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?a?. . i ? ? ila 1KB SUMTER WATCHMAN, Eetobl Consolidated Aug. 2,1 WASHMBTON WAR COMMENT. EXTENT OF VICTORY NOT YET: CLEARLY SHOWN. General Foch Known, However, to Have Done Very Good Day's Workj and One That Places Crown Prince I in Very Unenviable Position. Washington, Aug. 2.?The collapse; of the German defensive p^sitions just north of; the Ourcq forced by the dash by American troops in the center and the brilliant French and British flank operations following is sweeping the "inemy swiftly back out of the Aisne iilarne salient. The rush forward to day came so swiftly that it was dif ficult for army officials here to ap praise the full extent of the victory. As they understood from reports late tonight, however, there was a strong possibility that the Germans would be unable to hold the Vesle line towards which they are hastenir and would be driven to the heights north of the Ais??. Tonight's official report from Paris carried ,the most startling message from the battlefield in several days. Soissons, the key of the German right flank in the whole Aisne-Marne posi tion had again been entered by the French. At the same time the British announcement that Thillois west of Rheims had been taken, showed that the jaws of the trreat trap created by General Foch at last had begun to close. What the final result will prove to be can not, be foreseen at this time. The reentry into Soissons is note worthy. The French were forced out of the fronet in the first German as sault on the Chemin-des-Dames last; May. Its capture by the enemy was a long step on the road to Paris which, was in fact * definite!?- checked onlyj when the Germans met American troops northwest of Chateau-Thierry weeks later and were hurled back. To many officials here the little stretch of line, where the first two American! divisions came into action below the. Villers Cotterets forest, will mark the German highwater mark. Of great military significance in tonight's report, however, is the ad vance of the other jaw of the trap atj Thillois. This, was taken to mean the French are pushing in to the north and west of Rheims an advance which may well force the enemy to continue his hurried withdrawal toj the Aisne without a chance to stand j along the Vesle. The deft flank of his line at the Vesle is in danger of being: turned before his forces south of that i river reach it. If the advance of the French on this line continues* it. maywellbecptae^ a race for the ?isne with' the enemy forced into line beyond the river be-j fore they are cut off. The picture, of j a struggle to the death between thej two armies drawn by General March; recently, is being revised sharply, j The greatest value seen by many officials in all that has happened since; the counter blow was launched is that a precedent of victory on the wesUrn front has been established. It has been fully demonstrated already that the enemy /can be fought offensively and there are many sign that his punishment is just beginning. Gen. Foch holds the initiative firmly and is master of the situation. He can choose the time and place of fight, for the enemy is compelled to act on the defensive and to give ground to save his forces from annihilation. General March has seen in the flat tening out of the Aisne-Marrie salient where the Germans were able to hold open the Soissons and Rheims jaws, the vanishing of any reasonable pros pect of bagging the German armies. Other officials 'have a deep conviction .however that the Germans would not escape from thai salient without se rious losses and tonight's develop ments added to their certainty. There are renewed possibilities of a coup of a decisive character, it is believed. Among many officers there is a strong feeling that operations on oth er fronts of the western line are im-j pending. They believe that a blow; by the British to obliterate the Flan-j ders salient may come at any mo-i ment. There have been hints that aj rreat concentration of British forces j has been completed, probably in prep-j aration for a decisive battle on the1 western front and to observers, the1 time now seems to have come for the j launching of this assault. They be lieve it certain that such a stroke will! be ordered by General Foch before1 the fighting in the Aisne-Marne field has been stabilized. AMERICAN CASUALTY LIST. One Hundred and Twelve Killed in] Action. Washington. Aug. 3.?The army, casualty list today totals two hundred: and six. Killed in action, 112; died of wounds. 11; died of disease. 11; died of accident. 5; wounded severe-, ly. 56; wounded. 2; missing. 9. Lieut.; Robert O. Purdv. of Sumter, S. C. Privates Earl I. Cliett. of Reno. Ga.,j George L. Weeks, of Eastman, Ga..; George W. Waldrop, Spartanburg. S. C, killed in action. Marines Lose Eleven. Washington. Aug. 3.?The marine corps casualty list totals eleven.; Killed in action. 