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The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
OIEARY SHIELDS HIS
BROTHER IN TESTIFYING
SlNN FElN LEADER PICTURED
HIMSELF AS ON VERGE OF
COLLAPSE WHEN He
FLED,

New York, June 20.-WhTe shield
ing his brother, John j. OIeary from
charges of criminally aiding his es-
cape from trial last month for al
legged violation of the espionage act,
jeremiah A. O'Leary outlined in fed
eral court today the defense he will
make at his impending trial on in
dietments charging conspiracy with
German agents and four American
associates to commit treason against
the United States. These indictments
were found after he fled from the
jurisdiction of the court
Tho Sim Fein leader pictured him
self as on the verge Of nervous col
lapse when he fled to the west. May
T. lie was laboring under The OBJ
session, he indicated, that govern
ment agents had entered into a con-
splracy TO have him sent TO prison.
Jeremiah Ou.eary said he became
convinced he could not obtain adj
vlsors who could defend him properly
aud that this so prayed on his mind
he became Thoroughly disorsanlzed "
The witness said he left New York
with Arthur 1. LYONS an employe IN
his Law orllee for 81 louia. aud there
decided he would moi return Ga go be
persoculaa The public mipd had
been So "poiauuoa' threaeh preiu
aleed newspapers, he declared that
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
BERLIN OFFICIAL REPORT.

Berlin, June 20 German troops
have penetrated deeply into Ameri-
can positions at Seicheprey which
lies TO the east of ST. Mihiel and in
flicted heavy losses on the defend
ers, accordms To the German official
communication issued today The
communication adds that attacks
north OF Chateau Thierry where
American troops also are fishtins,
failed
The text of the communication fol
lows
"On almost the whole of the front
the activity OF The enemy increased
la the evening the artillery fire was
revived and strong infantry detaoh
meuts advanced against cur lines ou
numerous sectors They we're re.
pulsed
Renewed enemy attempts % adj
vance north of Chateau fhiefr,
CONTINUED on pAeD fMo
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
LIGHTER FIGHTING PLANES
ON A LARGER SCALE
slNGLESEATED MACHINES TO BE
MADE IN QUANTITIES IN
THIS COUNTRY.

Washington, June 20.-Preparations
Tor adding fast single seated fighting
aeroplanes to the aircraft production
program in this country are under
way. The machine selected is under
stood to be a development OF a modern
pursuit plane which has been used
with great shccess on fighting fronts.
Detans OF the construction and
performances Of the machine have not
been made public.
Originally 1t was proposed to build
iSpad planes here as well as in Europe
and a $30,000,000 project to this end
was well advanced when General
Pershing recommended construction
in the United States be confined to
bombing planes carrying unusually
neavy machine gun equipment and
that all single seaters DE procured
aboard
1t was desired by General Pershing
that the single seated types of planes
changed so rapidly that the long dis
tance between the fighting front and
the place of manufacture would make
it impossible to keep the American
equipment up to date ii 1t were pro-
duced at home.
Many American officials still be-
lieve the day of two men duels in air
is passing with development of faster
two men fighting machines, where the
observer has an all round fire with
two or four machine guns.
Recently, however, there has been
marked return at the front to the
pursuit planes. and this probably
prompted the decision to put this type
into quantity production in the United
States.
When the Spad contracts in this
country were cancelled. the Bristol
fighter, a two seated British model,
was substituted, although the De-
Hayiland ", previously had been de-
clded rDon as the day bombing ma
chine for American production. The
PeHayJand is now being turned out
III 'ijerable quality and has al
ready leached France where il was
successfully tried out some time ago.
The Bristol, however, has been in
volved in engineering difficulties
continually and it sill is far from
satisfactory, 1t is understood. Prob
ably the plane VIII have to be rede-
signed around a Liberty eight motor.
efforts to harmonic 1t for the heavier
twelve having failed thus far.
Production of Liberty engines is
now nearing the 1000 mark, with
several of the largest plants yet to
begin producing, hundreds being
turned out weekly The first Liberty
constructed was an eight cylinder
The Liberty eight was resurrected
and modernized as a quicker way CT
results than to await guam
tity production of the necessary 800
horse power motor that also has been
developed here.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
CRIME OF ALL KIND
IS DECLARED RAMPANT
Poor People Can Only Buy Clothes at
the Official Clothing Department
by 5ribing the Salesman-Every
body Cheats, Steals and Grabs,

