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FOUNDED 1881—VOL. XXXVII—NO. 160.
CANADIANS CAPTURE SUBURB OF LENS
KESSLER PLIN
FOR INFANTRY
IS APPROVED
Contractor on Cantonment
Now Can Push Work on
Buildings.
FIRST LUMBER SHIPPED
Eight Carloads of the 400
Carloads Needed Are
Started to City.
The plans drawn by George E.
Kessler for the infantry barracks
at the San Antonio cantonment now
under construction at Camp Wilson
by the Stone-Webster Companyhave
been approved by the War Depart-
ment. There will be 120 of these
buildings each two-stories and each
designed to accommodate 200 men
or about 25000 in all. Like all the
610 buildings that will compose the
cantonment they will be of wood.
The infantry barracks' plans are the
first to be approved by the War De-
partment and they differ but little
from the original set brought here
last Saturday by Thomas A. Carr
general superintendent.
Approval of these plans came after
frequent consultations between Gen-
eral Superltendent Carr and Capt.
George E. Thorne representing the
government. The remainder of the
plans are being considered in daily
conferences Mr. Carr and Captain
Thorne spending much of each day
together while the force of drafts-
men clerical help and engineers are
making ready to begin actual con-
struction.
Lumber Being Rushed Here.
Notice was received Thursday
morning that eight carloads of lum-
ber had been started toward San
Antonio this being the advance
guard of 400 carloads that will be
shipped during the next ten days.
The lumber is billed to San Antonio
through the Southern Yellow Pine
Emergency Bureau a branch of the
Southern Yellow Pine Growers As-
sociation. The initial shipment
comes from East Texas.
One order for 800000 feet of lum-
ber was placed Tuesday and begin-
ning Thursday each day for nine
days will witness the placing of other
orders for 800000 feet The total
lumber contract for the cantonment
will be placed in the ten orders the
daily order meaning an average of
40 carloads per day. In all more
than 8000000 feet will be required
and it was stated Thursday by J. G.
Woods assistant general superin-
tendent. that all of it will come from
the mills of the south. In this con-
nection. it is proposed to buy every-
thing as close to San Antonio as pos-
sible.
Railroad Extension Started.
■ Extension of the railroad tracks
for a distance of about six miles has
been started and lumber and mate-
rial arriving here will be taken to
the exact spot on the cantonment
site where it will be needed. Lines
for the water and sewerage piping
are being run throughout the site
but no order yet has been placed for
tho actual piping. The first press-
ing need it was explained is to get
the buildings under way. Such mat-
ters as plumbing water and sewer
connections electric lighting and
painting the buildings can be taken
up later as the work progresses.
Applications for all classes of
labor will be received at the com-
pany’s office near the gift chapel at
the camp. At present a few labor-
ers and a few carpenters are being
hired. The big bulk of workers will
not be wanted until next week by
which time the preliminary work
will be out of the way and the sub-
superlntendents of the four sections
into which tne task will be divided
will have arrived. It is definitely
announced that no labor will be
hired at the receiving depot. 100 Tre-
vino Street where Frank 11. Carson
la in charge.
Building Office Addition.
An addition to the office at the
camp is being made. It is in the
rear of the principal office building
and will serve to connect the two
former mess halls that now serve as
offices for the Stone-Webster exec-
utive force. A short distance away
Captain Thorne has established bis
office the whole group of buildings
being within easy acess of each
other. All the offices will be con-
nected by telephone a central
switchboard being installed. This
board is expected to be in opera-
tion Friday or Saturday at the latest.
Executives of the Stone-Webster
Company have moved from their
hotel quarters at the St. Anthony
and are prepared to "stay on the
job.” A mess hall was given over
to their use and the first meal was
served there Thursday. P. N. Hart-
zell is in charge of the commissary
and is ready to feed whatever force
Is placed at work by the company.
adopt reed resolution
Senate Approves Measure Asking
Print Paper Explanation.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 28.—
The resolution of Senator Reed of
Missouri calling upon the Federal
Trade Commission to inform the
Senate why it has not ordered news
print paper manufacturers to desist
from "illegal practices and exorbi-
tant charges” was passed today by
•h > Senate without objection.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
CADORNA AND FOCH
CONFER IN FIELD
Italian and French Command-
ers Discuss Military
Situations Says Rome.
