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pear ve Circulation Books Open to All.” | 17, ty The Press Pubtinhing he New Berk Worta), 7PT te Grenier Rew Tork oad Hedaee County, 8.4 TWO CNTF eterwhere, CITY ti BRITISH TAKE TOWN AND RIDGE, BRS LABOR FRENCH ALSO ADVANCING ON ores mera THE FLANDERS BATTLEFRONT Decides to Send Delegates to + Socid Meeting to Be CONDITION OF W. H. TAFT ist — | Held at Stockholm. meee tnoek pe = | LONDON ae 10.—British labor Heights East of Ypres Com- IS SOMEWHAT IMPROVED | Poa sf ee aes a pletely in Haig’s Hand International Socialist Confer ug Takes Nourishment for the First] ence, to be held at Stockholm in CANADIANS DRIVE ON] Time Since His Attack of Stom- yer. ach Trouble Tuesday. The decision was reached at the Raiding Parties Penetrate) cuay ceyrer, Kan, Aug. 10.—|!abor conference, at which 600 dele- Physicians attending former William H. Taft, who is {ll at a local President] gates representing all labor elements Enemy Positions on a 2,000- NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST [*“Cirentation Rooke Open to All.”| 10, 1917. 10 PAG « UNCLE SAM'S FIGHTING MEN ALLORAT ARMY MUST GIVE UP HALF THEIR | [28M TRANING PAY TO WIVES OR DEPENDENTS oe (Ginnie Liberal Insurance Plan to ro PENERAL STRIKE vide for Soldiers, Sailors Government Begins Nation- Wide Round Up of Slack- ers—To Arrest Hundreds. WASHINGTO Aug. 10.—Between now and Sept. 1, when one-third of and Marines. the new draft army 1s mobillged, a nation-wide round up of slackers will be instituted, OF LONGSHORENEN FEARED 700 UT WASHINGTON, thority 10. the Aug Au. effective local police assisting to agents of the Department of Justice make Gov- ernment’s programme of insuring the armed for of nation was sought of Congress to-day in bills in- and War Department in arresting and Prosecuting both the men who fafled to register and the men who have failed to appear when called before the troduced in both Houses by Senator He ; ‘ in England were present, a total of r, -} hotel, determined this morning to give] | hi fe : ie Yard Front. him the first food ho had eaten since| 2896000 workers. ‘The vote we the attack of Intestinal trouble early | 1,848,000 to 550,000, more than three to LONDON, Aug. 10.—Successes by] Tuesday morning. one “Mr. Taft is somewhat better this " both the British and French troops in Flanders are reported to-day by Bir Douglas Haig. ‘The War OMco statemént is as follows: The resolution, as adopted, favors participation of British labor tn the Stockholm sessions in a consultative way, but without being bound by action that: may be taken. morning,” Dr. B, F. Morgan said. “I hag no temperature and although weak, fs more cheerful and Uke himself tha at any time since he Decane ‘Ml, ‘I was a itile afraid of conditions) in the course of a successful [that might devslop. There never was| W. F. Purdy, Chairman of the Jocal attack delivered early this |any immediate danger. He talked on|iabor convention, in calling for the morning east of Ypres our troops topicg to-day and passed a g00d/ vote, emphasized that the question was prohably the most {mportant in oer ered tab case oe Dee Ya labor's history. ‘Two Russian labor lage of Westhoek and secured tho | CAQRES KITTEN AND HURT — | representatives were seated on the remaining positions held by the | platform as the balloting began enemy on the high ground known IN EXPLOSION IN LONDON) Artur tlenderson, Labor member an Westhock Ridge. of tho Cabinet, favored British “On tho left flank of the battle- front our allies continue to make progress east and north of Bix- echoote. “Our raiding parties entered the enemy's positions yesterday eve- ning on a wide front east of Mon- ohy-le-Proux, blew in his dugouts labor's participation in the Stockholm , meeting as the resolution provided— consultative, but unbinding. William Purdy, chatrman of the labor party, presided and opened the conference by saying: “The labor movement has given {ts nte Allies a/ | Bodies of Thirteen Women Already Recovered—Searching Ruins for Other Victims. LONDON, Aug. 10.