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Caught by Sergeant Major.

Later they raided a camp postoffice
and filled up on the contents OF pack
ages intended for we'll behaved SOL
diers BY climbing through the WIN
dow of a canteen they got cigarettes,
and the next day, being hungry again,
helped themselves to the store Of an
officers mess. Then they were off to
London and at a farm house on the
way had the first glass Of milk Jaffe
had tasted since he left New York. In
a town, the name Of which the boy
mentioned, their four days rowing was
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14-YEAR-OLD WARRIOR
MAKES LIGHT OF BATTLE
1Tew York Boy Over Top Times Remembers
shrapneI Annoying, But lot SO Bad As Gliding
of the Officers.

tered. AS they had left machine gun
emplacements ia the houses to protect
their rear our company commander,
Lieut.. West, said:
Boys, the Germans, are trying to
put one over by firing on us from these
houses. It's up to you to so through
the houses and protect the rest of the
division.
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STORY OF HEROISM
'efense OF Courcclles by French a
Chapter in Wars History.
tBy the Associated Press.)

With the French Army in France,
June 1.-THE defense of Courcelles,
on the left wing of the battle front.
by the French against attacks repeat
ed day and night from June to June
IL, makes a wonderful story of hero
ism. The village, which is most i'm
portant owing to its commanding po-
sition, was for As hours almost SIR
rounded by the enemy, but the
French held on and when a favorable
opportunity came, SORTED and counter
attacked, repulsing the Germans from
the vicinity.
The Germans tried every possible
ruse as well as force to take the VIII
lage. The growing crops on the fertil e
lands in the vicinity were a source of
considerable trouble to the defenders
as the Germans would creep thru
them until they reached the edge of
the village. The enemy also covered
their helmets with clumps of grass
and weeds and crawled slowly for
ward. They could not, however. shake
the determination of the French to
retain possession of the village.
The spirit of the offensive was so
high among the allied troops that
they continued their advance on the
left today despite the fatigues they
had undergone since the beginning OF
the week. Another batch of several
hundred prisoners was brought in to-
gether with numerous machine guns.
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Kaiser Now Removing Bulk of
Soldiers From East.
Considers Every Fighter NeceS-
sary for Offensive.
MUST INSURE A VICTORY
Critical and Decisive Battle
Now On in West.
Transportation To Take Only
Days, Staff Plans.

London, June 13.-Germahy IS
about to withdraw the bulk of her
troops now in Russia for service on
the western front, according to a
statement in Maxim Gorky's news
paper, the Petrograd Novaia Zehizn,
quoted by the Daily News correspond
ent at Stockholm.
The Novaia Zehizn claims to give
the text of a dispatch sent by Cen
eral Falkenhayn, former chief of the
German general staff, which it says
was intercepted, in which General
Falkenhayn declares that the battles
on the western front are critical and
decisive, but that in order to insure
definite victory and the end of the
war the concentration OF enormous
forces will be necessary.
'In view of the fact that our troops
on the Russian and Ukraine fronts
have attained their object" the dis
patch continues, land are now resting,
the emperor has instructed the general
staff to take measures for the trans
portation to France of the majority of
the German forces in white Russia,
Ukraine and great Russia, leaving
there only small detachments neces-
sary to maintain order"
The transportation, according to the
quoted message, was to be effected
within seven days.
Strong measures were to be taken
against possible interference by en-
ployes of the Russian railways with
the troop movement
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URGES LOAFER ORDINANCES
President municipalities League Writes
All Kansas Mayors.

Garden City. Kan. June 13.-That
every able-bodied man in Kansas
should do his bit to help lick Kaiser
Bill, is the belief of Richard j. Hop
kins of this city, who is president OF
the League of Kansas Municipalities.
He has mailed a letter to every mayor
in Kansas calling their attention to
the urgent need of laborers to care
for the bumper crops that Kansas is
producing this year. Our best la
borers are all in the trenches, or pre-
pairing to go there, he points out, and
those vino remain at home should
willingly do all that they can to pre-
vent any loss to our maturing crops.
In his letter, Hopkins suggests the
advisability of having every abe
bodied man register with some au-
thorized agent that he may be ca11ad
into service when needed.
He also calls attention to the fact
that all towns and cities can pass a
vagrancy ordinance under the provi-
sions of the 1915 statutes and by this
means place all pool hall loafers and
weary Willies'' under the police reg
ulations and be forced to work at some
useful occupation.
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18 to 45 Undoubtedly Will Be
New Conscription Plan.
Necessary To Keep From Using
Deferred CIassificatiOns.
STANDARD WITH ALL ALLIES
America Must Do 1t To Main
tain Her Obligations.
Step Would Add Nearly 100000
Men to the Army.

