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GERMAN ATTACKS SOON TO COME;
FOOD A JFUEi ORDERS SCORED
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II. S. SENATORS HURL BITTER
CHARGES AGAINST HOOVER
TOO MANY 'BRAINLESS DAYS'
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Reed of Missouri and Borah of Idaho Have Banner Day in
Congress Declaring Food ' Dictator Overstepping
, Authority; Fuel Administration Also Gets
- .'. Criticised By Solons. .
: y (By Associated Press.)
Washington, March 8. Strictures on government price
fixing and the activities of the food administration monopolized
today's session of the senate. Led by Senator Reed of Missouri,
democrat, a group of senators of both parties, made the attack,
r EXCEEDING AUTHORITY.
Charges that a general policy for fixing prices for farm;
products, not authorized by the food control law, is being in
stituted, were made by Senators Reed and Borah, who said that
licensing power of the law was being so used that its actual re
sult is an unauthorized price-fixing program. '
OUESTldNS AUTHORITY. Q- rr , '
In a fouihour speech, teeming with J
bitter Criticism, Senator Keea aiso oe
nounced the fuel administration, as
serting : that Administrator Garfield
had not told the truth regardmg re
suits of the coalless days order, which
he described as a "lockout" on east
ern industries. ' - ,v " '
In the midstof the debate the sen
ate adopted a resolution by Senator
Saulsbury of Delaware, president pro
tempore, asking the food administra
tion for its authority in issuing - an
official bulletin requesting- bids "at
' fixed prices on tomatoes for the army
and navy. . , , .
Senator Wolcott, democrat, of Del
, aware, said Mr. Hoover had denied
adoption of a farm . produce-fixing
plan, disclaiming authority, but he and
other senators insisted that' acts of
the food administration, particularly
-under its wholesale and retail deal
ers' licensing power, was haying that
. effect in actual practice. ; v
r". "BRAINLESS DAYS." t
i T "We would not have so many meat
U ; j-ess;ay4 flceen ' so'
many .brainless days,"' Senator .Reed
' declared. "A few more acts' of the
food administration and we will have
bread tickets. I believenhe efficiency
of the United-States has been reduced
20 per cent by ignorant inter
ference with business methods. ,;;
FEELING GROWS
BITTER BETWEEN
CENTRALPOVERS
Squabble Over Which Country
Has .Best Served: Ally - in
, War; Knock German An
nexation Schemes.
New i Yor March 8. -Relations
between Austria-Hungary. 'and 'Ger
many have not been improved by the
recent strike .movement in Austria
Hungary and by the various edito
rials and ' speeches - Explaining , the.
5trike as a roteit. agaitist'lhe.annefc
atiohist" propaganda of the pan-Germans,'
as is shown by theT comments
of the German, press in -the-latter
part of January". , r'
Newspapers, such ' as tht Cologne
Gazette, resent the.attitudc of the Vi
In securing the so-called voluntary ennese and lament tlie utterances
...:.u c ... .
tney mace, declaring that the" cause
of peace wasnot served by them. ,,
A significant feature in the Ger
man press comments , is r the fact that
a discussion has been .precipitated as
to which of the countries has ren
dered the greater service to the other
during the war.
Ungrateful to Germany.
The' Berliner. Tageblatt ,f January
25 says there, are many people in
Germany who claim that the pebples
of Austria-Hungary seem" to forget
'...j. ,iiimetlf SIM IS
ntoitiiH riiuHi
AND CONTROL OF
SEAS TELL FATE
So Says Former. British Pre
mier; in : Address to Constit
' uents; Russian Peace Dis-'
closes 'German fdeas. ,
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'(By AaaoHated Fresi.) ,' - '
Cupar, Scotland, Thursday, March
7. There are two keys tovthe world
war position, said Former Premier
Herbert H. Asquith in an addres to
his constituents here today. These
keys are the command of the seas and
of the western' front. Both, he said,
after all vicissitudes, still remain in
the hands of the entente allies.
' "Whi!eit is impossible to avert our
eyes from the tragedy unfolding in
Russia and the formidable dangers
that tragedy has revealed," he said,
"these dangers do not give us appre
hension. There are two important
factors, in the situation. First, Rus
sia, as an effective military factor has
been wjped otf the slate; second, he
German procedure in the so-called
negotiations with Russia, and the
light they have thrown upon the
minds and methods of Germany's
present rulers. There rarely has been
a more instructive contrast between
pretention and intention."
