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Wood. with regard to the lack Of air
planes.
We ought to be very proud that the
French are protecting our lines with
their airplanes," declared Senator Poin-
dexter tWash) sarcastically.
our airplane situation is known to
the entire world. We haven't any air
planes. That's all there is about it,
what's more, We never will have any
battleplanes. The present program does
not call for their construction"
Senator Hitchcock. of Nebraska a
member of the Military Affairs Com
mittee, denied that there were no COM
pat planes In process of construction.
We have 1000 training planes al
ready completed and we are ninety days
behind schedule on the fighting planes"
! Hitchcock said.
The fate of II nation Is often de-
, cided in less than ninety days The
present battle has ragged but five days
now" replied Poindexter
Mistakes have been made in the
past and these mistakes have been
enormous" said Hitchcock. but It is
| unfair to say we are building no battle
planes. The Liberty motor may not
be used for the combat planes 1t Is
possible that some other motor will serve
the purpose better. But thc Liberty
motor will he used for planes oc other
types"
Hitchcock declared that the military
affairs committee was desirOuS of giving
the Senate all possible information about
it's work. lie said that the investigating
committee would probably report by
saturday
II believe that the American people
have right to all this information.
/ They are entitled to the utmost knowl-
edge of what has been accomplished. -
said Senator Fall. of New Mexico. The
! time has come when the President can't
be reached except by giving the Ameri-
can people the information he has failed
TO assimilate.'
Scuator Smoot Ottah) criticised the
multiplicity of publicity bureaus. which
lie said send out a mass of nforma-
4 tion, but never carry a word Cf criticism
or suggestion to the Government" ."
There are fOrtysevcn such bureaus,
| Smoot said
| Lodge replied the committee doubtless
will publish the testimony when the time
comes
Lodges speech climaxed an uneasy
nBrning In the Senate. News from the
/ Western front caused some depression
/ Then Major General Wood who yeSter-
day talked to the Military Affairs Com.
mittee In secret session. appeared un.
. cNpectedly at the Capitol and sent for
senator Wadsworth. Wadsworth. Lodge
and II number of other Senators were
Closctcd with Wood for half an hour
/ None would comment on the reason for
! this sudden call
senator chamberlain took advantage
/ of Woods presence to suggest that he
make statement in open session tc
give the public his impressions of the
situation In France.
TN have no open hearing that will
criticize the War Department" said
Z Senator Kirby, of Arkansas
What If the War Department Is
going wrong" asked Senator Hitchcock
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GERMAN FOOD
CRISIS FORESEEN
De m and for Rations
Caused Big Drive, Re-
ports Indicate
DOGS NOW POPULAR DIET

Washington. March 20,
Germany's military masters are
seeking to feed their vassals on
empty victories" again instead of food
This is the conclusion drawn here
today, following receipt of official infor-
nation 10y this Government showing the
prospects Of "A food crisis the next month
seriously believes Germany will starvc,
But many saw in this official report to-
day support for the war department
statement that Internal political con
siderations forced the drive.
Gcrmany's eastern granary is not yet
open. and the prospect of unrest was
one compelling motive for the wcst-front
gamble, apparently.
So the Kaiser, sitting safely behind
the shamblcs Of the Scnrnc is cabling
back that his armies are VIGOROUSLY
capturing terrain the boches them
seljcs devastated. lie say nothing OF
the hundreds of thousands killed.
Wounded or missing in the victory"
The official report indicated meat and
bread rations may have to he cut again,
while transportation is hampering milk
shipments t. the industrial ceutcrs.
III Germany has to rely ON her
present resources" said the report, "she
will have to endure privations even.
greater than she has hitherto endured.
Meat shortage has forced Bresau to
eat dog meat. The municipal abattoir
there reported that last year, "a dogs,
l4i1 horses and 565 goats were butcher
ed there. Horse meat has been COM
mon. but dog is a war innovation.
Prospect oc fair yields of vegetables
by June offers some hope to tho Teuton
stomach.
Shortage of horses Is hampering spring
planting. Farmers were recently warn
ed that the spring drive would take the
horses and that they must use oxen and
COWS instead
Everywhere within the empire, break
down Of the once marvellous railroad sys-
tenn is creating havoc. Berllns supply
of meat has been frequently interrupted
by transportation difficulties.
Bavaria is practically without cheese.
nourishng and important article III
| tho workmen's diet. but war workers
have been. furnished limited supplies of
Alpine cheese. the Government taking
this special action to prevent unrest.
! Brewing of beer has been restricted
n step which probably would be taken
only under the most pressing need.
In Hamburg, il is reported. horses
have been put on oats rations because
of the extreme scarcity of feed. each
animal being allowed three pounds of
oats a day.
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U.S ENGINEERS
in Big BATTLl
Two Regiments Fight Gal
lantly on British
Front
IN CROZAT CANAL ZONE,
Pershing Reports American
Participation in Great
,Picardy Fray


