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The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

July l3-In biggest air battle 90
far British claim downing OF thirty
German planes on west front
June 14.-Von Bethmann-HoiI-
veg. German imperial chancellor.
resigns and the Kaiser appoints
DR.. Georg Michaelis in his place.
July Alderman Reichstag plans 10
ask for peace on Wilson terms. Rus
slams continue to drive back Aus
TRANS.
July IT-Ralusz, important GAlician
city, evacuated by Russians before
herce German attacks. British cabi-
net upheaval results in appointment
OF Winston Churchin as ministers OF
munitions.
July 9O-United States onicials be-
gin nation-wide draft drawing.
July H-Draft drawing ends, IN
a. m. Senate votes S64o, 900 air
plane bill in hour.
July 22-British flyers bring down
two Boches. Wilson plans food ban
for neutrals to stop importation Of
SUPPLIES into enemy territory.
July 2-AlIied conferences on con-
duct Of war in the Balkans begins
In Paris. U. s. does not participate
Russian women regiment in irst
battle
July $-submsrines battle for FIRST
! time in worlds history Prussian
boat wins over British submersible
July 21-Kerensky, Russian premier.
wounded in attempt to bolster up
courage OF Notwithstanding Russian
army.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
,hsng Hsun dictator: Germans assist

Chang Hsun dictator: Germans assist
plot
June 5-Americans register for army
draft without disorder.
June 7-British blow up MesSines
Ridge; explosion heard in London.
June Seen. Pershing reaches Eng
land.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares
to join allies.
June ls.-I53 killed, 43o injured
in London by German aeropIane
raid.
June I5-United States liberty
loan closes. with $1,000. 900, 900 over
subscribed.
June 1s-AdmiraI Sims, OF U. s.
navy, commands allied feet on
Ireland.
June 27-Announce arrival OF first
American army in France
June 2s-BTaZil joins in war.
June 3O.-Russians begin big Of
fensive in Galicia led by War Min
lister Kerensky in person.
July 2-Chinese empire declared
Republicans prepare
to resist
July 7-Twenty-tWo German areo-
planes of immense hew type kill -,
injure 1877, in London.
July S-WiIson orders export en-
barge
July 12-ChInese empire falls;
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch Lega-
tion in Peking.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

| September 15-Germans capture
| Pinsk-high tide in invasion of Rus
| STA.
September "a .25-Allies in drive in
! France capture 900.
October 5-Allies land at Saloniki.
| October 9-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 1O-Bulgaria attacks Ser
| bia.
December Ford peace party sails.
| December 9-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19-Allies evacuate Gal
| lipoli.
February IA, 1916-Russlans cap
! ture Erzcrum, Turkey
| February 23-Germans open Nerdun
! offensive.
! April IS-Russians take Trebizond.
Turkey.
! April 2i-Irish revolt in Dublin
April 2S-British besieged in Kutel-
Amart. Mesoro tamia surrender.
! May 3N-Battle of JutIand; fourteen
British and eighteen German War
ships sunk.
| June lord Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed
north of Scotland.
June l7-Russians retake Czerno-
witt. capital of BukOwina, in great
! offensive.
June 2o-Arabs rebel from Turkey,
capture Mesa; new kingdom estab-
! lished.
June T-British and French in
great drive in west.
July 9-Submarine merchantmen
! Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
! July 27-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
July 2S-Captain Charles Fryatt, Of
a British merchant ship which had
sunk a U-boat. executed by Germany.
August 9-Italians take Gorilla.
! July 10-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August S-Rumania enters war on
! side of entente, and invades Transyl-
vania.
September 6-Germany begins great
squeeze of Rumania.
November 10-First great air battle
| of worlds history, siXty-seven Brit
! ish, French and German aeroplanes
December 5-Teutons take Bucha-
, rest.
December 11-Germany openly prof
| fers peace to her enemies.
December H-President Wilson asks
both sides to define their war aims.
January Il, 1917-News received Ger
man cruiser Moewe has taken twenty
four ships in South Atlantic.
January 22-Wilson asking peace
without victory" demands United
States enter world league at close of
| war.
! January 31-Germany declares ruth
| less submarine warfare on all ships.
whatever nationality, in the war
zones.
| February 3-United States sewers
diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 26-President asks Con-
gress for authority to arm all Amer
lean vessels.
February 96-British capture Kut-el-
| Amara.
February 2S-Zimmermann note sug-
costing alliance of Mexico and japan
with Germany against United States
made public.
March 11-British capture Bagdad.
March 11-Russian revolution starts
March 15-CZar abdicates.
March 1T-Germans begin big "stra-
tegic retirement" on west front.
April 3-wilson asks Congress to de-
clare a state Of war with Germany.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
SINGLE TAKERS HOLD
GREAT FALLS PICNIC