ROME. June 28.—1 t is officially
announced that Lieutenant General
Cadorna chief of the Italian general
staff and Gen. Ferdinand Foch chief
of staff of the French ministry of
war had a conference at the railroad
station at Saint Jean De Maurienne
Department of Savoie France Mon-
day morning. General Radcliffe
chief of the British military mission
at Italian headquarters was present.
General Cadorna returned to Turin
Monday afternoon and from there
proceeded direct to the Italian head-
quarters in the field.
Mill
n nw
NEW REGI
COMMA
War Department Issues List
of Colonels Assigned to
Various Units.
WASHINGTON D. C. June 28.—
The War Department today pub-
lished an order assigning a number
of colonels to command of regi-
ments. These include infantry field
artillery and cavalry. The list is as
follows:
Col. Arthur Thayer Second cav-
alry: Col. Francis H. Beach Third
cavalry; Col. William C Rivers.
Eighteenth cavalry; Col. Jesse Mc-
Carter Nineteenth cavalry; Col. Ty-
ree R. Rivers Twentieth cavalry;
Col. Robert A. Brown Twenty-third
cavalry; Col. George H. Cameron
Twenty-fifth cavalry; Col. William
L. Kenly Seventh field artillery;
Col. George L. Irwin Eighth field
artillery; Col. Edward F. McGlachlin
Jr. Tenth field artillery; Col. John
E. McMahon Sixteenth field artil-
lery: Col. Elmore G. Taggart
Twelfth infantry; Col. Henry D.
Styer. Fourteenth infantry; Col.
Walter H. Gordon Fifteenth infant-
ry; Col. George B. Duncan Twenty-
sixth Infantry; Col. Beaumont B.
Duck Twenty-eighth infantry; Col.
Charles C. Ballau Thirty-ninth in-
fantry; Col. Samson L. Faison For-
ty-second infantry; Col. Benjamin
C. Morse Forty-fourth infantry; Col.
Edward W. Lewis Forty-fifth in-
fantry; Col. Julius A. Penn Forty-
ninth infantry; Col. Ernest Smith
Fifty-second infantry; Col. Benja-
min W. Atkinson. Fifty-ninth in-
fantry; Col. Samuel W. Miller Sixty-
first infantry; Col. Charles H. Barth
Sixty-second infantry.
MORE SHOWERS EXPECTED
Light Rains Arc Reported From
Various Parts of State.
Scattered showers and unsettled
weather will continue Thursday night
and Friday according to Major Allen
Buell of the local weather bureau.
Though no rainfall has been re-
ported at the local weather station
showers fell in the vicinity of San
Antonio Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings and light rains arc re-
ported from various parts of the
state.
The distribution of air pressure has
changed little for the last week the
same unsettled condition prevailing.
The weather map Thursday morning
showed a high pressure area over the
Southeast and another one over the
Northeastern slopes of the Rocky
Mountains. The remainder of the
country was under diminished pres-
sure with small storm centers ir-
regularly distributed. Rain was re-
ported at Galveston .6; Huntsville
.14 Austin .02; Pierce .18; Bren-
ham .1.
_ - - - ■ - ■ 1
THE WEATHER
TEMI’ERATI RES.
JUNE 27. 2a. m
3 p. m 81 3 a. m 7 4
4 p. m I*3 4 a. m 74
spm 93 5 a in. 73
6 p. m I*4 6am 72
7 p. 89 7 a. in 74
8 p. m 86 Sa. 76
9 p. m 83 9 a. m 77
10 p. 81 10 a. m 81
11 p in 78 Ila 83
12 midnight 77 12 noon 86
JUNE 28. 1 p. in 87
1 a. m 76 2 p. m 90
WEATHER FORECAST.
For San Antonio and vicinity: Tonight
and Friday partly cloudy.
HOME WEATHER FOR TOURISTS.
(Forecasts by The Light.)