—An explosion and fire in a big chemical works in East Londoa last night wrecked the building and killed or injured scores of workers, best to insure to the E: and did great damage to his de- | Thirteen bodies of women so far have| decisive victory over militarism, fenses. ‘The enemy offered con- [been rescued from the ruins, which has shown itself brutal in ap- siderable resistance at several | A large number of injured have been| plication and determined to extin-| points and severe casualties were treated at the police stations and other) guigh all ideals of democracy and inflicted on hie troops during the | Convenient places, Hberty. Bodice are atill being searched for. U.S. MARINES ARE BUYING “Labor's inflexible resolution 1s to] see justice done and reparation made, | and that still is the determination of period when our troops were still h im occupation of the German front system. e E of the industrial | “A counter attack was stopped 5P C the great masses of the in | by our machine-run fre. Wo cap- ER CENT FRENCH BONDS) <issses or tne country and’ the tured two machine guns and a colonies. number of prisoners.” “No peace will be satisfactory un- Gen. Sibert Encourages Our Sol- diers In Taking Steps to Save Money. AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR- TERS, Aug. 10.—A golden stream began flowing to-day straight from the American training camp to the French Treasury, The marines have p chased 86,000 worth of 5 per cent. bonds and have decided to buy @ similar amount each month, Gen. Sibert has been endeavoring to find some way of inducing his men to less it guarantees complete freedom trom the aggression of militarism, “Our Russian comrades need all the sympathy the labor party here can give them and there 1s no question of @ geparate peace. We must stand shoulder to shoulder until a righteous peace is obtained. We sure our Russian comrades are not going exchange a hard-won freedom for a sham one under the hee! of Prussian militarism.” A spectal CANADIAN ARMY HEADQUAR- TDRS IN FRANCE, Aug. 10.—Ratding parties under protection of a heavy barrage fire early Thursday morning, on a front of more than 2,000 yards, penetrated enemy positions in the Cite o © du Moulins and St. Laurent sectors, returning with prisoners. On a large part of the front attacked the raiders | passed over the enemy's first line and support trenches, which were found to be lUghtly held and in bad condition The troops engaged were from Ontario, are to sub-committee of the jand Navy Simmons and Representative Alex-|Four Hundred More Threaten] their tocat boards for examination. ander, to Quit and Police Take Pre- It ts believed several thousand ar- The proposed legislation was rests will be made. cautionary Steps. framed to follow plans already an- nounced jn general outline and would Provide insurance, at minimum coat, | Demanding-wage inereases, 200 lon, for American soldiers, sailors @n@|shoremen of the Mallory Steamship marines, the insured men paying the | y Premiums; family allowances to de-| pendents of men in the nation's mil- tary or naval service; Judemnifica- tion for disabilities and the re-edu- cation and rehabilitation, at Gov- ernment expense, of injured men, A feature, not previously an-| nounced, would make it compulsory | f for officers and men to allot a mint- | le mum of $15 a month out of thelr pay | Railroad und 150 men employed on the to dependent wives and children.| piers of the Eastern Steamship Com- The maximum compulsory allotment |pany, the Maine Steamship Company Slackers who have been filing talye or exaggerated claims of having de- Pendent families, im the hope of escap- ing their duty to their country in ime of national peril, received a shock to-day when they read the latest or- der of the Provost Marshal General to exemption boards, demanding a more rigid interpretation of the “de- pendent clause,” and threatening to Ane employed on the pier at the foot of Chariton Street went on strike this morning and 400 more threaten the same action unless a conference wiih | company ofMcials this afternoon is successful The action of the Mallory employees lows the strike of 350 freight hand- # employed by the Pennsylvania many slackers ceased hiding behind women's petticoats, The entire National Army will be tn training in military cantcnments be- fore the end of September, according is half pay. These allotments would|and the Metropolitan lines aring aarlay Des oad at the War Depart- be supplemented by family allow-|u general strike and possible violenc eenng ree oe bi ances, to be le by the Govern-| Police Inspector Dwyer has assigned of the men will be mobil. lzed by their State officials on 8 1, and will be tn training camps betore pt. 6. A national holiday may be declared on Sept, 8, in celebration of the en- trainment of the draft levies for the ment, of from $5 to $50 a month, ac-!a large number of extra cording to the circumstances and |patrolmen to the district number of dependents. | OfMictala of the Mallory Line yester- | To encourage thrift and “better to | day got word of the threatened strike Preserve equality and democracy! and