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The sun., 1916-08-28
WAR MOVES TOLD IN
OFFICIAL REPORTS
Bad Weather flinders Opera.
tons on British and
French Fronts.
RUSSIANS TAKE HEIGHT
Drive AustrianssFr ron Hill in
Carpathians and Continue
Their Advance.

LONDON. Aug. 27.-The following OF.
hcial communication was issued this
evening:
During the past t%wenty.four hours
bad weather to some extent has In
terfered with our operations. We
have. however. gained ground north
west OF Ginchy.
In the afternoon there was ron.
siderable artillery activity by both
sides. the enemy fire being directed
mainly against our support trenches,
and more especially toward the north
OF %f.ongucvai. Our guns blew UP
some Of the cnemy's bomb stores.
Between Neuve Chapelle and Ar
mcntieres we exploded mines. The
enemy blew two small mines south
west OF Aunchy and south OF the
Ypres salient. There were no cas-
ualties in either Q
Four German officers ami ffty-hve
men Of other ranks were captured
south ~ the Ancrc last night and
this morning.
The day statement issued by the Wa
CFfcc said:
In the successful attacks reported
In the COMMUNICATES Of Friday seven
more machine runs were captured than
originally reported.
Yesterday evening W took a fur
ther 200 yards Of a German trench
north Of Baxentin-le-Peti capturing
one machine gun.
During the night the eneuy's ar
tillery has been active between the
Somme and the Ancre. The enemy
also shelled the n~eighborhood OF
Bethune during the night and our
heavy artillery retaliated m railway
stations and barracks used by the
enemy.
Near Hin go the enemy exploded a
mine which caused no damage. There
Is nothing 60 report from the rest Of
the front.
Had weather flinders Fighting.
PARIS. via London. AUG. 27.-The OF
fetal communication Issued by the Wal
Ofhcc this evening says:
There Ia no important event 20 re-
port alonG the whole front. where the
bad weather continues.
The War Offce communicate issued
this afternoon reads:
Or the Somme front the night was
comparatively cam. Persistent bad
weather interfered with operations.
on the RICH. bank OK the Meuse
tNerdun 'front.' the Germans in the
night made three successive attacks
on u positions In Vaux-Chapitte
Wood. Stepped each time BY our fire.
the enemy was obliged to return to
his trenches afte: suffering appreciate
losses.
In Lorraine several surprise attacks
OF the enemy on u small posts be-
tween Arracourt and Embermenil wera
repulsed easily. In Apremon. Fores;
there was lively fighting during the
nleht. our Rrenadiers engaged IN con-.
bar OF considerable violence with
enemy patrols. which they dispersed.
At about 10 O'Clock the ierma'S mad"
an attack or a fror. az about 500
yards against our trenches near troix
-. Jean. The enemy was caught by
u curtain o: FIRE and sustained COM
p,etc defca'.
ON the :orainicr ~ :he front roth
The sun., 1916-08-28

Diaroekr stubborn fighting con,irno.
our columns have reached the Vas
,sdarasi River, which flows iptn 'L.
Eurik. "'''E' ot
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
MOVE TO BORDER
POINTS TO CRISIS
War Departments Order
Raises Army in Southwest
to $4,000 Men.

The United States troops on the Mexi-
can border will be brought up to
a total Of nearly 1aO,0O0 men by an
order of the War Department yesterday,
sending all available mfiitiamen south
ward.
officials said yesterday that the order
would account for 10000 men. 1t was
stated $500 National Guardsmen. are al
ready there, and in addition there are
40.700 regulars. These figures account for
$4,000 men, and the recruiting authorized
after the guardsmen reached the border
is expected to increase the number to
l75.cO0.
An army officer said, explaining his
order: When 1t developed that the
Scott-ObTegon conference was failure,
the President ordered approximately lOo,-
900 guardsmen to the border for the
purpose of repression and for its effect
upon General Carranza in making him
come to terms. 1t was a threat of in
tervention.
The impression grows stronger every
day that the Mexican-American commits
sion may fail before it begins its ses-
sions and that General Carranza may
nullify 1t. Therefore the order of today"
Further light was thrown upon yes
ten by Secretary OF War Baker. made
public by the War Department. In this
letter, Secretary Baker admits that the
emergency on the border still exists and
that the guardsmen there ARE perform
ing an important and necessary service
to their country, at this time
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
District Militia to
Entrain for Border
AS Soon as Equipped