ST. LOUIS: Temperature 78; partly
cloudy; 12-mlle wind from the southwest;
Friday fair; lowest temperature In last 24
hours 76; highest 92.
CHICAGO: Temperature 64; cloudy;
8-mile wind from the south; rain; lowest
temperature in last 24 hours 58; high-
est 70.
MILWAUKEE: Temperature 62: partly
cloudy; 4-mile wind from tho east; rain
lowest temperature In last 24 hours 56;
highest. 72.
KANSAS CITY: Temperature. 70; clear;
f-mile wind from the southwest; Friday
fair; lowest temperature in last 24 hours.
66; highest. 88.
NEW YORK: Temperature. 6S; partly
cloudy; 14-mlle wind from th<| northwest;
Friday probably rain; lowest temperature
in last 2 4 hours. 66; highest. 82.
WASHINGTON. D C : Temperature.
72: clear; 8-mlle wind from th»> north-
west: increasing cloudiness; lowest tem-
perature In last 24 hours. 68; highest-
PRICE OF GOAL
DEDUCED DOLLAR
ANO DALE A TON
By Agreement With Govern- Canadian army headquar-
. _ . . ... TERS IN FRANCE. June IS.—ln an
ment Operators Immediate- a tr aud fought at probably the
ly LOWer Rates. highest altitude at which aviators
have met in combat—nearly four
ANOTHER CUT LATER
When Investigation Into Cost
Is Concluded. Further Slump
Is Probable.
WASHINGTON D. C. June 28.—
An immediate general reduction of
fl to 11.50 a ton in the price of coal
at the mine was agreed upon here
today by representatives of the coal
operators. This reduction is expected
to bo followed by still further de-
crease in price after investigation
into the coasts of mining coal and it
is probable that the government will
be given a still lower prico than that
to the general public. Hundreds of
millions of dollars will be saved to
the American people by this decision.
Creation of a national association
of coal operators with a central bu-
reau at Washington for standardiz-
ing statistical and other information
relating to coal production market-
ing and other matters was agreed
to by the conference.
Conference Is Adjourned
The conference finally adjourned
and the various state delegations
went into separate meetings to frame
suggestions as to prices to be sub-
mitted later to Chairman Peabody.
The operators agreed to the im-
mediate reduction at a meeting here
today after adopting a resolution by
which coal prices would be fixed with
the aid and approval ot the secre-
tary of the interior the Federal
Trade Commission and the commit-
tee on coal production of the Na-
tional Defense Council.
About 600000.000 tons of coal
were mined in this coimtry last year
and Secretary Lane wKo has earn-
estly urged a reduction believes
that the saving to the American
people will be enormous alter hear-
ing of the operators’ actions Mr.
Lano wrote the following letter to
F. S. Peabody chairman of the Coal
Production Committee w ho has been
in constant conference with the oper-
ators.
“I have just learned of the action
of the coal operators and 1 wish to
express my appreciation of the gen-
erous prompt and patriotic man-
ner in which they have acted. They
have dealt with the situation in the
way that I had hoped they would
as large men dealing with a large
question.
No Timo for Gain.
“They manifestly see that this is
no time in which to consider peculi-
arly the opportunities which the war
gives for personal aggrandizement.
We must gain for each by gaining
for all. This country is in a mood
for sacrifice. It is intent upon the
success of the war and is willing to
do everything needed to give insur-
ance to the world against a repeti-
tion of this awful condition.
“Will you not be good enough to
express to the coal men my appre-
ciation of the spirit they have shown
in determining that their prices
shall be reduced so that tHe indus-
tries of the country may not be
hampered and the people may not
feel that their spirit is broken down
by the thought that this is to be a
war for individual advantage instead
of snif protection.
“I felt from the moment of my
talk to them that no body of men
more truly represented the high pur-
pose to yield personal desire for gen-
eral good than did they. Now I
trust that we shall immediately put
into concrete form the spirit of your
resolution.”