4; wounded severe-; ly. 5; wounded slightly. 1. REVOLT AT ARCH ANGLE. Bolsheviki Troops Forced to Ree ; From City. Kandalaska. Russian Lapland. Aug 3.?A revolution against the Bolshe viki allies have occurred in Arrh-mfrle and the Soviet troops have fled from, the city. feted April, 18*0. ?Bnfmta 88L ~& ALLIES TAKE SOlSSOUsT IMPORTAXT RAILROAD CENTER I RECOVERED FROM HT'NS. Alliea Line is Now Within Seren Miles of l^smes After Day of Com plete Success of Advancing An?<es. With the French Army in France, Aug. 2 (By the Associated Press).? 11.30 p. m.?Soissons has been re taken and the valleys of the Crise has been crossed. The allied line this evening runs from Pommieres to Soissons, thence to Beileau, the valley of the Crise, Chacrise and Arcy St. Restitue, through the center of the forest of jNesle to the village of the same name I and through the centre of the forest of I Rheims to Lagery L'Hory and Tram | ery. North of the hist named three I places French cavalry has advanced ! about annother mile to the Bois le ! Moins and Treslon. Rouillet is still in j the enemy hands, in flames, and fur i ther east near Rheims, Thillois has ; been retaken. The day was one of ! continued success for the armies of ? Generals Mangin, Degoutte and Ber thelot. All along the line the Ger mans have been forced to hurry their retreat especially on the west and center of the salient. The enemy is completely devastating the country as he retires, ?arrying out the settled German policy. The French are now on the edge <*t the plateau between the Crise and Vesle after an advance which at some places was three miles deep within ??even miles of Fismes. The enemy it aow seems certain must retire to the Vesleand very probably to the Aisne. A copy of the Berlin Tageblatt re ceived behind the French lines con tains the fonowing article written re cently by Herr Heigeler, its war cor respondent: "From the strategical point of view the seven days' battle has been a com plete failure. Nevertheless, success has been gained which I can register today. A new part of France has been laid wasts. Everywhere are ruined towns, villages and farms. Fires light up the nights, and all - \y thick clouds of smoke, caused by violent explo sions, floated over the ravaged corn fields and destroyed forests." HARD TO OBTAIN. Pershing Will Send Casualty List When Assembled. Washington, Aug. 2.?Replying to a request that he expedite the lists of American casualties in the heavy .fignting on the^oissons-Rheims sa~. - lient GeneraF Fershk'ng today -ca bled Secretary Baker that the task of assembling the names of the men was an extremely difficult one because of the limited means of communication in the battle areas and owing to the fact that American troops are brigad ed with, French and British units. Secretary Baker said no estimate of casualties was contained in General Pershing's cablegram. There was nothing to indicate today.when the in creased casualty lists resulting from the present severe fighting would be gin to come i?. ! "I have received a cablegram from j General Pershing in regard to reports I of casualties," said Mr. Baker. "He j points out that our troops are still I widely separated, serving in many ! places, and that our wounded are tak j en to French and British hospitals as ; well as our own, causing great dif I Acuity and complication in securing j accurate information. I 'In addition to this the troops are I separated from their records while in : the area of conflict and must depend i upon very inadequate and temporary ! telegraph lines which are subject to frequent interruption and must, for the most part, be devoted entirely to the urgent business of the battle it self. "General Pershing assures me that ne is making every effort to collect casualty lists, have them confirmed and verified and that they will be transmitted promptly. IHR EE GRAFTERS ARRESTED. Alleged Conspiracy to Obtain Shipping Controls at Excessive Prices. Washington. Aug. 3.?That evi dence connecting at least one minor j official of the shipping board with the: alleged conspiracy to obtain contracts; from shipping board at extra high prices has been gathered by govern- i ment secret agents became known to- | day as the result of the arrest of Ed-| ward L. Travis, a former law partner; of Representative Kitchen, majority; leader of the house, Selim B. Joseph' and Leon M. Green. The following telegram in refer ence to the above was received this afternoon by Mr. Moses Green, from; his son. Leon M. Green: Washington. Aug. 3. 