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Gen. S.r william Il. Robertson, II. G.
V. -. Is. G. H.. n : -. the pres"ut
Chief OF STAFF and through the new
order In absolute control of the army:
dependent only upon the Cabinet as a
whole" has had the most remarkable
career of any military chief IN any OF
tn. countries at war He ros. To his
present position from n private in The
Ninth LanCers, which regiment he Joined
as a boy OF 10. To-day he Is known and
beloved by the Erit!sh army as the
most democratic General" or "a demo-
Crat among democrats
Equipped with ouls an elementary
education. h. invested IS pay of a
shilling a div a. a private in study
Whhe grooming MS hors" or cleaning
his eIuipmer.t he had his comrades
read English classics to him. Af,er
ten Years ~ service he obtained a COM
mission ~ the Thad Dragon Guards at
III. age ~ -. -Four years later he was
assigned tr the Intelligence branch OF
the UGartrrmdstcr's department in
india. There he dist St.ngu!shed hi.rse.f
In the rapid acquisition Of the native
dialects. a knowledge which proved in
valuable TO his country lie took part in
the Ch!tral campaign. vas severely
wounded and won the DISTINGUISHED Ser
vice order.
SIR William also won laurels as !:
stan officer in the South African cam
paign and ig 1910 he was placed in
command Of the Army staff College and
then hecam" director of military train
ing at the War t1TTcc His first position
in the present war was Quartermas,er-
General OF tn" British eNpedItionary
force In France His success IN that
capacity led to his subsequent appoint
meut a. Chlef of STAN lie is - years
old
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Mr. stein sat down, Mr.. Somers SEQ
onded the Gillespie nomination. Mr.
Churchill got ny. To every ones amaze
mcnt Mr.. Churchill formally asked Mr.
Gillespie. whose nomination he had ad-
vocated. Ia Withdraw and in his place
offered himself.
81 have not risen I" second the noml-
nation of my colleague" said Mr.
Churchill, "and am not going to talk
Of the issue which adyorate. That has
been clearly drawn by Mr.. Stein. I am
going Ia tell the board right now that |
believe that Mr., Gillespie has not the
slightest chance Of being elected This
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IT, fut that two firms OF lawyers re-
et'ed Iom the interborough payments
tesiesn'us S63,l2S.G2 for representing
E.rfos'o supposedly antagonistic to the
'oHp"nF led Mr. Colby and Senator
"iur-ou to make searching remarks
o. he ''r"nmstance. Mr., Fisher said in
ah>"er that he was unable To explain
l." matter further than to say that il
N"s i.r The interest of the COMPANY to
Ia'" ~" validity Of its contracts de-
"!m.heu and he assumed that to be the
''''' "AH N" company paid the money
~ 1'I rut know who the complainant
'N' "pi tuat the records show that a
.'' '"' Drought by the Admiral Realty
,,"'idh. "" Was sure this was not an
u ,"ih'r"ggn company.
=, '4.H'T7 and bills produced by Mr..
8 'H'I a. Used the fact that on October
'''- ''r directors authorized "A pay
~ N"''p2H0 to Hays Herschfield
""l i"r professional services in de-
'"'- 'H" validity Of the proposed
tito. "i tu" subway system and the
'. ems On the same day pay
'-'" "IH.'2 to Guggenheimer.
'"''iHt'l \ Marshall for services as
M'I VI Fisher said he remembered
'' u. IsIf. discussion Of the bills.
''' ''h"Ii Of TIA" case shows that an
.''" '"i Wa sought on the ground that
'p.''d contracts for the extension
"' 'h"ay system were in volat ton
'' .'" N'''' constitution. The case was
''.''I ~" ID" Court Of Appeals, where
!" "" ''su"d on June II, 1912, and
.'' '''I 'i favor Of the respondents,
'' 20 shl, The city Of New York
"h.' service Commission and the
.." ihr" Of II this looks like "A
'''' ''l ia" Bar Association to look
:, .'d S"ha'or Thompson when MIR.
"' 'n" morning session first told
' .H'n"ht Of attorneys for It's ad-
t' IN" lutorborough.
'.' D. ~" Admiral Realty COM
'''N ..' complainant in this action 80
a'' Nr colby when the bills and
N'N w'r" hcforc him.
9, ! .r1Ipn' say replied Mr.. Fisher,
NJ suow"
'- any connection with the Inter.
.' that | know of"
H'' '"ploycd counsel for this realty
f. Iu. the company EMPLOYED its
0" '. Iu-"L'
:. ".E should the lnterborough nay
~ a...ru"ys.'
N'inl I" the IntrrborouRh.
!, 'II"-' h""hus" it was for the
"' to" in'"rb"rough 10 have the
'''' of ~ contracts determined"
lac lhicrburough pay the bills of
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Safc Nargiu for WiitcOx.

