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New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
Praise For Americans.
Spend More For AInusCnlcDfS

Washington, July T2.-The Ameri- can people are spending slightly more for amuSements but less for travel as the war progresses. This fact is revealed in d comparison of the May receipts of taxes collected by the Interal revenue bureau which were made public today, with the re- ceipts for the previous months. War taxes from all sources collected in May mounted to SIPS, 3,396,1O4 Taxes collected during May by the ten per cent. charge on admissions to theatres, concerts, cabarets and like places amounted to $4,524,9 ,996 idicating that the American people spent approximately $45.00O,000 on such amusement during the month. In February taxes from the same sources totalled $3,7O8,O00, indicating an expenditure of approximately S37, 100000.
 The eght per cent. on passenger fares during May yielded $3,723,92 which shows that approximately $46, ,o00 was spent travelling dur ing the month. During February the same tax raised for the treasury $4 ,465, POO, representing expenditures for travelling of $55,S2O,OOO.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
Germany Os

Paris, July 12.-Geri1 cluded herself from the
 nations and will remain 1utSay
 as long as she is embarrassed byS itarism and the door will not opened until she has changed, Andre Lebey, who is writing re on a League of Nations for the eign affairs committee of the cf Der of deputies. In a statement tc Petit Parisien, M. Lebey adds:
 ''The Allies have organized at sailles an inter-Allied war cou why should they not organize t an nter-Allied committee to study idea of a league of nations?
 would be a sort of a small sized il Allied peace parliament to do peace what the War council seek do for war The two actions are allel and complementary. This international parliament would bc germ of a league of n<<ions. WhyI seize on the occasion of the anni| sary of July IA to create it."
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
CURTIN LEAVES ON 25th.

William F. Curtin who received notification two weeks ago of his appointment as American Vice-Con~ sul at Santos, Brazil, has been ad- Vised by the department of state, through |. F. Roosa, government de spateh agent at New York, that transportation has been arranged for him on o steamship sailing from an Atlantic port for Brazil on July 25, MT, Curtin is now in New York ar ranging for his passports and making final preparations for his departure. The trip to his dcstination will take
 about two weeks Mir. Curtin will return to this city tomorrow and will bid his friends here goodbye about July 22. ...
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
BLAMES DEFECTIVE MACHINE
 FOR MITCHEL'S FATAL FALL
Gutzom Borgum Aircraft Program Investigator Dis credits Theory That Aviators Failure to Fasten Him. selt In Plane Caused Accident-Charges That Ameri- can Training Planes Show Greater Casualty List Than Those of Any Other Nation

Washington, July 12. - Gutzom Borglum, the sculptor, who made an Investigation Of the, aircraft program at the request Of President Wilson, in an open letter read last night at a meeting here of the American Inven- tors association discreditcd the be- lief that the accident which caused the death of Major John Purroy Mitchell, former mayor of New York
 in an aviation accident at Gerstner
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12

field, Louisiana was the result of failure of the aviator to fasten him self ill his plane. Borglum, in his letter minated the accident was the result of defective plane.
 American training planes show a greater casualty list than those of any other nation, BorClum stated. He charged that a lot of airplanes re- gently sent abroad caused the death of an aviator in much the same man. ner as former Mayor Mitchell was killed.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
GERMANY READY ID
 RECEIVE PROPOSALS
YOn HertIing Says Peace OVer- lures Of Allies Must Be Sincere
Ousting of von Kuehlmann Merely the Result of Personal Discussions of Private Nature, Chancellor De- cIarCs-War Continuance Faced.

London, July 12.--There is the closest union between the political leaders of Germany and German army headquarters regarding their readiness to receive peace proposals from the Allies if they are offered in a spirit of sincerity. This statement was made in the Reichstag by Im- periul Chancellor von Hertling, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
 The program of Germany's foreign policy, the chancellor added. was laid down in Germany's reply to the Pa1al peace note and it would be adhcredNto. That would he a right eous peace and Germany has not and will not change her policy, however strong the idea of destruction was expressed in speeches in Allied Coun- tries.
 Forced to Continue War.
 The recent utterances of President Wilson and Foreign Secretary Bal four, he continued, forced Germany to continue the struggle.
 Admiral von Hintze, the new Ger man foreign secretary in succession to von Kuehlmann, made binding declaration to Count VOn Hertling that he was willing in every way to follow the imperial chancellor's pol icy.
 Will Continue Reform.
 The chancellor told the Reichstag main committee that the government intended vigorously to prosecute the reforms already begun. He com mented on the problems in the East and in the West and concluded with remarks on the goveriments future program regarding the declaration made in November, 1917. which had been accepted by a large majority in the ReiChstag.
 The change in the foreign minis try, the chancellor said, was not caused by any real differences of opinion, but arose of personal dis cussions revealing matters which should not be made public.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
AUSTRIAN TROOPS REVOLT.
Mutiny Among Soldiers In serbia Put
 Down Only After Battle.

