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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
Fifth Possibly Destroyed When French Rout
Enemy Airship Fleet on Its Return
Trip to Germany.
KAISER'S SEA RAIDERS SUCCESSFUL:
SINK 2 DESTROYERS AND 9 SHIPS
l35 Officers and Men British Waraft Lost-About 100 on
Conveyed Merchantmen Reach Shore-Teutons Escape
English Guardships in Darkness.

Germany suffered little less than disaster yesterday
when four and probably Zeppelin arshps believed be
from raid England brought down in French territory
by airplanes and an-arcraft gunfre. s.
The story of Cermanys the air began with the
count of raid England Friday night which the bombs the
three Others Reports began be received however, of
Zeppens being brought down France These first
posed belong Independent adng fleet Dispatches from
France late the day. however declared them be the raiders
returning from England.
IT, appears the dispatches these the airshp which
aded England their struggle get German territory
those brought down from the
when they fell
SEA TRAGEDY COSTS MANY LIVES.
Germany the Saturdays Developments
recorded the breaking merchant the North
rdng that sank British deroyers and
ships The tragedy cost the British the
and the destroyer who lett
to their fate raiders their haste
the crews sinking About hundred of the
Sailors known have reached shore
British patrol craft All but three OF the trading ships
Scandinavian nationality most of them apparently being
small vessels f-zs3 at~7s~A4sf- -7ssAs%4sSsf-s
The character radng warshps exactly apparent
The British admiralty describes them fast and heavily
armed while refers them Eight fighting
the vigilance of the British guardshps under
cover of darkness their outward and homeward trp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
Government by the Sword
Is Predicted for Gern1Q11u
Kaiser System Still in PoUer; Says Lord Robert
Cecil Who Expects Military Rule After
Michaelis Goes

and the withdrawal of the Russian gov
ernment to Moscow, Lord Robert said:
"No doubt the Baltic move is sound
stroke on the part of Germany and is
planned to give impetus to the sue
cess Of the war loans. Germany has
timed other strokes to have the same
effect on previous loans. I think it will
be to the interests Of Russia to make
Moscow the capital. for It is really the
capital Of old Russia anyway"
Spanish-German Situation.
On the reported serious situation
which has arisen between Spain and
Germany as a result of the escape from
Cadz of U-boat Lord Robert said
he could throw no light. but added:
THE Spanish government was not IN
volved in the escape. They placed
faith in the German commander. who
then broke his word. l have no in
formation as to the Spanish action in
the matter.
I'VE have no knowledge as to whether
this submarine has since then sunk any
allied or American vessels and 1t would
be hard to 6nd out unless. as often
happens. 1t should come to the surface
after firing torpedo, and thus dis
close it's identity. 1t might be sunk
some time and through the survivors
of it's crew it might be possible to
learn what vessels it had destroyed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
IS AFTER PROFITEERS.
Names Governor Says Excessive
Prices Will Not Be Tolerated.

AUGUSTA, Ne, Oct 20.-Exorbitant
Drofits and unwarranted higher prices
for food in this state will not be toll
Grated. Gov. Milliken announced today
after a conference with DR.. Leon S.
Merrill, food administrator for Maine.
and Atty. Gen. Guy Sturgis.
..Dr. Merrill will keep careful watch
on prices" said Gov. Mi!liken. He also
will investigate the difference between
nrices charged by the wholesalers to
the retailer and the prices charged by
the retailer to the public. In every In
stance where excessive prices are being
charsd by a retailer. a report will be
made to me and l shall a. once place
the case in the hands of the attorney
general"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
SOLDIERS SEEK INSURANCE.
Treasury Department Has Received
1000 Apnlications.

