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The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
Five Million Bottles
OF Soda Pop Included
Shipment to France

Five million bottles Of soda pop
win be shipped this month by the Y,
NJ. G. A. to American soldiers in
France, according to a statement
made yesterday by the associations
national war work council Other
supplies to be forwarded in the April
shipment are 10000 Testaments and
other books. $1,000 shaving sticks,
5000 tubes Of tooth paste, 2.5oo.0oO
packages Of chewing gum. Is tons of
coffee and 2,10s,0Oo pounds OF sugar.
One hundred talking machines. 2,5OO
monographs records and 800 motion
picture acts are 10 be sent TO the new
huts for the soldiers use.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
DRY" RULES FOR CANADA.

Dominion regulations prohibiting the
shipment OF liquor into or through
any province where prohibition is m
force became effective today. 1t docs
not affect any shipments that were
actually in the hands of the eNPress
companies at the point Of shipment
prior to the law coming into force.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
CITY BLOCK HOUSES
HUMAN MENAGERIE

Evansville, Ind, April whats IL
a name? One block here is a verita.
BILE menagerie, housing two cranes.
wolf. a fox. a stork and a crow. But
they're human. Stork is a furniture
dealer. Julius Wolf is a butcher, p.
H. Crow. Henry NJ. Crane and an
other Crane are in business with Fox.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
Study Of German
Barred by Schools

Spokane, Wash. April 2-withln
the last twenty-four hours three cities
in the Pacific Northwest, through
their boards Of education, have voted
to abolish the teaching of the Ger
man language in the public schools.
The cities are Wallawalla, Wash, and
Great Falls and Helena, Mont.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
WILL REVIEW
INCOME And
PROFITS TAXES
Adams Appointed Chair
man Of Internal Revenue
Adjustment Board.

Organization OF a staff to rate
excess profits taxes was announced
last night by Daniel Roper, Com.
missioner Of Internal Revenue. T
s. Adams, of Yale University, is
chairman. The list includes thir-
teen other tax reviewers. They
Twill have as legal advisers Arthur
A. Baliantine, Solicitor of Internal
Revenue; Fred T. Field, Hugh Sat.
terlee and Robert N. Miller.
The court OF last resort will in
clade Representative CordeIl Hull
Of Tennessee. member of the House
Ways and Means Committee, who
helped frame the excess profits tax
law; Wallace d. Simmons, of st.
Louis; Henry Walters, of the At
lantic Coast Line and the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, of Balti-
more, and John Burke, Treasurer OF
the United States. These men will
pass on all important questions on
which the tax reviewers fail to
agree.
Commissioner Roper's Statement.
In describing the system to be
followed, Commissioner Roper said:
The appointment Of these re-
viewers insures the continuation of
cooperation between the Bureau of
Internal Revenue and the taxpay-
ers. This plan will safeguard gov
ernmental revenues and accord
equitable treatment to taxpayers.
No effort has been spared in our
endeavor to provide taxpayers with
the information essential to a full
understanding of the excess profits
and income tax law and the ad-
ministrative regulations.
With this organization taxpayers
may be assured of intelligent and
painstaking consideration of their
returns and of an impartial and
equitable application of the law
and regulations to their individual
cases. 1t Is inconceivable that any
taxpayer. under present conditions,
should endeavor to evade. any por-
tion of his just tax, to seek prefer
entail treatment from the Bureau
of Internal Revenue.
Late Returns Allowed.
collectors have been directed to
permit delinquent taxpayers to sub
nit with late returns, IL filed i'm
mediately, statements showing
causes of delinquency. These state
ments will be given full considera-
tion in the determination of penal
ties and amounts of taxes to be as
sessed."
With Chairman Adams on the re-
viewing board are: ]. E. Sterrett.
New York; Stuart w. Cramer,
Charlotte, N. c.; f. T. Meredith. Des
Moines, Ia; William n. Davis.
Bartlesville, Okla: Thomas E.
Lyons, Madison. Wis: R. C. Allen,
Lansing, Mich; Ralph Arnold, Los
Angeles. Cal; John Marks, Ma
poleonville. La; A. P. Ramstedt
Wallace, Idaho; George NJ. Corn
wall. Portland, Ore,; Carl H. Nau
Cleveland. Ohio; H. H. Bond. Bos-
ton, Mass. and L F. Speer. deputy
commissioner of internal revenue.
The tax reviewers will start work
Immediately. passing on the returns
by taxpayers and evidence provid-
ed BY the sfxty-four district col.
lectors Of internal revenue. Taxes
they assess must be paid by June Is
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
u. S. Fuse Makers Meet
to Discuss Speeding-Up