American engineers have apparently
suffered losses In the German west
front Offensive.
Caught in the Teuton onset. az in tho
first battle of Cambria. they have fought
gallantly. Their losses will be small. as
only two regiments are within The Brit.
ish battle line and there were only
three companies in the Croznt canat
region. Berlin sought 10 make II aj,-
pear that more or less sizablc re-
serve force had been defeated there.
First authentic report of the par
ticipation Of American forces In the
fighting incident to the German drive
was sent TO the War Department by
General Pershng.
The message from General Pershing IA
believed to be the beginning OF "a daily
report OF developments on the American
front to be forwarded here and glven
out by the War Department. Sr1i :,
report was requested by General srci
last Sunday.
The German report gave Chauny as
the place where the American troops
were encountered and driven back
Chauny Is about "A mile west OF the
Crozat Canal and about six miles from
La Fere.
1t was America engineers who partic.-
pated with the British In the fighting at
Cambria. Whether these are the same
could not be learned of course.
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LODGE ASSAILS CONDUCT OF WAR
IN SPEECH BEFORE THE SENATE

single American combat plant in
in the last year.
This fact is well known, ho said, TO
the Germans.
our gallant Allies are holding back
the Germans advance at terrible cost.
In this dark hour IL Is a crime TO keep
from the American people facts well
known to the enemy"
Continuing his assault on the alrplane
program, Lodge said:
"I think we have sent one plane. 1t
may be on the way now. The Liberty
motor--the heavy one-may be develop
ed for bombing planes, but the light one
Is not suitable for fighting planes.
No Guns In France
We've no American guns in France.
When We decided to make French 75s.
we wasted six golden months trying to
improve the recCil-the best recoli IN
the worldly all the experts. Six
months wasted and not u gun In France.
We've turned out two American ships.
Tpue, we have commandeered some
ships. but we've only built two new
ones"
at IL. to the last degree, painful to
say these things, but they are the truth
They are there TO be dealt with--cold,
hard facts. The truth--tell 1t to the
American people. They should no longer
be misled about what we are about to
do Tell them facts. That will arouse
the genuine grim American spirit.
Tell them exactly where we are to-
day. The world looked to us "a year ago
to save the situation; to come to the
rescue. We haven't.
"The only relief ] see Is an appeal 10
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LIBERTY BONDS JUMP;
S1,7OO,O00 IN ONE SALE
Second Fours Rise to $97 .62 in Active
Market-Total Sales More
Than S24,OOO,O0O

