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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
Move Follows Heaviest Artillery
Fire Known in History of
the War.
GERMAN LINES GIVE WAY
French Also Capture Many Inn
portant positions-Great Of
fensiye Will Relieve Russian
Pressure.
ey Associated Press.

The end of the first days great
British-French offensive in Flanders
found all the entente plans had been
carried out.
The French forces are holding two
front lines, and have captured many
German trenches. The British hold
three, in addition to ten more viii
lagos captured, and more than $500
prisoners taken. So determined were
the attacking forces that frequently
they passed objectives which had
been assigned for their capture, TAX
ing other territory in the rush of
their great drive
The casualties of the allies were
relatively slight The Germans suf-
'fered heavily in killed and wounded
A majority of the positions taken
by the allies have been in the pos.
session Of the Teutons since the in
vasion of Belgium
The French attack resulted in the
capture of Steen Straete, and pushed
beyond for two and a half miles.
The deepest wedge of the British
was two miles.
In eastern Galicia the Russians
continue. to give battle to the Teu-
tonic allies Several positions have
been retaken by the Russians, who
attempted to make stand in west
ern Bukowina but were compelled to
eyacuate their positions.
A Keen desire on the part of the
entente to get at the submarine bases
on the Belgian shores has been very
much in evidence and this combined
attack may be toward that end
The allies went into action under
what was perhaps. the greatest bar
rage fire seen during the war
The attack was marked on the
southern boundary by the River Lys,
about thirty, miles from the coast.
The launching of the drive was ap-
parently a surprise to the Germans,
as only yesterday they boasted that
their fire had served to check the
British bombardInent
The attack also came at a time
when the crown prince is striving to
break through on the Aisne. The
French were not only able to with
tand the hammering there but were
able to aid the British farther north.
The offensive was launched by Gen
eral Haig, the Birth commander in
conjunction with General Petain, the
commander of the French forces, and
is'the elimination Of the tremendous
heavy gun bombardment which has
been in progress almost confinuously1
in this area for week
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
LARGE SUMS !!
,NILi Be PAID
j. S. TREASURY
Revision of War Tax Bill Finally
Concluded by Senate
COnferees.
CORPORATIONS HIT HARD
United States Steel Corporation
Alone Will Pay Two Hundred
Millions Into the Treasury OF
United States.
CORPORATIONS HIT HARD

Washington, July 31.-The work of
the revision of the war tax bill so as
to increase the total revenue to about
two billion dollars mainly by addi-
tional levies on intoxicants, and per
sonal and corporate incomes, was def
initely decided on today by the sen
ate finance committee 1t is now
planned to report the bill as a whole
next week
Enormous sums which big indus
tries will pay to the government in
excess of their profits and income
taxes is illustrated in the case of
the financial statements OF the Unit
ed States Steel corporation, just
made. These statements are for the
second quarter of the year, and show
total earnings reduced to about ninety
and one-half million dollars after de-
ducting nearly fftyfour millions for
the government On this basis, the
company alone would turn into the
)
of two hundred million dollars dur
ing the year
The COM mittee provides increases
Oh Corporations and normal income
-, on incomes of individuals of
etoWail thousand aud over and a fur
-Rod1Encrease of one dollar a gallon
on d Sstillery spirits and fifty cents
on beer
There are also other minor in
creases
This increase brings the tax on
spirits to three dollars and twenty
cents a gallon and on beer to three
dollars and twenty-five cents per bar
rel
The former tax will bring ninety
millions of dollars revenue and the
latter will bring twenty-five millions,
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
BUSY DAY WITH
THE STATE sOLONS
COLLEGE ENDOWMENT EXEMP-
TION PASSES THE HOUSE
YESTERDAY.