Response of the Army and Navy to
the Treasury Departments presenta-
ton of the new war insurance plan has
found expression in the form of 1000
applications for insurance policies, ag-
gregating s1S.oo0.0o0. The majority of
the applications We're for the full
amount of $4,000. the maximum per
mitted.
This batch of applications is the first
general movement of soldiers and
sailors toward acceptance of advan-
program.
An Illustration of the tendency to
apply for the maximum amount is
shown in the applications of the 100
delegates from the various canton
ments to the war insurance conference.
which closed yesterday. Their applica.
tions were for policies aggregatinE
$1,500,o00.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
MEXICO OPPOSES EMBARGO.
Objects to Denying Food and Gold to
Other Countries.

Ell PASO. Tex, October 20.-The
Mexican government has not approved
the tentative embargo agreement
reached in Washington between AM
bassador Ignacio Bonillas and repre-
sentatives of the American government.
according to advics received here today
by mining companies from Mexico
City.
The agreement specified that the
metals embargo would be modified by
Mexico in return for shipments of gold
and corn from the United States. A
clause prohibiting the shipment of food
or gold to other countries from Mexico
was said to have been the reason for
Mexico declining to enter into the
agreement, and a counter proposal ID
expected from President Carranza. ac-
cording to the messages. .:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
Colombian Senate Protests
Germans Submarine Warfare
Action Viewed as Evidence of Better Feeling Tosvard
United States and Its Allies, and J
Rebuke to Teuton Influences. VI +
ceiling TolDard

The adoption of the resolution was
especially gratifying to otpkfals here
because German bpsiness<fnterests in
Colombia, which EaSe<~ean influential
with the governmental party. had been
conducting an energetic propaganda
to prevent Colombia from joining other
South American countries in condem-
nation OF Germany'S methods of war
fare.
The action also was regarded as i'm
portant because Colombian territory
has been under suspicion by this gov
ernment as a possible location of Ger
man wireless plants and as of prospective
value to the central powers as subma-
rine base.
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Warn Against Excessive Optimism.
$50. 81. 1.13e.7io.55a s1,97s. 600. 900

The week has been much more sue
cessful than We're the first two of the
campaign. but none of the workers is
being carried away by optimism. Chi
cago sent 4 message tonight warning
against too much optimism. saying it
was apparently having an i'll effect in
the middle west New England re-
sporded in like vein.
Every worker will he impressed
when he or she goes out Monday morn
ing for the last week of the drive that
cnly the most vigorous efforts will
make the sale a success. A general
speeding up all along the line is ex-
pected to follow.
Liberty day. next Wednesday. as Of
ficially proclaimed by the President.
promises big returns. From every part
of the country come reports of plans
for huge demonstrations and sales
campaigns.
Detroit went over her maximum
quota cf s43,000.100 today. taking first
honors for a major league city. Efforts
now are being made to reach s60.000.-
600 Richmond Va and Tucson. A-i7
are two other cities which have over
SUBSCRIBED their quotas.
"San Francisco reported that the
Striking Of the transport Antilles bv a
German submarine had n good effect
on sales. Tho total for today ran
close to 81. 600. 600 r7uch r,ore than has
been sold on previous ordinary days
House-to-Eouse Canvass.
! Chairman Poole of the local commit
| tee said last night that he was partic,1-
larIy encouraged by the splendid work
being done by a volunteer committee OF
| business anu professional men, headed
by Joseph NJ. Stoddard. which is making
a house-to-honse canvass in many sec.
| tons Of the city. Already reports from
various members of the committee show
large subscriptions obtained. some OF
them having secured nearly 200 sub.
lscriptions in their first days work
| Special preparations are being made
| for Wednesday, Liberty day, so desig.
mated by President Wilson.
| Mrs William Gibbs McAdoo will light
a bonfire for the liberty loan patriotic
celebration on the eve of Liberty day
which will be reflected throughout the
| land.
| Mrs McAdoo, according to the plan
will light the huge bonfire in Washing.
ton while the Marine Band plays patri.
| otic music and while $500 school chill.
dren sing patriotic songs. At Fort Mye,
| the lookout who catches the first GLIMPSE
| of the flames will give the order to aug.
ment the message of liberty with a can.
non shot The hills of Virginia will an
swer the echo with a thousand fires anG
across the country similar flames will
| illumine the night.
| From Mount Lookout. Pixies Peak IL
| Colorado. Mount Tamalpais. the desert o.
Continued on Second Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
Navy Department Explains.

