The Tomahawk., 1918-05-02


| feet in Atlantic coast and gu.i ship
yards, was made effective for Great
Lakes yards, retroactive to April L.
/ The decision prescribes eight hours as
the working day.
Differences between the Bethlehem
Steel company and its employees have
been adjusted, it was announced at
Bethlehem, Pa.
Emil Herman, state secretary of the
Socialist party, was arrested at Ev-
| erett, WASH, on charge of violating
| the espionage act. Herman testified
that he gave out ''anti-militarism"
| stamps:
A new scale of wages for civilians
working in Atlantic coast navy yards
will be put into effect May 1, the navy
department announced. 1t grants is
to N2O per cent pay increases and
makes the navy yard land pay con-
form with wages paid In shipyards.
Lucien -Muratore. opera singer,
thrills 10000 persons in New York
after singing the "Marseillaise," when
he whipped to the breeze large
American flag and cried: "Vive
rAmerique! Vive la France"
European War News
British casualties reported at Lon
don during the week that ended Sat-
| urday totaled 12,368, divided as fol-
lows: Killed or died Of wounds, Off
GERS, SIS; men, 1859. Wounded or
missing, officers, 2,173; men, 1881.
British and German light forces
clashed in the waters east of Heligo-
land, the British admiralty announced
at London. After an exchange Of
few shots the German warships took
refuge behind their mine field.
Maj. Gen. Frederick Maurice, chief
director Of military operations at the
London war Office, has been promoted
to duties in the field. He will be as
signed to work in relation to American
and French armies. ...
Finland has definitely entered the
ranks of our enemies, says dispatch
from Stockholm. Finnish government
troops, accompanied by Germans,
crossed the northeastern frontier into
Russia. where they have already in
flicted casualties on the Russian ad-
vance guard detachments deployed in
the railway zone. =
A dispatch to Amsterdam from Find
haven says that another mutiny broke
out at Beverloo camp, in the province
of Limbourg, Belgium, among the Ger
man troops when ordered to the Brit
ish. front in France. A number OF the
mutineers were shot, the dispatch
adds, but the resistance continued.
The capture by the Turks of the city
Of Batum is announced in an official
statement issued at Constantinople.
The city was held by the Armenians.
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A telegram received at Amsterdam
from Berlin says that $3,637 100000
has been subscribed. to Germany's
eighth war loan, with many small
amounts still to be recorded:
The conference of Irish Nationalists.
Sim Feiners, -O'Brienites and labor
ties held in Dublin under the chair
manship of the lord mayor. unan1-
mously passed resolution declaring
their determination to resist conscrip'
ton. ,,rr'
All the remaining stages of the Brit
ish man-power bill have been conclud-
ed by both the house of commons and
the peers, and the royal assent was
given the measure. The bill includes:
CONSUMPTION for Ireland; elevation Of
the army age to fifty years and in
some cases to fifty-fve; combing out
Of Industries to secure men, hereto
fore exempt, for war service. Con-
scription of Ireland is expected to
add 161, 900 men to the fighting forces.
The Amsterdam TELEGRAPH reports
that the German Socialist party In
Austria has decided that work shall be
stopped May throughout the coun-
try and that demonstrations in favor
Of peace shall be held. .-E
U.S.-Teutopic War News
The loss of two American ships.
from which sc men are missing, was
announced by the navy department.
The Lake Moor was sunk by an en-
envy submarine in European waters.
Five officers and % men are missing.
The Florence n. was blown up in
French port by an internal explosion.
Thirty-four. of the crew of approx