Amsterdam, June 20.-The follow
ing is a picture Of social conditions in
Prussia as presented during the de-
bate on June Is on the budget of the
ministry of the interior in the house
of deputies by the socialist member,
Braun:
1--WE are face to face with a terrible
condition of public morality. We hear
of numberless cases of thefts on
railroads and alarming Juvenile
criminality. According to official
statistics, between October, 1916, and
November, 1917, there were 4S7, ,72G
convictions for the actual transgres-
sions committed
"As for that we are all sinners.
Profiteering exceeds all bounds;
usury Is rampant among all classes.
Fraudulent profiteering, like that of
the Daimler works, is nowise excep-
tional. Even official bodies attempt
to extort illegal profits. Poor people
can only buy clothes at the official
clothing department by bribing sales
men with tips or food
"The increase in criminality dem
onstrates the generalization through
the war.
In the invaded regions profiteer-
ing begins to rear its~head, culmin-
ating in the most repulsiye profit
snatching at home.
Everybody cheats, steals, grabs,
from jail-bird to court chamberlain,
who cheats the needy homeworker
out of his scanty earnings, and
pockets millions.
"And the longer the war lasts the
worse it becomes.
added TO this is the fatherland
party's wild war batting propaganda
and refusal of equal suffrage. What
wonder that popular evaporation
burst forth in a big strike in jan
uary."
Herr Braun further pilloried the
nefarious activities of police and in
formers, and the hateful hypocritical
censorship"
The prohibition of the aclnowl-
edgement of gifts by soldiers to the
socialistic funds, he said, was ordered
for the purpose of Withholding from
public knowledge the magnitude of
the demand in the army for peace
and equal suffrage. He further
mercilessly indicted the systematic
discrimination against the socialistic
press, while the fatherland party and
annexationists with impunity raised
the accusation Of bribery with Anglia
American money against those favor
ing peace by negotiation He finally
gave a number OF instances of arbi-
trary suppression of political meet
ings, which were unweleome to the
military commanders, all OF which
caused the grayest bitterness among
the people.
The socialist newspaper Voer-
waerts deyotes a long editorial to
the foregoing in which it says:
'dDr Drews unsatisfactory answer
that he Is not responsible Is tanta-
mount 70 a confession of the import
ance OF the civil government In fact
there Is 40 responsible civil govern
ment In Prussia today Il demon-
strates The necessity of the abolition
.of the state OF siege Ia the country
Tor which there Is no legal iustlliea
tion whatever. The necessity OF a
responsible government Is shown ear
peclaly by che tate OF suffrage re-
lotm. which has heon dragsed iropl
reading % readma without Che soe
efamaui mIerYoulns vith the mmes
aale dissolution al the honae
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
FE ERMANV FALSE m
PROMISES TO AUSTRIA

Amsterdam, Wednesday June 40 -
A Vienna dtapatoh published Ia SEES
terdays Ieitung Amittag gives an ot
tielal statement Of tbe Vienna city
council on the food sitpation I'M that
city The statement reads
Germany promised some weeks ago
Ia state treaty 60 undertake respon-
sihillty Cor the meat supply Cor both
the civilian population and tha army,
whether lhe supplies we're duawu from
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
DOUBLE CROSSED THOSE
WHO EMPLOYED Them
Washington Gang Would Get Figures
Contracts and Resell Them.

Washington, June 20.-Methods by
which contingent fee agents Ia
Washington suppressed competition
in bidding on government war orders
inflated prices, manipulated bids and
even double crossed" their own
clients by representing competing
competing contractors, were uncov-
cred today by the department of JUS
lice in examining correspondence
seized In raids on the contract hrok-
ers offices.
Some manufacturers paid thou.
sands of dollars for purely imagin.
airy services" of the contract agents
who often turned over confidential
in formation of bids to other clients
or used them to enter lower bids in
their own names, said review of the
findings issued by Assistant Attorney
General Huston Thompson, in charge
of the prosecutions.
"Some letters to favored clients,"
said the department of justice an
nouncement, contained promises no;
to put In bids for certain other con-
Germs represented by the agent, nor
put them in touch with the business
ii the favored client desired to lid.
Another favorite scheme was to
get Quotations or options from sew
eral manufacturers who were thus
eliminated from direct government
bidding The agent, with the advan-
tage of this price knowledge. would
then bid in his own name ana il
awarded the contract, proceed to fill
ii by exercising the option given by
the manufacturer who quoted he
lowest prices to him. The benefits
of competition were thus appropri-
ated by the agent instead of result
ing in low prices to the government.
Under another plan the agents pro-
cured bids addressed to the govern
ment from several concerns. These
prices were then communicated to
the favored bidders who presumably
paid the largest commission, so he
could revise his bid before 1t was sub
mitted to the government by the agent
with those Of the competing clients.
'1n some instances the agents are
said to have put in their own bid in
competition with their clients, thus
playing sure for either profit, or a
commission.
Letters sent to manufacturers by
agents suggested the brokers office
be made a branch of the factory,
handle all business in the manufac-
turers name, but on commission
basis, the business to be transacted
on the manufacturers stationery by
the commission concern and all mail
for the manufacturers to be address,
ed to him at the brokers office"
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
aR cKLAYERs NOT TO STRIKE