The Navy Department issued this
statement:
In cabling the list of casualties in
the sinking of the Army transport An
TILES, the name of E. L. Kinney. seaman,
second class tnext of kin, Thomas NJ
Kinney, father. Water Valley, Miss.
was sent as one of those lost. A dis
patch received today announced that
Kinney was saved and that J. C. McKin-
ney. seaman, second class. was lost. His
next of kin is A. l.. Mckinney. father,
1876 Pennington streat, Newark. N. j.
No further details OF the sinking of
the transport have been received"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
MIR. REDFIELD ON ORE TRIP.
Sails to Meet Craft Which Open Iror
Carrying on Mississippi.

ST. LOUIS. October 2e.-The ST. Louis
harbor boat Erastus Wells left here
with Secretary of Commerce Redfeld
on board today for a trip up the Mis-
sissippi river to meet the government
steamer Nokomis, which is towing six
barges of iron ore from st. Paul to
st. Louis.
The trip was in celebration Of the
opening Of ore traffic by water between
Minnesota points and st. Louis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21

The Colombian senate has passed a
resolution protesting against Germany
ruthless submarine warfare, the state
Denartment was advised yesterday by
Perry Belden, the American charge at
Bogota.
officials viewed the action OF the Co
lombian senate as signifying the de-
velopment of a better feeling toward
this country and the allies. Failure of
the United States Senate to ratlIy tns
treaty. to pay Colombia for the partition
of Panama had aroused considerable
feeling in the South American republic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
Statement From Treasury.

In a statement issued at the Treasury
Department last night it was shown that;
according to the official returns to fed
eral reserve banks. subscriptions upon
which 2 per cent has been paid total ap-
proximately 00.000.000 up to the close
of business Friday night. The statement
continues:
If the maximum quota is to be
raised. average subscriptions of $780,
100000 daily must be obtained during
the coming week. as the drive closes
on October 27. Average daily sub
scriptions of s167,o00. 900 next week
will make possible attainment of the
minimum total of $4,000, 900 O0G set by
Secretary McAdoo at the outset of the
campaign on October /.
THE following table shows official
returns at hand and unofficial esti-
mates for actual reserve districts:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
ARREST MINNEAPOLIS EDITOR
Charged With Interfering With and
Discouraging Enlistnents.

MINNEAPOLIS, October 20.-D r.
Johnson editor Of the Peoples Magazine,
published here. was arrested today on a
county grand jury indictment charging
Interfering with and discouraging enlist
.nents" He pleaded not guilty and was
released on bond.
The affairs of the magazine were brought
into court recently when an advertiser
succeeded in breaking 4 contract on the
ground that the publication was encour-
aging disloyalty.
The plaintiff pointed particularly to the
published speeches of Senator La Toilette
and representative Ernest Lundeen of
Minnesota.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
INDIA PLoTTERs CONVICTED.
Jacobsen and Three Others Guilty of
Conspiring to Foment Revolution.

CHICAGO. october 20.-Gustav H.
Jacobsen and three co-defendants were
found guilty tonight of conspiring to
foment a revolution in India.
The defendants were also found guilty
of violating the neutrality of the Unit
ed states Besides Jacobsen the men
found guilty are Albert Wehde, George
Paul Boehm and Heramba Lal Cupta, a
Hindoo.
Federal Judge X. NJ Landis, before
whom the case has been tried, gave
final instructions to the jury this after
noon at 4:26 o'clock and was in the
courtroom at 1928 o'clock tonight to re-
ceive the verdict
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
Gases Presented Automatically.