More than seventy-five members and
invited guests of the District of Co.
lumbia Single Tax Association were
present at the annual outing and
picnic of the society, held yesterday
at Great Falls Park.
The members were addressed on
"Democratizing Industry" by Weston
Star. former lawyer and now prom
inent Maryland farmer, and w. I.
Hampton, of Washington.
A feature of the evenings enter
tainment was a concert of French
and Russian music given by an or
ohestra composed of the women men,
bers of the organization.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

April 6-President signs Congress
resolution proClaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9-Austria-HunEary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9-British storm Vimy Ridge.
April 10-Brazi breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April l6-French in great offensive
near Aisne River.
April 19-AmeriCan freighter MonEo-
liza sinks a submarine. this being the
first American success of the war.
April &-Both Houses Of Congress
pass selective draft army bill
May l5-Big Italian offensive in
Carso begins.
May 16-Ncws received that Ameri-
can destroyers are assisting British
of Ireland.
June $-Chinese Royalists name
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
Three Years War Has
Cost $4,000, 900,

New York. July 2S.-Eighty billion
dollars is the direct money cost
to the belligerent governments of
three years OF the great war.
The cost is now mounting at the
rate OF $3.50 10000 a day-and this
rate itself is constantly rising.
These statistics are based on
What s known here OF government
finance in the warning nations at
the present time and are close ap-
ordinations Of actual government
expenditures from August /. 1914.
to \ Igust l. 1917.
But they do not adequately sum
up even the money expense Of the
struggle. still less the human loss
and suffering. The total loss will
never be known: it is beyond the
ken Of statistiCians.
Every neutral government in the
world has had to face eXtraordi-
nary expenses indirectly resulting
out of the war and many OF these
nations have borrowed millions
from other nations. Added to the
bill is also hundreds OF millions
spent by the Red Cross and scores
of other war charities. Then there
is the vast destruction of property
cities. towns ard villages. fac
TORIES. homes. railroads. bridges
and even the soil itself. living har-
ried and desolate under storms
Of shells.
Millions Of productive men have
been killed or wounded or crippled
until they are financial burdens on
the community.
The total cost OF the twenty
greatest wars in the rs years
preceding 1914 was only So, OO0.-
coo. 600 900
With the money it is now spend
ing on killing and manning the
world could build every day eight
WOolwOrth Buildings at N5.O0O, OOJ
each.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
FORWARD, AMERIcAl

We fight not for lust OF battle,
Nor fight We for greed of gain;
We fight not for wide dominion,
Nor to bear the brand OF Cain.
A principle We champion,
And no other wish have we
Than TO see Old Glory bearing
Onward Freedom Of the Sea.
Where'er Old Glory waveth
Ever there shall freedom be
Freedom OF thought and action,
Justice and Liberty.
Come, Join the U. S. Army!
TO the rescue" Is the call.
No murder on the high sea-
The sea Is free for ALL
Onward. sailors, onward!
To the colors rally all,
Crying. Down with every tyrant
Imperialists must fall!
Way for the U. s. Army!
Make way for Liberty!
We are coming. brothers, coming.
Bringing Freedom of the Sea-
Come, raise the Lusitania
And bring to life her dead,
In heart and mind, oh, raise her
To be q star ahead.
To guide US on a mission
Through bombs and lannon's roar
lnsuTing full protection
To wanderers from shore;
OF punitive correction.
And order to restore.
Not in vain those martyrs persisted
II in future times we see
A young Republic rising
From the bed OF Tyranny
Freedom fer all down-trodden,
Pun freedom Of the sea.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
Will-o' the Wisps of War.