Answer Hertling.
Referring to the speech of Imperial
Chancellor von Hertling, Mr. Asquith
dzz?MSPLIT' IN RANKS OF RED
writing 'terms, not of peace, but of IL j -J '
ISSS : FORCES WHEN CHIEF
and in the .Caucusus were to be w vV - . LI '' : i
handed, back .to share with Armenia fit- A DMV, . fiJTITQ Dl C T
the fate of BelRium if Germany was " : . "-I i. . i. .: " . . h; ! : . . i 4 . ' , ... .
ever able to dictate to the western , . s : , ;. ' ' : i f .
powers after the pattern set at Brest-, Ensign Krylenko Resighi Positiou After Clash With Bol-
J-ltOVSK. . ; ' '.' ! ' ' ' ' ' -" :
RUSS Treatv TJintfrae i ' hAnlr? I. Aai flMnnmwfu P..L!.. D' '
Jt is" not by. such roads that a clean I . r- - ) !' . . - v irT i '
Pvv ,o,c. inc so-cauea , ... irroa upon, Roumanians;. ku35 oeacoast
..voLjr -vi. uic9i,'uiuvsx .wis sCvcry
thing that -an international 'compact
ought not; to be. ,; Te only peace worth
,havui j? must b; a. peace, -not-of mkrs
or'Dariraifients but of peoples. . -One
, thmg seems - to be of nara.
mount importance in the world's. best
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CENTRAL POWERS
READY FOR DRIVE!
UPON TWO FRONTS
Blows Will Bb Dealt Simultaneously By Troops ; Con
centrated in' Great Numbers; Austrian Believe
! - Italian Line Too Weak to Hold Against '
' Proposed Gigantic Lunge. f .
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, Curtailed. By New Treaty , Terms.
'.its J .t'i
, i.
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interest, .and '.that-Is that the. neocle ' . T " '.' . .VF. . - r? . me uermans,
with whom m the 16ng run the issue wao declined to halt their advance when peace was agreed to.
agreemenf with rehners, on sugar
r Drices. . Senator Lodire of Massassa.
chusetts, ' republican, remarked the
.food administration "managed' to fix
nnces
'In .criticisms the fuel, administra
tion, Senator Reed commented upon
Director Garfield's statement that as
the result of the fuelless days 480 ships
vcre released from American ports.
Coalless Days No Help. '
"I am scrry that Dr. Garfield . gave
out that statement, because! it is not
true," he said, adding that shipping
V
board figures showed that' 56 less ?h??A? n&i0n and
ships were released than -under, nor- ?T7 fecfefor:them' Viwptr.
auna, mc uciiui paper says, are tne
same classes who by their attitude
have injured Germanv so immensplv
in the eyes of the world and have al
ienated cordial friendships. They are
also to be thanked for thi fact that
the almost excessive symoathy with
which everything Gerhian was viewed
m Austria during the first year of
the war has not been retained.' "
Fought Side by Side.
But the Deoole of Austria save tli
Berlin oatoer. cannot foro-pi that in
thei.r liberated . territories,- extending
MUlll DUKOW ni -and 1 th( tnnu..ff.
ered Carpathians to the southern bor
ucis, mere resis Desiae tnelr owiv
sons thousands ofUerman tffpn anH
youths, v ,
The Tageblatt then proceeds to ex.
plain that the Germ
follows ho annexationist scheme and
that any misunderstandings 'Wir
caused by the German, proposals at
the Brest-Litovsk conference regard
ing the future of Poland, Lithuania,
Courland. Livonia and Estimtiia ' Tt
adds that later the German govern
ment declared it did . not desire to
mal conditions.
1 hey stopped water power ,in
Maine to get coal to bunker ships in
New York harbor," he said. "In order
to understand, the logic of that you
have got- to be a plain idiot.
Turning tt) what he called 'ineffi
ciency in thd War department the
Missouri senator said General Persh
ing had notified the department' not
,to send any more shoddy Uniforms
tor American soldiers in trance. r
' The priority order by which coal
was diverted , for lake shipment to
the northwest last summer- was as-
. sailed by Senator Reed, who said he
desired to 'congratulate Senator Kel
logg of Minnesota: for' the 'business
acumen displayed" by the people of
Minnesota in getting "coal-to the ex
clusion of other states. Senator Kel
logg interrupted to say that only
enough, coal, to meet the needs of the
communities was sent to Minnesota.
