St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 23, 1918
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oo pis SS. OR geht ted wn gees ee ee te a Re nO ee ee ee oo ie Mos ca GD ALELLEELVELEARAM 8.0 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH on - OO Re et vine Ea en 0 te ai = peli . i Aenean oe “ = THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1918. — ee —— of America in Air and in Allied. Morale Pointec a local board to be a habitual r or not engaged in some useful ypation shall be summoned be- the board, given a chance to in and, in the absence of a sat- Astactory explanation. to be inducted ] into the military service of the ‘United States. to Gamblers. “Any local board will be author- | feed to ti.ke action whether it has original jurisdiction of the regis- trant or not; in other words, any ‘man loafing around a pool room in | Chicago may be held to answer to a board, even though he may have registered in New York and , © lived there most of his life. “The regulations which apply to . Séle registrants will be deemed to apply also to gamblers of al! descrip- tion and employes and attendants of |) bucket shops and racetracks, fortune clairvoyants, palmists and the 4 | lke who for the purpose of the regu- shall be considered as idlers. Wl “The new regulation will also af- : x the following classes: “(A) Persons engaged in the ‘@erving of food and drink, or eith- er, in public places, including ho- tels and social clubs. “(B) Passenger elevator oper- ators and attendants, doormen, footmen and other attendants of Qhubse, hotels, stores, apartment % houses, office buildings and bath- houses. (C) Persons, including ushers and othér attendants, engaged and eccupied in, and in connection with games, sports and amuse- ments, excepting actual perform- @rs in legitimate concerts, operas ® or theatrical performance. - Explaining the new regulation and _(D)> Petsons employed in do- mestic service. (BE) Sales clerks and other @lerks employed in stores and oth- @r mercantile establishments. “Men who are engaged as above or > are idlers will not be permitted seek relief because of the fact that y have drawn a late order num- per or because they have been placed | Class 2, 3 or 4 on the grounds of ndency. The fact that he is not usefully employed will outweigh both , the conditions. “It is expected that the list of non- occupations will be extended time to time as necessity will Tequire so as to include persons in othe employments. a meorary absences from regular ment not to exceed one “unless such temporary ab- mR are habitual and frequent, Mall not be considered as idleness. lar vacations will not be consid- as absences in thie connection. - Boards to Give Consideration. Cerne regulation throws a further around men not usefully | i by providing that where th are compelling domestic cir- aces that would not permit of employment by the regis- nate hard- to his dependents or where a |“*" from non-useful to useful : or. occupation would The regulation further pro- that where such a change of nt would compel the night nent of women under cir- ances which a board might 5 wunesuitable for such employ- t of women, the board may take circumst: ‘es into considera- in making ite decision.” necessity for it, Gen. Crowder ” “The war has so far disorganized normal adiustment of industrial power as prevent the enor- industrial \output -and na- l organ necessary to suc- “There is a popular demand for wan i on of man power, but no _— could be imposed at, Pr=Btepe to prohibit idleness and st occupation will be wel- by our people. a shall give the idlers and men et effectively employed the choice | m military service and effec- * employment. Every man in the | ir ft age, at least must work or fight. ‘ ‘i@ not alone a war of mili- ary maneuver. It is a deadly con- of industries and mechanics. y must not be thought of possessing an army, we wt think of her as being an army “—@an army in which every factory iid loom in the empire is a recog | part in a complete machine mg night and day at terrific ‘ We must make of ourselves je same sort of effective machine. 