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PRICE QUE CRITE be Orreter Row Tot ers. Go. (The Crnrrten 1947, by The Press ‘New Yorks World). _NEW_ YORK, MONDAY, MAY 14, oi 1917. bat tee ga ah | Bah NN TD . | + _ PRIORI en , 600,000 GERMANS RUSHED TO FRANCE LAMPPOSTS ARE HINTED AT IN SENATE DEBATE ON THE Rima he ite “Robbers,” “Pirates” Among the Expressions applied to Those Who Speculate BRITISH SHAKE UP \may CLOSE an NAVY: JELLICOE IS NEW STAFF'S HEAD Clamor by Public for Change Is Met by Announcement in Commons. i] * \All Favor Suppression of Evil, but Differ as to the Methods of Doing It. By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Batt Corppumieat of The Evening WASHINGTON, May 14.—Extor- tlonate food prices and pirate specu- laters were vigorously denounced in the Senate to-day when an effort was made to pass sumptuary leg tlon closing grain exchanres. Realiz- tha that sonring prices are rapidly precipitating an economic crisis in a eotintry of plenty and prosperity, all perding business was pushed aside by the for debate this newly developed subject LONDON, May 14.—The formation of @ naval staff of which Admiral Sir John R, Jelitcoe, First Sea Lord, will be chief, was announced in the House of Commins to-day by Sir Edward Carson; First Lord of the Admiralty. "The purpose of the changes,” — * Edward the staft Carson announced to House, “is to fi. the naval from aé strative work, and, seo- ondly, to strengthen the ship butid- ing department of the Admiralty.” Senate on There was no doubt in the minds of a Owing to the extent of the ping losses inflleted by German sub- British Admiraity *as » heavy f of criticism | for weeks and a thorough adopted to remedy reorganization, with the infusion of Senator Thomas of Colorado, backed | new blood and introduction of more by @ number of other Western Sen- | vic methods, has been ators, introduced a resolution giving | manded, the President discretionary authority! One of the chief recommendations to close boards of trade and other ex-| of critigs of the Admiralty has been changes speculating in food products | the creation of @ naval staff, in line -_ in his judgment it is neces- | with the practice adopted in the War | Office, which would be free from the His purpose wa» to bring about vast and intricate administrative immediate action without waiting | work of the admiralty, for the slow process of legislation] ‘rhe decision of the Government om the same subject embodied in| representing what 1s perhaps the Department of Agriculture bills now | most important change in British languishiig in committee. This was|naval methods during the war, will opposed by Senator Gore, Chairman | place direction of the navy's work of the Committee on Agriculture, most Senators that necessity exists ship- for quick action to control and regu- late food prices, difference of opinion on marines the beca ander seve but there was sharp the methods the situation. rous de- in the hands of a trained sea fighter Sir John Jellicoe has spent his life tn who announced the programme of| fh, navy. He was placed in supreme bringing these bilis before the Senate |eommand of tho main fleet at the ap the next piece cf legisiation after | outbreak Ke the we and uined Beton 3 _| that post until November of last the present Esplon Bilt in die-| Wass Pohen he wae epointed First posed of, He was sustained in this | Een ‘Lord by Senators who favored suppression of gambiing in food products, but are IF NO FOOD GOES BACK not rvady to wipe out every form of exchange dealing. | erator Reed of atissourt toox| VO KITCHEN, NO WASTE! sharp filngs at the Department of ic a Iture fi & wave 0 ree . ss Asricuiture for starting @ wave of! atlantic City Hotels Warn Their hysteria and alarm over prospective | He Patrons to Order Only What They Can Eat. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., food shortage in charged that becoming pani this the housewives -stricken and families | countr: May 14. were laying in supplies as though Ma famine were near. | Waste orders in Atlantic City’s fash- “Any man who look over the [Jonable hotels are going to be cut to fields of the country,” said Senator | minimum. , Reed, “and then proclaim that the| Menu cards appearing in these hos- United Staten will starve is either|telries to-day admonish guests to} an idiot or an enemy to the republic, |order no more food than will be enten. This clap-trap has got to stop, The |One adds this line: "It no food goes back to the kitchen ning to starve, Dine country is not | | of these people who are trying to | ‘er is no wast corner food wiil be broke in a shot | Canadians, who had practical ex- me. The thing for Congress to do |Perience. ave the hotel men ‘heir is to keep its hea |inspiration, — Senator Kenyon of Iowa, sald ‘ meres “stopping of apecuiation in toodatusts| CAN'T LEAVE FOR RUSSIA, ip We important thing, If Congress! y, «, rate Ran Alien Enemies cannot stop this robbery the peoy Who Weula Uo Peas are going to find some remedy of| WASHINGTON, May 14—-An em- their own even If they have to make | barwo on enemy aliens bound for an. use of the lampposts of the country, | Ruslan port on Americar “There is no shortage in this coun. | issued by the Secretary try. ‘There Is a food shortage in the | Soda. | He tne world supply and there may be one but about It later for us to face, much hysteria bad impression is being “Lam willing to go to too da duced, any extreme THE WORLD THAVEL BURKAU je, Mulitaee of drastic legislation to get rid of t ras Fark Io mi ah ig BY revervations, sailings, “Ae Via. at food speculator in this country, He foe, Cet Bsiius “a hert oe se: parce) check 'r sits oan laand money *Feleoboas Beekman £000; (Continued on Second Page.) FOODSTUFF REGULATION PRESIDENT RAISES AEGULARU.S. ARMY TO NEARLY 300,00 Adds Four Increments | 183,000 Men—65,000 Are Already Recruited. WASHINGTON, May 14,—Expan- sion of the regular arnty to the full war strength contemplated in the Ad- ministration army bill has been au- thorized by President Wilson. Or- ganization of the new regiments will vegin to-morrow. ‘ About 65,000 of the 183,000 men in |the four increments to be added to the army already have been re- cruited, will have a nucleus of trained regu- lars, will be raised as follows: ‘Thirty-eighth and Thirty-uipth reg- iments of infantry at Syracuse, N. Y.; Twelfth Field Artillory at Fort Myer, Va.; Forty-seventh and Fifti- eth (inclusive) regiments of infantry at Syracuse; Fifteenth Field Artillery, Syracuse; Vifty-eighth to Sixty-firat at ay infantry, Gettysburg Na- Park; Wineteepth and Twentt- j@ld Artill@ry at Montauk Point, L; Fifty-first to Fifty-siath (in- cana infantry, Chickamauga Park, Ga.; Twenty-second and Twenty- third Cavalry, Chickamauga H Fortieth and Forty-first infantry Fort Snelling, Minn.; Forty-second and Forty-third Infantry, Fort Doug- lass, Utah; Tenth and Kleventh Field Artillery, Fort Riley; ‘twentieth and Twenty-first ¢ Fort Riley; Sixteenth and Seventeenth Field Ar- tillery, Sparta, Wis. ‘hirveenth and Fourteenth Field Artillery, Fort Sill, Okla.; Fifty-seventh Infantry, Sixty- fourth Infantry and Eighteenth and Twenty-first Field Artillery, not yet cn tavalry, designated; Forty-fourth Infantry, Vancouver Barracks, Wa Sixty- second and Sixty-thtrd Infantry, Presidio, San Francisco; Twenty- fourth and Twenty-fifth Cavalry, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. In most cases one regiment of already trained regulars will be used as the basis for the formation of two regiments of recruits. } Under the issued to-day the |regular army will be filled to {ts full order war quota of nearly 800,000 men, More than ¢ of tho troops au. thorized in the four increments have} already deen recrutted since Apri 1 Orders were given to the quarter- |master general to prepare shelter for |the troops at the points designated for jeach regiment. 