When it was learned at Camp Ordway
yesterday that the District Militia was
to be sent to the border as soon as equip
ped and transportation was secured re-
gardless of whether or not the units are
up to minimum strength. the hunt for
recruits began to work up to a grand
finish. Practically every officer and man
in the camp was in Washington yester-
day and last night talking enlistment and
securing recruits, and their efforts and
the War Department promise of a quick
trip to the border is expected to bring
in the fifteen men now needed to fill the
Third Infantry to minimum strength of
9lS
No official moving orders had been re-
Ceived by Capt. Horace Hobbs, L. S. A,
mastering officer. up to late hour last
night, but he said that he expected them
either today or tomorrow. If the orders
were received then. he said that all the
troops could be moved by the latter part
of this week. but could set no definite
day. He said that Gen. Wood had re-
ceived his orders yesterday.
Under the orders that were issued all
the troops at Camp Ordway would move
The infantry will start out over the
Southern and pass through Louisville.
Memphis, TcXarkana. and FL Paso on the
way to Bsbee. AriZ. The cavalry and
artillery will leave Washington over the
Southern and go through Lynchburg,
Bristol Asheville, Memphis, Santa Rosa
to Bisbee.
Capt Horace Hobbs also said that the
recruiting of the regiment to full war
strength of 100 men to a company would
be continued after the troops are on
the border. and that every man who joins
now puts the regiment that much nearer
its complement.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
AUTO LICENSES.

The following auto licenses were issued yessrd.y:
41ss-G. B. Guthrie. District National Bank
Building: Overland 1916.
4lssLWillie E Blackburn, "A 18th It NV: Ford
1915.
As4o-J NJ Stein. SIS 18th st. NV; P.Is. lss
4s41-Elizabeth +. Nigh, 800 9Th st. NV; stanJey
1914
4lsi2-W. H Ksskens, Bos N. h ave- Ford
4ls43-John Pugh. Bancroft, Va; Ford 1916
4lSH-LIliau NJ. Lewis. 1881 Belmont 1t NV
Maxwell 1917
4lsf-Jamcs ]. CounOr. 22le 18th st. NV; Overland
1914.
4lsie-L. M. Brady. 8os Huntington st.; Ford 1916
4lsE-Amie L. Montague, s4ol Ga. are Ford 1915,
Asis-James Norch. 1904 Va ave. sw; Case 1876
4sSs-W. E. Newenhahn. N 5th st. me-; Indian
,9l5
ign Federal Auto Tire Co, Ss Pa ave; Samp-
sou 1910.
.s.-B. Jode, 5l2 st. NV. Paige 1916.
4s7-w L. Mills, 652 Z st. se; Ford 1916
HS53-walter Barnes. SIG La. ave; Ford 1916
lS4-Berry Brosdus, ga Third st. sv: REQ 1915
AS55-walter Craig. 1876 18th st. NV. ; Rambler Ief4
Es5s-wm. G. Taylor 5oi Seward So; Stanley 1919
4lSH-Columbia Land Co. lG1 Pa. ave-; Ford 1916.
ASs-Rauschers Inc. I06 Conn. ave-. Ford 1916
As7s--Meatyard Construction Co., wilkins Bldg
Briscoe 1917.
nsoJ. B. Robinson. 7Os Quincy st. NV; Ford
1918
asl-John ]. Pepper, Cong. Hts; Ford 1916.
AS2-Edelen Bros, Motor Co.. 1912 18th st.
denlonstrstor.
psss-Harenner Baking Co.. Chat, ~; Ford
4ls4-Connecticut Pie Co., 3le st. NV; G. NJ
C. 1916
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
DEMOCRATS FIX
INHERITANCE TAX
Caucus Agrees to Rates for
Estate and Income
Levies.

The Senate Democratic caucus last
night agreed to the inheritance tax as
recommended by the Finance Committee.
Similar approval was given to the rates
in the income tax section. but only after
heated and protracted discussion. De-
mands were made in connection with both
these taxes that they be reduced and
that they be increased, indicating a dis
tfnct lack of harmony on the conclusions
reached.
In order to present the measure to the
Senate Tuesday another caucus will be
held tomorrow. Then the tax on NUM-
tions. the tariff commission. dyestufrs,
the wine schedule and special stamp taxes
will be taken up.
The proposed inheritance tax is as fol-
'ss5ws:
One per cent on estates valued at not
more than $50 2 per cent above that
and not exceeding $50 OO0 3 per cent
above that and not exceeding $4,000: 4
per cent up to s45O,oo0 5 per cent up to
81, 900, 600; per cent between 81, 600 900 and
100000; per cent between s. OOo, 600 and
100000; per cent between s., 900 600 and
100000; 3 per cent between $1,000 900 and
s, 900, 600, and 10 per cent on all estates
exceeding 100000.
The House began its surtaxes on in
comes with amounts in excess of $4,000
and ending with 10 per cent on the amount
by which the incomes exceed $4,000
The Senate made 1t 10 per cent between
$4,000 and 100000. and 10 per cent on
the amount by which the total net in
come exceeds s., 10000
The rates in the inheritance taxes from
to 10 per cent are additions to those
prescribed by the House.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
FOURTEEN enlist IN
DISTRICT MILITIA
Third Infantry Nearly Full And In
tensive Recruiting Efforts Expect
ed to Soon Complete Roster.

