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country in which l write these lines. Why, to mix with you Americans on the days when the news seems bad, when some disaster at sea or some reverse on land chills the blood and adds Q fresh burden then to an over laden heart, is the best of all tcnics for an Englishman l have gone out to address audiences of an evening when my soul was heavy within me, when each mouthful of food in a well appointed club or hotel had almost cnoked me by contrast with the pTi- vations better men than l were endur- ins with steadfastness.
 But the first sight of an American audience, the first ringing cheers eVok- ed, not by my oratory, but my theme, brought healing and strengthening altogether divine in their efficacy, for here, in deed, in the truest sense or the phrase, the voice Of the people be came the voice of God.
 You see how I wonder from my sub iect. How can l help it. To tell of Britain's part in the war l must deal in dry figures, and my pen runs eff Of its own accord into a paean of thank fitness that America is with us iT this struggle until by the paths of valor and death we shall have won con- plete and lasting victory over ouI com mon enemy. Still, this is a sad if glor- iCus anniversary. and it is in the yo-y nature of things that on such an Oc- casion we should count gains and loss es, strike a balance sheet, so to speak, try not to humbug ourselves with fic- titiOus figures, judge by accountant statistics and not allow the wish to be father to the thought
 Well, the ledger has many items. Let us begin with the worst, the ir- remediable, the tax levied by death. It is a sad showing The British cas- ualties in officers and men are as fol- lows:
 August, 1914, to the end of 1915 $50. GOO In the year 1916 .-----....---...... $50 .OOl In the year 1917 ....--..-..--.......... 500 900 In six months of the present
 year (estimated) .--..-....--.--..-.. .5OO, 900
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CLASSIFICATION IS CHANGED
CBv Review Leased wire)