New York. March 26.--Liberty Bonds
Of the second issue scared to s97.62 at
noon today following the largest single
transaction ever recorded on the Stock
Exchange. Starting buying campaign
which by i2:45 o'clock had totaled
sio,OoO,OOo for the day, G. u. Barney &
co. opened up by buying s1,7oO,ooo OF
Liberty 4s ht $3.50.
At 1:15 o'clock trading In bonds had
reached Si7,000,0Oo and the market had
reached s97,62, a block of $500, 900 going
at the latter figure.
Bankers are well pleased with the
provisions of the next Government loan
as announced by Secretary McAdoo last
night The rate of 4I4 per cent. they
assert. and the conversion features of
the outstanding issues will steady the
market and prevent excessive liquida-
tion
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The sixth day of the monster battle
finds the British and Germans fighting
like tigers across the famous Pozeres
ridge which Haig wrested from linden
burg in the fall of 1916
Furious fighting continues, the enemy
massng in the direction of Albert from
the nigh ground around Montauban.
Here the British. In machine-gun po-
sitions. are resisting stubbornly.
The Germans also are thrusting west
ward from Nesle, attempting to drive Il
wedge there. But their progress con-
tinues slow.
The Allied resistance is daily stiffen-
ing. The enemy Is violently endeavor-
south Of Arras. toward Albert and
toward Noyon. Each sector is the scene
Of the heaviest nghting night and day.
The Germans were reported today
Lighy-Thilloy and Montauban, fighting
madly toward the valley OF the bloody
Ancre.
The weather continues fine. favoring
morning the barometer fell and the
clouds came up. but the wind veered
to the north clearing up the sky,
The airmen arc profiting, however,
by both the sunshine and starlight.
During the last four days fighting more
than zoo machines have been brought
down. One hundred and twenty have
neen seen to crash to the earth in kind
ling wood, while eighty-thrce were Ob-
served falling beyond control.
Low-fying machines are ceaselessly
Earrassing the German attackers. some
times simultaneously bombing advance
refreshed. ''leapfrogging the first
This dispatch indicates more eN-
tended area of lighting than is de-
scribed In Haig's official statement.
The British commander limited the
great est action to that portion Of the
battlefront between the Somme and the
Disc. with the hardest fighting where
the British and Freoch lines converge.
The foregoing dispatch reports the
Germans trying to break through south
OF Arras (probably in the Nyicinity of
WancourD in the direction of Albert
and toward Noyon. These sectors take
in the extreme flank Of the battlefront
and the north center.
Pozieres. in which region Is centered
the hardest combat. is on the Albert Ba :
paume road only six miles northeast or
the former place. Ligny-Thilloy is
about two miles south Bapaume. Mon
tauban Is six miles east of Albert and
three miles west of Combles. The Ger
mans evidently are driving at Albert
from the east and northeast.
Nesle is eight miles west of Ham and
ewelye miles south of Pcronne. Its cap
ture already has been claimed by the
Germans
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EXPERTS PRAISE
HAIG'S TACTICS
British Maneuvering Ad-
vantageously, U. S.
Army Men Hold
MESSAGE FROM BLISS
American Member of Ver-
sailles Council Reviews Stu
alton in the Field
MasIlinEton. March e6

American official confidence in the
Intimate result of the German drive was
majntaipcd today despite the less favor
able Developments of yesterday-the loss
of Neyle and GuisCard. such men ,as
Acting Chief of staff March. Major
General Leonard Wood, Brigadier Cen
eraT Mcintyre. press censor. still felt
that victory would not rest with the
boche
The thought here is after study OF the
developments and from knowledge of ad-
vance plans. that the British are
,naneuvering advantageously. The Ger
mans have pushed IN after them. thus
lessenipg their chance of developing at
tacks successfully elsewhere than in the
somme region, and now. apparently. the
boche will soon feel the force of British
and French res. s.rves. lsc of them at
an earlier stage would have been poor
tactics, according to military experts,
The situation serves to acCcntuate the
need for even more American troops.
officials aglee, that the United states
reserve OF victory must be pushed
rIf the British hold the boche now
believe it will be his last chance" said
one high officer today. "Then we must
swell our forces abroad hurriedly and
when that Is accomplished victory will
be with the United States and the
Allies"
However, Americas force while szable
this year will not have the demonstrate
ing punch before next spring as most
authorities here see 1t.
Troop transport is improving. Ships.
however, are still sadly needed Anti
submarine work grows more effective,
but II will be winter or spring before the
full weight of America in all these lines
Is available.
However, if the British stand off the
enemy now. the last big German punch
Is gone. officers believe 1t will then
be mainly Il matter of time and ever
wheming numbers to beat the foe
The German undoubtedly wants to
get the Britisher out in the open. There
is a general feeling here that open war
fare would decide the struggle, whereas
trench warfare is mainly II problem Of
attrition with n prospect of an ultimate
stalemate. experts suggest.
This afternoon very lengthy dis
patch was received from General rGsker
n. Bliss, permanent American military
member of tho Supreme War Council at
Versailles This message reviewed at
great ltngth all of the developments
along the western 'front.' None of the in
formation which it contained was made
public.
officers who We're in position to know
the contents of the message, while de-
clining to he quoted. declared 1t was
very plain that while the situation was
very grave because of the enormous
weight of the German offensive. it, was
likewise even more plain that disaster
was not here. All agreed that a turning
point would be reached and that then
the full weight of the Anglo-French
counter offensive would be manifest
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FIGHTING ON ITALIAN
FRONT GROWS LIVELY
Activity Indicates Purpose to
Prevent Withdrawal of
Austrians to West

