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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
BIG GUNS.
AREAL BUSINESS.
Continued from page I

ness of supplying men at the front,
which means conauering the enemy.
The organization begins forty miles
behind the fighting line with huge
supply depots where are stored and
card indexed millions Of rounds of
ammunition, covering every form of
explosive from the revolver cartridge
through rife, machine gun. trench NOR
tar. aerial torpedo, soixante-quinze,
ND to the sixteen inch siege gun shell.
In addition there are armor plate for
French shelters, barbed wire for en-
tanglements, posts for barbed wire,
storehouscs full Of cement for big gun
foundations, empty sacks to be filled
with sand for parapets, sections OF
railroad tracks bolted to iron sleepers
ready to be laid down, timbers cut and
notched ready to form the walls OF
trenches. >
Variety Of Supplies.
Each of these base depots contains
in immense quantities nearly two nun
dred of the separate varieties OF sup
niles required by the army fighting In
the field, and the commander OF each
depot can lay his hand at any moment
on any definite required quantity and
any variety Of the supply. A hundred
miles of new railroad has been built
across the territory. Broad gauge
lines lead from the base depots
through a succession of advance de-
nots until the first line depots, imme-
diately in the rear of the hghting
front. are reached, and every hour OF
the day and night supplies are BENG
moved up smoothly, without hitch,
keeping the first line depots constantly
full. AL.
nhone. Besides the broad gauge lines
there is a second system of narrow
gauge railroads going on beyond the
FIRST line dopts and running rignt up
70 the fighting line and there IS reg
ular scheduled train service from the
supply depots to the guns
SPLENDID Road System.
third means of communication IS
the magnificent road system, over which
a steady stream of automobile trans
noyts is running to the front. On one
side of the road an unbroken line OF
loaded vans is going TO the front and
ON the other side are emptles return
inc while the centre of the road is
i nft 20 staff cars and other light We
bicles. The roads are duplicated by
new ones built at the side, over which
the horse traffic passes, and here there
10 another steady line Of transports
carrying supplies to the front;
spent an extremely profitable after
noon at one of the supply depots. IL
covered an area three-quarters Of a
mile square, and the commander told
me that the average length of time in
which IL was cleaned out and rehlled
was VAS thirty-six hours, but there had
been occasions on which its contents
had been completely renewed twice in
twenty-four hours. There are eleven
miles of siding and spur tracks in that
depot. That is what is required for the
present, but it will soon be bigger for
new tracks are being built, and 1t Will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
WRESTLING OF HYMNS
SHOCKS CHURCH FOLK
Ungodly, They Say; Might BE
Worse. Pastor Replies.

The Rev. John NJ. Versteeg has been
in charge of the Bergen Point Meth
odist Episcopal Church only four
months, and already some of the older
members Of the church declare they
have descerned symptoms OF hymn
whistling in the boys of the Sunday
school.
"There's nothing Cody in whistllng
HYMNS" said a church member yester-
day. "Hymns were written to be sung
Quite unmoved by the suspicious, Mr..
Versteeg, while admitting that in his
former charge he had taught the chill
dren of the Sunday school to whistle
hymns, denied that he had begun that
practice yet at Bergen Point. lie might
do it, he said, for a boy might whistle
much worse things than hymns in the
street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Attempt to Straighten the
TOlminO-GOriZia
Front.
AEROS lombard
TRIESTE RAILWAY
Austrian Seaplanes Again
Raid the City of
Venice.