IN Paso, Texas. June 20-union
bricklayers, masons and plasterers
of Texas, ia convention here today,
pledsed themselves not To partioi-
pate in amy strike that would ham
per the successful prosecution of the
wan
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21

Ukraine, Rumania, or Germany's own
reserve stock. Deliveries at first
proceeded smoothly. For the pass
eight days, however. Germany has
been in arrears Of her quota
The statement adds that urgent ap-
peals have been sent to the German
officials saying that the situation is
acute, particularly in munition cen
ters.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
The ITALIANS ARE HOLDING AT ALL POINTS
100, 900 PERSONS ON
STRIKE IN VIENNA

London, June 2o.-More than
100000 persons have gone on a
strike in the Vulcan arsenal and
Warschalowski aeropIane works
in Vienna, according to a dis
patch from Zurich to the Ex-
change Telegraph. The dispatch
adds that riots have occurred in
FaVoriten, Margerethen, Ottak-
ring and 5rigittennay, suburbs Of
Vienna.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21

his trial. had he returned would have
been a political hippodrome for the
newspaper fiends."
Throughout long cross examina-
tion OLeary reiterated his statement
there had been no collusion between
himself, his brother and Lyons. rela-
tive to his flight. He declared John
was given the impression that his
brother had gone to Newburg. N, y.
10 fish, rest and reeaperate' and that
he intended returning for trial. lie
declared he was persuaded 70 go 10
Reno, Nevada, instead
The defense laid much emphasis on
testimony tending 60 show OI.eagy
since his return from sara. wash.
TUESDAY. IN custody OF federal Oft
GERS. had 40 opportunity to coulter
with bis hretheb bis counsel, or
others Interested IA Johns behalf
relative g the testimony he would
NAe today
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
THOSE WHO REMAINED TO
CARRY OUT ORDERS WERE
PUT TO THE BAYoNET.
ENEMY POSITION SWEPT
CLEAN OF GERMANS

A Box 5arraee Was Laid Down by
the Artillery From Which Few of
Those in the Rear Of the Trenches
Escaped-Direet Hit Made on Ma.
chine Gun Nest.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21
The Offensive of the Aus
trianS Has Met With
Failure All Along the En-
tire Front.

Floods Favor the Italians and Many
of the Enemy's Pontoon Bridges Are
Washed AWay-Austrian Army Lacks
the Stamina of Men Whose Hearts
Are in Their Task.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21

People looking for rooms turn TO the
classified ads OF the newspapers to see
what is offered An ad in the Sentinel
Record may bring a customer.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21

Forecast for Arkansas: Friday and
Saturday, generally fair in SOUTH
probably scattered showers In north
portion; cooler In northwest portion
Saturday.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-21

coNfINVnp On fA'll9 mo.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-25
AMERICAS BIG GUNS
WILL SURPASS KAISER S
Information Is Latest Weapon Su-
preme for Distance Firing.

Ordnance experts of both the War
and Navy Departments yesterday con-
tirmed the statement of Samuel NJ.
Vauclain, of the Baldwin. Locomotive
Works. and a mmber of the Council
of National Defense that a huge can
non had been completed at foundries
in Wilmington. Del. The giant gun
is the first of series projected by
the government experts who are con-
fident that tests of the first gun will
lead to the production of more of the
same type.
Secretary Baker. of the, War De-
partment, read the statement of Mr..
Vauclain with much interest, but ad-
mitted that he could give little in
formation about the new engine OF
destruction.
Speculation as. to the uses to which
the new weapon might be put were
many. Although a gun large enough
to shoot a distance of seventy-five Or
one hundred miles could be shipped
abroad, it is believed that guns of
huge caHbre could not play a part in
an allied offensive until the German
army has been driven across the
Rhine, and has taken shelter under
the guns of the series of fortresses
guarding the road to Berlin. That
America already may be preparing
for such a situation, was accepted as
another sign that the nations ord
nance program is progressing even
more rapidly than had been hoped
would be possible.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-25
KARL MUCK REFUSED
PROTECTION OF SWISS
Musician Was Held to Be German
by All. Says Legation.