Washington, June 13.-That the war
department will ask changes in the
draft law-so as to include all men
between the ages of Is and AS or 40
years-was the forecast of well in
formed congressional leaders today.
The new legislation would place the
draft on the same basis as that of
Britain and facilitate the operation of
the inter-allied draft treaties, expect
ed to be launched in the December
Short session.
In the meantime a campaign of edu-
cation is to be conducted to inform the
country of the need for raising the
draft ages.
These reasons include the probable
depletion of class l this year and
the necessity for going into deferred
classification unless draft age limits
are broadened. r5
Avoid Deferred Classifications.
provost Marshal General Crowder
has no desire to go into deferred class
iflcations," saids Representative Kahn,
of the house military committee to-
day. =.
Members of the senate foreign rela-
tions committee said today that rati-
fications of the draft treaty with Great
Britain and Canada would impose a
moral obligation on the United States
to raise the draft age"
Under an agreement among all the
service ages of all of the allied ma
tions are to be made uniform.
Ratification is the first step in add
ing nearly 700,0 600 men to the Ameri-
can or allied armies, from the popu-
iatlon or the country, officials said.
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FAVORS MOONEY TRIAL
Federation of Labor Resolution Ask
ing Rehearing.

st. Paul, Mimi. June 15.-Resolu-
tions requesting a new trial for
Thomas ]. Mooney, convicted of muir
der in connection with bomb explo-
sion during preparedness parade in
San Francisco, were brought before
the American Federation of Labor
convention here today.
Other resolutions considered today
urged the government to aid in estab-
fishing an independent Bohemia and
endorsed a proposed trip to Italy by
President Samuel Gompers, to explain
Americas war aims to workers there.
Recognizing the increased demand
for women workers, the federation ex-
pected late today to discuss plans Tor
unionizing them. A union OF women
stenographers and bookkeepers prob
ably will be the first step in this d.
rection.
Addressing ST. Paul business men
last night, Gompers told them busl-
ness has an equal right with labor to
organize
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FRANCE GRATEFUL
President Poincare Expresses
Admiration of Americans.
Message to Wilson on AnRiyer-
sary of Arrival.

Paris, June 13.-On the anniversary
of the arrival of American troops in
France, Presid ent Poincare today dis
patched a message to President Will
son, expressing his admiration at the
magnificent American effort" and
extending. his congratulations.
''The troops of the allies are living
In the most difficult hours of the war"
the message said. 1.-The rapid forma-
ton of new American units is sure to
restore the balance. Then the allies
will take decisive revenge and found
the peace principles you have laid
down, making certain the reign of
right and liberty amorg nations"
Poincare also wired General PERISH
ing cong-atulatins him upon the ad-
mirable fighting qualities displayed by
the American troops and wishing him
continued successes
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HUNS SEE DISASTER
Crushing OF Germanism in the United
States a .Souree OF Worry.

Washington, June 13.-In the. crush
ing out of Germanism in the United
States the Koelnische Volkszeitung
sees disaster, in a measure balanc-
ing the Teutonic military successes.
An official dispatch from France to-
day commenting on pessimistic dis
cussion in the German press of events
in the United States, quotes the Volks-
Zeitung as follows:
Mr.. Wilson hopes to succeed in
crushing the German elements. He
will succeed. The German press is
already nearly crushed out of exist
ence in America. The greater part Of
the German schools are closed. The
German associations are having to
strip themselves of all vestiges of Ger
manism. 1t is a complete debacle."
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Enormous Reserve Forces
Await Farmers Command.
Six Hundred Women Cooks Are
With the Harvest Army.
CASUALTIES TO BREAK RECORD
Grain Piled High in Fields
Promises 100 Million Bushels.
Soldiers at Funston Are in
Third Line of Defense.