London, Aug. 16.-The Italian army
is being held back on the Lower
Isonzo until the line on the Upper
Isonzo can be Strengthened by the
capture of the mountains Of San
Gabrielle, San Mario and other posi-
tions lying between Tolmino and Go
rizia. While the capture Of these
mountains Is regarded as imminent,
there probably will be no advance on
Trieste until they have been taken.
The Austrians are being forced of
the Carso plateau before spirited at
enthusiasm by recent victories. Fierce
fighting for the heavy guns which
have been barring the way to Trieste
is in progress. These guns frequent
ly are placed in caverns on the noun
tainsides.
In taking Sainte Grade on Monday
the Italians offered to let one of tie
gun crews surrender. but the Austri-
ans fourished a mandolin in derision,
the Austrians often calling the ltal-
ans merely mandolin players. The
Italian infantry detachment then
charged and bayonetted the whole gun
crew.
Another Austrian air raid on Ven
ice is reported in to-night's Italian
official statement. Only slight dam
age was done and there were no casu-
alties. The statement says:
"On the Lower lsonzo our artillery
and trench mortars were active
against the enemy lines. We repulsed
an attack on the Carso, taking 100
prisoners, including four officers. In
the Tolmino area our batteries shelled
the Santa Lucia railway station,
where movements of trains were re-
ported.
"On the. Trentino front there was
great activity by hostile batteries in
the upper Cordevole and on the To-
nezza plateau, to which we replied
effectively.
"Our Voisin aeroplanes bombarded
the railway station at Reifenberg, on
the Gorizia-Trieste line, with good re-
suits. All of our machines returned
safely. Last night hostile seaplanes
dropped bombs on Venice and the
Grade Lagoon. They caused slight
damage and there were no casualties"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18

become a base depot when the advance
moves on.
For all this great organization is
steadily moving eastward, as the adj
vance progresses. Five hundred miles
of new track have been laid since the
offensive was begun, in order TO keep
the rear service up with the hghtlng
forces, and saw railroads moving east
as / crossed back and forth over the
supply region.
Huge Guns In Action.
In this sector also are the depots of
the aviation service and heavy artil-
lery. How many of these huge guns
| saw | must not say, but | can tell
you of one twelve-inch gun mounted
on sixteen trucks, that has record of
firing twenty-three shots in an hour
and quarter. Twenty men are re-
quired to work it, and the operation
for firing each shot is to receive d.
rections by wireless from an observa-
tion aeroplane, decipher the message,
point the gun, fix elevation, load, fire,
wait half a minute for the shell to
reach its destination, and then receive
a report on the shot from the aero
plane, with directions for the next shot.
The gun is loaded by crane from
munitions car coupled onto the rear Of
the gun truck. Before going into &C.
ton the gun is rasied from it's trucks
by ponderous jacks to take the strain
of the recoil off it's wheels and trucks.
Near il was sixteen-inch gun with a
range of thirty kilometres that aver
ages three minutes to a shot and has
fired two shots in two and three
nh q
close to a ton and it carries three hum
dred and fifty pounds of high explo-
sive.
These are the tools with which
France is blasting a road TO the Rhine.
Each of them has a name printed on
its side. There were Oiseaumouche,
Charles Humbert, Colibri, Desires and
July among those | saw.
After looking at the guns we went to
see the aeroplanes come home to roost.
II was a station of fighting machines
we visited-one station in many-six
souadrons of ten machines each and
two of them manned by Guynemer and
Chaput, which will tell you the calibre
of the men.
The captain who showed US around
told a little story of a German who
used to fly over the camp and loop the
loop every morning at o'clock. One
morning the captain sent Guynemer
and Chaput up to welcome the Ger
man. They looped with him, and going
up on the curve as he came down shot
him full of holes from below. Then
they came TO earth and gave him
decent burial, like good aviators and
brave. The insignia of our captains
squadron was a stork, and each ma
chine had a stork in full flight painted
on its side.
Another insignia | saw was torch
and there was a hangar full OF ma
chimes bearing on their sides flaming
torches. Each French aviation squad
ron thus has its private sign.
1t was growing dusk as we reached
Camp and the air was full OF storks
coming to nest for the night, but two,
70 make us welcome, went up again,
looped and stood on wing ends for us.
One aviator was slight, ooyish
Lacking figure. 1t seemed as though
he ought TO be in school. The captain
said he was twenty-three.
HAS he any Boches to his credit?
asked. An.
Give" said the captain. But he
hasn't been mentioned I'm orders yet.
There's time enough for that"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
MYSTERIOUS POISONER
KILLS BRITISH HORSES
Arsenic Given to Many Animals
Sent from Kansas City.
[By Telegraph to Tho Tribune. J

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. ia plot
to poison the big shipments of horses
from Kansas City for the use Of the
British government is being investi-
gated by secret service operatives OF
the Santa Fe Railroad and other roads
which transported the horses to New
port News, where they embarked for
England.
For more than month great num-
bers of the horses, although leaving
Kansas City in perfect conditions, have
been arriving at Covington, KY, the
first stopping place, either i'll or dead.
Autopsies by British veterinarians dis
close arsenic poisoning.
More than 10000 horses a month are
leaving the Lathrop, Mo-, concentration
camp over the Santa Fe Railroad, and
the work Of the mysterious poisoner al
ready has cost the British government
more than 100000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
HOSPITAL SHIP TO AID
hOROS IN PHILIPPINES
HoOkworm Ravages Former
Foes of White Men.