~On this new form the complete his
tory of each mans case will appear at
q glance, beginning with his order
number and ending with his induction
into a military camp, while at the close
oof each days work the local board is
enabled to complete in few minutes
with a rubber stamp what has hitherto
taken hours to complete. The system
is such that il will present each case
Ealmost automatically to the local board
~The completion of the new system
will solve problems which have con-
5fronted the provost marshal general
and caused HIM much concern.
zone of the most serious of these has
been keeping together the great or
sanitation OF the local and district
lboards, which from a numerical view
,pofnt is of the strength of an Army di-
vision: many of these officials have
been clamoring for relief on account
a of the drain on their time, and the new
system will make it easily possible for
they have proven themselves eminently
T1itted
Another problem solved was the
cQuestion of expediency of continuing
dhe examination of the entire registry,
thus fixing each mans status This
would have involved a medical exami-
nation of each man, whose physical |
condition might change from day to
day, thus making this great undertake
ing valueless.
again under the old system of ex-
emption and discharge it would have
been necessary if the national need re-
Quired il TO send for the exempted man
to return for physical re-examination.
while in the meantime his Industrial or
family status might have changed thus
involving endless appeals and confu-
sion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
Called When Needed.

The new system fixes a mans class
and calls him in his proper turn when
he is needed. He will be examined phy-
sicaIly only when needed. Thus the la
bors of the medical officers will he
called for only when required. If the
nation needs half million of men thew
will respond each in his turn fixed by
his class.
THE man who can least be spared
either as the head of family or the
head OF business necessary to the de-
fsnse of the nation will be the last to
60.
THE new plan is being made ready
for the printer and will be submitted
to the local district boards in ample
time to enable them to familiarize
themselves with 1t and thus approach
their next draft with thorough knowi-
eAge Of tts requirements"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
Mistake in Casualty List.

The only item added to the story Of the
Antilles disaster was a brief statement
that ]. c. Mckinney, second class naval
seaman of Newark, n. J., was among the
men lost. The Navy Department was ad-
vised of this fact by Vice Admiral Sims
Mckinneys name became confused with
that of Z. y. Kinney. a seaman of Water
Valley, Miss, who was reported among
the missing in the first dispatch from Ad-
miral Sims. Kinney was saved.
Mckinney'S next Of kin was his father.
A. L. Mckinney, 1856 Pennington street,
Newark
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
All in Raiding Fleet.
Scattered Over France.

The approach of eleven Zeppelins was
| sisnaled throughout France late T., the
evening. At once the air defense
sauadrons and batteries all over the
airships were attacked and scattered
all over France like flock of fright
ened birds.
"One Zeppelin was brought down at
st. Clement. near Lunevil!e, by anti
aircraft guns. Two others were
brought down or forced to land, one at
yergeances, in the department of Cote
dor, and the other at Lamarche. In
Haute- -Marne. One of these was dam
aged by French airrnen and the other
by guns. A fourth Zeppelin. after be-
ing chased throughout central France.
through the districts of Lyons Dion
and St Marcellin, was brought down at
Gan. in the Hautes-Alpes.
NO bombs were dropped in France
by the Zeppelins. which were practical
ly at the mercy of the French air de-
fense service from the moment they
crossed the coast
Children Among Dead.
or the twenty-seven deaths officially
renorted as the result of last nights
air raid. seven persons were killed out
right by bombs that fell In the shop
ping district of London and thirteen
by torpedo which destroyed three
houses in the residential quarter or
the latter victims eight belonged to
one fanily-a mother and her infant,
four girls and two boys. A lodger in
the same house was also killed.
It is reported from an eastern county
that seven Zeppelins remained overhead
there for several hours last night and
dropped fifty bombs. including num-
Der OF incendiary nature. No casual
ties resulted. but a farm building and
an inn were damaged and two horses
were killed in a field. Most of the
bombs dropped in the open country.
In suburb Of London, shortly before
II o'clock last night, five or six bombs
were dropped in close proximity. but
no damage was done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
oues.ionnaire Employed.