The dreaming of foolish dreams, and
the cult of impossible things. seems
to be one of the necessary evils Of
newspaper activity while war is beins
waged by the United States. Dope, 8"
which ran riot before the war. streaks
newspaper columns with its faint even
more strongly now. with all the limit
less possibilities OF speculation which
the conflict lends. OmciaIs have school,
ed themselves to an amiable tolerance
regarding journalistic dope" but
under present conditions they can
hardly resist resentment OF public mis-
information calculated to embarrass
the government.
There have been many ill-considerCd
things emanating from Washington
lately. most OF them based on a rather
deliberate. heavy-footed pessirnism de-
signed to rouse the people from their
alleged indifference and sluggishness
over the war. We have been told,
on successive days. that the German
line in the West is "impregna BILE, :"
that the American legions will be
unable to break 1t; that Russia is
out OF IT, and that France is stag
gering under her war-load; that our
hope OF early participation on the
Western front is a delusion and a
snare, because we cannot possibly get
more than 10000 to France by Janu-
airy. nor more than 10000 there by
next September; that the submarine
is going to win the war for Germany
before We can do anything about it.
Then there have been the urofes-
slonally optimistic stories also. Yes
terday accounts were published show
ing that all Italy needed to crush
Austria was American iron and coal,
and that Japan was going TO send
troops to the Russian front. This fol-
lowed a cock-and-bull story that the
United States was going to send forces
to the Eastern front via Vladivo-
stock. Now, the hard fact regarding
japanese soldiers in Russia is that,
no matter how effective they might
be in a military sense, the Russian
people and government would never
consent to Their being brought there
There is not the slightest prospect
that the allies will breach such a sub
jet to Russia at the present time
There are two ways, according to the
best-informed officials here, by which
Japan might aid the war-by giving
her shipping to the Atlantic service.
and by using her destroyers and other
naval craft against the submarines
in the Mediterranean. There Is not
the slightest prospect that Japanese
troops will be sent overland to Rus
STA. and 1t is impracticable in the
present state of shipping to send them
to France.
Regarding American participation,
there is hardly any doubt that the
transport sereYice will be able to take
more than 100000 men to France be-
fore next June IL they are ready. 1t
will be ready to subsist them and
to take all the accoutrements Of a
modern army acvoss the Atlantic. The
necessary shipping Is at hand. The
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
DENY PLAN TO STRIKE
TO FORCE EXEMPTION

Denial that $500 Delaware River
shipbuilders and boilermakers would
be called out on strike IL all were
not exempted was voiced in a tele-
gram received late yesterday after
noon by Samuel Gompers. president
OF the International Brotherhood of
BOilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders.
1t had been reported that Charles
F. Scott. organizer of the brother
hood in the Philadelphia district, had
made such a threat
Scott was instrumental in engineer
ing the recent walkout at the plant
of the Baldwin Locomotive Company
at Philadelphia.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

steady loss of tonnage from the u
boats can be brought within the reck-
oning, and even then there remains
no adequate reason why we cannot
get an American army worthy of the
name to France and maintain them
there. That is our own shipping prob
lem, just as the problem of maintain
ing shipping for the allies needs is
Britain's. There is every reason to
believe that during the fall and win
ter there will be a material diminu-
ton Of submarine losses.
Confusion of the public mind through
misleading and contradictory Wash.
ington news service breeds dlstrust
There ought to be some way of con-
fining within the bounds Of reason
the stray thoughts about the war
which creep within the public prints.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

For once Senator Stone il right. 1t
will take no more time to negotiate
treaties whereby our allies subjects
can Be drafted. than 1t will to enact
legislation drafting them despite the
lack Of treaties. Those who have been
urging the eompulsIon Of aliens Of
the draft age to enter the army or
to 90 back to their own countries lose
sight Of the fact that treaties which
have protected our citizens when in
other countries also provide that citi-
sens and subjects Of other countries.
when in the United States. shall have
equal protection.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

