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DIVISION NO 4.

Those who have filed claims for ex-
emption and their reasons are: F. Dale
benson. Colonial Beach, Va, wife and
child; Henry Sickle. 321 It'll street south
west, alien. Russian: Henry Tyson Jol-
life. 500 street southwest, wife and
child. Thomas A. Flynn, 407 9Th street
southwest. military service United States;
Edward Snowden Hall. 625 street south
west, wife and three children; Frederick
d. Keny. sos Virginia avenue southwest
widowed hother: Frank T. wittenberg
32I~ Linwo1h place southwest wife: Rob-
ert Llellyn Hall. 431 Sth street southwest
wife; William H. Wood. sa5 Golden street
southwest. widowed mother: John Frank
lin Mcpherson, ATS e street southwest
wife and child; William Joseph Mould, $50
10th street southwest. wife; Charles Al
fred Richards. 491 Maryland avenue south
west, wife; John Thomas Cant, 437 LIST
street southwest, aged mother; Harrison
]. Williams. 904 Sd street southwest, wife:
William Lois Thomas. 1910 Virginia ave-
nue. southwest, member metropolitan po-
lice department: Edward ]. Neuland, 443
9Th street southwest. employe of the
United States: James e. Slaughter, 334h
c street southwest. widowed mother:
lsiah Gordon. 90l G street southwest, wife;
George C. Matthews, 1918 Delaware ave
nue. southwest. motherless child; Samuel
Wise. ss41 Maryland avenue southwest,
wife and child: Peter Coates, $50 K street
southwest. widowed mother: Raymond F.
Doyle. 1912 Al street southwest, employe
Of the United States; Herman c. Schie-
mann. 416 18th street southwest widowed
mother: Robert Logan Leach, sos N street
southwest, officer of the District OF Co
lumbia: BENJAMIN F. Allen. GOT e street
southwest. wife; J. Edward Hayden, sos
Sth street southwest. wife and two chill
dren; James Patrick Madigan, 914h G
street southwest. wife: John Sherman, 42s
It'll street southwest. wife and child; Ber-
nard j. Quinn, 622 10th street southwest,
wife: Edgar B. Pearson. 633 street
southwest. tnfirm mother: X. B. Turner,
liza Robinson street southwest, wife and
child; Raymond N. Coates, 1914 Halt
street southwest, wife: Vernon c. Bup-
Epert, us It'll street southwest. erploye OF
the United States, wife and child.
George b. Ganshorn. TIC D street south
west. wife and child: Charles Burton
Baker. 45l r street southwest, widowed
mother: Malachi Payne. 400 Sd street
, southwest, widowed mother; James r.
Middleton. s13h I'd street southwest, wife
Philip w. Briscoe. 4z3 I'd street southwest
father Of motherless child under sixteen
years Of age: William r. Bowie, SIS I'd
street southwest. in service OF United
States; James e. Walker. 33l street
southwest, wife: Jesse Taylor. lS22 Hall
street southwest, widowed n1ofher,
Thomas w. Sharpe. 13<e Union streei
southwe1e wife anA CHA; HAIRY 0rn1i
8eeeA ~ 1Anwugfh p1nco ooukhH11
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SPIES AND NFORMERS LISTED
AS EMPLOYED BY FORMER GAR
Russian Commission Discloses That Same
System of Espionage Prevailed Under En-
perer That Once Flourished In Turkey.

Of the politics repression laws or to actual
crime. and kept the security department
well informed
Nickname for Each Spy.
Every spy had ''klitchka" or nick
police. The departments records bristle
with such nicknames as Fatty" Long
Nose" Sunday Boy" Elephant" and
Arsenic" The spy had also two or three
his town and name when he fell under
the revolutionaries'' suspicion. Many
spies and informers like the famous
Father Gapon. whose treachery on Bloody
Sunday, 1905. led to his being hanged by
a revolutionist engineer), were at one time
genuine revolutionaries. and later became
betrayers and fnformers. Some seem to
have served both sides honestly and
not seem to have known which side they
sympathized with.
A notable case is Trukhanon"-rea1
name Nikitin, nickname. "Perky"-who
aroused the suspicion Of his terrorist
comrades, was theatened by them with
execution. and to rehabi1itate himself
was obliged to kill the gendarme Of
ficer with whom he collaborated. The
murder of Grand Duke Sergius in
Moscow in February. 1905, was due to
the same motive.
Schemes to Brighten Nicholas.
The organization of crime with the
aim of discrediting non-terrorist
political associations and frightening
Nicholas into repression went on on a
great scale. For blood money of $3.50
a mechanic was hired by the depart
ment to fire at Gen. Djunkowski. Gov
ernor of Moscow. but he was instructed
to be sure to miss. He executed in
structions precisely, but through
carelessness killed passer-by.
In violation of the nihilist novel
tradition. very few women were en-
ployed as spies or informers, but a
few noted cases have been exposed. In
Moscow three sisters named Palitsin
betrayed scores of workmen after get
ting confession from them by means
of Stimulating love.
The commissions lists show that the
department was hard taskmaster. In
addition to paying it's spies badly IL
spied on them. Every security depart
ment record contains a note of the
spy's history. Some are described as
moderately good" others as "indif-
ferent," others as having betrayed
many revolutionaries." others as zen
ergetic. but unreliable" and others as
} doubtful, should be watched"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-07
GET RIGHTS OF SEIZURE,
Civil Authorities of France to Pro-
vide for Necessities for People.