The resolution giving “assent” to
fixing of maximum prices was re-
ported by former Governor Fort
from a special committee. He said
lie believed the resolution was en-
tirely safe for the conference to
adopt and that any responsibility as
to the legality of the fixing of prices
was put on the government and not
the operators under the terms of
the resolution. The resolution points
out that a great national emergency
exists in the nation s fuel supply and
that the coal operators and miners
desire to closely co-operate with the
government.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted. It was a revision of a for-
mer resolution recalled because of
as to the legality of the operators
fear that questions might bo raised
agreeing upon a price even thou
at the instance of the govern-
ment Attorney General Gregory hav-
ing sent word that R. Colton Lewis
special assistant attorney general
who had been conferring with the
operators had no right or authority
to outline what the government’s 1
policy might be under the anti-trust
laws in connection with price fixing.
To Fix Temporary Price.
As soon as this resolution was
agreed to another one was presented
under which it was proposed that
the government authorize the gov-
ernment representatives named in
the resolution to issue a statement
forthwith fixing a tentative price
which in their judgement shall be
a fair and reasonable one for the
various districts and to be effective
from July 1 until the committee
shall fix a permanent price.
Secretary Lano sent the confer-
(Contlnued on Page *
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. THURSDAY JUNE 28 1917.
FIGHT DUEL IN AIR
FOUR MILES HIGH
Canadian Triplane Destroys
German Aviatik—Teuton
Flier Falls.
miles—a Canadian triplane today
pursued and defeated a German two-
seated aviatik.
The German machine had sought
safety by climbing upward and the
triplane pursued. At a height of 20-
000 feet the pilot of the German
craft either fell or jumped from it
and disappeared at the moment of
the first burst of fire from the gun
of the Canadian. The German ob-
server was then seen to climb out
upon the tail of his machine where
he lost his hold and plunged head-
long. The aviatik turned its nose
down and fell.
AMERICAN AVIATOR
■« WILED
Corporal Hall. Author of
“Kitchener's Mob.” Disap-
pears After Aerial Battle
PARIS June 28.—Corporal James
Hall of Colfax la. a rtemher ot the
I.afayette Escadrille which is com-
posed principally ot American avia-
tors is believed to have been killed
in an encounter with seven German
airplanes at cording to the Herald.
.'le was she. through the lung. His
machine fell within the French
lines.
Corporal 'iall who was the author
it "Kitchener's Mob." loined the
; American squadron a short time ago
I after being wounded in the British
' army and discharged He brought
down a German airp'ane tour days
ago
Sul. lieutenant Dirme one of the
most skillful French ariators who
has been credited ofiiclaTy with
bringing down twenty three German
machines has been missing since he
flew over the enemy's lines on May
25 on a scouting mission. His fate
is unknown.
Canadian Aviation Veteran Killed.
CAMP BORDEN Ont. June 28. —
Daniel Callaghan a Koval Flying
Corps' Captain who had won dis-
tinction in France was killed in an
airplane accident at Camp Hoare
last night it was announced today.
NEW HOME FOR PERSHING
Ogden Mills Places Residence at Dls-
|x>sal of General.
PARIS June 28. —Major General
Pershing the American commander
has left the hotel in which he has
been staying since his arrival in
Paris to make his home in a fine old
residence in the Rue De Varenne so
as to be near his headquarters. The
house which has a magnificent gar-
den formerly belonged to Prince
Gortchakoff. Tt was leased before
the war by Ogden Mills of New York
who placed it at the disposal of Gen-
eral Pershing.
The American commander was
asked today to comment on the ar-
ticle entitled “Why We Are Fight-
ing.” published yesterday in the
Army Bulletin in which General
Petain the French commander-in-
chief explained the objects of the
war and why a premature peace
must not be concluded. General
Pershing said:
“I have read General Petain's
article with deepest interest. His
answer to the questions is complete
and logical. The facts as set forth
should convince the world of the
justice of our great cause. I cannot
think it possible that anyone should
hold a different view on why we are
in the war.
“There must be no peace except
a lasting peace. The ideals for which
। the allies nre contending must be
। held sacred.”
LEAKE GOES TO FRANCE
I'— - —
Texan In Cliargc of All Soldier Mali
There.