"The method of obtaining this in
formation is through QUESTIONABLE
4 series Of questions calculated to pro
Auce the Information required. This
document will be mailed to every regis
trant not vet in service. on a day to oe
fxed seven Gays being given to each
Resistant to complete and return the
same Every opportunity will be OF
fered to each man to complete his queS-
tionnaire fully and without error
The local boards will then examine
each QUESTIONABLE and assign each reg
fstrant to one of five classes.
.These classes will be based upon
every conceivable condition, from the
should properly be advanced by man
nAesfring to be excused from military
aauty. Glass will be the first called for
~Dhysical examina ton and service, and
when it is exhausted, II the nation S
reeds are such as to make 1t necessary,
class will follow, and thus each man
sxsgistered will ultimately take his place
saf,needed-
EVERY opportunity for appeal from,
zuslch classification by the local board
has been retained and perfected. but
roceedings have been greatly simp1ifed.
'The tedious work of the local boards
vlns been practically eliminated by the
SDroduction of a form to be known as No.
1900 which will be the foundation stone
of the new system. Through its use all
the laborious work of making and post
ments of its columns the work of the
Sold docket sheets and records will be
made unnecessary. and by the arranee-
-ments of tbs columns the work of the
local board will be reduced to a mini
mum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
.SPURT MARKS FINAL
LIBERTY LOAN WEEK
Churches to Observe Liberty
Sunday Today With Appeal
for Patriotic Efforts.
TOTAL NOW s1,e73,0oo,o 900

The campaign for the second liberty
loan today entered its last week with a
total estimated subscription of $685.
100000. This estimate was announced
by Treasury officials last night after
canvass of returns from all the federal
reserve banks. This is approximately
$25,ooO,oo0 behind the $2,0oo,ooo,Ooo
mark that had been hoped for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
No Complete Casualty List.

An aerial torpedo fell within the
London area. Persons in the neighbor-
hood of the destroyed houses say that
the residents were in their homes at
the time A party was being held at
one Of these houses. and friends this
morning were vainly seeking those who
had been present AS yet there is not
a complete casualty list.
Eight bombs were dropped In q small
town outside Of London. Two were of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
ZeppeIins Scattered
Like Frightened Birds;
Attacks Upon London

By the Associated Press.
ON THE FRENCH FRONT IN
FRANCE, October 20.-Four German
Zeppelins were destroyed or forced to
land in various districts of France in
the course of raid undertaken by
these hostile aircraft during last night
All in Raiding Fleet.
LONDON, October 20.-Reuter's cor
respondent at British headquarters In
France teiegraphs that the four Yep
pelines brought down In France We're
airships that had taken part In the
raid on England last night.
1t is believed, adds the correspond,
ent, that fifth Zeppelin was DESTROYED
at Bourbonne-le -Bains. CThis PROB
ably refers to the Zeppelin brought
down at Rambervillers, near the Al
satan border.)
The correspondents dispatch reads:
"a fleet of Zeppelins returning from
England was routed by the French
air defenses last night. Four OF them
were brought down, all being forced to
land in France. 1t is believed fifth
German airship was destroyed at Bour-
bonne e-les-Beins-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-21
Vigorous Naval Warfare Possible.

The disaster also renewed specula-
tions about the possibility of a more
vigorous naval offensive. a policy which
is supported by some naval officers, and
which. it is believed. may be sustained
by the psychological effect of the sink
ing of the vessel on the American peo-
pie. But the Navy Department has no
word to say about the report of Ad-
miral Mayo concerning his observa-
tions abroad, nor about the difference
of opinion known to exist among naval
officers here and in Great Britain aoout
the advisabiiity of a more vigorous
naval policy il respect to the U-boat
warfare.
1t is known that the increased activities
of the submarines in the Mediterranean
are being watched closely Their opera
tions are hampcring the carrying of sup
plies to Italy and to the allied forces at
Salouiki