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    DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD; DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA.
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CLASSIFICATION OF 8NEI.LING
MEN INTO DIVISIONS OF
SERVICE 8TARTS.
WILL WEED OUT WEAKLINGS
No partiality shown In Training of
Rookies, Who Have Been Put
Through Gruelling Course of
Study and Manuals,
tTmUrn Newptr Union Nw Brr1c.
Fort Suolllng, Minn. Tho first per
iod of tho northwest's offlcorB' train
ing camp has been comploted. This
Brat month of training to becomo of
ficers In Unclo Sam's now army, to
attain tho distinction of being includ
ed in tho "flrflt 10,000" who will train
tho first half million citizens to bo
dratted Soptombor 1, just onded, has
been tho satno for all the rookieH
nearly 2,500 of thom regardless of
profcrrod branches of service a
month of gruelling, grinding study,
drill and practice In infantry work.
Now comes tho time for classification
of studonts into soparato units accord
ing to thoir choice of service, such as
infantry, coast defense, artillory, on
glimerlnc and no on, for intensified
work in tho ruspoctlvo departments.
Tho first period of tho threo months'
courso has been dovotcd to basic in
fantry instruction nnd Instruction In
those duties of officers that aro com
mon in all branches of tho service.
Tho socond porlod, and remainder of
tho limo In camp, will be formulated
to Include tho special training re
quired for officers In tho particular
branch of tho army In which tho stu
dent hopes to obtain a commission.
With this shakoup comes tho pos
sibility of considerable weeding out,
too. Tho work of singling out thoso
rookios not uunsldorod sultablo to be
come offlcora has boon going on stead
ily until somo sixty-odd havo been
droppod. Indications now aro that
with tho unit systom in voguo and tho
work bocoming moro sovore inoro
would-bo offlcors will bo loft behind.
They certainly will havo to show
a groator burst of speed to maintain
tho pace that will bo sot from now on,
which of courso promises moro dis
missals for lnofllcioncy, physical and
otherwise. Tho strain on tho boys'
montnl and physical rosources multi
plies with tho change and as thoy ad
Tanco In this cramming procoss.
Thoro can bo no woaklingB among tho
mon who will train Amorlca's great
citizen army noxt autumn ovory man
must bo sound to tho coro, ring truo
to tho high standard of military of
flcloncy doflnod. Tho oft-tooted Gor
man efficiency can havo nothing on
tho now American brand now in tho
making.
FREIGHTER SUNK BY "8UB.1
French steamship Mississippi Is Lat.
est plunger Victim.
Now York. News of tho destruc
tion of tho big French frolght steam-
nhlp Mississippi by a Gorman sub
marino, with a loss of ono of tho mer
chantman's crow was brought horo by
officers of a British frolght vossol that
arrived from a Fronch port.
Tho Mississippi, of C.677 tons gross,
was torpodood and flunk about 14G
miles out from tho port of Brest,
Franco, on Juno j1, according to of
flcors of tho Uritlsh ship, which res
cuod forty-sovon offlcora and soumon
from open boats. Thoy had been afloat
only a short tlmo.
Tho British offlcors refused to ills
closo dotaIl8 of tho sinking as related
to thom by tho French crow. Tho
only sailor lost waB drowned whllo
tho crow wns taking to tho boats. Tho
Uritlsh Hhlp landed the survivors nt
Fayal, Azoroa.
Tho MIbbIbbIppI, ownod by tho Gen
eral Transatlantic Stoanmhlp com
pany of Havro, waB last roportod in
marino records ns having arrived at
Now Orloans on March 13 from Havro.
Sho was In rogular trado botwoon tho
two ports.
For Air supremacy plan.
WaBhlnuton. n. n. i.'iiii n,.mvni
has boon given by tho war dopartmont
to tho air supremacy program of tho
dofenso council's aircraft board and
President Wilson has boon iiBkcd to
put tho administration' nnnnnn u.
hind tho groat project for which an
appropriation of ?GOO,000,000 Is Bought.