Kansas City, Mo-, June ia har-
vest army thousands strong, backed by
enormous reserve forces, today awaits
the charge" into the golden-hued
wheat fields of the great southwest
The vanguard of this expeditionary
force of more than $4,000 men and
women, already has gone into action
along the Kansas Oklahoma border
where scattered cutting operations are
under way. But the great mass of
shock troops" must wait few days
until ripening-now rapidly proceed
ing northward under a scorching sun
completes its work.
The brunt of the Charge is ex-
the 'all-wheat' region-about Mon
day at the present rate of ripening.
Greatest Kansas Crop.
Z The Kansas crop this year is spread
over more than 6,250,000 acres and
the yield is expected to be upwards of
100. 100000 bushels. All wheat cut so
far is in prime condition, full headed
and full grained. 1t will be the ban
ner crop of Kansas, it is predicted.
The ars'-profesSiona1 har-
vest hands and farmers-wil1 make
up about $4,000 of the expeditionary
army, it was estimated today. In Enid,
Okla, Topeka, Wichita and Kansas
City, Kan, and Kansas City, Mo-, are
reserve forces of more than 10000 ex-
farmers and men of harvest field ex-
perience. They are expected to fol-
low the regulars" into action on
short notice.
600 Women Cooks.
About 500 women have enlisted fpr
service as cooks. Many of them arc
society women-wives of the reserve
force recruits. Back of the regulars
and the reserve force is the third
line" of defense-soldiers in training
aat Camp Funston. Under a war de-
,nSrtfaents order, many of these men
DRAFTED from the wheat-producing Sec
tions of Kansas, will be given fur
loughs of sufficient length to enable
them to complete the harvest at home
it was ANNOUNCED.
Pay As Cents an Hour.
The harvest is expected to move
northward over the Kansas border into
Nebraska and Iowa about the middle
of July. The harvest in Kansas
after reaching the crescendo of oper-
ations, is not expected to last more
than two weeks.
The average price paid for labor is
As cents an hour. Most of the men
are over draft age.
At many strategic" points thruout
Kansas and Oklahoma volunteers
have concentrated awaiting call to
service. Many of the volunteers in
Oklahoma are coming up from Texas
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In the letters received Phil re-
marked that when his captain saw
me fall. he said he never expected to
see me walk again" Relatives of Phil
in Topeka are of the opinion that he
was injured in the fall and was sent
to the hospital, but that he is now
out and at his work again.
Robert Billiard, PhiPs brother, said
this morning that the letter from
Phil referred to a fall Phil had in
Italy. Robert Billiard said that Phil
is now back in France.
Organized Company Here.
Phil Billiard organized an aero COM
pany in Topeka shortly after the dec
laration of war and offered it and
himself to the government as part
of Americas air forces. The offer was
not accepted and the company was
disbanded. Phil then enlisted in the
aero service and was sent to San
Diego, Calf, to the flying school
there He was then sent overseas,
where he has been working in the air
service testing planes.
The stories told OF the class OF
work which Phil does is this: Some
airman goes up and breaks his ma
chine or damages it in some way
The plane is brought into the repair
shop, where the necessary repairs are
made. Then the machine is turned
over to Phil for trial to see If it is
airwOrthy.
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EXPECT HUN REVOLT
Russian BoIsheviki Hope for Internal
Trouble in Germany.
BY JOSEPH sHAPLEN.