safe NHrRtu uOF w t''c's'
lie went down IN vote Of II To 20.
Three nf the voters east blank ballots.
MIR Wilcox needed twenty-four votes 10
be elected. II" therefore hdd saie
margin of nve.
After tn. election Peter j. Brady. sec
retary OF the organized Conference on
Industrial Education. a labor "igaulza-
uon. said that the election Of Mr. Will
cox gave John u. Rockefeller control 81
the Board Of Education. He announced
that "A bill would bc introduced ln''
the Legislator. Immediately calling loi
an Investigation Of the Rockefeller
Foundation. the General Education Boa ID
and the Public Education Association.
During the c,urse of the projection
debate charg-, were freely mad" by Mr.
Churchill that III" election was con-
spiracv and bv Rupert u. Thomas of
the Churchill faction that IN" recently
appointed members of tho board had
bought their appointments by pledge
Ia MAYOR Mitchell that they would Nut"
for Mr.. wilcox.
Immediately aftev these charges had
been made half a dozen of the new mem
bers of the board rose 10 say that they
had been insulted and that they de-
mandcd an apology They all agreed
and with great vehemence. that 'hey
"'u ~
ANYBODY.
LAST evening Mayor M.tchel 'ssu'd a
-. ,-r..,,c I'm. delight over
a,',,,o,, r.sul,s and admitting .u.tr
frankly that he had pled-cd the members
h, ,runlnted to vote for Nj. WILCOX
Mr. Mt,hels new app".nt""> -"
denied SO vigorously that iu"N ndd
.ledgrd themselves to vote for Nj Will
cox were Thomas Kelly, Franklin ".
80 - .n N .rr.t..r Ms Rose
,,'"t."He' ,.,,.,I,.. ,..rr,u ~ "A XII
~ s'''''
paw IN ,..,,, 90, discard ten.
VIE w, w W 49, b',,,nr b.en made
$50 ,.,r and having taken
80 -, -, ,E,o,,, hair nu q,
"'9 P'.'N, ..,',', -, t.,,.e ,,u ut,.., I'm.
'''. -, ,,,,,,
Her. Enters Nr. BrHd,.
..,... ,t,. ,,,t,.
Va Ne mus W -,
ON" 10y IN" way ""''ns l"' NV Us
Peter j. hr"uN' H'""s -
'erhl'0'h '""','eu"''' '',,', .'','.
through IN" throh- 90 9'"'''''t ''
tore al IN" rear an" N"''" wv
MT tr'Sln"ht
tN"rl n"nN l"'""" n,"""', ", "'"', !,,
W"uld nave '''''' ,S"' ',' 49, ' tt
"i IN" h"il""IS W ~" ''"'" ''
ant been Tor su'~'"'''''' ~" "'''"'
tn prevent )us' Sn'h ''m'rs',,
MT President ''''h MI h,"pN'
TIM her" with u d"putai."n "i Iap"r
men so hr preSent----
Mr. Brady VOC" was drowned ny
Groaus from members "t the hohrd ana
by cries of "prder' from v"rSh"dy
who didn't want 10 hear him 'icn
Ningatr knocked his gtN"l on his desk
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sE\BONKn FLORIDA LTu., !:i6 rM
AMI other fne steel trains 20 hort Wln'or -.
sorls South, ina SesboArd onice, iisi G'Nsy
-Adt,
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sneaker clark got into the debate at
the outset uf the proceedings. Repre-
sentative Butler of Pennsylvania. -
member Of the Naval Affairs committee.
VA on hts feet, with a dozen other
members huIzsns around and demanding
answers to all kinds Of questions. Repre-
sentative Butler began the dehat" with
the navy yard bill In the midst of IN"
uproal the Speakey strollcd down the
middle aisle.
"uow is 1t that in England they can
build a battlcship so much quicker than
". do" Mr.. Clark asked.
"I,ccausc they give the money an
swcred Representative Butler,
"Do We not appropriate the money
asked the speaker,
'Ycs." said Mr., Butler. "but We cut
dollar bills in two and weigh nlckels
while the English do not. II We want
ANYTHING better wc have 10 pay the
price demanded.
'That is true" said the Speaker. "but
suppose we paid the fun price, what is
the reason We cannot build Il battleship
AS quickly as fhs'a'd '"h
I'VE can"
.,Wc have never done so"
81 have inquired officially and tho trs
rormatiou wil hr In the hearings" said
MIR Eutlcr "W" will he ahe to show
ms. that II We viii begin to build and
take the money and push aside private
construction We can build twenty-two
shius i'm two years, II We can find the
mon to put on ther."
Representative Gardner said that one
reason that English construction time
MAS shorter waS that IN. English did
not include in the pcriod allowed for
=,
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h.m was made by the weekly D'cpn,ch,
which called HIM too old for his pres
,ut office and urged the Government To-
send him TO the Near East" where he be-
longs. AMI wucrr he can do the best
work"
upon his nationwide roundup OF labor
for the speeding ~ % the munitions
output. making speeches that shook
England from apathy into action, Lloyd
George rose from tn" most cordially de-
tested man iu the kingdom 10 the ped
cstal OF the empires driving power"
while Lord Kitchener lost in prestige.
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The second bill proposes IN" appoint
meut Of 40 additional midshpmen at
Annapolis. thus increasing III" corps q!
that institution from l,l61 TO l.1o'.
Ia hls address ON the mdshlpm"n hiil
Sneaker Ciark argued ia favor "t the
creation of "A trained r"~"rN" of ofi""rs
ard rn.u declaring that n" believed IA"
Federal Government should extend AID
for military training III the schools and
colleges of the country.
The Sp.akrr also said that he favored
short .uii>tmcntS IN the regular army
In order hat i0u, 400 or 50 trained men
should be sent forth each year. lie an
noun,rd amid applau>. that ne would
soon offer a bill cularanG the cadet
corps AZ West Point. and expressed tn"
hope that th"r, would br no opposition
TO the hill
Mr. clarl, declared that, IN ms opin-
ION. The United States should enter upon
a policy Of building the most powerful
Ships in tn" world. equipped with guns
of a. long range a. any or those against
which the American fleet might b" called
upon tu compete IN time of war.
rucle Joe cannon strongly intlmated
lhyt the Wilson Admin stration was en-
gagged in making a demonstration over
defence for political purposes. II" said
that 4 the Administration would tell
what was the right thing to do IN the
way Of PREPAREDNESS II" would be glad
to follow the lead Of the Pres dent. Re
publican Leader Mann urged all lncm-
hrrs, regardless Of politics. to stand by
the Presidents defence programme. Mr..
Mann remarked upon the absenc" from
debate of such Democratic leaders as
Mr. kitrhtu
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!, 'rI"-' h""hIs" it was for the
i, "' 'h" lu'"rb"rough TO have the
..' "' ~ contracts determined"
uc lut"rb"rough pay the bills OF
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The Penn's Grove record., 1916-07-21
Sporting