Undor tho plan, tho United States
would becomo a groat olamontary
training baRO Immodlntoly for all tho
allies and onormous numbers of train
ing muchlnoH would bo turned out
while American plant aro developing
a horvlcoablo battle cruft typo.
To Train Airmen.
Now York.--All expenses or twonty
young Americans who will bo Hont to
Franco nnd trained to Join tho La
fayotto Esacndrlllo probably will bo
paid by tho Aoro Club of America, tho
board of governors unnounccd.
Army surgeon Suicides.
Washington, I, C Major Jamo.i
Bourko, of tho army modlcal corps,
fihot and killed hlimjalf nt his home
horo. Ho had boon suffering from a
montal breakdown. Major Bourko
was bom in Iowa nnd waa a graduate
of Rush Medical collogo and tho army
and medical school,
Flro Loss Heavy.
Minneapolis. Flro of unknown
origin destroyed nn olevator of tho
Goorgo C. UiRloy Elovator compnn
causing a loss of 1225,000,
s
NSHED
SCORES THE KAISER
PRESIDENT 8AY8 MILITARY MAS-
TERS DENIED U. S. RIGHT
TO BE NEUTRAL.
FILLED COUNTRY WITH SPIES
Failed In Attempt to Spread Sedition
German People In Grip of Same
Sinister Power Tnat Has
Drawn Blood From Us.
Washington, June 10. President
Wilson In n Flag day address deliv
ered here on Thursday declared that
wo were forced iuto the world-wide
wnr by the extraordinary Insults und
degressions of the mllltury masters of
Germnny.
The president's nddress In part is u
follows :
My Fellow Citizens: We meet to
celebrate Flag Day becnuso this flng
which we honor nnd under which we
serve Is the emblem of our unity, our
power, our thought nnd purpose as it
nntlon. It has no other character than
thnt which wo give It from generation
to generation. Tho choices uro ours.
It flouts In majestic silence above the
hosts that execute those choices,
whether In pence or in war. And yet,
though silent, It speaks to us speaks
to us of the past, of tho men nnd wom
en who went before us and of tho rec
ords they wrote upon It. Wo celebrate
tho day of Its birth ; nnd from Its birth
until now It has witnessed n great his
tory, has floated on high the symbol of
great events, of a great plan of life
worked out by n great people. We nre
about to carry it into bnttle, to lift it
where It will druw tho Are of our en
emies. Wo are about to bid thousands,
hundreds of thousands, It may be mil
lions of our men, the young, tho strong,
tho capable men of the nation, to go
forth nnd die beneath it on fields of
blood fer nwny for what? For some
unaccustomed thing? For something
for which it has never sought the fire
before? American armies were never
beforo sent ncross tho seas. Why are
they sent now? For somo new pur
pose, for which this great flag has nev
er been carried before, or for some old,
familiar, heroic purpose fov which It
has seen men, Its own mru, die on ev
ery battlefield upon which Americans
have borno nrniB since tho Revolution?
These arc questions which must be
answered. Wc are Americans. Wo In
our turn, servo America, nnd can serve
her with no prlvntc purpose. We must
uso her flag as sho has always used It.
We are accountable at tho bar of his
tory and must plead In utter frankness
what purpose It 1b wc Beck to serve.
United States Forced Into War.
It is plain enough how we were
forced Into tho wnr. Tho extraordi
nary Insults nnd aggressions of the Im
perial German government left us no
self-respecting choice but to tnko up
nrms In defense of bur rights ns n free
people nnd of our honor ns n sovereign
government. The military masters of
Germany denied us tho right to be neu
tral. They filled our unsuspecting com
munities with vicious spies nnd con
spirators nnd sought to corrupt the
opinion of our pcoplu in their own bo
half. When they found thnt they could
not do that, their ngents diligently
spread sedition amongst us nnd sought
to draw our own citizens from their
allegiance, and sonic of those ngents
were men connected with tho ofllclnl
embassy of the German government It
self hero in our own capital. They
sought by violence to destroy our In
dustries and nrrcst our commerce.
