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LIBERIESOF ALL MUST BE SECURI !At Tomb of Washington, Pre: dent Wilson Says America' Participation in This Var I Fruitage of What Our Fore fathers Piarited. HEARTENS STRICKEN RUSSIA There Can Be But One issue-The Set tlement Must Be Final.There Can Be No Compromise-Tbese Are the Ends for Which the Associated Peo ple of the World Are Fighting and Which Must Be Conceded Them Be. fore There Can Be Peace. W1'Ishington.--l'resideint Wilson vis Itedi le t01111 of Wushitglon at Mount vernon1 on :ht'e Foutth of J1uly Anid there (ell ered1 ho f llowbi . l''1ress: (ent tintein ur the litiplomtt: . (Cors)9 11n( \. 1 Fellow ('ittizens-I am11 ha PpyJ to (litw111:'! tpe w Ii .\nu to this quiet p118('( of'((I (b <,u1se'l in orderV1 to speaku1 a 111114' of ti.e t11.1 11 .ing of tills dal y of 0111 lIe' toi s i 1:4 1r1 t'' I 'I I( 11 :1 'I mltr o i'ii4I s ptiits inoi The loag se('mi s very still : 1 r i1ote. It is a titut torl is it wa's' :f 1'th. ret das 111(wt (fi 111 : (ii e8 . ere t t as o -t 1011:: :1 121 WitS11iit1iiilt for all maikst'tdll 11'15 114111 guIlt 111111 S1 tu 11 it' 11it y. Ithe tSwtti 1111 11 11 11 it 'l' 11e 1rt' her81411r l( t i h him11 in 111( r i onlIIihI of It at - 1reon.1 iFr m 1I'114 51 1ulh' Stlol's the lookeA ut porn tAll Mir andsa it t 1 sl itittit i tilh' tit of ite flit turn up n it. saw it with 1n dern1ey1111('f 1'( lit itittsIt(3 I ''S' turmgfo aowht 11111e i lte(( :I t:. 44145 11 11 t 1 )13' t , which nii of liblera1itd sfiirIts ('111(1 hnt long er nllure. t It is fo1' tl itt reason that We 4'11t0 feel. v'en here, fo the in med'i'te il reg.nl of this sa red tom,1111) thal this is a 1ph1'' of (Ifath1. It was a tipl of eeit vew1114nt. A great protn Iso that was merant for all mankl wati 111' lr giv''n p11a11 111 1 t o01e 11a1. The a1ssrIc(itions iy ' whire et are here sur r14ululel are tle insp1irofting assoclia tionlS of that n11hh1' 11111thihlh 113 only 11 gloriouns conisuinmuation. I"''rom this gr1n4'4 thil0t' e1lso ought to be able to St' With oI mpret5 'hend1(ing eyoes the wld' taIt lies abou13 t US and t 011shld o0(iveI tn the ' puit vtrpsesi thatI. miust set m1 1111t tr'r. Acting for All Mankind. It is sigIniiennt- sigitnilieant of their ownl ebrnetrc'1 and14 pu1rse and( of the intluenes tIlly e'(fre' setting nfot th1at 1Wailshiington tl'i his assofeaites, ilike the tits at itii . l me e, of1fke( 1nd( ac1 Ited.not for a citss, but for a lopile. It lits heorn left for us to ee (1 it 4'ut it selll b l u dleistood that they siok at' 1111 ated41 ni t for a single peopile (tnl. hot for a11 5 11ia11n itnd. 'T'hey Were thinking. not (of them11selve's and( if 11)(h11I 01 ' iit ls t'S wh Oiich 1enter ed in tli ittle groupls of landhfo iolIet'rs and( t erchtlits 1141 111 1 'n f ai rs with wh(11n It'll lit n't e siome111 d1 11 t act, in Vnrgiaaniendt elless outhsnort 'n sutti If h ir 'i'put of he gished to hIile dine ith cle aendg spcial Slterets ait' tet ofuthoity sof tuen wh they2tV O li n hathendslves chtl('rn itio ruletoveruterundey en-~t no ieclir rveirleg ofThey werecon it'te of lanii,n that ill, of every thtss s' h.hoigi hey andh Amr ten la paed to whlteih men outr of ivery ntion m~itihte~lsor t o wishedk o h a ioi Pth5e hut0 rih s tllpriee miton fre dtlut'ni t ( W i ntendic whati they In-f telhd W there linh Amr; hoellevel our'i partirilthtion n this prdsynt tire to te onlyt theifruitveregn whrdt they lnee.r cso dfors i the ra isu lyg on thir. tllit itnd founesasmabe evirl aio what Shaof tkies nt on' tun lbtes of every or people as al n foer alpwawaovrnets othAed WI integea g po iJ the 'strange . trappings and the primi tive'authority of an age that is alto gether alien and hostile to our own. The past and the present are in deadly grapple, and the peoples of the world a'e being done to death between them. There can be but one issue. The set tlement must be final. There can be no compromise. No halfway decision would be tolerable. No half way (el. S sion is conceivable. 'These are the ends for which the associated peoples S of the world are fighting and which must be conceded them before there can be peace: The Terms of Peace. I. The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that carn separately, secretly a I of Its single choice (is turb the p .