Fourteen men were enlisted yesterday
for the District Militia at Camp Ordway.
Eleven of these were for the Third
Infantry, the same number that was
obtained on Thursday and Friday.
Having nearly every infantryman in
the city last night. and all four of the
city recruiting stations. working at full
speed, is expected to boost enlistments to-
day. The Third Infantry Band was at
the Center Market tent last night
The men enlisted at Camp Ordway yes
terday were:
William Ballson. Thomas A. Brown.
Charles II. Burkeley. James H. Dawson.
Charles Luders, Hugh A. Reid, Harold
r. Stephenson. William Temples. Law
renee NJ. Tharp, Charles w. Thompson,
and Clarence A. Wilson. First Separate
Battalion-Herbert o. Coates. and John
Z. Howard. Troop A-David Bloom.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13

to the sixty-second annual convention Of
the International Typographical Union,
which begins here next Monday.
John w. Hayes. secretary and treas
urer Of the union, said the alarming
shortage of print paper IL making Il
difficult for many newspaper CORPORA
tions to continue business. In some
cities, he said, there was talk OF con-
solidsting two or more plants 70 reduce
working forces and expenses.
That the union probably Will decide
to cooperate I'm a Federal investigation
TO determine whether there is a con-
spiracy among paper manufacturers was
the belief expressed by union leaders.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13

The Rev. DR.. C. Ernest Smith. rector Of
st. Thomas Church, is at The Manor
Asheville, n. c.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
Purely Personal

The Rev. DR.. c. Ernest Smith. rector of
St Thomas Church. is at The Manor.
Asheville, n. c.
Miss Barbara Smith is spending several
weeks at Santa Barbara, Cal. with Mrs.
B. H. McCalla.
Miss Olive Smith, DR.. Ernest Smiths
youngest daughter sailed July g. on the
st. Paul. for London with her brother
Marcus Smith.
William ]. Kanof has been promoted
from aid to laboratory assistant in the
Bureau of Standards.
Louis p. Levitt has been appointed
clerk in the Bureau of Fisheries.
William II. Kursin has been probation
ally appointed computer in the Coast
and Geodetic Survey.
Miss Jennie Payne. of this city. visited
the Misses Moran, of Quantico. last
week
Miss Caniah Mcintosh and her mother
visited Mrs McInteger. of Quantico, re-
Gently.
James c. Mitchell has been appointed
L. NJ. Dean, of the station of the Bu-
reau of Animal Industry. Department of
Agriculture, at Front Royal. in the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, is in
Washington on vacation Mr.. Dean is a
nephew of Lieut.. Dean. of the harbor
patrol.
Judge Luke A. Strider and family are
tyryp akS' ~ ha
tomac.
Rev Percy F. Hall is spending a short
vacation at Buckroe Beach, Va
Prof. E w Matthews is attending the
sessions Of the School OF Methods at
Bethany, Ind.
Rev. w. E. Edgin, chaplain at Deco
guam, Va. will occupy the pulpit of Trim
ity Methodist Episcopal Church today
Capt W. F. Taylor and family are
spending a two-weeks' vacation at Allan
tic City.
Walter w Warwick will address the
Mems Bible Glass at Calvary NJ. E.
Church at o'clock today.
w. ]. Paul, of Charleston. W. Va. is
spending MS vacation WIN MS pdieHls
in Washington.
James Townsend, clerk of the House
committee on Indian Affairs, will leave
soon for Texas, where he has been ap-
pointed a postmaster.
Mayor James c. Curley. OF Boston. was
in the city yesterday and renewed ac-
aquintance with colleagues of the Sind
and 63d CONGRESSES.
George Malone. secretary to Represent
stive Hammill. left yesterday for a week
end automobile trip.
William Dearden, secretary to Repre-
sentative Winslow. Is in Virginia today
on a weekend vacation.
Charles A. Mumm and wife are visit
ing at Newport with Mrs. French Van
derbilt.
John Smithers, secretary to former Rep
resentatives Gerry. of Rhode Island, will
manage the latters campaign for the
United States Senate.
Joseph Bradley and wife are spending
the summer at their country home near
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
INJURED FIREMAN DIES.
Lawrence Beck, Run Over by Train,
Succumb bs