The Moros, the Malays who for years
devastated the Philippine archipelago,
are now prey to the hookworm and
other diseases, and the Philippine gov
eminent, cooperating with the interna-
tional Health Board of the Rockefeller
Foundation, is going to send hospltai
ship to save them from extinction. Inc
ship is now being equipped.
Civilization as we'll as drugs ana
physicians will be carried to the frac-
tious natives by the boat. The head
hunting Igorrotes and the Moros Of the
larger islands of Mindanao and Joio
Welded to the doctors Of the white
men after waging incessant warfare
against their soldiers. In the small
soutaern islands Of the Philippines 1t
is ejtimated there are 100000 OF the
Mahometar nomads. -,
For five years he crusade Will be
carried on by the hospital ship. Then
it is thought the government and local.
authorities will carry on the work. IL
il is successful the board will try the
same methods among other peoples OF
the Far East.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Russian Advance. Puts
Germans Line in Peril

With the Russian Armies on the Cen
trail Russian Front, Aug. Is (via Petro-
grad, Aug. 17).-The continued success
of General Brussilof's two powerful
movements, which gradually are envel-
oping Kovel and Lemberg, has begun
TO have a marked effect on the situa-
tion in the central portion of the
front, which has remained virtually un-
altered since the Russians fell back
last autumn to the line from Dvinsk to
the Pinsk marshes. The Austrian line
now has receded so far before the re-
peated thrusts of the southwestern
Russian forces in Southern Poland and
Galicia that the Germans are in dam
ger of thanking movement from the
south and the automatic retirement of
the forces opposed TO the Russian
centre,
Despite desultory bursts Of activity
at various points, Russian officers say
there are many indications that the
Germans are prepared to abandon their
present line at any moment.
Along the front from Lake Narocz
to the region of Baranovichi the Rus
sian soldiers are anxious for an oppor-
tunity TO advance. These forces, COM
manded by General Evert, are the
same which, crippled by a shortage of
ammunition and supplies, were forced
to surrender a large part of Poland n
year ago. Commanders who brought
back only broken. remnants of their di-
visions now are in charge of splen-
didly equipped units.
1--WE have enough ammunition stored
away to take us to Berlin" said an
officer.
The soldiers seem to be plentifully
supplied with wholesome food and are
living under the best sanitary condi-
tions, surrounded by comforts and con-
veniences.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Britain Plans New Meas
ures to Stop Re-exporta-
ton of Goods.
TRADE COMMISSION
TO GIVE GUARANTEES
Admission Is Made That
Move Is Partly Retail
atory in Nature.

London, Aug. 17.-New measures
which it is hoped may pave the way for
strengthening the Allied blockade are
being planned by Britain. The first OF
these is a proclamation. about to be
issued, prohibiting the expectation to
Sweden of all commodities except on
presentation to the customs officials OF
q Swedish trade commission guarantee.
It is explained in this connection
that the Swedish war trade law OF 1915
makes it illegal for Swedish importer
to furnish an exporter in the United
Kingdom with information as to the
disposal of goods The exporter, there
fore, is often obliged to admit he is un-
able to furnish evidence hat he has
taken reasonable precautions to insure
that the goods exported by him have
IN fact reached the destination speci-
fed when the goods were shipped, and
through no fault of his own but owing
TO the operations of the Swedish law,
he becomes exposed to heavy penalties.
Ask Signed Guarantee.
Il has become necessary, therefore,
to make all exports to Sweden, with q
few minor exceptions, dependent upon
the production Of guarantee. signed
by the importer and sanctioned and
registered by the proper department OF
the Swedish government, to the effect
that both the goods and their products
will not be reexported.
The present trade agreement between
the two nations applies strictly to ex-
ports from the United Kingdom, and
Sweden has declined positively to make
any agreements with regard to imports
from other nations. imports from
other nations into Sweden, however,
must still pass through the blockade,
and in the event that Sweden is not
willing to grant additional guarantees
it is said at the Foreign Office that
further measures may be necessary.
Act Partly Retaliatory.
The Foreign Office officials admitted
there was some justification in the
view taken by the English press that
the new measure was TO some extent
retaliatory, but stated that 1t was more
correct TO describe il as legalizing the
position of both nations.
AS foodstuffs. metals and other raw
materials are excluded from the list
covered by the guarantees 1t is esti-
mated that only from 81 to 20 per cent
of the total exports from England TO
Sweden are affected by the new meas
urp.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Slowly Force the Enemy
Back Into Serbian
Territory.
BULGARIA REPORTED
WILLING TO QUIT
Only Seeks Favorable
Terms, London
Hears.
tBy Cable To The Tribune ]