(ce of the world, or, if it (n1111101 be presently desti oyed, at least its re(luction to virtual impotence. II. The settlement of every question, whether of territory, of sovereignty, of economic arrangement or of politi cal relationship, upon tic basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not upon the basis of the ialteral in terest or a(lvantage of any other na tion or people which 11ay3' desire a dif ferent settlement for the sake of its own exterior influence or mastery. III. The consent of all nations to be governed in their conduct towards each other by the same principles of honor 1111 of respect for the 'colm11on law of (iviizi sell society that govern tle indi vidutill i('iZe s of il Iodern S1ltat i( l In their rehlltogts with nile aitnother, to the Id(i( that all )romlises n11(d covenants 11111y be sac'rly1 obtserved, no0 privte It.S or''e n'irtacles hat ched, of selfish i/1juriels wrought with lipunity 11 at a (rutu111 trust estabe(lislled upon the hinie1sone1 foundlation of a mutual re spec"t for right.j IV. 'The estatblish1nen1t of an organi zation of peace which shall matke it (certain that the comblinedl power" of free nationsut will check every InvaIsion1 of right and serve to mtake peace and justice the more secure by affording a detinite tribunal of opinion to which il must submit and by which every international readjustment that can not be amicably agreed upo11 by the peoples directly concerned shall be sanctioned. Great Objects In One Sentence. These great objects can be put into n single sentence. What we seek is the reign of law, based 111011 the coil sent of the governed and sustainedi by I -e organized opinion of mankind. These great ends cannot he achiev ed by debating 111(1 seeking to recoil eile 111 a(vllcohitto what statesmnen maiy wish, with their projec for bal-I lUices of p(twer and of nto 1n111l olIpor- ! tInity. 'lhcy ann be realized only by the dlerininat11ion of what the thin1kinug plooil's of the worbi( dlesire, with their longing hope for just lee and for social t fret d1om and1( 01eortun13' ity I can fancy that the air of this place1 curries the accents of such principles with a pec'uliar kiin(ness. IHere were started forces whlich the great nation atgainist whi1cht they were primuarily dli re('eteil at first regarded ats a revolt ago 1nst its rightful authority, but which it ha1s long since seen to have been a step in the liberation of its own people as well as of the people of the United States, 1111(1 I st1111(1 here now to spealk-speak proudly and with conil (ent hope-of the spread of tills re volt, this liberation, to tie great stage of the world itself ! Thle blinlded rulers (If Prussia hiave roulsedi for'ces they knew little of--forces whlehcl, once aroulsed, can11 never lie crushled to ear'th aigaini, for they ihave at their hea'irt an luspiraltion ana1 purpose05 whih are dehleCss and1 of the0 v'ery stuff of tri "HAIL SHIPBUILDERSI" CRIES ARMY AT FRONT ON JULY 4 LAUNCHINGS. WVashlingtonl.-A caliegraml received from Genera IlI'ershinag 11n reply to 0110 senit lby(nt Chirmian 1lurley of tile Ship 1in1g Boar1 id said:(1 "Thle hiunclhinlg of 100 ships 01n tile F~ourth oi(f Ju ily is thle most8 111s1p1ring "All ranks (If te arm1ty in Franice send( their congraations11(11 and1 hea11rt felt than11ks to1 their1 airlot Ie brothlers in thle shliplyards at hiomte. ''No moi~re de(in lt an Iswer could be gi ven to thle eni'imy's (hll einge. Withi suchi baIckinlg we cannliot fail to win,. All hail Amerent shipbilders i' Ships in June Break Records.. Wasllhingtoni.-Sh1I p produ~tition ill the Uniited States in Junie amnounted to 280,400 deadweight toins, making the toital 1918 piroducl~tion to dalte 1,804,670 toins. Th'le June11 pr1odutiion, wvhleh is at 1the rate of 3,364,800 tolns a year, is a new record for thte United Stattes anld is tile grealtest otpuitt of ocean goin~g tonlnage ever- comipletedi in any 011e mnith b~y anIy nationi. It com1es with~in 15,000 tons of theo worldi's record for shtip buildIng, made by the British shtip yards in May, whtichi includIed all classes of vessels. Of the month's output steel Shlips to talled 262,900 tons5 tand wooden ships 17,500 tonls. The numliber of vessels was10 no tiounced, 11s it was discov'er ed thait several had1( been1 putl into serv ice so <lule~kly after delIvery that ini sp)ectoIrs had1 not made(1 reports Oin 1them to the ShippIng Board's statistleal die partmnent. Tontnage figtures wer'e available from tile division of op~eraltions. An amnazing ,rowthl in output was a disclosedI by detailedi figurles for the s foutr wveeks of June. In the fIrst weet r six ships) of 24,430 dleadweight to11 Were delivered, the second( week t< more of 04,732 tons were add~edl, and1( h, thle third wveek tile averauge for te month was made one a day b.) tile c'o Cipletion of five ships, totaling 81, 1--Mlajor General Btrnker of I p flIghts. 