125 BANISHED RUSSIANS LEAVE HERE FOR OLD HOME Exiled as Nihilists Under Former Regime, Aged Men Start on Jour- Mysteriously Finance: A body 125 FE as Ninbilsts while hy un ney banished wn abe ape wec- tussla was 1 for many y her solute monare xile in this of tho Easterr } States, left New day. Th of their journ y and ot part of r their tions | Unie native land first stage the rs attached to a Le train, h will ve | they rea n there they will « the Pa proceed to De 1 by w | Trans-Sibe I" ; men € , Th are the rapid acc htussian vt as to nd when urney { deme tad vougbt rl, rhe of| The new regiments, each of which | ‘TEPPELIN SHOT DOWN BY BRITISH NAVAL GU Fourth Attempted Raid With Dirigibles | Last Year Ends Disastrously for Germans | —39 Zeppelins Destroyed So Far. LONDON, May 14—British naval {destroyed off the English coast. forces destroyed Zeppelin L-23 in the | March 17 French artillerymen | North Sea this morning, according to | aa eaiein i aaxaeeris ~ jn official statement tesued by the) oo), pel ae ee ae | Admiralty. . | A Zeppelin with three gundolas,, Weck hiss toca) nukes rash acs enveloped in heavy smoke, w 4 righted to-day at Terachelling, Hol- |Mfoyed and lost since the beginning land, a Reuter despatch from Harlin Pe be “aedicldhd thirty-nine, Reports gen, Holland, reports. When the|°* *! Put two have been confirmed. |smoke disappeared the Zeppelin was| Of these six were brought down |no longer to be ‘seen during raids over London, seven tn —— Belgium, five in France, six in Rus. sia, six over the North Sea, one in| Norway, one in Denmark, one in Salonika, and six on German terri- tory, Of the six destroyed in Germany four were wrecked by allied aviators and two destroyed by storms. DISGUISEDULS. LNERHERE. WITH 62 U BOAT VCTIMS 1|Men From ma Vacuum and 2,088 WOULD-BE OFFICERS | Rockingham Arrive on | Vessel in War Garb. On shot - THREEDEADINFIGHT. WITBANK ROBBERS; AND FOUR ARE HURT LOSS SINCE THAT DATE The destruction of the L-22 marks the fourth attempt at Zeppelin raids within the last year which has ended in disaster. Two of the mammoth airships were shot down during a raid on London on Sept. 23, 1916, and two months later two more Zeppelins were le ight Speci lal Trains Carry Them zag stripes and weird| Fifteen minutes after the last t ‘ain | came in the men were on the reserva- tion marching in squads to their company quarters and ay fast as they dirty white a combinations of rough geometrical figures decorate the vessel from the water line to the funnel tops, Experience has proved, officers of the ship said, that a vessel #0 painted merges into the sea and sky and ix | practically invisible at @ distance of |a mile or more under favorable con- ditions, This ts the first merchant ship to appear in New York harbor wearing battleship paint disguise since the beginning of the war. Her gun crew sighted nothing to shoot at on the way across, Parts of the crews of four ships torpedoed by submarines off the Eng- lish coast were passengers on tho| the mess shacks for thelr firat 1, consisting of bacon, ‘ead and butter and coffee | They will begin hard work to-mor row. The man who 1s to-day wear ing the Insignia of a major, captain or Heutenant will to-morrow discard it and become a private, Within o few days, if he ts fortunate, he may be designated as a sergeant or cor- poral. —_ army potatoes, liner, There were twenty-one men ea caies of the Uruguayan steamship Gorizta, | tina With: Kinecauslt which was sunk In the English Chn-| sigs Utrica Dahigren, twente-one nel April 30. years old, of No, 15 Haat Ninety-aixtn The German Government has de-| street, was convicted before Maxiatral« |nted that the Gorizia was sunk by u| Miller at Jamaica to-day of having | torpedo. ery man of the crew Who! speeded her automobile along the Me landed here to-day said there was n: k Road yesterday at thirty-five miles doubt about the ship heaving beer n hour torpedoed. All hands were saved, but} The records showed she had been the ship's dog and tw@lve chickens|'W!°* before convicted, and she was went down with the wreck, fined $100. Miss Dahigren refused to pay and an Three of the crew of the American anced she would serve tho altornative tank steamship Vacuum, whioh bepress of ten days in Jail, She was sent bac torpedoed on April 28, came homo on |i await transfer to prison and had to the liner, One was John Simpson of| si, between two “drunks. ye No, 864 West Fifty-fifth Btreet, first) minutes, however, she aasistaut engineer. He said that in phoned to mot! view of the buddeness of the attack money to pay the fine upon the Vacuum, the high seas and the bitterly cold weather it was re-| TWELVE LOST ON ON. PARTHENON markable that only twenty-three lives were lost. Lieut. C. C. Thomas, com Agente mander of the naval gun crew on the | Ship Sank by 8 Vacuum, froze to death