Frank L.. Kramer, of East Orange,
N. j., clinched the cycling champion
ship of America for the sixteenth
year in succession by winning the two
mile titular race at the Velodrome in
Newark, N. J.
Christy Matthewson, famous pitch
er of the Giants, has been traded to
Cincinnati for Charley Herzog. Mat.
ty will manage for them.
RUDE Oldring, veteran outfielder,
has been signed by the Yankees.
After IA years service in the Ma
tional League as a player and mana
ger, Charley Doom, catcher, was re-
leased by the New York Giants to
Rochester.
Jack Dillon of Indianapolis and Bat
Ting Levinsky of New York, boxed a
ten-round, no decision bout at Balti-
more, and Levinsky outpointed the
Hoosier.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-07-21

August 8 was tentatively fixed upon
as the date for the formal notifica-
ton of the denomination OF President
Wilson.
Governor Locke Craig of North
Carolina has received reports indicat-
ing that the flood damage may reach
$25, 900, 900.
A meteor, the unburied part of
which is as large as a 5-room house,
fell near Hot Springs, Ark.
Thirty thousand persons marched
during rain in Milwaukee's prepared
ness parade.
The destroyers Dayton and Pauld-
ing left the Philadelphia Navy Yard
under sealed orders.
Thomas NJ. Osborne returned to Sing
Sing prison as warden.
]. j. Bernet, vice-president of the
New York Control Railroad, was elect
ed president of the Nickel Plate Rail-
road.
The National British Surgical Soci-
ETY. received a gift of $250,0O0 to be
offered as a prize for the inventor of
the best artificial hand.
Leo Landry, aged u, was drowned
at Lowell, Mass, in an unsuccessful
attempt to rescue from drowning his
younger brother.
One thousand men rejected from the
National Guard of Kentucky, in camp
at Lexington, have had their uniforms
taken, and now go about clad in pa
jamas and blankets.
1t took twenty policemen to stop
a Rad by soldiers Of the Eight Massa-
chusetts Infantry on fruit stands,
restaurants and saloons in Kansas
City.
Senator O'Gorman of New York
asked President Wilson to have Am
bassador Page al London intervene in
formally in an effort to secure COM
mutation of Sir Roger Easements
death sentence.
Express companies will accept ship
ments of gifts and supplies to troops
on the Mexican border at t%wo-thirds
the regular rates.
Directors of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Co., appropriated a sum not to
exceed 100000 for relief of depen-
dent families OF employees of the road
who are now serving with the militia.
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MEXICAN

