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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
Red Cross Contributors Urged
To Send in Their Checks.
$15,356.54 Already Collected by
the Topeka Workers.

Nearly s16,O 900 has been turned over
to the National Red Cross society
from the Topeka $4,000 campaign,
according to Horace Hall, treasurer
of the local workers. The money,
according to Mr.. Hall, has been de-
posted in a Topeka bank, to the
fund and will be drawn by draft or
check as the national committee,
headed by Secretary William c. Nc
Adoo, sees fit
The deposit book of the local work
ers shows a credit of s15,356.54.
The total pledges to date amount
to $91,S05.5S, including $685. from
the war dance, given by J. r. Bur
row. OF this amount the first pay
ment, amounting to s22,95134, is due.
According to the pledges signed by
most of the contributors this first
payment was due July 1.
Call for Payment.
Horace Hall this morning issued a
call for the payment of the INSTALL
ment. Checks for the subscriptions OF
for the first quarterly payment should
be mailed to him at once. AS yet nc
call has been made by the national or
ganiZation for funds but when the call
does come it may embarrass the local
committees unless payments are made
soon.
In addition to the total given. stack
upon stack of subscription letters were
received this morning in the mail.
Keep Office Force
The campaign, according to the Of
ficers of the committee, will not close
until every person in Topeka has con-
tributed. No active work will be done
to solicit funds but an office force
will still be maintained 20 take care
of the late arrivals"
The total will probably pass the
$4,000 mark before the week is end
ed, the officers declared this morn
ing, giving Topeka a credit of nearly
SIS, 900 oversubscription to the work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
Escapes From Palace to jap
aneSe Embassy.
Republicans Rally to Fight
Restoration of Monarchy.

London, July president Ii
Yuan Hung of the Chinese republic
has obtained refuge at the japanese
legation at Tien Sien by fleeing thru
the back door of the palace accord
ing to word received here
According to recent press dispatches
President Lii Yuan Hung was mace a pri-
solIef m the palace at the time of General
Chang Hsun's coup in the effort to re-
store the Manchu dynasty.
Challenge to New China.
Shanghai, July 4-Tang Shao vi
eX-premier, in a statement to the
Chinese press, said that General
Chang Hsun's coup in restoring the
monarchy affected the whole world.
TN leave it to the world he
said, Ito decide whether it is right
The republic never had a chance. Real
republicans from the beginning had
been checked by the reactionaries and
now when the old world is talking
of liberty and Hberating itself from
autocracy, China is reverting to the
past. 1t is challenge to new China
Newspapers printed in the Vernacu-
lar are practically unanimous in de-
nouncing the restoration of the Man.
chu dynasty. They predict it will be
short lived, saying the whole country
will rise against Emperor Hsun Tung
and General Chang Hsun.
Army and Navy for Republic.
The Shangai Times thinks an armed
conflict between the north and south
is imminent and says that the scale
of the civil war will depend largely
on the attitude adopted by Vice Presi-
dent Feng Kwo Chang.
The North China Daily News does
not believe that southern China will
accept the monarchy and says that
Immediate results of the coup d'etat
will be to rally all republicans under
one standard. The Standard says the
differences between the navy and the
army around Shanghai vanished or
Monday morning and that both
branches uphold republicanism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
LONG live U. S. A,
General Petain of France Is
sues Fourth of July Edict.
Salute of Nation to New Com
paniOnS in Arms.

a French Front, July 4, (By the
Associated Press) General Petain.
commander-in-chi of the French
armies operating on the French front
today issued this general order. under
date of July 8:
Tomorrow. the Independence Day
celebration of the United States, the
first American troops which have dis
embarked in France will march in
Paris Later they will join us on the
front. Let US salute these new COM
panions in arms. who, with 0u- thought
of gain nor of conquest, but with the
simple desire of defending the cause
of right and liberty, have come to take
their places in the ranks heside us
Others are preparing t. follow
them. They soon will be on our soil.
The United States means to put at our
disposal. without reckoning, their SOL
diers. their sailors, their vessels and
their entire country. They want to
pay a hundred-fold the debt of graft
tude which they owe to Lafayette and
his companions. From all points of
the front a single shout on this july
Fourth will be heard: Honor to the
great sister! Long live The United
States -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
RUSS LOSS HEAVY
Artillery Assault by Slavs Ex-
ceeded Any Previous Effort.
Fearing DisIOyalty, Only Picked
Regiments Were Used.