1918. M. Green, Sumter. S. C. Please don't worry as to charges made against me. Letter tonight from New York. LEON. i FORD PLANT CLOSED. Inability to Get Material Causes Sus-j pension. Omaha. Neb.. Aug. 1.?C. L. Gould.' manager of the Ford assembling plant today received orders from Detroit to | close tl e plant because of inability to get material. Gould said 15 plants' have been closed for the same reason' that only six now are in operation. Ford production has dropped from 3.100 cars a day to 7."d?. of which 400; arc trucks. Henry Ford and partyi left foe Des Meines today after spend-j ing a day here. AMERICANS ALONE CAPTURE OVER EIGHT THOUSAND PRISONERS. i I Allied Armies Reap Full Fr?its of Victory in Second Great ?j?feat or Enemy on Marne?Germans Un able to Stem Onslaught. 1 - Washington, Aug. 4.?Allied) troops in the Aisne-Marne /Salient (.reaped "the full fruits of victory" Saturday when the enemy, who met fifi|second 'great defeat on the Marne, w^s driv ! en in confusion beyond the line of the j Vesle," General Pershing reported in I his communication for yesterday, re ! ceived today by the war department.! i American troops alone have eaptured j 8,400 prisoners and 133 guns, j The text of the statement follows: Section A?The full fruits, of vie-; ! tory in the counter-offensive began so {gloriously by Franco-American troops ! July 18 were reaped today when the j enemy who met his second gjejeat de ! feat on the Marne, was driven^in con j fusion beyond the line of the Vesle. "The enemy, in spite of suffering : the severest losses, has provejd inca j pable of stemming the onslaught of j our troops fighting for liberty jside by j side with French, British and Italian } ian veterans. In the course of the op jerations 8,400 prisoners and 133 guns j have been captu red by opr me". I alone." HUNS WEAKEN AS ALLIES AO VANCE. Left Wing of German Army on Aisne Shows Stubborn Resistance, How ever. Paris, Aug. 4 (Battle Front, 1:05 p. m.)?Allied troops hav'fe crossed the Aisne at several points between Soissons and Venizel. The German re sistance is faltering on the left wing of the allied advance it is growing stubborn and desp^Fate on j the right 'wing, where the / Germans ! still retain a foothold on/ the? south - I em bank of the Vesle between Cham ! pigmy and Jonchery northwest of j Rheims. ! The number of prisoners- captured j by the allies during the last ttfrb days j will thrill the allied world when an ! no?nced. The Vesle River, which wa. j flooded owing to the recent heavy j rains, has hampered the German rear I guards, which were unable to ford the J stream and had to fight for their lives, j Most of . these Germans were, /killed j and the rest were made prisoners, j Fismes is completely surroundted by j American ^troops: The Germans are I retaining a. foothohlin^ the :^Mrtreme i there " is house to house * fighting, j Crack Prussian gruard units are of j fering the most desperate resistance j to the Americans. TOTAL CASUALTY LIST. ! Department Reports Show Increase in I Casualties. ? i j -: Washington, Aug. 4.?Army and j marine corps casualties reported from j overseas during the week ending to j day increased 1,430, compared with j 1,050 the week before. Total casual ties reported are 15,196, including to ! day's army list of 283?the largest ?number yet reported in a single day? i and marine corps list of two. j While as yet no figures have been j re ceived on casualties in the great al I lied offensive in which American ! troops are playing so conspicuous a j part, the increase in the daily army list undoubtedly is due in part to this i fighting. The increase for the week jwas 1.384. The marine corps list in ! created only 46 for the seven days. I In the '196 casualties total deaths, incluumg 291 men lost at sea. men killed in action, dead of wounds, 1 disease, accident and other causes numbered 6,134?army men, 5,410. j marines 734. The wounded aggregate ! 8,264?army men, 7,044; Marines, 1, 1220. The missing, including prison ers, total 788?army men, 710; ma ! rines, 78. The week's increase deaths from all ?causes totalled 651, as compared with I 393 the vweek before; the wounded 'number 732, compared with 591 the j previous week, and the missing and ! prisoners totaled 47 compared with . 66 the week before. The summary of iarmy casualties reported follows: ! Killed in action (including 291 at sea). 2.373; died of wounds, 907; died of disease, 1,514; died of acci dent and other causes, 616: wounded in action. 7.044; missing in action (in cluding prisoners). 710. Total 13.164. Th<=? marine corps casualty summary j shows: I Deaths, 734; wounded. 1.220; inj hands of enemy. 5; missing. 