London, Aug. 17.-General Sarrail's
forces continue to batter with strong
forces at the Bulgarian line guarding
the road into Serbia. Their heavy guns
keep up the bombardment day and
night, probing for weak spot at which
concentrated assault can be driven.
The Allied gains near Dorian, won
in the fighting which has been in prog
ress now for seventeen days, have al
ready brought Sarrail's line we'll into
Serbia. The Bulgsrians are fighting
subbornly to hold their positions, but
the Allied forces are much superior and
are pushing them back steadily
bulgaria is now thoroughly sick
Of fighting. according to advices from
Sofia, which reached London to-day.
She would be willing to withdraw, it
is said, if she could get favorable terms
from the Allies. These reports have
lent new interest to the rumor that
Sofia would even sell her allegiance
to the Allies and fight against the
Teutons.
Rumanian Stand Pulling.
The attitude of Rumana is still puz-
zling. Until the Russians have demon
strated that their driving power is
still intact and until the Allies make
a strong show of force in the Bal
kans, it is not likely that Bucharest
will consider throwing her lot in with
the Allies.
Rumania's attitude is complicated
further by her trade. Dispatches
from Sofia to-day reported that rela-
tons between Rumania and Bulgaria
had become more friendly. Bucharest
has displayed her willingness to agree
to the exchange of goods with Bull
garia. In this Sofia sees great hops.
For the first time Sofia admits to-day
that the Allies are attacking in force.
Hitherto all Teutonic reports have ridi-
culed SarraiPs assaults in the Balkans
as weak and easily repulsed. To-day,
however, the Bulgarian capital reports
that heavy fighting is in progress, with
the Allies delivering strong infantry at
tacks.
Allied Drive On in Earnest.
Although their gains so far have
penetrated only short distance, the
Allies have begun their offensive in
earnest. Until the bombardment has
smashed more Bulgarian defences. it
would be futile for Sarrail to attack on
wide front. But a large movement
is considered now only matter Of
days.
The official Bulgarian statement says:
"On the evening Of August IA the
enemy's artillery opened violent bonn
bardment on our advanced positions
south and west of Lake Dorian. Under
cover of this fire the enemy's infantry
attacked, but was repulsed.
"The bombardment continued, and on
the morning of the 18th the infantry
again attacked with considerable force,
but was repulsed and compelled to fall
back in considerable disorder"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
AuStrianS Hold Sereth
Line and Advance in
Carpathians.
RUZSKY PLANS BLOW,
BELIEF IN LONDON
Lull i'm Offensive Laid to
the Transfer of
Troops.
IBy Cable to The Tribune.l

London, Aug. 1.-THE desperate
counter attacks of the Austrians ana
Germans continue TO block the advance
Of the Russians. Again tonight Retro
grad reports that the situation is I'M
changed.
That the Cars troops are still try
ing to resume the offensive in Galicia
is indicated by the communiques from
Berlin and Vienna. The German state
ment records the repulse of furious
attacks west of Zalocze, in the Sareth
region. and near Tustobaby, the town
north Of the Dniester which fell 70
The Russians in the recent lighting.
Against Won Boehm-Ermolli's lines the
Russians hurled massed assaults for
twelve hours yesterday, but were
driven back by the Teuton batteries.
In the Carpathians the Austrians
pushed forward north OF Capul, IN the
southeastern corner OF Gallcla, ana
swept another height. In this region
the opposing lines have been seesaw-
ing back and forth for some time, the
gains of one day neutralizing the
losses of another.
The Russian bag of prisoners, 35S,6O2
strong. as officially reported yesterday.
has been augmented by the captures OF
General Bezobrazoff, who took, "in the
most recent operation" according to
Petrograd, 1906 captives. Great guam
titles of guns and munitions also fell
into the Russian commanders hands.
Ruzsky Ready for Blow.
Fold Marshal Won Hindenburg, who
was expected long since to have been
furnished with the men and weapons
to start where he left off last year,
will soon have to face one of the great
est strategists the war has brought to
the fore.
General Ruzsky, who has now taken
command of the northern armies Of
the Gear, is probably the most brilliant
commander Russia has to-day. He is
the idol of the Russian soldiers, de-
spite the fact that he is strong dis
ciplinarian. General Ruzsky has had a
great deal TO contend with from hostile
internal forces, but he refused TO be
bound by red tape and now assumes
control Of the Northern front with a
free hand.
Some military observers here are Of
the opinion that the sudden lull in the
Russian offensive in Galicia portends
a stroke of greater magnitude by Ruz-
sky somewhere in the north. 1t is held
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Germans and Russians
Exchange Air Attacks