Stockholm, June 13-The, Russian
Bolsheviki have no foreign policy.
They are simply ostrich-like in their
naive faith that Germany soon will
be undermined by a revolution.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Tchit-
cherin is constantly protesting %
Germany against violations of the
Bres-Litovsk treaty. which is swal-
lowing the diplomatic pills doled out
by German Ambassador Mirbach.
Premier Legine calls this policy
forced retreating, while preserving
the soviet power" This is joke.
With peace negotiations between
Russia and Ukraine under way at
Kief, and preliminary negotiations
begun with Finland, the first impress
sions are that danger of further seiz-
ures of Russian territory is over and
that a real period of respite is begin
ming. Yet the newspaper Dien was
suppressed because it published a
statement from German military at
tache regarding possible German oc-
cupation of Petrograd.
The Bolsheviki declare there is no
immediate dangers Yet the Russians
were forced to blow up a number of
tfortresses which were of great inn
portance to the defenses of Petro-
grad.
1 am authoritatively informed that
the new Finnish government is form
ing an army of 100000 German n
trained soldiers. OF these, $4,000 al
ready are under arms.
When I stopped in Helsingfors har-
Dor, en- route from Petrograd.
learned authoritative1y that 10000
German troops now are in Finland
Personally. counted nipe big German
ira nsports.
The question is. Why these prepa-
rations? Most assuredly, they are for
the occupation either of the Murmar
peninsula or Petrograd - probably
both.
Curious events also are transpirins
on the southern borders of Russia
Both the soviet and the Ukrainiar
governm ents declared their READINGS.
to conclude peace long ago. Now
when negotiations are proceeding
German troops have occupied Valuik
and the Turkish government, contrar.
to the Brest-Litovsk treaty, claim.
Novo Rosisk. There is but sligh
doubt that Germany seeks to occup!
the whole of Russia and restore tn,
old regime.
A second series of facts likewise ii
important These refer to the conduc
of the land owners and bourgeojsi'
! (middIe class), who will be plea sed i
the Germans smash the revolution ant
save their property.
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"STOP," SAYS RUSSIA
German Troops Move East in Viola
ton of Agreement.

London, June 13.-The Germans in
the Ukraine began new movement
eastward June TO-. according to Rus
sian government wireless dispatch.
Foreign Minister Tchitcherin has in
structed Ambassador Joffe at Berlin
to complain about the movement
which is on width of one hundred
versts on the neutrality-suspicious. sta
ton front south of Moscow.
It is charged that the movement
is in violation of the line of demarca-
ton agreed upon by the German gov
ernment. The Germans are asked to
retire to their old positions.
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England Hears That q. s. VIII
Go to Fighting Limits.
Details of Dramatic Promise
Still Remain q Secret.
COME TO U. S. TO LIVE
German Prisoners Pleased With
Their New CaptOrs.
Great Scarcity of Officers
Among Huns Indicated.

London, June 13.-The American
army is prepared if necessary to make
a greater sacrifice thar. that involved
in the brigading of American troops
with the French and British. declares
the correspondent, of the Daily Mall
with the American forces in France.
After recording constantly and deep
ly expressed regrets among the Amer
lean troops that more trained Amer1-
cans have not been available to assist
the French and the willingness of the
Americans to sacrifice themselves IL
need be, the correspondent says:
This is tho spirit of the whole
army. I have already seen how the
president with ever readiness fell In
with the allied desires to brigade
American troops with the French and
British This was a great sacrifice.
greater perhaps than most people
imagine, but 1 understand that II tho
events of the next few days and the
plans of the allies should so demand
the United States is prepared for an
even much greater sacrifice and of q
character much more dramatic and
startling.
'I cannot give details and the neces-
sity may by good fortune never arise
w
always carry a feeling of gratitude for
the magnificent spirit with which the
United States is playing her part in
the war"
Yankees Accurate Fire.
(By the Associated Press.)
With the American Army in France.
Wednesday, June 1.-THE excellence
| of the American artillery fire was
| largely responsible for the capture by
American marines of approximately
400 prisoners in the fighting which re-
| suited in the clearing out Of the Bel
| ieau Wood northwest of Chateau
Thierry. The Germans, who had been
| to1d TO avoid capture because the
| Americans would torture them. starts
| ed to run after the American machine
gunners had made the wood untenable
but the artillery barrage was so per-
| feet that the Germans were cut off
| from escape.
Among the prisoners are six officers,
a major, captain and four lieuten-
| ants.
Bread Tied to Uniforms.
All were poorly clad and some had
pieces of bread tied to their uniforms
with strings The prisoners said they
were glad to be captured and several
| expressed a desire to go to the United
States after the war to live.
| All of Germany's plans. they added,
| called for ending the war next fall.
/ The prisoners were told, they said,
| Continued on Page Two.)
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TO WAR
They VIII Not Be Given Deferred
Classification in Kansas.

ceive exemptions or deferred classi-
fications, according to announcement
today from the office of Charles S.
Huffman, adjutant general They will
not be called into active service until
but their military status will not be
officially changed.
Reports to the effect that thresher-
men will be placed in a deferred class
with farmers, are misleading accord
ing to today's statement The man
who drives a threshing machine will
not be taken from his machine to an
army camp during the crop gathering
season. But his occupation will not
win a deferred classification
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GERMANY is STARVING
General Paralysis in Wheat Supply.
SAYS Munich Professor.

