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THE SUMTER "WATCHMAN, Estab'i Consolidated Aug*. 2, Ii 500 IMS CAPTURED. I BRITISH HAMMERING GERMAN LLNE ON FLANDERS FRONT. Important High Ground Captnrecl-On} the Flanders Salient ana Counter; Attack Repulsed With Loss. With the British Army in France, j Aug. 19.?The British after captur ing Outtere.,teen ridge in front ofi the town of Merris have beaten of* a j vicious counter attack and inflicted. heavy losses on the enemy. More than i ?five hundred Germans were captured. j ?__? j FRENCH ADVANCE SIX MILES. | Capture Battalion Commanders With j 1,700 Prisoners. Paris, Aug. 19.?Between the OiseJ and the Aisne the French attacked at: 6 o'clock last night over a front of ! nearly ten miles between Carleponte, j about four miles east of Ribecourtj and Fontency, and made an advance; of approximately six miles over the; whole front, has been officially . an- ? nounced. The French occupied the; plateau west of Nampoel, about seven [ miles northwest of Fontency and on i the edege of the ravine south of; Andignicourt and two and a-hatf! miles east of Nam pol, Nouvron V:n-j gre was captured. Seventeen hun dred prisoners, including two battal-! ion commanders, were taken in the operation. FURTHER PROGRESS BY BRIT ISH. Prisoners and Machine Guns Captur-! cd. London, Aug. 19.?Near MervilJe at the apex of Lys salient the Brit*&h| n>ade further progress, it is officially announced. Fifty prisoners and a few; machine guns were captured. The; German counterattack between Out tersteen and Meteren was broken up: by the British artillery, the statement, says. French Advance Notwithstanding' Desperate Resistance. London, 1.20 p. m.?The French j Tenth army which attacked the Germans between ? the Oise and Aisne last night, has penetrated to extreme depth of nearly two miles, enemy machine gunners resisting; desperately. The enemy air service j was also very active. St. Mardles-1 Triot, a little over a mile southwest; of Roye, was taken by the French' yesterday, according to reports from! ? ~"the battle- front. The French also: captured the town of Beuvraignes, two and three-quarters miles ^south of St. Mardles. J AMERICA'S GREAT ARMY. Million and a-Half Overseas and Greater Number in Home Camps. Washington, Aug. 17.?More than' 1,450,000 American troops have em-j barked from the United States, Gen. j March told the newspaper corres- I pondents today. This includes the1 men sent to Italy and Siberia. He said that approximately 1,550,000 men are now in cantonments at home. Gen. March stated that the Russian situa-j tion is very bad because of the gen era! complexity of affairs there. He; intimated that there is not much chance of establishing an eastern: front because of the number of men that would be required. Gen. March said that official reports through the Spanish embassy give no evidence that American prisoners in! Germany have been singled out fori mistreatment as has been reported. Every detailed report shows that the question of treatment of prisoners has( largely become standardized. Gen. March said the Eighty-second,: division, composed of Alabama, | Georgia and Tennessee troops are in the battle line north of Toul. where! they arrived early in July. He said' the reports do not show that the; Eighty-second division had been en- j gaged in battle. MAN POWER BILL. Senate Will Begin Consideration of Measure Thursday. Washington. Aug. 19.?Considera-I tion of the man power bill will begin in the senate next Thursday, with a quorum present. The senate has cleared the way for action. American Casualty List. Washington. D. C, Aug. 19.?The army casualty list made public by the war department today was issued in two sections. The first section totaled 376. Killed in action. 60; missing in action. 126; wounded severely. 120: died of wounds. 19: died of disease. 10. died of accident and other causes. 3: died of airplane accident. 1: wounded, degree undetermined 37.' The second section totals 370. Kill ed in action. 36: died of wounds. 11: died of airplane accident. 1: died of j disease. 3: died of accident and other j causes. 9: wounded severely, 13"; wounded. degr<>^ undetermined, 1": missing in action, 162. Killed: Corporal Alonzo Kearse. Erhardt, S. C. Missing, Fred E Turnipseed. Brookman, S. C. Joe ]>. ? Cooper, Laurens. S. C, .Jessie C. Lynch. Clinton. S. C. Wounded sc verely, Thomas B. .Marshall. Colum bia, S. r. ' Marine Corps Casualties. Washington. Aug. 1. ?The marin? corps casualty list totals 30. Killed! in action. 6: died of wounds. : died of disease. I: severely wounded, 7: slightly wounded. 