From a petty Balkan quarrel. re,
sulting in the seizure Of Bosnia and
Herzegovina by Austria and in the
assassination Of the heir to the throne
of the dual monarchy and his con-
sort by resentful Jugo-Slavs, the con-
flagration has spread to every CONT
nCnt and every land. Most of the
world is directly involved in war, and
in the non-belligerant countries Ques"
lions stirred up by the conflict are the
subject of intense and constant do
mestic differences.
The outstanding events in the world
greatest war up to the present time
have been:
June g. 191I-Archduke Ferdinand,
heir presumptive to Austrian throne
and wife assassinated at Serajova,
Bosnia, by Slav student. Princip, Civ
ing the pretext for war.
July 22.-Austria delivers famous
ultimatum to Serbia. charging assas-
sination plot was Matched on Serb
soil.
July 2S.-Serbia having agreed to all
Austrian demands save one, Aus
tria declares war.
August 1-Germany declares war on
Russia.
August 3.-Germany declares war on
France and invades Belgium.
August 4-Great Britain declares a
state of war by act of Germany.
August 2-24 - Battle of Mons
Charlcrio; Germans victorious.
August 23.-Japan at war with Ger
many.
August 2.-Germans burn Louvain,
Belgium.
August 29-Russians crushed in bat
tie near Tannenburg. Prussia.
September 5-l0. Germans turned
back by French and British in the
Battle of the Marine.
September 12.-Battle of the Aisne
begins.
October 9.-Germans capture Ant.
werp.
October 21-a.-First battle OF
october 3O.-Russia declares war on
Turkey.
November 1.-Germans sink Admiral
Cradock's British feet off Chilli.
November 1O-l2.-Second battle al
Ypres.
December Herman Gen. De Wet
SdpluiSh, TGNOlN.
December 5.-Serbians defeat Aus
trians.
December S.-British sink German
feet off Falkland Islands.
January "a. 1915.-Naval battle III
North Sea; German cruiser Bluechel
sunk.
February S.-Russians suffer second
great defeat in East Prussia
February 17.-Germans begin subma.
rine blockade, despite American pro,
test.
March 22.-Russians take Przemysl
Galicia. after Ions siege.
April 22.-Gas first used in war BY
Germans at Ypres.
April 5.-Allies land at Dardanelles
May 4.-Beginning of great Geremar
offensive against Russia.
May 1.-Lusitania sunk unwarned BY
U-boat; 1000 die, of whom more thar
100 are Americans.
May 22.-Italy declares war on Aus
tria.
June 2.-Germans retake Przemysl.
August 5.-Germans capture Warsaw
September 1.-Germany promise.
United States to sink no more liner,
without warning
September Scar succeeds Crane
DuAe Nicholas in command Of Rus
sian armies.
4
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

THE OPEN ROAD.
For neighborI birds and busy hum
ming beest
For roof the starry sky and lsafy
trees;
For bed the soft sweet slope Of
grassy sheen,
Or some refreshing spread OF pinsy
greenS
For cup Of wine the stimulating
cheer
Of laughing mountain waters. crys-
tai clear;
For book those rarest tales Of Joy
Gus love
The breezss through the woodlands
whisper Of;
For company the stars; and for my
task
Some daily labor. great or small, I
ask
whereby my debt in thanks I may
repay
For all these blessings Of the Open
Copyright, ls7)
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

Ross P. Andrews, president OF the
Retail Merchants Association, in his
address before the Rotary Club. paint
ed q glowing picture OF what lies in
store for Washington. There Is not
the slightest exaggeration in his
prophecy that the Capital will double
its population within three years. And
the growth will not be the result of
boom times" but will be founded on
. substantial and logical foundation.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
MOST AWFUL Three YEARS in HISTORY
Will DRAW TO A CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY
Memories of Millions of Men, Women and
Children Slain and Property Destroyed.
(By International News servIceJ

New York, July 28-The three awful years in the worlds
history drawing a close.
Three years ago Wednesday, August l. Germany declared
war on Russia precpitatng conflict which has killed 100000
soldiers and certainly 100000 cvns-perhaps many
more; directly between $5OOoOOOOOO and $lOOOOOOOOOOO
and piled up in human entirely mcalculabe and ncom
prehensbe.
Not of the earth has been remote feel the effect
of the 100000 who have gone forth Not
intelligent being but has been stirred his depths by the dread
fu, waefu FIRE that has scourged the globe
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

What seems to be the matter with
the pickets as tenants? Superintend-
ent Whitaker was glad to get them
out Of his hotel at Occoquan, they
we're unpopular residents OF the Dis
trict Jail. and now the landlord OF
Cameron House says October l must
be moving day.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