Cleveland. April 2.-Representa-
tives of the American Fuse Manu-
facturers' Association from all over
the country are here today for a
two days session discussing ways
to better the trade. and in some
cases to speed up production.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
CONCRETE
PLANS AW AIT
APPROPRIATION
Shipping Board Prepares
Specifications for Stand
ardized Steamers.

Standardization of a $500 deadweight
ton concrete seagoing steamship has
been completed by the United States
Shipping Board, it was learned last
night.
In addition to these finished plans
and specifications, others are ready
for a program of concrete seagoing
tugs. harbor tugs. Oil tank tow barges
and cargo tow barges.
Ready to Expand Program.
Everything is ready now for an ex-
pansion Of the Shipping Boards ten
tative concrete ship program. now linn
tied to four steamships. one Of 1000.
two of $500 and one Of $500 deadweight
tons. but the plans and specifications
will not be made public for bidding till
Congress makes a further appropria-
ton to the board for concrete ships.
The reports OF the engineers Of the
concrete division of the board, 1t was
said, has not lessened the enthusiasm
Of both board and Emergency Fleet
officials for the concrete ships. In fact,
the reports have so impressed the gov
ernment shipping officials that they
have decided to build tugs and harbor
craft Of ferro-concrete construction.
However. the original appropriation
for shipbuilding did not contemplate
concrete program, and, moreover.
most Of the ship contracts contempIat-
ed in the original program already
have been awarded or are an integral
part Of future arrangements.
Wants Congress to Decide.
For these reasons, it was said, and
because there is pressure from Con-
gress itself. through its individual
members in behalf of constituents. to
force the board into a program not yet
tested by the experience of a big con-
crete ship at sea, the entire matter
Of concrete ship construction is to be
threshed out before Congress in a re-
quest for a specific appropriation.
II that appropriation is granted, bids
will be asked at once upon the plans
and specifications now ready. Four
concrete yards are already at work,
at Redondo Beach and Redwood City,
Cal. and Brunswick. Ga, and Jack
sonvihe, Fla. now operated respective
ly by the Ferro-Concrete Shipbuilding
Company, the San Francisco Ship
building Company. which built the
concrete ship Faith, expected to make
her maiden and test voyage about
May l, the Liberty Shipbuilding Com
pany and the Fougner Steel Concrete
Shipbuilding Company.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03

THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE NOT
MYTHS. You can find them-whether
they are workers, buyers for your
property or tenants. They live here.
They read the classified ads. They
will read yours. II it appeals to them,
you'll find out who they are. Try the
experiment. 1t does not often fail of
results.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
japanese to Give u. S.
250,000 Tons IN Ships

Tokyo. March % delayed.
amount of tonnage to be turned
over to the United States BY Japan
under the arrangement made by
the japanese shipping commission
is estimated BY the press at about
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
Mothers and Teachers Confer.

Johnstown, Pa, April 2.-The an
nual convention of the Pennsylvania
Congress of Mothers and Teachers
Association was begun here today. 1t
will last three DAYS.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
Holland Saving DAYLIGHT.

saving plan" has been adopted by
Holland and all timepieces were ad-
vanced there one hour yesterday to
continue until October /.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
Y. W. c. A. Leaders to Meet.

Leaders of the sixty-five Bible
classes of the Y. w. G. A. are to meet
at p. m. today, under the leadership
Of Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
Submarine Detroyers.

