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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
Germany's Foes Plan
Grand Congress Soon
Conference in Three Months
Will Consider Great
War Problems
IRON The Tribune Bursa 4l

Washington, April 3O.-It was re-
ported to-day that a grand conference
Of all the belligerents opposed TO Ger
many is planned to be held within
three months.
BY that time the crisis viii have
come on the Western front. By that
time, too. the transportation experts
will know more certainly what they
must face in submarine warfare. If
the present rate Of sinking continues
it is freely admitted that the situation
will be more than serioas.
As one Of the needs Of the visiting
missions expressed it to-day, the big
present factors are the submarines and
Russia, and the result hangs on how
quickly the United States can strike.
The British and French have pre-
sented the military problem 70 the
American authorities as a race against
time. Al the present moment the con-
testants are neck and neck in this race,
and the chances are as nearly even as
such vast chances an be
The French and the British. appalled,
bv the satisfied and unhurried conf
oence displayed by the American au-
thorlties, are bending every effort to-
ward speeding things up. This was
bluntlv admitted to-day by prominent
member of one Of the missions. They
I.avc been delighted az the tremendous
,.ote OF credit and the quick passage Of
The conscription bill. They are pleased
al the wooden snip programme and the
schemes for conservatIOns Of food sup
pies. But. as things look TO the visit
ING forelgners. America even now
hardly realizes that this is her war and
that She must win II or eventually fight
Germany alone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
Visiting Missions Mean
That the American Peo-
pie Shall Know This
World Council of
Anti Il eutons Soon
Viviani and Balfour Confer
with Wilson Alternately;
Joffre's Plea Unanswered
Rv c. W. GILBERT

WV ASHINGTON, April 3o.-The
w President shrinks from the
final plunge which turns war from
rassinc measures, creating bureaus,
making threatening preparations into
sending men to the firing line TO Kill
and be killed. That is Why there is
what doubt exists about the prompt
sending Of American men 20 tho West
srn front, as the French commissioners
desire. That is why Marshal Jof-e's
statement 70 the press was censored
yesterday-by the French commission
itself. il is explained to-day, out OF a
desire not TO seem impolite 10 their
hesitating allies.
Declaring war and Withholding our
men from the battle line never could
have been carried ont. The country
nay have dreamed such a dream in the
first days Of its bewilderment over
broken peace. but the dream was al
ready passing away when the French
came here. And tee truth the French
are telling about the war is further
rapidly dissipating the dream.
playing at War"
The French have relentless habit
o. straight thinking, and their relent-
lessness is producing its effect. To
Aem the way to fight is TO fight
Playing at war" is what they call TIE
Anglo-Saxon programme of endless
training. based, suppose, on some OF
our athletic practices. I have II or
unouestioned authority that the French
Commission believes that after three
months Of general training recruits
can be moved near the front, and with
fve weeks training within hearing Of
the great guns they can be made ready
FOR war. Men like our regulars or our
militia can be made ready with moth
inc more than this FIVE weeks training
back Of the trenches. II would aston
ish Won II were at liberty to tell you
what am confdentially informed is
the idea Of the French government
about the time when this government
should begin sending men abroad
French Speeding Up America
The French Commissioners are doing
= great work here in speeding up the
Administration and the American peo-
pie. They will save US many months
Of ineptitude. With an undertaking
logic. which has been sharpened By
suffering. and by the sheer peril IL
which the country stands to-day, they
arc wiping out our national excuse
that II will take a year or year and
half 10 get ready, and shaking the
self-complacency with which We pat
ourselves on the back for bills passed,
measures taken and speeches made
"A war is fought with soldiers the
French mind keeps insisting
They speak from the deep need OF a
nation that is almost spent, and they
mean he American people to know
that II is almost spent. 1t held the
line while one Anglo-SsXon nation
made it's slow way into war. and i is
beyond endurance TO stand another
such draft upon patience and strength.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
French Extend
Lines on Heights
In Champagne
British Hold Gains on
Scarpe Against All
Counter Blows