Lawrence Beck, p years old, fireman
employed on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. who was brought to this city
early yesterday morning with both legs
cut off, died shortly before noon yester-
day al the Providence Hospital
Beck was run over by a train. His body
was taken to Brunswick, Md, last night
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13

September 4. The council decided to cor
respond with every State organization to
aid CHISHOLM. Among the candidates that
VIII oppose Chisholm are Lieut.. Gov. Bar
rett U Hara, OF Illinois, and Thomas Gold =
ingay, of New Jersey.
Chisholm is chairman of the national
coEnfnlttee on legislation, which is next
in rank to that of commander-in-cbiof
Paris plans to obtain 3OOOOO electrical
horsepower by damminG the River Phone
at point 800 miles from the city,
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
BOOST CHIsHoLM'S CANDIDACY
District Man May Head Spanish
War Veternns

Reports read at last nights meeting in
Pythian Temple Of the council OF admin
Istration of the Spanish War Veterans of
the District indicate that Capt. Daniel
V. Chisholm. Of this city, will have
strong support for the office Of comman-
ier-in-chief OF the national organization
at its annual encampment in Chicago,
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
TYPOS" FEAR result
OF NEWSPRINT PRICES
Delegates to Baltimore Convention
See Menace of Unemployment in
Reduced Business.
1eciai 20 The W,-Iington Ber,Id

Special to The Washington Herald
Baltimore, Nd. Aug. 1.-THE danger
that thousands of printers may be thrown
out of work because of the high cost
OF white paper was said to be a uues-
ton seriously concerning the delegates
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13

It is from the Boston Traveller and
is supposed to have been spoken by a
clergyman's small son. whose older
brother was to be confirmed at church.
IT'S like this" quoth the youngster,
"the bish' is goin~ tn put his mitts on
brothers bea1
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13
HERE TO COLLECT $l5o,o0o.
Mayor Curiey to Receive None,
Due Boston,

Due Boston.
Mayor Curley, of Boston, is in the Cap
jtal for the purpose of collecting Slb0.Ooc
which the government is said to owe
his city.
Congress has voted to take over the
quarantine station at Gallups Island in
Boston Harbor and maintain 1t under
government auspices, paying $4,000 for
the land and buildings.
Mayor Curley arrived to sign the neces-
sary papers legalizing the transfer. He
was a member of the Sixty-second and
Sixty-third Congresses and renewed old
acquaintances here.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13

Georgia finds road work a successful
means OF employing practically all her
county prisoners.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-13

The Japanese make an imitation of silk
from the hemp of New Zealand
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
CASTRO WILL ENTER

Mr.. Wilson, Secretary Of Labor,
took the sensible view, and promptly
ordered that General Castro be per-
mitted to enter the United States.
The board Of immigration officials
at New York ordered his exclusion,
in the face Of the fact that three
yeara ago this same decision had
been overruled by the courts.
Castro was accused Of RESPONSE
bility for the death Of General
Paroles, a political enemy, in Ven
ezuela. One wonders whether, ten
years hence, Premier Asquith might
be excluded from America. He could
be charged with completely in the
death Of Sir Roger Easement, If
Easement shall have been executed;
or Of any Of the other Irish rebels.
This kind Of rulings by immigra-
ton authorities that keep right on
letting thousands of people come
into this country, whose desirability
is at least subject to grave question,
and then raise such a point in the
case Of man like General Castro, is
calculated to bring our Government
into contempt; and it does.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
THE POsToFFIcE PROSPERITY
TALE

There is no gauge Of business con-
ditions quite so accurate as the
business of the postoffice. 1t goes
everywhere. It is so reported that
the conditions in every section are
accurately reflected. A boom in one
territory will not cover up a sag in
another. because the most casual
effort will discover precise details as
to any section, State, city, or town,
The postmasters gathered in this
town for their convention know all
about the business activity. They
say that postal receipts show in
creases from 20 to 80 per cent. In
addition, the postal savings deposits
are going up at an unprecedented
rate; and this is sign of prosperity
among a great class Of people who
ordinarily do little business with
banks, who prefer to use the Gov
eminent repositories. These are the
working people and the foreign-born
elements, accustomed as they are to
using postal banks at home. The
postmaster at Pittsburgh says that
60 to 10 per cent of depositors there
are foreigners, and their deposits
have made new records month afte,
month.
One of the curious effects Of great
prosperity is reported from Dayton
whore he stamped spYsloHsS- for tn
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