2-Two corps of Czeo-Slo 3--Italiani and French officers at Lai resume their attack. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Illians Convert the Austrian Drive into a Defeat and a Disastrous Rout. ENEMY LOSSES ARE 250,000 iermans Are Ready to Resume Offen sive on West Front, but Allies Confi dent--Von Kuehimann's Peace Talk a Fizzle--Baker Asks Postponement of Draft Limit Change. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. -['The grand offensive of the Austrians nt It aly, a failure almost fromx the _tar _ eveloped into a defeat, and hen suddenly into a disastrous rout ast week. The hungry armies of Fam >er-or Charles, unable to ad1vance igtaist the galiant Italians and their ilies, took advantage of the sudtden ;uhtslience of the flood in the Piave o retreat under cover of (darkntess, b~ut he dawn of Sunday revealed their n 1venents and (.eneral Iiiaz struck yifitly. From the Montello to the Sl he Italian artiiFery poured a murder us fire into the throngs of Austrians vhio, abandoning ther guns, were try ng to get iaross the river. Then the atfCantry, and even the cavary men, vere onlled Fito ation tAl speedily dmletedo the rout. The Plave was iost cioke wit the eony's dead. Within two days the Austrians had tot only lost all the ground they tained it their first rush, hut had heen driven entirely across tue river to anid in somte cases beyond their for tier lines. Their losses wvere con servativelis estimated at 250,000 in killed, woualed and pisoners. In ad iltion the talilant captured great num bers of guns and quatities of mun ions and11 equl iment. The Austian reair guards fouight tost tubhornly at the Montello and at te Zenson hier, tphose at t latter place protectIng tht twof remaining ermanent orilges between there and t to t cof the river. 'T'he etey suffered severely froit the work of lie allied air forces and in this the new Amiericani aviato~rs were con spienousti.w. All Ialy cle irtet the great vie tory ati th overen thiusiastle, there its 'lsewhtere, e'xpected the Itahlian a ramy to fol lows it up by draiviing the Austa hs lot of the country. Iut eaneral I)az Is too wise to fi lutto a rap si mlihir to t he one that caught lie -eimy. The- Austrians have been there lontg eniotigh to havi e organiiized a ve'ry strionag dlefeiisive linae, and mot over, thle I ermianus were rush ig tro ops to thlir silupott all last week. I )iaiz did(1 rot fia!. to follow upl his advani I age it thlie mtouta ini reglont, however, for it is therce thaiit lie next at tatck is explectedl. Ill trop i0it mproved t heir posi i tis very taniiderablly, espeeclatl ly itt Monte Gratppa, the height that is the key to the passaige dlown to the ipilans b~etweent the Ilreita iand the Ilave. 'lThe crushing diefeat of the Aus rnians had an enlormous moral effect In all the belligerent countries. The news c'autsedi a profound depression in) Austrlia andl Geraniy that was contrasted by the jubilation in the al lied naitions. Italy said that all it now atsks ia the presence of Amer cenn troops on its front, and these, ptresumraly, arec on the waty if not already there. In the dutal monarchy the dilsatster on the Pive only accentuated the serious internal .conditions, furtfher enicournaginrg the rebellious Czechs anad Siovaks and Slavs, andl increasiung the~ genrail demndn~ for food antd peaice. The governmient has aneithier the one nor the other ta~ offer, for' botth aire undier the cntrol of Germnary. Then 'pirit of revolution is rife in Austria Iilungariy, buit a ntote of witainag is soundt~ed by3 Ferench statesmaen, who deC. Iare that the illes nmust not counit oni the success of a rebelllont thiere. The isaffected