They tried to Incite Mexico to tula up
arms against us and to draw Japan In
to a hostile nlllanco with, her nnd
that, not by Indirection, but by direct
Biiggestlon from tho foreign olllco In
Berlin. They Impudently denied us
the use of tho high sens and repeated
ly executed their thrent that they
would send to their death any of our
people who ventured to approach the
coasts of Europe. And mnny of our
own people were corrupted. Men be
gan to look upon their own neighbors
with suspicion und to wonder In their
hot resentment nnd surprise whether
there was any community In which
hostile intrigue did not lurk. What
great nation l'n such circumstances
' wou,a "ot ,mvo t,l,c" "" lirms? MuL'h
I ,IH wo llml lUslml lK'cp. 't was denied
' us' liml "ot of our own cl'olco. This
' ttttK "ml,T w,,,t"" Wl sm' W0H,(l ,mvc
' ,,l,' dishonored had we withheld our
hand.
No Emnlty Toward German People.
But that Is only part of tho story.
Wo know now as clearly ns we know
before we were ourselves engaged that
we are not enemies of the German peo
pie and that they aro not our enemies.
They did not originate or desire this
hideous war or wish that wo should be
drawn Into It ; and wo are vaguely con
scious that we aro lighting their cause,
as they will somo day heo It, as well us
our own. They nre themselves In tho
grip of tho sumo sinister power that
has now at last stretched Its ugly tal
ons out and drawn blood from us. The
whole world is In the grip of that pow
er am! Is trying out the great battle
which shall determine whether It Is to
bo brought under Its mastery or fling
Itself free.
Tho war was begun by the military
masters of Germany, who proved to bo
.also the masters of Austria-Hungary.
.These men have never regarded na
tions as peoples, men, women, and
children of like blood and frame as
themselves, for whom governments ex
isted and In whom governments had
thoir life. They havo regarded them
merely us serviceable organizations
which they could by force or Intrigue
bend or corrupt to their own purpose.
They have regnrded the smnllcr etotcn,
In particular, und the peoples wno
could be overwhelmed by force, &s
their nnturnl tools and Instruments of
domination. Their purpose has long
been nvowed.
The demnnds mndo by Austrln upon
Serbia were u mere single step in n
plan which compassed Europe and
Asln, from Berlin to Bngdnd. They
hoped thoso demands might not arouse
Europe, but they meant to press them
whether they did or not, for they
thought themselves ready for tho final
Issue of nrms.
Vast Empire Planned.
Their plan wns to throw n broud belt
of Oermun military power and political
control ncross tho very center of Eu
rope and beyond the Mediterranean In
to tho heart of Asia; and Austria-Hungary
was to bo as much their tool and
pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria or Turkey
or tho ponderous states of the "Bust.
The dream had Its heart at Berlin. It
could have had n heart nowhere else I
It rejected the Men of solidarity of
race entirely. The choice of peoples
played no part In It nt nil. They nr
dently desired to direct their own af
fairs, would be sntlsfled only by undis
puted Independence. They could bo
kept quiet only by the presence or tho
constant thrent of armed men. Tho
Germnn mllltnry statesmen hnJ reck
oned with nil thnt nnd were rendy to
deal with It In their ownVny.
And they have actually carried tho
greater part of that nmnzlng plan Into
execution I Look how things stand.
Austria Is nt their mercy. It has acted,
not upon Its own lnltlntlve or upon the
choice of Its own people, but nt Ber
lin's dictation ever since the wnr be
gan. Its people now desire pence, but
cannot have It until lenve is grnntcd
from Berlin. The so-called central
powers arc in fact but n single power.
Serbia Is at Its mercy, should Its hands
be but for a moment freed. From
Hamburg to tho Persian gulf the net
Is sprend.
Why Berlin Seeks Peace.
Is It not easy to understand the eag
erness for pence that has been mani
fested from Berlin ever since the snnre
was eet nnd sprung? Peace, peace,
peace has been tho tnlk of her foreign
office for now n yenr and moro; not
peaco upon her own lnltlntlve, but up
on the lnltlntlve of tho nntlons over
which she now deems herself to hold
tho ndvnntnge. Through nil sorts of
channels It has come to me, nnd In nil
sorts of guises, but never with tho
terms disclosed which the Germnn gov
ernment would bo willing to accept.