1; wounded, degree undetermined, 3 1. ' i&ed April, 1850. "Bp Jngt ai 381. ST MARRIED IK EXEMPT. GOOD NEWS FOR FAMILY MEN LIABLE UNDER NEW DRAFT. War Department Contemplates New! Ruling Under Man Power Bill?? Men Who do Not Support Families Will Rave to Fight. Washington, Aug. 19.?The gener-j al exemption of married men, simply; because of their married status, isj contemplated by the war department, j Secretary Baker declared before the I house military committee in a statement on the man power bill. He i said that married men who do not | support their families and not en- j gaged in useful occupations, will con- | tinue to be called. j WHITE DRAFTSMEN CALLED. Five Thousand, Seven Hundred to Re- j port September 1st. - I Washington, Aug. 19.?Eighteen j States have been called on by Gen. | Crcwder to furnish 5,709 white draft; registrants, with grammar school' education, fit for general military ser- j vide. They will be entrained Septem- j ber 1st. Voluntary enlistment will be; accepted up to August 26th. ACROSS SIBERL1 WITH NICHOLAS ? Former Czar Treated With Little Rc spect by Guards. j London), July 25 (By Associated! Press Correspondent recently in Ru-1 mania)?The American Hed Cross; Mission to Rumania traveled across Siberia in the train which had car- \ ried the former Emperor Nicholas and his family into exile at .Tobolsk. The engineer, conductor and train- j men were the same, and they told the \ Americans many interesting derails of their journey with the royal fam- : ily. The conductor was an energetic lit tle man who spoke French very well and had been employed on the Trans Siberian express for several years. He was a thorough convert to the Bol shevik doctrine and showed no sym pathy with the late emperor. "Both Nicholas and his wife were disconsolate and dispirited during their trip with me," he said. "They seemed to think that there was little left to live for, now that their crowns had been taken away from them. Neither the guards nor the railway employes deigned to give them any salute or open marie of recognition, and' in th?e little village stations ^he're we stopped now and then the sol diers merely stared at the members of the royal party. . "This lack of deference seemed tu hurt the former emperor's feeling. At one station, where he was per mitteed to walk up and down the plat form in the sunshine with one of his armed guards, he spoke to a^soldier: " 'Why do you not salute me?" he asked. " 'The soldier replied solemnly, 'You are no longer my emperor.' " 'But I am still a Colonel in the Russian Army," said Nicholas. "The soldier hesitated only a mo ment and then replied, 'Yes, but we are all equal now; the common sol dier is as good as the officer, and there is no occasion for anybody saluting anybody else.' "Nicholas never complained about anything during the trip," said the conductor. "He kr?* t closely to his compartment, but did no writing or work of any kind. He ate very lit tle food, while the guards fare'' sumptuously on poultry, fruit and wine. The guards were so busy drink ing wine and playing cards that they had little time to devote to the royal party. It was very much like a picnic for everybody except Nicholas and Ids household." " WOMEN SENT TO JAIL. Twenty-six Will Serve Sentences. Washington. Aug. 15.?Twenty six women who have been defying the police in woman's party demonstra tions on the square opposite the White House in protest against the senate's delay in acting on the feder al suffrage amendment were given jail sentences in the police courl to day when they refused to pay fines. Ten days' sentences were imposed for unlawfully holding a meeting without permits and 17 of the de fendants were given five additional days for climbing- on a statute of Gen. Lafayette. Today's sentences were imposed for participation in the first demon stration staged last week. Cases are pending against most of these wo men and a number of others on ac count of later activities. The women made no attempt to ap peal from the decision of the police court judge and tonight began serv ing their sentences. After court offi cials at the bearing called the roll the women refused to answer any ques tions put to them. The women will be confined in a city work house and according to present plans will not be sent to the District of Columbia work house o:* Ocjoquan. Va.. where members of the national woman's party who en gaged in a similar demonstration last year and who were sentenced on the same charge were confined. TELEGARPIIERS GET INCREASE. Posi master General Rurlcson \5? pro'res Ten Per Cent Raise. New York. Aug. lf?. -Postmaster General Burlesou has approved the en !>??:? cent raise for employes of the .'.'