peoples are separate iandt Wvithout comtpe~tent leadershtip andi Anaftrin'a annis oul asin., had th he itritish air force, who is in America t yak troops arriving in Vladivostok on ti ke Garda looking over the region where troops n(ecessary to suppress any ip risings. u'uting Austria out of the wa is not yet the way to a general peacle. GemIIIa nilit:ry leaders were re porte'd very ntli disgusted with the failure of their Austrian allies, andi it is believed they wlll now try their hared again on the west front in F rainee or Flanders. Their arrange ments for a resumption of the often sive were said last week to be about completed. and a great increase in the activity in the air heralded a new drive. But the comnparative eniti of several weeks had enabled the allies also to prepare, and their command ers expressed the utmost contidence in their ability to stop the Huns again, wherever they might elect to attack. Early in the week the American gov ernment let it he known that there were then in France 900,000 Ameri cans, of whom 650.000 were combat ants, and that by July 1 the number would be 1,000,000. These men are being put into the fro. lines with ex traordinnry rapidity, and are now holding sectors of varying length in at least six places. The Americans in the Chateau Thierry region were the heroes of the main operation on the west front last week. Finding the Germans had es tablished machine-gun nests in a cor ner of Helleau wood, they routed them out completely in a swift and brilliant night action, and then went on to clean up an enemy stronghold south of the village of Torcy. This re quired seven hours of fierce fighting, but at the end of that time the Amer leais were in undisputed possession of the objective, a wooded hill which commands the German positions in either direction. They had killed some 700 Huns and captured several hun dred more, including a dozen officers. The work of the artillery ini this Ohp eiration was remar-kable. The losses of the Americans were not out of pro portion to the importance of the re suits. As usual after a big offensive, Ger miany plut forth another peace feeler, though wIthout waIting for the fuill measure of AustrIa's failure to deC velop. This time Dr. Von Kuehilmann, secretary of foreign affairs, was the mouthpiece. His addltress in the reichs tag not only was received with scorn by the allies, but served to arouse the anger of most of lisa own countrymen, for two reasons. First, he admitted that the central powers no longer had a chance to in victory by for'ce alone ;se'condl, he dleclared that Russia was chiefly to blame for the war, and that France and E0nglanid were inext in ordier of culpablility. So far as war alnis and1( peace offers were concerned he said not hing new. The ireichstag lieardI his address in gloomy silenee anid thlen t he party 3 leader~is attacked it litterly'. It wais reported Thursday that Dra. Von Kuehhyainn was about to ieslin. i ie might be given a job) as court jester in view of his statement that a prelimianry condition of the exchainge' of peace views "must be a certain degree of mutual confidence in each(1 other's honesty and chivalry." Th'le hionesly and chivalry of Germany lie at the bottom of the ocean with lie [Lusitania, in the rains of ravished Belgium and in the wreckage of h)omhed Re'd Cross hospitals. Rtussia came to the front again last week in a sensational way. First was the news, first denied atnd then con firmed, that Nicholas, the former. czar, had1( been killed by the bolsheviki at lokaternburg. One story said he was assaussiniatedt by soviet troops during their 'retreat to that city. Another re port wvas that the bolshevik auithorities here had convicted him after a short trial, (ondemnzu~ed him to dleath and shOt him. Theni wordl enme from Moscowv that (lrand fluke MIchael Alexandrovitch, a .vounger brothuer of the dleposed ruler, had put lhimself at thle head of thle new Sliberar1 government and is 54110l a mlanifesto to the Russian pe pdae. The Czechio-.Slovak army in Hi hleia was1 repiortedl to have taken Irkutlsk and to he fighting In EIkaterin huairg, and(. what is more remarkable, it is said to be commnandled by3 General Alexieff, former Russian commander ini chief. Meanwhile, the allies have been try lug to determine