Corfu, July 12.-A serious mutiny among the Austrian troops in one of the occupied districts of Serbia is announced by the Serbian press bur eau here. The garrison at Kraguye- vatz, the former Serbian arsonel, broke into rebellion because of bad food, the statement declares, and many Of the officers were killed~
 The mutiny was suppressed after q yeritable hattie III which machine guns and artillery was freely used.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
U-BOATS WILL NOT
 BRIGHTEN AMERICA
Daniels Says Americans Already Over seas Are But Vanguard of Great
 Army Which Subs Can't Stop.

Paris, July PA message from Secretary Daniels published in the Matin says France and the United have become still more closely bound together in the formidable struggle against autocraCy. The secretary de- clares the hundreds of thousands of Americans already in France are only the vanguard of the armies that will follow and that the submarines will be useless to stop them.
 The message concludes by assert ing that the United States will par ticipate whole -heartedly in the cele- bration of July II, Bastile Day.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
ITALIANS TAKE BERAT
Austrians Routed. Mary Prisoners Taken and Quantities of War Ma tcrials Captured.

Washington, July 12.--Occupation of Berat and the capture of Quanti- lies of war material and many pris- Oner5 by the advancing Italian army In Albania were announced today in an official dispatch from Rome.
 The message also told of losses in- hiCted on the Austrians in surprise attacks at Concalaghi and in Val d'Assa and Of the repulse of enemy attacks on the southern slopes of Sdsso Rossa. Bad weather was re- ported in the Altipiano of AsiagO.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
SUCCESSFUL
 IN FLANDEl
In Local Raids in the V
 Montididier, French Troof1
 Back 15 Prisoners While fTf{ Operations Near Mcrris-Gernsl1] Cease BOmbardmcnt On Amiens.
Cease Bombardmcnt On .Amiens.

Paris, July 12.-The village of Longpont on the SaVieres river east of Villers-Cotterets has been captured by the French, says the official state ment from the war office today.
 The French also continued their progress north of ChaVigrny Farm and east of FaVroIles. JaVage Farm northeast of Favrolles also was occu- pied.
 In raids north of Montididier and in Champagne the French captured 15 prisoners.
 2,O00,O00 British In France.
 The British fighting forces in France now aggregate 2,00O,00O says the HaVas correspondent on the French front. This equals the num- Der on the front in 1917.
 Amicns No Longer Bombardcd.
 German guns and bombing air planes have not harrassed the city of Amiens, one of the Objectives in the German drive of March 21, since June 25. Previous to that and during the fighting along the Somme the bom- bardment of the city had been so heavy that the civilian population had been removed.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
New Administrator in England
 Predicts Its Continuance PRAISE FOR AMERICANS
John R. Clynes Says Britain Is h. debted to U. S.-Pcoplc Here Spend More For Amuscmcnts As War Progresses.

London, July 12.-Food control in England probably will continue for at least a short while after the end ing of hostilities according to John It. Clynes, the new head of he food min istry. Discussing this subject with the Daily Telegraph, he said;
 Where the fod ministry will be continued after the war depends on how long the war lasts but it is clear the conditions created will not sud denly disappear when it is ended and for a considerable time the Allied na- lions will be required to act in CO., operation both as regards supplies and prices until normal conditions reappear Unfortunately. those con- ditions will be delaped until the forces of food production can be rbrught to a point where all kinds Of necessities again are bountiful When that time say whether it is prepared to go back arrives ii will be for the nation to and pursue the usual channels"
 Praise For Americans.
 Regarding aid from overseas Mr. Clynes said
 People of this country have lit tie idea of our indebtedness to Ameri- ca and the colonies for the abundance and regularity of our food supplies Conditions of transport have improved enormously" continued by the min- istry, MT. Clynes declared.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
ROYAL PAIR FLY BACK
King and Queen of Belgium Return to Train, via Nirplanc Route Over the English Channel.

