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To etere here. red Che “Circulation Books Open to All.” | 1PtT, by The Penne Pubdiohing (The Mew Derk Wertd) NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 6 1 Cbne ulation Reoka Open 1917 12 PAGES ® \= to AN | terenter Sew Vad em 54 OTe eteotene NINE MEMBERS QUIT GERMAN MINISTRY to Slackers Fight Draft Law; Millionaire’s Sons Enlist $2,006,970,000 WAR TA BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE - a Material Advance Over Total of the House Bill Passed Last May HITS AT LUXURIES Places Be Autos, of Cards, Liquors Amusement to Heavily Mulcted ie, The War revised to meet hit favorably reporte WASHINGTON Tax Bill finally, t estimat to-day by t mittee by , Senatyr 5) man. was Finance © Senate mons Tt proposes to raise $2 0 by taxation This is an tn of ,000 over the t by the House last May. 1 Jonal revenue to be raised the first year under the Bill is to come from these sources Income tax, $ 00; War profits, $562,000,000; its and soft drinks, $218, eigarettes and tob: Freight, parcel post, been, w exp: senger transporiation, pipe lin Pullman seats and berths, and tel- egraph and telephone mess: $140, 760,000. Automobiles are to yleld $40,000, additional; sporting goods, $800,000); perfumes and ‘cosmetics, $1,900,000 proprietary medicines, $3,400,000, and cameras, $500,000. Playing cards, $32,000,000; tea, cof fee, sugar and cocoit, $86,000,000; ax- missions to movies costing more than 26 cents and other amusement place $22,000,000; first-class mail matter, $80,000,000; second class, $3,000,000, and & pfofite tax on second class, $7,500,000, ‘The beer tax will be $3.a barrel, an fmorease of % cents a barrel over the tax proposed by the House; distilled epirits, $2.10; dry wines, 8 cents a gation; liquors, cordials and still wines, $1.10 per proof gallon; cham- pagne, 9 cents a half pint—three tines the present rate Boft drinks taxes range from three cents a gallon on products sold at $1.25 a gallon to 12 cents when sold for more than #4 a gullon The House tax of eight cents per pound on carbonic acid Kas was reduced to five cents a pound. Chautauqua lectures, their educational value, free, be ot tax ise left A large number of additions arc made in stamp taxes, every bank check, draft and certificate of dep drawing no interest requiring one- cent stamp, The largest increase aimed at $777.100,000 in income taxes—is to be reasing, the cor he total agcomplished by tn oration income tax, makin 6 per cent,, instead of 2 per cen now, and an increase of 1 per on individual incomes of over $15, &@ year. The next largest increase ts in war profits taxes$56,000,000 — to be Faised by imposition of a war profits tax, Instead of the excess profits lax Proposed in the House bill This war profits tax does not to any business or individual whose net income js less than $5,000 a year nd both are given a flat exemption of $5,000 war profits apply In ‘introducing the report of his committee, Senator Simmons sald he expects to call it up for action on \vednesday aver THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU. Aresde Politmer (World) Building, 53-68 Park I ‘Dichets, reservations ke., via all Rall ‘Cosstwise, Central and. South percel check room checks and money , ZIMMERMAN OUT, POST GOES 10 FOE OF RUTHLESSNESS oe ae. Eight Other Members of German Ministry Have Also Resigned. the (vla was nade ters of Stal Yondon) BELLS Gtviai a Aug 6 nounoeMe Nt Mint Sr fo- cluding Foreign cluding Int Finance Minist elr porte hard vi rman Amb appointed in suced Minister Lg Loc bel, erior » Kuehlinann, the G to Turkey, for foreign Ziummer- nas affair mann v Sta Minis Dr. tarles of ho reslr rsof $ Bese Mir = and Instruction nted July culture, Ds Svho pointed in 1910; Ministe Dr. Lentze, appointed August, Minister for Interior, Herr Lobel, appointed May, 1914 Secretaries of State—Imperial Post OMice, Herr Kraetke; Imperial Secre- tary of Justice, Dr. Lisco; Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Alfred %im- mermann (appointed November, 1916); President of the Food Regulation Hoard, Adolph von Batock, Dr, Rich- ter under-secretary of the