Our deroyers and ships waiting sudden at
tack the deadly orpedothe Atlantic is the
lookout for the first indication of hidden dngers fight
For those leading quiet life home
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where Backaehe Of kind often caused by kidney
which means that the kidneys not working properly Poisonous
acid in
overworkng the sick Kidneys congestion
backache tine a
causes headache Perhaps become respondent sick
irritable have spots appearing before the
the lids and lack of ambition to do things The latest
drink plenty Of water between meals and take single Anuc
Simply your druggist for Anric Tablets opbIe
strengh If have umbago rheumatism gout dopsy begin
Immediately with this discovery of
Medical Director of Surgical Institute Buffalo, Y Send roc
tor trial pkg All druggists sell package cents
Perces Pellets regulate and invgorate stomach liver
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

ing Paris from the north The last is
the great forest south of the Nonette,
but from the north bank Of the Nonette
the Germans would be within range Of
Paris with their siege guns and the city
could be destroyed at will.
Once the German right wing, west of
the Disc, had passed the river, south of
the Aisne-that is, about Compiegne-it
would be possible for the centre to ad-
vance and play it's part, while at the
proper moment the left flank, between
scissors and Chateau Thierry, profting
by the retirement of the French centre
out of the high ground and woods from
Villers-Cotterets south of Scissors to
the Disc, could push on over the level,
open country, which saw the great Battle
of the Ourcq in September, 1914. AS
they stood on June 5, when their main
advance was checked on the Scissors
Chateau Thierry line, the Germans were
hardly a dozen miles away from the
northern corner of this battlefield, where
Maunoury defended Paris and to which
taxicabs brought French reserves in a
critical hour.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

route, passing west of the high ground
and crossing the Disc about Compiegne,
while the army of Bulow pushed south
between scissors and Rheims. But hav-
ing reached Senlis the Kluck army in
clined to the east, made it's turn away
from Paris and drove down through
Meaux across the Marine, Offering it's
flank to Paris and inviting the blow
which began the Battle Of the Marnc.
After the Marine the first concern of
the French was to pursue the Germans
across the Aisne and drive them from
the high ground between the Aisne and
the Disc and the forts of Laon and
Rheims, which formed the basis of the
second line Of French defence of the cap
ital, the third line being the forts of
Paris itself, now proved to be worthless
against German siege artillery. This
was the main significance Of the first
battle of the Aisne and of the desperate
fighting about Rheims in September and
early October, 1914.
In this effort the Allies failed. They
passed the Aisne about Scissors; they
occupied some of the high ground in the
angle between the Aisne and the Disc;
but the Germans held the northern forts
of Rheims, the high ground south of
Laon and north of the Aisne on the
Chemin DIES Danes and the high ground
just west of the Disc about Noyon In
1916, in the Somme campaign, the Brit
isb and French endeavored to clear this
barrier to Paris by an attack on the side
of the Disc salient. They did compel
retirement which cleared the Noyon
heights and much of the high ground east
Of the river, but the Germans still chung
to Laon and the St. Gobain Plateau, east
of the Disc and north of the Athletic.
In 1917 the French, under Nivelle,
made desperate effort to drive the
Germans out of Laon, seeking to take
the town and thus force an evacuation
of the st. Gobain Plateau, from which
the supergun is now Smelling Paris. At
the same time French attack east of
Rheims sought to clear the Germans
out Of the forts to the north of the town,
Of which Brimont was the most famous.
But this offensive failed; Nivele was re-
tired, and the Germans were left still
securely lodged in the second line of de-
fences of the French capital, defences
which, in the main, were supplied by the
nature of the country, not by artificial
forts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

tween the Disc and the Aisne to make
it impossible for the German centre, fac
ing Paris, to advance, while on the east
they occupied the Chemin DIES Danes
and the high ground Immediately north
of the Aisne and south of the Athletic.
West of the Disc their line faced La
Fere and seemed to rest securely on high
ground all the way north to the Scarpe,
east of Arras.
But on March 81, in their first and
greatest operation, the Germans cleared
the Disc Valley as far south as Noyon.
Retailing this town they also opened the
roads west of it, which descend from St.
Quentin and Amiens to the Disc, which
cross at Creil and Pont Ste. Maxence.
These were the roads that Kluck fol-
lowed. They lead over fairly level coun-
try right to Paris. On these roads the
Germans were temporarily halted about
April 1. Thereafter they shifted the
weight of their blow and sought to cut
between the British and the French, but
were checked before Amiens.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