Berlin, Aug. 17.-An Official COM
nunieation says;
,..seked With explosive and incendiary
Sombs the aerodrome at Papenolm, on
0ssel Island lat the entrance TO the
GuN of Riga) and enemy aeroplanes
m the shore Of Runoe Island Gin the
Galf Of Riga. Despite a heavy anti
s;rrraft fire ard subsequent air fight
our seapalnes returned safely.
sTbe same night there was an air
aid bv four enemy aerOplanes on
Ingern Lake (near the western shore
Of the Gulf Of Riga, but only slight
material damage resulted"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
U.BOAT WAR IS ONCE
MORE IN FULL SWING
Paris Hears That Campaign Fol-
lows Note to u. S.

Paris, Aug. 17-Germany's subma-
rine warfare against merchant ships Is
again in full swing, according to the
naval expert Of lie Temps"
He declares that this new submarine
campaign follows the German note TO
the United States Of February 10, in
which it was said: Merchant ships
carrying guns cannot be considered as
peaceful ships" According to lie
Temps" the Germans are now acting
under this notice, and it says that
three days ago the Italian ship Plata
repulsed attacks Of an enemy subma-
rine with gunfre. The article con-
cludes with an emphatic declaration
that n similar course will be followed
by other commanders of Allied mer-
chant ships.
London, Aug. 1.-THE British
steamer Whitgift, previously reported
missing, is now understood to have
been torpedoed and sunk April 70"
says Lloyd's. "The sole survivor was
a japanese"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18
Precision of French Drive
Cuts Losses to Minimum

Paris, August 17.-"The operations
on the Somme yesterday were merely
a detail of the offensive and of only
local bearing" high military officer
explained to-day, "but significance Is
derived from the fact that the Ger
mans did not counter attack. Never be-
fore have they failed to react when
successfully attacked, and their failure
is either a sign of weakness or, more
likely, because Of confusion Of orders.
"The precision with which the French
offensive has been carried out IS SHOWN
by the fact that every objective desig-
mated in advance of an action has been
reached. At Maurepas a certain num-
Der of houses were selected and every
one Of them was captured and occu-
pied; it never was intended TO at
tempt the occupation Of the entire
village.
"One consequence Of this precision
in the French operations is the reduc-
ton of losses to minimum. The oper-
atoms in Artois and in Champagne
cost five times more than all the
ground gained on the Somme. The
purpose is to destroy the German
forces, and the Franco British defen..
sive also has accomplished the feat OF
holding on the western front the great
est possible portion of the German
forces.
at is fallacious to figure out the
probable duration of hostilities on
French soil by computing the average
surface of ground gained in day.
Every time an action takes place, even
though the gain may be no more than
a hundred yards or. so, the opposition
is beaten. He loses heavily, and the
weakening moral effect cannot be meas
ured in yards. 1t is a cumulative eff
feet. which sooner or later will wear
the enemy down so that he will be
unable to hold the French gains to
few hundred yards"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-18

in our first line trenches over a width
of about 500 metres. East thereof
and near Estrees the enemy has beer
repulsed.
On both sides of the Meuse (Verdun
'front.' the artillery was more active
An attempted attack by the enemy on
Chapitre Wood was suppressed by our
curtain Of fire.
At numerous points on the front
French patrols undertook operations
which were unsuccessful.