, Denounces Much Power.
senator Keed declared 'that you
can't do business in this country un
less you remove artificial uncertainty,"
rests shuld be. brought to understand
tnar, so , tar as the , allies are con
cerned, we have but one. governing
end to which everything elsc-Ie unh.
ordinate, namely, to build upon that
foundation 'the fabric 'of the future
world" . . . . y -
"Finished Mystery? Agents ; ;
; Get Heavy fine in Canada
Toronto, Canada. " March 8. Three
members of the .International Bible
Students association wer tnAa'v
Sjven their choice of ' paying fines to . the resignation of Krylenko, wh,o
; in,.eaCh use-rvin.g prison recently had urged ' the Russian peo-
to use .11 the mt- their
entitled, "The 'Finished Mystery," command to resist the central powers.
vhich the court held contained mat- This is the first split among the
hVr l 10 ureat"ritain nd men who hpve composed the bolshe
her cause in, the present war. -i ... . .
Four other 'members of the or'gani- v,kl W".P.ent, although there have,
zation, who were deemed less guilty )een tePorta from time to time that
of wrong intent, were assessed fines either Lenine or Trotiky, or' both,
v r'j? wn,c" tliey must would resign
and have taken Jamburg, , 6& miles south-southwest of Petro
grad, trom the invaders. - rt Kzsrrj' t ;n ;.
t Jamburg is a railroad town on the Luga river, and the Ger
mans hid moved there from Narva to straighten out their line
southward toward Pskov after peace term's had been reached.
l Differences between Ensign Kry
lenko; commander-in-chief of the bol
sheviki armies and. the people's com
missaries are reported, to have led
(By Associated Press.) i , , , .'
Washington, March 8. Italian official dispatches today, f
transnitting "reliable dispatches from Switzerland," say it is 4
evident that the "central powers have completed their military 1
preparations and that the beginning of the offensive against the
entente is imminent." ,
. TWO BLOWS AT ONCE.
'.Everything goes to indicate trit
the operations of Germany in France
will be simultaneous with the offensive
of Austria-Hungary : against Italy."
say the dispatches. "From the same .
sources it is learned that Austro-Hun
garian troops have already been eon
centra ted in very large numbers slong !
the entire Italian line and that strong
contingents are still moving to our
front. t,,;t 1
AUSTRIA SEES PEACE.,; ::' i: ' ;::
' "Th. Austrian press. keeps repeat--ing
to its own people that tl?e Italian '
front h weak and that their; offensive ,
against; Italy, being surely successful, .
peace will be concluded in the near
lutuCe. These statements in the ene
my press constitute the usual psycho
logical and political, preparation of
the German and Austrian public, pre
liminary. to. a new offensive, V, : - -p
'eply 5 to the bombardment of
Venice IS Italian hydroplanes raided
the Huval base of Pola. .All returned r -safely.
During the last enemy air raid
over Venice! twb enemy -airplanes .
whioli seemed to'be . determined, to de t ,i
strojrf 'theiRialto ibridgc. were strtjek '
by our aiUi-airtraft gun and fell, into ,
the, Adriatic, vDri the next day ur-f -
nyaropianes .ttombardid i successfully " - '
the enemy: hangars at Mottaidi' Livt
enza and Parenib;" , ; c : . . , ) "' ....
anH urged that the mine operator, the annex these territories, but intended
farmer and othe business interests
of the country be told by the govern
ment that this "usurpation" of power
(Continued Mt Page Two, Column Six.)
Bill of Exceptions in Wild
only to conclude treaties with such
sections as seceded from Russia.
BritisLCommons Vote
: : Huge-New War Credit
Horse Case Fills 'A Dm Panoc L-onlon'.March 8 The House of
" . " "... " ' 3 , ns la.te ,ast ht agreed unan
Ine bill of exceDtions in the fa- imotisly to the vote of crerfn r( ftnn .
...:u i . nrvwuvi i . . ' '
"'"us wjiu, nurse case win ne nacri w,uuu i novea vesternav hw fh
upqii by both sides of the controversv ccI1or of the exchequer. Andrew Rn.
in federal court Saturday before being Law. This brings thtf total . of
sent xo me court ot anneals. The l"e votes ot credit durmir the war r.
a. li a I . V tt fl rrr rrt w
ivpcwrmen testimonv in the rae. fi!U tw.o.uuu.uuu.