?stern Union Telegraph Company! mnounced today. ' id Fear not?Let all the ends Thon Ah 3MTER, S. C, WEDNES ALLIES GAINING GROUND. PROGRESS MADE BY BOTH BRIT ISH AND FRENCH. Advance Reported on Lys River, on Amiens-Roye Road and Also West of Roye. London, Aug. 17.?The British havej gained further ground in the neigh borhood of Vieux-Berquin at the apex of the Lys salient, it was officially an- j nounced toda;> In Picardy the Brit-1 ish made add. nal progress,^ their lines being pushed eastward north of i the Amiens-Roye road and north of j the Ancre. i French Take Loges Wood. . Paris. Aug. 17.?In the region or Roye the French made progress in Loges wood, reaching the outskirts of the wood on the east, it is official ly announced. There was heayy ar tillery fighting west of Roye last night Northwest of Ribeconrjf: the French repulsed two strong German attacks. ARRESTED j FOR DISLOY^LrTY. I G. M. Hamniett to Be Tried all Rock Hill for Alleged Violation of Es pionage Act. Spartanburg, Aug. 16.?G. MjjHam met'. ? well known farmer anq large land owner of the Inman secflon of I Spartanburg county, was yesfterday i morning arraigned before fftJnited States Commissioner Robert ^Gantt j on a charge of violation of the^spion ; age act. The defendant waspboun I j over to the next term of court for the I Western District of South CaSrolina, j which meets at Rock Hill in I her. Bond was fixed in the j $2,000. i At the hearing it was brot j by various witnesses that Me I nictt had been heard to remark, "1 I would just as soon live under lh:> \ kaiser as under the present;. $Jnito<i i-States government." When alsked to I buy Liberty bonds he is declared to j have said, "I wouldn't give fiy|; cents ; ^or all of them." It was testified thai i he had declared Germany j the right side in this war I the United States governml j "simply fattening up a ? diers in this country to send, j the war for slaughter." j Cross was characterized by mett as nothing but a schenii I part of the government i funds for its own use, it v out at the hearing. Witne| fled that Wreffireeu4^ cent to the organization, j E. W. Hughes, a special agent for ; the department of justice testified that "he went to Inman on July 2 to inves tigate the charges against Mr. Ham mett, and had warned him to desist from his remarks. He testified that the defendant told him that "I am an American and will talk as I like," that j he characterized the Red Cross as a j "bunch of grafters," and declared that d'it is not right for America to i send troops to foreign soil to fight and i that a victory will mean nothing to ! us." SHORT COTTON CROPS. j Agricultural Commissioners of Five States Hunk Eleven and One-half Million Bales Limit. i Little Rock. Aug. 15.?Estimates t of a cotton crop of not to exceed 11. j 500.000 bales with prospects of fur j ther deterioration because of drought j conditions were made at a meeting j of agricultural commissioners and j cotton men of five States held here j today. Southern States represented j were Arkansas, Alabama, Texas, Ten ' nessee and Oklahoma. It was decid ed that because of the certainty of a l short crop, there is no necessity of asking aid in financing the marketing ; of the crop other than that which i can be furnished by the States. The j conference will recommend that ex j port bills of lading be restored and that movement of cotton between i transportation concentration points be ; by carload lots. FRENCH MINISTER DEAD. Albert Metin. Head of Economic Mis sion to United States Stricken Witli Apoplexy. Pacific Port. Aug. 16.?Albert Me tin, head of the French economic mis sion now in the United States and minister of blockade of France, died here at midnight from a stroke of apoplexy. He was found lying on the floor of his apartment, and never re gained consciousness. LOSS SIX MILLIONS. Price Germans Have Paid for Effort to Conquer World. Paris. Aug. 16.?The total Ger man losses from the beginning of the war to the end of July this year is understood to be six millions, accord ing to the morning newspapers. These figures include one million, four hundred thousand killed up to tin' beginning of the German of fensive last March. From March '1~ to June 17th the Germans are said to have lost one hundred and twenty thousand in killed alone. BRITISH TANKER SUNK. Nine of Crew Drowned When Ship Was Torpedoed Off Cnix* Hatteras. Beaufort. X. C. Aug. 17.?Nine of the crew of the British tanker Mirlo were drowned when that vessel was submarined last night off Cape Jl.it tercis. according to reports received today. The rest of the erew were brought safely ashore. The crew was compelled to jump for their lives. ng't at be thy Country's, Thy God's m 3DAY, AUGUST 21, 1911 FRENCH DEFEAT HUNS, j - MANEUVER OF GREAT ST RATE - j G1C VALUE CARRIED OUT. Two Woods Captured?Last of More Important Positions in New Front Desired by Allies. With the British Army in France, Aug. 16, 3.15 p. m. (By the Associat ed Press).?By a brilliant maneuver,; the French have finally captu>*^d "35"! wood and Damery wood, in