WASHINGTON D. C.. June 28.—
George T. Leake chief clerk of the
railway mail service at Houston is
now in France as superintendent of
transportation for the United States
mail service with the expeditionary
forces at the front.
The Texan was selected because of
his experience with the mail service
on the Mexican border last year. He
is one of four officials in charge uf
| all soldier mail.
Elaborate preparations have been
made by the government for hand-
ling of the great volume of mail
that will pass between the troops
anj home Rates on army mall to
and from France have been reduced
by the department so that the cost i
is the same as for mail between
points in this country.
United States postage stamps alone
will be valid for the prepayment of
postage on mail for the troops. All
letters should be addressed to the
division regiment company and or-
ganization to which the addressee
belongs but designation of the loca-
tion of the unit will not be per-
BOOT AND PARK
ARE ST RUSSIAN
HEADQUARTERS
American Mission to Learn
Actual Conditions at
the Front.
SCOTT TO MAKE SPEECH
Chief of Staff Will Explain to
Soldiers How Our Army
Organized.
RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF
HEADQUARTERS. June 26.—(Via
Petrograd June 27.) — (Delayed).—
Elihu Root and the whole military
staff of the American commission
■ accompanied by M. Tereschtenko
| the Russian foreign minister arrived
J here tonight.
Mr. Root Maj.-Gen. Hugh L. Scott
and M. Tereschtenko immediately
held a conference with General
Brussiloff commander-in-chief uf
the Russian armies. As a result ot the
conference it was decided that the
aides of General Scott shall begin
a ten-day tour of the southwestern
front starting from headquarters
tomorrow afternoon. It is possible
they will go as far south as Kou-
mania.
General Scott expects to deliver a
I series of addresses to the Russian
i hoidiers explaining the character
work and discipline ot the American
I army
CONVICT RUSSIAN HERO
sergeant Wins Commission After
Leading lolorn Hope
PETROGRAD June 28. —The hero
of the army in the woody Carpath-
ians is a former convict from Siberia
who by his example inspired an at-
( tack by forces which heretofore had
obdurately refused to < barge. The ex-
convict whose rank is sergeant led
I fifty volunteers in a rush on a Ger-
i man blindage.
The attacking party confused by
I heavy fire wavered whereupon the
! sergeant alone climbed the breast -
i works and hurled a bomb among the
enemy. Attacked by three Germans
he sabered and shot two of them.
Then with only eighteen followers
Several strongly-held blindages were
rushed
litxliiced a Panic.
This produced general panic
among the enemy and resulted in
the capture of many prisoners. The
sergeant was given an officer's cum-
mission and the whole of his di-
vision resolved immediately to par-
ticipate in an offensive.
The Ukraines. inhabitants of an
extensive region of Russia embrac-
ing part of the territory of the old
kingdom of Poland issued in a gen-
eral congress at Kiev a decln ration
alleging that their petition to the
temporary government tor autonomy
had been rejected. Prominent
Ukraines were summoned to organ-
ize a separate local government
which it is hoped v ill be approved
by tho coming constituent assem-
bly.
Newspapers say that more than
3500 German prisoner-? escape:! from
various parts of Russia through Fin-
land last month. The Finns are said
to have given very little lr ip to-
ward recapturing th?m.
Abandon* Dancer's Home.
The followers of Nikoli Lcnlne
the Radical Socialist leaders who
since the revolution have been oc-
cupying the villa of Mlle. Kshcsinska
the dancer and favorite of the for-
mer emperor quit her residence to-
day. The palace however is still oc-
cupied by tho militant Maximalists.
PEACE EN VOY EXPOSED.
Russian Agent of Kaiser Rceehed
••Sjiccch” by Wireless.
WASHINGTON. D. C June 28.—
How a Russian agitator for a sep-
arate peace with Germany was ex-
posed as a Gorman agent before the
Council of Soldiers and Workmen’s
<lelegates in Petrograd on June 22 is
related in a dispatch today from Am-
bassador Francis.
The agitator Nikolai Lenine the
Radical Socialist leader was an-
swered by M. Veirensky who an-
nounced he would repeat Lenine’s
speech and proceeded to read a doc-
ument almost identical with it.