4.0W pages. ... .
The appellants are T. SifWv SmWti
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miiw n semencea to two vnr. in
prison and fined $10,000; C. A, Smith,
wiiu semencea to tnree months in
prison, and C. M. Thomosnn u,hn
was sentenced- to a vr .n - ,;.
n.-ai iuwr piace more tnan
year ago. v ,
Officer Frustrates AttemDted
Holdup in Douglas Street
Policeman Nichols arrived at r.
taurant at 1305' Douirla cirt i,.
Thursday night just in time to frus-
irate a oanait trom escamne after an
attempted holdup.
After eating a lunch ihe bandit
wanted to the cash register, where
rne proprietor was standing, and or
dered him to throw up his hands,-
: The three receiving the more se
vere sentences were W. C. Douglas,
William - McKinnon- and the Rev.
Ernest, Spaulding. . .
Sioux City May Discard '
: Commission Government
,iioux ,Uty,..Ia., March 8. Sioux
city is voting today on the proposi-
A Berlin dispatch received. in toh
don on - Efcbruary", 25 reported that
General BonchiBrujevitch fudrhtcn
appointed, to 'Succeed .Krylenko as-commander-in-chief,
but there was-ho
confirmation', of this report from Rus '
sian sources. ... . . .
' Reds Hold Kiev.
WAR FINANCE;
'BILL RUSHED ON
WAY fa WILSON
it.
tion of going back to the ald'ermanic. city o Kiev ad been'occS'Tr!!
plan or retaining the commission plan Sed i.rStro7rad. whkn sat a
which has been in onerat nn here ,i,- .I:,,! . c" fay9, ln.al
I , , .' . a . ic nanus oi, ine
Doisneviki. who captured it more than
TAhprtii (Zifts tn Hon a ,"?.nt." ag0 from the Ukrainian rada,
Liioeriy IrirtS 10 Meat . which later made neace with the TeJ
' Kaiser O. K., Says ' Uncle tons- Ber)in's. nnouncenwnt .of, the
ti was indue just as
Washington, March 8. Liberty
gifts as well as Liberty loans and
Liberty taxes now are acceptable
to the government. .
Generous spirited citizens who
overpay their income taxes will
find the donations accepted. The
Department of Justice holds it is
legal', for the treasury to keep
these gifts and an epidemic of pa
triotic donations appears to be de
veloping similar to that during the
Spanish war.
Scores of persons, paying their
income taxes early, have sent a few
dollars more, explaining they were
liberty gifts.
These receiDts 'will be : nut with
the $500,000 of "Conscience money."
Finns Choose Kaiser 's
Son Oscar as New King
London. March 8. The Finnic
rirrl.e . j" ""-f ;vvuim sas iv teams irom QipionaaUC
PriSl rf. according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch.
ITmce Osrar nf Hnli.n.Alt.. :n i .1 . . .
lni ,0, n s -v'" win w years 01a next JUiy Z7. Un
emfrfrSi i . ' e 9K"' PParently the wishes of his father,
iVIJuA - morganatic marriage with Countess Ina Bassewitx, who had
Been lady in waiting tc the empress.
- - Prince Oscar auflTereil
il, , - ..ton nuuuic uuring me cany monms ot
ch!rW. v rePrte to have collapsed after leading a victorious
V"dun." Ortober 3, 1914. He returned to duty and narrowly
SE5rtfptUre-m ?oland.1?. December of that year. There were few
.i;-i.i j ' ' ? v -"viue aunng isia, out early in 1916 he was
sightly wounded in the head and thigh on the eastern front ' -
Russia and Germany agreed to peace
terms and since then there have beeii
no reports of military activity in that
region. .
, ' Russia Loses Seacoast.' ' 1 '
In five days Germany has forced
peace terms on three different govern
ing ts Russia-, Roumania and pin
land. ' The Finnish government ap-
pdrenuy sui)mtted to the German
terms in order to gain military aid
against tne revolutionists who hold
much of southern Finland along the
Finnish guPf.
.With Finland and Estlionia under
jermanj5uzeramty, the Guit of Fin
land is taken from Russian control
and great Russia, has less than ISO
mues oj coast line along the gulf.
f ' Crushing Roumanian Terms. '.'