Atlanta, July 31.-The 6eorgia SEN
ate today by a vote of thirty-seven
to seven, passed the college exemp-
ton bill for submitting to the voters
izing the Legislature to exempt en-
dowments of all colleges from taxa
ton, where the endowments are not
invested in real estate.
This measure occupied the entire
session
The major portion of today in the
house was occupied by consideration
of the bill to anne end the constitution
to permit all Confederate veterans,
erty, to receive pensions so as to
allow the widows of all Confederate
veterans to get pensions regardless
of the date on which they were mar
ried
Under the present law, no veteran
of the Confederacy owning property
worth fifteen hundred dollars or more
is allowed a pension nor is a pension
allowed a widow of a Confederate
veteran who married after 1870.
The bill was passed by the vote
of 149 to II. but amended limiting
the payment of pensions to Confeder
ate veterans owning not over five
thousand dollars worth of property
and to widows of Confederate veter-
ans who married not later than 1881
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
HASTY MARRIAGES
WILL NOT AVAIL
GENERAL cRoWDER MAKES A
RULING AIMED AT sLAcKERs
OF BOTH SEXES.

Washington. July 31.-According to
ruling made b. General Crowder,
provost marshal, today, those who
have married since July 20, the date
of the army draft drawing, to escape
conscription, will have married in
unnecessary haste The general rules
that such marriages will not be con
5idered as grounds for discharge un.
less the wife is actually dependent
upon the husband
This ruling by General Crowder
was due to reports from many cities
showing that the marriage license
bureaus have been besieged It is
also ruled that women who marry
men merely to aid them in escaping
are slackers and are. to be SO pros
ecuted.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01

London, July 31.-A Post dispatch
from Petrograd says that it is con
servatively estimated that more than
two million Russians are steadily
marching rearward in Galicia.
These constitute the eleventh and
the seventh armies and their re
serves.
The eighth army. which is largely
composed of cavalry, is not included
in the above figures. This army is
also retreating and its position is ex
tremely critical.
The Teutons are straining every
effort to capture the eighth army and
it appears as if it might be caught
in trap.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
OIL MAY Be FOUND
IN THIS SECTION
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BE-
LIEVES PRODUCT WILL BE
LOCATED HERE.

According to statement issued by
the United States Geological survey
at Washington, there is vast possible
tiles for oil development in south
Georgia. The statement in full is as
follows:
considerable interest is manifest
ed in the possibility of obtaining oil
in some parts OF southern Georgia,
notably in an area near Fitzgerald
which several companies have been
organized to test. To aid in the de
velopment of this and other areas in
that region, if the conditions seemed
to warrant it, the United States Geo
logical survey, department of the in
terror, in cooperation with the Geo
logical Survey of Georgia, has exam
ined two areas in the southern part
of the state and, in advance of a
somewhat more comprehensive re,
view OF the conditions affecting the
possible occurrence Of Oil there
makes public the following statement
for the benefit of the general public
"One of the two areas explored
which in previous reports were re
ferred to as possible areas of uplift
lies along Chattahoochee river, eX-
tending from Columbus to the Flor:
ida line; the other lies mainly from
point near Fitzgerald to the Flor.
ida line near Thomasville and Val
dosta The evidence as to the pres,
ence Of iiplifts or anticlines in these
areas has hitherto been inconclusive
because the areas had not been stud,
led in sufficient 3etail -
"The surface .ldications Of oil may
be classed as direct indications, such
as the presence of ,seeps of oil, gas,
or asphalt; and indirect indications,
such as the presence of an anticline
or upward fold Of the rock beds,
which, as experience has shown, is
favorable place for the accumula-
tion of oil, provided oil is present in
theunderlying rocks and other condi-
tions are favorable. Thus the object
of the investigation was, FIRST. to de-
termine whether there were seeps of
oil, gas, or asphalt in the area, and
second, to obtain evidence of the
presence Or absence of rock folds cl
anticlines Although it is not possible
at this time to describe in detail
the structure of the areas considered
it may be stated that the evidence
of the existence of anticlinal folds is
unsatisfactory and inadequate. and af
fords no sufficient ground for drilling
for oil No direct evidence of the
presence of oil in the underlying
rocks, either as surface seeps or as
showings in shallow wells, was found
in these areas Although the absence
of such direct evidence does not prove
that oil is not present in the deeply
buried rocks, it leaves the question
OF the probable presence of oil in
comm ercial quantities more doubtful
than if traces could be found"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
Russian Situation Much More
Hopeful, Says PetrOgrad
Statements.
BUT 1T IS AS YET SERIOUS
Two Million Soldiers Are Re-
treating in Gaiicia Toward
Read-Eighth Army May be
Trapped.