When M. Veirensky had concluded .
he announced that be had been read-
ing an intercepted radio from Ger-
many signed by King Leopold of
Bavaria.
NEW REVOLUTION FAILS
Radicals in Russia Arc Over-awed
by tli<‘ Government.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 2L—
According to despatches received
here some nervousness was felt in
Petrograd a few days ago on ac-
count of rumors of counter-revolu-
tion movements which proved to be
without any foundation in fact. Un
that occasion ths radical elements
। intended tn erganne public manifes-
Atkins in ’he stre< ts. The provisional
gov?rnme.V. proclaimed that all at-
ten.pts a*. violence would be crushed
v ith all uhe force • f the state authoi-
kto.
“The extremists did not carry out
the revolution’’ say the dispatches.
“This event is cons! iered in Russia
as a greu. moral success of the gov-
ernment and the nation’s majorky
which supports the government
Venizelos Is
Again Premier
E VENIZELOS 3
New Greek Ministry Takes
Oath of Office —Gets En-
thusiastic Reception.
ATHENS June 28.—The Greek
ministry headed by EHptherios Ve-
nizelos. took the oath at the palace
yesterday and was acclaimed by an
enthusiastic crowd on returning to
tho government building where M.
Venizelos delivered a speech from
a balcony warmly thanking the peo-
ple for their plaudits.
Strong military precautions
against possible disorders proved un-
necessary as the malcontents are in
a small minority.
The new ministry Is:
Premier and minister of war M.
Venizelos; minister of the interior
M Repoulies; minister of justice
M. Tsirimokos; minister of foreign
affairs. M. Politis; minister of ma-
rine Admiral P. Conn dour lot is min-
ister of finance. M. Negropontes;
minister of national economy. M.
Papanastasion; minister of educa-
tion. M. Dingas; minister of food
supplies M. Embirkos; minister of
communications M. Spirits.
The minister of agriculture and
refugees have not been appointed.
LABOR FEDERATION
REFUSES TO CONFER
Gompers Sends Message to
Stockholm Such Meeting
Considered Premature.
WASHINGTON. D. C. June 28.—
The American Federation of I^ibor
has declined to participate in the
International Conference of Trades
Unions called by the recent Stock-
holm conference to meet September
17 in Switzerland. President Gomp-
ers has telegraphed to President
Lindquist of the Stockholm confer-
ence that the American Federation
“regards all such conferences as
premature and untimely and can
lead to no good purpose.”
TOWN SWEPT AWAY
Rock (wk On*goii. Devastated
When Dam Breaks.
BAKER. Ore.. June 28. — Reports
from Haines say the town of Rock
Creek practically was swept away
today when a fifty-foot dani at the
flooded Klllamacue Lake fifteen
miles west of Haines gave way. Resi-
dents at Hainer which is in the
path of the flood are reported hurry-
ing for high ground.
Almost every building in the town
is said to have been destroyed. Com-
munication with the flooded district
has been cut off. It Is not known
whether there has been any loss of
life.
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FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY—PRICE FIVE CENTS
OVERSEAS FORCES STORM
GERMAN FRONT LINE AT
AVION OVER OPEN GROUND
Germans Put Up Desperate Resistance But Are
Routed by Infantry and Heavy Fire of British
Artillery Preceding Charge
CLOSING IN ON FRENCH MINING TOWN
Teutons Preparing for Hard Fight Have Flooded
Marshes and Strung Wire Entanglements Be-
tween British Lines and Defending Trenches
CANADIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE
June 28. —Under a protecting concentration of artillery fire
Canadian troops early today stormed and captured the German
front line before Avion a suburb of Lens.
Within One Mile of City.
By this morning’s advance the British line has been carried
forward to within one mile of the center of Lens.
The attack was made along a two-mile front. On the ex-
treme left Nova Scotians pushed their way up the Lens-Arras
road to the village of Leauvette taking a number of prisoners.
At the other end of the line east of the railway tracks enemy
dugouts were bombed. Their occupants belonged to the crack
Prussian guards corps the Fifth Guard Grenadiers who refused
in most cases to come out and surrender.