London. July 1.-The Morning Posts
Petrograd correspondent describes
the scene of the main fighting in the
Zlotiliana region in Galicia and says
the enemy strongly posted triple lines
of permanent trenches in the hills be-
tive en- which flows Kinicha stream.
twelve miles northeast of Brzezany.
The Russians, with a force of artillery
exceeding anything yet used on the
Russian side, smashed great fields of
wire work after two day lombard
ment and cleared the patch for storm
ers These necessarily were picked
men.
Considerable precautions had been
taken to assemble regiments of infan-
try upon whom more or less reliance
could be placed, altho until put to a
test, even their own officers could not
pretend to know what would happen.
The trial proved, whatever may be the
case in the rear, that there are at the
front men who are worthy of Russia's
great name.
is in accordance with the Russian ira
ditions, Russian armies holding worlds
records for ability to suffer without
losing military qualities.
Battle to Last Weeks.
Southwest of Brzezany. the fighting
seems to have been even more severe
and success still hangs in the balance.
1nlS region also Is nllly ana WOODED.
The Germans had support redoubts
which required long hammering by
the artillery before an attack was pos
sible. These defenses were held by
the Germans and Turks-a combina-
ton which has always proved formid-
able.
After very hard fighting. the RUS
slams won several points and captured
two thousand prisoners. Some points
changed hands several times. 1t was
here that the Russian loss in officers
was particularly serious.
The general scope of the action in
dictates that the movement is on an ex-
tended scale and that the battle now
begun is likely to take weeks to reach
its conclusion. The fighting is in q
territory which, before she war, be-
longed to an enemy. The provisional
government announces that all regf.
ments engaged in this new initiativs
will be henceforth known as Eight.
| zenith of June Regiment" that being
the old style date of the battle. Juns
! s. has been a Memorial day for Rus.
| STA for more than century
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
POlyglOt Boarding House or
Separate Glorious Nation.
Hour Has Come When L. ;.
Must Choose, He Says.
WIPE OUT PRO-GERMANISM
Ban Use of TeutOnic Language
in America, He Urges.
COlOneI's Fourth of July Speech
Bristles With Fight.

Forest Hills, L. l., July 4-In u
speech that fairly bristled with his
old-time fighting language. Theodore
Roosevelt warned the United States
here today that the hour has come
when it must decide whether it will
be 'polyglot counting house for dol
lar chasers" or a separate. glorious
nation"
Before a big crowd at the Forest
Hills gardens Fourth of July celebra-
ton, T. r. hammered the pacifists,
cursed out 'pro-Germans and weak
kneed apologists for infamy," in his
own inimitable style and strongly
urged that the use of the German
language be banned thruout the coun-
try, in print and speech. We have but
one flag. said he. We should have
but one language"
Roosevelt charged that pro-German
propa ganda is still a power in the land
and should be wiped out.
incidentally he condemned those
native-born who turn up their noses
at truly loyal Germans and bitterly
assailed the government for wedding
out loyal Americans of Teuton origin
from American Red Cross units sent
to France.
! Need Service Not Rhetoric.
The colonel also took occasion to
mention that in entering the war we
showed a reluctance passing the
bounds of ordinary timidity," later on
| in his address he slipped in this state
ment in a sort of oratorical parenthe-
| sis:
/ 1--WE of America can win to our
great destiny only by service; not by
rhetoric and above all not by insin-
| cere rhetoric, and that dreadful men
tai double leading and verbal juggling
! fCoutipued on Page TwO1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
German Subs Lurked in Wan
for Troop Transports.
Two Night Battles Victories for
e. s. DestrOyers.
ONE OR MORE U-BOATS SUNK
At Least Five TOrpedOes Were
Fired, but None Hit
Last Squadron of Expedition
Reaches France Safely.
BY CARL ID. GROAT.