and in all the period of his wars Paris
had been defended at the frontier. This
continued to be the case in the early
wars of the French Revolution, and
these Notifications corresponded to the
Observation-Disclosures line, which was
intended to be the bulwark of French
defence in the north in later times. But
actually the enormous cost of modern
Notifications and a reliance upon
treaties which declared Belgian soil neu-
trail led French parliaments into the cap
ital blunder of leaving the northern
frontier unguarded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
On the Second Line
OF Defence

Thus, in August, 1914, when Germany
chose to advance through Belgium, she
was able to reach and pass the frontier
defences with practically no difficulty,
once she had won the opening battles of
Neufchateau, Charleroi and Mons. In
point of fact, the French made no stand
on the frontier, and Maubeuge, after a
gallant but hopeless resistance, fell while
the Battle of the Marine was in prog
ress. Thus the barrier which had saved
Paris at the time of the Revolution
played absolutely no part in protecting
the capital in 1914.
Behind the frontier system, which ex-
listed only on paper, the French had
sketched second line of defence; this
rested upon the cities of Rheims, Laon
and La Fere, and was prolonged to the
sea by the Somme River west of St.
Quentin. Actually it rested upon Ger
tain natural defences, namely, the high
ground between the Disc and the Aisne
in the centre, the Somme River on the
west and the high ground and forts of
Rheims. This high ground between the
Aisne and the Disc is so great an OBJ
stacle that all the important railways
and highways pass east or west of it,
coming south either by the Disc Valley
or by the depression between Scissors
and Rheims. And in theory the Disc
Valley was covered by the forts Of La
Fere, the gaps between Scissors and
Rheims by the fortress of Laon, tho in
trenched camp of Rheims and the de-
tached forts between these two cities on
the high ground north Of the Aisne; but
again, in fact, these forts were obsolete;
they were survivals of another age and
without contemporary value.
Accordingly, when the Germans came
south, in August, 1914, they passed the
second line of defences of Paris almost
without resistance; Rheims and Laon
were evacuated; the line of the Somme
was not defended. and the Germans were
thus able to advance east and west IF
the high ground between the Disc and
the Aisnc without opposition and ulti-
mately to reach and pass the Marnc.
In this invasion the army of Kluck
came south by the historic northern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

cordingly, after two days Of advance
southwark, the main German thrust was
changed to southwestward direction; in
word, toward Paris. In it's turn this
advance was checked westward of line
between Scissors and Chateau Thierry
in the first days of June.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
The Old System
OF Frontier Forts

10 begin at the beginning, French mill
itary commanders had in the period fol-
lowing the Franco russian War care
July fortified the eastern frontier of
france against German attack. The his
tor'c routes of invasion, those leading
through Verdun to the Champagne Plain,
through Nancy from the valley of the
Moselle to that of the Marine, through
oehort to the Seine, were barred by 4
system OF intrenched camps and detached
iofts which has, with single excep-
uon, survived the four years of war
oniy between Verdun and Toul, on the
'ront where some of our American troops
arc now on duty, have the Germans been
sOe to take even one fort in the French
system, that of Fort Camp DIES Romans,
above st. Mihiel, and the narrow gap
maae here was quickly closed.
On the north, on the contrary, the
~ has been quite the reverse.
theoretically, the northern and easiest
4oao&o France was to be guarded by
ssnes OF forts and intrenched camps,
s vnoiiy comparable to the eastern system.
ule' Maubeuge and Mezieres were to
the centres, as Verdun, Toul and Epi-
.a' are on the east, and between them
''acned forts were to cover other roads
aa railways passing between the main
.'a.res OF population and Of resistance.
aa on any military map you may still
- ~ tnese forts and camps marked as ex-
ns' but in reality they existed only
sne map. save in the case Of Maui
when war came four years ago.
= the time Of Louis XIV Vauban, his
sa. engineer, had erected series Of
Mons covering the French from
4xom re North Sea 70 Switzerland,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Paris Becomes
The New Verdun