That government still holds n vnlunblo
part of Franco, though with slowly re
laxing grasp, and practically the whole
of Belgium. It cannot go further; It
dnro not go back. It wishes to close
Its bargain before It Is too late and It
has little left to offer for the pound of
flesh It will demnnd.
Tho military mnsters under whom
Germnny Is bleeding see very clearly
to what point Fate has brought them.
If they fall back or are forced back
an inch, their power both abroud nnd
nt home will fall to pieces like n
house of cards. If they can se
cure pence now with the Immense ad
vantages still In their hands which
they have up to this point apparently
gnlned, they will hnve Justified them
selves beforo tho Germnn peoplo; thoy
will havo gained by force what they
promised to gain by It: nn Immense
expansion of German power, nn Im
mense enlargement of Germnn Indus
trial and commerclnl opportunities. If
they full, their people will thrust them
nsldo; a government nccountnblo to
the peoplo themselves will bo set up
In Germnny ns It has been In Englnnd,
In the United Stntcs, In France, und
In all the great countries of the mod
ern time except Germany. If they suc
ceed they nre snfe nnd Germnny nnd
tho world nre undone; If they fall Ger
many Is saved nnd the world will be nt
peace. If they succeed, we and all
tho rest of the world must remain
armed, ns they will remain, nnd must
mnko rendy for the next step of ag
gression; If they fall, tho world may
unUe for pence, and Germany may be
of the union.
Seek to Deceive World.
Tho present partlculnr nlm of the
masters of Germany Is to deceive all
thoso who throughout tho world stand
for tho rights of peoples nnd the self
government of nations; for they see
what Immense strength the forces of
Justice and of liberalism are gathering
out of this war.
Tho sinister intrigue Is being no less
actively conducted In this country than
In Russia and In every country In Eu
rope to which tho agents and dupes of
the Imperial German government can
get nccess.
United States In War for Freedom.
The great fact that stands out above
all the rest Is that this Is a People's
war, a wnr for freedom nnd Justice and
self-government amongst all the na
tions of the world, a war to make tho
world safe for tho peoples who live In
It and have made It their own. the
German people themselves Included;
und that with us rests the choice to
break through nil these hypocrisies and
patent cheats nnd masks of brute force
and help set the world free, or else
stand aside and let It be dominated u
long nge through by sheer weight of
arms nnd the arbitrary choices of self
constituted masters, by tho nation
which can maintain tho biggest armies
nnd the most Irresistible armaments
a power to which the world has af
forded no parallel and In the faco of
which political freedom must wither
and perish.
For us there Is but one choice. We
have mndo It. Woo bo to tho man or
group of men that seeks to stand In
our way In this day of high resolution
when every principle wo hold dearest
Is to'be vindicated anil made secure for
tho salvation of tho nations. We nre
rendy to plead at tho bar of history,
1 und our flag shall wear u new luster.
AIR RAID ON LONDON
NINETY-SEVEN PERSONS KILLED
AND 437 WOUNDED BY BOMBS.
Ten School Children Are Slain and
Fifty Injured Great Battle
In Air.
London, June 15. The death of 07
persons nnd the injury of 437 in yester
day's air raid wus announced in tho
house of .lords by the earl of Derby,
secretary of state for war. The sec
retary said ho feared these figures
would bo exceeded when fuller reports
had been received.
Tho motorcar used by Vice Admiral
Sims, commander of the American na
val forces In European wnters, was in
tho vicinity of one of tho areas which
wus bombarded most henvlly. Thlfl
gave rise to n report that the admiral
had had a narrow escape from n'bomb,
but Inter It wob leurned thnt ho was
not In tho car nt the time.
Tho East end of the city was bom
bnrded by 15 nlrplnnes. A large num
ber of British airplanes pursued the
Germuns, who Hew over Essex to Lon
don. The German ulrplanes nppenred over
London shortly beforo noon. A grent
battle occurred In the nlr. Tho In
vaders were nttneked by antiaircraft
guna as well us by British nvintors.