these! two wooded tracts the Germans have' I been holding out desperately for sev- i j oral days, realizing the value of those i ' positions. ! The little patches of forest which' are now in the hands of the allies are virtually on the extreme right of thej British line and from the eastern bor- j j ders it is possible to observe closely j quite a wide stretch of ground. The j j allied position for several miles on j j each side of the two woods have j II been materially improved by their ' capture. i ! These were virtually the last of thej I really more important positions on the j ; new front to which the enemy has been holding and which the allied; forces desire. The enemy launched a heavy attack against the new posi-! j tions at Damery- After sharp fight- j J ing were repulsed, leaving 150 prls- | loners. During the last 24 hours thej j British have captured 225 prisoners] j and four machine guns. The casual- j i ties inflicted on the enemy in local J j affairs during this time are estimated I at about 1,300. Artillery activity con tinues along the entire front. The enemy seems indisposed to launch an infantry attack. It was learned today that since Au gust 8 the Germans have employed "6 divisions on a front of 48 miles, i Of this number 21 were in the line at ' the beginning of the Somme attack. ! the other 15 being brought in as re : inforcements. It was learned from prisoners re I cently captured that the British ar ! tiilery during the past few days has i caused considerable destruction wich j in the lines. The British guns have J been especially active in searching out j German ammunition dumps, a num j her of which have been destroyed. It [was partially for doing just this work I that such speed was made in the for ward movement of the guns. From the start of the offensive not a mo J ment has been lost in moving up the j artillery. That it has been a paying \ proposition is proved by prisoners' j statements as to the havoc wrought I by shell fire. 1 Some slight troop movements east 1- wSFd--ffire *^is*tit? 't? i the rear of the German lines along j the Somme. but they are insufficient i to warrant any conclusions regarding I the enemy's intentions. ' . ATTACKS PRUSSIAN POLICY. ________ ! Harden Issues Warning of Storm [ Brewing in Russia. ! Washington. Aug. 15.?Another vio j lent attack on Prussian policy with a [ warning of the storm brewing in Rus I sia and a frank tribute to British and ! American soldiers fighting for their ] ideals has just been published in The ; Zunkumft by Maxmilian Harden, the ; free spoken German editor. An offi I cial dispatch from France today ! quotes extracts from the article com I menting particularly upon the action i of the German censors in permitting ' it to appear: j "At the moment when the fire of j Slavic hatred coming from four cor ? ners of Russia is developing into one single immense flame," Harden assert : ed, "how can our rulers think of find ; ing supporters for thrones and sup ' plying candidates for them? Are your : rulers desirious of supporting the , plans of the adversary and uniting in f on*' single lire all the sprakling j flames which are burning or smoul dering between Vladivostok and Se ; bastopol, between Murmansk and \ Fiume ?" ;' Harden ' declared the soul of j modern Germany is dominated by the : idea of bondage, is summed up in : "down on your knees." i "You think that the British and j Americans are such as the conserva tive papers represent them?" he ! wrote. "They, have proved themselves j to be very different on the Yser. at ; Arras and at Dormans. They have ! shed the best of their blood, spent hundreds of thousands without : dreams of conquest, simply for their ideals. Does this in any way cor respond to the picture that you have ; drawn of them ?" COSSACKS DEFEAT BOLSHEVIKf. ; Have Cleared Banks of Don River and Arc Nearing Kiev. Amsterdam, Aug. 16.?The Dan Cossacks have cleared the left bank of the Don River of their opponents, and are marching victoriously on Zar agin. from which it is only a day's march, says the official statement re ceived from Kiev. AMERICAN CASUALTY LIST. Seventeen Killed and Twenty Missing in Action. Washington. Aug. 17.?Army cas ualties total ninety. Killed in action. !T: died of wounds. 