2. Make Ourselves Effective.” "It is enough to ask what would 7 if every man in the nation med his hand to effective work. fe must make ourselves effective. fe must organize for the future. must make vast withdrawals for army and immediately close up Speabe of industry behind the gap mh an accelerating production of useful thing in necessary mea- » How is this to be done? ‘ee anewer is plain. The firat lep toward the solution of the dif- ealt: is to prohibit engagement by AMERICA RESERVOIR OF ALLIED MORALE IN BLOW NOW DUE, SAYS SIMONDS German Hope Is Not to Conquer Armies, but to Break Allies Peoples’ Spirit, Mili- tary Critic Declares. By FRANK H. SIMONDS, Author of “The Great War.” Uniess all the advices and infor } 1918, accepted inevitably local losses and temporary reverses. The Ger- man accepted this at the Somme in mation which reach us from France /|1916 and in Flanders last year and man blow is likely to fall within the next few days. In any event, the danger signals which are now being displayed warrant a word of caution and of advice as to what is likely to happen, given the weight which the German blow will have and the time which thé Germans have occupied in preparing it. In their March and April offen- sives the Germans used just short of 140 divisions, the best of which had been prepared for the attack over long months of training. Nothing that skill or science could give was lacking. These blows were parried after the Germans had progressed for some 35 miles in the south and 12 miles in the north. The German loss was not less than 400,000 in killed and wounded. Very few pris- oners were lost. The allied loss in the same time was not much under 350,000, together with many guns, and of the total loss perhaps 100,000 were prisoners. When the German renews his attack he will still have from 60 to 70 fresh divisions, not yet used, and he will have an equal number of divisions very thoroughly mended since the blood bath of March and April. 1,500,000 Germans Ready. Something like a million and a half Germans are ready to strike, and they are backed by the same formidable artillery which contrib- uted so much to the earlier progress. In the presence of such a threat it is well to recognize that losses in | territory and in positions are inevi- in advance, be recognized as hav- | ing relative, not an absolute, value. | If the German falls to destroy the) rapidly than the German; if he epends another 400,000 casualties in local and restricted gains, how- ever large these may seem from day to day, he will lose the objective to which he has now committed the largest force he can ever use in this At the present moment the num- bers are approximately equal. The German has more guns, as a result of his captures in Russia and Ruma- nia and Italy, but he has not larger stocks of ammunition. Allied su- periority in the air remains, and the lessons of the last two offensives have been learned and will be ap- plied by a single commander in chief. No soldier would ask for a better chance than Foch now has, since numbers and all else are equal. But, on the other hand, the Allied strategy which elected the defen- sive at the outset of the campaign of table, must be expected and should, | British army; if he fails to compel | °° that, Foch to use up Allied reserves more) are totally inaccurate, the third Ger-|in both cases, despite local losses, preserved his line intact. Duty of America in Crisis. For America in the new which is at hand there is an obvious duty. We are not merely the reser- voir of man power of the allies for the future; we must be the reservoir of morale. No one who has not been in .Europe understands the strain which has been placed upon the peo- ples at war. No one who has not had day by day experience in France or in England can understand what the burden and the horror of this conflict have become for those who are bearing it now and have borne it through nearly four years. War weariness in Europe isa factor which must be reckoned with, but it can be reckoned with if this country now and during the critical days which are to come preserves that splendid unity, determination and enthusiasm which are already transforming con- ditions abroad and are bound to win the war when to the spiritual is add- ed the material contribution. We owe it to our allies to stand | ly and appraise accurately the mean. | ing of local enemy gains with respect to the main enemy purpose. The en- emy does not expect to conquer the armies in front of him. He expects by the weight of his blow, driven against the bodies of the soldiers at the front, to break the _ sorely- strained spirit of the populations be- hind it. He hopes to foment dis- |cord, criticism and even bad feeling between the French and the English, the American and the English—be- tween all the allies. He hopes to ‘magnify small gains and translate (even larger incidental achievements while he is still on the mili- ‘tary side far from success, the moral effect of his advance will be decisive. U. S. Spirit Great Reserve. There is no greater resource amidst the allied assets today than the spirit which is rising, and universally, in the United States, at this time. Nev- er in the history of our nation has there been anything like it. Men, women and children have enlisted for the duration of the war. The activ- ities. of the people for the winning of the war are exciting the amaze- ment of every European who