No. Pauline. we are not going TO
spend s.. 100000 for coast defense
artilIery. You may have been duped
because you are not fully familiar
with the circumlocution Office Of the
War Department
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
About 100000 Dead
Among Battling Armies
,By international News Service)

Wy 80 WV
New York. July 2S.-From a care
full study of what has been made
public regarding casualties in the
three years OF war, it appears
that about 100000 combatants
have lost their lives and about
5000, 900 have been killed. captured,
reported missing or so badly
wounded that they cannot return
to the front. This takes no aC-
count of the millions OF slightly
wounded men.
As time goes on the difficulty OF
estimating the casualties increases.
Only Great Britain and Germany
give out official lists, and those OF
Germany are always far behind in
their reports and have been at
tackled as misleading.
In addition to the troops losses
the war has also caused the death
Of probably millions of civilians.
The table below gives the losses
Of all the fighting nations.
ENTENTE ALLIES.
Total killed,
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

Sergeant Empey demands that
Mayor Thompson be placed in an in
tCrnment camp and Roosevelt snubs
him. but. after all. the Chicago voters
must give the real rebuke.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

The quotation on liberty bonds will
not suffer because a New York district
attorney refuses to accept them as
surety for releasing a common null
sanCe.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

Repairs on the Yaterland cost near
" 10000. 1t is safe to assume that
Germany's hopes to get her back after
the war are doomed to disappoint-
ment
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29

With Italy and Japan preparing to
strike decisive blows at the Prussians,
the allies stock is far in the ascend
ency.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
SUNDAY. JULY .. 1911.
ALINE o. CHEER

Cwr4ttsa especially fox The Washington Hsrald.)
By John Kendriek Bangs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-17
WHO'S PRESIDENT
That's Much Disputed Question
in China Just Now.
Vice President Acts Role, but
Council Claims Authority.

Pekin, Oct. Unconstitutional is
the wall behind which contending fac
tions in China are taking refuge. Pre-
mier Tuan Chi-1ui insists that the re-
public which he re-established in
Picking with Vice-president Feng Kuo-
chang at its head. is the constitu-
tional government of China.
The so-called parliament at Canton
consisting of fifty or sixty members
of the dissolved parliament insists
that it is the constitutional govern
ment of China, and that's Lii Yuan
hung still is the president
The 'constitutionalists," now active
in south China under the direction
of Sun Yat-Sen, have contested every
important change in the central gov
eminent during the last few months,
and denounced it as unconstitutional
They say Lii Yuan-hung had no right
to dissolve parliament, and that there
certainly is nothing in the Marking
provisional constitution which justi
fled such action.
Heads De Facto Government.
Consequently, according to their
line of reasoning, Feng Kuo-chang is
neither the legal president nor the
legal acting president of China.
There is some doubt as to what
Feng Kuo-chang's own contention is
as to his legal status. While he has
permitted all foreign legations to be
presented to him as president and
signs official documents as president,
he is represented to provincial author
tiles as being only acting president.
It is believed that Feng Kuo-chang is
undoubtedly anxious to be elected
president by a parliament legally con-
stituted, or constituted as legally as
it is possible to do so under the pres
ent unsettled conditions in China. He
has held out against the plan Of his
cabinet to have a national council
formed with five members from each
province to act as a parliament.
Feng Kuo-chang heads a de facto
government which actually exists in
Picking, and has the support of nine
teen provinces and the recognition of
all important foreign powers. There
fore, the efforts of the opposition in
| the south to oppose the Picking gov
eminent and deny its legal existence,
thus far seem futile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-17
WHEAT GRADING FAIR
RumOrs New Ruling Operates Against
Farmer Branded as Untrue

Washington, Oct. IA large part
Of this years wheat crop has graded
high at the markets-number three
or better-under the federal wheat
standards made effective this year,
the department of agriculture today
announced
Persistent false rumors have been
circulated in the grain trade and par
ticuIarly among country shippers and
producers, says the department that.
under the new federal standards for
wheat very little of the marketed crop
is being or has been placed in the
higher grades. On the contrary, ii
says, the requirements of the federal
standards for wheat are not such as
to work hardship on the country ship
pers and producers. for under these
standards high grades have been Civ
en- to heavy percentage of the wheat
market