Paris, July 12.-The king and queen of Belgium, who had been visiting England, have returned to France by the same means which they used in crossing the channel to England through the air. The re- turn passage, the newspapers say, lasted thirty minutes. The royal couple said they were delighted with the experiences Of the aerial voyage.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
Police and Federal Agents Make
 General Roundup in Chicago ONE MAN " 0U N D ED
Dance Halls, Railroad Stations and Other Public Places Raidcd-In- vcstiSations Continue IhroHghout tbc Day.

Chicago. July 12.-The roundup by federal agents and police of alleged Slackers and unregistered aliens which brought to various police stations nearly 5000 men last night, continued today. Railroad stations, steamship docks, theatres hotels, bedrooms, restaurants and other public places were searched and those who could not show cards or proper credentials, were detained
 Out of the 5000 questioned, some 400 were compelled to spend the night in jail, many of them being out-of- town visitors
 Dance Hall Is Raidcd.
 There was great excitement at the Municipal Pier dance hall when the investigators appeared. Virtually all of the several hundred men dancers were of the draft age and the majority had failed to bring their registration cards
 When the separation of couples began, some of the young women screamed and two tainted.
 Scores of young women were hur- red away in taXi-cabs and street cars in search of the registration cards of their escorts. Most of the young men were liberated after several hours.
 With few exceptions those who did not have their classification cards with them took their detention good humoredly, while waiting for the credentials to arrive.
 One Man Wounded.
 The one serious incident was the shooting by a government agent of Helga Gustayson. He attempted to escape from the officers, who wished to examine his New York card more closely. He is in a serious condition.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
RUMANINNS STARVING.

Paris, July 12.-Runlania's peasant population is in a more precarious condition from lack Of food and clothing than at any time since Ru- mania entered the war. Reports reaching The Associated Press from authoritative sources indicate that all crops this year arc failures.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
r-BOATS BEING OVERCOME.

London. July 12.--Speaking in Lon don Sir Erie Geddes first lord of the British admiralty said mines grad ually E.cre hemnling in the subma- rines which had less freedom and ne them.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
Cholera in Pctrograd.

London, July 12.-Owing to grave shortage in food, cholera it the increase in Petrograd and El dreds of persons are daily falling V tims to it, says q Russian wirel dispatch received today.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
Assassin Reported Caught.

London, July 21.-One of the r derers of Gen. Count von Mirb German ambassador to Russia,
 arrested Thursday says a Moscow patch to the Frankfurter Zeit which is transmitted from Copenl en by the Exchange Telegraph c
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
TURKEY MARES REPLY
Claims Ignorance of Tabriz fnCidcnt
 But Will Investigate.

Washington. July 12.-Turkey has Informed the United States through Ehe swedish foreign office that so lar the true fotf.; as to the reported seizure Of t& American consulate and lacl5ing otFan American hospital at Tabriz, Pc;&ia by Turkish soldiers lave not been asccrtained but that it vill he done at the earliest possible neuert.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
CHILEAN CABINET BALKS.
Refuses to Ratify Negotiations to Rent Interned German Steamers

Santiago, Chile, July 12-The Chilean cabinet has refused to ratify the recent negotiations looking for ward toward the renting of intcrned German steamers by the Chilean gov ernment. The leading newspapers ac- cept this action as a definite failure of the attempt to add the German vessels to the Chilean merchant ma rine.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
RESCUED AT SEA.

Havana, July 12.-At the mercy of heavy sea, the engine of their mo- tor boat having failed three miles off shore near Santiago two American army officers were rescued late yes terday by the crew of a launch of a Cuban gunboat.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
POLICEMAN iEiXONERATED.

Hartford, July 12,-Hermah Shur~ CT the Meriden policeman, accused in the U. S district court of seditiQus utterances, was found not guilty by the jury at 2:3O this evening
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
Russian R. K. Men Strike.

Paris, July 12.-Russian rail men are on strike in several distr according to a Zurich dispatch q ing the Leipsig Nueste Nachricf The strike threatens to become eral, the newspaper reports.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
South Manchester Soldier Is Men,
 toned As Severely Wounded
NINE KILLED IN ACTION
Total Number of Americans Rendered Hors de Combat Is 52, Including Seven Who Died of Diseasc-AcCi dents Claim Equal Number.