comes to our she@res, but even more won- derful to him is the spirit of unity, of confidence, of readiness, for the ultimate sacrifice which is every- where: to be found. | The next offensive is going to test this spirit. It is going to test Amer- ican endurance. The elements of vic- tory are upon the side of our allies. They can hold out until we come if we come quickly and with undaunt- ed spirit. cisms of the draft has been that it takes men from the tarms and from all useful employments and marches them past crowds of idlers and loaf- ere away to the army. The remedy is simple—to couple the industrial basis with other grounds for ex- emption and to require that any man pleading exemption on any ground shall also show that he is contribut- ing effectively to the industrial wel- fare of the nation. “The regulation itself makes plain the determination of the War: De- partment. The great organization of local and district boards which has already accomplished a notable work may be relied upon to catch the spirit of the movement and eorely needed man power will soon be flow- ing into the fields of useful endeavor or into the other directton of mili- tary strength.” Slackers Who Leave U. S. Will Be . Prosecated Upon Return. WASHINGTON, May 23 (By A. P.). — Slackers who leave the country to ‘escape the draft will be prosecuted under the selective service act on their return, Attorney-General Greg- ory announced today. RAIDS AND ARTILLERY ACTIVITY IN SEVERAL SECTORS IN FRANCE __...wetinued. From Page One. died shortly afterward. Stil! another was dying ee GERMAN AIRMEN MAKE ANOTHER RAID ON PARIS PARIS, May 23 (By A. P.).—Ger- man aviators made another attack on Paris last night and thie time suc- ceeded in reaching the city. . Bombs were dropped at various places, an official statement reports. The following official announce- ment was given out: Several bodies of enemy aircraft | Succeasively made for Paris. Our lookout posts opened a very violent curtain of fire. Our airplanes took the alr. “A certain number of bombs were vo ing infant. The missle failed to ex- plode and the baby was not harmed. Today's reports of fighting on West- tern Fronts. LONDON,. May 23 (By A. P.).— Heavy artillery fighting in the Ancre Valley, southeast of Lens, and in the Flanders salient, is reported in to- day's official statement. British Bomb War Objects of Liege and Metz LONDON, May 23 (By A. P.x— Railway stations in German Lor- raine and the railway near Liege, Belgium, and a chloride factory at Manheim, on the Rhine, were bombed Tuesday night and Wednes- day by British aviators, says the latest British official statement on aerial operations. Three fires were caused at Mannheim and large con- flagrations near Liege. . British aviators destroyed 16 Ger- man airplanes and two observation balloons and drove down two air- planes out of control. The statement reads: “Reconnaissances and bombing by our airplanes continued uninterrupt- edly Tuesday. Some 1200 bombs were dropped on various targets? including four of the enemy’s large airdromes, near Ghent and Tournai and billets in the neighborhood of Armentieres, Baupaume an ray. “A good deal Of fighting again took place around our bombing machines. Sixteen German airplanes were de- stroyed and two driven down out of control. Two observation balloons also were destroyed. Three of our airplanes are missing. “Durint the night both ours and the enemy’s bombing airplanes were active. Over 12 tons of bombs were dropped on airdrcmes used by the enemy's night-flying machines and on billets at Bray and Bapaume. Al! our machines returned. Two Ger- an achines were brought down by gunfire behind our lines. “Two tons of bombs were dropped on a chloride factory at Mannheim, causing three large fires, and an- other two tons on railway stations at Thionvillie and Karthaus, One sf our machines failed to return. “At dawn Wednesday two forma- tions out on a long distance raid to bombard the important railway. triangle at Liege. All the machines reached their objectives afd dropped 22 heavy bombs Those dropped by the first formation caused three very large fires which were burning fiercely three-quarters of an hour dropped 12 heavy bombe on the rafl- way stations at Mots. All the ma- crisis |NEW EVIDENCE OF GERMAN PLOTS IN IRELAND INDICATED Information Concerning Sit- uation to Be Put Before British Cabinet Today, Dublin Dispatch Says. PUBLICATION IS NOT DETERMINED UPON Interests of Both Prisoners and Empire Must Be Con- sidered in Matter of Pub- licity, It Is Asserted. LONDON, May 23 (By A. P.).