BonuOn, hdTCn ~
A dispatch from Rome says activity
on the Italian front is becoming increaS-
ingly greater in cooperation with the
Allied defense In France. The cable
would indicate that the Italians have
begun demonstration in their theatre.
either to prevent further withdrawal of
Austrian forces for use on the west
front or in the hope of compelling Hin
denburg to use part of his reserve in
Italy,
The usual artilleryng was reported
everywhere along the front today. with
moderate reconno,terng activities. Six
enemy airpanes were brought down.
Washington. March 26.--Steps should
be taken by the Allies to counter the
German propaganda drive to induce
Italy to quit the war. Representative
Thomas j. Iielfin. OF Alabama, warned
today. 81 believe the boastful reports
Of military success on the western front
emanating from Berlin were aimed at
Italy" he said. General Auffenburg
said important things should happen
In Italy But he did not mean military
operations. Reports of new German VIC
tories in the west are being sent into
Italy continually. am Informed. That
sort OF thing can have only one object
Claims of success by the Germans
make Great Britain, France and the
United States only the more determined
to win, but they are calculated to have
a very different effect on Italy. Their
purpose is to discourage the Italians and
80 TO draw them into separate peace
negotiations.
THE United States cannot do II, but
II behooves Great Britain and France
, TO see that no German report of sue
cess that does not stand on fact goes
uncorrected This is most important.
TO overlook this insidious propaganda
during the thunder of military attack is
natural, perhaps, but it may be, unless
we protect ourselves against such a
result that mere words will have won
Tor Germany what her arms could not
win, namely. victory over Italy"
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BRITISH CROSS JORDAN
ADVANCE NINE MILES
Defeat Combined Turkish and
German Army in Palestine.
Whole Battery Is Captured

London, March 20. - The War Office
announces that the British positions
on the left bank of the Jordan. in Pales-
tine. were extended nine miles on Fri
day night
Dun ing the night of March 23 fresh
pridgt were thrown across the Jor-
uan al l by evening OF the cath our
troops had progressed nine miles
, tnrough difficult mountainous country
IN the direction If Issalt, advanced
mounted troops having secured the
bridge at FL Howiej. three miles south
of the town. Our advance was op-
posed ty both Turkish and German
troops and prisoners of both natiCnali-
Ties were taken.
As result of a brilliant attack by
London infantry battalion an entire
hostile battery was captured. Very
enective bombing and machine-gun
operations were carried out by the
royal flying corps and the. Austria
nan flying corps units. many direct
mis- being obtained on the enemy's
Il troops. transport and camps. twhile
trains on the Hedjaz Railway were
attacked successfully.
Information has been received OF a
euccessful action by Arab troops by
T me King of the Hedjaz. near Jedanah,
z e4 the Hedjaz Railway. seventy-eight
y !ie4 northwestward or Medina. tn
Fch 10. Under cover Of = eand,
3 ee@Peay e e 2 xvFklsn rSss1s.,1 :me' Y
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HURRY 100000
ARMY, WOOD
Tells Senator's 2,500,0O0
Are Needed in France
at Once
SHIPS VITAL NECESSITY
Washington, March o6.