PARIS, August THE precise terms Of
the law. just passed. giving the civil au-
thorities requisitioning powers were pub
lished in the journal officiel. Under the
provisions of the act these authorities
may during the duration of the war seize,
in the first place. everything necessary for
feeding and clothing the civil population
and supplying it with heat and light. In
the second place they may seize all in
dustrial and commercial materials and es-
adjustments used in the production, fab
rication, manipulation or conservation Of
the supplies needed for the population.
Industrial or commercial establishments
latter case, if the operators of the estab-
lishment to be partly requisitioned agree
to produce supplies as determined upon
by the minister of commerce, the requi-
sition will be held up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-07
DIVISION NO. 3.

Nose claiming exemption in d.
1egn No. .. Headquarters city post
and the bases Of claims. follow:
1x4et northwest. dependent mother:
once w. Sands, the Cecil, 18th and
%treets northwest. wife: Nicholas
|rC1Ph Gardelia. 1913 goth street
@1Xe9t. wife and three children:
11yesf. resident alien, not German,
has not taken out frst papers;
Eenton Beckwffh, 725 Esd street
west wife aud one child: Edward
~. e11 31st street northwest em-
by the United States In the
llllcn e uaiaa; chasiss r Csos-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-07

Names of registered men in the Dis
f3tce Of Columbia who claim exemp-
t1eH from service in the National Army
~ HE United States and the reasons
~ a.forth in those claims are being
:6nE>punced today by the eleven exemp-
41oX boards Of the District. in &C
oorGance with instructions issued by
thosproyost marshal general, Gen. e. NJ
On. Crowder gave the Instructions
Hocnuss he held that tho claiming OF
assumption by any man affects the time
81 calling Of many others. and Is.
fhe1ofore. Of public interest
The lists 80 far made public arc as
1bu6ws:
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port: Harrison warneid, wardman
Courts East, wife or child dependent
upon him for support; John Lee Whipp.
3e26 New Hampshire avenue, wife OF
child dependent upon him for support;
place, wife or child dependent upon
him for support: William F. x. wiki
inson. 1877 Euclid street. a son of an
aged or infirm parent or parents de-
pendent upon him for support.
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New England Women Active.

BOSTON, August IA report just
Completed by Mrs. William r. Rush,
wife of the commandant of the Boston
navy yard. shows that since March 20
New England women have sent to the
Navy League distributing station here
IA 5S6 articles Of various kinds for
to sailors of the Navy and
the Naval Reserve. Mrs. Rush is in
charge of the station. The greater
nroportion of the articles are knitted
eror
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+, Value of System Apparent.

Looked at specifically the whole of
of an absolutely senseless mystification.
But. the value of the system becomes
very apparent when the proceedings of
the last Friday and Saturday before the
war are examined. Sir Edward Grey, 1t
will be remembered, was urging in the
strongest possible manner that confer
ence of the entente powers should be
held so that the differences between
Austria and Russia could be adjusted.
Not one of the allied powers had made
the faintest objection to Austria de-
manding a reasonable satisfaction from
Serbia, and Serbia had, in fact conceded
every point demanded by Austria with
the single exception of that which would
have robbed her forever of her national
Independence.
1T was so obviously case in which a
conference could not be refused by the
central powers without their naked mill
tary purposes being shown. that when
the British ambassador placed this pro-
posal before the German chancellor. Won
Hollweg declared that he had forwarded it
to Vienna and informed an influential
London paper that he considered the CRISIS
was over. In Vienna also It looked for a
short time as il the wise counsel of sir
Edward Grey had prevailed. There can be
no question that on the forenoon of FRI
day both Won Hollweg and Won Jagow
thought that war had been avoided. The
civil ministers in both countries were
reckoning without their military eu-
periors, and by the afternoon 1t was clear
that the thing had passed once and for
all from the statesmen to the soldier with
the result we know.
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Explains Apparent Contradiction.

