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marvellous rapidity, especially in the
 Orient despite the fact that tobacco
 and labor for the production of do-
 mestic cigarettes are extremely plen-
 tiful in that part of the wrold. Our total exportation of cigarettes
 never reached as much as one million
 dollars in value prior to 1890. In 1898 it crossed the $2,000,000 line but
 did not reach the million line until 1913. In 1914 the total value of the
 cigarettes exported was s4,775,o00, in 1915 $4,326,Oo0, and in 1917 more
 than doubled. the total number ex ported in 1917 being over 6 billion
 and the value approximately $12,O00,- 000
 About 90 ne- cc-t. of the cigarettes
 axported go to the Orient, those to Chinai in IJlv We're about 1000, 0,000,- 900. next inorder being the Straits
 Settlements, of which Singapore is the
 chief port, then Siam, Hong Kong and the Philippines Japan takes but few,
 and this is also true of Korea, Bri- tish India, Ceylon and the Dutch East
 Indies. Europe shows no interest in the American cigarette, the total ex- port to all Europe in 19166 being
 about $126.0o0 in value, or approd- AAAcs~Ay PSA SC1AL. OA InC lOIcA CAPOI ISs Meantime the American smoker has
 also developed a taste for foreign grown tobacco for cigarettes and was importing great quantities of it when the war cut off the available supply. Turkish tobacco for cigarettes became popular in the United States about a
 dozen years ago and the imports from Turkey in recent years rivaled those from Cuba, though of an entirely diff ferent quality of tobacco.
 The total of tobacco imported from Turkey in Europe and Asia in recent years was in 1909 about 6 million pounds. and in 1914, the year inme-
 diately preceding the war, about 25
 million pounds, practically all of it for use in manufacturing cigarettes.
 Then entry of Turkey into the war greatly reduced the possibility of con 1 tinuing our imports of her products
 and the receipt of Turkish tobacco in
 the fiscal year 1915 was about one l half that of 1914, while in 1916 and 1917 the imports Of this class were practically nothing.
 The value of American cigarettes
 exported since 1 300 Is more than s50,- 000,000 and most of them went to the Orient. The value of cigarette tobacco imported from Turkey since 1 1900 IS about $6o,000. 900,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18

More than 6 billion cigarettes, val ned at approximately S12,0oO,ooo were exported from the United States in the fiscal year just ended. this number being far greater than m any year of the history of the American cixnrstte. These billion cigarettes laid end to end in continuous hne would extend ten times around the vcrId at the Equator. Nor do these n1llions of ''short smokes go to the linen in the trenches" as might De supposed. On the contrary. they went Sn an entirely different direction and for the use of an entirely different type of people.
 A compilation by The National City Bank of Now York shows that no less thna 1 billion American cigarettes were sent to China in the last fiscal year, the year ending with June an other billion to the Straits Settle nents: a hundred million to Siam. another hundred to Hong Kong and about 10 millions to our own Philip pines
 The Oriental likes his short smoke as will be testified by every visitor to that pert of the world. and while China grows large quantities of tobac- co. and the Chinaman Is expert In the manufacture of cigarettes. never theloss the American cigarette has grown in popularity in the Orient with remarkable rapidity. Ten years ago our exports of American cigarettes to China amounted to but about 40e,- 900, 900 a yeah. an average sof one cig- arette per annum for each Chfnaman. Now, In the fiscal year 1s1. the total to China was {, ooo, 900, 900. or an av- craze of 10 per capita for every China man. while the fact that another pil- Hon went to the Straits Settlements and Malayan Peninsula where large numbers of Chinanen are employed m the tin mines and rubber plantations shovs that the popularity of the Amer lean ciearettes extends to the China man in whatever country. Even the Philippines, which grow large quan- tities of tobacco and send millions or dollars worth to us, took last year about 10 millions of our cigarettes chiefly for the use of the 5o,0o0 Chi nese in the islands Even the Siamese' who have many of the Chinese char acteristics and many Chinese among them. showed their taste for the Arnerican smoke, by taking over 1gO. ooo, GOO of them last year at q cost of about 3276 1000. The Afneri- can cigarette has grown tn favor witn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18
New York Stock
 Exchange Quotations

Asporssd ossr the private wirss of q. L. wafsoa | Co. Banksrs and Hrol<sru. Corner Main and John stz. Brsdgeport, Conn Members of Nsv York Stock snxchanzs.
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PRICES OF PRODUCE
 IN LOCAL MARKET
Furnished by Bridgeport Vegetable
 Grocers' Association.)