Imperial Home Office, also resigned his post Dr, Karl Helfferich will continue to be the representative of the’ Im- perlal Chancellor and a member of the Ministery of State and temporary Minister of the Interior. Novem- leslastical von Trott 1910; Min- mains and ap- r of Finance, 1916; von Afta tu Dr Sola, 4 Ag Dr. of Forests, ste von The Landrat von Graevinitz was ap- polnted to succeed Arnold Wann schaffe as Chief of the Imperial ancellory, The Ministry of Economics will ul- timately be separated from the Min- istry of the Interior and Herr Wal- draft, Mayor of Cologne, will be ap- pointed Minister of the Interlor, aid Herr Schwander, Mayor of burg, Minister of Econom utles of Excellency In addition to tlie appointment of Dr, von Kuehlmann as Secretary for Voreign Affairs, Herr Ruedlin was le Director of Ratlways and Min- of Posts, and Privy Counce! you Krause Justice Strass- ister or Over President von Waldow was appointed Chief of the Depart- ment of Army Nourishment was named Secretary of | The vacant Prussian Mintsterial posts were filled as follows: Minis. | ter of Justice, Dr, Peter Spahn, leader of the Catholic Centre Party in. the Reichstag; Minister of the Interior, Under Secretary Drews; Minister of Instruction, Ministerial ‘Director Hchmldt; Ministe, midi, Minister of Am teulture, Dr. nances, Dr. Hertz, OF Pte AMS’ DAM, Aug. 6—In a char- aoter wketch of Dr. Richard von | Kuehlmann (just appointed German ¥ for Forelgn Affairs) the Nieuwe Courant of The Hague says per, he has always been a vigorous np. ponent of ruthless submarine ware fare. He 1s also, says the newsp: a disciple of the policy of doing @ thing possible to avoid the further alienation of Great Britain, With | gave way slightly, | | parapets, ALLIES HOLD LINE AGAINST ATTACKS ON FIVE POSITIONS: Hindenburg Fails In Two Drives on the Flanders Battle Front. DON 6—Germa attacked Aug. again the new in the neighborhood of . on the Belgian front, but repulsed, according to the afte report received by the War Otfice to-day trom Gea. Halg. the British also was un- ck on A ¢ posits rman att seful Caring weather gives promise of more fyvorable conditions for a gen- eral resumption of allled operations as the second week of the battle tn Flanders opens, About Lens the zy consolidate positions taien yea~ terday, line, vance ov au ich was formed after an ad* va front of 1,000 yards, the Canadians are within a than a half mile of the main section of the coal city Germans Repalsed Hetore Rew cory At some points in the: new, Nttle more| ‘anadians bad to-| British Wire Entanglement BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE AND BBLGIUM, Aug. 6 (by the Associated Press),—Hol lebeke, a Belgian town southeast of Ypres, which was the scene| f heavy fighting early yester- day was the object | fia man counter-attack last the enemy was repulsed by the British art! fire before even the w nglements In front of the trenches had been reached. After the fullure morning assault on Tk on @ post just north of the canal the Teutons ontinued to bombard the positions heavily throughout the day, leaving little doubt that they Intended to have another try to retake this sec. tion of the newly acquired British lines, When the German Infantry finally left their trench: and moved for- ward they were met by an intense artillery fire and a withering storm of bullets from machine guns and rifles, They ‘continued to push for- ward, but before the wire defenses were reached they wavered and broke and retreated hastily thelr own trenches, The partal success of in the morning attack when they gained a footing in Hollebeke was due to the heavy fog which prevented the British gunners from seeing the signals which the infantry in the front lines gave indicating the Ger- man advance, Not having the as- sistance of their artillery, the British but In the counter- attack which they immediately de. the Germans lvered tho British Infantry hurled the Germana back with considerable losses and captured a number of prisoners. Evidences of the force of the Brit- {sh bombardment before the opening battle of Flanders continue to multi. ply. German prisoners taken in