A bomb struck a schoolhouse, killing
ten children nnd Injuring fifty. Ono
German nlrplane Is reported to havo
been brought down.
Tho East end of London, In which
live the city's poor, suffered henvlly
DEFENSE
Principal Items in $3,500,000,000 Army and Navy Defi
ciency Appropriation Approved by Congress.
Washington, June 15. Hero nre tho
Items exceeding $10,000,000 in tho
$3,500,000,000 army nnd navy deficiency
appropriation npproved by congress:
Construction of tho mer
chantmen ($750,000,000
authorized) 103,000,000
Field nnd siege guns, am
munition 307,000,000
Army clothing, equipage.. 231,53S,54S
Army pay, enlisted men... 220,882,500
Army trnnsportntlon 221,003,745
Army subsistence 183,020,0-10
Field nnd siege nrtillery.. 155,000,000
Army ammunition (small
army) 131,048,000
Army ordnance supplies... 100,550,000
Army quartermasters sup
plies 101,800,114
Army engineer operations. 04,500,000
Pay of the navy 75,503,072
Army horses 25,000,000
For procuring, producing,
. reserving and handling
ammunition for vessels.. 08,004,858
Machine guns 05,000,000
Army nrms manufacture 55,849,000
Army barracks 47,003,314
Airplanes nnd aviation 43,450,000
Bureau of construction and
repair of naval vessels.. 57,327,340
Army pay, officers of line. 42,000.000
Army engineer equipment. 35,870,000
Bureau of steam engineer
ing 34,000,500
For provisions, rations of
nnvy, coast guard and
lighthouse service, naval
reserve force, etc 31,740,002
from the raid. Bombs fell In many
congested districts, nnd, while the num
ber of casualties has not been ascer
tained, two hospitals report handling
more than fifty enses.
, REGISTRATION NOT A J
' BAR TO ENLISTMENT J
; ;
t Chicago. Tho United States t
' army Is In urgent need of men. J
The formation of 51 new regl- t
ments offers n raro opportunity t
for trnlnlng In the finest prnctl-
, cal mllltnry school of the nn- ,
' tlon. our army, which Is nlso the J
t bnckbono of our lnnd defense. t
nnd opens for the American n J
t field of ndvnncemenf through ,
t achievement which has hereto- J
0 fore been unequaled. t
' Unmarried men between the J
t ages of eighteen nnd forty can t
J volunteer for service In the reg- J
ular army for tho period of the
J war. Men between the ages of J
twenty-one nnd thirty-one who t
J have registered can also enlist, J
' nnd. In my opinion, should do so t
In'proferenco to awaiting the se- J
lection by universal service, bo- t
cause they will receive a mill- J
' tnry foundation thnt will plnce
them In nn excellent position for J
' future advancement In tho great t
t armies that will !. called later. '
t F. R. KENNEY. t
0 Captain Commanding District. J
t
Twenty Killed In Explosion.
Now York, Juno 10. Twenty. work
men were killed und burled undor
parts of tho walls of a mixing building
of the American Sugar Refining com
pany's plant In Brooklyn, which wore
ripped apart by nn explosion.
Japan to Send a Mission.
Wnshlngton, Juno 10. Japan will
(tend a mission to the United States.
The mission will hnvo broad powers,
especially In diplomatic consultation,
nnd Is expected to leave Japan during
the first part of July.
E
DRITISH DRIVE FORCES FOES TO
ABANDON POSTS FROM ST.
YVES TO LYS.
OFFENSIVE IS BIG SUCCESS
Major General Maurice, Chief Director
of Military Operations at War Of
fice, Says Messlnes Battle
Was Great Victor.
London, June 10. Important sec
tions of the Germnn front between this
Lys river and St. Yves havo been
abandoned by tho Germans, It was an
nounced oflkiiilly on Thursday.
British troops nre reported ns fol
lowing the reatreatlug Germans closely
nnd have made considerable progress
east of Ploegsteert wood.
