The Chitina leader., 1915-07-06

continually after them, but even when
they are caught they sometimes slip
through some loophole in the law. The
government has decided to close every
loophole now.
PEKING, July 3.-The Chinese
government has been adopting pecu-
liar devices for the purpose of obtain
ing loans from the Chinese people.
since 1t is impossible during the
European war to obtain them from
abroad.
Besides introducing lottery sys-
tenn in order to obtain investments in
the National Savings Bank. they are
now offering decorations to merchants
and others who will buy the domestic
bonds" which the government is issu-
ing. The purchaser who buys several
thousand dollars worth of the bonds
receives a sixth class or seventh class
decoration; he who buys more re-
ceives a fifth class; and so it goes up
TO very large sums, in which case spe-
cial decorations, something new and
hitherto unprovided, are granted to
the men who trust the government
with hundreds of thousands or Mexi-
can dollars.
LONDON, July 3.-The war Office
has announced to farmers its willing
ness to allow prisoners of war to be
employed on farms near detention
camps.
PARIS, July "a bill has been in
troduced in the senate to confer citi.
zenship upon all native Algerinas who
have served in the French army.
PARIS, July 3.-Many of the SOL
diers confined at the Cherche-Midi
prison awaiting court martial for In
fringement Of regulations ask to be
defended by women lawyers. On the
contrary, the women at Saint Lazare
awaiting trial generally ask the head
of the order of advocates for a man
to defend them.
PETROGRAD, July 3.-One of the
most daring Russian aviators on the
Galician front is girl from the Petro'
grad High School She recently ar
rived at Kiev, wounded in arm and
leg, having been hit while flying over
some Austrian positions. She kept
control of her machine, however, and
landed safely behind the Russian
lines.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, France
July Sit is'almost impossible to ex
aggerate the Importance of the Ger
man strength in machine guns, which
they use with the greatest skill and
courage.
They had stock of $4,000 on hand
at the beginning of the war, and have
been keeping this supply replenished
constantly from their arms factories
A favorite trick is to leave a ma
chine gun or two hidden in a cellar
or similar place of concealment until
the enemy's advance has swept by
and then open fire on the rear. The
post of the men serving the gun is
of course hopeless, but they are fairly
certain to sell their lives dearly, con
tinuing to fire their gun to the last
AS an instance of the deadly swift
ness of machine gun fire, it is stated
that man coming under the fire OF
one of these weapons and shot
through the head can be struck yet
ten times more in the second or two
that he takes to fall to the ground.
LONDON, July 3.-The war has
brought what might be described as
a trampless era to England. There is
not workhouse in the United King
dom that has not reported great de-
crease in the number of Migrants dur
ing the past few months. Those who
still use the casual wards" are men
of so years or over. Officials say
there are practically no young OF
middleaged Migrants left.
PHILADELPHIA, July s. The
United States District Court has rem
dered a decision in favor of the de-
PENDANT in the suit brought by the
government to dissolve the combina
ton formed by the Reading road, and