73. To tal 2,032. The marine corps sum mary includes the deaths of 28 offi cers, the wounding of 31 others and j one missing. BIG NEGRO CONTINGENT. i More Than Six Hundred Sent From: Savannah. -? Savannah. Aug. 5.?More than six! hundred negro drafted men left Sa vannah today for Camp Gordon. Thisi was the grreatest number of men. i white or black, to be sent from Sa-j vannah at one time. ; . j FISHING SCHOONER SUNK. - i Submarine Still Operating on Cana-j dtan Coast. Canadian. Atlantic Port. Aug. 5. The fishing schooner Nelson A. has boen added to the list, of vessels sunk j by a submarine off the north Atlantic j eoast. The crew was landed today.) They reported that the schooner was destroyed Saturday. n*'t at be thy Country'*, Thy God's I 3DAY, AUGUST 7, ldli HAND TO HAND FIGHT. AMERICANS COVER TBT7 'tSELVES WITH GLORY AT F* vfJES. In Fierces light of War They Meet and Defeat Prussian Guards?No Quarter Asked or Given. _ I By Associated Presa Paris, Aug. 5.?The Americans covered themselves with glory in hand to hand fighting in the streets of Fis mes yesterday, when they captured that German base. The fighting is said to haye been the bitterest of the entire warf the Prussian Guards ask ing no quarter, and being bayonetted or clubbed to death as they stood by their machine guns to the last. WEATHER SAVES GERMANS. ' Banks of Vesle River Turned in Morasses and Huns Stand on North ern Side. Paris, Battle Front, Aug. 5.?There was a lull in the battle along the Sois sons-Rheims front last night and this morning. The Germans were favored by the weather which has turned the Vesle river banks into swamps and morasses, and they are ma., .ag a stif fer stand on the north of the river. BRITISH CONTINUE RAIDS. >'fcght Attack Southeast of Arras Suc ceeds. London, Aug. 5.?Raiding opera tions were carried out last night by the British soutl east of Arras in which prisoners were taken, it is of ficially announced. On the northern front, opposite LaBassee, the Ger man guns were active; also north of Bethune and betwen Hazebrouck and Ypres. PURSUIT OF HUNS CONTINUE. Allies Hold Entire Southern Bank of Vesle and Patrols Cross River. Paris, Aug. 5.?The Allied pursuit of .the Germans continues, accord ing to latest reports. There are only a few enemy remaining south of ; Vesle, says the Havas Agency to day in reviewing the situation. The French patrols have crosed the Vesle at Base Oches and Jonchery. west and east of Fismes, respectively. The Allies hold the entire southern bank of the Vesle between Fismes and I Rheims. It is believed the Germans will try to stop at some intermediate point between the Vesle and Aisne. but will probably not attempt a defi nite halt before the Aisne is reached. BATTLE SLOWS DOWN^" Nothing of Importance to Report from Vesle.. ; Paris, Aug. 5.?French detacT" ments which crossed the Vesle river are meeting with resistance from the Germans, it is officially announced. It is declared that there is. nothing im portant to report from the battle front. BOMBING PARIS AGAIN. Long Range Cannon Resumed Fire Today. Paris, Aug. 5.?The long range bombardment of the Paris region was resumed this morning. AMERICAN CASUALTY LIST. Largest Number or Casualties Since Big Battle Startet!. Washington, Aug. 5.?The casualties J among the American troops in the se j vere fighting since July 15th, when the German offensive was halted at the Marne, are now being reported in daily lists from Gen. Pershing, though no estimate of the total has been received. Today's army list to tals 407 names, the largest yet re ported in a single day. Killed in ac tion, 203; died of wounds, 37; died of disease, 9; died of accident, 7: wounded severely, 48; wounded, de gree undetermined, 100; missing, 3. Among the killed are Clarence T. Sutcliffe. Miami, Fla.; Burton James, Live Oak, Fla.; Walter A. Campbell, Hagan, Ga.; Riley G. Cope, Bamberg, IS. C, Jesse N. Fielding, of Ochlok nee, Ga.; Bury B. Giddeons, of Pax ton, Fla.; John W. Hudson, of Edison, Ga.; Robert McKoen, of Savannah, Ga.: Jule Taylor, of LaGrange, Ga. Died of wounds. Corporal Everett T. Ramsey, of Cornelia, Ga. Died of dis ease. Corporal Abner Humphreys, of Oglethorpe, Ga. An additional list of nearly three hundred casualties bring the total for today up to seven hundred checked up by the war department for publi cation in the morning papers tomor row. Marines Lose Ten. Washington, Aug. 5.?The marine corps casualties total ten. Killed in action, 9; died of wounds. 