Altho'ujfh the Germans jnnarfntfv
will permit King Ferdinand to con
tinue to rule Koumania. the victorious
enemy has compelled its victim to
azree to humiliatinor t.rmt ' Imnnr.
tant wheat,, oil and salt concessions
ar to be given Germany, vhich is tq
control the Roumanian 'railroads for
IS years and is to have a most favor
able trade agreement with Roumania,
which loses the Dobrudja and con.
trol tf the Danube. ;
Raiding ooerations have not vet de
veloped into large operations on the
western and Italian, fronts. The ar
tillery duels, however, continue in
tense at- important sectors' All the
entente armies from the JCorth. Sea
to the Adriatic have withstood enemy !
raids, while at the same time nrrec. i
fully penetrating the Teuton lines., i
Administration Bill for Great
Corporation to Handle War
;Work Given Into Hands
1 ; of House.
.Washington. March 8. The admin
istration's bill to establish a $4,500,
000.000 war, finance corooration
passed by the senate yesterday was
transmuted to the house today, where
consideration of the measure is ex
pected to begin next wek,
'I ht house ways and means commit
tee already, has prepared a report on
the bill and administration, leaders
.will urge speedy " actiftn because of
the. legislation's importance in con
nection with general financing and
particularly the flotation of the third
Liberty loan. '
$1 Down and $1 a Week
j New Plan for Fines
New York, March 8.The pay
ment of the .fines on the installment
plan as provided for in a bill intro
duced in the assembly at Albany
has the approval of Chiet Magis
trate McAdoo. Other ciy magis
trates who are studying the provi
sions of the proposed law are ex
pected to approve. ' .
' If the bill becomes a lawr persons
whose incomes are small but steady
will 'not be compelled to go to
jail, but will be permitted to make
restitution for wrongs done on a
.weekly .-or monthly payment plan.
GARFIELD DROPS
COAL PRICE TO
AVERT SHORTAGE
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Effects Mines in Middle West
and Designed to Encourage
People to Lay in Winter ',
Supply Quickly. ' ; ! ;
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Washington,' March 8.--An average
reduction of 30 cents a ton in the re
tail price of all anthracite toal sxld
for domestic use, between next April
Land September . 1, was announced
tonight by - the fuel administration,'
together with reefulatioiis goverhing
the retail distribution of all coal or
the? year beginning the first, of net
month.' The. rtiles are designed 'par
ticularly fp prevent hoarding, and jrf-
sure, me limns of ail qoniestlC necas
forhext winter" during the summer
months.. , v . '!-' .' ?
AltllOUfih "ho i-etliiction hi the-refai
price; of bituminous foal M consumers
was made the fuc!. administration to-
J I : u f ...
urt ucg.m aiinoiiiicerncni or revisca
iees for such coal at the mines,' the
hrstjmade public showing sharp re-
mictions, m.coioraao, utaii, vvyom.ng
ana Montana, rnces tor Jowa are
almost completed and those .for other
states will be annunced as soon as
deteriuined. The idea'i sfor a ecn-
eral revision' before the.bcginhing of
me coat year on April i. .,
Iir explaining the reduction, in the
pnee ot anthracite the admmistrat'on
said the bulk of this coal is used lor
domestic consumption. The 30 cents
reduction was determined upon, the
statement said m lieu ot the. re
ductions, heretofore voluntarily 4 of
fered by dealers' to" encourage 'early
buying for' the, following winter's
needs, and which ranged from 50 cstts
in April to 10 cents in August."
National Swine Growers';' :
. :l Committee Visits Omaha
, committee from the National
Swine Growers' association , visited
Omaha Thursday for consultation
with the Union Stock Yarchi company
and the bureau of publicity of the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce. 'The
committee is visiting several 'cities
which are after the location of the
National Swine Show. ' The location
will be definitely decided in about
two weeks. ' "
Deadly Enmity Result
Off Russ-German Peace
Amsterdam, "March 6. Com
menting on the outcome of . the
Brest-Litovsk conference at which
peace with the Russian govern
ment was concluded, the socialist
newspaper, Vorwaerts, says:
"Peace was concluded, but the
delegates' parted with feelings of
deadly enrnityr That such was
the case is a deeply regrettable
event. The German workmen do
not stand behind Von lCosenberg
(assistant' to .Foreign' Secretary
vor. Kuehlmann and chairman oN
the second .Brest-Litovsk confer
ence) or tha policy for. which he
stands. Let us therefore face the
facts and frankly declatc that in
this peace the success which was
sought has been denied to social
ism of all shades of opinion." - '
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PLANS'.