Next Sunday mean to discuss in de-
tail the development of the German blow
on the west side of the Disc, which is
just beginning to take shape as / write
on Tuesday, June II. But at the mo-
ment am most anxious that my readers
should grasp the larger aspects of Ger
man strategy. Now, as always, tho
Allied armies-not Paris, nor any other
fixed position-remain his detectives.
But the Allies have put price upon
Paris. In a word, they have decided that
Paris is worth so much to the Allied
cause that it must be defended to tho
limit. And this means that the Allies
will oppose their main strength to Ger
man advance between the present front
and the French capital. They havo ac-
ccpted the gage of battle and obviously
intend to make supreme effort to hold
the city.
This decision recalls the Verdun cpl
sode. At the outset the French had the
choice between evacuating the hills east
of the Meuse and accepting battle in the
restricted territory between the Douau.
mont Plateau and the east bank of the
river. They chose the latter alternative
and Verdun became decisive battle,
continued over six months, during which
time the Germans endeavored to destroy
French military power by annihilating
the divisions and corps which were stead
lily poured into the furnace. They failed.
Verdun was saved. And the German
are accepting the battle once more within
fixed limits, with their backs this time
to Paris, not to any river. Meantime
the Germans are following the Verdun
parallel, attacking first on the right
wing and then on the left, as they at
tackled first at Deadman's Hill and then
about Fort de Vaux in the second phase
of the Lorraine campaign.
The present offensive, begun on last
Sunday, is the third step in the campaign
for Paris. The first was the March 81
offensive from st. Quentin. The second
was the May 81 attack from Laon. This
third attack, on the Montdidier- Noyon
front, is an effort to open the northern
roads to Paris which come down from
Belgium through st. Quentin and Amiens
first to the important railway and high
way junction of Estrees-St. Denis and
then TO the crossings of the Disc at
Croil, Pont Ste. Maxsnes and about
CompaegnA -.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Most Terrible
Campaign in History

But, recognizing the apparent sound
ness of the French appraisal of German
purpose, it is essential to point out at
the outset that it is hardly likely that
the Germans will henceforth occupy all
their time and effort upon the front
which we may now call the Partisan
front; on the contrary, we are almost
certain to see other blows, like that which
was struck in Flanders on April 9, de-
signed to hold Allied forces away from
the main field of action and to achieve
local successes which might contribute
materially to the general weakening of
the Allied armies and the more complete
weakening of Allied morale.
Bearing in mind this necessary quail
flcation, mean in the present article to
discuss the campaign for Paris as it is
now viewed by the various military COM
mentators of the Allied nations and de-
vote some space to consideration of the
geographical and other circumstances OF
what promises to be the greatest and
the most terrible of all the campaigns of
human history, campaign on the out
come of which will turn the immediate
tate OF our civilization and the future Of
the things that we believe in and love.
say immediate because do not be-
heye that even German victory in the
present campaign, a thing in itself al
most inconceivable, would for any long
time put the domination of the world un-
Ger the German sword. But for a time
and for E'.rope this might result from
victory in the new advance upon Paris
80, in sense, the campaign must recall
the rush of other Germanic hordes upon
Rome.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
A New Battle of
Verdun Faces
Advancing
Hosts
Copyright, 191S-The Tribune
Association

BILE, side show toward Verdun might be
looked for as an effort to draw French
reserves eastward away from the en-
virons of Paris. But unless they were
prepared to surrender their major pur-
pose, namely, to get Paris, or at least to
advance near enough to the French CAPT.
tai to destroy it, the Germans could not
be expected to spend many more divi-
sions in minor enterprises.
We may say, then, that any persist
ence of the Germans in their drive west
OF the Oise-and it is only in it's first
stages as I write these lines on June IL
will abolish the element of surprise
and put the Allied High Command in
complete possession of the necessary
facts on which to base their answer to
German strategy. This could not be
the case as long as it remained open to
question whether the German objective
was the Channel or the French capital.
The moment when the assailant's true
and full purpose is disclosed is the mo-
ment when the defender really begins
his operations.