Tho statement Is as follows:
"Our further advance east of Mes
slnes, combined with the pressure of
our troops south of tho front of our
nttack, has compelled the enemy to
abandon Important sections of his llrst
lino defensive system In the area be
tween the River Lys nnd St. Yves. Our
troops have followed up the enemy
closely and have made considerable
progress east of Ploegsteert wood. We
also gained ground during tho nlgb
In the neighborhood of Gnspard.
"Wo raided enemy trenches during
tho night north of Bullccourt und
south of Hoogo and captured a few
prisoners In ench case."
COST
Army gas masks nnd med
ical supplies 20,780.000
For batteries, merchant
ships nnd nuxlllnrles ... 29,072,000
For reserve nnd miscella
neous ordnance supplies 29,200,000
Alteration nnd maintenance
of mobllo artillery, In
cluding purchnse and
manufacturing of ma
chinery therefor 25,000,000
Army pay, quartermaster's
enlisted men 24.890,128
For new batteries for ships
for the navy 22,333,000
For ammunition, merchant
ships, nnd auxiliaries... 19,988,800
Coal and other fuel for
ships. Including transpor
tation 10,3(52.420
Army pny, medical corps
enlisted men 18,748,900
For ordnance nnd ordnance
stores, armament of
ships, etc 10,905,300
Army pay medical corps of
flcors 15,131,752
Sencoast cannon ammuni
tion 12,255,000
Army quartermasters, Inci
dental expense 8,000,000
For purchaso nnd manu
facturing torpedoes and
appliances 11,242,000
For nnvy nvlntlon equip
ment 11.000,000
Army post sanitation 10,540,100
Small nrms, target prac
tice 17,500,000
The Messlnes offenslvo wns the most
successful nttack which the British
have yet made, every single objectlvo
that was ninrked In tho preliminary
plans hnvlng been nttulncd, said MaJ.
Gen. F. B. Mnurlce, chief director of
military operations at the war olUce,
In his weekly talk.
PERSHING NOW
FRANCE
Big Crowds Greet American General
Met by General Joffre and
Other Notables.
Paris, Juno 15. Major General
Pershing nnd stuff have arrived In
Purls. The general received a tumult
uous welcome as ho proceeded through
the thronged boulevard. At the sta
tion he was welcomed by Marshal
Joffre, Ambassador Sharp and Paul
Palnleve, minister of wnr.
After the greetings had taken place,
the party drove In open carriages
through the Grand boulevard, General
Pershing riding with Minister Puln
love and Mnnhul Joffro with Ambassa
dor Sharp to u hotel on tho Place do
Concorde, which will be the headquar
ters of the American olllcers during
their stay In the French capital.
U. S. Cutter Sunk.
Los Angeles, Cal., Juno 14. The U.
S. coast guard cutter McCullough was
sunk when it was rammed by tho
steamship Governor oft Point Arguello.
Tho crew of tho .McCullough waa res
cued. Smoot Resolution Adopted.
Wnshlngton, June 18. The sennto
on Friday adopted the Smoot resolu
tion calling on tho secretary of war to
state whether the Enfield riflo has
been adopted for army uso In plnce of
the Springfield rifle.
Liberty Bonds Above Par.
New York, Juno 38. Initial trans,
actions In Liberty bonds, trading In
which began on the New York htock
exchange nt noon Friday, were above
par. A lot of $10,000 sold at par nnd
1-00.
GERMANS II R
TREAT
SEIZE DRAFT EVADERS
U. S. OFFICERS ARREST MANY
SLACKERS IN COUNTRY.
Two Men Convicted In Federal Courtt
of Conspiracy Against Con
scription Law.
Wnshlngton, Juno 14. President
Wilson, who now hns under considera
tion the regulations for exemption
from mllltury service, expects to
Initiate the first drawing of names for
the selective drnft about July 1, ac
cording to Information obtained nt tho
White House.
New York, Juno 14. Louis Kramer
and Morris Becker, nntlconscrlptlon
Ists, who proudly acclaimed themselves
nnnrchlsts opposed to all governments,
were found guilty of conspiracy In the
federal district court. Tho specific
charge wns that tho defendants con
spired to persuudo men of conscript
nge not to register under the selective
draft law by distributing literature nt
n Socialistic meeting.
