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not to be termed in the sense of
good will" proposition.
Numerous technicalities arose about
this stage of the proceedings. Com
missioner kutZ inquired as to the rates
at which current is furnished to COM
panies operating in Maryland and Viz
ginia. On the advice of Attorney
Bowen for the company Mr.. Ham de-
clined to answer this question
Il think it is a pertinent question"
said Mr.. kutz.
Then you do not want to assist us
in getting at this? questioned Mr.
Brownlow.
The company's attorney expla ned
that there We're certain matters o. the
companys business which he did not
believe he was justified in allowing
to be used, saying that to the best Of
his belief this matter WAS one over
which the District utilities commission
had no control.
After arguments based on techni-
calities. Commissioner kutZ proceeded
on another line of questions specifi-
cally dealing with contracts o. the
Washn ston. Baltimore and Annapolis
and the Washington Virginia railroads
as to their payments within the Dis
trict.
The hearing adjourned at l o'clock.
and was resumed at $50 o'clock with
l.. f. Sinclair. superintendent of the
electrical department of the Potomac
Electric Power Company, ION the stand.
Officials of the commission would not
risk a prediction as to how much time
the investigation may consume.
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SONS OF VETERANS WILL
Be REGISTRATION CLERKS
Volunteer Service to Be Feature of
the G. A. R. Reunion
Next Month.

The general committee on arrange
ments for the thirty-fourth annual en-
campment of Sons of Veterans, u. S. A.
met last evening at it's headquarters,
1929 G street northwest with the chair
man, George W. Sellers, presiding.
A feature of the G. A. r. encampment
will be the volunteer services of fifty
Sons of Veterans from William B. Cush-
ing Camp, No 80: Lincoln Camp, No. 9
and Gen. Thomas Camp, No. II, who
will act in the capacity of registration
clerks at the Census building. They
will work in relays day and night.
thereby causing no delay of registra-
ton of veterans. who will be arriving
in the city at all hours
During the encampment there will he
class initiation by the local camps of
Sons of Veterans at the Census build
ing, the work to be exemplified by a
picked team. At the end of the con-
test the camp having the largest per-
centage in new membership will be
presented with a prize, appropriate for
use in any camp.
A committee on badges was appoint
ed. as follows: G. A. Howe, chairman
Gurnon r. Scott and George w. Sellers.
Many Requests for Reservations.
The committee is daily receiving a
large number of requests for reserya-
tions. All such requests as well as To-
cations of rooms. description and terms
should be sent to w. F. Crown, chair
man. 476 o street northwest, or room
Is. District building. Gurnon r. Scott.
| DR.. o. A. T. Swain and DR.. A G. Hall
were added to the public comfort COM
mittee. The chairman of the general
committee, George w. Sollers an
nounced that members of the Maryland
ldivision, Sons of Veterans, who will be
in the city during the encampment, will
| be enlisted as members of that COM
mittee.
| Of William b. Gushing Camp, No. 80,
| was added to the entertainment and
music committee.
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Count Won BernStOrff
Ready to Come Here on
Mr.. Lansing's Invitation

NEW YORK. August 25.-Count Won
Bernstorff. the German ambassador to
the United States remained in Sc
clusion here today. with his plans for
the next few days undeveloped. He
had received no further advices from
Berlin bearing on the sinking of the
Arabic. he said, and did not know
when such word would be received.
1t was within the range of posi-
bilities. the ambassador said. that he
would go to Washington to confer with
Secretary Lansing before receiving
further word from Berlin. but this
would be. if at all, upon Secretary
Lansing's invitation. Unless he should
receive such a request. Count Won
Bernstorf said he expected to remain
here temporarily. He probably would
go to Washington, he asserted. as soon
as he should hear. from Berlin again
on the Arabic incident.
Count Won Bernstortf had nothing to
add to his statement of Yesterday maxi
ing public the text of instructions from
Berlin
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= GERMAN STATEMENT.