1. PROMOTED TO MAJOR. Captain Bernard Manning Revives Higher Honor. Columbia. Aug. 4.?Information was. received in the city yesterday that' Captain Bernard Manning, who is in New York with his company, has been; made a major. Major Manning was a suecessfui, business man in Sumter, and upon the declaration of war he volunteered asi a private, went to Fort Oglethorpe j and won a captain's commission. He] was stationed at. Camp Jackson for a. number of months. Recently lie went, to New York with his command, and while there his promotion w.a* made.1 THE TBUI 3. GEN. IM II gQMMAND. AMERICANS IN CENTER OF GREAT ALLIED DRIVE. Gen. Pershing Now Has More Than Million Men Under His Direct Com mand?Three Hundred Thousand Sent Over in July. Washington, Aug. 3.?Major Gen-' eral Liggitt, commanding the first! army corps, is in active charge of the! corps on the center of the allied drive, Genera] March told the newspaper! correspondents at the semi-weekly! conference at the war department. ! The number of American divisions, has been increased to eight, now in cluding the first, second, and forty second National Guard. He said that Gen. Pershing now has a million men under his direct command, i More than three hundred thousand I troops were shipped over during July, j breaking all records. I ????????? j BRITISH TRAITOR SENTENCED. j Dowling Must Spend Life Behind I Bars?Landed in Ireland From German Submarine. j London, Aug. 2.?Lance Corp. Jo j seph Dowling of the Connaught Rang i ers, who was landed on the coast of j Ireland from a German submarine, j three months ago was pronounced {guilty today and sentenced to death. I The sentence, however, was commut ! ed to penal servitude for life. i Early in June it was announced in j the house of commons that an un named man had been put ashore in a collapsible boat on the west coast of Ireland from a German submarine. A few days later it was officially an nounced that the man, then a prison er in the Tower of London was Lance ! Corp. Joseph Dowling of the Con t naught Rangers. Dowling's trial by j courtraartial opened in July. He f pleaded not guilty to the formal i charges, which were under three j heads: ' "First that while he was a prisoner [ of war in Germany he joined a hostile I force; second, that he endeavored to I induce others to join; third, that he I participated in an attempt to land a J hostile force in Ireland." AMERICAN RED CROSS. j Report of Work in . Paris - for Past Month. Paris, July 31.?The department of I Civil Affairs, of u. the American Red J the past month. "It shows- that -'it J employed a staff of 1,073 persons, maintained fifteen civilian hospitals j with a total capacity of l.o$1$ beds and i reached in some manner or another j more than 210,496 civilians affected j by the last offensive. Thirty thousand Paris school chil ! dren have been given supplemental food such as special lunches, break fast, etc. A hospital and four dispen saries were opened during the month. Medical aid was given to 26,100 per sons; 11,873 refugees were housed and 3,140 given employment. During the first week of the May offensive 35. 000 refugees were fed in canteens es tablished in the Paris stations. Money denotions to outside organiza I ..v,ns totaled $300,000; of which $140, i 000 was appropriated for tuberculo ! sis patients; $25,000 for the care of [ children; $96,000 for refugees, and J the remainder for mutiles. The fol l lowing has been distributed through {the agencies of the department: 177, [875 garments, 22,488 pairs of shoes, ! 48,280 articles of furniture and house | hold utensils, 55,464 articles of bed j ding and household linen, 58,488 i yards of cloth. 167.704 pounds of j food, 4,535 hospital articles, and 1, j 000 unclassified. SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE. i Americans Must Continue to Econo mize to Feed Europe. I - i Columbia, Aug. 2.?The food ad j ministration authorizes the following I statement with regard to the coming j harvest and the common cause: j "Last year we had a poor harvest I of wheat. This year we have a good j one. But despite the poor harvest I and the 100 little wheat, America by I her saving sent the Allies enough to ' keep them alive. j "Shall we not do more when we j have more? j "The Allies are eating less meat, j less fat. and less sugar than we are. I "Shall we not send them more of j all these foods as well as more wheat ? "Shall we not divide all the food j among all the people fighting under I the common flag of freedom and ? right? "One hundred million people in I America are living in abundance. ? "One hundred and twenty million (English. French. Belgian and Ital ian), who have pooled their all in out common defense, are in want of food. I "Can we waste any? Must we not eat less? "Shall we not all. the two hundred and twenty million, share and share alike the food there is for all of us?" GERMAN SPIES INDICTED. Propaganda Agents Who Bought New York Mail for German Government, New York. Aug. 2.?Federal indict ments were returned today against Edward A. Rumelly of the New York, Mail and S. Walter Kaufmann, form-i <>r counsel for the German embassy to; the United States as alleged partici-, pants in flu* purchase of the Evening] Mail for the German government, i : SOUTHRON, KMMhhet Jmne, MMb VoLXLVI. No. 60. HIGHER TOBACCO TAX. _ * EXISTING RATE TREBLED IS SOME CASES. Ways and Means Committee of Hooso Agrees on Number of Items. Washington, Aug. 2.?Heavy n creases in the present war tax o.