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Aug. 14.- Wallace Davis. Arkansas member of the democratic national committee. was placed in class one of the draft by local board today after orders had been received from General Crowder to reopen his case. The local board previously put Davis in class one but the district appeal board granted him deferred classification after Governor Brough had appeared in his behalf.
 Davis. who is 2S. is the son of the late United States Senator Jeff Davis.
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The following account of Great Britain's participation in the war was written by Louis Tracey, a member of the British war mission, to commemorate the fourth ami versary of our ally's entrance into the war. MT. Tracy is widely known throughout the United States as a novelist, being the au- thor of "The Wings of the Morn ing" and some forty other novels.
 At the outbreak of the war, Mir Tracy laid down the pen of fiction and has since given his entire serv- ices to his country. During 1914 and 1915 he raised, drilled and equipped, largely at his own ex- pense, a battalion of volunteers at Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, and was unceasing in his endeavors to cause his fellow countrymen to realize the gravity and dangers Of the struggle.
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DCminiOns-COlOnieS l6
 I do not apologize for reverting to the casualty list. It is essential that these statistics should be made known. lit is difficult in a shcrt-article to con- vey any fair picture of Britain's work in other fields. In heavy guns alone she manufactured during the third year of the war twenty-seven times as many as in the first year, two hun dred and twenty times as much ammu- nition. The expenditure of rifle am munition per week is now siXty-five times greater than the average weekly expenditure during the first ten months of the war. The output of machine guns has been increased thirty-nine times. Two thousand miles of railway track, one thousand loco motives and many tens of thousands of wagons have been shipped abroad. The ministry of munitions handles 50 million articles per week, and sends abroad sixty thousand consignments per week In addition to over ninety national arsenals, Great Britain has now 5,O46 government controlled fac tories, all working day and night on munitions and supplies. Women do GO to 70 per cent of all the machine work on shells. fuses. and trench war fare supplies, and have contributed 1,45O trained mechanics to the royal flying corps.
 In one way or another, about 5 mil lion British women are working for their country in her need, many of whom never worked in their lives be- fore.
 The Fleet
 Turning to the fleet what. shall say, what can l say that will be at all adequate to the theme, of the work done by the British navy? It would be almost ludicrOus, in a review of Britain's share in the war to dismiss in a sentence the absolutely vital part
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of the earth. They will accomplish their destiny. which is to rule the world and to guide all other nations for their common happiness"
 Well, let us see what all this thun- der means. l have here a table of the worst forms of crime committed in Germany and England during the ten years 1S97-19O7:
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On August 4, a stricken world had endured four years of war and entered cn a fifth How many more years will the human race be called on to suffer this agony? God only knows. But if it be not impious for a mortal man to dare interpret the decrees of the Almighty, I do now most solemnly say that, although this carnival of woe may be permitted by Providence to scourge us for months or years to come, it cannot cease till Germany is beaten to her knees.
 And why do I dare Tn the same breath proclaim that the issue rests in the hands of the Lord of Hosts and yet that l am convinced in my very soul that the only outcome can be Germany's defeat? This is my an- swer: If I believed otherwise I would cease to be a Christian. If I admitted the possibility of a Prussian victory I would never again believe that he who gave us the Sermon on the Mount died on the Cross of Calvary for mans re- demption
 l would know, perfOrce, and go sor- rowful to my grave with the know ledge that might is more potent than right; that the ethics which brought France, Britain, Italy. America and even poor, torn Russia into the con flict, the principle which led Belgium to risk and lose all, the sheer sense of justice which has ranged twenty other nations on our side, were nott- ing more nor less than foolish, even grotesque blunders. Yet l laugh to scorn the notion that l shall ever ac- cept any such theory; no-not till Mil tons reincarnated self declares him disciple of Lucifer, not till Shakes peare rises from his grave and scoffs al the beautiful England he loved sc yell, not till Lincoln's Gettysburg oeech is proved a sham and a fraud Same miracles do happen, but not such mracles as these. I have lost every thng ! valued in the world. l walk had in hand with 'tribulation, but thee is a great joy in my heart that cOnRs to my aid even in those dread ful watches of the night when memor- les O. the dead drive almost to frenzy those who lcyed them and still live. becaue l know, yes, l KNOW, that my eountrl is fighting for the right-and not my own dear land alone, but her kith anl kin in every cline where the English tongue is the speech of the people. We have dared all; we shall gain all
 A Briton's View
 So' If Nu have read into this pre- face the meaning I have striven to convey, yQ will understand that in the remaimer of this brief essay I shall tell ofthe glory and the immen- sity of Britdn's achievements in this war, not to Haunt her deeds in the eyes of the Norld, but as an earnest assertion of De self same sacrifices and ideals tha shall flow from this great nation O. the west in an ever increasing and irresistible stream. That is my purpose. and I want to de- clare 1t now. Eitain has done much, and, though weay and blood stained will do more, but the measure of her heroic effort can urely be applied to the determination of the splendid
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Everything Great Britain Has is in the War-Seven Million Men, Billions in Gold and Her National Honor and Destiny Is England Doing Her Full Par?Louis Tracey, the Fsp Writer Sets Forth Here the Great Story of the Great Part Played by the Island Empret Epic of Sacrifice and Resolution to Win at Any Cost
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mothers. wives, sisters and sweet hearts of the men you have sent tO France. I ask you to study that table Kultur should be known by it's results. and. if benighted England can show such Q case against enlightened Ger many, is it not worth four years. or. if need be, forty years of war to keep your country and ours clear of the virus of Kultur2 The answer is being given today wherever the Hun stands up against our soldiers. It is being dinned into his ears by high explos- ives and driven into his carcass by keen bayonets. When he heeds we will quit, and not until he dces heed Cn his knees.
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2,5OO0OO
The PaIlid Host

Of these at least one-fifth must be counted among the dead. So half a million gallant men of the British Elm pire are lying in their graves all over the world or hidden forever in the ter rible and mysterious depths of the sea while more than another half million are so maimed and broken that they
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as to man power in the army, while the following table tells its own story and refutes another Hun lie:
 Per cent of Per cent of
 Armed Forces Casualties
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-10
National Recognition for First
Place in Race for Third Loan Flag
Probably Divided Among 100 Places