TO RUSH THROUGH
CHINESE BORDER
LoivJo'n, ' MaVch 8.7aDan:i accord. "
mg to a, dispatch from Jien-Tsin to 1
the Daily Mail; is reported. td have ,fn-:
timated it would welcome Chinese co-!
operation jn the event that extreme,'
measures were necessarv in Siberia. :
thus: desiring to demonstrate jts un- -selfishness.
' ' .';.," . ;" . ; "
The Chinese eovernment Is said in
have obtained documentary proof that
the Germans , have . made . definite . of- . '
fcrs of assistance to Russian revolu
tionary leaders if thev wauld
trouble. The documents are reported
to mention i Germany's intention tn
hse released German war prisoners in .
Siberia against China's northern fron-
tiers. China, hopes to obtain Japanese -and
American, financial assistance to,
meet the txnenses oF the nArthrrn'j
expeditionary forces. , ,
Uncle Sam Authorizes' Five ' '
V ! More-Cavalry Regiments
Washington, March 8X Orffaniza-'
tion of five more regiments of cavalrv. 3
in accordance with recommendations ?
from General Pershing, has been or- 1 '
dcred by the War denartment. in ad
dition to the complete cavalry division
of the regular army already under
way. The designation and organiza
tion point of the new regiments will '
be p.s follows: 308th, Fort Douglas,
Utah; 309th, Fort Sam Houston, Tex.;
310th, Fort Ethan Allen, Vf.; 311th, - f
Fort Riley, Kan.; 312th Fort Myer, '
Va. . '.- f ...
One squadron of the-312th cavalry
is to be organized at Fort Sheridan,
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Farmers Who Corn Beet Required "
To Obtain "Explosive" Licenses
Farmers vho corn beef in quantities
and us mote than one ounce ot salt
peter in the process, must first obtain
license or expose themselves to a
fine of $5,000 and a year's imprison
ment; in fh.t penitentiary under the
federal explosives act, according to
orders rece'ved by County Clerk
Dewey from Washington. ' ? . , .
saltpeter, which is commonly usel
in corning hcef, is one'of the explo
sive mgred-ents. on tne .'ederal lisr,
the ; possess i it or handling if wlw'ch
requires a itfcerai license. ,
Jhe hlw also hits every Jiuaeist.
photograph?!!" tnd grocer who handle
hrcworks, j well as spotting goods
andhardwar dealers who have ex
plosives or' Explosive ingredients, ex
cept gasoline and kerosene, for sale.
, The fee .j .23 cents.. and.. licenses
may ' be .'?.-ocured' from the county
frun; thet federal bureau of
clerk 'or
mines.
' Flashlight, powders; hrcworks.
blasting povrders, shells and taps, gun
powder, 'tntroculculose' and nitro
glycerin au on the list. Drungisti
lundlirg.v Tvhfoiuatcs.' ' chlorates,
nitric afi(! and nxixed acids.- per
mangat.ates pvr:lilorates. wroxide
or phosphor and other-drugs in the
explosive ingredient group must ob
tain, licenses to do so under the aL
200 Vessels British
Output for Last Te$r
London, March .8. Sir- Leo Chi-
ozza Money, parliamentary secretary '
aim snipping controller, declared in
the H ouse of Commons . yesterday
that 200 British-built merchant ves-.
sels of 1,600 tons or over were com
pleted last year. They aggregate
1,067,696 tons. ' -
The net loss of British vessels of
1.600 tons and over during 1917 wa '
598, involving a loss of 20 per cent ':
iCompared .,with 1916.. . The, actual '
cargo imported, however was ony
about 2 per cent less. t .
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Germany Makes G?d Late
Sub Damage to Holland-
The Hague, March 8. The Dutch
fortign office announces that it has
received compensation from Ger
many for damage to the property of
the" Belgian relief commission result
ing; from a submarine attack on the
Dutch steamer Rijnijk on April" 7. '
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The Rijndiik was beacheT after th
attack, but its cargo was" damaged by,.
water. Germany apologized to Hoi- '
land for the attack in Auzust .'1916. "
and last November it was announced r
at The Hague that it had paid' com
pensation for damaging the Rijndijk; '
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