* to bacco and cigarettes were agreed to today by the house ways and means committee as part of the new $8,000, 000,000 revenue bill. The tax imposes three times the existing rates on some items of the schedule and is expected to raise approximately $340,000,000 in comparison with the present $165,^ 000,000 revenue from tobacco. The committee has made substan tial headway in its work and some of its members predicted today that all danger of delay in reporting the bill is over and that the total of $8,000, I 000 the greatest volume of revenue from taxation ever contemplated i? the nation's history will be provided for and the bill in form to r ->ort when the house reassembles August 19. So far, however, there is a large gap between the total estimated from excess profits and income tax sections and the $6,000,000,000 allotted to those sections in the original plan. The committee accordingly went back, today to the income surtax para graphs, and while there was no defi nite action it was evident there will be heavy increases in surtax, rates. There was also some discussion of two plans to superimpose a strictly war profits tax on the excess profits tax. one of the plans being for a com ! plete supplemental tax, every dollar of which would be additional to the excess profits revenue, and the other an alternative proposition under' I which the treasury would impose either the excess profits tax or the war profits tax, but not both of them, the tax to be imposed being that which would bring the larger revenue in each individual ca?e. Today's action as to war taxes- on tobacco was independent of the spe cial license tax on manufactures of tobacco in which double the present tax was imposed' on the basis of the annual sales. 1 Chairman Kitchin made this state ment tonight: "The committee reached the follow-, j ing tentative decisions as to the to-. I bacco schedule: On cigars weighing not more than three pounds per thou- ; sand, tax increased from the present $1 per thousand to $2 per thousand; cigars weighing more than three pounds per /thousand and retailing ^ at not more than four cents each, jtar ^ ^^r^^e^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^n^^^^ thousand; cigars retailing at nipfis"** than seven cents each and less than 15 cents each, increased from $6 to $15 per thousand; between 15 and 20 cents each, increased from $8 to $20 per thousand and those retailing at 20 cents or more each increased from I $10 to $30 per thousand. I Cigarettes weighing not more than [ 3 pounds per* thousand and retailing at less than two cents each, increas ! ed from $2.05 to $5 per thousand, i those of same weight retailing at 2 ? j cents or more increased from $2.05 to v - I $8 per thousand; those weighing ! more than 3 pounds per thousand, ! increased from $8.00 to $18 per thou I sand. "Tobacco tax increased from 13 to : 30 cents per pound, j "Cigarette papers and tubes, tax ] doubled. j "Exports estimate that the revenue I for the 12 months period from these tobacco taxes will total $340,000,000 I against a present revenue of $168,000, I 000 from the same sources. The com imittee adjourned until Monday, when , i the luxury taxes will be considered, j The ways and means subcommittee j on luxuries to which was assigned the consideration of the whole ques tion of luxuries including those al ready discussed in the full commit tee, held a hearing today. The com mittee comprises Representatives Hull. Tennessee; Helvering, Kansas, i and Moore, Pennsylvania. Meyer D. ; Rothschild of New York and Wilson ! Streeter of Philadelphia representing i the jewelers, war revenue tax com mittee opposed levying the tax on 'jewelry at the source and urged that j it be laid on the consumer on the ; basis of use. j The jewelers' committee contended : that by collecting the tax on the ba | sis of sales to the consumer $150, '0?0.000 more might be raised than if , imposed on the lesser wholesale j prices. It was said that by an ulti j mate consumer tax on jewelry there j would be no indefiniteness as to what , the "cost plus the tax" might be in' i the popular mind and that more peo j pie would buy jewelry. The luxury subcommittee will meet tomorrow ; with a view to framing recommenda tions to lay before the full committee Monday. LUMBER SHIP TORPEDOED. U-boats Operating Off the Coast oC Maine. Bastport, Maine, Aug. 3.?The crew of nine from a lumber laden four master schooner landed at Grand Ma nan. N. P.. today. They reported that their vessel was sunk by a sub marine last nisrht between Briar Is land and Grand Manan. Grand Manan Island is eight miles east of the east ern extremity of Maine. New York. Aug. 2.?The American steamship Poseidon, formerly a Dutch ship, was sunk in collision with an American tanker Wednesday, off the Atlantic coast. Five members of the crew of thirty-eight are missing, it was learned today.