Washington, July 4.-Germany's
spy observation-disclosures of Americas ex-
peditionary forces-must be ousted
from Anne RIGA.
That mandate went forth today
from war and navy heads in the midst
of a nations rejoicing over Americas
victory in her first battle of the war.
Secret agents of this nation were
PUT at work in the most thoro search
for spies yet undertaken.
That the attack made possible by
the spy system failed was due only TO
Admiral Gleavess desperate destroyer
fighters who beat off a double nest
of submarines lurking at two points
on the trail of the France-bound
troops and their conveys.
News of this victory over carefully
laid German plan of frightfulness was
spread broadcast over the world on
this. Independence day
YIeroism of Navy Fighters.
Dewey's daring at Manila, Samp-
sons destruction of Cervera's fleet and
the daring exploits of earlier Ameri-
can fighters contain no more thrllnns
tale of heroism and efficiency than
| the two noght battles of Admiral
Gleaves's men.
One or more German U-boats and
their crews lie a mass of wreckage on
the ocean floor, and the American
transports and destroyers, even to the
last morse anu oAC
safe in France.
Officials believe America now re-
alizes that the war is at her doors and
| that she must do her utmost to con-
quer the foe.
The transports put out in divisions
| from an American port under a heavy
naval escort guard. Somewhere in
the Atlantic, the speedy gray tran
! sports were to join with Gleaves' grim
! destroyers. All went well until the
night OF June 22-just before the rem
| devious was reached.
Made Attacks at Night.
While the rays of the convoy
| searchlights flashed trails of silver
along the sea American gunners fired
at the skulking foe, whose torpedoes
| even then were sizzling past bow and
stern. At least five were fired from
various directions, proving that many
| U-boats were about.
| Gun fire from the convoy, scattered
the skulkers whose fire decreased and
| erred.
| That attack was upon one section
of the transports and occurred at a
point this side the map submarine
zone.
Certain One Was Destroyed.
A few days later another contingent
encountered a second nest of U-boats.
| The destroyers battled viciously, US
| ing an explosive timed to explode be-
meath the surface. One submarine
! UODtinued on Page TWol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
STRIKE FOR MORE FOOD
Docks and ship Yards at Amsterdam
Tied Up-SOIdiers Didn't Charge.

Amsterdam, July All Amster-
dam dock workers struck yesterday
morning. Builders workmen and
ship yard laborers struck in sympa-
7thy The burgomaster has forbidden
street demonstrations and open air
meetings.
\ deputation of the dock workers
visited the burgomaster yesterday and
demanded better supply of food
stuffs and the withdrawal of the mill
tary guards from the markets where
serious potato riots occurred last
night With regard to the latter the
burgomaster replied that order must
be maintained at any cost. According
to the Het Volk, detachment of SOL
diers was ordered to charge a crowd,
but refused to do so, and were march
ed off by the officer in command,
amid cheers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
POLICE FOIL SUFFS
Attempt at Independence Day Picket
ing at White House Fails.

Washington. July 4.-Suffra gists of
the Women's Party attempted to car
~ out their threat to defy the police
and picket the White House in force
promptly at noon as an Independence
day suffrage demonstration. Large
forces of police were on hand and
drove the sentinels away.
Thirteen of the women were arrest
ed on the charge of obstructing the
traffic after they had made two I'M
successful attempts to carry on the
demonstration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
MEXICO TO JOIN U. S.?
Declare War on Germany Is Next
Move, Official Says.

Ell Paso, July 4.-Mexico will withdraw
from its neutrality stand and declare war
on Germany within the next two or three
weeks This statement was made today by
a Mexican official arriving from Mexico
City He said CarranZa and his cabinet had
agreed on a course. and are only waiting an
opportune moment to issue the declaration.
Officials said that from the time the
United States declared war Mexico has in
tended to join the allies. but announce
ment was withheld because of Internal
notifies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