Explains Apparent Contradiction.
ut is this duality in the government
of Berlin that explains the apparent
contradiction between the statements
Mr. Bullitt reports Count Tisza and Won
Jagow made to him. Count Tisza, as
we have seen, admits a complete con-
cert in action and identity of aim be-
tween the Austrian and German gov
ernments. Won Jagow declares that he
never saw the ultimatum to Serbia I'M
til the evening before it was delivered.
wheE it was too late to interfere. At
first sight, even taking into considera-
ton the duality of the government 1
have described, one is tempted to say
that Won Jagow must have been lying,
for even IL he was not consulted he
must, one would think, have been aware
that other eyes than his in Berlin must
have seen the note and other brains
and wills than his and the chancellor's
agreed on the policy that it represent
ed, and co-operated in it's preparation,
but we should probably be wrong in
coming to this conclusion. for not the
least extraordinary part of the German
dual governmental system is that the
military side of it worked in complete
secrecy. conclusions being commune
Gated to the emperor only.
What in fact happened in July of
1914 is we'll known in many quarters.
Neither Chancellor Won Hollweg nor
Foreign Secretary Won Jagow were
at any stage consulted as to the Serbian
crisis until, as Mr.. Bullitt reports,
copy of the ultimatum was handed to
them by the Austrian minister at
o'clock of the evening before it was de-
livered next morning in Belgrade. But.
the text of the ultimatum had been
drawn by Count Tisza and the Austrian
foreign office working with Won Hoet-
zendorf. the chief of the Austrian gen.
eral staff. and 1t was by them trans
mitted to Berlin for submission to the
German general STAFF. and through them
to the emperor. The emperor was at
that time in Norway. and the text, cor
rected either in his own handwriting or
by his direction. was returned to Won
Stumm. secretary for foreign affairs on
the German general staff. and it was
this corrected text that was handed over
by Won Stumm to the Austrian ambas-
sador, and 1t was a copy Of this text
that at the last moment was given by
the ambassador to the German chancel-
lor and foreign secretary.
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KAISER'S WAR PLOT
KEPT FROM PEOPLE
CONTINUED from First Page.)


war lord in peace as when peace was
no more. So. too. in every diplomatic
crisis that has arisen in the last forty
years it has been the German of the
general staff and not of the chancellor
and the foreign secretary that the
German emperor has followed.
The Washington times., 1917-06-10
Report on the Solace

The special commission headed by
DR. William H. Welch, of Baltimore,
to investigate charges against the
management of the hospital ship
Solace completely exonerates the
medical corps in charge. In issuing
the report Secretary of the Navy
Daniels says:
Not only do the findings OF these
three famous health experts clear the
navy Of a shameful attack but they
should carry a message Of reinsurance
10 the parents OF the nation.
This was a case in which, under
censorship with mistaken views Of
the harm publicity might do, stric-
lures on conditions Of the Solace
would not have seen the light Of day.
Az it turns out, it would have been
rs well If they had never been made
public. But here we have the whole
thing disposed Of and, what is quite
worth while, testimony from distin-
Ruished and able men Of how well
the medical corps in the navy is
handling the many diff.-ult problems
with which it is confronted. 1t is
reassuring and more important STILL
the prompt way in which complaints
were taken up, the general character
of the investigation gives the public
confidence confidence that may
stand in good stead in days to come
jim the Administrations wholesome
regard for the men and in its deter
mination to do all that can be done
for their comfort and welfare.
Publicity means finding a mares
nest of this kind occasionally; but
that is better for the service and
more satisfactory to the public than
to have the lid clamped tight down
with scandals set afoot and bruited
about from mouth to mouth with no
answer to them other than official
ignoring Of their existence.
The Washington times., 1917-06-10
Build Aeroplanes Now

