Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-21

the basement of his home yesterday.
Gen. Cadorna's forces Saturday ex-
tended their positions on Hill 652, on
the Julian front, repulsed counter
attacks of dense masses of Austro-
Hungarian troops and captured a
large quantity of war material, says
the Italian official statement issued
today. East of Gorilla the Italians
broke through the Austrian lines and
took number of prisoners.
Three of the largest interned Ger
man liners, the Vaterland, the
George Washington and another, the
name of which has not yet been
mentioned, will be repaired ana
ready to transport an entire divis-
ion of American troops to Europe
within five months. The War De-
partment received the information
last night and at the same time was
told that nearly all the other great
German steamships will be available
for transport duty within that time
limit While the passenger capacity
of the Vaterland and the George
Washington in all classes was about
$500 each, the crews numbered al
most as many, and it is estimated
that each of these vessels could
carry 10000 troops in comfort. The
luxurious cabins and suites will be
torn out and the cabins so arranged
that the passenger capacity will be
almost quadrupled.
Tie most extensive publicity cam
paign ever conducted in this country,
perhaps, will be under way this
week to place before the people the
necessity of purchasing liberty loan
bonds. Newspaper publicity, in the
advertising and editorial columns,
the placing of 100000 striking pos
tiers in various cities and towns,
the utilization of 1000 billboards,
use of moving picture houses and
the presentation Of special seem
ario on the screen, besides the active
personal work of thousands of men
affiliated with civic, commercial and
industrial bodics-all these sources
will keep before the public constant
ly the slogan "Buy Liberty Bond"
Japan must grid herself to conquer
the world, urges Major General Sho-
mel Nonaka, a retired officer of the
Japanese army, in the "Tai Y, o.
one of the most widely read niaga-
zines in Japan, copy of which has
just reached this country. World
peace is impossible, declares General
Nonaka, until one great federal
power dominates all the rest, and
Japan, he states, is best qualified to
gain this ascendancy. The ultimate
conclusion of the world politics is
the conquest of the world by a
strong imperial power" the article
says.
-Four men were instantly killed,
one probably fatally hurt and sew
eral others injured yesterday when
a high speed $500 horsepower tur-
bine engine generator 1T the Hazel
ton, Ohio, power house of the Re-
public Iron and Steel Company blew
to pieces.
Mrs. Bclva Anna Lockwood,
pioneer in the woman's rights move
ment, worker for universal peace for
more than half a century and the
only woman who ever was candi-
date for President Of the United
States, died Saturday at George
Washington University Hospital
Mrs. Lockwood was eighty-six years
old.
Milan Marianovich says there are
100000 of his countrymen here in
the United States, trained soldiers,
willing to enlist under the banner of
Uncle Sam to drive the Kaiser's
forces out of the Balkans. Mariana
vich is member and delegate of
the South Slavic Central Committee,
of London and Paris, ard director of