— Svidence concerning the German plot in Ireland will be submitted to the British Cabinet today by Edward Shortt, Chief Secretary for Ireland, a Press Assoctation dispatch from Dublin :eports. If it is thought any part of the evidence could, or should, be pub- lished, compatible with the public interest, it will be done, says the dis- patch, which adds: “It can be stated on the best of firm and confident, to recognize just- | | authority that justification for the | arrests exists in the shape of as- tounding evidence, but publication of the same is a question affecting not | merely the welfare of the prisoners, _and. the but the well-being of the empire.”’ May Have New Evidence. In a dispatch to the Times from Dublin it is suggested that the delay in publishing the evidence of thé German plot is due to the discovery of new evidence since the arrests. Discussing the prospects of re- cruiting under the arrangement of which notice was given in last Sun- day’s proclamation, the dispatches say that few persons believe the scheme will be successful, as the atmosphere, so far as the public is concerned, is decidedly unfavorable to voluntary enlistment. VISIT OF DUBLIN MAYORTOU.S.MAY NOW BE CALLED OFF Passport Denied When He Re- fuses to Submit Documents He Would Bring Wilson. DUBLIN, Wednesday, May 22 (By A. P.).—At the anticonscription con- ference at Mansion House today a letter was read from A. J. Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, declaring that passports would be granted to the Lord Mayor ff he agreed to submit to the Irish Government all docu-: ments he intended to carry to Amer- ica on his proposed trip. It was announced that the Mayor had re- plied that the only document he in- tended to carry was one direct to President Wilson from the Mansion House conference and that he would decline to submit this to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The matter was consitdered in a conference adjourned until tomor- row. The Lord Mayor's departure is now delayed further and he will not leave. if at all, before the end of next week. Letter of Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayor, in a letter to Secretary Balfour on May 15, said: “I have received from you pass- ports to proceed to America to place before the President of the United States the case against conscription being enforced in Ireland. I beg to thank you. “I understand that no documents may be carried by passengers going to the United States. I would be giad if you would kindly have au- thority issued to enable me to con- vey a document which has been drawn up for presentation to Pres?- dent. Wihllson.”’ Mr. Balfour replied: “I am advised by competent au- thorities that the document which you desire to convey to the President of the United States ought, in the first instance, to be submitted to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.” The Lord Mayor of Dublin sent thts reply to the Foreign Secretary: “My conference has decidéd that, as the document is a direct com- munication between the conference President of the United States, they decline to submit it to the Lord Lieutenant.” i Arrests Not Yet Completed. The belief that the Government has not yet completed arrests among the Sinn Fein leaders is supported by the arrest at her home in a Dub- lin suburb of Mrs. Thomas J. Clark, a member of the Sinn Fein Executive Committee and the widow of one of the Sinn Feiners executed after the Easter rebellion. It was stated she was taken to the Arbour Hill Barracks, Dublin, pend- ing deportation. Her husband served a sentence for connection with a dynamite conspiracy which caused several explosiqns*:in England. He was ® member of “the inner. circle” of the revolutionary Sinn Fein and was a signer of the proclamation of the ag republic on Easter Monday. 1916. Mra. Clark's brother. Edward also executed for partici- rebellion AMERICAN AIRMEN FIGHTS NEAR TOUL One Aviator Engages Three After the Other, Within 20 Minutes. TWO OTHER PILOTS IN HALF-HOUR COMBAT Falling Off in Artillery Fir- ing in American Sectors Reported From Head- quarters. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wednesdar, May 22 (By A. P.).—There was great aerial activity northwest of Toul today. American aviators participated in more than half a dozen combats, but up to an early hour tonight they had not been able to bring down an ene- my machine. One American aviator engaged three different German machines one after the other within 20 min- utes. Two other American pilots fought for half an hour with two German machines at an altitude of 5500 me- ters, but failed to get telling shots home. A falling off in artillery firing on the American sectors is reported in the official statement issued at a; American headquarters at 9 o’clock tonight. The statement reads: “The artillery activity has de- creased. There are no new devel- opments to report.”’ The accuracy of the American ar- tillery fire on the Picardy front is at- tested by information that eight out of ten German batteries which have been active in bombarding the Amer- ican positions have been destroyed by the American artillerymen since their entry into this sector. Aerial photo- graphs show that direct hits were ob- tained in most instances. In addition to this the American guns have been busy in tearing up the enemy’s rear lines and setting his ammunition dumps and billets on fire, while patrols from the American lines have been harassing the Ger- mans nightly. The marked increase recently in the enemy aerial activity along this front has raised the question of whether it may not be a prelude to new action by the enemy infantry. Whether or not this be the case, the American troops holding the line are becoming restless and eager for a chance to get at the enemy. One hears frequently the conviction ex- pressed that if the numbers are any- where near equal the Germans will be given an unwelcome surprise. Enemy aircraft have been ex- tremely active along the American front in Picardy since the advent of the new moon. Villages and roads in the rear of the American lines have beeri bombed and some of the villages visited by the hostile aviators present pitiful scenes of de- struction. The military damage done has been negligible, but a num- ber of civilians have been killed, most of them women and children. The American soldiers and nurses in touch with the French population are freely offering aid and comfort to the distressed. That some of the American hospitals have not been damaged is due to good fortune, as the Germans are apparently drop- ping their bombs without any con- sideration of military objectives. The area under ‘bombardment from the air is that between the American front and Paris, and night- ly the air over this district is hum- ming with enemy motors, while the American and French anti-aircraft guns are keeping up an almost con- tinuous barrage. BOMBS DROPPED BEHIND AMERICAN LINE IN PICARDY No Regard for Hospitals or Civil- ians Shown by German Air- men in Raids. BY JOSEPH W. GRIGG, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch anc the New York World. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES ON THE PICARDY FRONT, May; m™ 22.—Regardiess of hospitals and ci- villians, the Germans are using these brilliant moonlight nights for bomb dropping on a pretentious scale in the American sector. It is no credit to them that in one emall hamlet within the American sector one of, these bombs did not maim and kill a number of civiliana, but, - fortunately, thia particular bomb just came do with a great deal of noise and then peacefully sat up beside a small house without ex- their work with the greatest brav- ery, as do also the men connected with the Y. M. C. A. the Salvation Army or the Smith College. unit and the | others connected with the Red Cross who spend much of-their-time:cheer- INHALE DOZEN German Machines, One ALLIES SUPERIOR IN AIR | BUT AMERICA British Military Critic MASTERY, SAYS Points Out. That Re- prisal Raids on German Towns Are More and More Effective. By LIEUT.-COL. REPINGTON, Former Military Critic of the London LONDON, May 22.The German at raid on Sunday night. was one of the most ambitious, and also one of the most picturesque and prolonged of the enemy’s efforts to terrorize the city by an aerial attack. Most of these attacks I have wit- nessed from London, but this I ob- served from a point outside London, and so was able better to appreciate the immense development of the ae- rial defenses of the capital, which I have seen steadily improving for many months. On no other occasion have the anti-aircraft defenses been so com- plete. Barrages set up by the outer and inner defenses, the great dis- play of powerful searchlights which dazzled and confused the hostile air- men and the fruitful activity of our own air service were all very much in evMence, with the gratifying re- sult that London was spared the heavy damage and loss of life that tnust have occurred with less per fected arrangements to defend it. Best of all was the constant evi- dence displayed throughout of the intimate co-operation of all parts of the defensive system, and we must conclude that those responsible for the air defense of London have not wasted their time. The enemy's objects in carrying cut these raids are two in number— one to terrorize the population by bringing death and injury to the civilian inhabitants and by destrov- ing buildings and the other to im- mobilize, in passive defense, the men, munitions, searchlights and ati.