in a lifeboat! The chief mate and eleven jof which Engineer Simpson was tn oer ony Greek: ateemahy command, sunk by @ submarine, accord wa In a weakened r to wend he and men are been Other submarine vict pethrning|\, caidaneasa ressived here from were thirty-two members of the crew|pondon to-day by D. J. Thoophilatos of the American freighter Rocking-|agent for the owners. The captuin and Jam, formerly the Nebraskan, aunk others of the crew, which num Jon May 1 with the loss of two lives,|bered about twenty-five men in al nd six natives of Newfoundland, aur-|were saved. There were no Americans vivors of the salling ahip Little Mys- lon board. ‘tery sunk off the coast of Ireland. | ‘The Parthenon left New York on Apr -_> 14 for Havre and was days wt! WEY'S PURE WINES AT MEALA [Ot When destroyed. Th. Kram tdi pienrur, butter dinate and esta, received ere to-day gave no stall Ta Palen of." NY, "Pacue 600k Cots —Aan,” of the sinking. 4 ARRIVE AT PLATTSBURG were checked in they were marched to! MISS DAHLGREN EVADES JAIL! RUSSIA AFTER 200,000 LOSSES EVERYONE WHO BUYS A LIBERTY BOND TO RECEIVE A BUTTON WASHINGTON, May 14.—The Government will decorate every American citizen who purchases a Liberty Loan bond with « button bearing the Goddess of Liberty in THRT GERMAN DNSIONS REPLACED WITH FRESH MEN ~—OWNG TO HEAVY LOSSE Casualties in Killed, Wounded and Captured Between April 16 and May 1 Equal Five Army Corps of 40,000 Each. miniature and the words “I own a Liberty Bond.” The purchaser of a $50 bond will wear the same badge as he who buys $5,000,000 worth. Noonday “HolUp in Pitts- burgh Suburb Followed by | Battle With Posse. PROBABLY MUCH GREATER PETROGRAD, May 14.—Germany has withdrawn forty divisiong (approximately 600,000 men) from the Russian east front and hurried them to France to oppose the Franco-British offferisive, according to in. formation from Russian Headquarters, featured to-day In Petrograd newspapers, WITH THE PRENCH ARMIUS IN THE FIELD, May 4—Ger. PITTSBURGH, May 14.—-Three dead and four wounded was the toll of two gun battles to-day, marking a rob- bery at the First National Bank of Castle Shannon, a suburb, and a fight between a posse and the robbers at Bridgeville. | D. H. McLain, cashler; Frank Erbe | many lost 200,000 men in killed, wounded and captured In the petlod ansistant cashier of the bank, and : ove of the bandits ure dead, George| from April 16 to May 1, on the French front alone. In the two weeks Beltzhoover, Justice of the Peace,| since May 41, it was estimated to-day her additional losses have been Castle Shannon Nick Yow de- | proportionately greater even than this staggering mortality. Accordinn to authoritative fia- ures now available, the French and British arm between April 9 and May 12 captured 49,579 spatcher for the Pittsburgh Ratlwaya Company, ‘‘astle #hannon, and two bandits were wounded, The robbers escaped from the bank with a small sum of money but were total losses averaging from halt te | three-fourths of thelr effectiveness, Other German divisions have suf- | fored such losses that they now exist An American passenger steamehip, quickly overtaken by officers and| Germans, including 976 officers, once a familiar aight in the Port of| Prom New York and Boston— | citizens in automobiles. | 444 heavy and field cannon, 943 la name only, The 44th Divisiod of ‘i 1 1 iS é jerman reserv New York, arrived to-day from a port} Begin Hard Work To-Morrow. rite men wearing dusters, auto pennies quns and 386 trench can bet aarp hz Hedlgle i , mobile caps and gogmles entered the 2 y in Europe, but only the maritime| PLATTSBURG, N, ¥., May 14.