Washington, July lZ.-Ihe army casualty list today shows: Killed in action, 9; died of wounds, '; died of disease, [; died of airplane accident ,; died of accidents an other causes, 4; wounded severely, IS; wounded slightly, l. wounded, degree undeter- mined, 2; missing, 5; total. 52. The list:
 Killed in Action.
 Lieuts. Wilmarth Brown, Washing ton, D. C.; Harry M. Coppinger, Ok Iahoma City; John Cannon Paisley, Gibsonville, N. C.; Augustus NJ. Trot- ter, Camden, $. C.; Sergeant Peter G. Miller, '219 North Queens street. Lam caster, Pa; Priyates Sherman l.. Con- kiln, Newark, N. J.; Stevel Dusanski, 1. Dover avenue, Schenectady; Harry r. Jones, Roanoke Va; Walter san timaw, Potsdam, N. Y.
 Died of Wounds
 Captain George k. Spalding, Co., lumbus, ky; Lieut.. Robert E. Ball, Woolaston, Mass; PriVates John W. Bresinham, St. Bernard, seminary Rochester, N. Y; Harry l.. Erisman, Sterling, H.; John V. Fennessy, Ro- chester N. Y; Hyman Klein, New 1Ofh, WLllef Y. flyaH, IOfIaSe, WlS.
 Died From Disease.
 Lieuts George G. MacNish, Stev- ems Point, Wis; Goodwin Warner, Ja- maica Plains, Mass; Sergeants Frank A. Browne, Petersburg, Va; Walter R. Lux, Fort Shaw, Mont; Fireman Constance Hendricks, HaVre, France; Privates James II. Ensley, Ainsworth, Neb.; Ray U. Nicholson, Scott Mills, Ore.
 Died Of AirpIanc Accident. leigh, N. C.; John c. Milford, Ashe- vile, N. c.
 Died From Accident. Captain Karl II. Daudern, Benicia, Cal; Sergeant Arnold J. Peterson, Beloit, Wis; Corporal Guy M. Cox, 815 Owings street, Denison, Tex; Cook Harry F. HollingsWorth La Harpe, Kas.
 Wounded Severely.
 Privates Frank J. Blanchard, South Manchester, Conn.,; Blair l.. Remand. KeeWaydin, Pa.
 The Slightly Wounded. Private Joseph l.. Eastland, Pitts field, Mass.
 Missing in Action. Privates Harry Christian, Hilbert, w. Va; Harry Clohessy, Brooklyn; i; Theodore Grimes, Springfield, o.; John w. James, Oil Trough, Ark. ;; Charles w. Preston, Wildwood, Pa.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
A disnatch received in Paris o!

A dispatch received in Paris on July g reported that Tchernoff and three other members of the Keren- sky cabinet had been arrested in Moscow as alleged leaders of a re- volt against the BolsheViki. German reports have declared the social rev olutionists were responsible for the abOrtiVe revolt.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
MARCHING ON MOSCOW
Unarmed Peasants, Led By M. Tchernoff, Head Of Social Revolu- tionists, at Outskirts of Capital.

Paris, July 12.-M. Tchernof, a leader of the Russian social revoiu- tionists is marching on Moscow at the head of numerous bands of un- armed peasants says a dispatch from Stockholm to the Matin. Part of his force has arrived in the outskirts of the BoIShevik capital.
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
2,OOO,OO0 British In France
English Take Prisoners.

London, July 12.-Further raiding operations were carried out by Brit ish troops last night notably in the Flanders area, near Morris and Met eren, the war office announced today. Prisoners were taken in patrol en- front
 Another British party raided the German lines near Hamel, south of the Somme. A patrol clash near Gavrelle, northeast of Arras, also re- suited in the taking of prisoners.
 In their operation near Morris the British took 120 prisoners
New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
ConstantinopIc Bombed.

Air force contingents acting with the British navy dropped half a ton of bombs upon the city of Constanti- nople on July ', it was announced by the admiralty today.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-23
WORK OR FIGHT" NEW Order To ALL REGIS rants
Huns Bomb British.
Hospitals Brutduy
Killing Wounded