BERLIN, August %, via London. Pm.
In the western theater: In the Cham
payne we,successfully exploded sew
eral mines.
In the Vosges an attack made by the
enemy on Schratzmannele was re-
PEELED with hand grenades, and
southeast of Sondernach that part Of
the trench sections which we lost
August II was recaptured.
A German battle aviator shot down a
French biplane near Newport.
In the eastern theater: Army group Of
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg-
North of the Niemen river 100 Rus
slams were taken prisoners during
successful engagements in the neigh
borhood of Birshi.
The army of Gen. Won Eichhorn is
advancing VIGOROUSLY, toward the
east, fighting all the way. This army
captured 1850 Russians and took
several machine guns.
The army of Gen. Won Scholz reached
BerecoWka, captured knySZyn ano
crossed the Narew river to the south
of Tykocin.
The army of Gen. Won Gallwitz cap
tured the Narew river crossing or
the Sokoly- Bialystok high road. Its
right wing has reached Orlanka
after having driven back the enemy
The army took more thar 400 pris-
oners. including IS officers, and
machine guns.
Army group of Prince Leopold of Ba-
varia - Yesterday the enemy at
tempted in vain to bring our pursuit
to standstill. He was attacked
and thrown back into Eialowieska
forest South of this forest our
troops. reached the region to the east
of Wierschowicze. We captured
more than 100 prisoners.
Army group of Field Marshal vor
Observation-Disclosures the defeated
enemy, this army group is approach
ing the hills on the western bank OF
the Bosnia, north of BreSt-LitoVsk
On the southwestern front of Brest-
Litovsk. at Dobbynka, the Austro-
Hungarian and German troops broke
through the advanced positions OF
the fortress yesterday.
On the eastern bank of the Bug. north
east of Vladova, parts of the army OF
Gen. Won Linsingen are advancing
toward the north.' lighting all the
way.
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To make that government an efficient
one and an economical one.
Opposes Board System.

The members of this body made a
report to the last Legislature and pre-
scented IA proposed bill for enactment
into law.
Referring to the board system. the
commission said:
Students in political science are all
agreed that executive work should he
done by individuals and not hy boards
ihe average citizen has come to the
same conclusion. The board system
tends TO delay and ineiiiciency. 1t dis
sipates responsibility. No one know y
exactly who is TO blame il work Is
badly done. Boards are necessary for
| legislative and sudiciHl work They
are uSeful to give advice. They are not
suited 1" administrative tasks More
over. under the board system the gov
ernor has little control over the adj
ministration The board members usu-
ally have overlapping terms Each
foFernor appoints only u minority
, Zach board Is a government by itself
mere can be no oh lection to thu, 49,
adjustment of boards and commas
| SONS. The advice and assistance Of
men picked from the citizenrX of the
commonwealth for their infelligeIg,,.
ahility and worth cannot hut lac of
great benefit to public officials and 10
me state itself. but their duties ought
10 De advisory and not executive
Inc plan proposed in Minnesota was
10 consolidate all of these Offices and
divisions of government in NV. or six
departments. each with a director an-
pointed by the governor and resro,. 81
pIe TO him for the conduct of his de-
| partment. but it met defeat IN tho lep.Is
! aturc.
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AUSTRIAN STATEMENT.


VIENNA. August n. via London. A"-
gust 25:
Russian war theater: Northwest OF
Brest-Litovsk the enemy. who is re
sisting in the district of Wierchowtce
and Rama, was repulsed again yes
terday and forced to retreat. 1he
number of prisoners taken by the
army of Arehduke Joseph Ferdinand
in the last battles was 800 men and
I officers.
Northeast of Vladova our allies AGAIN
repuised the enemy and gained
ground. .Austro- Hungarian and Ger
man cavalry. in pursuit of. the en-
emy. entered kovel forty miles
southeast of Brest-Litovskp and now
are advancing northward.
Italian war theater: On the southern
wing of the coastal district front our
heavy artillery silenced hostile guns
at the mouth of the Sdohba. An ltal-
ian coast battery near G"lavetto was
destroyed. The enemys infantry
which had gained a footing on the
heights of Monfalcone opposite our
positions. hurriedly evacuated then
trenches before our Guniire.
East of Polazzo our troops bloodily re-
pulsed two weak attacks near san
Martino and three attacks which
We're carried close to our battle
front. An evening attack by strong
enemy forces against the Tolmlno
hridgehead also failed. In the forti-
fed district of F'litsch and Rabbi en-
envy infantry is approaching closer
to our lines at some points.
Our fortificationS on the high plateaus
of Lavaronne and Folgaria again
were heavily bombarded yesterday
Enemy artillery also opened fire
against our positions on the Stilfser
ridge.
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WHITE SLAVERY IS CHARGED
Thomas H. Dewey 1ndicted-Bills
Returned Against Others,