Dismantle a ships rudder and you
render the ship helpless. The aero
plane service is the rudder of the
modern army. America can strike
the hardest blow in the shortest time
for the least money by equipping and
sending 100000 acceptance to the
war front to attack the German air
service and disable it if possible.
The latest reports indicate that
Secretary Baker and Brigadier Cen
eral Squier favor this plan. When
Congress votes the money there is
little danger that the War Depart
nent will fail to use it promptly.
About s1,OOO,OOO,OOO is required
which is less than has been set aside
for heavy ordnance. The difference
is that aeroplane money is quick ac-
ton money. One billion spent now
will be worth ten billion that takes
two years to get results. Vote the
money, build the machines. Strike
the enemy. The nation demands 1t.
The Washington times., 1917-06-10

nations of the German onset, for the
crime of the war itself.
And, naturally, 0berammergau is
not the only suffering community in
the empire. How many villages and
towns are there along the byways of
Germany whose experiences are just
the same-whose sons-nay, whose
fathers, have been killed or MANNED,
whose women palsied with woe
whose infants starved and stunted.
whose substance drained away, in
dustries annihilated and outlook eter-
nally blackened? Look at the map
and count the dots. Is it likely that
one single hamlet has escaped? And
under the glare and dazzle of Berlin
itself, is there any real exultation?
Can any conceivable result of the war
bring consolation and heartsease for
the desolstion it has spread through
$4,000, 900 German hearts?
Regarding the special case of Ober-
ammergau, it may be argued that
the penalizing of its mild and gen.
erous people may not seem much in
consonance with an ideal of eternal
justice. But, obviously, this village
is merely the particular instance now
before US, made prominent by the
able pen of Miss Doty; the condition
is empire-wide. And if the castiga-
ton fall here upon the backs of the
innocent, it is merely payment in
kind, for surely none were more un-
deserving of the atrocities visited
upon them than the civilians of the
lands overrun bv the TIunnish horde,
the women and children of Belgium
and French Flanders, Champagne
and Artois.
Nor are the simple folk, as Of
Oberammergau, o the only sufferers.
Miss Doty saw also some of the
wealthy class, women in dainty
dresses" and so on, on the porches
and at the railway station at Parten-
Kirchen, near by. at was like any
mountain resort; except for the still
ness" she says. There was nc
laughter, no hurrying steps, no glad
ness" And again, as a summer
crowd gathered to see the train off,
"there was no tone of banter or cheer.
Even here the horror Of war was evi-
dent. Some farewells held tragedy" T"
Truly! She describes one. Germany
is already undergoing her punish
ment. The moral phase of it, at
least, has begun.
The Washington times., 1917-06-10
Social Workers Patriotic.

Some of the more or less distin-
guished leaders in social work have
been so conspicuous for their pacifist
propaganda, they have given an i'm
preston, not at all warranted by the
facts, that old-fashioned patriotism
was no longer considered a virtue
among social workers. The National
Conference of Charities and Correc-
ton, now in session in Pittsburgh
gives an emphatic negative to that
impression.
Not that the main business Of their
clearing house of social service is for
gotten. That there is a special duty
resting upon the members Of this
new profession is recognized fully,
and in order to meet the new needs
of time of war the attendance upon
their conference has passed all rec
ords. But the whole spirit Of the
conference is militantly patriotic. A
special committee reported on the
social problems of the war, addresses
by Herbert C. Hoover, Edward 7.
Devine and Edith Wadsworth empha-
sizing the new needs that must be
met by unselfsh endeavor. A repre-
sentative of the Children's Bureau dis
cussed the problems of infant NOR
tality in war time. A special meet
ing will be addressed by ex-President
Taft on international adjustment
after the war. And so the fact that
we are at war and that social workers
must all do their bit to win the war
were propositions that were constant
ly brought forward. Nor were there
lacking those who among the younger
members of the conference had al
ready offered to make the greatest
sacrifice, that of life itself, for their
country's service, or those among the
older men and women whose sons had
been dedicated to their country's SER
vice on land and on sea.
The conference, the program, the
speakers, and the whole spirit of the
meeting proclaim the fact that social
workers are, first of all, patriotic.
The Washington times., 1917-06-10
Germany Under the Rod