London, April 80 On the Oppy line
the British and German armies are
still locked in sanguinary conflict, with
Haig's men holding all their gains ex-
cept part Of the village Of Oppy and
Hindenburg's reserves standing with
their backs against the disconnected
and half-destroyed trenches which re,
main in their possession. The surge
and ebb Of attack and counter attack
continued throughout the day without
result. save increases in the heavy cas-
ualty lists.
On the Champagne front. by a sud
den movement in force. the French
widened considerably the wedge they
are thrusting into the heights of the
Moronvlliers region. Though by
Gawn the French Dombardment had
turned into drum fire, the attack was
not delivered until nearly l o'clock. II
swept forward over both fanks OF
Mont Carnillet on a considerable front.
West of the mountain Nivelle's de
tachments Overran several lines OF
powerful intrenchments between 500
and 900 yards deep 10 a point dl-
rectly south Of Biene Northeast OF
Mont Haut the poilus carried their
lines nearly up 10 the highway that
runs between Nauroy and Moronyil-
liers. This enterprise was the. result
Of careful preparation, and apparent
~ caught the Germans off their guard.
There are indications in the British
night communiaue tnat Haig is pre-
pairing for another assault on the
Oppy line. To-day the Germans coun-
ter attacked savagely in an attempt 20
recover the mile Of trenches lost YES
terday, but failed 20 shake the new
line. The fighting around RoeuX is
incessant. According to one unoh icial
report. the British have already pushed
into the outskirts Of the village.
Though the volume of fire from the
German batteries has been the most
powerful experienced since the cul-
mination Of the Battle Of the Somme,
there are signs that Hindenburg's mu-
milton supply is seriously crippled.
Official orders found on prisoners en-
phssize the necessity for saving she'll
whenever possible, and suggest that
officers use wCrn out guns.
A long report from Berlin celebrates
the retention Of the village Of Oppy as
a pronounced victory. II declares that
British troops yesterday attacked four
times and exhausted themselves with
out compensating gains.
Speaking OF the British thrust on
Saturday. Berlin offers an estimate Of
5000 British killed. Ten tanks" are
said TO have been destroyed and the
number of prisoners captured is given
as more than 1000, with forty machine
guns.
South Of the Scarpe to Monchy the
British positions were extended to-day
and a number Of prisoners taken.
Haig reports great activity among
the fiiers yesterday. with raids far back
Of the German lines. Three German
troop trains were damaged. The Ger
mans lost ten planes, the British ff-
teen.
Berlin reports air attacks on Dun
kirk, Nancy. Belfort, Chalons and Eper-
nav. and says the Allies lost eleven
planes on SATURDAY.. and twcnty-three
yesterday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
President and Vivian
Discuss French Needs
Mission to Start Thursday
on Ten Days Tour of
Seven Cities

Washington, April 20. President
Wilson and Rene Vivian. chief Of the
French mission. conferred az the White
House for ar hour to-day. No infor-
nation regarding the nature OF the talk
WAS made public, but II was understood
10 have been general discussion Of
The needs Of France and the part the
United States can best play in helping
the sister republic in the struggle
against the Germans.
Other conferences were held between
officials Of the Navy Department and
The naval section Of the mission headed
by Admiral Chocheprat; between repre-
sentatives of the War Department, es-
pecially officers Of the General stan
and members Of the military section
headed by Marshal Joffre, and between
American financial experts and mem
bers Of the economic section OF the
mission, headed by VI. Simon.
So pressed for time were NJ. Vivisni
and Marshal Jofre that they had 70
postpone until to-morro" an engage
ment to 90 to the Csoitol and there
be presented TO Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes.
Start on Tour Thursday
The State Department announced to-
night that the Freseh mission would
leave Washington Thursday TO visit
Chicago, and Js,er would go 70 Kansas
City. 81. Louis. Springfield, ILL.,, fnliS-
deInhia. New York and Boston. Al the
concIusion Of the tour the party viii
return TO Washington.
The tour probably will last a week
Or ten days.
Members Of the mission, incl cluding
Viviani. Marshal Joffre. Admiral
Chocheprat and the Marquis de Cham
brun, descendant Of General Lsfaye''e'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
Patriotic Call
Brings In Taxes

.. In response to Tax Collector William
II. Edwards's request that taxpayers
show their patriotism by making early
payments 10 the government nearly
S7,OOO,OOo. cue on June /. has been
turned IN. THESE payments range from
Ia cents to S2.500,000
The interest lost by these patriots is
said TO be about s62 900 Notices to-
day will urge thi more than $4,000
900 in taxes be PSid at once.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
Travellers Tell Dutch
OF Strikes in Germany