DIR. Karl Muck. who first attracted
public attention of the Department of
Justice by his refusal to play the
Star Spangled Banner" as conduc-
tor of the Boston Symphony orches-
ira, has been refused the protection
Of the Swiss Legation here,
When DIR. Muck was first arrested,
the Legation inquired of the Depart
ment of State the grounds for this
action. The inquiry was based upon
the fact that DR.. Muck became a
naturalized Swiss citizen through the
naturalization of his father in the
year 1866. The evidence in the hands
Of the Department Of Justice, and
submitted to the Legation, clearly
shows. however, that during his long
residence in Germany, and later in
the United States, DR.. Muck was not
only recognized as German subject
by the German authorities, but that
be also regarded himself as such"
Such is the statement issued by the
Swiss Legation.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-25
Three u. S. Airnen
CoUet "Ace' Honor

Three other American aviators of
the Lafayette EsCadrille are closely
pressing their commander, Mai. will
liam Thaw, for the honor of being
declared an Ace" Dispatches re-
ceived here yesterday say that the
example of Maj. Thaw has stirred
his subordinates to brilliant effort.
Lieut.. Baer is reported as having
downed nine German opponents
within forty-three days. Four of
them were officially recorded. Capt.
Biddle and Sergt. Bayliss are also
reported as having performed brill
liant feats.
Maj. Thaw's triumph over an air.
plane and a captive balloon in the
same day. was a repetition Of a
double victory on April 20, when he
downed Drachen and a monoplane
on the same flight. His last ex-
plot gave him the five German vic
tins requisite to the rank of Ace"
The Washington herald., 1918-04-25
Shipping Board Conference
Confident Of Furnishing
Transports for Pershing.
WILL MEET DEMANDS
Ready to Handle Force of
5000, 900 Men in 1919
. if Army Supplies Them.

Secretary of War Baker told the
Senate Committee on Military Af-
fairs yesterday that the strength of
our overseas fighting force would de-
pend upon the tonnage that could be
supplied by the Shipping Board.
The Shipping Board later at the most
important conference in the history
Of the organization, prepared an
answer for Secretary Baker. 1t is
that the Shipping Board will be able
to supply ships for the transport and
maintenance oversee of all the Ameri-
can troops now available for fighting
duty.
Means IyOOO,OOO.
This program, if carried out. will
mean a million fighting Americans
in France this summer and should
win the war for the allies.
The assurance given Gen. George
W. GoethaIs about the oversea
transport troops and supplies would
be a surprise to this country, IL
publication in detail were permis-
sible. and a far greater surprise
to the military masters of Germany.
who have been assured that fresh
American troops could not be
brought to the assistance of the
allied forces in France. The sur
prise spoken of by David Lloyd
George that the Americans had in
store for the German militarists
will be more than a surprise.
II will be the shock that will kill
all ambitious military aspirations
and herald the approach OF a mill
tary decision that will bring a last
ing peace to the world.
What the Americans will be able to
do this summer with the shipping that
will be available at the time, will all
be in advance Of the realization of
the shipbuilding programs. When the
new ships begin to slide OF the ways
to be made ready IJr transport serv-
ice, the real force Of the entry Of this
country into the war against the mil
ftarism Of Germany will begin to
make itself known in the conflict.
More men in France, more ships to
keep them supplied and still more
ships coming to transport even more
men abroad, means a great military
expansion at home, and already the
Senate is talking about an army of
10000 men to sustain a strong fight
ing force abroad. a reserve at home
and an army of home defense. The
latter army I'm all human probability
will never be needed for any purpose,
but many military men and public Of
hcials believe it should be maintain
ed as a proper military precaution.
Secretary Baker. since his return
from France. has given no hint of
the recommendations that he will
make for expansion of the army. He
has been waiting upon reports from
members of his own establishment
on equipment and supplies. sand then
upon the Shipping Board on the uues-
lion Of transportation. The answers
are in and the recommendation Of
secretary Baker can confidently be-
expected to favor an expansion of
the military forces TO at least :. ON nm
men under arms.
Secret testimony before the House
Committee on Military Affairs, made
public yesterday. disclosed that high
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The Washington herald., 1918-04-25
Navy Leaves Zeebrugge 20
Yard Cash to Remind
Hun of Raid.
"SUNKEN OBJECT" SEEN
Block Ship at Ostend Bars
Harbor, Air Observers
Believe.