- planes, all of which might, in other conditions, be actively employed in France. German Object Defeated. The first object has been defeated by the steady conduct of the people, who are now inured to these inci- cents of hostilities and by the guvod defense which reduced the structural damage to a minimum. The second cbject, to immobilize the air forces here has been attained, to some ex- tent, since it has been necessary to crganize the air defense on a scale commensurate with the require- ments. But London is giad to have madc the raiders pay heavily for their te- merity and has correspondingly aid- ed our valiant airmen in France. Moreover, the policy of reprisals which we were so reluctant to adopt has compelled the Germans to im- mobilize around their own great towns, and every month rounds up more and more of them—such con- siderable air and anti-aircraft forces that they have been unable to stani up successfully against our airmen in France, who have constantly ex- acted increasing toll at a point where success most matters. Therefore, it is true to say at pres- ent that the air policy and strategy of the Germans have brought them more loss than profit. Our General Staff and the direc- tors of our aerial operations in France always have looked mainly to the successful and intimate co- operation of the royal air force with our operating armies. The persis- tent prosecution of this strategy, oft- en under serious difficulties, when Germany has made some stride ahead, has been crowned this year with greater success even than in 1916. Records of Losses. The records of comparative losses prove our success, and though the German statistics differ widely from ours, we know enough of the care and caution with which our returns are compiled and of the invariable habit of the enemy to distort the truth whenever it is disagreeable to him to remain very sure that the ‘ject. We in air and that it is really as pro- ductive as it is unquestionable. moment and not a mastery. ‘Brave atrmen flying by night can traverse almost any barrage if théy . are heroes and.the absolute preventive of air raids is an unrealizable. ideal allies in France have the superiortty | But it is only a superiority for the} Col. Hodges is one American officers to roes, and when airmen are in the air by their kind, after having to traverse by night and to pass through again on their return heavy barrages which break up their for- mations, in combination with blind- ing arms of light that reach out to grasp them from a score of points, the. deliberate prosecution of the echeme of destruction soon weakens in ?tts purpose and the raid becomes little more than promiscuous sa botage which effects no useful ob- ject. The difference in the results be- tween an air raid on Mains or Co- logne by day and the German raid on London by night is all the dif- ference in the world and it t long since the German raiders dared to come here by day. _ By day as well as by night our al- lied airmen infest the area of Ger- man operations and travel far to the great towns. We in our turn alarm the German population and immobilize the foe's air defense upon a_i passive ob- bring home to the in- terior of Germany the horrors of their own German war and it has long been proved that nothing short of this action carries any conviction to them. Object of the British. Our object must be to work ener- getically to produce such improved -aircraft that the radius of activity of our airmen may be constantly ex- tended. An ideal which will be real- ized some day is to possess such per- fected machinery that no German town may eventually be safe from our air raiders, based on airdromes in England. We may not attain this ideal during this war, but if ever Germany knows his home is liable to attack from the air the very day aft- er a deciaration of war he assuredly will think twice before declaring it. Effective though this menace already is, in the case of Rhine towns it will not necessarily stop raids upon us during the war and it would be a real misfortune if the counter-raid- ing to which the enemy has com- pelled us to resort were to deflect us in any way from the air warfare in the zone of the armies, which is the inain thing, transcending all others in’ importance. . Here it is that our growing su- periority in the air is most efectively employed, and when, later in the year, American airmen come, first in their hundreds and then in their thousands, we can begin to aspire to a real mastery and conceive our most ambitious projects. When we have thousands in place of hundreds, such operations as these on which the German armies are now engaged will not be practicable. | It is on this side and in this di- rection that our main efforts must tend, but as we already can invade Germany by way of the air it ls ob- viously our object, subordinate and secondary though it may be, to pen- etrate deeper and deeper into Ger- many month by month, to provoke competition among constructors to devise more powerful long