:. Cabbage -$1.50 per bbl. Carrots 40 per dog.
 Wax Beans-$1. 5o-$2.00 per bu. Green .Beans-s1. .50-$1.75 per bu Lettuce 40-60 per .doz. Endine 75-$1.00 per bbl. Romaine-s1.00 per bbl. Beets-50-e0 per dog. punches. Onions-25 per dog. punches. Peas-$1. .75-$2.25 per br Squash-75-90 per d. Dandehons-$1.50 per barrel. Kale-80-$1.O per barrel. Kohl Rabbi-40' per dog. punches. Cherriesr12 1-2 per quart.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18

One of the delights of boarding in the country is getting fresh vegetables fresh from the big city dealers 200 miles away.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18

Who says the Council of National Defense as not adequate to the situa- ton, when substitutes for the German dyes have been gotten out on time for the girls summer sport clothes?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18

Now that stylish mems coats are cut closely to the figure, the chappies must look out carefully after their corset covers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

New Jersey needs 500 boys to help harvest crops.
 The recruits being transported across country in the middle of the hot weather can always open those stick fast windows with the butts of their rifles.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18

FLUFF RUGS-Made from old car. pekz. Call us Barnum a685.
 se ase
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NOTICE
AN IMPORTANT FEATURE

Dispatch is an important feature in | the banking business. Our experienced staff and approved facilities assure pronptness and ac- . curacy in transactions. Checking accounts, large or small
 are solicited.
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PATENTS

FRED H. BOWERsOCK, B. O. E., LII. B. Attorney and Counsellor at Law in Patent and Trademark Causes. Solicitor of Patents. SEQ Main St.. Suite 20. Phone 112 Bar mum. IA years practice in New York city. New York office. NO. 2 Rector St.
 R il aIl'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
PLANO TUNING

The Belgian Mission arrived al Salt Lake City from Los -Angees.
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BOSTON STOCKS.
 Boston 1880 F. M. Prices Reported Over Private Wire to T. L'
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CARPETS CLEANED by the old re- liable Bridgeport Steam Carpet Cleaning Co.,. Tel. Barnum 35ss.
 ale
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STORAGE

MOOREs STORAGE WAREHOUSE Furniture and china packing:' ex- perienced packers Separate rooms for furniture and pianos. Barnum 3327. 66s Union Ave.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18

BEETHOVEN TRIO Concert recital and wedding receptions. o R. Gar rison. 46 Cannon St
 B ale
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LADIES TAILORING

JOHN JULIAN, Ladies and gents tailor. New store just opened. La : dies suits to order. Cleaning, dye ing. pressing. 422 East Main St.
 D 22 ajls
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RAEES
SPECIALISTS

DIR. ALICE l.. FITCH, specialist, 40
 State corner Courtland St. Office
 hours 2 to p. m. and by appoint 2 ment D 19 asp
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18

fURNTTURE-Sec hand. bought and sold. Drop postal or phone B&r-
 mum 4142-2. Charles Oppenhetn. 2 90 all.
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ADVERTISE IN THE TARakEa
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18

WANTED to buy old Raise teeth. anya condition Goldberg. 146 Fairffehs Ave-. over Royal Lunch.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18
sPIRITUALTsr MEDIUM

MADAME CLARE, honest reliable
 reader, back from the West. 1851 State street near Howard. P 13 dsp
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-18

WE PAX BEST prices for second hand xurnttuTe and household goods. G Y. SeeIey. 762 East Main str. near Walter Street. xa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-31
SPAIN |NTERNS U-b0AT
WHICH ENTERED PORT
Disabled German Submarine An.
chors at Corunna-Taken in
Charge by Government.

