide'rs, bu11t I )oetor1 (afidP10( , 51ays tihat ordlers niow, whet her or not they are filled soon, will do miuchi to sI 1timlae p 'iroduct ion. Th'lere is plenty I (of Qoal If onily it enn lhe got out of lie groundit anid if the railroad admin "I Istratiiion will find( somew way of sup I plying enough cars. The shortage of I cars realrly is at the hottom of the wvhole trouble and will be to blame it the predicted coal faminec materializes next winter. The senate's attempt to stop the manufacture of beer and wine by fepans of an amendment to the emer geney agricultural bill was blocked by the administration last veek. Food Ad ministrator Hoover opposed it because 1 he believed It would put the nation on r a "whisky, brandy and gin" basis with t attendtint evils far outweighing -the I sanl ood savings that would result. President Wilson had told Senator Sheppar he would not forbid the use of foodstuffs in beer and wine unless I Mr. Hoover regarded sch a step nec essary. The senate therefore receded e from its position. The week saw the registering ot thout a millioni young Amerieans who have become wenty-one years of age since last spring; and thirt regista d tion probllly will lie repetled about once in three oinths. Provost Mar.. ' shail Geineral Crowder' sent to the gov (-rnors of aill the states except Arizona orders for ie motilIzdtio v of 200,000 nore registrants Ietween aJune 24 andi 28, and 40,000 negroes twere called fom twenty statee- E ]RTSTIC CHANGES MADE IN DRAFT LAW 3Y NEW REGULATIONS ANTE WAR MARRIAGES NO CLAIM FOR EXEMPTION. DEVISED DEPENDENCY CLAIMS Mlaims for Dependency Allowed for Children Born or Unborn Be fore June 9, 1918. Washington.-Marriage since the nactnient of the selective draft law to longer will be accepted as cause or exemption from military service, txcept hi the cases of men who have become of age since June 5, 1917, whc nay be exempted if they married be. ore January 15, 1918. Dependency claims on accoint f children of such marriages will he tllowed where children are "born or unborn before June 9, 1918." Following is an order sent to al: state draft executives: "Please prolulgate at once to lo. gal boards the following important amendment to the selective service regulations: "Rule 5, Section 72, SSR, is amend. ed to read as follows: "Rule 5A. The fact of dependenc:y esulting from the marriage of a ro strant who has become 21 years of 2ge since June 5, 1917, and who has narried since the date of the intro luction of the joint resolution in Con ress requiring his registration. to wit, January 15, 1918, will be disre arded as a ground for deferred class ification. "B. If a registrant who has attain- r" sd the age of 21 since June 5, 1917. and who has contracted marriage sub. Sequent to the date of the enactment. of the selective service law, to wit. May 15, 1918, claims deferred classi fflcation on the ground of dependency resulting from his marriage, the fact Df dependency resulting from his mar. riage will be disregarded as a ground or deferred classification unless the lependent is a child of the marriage. born or unborn on or prior to Jn iie 1, 1918, in which case such a reghi. trant upon satisfactory proof being tade shall be classilled in Clas 2. "O If a registrant, other than mne vho has attained the age of 21 yearv since .June 5, 1917, who has conIra:t ad marriage since May is. 1917 c:laims defcrredl classification on the ;round of dependency resulting from his marriage, the fact of dependency resulting from his marriage will be disregarded as a ground for defcrrei classification unless the dependent is '. child of the marriage, born or un orn on or before June 9, 1918. in which case a registrant upon satisi4 Lory proof being made shall be pla( d *1 .n Class 2. "D. Nothing contained in thiit amendment to Rule 5 shall be con itrumed as requiring the transfer to Class 2 of any registrant who has been finally classifiedl in .Class 1 on the affirmative finding that his mar riage since May 18, 1917. wvas made with the primary view of evading ml-. Itary service." S AMIENS WITH CHANNEL COAST THE OBJECTIVE? The imupresion is rapidly st rength mning that thle stage is almost s(et f orI 'onewal of the Glermlan main thru t Lt tho Blrit ish around Amiens wvith the -hannel coast as the objective. Blelief has never wavered among the najority of officers here that. thle real )trpose of the German general staff ias ben from the first to cut the 1l led armies apart b~y a drive tha~t vould carry them to the channel; that. irrived at that goal, massed attachlo vould be hurled agaist. the northern tector for the purpose5 of destroying he Brit shi army while a strong de ~ense was maintained against the i'rench to the south. The thrusts at 'aris have been looked upon as wvel >dannedl and execuited feints desIgned :0 weaken the Amiens front befor'e the Inal effort should be made there. )'BRIEN THE TOUGHEST AMERICAN AIRMAN San Antonio, Tex. - Lieut. Pat )'Trien, British royal flying corps, rho survived a battle wtih four Gler can airplanes, was taken prisoner, ea'iped from a moving train, wandered core than two months through enemy erritory and who finally reached Hol and, is suffering a broken nose, caus Id by the second fall of his advent u ous career, which resulted when he ook liberties with' a student training ype of airplane at Kelly field. IERIOUS COAL SHORTAGE EXPECTED NEXT WINTER St. Paul, Minn.-Thie (Cal shortage robably will be more keenly felt this vinter than last. according to relpre entatives of the Unitedl Mine Work-. rs' Union of America, who are ait ending the annual convention of the tmerican F"ederation of labor. Dis ussion of the coal situat ion arose fler a resolution requesting the feder tion to lend its efforts to obtain coal or te New IEngland district ha1 been