the St. Julien sector are unanimous tn declaring that it was deadly. No food, water or munitions had reached thelr front line for three daya be. cause of the concentrated fire from the’ British big guns. The British barrage just previous to the Infantry advance was 0 heavy that the enemy was prevented from manning his forward trenches and the German troops had to stay jo their dugouts, The barrage when lifted onto the enemy's reserve trenches, was accurate and complete. ly effective ‘The barbed wire and together with nearly all the emplacements, were de. (Continued on Seventh Page.) concrete New Picture of Mrs. De Saulles, Ex-Husband SheSlew and Their BIANCA be S4uLLES PHOTO. BY RO.HAITZ.. ay NO CLOCK FOR CITY HALL IN PLANS FOR NEW CUPOLA Whole Roof to Be Made Fireproof | at a Cost of $30,000—Gros- | Almost in Comatose Condition,Slayer of Ex-Husband MoansContinually “I Want My Boy” — Emotional Insanity as Defense. A. Liter var rey for Mrs. Bianca De Saulles, to<day be sani fight to obtain her release on bail. Becuuse of the crime cnarged against her, the murder of her husband, John ger De Saulles, it is idmitted that the effort is well nigh hopeless, but Mr, Uterhart says he has found cases in wh he courts did admit to bail persons accused of murder when it was shown that the life of the prisoner depended oa liberty. — * “I convince the Supreme ourt Brooklyn,” said the lawyer, First Detachment }othat Mrs. De Saulles's life ts reatly of Women Sailors | in danger so long as she ts compelied to remaia ‘in jail © have eeen her Formed In Russia} ;,,, morning. Mer condition ie al- most comatose. Dressed in black: PEPROGRAD, Aug. 6-—The first wearing black jet jewelry, she rocks achment of 160 women sailors 1) on her cot and repeats monotonously Ws being organized preparatory to J] 4 i lee ee thecanipase oan want my boy—can't he even visit ey 0" Where is my doy?” A medical examination was to be U 5 FLYER ATTACKED made by Dr. Guy B. Cleghorn anil Ud another physician to substantiate the BY Six GERMAN PLANES assertion that Mrs. De Saulles's condl- tion demands her release from jail pod spe 8 The effort to obtain bail will take 4 - the form of a petition for an order laflin Bridgeman, After Thrill| aisueting the State's attorney to ahow ing Battle, Escapes by Diving by Mrs. De Saulles should not Into Cloud Bank, be ndertsted: te ball erie WILL MAKE APPEAL TO THE s er having boon DE SAULLES FAMILY, athe patrol with whic | ating ihe effort to release bie fying, Hay Clatiin Bridgc- eijent pending her trial, Mr. Uterbart man, Lake Forrest, TL, of the La- | said he wouid go to the Box, the De | fayette Ba: » waa fore to Hebe | sauties hon nad in the name of off wix Ger seroplanes, motherhood and humanity beg the Nowa of the thrilling battle reached | py, * fasiily to let the boy visit here to-day, Hridgeman eseaped by jail, He said he believed the ud bank RUSSIAN GENERAL diving into a chou fumily would yield to such an appeal He admitted that he bad no hope of getting the permfnent custody of the ld for the mother before the end trial, but he is sure that ff she quitted the boy will be given ORDERED 10 BE SHOT of tha Macovisky, ¢ Somminder of Corps} Which Led Retreat, Convicted Mrs, De Saulles'’s mind ts obsessed by fe of conspiracy; she fears that the influence of her husband's friends Will be strong enough to prevent her Permanently from regaining her eon by Court Martial, 6 LONDON, Aug Gon. Mer8visky, venor Atterbury Architect commander of the Guards Corps which] and she fears that the boy's heade ne Russian eat on th ° mind Plans filed to-day with the Manhat JACK DE S40u1.25 AND Me sings. ine babe oraaree preNe Ns will be poisoned againat her, tan Bureau of WBulldings disclose the PROTOBY Tr Fim See Ain a despatch to the Post frow| ' & two-hour statement yeater. fact that no clock will adorn the cupula Se — —| Petrograd. day sho revealed the story of her of the City Hall This sentence came after @ court-|Murried life to her lawyer. At the The new cupola will be of terra cot martial which was ordered by Gen.