Paris, June 13.-Germany, altho at
tacking on the western front. is starv-
ing, says the Echo de Paris An arti-
Gle appearing in the Berlin Arbeiter
Zeitung relates the details of six chill
dren starving to death in an orphan
age at Zenefort Thuringia.
Prof Franz E. Helm, the widely
known economist, writing in the Bay
ernscher Zeitung of Munich. warns
the Germans that the coming weeks
will be harder than any that have
passed and processes to foresee gen.
eral paralysis in the supply of wheat.
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BRITISH AIR VICTORIES
Destroy % Hun Planes and Drop Fl
Tons of Bombs in 4 Days.

London, June 13.-British airmen,
assisting the French on the western
portion of the new Disc front, have de-
stroyed twenty-nine airplanes since
the drive started last Sunday, it was
officially announced by the war office
today In the same period they have
dropped 21 tons of bombs.
Operating on the Picardy front,
British airmen shot down two enemy
machines. drove two others down out
of control and dropped eighteen tons
of bombs, badly damaging the railway
at Cambria and the bi1lets at Frami-
court One British machine is miss
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BACK WITH HER SPOILS
Big German Submarine with Copper
Cargo, Sighted in Atlantic.

New York, June ia big German
submarine carrying two deck guns.
was sighted last Tuesday 800 miles
off the American Coast heading east
ward, by passengers arriving here
today on the Holland-American liner
Nieuw Amsterdam.
The sub made no effort to halt the
liner 1t is now believed that this
U-boat is the one that held up the
Norwegian steamer Vindeggen off the
Virginia coast and looted her copper
cargo. The submersible is evidently
Nenroute back to Germany with the
SnoilS
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KILL SO MEX. SOLDIERS
villa Held Up and Robbed Train
Carry Off Girls.

El Paso, Tex, June 13.-Fifty Car
rama soldiers were killed by. bandits
personally led by Francisco Villa, who
held up and robbed train near San
tiago Papasquiero, Durango. accord
ing to reports received here today
The bandits were said to have car
ried off to the mountains eleven wom-
en- passengers mostly girls.
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Silliman Evans Under Bond.

Dallas, June 13.-Silliman Evans.
Dallas newspaperman and former
clerk of the American legation at
Copenhagen, who was arrested here
by customs officials Tuesday in con-
nection with the entrance into the
United States of parts of the Russian
crown jewels. gave bond of $1,000
today and was released. He is to ap-
pear in New York July 2 for a herr
ing. A box bearing the legation seal
which was found in Evans apartments
was dispatched to Washington by
messenger yesterday.
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w. B. SKIBBE TO NAVY
Eighteenth State Journal Employe
Goes to War as Volunteer.

w. B. Skibbe. apprentice printer in
the composing room of the Topeka
State Journal will leave Saturday for
Puget Sound, where he will enter
service as a second-class seaman in
the naval reserve.
Skibbe. who was recently twenty
one years old. registered last week
and immediately made application for
enlistment in the navy. lie is the
eighteenth employe of this paper to
voluntarily enter some branch of war
service.
Skibbe's home is at III Duane
street.
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TO SEARCH TRAVELLERS
Passengers on Holland Liner Met by
$50 Government Inspectors.

An Atlantic Port, June 13.-Before
they are permitted to land today. the
612 passengers on board the Holland
American liner Nieuw Amsterdam,
which arrived here yesterday, will
have been subjected to the most thoro
search of incoming travellers since
America entered the war.
British and American inspectors
and the complement of custom men,
health service physicians and intelli-
gence officers put on board the stea-n-
ship numbered more than $50 indi-
yidualS.