Lorraine, perhaps some Of the con-
quered French lands, and Antwerp.
Germany and Austria will insist
on retaining their western gains. I'M
less they can be given back what
they will have lost on the east.
In that event, the allies could
use Constantinople as q basis for
trading. To Russia they would say:
IF you will restore the old bound
aries Of Germany and Austria, we
will give you the Turks footing in
Europe" And to Germany:
IF you will make concessions in
the west, we will induce Russia to
indemnify you in the east"
It is pretty plain that Britain and
France do not intend to restore Ger
many's colonial possessions II it can
be avoided. Africa Is by way Of be-
ing partitioned between these two
powers, If Germany can be definitely
excluded; and, oddly enough, Con-
stantinople becomes the obvious
basis Of trade that might make
this possible.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
st. Paul Is Hronged'
With Home Folks Who!
Desire Dry Country
Type of Delegates to Prohibition National Conven-
ton Make Striking Contrast to Representatives
of Other Political Pa rties-Determined to
Drive Out emon Rum.

ST. PAUL. Mimi. July ls.-Hundre eds
OF the same kind OF home town folks
who make up the church boards. the
Chautauqua crowds. and run the dis
trict schools In thousands Of towns and
villages. swarmed into St. Paul today
Tor the opening session Of the Prohibi-
ton national convention.
Motherly old women, Of the type that
attend the home and foreign missionary
society meetings back home and bake
cake and make jellies for the pastors
aid society picnics, we're In the crowd.
80 were bearded. gray-haired old men
In their black Sunday 70 to meeting
clothes. some of them with collars and
some OF them who never wore one.
These delegates. who came to st.
Paul imbued with the thought OF down
Ing the demon rum. are as different
from the crowds that attended conven-
tons OF other political parties as the
frock-coated politician Is from the
gnarly -hsted. home body In homespun.
The Prohibitionists seem more earnest
and care less for show.
Women Bring knitting.
The women besought their tatting.
their Hitting. and their patchwork.
It was q hot day and q coatless one.
coilarless. suspender showing shirts
some Of them blue. some of them
.boiled'-dotted the crowd at the Audi.
torium.
FOR instance. there was COL James N
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
Community Drinking Cup
Abolished at Camp

The community drinking cup" has
been abolished at the mobilization camp
and every man is required to furnish his
own cup. All the dippers and cups
which were placed on hydrants and Ice
water cans when the camp was es-
tablished have been removed on orders
from Lieutenant Colonel Reicheiderfer.
chief medical officer Of the militia.
The militiamen are resoure6ful. how
ever. and when officers are not around
to reprimand them they get along well
without cups. The faucets on the
hydrants are unscrewed by the soldiers
and turned upside down. This makes a
bubbling. sanitary fountain when the
water L. turned on. and the nilitiamen
appear to like drinking In this fashion
better than they do out Of tin cups.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
THE LIBERALIZATION PLANK:
WHOSE IS FTP

The minority leader in the House,
Mr.. Mann, is quoted as saying that
the railroad lobby in Washington
wrote the plank in the Republican
platform, which demands Federal
control Of railroads, to the exclusion
Of State control.
Whereupon the New York World
INDUCES some humor. on the as
sumption that anybody on earth
ought to know that the railroad
lobby wrote it. Who else should?
Very interesting, indeed. But if
the World had been at both the Re-
publican and Democratic conven-
tions and had taken particular in
terest in that plank, it would have
learned a few things that may in
terest it even now.
The plank was written in the sub
committee of the resolutions COM
mittee. Senator Lodge had more to
do with it perhaps than anybody
else. Senators Sutherland and
Borah took part. There was con-
siderable discussion of it, and finally
the subcommittee agreed unanimous
ly on it as presented, and there was
little opposition in the full commit
tee.
It wasn't a railroad lobby plank,
and the railroad lobby was surprised
at its adoption. But railroad men
generally were pleased at it, as were
most other people who know any
thing about the difficulties of regu-
lation through forty-nine different
kinds of State and Federal authority.
The place where the railroad lobby
did appear was at st. Louis. A group
of railroad lawyers-or people who
said they represented legal depart
ments of railroads.&c. appear there
and try to get a plank adopted, de-
nouncing the Republican plank.
They didn't get it done, because the
representatives of the Administra-
ton wouldn't let them. President
Wilson, it is very definitely under
stood, believes in liberalization, but
the Southern element of his party
does not. So the Democracy, unable
to agree with itself, remained silent.
It would neither adopt nor oppose
the Republican declaration.
That's one reason why the Repub-
lican party has an advantage in this
campaign and others. It can agree
with itself, at times, anyhow.