distance bombing squadrons of fast aircraft and to bring the war home to every palace and hovel in the German em- ptre. Our armies come first and deserve our concentrated and sustained at- tention, but the air is the one broad highway of invaston into the heart of Germany, and nothing can stop us from using this highway when we wilL ing up the long and soca hours of wounded American lads. The enemy is up to hile now well- established practice of bombing ev- erything possible because he consid- ers everything of military vaiue, even, perhaps, a small group of French women and children, such as I saw yesterday waiting to board several of our motor lorries for towns further removed from his night ma- raudings. This group and their belongings * were piled into big American motor trucks. As I watched them depart in a cloud of chalky dust there as @ small sun-tanned infant on its mother’s lap next to the driver on each truck and the crew was engag- ing other refugees in half-American, half-French conversation. “Home pas bon (not good) sec- tor,” said one doughboy trying to make himself intelligible. This night strafing within the Americen lines probably is one way the enemy has of getting even for the engaged in. participation with the French, in bombing operations be- hind the German lines. These operations are being carried out on a very large scale. At one time recently 120 allied machines were flying at the same moment in bombing work. Records have just reached the correspondent of the air activities along the French front between May 156 and 18, since the weather became favorable to flying, which reveal the intensive aerial work of the charac- ter noted. In this period 105 aerial combats were fought in the course of In the same period, bombarding squadrilias threw 160 tons of bombs on the enemy’s depots and other es- tablishmentsa. Of this the night bombardment equadrilias droppei 135 tonsa. During the night of May 15 no at present. But all men ape not he-|™ ‘Rec Chess receipts 2,011 were reported John bl » Southwestern divi » total to $8,312,944. #944 more than t Says Attorney, .,. KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 23 A. P.).—The closing argur ' Johnson estima the Gefeues tethé trial .of Mae | 2 of St. Louis an Pastor Stokes on charges of violath Eailections were rep the espionage act were made. this i would be si morning by Seymour 3 se over the top. | attorney. ie 4 day’s receipts b: “The crime of Mrs. , kk: t _ he dae < Aithad that she struck the. profiteers, § n ging its total to $ when you strike the pockets of thy $427,786, total « rich, you may expect a the derciap, Nssourt, $930,420, tot he declared. ‘ nda 51; Oklahoma, $163 The Constitution of en | 4,031,325, and Texas | States has not been $2,566,424. ' war, the attorney argued, bat ¥ Ewe funds will be s there is liberty of speech, .that 4 a ‘s Red Cross rally erty cannot be used to-ot pee | on Fas which former |! carrying. on of the war. He bel H. Taft is ache that the mere fact that a picture, hief speaker. Admissi war horrors or - statement of ® li that the public wil! profits might not, increase the de ie to sing the old and to fight, but it nevertheless ae gongs, in which a 50-pi , * ahaa he Great Lakes Naval! ie and a Washingt € a8 will lead. . Former President Ts ‘from Washington. 1 subtle, vicious German pre in America,” .declared Frar Wilson, the United. States Distel , Attorney, in summing yy re ce mmittee for him is « ernment’s case against Mrs. &t L. Johnston, N. A. Mc! “I do not charge, that she is = 5 Hill, E. B. Pryor and agent of the Kaiser,” he contis len, Other members “but I do say she is a trenaied } Cross committee natic on Socialism,” . fied to meet the cues LEVT, KURTZ, PROT, KLLED AMsios csesn ACCIDENTALLY INV su _ Maj. George W. Sir eak at the Coliseun WASHINGTON, May hd cay —Gen. Pershing’s transmitted today to the | partment, re an American pilot, had beet” accidentally within the. nerk lines. ad 7 Section A of the “sabi ea received ; the Hales ge press cables the day by the tion B said: “This morning Lieut. ‘Kurta, in our air service, itn lines and was killed. His f parently was due to: accident.” hie recent observation of the Red Cross in F fanager of the Sout! it. 4 2 pee ws one for $50,000 bv ' $218 South: Broad chairman of the RUSSIAN PRISONERS FROM a x : a ! ¥ -” wandson serving in of the five state P.).—Arrival at Petrograd ‘of | ht first contingent of 1500 Russian prix oners to be exchanged cect nr cent Russo-German agreem au reportetl to the State Desarenantl 0: : eaeespregamtienge- 2.” is the motto now. day. The men, the dispatch were “veritable walking aone 7 There Are , who ie one of th of the “Princess Pat . to ald the Re Making speeches. 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