a notice was posted, asking the among the members of our own forces) men to withhold action until after / training cantonments, No step t and between them and the Allies,” | conference with H. H. Raymond, gen-|thiy end has been taken as vet, but authority 1s sought to permit the War|cral agent of the Clyde and Mallory! omojals at the Provost Marshal Gen Departments to compel | jj The walk-out came this morn-|erat's office men who do not allot one-half thetr| ing, but arrangements were made for! result of the simultaneous movement pay, to deposit so much of their half! the conference with Mr. Raymond, of the selected men from all over the pay as is not allotted, with the Gov- The men, who are members of Lo- country, ernment at 4 per cent. interest, com-| cal No. 895, Coastwise International Conferences were in progress to- pounded semi-annually. Longshoremen’s Association, are de- Liberal indemnittes for partial and| manding wage incréases of from 45 to total disability are included in the| 55 cents an hour for week day work mounted 3 of the mobilization, Transportation lines face the problem of collecting programme, varying from $40 to $75| and from 65 to 85 cents an hour for|the first 230,000 men, providing them per month minimum up to $200 a| sunday and holiday work. with sleeping car accommodations month for officers. Insurance would} Officials of the Pennsylvania Rall-| where necessary and providing for be written by the Government on the| road ¢ re the strike is in no way/|stops at points where the soldiers| lives of the men at a rate of approxi-| interfering with the handling of|can be fed well and quickly. mately $8 per thousand In sums of} trejcht, Two hundred and fifty of| Gen, Crow ‘s telegram on the from $1,000 to $10,000, the premium} the road's longshoremen walked out! subject of exemptions read, in part payable in instalments Jat 9 o'clock this morning, and offi-| “Section 2 of the selective Service The cost to the Government as es-| cals say seventy-five had returned | Law exempts no person from military timated by Secretary McAdoo would| ervice on the ground of depen- tr work by 2 o'clock this after save thelr money, and it t# probable . P : ; |dency, It only authorizes the Presl- or FX 0c - | approximate the followin 1. The Delaware, Lackawa heir casualties were slight. this has solved the problem for him, | British Labor Party Executive Com- | app! : rhe gbtal me: The: Delaware, ; dent to exclude or discharge from cot repared memo- Farin Fieoe nd Western Ratlroad 1s also tn-| At some points the trenches wer¢| One marine of German parentage|™ttee has prep a i Pemiiy allowances... 814 f.G00 tig GTi od. ay) | an sale a “a jnino In| aenft ‘those In @ status with rospect found to have been pounded out of all | subscribed $400. Many kegs of gold} Tandum upon the Issues sed in the |} Co pongy gh \, . ved In the strike, 800 of its long to persona depende 1 them for semblance to defensive positions, Our}coln are now in the Expeditionary| War and the ideas of British Labor} ‘hain’. 0 °° 6.200.000 $8,000,000] «)vremen having gone out |support which re exclu lown out many | treasury. News of the investments of|in regard to peace proposals. tial disabiitty...- 3,200,000 21,000,000/ In no case has any demonstration | i _ Bei meary uae hed Diewn 9 *T ihe sammtes spread among tne French e he memorandum ta a | Toeurance aginst deait been made, The men quit work, |*02 oF dlacharge advisabi dugouts. villagers to-day, They were astonienea| Briefly, the 1 ‘and dim itt 29,000,000 112,000,000 1 een “The controlling necessity ts to Land mines were exploded in front |and demonstrailvely let the Sammios| strong endorsement of the demand} 76,100,000 “#380 800,000) Made thelr demands and immediately) ig an army, It is advisable to crater | Know of their delight, >I © reparation and restoration on ShAthie eet eft the plers, The action of Inspe of an exploring party near @ crater for She Fen ‘The total for the two years is thus disturb dependents just as little as which was the scene of lively fighting behalt of Helgium and other invaded} 1s oo4 at $556,660,000, which Mr. Me-| fF Derey whe 6 autlonary| the necessity of raising an army will Tarr in the werk. Undeerred. by [PRESIDENT SIGNS FOOD BILLS} counsricn: « ‘tciaration in tavor ot [Risse foveasnn, wh A, Mes manure | the necenaity of ratsing an army il 4 5 ed on and : ceeaeatligeea eee the right of individual peoples to cet- |“ Ss ABAN 4n the BA Aa the regulations was compiled care ala eaigellalt ae who took | Appointment of Herbert Hoover 3s) tio their own destinics; liberation of Bm