London. May IA dispatch TO the
Exchange Telegraph from The Hague
says:
travellers from Germany announce
that strikes have been going on fer tie
last ten days in Westphalia and the
Rhine provinces. especially in the steel
industry The military authorities
consequently have forbidden newspa-
pers to be sent out of the country"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
State Dept. Denies
1t Censored Jofre
Insists That French Mission
Altered Plea for Troops
at Front

Washington. April SO.-State De
nar,ment officials were anxious to-day
70 deny that the department took any
mart in the expurgation OF portions oil
Marshal Jofre's statement yesterday
on the participation OF American troops
on The battlefelds o. France. The
STATE Department issued this oficia!
disclaimer:
There j. absolutely no truth in the
intimation appearing in the press that
the remarks OF Marshal Jofre yesterday
were censored, expurgated or altered
by the department Of State or by any
one saye'th French commission"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
Conferences Suspended

During the tour conferences between
representatives of the United States
and members Of the mission will be
temporarily suspended. the work TO be
resumed when the mission returns TO
the capital from Boston.
The departure of the mission from
Washington will mark the end OF its
stay as guests of the government IN
the capital. When the members return
they will have the status of high com
missioners Of France here for formal
negotiations.
The itinerary was arranged by the
state Department. in conference with
leading members Of the mission. and an
official announcement OF the details Of
the tour issued tonight By the depart
ment says that "the programme now
has been definitely and finally decided
upon, and cannot be changed Il was
necessary TO arrange tho schedule 30
that invitations could be accepted
which were the most practicable"
Extraordinary precautions to insure
the safety of the party while travelling
have been taken.
Because of the responsibility that
will attach TO the government in car
ing for the persons Of the members Of
the commission" the State Department
announcement says. at Is necessary
that the times of their arrival and de-
parture al different places and the
routes by which they arc 20 travel be
tween known points be not now pub
lished. The routes of their progress
through the streets of the various
cities and the programme of their en-
tentainment can be made public"
The trip TO Springfield. H., will he
for the especial purpose of visiting The
tomb of Abraham Lincoln, admired and
revered by every member of the mis-
sion. Some simple ceremony of homage
and tribute Will very likely be arranged.
Dinner and Reception
Tonight the members of the mission
were entertained at dinner by Secretary
Lansing, and later attended a reception
given in their honor by Mr. Lansing at
the Pan-Americsn Building.
The reception was attended by Presi-
dent Wilson, Cabinet officials, members
Of Congress, army officers, naval off
GERS, assistant secretaries OF the vari-
Gus departments. members of the dip
lomatic corps and heads Of bureaus,
besides the British war mission, headed
by Foreign Minister Balfour.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
u. S. Ship Is Sunk;
Naval Officer and
Nine Gunners Lost
Six Base Hospitals
Of Red Are
Ordered to Front
Will Take Charge of Institutions
Now in Operation Near
Fighting Lines
From The Tribune Bureau