Waco. Tex, July 4.-Losing con-
troll of her airplane 200 feet in the
air, Miss Hettie Nixon, 25-year-old
woman aviator, was killed near Mar
lin, Tex, Tuesday. While making a
practice flight, Miss Nixon and her
machine crashed to the earth, strik-
ing a telegraph pole and tearing thru
a barbed wire fence. The girl was
pinned beneath the machine, her right
leg broken in two places. one arm
broken, and her throat cut. She died
an hour later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
PERSHING GETS SLICE OF
WHITE HOUSE HAM IN PARIS

Paris, July 1.-The Virginia ham
which Mrs. Woodrow Wilson sent
to Mime. Joffre was the principal
feature of an informal home din
ner at the Joffre home at which
General Pershing was the guest
last night.
Nine. Joffre acted as interpreter
between the marshal and General
Pershing. when Pershing'a French
proved inadequate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
ST. JOE ABOUT THRU
Dickerson in Wichita Today Working
for Hutchinson to Take Club.

Wichita. Kan. July 4-President +. w.
Dickerson of the Western league, is in
Wichita today studying baseball conditions
in the circuit. The transfer of the st.
Joseph franchise to Hutchinson is I'M
settled. meeting will be held in Hutch
inson Friday night with the commercial or
CARNATIONS to see if the business men will
get back of the proposed move aid furnish
ball park for the second half of the
split season which starts July "a.
President Dickerson received word today
that the Wichita series in St Joseph start
ing July 8, would be played in st. Joseph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
OPEN UPON SWEDES
German Submarines Wage Warfare on
Fishing Boats

Stockholm, July Germany has
apparently opened submarine warfare
on Swedish fishing boats. Advices to-
day showed that on Sunday four such
vessel had been sunk by gunfire by
German U-boats outside the German
blockade zone. The Swedish crews
barely escaped to their boats. The
submarine commander, they said, de-
clared all neutral shipping would
hereafter be destroyed on sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

The temperature for the fore
noon averaged 4 degrees below nor
NAL The wind had switched to the
south and was blowing 10 miles an
hour at noon today
The only thing damp about the pa
triotic atmosphere in Topeka today
will be the weather this afternoon
and tonight, according to S. D. Flora
meteorologist. The forecast calls for
thunder shower this afternoon and to-
night with a higher temperature to-
night Thursday. the same authority
asserts. will be unsettled and warmer
Because of the cloudy sky. the city
is experiencing summer resort wealth
Continned on Page IwoI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
CHANCELLOR TO SPEAK
To Deliver Important Address Before
Reichstag Thursday.

London, July 4.-Dr. Won Beth
mann-Ho llweg, the German imperial
chancellor, will deliver an important
speech in the reichstag on Thursday,
according to report received at
Copenhagen from Berlin by the cor
respondent of the Exchange Telegraph
company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
RUSS SPOlLS OF WAR
1900 Men, 20 Guns and 33 Machine
Guns Captured in Two Days.

Petrograd, July An the fighting
of Sunday and Monday 800 officers,
5000 men, 20 guns and SO machine
guns were captured by the Russians
the war office announced
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
YOUNG TAFT MARRiES
Bridegroom and Soldier at 1s Is Son of
Ex-President.

Waterbury, Conn, July 4.-Charles P.
Taft. second, youngest son of former Pres
and Mrs Irving Chase of this city. it was
announced today. Young Taft, who is only
is, is enlisted in the artillery corps of the
Limited States Army.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.

New York Cat Brooklyn ...9 2
= =
Perritt. Sallee and Rariden: Marquard.
Dell, Russell and Meyers. Umpires-Rigler
and Ortiz
Boston cat Philadelphia) .....3 /
hAdGeApuit . i
Rudolph and Tragesser; Alexander and
Killifer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
SHOWERS ON THE WAY
Mercury Is Expected to Climb to 90
Again Thursday.