sf es Lie “ mAUY RE TEN REPORTED KILLED fully and after the most ; arnest c pected Immediately, sacad Kentiea from ‘Turkiak _| conducting the war. ‘ puis See ee teu cromdvr and tho] WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—The fooa| government and a demand for the ea| 2 it@ gencral features tho bit! was! IM PITTSBURGH EXPLOSION) sisratia™ if experience is to prove swered the call to surrender and the| i vere aigned to-day by President OS ae Aen 8 8 f nations |®PProved by the advisory committee a cee: ROR ees Sonullt pr others were killed in the destruction of | iI!" were ire’ a an pee tabllahment of a lengue of natlons | OTT irance representatives « paste ae auribed by. seation #0 y abus the dugout. signed by Speaker Clark in the House | SOF the mal peta moned by Secretary McAdoo to Wash TSBURGH, Aug. are re-| of them, rfere with us PARIB, Aug. 10.—A despatch to the | qnq Senator Saulebury, President pro| elimination of war from the world. |i oe yl y eo saat Sent Ing of an army, then it is no longer Havas Agency from Hazebrouck says|tompore of the Senate, | ‘The memorandum heartily con- asec? — = st o'clock this af iy at advisable to discharge so wide a ; > 0 appointment of Herbert Hoover| gr tes the R pon the ; Ohaltar lass, and the conditions stated ft is learned theré that the whole | appointment of Herbert Hoover | atula u A © NEW BOND ISSUE PLANNED class Hi he aniitians ‘ab population of Armentieres will be | 4 ad Administrator and the Ni destruction of czardom a warmly 5 Ee y at Ac t therein wi have to be restricted evacuated. No details are given jormontzation of Fonchinery control! welcomes “assistance to the cause! ae w Billions, 1 Is » of xplos til an advisable rule ty 4 | upp expected to ¢ |of human freedom in council no less| A vigorous folicy” } 0 ° ‘ The first bill provides for | th the tlefleld that 1s now| WASE ret > tered by the War Depar pr Germans Attack Fonition| | tne first Olll provi han in ow | es beriants f North of St, Quentin, trol of foods and fu being accorded by ¢ American | 1 bond t Warbare to ng the new army f v PARIS, Aug. 10.—Violent German) people.” It declares te Maing | AP BABinnoal Fond Lepue at inl none (frat Henerve Bowrd Ascuin, Sanaka oe Aliainel att b. i > : | >: of Congress, it was ed, followin SHINGTON, Au Ps ttacks from Pantheon to Epine de 1 waged against’ the ruthless A ft the can abracidiy na: re Sraecay carly, tocday, wha, (ne) SIO Men's & Young Men's Suits, $5.95] "aed sex & conference he hy Capit torday tedonignated W. Tr ¢ service, he “ moe , ‘ [Perialsn 4 day with several \ « a8 Goverr Paul M. \ ’ French were making continued prog-| The “HUB" Clothing. ¢ longer, Rraad The memora r The issue will + i It is}turgeas V the F Steps were ta r ress in Belgiuin, capturing several | worth Building), will sell to-day & Sut-|crime against the q he world," | understood © Be pe 1 al r 1 8 farma were reported by the War Of- /urany Ji, Men's im poung Men's} whereby Alsace and Lorraine were > n division command Ay ——— i rows, Krave and fancy |torn from Fran 1871 and demands New Anatata ry of the full charge of the adn (Continued on Second Page.) ine Faim Beach suits, & - — | Ar LeMINGTON 4 7 jon, training and CENCHES THE, THIUST F alors 8 | @antinued on Mecond Mage) Tienets, reservations, eal of Cheyenne nom- | He Natonal Guara and new suuonat of water is very refreshing to the mouth | z ay Y PUTNAM FADEL bss DYE! ee | tteamebip Lines, Bagi stant Secretary the Int 2 Veo it i puce of lemons, Buy 6 Broadway, cor, Barclay St.| euch Package Colors All Goods, Drumsists, | open day abd tls! a ree Asesranh Recretany a Ir —advi. orders for eale, Telephone Beckman duv—Adit, succeeding the late B. O. Sweeney, BY SEPTEMBER 30 abolish all such exemptions unless so | regard it as a probable} day with railway officials on details) — ‘ARMY WINS ON TWO BATTLEFRONTS satllngree « realy WEATHER ten, Cost Te Night ene Te Me " r ee — - | |. £DITION Es PRICE jus Oat 1 teecaee 2 ~<t- HUGHES BOARD BEGINS WORK: LAYS PLANS T0 DECIDE 1,400 DRAFT APPEAL CASES DAILY! + Exemption Claims Must Be Made in Affidavit Form and Not in Person —Seven Committees Named and fo Be Rushed. Investigations GENS, WOOD AND BELL MAY SERVE AT HOME War Department Order Issued To- Day Likely to Keep Them From Going With Fighting Forces, | WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Army De- partment manders, by War Departs ment orders issued to-day, are relieved wf the National Army cantonments and | National ard campa within thelr de- Partments and will devote themaelves entirely to the regular troops within thetr Jurindictions. The effect of this order, unless there are changes in the high commands, will |be to keep some of the best known commanders, such as Maj. Gen, Woot, Maj. Gen, J. Franklin Bell and othera in Department commands at home, in- stead of sending them with the armias to Purope. ‘There are to be more than 200 new enerals appointed within the next few It is, of course, possible that v of these or others might be aa- regular departments t permit sending the high line ofMfcers with the fighting army, TWO MORE REO GROSS MEN WOUNDED BY SHELL FIRE | One Injured in Seven Places While | Working at Advanced Post on Battlefront. PARIS, Aug. 10.