One officer and twenty-one men of the grenadiers decided
discretion was the better part of valor. Others are believed to
be still alive in the dugouts which will be thoroughly explored
after the ground won is consolidated.
I he enemy's guns have been shelling Canadian communica-
tion trenches but Canadian “heavies” are now taking them on
with good results.
Ihe Canadians heartened by successes gained during thd
last lew days at relatively small cost decided this morning to
attack across the open ground sloping upwards to Avion and thq
village of Leauvette near the Souchez river. They met with
opposition of a serious character at one point where machinq
gun fire and uncut wires delaved the advance.
The attack was not intended to be pressed home at this
particular spot as the ground specially favored the Germans sd
that the delav did no harm.
GERMANS ARREST PRIESTS'
Members of Entourage of Cardinal
Mercier Arc Deported.
AMSTERDAM. June 28.—Accord-
ing to the Telegraaf several priests
of the entourage of Cardinal Mercier
primate of Belgium were arrested
recently and imprisoned in Germany.
Twenty others the newspaper says
have been imprisoned in Belgium
Among this number is Cardinal Mer-
cier’s private secretary who was
sentenced to a year in prison for
preaching on Whitsunday on “Chris-
tian Charity.”
POTATO PRICES DROP
Reach Lowest Level of the Year in
Chicago.
CHICAGO. 111.. June 28.—Whole-
sale prices of potatoes here dropped
4 0 to 65 cents a bushel yesterday to
the lowest level of this year. Re-
ceipts were only sixty cars and sales
were made at 12.40 and 12.65 as
compared with Tuesday’s sales at
$2.90 and $3.20. There are three
hundred cars of potatoes in the
yards here awaiting an outlet. They
have been on the track here for
more than a week while prices have
dropped 80 cents to $1 a bushel.
SIZE NO BAfTtO ARMY
Men of Small Stature Will Be Al-
lowed to Join.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 28 —
In a reply to a number of requests
from men of small stature who wish
to form regiments like Britain's fa-
mous “Yorkshire Bantams’’ the
War Department announced yester-
day that no man will be rejected tor
service if. in the opinion of the re-
cruiting officer his deficiencies in
height and weight will not material-
ly Impair his usefulness as a soldier.
The statement says the regula- J
tions requiring men to be at least •
five feet four inches in height and
120 pounds in weight will be flexibly)
applied.
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
Men Believed Alive in Dugouts
Attack Across Open Ground.
The enemy held tenaciously tat
Avion. He gave up his trenches
which were on a slope leading up to
the village a little over a quarter of
a mile from the first houses only
under strong compulsion. His new.
line was in front of the most west-
erly row ot houses in Avion. It was
connected by cellars and dugouts to>
tho village to which the occupanta
retired when heavily shelled.
Marsh Is Flooded.
Between Avion and Lens there is
a considerable stretch ot marsh
along the Souchez. This has been
flooded and wire entanglements have
been constructed on the eastern side
of the flood area. There as it is to
the south the new German line
strongly held.
REPVLSE GEKMAN ATTACKS.
British Repulse German Advanco
South of Cojcul River.
LONDON. June 2S.—German at-
tacks ot the Cojeul River were re-
pulsed by the British last night the
war office announces
BAKIS. June 28 —The Germane
last night attacked the salient ot
Wattweiler. northeast of Thann in
Alsace according to the war office
announcement today. They were re-
pulsed leaving a number ot dead.
CHArLAIN Ains IX ATTACK.
Advances on Germans and Com-
mands Them to Surrender.
(Bv the Associated Press.)
FRENCH FRONT IN FRANCE.
June 28. —A French military chap-
lain figured prominently with the
French troops in a brilliantly suc-
cessful attack on the Dragons Cave
on the Cheniin des Dames in the
neighborhood of Hurtebtse. While
advancing with a stretcher bearer
detachment the chaplain was con-
fronted by the fearsome figure of a
German officer whose clothing was
aflame. The chaplain raised a cru-
cifix and offered religious comfort
to the burning man who pointed
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