|end he told her that “no jury of with copper. The cupola will be sur [non-compliance of his order to shoot|/ mother who was trying to save her mounted with @ figure similar to th NM T t th D ft L eo — | aanertors. child.” And he assur atm! ¥ ¢ nd ‘od her that if figure of Justice now standing oO es e ra aw, | acquitted little Jack must be given trusses will brace the cupola and the BERLIN ADMITS THE LOSS te hah: afib: vabaune entire roof of the City Hall will M C l ie Honaae sD cid hygat story iesrost o hewspapermen, Mr. Uterhart said: Te cin wus detored by dany Engage OUNSEL OFTHREEU BOATS AMONTH |! ii‘ acuta por tt waska’ kien ' a | woman on the story that she has The architect $s Grosvenor Att ata Ton osedinge'e: needicated from auch ' siven me, Til walk up to the Judge bury of No, 20 West Forty-third Only 6,000 of City's Quota of | sfeitings can be pr 1 "| But Officials Assert That the In-|and hand him over my certificate of she scat of the repairs is «i mn 38,000 Obtained— Appeal It ie mesumed that there is in ase Is) Many Times ee eeu De Saulles that.” ores ran ‘ ‘ PAINT HUSBAND —_——<e——— >, ; valy @ preparation at least one case That Number to Patriotism Likely. which will have for its object | puns iva London, Aug. sactt IN BLACK COLORS, PRESIDENT OF CHINA <a the invocation of the writ of |i, vificially declared that contrary w|_ The Aefense will be emotional tn- ne frequent written and personal!) habeas corpus to back the claims | rumors of overwhelming losses in sub-| "20!/t¥: There ls a atrong technical SIGNS THE WAR DECREE. «: appeals of lawyers to local exemption of @ drafted registrant | marines: monthly avers) Urtie | seein for this, for when insanity is | earn Gb AreAlby tha! Riets three underwater loat|lleged it opens the door for a wast [boards and the office of the Deputy We te ae eae Be sia AR tH ja ud from Feb, ft - to/amount of evidence which pe 4 pee lemal department of the United States | Aug Formal Declaration Against Ger-| Attorney General in the Arsenal at! army, jogal experta 0 De-| Tho tease tn sbmarines | WOuld be excluded as irrelevant, All many Will Probably Be Thirty-seventh Street and Seventh! partment, lawyers ana} a) ee: Of the sufferings that undermined, tf e tT Hibkti only for a moment: the rational b ed Thi oak se in beha e vho have Offictals of the Gov > are jonly ry rain Issued This Week, SE ee eA eh wb Ane ikwal WuIGH) Kn 00 KUED OR INJURED IN | tm» wite can be Included tn ‘the PEKING, Aug. 6.—Acting Pr SPORBIOG (AS BUYSCANE QUAN a the drat in the " | picture story that she will tell to the no conseription lawa of ¢ Unanimous decision | reached at «| nave claimed exemptions leads to the tain She will picture De Saulles as @ special meeting of the Chineso Cabi- | ‘ j Maan aha man who played the woman game for ret to declare war on Germany ana{ vet that actions to teat the cor iH r, there are lawyers in Now rding, to re-| the sport of the thing. His conquests Austria-Hungary tutlonality of the selective draft law who are willing to rman frontier! were to him like loving cups, it will The Ministers of the Entente Powers! are under preparation tn this city | courts on @ test of the law under the the correspondent at Amsterdam of} - 1, trophies to be placed will meet at the Chinese Fore I era who have vis Deputy | Habeas Corpus Act Exchange Telerraph PRY. She end’ cutter due ee o ona OMce to discuss China's declaration vf| artownoy General Conkling as re The percentage of cla exemp aon at Henningsdort was one of | shelf and gathe je time | ‘a ing as repre » worst ¢ {its kind that! came to brush them off and exhibit war, which is expected to be invuet| 1.4 ; Jonson the part Of physically qua ‘ ; a eee | ® of drafted clients have ’ 1 naa happened in ny since the! thom to his admirers. 5 ased thelr inquiries and protests | fe! YUNG men Is wo high in certain | War out 300 wie trtys 84) Gianca, sixteen years old, beautiful such Careful legal form that noth — - iniured and énorn mage Was done,’ as a flower, Was won like the other 4 4 jenninggdort has been twolat », . P \ng but carefully planned legal pro- (Continued on Second Page.) lath andkroops. ated Py ‘rophies, and tBen she was given her co, LIFE OF MRS. DE SAULLES PUT IN PERIL IN JAIL, IS BAIL PLEA a he