Washington. April 9.-National roc
ognition for the first place in the race
for the third Liberty loan honor flag
will have to be divided among prob
ably a hundred communities which
subscribed their full quota within 4
few minutes after 9 o'clock last Sat
urday morning and reported in such
close order that it is impossible to
give each an individual rank.
The IS already tied at the top of
the nations honor roll include New
ton. CT, and Southboro, Mass. in
addition to the race for the honor CT
reporting 4 full subscription first,
there remain a number of contests for
the ranking by population classes
For instance. Lynn, Mass, appears
t. be the first city in the class be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 population
Q9lO census fgures) 10 reach it's quo
to and Burlington, Vt, with Il popu-
lation Of 10000. is among the first to
report its clash.
Secretary McAdoo's plea for a very
large over subscription of the 5000,
100000 minimum of the war crcGit
was a development Of the day
Deliveries Of honor flags to commu-
mites already has begun and will De
continued as fast as full certifcation
of local records are made of the fed
eral reserve bank Of the district.
Seventy-One Canadian officers, all
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-10
Stubbornly Contest the
Rush of Germans in
Recent Big Drive
DROP TOOLS AND
SEIZE WEAPONS
Pour Scythe-like Streams of
Bullets into Ranks of Ad-
vancing Germ ans Give
Ground only When Forced by
Overwhelming Numbers

With the American Army in
France. Monday. April Shy The
Associated Pressl-The American
Railway Engineers who helped stem
the tide cf the onrushinE Germans
during the opening days of the bat
tie now iL progress fought shoulder
to shoulder with Canadian engineers
in carrying out their task. They held
their ground stubbornly and only re-
tired to previously prepared positions
when forced to do so and inflicted
casualties by the thousands upon the
Germans as they advanced in close
formation, in one place in as many as
seven waves each, 10 men deep and
100 yards apart.
The Americans with the Canadians
had all the ammunition they needed
and although they were unsupported
by the artillery and armed only with
rifles and with a few machine guns,
my potiSN SIy SlIeellllS VI
bullets into the enemy at several diff
ferent times until the weapons were
so hot as to be useless.
This handful Of American soldiers,
who were not hardened to such ter
rife slaughter, were sickened by the
shambles they created, but fought flu
riously Tor several days, helping to
hold the enemy all the way from
near St. Quentin to the vicinity of
Noyon. These were the Americans
mentioned at the time in the official
communicates, but the details of their
exploits it has only now been possible
to secure.
When the German attack began,
the Americans were working in the
rear lines with the Canadians. under
Canadian command. They quickly
threw down their tools and seized the
weapons with which they had been
armed for some months and formed
themselves into a fighting unit. The
Germans came on and finally reached
the positions where the Americans
were waiting.
The exact numbers OF the engineers
cannot be given, but they were compar-
atively small. They had no intention
Continued on Page 4Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-10
TO CURTA|L
McAdoo Orders Rail
road Expenses Cut
Director General AmpIifies Former
Instructions to Three Regional D-
rectors-Employes Released to Be
Assigned Other Duties

Washington, April 9.-Orders went
to the railroads today from Director
General McAdoo to curtail expendi-
lures. To the three regional direc
tors, Mr.. McAdoo amplified his for
mer instructions relating to freight
and passenger officers with the fol-
lowing orders:
Discontinue the separate city
freight or passenger offices where the
public may be adequately served at
the depot. This applies particularly
| to the smaller cities.
Consolidate or group all ticket Of
/ fees, placing the union office at a
convenient location where the rental
! is reasonable, providing separate
space to properly accommodate the
public.
! Cancel all arrangements with
tourists or other similar agencies for
solicitations of passenger traffic or
| sale of tickets.
discontinue all traffic Offices off
the actual line Of the railroad.
"Employcs, released as result of
the above. are to be assigned to other
duties to the extent possible"
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TONNAGE CAIN
20 Per Cent Increase in
Month of March
Strength Of Non Fighting Fleet Of U.
S. Made Pubiic-Totai Of 800 Yes
sells with a Tonnage Of 2.762,6o5
Does Not Include Dutch Ships

Washington, April Am increase OF
20 per cent. in the amount of tonnage
shipped across the Atlantic in March
was gained through close cooperation
! of the ship control committee. the ship
ping board and the war department, in
directing the movement of traffic. on
Gals confidently predicted today thai
the efficiency in handling was growing
and would mean gain of 30 per cent.
in tonnage during April.
The strength of the non-fghting feet
which the United States has contributed
to the aid of the Allies became known
today for the first time. A total of 800
American vessels were in trans-Atlan-
tic trade with a tonnage of 2.762,60 OF
these 322 fly the American flag. while IS
are chartered ships Of neutral nations.
The American ships have carrying ca
pacity of 2.365,3a4 tons.
In addition to the present feet there
ara 471,000 tons of Dutch ships still to
be put into service as soon as crews
can lie provided. Ships built in Ameri-
ca for the shipping board will swell
the total still further.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-10
RED CROSS FUNDS FOR
VIVISECTION PURPOSES
TO BE DISCONTINUED