1: died of acci dent or other causes. _: wound >d severely. wounded, degree un etermined. _": missing in action, la. RECEIVED WITH JOY. Russians Welcome British Force Re cently Landed. London. Aug. 10.?The population of the Murmansk region received with joy the Itritish fore*' thai landed re cently, according to an Allied <!ip'<> nmi who arrived in London from IV t rograd. HUNS ATTACK MjEBiCIHS j RETALIATION FOR BOMBS DROPPED ON AISNE BRIDGES. Combined Gas Artillery and Air Bombing Affair Attempted by Huns. With the American Army on the Vesle, Aug. 16 (By the Associated Press).?The Germans launched a combined gas, artillery and air bombing attack upon the French and Americans along the Vesle early Fri day morning. This was in retalia tion for a bombing raid by American airmen upon bridges over the Aisne late Thursday. The German artillery continued shelling the cross roads south of the Vesle for hours, on the assumption that the French and Americans were bringing up troops. German aviators bombed the woods and villages south of the Vesle, apparently working in relays. A group of 12 American aviators participated in the raid on the Aisne bridges. Early Friday other Amer ican fliers went up and took photo graphs for the purpose of ascertain ing the effects of bombs dropped. Great traffic had been reported pass ing over the Aisne bridges, and the French and Americans increased the fire of their heavy guns in an attempt to destroy as many bridges as pos sible. As a result of the reports of ob servers, the French and Americans laid down a box barrage during Thursday night on machine gun nests along the hills to the northwest of Fismes. Observers and patrols re ported Friday morning that 12 ma chine guns had been destroyed and every German gunner killed. The Aisne bridges bombed by the Americans were located between Pcnt-Arcy and Gerniccurt, a distance of about 12 miles. The same district also is within range of the French and American heavy guns, lie al lies are desirous of harassing the ene my as much as possible owing to the reports that large ammunition trains I southward bound have been sighted using the bridges. The northward traffic has consisted ' principally of infantrymen and trucks ! loaded with goods taken from houses j in villages, according to reports by i aerial observers and three Italians j who escaped from the Germans and j reached the American line. The Ital ! ians saw enormous shipments of j household material and similar ar i tides and expressed the belief that the Germans had brought them from The Italians before "they Feaefred the American lines hid during the j day and traveled during the night. j They told the American officers that j the Germans were particularly ac j tive after dark when their troop j movements were carried out and : when also there was much traffic ,' north and south. i _ 1 VERMONT GOVERNOR REPUDI I ATED. j Republican State Committee Calls on i Graham to Give up High Office. j Burlington, Vt., Aug. 16.?Gov. i Horace Graham today was asked to ' resign his office in resolutions adopt i ed by the Republican State commit i tee at a special executive session. ! This week discrepancies amounting j to $20.000 were said to have been : found in the accounts of the govern j or when he was State auditor, j Governor Graham was invited to \ the meeting but did not attend. Lead . ing Republicans of the State were j present. i In a public statement following the ! disclosure of the discrepancies in the I accounts, Governor Graham admitted 1 he was at fault in handling his sal i ary and official expenditures, but said I he was not aware any vouchers were. j missing. He asked the people of Tin' i State to suspend judgment pending ! an examination of his accounts. Ex | aminers are now working on hir I bo oks. i RUSSIA COMING BACK. j - ; Declaration for Renewal of War Against Germany. London. Aug. 16. British Wireless Service).?"The government of north I e?-n Russia" has been formed with M. Tchaskowsky as president and minis ter of foreign affairs. The other mem bers of the government include so cialists of various parties. The political program of the new government which has just been is sued contains the following clauses: "First the recreation of Russian democratic power; second, the rees tablishment of local government on a basis of universal suffrage; third, the recreation of the Russian nation al army and the renewal of the war on the eastern front: fourth, the ex pulsion of the German invaders and other enemies of Russia to be carried out with the aid of and in coopera tion with the entente allies." AUSTRIA TO SEND TROOPS. Germany Promised Ton to Fifteen Di visions to Aid in Defensive Effort. London. Aug 16.?According to dis patch to The Daily Mail from The Hague. Germany has demanded that Austria send 10 to l ."