A charge of white slavery is made
in an indictment returned today by the
grand jury against Thomas H. Dewey.
1t is alleged that August 10, 1915. the
accused aided in transporting woman
for immoral purposes in the District
of Columbia.
An indictment for joy-riding was re-
ported against Charles Brooks. 1t is
claimed that he used without permis-
sion a motor truck belonging to the
Dulin & Martin Company.
Others indicted were John r. Court
ney, assault with dangerous weapon,
and David T. Jackson for non-support.
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WAR OFFICIALLY REPORTED

the enemy continued to exercise
pressure on our troops who were
holding back his offensive movement.
Between the Bobr and the Narew we
have fallen back from our general
positions on the left bank of the
Bobr. In conformity with this move
ment We evacuated Sunday evening
the fortiflcations at Ossowetz, which
forms sector of these positions.
during Sunday night and the follow
ing day very stubborn attacks bv the
enemy continued in the region to the
east of Bielsk and along the sectors
OF the front Kleshtshele- Wysoka-
Brest-Litovsk-O Some of these
attacks. notwithstanding the numer-
ical superiority of the enemy, were
repulsed with great success by our
infantry, supported by cavalry. We
captured some prisoners and quick
firing guns. These actions faciIi-
tated considerably our occupation of
new positions on the right bank of
the Bug.
Sunday night we stopped an ATTEMPT
by the enemy to resume an offensive
in the direction of Kovel. In the
Puschka region a battle which be-
gan Monday continues
In the coastal region of the Caucasus
there has been an artillery duel. In
the Dassin valley there has been
some activity by both infantry and
artillery. On the rest of the front
there is no change.
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Germany Plans Third War Loan,

ZURICH, August "a, via London, Au-
gust 25.-The third German war loan
Wilt be issued at SO at per cent inter-
est, according to the Munich Neueste
Nachrichten. and greater facilities will
be offered small investors who will be
permitted to pay their subscriptions in
easy installments. The public the pa
per says, is urged to sell foreign Sc
curities and invest in the war loan.
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FRENCH STATEMENT.
PARIS. August %. 2:4O PM:

In Artois last night throughout the
entire sector to the north of Arras
the artillery fighting was of a fairly
spirited nature. Furthermore, there
were engagements with hand gree
nades in the vicinity of SoucheZ and
Melville Around Roye and in the
neighbohood of Lassigny the artll-
lery exchanges yesterday and last
night continued actively.
From the Champagne district and from
the Argonne the only reports re-
ceived refer to fighting in which
mines We're exploded.
In the Nosges there We're yesterday
engagements with hand grenades on
the Barrenkopf
A French aviator last night threw
down bombs on the railroad station
at Lorrach, grand duchy of Baden,
twenty eight miles to the southwest
of FribOrg
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Seek Apartment House Thief.

The police have been instructed to
arrest an unidentified white man who
is suspected of having committed
thefts in apartment houses. 1t is said
that he visits such buildings and enters
apartments when he learns that their
occupants are absent.
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POSTMASTER IS TERMED
OBSTINATE GENTLEMAN
Incapable of Approaching Needs Of
People," Says Isidor
Grosner.