London, July 31.-A Times dis
patch from Petrograd says that the
situation is more hopeful
Panic among the retreaters is be
ing suppressed ruthlessly.
Deserters and agitators are being
promptly shot. Papers are pinned on
the dead bodies with an inscription
which reads:
Here lies a traitor
To his Country"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
THE SOCIALISTS
PLAN BIG MEET
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AND WORK.
MEN DELEGATES PLAN MOVE
MENT FOR GATHERING.

Paris, July 31.-At a meeting of
the administrative committee of
French socialists and English and
date for the International Socialists
and Labor Conference, it was decid
ed that the meeting was to be held
at Stockholm from September to
16.
Russian soldiers and workmen.s
delegates initiated the movement for
the conference.
The meeting may be held in anoth-
err city if Stockholm is not convent
ent.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
MEN WHO FAIL IN TRAINING
CAMPS BE MADE NON CONS

Washington, July 31-Seventeen
thousand men now at the officers
training camps, who do not receive
commissions or be selected for fur
ther training at the second series of
camps, aret o be offered appoint
ments as non commissioned officers
in the national army with chances of
of staff. issued a circular to this eff
feet here today.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
VII. SON To VETO
FOOD CONTROL BILL
MlAkES 1T PLAIN HE WILL NOT
HAVE CONTROL BOARD AND
WAR COMMITTEE.

Washington, July 31.-The food
enlNtrel bill will be vetoed by Pres
idta9 alison if it is passed with the
war 7'aduet committee and food con
troll board amendments included
President Wilson made his attitude
known to the congressional conferees
this morning.
The veto thysat is taken as an ef-
fort to stop {hes COW between the
house and sesasse and get some ac-
ton from congress to relieve the
country from exhorbitant prices.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
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; coNFEREEs ON FOOD BILL =
M FRUiTLESS DISPUTE =

= Washington, July 31.-After =
: another day of fruitless dispute y
= over the food bill provision for y
= congressional war expenditures =
= committee, conferees of the sen '
= and house recessed until tomOr- y
y row when another effort will be \
' made to reach an agreement. =
= Over night the confereea plan y
= ned to confer with the senate \
= and house Headers regarding a y
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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
JOHN FARMER WAS
STRICKEN ON ENGINE

Engineer John Farmer, of Bruins
wick, one of the most popular men
of the b. and w district of the At
lantfc Coast Line. was taken i'll sud
denly this morning between Way
cross and Tifton. He was en- route
to- Brunswick on passenger train
II n was brought here to the Coast
IN ! Hospital where he was reported
TO be resting easily this afternoon
Conductor Bowen relieved Engineer
Farmer at the throttle and brought
the train into Waycross. MI Farmer
has many friends in Waycross who
will lear with regret of bis illness
Waye4 5ss shrna Herald.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
FRENCH AND BRITISH ARE
T. WINNING I'M FLANDERS
y = 4 = y \ y y y :
REPoRTED JUDGE EVANS
BE NAMED U. S. JUDGE

= Washington, July 31--It is \
= currently reported in Wishing =
= ton that Judge Beverly. ps Evans =
= Of Washington county Isl slated =
y for the south Georgia United \
= States judgeship y
\ Judge Evans is a member of =
\ the Georgia supreme court. His ,
= name was among the eighteen !
\ submitted by Senator Hardwick =
y to the attorney general just =
= prior to the recent nomination =
y of Judge w. E. Thomas, of Val \
dosta. =
4 4 \ y q ) =
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
AWFUL HEAT WAVE
SWEEPS COUNTRY
MANY PROSTRATlONS REPORTED
IN NEW YORK DURING
YESTERDAY.

Washington, July 31-The most in
tensive heat wave of the year con
tinued in the Central Valleys, the
Middle Atlantic states, New England
and the lower lake region.
The weather bureau promised nc
relief within two days.
At 9:30 this morning the temper
ature in New York was 80, four de
grees higher than at the same hour
yesterday.
Many prostrations were reported
during the day.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
GERMANY RUNS
SHORT Of GOLD
HER WAR CHEST is WEARING
THIN UNDER THE LONG
STRUGGLE.