With the British Army in France, May 28-German armen
have again bombed heavily British hospitals in the behind the
lines and this time have killed and wounded hundreds
the personnel and patients Of many different hospitals the group
Recorded in the casualty list the Of
who with other stood brav their posts through
out terrific deluge of explosives
There in the neghborhood large hospital and another in
which there American workers but neither of these appears
have suffered Last number Of American doctors and
killed and wounded when these hospitals
raided by the Germans.
This latest horror pepeated Sunday night apparently
four squadrons of planes which appear to have
prsed than of machines great number of bombs
dropped about thirty cent of them huge affairs which
dug vast craters the hospital grounds and the rest explosive
srapn which sent their death dealing bullets tearing in every
direction through the crowded hospital tents and buildings
threeseated aipane which flying at low altitude
brought down by gnre and the occupants made prisoner
The enemy captain and the pilot sustained comparatively light
shrapne wounds while the observer not hurt When
toned why he had directed his against hospitals the captain
explained of fact that he didn't the Red Gross
signs He said he seeking military obecves and had de-
sire to molest hospitals
With hrug of his shoulders the German captain added that
buid their hospitals railways they
must expect to get them bombed.
The first raid began shortly after 10 o'clock until
II o'clock Not satisfied with this the enemy returned 40
o'clock and heavily bombarded hospitals filed with wounded
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-23
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SUMMARY OF The WAR

German frishtfuIness again has
been vented upon patients and work.
ers in British hospitals behind the
battle line In northern France.
Some hundreds of patients and
members of the hospital stats were
killed ard wounded Sunday night by
bombs dropped by German airmen.
Although cne large American hos
pitaI was near the bombed area, Il
escaped damage.
The captured captain of an enemy
airpIane which took part in the
bombing of the hospitals said he did
not see the Red Gross sign. He add
ed, however, that if the British built
their hospitals near the railway they
must expect TO get them bombed.
Infantry operations on the western
front continue at a minimum and
neither side gives any indication that
intensive. fighting is about to be re-
sumed Immediately. The artillery
In the air, however. the hostiIities
are at a high pitch, as they have
been for the past week or more.
Between Arras and the Sonn1e,
where there has been no heavy fight
ing in six weeks, the British and
Germans are carrying out Faids, evil
IDENTIFY for the purpose of gaining in
formation as TO their opponents
plans. North of Albert, the Ger
mana have been repuIsed in an at
tempt to rush the British positions
southeast of MesniI. Further north
Field Marshal Hais'8 men continue
their raids and have penetrated the
enemy lines near Hebuterne, as we'll
as at other points southwest of Ar
ras.
On the French front, the American
sectors. and the sritish front the lull
is unbroken and even raiding has
quieted down.
British airpIanes are harassina se"
riousIy German aiFdronnes and bIllets
behind the lines in Flanders and
Picardy. The Germans are seeking
unaVailinsly to check the British and
i'm aerial fighting fS enemy machines,
is of which were destroyed, were ae-
counted for by the British. At night
the enemy is raidina behind the Brit"
ish lines and two Of his machines
were brought down by aunfire Tues"
day. Far TO the rear of the German
lines, British bombing squadrons
have visited eastern Belgium and the
River Rhine. Three fires resulted
from bombs dropped on a chloride
factory at Mannheim and large con-
fiaarations were caused on railway
property near LEege, Belgium. Bombs
were dropped on railway stations at
Metz and Thionville.
Northwest of Toul American avis
ators are busiIy engaged, but al
though they took part In several aer-
iaI contests Wednesday, no moro
enemy machines have been brought
down.
Lively fighting continues in the
mountains Of northern Italy with the
Italian and British troops on the of
Tensive,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-23
Meyers Is GiUen
Long. Jail Term

New Rockford, N. D.. May 23.-
IWtliam Meyers, pleading guilty in
the district court to charges of as
Eault with a dangerous weapon and
to robbery, was sentenced to the
state prison for from five, to seven
years on the first count, and from
five to 10 years on the second count,
in the district court here by Judge
&C. w. Buttz. This is the culmina-
fion OF the Dundas, N. D., shooting
affair Of several weeks ago in which
Meyers and Miss Anna Hawkins, of
Escanaba, Mich, Meyers. companion
who has been subpoenaed by the
United States district attorney to
give evidence before the grand jury
now, In session in Fargo. were
wounded by officers.
Meyers admitted in court that dime
novels had caused his departure
Grom the straight and narrow"
The defendant will not be pros
ecuted by state officials In connec-
ton with. the alleged abduction Of
fhe girl from Escanaba, but federal
officials are asking an indictment
under the Mann act.
Meyers and the girl were hunted
down by officers in a thicket near
Dundas after Meyers had made pur-
chases at a store, and pulled gun
on the clerk when payment for the
goods was demanded