Washington, April 3O.-The Ameri
can Red Cross will furnish the first
army organization TO be sent to Euro
pean battlefelds. At the request Of the
British commission, six base hospitals,
organized by the Red Cross for service
in the medical department of the Unit
ed States Army, have been ordered to
active duty abroad It is understood
they will serve in France.
The hospital units will be sent as
quickly as they can be mustered in and
their military equipment issued to
them. The first units arc expected TO
leave within ten days and the last with
in twenty days.
The base hospitals TO 90 will be the
I'd. 4th, 5th, 10th. 18th and 2lst. They
will take charge OF hospitals already in
operation. They will not wait for equip
ment other than special surgical in
struments. Each unit consists OF
twenty-three doctors, two dentists,
sixty-fve nurses and $50 enlisted men
Of the medical department.
Planned for Year
The directors of the hospitals are:
Base hospital No. 2, organized at the
Presbyterian Hospital, New York, Dr.
George +. Brewer; No. 4, organized at
Lakeside Hospital. Cleveland, DR.
George W. Grille; No. ), organized al
the medical school Of Harvard UniVor-
sity. DR.. Harvey Cushing; No. 10, or
ganized at the Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia, DR.. Richard II. Harte;
No. 10, organized at Northwestern Uni
versity, Evanston, Ill., DR.. FredericS
Besley; No. 81, organized at Washing
ton University Hospital, 81. Louis, Dr.
Frederick T. Murphy.
The base hospital units are fully
! equipped as far as doctors, nurses anc
; tho other professional members arr
concerned. Additional enlisted mer
may be recruited II the quot" IS no
already filed
"The fact that we are able TO sent
these units Immediately is because
Colonel Jefferson r. Kean. director gen
eral of the military department OF th'
American Red Cross, has been al wor'
for year preparing for Just such al
emergency" said Eliot Wadswortn
acting chairman of the American he'
Cross. at is the best evidence W.
have had Of what il means to prepare
for war in time of peace"
Will Be Near Fighting
A base hospital is prepared to TAX
care Of the first five hundred WOUNDED
men equipped with five hundred beds
though it can be expanded to doubl'
that number. IL is customary 10 as
! sign one base hospital to each division
Of the army. the old division number
ing about 10000 men.
The American units. 1t IS understood
will be assigned to active work imme
diately on arrival and will be near tn
actual fighting lines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
Allies Implore Haste;
France Almost Spent

will travel on a special train "a tho
guests Of the Unitad States govern
ment.
The party will Include among others
the members Of Marshal Jofrc's staff,
headed by Colonel Jean Fabry, "the
Blue Devil Of France" who says he Is
half American because he has an
American wooden leg, replacing a limb
shot away IN action.
The itinerary was determined upon
after hundreds Of invitations had been
received by the mission from all sec
lions Of the United States. Some came
from cities on the Pacific Coast, and
they. as we'll AS many others. had 10 be
declined because the early presence in
France Of the leading members Of the
mission is imperative and only short
time can be spared.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
Oil Tanker Vacuum
Torpedoed on Way
to New York
Fl Believed Dead,
Including Captain
Three American Gun
ners Among 18 Saved
in One Boat

London. April 30.-The American oil
tank steamer Vacuum has been sunk
The captain and part of the crew and
the naval lieutenant and nine American
naval gunners are missing.
The Vacuum was sunk by German
submarine on Saturday while she was
on the way to the United States. The
chief mate and seventeen men. includ-
ing three gunners of the American
navy, have been landed.
A boat containing the master OF the
ship and the remainder OF the crew.
together with the lieutenant and nine
naval gunners, is missing.
The details OF the sinking of the
Vacuum are not yet available here, and
the names Of the survivors and of the
missing have not been received by the
officials.
The survivors are expected to reach
here tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
Spy Bill, Putting Even More
Stringent Lid on News,
Is Sure to Pass
Wilson S Letter
Arouses Criticism
Cable, Telegraph and Phone
Messages Must Soon
Pass Inspection
BY STEVENSON II. EVANS

Washington, April 30. The Wash.
lngton correspondents have had their
first taste of war time censorship. The
effect has been, as was predicted by
unbiased advisers OF government Of
fcials, provocative Of distrust and sus-
ricion. And tho general public. it is
believed, - getting the idea that dis
patches out Of Washington are doc.
tored when the government considers
1t necessary.
The first case in point concerns tho
Sunday statement OF Grand Marshal
Joffre 20 the Washington newspaper
representatives. The version of this
statement as given out by the State
Department was an cNpurgated version.
T. did not contain the most vital parts
Of Marshal JofFre's message TO the
American people. SO much has been
,sid and printed about what Joffre said
that it is now no violation of agree
ments 20 state that the part eliminated
was an urgent recommendation for the
immediate dispatch Of American troops
to France. there 70 be intensively
trained "within sound Of the guns.
Units as small "a division or even
smaller were urged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01

Washington, April 80. State and
Navy Department officials said this sf-
ternoon that they had no official dis
patch on the destruction of the
Vacuum or the fate Of the men missing.
Whether the names Of the naval gun
ncrs are made public will depend on
wha. information the Navy Department.
receiyes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-01
WEAT TIER

Rain to-day. Tomorrow, fair aaC
cooler. South winds, shift
ing 20 west gales.
hull Repor, on rage
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-01-20
BIC DAY PLANNED BY
SILVERDROOE METHODISTS