Washington, July 31-Germany's
financial strength is on the wane is
the confidential information reaching
the government here. The gold re-
serve is steadily shrinking due pri-
marily to the balance of trade being
against Germany and the refusal of
the Turks to longer accept German
paper money.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
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GERMANS CONTINUE
TO DEPORT BELGIANS

Havre, July 91-The deportation
of civilians from Mons, Belgium, con
tinues.
The Germans, sent away 129 men
on July 26th and 80 two days later.
1t is probable that they will be
compelled to work on the German
front in France.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
GERMAN SUBMARINE
ENTERED SPANISH PORT

Coruna, Spain, July 31.-The Ger
man submarine U-23 came into the
harbor here today badly damaged
with only her periscope showing.
The captain declined to say how
his boat had been damaged.
The submarine was anchored be-
side an interned German ship. She
is of the coastal type.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
DOVE HUNTING SEASON in
GEORGIA OPENS UP TODAY

Continues for Month and Then
Closes Again. :
1t will be lawful to shoot doves in
Georgia today and throughout the
month of August, but the season
closes on the last of this month eand
then closes again until November.
These birds. in this immediate sec
ton, however, are safe, as but few
hunters will venture in the woods
after them during such hot weather.
If any one does desire to hunt this
month, they should first secure. d
hunting license from County Game
Warden Bunkley.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
Many Prisoners Escape.

Petrograd, July 31-The notable
growth of the number of war prison
revolution is engaging the attention
of the military authorities.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS
i CONTINUE TO INCREASE
July of This Year Goes Way Pass
Same Parind Last Near

July of This Year Goes Way Pass
Same Period Last Year.
Postoffice receipts in Brunswick
continue to show a heavy increase
month by month.
The receipts for July of this year
over the same month of last year,
Postmaster Leavy stated yesterday.
were about 20 per cent. July is al
ways considered one of the dullest
months in the year in the postoffice
business, but it was different during
the month which closed yesterday,
when the figures brought out the
facts that the month was well UP
with the previous five months of the
year.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
BRITISH LOST $1,000
DURING MONTH OF JULY

London, July 31.-British casualties
in all of the theaters as published in
newspapers. during July, total 1000
officers and men.
The officers killed, wounded or
missing are reported at 2,503.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
MORE GERMAN BRUTALITY
COMES FROM BEL LGIUM

London, July 31.-An Amsterdam
dispatch says that the German au-
thorities at Liege, Belgium, arrested,
tried and sentenced to death within
three days a Liege merchant named
Groneret, his wife and two daughters
on improved charges Of espionage.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
THREE ARTICLES FOOD
DECREASED I'M I PRICE

Washington July 3l.-only three
articles classed as foodstuffs decreas.
ed in price from May, 1914, to May,
of this year They are green coffee;
oranges and dried apples,
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
TREASURY WLI. ISUUE
$500, 100000 CERTIFICATES

Washington, July 31--The figst
step toward financing the second an-
stalment Of Liberty Loan bonds Was
taken by the treasury today in dfer-
ing three hundred million treasury
certificates 1t is the largest block
of securities vet offered, and subscriP-l
stions will close August 7th The
cdfiIicates are payable on November
a5tf.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
TROOPS COMING sourH.

New York, July 81 The first de
tachment OF national guard is expect
ed to leave for training camp at Spar
tanburg, S. G., this week.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01
MANY Die From Heat.

Chicago, July 31.--Fifteen deaths
from heat in the last twenty-four
hours are reported.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-01

4 LAST EXCURSION or SEASON /
The moonlight excursion to st. 81
mon tonight will probably be the last
of the season The steamer Will
leave at o'clock, returni1ax at d
b elock IA saegh. "trip b mnsit
and danf1 - vilioyi$
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-28
CLANS ARE GATHERING FOR BIC
 GAME FOR WESTERN CHAMPIONSHIP

All is in readiness for the big game over at Anchorage and the excitement has reached fever heat.
 Sixty more fans left on the train at eleven o'clock last night, and are now in Anchorage, reinforcing the big crowd which went over on the boat.
 Advices by telphone indicate that Seward has already won so far as backing the Anchorage fans into un- certainty is concerned. The fans up the Inlet have been ragging Seward folks all summer and inviting them to bring over the local banking houses and bet a little, but last evening there was plenty of Seward money in sight and no takers here, while advises from the Inlet stated that those with faith in the cream of "alibi league" were down to their small change, all big money having been covered. The bunch
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-28
WHALE MEAT
 HAS THE EDGE
Scientist Declares Meat of Big Nam nal Better Than the Beef of
 Commerce
iRr Associated Press Dispatshl