frhat they can do to L " arrange for transatlantic airplane ieir way to France to help the allies, it was believed the Austrians might aid issin and ritl her of her Teuton ronqluerorS. l'res5idtI) WVilson de' clated himself for leace'ful, not force r'ul intervenition, and it is prohable a etat'i mission of dist i ngunished men, per haps Inctl unIilg representail ves of all the allied tationts, will be sent with ttfers of assistntunt an' powers to ar i'ange at Iu ot t'o-operallion. Keren sky, who atpp'artl unexpectedly in l.ondon Ont his way to Anterica, is con Lkt ut liussia will soon rejoin in the tight algninst the central powers. He antid otht'r llussian leaders, however, agree that the country will not toler ate foreign intervention in its internal a t'tIirs. It is economical and financial aid that Russia needs, and needs at once. The German~ in southern Russia are making their way toward Smol ensk, probably en route to Moscow, despite the protests of the bolshevik foreign minister. They also have landed a strong force at Poti, on the eastern coast of the Black sea. In eastern Siberia General Semenoff and his anti-bolshevik army, after having been driven across the Man churian border, are again advancing because the forces opposing them were ordered to the protection of Irkutsk. Germany is now receiving some food supplies from Ukraine, but these are mostly fronm the German army coin mtissariat which buys them froin the peasants at exorbitant prices. Secretary of Var Baker seemingly changed his mind suddenly about ex tending the draft age limits, for last week he and General March, chief of staff, appeared before the senate com mittee and agreed in urging that leg islation to that end he postponed until the fall. At that time, they said, the war department would be able to sub mit a vast program for army enlarge ment, and would know how many sol dIers could be transported overseas aind how far it would b~e necessary to extendt the dIraft to obtain tile num ber of men requiredl. Provost Marshal General Crowder said he still believed imlmediate action necessiary, but be ing only a subordInate, he bowed to the decision of his superiors. The senate conmmittee, whIch had agreed o~ twenty to forty years as the new draft limits, voted to defer action. Tis provoked a storm of protest In congress, chliefly froml RepublIcan leaders whlo declared tile delay was anothler evidence of tile administra. tlon's procrastination and devotion to tulnpreparednelss. Tile Democralts prom ised action in Septemb~er and said there were enioughi maen in class 1 to mleet nll requitremlents unltil the,f. To shlowt that thlere is no need for immhle diate actionl Senator Hitchcock said: "Tile informatlon given to the~ comn mlitte'e Is, in sublstanlce, thIs: lhat wheln we have exhaulistedl all avafl'able mien in cliss 1 of tile presenit drft we will hlave ani army of 3,300,000 mn in August. In additlon, thlere WWl be about 140,000 Canadians that we wvill biring into the army as tile restet of the treaty just raltl~ed, so thlat weq will then have an aramy of 3,450,0O'9 men. Now, the hihest estimate of tho num becr of men we can have in Fruance at that time Is 1,450,000, so that we will have in thIs country when tis con gress reconvenes after Its pronosed re cess in September over 2,000,000 men." On Thursday tile drawing of num bers to dietermine thle ordler in wiich youths of the class of 1918, about 'f44, 500 in number, shall be called to the colors was condlucted in the senate of fiee builditng, with nmuchl of the cere mony that marked thle first drawing a year ago. Secretary Baker, blindfold er, drew out thle first capsule, with the number 24i6 inclosed. It was neces sary to dIraw only 1,200 numbers. The new registrants will beo placed at the foot of the lIsts In the classes to which they are assigned b~y theIr boards. The senate agricultutral cotmittee, disregardilng the advIce of many prom Ine'nt pers'ofns, adopted0( the amlendlmenlt to the $1'Il,000,000) emlergency agricul tural bill providitng for national pro hibition atfter Junel 30o, 1919, and dur lag the continuance of the wvar. OnI M~ondany the house passedl the $5,50t0,000,000 fortitleatlons hill, anti the senahte p~assedl the $3,300,000.000 sundlry civil bill containIng about $2, 000.000,000 