London, April IA break
twenty yards wide was blown into
the inner end of the great Zee
brugge Mole by British naval
raiders yesterday. the admiralty
announced this afternoon. This
brilliant feat was definitely deter
mined by aerial observation yes
tcrday morning.
At Ostend aerial observers saw
sunken object between the
piers blocking the greater part OF
the fairway, the admiralty state
ment adds.
Definite News OF Result.
The foregoing dispatch from
London gives the first definite, Of
ficial results of the great naval raid
by the British on the German u
boat bases at Zeebrugge and Os-
tend, on the coast of Flanders. II
shows that a British aerial squad
ron set out shortly after the raid
yesterday morning to establish the
results achieved. The blocking of
a great part of the fairway at Os-
tend removes the last doubts of the
efficacy OF the British attack on that
base.
Difficulties encountered by the
raiders at ostend were, in the words
of Sir Eric Geddes, first lord Of the
admiralty. Considerably incfeased
by mist. rain and low visibility,
and the consequent absence of aerial
observation. Two block ships were
run ashore and blown up at Ostend,
but since, when last seen in the
darkness. these vessels were slight
ly Off their course, there was some
doubt as to whether they had
achieved their aim.
The ''sunken object" referred to in
the admiralty's statement presumably
is one of the block ships. Regarding
the results accomplished at Zeebrugge,
the British aerial observation shows
that tremendous damage was done
to the great mole, in addition to the
entrance of the harbor being effective
ly blocked by the concrete laden OBJ
solete cruisers which were blown up
while British sailor volunteers attack
ed the mole and fought an hours en-
Gagcment with the German garrison.
The twenty-yard break presuma bly,
was blown into the mole by the cruiser
Nindictive and by two obsolete subma-
rines which were deliberately run
against the mole with the object OF
doing as much damage as possible.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-25
HOLLAND WILL
MAKE GERMANY
HONOR RIGHTS
If Huns Attempt Shipping
Through Territory Dutch;
Will War.

UnOfheiaI reports in Washington
late last night would indicate that
the German Ambassador to Holland
has been recalled.
At the Dutch Legation. where Of
HeIaI confirmation was lacking, the
opinion was expressed that the
diplomat possibly returned to Ber-
lin for Instructions.
If Germany attempts to force the
transportation of sand and gravel
or of war materials across Dutch
territory in opposition to the Dutch
government. Holland will fight. Her
100000 men are ready for the field.
and she will prove no mean ally
to the entente cause.
No Crisis Yet.
The opinion is expressed in we'll
informed circles, however. that no
crisis has yet arisen. 1t is believed
that a press association has exag-
gerated the reports coming from HoI-
land. Neither the State Department
nor the Dutch Legation has been in
formed of any serious developments
at the Hague. In both quarters it
was said that II Germany had pre-
sented at the Hague anything in the
nature of an ultimatum. both the
State Department and the Dutch Le-
cation would have been informed.
1t is believed in Dutch circles here
that Germany has merely proposed
to resume the sand and gravel ship
ments from Germany into Belgium,
through Holland. discontinued last
summer. as the two countries were
unable to agree as to the amount Of
such shipments as would not violate
Hollands neutrality.
As no agreement has ever been
reached on this point, and as Ger
many refuses to permit a Dutch
commission to investigate in Belgium,
1t Is believed probable here that Hol-
land Is vigorously protesting the re-
sumption Of shipments.
II Is pointed out in circles familiar
with international law . that the
nearest precedent to the present situa-
ton arose in the Franco Prussian
war when Belgium refused to permit
the transport Of Prussian wounded
through its lands on the ground that
the hospital trains would thus relieve
for strictly combatant use the rail-
road facilities Otherwise available to
the invaders.
The Hague Tribunal subsequently,
decided that the transport of wound
ed was not violation of neutrality,
but the question of the relief of other
railroad lines for military uses by
the diversion of nonmilitary traffic to
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