SACRAMENTO, July 2S.-The chief difference between whale meat and beefsteak is that whale meat Is better, according to Barton w. Evermann, chairman of the committee on zoolOgi- cal investigation at the University Of California. This opinion was expressed to Dean Thomas F. Hunt, of the Uni versity Agricultural College, in re- sponse to a request from the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce for information on the subject. The State ermann's reply.
 The whale is not a fish but a nam Council of Defense is in receipt of Ev- nal, like sheep, cattle and hogs, ac- cording to the university investigator, and there is no fShy taste whatSo- ever to whale meat, which resembles beef in appearance but Is a darker red. There is no bone, griStle or fat in the meat and it can be sold at 10 cents a pound and still net the whaling com pany a profit. Much whale meat Is now used for chicken feed and ferti- lizer. but it's use as human food is apt to become more general, Ever mann believes. One trial, he says, is all that is needed to convince the av- craze person it is as good as beef steak or better.
 The United States government has begun the posting of Ketchikan and Seattle prices for fish in all the coast cities of Alaska, the prices being cabled daily by agents of the United States bureau of fisheries.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-28

had "pokes" and plenty of confidence. 1t is estimated that from S15,000 to $25,000 has been wagered on the out come of the series.
 After the extended wrangle at An chorage as to who should play on the all-star team against Seward, the mat ter was finally left to Walter DeLong as arbitrator and he chose the follow ing aggregation:
 Outfelders - Steifel, Sternberg, Worth.
 First Base-Casad, Nash.
 Second Base-Hudson, Nichols.
 Third Base-Mills, Dutton.
 Short Stop-Kertis, Tiffany.
 Pitchers-Shelton, Young, Costello, Thompson.
 CatcherS-Kulman, Ober.
 The Seward team will line up some thing like this:
 Hemenway, catcher; Chamberlain, Hood or Lucas, pitchers; Campbell, first base; Mcclure or Bainbridge, sec ond base; Beem, shortstop; Coughlin, third; Mat Ryan, T. Finnegan and Me- Guire in the field, with J. J. Finnegan, and Frederickson to fall back on in case of emergency.
 Arrangements have been made for a direct wire from the ball park at Anchorage here and the game will be received play by play. A branch wire has been run from the railroad build ing to The Northern and an operator will be there to give the fans the dope, so the unfortunates who could not attend the big series can keep track of just what is going on.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-28
MOMENTS BATTALION FOUGHT AFTER
 MEN FLED; WOMEN SAILORS NEXT
tBy Associated Pres. Dispateh)

PETROGRAD, July 28. - Ten wounded herones of the womens battalion known the Command of Death" have arrived in Petrograd leaving Commander Vera But chkare and Marya Shrydlo daughter of the former ad miral of the Baltic fleet and minister of marine in the hos pital at Vitebsk
 The ten who returned state that only fifty of the three hundred women who went to the front still on duty Of the remainder, twenty killed, eight taken prs Oners, and the others wounded.
 In the attack in which the nearly ami Inflated the fire became so hot that all the comrades in the neighborng trenches fled but the handful of stuck to their guns and fought the enemy along.
 During the battle near Smorgen the Russian women captured number of women who fighting with the German army and brought them in as prisoners on the morning of July 25th
 Russian women have offered to train themselves to serve as crews for the Russian bateshps and Kerensk has accepted the offer.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-28
GLACIER ICE
 S2 PER TON
Juneau Firm Contracts to Supply COngealed Water Below Cost
 of Manufacture

JUNEAU, ALASKA, July 2S. - A contractor offers to furnish glacier ice, gathered from the water near Juneau, at $2 ton to fishermen, who now pay $6 ton for artificial ice and $4 for glacier ice. The glacier ice is as hard as flint, and goes two and a half times as far as the manufactured ice, fish ermen say. The furnishing of glacier ice as regular industry recalls that ice was almost the first of Alaska's exports. More than fifty years ago sailing ships were loaded with glacier ice from the Sitka neighborhood, and it was shipped to San Francisco for use there.