more for the shlppliag ro grnm. BRITISH FRONT IS STORM_CENTER GERMANS REPULSED IN ATTEMPT TO RETAKE VILLAGE OF HAMEL AND WOODS. ITALIANS' STEADY ADVANCE Operations in Lowlands Near MoutW of Piave Are Progressing and - Line Has Been Extended. The British front east of Amiens, on each side of the Avre and along the Somme river, seems to be the storm conter of the battle front in France. Here the Australians, assisted by American detachments, surged for ward on July 4 and drove the Germans out of the village of Hamel and the Vairo and Hamel woods, to the south, at the same time launching a second ary attack on the German positions north of the Somme. Since that time the lines before Amions have been very active. The Germans have been rapulsed in attempt to retake the village of Hamel and the wooded positions of the Aus tralians further south. The British official report says that the enemy was stopped easily but the Germans claim to have checked the British forces east of Hamel and to have thrown them back to their original lines at Villers-Bretonneux. With the exception of aerial com bats the American front has been calm. The German official statement tells of British attack in the Ypres region, adding that these assaults were re pulsed. Heavy artillery fire in this neighborhood reported from London. don. In the meantime the French have been content to hold and consolidate their new positions near Moulin-Sous Totent and Autreches, northwest of Soissons, where in two recent French attacks the Germans suffered severe casualties and lost many prisoners. The French war office says, that dar ing the past day there has been heavy artillery firing in the neigh borhoods of Outry and Mont Gobert, which is on the front southwest of Soissons, where the French won ground by a dashing attack last week. Italian forces operating in the low- - lands near the mouth of the Piave are making steady progress, accord ing to the statement issued by the war office today. In the mountain section of the front the statement says that the Italians have extended their lines at the head of Calcino val ley and have held the ground thus gained in spite of heavy counter-at tacks by the Austro-Hungarians. ARMY TRANSPORT SUNK AND SIX MEN ARE MISSING Washington .-The American army transport Covington, homeward bound after landing several thousand soldiers in France, was torpedoed and sunk in the war zone recently. Six meme be of the crew r.re missing, but al'l the other men, with the ship's officirs, have been landed at a French port. No army personnel or passengers, were aboard. The missing men are.: 1Drnest C. Anderson, fireman, Lynn,. Mass.; Joseph P. Bowden, seaman, Mountain Lake, N. J.; Ambrose C. Ford, fireman, Somerville, Mass.; Wil liam Henry Lynch, Jr., fifireman, Man chester, N. H.; Albert S. Payne, sea manl, Staten Island, N. Y.; Lloyd H. Silvernail, seaman, Bainbridge, N. Y. U. S. SHIPBUILDERS WENT BEYOND THEIR OBJECTIVE 4 Washington.-The. shipping board announcedl that the workmen startedl out with the expectation of the launching of 439.886 deadweight tons, but late reports to the board showed - that 747,464 tons had been gotten ready to be put overboard. The ac tual number of ships launched was 82. The lauching of 11 others was held up by a freshet in the Columbia river while two others stuck on the ways. They are expected to be re leased without great delay. PRESIDENT CARLTON WANTS HIS POLICY CONTI NUED New York.-While 'asserting that he did not wish through any act of his "to add an hour's delay to the nation's telegraph serviace," New comb Carlton, president of the West ern Union Telegraph company, de clared in a statement dealing with the telegraphers' strike scheduled for Monday, that it is of the "highest importance" that the policy his com pany has pursued should be contin ued. EIGHT BILLION BOND BILL IS PASSED BY CONGRESS Washington. - An administration bill authorizing issuance of $8,000,000, 000 additional in Liberty bonds(1 and provid ing an add~itionlal $1,500O,000,000 for loans to the allies, recently pass ed by the house, was passed by the senate without amendment. The bill increases to $22,000,000,000 the an thor-izations for bond Issues made since the war began. The new bonds will bear interest at not more tham All pae cnt.