Hourly temperature readings for
the day reported b. the local office
of the United States weather bureau:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
BASEBALL TODAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

r: johnson, Anderson and Haley: PEN
and O'Loughlin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
Light Fines for Rioters

Most OF the hundreds Of mObsmen
arrested Monday night and yesterday
have been released on small bonds or
fined. Nine men are held for arson
and United States District Attorney
Karch, who is in the ground, lntimates
that prosecution must be pressed or
he will step in. Many of the men re-
leased should have been held, it is
charged, and others let off with light
fines should have been held for prose-
cution on felony charges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Probably thunder showers to-
night. Thursday. unsettled and
warmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

WE NOW have 81 Sundays-BiII,
and the Fourth of July included
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
MORE FOOD RlOTING

0Continued on Page TwoI
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-29
ORPHANS FUND
REACHES $4,000

The French orphans fund reached a
Grand total of over $26, zoe, according
to the report of Mrs. A. G. Hodgins,
with the last 20 subscriptions Of the
500 which go as gift to the French
people In honor Of Marshal Joffre.
Those subscribing to the fund to
complete the 500 were: Mrs. Mettie
L. Scott, Mrs. George c. Watt, St.
Andrews priory, Mrs: Edith s. Mist,
Mrs. W. d. Adams, MIS-. James Will
der, Miss Mary e. Merrill, c. G, 25th
Infantry, at Schofield Barracks; Com
panies C, B, G, i, K, L. NJ and the
headquarters company of the 32nd
Infantry; Miss Edith Emma Floggett,
Miss Dorothea F7oggett and Miss Mar
garet Foggett.
Further contributions to the fund
will be solicited, says Mrs. A. G. Hob
gins, who has been treasurer Of the
committee in charge of the move
ment, the first five Hundred mereIJ
completing the gift in honor of Mar.
shall Joffre. -:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-29

lists Of postoffices, one arranged al
phabeticaIly, one by states, and one
by states and counties; list Of post
offices discontinued during the pre-
yious three years; q list OF postoffices
of the first, second and third classes,
with salaries Of postmasters; and q
large quantity of general postal In
formation covering q wide range OF
topics of interest to the public, Is
well as rules and instructions for the
guidance of postal employees.
Supplements, issued monthly ex-
.cept in July. contain latest changes
regarding the postal service and keep
the annual edition UP to date.
Remittances for subscriptions
should be made by money orders pay
able to 'sDisbursing Clerk, Postoffice
Department, Washington, d. c" Cur
rency Is sent at sender,s risk. Post
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-29

know q girl who Is married to a
brilliant young lawyer. He is amba-
tious and keen to get on In his profes-
sion, and he has explained to his
young wife that in order to do thi4
he must study at night at home. But
the miuHite he gets out book or
paper and begins to work, she begins
to weep.
AT can't bear IT," she walls. Il want
you to hold my hand and tell me how
much you love me. You are away all
day and ] do noting but sit and think
how much / love you, and then, when
you come home you get out that hor-
rid old book and absorb yourself IN
II SO much that you might just as wei
be down at your hateful office.
The husband tries to explain to her
the necessity Of his studying II he IL
to succeed and keep up with his COM
petitors, but she cries out that she
doesn't care whether he succeeds or
not. that all that she wants is just
him. And when she thus tries to
deliberately wreck her husband .
career to crafty her silly vanity in
being fIattered, this poor little selfish
idiot thinks she IL showing how much
she loves.
An older woman, demonstrating
with this young wife, said to her:
eOnce my husband had q big offer
IN a business way that necessitated
his going away 10 place where he
could not take me, and stay three
years. II meant everything to him In
the way Of advance He left the de-
cision 10 me, and packed him up and
sent him off without ever letting him
see anything but smile on my face.
s.You don't love your husband like
love mine said the young wife.
mo- replied the older woman with
quiet scorn, Il didn't love my husband
Ike yon love yours. loved him enough
TO Be willing TO make stepping store
out Of my bare heart for him to
climb up on, If he needed 1t.
hi ghinninwisrepnn0 ofdonoae. ali '
Mother love Is supposed to be the
purest and most unselfish love In the
world, but how often do you see 2
mother sacrificing her children to the
pleasure she finds In their society :
she may know that It Is for their good
to leave her. but she viii not let them
60.
Not one OF as but who could point
TO DOZEN old maids, ekeing out bare
existence ct sewing or teaching or
keeping boarders, living the barest
and most forlorn Of lives, who are the
victims Of selfish mothers who would
- -. -. a