CORUNNA, Spain. July 31.-The Ger
man submarine CB-23 anchored in the
harbor here late yesterday evening. She
entered the roadstead with only her
periscope emerging from the water.
The submarine had been seriously
refused to tell the causes Of the acci-
dent. The underwater boat anchored
beside the German interned ship Bel
grano.
The UE-23 is of the coastal type. She
was built in l915-1s. is 1I8 feet long
and carries a crew Of twenty men
MADRID. July s1.-Premier Dato an
nounced today that the German subma-
inc UB % which had anchored in
Corunna harbor had been taken to Fer
roll the chief naval arsenal of Spain.
twelve miles northeast OF Corunna.
The premier added that the govern
ment intended to keep strictly to the
terms of the recent regulations regard
ing the entry of belligerent submarines
into Spanish ports.
King Alfonso June 30 signed a decree
which had for its object the avoidance
Of a repetition of incidents like the one
at Cadiz. where a German submarine
look refuge and later was escorted out
nf the port by Spanish torpedo boats.
BY the decree submarines of all bel
ligerent powers were forbidden to navi-
gate within Spanish territorial waters
or to enter Spanish ports.
1t was declared that all such subma-
rines which entered the Spanish zone.
for whatever reason. would be interned
until the end OF the war.
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TO FIND FEW
SLACKERS IN CAPITAL
United States Attorney Laskey to
Rely on Police and Citizens to
Find Non n-Registrants.

Reiterating his oft-expressed convic-
tion that there were few "slackers" in
the District of Columbia, United States
Attorney Laskey declared today that
vigorous effort will be made by him in
accordance with the letter from Attor-
ney General Gregory to discover the
Few that failed to enroll on registra-
tion day in Washington.
AS suggested by the Department OF
Justice, the limited force Of assistants
given United Statez attorneys will pre-
vent a very extended search by them.
The department. however. has advised
that the United states attorney may In
woke voluntary. aid IN this important
search for slackers. -
Il have been assured by Maj. Pull
man. superintendent Of police. of the
hearty cooperation of his department"
said Mr.. Laskey. land l expect to rely
in large measure on the aid of the
police. shall also ask Charles S.
shreve. president Of the Federation Of
Citizens Associations. to seek the aid
Of the various citizen associa tions
throughout the city in the detection
and prosecution Of slackers. l would
like also to call the attention Of every
individual resident of Washington to
the fact that it is his or her duty to
report to the United States attorney =
office any knowledge or suspicion that
Il person within the ages Of conscrip-
ton has failed to register for service
in the defense of his country"
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NO PROMISE Of RELIEF
FROM SWE[TER|NG HEAT
Torrld Wave to Continue for Two OF
More Days, Is Weather Bu-
reau Prediction.

No promise of relief from the swell
tering heat which enfolds WASHINGTON
along with the rest of the country gen.
orally was held out by the weather bu.
reau today. The city is "in for it," tha,
Is all, and might as well settle down
and make the best of it. according to
the officials. The heat will last two
days. maybe longer.
AT noon today the official weather bu-
reau Thermometer stood at 81 degrees
exactly the figure 1t registered at noon
Yesterday. which was the hottest day
OF the year here. with maximum of sc
degrees.
People Have Cause for sighs.
Folks on the streets today sighed ,o,
the cooling showers of last week snc,,
IL the mutability. OF human tempera
ment-and the worlds temperate
win the stored-up heat of YESTERDAY
stu In the air. today seemed tremen.
oousiy hotter, even. than yesterday
Palmleaf ian venders had a thriyjn1
trade in the business areas, while the
lteie people pursued ice wagons with
a vim out OF all proportion to the heat
small fountains were meccas for
"ading children. whom police winked
at VI OVERLOOKED entirely.
The most intense hot wave of the
year continued today in tbs central
valleys, the middle Atlantic states. New
England and the lower lake region.
Moderate in Western Areas.
From the Rocky mountain region
westward and from Montana eastward
through the upper lake region today
moderate temperature prevailed.
In the south and southwest high tenn
peratures prevailed
AS the result Of the prostration of
several horses on account of the in
tense heat. the Washington Humane
Society today issued an appeal to
drivers to exercise the greatest care
in treatment of their animals while
the hot weather lasts. Horses should
be well watered and protected from
the sun as much as possible, and drivers
should see to it that their beasts OF
burden are not overworked.
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RUSSIA WILL RECOVER,
SAYS LLOYD GEORGE