—|pank shortly after noon and cried}. Between April 16 and 27, it is |denburg retreat at Lasaigny, sharps afloat and ashore recogaized| Eight special trains carrying 2,088 “tHunds up!" ond began to shoot, At|*PwH the Germans were forced on} and Mont, It entered the battle of her as she steamed up the bay, She|¥OUN men enilated for the officers'| the frat round of the bandits’ guns, | “count of losses to withdraw twenty | Chemin des Dames on April 18 avers was painted in the bisarre fashion |'T#inink camp arrived here to-day.) Metain and Erbe we t "| divisions (approximately 300,000 men) | “sing only 160 men per company, which has been adopted for warships| The frat of these was from Boston | of the men then grabved a|£fem the front, replacing them with| | Between that date ang. May 6 in danger territory. Dark gray anc |®4 the others were from New York. | containing $600 and, followed by | £?esh reserves. Since that date more} French artillery wiped out from 30 door, | than a dozen additional divisions have to 50 per cent. of the effectiveness °") been similarly replaced | of the varlous battalions, and Frenoh | Many German divisions have been | infantry took, 1,600 prisonéra of its the | oraotically . wi out, The Ninth| ranks, Thiy means the division is nions, ran toward the met by and Yoste who were attracted by Beltshoover shooting. The robbers fired anothe ese rep Wate Lah ye 24 Bavarian reserve division, numbering | HOW non-existent, 1 sits ) bullet Ave ni tha GHAaDe | 7,000 in Its battle array, lost 2,383 In The Two Hundred and Fourteenth, ls wl i ae Tt Pg es a | prisoners alone, which according to| the Forty-elghth and the Thirty. | babel jot in the leg | patabliabad sclentife military statis-/ninth German divisions envering the . LJ ri rs ex through Poplar} tog means a minimum of 8,000 killed | battle between April 18 and $0 were See Eee aren ok 8, MrOW!NE | and wounded, ‘This means the divi- | ail withdrawn after a single @ay’e imminent they jumped into|*0n lost three-fourths of its entire | fighting because they were practionl- automobile, turned and fired sev. | nuit st effectives, ly wiped out, The Fifth and Siath ay Hebieyeeoeret “a ‘ | The same scienttfi alculations, divisions had thelr companies ree ckly organized posse in fant - Tw onea’ ta te care took Up ihe chase and cnunt|comarmed by special information ob- au 1 to an average of eighty men. them at Bridgeville after another hot |M!ned by French Army Headquarters) The Two Hundred and Thirteemta fight. and applied to the Twenty-first Ger-|division of infantry, atver haw. neneenepeentie= man Infantry Division—which lost |ing {ts companies reduced to @m Shows Falling © 7 een seen, a al ar {2100 privoners; the Fifth Bavarian | average of 11 mon each, was tem= ae suiltiia tah Mali shows a| Reserve Division, which lost 1,91| porarily withdrawn April 22 and re further decline in total number of | Prisoners; the Forty-third Resarve| inforced by adding an average (of en 0 humacives for services| Division, which lost 1,874 prisoners, | Sixt¥-seven men to each company. only “Guring. the “war, Penne ‘land the Sixteenth Hoserve Divison, | Tie same German division re-seupees again led among the dividen' 7 » the fighting on May 8—and ageéin Ce ee ene ene nee: Aiiinata | iad ners—show each sustain ered tha, heaviest losses, dropped to 168. A tota April 1 now ts 6 Fire De sme HAIG KEEPS ON WINNING - IN THE BATTLE OF ARRAS Occupies More Ground in the Village of Roeux and Maintains Hold on Bullecourt— BELLOW PAL’ © fundetermined plant of th nufacturers lows entimate ere endangers including the 4 ' 7 ~. suls ¢ eth ee French Repulse Attacks. Oe Milla Cor ‘du noed a 1A DON M uu Progress in. virtually similar situation exists if 1,300 employees, effe Ma This | the village of Roeux on the Scarpe | Rocux with other Increases Jun. 1, 1916, | payy : asec (In its roport to-day the Berlia totals about 33 per cen " by British 1 poe War Office said the battle near Fhe), PeaRaaae dey aa Hullecourt was continued yeas Meee tb bee Goat rtheas 1 to the) terday with bitterness and that winknen on es i Ypre ds at nigh In the stubborn struggle the Gere r wane 000 opera r A few! mans retained the ruins of the effective Jut “ a y against several attacks, 4 ak ’ er At Koeux w to-day by votte nt 2 i Since the British victory on Satur+ Special OMegee’ Reserve Training! SHE Io *e| gay the German counter-attacks ave Camp for Colored Me age.” lacked much of thelr recent flerce- WASHINGTON, 9 Ns Ana (of steady fighting durtng| ness, The number of prisoners taken officers’ rve « vi yurs the Ger ving this time has been exception- " f d urt has been age the character vof the and the number of troops will reduced to tw d posts--on the | operations } : rthern and southern ends—-where |nvolved versity here. . bombing fights are continuing, A ‘The beat wave in the Sighting dis-