Those who doubt the even-handed
Justice of God and fear that there
may be no requital for the pangs Of
Belgium and northern France may
do well in reading the article Of
Madeleine z. Doty upon conditions in
Oberammergan, which appears in the
current issue Of the Atlantic Monthly.
The picture of pallid, voiceless
misery which she draws is one of the
most heartrending that the war has
brought forth. No matter how
strong ones anti-German sympathies
may be, it is impossible to read it
without being moved to the depths.
The sentiment is not that burning
rage which the names Of Aerschott
or Peronne arouse, but a sense of
imitless pity. Here We have no vic
tins Of hellish aggression, nor indeed
martyrs to their own evil impulses,
but the subjects, as one might say,
Of a malevolent destiny, without and
apart, grinding them to dust in wan
ton cruelty.
In the stricken, half-starved, hope
less townsfolk of Anton Lang we get
a glimpse Of the real German people.
But lately happy, prosperous, con-
tented, spiritual in outlook, genial in
their regard for I'll the rest of the
world, they are today heartbroken,
penniless, desperate, stupefied in
mind, and broken in spirit. What do
they care, what did .he~ ever care for
the pan-Germanic dream? What
does the window on the Atlantic via
downtrodden Belgium mean to them?
Did they ever even hear of the Kai-
ser's ambition for a Mohammedan
overlordship and an outlet on the
Persian Gulf? What has militarism
ever meant to them but wesrisome
drain on their lives? What was Jun
kerism to them but an irksome yoke ?
But, today, they are paying the
swful price Of all these crimes. They
are bled white in the present, and
their future is a dreary sacrifice of
all the traditions and acquisitions
that had made theirs a name of honor
in the world for a generation. No
matter how the war may go, there is
no compensation in it for the people
of the Passion Play. They, at least,
are paying the penalty for the abom-
The Washington times., 1917-06-10
HER IDEA OF 1T.

The sitting room carpet was being
taken up preparatory to houseclean-
ing, and little Dorothy, aged three,
was watching the operauon with .
great deal OF childish curiosity and in
terest. Taking up carpets evidently
was something new to her infantils
mind. Finally. after some hard think
ing on the subject, she looked up a.
her mother and asked:
Mamma, Is you goin' to let the
floor 20 barefooted?"
The Washington times., 1917-06-10

Graduation exercises. 81. Cseilia's Academy,
sixth and East Capitol streeta. 3;So >. n
Melting Stenevan Jaekson Chapter, =. D.
c.. confederats Memorial Home On Yer
mont avenue, ,. m
entertainment. Keller Dramatic Art Club.
auditorium OF Wilson normal center, . ,.
m.
oraduation exercises. GsorSstovn University.
Hsaly Hall. Hilltop. p m. seerstary
Baker will speak
Opening, the Mount 81. Alhan summer school,
Washington Cathsdral Close, 10 a. m
Last regular meeting Pinsy Branch Citi1sns'
Association. Iowa Avenue Church. 18th and
Emerson streets. p. m
Concert. United States Marine Band, Marine
Conesrt. United States soldisrs' Band. baaa-
Meeting. Legion Of Loyal wonsn. RAislsA
Hotel, p. N.
Nesting and election Of ofnesrs. Gagt sehool
Parsnt-Tsaehers Association, Gage School.
7:1 .. N.
odd Fsiiows-Union No II. business: Beacon,
No. Is, business; LAnEdon. Ne. =. business.
Knights % PythiAS-Decatur, No. .. bustnea1t
Calantha, No. II, rank of knight.
Woodmen Of the Worid-W. A Fraser camp,
Northeast Masonie Temple. Eighth and ,
streets northeast
The Washington times., 1917-06-10
BAY STATE HONORS LEE
Deep Significance in Wreath Sent
by Governor Mccall.

To TIE Editor Of THE TIMES:
In the description of the dedication
of the Lee statue at Gettysburg l
saw no specific mention of the pre-
sentation of a most beautiful wreath,
sent in special memory Of General
Lee by the governor of Massachusetts,.
I regret that I do not know the
name of the official representative
of the governor. an old soldier OF the
North. who was charged with the
honor Of selecting and presenting the
wreath at the dedication, but he was
a member of the G. a. r, and an hon
orary member OF a camp OF Confed-
crate soldiers from Petersburg, Va
members of Stuart's cavalry. The ar
fectionate terms between these Con
federate soldiers and the Northern sol
dier were most touching and interest
inK-the pleasure which they felt In
his interest in them was matched by
the appreciation on his part OF their
affection for him.
To the courtesy of these Virginia
soldiers we owe the pleasure OF a
sight OF. the wreath at the flosists,
where It had just been prepared, be-
fore being sent to Gettysburg.
1t was composed half of snowy car
nations, half OF bright scarlet carna-
tions. with a background Of dark.
glossy palm leaves; the snowy satin
ribbons were fringed with gold, ana
twined among them ran a purple
scroll with the words: Non ineautus
futuri"-(Not unmindful OF the fu-
tureD.
These old soldiers were most anx-
ious that the young soldiers shouid
not be sent to the front, but that they
be allowed to go in their stead.
As a tribute at this time from the
governor of Massachusetts TO tho
memory OF General Lee, the evidence
of a reunited country is most signifi-
cant.
s. B. HALE.
Washington, June o.