LONDON. July 31.-Addressing the
press representatives in the gallery of
the mouse of commons. Premier Lloyd
George referred to the buoyancy of the
French nation after three years Of war.
and said:
Il found during my visit to Paris that
the spirit of the French people was bet =
ter than / had ever known it. There
was sense OF discouragement at the
collapse Of the Russian armies. but in
spite of all the French were as resolute
as ever
1T depends very largely upon the
French whether we shall get through
TO the end. If the French and ourselves
hang together we shall get through to
The end despite our Russian troubles.
The Russians are an incalculable quan- :
tity; they fought when we least ex-
pected them and they hung back at
times when II seemed they ought to go
on. My latest Information is that Rus
sia will recover and become as formid
able as she ever has BEEN
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French and British Score Great Success
on Front of Twenty Miles in Renewed
Offensive.
ATTACK UNDER THE GREATEST
BARRAGE FIRE OF THE WAR
Entente Big Guns Move Forward Supremacy Established
Prisoners Are Flowing In-La Rasse
Vile Is Captured.

One of the big moves of the apparently under in
Flanders where the right flank OF the German front anchored
fields skirt
terrific battle big guns has
has been succeeded by charge OF the infantry and
combined British and French force forward the
fortified Teutonc lines 1t that French
combined British this
attempt break through the German flank has been
pected for time.
keen desire the the command the
which line the shores Belgium has
also been evidence and this purpose would be accomplished by
sweeping victory achieved on the Flanders front
attack OF the allied armies marked the southern
boundary field the River ys about thirty miles from the
coast 1t extends front of twenty miles.
The declares that objectives
the entire front attacked and that Satisfactory
progress continuing all points Many prisoners already
have been taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-31
PROFIT IN WIRE TALK.
Big Net Revenues in March Shown
by Telephone Companies.

Telephone companies showed a profit
of nearly a dollar a telephone during
March. according to compilation made
public today by the Interstate Com
merce Commission
There were in service 7,4s5,47o te,e-
phones in March. an increase Of an
proximately IL per cent over March
1916. Operating revenues totaled S25..
a2S.S54. an increase of more than 10
per cent within the year. Expenses in =.
creased from s14.S50I72 to sl7,44g.4sa
leaving net operating revenue TO-
March, 1917, of s8.4sl.421. Taxes and
other expenses reduced this figure to
month. ..
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New Schedules to Be Filed.
Valuation of Power Plant
Held s12,000,0 900 Too Low
in Petition Filed in Court

Charging the public utilities commission
with having repudiated the testimony of
It's own witnesses and failing to show
how IL arrived Il its asceVtainrnent of fair
value. the Potomac Electric Power Com
pany today began its long expected sui.
TO have set aside the commissions yalu-
alton Of its property
In petition filed with the District Su-
preme Court, naming the commission,
each of the three District Commissioners
IS constituting the commission. and the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany as defendants, the company prays
thu. pending final hearing of the suit
the defendants be enjcined from proceed
ing with reference to the matters COM
planned of and from attempting to put
fnto operation any rates. tariffs, tolls or
charges based on the vaiua ton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-31
Japauese Yission Due Soon.

SAN FRANCISCO, July s1.-A request
from Mayor James Rolph. jr.. for au-
public today one fact that a japanese
mission to the United States will soon
visit San Francisco on its way to
X asrinston. The mission is headed by
Viscount Kikujiro lshii, former min
lister of foreign affairs. No date for
TIC Visit was df5clossd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-31
Tenth Precinct Guard to Drill.

Arrnn -r,nepts hava been made by the
Home Defense League of the tenth pre-
cinct to hold its first meeting and drill
a; 7aa o rto"k tor,o"row evening Mt
the Central High School. 11th street.
wards. n. q. u. g. retired Is the drill
',,.,rnrto'n ,-1 George Putt the pre-
- M a, nj n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-31
Serves Formal Notice That
Reductions Ordered Will Be
Made Under Protest.
COURT ASKED TO VACATE
VALUATION OF ITS PLANT
Petition Charges Unfairness on Part
OF the Public Utilities
Commission.