Transfers Of money to National
Guardsmen mustered into Federal
service and stationed on the Mexican
border will be made at one-half usual
charge.
New York furnished 1854 of the
50,076 troops from the Eastern De-
partment sent to the border.
Formal announcement was made by
Acting Secretary of State Polk that
the border embargo on articles going
into Mexico had been ordered lifted,
except on arms and ammunition.
Fifteen carloads of small arms am
munition, said to be the largest ship
ment ever made by the United States
army to troops on the border, ar
rived at Douglas and Nogales, Ariz-
ona. The shipment would constitute
about 10000, 900 rounds.
Immediate organization of a national
guard recruiting service to bring the
regiments on border duty up to full
war strength was authorized by the
War Department.
McAllen, Pharr and Mission, three
Texan towns where New York militia
is encamped, were struck by a tor
rental rainstorm, which demolished
many tents and turned the camps into
mud flats.
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Happenings That Caused A Stir
Briefly ChrOniCIed.
SITUATION AT WASHINGTON
Executive Acts at the capital-vle-
tories and Defeats Of the Great
War-Doinss In the Forty
Eight States Recorded.
War Bulletins

A contingent of Russian troops dis
embarked at Brest, France. The
troops will be sent to camp from
Brest and later to the front.
Count Karolyi's peace party will
start with a membership of seventy
members of the Hungarian Parlia-
ment.
Emperor William is now in full COM
mand of the German troops fighting
along the Somme River front against
the British and French.
Germans and Austrians are in pre-
cipitate retreat in the region of Sat
raft and Goumine to avoid being out
fanked by the pursuing Russians.
Renewed gains by the French in
fighting in the Verdun region are re-
ported in the latest official statement
issued by the Val Office.
Should the Portuguese troops come
TO the estern front the soldiers Of
four of the Entente Powers would be
fighting on the one battle line.
The Anglo-French offensive is main
tanning itself as vigorously as ever
against the most determined attacks
which the Germans are now deliver
ing against the front in Northern
France.
Only two miles and a half from the
center of Verdun, the German Crown
Prince Is believed to be preparing for
q cpriac of tho urnatnGt CfnrminO
actions of the war. The battle,
which opened 145 days ago, is fast
approaching a climax.
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PITH OF II
WAR NEWS

Dispatches from Paris %announc that
still more men have been called to
the colors. The latest to be order
ed out are part of the class of 1886
men from AZ to 4a years of age. Men
of this class employed in munitions
factories and, for the time, farmers
and field Iaborers are exempt.
South of the Somme, as we'll as against
the British north of the river, the
Germans are delivering determined
counter attacks in an effort to win
back lost ground. The Berlin state
ment makes the claim that Biaches,
La ~Eaisenette, Soyecourt and Bar
leuz are again in German hands.
The Russian advance westward AGAINST
the fortress of kovel and southwest
ward against the left wing of Gen.
Won 6othmer's army continued with
marked success. In VoIhynia alone
the Russians took 314 officers and
1857 men.
The German General Staff issued an
appeal to the people of Germany for
confidence in the conduct of the war.
From the beginning of the Russian Of
fensive until July I the Russians suf-
fered a loss in killed of 14,9OO Off
GERS among whom were II generals
and 20 regimental commanders. The
loss in mon is placed at 243.o0n,
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Foreign

Denmark reports that the entire
first-class mail of the Danish liners
Frederick VIII, for New York and
Ovar II. from New York vas seized
by the British authorities.
Premier Asquith announced in the
British House of Commons that the
Home Rule of ireland amending bill
would be introduced into Parliament
before recess is taken.
The Australian Government has pur-
chased Is cargo steamers to help
move the wheat crop.
The Rev. Cyril A. Abingdon, head
master of Shrewsbury School since
1908, was elected headmaster at Elton.
Arabian rebels have wiped out all
traces of Turkish resistance in Mecca.
Spain has established a military cen
sorship of all press dispatches.
Prof. Ellie Metchnikoff, famous bac-
teriologist, died in Paris.
The German National Committee,
which recently was organized under
the Presidency of Prince Won Wedel
for the purpose of preparing the minds
of the German people for IAN honor
able peace" will soon begin it's la
bors with a series of meetings in vari-
Gus towns in Germany.
Duke de Rohan, a member of the
French Chamber. died at the front.
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Washington