While no definite announcements have
been made as to the exact course to be
pursued, members of the executive com
mittee of the citizens committee on
downtown postal facilities declare that
e-establish postal facilities at the
Post Office Department building will
in no way deter them in their fight for
the desired postal service.
They declare that the movement for
the re-establishment of postal facil-
tiles in the Post Office Department
building has become widespread: that
since the committee made its initial eff
forts to obtain the desired branch office
it has received promises of support
from many sources in its fight
Just what the next step to be made
by the committee will be is not known.
Chairman Isidor Grosner. today said
he had the matter under advisement
and that an announcement may be
made in the near future.
Action Comes as Shock.
THAT Postmaster Praeger has again
refused to re-establish postal facili-
ties in the Post Office Department
building at 18th street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue naturally came as q
shock and a surprise to the members
of the committee" said Mr. Grosner
But our people are not one whit re-
buffed by the action. The fact that he
declined to grant our request before,
in the face of the appeal of everybody
in the territory bounded by 18th to 18th
streets and B to F streets northwest
demonstrated, in the opinion of the
executive committee, that Mr.. Praeger
is a most obstinate gentleman, and
that he is imbued with that very I'M
democratic principle that the opinion
of one man is worth more than that of
300.
This is particularly aggravating, in
view of the fact that our postmaster is
comparatively young in this field of
activity and that he is incapable of APP
preciating the needs of the people in
the downtown section.
1T would seem that more vigorous
activity will be required in the prem
ises. and it Is certain that the require
ments of the downtown business men
will be given ample support. The eX-
ecUtive committee is undecided at this
time whether to follow plan of action
that has been suggested, but I think it
is altogether likely that we will call a
others interested in the re-establ ish-
ment of postal facilities, with a vie8
of carrying this matter forward to an
ultimate success. The executive COM
mittee will hold a formal meeting the
latter part of this week to decide on
the next step to be taken to secure that
which we need and which the postal
arbiter is Withholding from US at this
time"
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Say Arabic Was Not Warned.

All the deponents state under oath
that the Arabic was pursuing peace
full course and that she was not warn
ed. All of them declare either that
they saw the torpedo or heard shouts
that a torpedo was coming; also that
the Arabic made no attempt to escape
nor to ram the submarine.
Capt Finch in his affidavit especially
emphasized the last point, saying that 1t
would have been. in the first place.
suicidal. and. in the second place. as
he did not see the submarine he could
not have attempted to ram her.
The dispositions in full will be mailed
tomorrow.
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Gen. Sam Hughes Is Knighted

LONDON, August 25.-Gen. Sam
Hughes, Canadian minister of militia,
was knighted yesterday afternoon dur
ing an audience with King George in
Buckingham Palace.
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GOVERNORS PLEAD
|. FOR UNIFIED POWER
Delegates at Convention Op-
pose State Boards and
Commissions.
AUTHORITY DIVIDED;
EFFICIENCY IMPAIRED
Short Ballot Urged by Speakers.
Fleet Maneuvers to Enter
tain the Visitors.

BOSTON, August PA review of
the north Atlantic fleet off Boston
light was the principal event arranged
for today's entertainment for the pres
ent or former executives of nearly
thirty states who are here attending
the annual governors conference. From
the deck of the flagship Wyoming the
visitors We're to watch the evolutions
of nine great battleships and a large
flotilla of torpedo craft
1t was announced in the morning
that owing to the threatened showers
the Italian fiesta to have been held at
the Gloucester home of Mr.. and Mrs.
john Hays Hammond this afternoon
had been postponed until the next far
day. The governors mad been invited
to the fiesta.
Cows. Charles s Whitman of New
York and Winfield :. Hammond OF Min
neSota and former Gov. Cole ). BleaSe
of South Carolina were the spea kers.
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SERBIAN STATEMENT.

NISH. Serbia. August p. via Amster-
dam and London, August rs:
The enemy's work on Notifications be-
tween Orchauska and Honya. on the
left bank of the Danube, was inter-
rupted Sunday. A few cannon shots
the same day also interrupted the
enemy's work on the west bank of
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Mann's Plan to Remedy Ills.

former Gov. William H. Mann of N!r-
GINA spoke yesterday on "Taxatiuri &c
Mr.. Mann declared that while there WI.
10 complete remedy for general legislative
HIS. conditions could hc greatly improved
II the initiative We're given "A governor to
submit to the people At a general election
any measure previously recommended. hut
which the legislature had failed To pass
| The governor would know the ohIec-
lions previously raised to the bill and the
reason it had not been passed" said Mr.
Mann. and II is reasonable to suppose he
would not order submission of any hIll
not clearly promotiVe of the publi,. good
This discretionary power would greatly
increase the labor and responsibility of
the governor. and if the bills he offered
We're adopted, his influence and power for
good as well Then the Legislature would
hardly fail to pass a proper bill the
executive had approved. and thus the
necessity for submission To the people
would greatly diminish. The people OF
the state would not need 10 fear th. gov
ernor because they would entirely control
him
In discussing the peoples initiative
Mr.. Mann said court decisions and gem
| eral experience had shown that legis-
| lative enactments are less liable to lie
wrong than those passed by the people
with the initiative. He said that one
vital wrong in the purely legislative
system was that the Legislators repre-
scented districts rather than the state
| AS whole, and for this reason iegis-
| latureS did not always work for the
welfare of the entire state
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TAKING OF NOVO GEORGIEVSK
OPENS VISTULA TO GERMANS
River Highway for Transporting Ammu-
milton and Supplies to Army
Invading Russia.