Formal notice of its intention to COM
ply under protest with the new rates
ordered by the public utilities commits
sion until such time as an appeal can be
taken and passed upon by the courts
was served on the commission today by
the Potomac Electric Power Company.
bThe rates, which entail a reduction of
fr5.n 10 to s cents per thousand kilowatt
hours and from 81 to rs cents in the
minimum charge, become effective to-
morrow.
Two Steps Taken Today.
Two steps were taken today by the
company in furtherance of the legal
fight to be waged over the valuation
controversy, when it filed with the Dis
trict Supreme Court bill to have set
aside the valuation and notified the
commission of its intention to abide
Temporarily by the rates ordered. The
third and probably final step is expect
ed to be taken in the next day or two.
when the company will apply to the
District Supreme Court to suspend the
rate orders.
In its communication to the commits
sion the company states it intends to
apply for a suspension of the orders as
soon as the necessary papers. now in
preparation. can be completed. and "un-
til said court rules upon our appIica-
ton. We hereby give notice that such
compliance as may be yielded by this
company in respect to your said order
VIII be under protest and under the
duress of the penalties to which this
company might be otherwise exposed.
New Schedules to Be Filed.
We respectfully ask" concludes the
cormCn ication, that the rates in our
schedules heretofore filed be taken as
modified in accordance with your said
order subject to our appeal therefrom
and The action Of the court thereon un-
I'll we shall have had sufficient time to
prepare properly formal, printed new
sc1edules. without prejudice to the
rights OF the Commission or of this
company. until the fnaf decision of our
appeal by the courts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-31
CHURCHILL REELECTED
TO HOUSE OF COMMONS

Churchill was reelected yesterday a
member Of the house of commons for
Dundee. the bye-election being made
necessary by his recent appointment to
a cabinet position. Mr.. Churchill polled
1902 votes. His opponent, Edmund
Scrymgeour. prohibitiouist and laborite,
received 2,036 votes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-31
Wants Valuation Set Aside.

II is further petitioncd that the court
declare the valuation to be unlawful,
inadequate and Illegal and. by proper
decree annul it. granting the company
such relief as may seem proper.
The sUit * the outgrowth of the diff
ference Of approximately SIC 600. 900 be-
tween the valuation claimed by the
power concern and that allowed bv the
utilities board.
II starts out by attacking tentative
ascertainments adopted by the commits
sion. recited in the reports of the yalus :
tipa bureau as founded upon all avail
able Information. and declares that the
commission erred in not designating the
character of this available Information
Or disclosing what il consisted Of
II is further charged that while the
commission receded from its original
purpose TO require the company to in
trocuce it's own witnesses FIRST tbe
commission, in reality, never departed
from the tentative ascer,aiu,rents
which it adopted. except in certain mi
nor respects, where through cross-ex-
animation gross errors were deyeionsd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-31
BRITISH SUFFER 1882
CASUALTIES IN JULY
Losses in Officers Number 2,5OS,
While Number Of Men
Totals e9, ,32o.
Hy the Associated Fress.

By the Associated Fress.
LONDON, July 31.-Eritish casualties
in all theaters of military operations
published in the newspapers during the
month of July total 1882 officers and
men. The officers killed. wounded and
missing total 2,503. while the men num-
Der 69.329.
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rANEs DISCOURAGE TRAVEL.
some Districts Expel After Four
Weeks and Charge Guests More.

COPENHAGEN. July 31.-Stirred to
wrath by plague OF summer resorters
who have unduly added to mouths to be
fed on scanty rations and also bought
stocks to snuggle home two of the most
prominent districts have decreed the ex-
pulsion of all strangers who have resided
four weeks or more in district. The cost
Of bread for guests has been doubled, and
the milk and butter ratlons have been cut
to third Of that given the natives.
Heavy rerarGs for the detection OF food
= RI
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Threats have already begun to &c
the rounds of the Capitol that full
flcdged f1lihuster will be Forthcoming
in the Senate against the conference
report If 1t is made to the Senate with
out the provision for the food board or
the committee on expenditures for the
war.
Senator Gore. chairman of the eom-
mittee on agriculture. who has be en-
opposed to the bill from it's conception
by the administration. said after the
meeting OF the conferees last evening
When the senators voted for a board
OF three food administrators they voted
as senators. They had not yet heard
from the other end of Pennsylvania
avenue"
With Serator Gore will be Senator
Reed of Missouri who is violently op-
posed to Herbert c. Hoover. chosen by
the President as food administrator.
and others who have opposed the bill
In agreeing to strike out the board
Of food administration. the conferees
inserted a provision which IS in a
way. a compromise. They provided for
a board OF three men to be appointed
by the President. one of whom shall he
81 president of an agricultural college.
to administer that section OF the bill
which provides for a minimum price of
So bushel for wheat of the 1918 crop