Threo men who were arrested at a
meeting of the No-Conscrlptlon league,
where Emmrf Goldman and others de
nounced tho wnr and tho urmy, were
held for tho grand Jury charged with
refusing to register for tho selective
draft. They are Phillip Luvlne, Her
man Wascow and William Hcrrguth.
Milwaukee, Juno 14. Warrants
were Issued for six persons who failed,
to register under the selective drnft
act In Milwaukee.
Virginia, Minn., June 14. Nick
Luonn, aged twenty-eight, nnd nn I.
W. W., wns shot In the bnck here by
Patrolman Pickle while running awny
from arrest on a charge of being u
slncker. Ho Is expected to recover.
St. Paul, Minn., June 14. Edwnrd
Boskl, editor of the Referendum nt
Fnrlbnult, Minn., wus arrested hero
by n federal agent on a charge of
printing articles discouraging enlist
ment. He wns Indicted by the federal'
grand Jury recently.
WAR TAX BILL CUT $9,000,000
Senate Finance Committee Takes Tar
iff Off Athletic Goods, Patent
Medicines.
Wnshngton, June 10. The hous
wnr tax bill wns decreased about $9,
000,000 more when tho senate finance
commltteo on Thursday decided to re
duce tho manufacturers' tax on ath
letic goods, patent medicines, per
fumeries nnd cosmetics from 5 to 2r
per cent.
Rates of distilled spirits, mnlt
liquors, wines und soft drinks, rnfslng
nn aggregate of about $100,000,000,
were approved virtually as drafted by
the house.
The committee also ratified Its for
mer tentative approval of amendments
by Senator Gore of Oklahoma plnclng
prohibitory taxes upon cereals used'
In manufacturing dlstlllod spirits for
beverage purposes and prohibiting Im
portation of such beverages.
Reduction of tho tnx on pntent medi
cines Involves a revenuo loss of moro
than $5,000,000, nnd at the new rate of
2 per cent will lncludo nbout $3,400,
000 Instead of $8,500,000.
The reduction In tho rate of athletic
goods will reduce prospective revenues
from that source from $2,000,000 to
$800,000.
U. S. LINER SINKS DIVER
Kroonland Rams German Submarlno
While on Way Home French
Liner Sunk 190 Perish.
At nn Atlantic Port, June 15. De
struction of a Germnn submarine by
the Amerlcnn steamship Kroonlnnd
wns reported by the merchantman
upon her arrival In an American har
bor. Her offlcors refused to discuss
the encounter except to say that by
agile maneuvering the Kroonlnnd
managed to rnm nnd sink the U-bont
shortly after two of tho underwater
boats had attacked tho merchantman,
one from either side. The Kroonlnnd
lost a blade from her propeller.
Boston, Juno 15. Tho Leylnnil
liner Anglian, which left Boston May
30 for Liverpool, hns been torpedoed
and sunk by a German submnrlne, ac
cording to cable messages received by
agents here.
Paris, Juno 15. The French South
Atlantic liner Sequnnn, 5,557 tons,
with 550 pnsscngers on board, has
been torpedoed und sunk with a loss
of 190 men.
NAMES ROCKFORD ARMY CAMP
War Office Announces Approval of Illi
nois Town as One of Canton
ment Sites.
Washington. June 10. The wnr de
partment announced on Thursday ap
proval of the following four natlonnl
army cantonment sites, completing tho
Irt sites to be selected: Rockford. III.;
Ydphank, South Haven, L. I.: Annap
olis Junction, Mil., and Petersburg, Vu.
Armed British Ship Sunk.
London, June 18. The British nrmed
merchant cruiser Avenger was torpe
doed and sunk In tho North sen on
Wednesday night. All but one of tho
crw were saved. Several Norweglnn
ships were sunk on Friday.
British Capture 00,000.
London, June 18. Moro than 100,
000 prisoners hnve been taken by tho
British during the war, James Ian
MnePherson, parliamentary secrotary
to the war office, announced on Friday
In the house of commons,
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