Boston, April 9.-The use OF Red
Cross funds for vivisectior purposes
will be discontinued Harvey d. Glib
son, general manager of the organ
ization, who is in this city. announced
tonight. Research work along those
lines will be continued, however. by
means Of contributions from an in
dividual whose identity is not reveal
ed. and money already spent by the
Red Cross for vivisection work will
be refunded through the same source.
Mr.. Gibson announced tina: the action
was in Difference to the attitude Of
a considerable number of its work
ers but lid not in any way place the
organization either for or against the
question in controversy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-10
9 HONOR FLAGS
Awarded to N. E. Cities
and Towns Over Top
Claims Of IS Other Municipalities Be-
ing Investigated - Dalton, Mass,
with Quota Of 1901 900 Subscribes
100000

Boston. April 9,-Honor flags were
awarded today to nine New E-eland
cities and towns whose reports Of over
subscription to the Third Liberty Loan
had been officially confirmed by the New
England committee. Meanwhile the
claims of 36 other municipalities were
being investigated.
The first to be entitled to unfurl these
flags were Southboro. Weston and West
Tisbury, Mass; Stratford and Stewards
town. y. II; Canaan, Winooski and
Burlington. Vt. and, according to re-
ports received today. Lynn. Mass, Ply
mouth, y. H. and Hgginum and Pom
fret, Ct, were we'll over their allot-
ment
Another claimant for an honor flag
was Dalton. This town with an alot-
ment of $3N,ooo reported subscription OF
$4,000. The Pittsfield committee wired
that it expected to exceed its quota of
900 within day or two.
The question OF what Massachusetts
town was the first to exceed it's allot-
ment and so entitled to priority on the
state honor flag, if the state as d whole
over-suhscribes, was undetermined to-
day. Southboro, Weston and West It's
bury were tied in this respect.
The BOSTON Cotton Trade Association
reported sales of 1851 600 worth OF
bonds. Other large subscriptions in
cluded $4,000 in behalf of the New
England Telephone & Telegraph Co,
and the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Go. and their employees. the Mass
achusetts Bonding & Insurance Co,
$4,000, of which 100000 was taken
through the Boston office; the Connec-
ticut General Life Insurance Co. of
Hartford 100000, and the Connecticut
Trust 4 Safe Deposit Co. 100000
The Lowell committee reported sub
scriptions of 100 900.
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FEDERAL HELP
Asked by Gov. Louden
of Illinois
Seeks Ad~iees and Assistance in
Dealing with Disoyalty and Sup
pressing Disorder - Government
Agents &c Be Sent

Washington, April Ex-Governor
Louden Of Illinois has called upon the
f, deral government for advice and as
sistance in dealing with disloyalty
and suppressing disorder and Attoi-
!ney General Gregory announced to-
day special agents will be assigned
Immediately to the work.
In announcing the attorney gener-
ais decision department officials let
it lie known that he was prepared 10
lend similar assistance to other
states desiring il. Without new leg
islaton officials say they are almost
lowerless to deal with disloyal utter
ances.
Lieut.. Governor John G. Oglesby
Of Illinois had long conferences today
with Mr.. Gregory and John l..
O'Brien, special assistant TO the at
torney general for war work. He told
them federal aid was imperative to
check increasing instances of mob
violence against disloyalists, partic-
ularly in the mining districts of
Southern Illinois.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-10
VIOLENT ARTILLERY ACTION ALONG OLD
FRONT BUT INFANTRY QUIET ON BOTH SIDES