? divisions to the western front. Austria assented to this, the dispatch says, on condition that Germany would accept Austria's solution of the relish, question and male*? ;i strong peace mcvo. meludin" he evacuation of Relgium. Germany >romised to accede to Austria's sehr jon <?f the polish question, including he naming of an \ustrian archduke king, tin- dispatch asserts. I SOUTHRON, EnabUaiioJ Jons, UM. VoLXLVn. No. 2. AMERICAN MACHINES FLY. SQUADRON OF DJEHAVTLANDS BEHIND GERMAN LINES. Foulois Leads First Complete Expe dition With Planes Built in the United States. Washington, Aug. 16.?General Per shing today advised the war depart ment that early in August a complete : squadron of 18 deHaviland Four air i planes manufactured in the United j States and equipped with Liberty j motors successfully carried out the j lirst reconnaissance flight of Ameri \ can built machines behind the Ger j man lines. They returned without j loss. i In making this announcement, Sec I retary Baker said that Brigadier Gen ! oral Foulois of the American air serv I ice led the expedition. This was the i lirst report from General Pershing'on J the performance of American built i dellavilands to be made public. Secretary Baker said his advices j contained no other information re | garding. the flight except that Lieut, j Blair Thaw also was on the trip. The ' time and place of the flight Mr. Ba | ker considered it advisable to with j hold. The announcement! was considered I by officers as setting at rest rumors I that the deHaviland machines were j not a success and also showing that j Liberty motors have now proved j themselves in actual war conditions. ! Whether the squadron was attacked : was not stated. It would have been ! well able to take care of itself, hov/ I ever, as the machines, each carrying ; a pilot and observer, are equipped i with four machine guns as recom i mended by General Pershing many i months ago. I No recent figures on the production* j of the deHaviland Fours are avail able'and Secretary Baker would not I sanction discussion of this pnase of j the matter. It is recalled, however, I that the production of the one-thou | ss.ndth machine at the plant of the ; Dayton-Wright Company was recent j ly celebrated and since then another ! great plant has come into quantity j production. i It is assumed that the squadron i mentioned today is now regularly op | erating at the front, which means j that a large number of reserve and j replacement planes are ready be . bind it. Probably General Persh I ing has now at his disr>03al the ma i jority of the craft of this type so far j produced. There was much discussion of the deHaviland Fours _ . recently ^dn-e. received. Investigation here1: shewed^ however, that the specific complaints . I were minor in character and the fact ? that a full squadron has been organ i ized and put into operation at the front shows this . to have been the ? case. The history of the production of i the deHaviland Four, which is a ,! British design, is regarded as a irib ; ute to American engineering skill as ; it was put into production on planes ; largely worked out from a model sent ' i from England and was intended only ! to get the plants going and keep j them going until the later model, the deHaviland Nine, should be ready: ', Plans for this model were greatly de j layed in England and the Four was taken up to prevent delay in produc tion here. Many of the criticisms of the deHaviland Four, it is understood, j are met in the design of the Haviland ' Nh e. With full information available : tl.fa time, American engineers have 1; bten able to prepare carefully for the i substitution of the Nines for the ', i\vrs. ? The Nines do not represent ?ny no ! I table change from the Fours, the lat 1 j ter model being a refinement of the ; earlier machines. Both are two I seated, high speed day bombers, j equipped ciher to fight, bomb or scout , under conditions that require high ' speed and easy maneuvering qualities. The type was adopted as a compro j mise between the several fields of j military aircraft in order to provide ; an efficient machine for general use to be supplemented by heavier, slow I er. weight carrying night bombers and ; by the swift single seated combat I planes used to protect observing and bombing planes from enemy raid i ers. SPAIN TO RETALIATE. Will Compensate Herself by Taking Tonnage From Huns if Outrages Continue. London. Aug. lf>.?Spain has no tified Germany of her intention to compensate herself for future out rages against Spanish shipping by confiscating a corresponding amount of tonnage from German shipping that has found refuge in Spanish ports, says a dispatch to The Times from Samtander. There are about 90 German steam ers voluntarily interned in Spain. WOMEN WORKERS WANTED. Appeal Made to Leisure Class to iTe^p Save Harvest. New York. Aug. 1?;.?An appeal to the "women of h .sure" in New York to save the harvest by volunteering for farm work at trood pay was made tday by the industrial commission of the Stat" department of labor. GERMANS SEIZE KRONSTADT. Important Naval Post in Hands of the Runs. Paris. Aug. 17.?Reports are in cir culntion in Finland that the Germans have seized the Russian naval port of Kronstadt, according to a Stockholm dispatch to Lo Matin