Washington, March e6.
Five million men in training and
100000 men abroad is urged by Cen
eral Leonard Wood, just returned from
France. where lie acquired intimate
knowledge of the gravity Of the stua-
uon. already accentuated by the Ger
man drive in Picardy General Wood
made his statement before the Senate
Military Affairs Committee
General Wood argues that men should
be sent across for large share Of
their training, and points out that what
they now. learn Of trench war may
have TO he scrapped for open fighting
soon, ns n result of the dcNelopments
on the west line now.
The conference with General Wood
was secret one. and comparatively
little of what was revealed to the COM
mittre was permitted to become public
1t was revealed, however. as u definite
conviction that the United states today
stands merely on the threshold of the
tremendous effort necessary before sh"
may expect to accomplish a victory.
General Wood made 1t plain that
we can't really get into the war for
year yet. even If We have J,OOO,OOO
men
Thus spoke Senator Chamberlain, Of
Oregon, chairman of the Military AZ
fairs Committee, in discussing General
Woods testimony following the near
ing.
General Wood emphasized the imme-
diatc need of many things, but he em-
nj sgiz of a
The present shipbuilding program. he
is Understood to have said to the COM
mittae, should be specded M and eX-
panded so that every possible ounce Of
American energy not devoted to the
preparations for meeting the enemy on
the battleinc should he concentrated
upon the making of boats so as to
make it possible to meet the enemy In
sufficient numbers before it is too lat
The committee was deeply inn
pressed" said Senator Chamberlain,
with tho fact that the supreme neces-
stiles are more ships and more man
power and also with the Importance of
the element Of time in the furnishing
of both
If tho committee or If the country
generally needed any specific state
ment, of fact to illustrate what was
turity of her war effort to date Gen
eraL Wood supplied it when he told the
Senators that in all France today there
Is not one p.ece of Americas ueavy
field artillery and that neither on the
soil of France nor in the air above Is
there IA single American airplane
General Wood expressed emphatic
agreement with II number Of Senators
who asked him If he did not consider
1t of utmost Importance that the country
should be acquainted with the facts and
not lulled into dangerous overcOniidence
by half truths or by official camcu.
, flage.
General Woods pessimistic reports on
the lack of airplanes in France served
to accentuate recent statements that
General Pcrshng was far from pleased
at this scarcity. Everything possible Is
being done however. II was pointed out,
70 overcome the shortage.
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than GOO guns, thousands or machine
guns and enormous quantities of ammu-
milton and provisions have been taken.
just as after the Ison2o battle in Italy.
May. God be with us.
WILHELM"
Bapaumc il on the northern part of
the battlefront. where the British line
for the most part has been held. II is
one Of the larger towns on the fighting
front. from which "a number of roads
radiate. The official German statement
of Sunday night said II gigantic strug
gle was taking place FOR the town. IL
Is thirteen miles below Arras.
Nesle. Guscard. Chauny. NilleQuicr-
Aumont and La Neuville are all in the
sector west of the Somme southwest of
st Quentin. where the Germans have
been making the greatest headway in
the last twcnty-four hours. 1t is there
that the French troops were thrown in,
taking over Il section Of the battlefront
from the British.
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WOMAN SHOT; REFUSED
TO COME TO THIS CITY

Richmond, Va, March Go william
Woody. a plumber. twenty-siN, was ar
raigned today on the charge of shooting
Mrs. Adolphus i. Nanney; twenty-four'
because, il was alleged, she refused to
accompany him to Philadelphia where lie
was planning to 20 to work at Hog
Island shipyard. Woody was there re-
Gently in quest Of n position and stayed
~ Mrs. Van Horns boarding house at
Eighty-seventh street and Bartram ave-
nue..
Woody acCompa MED the woman to the
movies last night and the shooting oC-
CURED after she returned to her board
ing house She was shot through the
chest and is iit a serious condition. Her
husband Is in a sanitarium in North
Carolina.
Woody today denied all knowledge of
the shooting and protested his innoccnSe.
The case went over until May |.
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GERMANS CLAIM TRIUMPHANT
PROGRESS ALL ALONG FRONT

Berlin, March 26.--Ihe latest war Of
flee statement says: Between the
Somme and the Disc our troops are fight
ing their way forward.
There was hard fighting between
Bapaume and Pcronne. We drove the
enemy back here to his old position
which was held between the Ancre and
the Somme before the beginning Of the
Somme battle in 1916"
Amsterdam, March 26.--Thc German
Emperor announced the fall OF Bau-
paume to the Empress as follows:
"Bapaume fell last night after hard
struggle My victorious troops are preSs-
ing forward from Bapapmc and further
south are advancing on Albert. The
Somme has been crossed at many points
above Peronne. The spirits of the troops
are rs fresh as on the first day of the
battle.
More than $4,000 prisoners, more
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LENINE'S FALL NEAR;
PEACE FOES GAINING
Bolshevik Premier to Be Forced Out
by Enemies, German Paper
Declares
Berne. March IS.

Berne, March 70.
The fall 81 Nikolai Lenine. Premier in
Russia's Bolshcvik Government, is inn
minent, according to the F'rankfurter
zeitung. copies of which have been re-
ceived here.
The accession OF Socialists and those
who repudiated the recent peace treaty
with Germany to power is considered
inevitable, the paper said.
Lenine was the strongest of the Boil
sheviki in favor of signing the treaty
which made peace between Germany
and Russia. Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik
Foreign Minister. who conducted the
negotiations. at Brest-Litovsk, was op-
posed to the treaty as finally adopted.