—Price McQuillan lof Overbrook, Pa., and Wayne Vetter- lein of Philadelphia, members of Section 22 of tho American Ited Cross am- bulance service, have been seriously wounded by @ shell while loading wounded at an advanced post on the battlefront. Vetteriein was wounded tn seven |places and one of his logs has been amputated. Both eon are now out of danger and are doing well They have been warded the War Cross and the Military Medal, Arthur Kemp, one of the first men Join the ambulance in 1914, has corated with the War Cross, SUFFRAGE BANNER INSULTS | PRESID"':T WILSON 4 won signed to the from the pole and shot Vania Avenue, up Pennayl- itish Labor Votes to Confer on Peace EXEMPTION APPEALS EXCEED 25,000 Tho task of reviewing and making final decision upon more than 26,000 exemption claims was begun this morning by the District Board, the board of final appeal for every drafted san in New York City whose exemp- tion claim, based ypon the dependeney Of Felatives, has been allowed by the local exemption boards. The District Board also has original jurisdiction in some classes of exemption claima. At the tap of a gavel in the hand of Charles Eyans Hughes, the Chatr- man, the work began at 10.30 o'clock in the Federa! Building. The number of the board room ts There the Who's Wh New York's contribu- tion to the national defense will have {ts final revision, In order to speed up the work the board immediately decided to form seven smaller committees and appor- tioned the claims among them. By this means {t ts belleved that 1,400 claims can be handled every day—200 by each committee, The committees will report back to tho board as a whole and that body will make final decision “without argument,” it ts provided, In every case. All meetings of the board and of the seven committees will be held in the 1 Building instead of tn separate headquarters in each bor- ough, No claimant for exemption will be given a personal hearing, Every claimant has his personal hearing tn his local board, and the district board will act only upon affidavits, which must be sent In by mall. Many claimants who dtd not under- stand this besieged the doors of the re board rooms to-day in vain, It te Planned that the work shall be fin- ished in six weeks. Remu! meetings will b held Mondays, Wednesdays and ridays, and the alternate da: will be dev 1 to committee and thier work y-three of the thirty members re present when Chairmar? Hughes called the board tovorder to-day The first appeal to be be in the case of Girsch decided will Sarchin, Rus- in the Bronx Sarchin says he wants to go back to sian born, who lives Russia and fight for his own conn- - es Gileetaichh : |try. ‘The case was referred to a com- alls Him “Kaiser” —It Is Torn) mite along with a few applications | Down by Indignant Crowd | for exemption on grounds of occupa. : t White House |ti the applica laiming that WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—A bannar| MWY aF0 enaned baad Te On ed © of the| Min Hyghes said t ther appeals IP a SANG Paina De CME Bitte ORC HAR Onn | ed upon until joe Sa A > "Kalaor| next week bec were not ae * npanied by aftdavits, which are It was torn down after an Indignar 1tou tt b the mails " € 1 1 ) Saturday 3 first t to be de- v , ed by M 1 was wh Board should Lucy Burna, who has figured in sev-| split up and ¢ arate head= 1 of the is demonstrations | quarters for each borough, or wherher In fre White House, It was » should be just one headquarters bed for the whole city, It was unani- "Kaiser Wils ta \ Ko usly decided that the single he vy ny poor | quarters would speed up the work uns 1 not and el a 1 tape. 1 Twe 1 1 American! Mr. H 4 appointed as committee ; not gelf-governed. | Take airmen former Judy I sie ae 4, | Cullen, Judge Jaume WP. Deluney, a Navy! x, Dykman and Meier Steinbrink, Department clerk, tore the banner | These men called thelr committees He was not pursued. together at once and prepared to be- | coast i i }