The Carlisle independent., 1918-08-22

after a battle with the Turks. g. these vessels that has met and de them and the ways of combating them. The submarines, in addition to sinking a number of steamers and at tacBing others, in some cases only few miles from the harbor of New York. also destroyed a considerable number of fishing vessels off New Eng land. Several fights with these U-boats were reported and it was believed that at least one of them was sunk. What was believed to be gas attack on the coast guard station and lighthouse on Smiths island, South Carolina, in which several men were overcome, has not yet been explained though the theory that the poison gas came from submarine was discarded. Presum- ably the fact that our naval vessels are pretty busy on convoy duty accounts for the comparative immunity of these U-boats along the Atlantic coast.
 The steady decline of the German submarine campaign is emphasized by the official reports on sinkings and shipbuilding for July. The allied and neutral shipping sunk during the month amounted to 270,000 tons, compared with 534, ,S39 tons sunk in July, 1917. During the month the allied nations constructed tonnage in excess of 2S0,000 to that destroye by enemy op- erations.
 The administrations man-power bill extending the draft age to eighteen and forty-fiye years was reported to the senate Thursday and that body prepared to take it up and act on it speedily. Chairman Chamberlain in reporting the measure said General March told the military affairs con- mittee that he believed 100000 Amer jeans under one commander could go through the German lines whenever they pleased and that if the ages are fixed as asked, the voluntary enlist ment system automatically ends. He also said all the men called for active service under the amended act would be in France by next June The new American war program, it was re- vealed, calls for so divisions, or about 100000 men, in France and IS more divisions in training in America, by June 30 1919.
 Mir. Chamberlain told the senate that President Wilson's program called for concentration of American forces on the western front, including Italy, and that the theory of the fighting in the future is that we must force the issue and win on the western front.
 The bill as reported contains a work or fight provision to which organized labor, through Samuel Gompers, has filed emphatic objection.
 The immediate need for more fight ing men induced the president to issue on Wednesday proclamation calling for the registration, on August 24, of all young men who shall have become twenty-one years of age between June 5 last and that day. This extra enroll ment, it is believed, will include about
 
 for military duty.
 Chairman Kitchin and other mem- bers of the house ways and means committee being welded to the idea that the best way to raise more rev enue is to increase the excess profits tax, rather than to impose a war prof its tax, Secretary of the Treasury Me Adoo was compelled to go before the committee with mass of figures to sustain his contention that the war profits tax method is the best and only fair one. In reply to Kitchin's asser- tion that a war profits tax was "only camoufage to let out the big fellows" the secretary produced figures to show that in great majority of cases the war profits tax would fall more heav- fly on the large concerns than would the excess profits tax, which, if fixed at so per cent as the committee pro posed, he said would touch not more than one of the large corporations. He fayors the continus nee of the existing excess profits tax, with corrections but without increase. He also urged heav- fer levies on unearned incomes than on earned incomes. and the imposition of tax upon servants as luxunes.
 The secretary impressed on the committee the necessity of passing the new revenue bill before September 2S, the date set for launching the fourth Liberty loan campaign, saying that further delay would jeopardize the ability of the treasury to sell sufficient treasury certificates to finance it in the intervals between the Liberty loans. In Washington most of the de- lay in passing the measure is expect ed to develop in the senate.