AS had been anticipated the Ger
mans have switched the center OF
their main operation from ,ha
Amlens sector and are now hammcr-
ing the British and Portuguese hard
over a front Of about II miles run
ming from Givenchy and I.abassec t,
the vicinity of .Armentieres.
Inc attack was preceded by ter
rlfic bombardment all along the line
and the countryside for miles around
'remoled under the conclusion OF tho
Dig guns. At some points the enemy
was able to penetrate advance elc-
ments Of the British line especially in
the neighborhood of Nueve Chapelle,
Fauquissart and the Cardonnie-ce
farm.
meanwhile all along the grea ter
part of the old line south of ARA !,
extremely violent artillery duels were
IN progress, but the infantry of both
sides kept to their trenches excApt
\ -
portance. Near the Coucy forest and
Coucy lie Chateau. the French have
made slight retirement to posi-
tons previously prepared-the ma
newer apparently being in the ma =
ture of ne-straightenng.
So we'll was the operation covered
by the French guns that the Germa rs
suffered extremely heavy casualties
in endeavoring to make it null.
Details of the part played Amer
lean railway engineers in the open
ing stages of the battle south of Ar
ras show that. dropping their tools
and taking arms, they fought side
by side with Canadian engineers ant
inflicted casualties by the thousands
on the Germans as they advanced II
close formation.
Realizing the extremely critical situa
ton from the standpoint of man power
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David Lloyd George, the British prime
minister, has informed the House of
Commons in a speech that it was impos-
provisions of CONSUMPTION. and that the
age for military service would be raised
to 20 years, and in certain specified
cases it might be increased to So. The
premier declared that a bill would be
introduced in Parliament giving Ireland
a measure of self-government. Several
of the Nationalist members interrupted
the premier during his speech and de-
clared that conscription would not be
permitted in Ireland. There is still no
indication of the near approach of the
big battle on the Italian 'front.' although
the artillery engagements at various
points are increasing In intensity.
Well-directed shots from the Italian
guns in the Asiago basin have worked
havoc with Austrian ammunition depots
and also started fires inside the enemy
lines
Turkish official communicate an
nounces the capture by the Turks Of
Van, in Turkish Armenia.
In Finland the Germans are preparing
to take Helsingfors, according to dis
patches from Petrograd. They already
have demanded the dsarma ment of the
forts in Finland and of Russian war
ships in Finninsh waters. 1t is said that
the Russian commissioners have agreed
to comply with the German demand
The landing of Japanese troops at
Nladivostoli is apparently causing frc-
ton between the Russian Bolshevik gov
eminent and Japan. Nikolai Lenine.
the Bolshevik premier, in speech at
Moscow asserted that Russia possibly
would declare war upon Japan as a re-
suit of the landin of the Japanese
A British torpedoboat destroyer has
been sunk in a collision and all the
| members Of the crew are believed ia
have been lost.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-10
TO LIMIT DEBATE
Agreement on Sedition
Bill in Senate
Another Day Of Bitter Discussion,
Adoption Of Amendments Meeting
Observation-Disclosures Vigorous
" Assail George Creel

Washington. April Am agreement
to limit debate on the sedtion bill be-
ginning tomorrow was reached today in
the Senate after another day of bitter
discussion and the adoption Of amend
ments meeting objections Of some OPP
ponents. BY unanimous consent it was
decided to invoke the rule restricting
speeches to 10 minutes on the bill and
FIVE minutes on amendments after 3
o'clock tomorrow afternoon During
the day Republican senator's vigorously
assailed George Creel, chairman of the
Bureau of Public Information. and Sen
ator Williams of Mississippi, Democrat,
scored the Senate for delay on the bill.
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania de-
clared he did not see why "A man like
Mr.. Creel should remain in office when
he is smeared all over with treason"
Senator Sherman of Illinois said Mr..
Creel is pacifst and that he would
criticise anyone making such a state
ment ''as the archenemy of the repub-
lie"
He added that Democratic opposition
to preparedness was responsible for mil
!tary conditions when the nation enter
ed the war.
Senators advocating modification %
the bill to protect liberty of speech for
legitimate discussion of public questions
succeeded in securing adoption of an
amendment by Senator Knox Of Penn
sylvania to the clause Furnishing state
ments calculated to incite resistance to
amy duly constituted federal or state
authority.' Several otner amendments
were defeated
Nearly a dozen amendments, including
several restricting German language
publications, are ready for consideration
tomorrow