NOVO GEORGIENSK. August II, via
courier to Warsaw and London, Au-
gust 25.-By the capture of Novo
Georgievsk the Austro-Germans have
opened for their use the great Nistula
river transportation route into the in
terror of Poland. German steamers
are in waiting at WysZogrod. a few
miles below the fortress, and within a
day or two lows of barees laden with
ammunition supplies for the army and
coal and provisions for the occupied
region of Poland will be heading up
the long reaches of the river past War
saw to the Galician frontier.
The capture of the fortress also
opens a highly important railroad line
from Germany via Mlawa to Warsaw
north of the Vistula, whereby railroad
communication can be established to
eastern Poland and the present mill
tary front without awaiting the re-
building of the great bridges across
the Vistula at Warsaw which were de-
stroyed by the Russians before their
retreat.
Not a Second Przemysl.
The Importance of Novo Georgievsk
for these strategic reasons presumably
expla ms the Russian decision to attempt
to hold this one Vistula fortress after
their retreat. But any hope they held
that Novo Georgievsk might prove a
second Przemysl which would block
communication for months or even weeks
was dashed by its Unexpectedly speedy
capture by Gen. Won Beselers army,
composed chiefly of artillery and land
sturm troops.
1t is too early yet to tell the size
of the besieging force, but, as at Ant
werp and Maubeuge. it was small COM
prisoners taken seem to include not only
the regular garrison but also many sol
diers and units which had strayed in the
Russian retreat.
Town Is Purely Military.
Novo Georgievsk is purely fortress.
It's buildings and bridges are virtually
all of a military Nature. The town was
fired by the Russians just before they
capitulated. The walls of flame rising
on every side, splitting from the en-
brasures of the citadel and the military
storehouses and the great pail of
smoke floating down the valley of the
Nistula made one of the most spectacu-
lar scenes furnished by the war.
At the summit of Citadel Hill mas
sive, square-towered building with
Red Cross flag floating from it's
shadow of the flag burning storehouses
of small arms ammunition provided an
uninterrupted fusillade as the flames
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ARABIC LOSS OF LIFE NOT
COMPARABLE WITH WAR
Cardinal Gibbons Says Americans
Risking Ocean Trips Put Country
+ in Delicate Condition.

BALTIMORE. Md. August 25.-''The
compared to the awful calamity of
war" is the comment of Cardinal Glib
bons on the present strained relations
between the United States and Germany
over the sinking of the White Star liner.
with the loss of American lives.
The cardinal has just returned from
his annual vacation trip to Long Island
and Spring Lake. n. J. While away he
kept in couch with national and interna-
tional affairs. He said that he had noted
that the newspapers We're clamoring for
some demand of satisfaction on the part
of Germany. but he thought this de-
mand was somewhat without foundation.
Americans Embarrass Country.
Il would not care to discuss too deep
ly the present situation between the
United States and Germany" he said.
for 1 am not informed of all the de-
tails. From what l have read, it seems
that many Americans are embarrassing
their country by travelling on ships be-
longing to one of the countries at war.
If these travellers tate this risk in the
face of the dangers that they know to
be present. it seems to me that they are
put ing their country in a very delicate
situation.
There has been great furore over
the sinking of the Arabic. Many of the
New York papers are almost dema nding
war with Germany. While l have MAIN
tanned the strictest neutrality. l feel
that the loss of a few lives on the
Arabic compares as feather when
weighed against the awful calamity OF
-
than the less of a few lives Our best
homes will be affected and our best men
sacrificed. l hope the people will con-
slider this well before they act
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RUSSIAN STATEMENT.

PETROGRAD. August "a, via London,
August .: i.
In the Riga district there has been no
change. In the direction of Jacob
stadt and Dvinsk, toward the west,
on Monday there was fighting in
places, with alternating success. In
the district from kovno to Wilma,
Sunday night and the following day,