Tomorrow VIII be a day OF we'll sus-
tanned interest at Silverbrook NJ, r.
Church. As the efficiency campaign
develops, its effects are seen in In
creased attendance at the preaching
services and in the Sunday School
The morning service will begin at
1890 o'clock. when the Rev. y. l.. Hof-
fecker. d. d., corresponding secretary
Of the City Missionary Society, viii
deliver the sermon An invitation TO
Join the church will be extended at
both the morning and evening SER
vices. The choir in charge Of Albert
Wilde will render two anthems and
lead the congregational singing.
The Sunday School Joseph w.
Coley. superintendent. will meet az ?
o'clock. Professor Elliott's orchestra
will render several selections. The
Mems Drexel Biddle Bible Glass will
also meet at . o'clock and the pastor
the Rev ElwOod w. Jones. will teach
the lesson. tho subject being First
Disciples Of the Lord Jesus.
The Epworth League devotional
service will begin at 6.45 o'clock. with
Roland Willard as leader. An inter
esting program has been prepared
Lilly's orchestra will take part In
the evening services. The evening
preaching service will begin at 7sC
, O'Clock. spirited and inspiring songs
in charge Of the director, featuring
the first part Of the service. The pas
tor will deliver the fourth in series
of evening addresses. the subject be-
ing The Program of the Church Fol
the World" The service will close
with an evangelistic appeal The
choir will sing an anthem and the
male quartet will render a selection
The Monday and Tuesday night
classes will meet at o'clock. Th'
mid.week prayer service In charge o
the pastor will be held wednesday
evening, az 8 o'clock
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-01-20
Special Sermons Music Again Sunday Program City Churches
HOW TO REST Will Be
DR.. HOLLOWAY'S THEME

The services at the Second Baptist
Church tomorrow. the Rev. Thomas
P. Holloway. D. D., minister, will be
as follows; Morning service. 1880
o'clock. theme. How to Rest" The
evening preaching will begin at 745
o'clock. subject, The Protestant
Church Mediatlng Christianity 10 the
World" The Christian Endeavor
meeting will be held at o'clock. The
Bible school convenes al 215 o'clock.
The musical program tomorrow will
be as follows Quartet. Show Me Thy
Ways Roberts, solo, III I Regard
luiquity.' Brown. Mr. Huss: organ
prelude, March in 3 Flat" Faulkes
Evening: Quartet. 10, II is l." Shell.
ley: quartet, Lead Kindly Light
organ prelude. Hymn Of the Nuns" ;
organ postlude, "Nocturne," Chopin.
Monday at o'clock, the King'i
Daughters will hold a meeting at tn,
residence Of the Misses Muhlhausen
| No. 900 Jackson street.
Wednesday at o'clock. the mid
week prayer and pra Sc service
Thursday at s o'clock. professor
Henry G Thunder Of Philadelphia
will give an organ recital.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-01-20
answer TO Hatred
PASTORS subject
Nr. StoneSifer Will Preach
on This Theme To-
morrow Morning
SELECTIONS ON HAIRY
WILL BE FEATURE

IAN Answer TO Hatred IL the thems
of the morning sermon at 1926 o'clock
in First Presbyterian Church, the Rev.
j. Ross Stonesifer, minister. r d.
Eaton will sing solo, "The Golden
Pathway by Gray. The choir will also
sing an anthem. The kindergarten will
be in session during this service.
Sunday school will meet ~ ll56
o'clock Christian Endeavor viii meet
at 6.45 o'clock in the Junior room. Topic
Seeing the food in Others" The even
ing service viii be held az 7.So O'Clock,
when the minister will take for his
theme "The Church and the World tho
fourth in the series on ~ on and the
Church" There will be a musical scr
vice during the hour Mrs. Emma
Rous. a barpist, we'll known in the mu-
steal circles of Philadelphia will play
"Revcrie.' Massenet Prayer" Hassel
mans, and an organ and harp duct, San
dante Religiose poft. Tho choir will
sing an anthem. The organ numbers
arc: "Andante IN T." kaufman; March
in r." life: Barcarole Bennett, and
Coronation March. Meyorbeer