A sweeping denial of the charges
that the State militia are short of
food or other supplies On the border
was made by the War Department.
President Wilson signed the Rural
Credits bill, providing for the estab-
lishment of a system of farm land
mortgage banks to handle the long
time mortgage loans of the farmers
OF the country.
The bodies of six negro troopers,
killed at Carrizal, were buried in Ar
lington Cemetery, with full military
honors.
Representative James Hay of Virgin
ia was nominated by President Wilson
to be Judge of the United States
Court of Claims.
President Wilson authorized Sec
rotary of War Baker to establish i'm
mediately the aeroplane reserve
corps of the army.
The War Department has spent
$4,000, 900 for clothing and equip
ment purchased during the present
mobilization
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BRITISH DRIVEN FROM LINE.

London.-The Germans are counter
attacking ~furiously along the greater
part of the 25-mile front in Picardy.
The British admit a withdrawal
from the sections of the German third
system of defense they penetrated.
Under cover of fog, the Germans
launched violent counter attacks
against the French south of the Somme
river, La Maisonnette and the village
of Biaches, across the stream from
Peronne, were recaptured.
The French Immediately drove the
Germans back, reoccupying both
towns, according to Paris, and cap
tured as well a small wood.
In the region of Chauines, after a
heavy bombardment, a German de-
tachment penetrated the French first
line trenches north of Chilly. The
Germans were elected soon afterward
by counter attacks, Paris asserts.
North of the Aisne, near Oulches,
the French made a surprise attack on
enemy trenches, clearing them of the
foe.
The British cut the Germans third
line in Faureaux Wood, occupied the
entire Delville Wood, northeast of
~Longueval, and reached the outskirts
of Pozieres, part of which they held.
The furthest advance of the British
is four miles beyond their position of
two weeks ago.
East of Ovillers, on the British left,
where a Stubborn struggle has been
going on, the British made a further
gain.
Seven German aeroplanes were de-
stroyed in "a hours in the fighting
north of the Somme river.
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President Declares Measure Is
One of Delayed Justice and
Lauds Its Purposes
FARMERS WILL BENEFIT
Sees Also Advantage to the Invest
ing COMMUNICATIVE Loan Board
Soon to Be Appointed-Wii-
son Used Two Pens.

Washington. - President Wilson
signed the Rural Credits bill, passed
recently by Congress. A group OF
senators, representatives and officers
70 farmers organizations a~pplauded
warmly as the President affixed his
signature.
Just before signing the measure,
which creates a system of twelve
land loan banks under the direction
of a Federal board, the President
made a short address, pointing out
the benefits which he believed both
farmers and the investing commun-
ity would enjoy under its operation.
The President used two pens in
signing the bill, and gave M of them
to Senator Fletcher of Florida, who
asked permission to present it to the
Southern Commercial Congress.
In addition to the members of the
House and Senate, the signing was
witnessed by David Lubin, one of the
originators of the bill, and represen-
Farmers Educational and Co-opera-
tive Union, the Farmers Society of
Equity, the Ancient Order of Clean
ers, the Farmers National Congress
and the National Council of Farmers
Cooperative Association.
Secretary McAdoo conferred with
the President later on the selection
of members of the new Farm Loan
Board, who soon will be appointed.
Herbert Myrick of New York, has
proposed a scheme for redistricting
the United States under the rural
credits law. 1t provides that the
twelve districts shall be as follows:
l. New England with Land Bank
at Springfield, Mass.
2. New York and Pennsylvania
with bank at Binghamton, N. Y.
g.. Michigan and Ohio with bank
at Toledo.
A.. Virginia and the Carolinas with
bank at Raleigh.
5. Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia,
Tennessee, and Kentucky with bank
at Birmingham, Ala.
6. Indiana and Illinois with bank
at Champlaln, Ill.
z. Iowa and Missouri with bank
at Burlington, Iowa.
s. Wisconsin and Minnesota with
bank at st. Paul.
8. The Dakotas, Montana, and Wy
oming with bank at Aberdeen, S. D..
10. Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado
with bank at Hastings, Neb.
IL. Oklahoma, Texas and New
Mexico with bank at Fort Worth,
Texas.
IL. Washington, Oregon, California,
Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Utah
with bank at Sacramento, Cal.
Representative Carter Glass, chair
man of the joint Senate and House
Committee on Rural Credits, in a
statement congratulated the country
and Congress Upon the approval of
the bill.